We recently spoke to SYS-CON TV at Cloud Expo New York regarding cloud storage and how it helps mitigate the effects of “storage hogs” in your organization, whether the hogs are due to data retention requirements, application data growth or the quest to more effectively manage big data.
Cloud Computing: essential to SMEs?
It has been reported this week that 65% of US small to medium sized businesses (SMEs) say that cloud computing is absolutely essential to their organisation and future growth plans. Meanwhile 59% have stated that their selection of cloud service providers is largely impacted by their privacy policies.
This was revealed via research that was carried out by Microsoft Corporation.
The study also uncovered the fact that SMEs have been attracted to the cloud due to the opportunity for improving efficiency that cloud computing naturally presents. Cloud computing will also drive down costs. However, the main concern is still regarding privacy and security.
It has been revealed that the cloud policies and practices that SMEs seem to be most concerned about are transparency about location of data, segregation of data between customers and commitments not to mine cloud data for advertising.
The chief privacy officer at Microsoft Trustworthy Computing, Brendon …
Big Data Analytics and BI Strategies: Five Words To Avoid
Over the last 12 months I’ve accumulated plenty of “conversations” where we’ve discussed big data analytics and BI strategies with our customers and potential users. These 5 points below represent some of the key take-away…
The Department of Defense Cloud Computing Strategy
The Department of Defense needs to accomplish its critical global missions despite a decreasing budget and rising cybersecurity threat. To that end, the Chief Information Officer of the DoD, Teri Takai, released its Cloud Computing Strategy, which outlines its goals to accelerate the adoption of cloud computing throughout the department. In the strategy, the Office of […]
This post by AlexOlesker was first published at CTOvision.com.
The Sweet Spot of Cloud Computing and Big Data
“The cloud is very useful for analyzing Big Data and for hosting production Big Data as well. We are the first vendor to tackle this area of database scalability,” Cory Isaacson, CEO of dbShards, talks to SYS-CON.tv at Cloud Expo New York, in this SYS-CON.tv interview with Cloud Expo Conference Chair Jeremy Geelan at the 10th International Cloud Expo, held June 11–14, 2012, at the Javits Center in New York City.
Cloud Expo 2012 Silicon Valley, November 5–8, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA, will feature technical sessions from a rock star conference faculty and the leading Cloud industry players in the world.
Lyatiss to Exhibit at Cloud Expo Silicon Valley
SYS-CON Events announced today that Lyatiss, an innovative Cloud network software 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.
At Lyatiss we are changing the way users leverage the power of Cloud Infrastructure as a Service by drastically improving their experience, generating outstanding performance and stimulating exceptional creativity. We are an innovative Cloud network software company with deep engineering roots and a revolutionary approach to Cloud computing and networking. Our powerful and unique software-defined networking (SDN) solutions, based on our CloudWeaver product line, are at the forefront of innovation, providing superior and intelligent infrastructure control and agility.
Cloud Computing: Clustrix Claims New Cloud Economics for Big Data Apps
Clustrix, the scale-out SQL database for Big Data apps, has new high-performance widgetry that’s supposed to deliver new cloud economics while addressing the real-time needs of customers building applications at the intersection of Big Data, the cloud and agile development.
The start-up has released a high-performance SQL DataBase-as-a-Service (DBaaS) that extends the database’s scalability, performance and availability to the cloud. It comes with simple, transparent pricing with no meters or limits on transactions, data size or number of users.
Does Cloud Matter?
What to do, what to do, what to do? I write about cloud computing for a living, but wonder how effective that can be.
Shall I create a 10-point list of what you need to know as you move to the cloud? Oh, there are already several out there? And they don’t tell you anything you don’t already know? Check.
Shall I talk about cloud myths and why you should destroy them? No, already wrote about that – and the only myth is that there are myths.
Shall I write a sneering piece about the superiority of the iPhone and iPad? Well, it turns out plenty of people specialize in this. Or maybe take the contrarian view that Android will rule in the long run? Hmm, there are many writers taking this view as well.
Maybe I’ll write one of those Hitler parrody videos. Nah, I’m just not that funny, and find Hitler to be a delicate, even unfunny, topic.
What to do, what to do, what to do? I know, how about a piece that claims the cloud is the least important thing about cloud computing? Because I believe this to be true.
You know, “Does Cloud Matter?”
Cloud computing is routinely described as transformational (something of which I’m guilty, too). It already exists in semi-massive amounts, assuming its heavy background use by the big email hosts (yahoo, google, msn, even aol), the big online stores (amazon, ebay, and maybe every department store and speciality merchant in the world today), and the big social sites (especially facebook). It’s grown enough in just a few years to support $4 billion in annual VMware revenue, and has created a nice-sized industry (witness Cloud Expo exhibitors, for example).
But as the line in the movie goes, “it’s just a man on a horse.” Cloud is not a new paradigm so much as a (vastly) expanded use of our networks, including the Internet. I remember, as the Barcelona Olympics opened in 1992, talking with writer and analyst friends of mine about how 90% of the PCs in the United States were still not networked – and the US was the technology-adoption leader in those days.
Two decades later, as the London Olympics loom, every device you use might be hooked up to at three or four networks (Internet, LAN, bluetooth, and telco). But you still as if there aren’t enough hours in the day, you aren’t really better informed about the important stuff (how many people had radios in the office back when), and the real, analog arrow fired over the Barcelona cauldron in 1992 to light the Olympic torch will always be the coolest opening ever.
Fundamentally speaking, the cloud changes nothing. The Internet changed nothing. But if you’re not up to speed and doing everything you can to get your private/public/hybrid strategy straight, your PaaS in place, and the rest of your XaaS plan designed if not deployed, then you’ll need to read some of those “10-point” articles I so baldly dismissed earlier.
Because if for no other reasons than keeping up with the Jones’s, cloud matters.
Vyatta to Exhibit at Cloud Expo Silicon Valley
SYS-CON Events announced today that Vyatta, the leader in software-based networking for virtual and cloud environments, 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.
Vyatta is disrupting the networking industry by delivering a software-based network operating system that leverages cost-effective x86 servers as well as common virtualization and cloud computing platforms. Vyatta software provides a complete enterprise-class routing and security suite capable of uniquely addressing the next-generation infrastructure requirements of flexibility, on-demand delivery and platform independence. Thousands of physical and virtual infrastructures around the world, from small enterprise to Fortune 500 customers, are connected and protected by Vyatta.
Adaptive Computing Named “Silver Sponsor” of Cloud Expo Silicon Valley
SYS-CON Events announced today that Adaptive Computing, the largest provider of cloud management and High-Performance Computing (HPC) workload management software, has been named “Silver Sponsor” of 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.
Adaptive Computing is the largest provider of High-Performance Computing (HPC) workload management software and manages the world’s largest cloud computing environment with Moab, a self-optimizing dynamic cloud management solution and HPC workload management system. Moab®, a patented multi-dimensional intelligence engine, delivers policy-based governance, allowing customers to consolidate and virtualize resources, allocate and manage applications, optimize service levels and reduce operational costs. Adaptive Computing offers a portfolio of Moab cloud management and Moab HPC workload management products and services that accelerate, automate, and self-optimize IT workloads, resources, and services in large, complex heterogeneous computing environments such as HPC, data centers and cloud.