SYS-CON Events announced today that CollabNet, a global leader in enterprise software development, release automation and DevOps solutions, will be a Bronze Sponsor of SYS-CON’s 20th International Cloud Expo®, taking place from June 6-8, 2017, at the Javits Center in New York City, NY.
CollabNet offers a broad range of solutions with the mission of helping modern organizations deliver quality software at speed. The company’s latest innovation, the DevOps Lifecycle Manager (DLM), supports Value Stream Mapping for the development and operations tool chain by offering DevOps Tool Chain Integration and Traceability; DevOps Tool Chain Orchestration; and DevOps Insight and Intelligence. CollabNet also offers traditional application lifecycle management, ALM, for the enterprise through its TeamForge product.
Rackspace Adds a New Cloud Consultancy Service to its Offerings
Rackspace, one of the pioneers of cloud computing, has launched a new cloud consultancy service aimed at delivering professional consulting services to its clients. With this launch, Rackspace has officially started moving away from its cloud platform business.
According to an official statement released by the company, Rackspace has said that it’s new division is called Global Solutions and Services (GSS), and this division will specialize in providing customers with the knowledge and expertise to move their operations to public and private clouds.
This Texas-based company believes that consultancy is an integral part of the future because many companies are looking to move their data and operations from datacenters to the cloud, so they need the right suggestions to make appropriate decisions. According to Rachel Cassidy, the Vice-President of GSS, these services are not only targeted towards its existing customer base of small and medium businesses (SMB), but is also aimed to meet the needs of large enterprises.
It has announced that these services will be offered regardless of the cloud platform a client chooses. In a blog post, it claims that it has earned the highest level of partner certification from AWS and Azure. In addition, it has also entered into a strategic partnership with Google Cloud to become the first Managed Services Partner of Google Cloud Platform. With all these in place, Rackspace is all set to enter the world of cloud computing.
This move represents a radical change for the company considering that it’s been in operations for the last two decades and has specialized in providing technological and cloud-based services to the SMB and mid-market companies.
Rackspace’s addition of GSS was on the cards for some time. When Jeff Cotten took over as the new President, he promised to add more professional services to support public clouds, and this is probably the first big step in this regard.
This news comes on the heels of a decision to cut the workforce in U.S by six percent. Also, smaller reductions are being planned in its other global offices, subject to the local laws and regulations in this regard. The company had earlier announced that much of these cuts will come from administration and management sections, and this is being done to make the company more competitive in the global market.
The emergence of this service doesn’t means that the existing offerings of Rackspace including its management of OpenStack will be stopped. This GSS is simply a new addition to its existing line of businesses. Though cloud consulting is a lucrative business, it’s also very crowded. Many established companies are already gaining a fair market share here, so Rackspace may have quite some catching up work to do.
It is worthy to remember that Rackspace was acquired by Apollo Global Management for a whopping $4.3 billion. Considering the size of this deal, the management would not want to tamper much with its existing customers. At the same time, it’ll be interesting to see how GSS plays out for the company.
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Worldwide data creation set to top 163 ZB by 2025, argues Seagate
The global data landscape will total an eye-watering 163 zettabytes by 2025, up from 16 ZB last year and the equivalent of watching the entire Netflix catalogue 489 million times, according to a new missive from Seagate.
The study, Data Age 2025, was put together in conjunction with research firm IDC, and finds that within the next decade enterprises will become the primary creator of the world’s data, at 60% by 2025. “Business leaders will have the opportunity to embrace new and unique business opportunities powered by this wealth of data and the insight it provides but will also need to make strategic choices on data collection, utilisation and location,” the company notes.
Almost every enterprise is set to be affected by these trends, the research adds, from embedded systems and the Internet of Things (IoT), to machine learning – IDC estimates the amount of the global datasphere subject to data analysis will reach 5.2 ZB in 2025 – and real-time data.
Naturally, cloud also plays a vital part; consumers and businesses creating, sharing and accessing data between any device and the cloud – an IoT play of course – will ‘continue to grow well beyond previous expectations’, according to the report. Cisco’s most recent cloud index figures argued that global cloud traffic was set to rise to more than 14 ZB per year by 2020, assisted by greater data centre virtualisation and increased migration to cloud technologies.
“While we can see from this new research that the era of big data is upon us, the value of data is really not in the ‘known’ but in the ‘unknown’ where we are vastly underestimating the potentials today,” said Steve Luczo, Seagate CEO. “What is really exciting are the analytics, the new businesses, the new thinking and new ecosystems from industries like robotics and machine to machine learning, and their profound social and economic impact on our society.
“The opportunity for today’s enterprises and tomorrow’s entrepreneurs to capture the value of data is tremendous, and our global business leaders will be exploring these opportunities for decades to come,” Luczo added.
One zettabyte is defined as 10 bytes to the power of 21. To put this in perspective, IDC argued back in 2006 that the combined space of all computer hard drives in the world was at an estimated 160 exabytes – 10 bytes to the power of 18.
Parallels RAS on Microsoft Azure: Demos at MWC in Barcelona
At the recent Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Parallels announced that Parallels Remote Application Server (RAS) supports Microsoft Azure. This blog post will show you this new support and what it now enables end users to do in Parallels RAS. A future post will discuss in some detail how IT admins configure Parallels RAS (and […]
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Announcing @Interoute Named “Bronze Sponsor” of @CloudExpo NY | #Cloud #DataCenter
SYS-CON Events announced today that Interoute has been named “Bronze Sponsor” of SYS-CON’s 20th International Cloud Expo®, which will take place on June 6-8, 2017, at the Javits Center in New York City, NY.
Interoute is the owner operator of Europe’s largest network and a global cloud services platform, which encompasses over 70,000 km of lit fiber, 15 data centers, 17 virtual data centers and 33 colocation centers, with connections to 195 additional partner data centers. Our full-service Unified ICT platform serves startups and international enterprises, as well as every major European telecommunications service provider and major operators across the world, global internet giants, governments and universities.
[session] Enabling FinTechs for Success By @CloudRaxak | @CloudExpo #Cloud #FinTech #Security
FinTechs use the cloud to operate at the speed and scale of digital financial activity, but are often hindered by the complexity of managing security and compliance in the cloud.
In his session at 20th Cloud Expo, Sesh Murthy, co-founder and CTO of Cloud Raxak, will show FinTechs how proactive and automated cloud security enables FinTechs to leverage the cloud to achieve their business goals. Through business-driven cloud security, FinTechs can speed time-to-market, diminish risk and costs, maintain continuous compliance, and set themselves up for success.
Top @Docker Content | @DevOpsSummit #DevOps #SDN #APM #Serverless
2016 has been an amazing year for Docker and the container industry. We had 3 major releases of Docker engine this year , and tremendous increase in usage. The community has been following along and contributing amazing Docker resources to help you learn and get hands-on experience. Here’s some of the top read and viewed content for the year. Of course releases are always really popular, particularly when they fit requests we had from the community.
Tappest to Exhibit @MooseFS at @CloudExpo New York | #Cloud #Storage
SYS-CON Events announced today that Tappest will exhibit MooseFS at SYS-CON’s 20th International Cloud Expo®, which will take place on June 6-8, 2017, at the Javits Center in New York City, NY.
MooseFS is a breakthrough concept in the storage industry. It allows you to secure stored data with either duplication or erasure coding using any server. The newest – 4.0 version of the software enables users to maintain the redundancy level with even 50% less hard drive space required. The software functions on all major operating systems and is used around the world by businesses, universities and NGOs. The MooseFS team provides on-site implementation and support for your operations.
TechTarget: @NewRelic’s Scalable Systems #Monitoring | @CloudExpo #DevOps
Developers want to create better apps faster. Static clouds are giving way to scalable systems, with dynamic resource allocation and application monitoring. You won’t hear that chant from users on any picket line, but helping developers to create better apps faster is the mission of Lee Atchison, principal cloud architect and advocate at New Relic Inc., based in San Francisco. His singular job is to understand and drive the industry in the areas of cloud architecture, microservices, scalability and availability. In a keynote presentation, he spoke to a standing-room-only crowd at New York’s Cloud Expo about how highly available, highly scalable systems can help developers attain the goal of better apps faster.
Auburn Public Library Experiments with Cloud Library
Every major organization across all sectors are experimenting with cloud, and public libraries are no exception to this rule. Auburn Public Library is leading the way by using the Cloud Library platform to enable its patrons to access all the content they want.
Currently, the library uses OverDrive to give its patrons access to ebooks and downloadable audio books. However, they have to access it through a different website to listen to audio books. This can prove to be inconvenient because patrons have to search for the content they want on the library’s site, but have to go elsewhere to download or listen to it.
To overcome this inconvenience, Auburn Public Library is migrating to Cloud Library over the next few weeks, so users can download or checkout ebooks directly from a single site instead of going back and forth.
Cloud Library will be integrated with the library’s own system in such a way that patrons can access content directly from the library’s site, in addition to print content. Also, it will work in tandem with the library’s checkout system. Every time, a patron checks out a book, the system will prompt them to download the corresponding ebook or audio book.
To provide that, the library is working to have its entire catalog in print, ebook and audio book formats, so patrons can choose whichever format they want. Going forward, the need for more copies of the same book will go down, so the library can focus on expanding its collection. Particularly, it wants to offer patrons more back listed books, so they can enjoy a wide collection of content.
Library employees are currently busy marking each item in the library’s catalogue with RFID tags and barcodes that can be used with the new self checkout system. This checkout system is expected to become available by end of May while the Cloud Drive app is expected to be functional from May 11th onwards.
In order for patrons to start using this new system, they have to download the Cloud Drive app, as this will allow readers to read or listen to books right from their smartphones, tablets and even computers. Since this app is available on Android, Kindle, Nook and Apple devices, users should have no problem making this switch.
This move by the Auburn Public Library is another step forward in our digital lifestyle. The comfort and convenience that comes with reading or listening to a book for your personal device is unmatched, and this public library is taking giant leaps to make this a reality for its patrons.
The one downside to this plan is it won’t work with basic e-readers, and patrons need to mandatorily download the Cloud Drive app. This can be a spot of bother for those who’re not familiar with technology, especially the senior citizens. But, they always have the choice to borrow print books or they can take the help of library employees to download and install the app for them.
It’s hoped that other libraries follow suit to offer more digitized versions of books to their respective patrons.
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