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Opening Keynote | Mission-Critical Applications in the Cloud – Myth or Reality?
Cloud Computing
 By working with IT across the software development lifecycle via cloud-based DevOps, development teams can decrease software bottlenecks, increase code output and be seen as drivers of the business.
I have a confession. I am Shadow IT. I am the guilty party operations and security lo...Jun. 19, 2013 01:00 PM EDT Reads: 760 |
 Precautions to safeguard client data & infrastructure is an MSPs responsibility-this extends beyond client's sphere of access to MSP employees & consultants. MSPs must employ some degree of security to cover their own access, not just that of their clients.
A man walks into the doctor...Jun. 19, 2013 01:00 PM EDT Reads: 823 |
 In Part 1 I talked about how there’s nothing new about subscription services since they’ve been around for generations.
Now I’ll relent a little and admit that there is something new about many of the subscription services out there. What’s new is what is no longer there. Traditionall...Jun. 19, 2013 12:15 PM EDT Reads: 1,351 |
 In the course of IT history, many schemes have been devised and deployed to protect data against storage system failure, especially disk drive hardware. These protection mechanisms have nearly always been variants on two themes: duplication of files or objects (backup, archiving, synch...Jun. 19, 2013 12:00 PM EDT Reads: 961 |
 SDN is a new, dynamic network architecture that transforms traditional network backbones into more intelligent service-delivery platforms. IT leaders can use SDN as a tool to change the way they do business. For example, enterprises can foster closer relationships with their customers ...Jun. 19, 2013 10:28 AM EDT Reads: 468 |
 For more than half a century, cloud computing has changed names more often than a Hollywood starlet.
Utility computing. Time share. Thin client. SaaS. PaaS. IaaS. While concepts have been added and capabilities grown, cloud computing was no more invented by Amazon or other modern vend...Jun. 17, 2013 11:15 PM EDT Reads: 1,175 |
 Some of our customers and billing industry contacts are somewhat intrigued (or even bemused) by the upsurge in attention being given to the concept of “subscriptions”. Some are concerned that they’re missing something because, after all, subscriptions have been business-as-usual for mo...Jun. 16, 2013 05:00 PM EDT Reads: 2,919 |
 Many organizations want to expand upon the IaaS foundation to deliver cloud services in all forms – software, mobility, infrastructure and IT. Understanding the strategy, planning process and tools for this transformation will help catalyze changes in the way the business operates and ...Jun. 13, 2013 09:00 AM EDT Reads: 3,173 |
 IT has more opportunities than ever before with the growth in users, devices, data and secure cloud services. This creates not only a more enriching experience for users, but more opportunities for businesses. The key to capitalizing on these opportunities is to have the right tools in...Jun. 12, 2013 08:30 AM EDT Reads: 3,141 |
 Our more interconnected planet is accelerating the adoption and convergence of next-generation architectures, in the form of cloud, mobile and instrumented physical assets. Organizations that can effectively balance optimization and innovation, will be in a position to leverage new sys...Jun. 10, 2013 12:00 PM EDT Reads: 4,386 |
 A recent study by analyst firm IDC reports that in 2012, 1.7 million cloud computing-related roles across the globe could not be filled due to the lack of training, certification and experience in the applicant pool. As the global demand for cloud and big data expertise increases, empl...Jun. 9, 2013 11:30 AM EDT Reads: 4,377 |
 At pennies per virtual machine-hour, the economics of cloud computing are both compelling and daunting to replicate. Whether you are building your own cloud infrastructure, building a public cloud or choosing a cloud service, there are key strategy and technology decisions that make th...Jun. 9, 2013 10:00 AM EDT Reads: 2,213 |
 With Cloud Expo New York | 12th Cloud Expo [June 10-13, 2013] starting next week, here's a look at one of the distinguished individuals in our incredible Speaker Faculty for the technical and strategy sessions at the conference coming up June 10-13 at the Jacob Javits Center in New Yor...Jun. 9, 2013 08:00 AM EDT Reads: 22,961 |
 It is estimated that with more and more companies switching to cloud computing methods for data storage that the impact will lead to a 31 percent reduction on the amount of energy consumption and emission of greenhouse gases by data storage facilities. This is extremely beneficial for ...Jun. 6, 2013 09:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,569 Replies: 1 |
 "We really do things differently than anyone else in this space," declared SoftLayer CEO Lance Crosby, in a Q&A published yesterday in conjunction with IBM's announcement of its definitive agreement to acquire SoftLayer Technologies, Inc. "We provide bare metal dedicated servers with t...Jun. 6, 2013 06:30 AM EDT Reads: 1,634 |
 "Cloud computing in the enterprise is all about workloads," said Ric Telford is Vice President of IBM Cloud Services, as IBM today announced its intent to acquire SoftLayer Technologies, Inc. - the well-respected provider of a wide array of options for hosting applications in the cloud...Jun. 4, 2013 10:30 AM EDT Reads: 1,457 |
Zynga, the high-profile cloud-based games maker, is in trouble deep enough
to raise questions about its continued survival.
It can’t keep up with the defection of its user base to mobile rivals – which
is impacting its bookings again this quarter – and so it...Jun. 3, 2013 10:15 PM EDT Reads: 950 |
 At the top of many IT group’s list of concerns lie security, compliance and internal process governance – both in static data centers and in dynamic clouds. Indeed, governance should not be overlooked. And, as they say in many security circles, the best measure of successful security i...Jun. 1, 2013 04:00 PM EDT Reads: 1,729 |
 The technology infrastructure of today’s business landscape has undergone dramatic shifts in recent years. The consumerization of IT, the Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) movement, and of course the cloud have revolutionized the way corporations manage data, complete transactions and commu...May. 28, 2013 08:45 AM EDT Reads: 2,814 |
 With Cloud Expo New York | 12th Cloud Expo [June 10-13, 2013] hurtling towards us, let's take a look at the distinguished individuals in our incredible Speaker Faculty for the technical and strategy sessions at the conference coming up June 10-13 at the Jacob Javits Center in New York ...May. 28, 2013 08:15 AM EDT Reads: 24,532 |
 If the leadership in your organization is mature and has a good track record – rest assured that a risk-mitigated decision to dabble in the public cloud is a vote of confidence in your direction.
It's little more than innate human nature to strive to control the environment around us....May. 28, 2013 07:45 AM EDT Reads: 1,549 |
 Ariba Vice President Chris Haydon explains the company's latest news and offers insights into how Ariba will be broadening its services procurement management value, mobile push, and AribaPay rollout.
We have some really exciting innovation coming in the near-term to Ariba in a couple...May. 28, 2013 07:15 AM EDT Reads: 1,744 |
 We must bring together the worlds of SOA, BPM, Cloud, REST, and HOA. The secret to getting all these architectural trends to work well together centers on how we deal with state information. We must first separate application state from resource state, and then subsequently take the co...May. 24, 2013 05:00 PM EDT Reads: 2,350 |
| A PMTUD black hole can cause a particularly subtle set of issues in hybrid cloud-based environments where the cloud resources are connected to a corporate office or other datacenter via IPSec tunnels. PMTUD black holes basically cause certain (but not all) traffic to not make it throug... May. 22, 2013 09:33 AM EDT Reads: 1,243 |
 New breakthroughs in cloud-based data management empower databases with the necessary elasticity they need to be truly responsive to the ebbs and tides of supply and demand.
Cloud computing allows all capital assets – computing power, memory and storage for example – to be exchanged a...May. 20, 2013 04:00 PM EDT Reads: 3,083 |
 Legos have been a part of my life for as long as I can remember. Some of my earliest, fondest memories involve Legos - starting from a small car made from a couple of simple bricks to very complex spaceships and wild creatures. I’m always amazed at how nicely and cleanly they snap toge...May. 20, 2013 09:45 AM EDT Reads: 2,579 |
 “Trust is an ongoing journey and sits at the foundation of any vendor relationship – the companies that don’t consistently earn trust won’t be around long,” noted Henrik Rosendahl, Senior VP of Cloud Solutions at Quantum, in this exclusive Q&A with Cloud Expo Conference Chair Jeremy Ge...May. 20, 2013 09:00 AM EDT Reads: 2,789 |
 There’s an inherent sense of almost forced innovation that appears to pervade the information technology industry. As we constantly push forward into perpetual cycles of reinvention, continual enhancement and augmentation after augmentation, one almost has to stop and ask what’s wrong ...May. 17, 2013 12:45 PM EDT Reads: 1,535 |
 A computer exists that’s been able to solve complex problems set for it by Google and NASA 11,000 times faster than any traditional supercomputer. And those were the simple problems.
On harder problems, it was 33,000 times faster and on the really hard problems it was reportedly 50,...May. 17, 2013 08:30 AM EDT Reads: 1,713 |
 We'll learn why a cloud-of-clouds approach is providing new types of IT services to Thomas Duryea’s many Asia-Pacific region customers.
We've been talking about cloud computing for years now, and I think it's pretty well established that we can do cloud computing quite well technicall...May. 16, 2013 09:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,384 |
 Cloud Computing is not really a market or set of markets at all. It’s part of a paradigm-shifting trend that is reinventing how organizations large and small purchase, provision, utilize, pay for, and think about IT resources. Eventually, everything will be the Cloud, which from the ma...May. 13, 2013 09:45 AM EDT Reads: 1,984 |
 This morning Cognizant, the company where I work as an analyst, reported their earnings. In the earnings call Cognizant CEO Francisco D'Souza stated, "This year we expect to deliver about $500 million in SMAC (social, mobile, analytics, cloud) related services." That is a significant...May. 10, 2013 02:45 PM EDT Reads: 1,955 |
 This week I read an interesting article titled, Mobile Phone Data Redraws Bus Routes in Africa. Seems the MNO (mobile network operator) Orange released 2.5 billion phone records (anonymised data) from 5 million phones for an exercise on how Big Data could be used to improve lives.
Th...May. 9, 2013 10:30 AM EDT Reads: 1,431 |
| Cloud Computing is booming and so is Cloud Expo – now with Big Data and Software-Defined Networking as fully integrated themes.
Here are the nine tracks we are serving up for you June 10–13 at the Jacob Javits Convention Center and below this brief note from me is a complete A–Z of... May. 6, 2013 01:00 AM EDT Reads: 2,909 |
 I wrote a blog for Cloud Ecosystem last month that talks about the disruption potential of hybrid clouds for disaster recovery. You can read it here: Hybrid Cloud will Transform Disaster Recovery. Within a few days CloudVelocity CTO Anand Iyengar weighed in shortly after with: The Hy...May. 5, 2013 11:45 AM EDT Reads: 1,614 |
 As the cloud market explodes, a distinct chasm has become apparent between the operation of infrastructure and applications. Sharing, isolation and load balancing issues in the network, combined with high density virtualization in compute and storage resources, can adversely impact the...May. 4, 2013 01:00 PM EDT Reads: 1,865 |
 In a recent blog post, we discussed the emergence of Cloud Protection Gateways as a solution for enterprises looking to protect sensitive cloud data by keeping that data under their complete control. We started looking at the vetting process enterprises undertake when they are selectin...May. 4, 2013 01:00 PM EDT Reads: 1,660 |
 The scale and automation of cloud computing deliver economies of scale – and price points – that can’t be matched by traditional computing platforms. Managers can minimize capital expenses and align operational costs to business demands with scalable, flexible resource deployments. Tho...May. 3, 2013 11:00 AM EDT Reads: 2,027 |
 Through a great deal of research on enterprise cloud adoption and security, I’ve learned something telling. As you would expect, CISOs’ opinions about cloud strategy are quite varied. While many folks recognize their company’s use of SaaS for HR, sales, communication, and other applica...May. 3, 2013 10:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,649 |
 With Cloud Expo New York (12th Cloud Expo) now under six weeks away, let's remind you in greater detail about all the distinguished individuals in our incredible Speaker Faculty for the technical program at the conference...May. 2, 2013 04:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,528 |
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