It’s not today, or tomorrow, but sometime in the not too distant future the bulk of the on-premise private cloud market is going to shrivel into a little raisin and die. A very small number of very large companies will operate private clouds that will be, by an large, poor substitutes for the services available in public clouds. However, they will be good enough for these companies for some percentage of their workloads.
I have seen dozens of private cloud efforts by many large customers. Most are pretty weak shells of a cloud, not coming close to the economics or capabilities of even 2nd or 3rd tier public clouds. Comparing them to AWS, Azure or Google is like comparing my art work to a Picasso or Rembrandt. The only similarity is that I can still call mine art even if it’s atrocious. I can still call your cloud a cloud too – even if it’s expensive, inelastic, and lacking anything but the most basic of features. Some will be reasonable, but in the long run it’s a game you cannot win.
«Continuous» Does Not Equal Real Time
Security-as-a-service provides the necessary ingredient to transform continuous monitoring from compliance mandate to best practice: real time monitoring.
Every 4,000 miles or so I bring my car into have the oil changed, the brakes checked and tires rotated. Why? Because I know if I leave it to chance, at some point down the road something much more devastating will affect the car. Many of us follow this simple preventive best practice.
Then why is it major corporations and modest enterprises alike wait until their security is breached to address growing concerns of data theft, private information leakage or worse? Many of these companies spend hundreds of thousands of dollars in various security initiatives (especially those bound by a regulatory compliance agency), but still succumb to breaches that cost on average 3.8 million dollars (Ponemon Institute figure) per occurrence to address.
«Continuous» Does Not Equal Real Time
Security-as-a-service provides the necessary ingredient to transform continuous monitoring from compliance mandate to best practice: real time monitoring.
Every 4,000 miles or so I bring my car into have the oil changed, the brakes checked and tires rotated. Why? Because I know if I leave it to chance, at some point down the road something much more devastating will affect the car. Many of us follow this simple preventive best practice.
Then why is it major corporations and modest enterprises alike wait until their security is breached to address growing concerns of data theft, private information leakage or worse? Many of these companies spend hundreds of thousands of dollars in various security initiatives (especially those bound by a regulatory compliance agency), but still succumb to breaches that cost on average 3.8 million dollars (Ponemon Institute figure) per occurrence to address.
Safeguard Your Organization with Cisco Email Security Solutions Webinar
Please join us at one of our upcoming Email Security Webinars. Email Security is offered on Tuesday and Thursday. Please click on a title below to register.
What You Will Learn in this Webinar
Ensure world class protection: Block malware, blended threats and 99.999% of all SPAM entering your organization.
Automatically encrypt sensitive outbound emails: Auto-encrypt sensitive or confidential communications leaving your organization.
Improve compliance: Improve outbound email compliance and reporting with SOX, GLBA, HIPAA and State compliance policies.
Simplify email security administration: Eliminate false positive SPAM alerts from your day to day activities.
Safeguard Your Organization with Cisco Email Security Solutions Webinar
Please join us at one of our upcoming Email Security Webinars. Email Security is offered on Tuesday and Thursday. Please click on a title below to register.
What You Will Learn in this Webinar
Ensure world class protection: Block malware, blended threats and 99.999% of all SPAM entering your organization.
Automatically encrypt sensitive outbound emails: Auto-encrypt sensitive or confidential communications leaving your organization.
Improve compliance: Improve outbound email compliance and reporting with SOX, GLBA, HIPAA and State compliance policies.
Simplify email security administration: Eliminate false positive SPAM alerts from your day to day activities.
Integration and Interoperability
The silos within IT are breaking down, at least in terms of awareness of each other and the need to coordinate provisioning and orchestration of compute, network and application services. No longer is it acceptable to simply provide a solution; that solution must integrate, collaborate and interoperate with a plethora of existing and emerging data center technologies such as SDN, cloud management platforms, and virtualization frameworks.
After all, part of the raison d’être for SDN is the need to enable the network with the agility and flexibility of its counterparts- devops and application development – necessary to improve service velocity. That goal cannot be realized by enabling just the underlay networks addressed by SDN architectures. The application service layers (4-7) must also support the programmability, dynamism, and flexibility promised by SDN guiding architectural principles.
Integration and Interoperability
The silos within IT are breaking down, at least in terms of awareness of each other and the need to coordinate provisioning and orchestration of compute, network and application services. No longer is it acceptable to simply provide a solution; that solution must integrate, collaborate and interoperate with a plethora of existing and emerging data center technologies such as SDN, cloud management platforms, and virtualization frameworks.
After all, part of the raison d’être for SDN is the need to enable the network with the agility and flexibility of its counterparts- devops and application development – necessary to improve service velocity. That goal cannot be realized by enabling just the underlay networks addressed by SDN architectures. The application service layers (4-7) must also support the programmability, dynamism, and flexibility promised by SDN guiding architectural principles.
Object storage and the cloud: Why we’re all secretly obsessed with storage
By Kirstan Pepler, head of propositions, media sector, Easynet
Many of us are not ashamed to admit an obsession with storage solutions, probably the most visited area of a particular Swedish retailer’s website. After all, a tidy house is a tidy mind, as we are told.
For the CTO, storage is fast becoming the latest obsession – this time without a flat pack in site.
The world’s information is doubling every two years. We’re producing and sharing content at an alarming, explosive rate, in a variety of different formats, across a myriad of different devices. Every minute, YouTube users upload 48 hours of new video, Google receives 2,000,000 search queries and Instagram users share 3,600 new photos.
The corporate world is no exception, as organisations strive to source opportunities arising from this surge of content. Businesses scurry to manage Big Data, and new businesses emerge …
Salesforce CEO Benioff unleashes Salesforce1, cites ‘internet of customers’ future
Cloud giant Salesforce has unveiled its new shiny cloud platform Salesforce1 at Dreamforce in San Francisco, with CEO Marc Benioff stressing the ‘internet of customers’ – the importance of the consumer in a cloud, social and mobile world.
“I’ve never been more excited to be part of Salesforce.com,” Benioff bellowed to the audience of customers, partners and non-profits.
“In the world of the Internet of Things, it’s really a world of Internet of Customers.
“We need to reassess how we connect with customers in a whole new way,” he added.
In many ways, this wasn’t a speech, more of a performance – none more so than the homage to Back to the Future when explaining the benefits of Salesforce1. The hook of ‘this is what will happen in the future…but wait, it’s available now!’ wins no points for originality, but it nailed the five target areas …
CenturyLink Acquires Tier 3
CenturyLink has acquired Tier 3, an innovative provider of public cloud services based in the Seattle area. Tier 3’s cloud platform is immediately available as «CenturyLink Cloud.» In addition, Tier 3’s products, roadmap and vision are now the foundation of CenturyLink’s cloud strategy and anchor the new Seattle-based CenturyLink Cloud Development Center.
Jeff Von Deylen, president of CenturyLink’s Savvis organization, stated, «Our mission is to provide world-class managed services to global businesses on virtual, dedicated and colocation infrastructures. Tier 3’s innovative automation and self-service platform are game-changing for our global enterprise clients.»