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RightScale to Exhibit at Cloud Expo Silicon Valley
SYS-CON Events announced today that RightScale Inc, the leader in cloud computing management, 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.
RightScale Inc., cloud management enables organizations to easily deploy and manage business-critical applications across public, private, and hybrid clouds. RightScale provides efficient configuration, monitoring, automation, and governance of cloud computing infrastructure and applications. Since 2006, millions of servers have been launched with the RightScale solution by leading enterprises including the Associated Press, CBS Interactive, Intercontinental Hotels Group, PBS, and Zynga.
VMware Hosting Provider StratoGen Offers Free Migration Service
StratoGen today announced the launch of a free migration service aimed at helping larger businesses migrate their on-site VMware footprint into a hosted environment, aiming to both ease and reduce the cost of the transition to the cloud.
“I’m really delighted to be able to announce this service” said Karl Robinson, Vice President of Sales. “For larger organizations moving to the cloud can be a hugely expensive and complex process. Careful assessment and planning is needed to ensure business continuity, along with comprehensive testing to ensure security policies are in place and business applications function correctly. By offering this service free of charge we have taken away one of the last barriers for cloud adoption.”
Engineers in the migration support team at StratoGen hold the highest level qualifications in VMware and Cisco technologies.
Recent surveys have repeatedly shown that business issues rather than technical problems are holding back organizations from migrating to the cloud. The latest report from the Cloud Security Alliance found that data privacy, testing and assurance were top issues.
Organizations planning their migration can also benefit from a consolidation of business applications. According to a recent Cap Gemini report 85% of respondents said their application portfolios were in need of rationalization.
“There is no need to reinvent the wheel when it comes to planning a migration of this type” commented Karl. “We’ve helped countless organizations make the transition to private cloud hosting and enjoy the performance , resilience and agility that StratoGen offers.”
The StratoGen VMware platform is built on Cisco, HP and NetApp components and is available in multiple data centers across the US and Europe. The company recently announces plans for additional datacenters in New York, USA and Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
For further information see StratoGen VMware.
CDN growth prompts hope of “better” internet and fears it will be “less neutral”
Revenue generated from the sale of content delivery network (CDN) services will grow threefold in the five years to 2017 to reach $4.63bn, on the back of a fivefold rise in global CDN traffic, according to the latest research from Informa Telecoms & Media.
Commercial CDN services are provided by a variety of companies, including “pure play” CDNs (of which Akamai remains the largest), telecoms network operators such as BT, AT&T and Telefonica, and relative newcomers to the CDN market such as Amazon and Google. Google already uses its own international CDN to distribute its YouTube video service. In addition, Google recently ventured into the market for commercial CDN services, in providing support for NBC’s online coverage of the London 2012 Olympics.
Cloud Expo Silicon Valley: B2B Transaction Cloud Meets B2B Social Media
The open B2B transaction cloud integrates social media, business intelligence and open system-to-system connectivity. Social media becomes a common part of day-to-day business transactions. Buyers and suppliers are influenced by each other, learn best practices and save money by being a part of a community.
In his session at the 11th International Cloud Expo, Vilayat William, Chief Business Development Officer at TBlox, will show how the key to success of the transaction cloud is the self-connectivity of any IT system, access to all data in your business life and ability to share with anybody at any time on any device.
What are the top five cloud features every exec should know?
By Sharon Florentine
You don’t have to be an IT expert to grasp that the cloud translates to cost savings and operational efficiencies. But knowing the key cloud attributes can make selling a migration to the cloud an easy business decision to make.
Cohesive Flexible Technologies (CohesiveFT), an enterprise application-to-cloud migration services company, has a great blog post explaining the major benefits and features of the cloud. Knowing the basic features of cloud computing can help you, as an executive, explain to any skeptics how migrating to the cloud will translate to efficiencies outside of the IT department and have a positive impact on the entire business.
Here are the top five cloud features you should know about as an executive:
On-demand self-service: Your business can use the cloud to obtain, configure and deploy apps without any IT heavy lifting. Many cloud vendors provide templates to front-load most of …
Benchmarking Redis on AWS: Is Amazon PIOPS Really Better than Standard EBS?
The Redis experts at Garantia Data did some benchmarking in the wake of Amazon’s announcement of
Their conclusion:
After 32 intensive tests with Redis on AWS (each run in 3 iterations for a total of 96 test iterations), we found that neither the non-optimized EBS instances nor the optimized-EBS instances worked better with Amazon’s PIOPS EBS for Redis. According to our results, using the right standard EBS configuration can provide equal if not better performance than PIOPS EBS, and should actually save you money.
Read the full post for details and graphs.
Cisco Acquires vCider
Cisco has bought start-up vCider for its expertise in developing virtual network overlay technology for secure data center infrastructure. The price wasn’t disclosed.
GigaOm rates it as a counter to VMware buying Nicira, which, it says, “has strained the once close partnership between Cisco and VMware.” It figures it’ll be used “to build a unified yet distributed Cisco-based cloud.”
The new prize will be integrated into Cisco’s Cloud Computing organization, reporting to cloud CTO Lew Tucker, the vice-chairman of the new OpenStack Foundation.
In a blog posting Cisco said it expects vCider to play an important part in its Open Network Environment (ONE) strategy, particularly in support of OpenStack, a key pillar of Cisco’s open, multi-hypervisor, multi-stack cloud computing strategy.
Why Security Matters for Big Data and Health Care
Data is quickly becoming one of those certainties in life, like death and taxes. It’ll always be there, and like the Once-ler’s Thneed factory from The Lorax (sorry, I have kids), data figures to keep on biggering, and biggering, and biggering and biggering.
More data means more knowledge, greater insights, smarter ideas and expanded opportunities for organizations to harness and learn from their data. Banks, retailers and even government are embracing big data, but while IDC estimated the big data market at $2.2 billion in 2011, only 6% of that investment came from health care.
On the flip side, a 2011 report from McKinsey Global Institute suggests if health care in the U.S. used big data to drive efficiency and quality, the potential could be more than $300 billion in value every year.
A Preposition Makes All the Difference in / of / for / from the Cloud
There is truly a difference in terms of scope, application and business need between security «in» the cloud and security «from» the cloud.
No, this isn’t 7th grade English…I promise.
With all the important decisions IT departments make, what’s the big deal whether cloud security means from the cloud, in the cloud, of the cloud or for the cloud. Well, a lot. Amongst the various media, blogs, professional chatter, webinars, conferences and the like, the concept of cloud security is getting a significant amount of airplay. However, the difference in the application of a simple preposition completely alters the scope and meaning of these conversations to that of a problem or a solution.