SYS-CON Events announced today that Ayehu will exhibit at SYS-CON’s 21st International Cloud Expo®, which will take place on October 31 – November 2, 2017 at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara California. Ayehu provides IT Process Automation & Orchestration solutions for IT and Security professionals to identify and resolve critical incidents and enable rapid containment, eradication, and recovery from cyber security breaches. Ayehu provides customers greater control over IT infrastructure through automation. Ayehu solutions have been deployed by major enterprises worldwide, and currently, support thousands of IT processes across the globe. The company has offices in New York, California, and Israel.
[slides] Public Cloud Alternative | @CloudExpo @Cloudistics #AI #Cloud #DataCenter
You know you need the cloud, but you’re hesitant to simply dump everything at Amazon since you know that not all workloads are suitable for cloud. You know that you want the kind of ease of use and scalability that you get with public cloud, but your applications are architected in a way that makes the public cloud a non-starter. You’re looking at private cloud solutions based on hyperconverged infrastructure, but you’re concerned with the limits inherent in those technologies.
Blockchain Business Innovation | @CloudExpo #Cloud #FinTech #Blockchain
Is there more than bitcoin to blockchain?
Absolutely, because today’s blockchain is opening up a pathtowards the delivery of trusted online services.
To understand this statement, you need to see blockchain as more that it’s more famous bitcoin use case. As a fundamental digital tool, blockchain is a shared, immutable ledger for recording the history of transactions. If used in this fashion, it can enable transactional applications that can have embedded trust, accountability and transparency attributes. Instead of having a Bitcoin blockchain that is reliant on the exchange of cryptocurrencies with anonymous users on a public network, a Business blockchain can provide a permissioned network with known and verified identities. With this kind of transactional visibility, all activities within that network are observable and auditable by every network user. This end-to-end visibility, also known as shared ledgering, can also be linked to business rules and business logic that can drive and enforce trust, openness and integrity across that business network.
Enzu to Exhibit at @CloudExpo CA | @EnzuInc #AI #DX #Serverless #DataCenter
SYS-CON Events announced today that Enzu will exhibit at SYS-CON’s 21st Int\ernational Cloud Expo®, which will take place October 31-November 2, 2017, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA. Enzu’s mission is to be the leading provider of enterprise cloud solutions worldwide. Enzu enables online businesses to use its IT infrastructure to their competitive advantage. By offering a suite of proven hosting and management services, Enzu wants companies to focus on the core of their online business and let Enzu manage their IT hosting infrastructure.
MobiDev to Exhibit @CloudExpo CA | @MobiDev_ #Mobile #IoT #AI #ML #DX
SYS-CON Events announced today that MobiDev, a client-oriented software development company, will exhibit at SYS-CON’s 21st International Cloud Expo®, which will take place October 31-November 2, 2017, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA. MobiDev is a software company that develops and delivers turn-key mobile apps, websites, web services, and complex software systems for startups and enterprises. Since 2009 it has grown from a small group of passionate engineers and business managers to a full-scale mobile software company with over 200 developers, designers, quality assurance engineers, project managers in house, specializing in the world-class mobile and web development.
Consegna Advances Through AWS
The cloud market in New Zealand is booming and this has led to the entry of many players catering to varying niches within this segment. One such company is an Auckland-based start up called Consegna.
Founded in 2016, this company has made rapid strides within one year of its start. It is currently backed by AWS and is supported by a global team of cloud specialists.
It’s one of the few certified AWS consulting partners in New Zealand’s cloud space and is an Authorized Public Sector Partner. It offers a range of advisory services in the cloud market, data center migration, managed services and more for all businesses located within its country.
Specifically, it helps small and medium enterprises (SMEs) to migrate their data and applications to AWS, so that everyone can leverage the power of the most popular cloud services platform in the world. Besides SMEs, it also offers support and consultation to large corporations, government organizations and just about anyone else who want to move to the cloud. This company’s specialists take care of the entire journey, from early consultations to the actual migration, so every client makes an informed decisions throughout its cloud journey.
Consegna provides not just consulting service, but can also take care of the tooling required to prepare your organization to move to the cloud. Architecture, design, building, implementation are other things they work on.
Now that we have an idea of what Consegna is and what it does, let’s see how it can impact the New Zealand cloud market.
First off, New Zealand is one of the more stable economies in the Asia Pacific region with a mature market and a thriving economy. Given this environment, it’s no surprise that it has a growing cloud market too. In fact, Gartner predicts that by 2018, the cloud market in New Zealand would be worth around NZ$14.7 billion, thereby making it one of the fastest growing markets in the world. It’s annual rate is likely to be around 14.7 percent year-on-year.
This strong growth is backed by a solid support from the government. It’s policies and regulations making it easy for the corporate world to use Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), so that every company can leverage the many advantages like scalability and cost effectiveness that come with it.
New Zealand’s data centers are expected to grow by 18 percent and is expected to reach NZ$272 million by 2020. Many large IT organizations like IBM are already increasing their presence in this market, and they are aptly joined by smaller companies like Consegna.
An analysis of these growth numbers show that cloud management, security and consulting are likely to be the top growing segments, and Consgena has a firm footing in them. Also, the fact that it is backed by AWS and has accessed to a global team of cloud specialists means it’s in a right position to create a deep impact in New Zealand’s cloud market.
Overall, exciting times are ahead for Consegna and the cloud market as a whole.
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Alibaba Cloud announces launch of data centres in India and Indonesia
Alibaba Cloud has announced plans to expand to data centres in India and Indonesia, as well as a connectivity partnership with Tata Communications.
The move to Mumbai and Jakarta goes alongside the recent expansion to Malaysia, with the company saying in press materials it ‘will significantly increase its computing resources in Asia’. The Indonesian data centre will be the first such development from an international cloud company, according to Alibaba, while the expansion will take the Chinese firm’s total number of data centre locations to 17, including China, Australia, Germany, Japan, Hong Jong, Singapore, the UAE, and US.
“I believe Alibaba Cloud, as the only global cloud services provider originating from Asia, is uniquely positioned with cultural and contextual advantages to provide innovative data intelligence and computing capabilities to customers in this region,” said Simon Hu, Alibaba senior vice president and president of Alibaba Cloud in a statement.
“Establishing data centres in India and Indonesia will further strengthen our position in the region and across the globe.”
Elsewhere, Alibaba Cloud and Tata Communications announced a partnership to afford customers from more than 150 countries – citing India in particular – greater connectivity through the companies’ ExpressConnect and IZO Private Connect products respectively.
“We are confident that the partnership between Alibaba Cloud and Tata Communications will assist both of us to become true digital transformation partners for our customers, empowering them to expand to new geographies, boost productivity, safeguard their business against threats, and take customer experience to the next level,” said Genius Wong, Tata president global network cloud and data centre services. “We look forward to offering more global organisations connectivity to Alibaba Cloud and to strengthening our presence in the Chinese market.”
According to the most recent analysis from the Asia Cloud Computing Association (ACCA) in April last year, Indonesia and India ranked #11 and #12 out of 14 nations respectively, with both countries scoring particularly low on international connectivity (1.8 and 1.7 respectively) and data centre risk (2.7 and 1.9). The report noted India’s ‘clear challenge’ in securing reliable access to cloud services and building the infrastructure for a huge population, while citing the need for Indonesia to implement a ‘coordinated plan to tackle the needs of the digital economy’ for cloud readiness.
Tech News Recap for the Week of 06/04/17
If you had a busy week last week and need to catch up, here’s a tech news recap of articles you may have missed for the week of 06/04/2017!
Everything new with VMware vRealize. HPE announces new storage offerings. Best practices to manage your hybrid cloud. A deep dive into DevOps. Top 5 promises we hear when evaluating hyper-converged infrastructure and more tops news this week you may have missed!
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Tech News Recap
Featured
- What’s New with VMware vRealize
Microsoft
- Microsoft leak reveals new version of Windows 10 aimed at monster PCs and workstations
- Microsoft CVP Brad Anderson shares his insights on everything Office 365
HPE
- HPE highlights innovation in software-defined IT, security at Discover
- Announced at Discover, HPE expands storage offerings
VMware
- VMware updates vRealize to help customers with hybrid investments
- Citrix and VMware battle do battle with their workspace management tools
Cloud
- The key drivers that are pushing cloud to the edge
- Four private cloud design pointers to ensure success
- 13 biggest challenges when moving your business to the cloud
- Veritas adds multi-cloud support to visualization, data management tools
- Cloud is secure if you do your part, says Microsoft Cloud Chief
- 3 things you should know about cloud computing right now
- Best practices to manage your hybrid cloud
IT Operations
- Diving into the depths of DevOps
- Top 5 “promises” we hear when evaluating hyper-converged infrastructure
- NetApp puts everything it’s got into a hyper-converged box
- Florida looking to become the mecca of data centers
- Hyper-converged infrastructure products give data centers a boost
- The age of data center convergence gives storage a boost
- Clearing misconceptions about Software Defined Networking
Security
- When employees cause cyber breaches, most insurers won’t pay out
- Chipotle reveals details on cyber attack against POS system
- Don’t like Mondays? Neither do cyber attackers
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By Jake Cryan, Digital Marketing Specialist
Microsoft is Poised to Meet the Growing Demands from India
India is one of the fastest growing economies in the world today. With more than a billion people, this country presents excellent opportunities for any company that is looking to expand and meet the demands of this burgeoning market. And cloud is not any different.
India represents almost a billion opportunities for the cloud market. This market is valued at about $1 billion currently and is growing at a rate of about 30 percent per year. There are many reasons for this astounding growth.
Firstly, India has a relatively young population that is making the most of technology. They are truly living through a digital revolution and this means, there’s abundance opportunity for the tech industry as a whole, and cloud industry in specific because cloud is the current and future of technology.
Secondly, IT leaders in India are looking to build an agile infrastructure, which again is going to be cloud-based. Thirdly, the government is taking extensive measures to make it easy for its people to interact with different departments, and they are also increasingly relying on cloud to implement this transition.
Fourth and probably the biggest reason is the presence of millions of businesses in the small and medium enterprise (SME) category that can benefit hugely from this move to the cloud. It is estimated that there are more than 30 million SMEs spread across the country and a vast majority are yet to embrace the cloud.
With such factors in place, cloud companies are expanding their presence in India to make the most of these opportunities. Among all the major players, Microsoft is well-poised to tap into this endless opportunity. According to Rajeev Sodhi, the country head of Microsoft India, the company spends more than $12 billion in research each year to create customized solutions and to help every business to leverage the power of cloud.
Keeping in tune with the local culture, Microsoft has adopted a people-centric approach to increase their clientele and this has worked well for the company so far.
To get a pulse of what Indians think of technology, Microsoft commissioned a study called “Asia Digital Transformation Study.” The results bring out some important trends. The survey clearly showed that Indians believe that artificial intelligence and the Internet of Things is essential for a digital transformation. Both these technologies have cloud as its underlying infrastructure.
To top it, 88 percent of surveyed individuals think that cloud computing and the widespread use of mobile devices will make it easier and more affordable to access data and information.
Microsoft has started making a few tweaks to its products based on the response received through this survey. In April, it announced new Azure tools and resources to help Indian companies adopt a hybrid environment for data storage and computing.
It even allows organizations to use Azure hybrid option directly from their Azure management portal itself, thereby simplifying a ton of tasks and process.
With such measures, Microsoft is looking to establish itself as a leader in this booming cloud market.
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Amazon shuts down unlimited cloud storage plan
Amazon has told customers it will no longer offer an unlimited cloud storage plan – although Prime members will continue to benefit from the service.
In an updated FAQ page, the company confirmed new customers will have the choice of 100 GB for $11.99 and 1 TB for $59.99, with those wishing for more able to go up to 30 TB at an additional $59.99 per terabyte. Any customer who signs up for storage with Amazon will automatically get 5 GB for free.
“Current customers will keep their existing unlimited storage plan through its expiration date,” Amazon explains. “At the end of their existing subscription, customers with auto-renew turned on and 1 TB or less of data stored will be renewed into the 1 TB plan for $59.99 per year.”
This is not the first time a vendor has cut ties on its all you can eat plans. In 2015 Microsoft turned off its unlimited OneDrive option for Office 365 customers, arguing some users took advantage to store ‘entire movie collections and DVR recordings’ with a 75 TB haul in the most extreme cases. “Instead of focusing on extreme backup scenarios, we want to remain focused on delivering high value productivity and collaboration experiences that benefit the majority of OneDrive users,” the company wrote at the time.
No information of such miscreants on Amazon’s side here, but the move to keep unlimited photo storage – the video production and photography industry was particularly critical of Microsoft’s shutdown in 2015 – is an interesting one. As a TechCrunch report points out, pictures have data which can potentially be extracted through machine learning technologies, making them valuable points for Amazon.
Amazon has been particularly busy of late; the company announced Greengrass, which aims to combine the power of their cloud and on-premise devices, earlier this week, as well as launching the AWS IoT Button, a Wi-Fi device which enables developers to get started with a variety of services without device-specific code, in Europe.