(Two stories sat atop baseball’s marquee in the final days of July.
The first was the non-waiver trade deadline, baseball’s annual pros-for-prospects surge staffing. The second was the pending punishment of Alex Rodriguez, the former sweet-swinging shortstop turned sullen slugger turned cautionary tale and financial wild pitch of the New York Yankees.
Tucked in that double play of headlines was an impromptu lesson about the value of cloud services brokers (CSBs).
Really.
In a general sense, baseball’s trade deadline is a valuable part of its own asset lifecycle.
Join Us at The Only World-Class Cloud Event On Earth
There is only one world-class Cloud event on earth, and that is Cloud Expo® – which in November returns to Silicon Valley for 13th Cloud Expo at the Santa Clara Convention Center, November 4–7, 2013.
According to a recent survey the TechAmerica Foundation, high-volume Big Data Analytics could be trimming $380 billion from the U.S. Federal budget alone. In short, the wide-ranging economic benefits to be derived from the Big Data revolution are only just beginning to emerge. Which is why 13th Cloud Expo is co-located with 4th International Big Data Expo, which is our fast-growing fully integrated subsidiary event, with technical sessions galore in its own right and a dedicated area on the overall Expo Floor.
Join Us at The Only World-Class Cloud Event On Earth
There is only one world-class Cloud event on earth, and that is Cloud Expo® – which in November returns to Silicon Valley for 13th Cloud Expo at the Santa Clara Convention Center, November 4–7, 2013.
According to a recent survey the TechAmerica Foundation, high-volume Big Data Analytics could be trimming $380 billion from the U.S. Federal budget alone. In short, the wide-ranging economic benefits to be derived from the Big Data revolution are only just beginning to emerge. Which is why 13th Cloud Expo is co-located with 4th International Big Data Expo, which is our fast-growing fully integrated subsidiary event, with technical sessions galore in its own right and a dedicated area on the overall Expo Floor.
Virtustream Named 2013 EMA Vendor to Watch
Virtustream announced on Thursday that it has been named a 2013 Vendor to Watch by Enterprise Management Associates (EMA). In order to be recognized as a Vendor to Watch, companies must demonstrate customer value by delivering solutions for problems that have previously gone unaddressed.
“Virtustream continues to drive innovation in the cloud market by effectively addressing the diverse needs of enterprises,” said Torsten Volk, research director at EMA. “Companies that are moving mission-critical applications to the cloud must meet stringent business demands, and vendors such as Virtustream are making this possible with solutions that deliver a secure, compliant and flexible cloud environment.”
Changing the conversation around IT operations management
In today’s cloud-filled world, the conversation around operations management is – as it should be – all about service assurance.
Can IT deliver the server, storage, networking, and application resources necessary to meet business needs?
The focus on service assurance isn’t really a new concept – it’s been talked about since the transition from mainframe to client server architectures. But how it is talked about has significantly changed over time, reflecting the reality of datacenter evolution. Because of the emergence of virtualization, cloud, and converged infrastructure, how your organization talks about delivering operational excellence demands a new conversation.
But what shape should that conversation take? Well, let’s start by looking at a few things that have been said in the past.
Enterprise nirvana
At the beginning of the 1990s, monolithic systems management frameworks from IBM, HP, and CA were the loudest voices in the room when it came to …
Opinion on cloud services in Europe still fiercely divided
Research from Quocirca in conjunction with CA Technologies has revealed that opinion on cloud services in Europe is still fiercely divided.
The Quocirca report divides respondents into three potential categories; ‘enthusiasts’, ‘avoiders’ and ‘blockers’, and found that overall 57% of those polled were ‘cloud positive’.
In Europe, 22% were considered enthusiasts, for whom “cloud is the future for much of [their] IT requirement”, whilst a further 35% said they evaluate options to supplement in-house IT resources.
23%, interestingly, avoid cloud based services whilst a further 3% say they block their use altogether.
The UK figures reveal more overall who were cloud-positive – 60.3% compared to 57% – although only 17.5% were enthusiasts.
It was interesting to note the differences between job sector. Europe-wide results show that the telco sector is the most comfortable with cloud services – nearly 80% were positive. Compare and contrast with the government sector, where 30% polled …
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SYS-CON.tv: Demo on Impetus’s Big Data Solution at Cloud Expo New York
In this demo at 12th International Cloud Expo, held June 10–13, 2013, at the Javits Center in New York City, Impetus Technologies looks at Ankush, a Big Data Cluster Management Solution and how to manage multiple vendor clusters from a single interface.
Cloud Expo 2013 Silicon Valley, November 4–7, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA, will feature technical sessions from a rock star conference faculty and the leading Cloud industry players in the world.
The growth and success of Cloud Computing will be on display at the upcoming Cloud Expo conference and exhibition in Santa Clara, California, November 4–7, 2013.
Virtustream Named 2013 EMA Vendor to Watch
Virtustream announced on Thursday that it has been named a 2013 Vendor to Watch by Enterprise Management Associates (EMA). In order to be recognized as a Vendor to Watch, companies must demonstrate customer value by delivering solutions for problems that have previously gone unaddressed.
“Virtustream continues to drive innovation in the cloud market by effectively addressing the diverse needs of enterprises,” said Torsten Volk, research director at EMA. “Companies that are moving mission-critical applications to the cloud must meet stringent business demands, and vendors such as Virtustream are making this possible with solutions that deliver a secure, compliant and flexible cloud environment.”
Artisan Infrastructure Ranked Among Top 100 Cloud Service Providers
Report Identifies Artisan Infrastructure’s IaaS Enabling Platform as one of the World’s Top Cloud Computing Offerings for the Service Provider Space
Artisan Infrastructure, the wholesale Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) provider, ranks among the world’s Top 100 Cloud Service Providers (CSPs), according to the third-annual Talkin’ Cloud 100 report. The Top 100 CSPs generated more than $15.7 billion in combined cloud services revenues in 2012, up nearly 37 percent, according to the report, which is available now by visiting http://www.talkincloud.com/tc100.