Organizations want extraordinary results from their IT units. Today’s mantra is faster delivery, better quality, cheaper solutions, and safer environments. Many CIOs are implementing cloud computing enterprise architectures to address these challenges with results varying greatly. Why are some organizations seeing only limited results from cloud computing implementations while others are increasing market share, decreasing costs, generating value, and innovating faster?
Understanding SSD Technology to Avoid the Rip-and-Replace Game
The rise of cloud computing has exposed hard drive-based storage as the new data center bottleneck. Combating this, data center managers have deployed SSDs to gain the performance needed to provide real-time access to data. However, due to budget constraints, many have turned to consumer-grade SSDs without understanding that they wear out quickly when processing enterprise workloads. In this session, Esther Spanjer will discuss recent endurance advancements in SSD technology that enable usage of low cost, enterprise-class SSDs, and how this helps organizations lower their storage TCO by avoiding frequent replacements.
Cloud Expo New York | Enterprise Cloud: Five Dirty Little Secrets
You’re getting pitched every day from your legacy enterprise software and hardware vendors about «cloud.» They’re doing an amazing job of convincing your CIO and CTO about what cloud is and how you should use it. The reality is they’re defending their shrinking market share and keeping you on the legacy treadmill for as long as they can by selling you solutions that aren’t «cloud.»
In her session at the 12th International Cloud Expo, Niki Acosta, Cloud Evangelista for Rackspace, will talk through the five dirty little secrets your legacy IT vendors won’t tell you about cloud. Attendees will leave with an understanding of how you should really be thinking about building enterprise apps for the cloud while embracing the fundamental shift away from legacy IT.
Cloud vs. Control
If the leadership in your organization is mature and has a good track record – rest assured that a risk-mitigated decision to dabble in the public cloud is a vote of confidence in your direction.
It’s little more than innate human nature to strive to control the environment around us. From macro-level examples, including the very democratic foundation of our governments, to things we do every day; our desire to control is evident in all aspects of our lives. Have you ever lined up in the automated check-out line at the grocery store even though a «manned» (gasp!) cashier was available? You’re not alone.
Big Data into a Small Storage Package with Cloud Storage
The session being given by Nicos Vekiarides at next month’s 12th Cloud Expo | Cloud Expo New York [June 10-13, 2013] will examine in depth the problems created, common workarounds and why they fail, and how cloud storage can be a simpler, far more effective alternative. Attendees will learn about the common and often devastating issues surrounding the storage and management of data. Among the issues discussed will be offsite backup, offsite active archiving, business continuity, disaster recovery, disaster tolerance and scaling capacities in the data center and in the public cloud.
Cloud Data Analytics, Mobile Support, and Managed Services Procurement
Ariba Vice President Chris Haydon explains the company’s latest news and offers insights into how Ariba will be broadening its services procurement management value, mobile push, and AribaPay rollout.
We have some really exciting innovation coming in the near-term to Ariba in a couple of areas. First, let’s talk about Network RFQ or the Spot Buy. We think this is part of the undiscovered country, where, according to The Hackett Group, 40-plus percent of spend is not sourced.
By linking this non-sourced spend to the Ariba Network, we think we’re going to be able to address a large pain-point for our buyers and our sellers. Network RFQ or Spot Buy is a near-term solution that we announced at LIVE, and we’re bringing that forward over the next six months.
Five ways CIOs can prepare for the cloud: Lessons learned from ServiceNow
ServiceNow is a global leader in providing cloud-based services used by enterprises to streamline and automate their IT operations.
They’re known for their expertise in IT Service Management (ITSM), speed of development cycles, and commitment to open source including MongoDB and NoSQL.
ServiceNow also has one of the most enthusiastic, rapidly growing and loyal customer bases in enterprise software.
Matt Schvimmer, VP Product Management at ServiceNow, credits the goal of attaining 100% customer referenceability combined with intensive focus on user experience design as contributing factors to their rapid growth, in addition to continuous feedback cycles they use for capturing and acting on customer feedback.
Update from ServiceNow’s Financial Analyst Day and Knowledge13
On May 13th they held their Financial Analyst Day at the Aria Resort & Casino in Las Vegas, the same location they hosted Knowledge13, their annual user conference held May 12th through the 16th. You can download …
Cloudian Creates Connector for Citrix CloudPortal Business Manager
Cloudian, the cloud storage software company, has got a Connector for Citrix’ CloudPortal Business Manager 2.0 that simplifies the management and delivery of Storage-as-a-Service (StaaS).
VMware Takes Stab at Public Cloud
VMware covered its flank Tuesday when it went into the public cloud business hoping to prevent its installed base of 500,000 strong from skipping off to the likes of Amazon or Azure – which are reaching out to the enterprise – simply because it didn’t have an Infrastructure-as-a-Service alternative that rents out virtual servers and storage over the Internet.
Is This the Future of Photography?
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