IBM’s partnership with Cloud Foundry will certainly go down as one of the bigger announcements in the cloud computing space this year. But what will it mean on a wider scale?
IBM and Pivotal have announced collaboration on the open platform as a service (PaaS) Cloud Foundry, pushing forward to establish open governance in the PaaS community – in other words, allowing companies total freedom to write software applications running in the cloud.
“Cloud Foundry’s potential to transform business is vast, and steps like the one taken today help open the ecosystem for greater client innovation,” Daniel Sabbah, IBM general manager of next generation platforms said in a statement.
This is the latest big bet IBM has taken in mapping out its cloud computing strategy in recent months. And as a result, you can be fairly sure the Cloud Foundry technology is going to integrate tightly with IBM’s …
The after-effects of PRISM means that companies are much less likely to use US-based cloud service providers (CSPs), according to a survey from the Cloud Security Alliance.
56% were less likely to use US-based providers, with one in 10 going as far to say that they’d cancelled a project which used US CSPs as a result. Only 3%, interestingly, said their confidence in US vendors had increased.
It’s noticeable that, from the vendors’ perspective, their confidence had not been diminished. 64% said the incident had not hindered their prospects of conducting business outside the US.
Yet in terms of general security policy, respondents did not feel at ease about governmental transparency and legitimacy. Almost half (47%) of those polled said that their country’s processes in obtaining criminal information were “poor…there is no transparency in the process and I have no idea how often the government accesses …
Amazon Web Services has filed a complaint in the U.S. Court of Federal Claims related to Central Intelligence Agency action in following recommendations made by the Government Accountability Office following an action filed in February by IBM after the CIA awarded AWS a contract worth up to $600 million over four years to build a private cloud for the entire intelligence community.
When I was asked about innovation, the first thing I did was review my research to get an idea of what my peers in the industry were predicting for our parallel IT futures. Not surprisingly, they all reflected the same sentiment: the cloud is growing, and employees will continue to bring their own devices (BYOD). BYOD is a trend that has remained a hot topic, and point of controversy, throughout the year. Now that we’re entering the second half of 2013, I think we can safely say that those predictions have been realized. Because the cloud is the common theme throughout all innovation and tech conversations, I am going to focus solely on where I believe the cloud is heading. At this time I would like to take this opportunity to look even deeper into the crystal ball and provide some insight into where the cloud conversation is heading for the remainder of 2013 and 2014.
«The government’s desire to think ‘cloud first’ is critical in reducing federal IT costs and AWS GovCloud should ease the transition, while maintaining the necessary security and compliance requirements demanded by the public sector,» said Anthony Robbins, vice president of Federal at Brocade, on the release of the Brocade Vyatta vRouter, a robust virtual router, firewall and VPN solution for AWS GovCloud.
This new AWS Region is designed to help U.S. government agencies and contractors move more sensitive workloads into the cloud by addressing their specific regulatory and compliance requirements.
With the introduction of the Brocade Vyatta vRouter for AWS GovCloud, federal agencies and approved affiliates can build secure, elaborate n-tier networks to better handle sensitive workloads within the cloud. Robbins noted, «The Brocade Vyatta vRouter provides the ability for network architects to replicate current data center infrastructures in the cloud, as well as simplify the provisioning of hybrid cloud environments.»
In their General Session at 12th Cloud Expo, Kedar Poduri, Director of Product Management, Cloud Platform Group, at Citrix Systems, and Jonathan Cohen, Technology Solutions Business Development Professional at Alcatel-Lucent, discuss CloudBand, a joint cloud solution and architecture.
Kedar Poduri is Director of Product Management, Cloud Platform Group, at Citrix Systems.
Jonathan Cohen is a Technology Solutions Business Development Professional at Alcatel-Lucent.
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.
Want the secret to user provisioning/de-provisioning in an enterprise setting, The one word answer,…Integration.The question is why, how & with what?
The need to credential authorized users to your network and other proprietary assets is clear. You only want those with the proper rights in…and all others out. Complicating matters is that there are so many users these days…employees, channel partners, contract employees, suppliers, vendors, customers, prospects–all needing some sliver of access. Further muddying the water is that each of the mentioned user types are not all equal. Consider employees. Do you want your junior admin assistant to have access to payroll information or other files type specifically aimed at senior executives? The volunteer coordinator at a local branch of a national non-profit may need social media access to spread activity messaging, but probably doesn’t need the log in credentials to ServiceNow.
Cloudwatt and UShareSoft have announced a partnership to deliver a suite of services dedicated to helping enterprise customers, value-added integrators and ISVs to migrate, build, deploy and manage workloads on Cloudwatt’s public cloud or hybrid environments requested by clients.
«Today, cloud providers need to differentiate themselves against their competitors,” said Alban Richard, CEO of UShareSoft, “the ability to make software delivery to cloud as easy and self-service as the underlying VM compute is a must-have.»
Cloudwatt selected UShareSoft for software onboarding tools in line with Cloudwatt’s strategy: security, governance, and reversibility for no customer lock-in.
SYS-CON Events announced today that Appcore, provider of the industry’s only complete automated cloud management platform, has been named “Bronze Sponsor” of SYS-CON’s 13th International Cloud Expo, which will take place on November 4–7, 2013, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA.
Appcore® automates the business of cloud computing® by delivering cloud automation management platforms for enterprise private clouds and service provider public clouds. Appcore AMP™ is cloud automation designed to simplify cloud environments through a single management and monitoring interface; delivered in three deployment methods as cloud appliance, converged infrastructure or white label, in under 30 days. As a fully integrated cloud solution, Appcore AMP reduces the complexity of your cloud environment with technology agnostic and scalable best practice solutions backed by end-to-end support. Appcore AMP features Launch to Cloud® technology for easy provisioning of applications and servers in minutes, giving end users access to on demand usage and resources.
