Cloud computing’s profile just took a leap in the polls.
IBM announced the opening of a new Federal Cloud Innovation Center dedicated to helping federal agencies and other public-sector organizations advance the adoption of cloud computing across the government.
The new IBM Federal Cloud Innovation Center in Washington, D.C., will bring IBM’s cloud computing research efforts closer to federal agencies to develop specialized technologies and methods for building mission-ready clouds, Big Blue officials said. Moreover, the IBM center will draw on the cloud computing expertise of more than 500 IBM professionals aligned to the center along with IBM’s global network of more than 37,000 cloud industry experts, according to an article on eWEEK.com.
Cloud Expo Silicon Valley: Paving the Way to Hybrid Cloud Services
Customers are getting more receptive to offloading the secondary IT process to the cloud – hybrid and public.
In his session at the 13th International Cloud Expo®, Murali Nambiar, Sr. Product Manager for Backup and DR Products at InMage, will cover the services that are most sought after and ways of delivering these to customers and partners.
Murali Nambiar is Sr. Product Manager for Backup and DR Products at InMage. Prior to joining InMage he was an Architect at Soapstone Networks, and a Distinguished Technologist at Quark Media and Defense Research Labs, DLRL. Murali is pursuing a masters at WGU and has Bachelor’s in Electronics and Telecommunications from IETE, New Delhi.
Inocybe Technologies to Unveil Virtualization Platform at Cloud Expo 2013
At the Cloud Expo 2013 SiliconValley, Inocybe Technologies Inc., the company that aims to keep IT simple, is introducing the Inocybe Virtualization Platform (IVP), the software-defined networking (SDN) industry’s first unified infrastructure virtualization platform. From smart to simple, IVP is a turnkey solution that allows any organization to create a private, community, or global scale public cloud computing infrastructure in just seconds. The product unites a wide variety of network, computing and storage application options with a simple plug-and-play architecture that businesses can use to rapidly create virtual data centers in the cloud.
Ten Questions to Avoid a Classical Business War Room Scenario
I personally don’t like the term “War Room” when describing a firefighting situation that many software companies have to deal with when systems go down or have problems. The way these war rooms typically play out is that key personnel (engineers, operations, business) are summoned into a room until the problem is solved. This was the case back with the Apollo 13 mission and still is now when we look at the famous Facebook war room from Dec 2012.
What’s the problem with these pictures? There are a lot of people in the room that have no clue whether the problem on hand is actually something they can fix or are responsible for. All of these people are summoned without first figuring out which people should look at the problem. Why is that? Because the collected “evidence” in the form of infrastructure monitoring data, log files, user complaints, etc., just shows symptoms but doesn’t tell us anything about the actual impact and root cause of issues.
Gartner’s Trends for 2014 – The Hybrid Cloud & the Role of IT
A few weeks ago, Gartner shared its list of top 10 technology trends for 2014, including among its expectations one entitled: “Hybrid cloud and IT as Service Broker.” This prediction speaks to what Gartner views as the necessity of the hybrid cloud – a mix of private cloud combined with external public cloud services – along with the role of IT evolving to include that of Cloud Service Broker.
The notion of IT serving as Cloud Service Broker means IT going beyond its traditional services to making strategic decisions on cloud adoption, particularly as cloud-bursting (outgrowing private cloud) becomes necessary for more enterprises. IT departments will be leading the customization and integration of their enterprise’s cloud expansion, regardless of where a cloud application resides.
HGST to Deliver Keynote, Exhibit at Cloud Expo Silicon Valley, Booth #209
HGST on Wednesday announced its chief technology officer, Steven Campbell, will deliver a keynote speech on new developments in enterprise storage for the cloud (#cloud) at Cloud Expo 2013 Silicon Valley (@CloudExpo). Additionally, Brendan Collins, HGST vice president of product marketing, will present on the revolutionary new Helium hard-disk drive (HDD) platform for enabling higher capacity and lower total cost of ownership for high-density data center applications. HGST also will demonstrate at the conference how its enterprise-class HDDs and PCI Express (PCIe) and 12Gb/s Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) solid-state drive (SSD) technologies can dramatically improve performance and capacity in cloud storage and data center environments, while lowering system latency and improving net costs.
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WebRTC Summit | Is WebRTC a Second Stage Engine in the Telehealth Rocket?
Telehealth legislation opened the floodgates for investment in modern communications services and APIs since 2010. WebRTC promises a second revolution.
In his session at WebRTC Summit, Ivelin Ivanov, co-founder of TeleStax, will first discuss a real-world example where telephony APIs make a difference in improving patient care and reducing healthcare costs. He will then look into a brighter telehealth future with secure, high quality, ubiquitous WebRTC video interactions.
WebRTC Summit | WebRTC and the Codec War
The codec war is raging now more than ever before. The increased popularity of the proposed WebRTC protocol and the implied royalty costs make this a hot topic. Google, Cisco, Microsoft and now finally Apple are promoting their preferred technology and attempting to influence the choice to be made for WebRTC. The choice is far from clear especially in light of the latest technology advances, the transcoding infrastructure costs involved and the impact on mobile devices.
In this session, Soufiane Houri will share Weemo’s multi-year experience developing on top of the leading video and voice codecs. He will provide some perspective on the advantages of each across devices taking into account hardware and software-based video acceleration and the impact each have on the end user.
Priologic to Exhibit at WebRTC Summit at Cloud Expo
SYS-CON Events announced today that Priologic, a provider of dedicated enterprise software teams, will exhibit at SYS-CON’s 1st WebRTC Summit, which will take place on November 6–7, 2013, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA.
Based in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada, Priologic Software Inc. has been deploying dedicated enterprise software teams since 2003. Our teams work on strategic projects developing custom applications, enterprise collaboration portlets, platforms and mobile applications. With Priologic you have immediate access to qualified people ready to support your enterprise.