Hear about findings from hundreds of one-on-one interviews with IT decision makers from Global 2000 companies and how the IT Infrastructure is evolving toward the use of internal and external cloud architectures. The findings will span TheInfoPro's research of the storage, servers, networking, information security and cloud computing markets and will highlight internal and external cloud intentions, server and storage virtualization, software as a service (SaaS) and security, among others.
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Cloud computing is bringing massive computing power once reserved for government and research institutions to every organization in the world. Problems that involve intensive calculations or simulations can benefit from the computing capabilities that the cloud provides. Whether through scale out architectures like Grid / Cluster / Hadoop or completely new approaches like GPU there are a variety of emerging high performance computing options coming to the cloud.
In his session at the 11th Inter...
Big Data is a big catch phrase. Suddenly the world is focused on the massive amounts of data being created by social networks – interesting stuff. But the Internet of Things (IoT) will create at least an order of magnitude more data than social networks currently do. What will we do with this data? Maybe we’ll use it to help arrest the energy crisis. The IoT is first taking off in the Electric Grid and in appliances, thermostats, electric car chargers and solar panels that connect to it.
In hi...
Need to scale your data tier? The foundation of every application is the database layer, and today application architects have more choices than ever. With these choices come new questions: Which database technology is best for your application? How can your application take advantage of Big Data technology? Can you run your relational database at Big Data scale? What does it take to implement a comprehensive data infrastructure, including your core database, incorporating SQL, No SQL and Big Da...
Building e-commerce solutions for retail and preparing for transactions spikes on big shopping days was never easy. Preparing for the frequent and sporadic transaction spikes – launching a new game, e-book, or an online video release – in the digital world is even more difficult.
There are great benefits to an “Own the Core” strategy to maintain control and efficiencies since commerce systems are so central and connect with so many internal systems.
In his session at the 11th International C...
SYS-CON Events announced today that Appcara, maker of cloud application lifecycle solutions, 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.
Appcara simplifies application lifecycle agility and portability for corporations with advanced data-model driven technology to capture, assemble and deploy multi-tiered business applications into any cloud. The company was created by a group of ...
SYS-CON Events announced today that (ISC)² has been named “Association 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.
(ISC)² is the largest not-for-profit membership body of certified information security professionals worldwide, with over 80,000 members in more than 135 countries.
Cloud Expo 2012 Silicon Valley, November 5–8, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA, wil...
The move to cloud-based applications has undeniably delivered tremendous benefits. However, the associated distribution creates various challenges from the quality perspective:
End-to-end tests need to pass through multiple dependent systems, which are commonly unavailable, evolving, or difficult-to-access for testing.
Accessing such system often involves transaction and bandwidth fees.
Teams need to test and tune the system under test against a realistic and broad range of performance and b...
SYS-CON Events announced today that ZapThink has been named “Media 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.
ZapThink, A Dovèl Technologies Company, is an advisory and training firm and master of Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Enterprise Architecture, and architectural approaches to Cloud Computing.
For more information, visit http://www.zapthink.com.
Cloud Expo 2012 Silicon...
In his session at the 11th International Cloud Expo, Ronald Bradford, Founder & CEO of Effective MySQL, will discuss the issues of managing a large number of MySQL instances supporting one billion+ requests statements per day (and 50+ billion SQL statements). Topics include:
Monitoring and instrumentation are essential
How to automate installations, upgrades and deployments
MySQL replication issues with 300+ slaves per master
Traffic minimization techniques
Creating HA with regions and zon...
The European Commission acknowledges that Europe must become more ‘cloud active’ to stay competitive in the global economy. And while public cloud adoption in the EU is increasing, it is fragmented in some areas and lags the US by some 3- 5 years. IDC’s recent study “Cloud in Europe: Uptake, Benefit...
Crowdfunding has become a very popular topic here in Canada, and for good reason, it’s really the key to unlocking their future, in a pretty seismic way.
By this I mean the nation has a notorious ‘Innovation Gap’ and lament a lack of Venture Capital as the reason, but really what is missing is a ...
On December 22, 1944 the German General von Lüttwitz sent an ultimatum to Gen. McAuliffe, whose forces (the Screaming Eagles, in case you were curious) were encircled in the city Bastogne. McAuliffe’s now famous reply was, “Nuts!” which so confounded the German general that it gave the 101st time to...
There is a myth that is perpetuated that when you follow agile you do not do any upfront design.
Any piece of software that we write today is made up of multiple components – classes, services, layers, tiers etc.
To translate a user story in a piece of code requires a decision on how the pieces of...
I recently participated in a panel discussion, titled: “Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) endgame – commoditizing the data center” at the GigaOM Structure 2012 Conference. While software is definitely defining the use of IaaS through Platform as a Service (PaaS), the underlying need for IaaS does n...
One of the critical requirements for enterprises to adopt Cloud is the Hybrid capability. Since most of the mission critical applications live behind the firewall, they should be able to extend the functionality of these applications to the Cloud.
Since the initial announcement of Windows Azure, Mi...
In my previous blog, I wrote at length about the complexities of running a data cloud in production. This logical data set, spread across many nodes, requires a whole new set of tools and methodologies to run and maintain. Today we’ll look at one of the biggest challenges in managing a data cloud – ...
IDC Canada recently published a study highlighting how IT security fears may be inhibiting Canadian enterprises’ business agility and competitiveness. IDC and TELUS Enterprise Cloud Study, 2012: Three Misconceptions Curb Competitiveness sheds light on the concerns of leading Canadian businesses relu...
This week has seen announcements from two companies I’ve been interested in and following for some time.
Nasuni makes a storage appliance that stores all of a customer’s data in “the cloud”. It’s available either as a physical device (effectively a server running their software) or as a virtual ma...
When I sat down to write this post, I did some prep reading to see what the bloggers I follow were saying on the topic. But by the third post, I was reminded that we (the tech nerds) are not generally helpful. Tech nerds talk and write in our own language. We write to look [...]
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