«We view the cloud not really as a specific technology but as a way of doing business and that way of doing business is transforming the way software, infrastructure and services are being delivered to business,» explained Matthew Rosen, CEO and Director at Fusion, in this SYS-CON.tv interview at 18th Cloud Expo, held June 7-9, 2016, at the Javits Center in New York City, NY.
Accelerating #DigitalTransformation | @CloudExpo @FormationDS #DataCenter
Organizations planning enterprise data center consolidation and modernization projects are faced with a challenging, costly reality. Requirements to deploy modern, cloud-native applications simultaneously with traditional client/server applications are almost impossible to achieve with hardware-centric enterprise infrastructure. Compute and network infrastructure are fast moving down a software-defined path, but storage has been a laggard. Until now.
The Blind Spot of the Security Industry | @CloudExpo #Cloud #Security
More than 95 percent of the world’s enterprises rely on SSH user keys to provide administrators and developers an effective means of gaining encrypted access to critical infrastructure: operating systems, applications, payment processing systems, databases, human resource and financial systems, routers, switches, firewalls and other network devices. It is a lifeline of traffic flow within our data centers, our cloud environments and how our third-party vendors and supply chain access our environments. It has done its job quietly and efficiently over the last two decades. Unfortunately, the access that SSH has been providing, in particular the access SSH user keys provide, has gone largely unmanaged – to an epic degree.
Verizon to Acquire Yahoo’s Operating Business | @CloudExpo @Verizon #IoT #M2M #API #Cloud
Verizon Communications Inc. (NYSE, Nasdaq: VZ) and Yahoo! Inc. (Nasdaq: YHOO) have entered into a definitive agreement under which Verizon will acquire Yahoo’s operating business for approximately $4.83 billion in cash, subject to customary closing adjustments.
Yahoo informs, connects and entertains a global audience of more than 1 billion monthly active users** — including 600 million monthly active mobile users*** through its search, communications and digital content products. Yahoo also connects advertisers with target audiences through a streamlined advertising technology stack that combines the power of their data, content and technology.
Verizon to Acquire Yahoo’s Operating Business | @CloudExpo @Verizon #IoT #M2M #API #Cloud
Verizon Communications Inc. (NYSE, Nasdaq: VZ) and Yahoo! Inc. (Nasdaq: YHOO) have entered into a definitive agreement under which Verizon will acquire Yahoo’s operating business for approximately $4.83 billion in cash, subject to customary closing adjustments.
Yahoo informs, connects and entertains a global audience of more than 1 billion monthly active users** — including 600 million monthly active mobile users*** through its search, communications and digital content products. Yahoo also connects advertisers with target audiences through a streamlined advertising technology stack that combines the power of their data, content and technology.
SDS with @FalconStor | @CloudExpo #SDN #SDS #Storage #DataCenter
«Software-defined storage is a big problem in this industry because so many people have different definitions as they see fit to use it,» stated Peter McCallum, VP of Datacenter Solutions at FalconStor Software, in this SYS-CON.tv interview at 18th Cloud Expo, held June 7-9, 2016, at the Javits Center in New York City, NY.
[slides] Extreme Computing in the Cloud | @CloudExpo #HPC #BigData #MachineLearning
Extreme Computing is the ability to leverage highly performant infrastructure and software to accelerate Big Data, machine learning, HPC, and Enterprise applications. High IOPS Storage, low-latency networks, in-memory databases, GPUs and other parallel accelerators are being used to achieve faster results and help businesses make better decisions.
In his session at 18th Cloud Expo, Michael O’Neill, Strategic Business Development at NVIDIA, focused on some of the unique ways extreme computing is being used on IBM Cloud, Amazon, and Microsoft Azure and how to gain access to these resources in the cloud… for FREE!
Oracle buys NetSuite for $9.3bn to further strengthen its cloud story
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Oracle has announced the acquisition of cloud ERP software provider NetSuite for $9.3 billion (£7.07bn).
The move had been rumoured strongly for the past couple of weeks – and certainly in the back of people’s minds for a significantly longer period of time – yet the agreement was confirmed today, and is expected to close later this year subject to usual regulatory approvals.
“Oracle and NetSuite cloud applications are complementary, and will co-exist in the marketplace forever,” said Mark Hurd, Oracle CEO. “We intend to invest heavily in both products – engineering and distribution.” Evan Goldberg, founder and CTO of NetSuite, said: “NetSuite has been working for 18 years to develop a single system for running a business in the cloud. This combination is a winner for NetSuite’s customers, employees and partners.”
The deal represents the latest move by Oracle to beef up its cloud operations. “This acquisition is all about strengthening Oracle’s cloud story,” John Dinsdale, chief analyst at Synergy Research told CloudTech. “It will push Oracle a couple of places higher in the enterprise SaaS market share rankings and will strengthen its position as one of the two leading ERP SaaS vendors, alongside SAP.
“It will also help to boost Oracle’s position in the CRM segment of SaaS, though it will remain a long way behind the segment leaders, Salesforce and Microsoft,” he added.
So how far have we come? Cast your minds back to mid-2012; Larry Ellison, then CEO and now CTO, is on stage announcing the general availability of the Oracle Cloud platform as a service. At the time Ellison argued that it was not the technology he objected to, but the nomenclature.
Since then, it almost feels that the database and software giant has been racing against time to catch up. In March 2014, Madan Sheina, lead analyst for software and information management at Ovum, argued Oracle had made “significant incremental advances across both its public and private cloud portfolio offerings” as part of its “aggressive” overall cloud strategy. Later that year, Oracle hired both Peter Magnusson, former mastermind of Google App Engine, and Shawn Price, formerly of SAP.
Not everything has worked out, of course. Despite, or perhaps because of, a partnership with Salesforce in 2013 which analyst firm Ovum argued offered “less than meets the eye”, the two companies seem much more comfortable nowadays in their traditional roles of backbiting one another than cosying up. The partnership with Verizon in 2014, while still available, looks a little less glossy after the telco shut down part of its public cloud offering earlier this year.
The key now, however, is for Oracle to maintain and build upon any momentum it has in the cloud. Around the time Dell announced its intent to buy EMC for $67bn in October last year, Wired published a scathing piece on the ‘living dead’ in enterprise tech. Oracle was named alongside Dell, EMC, HP, Cisco, and IBM.
As this publication has frequently observed, moving a huge legacy software and hardware revenue base over to the cloud, whether you are SAP, Oracle, or anyone else, is not easy. According to the latest figures, cloud accounted for 8% of Oracle’s total revenues over the last quarter – although Synergy disputes those numbers and argues it is a little less.
Dinsdale added that while NetSuite won’t ‘directly’ help in the PaaS and IaaS markets, Oracle remains a top 10 player in the former and top 20 player in the latter.
Read more: Marketing cloud giants join forces as Oracle snaps up NetSuite
Tune into the Cloud: Chain Gang | @CloudExpo #SaaS #Cloud #Blockchain
More than with previous technological (r)evolutions a side effect of cloud computing seems to be an increase in the degree of centralisation and concentration, not just within company organisations, but particularly in the wider commercial market. This is the most obvious with Software as a Service, where providers such as AirBNB, Uber, but also earlier cloud services such as LinkedIn and Google Search quickly established a ‘winner takes all’ distribution of market share and thus market power. And also in Infrastructure as a Service, we see an quickly diminishing number of suppliers still having the illusion that they can keep up with the gorilla in this market.
[slides] Multi-Cloud Adoption | @CloudExpo @Cloudyn_Buzz #API #Cloud #DigitalTransformation
Up until last year, enterprises that were looking into cloud services usually undertook a long-term pilot with one of the large cloud providers, running test and dev workloads in the cloud. With cloud’s transition to mainstream adoption in 2015, and with enterprises migrating more and more workloads into the cloud and in between public and private environments, the single-provider approach must be revisited.
In his session at 18th Cloud Expo, Yoav Mor, multi-cloud solution evangelist at Cloudyn, examined the risks of sourcing IT resources from a single cloud service vendor, as well as the benefits to be reaped by adopting multi-cloud strategies.