Businesses look to resellers for expertise on emerging technology trends and solutions that can help their organizations stay competitive. Lately, there’s been an onslaught of these trends, from virtualization to hybrid clouds and the performance and uptime challenges of complex mission-critical applications.
Unfortunately, most of the tools with which IT maintains application performance were created before these trends emerged and are struggling to keep up. “The tools of the past twenty years are just too monolithic, static, and difficult to help solve today’s performance problems quickly,” says Giulio Covass, CEO of Italian reseller Kiratech.
SYS-CON.tv Interview: Private PaaS
“There are a lot of new things happening with Stackato and Private PaaS, and we acquired Appsecute that focused on multi-cloud management and we will be drawing those features into Stackato later on in the year,” explained Jeff Hobbs, CTO & VP, Engineering at ActiveState, 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.
Oracle and Salesforce partnership offers less than meets the eye
Carter Lusher, Research Fellow & Chief Analyst: Enterprise Applications Ecosystem
On June 25, 2013, Oracle and Salesforce.com sent out press releases about how they had agreed to a strategic partnership to integrate their Salesforce.com and Oracle clouds. The press release was followed up on June 27 with a press conference held by both CEOs. The announcement generated a considerable amount of press and blogosphere buzz, with the general tone being that it is game-changing.
However, nothing in the announcement amounted to a significant change in either company’s strategy. Instead, what was offered was only just above “press release-ware” level, because no proof points were provided. In addition, the cross-vendor application integrations, Salesforce’s commitment to Oracle technology such as Database 12c, and internal usage of each other’s applications, are not unique or surprising.
It is Ovum’s opinion that this announcement neither shifts the dynamics of the …
SYS-CON.tv Interview: Efficiencies in the Cloud
“When it comes to cloud, C-level people want to be thinking what it can do for their business and what type of efficiencies it can bring,” stated Chris Kivlehan, VP of Account Management at INetU, 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.
SYS-CON.tv Interview: Predictive Analytics
“We’re analytic software. We’re designed to analyze all the supply and demand in an IT environment – virtual environments, clouds,” explained Andrew Hillier, Co-founder & CTO of CiRBA, 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.
Cloud Computing and Disaster Readiness
Few things in this world are guaranteed, but when it comes to the health of a small business, guaranteeing you’re backed up in the event of a disaster is of the utmost importance.
There are so many ways that cloud computing can streamline a business, yet one real advantage often goes overlooked until it’s too late.
It would be difficult to think of many organizations that could stay afloat for long periods of time where crucial information and technology was unattainable, especially for small businesses.
Following the increasing impact of natural and man-made disasters on the growing data cache required for managing a modern business effectively, it makes sense to think about combating this.
The beauty of cloud computing is it enhances «disaster readiness.» It does this in a number of ways, such as accessing files in the event of a disaster of any kind is usually a lot more speedy than if you needed to get hold of these another way. In some cases you simply would not have stored these anywhere but the potential disaster zone in physically accessible formats. Cloud computing solves this problem by allowing you to get at backed up information quickly and easily.
Cartoon: “You Lost Our Data Center ?!?”
Scott Adams / Dilbert on the risks of outsourcing to the cloud.
Proverb: When a Door Closes, Just Make Sure You Don’t Leave a Window Open
Access policies must be a part of any company’s risk assessment and security policy because unsecured, unmonitored access by former employees can only lead to trouble.
Earlier this month I attended a local cloud developers group, and I met a gentleman who consults with companies to engage in deep dive forensic examinations of their networks. He looks for the virtual fingerprints of misdeeds, fraud, and misdoings that can be used for e-discovery in legal cases. He essentially gets down to the bits and bytes of how much information flows to certain IP addresses to ascertain whether or not proprietary data has been tampered or stolen.
Breaking: US Cloud Companies To Lose Billions In EU Due To PRISM
The European Commission’s vice president Neelie Kroes said in statement that reports of the US government spying on servers held by US cloud providers are creating an “atmosphere of distrust” around cloud services.
“Why would you pay someone else to hold your commercial or other secrets, if you suspect or know they are being shared against your wishes?” Kroes said. “Front or back door – it doesn’t matter – any smart person doesn’t want the information shared at all.”
“If European cloud customers cannot trust the United States government or their assurances, then maybe they won’t trust US cloud providers either. That is my guess. And if I am right then there are multi-billion euro consequences for American companies.”
Does cloud and big data threaten your job?
Does the Fear of the Cloud and Big Data Threaten Your Job?
What is the biggest threat to your job? Is it what you do?
Or what you don’t do?
I have a really long commute to and from work. And I when I say long, I mean an hour and a half or more long. Needless to say, I have a lot of time to listen to the news.
This week, I was listening to CNBC on satellite radio, and the show was about how fear motivates people much more than opportunity. The show used examples of big companies that only bring innovations to market when they are under competitive threat. They don’t innovate because of new market opportunity or better customer service. The research shows that most companies are motivated primarily by fear.
Remember when Facebook acquired Instagram for $1billion dollars? Everyone speculated why since Instragram …