We all see the potential value of Big Data systems – they allow us to distill golden nuggets of information from reams of customer data where it has lied dormant waiting to be freed. However, while the benefits of the Big Data dream are clear, there are a lot of nightmares that we must overcome to make that dream a reality. Managing massive bits of iron in the form of large server farms with petabytes of information is not for the faint of heart. What if there were a way to skip to the dream – deploy Big Data systems, access them from anywhere, without the nightmares?
In his session at the 11th International Cloud Expo, join Gordon Crenshaw, Sr. Solutions Consultant at Progress Software, and DataDirect’s Big Data alchemists as he shows you how to make this dream a reality.
Most Popular: App Status Dashboard of Dashboards
Since we introduced our App Status Dashboards page, it has proven to be our most popular offering. As most of what we offer is news that quickly gets stale that’s not surprising, though it is sort of heartening that something with serious rather than humorous intent is finally edging out our most popular post ever.
How can we make it better? Send any ideas to richard at cloud news daily dot com.
Cloud Expo Silicon Valley: Making Money in the OpenStack Ecosystem
How are companies making money on OpenStack today, and where are the best opportunities for new companies to get engaged and serve the growing user base?
The OpenStack community and commercial ecosystem are not mutually exclusive. To build a successful OpenStack company or product line, you need to invest in the community and to build influence organically. In return, a strong commercial ecosystem means more paid developers and better software, and a competitive market that keeps users seeking OpenStack products.
nCircle to Exhibit at Cloud Expo Silicon Valley
SYS-CON Events announced today that nCircle, the leader in information risk and security performance management solutions, 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.
nCircle is the leading provider of information risk and security performance management solutions to more than 6,500 businesses and government agencies worldwide. nCircle solutions enable enterprises of all sizes to (1) automate compliance and reduce risk, and (2) measure and compare the performance of their IT security program with their own goals and industry peers. nCircle solutions may be deployed on a customer’s premises, as a cloud-based service, or in combination, for maximum flexibility and value.
Cloud Expo Silicon Valley: Impact of Big Data & Cloud on Data Connectivity
How can we regain control of our data and get a complete view of critical information, while still reaping the many benefits that SaaS has to offer? The explosion in Software as a Service has changed the world of data access dramatically. Business critical information that was once within the four walls of the organization is now locked in a variety of SaaS applications deployed on the public Internet. This presents a serious challenge to business decision makers who are driven to make the right choices for their organizations based on a now incomplete picture of the world.
In his General Session at the 11th International Cloud Expo, Michael Benedict, Vice President and Business Line Manager at Progress Software, will look at how you overcome these challenges and regain full visibility to your business data wherever it may live.
Cloud Expo Silicon Valley: Building a Roadmap to the Cloud
In her session at the 11th International Cloud Expo, Lauren Cotugno, Distinguished Technologist, Cloud Consulting Services Strategy Lead, HP Technology Consulting at Hewlett-Packard, will help you simplify the process of developing a cloud strategy. Using human-sized displays, she will explain the possibilities, risks and business implications of the cloud. She will also make recommendations for using the cloud as part of a service provider and portfolio strategy for your business.
Lauren Cotugno is Distinguished Technologist, Cloud Consulting Services Strategy Lead, HP Technology Consulting at Hewlett-Packard.
Cloud Expo Silicon Valley: Building a Roadmap to the Cloud
In her session at the 11th International Cloud Expo, Lauren Cotugno, Distinguished Technologist, Cloud Consulting Services Strategy Lead, HP Technology Consulting at Hewlett-Packard, will help you simplify the process of developing a cloud strategy. Using human-sized displays, she will explain the possibilities, risks and business implications of the cloud. She will also make recommendations for using the cloud as part of a service provider and portfolio strategy for your business.
Lauren Cotugno is Distinguished Technologist, Cloud Consulting Services Strategy Lead, HP Technology Consulting at Hewlett-Packard.
Cloud Pricing Models
The current pricing of Cloud services offers a wide range of configuration, choices and price points for the users. This in turn creates a lot of confusion for the buyer as it’s difficult to measure the value at a specific price point. The objective of this article is to analyze the existing pricing models and reasons behind why there is so much diversity. In the following four sections, this article attempts to:
Compare approx. 27 models of pricing derived from the scholarly articles
Recommend a derived pricing model relevant to the cloud services.
Validate the model by mapping it to the pricing of services by few key vendors.
Analyze reasons behind the pricing in use by various vendors and future trends.
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, Kamesh Pemmaraju, OpenStack Solutions Product Manager at Dell, will talk with DreamHost, a pioneer in OpenStack use, to hear why they made this choice, what products and services they’re creating with it and the upcoming Grizzly release with the new Horizon and Keystone components.
Kamesh Pemmaraju is OpenStack Solutions Product Manager at Dell.
Cosmetic Giant Aggressively Embraces the Cloud
Revlon’s comprehensive cloud has matured, and the benefits from aggressively embracing the cloud have evolved into positive consequences for their data architecture.
When you think of Revlon, we’re global and we have a huge application portfolio. As we put everything on our cloud and are using our cloud, we realized that all of our data sits in one place now.
So when you think of big-data management, we’ve been able to solve the problem by classifying all the unstructured data in Revlon and we did that efficiently. We still joke that it’s like chewing glass. You’ve got to go through this huge process.
But, we have the ability to look at all of our data, a couple of petabytes, in the same place. Because the cloud let us look at it all, we can bring up all of Revlon in our disaster recovery (DR) test environments and have our developers work with it at no cost. We have disconnected that cost and effort.
Once we realized we had this opportunity to start working on our big data, the other unintended consequences was our master data model. On top of our big data, we were able to able to efficiently and effectively build a global master data model.