“There are back-office batch processes written in COBOL that work fine. And, there are apps written for client/server that will continue running great in a virtualized environment,” stated Troy Angrignon, Vice President, Sales & Partnering at Cloudscaling, in this exclusive Q&A with cloud Expo Conference Chair Jeremy Geelan. Angrignon concluded, “Re-engineering them for cloud won’t happen for the foreseeable future.”
Cloud Computing Journal: Just having the enterprise data is good. Extracting meaningful information out of this data is priceless. Agree or disagree?
Troy Angrignon: Sure. But, it’s harder than you might realize. Making money from Big Data starts with data, but you need a business model, developers who get devops, and a cloud infrastructure built for agility and economy.
8×8 Issued Two New Communications Patents
8×8, Inc. has been awarded two new patents related to its communications technologies. On October 30, 2012, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office issued United States Patent numbers 8,300,552, entitled “Network Interface Unit Control System and Method Therefor” and 8,300,634, entitled “Mobile Device Communications Routing.”
The “Network Interface Unit Control System and Method Therefor” patent relates to an arrangement for processing external services data including an audio, video and data signal bussing arrangement adapted to distribute audio, video and data to designated points in a user facility. The external services data are processed in a manner that enables easy user interface and control.
The “Mobile Device Communications Routing” patent relates to a variety of methods, systems, devices and arrangements for communications using a mobile communications device. In connection with various embodiments, one such method relates to routing calls specifying an endpoint device, from a mobile communications device to the endpoint device, using a call forwarding/routing service provider that establishes a connection with the endpoint device. The established connection may include, for example, a Voice-over-Internet Protocol (VoIP) connection. In some implementations of the invention, an authentication server is contacted (e.g. via the Internet) to authenticate the call to be made via the call forwarding/routing service provider.
Since its establishment in 1987, 8×8 has been awarded eighty-five (85) United States patents covering a variety of voice and video communications, signaling, processing and storage technologies. 8×8’s Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Bryan Martin, is a named inventor on both of the newly issued patents.
Day 4 Keynote | The Ever-Changing Cloud at Cloud Expo Silicon Valley
Another perfect storm is brewing in cloud computing fueled by the explosive growth of Internet-based mobile apps, network virtualization, and APIs for programmatic control of infrastructure. In addition, community-driven open source projects such as OpenStack make it possible for anyone to deploy and directly contribute to what promises to be a widely deployed, open cloud platform. Many companies and individual developers are contributing ideas and code for new cloud services, which bring capabilities of the underlying infrastructure into the world of cloud applications.
Cloud Expo Silicon Valley: HP Big Data Solutions in the Cloud Age
As a result of many years of experience, innovation and acquisitions, HP has firmly established itself as the leading Big Data solutions and services provider – and a thought leader, helping enterprises solve the trickiest of Big Data challenges by building an end to end analytics framework.
In his session at the 11th International Cloud Expo, Sanjai Marimadaiah leads Strategic Business Development, Big Data at Hewlett-Packard, will discuss how HP is empowering CEOs, CIOs and CMOs alike to extract actionable business insights from both structured and unstructured data through workload-optimized solutions built for performance and scale. Listen to success stories of customers, who have tamed the Big Data beast with HP solutions for Big Data, delivered as on-premised and cloud offerings.
SaaS adoption accelerates and goes global in the enterprise
In working with manufacturers and financial services firms over the last year, one point is becoming very clear: SaaS is gaining trust as a solid alternative for global deployments across the enterprise. And this trend has been accelerating in the last six months. One case in point is a 4,000 seat SaaS CRM deployment going live in Australia, Europe, and the U.S. by December of this year.
What’s noteworthy about this shift is that just eighteen months ago an Australian-based manufacturer was only considering SaaS for on-premises enhancement of their CRM system. What changed? The European and U.S. distribution and sales offices were on nearly 40 different CRM, quoting, proposal and pricing systems. It was nearly impossible to track global opportunities.
Meanwhile business was booming in Australia and there were up-sell and cross-sell opportunities being missed in the U.S. and European-based headquarters of their prospects …
Cloudscaling to Exhibit at Cloud Expo Silicon Valley
SYS-CON Events announced today that Cloudscaling, the leading elastic cloud infrastructure company, will exhibit at SYS-CON’s 11th International Cloud Expo, which will take place on November 5–8, 2012, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA.
Cloudscaling is the leading elastic cloud infrastructure company. Its Open Cloud System is the most reliable, scalable and production-grade solution available for building elastic clouds powered by OpenStack technology. Open Cloud System delivers the agility, performance and economic benefits of leading public cloud providers, but deployable in the customer’s datacenter and under their IT team’s control. Cloudscaling is backed by Trinity Ventures and is headquartered in San Francisco.
Cloud Expo Silicon Valley: Production Clouds Powered by OpenStack
OpenStack is powering production clouds. In this General Session at the 11th International Cloud Expo, Nebula CEO Chris C. Kemp will outline the open source cloud platform’s path to maturity, leading to production use in some of today’s most popular companies. He will moderate a panel discussion among featured OpenStack users PayPal, Cisco WebEx and eBay, asking the questions that are top of mind as your organization considers implementing OpenStack. The group will discuss how they’re using OpenStack today, ways the cloud platform is delivering real business value, and best practices for effective planning and implementation.
Objectivity to Exhibit at Cloud Expo Silicon Valley
SYS-CON Events announced today that Objectivity, Inc., makers of InfiniteGraph, The Distributed Graph Database™, will exhibit at SYS-CON’s 11th International Cloud Expo, which will take place on November 5–8, 2012, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA. View demos of InfiniteGraph in the Big Data Pavilion, learn about InfiniteGraph’s complementary solution at Brian Clark, VP Field Services, technical session Thursday 11/8 and check out Objectivity’s CEO Jay Jarrell participate in the Thursday 11/8 Lunchtime Power Panel!
As the only NoSQL distributed graph database, InfiniteGraph is a complementary technology to any polyglot Big Data strategy. The power of InfiniteGraph is its performance and scalability within distributed environments. In recent testing InfiniteGraph scaled to more than a billion nodes and edges in less than 30 minutes. Companies including, Deloitte, US Government, the world’s largest telecom carrier, Osaka Gas Information Systems (OGIS), Nippon Systemware Co. LTD (NSW), and Software Research Associates (SRA) are leveraging InfiniteGraph for real-time analysis in multiple industries including HealthCare, network security, and homeland defense.
Cloud Expo Silicon Valley: OpenStack Momentum: Adopters Speak Up
A founding member of the OpenStack Community, Dell has driven significant interest in and adoption of OpenStack-powered cloud solutions among cloud service providers.
In his session at the 11th International Cloud Expo, Mike Fountaine, National Director, Cloud Solutions, at Dell, to discuss why DreamHost, a pioneer in OpenStack use, made this choice, what products and services they’re creating with it, and the upcoming Grizzly release with the new Horizon and Keystone components.
Mike Fountaine is National Director, Cloud Solutions, at Dell. He leads the Sales organization responsible for Dell’s OpenStack and Hadoop solutions for the Americas. His 25-year career in high-tech has spanned engineering, marketing and sales roles focused on delivering innovative computing and storage solutions to the smallest startups, the largest global companies, and everyone in between. With Dell for the better part of 13 years, Fountaine has spent the last three years with the Data Center Solutions team focused on architecting and delivering hyper-scale computing infrastructure, big-data solutions based on Hadoop, and revolutionary cloud solutions based on Openstack.
Tinypass Launches Cloud-Based, Content Metering Tool for its Digital Paywall Platform
Tinypass, a flexible and consumer-friendly paywall platform for digital publishers, announced today a new content metering capability that allows publishers to provide a specified amount of free – or “metered” – access to their site’s content before visitors are asked to pay. The technology offers publishers a broad range of control in implementing a metered access model, enabling them to set the amount of free content users are able to view based upon either the number of articles/resources retrieved or by time frame. For example, offering 24-hours of free access to allow visitors to preview site offerings.
“We’re committed to empowering digital publishers with the ability to monetize their content in effective, affordable and consumer-friendly ways,” said David Restrepo, Chief Operating Officer of Tinypass. “What’s great about the new, metered access capability is that it allows content owners of any size to quickly and easily implement a customized access model that their visitors will already be familiar with from experience accessing content on the sites of several of the world’s largest publishers. Like the rest of our cloud-based technology platform, the metering tools are completely scalable and, with zero upfront costs, can be deployed by operators of all sizes.”
The metering functionality is built into Tinypass’ plugins for WordPress and Drupal, as well as Tinypass’ PHP- and Java-based APIs. Media owners Worldcrunch, Summit Business Media and the Chicago Phoenix are among the first publishers to begin rolling out the new meter tool on their sites.
In addition to offering site owners a choice between a quantity or time frame approach, the Tinypass metering tool can be implemented in two separate technology modes – a client-side mode or a client- and server-side mode. The client-side mode operates in a manner similar to the paywall offerings of the New York Times and The Financial Times and works through cookies added to the user’s browser. After users have accessed a preset amount of free content, they are asked to create an account to continue reading.
A more secure approach includes both client- and server-side user confirmation. The addition of a small amount of code to the publisher’s content management system (CMS) prevents users from circumventing the access meter simply by clearing the cookies in his or her browser.
Using the Tinypass meter, publishers are free to make their own decisions in regards to inbound, referring links to their site. Visits that originate from social networking and other news sharing sites can be counted against the meter or treated as separate interactions that do not count against free views.
