Informatica has extended its SAP integration with the Summer Release of its
cloud-based integration and data management Software-as-a-Service (SaaS)
solutions powered by its integration Platform-as-a-Service (iPaaS).
The SAP connectivity comes compliments of Informatica’s Cloud SAP
Connector and provides native SAP table reading and writing capabilities in
the cloud.
In his session at the 12th Cloud Expo |Cloud Expo New York [June 10-13, 2013], Sam Bisbee, Director of Technical Business Development at Cloudant, will look at how NoSQL impacts your application building decisions. He will discuss some of the insider baseball in the NoSQL community, cover a few tons of misconceptions, and discuss Cloudant’s views on what all this NoSQL and Big Data hullabaloo is all about. The session will be littered with case studies and examples from clients and previous projects.
In the midst of strong cloud competition coming from many different sources as well as rampant cloud-washing in the market, service providers need to differentiate and add value to their cloud offerings in order to be relevant.
However, differentiation often drives up costs. It’s much cheaper to offer the plain vanilla version of everything, including cloud services.
Sure, customers will pay a premium for things like ongoing compliance, security and service levels, but service providers need to ensure the cost of differentiation does not outweigh the added value.
Enter automation
Automation across the board encompassing servers, networks, databases and applications can help cloud service providers take out costs across their data centre and cloud infrastructure while delivering that value add they need to compete.
There are three key areas that service providers can realize increased agility and cost savings through automation:
Box, the cloud storage start-up getting close to going public, has acquired Crocodoc and its HTML5 document rendering and viewing solution.
The widgetry works on PDF, Word and other files without Flash or plug-ins. The transformed files can’t be edited.
Box said Crocodoc’s technology will be “deeply integrated” into its cloud content collaboration service, replacing its existing widgetry, and still be a standalone platform for HTML5 document viewing on third-party applications across the web and mobile devices via its API.
Box is also going to invest in the technology and ecosystem.
The whole Crocodoc team will join Box and co-founder and CEO Ryan Damico will be Box’ platform director.
The world is connected in an unprecedentedly accelerating way. Where government and Enterprise IT buyers once led, now consumers and end users lead. Accordingly, the economics of cloud computing are dramatically changing the way businesses expect to procure IT services.
In his session at the 12th International Cloud Expo, Jeff Katzen, Senior Manager of Cloud Business Solutions for Savvis, will explain how customers of all sizes are expecting hybrid capabilities that can be consumed and paid for on demand. They are expecting their cloud services to be delivered via an agile service provider that is able to drive out complexity and increase interoperability. They expect a connected cloud.
HP Software today announced four products that aim to tackle the thorny reality that traditional apps deployment is broken, and that the new requirements make automation and comprehensive management an inescapable necessity.
HP is also banking on the role it can play as a neutral party to better orchestrate the apps lifecycle because — unlike most other large enterprise software vendors — it doesn’t have a legacy applications, operating system, hypervisor, database and/or middleware heritage (and cash cows) to favor and protect. That means supporting heterogeneity in total is the imperative, not the exception, for HP.
Compelling consumer applications are created every day. Are you ready for the IT implications both internally and externally? As your datacenter needs more capacity, the cloud will be critical to success. What are the key considerations to help plan for the needed capacity over time? And how can the cloud best work with your existing applications?
In his General Session at the 12th International Cloud Expo, Brian Jawalka, Enterprise Solutions Architect at Rackspace Hosting, will open conversation to talk about the SaaS consumer apps that are forcing IT to evolve. Learn how a hybrid approach can add agility, flexibility and speed-to-market for your organization.
Evangelising development on any cloud computing or enterprise platform is challenging, costly and takes a unique skill set that can educate, persuade, sell and serve developers at the same time.
The companies who excel at this exude technical prowess and as a result earn and keep trust. For cloud infrastructure as a service (IaaS) platform providers, getting developers, both at partner companies and at enterprise customers to build applications, is a critical catalyst for future growth.
Assessing Cloud Infrastructure as a Service Providers with Inquiry Analytics
Using the Magic Quadrant for Cloud Infrastructure as a Service, 2012 published October 18, 2012 as the baseline and shown above from Rueven Cohen’s excellent post last year, the five leaders were compared using the Inquiry Analytics Statistics: Topic and Vendor Mind Share for Software, 4Q12 published March 13th of this year.
Analysing the five leaders in the Magic Quadrant using Inquiry Analytics …
SYS-CON Events announced today that Intrinsic-ID, a provider of top-level security solutions, will exhibit at SYS-CON’s 12th International Cloud Expo, which will take place on June 10–13, 2013, at the Javits Center in New York City, New York.
Intrinsic-ID’s software application Saturnus® offers users total data security in the cloud. With the application users can securely access, share and store their data in the cloud. They can use it anytime, anywhere and on any device. With Saturnus® users regain control again of their digital life and their data in the cloud.
How your organization approaches capacity management will make or break your private cloud initiative. No longer a periodic sizing exercise, capacity management is now an essential element of daily infrastructure operations that impacts costs, performance risks, and the ability to respond to new workload requests.
In his session at the 12th International Cloud Expo, Andrew Hillier, Co-Founder & CTO of CiRBA, will show how to integrate next-generation capacity control with cloud stacks, including OpenStack, in order to proactively reduce risk and maximize cloud efficiency.