“The open development business model positively impacts the cloud ecosystem by fostering much-needed cloud standards and removing the fear of “lock-in” for cloud customers,” stated Joan Rothman, CMO at CoreMatrix Systems LLC, in this exclusive Q&A with Cloud Expo Conference Chair Jeremy Geelan. “The open model also creates a cross-cloud environment where innovative development can occur at a speed and cost that only a few companies can do on their own today.”
Cloud Computing Journal: The move to cloud isn’t about saving money, it’s about saving time – agree or disagree?
Joan Rothman: Disagree. The move to the cloud is about saving time and saving money – along with gaining an opportunity to immediately improve processes. We’ve helped companies in several industries move their systems to the cloud in just a few weeks. Of course, for complex and global implementations, it takes longer due to the number of requirements, different groups, disparate databases and existing systems involved in the design, build and deploy process. But the time and cost savings are there for organizations of any size.
Rackspace Planning a ‘Networked Cloud of Clouds’
Rackspace said Monday that it’s going to build and run a global cloud network for service providers like telcos.
It blogged that “This cloud network will run the Rackspace public cloud – the largest OpenStack-based public cloud in the world – at global scale, creating a networked cloud of clouds through which service providers are linked together behind the scenes.”
It figures that as the founder of OpenStack, it’s “perfectly positioned to help speed a partner’s successful entry as a cloud provider in the OpenStack ecosystem with proven Rackspace technology, operations and go to market expertise.”
cPanel is Built for Speed?
cPanel claims big victory, announces it is now only 3x slower than Parallels Plesk Panel
cPanel recently revealed they cut their product install time by an average of 30% and are now able to achieve install times of 50 minutes. This is still more than 3x slower than Parallels Plesk Panel. This less than impressive claim is promoted as the reason one might choose cPanel. If you use install time as a main criteria for choosing a panel you have a clear winner: Parallels Plesk Panel with 15 minutes install time.
I’ve talked to a number of hosters running both Parallels Plesk Panel and cPanel and their non-lab experience confirms these results. They are reporting cPanel 11.36 default installations taking over 2 hours and Parallels Plesk Panel 11 installations less than 18 minutes. With mirror Parallels Plesk Panel repository, local install source, they are installing Parallels Plesk Panel in under 6 minutes.
Let me know how this compares with your experience.
Adam Bogobowicz, Sr. Director of Product Marketing for Service Providers at Parallels
The Growing Cloud Ecosystem
“Trusted infrastructure providers are transparent and comply with industry security standards and practices,” observed Sheji Jacob-Brettle, Head of Marketing at TelecityGroup, in this exclusive Q&A with Cloud Expo Conference Chair Jeremy Geelan. “As an end user you want to know that your cloud provider’s own infrastructure is robust, resilient and secure,” concluded Jacob-Brettle.
Cloud Computing Journal: The move to cloud isn’t about saving money, it is about saving time – Agree or disagree?
Sheji Jacob-Brettle: It’s about both – the cloud saves money because you use what you need and time because you can provision and deploy services fast.
Cloud Expo New York: Utilizing a Pod Architecture to Scale
Building solutions that process Big Data are complex in general, particularly when dealing with a constant stream of data – not data resulting from interactive sessions, but a continuous stream of data. Design for infinite scale is a huge struggle. Given a design that functions well with a given load, will it function with 10x or 100x that load?
In his session at the 12th International Cloud Expo, Donn Rochette, CTO at AppFirst, will discuss a pod architecture solution for scale – a design approach that allows you to scale to very large numbers with predictable results.
Intel Re-Imagines the Rack
Intel has been rethinking the rack and rather than converge all the parts of a server in a system it figures they should be disaggregated so all the compute is together, and all the shared storage is together and all the shared power and cooling is together, all the shared memory is together and everything is tied together with a high-speed optical network starting at 100 Gbps, fast enough that the elements don’t have to be cheek by jowl
This mix-and-match rack-scale vision, geared to the workload, includes both Xeons and Atoms with the Xeons in a different tray from the Atoms. This way the widgetry is easier to service and upgrade. Upgrading the processors can be done separate from the other components.
It’s also supposed to eliminate all unnecessary sheet metal as well as bottlenecks and cost in space and power while increasing density.
HP’s Hybrid Cloud Solution Leverages OpenStack
«HP provides the industry’s most comprehensive hybrid cloud solution leveraging OpenStack across HP today extended its commitment to the OpenStack community with new and enhanced HP Converged Cloud offerings that enable enterprises to increase agility, speed innovation and lower costs,» said Saar Gillai, senior vice president and general manager, Converged Cloud, at HP as HP announced that it is integrating OpenStack technology to deliver enterprise-grade solutions across its private, public and hybrid cloud portfolio.
It’s Raining Money from the Cloud for Amazon
RW Baird & Co. is projecting $10 billion in revenue for Amazon Web Services by 2016. As Alex Williams of TechCrunch puts it, «The estimates reflect Wall Street’s growing confidence in cloud services and the need that analysts see in letting their customers know that a shift is underway that will lead to continued flat revenues or even losses for enterprise companies and systems integrators.»
RIP the old world and why cloud causes inevitable change
By Ian Moyse – Sales Director, www.workbooks.com
Eurocloud UK Board Member & Cloud Industry Forum Governance Board Member
“We change our behaviour when the pain of staying the same becomes greater than the pain of changing. Consequences give us the pain that motivates us to change”. – Dr. Henry Cloud & Dr. John Townsend
The need for change and acceptance of the fact that your status quo for business may be no longer has never been truer. I have been speaking on the effect of the cloud (internet based service and supply) for the past eight years and in the past two have provided much comment on the visible effects we had and are seeing.
Before commenting on why IT supply chains have to adapt and why now is the time to take action I would like to draw context from other sectors and the customer experience they deliver that is causing …
Are we misjudging the cloud’s environmental impact?
A whitepaper from Melbourne’s Centre for Energy Efficient Telecommunications (CEET) has cast doubt on traditional thinking regarding the energy consumption of cloud computing.
“Previous analysis and industry focus has missed the point,” blistered the Power of Wireless Cloud report to open its executive summary. “Access networks, not data centres, are the biggest threat to the sustainability of cloud services.”
As straight to the point as this is, what are the underlying reasons behind this summation?
According to the researchers, the wireless infrastructure is a more fundamental part of the cloudy ecosystem, with data centres just a part of a larger space. “Wireless cloud is a surging sector with implications that cannot be ignored,” the report notes.
This certainly raises an interesting point, and the statistics provided by CEET unsurprisingly bear this out.
Wireless access network technologies account for 90% of total wireless cloud energy consumption, with data centres only …