Progress Software Corporation, a global software company that simplifies and enables the development and deployment of business applications, on Friday announced that the company will be giving a keynote speech on cloud applications as well as a general session on data connectivity at this year’s Cloud Expo, held November 5-8, 2012 in Santa Clara, California.
The Keynote session, «Cloud Applications: Some Assembly Required,» will be given by Dr. John Bates, CTO of Progress Software, on Wednesday November 7. The general session, «The Impact of Big Data and Cloud on Data Connectivity,» will be given by Jaime Meritt, director, product management, Progress Software, and Jesse Davis, director, DataDirect research and development, Progress Software, on November 6.
Actuate, VMware to Deliver Faster Insights from Big Data in the Cloud
Actuate Corporation is partnering with VMware to provide a cost-effective way for companies to gain insight from any source of Big Data in hybrid cloud environments, by deploying seamless, dynamic and accessible business information solutions.
ActuateOne is designed to support private, public and SaaS (software as a service) cloud deployments by eliminating the need for hard-coded configuration, thereby enabling fast and easy deployment with VMware solutions. VMware solutions provide multiple benefits to IT administrators and users. VMware virtualization creates a layer of abstraction between the resources required by an application and operating system, and the underlying hardware that provides those resources.
Customers can extend the reliability and agility offered by the new VMware vFabric™ Data Director™ to their virtualized ActuateOne cluster, by provisioning and managing the data sources visualized in an Actuate dashboard as well as the vFabric Postgres database that manages the Encyclopedia Volumes of that ActuateOne deployment. This multi-layered coupling of ActuateOne upon VMware simplifies IT management tasks, while ensuring the highest levels of mission-critical availability, security and scalability for any Actuate / VMware deployment.
“We are pleased to be working with Actuate to provide our customers with a solution for analyzing and visualizing large data sets that reside in hybrid cloud environments,” said Fausto Ibarra, Senior Director, Product Management, VMware. “With VMware vFabric™ Data Director, VMware vFabric Postgres and ActuateOne, organizations can securely and efficiently extract actionable insights from their data to make informative business decisions.”
“Actuate’s technology scales linearly across any number of virtual instances, interfacing well with VMware solutions, and further delivering on the Actuate promise of better insights for better decision making by more people in the organization,” said Wenfeng Li, Vice President of Product Development at Actuate. “ActuateOne sources multiple instances of Big Data, merging it with traditional relational data via our data integration features, and then presents this blended content as interactive, customizable visualizations to large numbers of simultaneous users.”
ActuateOne – Actuate’s BI platform and suite of interactive applications built on open source BIRT – has already earned VMware Ready™ status. The VMware Ready designation signifies that ActuateOne has gone through VMware’s advanced testing and evaluation process to certify product compatibility. As part of the partnership, Actuate and VMware demonstrated linear scalability of ActuateOne in conjunction with VMware vSphere®, vFabric™ Data Director™, and VMware vFabric Postgres.
Together, the solution delivers three unique capabilities:
- An efficient and secure approach to using shared infrastructure for
servicing highly frequent requests - A standardized, portable, and extensible approach to enable workloads
to be deployed across multiple clouds without manual configuration - Agile access to shared infrastructure for provisioning workloads in
demand
Cbeyond VP Chris Ortbals to Speak on Cloud Security at Cloud Expo
Cbeyond Inc. the technology ally to small and mid-sized businesses, will address secure cloud and network integration strategies during Cloud Expo 2012 Silicon Valley, November 5-8, 2012, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, California.
Chris Ortbals, Cbeyond’s vice president of cloud services, will lead a breakout session under the Cloud Architecture, Security & Performance track from 08:15-9:00 a.m. on Tuesday, November 6, 2012.
Entitled «Having Data Security Nightmares? Fight the Monsters under your IT Bed with Secure Cloud and Network Unification», Ortbals’ presentation will look behind the intersection of network and cloud technologies. It will also include tips to help businesses ensure their mission-critical data is protected all the way from the premise to the private or public cloud.
SOA Software CTO Stresses API Management in the Cloud
Alistair Farquharson, CTO of SOA Software, a provider of Enterprise API Management and SOA Governance solutions, will be delivering a presentation on Best Practices of API Management at the 11th Cloud Expo at the Santa Clara Convention Center [Nov 5-8]. Farquharson’s session will focus on ways that IT departments can support business objectives through APIs that open access to core information systems to external developers.
Application Programmer Interfaces (APIs) expose enterprise systems to developers, including distributed, unknown third parties that create apps such as those that work on mobile devices. The goal of enterprise API management is to enable the business to realize success from APIs without inadvertently creating security and system management problems or running up unsustainable costs.
How cloudy is the future for the UK government?
“Times are hard” was a phrase often used in my house as a child usually when begging my mother for the latest pair of Nike trainers.
Fast forward 20 years and not much has changed as we continue to struggle through the worst economic crisis we have ever seen. The downturn has had a huge impact upon the public sector with many departments being forced to cut budgets to help reduce the government deficit.
One way departments are seeking to cut costs is by reassessing their technology needs, which has in more cases than not, resulted in the implementation of cloud computing solutions. The government’s ‘G-Cloud’ framework hopes to eliminate waste by more efficient IT procurement helping departments innovate, creating a better public service. The framework includes a list of approved suppliers and provides quick and easy access to cloud services. The cost benefits of cloud adoption in the …
Let’s Talk Global IT Innovation
I’m looking forward to Cloud Expo in Santa Clara next week.
Last year I flew from Manila, Philippines to be in attendance and announce the initial results of the Tau Index research that I’d been conducting with partners in Asia. This year, my flight will be only from Chicago, even as my Asian partners continue to expand the research.
We now cover 102 countries. The world’s top five are South Korea, Estonia, New Zealand, the Netherlands, and Finland. The bottom five are Libya, Cameroon, Cote D’Ivoire, Iran, and Algeria. The countries with the most untapped potential seem to be Vietnam, Ukraine, and most of Eastern Africa.
I’ve written extensively on the topic, so won’t repeat anything more here. One of our next steps is to bring some serious computing power to bear on the numbers, to bring them to life through data visualization. We can slice and dice the information through dozens of parameters, regions, income groupings, and combinations thereof. Our goal is to make them dance; we may be able to do this with the support of a university here in the Midwest with which we’ve been speaking.
Our research shines a light on many of the undiscovered gems in the world of global IT, and also reinforces the perceptions of many other countries with strong reputations. Given that IT innovation reaches most corners of the globe very quickly these days, we view our efforts as a way to further the growth of all global economies through the analysis and application of great technology.
If you’re looking for new markets, sources, or investments, try to speak to me next week at the show. I’d love to share what we’re doing with you.
The Cloud Infrastructure
“I’m not expecting consolidation in the infrastructure space, except for acquisitions that have to hire strong engineering teams,” noted Renat Khasanshyn, CEO of Altoros Systems and Venture Partner at Runa Capital, in this exclusive Q&A with Cloud Expo Conference Chair Jeremy Geelan.
Cloud Computing: Just having the enterprise data is good. Extracting meaningful information out of this data is priceless. Agree or disagree?
Renat Khasanshyn: I agree that extracting meaningful information out of this data is priceless.
Pano Logic: the Well-Funded Thin-Client Startup That Just Disappeared
Last year we reported on Pano Logic, the then-hot desktop virtualization startup that made thin-client PC replacements for businesses and institutions looking to replace desktops with cloud-connected terminals.
What a difference 18 months can make. Pano Logic has closed its doors with no explanation. As Business Insider put it, “The company has shut down, its leaders have vanished, and its customers have been left hanging.”
According to Network World’s Buzzblog the closing may have had “something to do with a cease and desist order that Pano Logic couldn’t fight,”
4G World: Clouds with 1000x More Capacity
In the initial presentations at the 4G World Conference in Chicago’s McCormick Place this week, several executive insights from Verizon, Nokia, Telstra, IBM, and others focus on the need to expand speeds and network capacities. One talked about the need to expand networks in order to handle 1000X the current traffic
The 4G World Conference is one of the best conferences to go to if you are concerned with the future of wireless because there are many corporate perspectives represented there. Besides hearing some of the strategic directions industry leaders are taking, you can also see a lot of the latest technology offerings in the exposition hall.
Everyone was talking about the need to move more data through the wireless networks. 4G Networks can really facilitate addressing that need.
The Lost Stepping Stone to the Cloud
IT Asset Management, or ITAM if you prefer, is the lost link to the cloud. There, now we’ve said it, do you feel better?
Before we can decide whether this is true, we need to understand what ITAM really is of course.
Sometimes called EAM (Enterprise Asset Management), the practice of asset management is quite a broad term used to describe the process of auditing and subsequently overseeing the total number of IT assets inside a company.
Encompassing hardware, but predominantly focused (these days) on software, asset management allows IT managers to improve cost control, perform maintenance scheduling, manage upgrades and look downstream towards decommissioning and replacement.