Cloud computing is the #1 topic for most CIOs this year.
In her Lunch Keynote at the 12th International Cloud Expo, Krishna Subramanian, VP Marketing & Business Development at Citrix Systems, will walk you through how customers have transformed the way they do business using Citrix Cloud Solutions. Learn best practices and architecture from companies who have embraced the cloud in their datacenter environment.
Krishna Subramanian is VP Marketing & Business Development at Citrix Systems.
Gazzang Brings Encryption and Key Management to Amazon EMR
We so often hear about companies putting «customers first» that the very notion can seem trite. But when it comes to innovation, listening to and learning from your customers is an absolute imperative. At Gazzang, the company I work for, we have a mantra that borders on religious fanaticism.
“Customers First. Always.”
It’s the reason we can claim deep expertise in securing unique, enterprise-scale big data environments. It’s the reason we know cloud encryption better than anyone else. And it’s the reason no one on our customer support team owns a bed.
Cloud Expo New York: Cloud Computing Needs a Hybrid to Thrive
Cloud computing will not take over the world as some people will have you believe. The problem with it is that cloud computing needs a hybrid solution to thrive. Massive economic speed bumps and a divide in business culture impedes the adoption of the cloud for every application, and every workload. Organizations with established infrastructure that have applications running on dedicated infrastructure resist the move toward the cloud, for any number of reasons. Compliance issues, performance requirements, and enterprise operations that aren’t convinced the cloud will have a considerable revenue impact are all realities that demonstrate that not all IT resources should exist in public clouds today.
Amazon to Offer Cloud Certification
AWS has launched a new certification program like Microsoft’s, Novell’s and VMware’s.
There will be courses available through AWS Training and certification will involve an independently verified test on AWS best practices and the applicant’s proficiency in designing, building, deploying and maintaining applications and services on the AWS Cloud.
Test center sponsor Kryterion will act as the verifier; it has testing centers in 100 countries.
There will be three certifications: Solutions Architect, SysOps Administrator and Developer. The first will be architect. The two others will follow later this year.
How Do You Choose Your Cloud Provider?
If you have been thinking how to choose your public cloud vendor you are not the only one. There are hundreds of offerings that you can choose from and comparing those can be a cumbersome exercise. Hence most of the people just run to the vendor (or technology) they are either most familiar with or gives them the best price. This is all good until they discover that… well, that vendor is not what they have been looking for.
Lately I’ve been few times asked: «Which public cloud provider would you recommend to deploy our application?» Doesn’t matter how much I want it to be, the answer is unfortunately not that simple. Here are few questions to ask yourself while doing the research.
Pitney Bowes’ Hyped Volly Cloud Still a No-Show
Sometimes clouds are just ground fog.
After more than two years of promising the imminent arrival of Volly, Pitney Bowes – the Fortune 500 that back when there were such things as letters had a vise-like monopoly grip on postage meters – has failed to materialize the cloud that was supposed to replace postal mail, especially posted bills.
Pitney has repeatedly pushed off the Volly launch since at least September of 2011.
It’s now well into 2013 and Australia Post, the one state-owned national post that bought into Pitney’s promises, is still waiting to field a product that was due to be out last October as the latest as part of a A$2 billion investment in digitization.
Cloud Database Company Xeround, and a Tale of Evolving Business Models
Last night, cloud database company Xeround announced that they’re shutting down the version of their service hosted in public clouds such as Amazon, Rackspace, GreenQloud, and others. Users of the free service have until 8 May to move elsewhere, whilst paying customers have until 15 May. The company describes this as an attempt to “re-focus,” with the implication that other parts of the business remain viable. It’s never easy to admit mistakes and kill products, but the ability to do so is an essential part of running a business that’s viable for the long haul. Xeround’s announcement needn’t be interpreted as the end of the company, or the end of databases running in the public cloud. The challenge now is one of persuading staff, investors and customers to move past the short-term pain and uncertainty, and to get behind the new direction with conviction. Xeround was founded back in 2005, initially delivering scalable data management solutions into the data centres of telcos such as T-Mobile. The company’s work on scaling MySQL and offering it in the cloud brought it to wider attention, and they seemed to maintain momentum by adding additional cloud partners. Last year, the company rolled out a […]
Clearing away all the cloud hype in 2013
It’s been decades-long in coming, but the bulk of hype around cloud computing could be gone by the end of 2013, thanks to a steady maturation of the underlying technology and more sophisticated IT use.
This is good news for companies hoping to a make the leap from local servers to managed stacks.
Terms of endearment
“Enterprise cloud” carries the lion’s share amount of hype, and has for the past few years, says CIO. This term is a catch-all for cloud services, and has been overused as a way to describe alternatives to public clouds, most of which take the form of public clouds in disguise.
IT pros are now fully aware that bolt-on virtualisation solutions, for example, aren’t precursors to the cloud, and with cloud security now robust enough to handle even mission critical data, the days of taking potshots at public providers because they’re …
Companies spending less on office space thanks to cloud
The overlap between cloud computing and enterprise mobility is becoming ever more pronounced. And according to a new survey from Rackspace Hosting, the proliferation of cloud computing, and mobilising workforces means that companies are likely to spend far less on office space.
It’s not strictly correct to call this a ‘new’ survey. It’s the third in a series on the state of cloud computing from the global hosting provider, called ‘Cloud Computing: State of Play’. A previous iteration had revealed that moving to the cloud had cost savings for nearly nine in 10 companies.
Yet this report examined the benefits, or otherwise, of the post-PC era, BYOD (bring your own device), and how cloud integrates with those elements.
“There is no doubt that cloud computing is enabling a more flexible workplace using a range of devices,” said Dr. Brian Nicholson of Manchester Business School in a canned quote …
Advanced analytics and data storage: You can’t use what you can’t see
There is currently quite a buzz around the concept of advanced analytics, as organisations look to predict future outcomes more effectively, based on a detailed understanding of what has actually happened in the past rather than testing theoretical hypotheses based on statistical analysis.
Put simply, the better the analysis, the better-informed decisions will be around anticipating – and responding effectively to – future demand.
Like many emerging management tools, it is easy to overstate the importance or complexity of the concept. At one level, advanced analytics is simply today’s way of mining information when presented with a lot of customer information.
And this applies whether in a CRM system, a traditional structured set of sales reports or looking to analyse product perceptions from the blogosphere.
Yet the value of the resulting intelligence – whether derived from a front-end CRM system or at the back-end in improving data management – is undeniably powerful in …