The traditional databases of the 20th century were never designed to scale to meet 21st century data demands. Google alone processes about 24 petabytes of data/day. With the added complexity of heavily virtualized hardware and storage plus apps being moved in and out of private, hybrid and public clouds, application developers, SaaS vendors, ISVs and enterprise IT all need a better answer.
In his session at the 12th International Cloud Expo, Barry Morris, CEO & Co-Founder of NuoDB, Inc., will through customer examples and performance benchmarks explore the new rules for a 21st century Cloud Data Management System and discuss the critical new roles databases play in customers’ strategies and how to resolve today’s web-scale challenges.
AMD Micro Servers Certified on Rackspace, Validated on OpenStack
AMD’s SeaMicro SM15000 x86-based micro server has been certified for the Rackspace Private Cloud, which simplifies the management of large pools of compute, storage and networking resources using OpenStack.
The so-called “Nova in a Box” and “Swift in a Rack” reference architectures are respectively supposed to be the most efficient compute and highest storage capacity solutions validated for OpenStack.
Product Certification means that enterprise deployments of Rackspace Private Cloud on SeaMicro SM15000 micro servers are a proven and rigorously tested solution.
Managing IT in an Environment of Change
Social interactions driven by mobile devices are causing a huge growth in infrastructure needs by enterprises. This write-up is about an event held for enterprise users.
The growth of mobile devices generated by smartphones and tablets is driving universal access to information in the multi-channel era. Similarly, social networking is a disruptive change that influences many aspects of consumer behavior. The large amount of data created through these means requires analytics to help enterprises respond to market dynamics. Cloud technologies help enterprises analyze this data in a timely manner, enabling enterprises to deliver significant advantages over their competition.
On January 22, 2013, Oracle hosted an executive roundtable in Cincinnati for enterprise IT users to discuss these changes and associated challenges. Attendees represented a variety of industries, so their requirements varied, but the fundamental need to transform how enterprise IT adapts to these changes was the same.
Build vs buy—5 reasons you shouldn’t build your own CRM
By Sangeetha Parthasarathy
As a business consulting company, we frequently hear the comment, “We are more than capable of building our own home-grown technology ecosystem.” That’s great. But before you jump in head-first, and start buying a bunch of servers and stalking developers on LinkedIn, you should consider everything required to build, implement, and maintain your system.
Here at Bluewolf, we’ve discovered several misguided rationales behind building your own CRM. To avoid falling into those traps, consider these 5 wrong reasons to build your own CRM:
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“I can build it, so I will.”
This is the most common reason. We often come across tech companies, start-ups, online retailers, etc. who have a lot of in-house technology expertise. While it is logical to think that a company can achieve this technology transformation in-house, issues often lie around resourcing and prioritisation.
Development resources are often tight and are necessarily channeled …
Roundup of cloud computing and enterprise software forecasts 2013
When the CEO of a rust-belt manufacturer speaks of cloud computing as critical to his company’s business strategies for competing globally, it’s clear a fundamental shift is underway.
Nearly every manufacturing company I’ve spoken with in the last 90 days has a mobility roadmap and is also challenged to integrate existing ERP, pricing and fulfillment systems into next-generation selling platforms.
One of the most driven CEOs I’ve met in manufacturing implemented a cloud-based channel management, pricing, quoting and CRM system to manage direct sales and a large distributor network across several countries. Manufacturers are bringing an entirely new level of pragmatism to cloud computing, quickly deflating its hype by pushing for results on the shop floor.
There’s also been an entirely new series of enterprise software and cloud computing forecasts and market estimates published. I’ve summarised the key take-aways below:
- Enterprise sales of ERP …
Cloud Tips: Virtualization vs cloud computing – What is the difference?
As the new technologies emerge, the number of technical terms also gets piled up. While those who are always updated are familiar of all the seemingly “vague” terms, the rest of the world remained confused. Such is the case tackling the collaboration, crowdsourcing, social media and a lot more. In this article, we will differentiate between cloud computing and virtualization.
Virtualization and Cloud Computing
Apparently, many businesses have been alarmed and informed on the advantages of using cloud computing against traditional storage for their files and data. Aside from the power of accessibility, mobility and security, cloud computing brings in more savings and more efficiency for maintaining the operations of the company. In line with this, the concept of virtualization is often mixed up with the former approach. Both are gaining dominance, however people are not sure just how different they are from each other.
There have been heated arguments …
Cloud Conversations: Public, Private, Hybrid & Community Clouds? | Part 2
Common community cloud conversation questions include among others:
Who defines the standards for community clouds?
The members or participants, or whoever they hire or get to volunteer to do it.
Who pays for the community cloud?
The members or participants do, think about a co-op or other resource sharing consortium with multi-tenant (shared) capabilities to isolate and keep members along with what they are doing separate.
Cloud Expo New York: Cloud Is Changing the Economics of Business
The economics of business are radically changing due to the way in which software and services are being delivered thanks to cloud computing.
In his session at the 12th International Cloud Expo, Mike Kavis, Chief Technologist at Kavis Technology Consulting, will cover the following six reasons for the disruption:
Cloud Culture
Investing in Reality
Changing Labor Pool
New business models
Founder’s dilemma
PaaS is the game changer
New cyber threats within the internet of everything
Cisco released findings from two global studies that provide a vivid picture of the rising security challenges that businesses, IT departments and individuals face — particularly as employees become more mobile, blending work and personal lifestyles throughout their waking hours.
Despite popular assumptions that security risks increase as a person’s online activity becomes shadier, findings from the Cisco 2013 Annual Security Report (ASR) reveal that the highest concentration of online security threats tend to target legitimate destinations visited by mass audiences — such as major search engines, retail sites and social media outlets.
Cisco found that online shopping sites are 21 times as likely, and search engines are 27 times as likely, to deliver malicious content than a counterfeit software site.
Security risks rise in businesses because many employees adopt «my way» work lifestyles in which their devices, work and online behavior mix with their personal lives virtually anywhere — in the …
The Benefits of Cloud Networking
The pressure for organizations, in the public or private sector, to reduce costs is constant. At the same time, organizations have to remain or improve user productivity in all their departments to stay competitive. This is even further magnified during a recovering economy as organizations face challenges of sustaining or growing revenue from customers or even government. Management and shareholders are always on the lookout to reduce their expenses. Innovative technology is one area where companies can look into to help to lower expenses with efficiency gains.
Specifically with respect to technology, many companies are taking advantage of the cloud to help with reducing expenditures while simultaneously improving productivity.