«We see cloud and DevOps as two sides of the same coin. Often times operation folks have been focused on cloud computing as a way to deliver infrastructure in an agile fashion, but to make use of that infrastructure you need DevOps where you’re doing some of the process reengineering that allows applications to flow out of development and land somewhere,» explained Dave Roberts, Senior Director of Cloud Management at BMC Software, in this SYS-CON.tv interview at the 13th International Cloud Expo®, held Nov 4–7, 2013, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA.
Cloud Expo® 2014 New York, June 10-12, at the Javits Center in New York City, NY, will feature technical sessions from a rock star conference faculty and the leading Cloud industry players in the world.
How SAP is refining its big data strategy
Tony Baer, Principal Analyst, Software – Information Management
With SAP having focused on building up the HANA platform, it has been later to the game in articulating its Big Data strategy. Over the past few months, several important pieces fell into place. SAP announced the extension of Smart Data Access, its federated query technology, from Sybase to the HANA platform, and announced OEM deals with Hadoop platform providers Hortonworks and Intel.
This is still early days for both initiatives – for instance, the Smart Data Access technology, while well-established on Sybase, is still in its first release for HANA and Hadoop. While SAP isn’t alone in promoting federated query, extending it to HANA injects welcome realism into SAP’s data management strategy.
Venturing beyond in-memory
Until recently, SAP’s positioning of HANA emphasized its role as a destination platform for analytics and transaction-processing applications. SAP’s focus on HANA as both …
Forrester says on-premise will “revive” in 2014 despite SaaS surge
IT growth in 2014 will exceed 2013, but it will be another year until we see “strong” growth in the global tech market, according to the latest report from Forrester Research.
The paper, entitled ‘A Better But Still Subpar Global Tech Market In 2014 And 2015’, pretty much does what it says on the tin, predicting that business and government IT purchasing will increase 6.2% in US dollars in 2014, aside from purchases of telecommunications services.
This is a “distinctly better” return than 2013’s 1.6% growth according to Forrester’s Andrew Bartels, writing on the company’s official blog, who warned that even with 2015’s more impressive growth rate of 8.1% in US dollars, it will be a far cry from the “double digit” growth rates of the late 90s’ tech boom.
The global IT spending predictions are intriguing, but CloudTech readers’ interests will be …
Leveraging the Voice of the Crowd in the Cloud
As the significant benefits of SaaS and hybrid cloud services become more evident, it’s no surprise that organizations are moving more mission-critical applications – e.g., email, VoIP, online meetings, document storage/collaboration, etc., – to the cloud. This is different than CRM apps, which have been in the cloud for many years. If Salesforce.com is unavailable, the sales team is certainly impacted, but if email, IP, and/or VoIP communications are unavailable, the entire organization takes a productivity hit.
Moving your mission-critical apps to the cloud doesn’t absolve IT of responsibility for the quality of service though. If users can’t access email, they are not going to call Microsoft or Google or Amazon. They are going to call the IT help desk and the IT team will be expected to fix whatever problem exists.
Cloud Expo Names Cloud Computing Industry Leader Larry Carvalho Tech Chair
Cloud Expo, Inc. has announced today that Larry Carvalho has been named Tech Chair of Cloud Expo® 2014.
14th International Cloud Expo will take place on June 10–12, 2014, at the Javits Center in New York City, New York, and 15th International Cloud Expo® will take place on November 4–6, 2014, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA.
“We are excited that Larry Carvalho is joining us as Cloud Expo Tech Chair. Our upcoming event in June will offer the best sessions and faculty to date,” said Carmen Gonzalez, co-founder and CEO of Cloud Expo, Inc. “Since the 13th international conference in November we have received the highest number of sponsorship and exhibit inquiries for Cloud Expo 2014.”
SYS-CON.tv Interview: Harness and Deliver Agility
«We see cloud and DevOps as two sides of the same coin. Often times operation folks have been focused on cloud computing as a way to deliver infrastructure in an agile fashion, but to make use of that infrastructure you need DevOps where you’re doing some of the process reengineering that allows applications to flow out of development and land somewhere,» explained Dave Roberts, Senior Director of Cloud Management at BMC Software, in this SYS-CON.tv interview at the 13th International Cloud Expo®, held Nov 4–7, 2013, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA.
Cloud Expo® 2014 New York, June 10-12, at the Javits Center in New York City, NY, will feature technical sessions from a rock star conference faculty and the leading Cloud industry players in the world.
Cloud Expo Names Industry Thought Leader Vanessa Alvarez Conference Chair
Cloud Expo, Inc. has announced today that Vanessa Alvarez has been named conference chair of Cloud Expo® 2014.
14th International Cloud Expo will take place on June 10-12, 2014, at the Javits Center in New York City, New York, and 15th International Cloud Expo® will take place on November 4-6, 2014, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA.
«We are thrilled to see Vanessa Alvarez joining us as Cloud Expo conference chair. Our upcoming event in June will offer the best sessions and faculty to date,» said Carmen Gonzalez, co-founder and CEO of Cloud Expo, Inc. «Since the 13th international conference in November, we have received the highest number of sponsorship and exhibit inquiries for Cloud Expo 2014.»
DevOps Fundamentals Summit Call for Papers Now Open
The 2nd DevOps Fundamentals Summit, to be held June 10-12, 2014, at the Javits Center in New York, NY announces that its Call for Papers is now open. Topics include all aspects of providing or using massively scalable IT-related capabilities as a service using Internet technologies (see suggested topics below).
DevOps is a software development method that stresses communication, collaboration and integration between software developers and information technology (IT) professionals. DevOps Fundamentals will bring valuable information to DevOps professionals who are transforming the way enterprise IT is done.
Help plant your flag in the fast-expanding business opportunity that is DevOps: submit your speaking proposal today!
DevOps Fundamentals Summit Call for Papers Now Open
The 2nd DevOps Fundamentals Summit, to be held June 10-12, 2014, at the Javits Center in New York, NY announces that its Call for Papers is now open. Topics include all aspects of providing or using massively scalable IT-related capabilities as a service using Internet technologies (see suggested topics below).
DevOps is a software development method that stresses communication, collaboration and integration between software developers and information technology (IT) professionals. DevOps Fundamentals will bring valuable information to DevOps professionals who are transforming the way enterprise IT is done.
Help plant your flag in the fast-expanding business opportunity that is DevOps: submit your speaking proposal today!
A New Perspective on Enterprise Mobility and 2014 Requirements | Part 1
Many of us have spent years (some of us decades) working on enterprise mobility designs, development and implementations. These projects, for the most part, started as tactical implementations for specific LOBs (lines of business). They involved usually one app, connected to a specific back end system and database. Over the years these projects evolved to include multiple data sources and business processes. Today, CIOs and IT departments are being tasked with mobilizing the entire enterprise IT environment. This task, I propose, requires a new way of looking at enterprise mobility.
Earlier this month (December 2013) I spoke on a panel with Forrester Research’s John McCarthy in London. We were discussing the current and future state of enterprise mobility. McCarthy stated that 2014 would be the year of «complex mobility» and would cause «Y2K-like» events in the enterprise. He predicted it was time for a «mobile-first» approach where complex and mission critical processes were mobilized. He added that ERP like investments may be required in many enterprises. Herein lies the challenge.