“NaviSite has a long history in managed hosting, co-location, and cloud services for the large enterprise and business market and it was a nice way for the parent company [Time Warner Cable] to expand into the cloud space,” stated Sandra Palumbo, Director of Product Marketing at Navisite, in this SYS-CON.tv interview with Cloud Expo Conference Chair Jeremy Geelan at the 12th International Cloud Expo, held June 10–13, 2013, at the Javits Center in New York City.
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.
Three Steps to Lower Costs and Improve Compliance Using Cloud
While cloud computing is well known for lowering costs, and bringing additional agility to enterprises, the emergence of vertical-specific clouds is beginning to define their value as well. Vertical-specific clouds are those public or community clouds that provide processes and support for data storage that are specific to a vertical, such as healthcare, manufacturing, retail, finance, etc.
These types of clouds provide pre-built business processes that are specific to a vertical industry, and they provide pre-built data structures, as well as vertical-specific compliance and security. For example, as we discussed in the last blog post, vertical-specific give a cloud provider the ability to support HIPAA as a service that’s built into the cloud.
Three Steps to Lower Costs and Improve Compliance Using Cloud
While cloud computing is well known for lowering costs, and bringing additional agility to enterprises, the emergence of vertical-specific clouds is beginning to define their value as well. Vertical-specific clouds are those public or community clouds that provide processes and support for data storage that are specific to a vertical, such as healthcare, manufacturing, retail, finance, etc.
These types of clouds provide pre-built business processes that are specific to a vertical industry, and they provide pre-built data structures, as well as vertical-specific compliance and security. For example, as we discussed in the last blog post, vertical-specific give a cloud provider the ability to support HIPAA as a service that’s built into the cloud.
AWS Starting New Enterprise Unit
Amazon Web Services is starting up a new unit focused on getting the Fortune 2000/mid-market segment to adopt its widgetry.
According to Network World, it has also raided VMware for the guy who’s going to be its VP of worldwide commercial sales, Mike Clayville.
Clayville has been VP of product marketing for VMware’s cloud infrastructure offerings for the last year having previously been VP of North American sales.
What’s still unclear is whether Amazon means to chase after VMware’s private cloud business while VMware tries to step on Amazon’s toes and go into the public cloud business.
Oracle Announces Availability of Cloud Application Foundation
Introducing new products faster, reducing costs and increasing productivity continue to be top priorities for companies around the world and many of them are looking to Cloud computing to help meet these goals. Oracle’s Cloud Application Foundation provides a unified platform across conventional and Cloud environments, which helps customers deliver next generation applications, simplify operations, accelerate time-to-market, lower their total cost of ownership and derive more value from their current application infrastructure.
Oracle Announces Availability of Cloud Application Foundation
Introducing new products faster, reducing costs and increasing productivity continue to be top priorities for companies around the world and many of them are looking to Cloud computing to help meet these goals. Oracle’s Cloud Application Foundation provides a unified platform across conventional and Cloud environments, which helps customers deliver next generation applications, simplify operations, accelerate time-to-market, lower their total cost of ownership and derive more value from their current application infrastructure.
Red Hat Goes To War Against VMware
Red Hat put the full cavalcade of its new cloud widgetry on the market
Wednesday priced at roughly a third what it would cost to use VMware, the
private cloud rival Red Hat is out to unseat.
Red Hat announced the widgetry last month but it wasn’t quite ready for
general availability then so it withheld pricing until now.
First comes the Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform, which
combines Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (good ole RHEL) with the
company’s newfangled Grizzly-based OpenStack distribution in a single
product aimed at advanced cloud users.
Red Hat Goes To War Against VMware
Red Hat put the full cavalcade of its new cloud widgetry on the market
Wednesday priced at roughly a third what it would cost to use VMware, the
private cloud rival Red Hat is out to unseat.
Red Hat announced the widgetry last month but it wasn’t quite ready for
general availability then so it withheld pricing until now.
First comes the Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform, which
combines Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (good ole RHEL) with the
company’s newfangled Grizzly-based OpenStack distribution in a single
product aimed at advanced cloud users.
One in three businesses have ‘multiple’ outages a week
Companies are failing to update their software, meaning that because of the strain being put on old data centres, they suffer debilitating network outages on a weekly basis.
That’s the verdict from Brocade, whose latest research found that one in three businesses suffer “multiple” network downtime instances per week. Further, more than nine in 10 (91%) of IT decision makers admit that they have to ‘substantially’ upgrade their infrastructure in order to keep up with the demand of cloud computing. Shockingly, 16% of those surveyed said they experienced daily outages.
On average these outages last around 20 minutes – according to the research 2% of those polled say they’ve encountered downtime of more than an hour.
And in terms of the consequences, more than one in three said that these outages meant their SLA wasn’t hit, which in some cases led to customers looking for reimbursement.
Companies upgrade …
For the enterprise cloud, the future is hybrid
Attention CIOs – the hybrid cloud is enterprise ready. In fact, according to a GigaOM article, the hybrid cloud has been enterprise ready for the past couple of years, and that in 2011, the majority of participants in a cloud-use survey anticipated moving to the hybrid cloud in the future.
The future is here.
To prove that enterprise is using a hybrid cloud infrastructure, consider this. According to a Rackspace blog post, more than 50 percent of cloud buyers are planning hybrid deployments to take advantage of cloud efficiencies and satisfy security and compliance needs.
“It truly delivers the best of both worlds: the elasticity, scalability and agility that the public cloud brings, but also the control, visibility and security that the private cloud offers,” said Larry Lang, CEO of Quorum. “In addition, it offers the ability for enterprises to pay only for what they need, adding to its cache.”
However …