Racemi, a provider of automated server migration software that streamlines the process of migrating workloads to public clouds, has announced that it has been selected by 2nd Watch, Inc., a global leader in building and deploying Amazon Web Services based IT operations for the enterprise, for on-boarding customers to the Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud computing platform.

2nd Watch is an AWS Premier Consulting Partner that manages more than 60,000 cloud computing instances for mid-size and enterprise companies and provides services from initial consulting and planning to implementation and on-going maintenance.

«Our role is helping our clients take advantage of cloud computing to run their business more efficiently and cost-effectively, so Racemi’s technology for fast, automated migrations is a great fit for us,» said Kris Bliesner, CEO and co-founder, of 2nd Watch. «We have completed 300-plus platform and data center migrations and guarantee 99.99 percent uptime on Amazon Web Services and are proud that our customers experienced zero business impact throughout the entire year.»

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Racemi, a provider of automated server migration software that streamlines the process of migrating workloads to public clouds, has announced that it has been selected by 2nd Watch, Inc., a global leader in building and deploying Amazon Web Services based IT operations for the enterprise, for on-boarding customers to the Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud computing platform.

2nd Watch is an AWS Premier Consulting Partner that manages more than 60,000 cloud computing instances for mid-size and enterprise companies and provides services from initial consulting and planning to implementation and on-going maintenance.

«Our role is helping our clients take advantage of cloud computing to run their business more efficiently and cost-effectively, so Racemi’s technology for fast, automated migrations is a great fit for us,» said Kris Bliesner, CEO and co-founder, of 2nd Watch. «We have completed 300-plus platform and data center migrations and guarantee 99.99 percent uptime on Amazon Web Services and are proud that our customers experienced zero business impact throughout the entire year.»

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You probably know from personal experience how tough it can be to change from one service provider to another. Think about the last time you changed your Internet service or gym membership. It was probably a pain, and there’s a reason. Most vendors don’t want you to have a seamless transition from their product to a competitor’s.
vendor lock in cloud software. But you might not know that some less-trustworthy vendors build roadblocks specifically designed to lock customers into their service. They make it hard for you to switch vendors so they can raise prices or change policies without worrying too much about losing customers—a practice called “vendor lock-in.”

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Given the differences in market maturity, cultural acceptance and local IT infrastructures, considerable regional differences exist in the deployment rates of cloud-based security systems. They all play a part in the level of spending dedicated to this delivery model — when compared with on-premises business technology deployments.
Moreover, privacy remains an inhibitor in the deployment of all forms of cloud-based services by the late adopter market segment. In particular, it’s a big issue in those regions and countries with strong regulatory requirements — such as Europe, with its data protection legislation.

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Perhaps it is tied to the number of press releases, product or staffing announcements including who has joined the organization along with added coverage of it?
Maybe its based on how many articles, videos or some other content and coverage that helps to show traction and momentum?
On the other hand is it tied to how many prospects are actually trying a product or service as part of a demo or proof of concept?
Then again, maybe it is associated with how many real paying or revenue installed footprints and customers or what is also known as industry deployment (customer adoption).
Of those customers actually buying and deploying, how many have continued using the technology even after industry adoption subsides or does the solution become shelf ware?
Does the customer deployment actually continue to rise quietly while industry adoption or conversations drop off (past the cycle of hype)?

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Given the differences in market maturity, cultural acceptance and local IT infrastructures, considerable regional differences exist in the deployment rates of cloud-based security systems. They all play a part in the level of spending dedicated to this delivery model — when compared with on-premises business technology deployments.

Moreover, privacy remains an inhibitor in the deployment of all forms of cloud-based services by the late adopter market segment. In particular, it’s a big issue in those regions and countries with strong regulatory requirements — such as Europe, with its data protection legislation.

Regardless, the cloud-based security services market will be worth $2.1 billion in 2013 — growing to $3.1 billion in 2015, according to the latest market study by Gartner.

«The cloud-based security market remains a viable one, offering providers many opportunities for expansion,» said Ruggero Contu, research director at Gartner. «Encryption will be a new area of growth, but it …

It is over five years since the term ‘cloud’ was first adopted into the mainstream to describe a fundamental change in how – and where – information technology is deployed.

Cloud’s building blocks had been developing for several years prior: the rise of the Internet as a backbone for service delivery; hardware platforms so powerful that they could run multiple web scale workloads; and the opening of standards for application and infrastructure architecture; all contributed to the cloud phenomenon, which went beyond simple hosting or application service provision.

The ability for providers to create massively scalable, homogeneous computing platforms enabled new delivery models which, it was clear, would reach beyond what had previously been possible in terms of processing capability, at the same time as making costs more affordable. No wonder, then, that industry players were so excited. 

Cloud – the current state of play

In principle, there is plenty to like …

Open cloud provider Rackspace has rolled out a complete revamp of its public cloud with Performance Cloud Servers – and according to Nigel Beighton, international VP technology and product, it represents a serious shift in how companies use their servers.

The architectural redesign of the Rackspace Performance Cloud Server comes with four times the total RAM, double the CPU performance and 132 times the I/O of its competitors, according to benchmark tests.

But Beighton argues that simply drooling over the figures is the short-sighted approach.

“The more interesting sub-context here is that this is responding to the changing nature of applications on cloud,” Beighton told CloudTech.

“When I look back over six months worth of data, we’ve had an increase of 200% over that six months of people taking what we call ‘fat slices’, which fundamentally takes the whole machine.

“What you are seeing here is a shift, a …

For half a century, the trajectory of computing has followed a «faster, smaller, cheaper» arc. In his Day 3 Lunchtime Keynote at the 13th International Cloud Expo®, Tim Park, Director, Platform Strategy at Microsoft and alumnus of Nest Labs, will look at how that trajectory is both accelerating and changing course as computing begins to infuse many of the everyday items in our lives. He will walk through the hard problems you need to think about when deploying devices and services for the Internet of Things and walk through a framework for Windows Azure that helps cover some of these hard problems so you can focus on your device or application.

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