Wired has a cautionary tale for you to read as you consider the perils as well as the promise of could computing.
New York startup DigitalOcean says that its cloud server platform may be leaking data between its customers.
Kenneth White stumbled across several gigabytes of someone else’s data when he was noodling around on DigitalOcean’s service last week. White, who is chief of biomedical informatics with Social and Scientific Systems, found e-mail addresses, web links, website code and even strings that look like usernames and passwords — things like 1234qwe and 1234567passwd.
The problem started in mid-January, when DigitalOcean introduced a new solid state drive storage service. “The code that wipes the data — that securely deletes the data — was not being activated under the new SSD storage plans,” according to DigitalOcean CEO Ben Uretsky .
MuleSoft and its integration platform Wednesday got a $37 million investment led by NEA, bringing the company’s total financing to $81 million.
Other investors include Salesforce.com, as well as existing backers Hummer Winblad Venture Partners, Morgenthaler Ventures, Lightspeed Venture Partners, SAP Ventures and Bay Partners.
The funds are meant to pay for MuleSoft’s aggressive growth plans across its SaaS and enterprise customer segments, further global expansion, and “category-defining” technology innovations for connecting what it calls the “New Enterprise.”
Together with announcing the funding the company launched its Anypoint Platform, described as the first and only complete integration platform to enable connectivity to any application, data service or API across the entire cloud and on-premise continuum.
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?
IBM recently made three significant announcements about its vision for how cloud computing will be adopted by enterprise customers.
First, IBM believes that open standards are needed to drive increased customer demand for workload portability in a hybrid cloud environment. Second, IBM has segmented the adoption of cloud computing as two different strategies serving two different reasons to adopt cloud computing, namely a cloud-enabled approach and a cloud-centric approach. A third element that IBM introduced to the cloud debate was role-converged infrastructure solutions, and how these will enable both of the cloud adoption strategies.
Ovum considers that the concept of an open standard-based approach to cloud computing represents one such way a technology can gain wider adoption, but cautions that it will need wide cross-vendor support to make an impact on the market.
IBM backs OpenStack as the way to wider cloud adoption
By Luca Smuraglia, General Manager, Enterprise Business, Easynet
I’m a numbers man. I like to look at all the data available and make a decision based on fact, not just instinct. And I’m not alone: whether at work or at home, we all like to arm ourselves with information before we make a decision.
It’s empowering and reassuring. E-Consultancy’s recent Multichannel Retail Survey found that 90% of consumers research online before buying in-store. We amass vast quantities of data as businesses and as consumers, and we’re constantly hearing about explosions of information, tsunamis of data. According to Ofcom’s International Communications Market Report, the average UK mobile connection consumed over 424MB of data – higher even than Japan (392MB) in second place and the United States (319MB).
Information as an asset to a business is more important than ever, but the term ‘big data’ is misleading …
Zoolz is promoting their cloud backup service with an offer to give the first million users 100 GB for free. For life. The catch? It uses AWS Glacier, Amazon’s cheaper alternative to S3. Glacier of course enforces a delay of 3 to 5 hours to retrieve files, and there are limits to monthly retrieval. But for the right purposes (like, “Store & Ignore”) it might be a real deal if you act soon enough. Their intro video explains:
«I came to HP cloud services because of the approach HP is taking with the cloud and how this opportunity was really a culmination of everything I’ve been doing in the industry,» noted Margaret Dawson, former VP of Marketing at Symform, about her recent move to HP Cloud Services as VP of Product Marketing & HP Cloud Evangelist. Dawson has been working in her new position since Feb 11.
HP Cloud Services, a start-up business within Hewlett Packard, will be delivering public cloud infrastructure, platform services, and cloud solutions for developers, ISVs, partners, service providers, and enterprises. Products include HP Cloud Compute and HP Cloud Object Storage, which are built on HP’s hardware and software, with elements of HP Converged Infrastructure and an integration of OpenStack technology.
The concept of «Just-in-Time» was pioneered in the manufacturing supply chain as a critical way to reduce costs by minimizing inventory. Implementing a just-in-time system that can handle unexpected demand is not a trivial undertaking. It requires the confluence of a number of disciplines such as analytics, statistics, sourcing, procurement, production management, brokerage and economics.
An interesting new idea is to take this concept pioneered in manufacturing and apply it to Information Technology resources. Doing this can provide an effective way to meet dynamically changing needs while minimizing the inventory of unused IT resources across a set of cloud services platform and providers.
Planning scalable environments isn’t terribly difficult, but it does require a change of perspective.
In his session at the 12th International Cloud Expo, Phil Jackson, Development Community Advocate for SoftLayer, will broaden your views to think on an Internet Scale by dissecting a video publishing application built with The SoftLayer Platform, Message Queuing, Object Storage, and Drupal. By examining a scalable modular application build that can handle unpredictable traffic, you’ll be able to grow your development arsenal and pick up a few strategies to apply to your own projects.
«Our customers tell us they need better solutions for managing mobile applications. They started with crash analytics, but as mobile applications have become mainstream, they now want crash, performance and business analytics all in one easy-to-use solution,» said Steve Tack, Vice President of Product Management for Compuware’s APM business unit, as Compuware announced the availability of the free Compuware APM Mobile Application Monitoring Service, a solution that combines crash, performance and business analytics for native mobile applications.
«As mobile applications become industrialized, operations, development and business teams are looking for all three dimensions in a single Mobile APM solution,» said Tack. Compuware pioneered mobile APM, delivering solutions more than three years ago. This new free offering enables mobile application and operations teams to accelerate time-to-market for new applications and ensure great end-user experiences.
