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.
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.
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 …
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.
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.
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.
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.
Somebody oughta buy Facebook one of these.
SOASTA, a big cheese in cloud and mobile testing, has come out with mPulse.
It’s supposed to be the first and only Real User Measurement (RUM) data analysis solution to deliver real-time information based on actual mobile user behavior. Naturally it’s cloud-ified and the analytics are patented.
The company has also made its very first acquisition, picking up LogNormal, which, as you might suspect, does real user measurement and monitoring for mobile and web applications.
Anyway, the company says existing tools collect data about the past, not the present, and hence fail to capture the real mobile users’ experience. mPulse, on the other hand, “instantly delivers actionable intelligence to operations and marketing professionals.”
OpenStack delivers powerful capabilities for deploying an Infrastructure-as-a-Service cloud, but getting up and running can take time and effort you can’t afford. SUSE Cloud delivers an enterprise ready OpenStack-based solution that eases your cloud deployment.
In their session at the 11th International Cloud Expo, Peter Linnell, SUSE Linux Technical Specialist for the West Coast at SUSE, and Cameron Seader, a SUSE Sales Engineer, will discuss the dos and don’ts of deploying OpenStack and show how SUSE Cloud speeds your journey to the cloud.
Larry Ellison, who spent $50 billion more or less on acquisitions in the last 10 years, is swearing off making any big acquisitions to add to Oracle for a couple of years to focus instead on growing the company organically in an attempt to dominate the cloud, a technology he used to call “complete gibberish” and a “fad.”
Of course Larry can resist anything but temptation and didn’t rule out a big deal “down the road,” when he spoke to CNBC’s Maria Bartiromo in his first interview in years. But he’s especially not going to buy NetApp, the storage concern rumored to be a target. It would cost a lot of money and doesn’t fit Oracle’s current strategy.
“We have all the assets in-house to grow very rapidly on an organic basis,” he said.
