The benefits of public and private clouds based on virtualization are varied and well known. In 2013, more than 40 percent of enterprises have or are adopting virtualized private clouds in the data center, and another 40 percent are evaluating virtualization solutions. Nevertheless, less than 10 years ago, the number of enterprises doing any kind of private cloud virtualization was almost nonexistent.
Some of the benefits driving this rapid adoption in the enterprise, apply equally well for small-to-medium businesses (SMBs) and the edge.
Edge Virtualization and the MicroCloud
The benefits of public and private clouds based on virtualization are varied and well known. In 2013, more than 40 percent of enterprises have or are adopting virtualized private clouds in the data center, and another 40 percent are evaluating virtualization solutions. Nevertheless, less than 10 years ago, the number of enterprises doing any kind of private cloud virtualization was almost nonexistent.
Some of the benefits driving this rapid adoption in the enterprise, apply equally well for small-to-medium businesses (SMBs) and the edge.
UShareSoft Launches Plug2watt
UShareSoft on Friday announced Plug2watt, an off-the-shelf hybrid cloud offering developed together with Cisco France. Plug2watt is a ready-to-run solution that works with French national cloud provider, Cloudwatt.
UShareSoft and Cisco worked together to develop a customized version of UForge that leverages the platform’s hybrid functionality. Pre-integrated into FlexPod, this version enables quick and easy implementation of a hybrid cloud. Customers can flexibly migrate, create and maintain application images for their local private cloud, or remotely on their service provider’s cloud. This allows enterprise customers to quickly and easily benefit from IT functionality on demand, either locally or remotely. With Plug2watt, customers can efficiently and securely implement a hybrid cloud, while allowing multiple users to create and manage application images.
UShareSoft Launches Plug2watt
UShareSoft on Friday announced Plug2watt, an off-the-shelf hybrid cloud offering developed together with Cisco France. Plug2watt is a ready-to-run solution that works with French national cloud provider, Cloudwatt.
UShareSoft and Cisco worked together to develop a customized version of UForge that leverages the platform’s hybrid functionality. Pre-integrated into FlexPod, this version enables quick and easy implementation of a hybrid cloud. Customers can flexibly migrate, create and maintain application images for their local private cloud, or remotely on their service provider’s cloud. This allows enterprise customers to quickly and easily benefit from IT functionality on demand, either locally or remotely. With Plug2watt, customers can efficiently and securely implement a hybrid cloud, while allowing multiple users to create and manage application images.
GoodData Rated Cloud BI Platform Leader in Nucleus Research Value Matrix
GoodData on Thursday announced its ranking in the Leader Quadrant of Nucleus Research’s Technology Value Matrix for Business Intelligence and Analytics. Nucleus Research places vendors in the BI Leader category who provide key functionalities, including «data discovery and visualization products, cloud-based and as-a-service business intelligence tools» that improve business value with high levels of usability.
«GoodData has established itself as a leading cloud BI provider over more traditional vendors based on its software’s usability, data governance, licensing, cloud model and thought leadership,» said Nina Sandy, principal analyst, Nucleus Research. «The GoodData platform provides organizations with the ability to collect, store, refine, visualize, analyze, report and integrate data, propelling it to the leadership quad in our Value Matrix.»
The Maker Movement & the Democratization of Enterprise Manufacturing
The 3D modeling manufacturing process has brought about major changes in the manufacturing world and is having a growing impact among established companies and entrepreneurs. These new manufacturing innovations are allowing people to have greater ability to bring their ideas to life and, if they’re running a business, to get their products in the market more quickly. Many established manufacturing processes are still in place, but industry manufacturers are aware of how the field is changing as designers and small businesses are no longer as dependent on them as they once were.
The Maker Movement & the Democratization of Enterprise Manufacturing
The 3D modeling manufacturing process has brought about major changes in the manufacturing world and is having a growing impact among established companies and entrepreneurs. These new manufacturing innovations are allowing people to have greater ability to bring their ideas to life and, if they’re running a business, to get their products in the market more quickly. Many established manufacturing processes are still in place, but industry manufacturers are aware of how the field is changing as designers and small businesses are no longer as dependent on them as they once were.
In-Memory Data Grids and Cloud Computing
The use of in-memory data grids (IMDGs) for scaling application performance has rapidly increased in recent years as firms have seen their application workloads explode. This trend runs across nearly every vertical market, touching online applications for financial services, ecommerce, travel, manufacturing, social media, mobile, and more. At the same time, many firms are also looking to leverage the use of cloud computing to meet the challenge of ever increasing workloads. One of the fundamental promises of the cloud is elastic, transparent, on-demand scalability — a key capability that has become practical with the use of in-memory data grid technology. As such IMDGs are becoming a vital factor in the cloud, just as they have been for on-premise applications.
How to Save Money While Doing Green IT
There have been a flurry of «green cloud» announcements recently, and that got us thinking about the relationship between green IT and saving money. Green is also the color of money, after all, and companies are discovering that reducing data center costs leads to substantial green benefits. The cloud takes cost reduction and green even further.
In the first announcement, IBM continues to innovate in cloud and in green, and it has patented technology for distributing compute workloads for cloud computing in a way that reduces power consumption. I’d liken it to a load balancer, but instead of trying to reduce response times, they’re trying to reduce power utilization overall. Now, it’s really interesting because this is not just a green initiative but it is also a cost-savings opportunity for cloud service providers.
Power consumption is a major cost driver for cloud service providers. Often, it’s pay-as-you go for storage, for compute, even for bandwidth. But no cloud provider is really charging for power utilization. This is a way for cloud service providers to reduce their sunk cost and improve their margins without having to charge the customers more. It’s green, but it’s also green for your wallet.
Why the PaaS market as we know it will not die off
I’ve been hearing a lot about Platform as a Service (PaaS) lately as part of the broader discussion of cloud computing from both customers and in articles across the web. In this post, I’ll describe PaaS, discuss a recent article that came out on the subject, and take a shot at sorting out IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS.
What is PaaS?
First a quick trip down memory lane for me. As an intern in college, one of my tours of duty was through the manufacturing systems department at an automaker. I came to work the first day to find a modest desktop computer loaded with all of the applications I needed to look busy, and a nicely printed sheet with logins to various development systems.
My supervisor called the play: “I tell you what I want, you code it up, I’ll take a look at it, and move …