|
Top Stories
Guess who benefits when two industry giants compete with each other offering
exactly the same set of services? It is RightScale!
While the Cloud ecosystem is still recovering from the euphoria of witnessing
Microsoft and Google launch IaaS, RightScale is busy porting their
ServerTemplates to both the Public Clouds. They are in an enviable position
where every new IaaS provider wants to be a part of their platform.
This is not a common phenomenon that we see in the industry. RightScale saw
the opportunity pretty early in the cycle and got into the game much ahead of
the time and that seems to pay off now! It’s not just Microsoft and Google,
even HP partnered with RightScale much before they entered into the public
beta in May. RightScale now has an impressive portfolio of supported Public
Clouds and Private Clouds that includes AWS, Rackspace, SoftLayer, Tata,
OpenStac... (more)
One of the key tenets of the Cloud is self-service. Anyone from an individual
entrepreneur to an enterprise CIO with a valid credit card can subscribe to
the Cloud. This has been the biggest driver of Cloud adoption especially
among the startups and SMEs. While this is definitely an advantage for the
Cloud providers and Cloud consumers, there is one entity in the ecosystem
that is intimidated by this paradigm. And, that is the reseller community
which is also known as the channel or the Value Added Reseller (VAR). Before
we analyze whether Cloud is a threat or an opportunity for ... (more)
Ideas for Maximizing Revenue and Positioning and Accelerating the Adoption of
On-Demand Data and Integration as a Service
1) Publish pre-built integration components to sites, or communities such as:
a. Heroku Add-ons http://addons.heroku.com/
Reason. Developers of many types of applications, not the least of which
include Facebook platform games, develop Facebook applications on the Heroku
platform.
Currently some data providers sell fantasy football and other types of gaming
data, yet I don't see integration components available from either firm
offered in the the Heroku, Boomi, ... (more)
As part of our presence at Cloud Expo in New York two weeks ago, we conducted
a survey at our TwinStrata booth (in return from some quite popular storage
hogs).
More than 100 attendees participated and the results were rather
enlightening.
For example:
5 out of 6 respondents indicated that they were either already using or plan
to use cloud storage in some capacity – making it the most widely planned
cloud initiative (even more than software as a service). Although security
was the most frequently cited objection to cloud storage, more than half
(58%) of respondents did not ind... (more)
As the Government’s own Digital Advantage paper recommends, the key to
addressing Canada’s innovation gap is for CIO’s to adopt more new
technologies like Cloud Computing, and the public sector can ignite this
trend by leading the way with their own adoption.
Don Drummond makes a similar recommendation in his report. Recommendation
16-10 says: The government should shift its service delivery of information
and information technology (I⁢) from in-house to external sources, where
feasible.
However as this Telus press release and study reports, the reality is that in
Canada is s... (more)
- Research and Markets: The Chinese R&D Landscape - Micro-structural and Nanotechnology
- World Secure Content & Threat Management Sector Analyzed in New Report Published at MarketPublishers.com
- SecureMobile Raises the Standard for Security on Mobile Devices
- notonthehighstreet.com Selects Rackspace® Hosting to Help Support its Growth
- Research and Markets: Healthcare Cloud Computing (Clinical, EMR, SaaS, Private, Public, Hybrid) Market - Global Trends, Challenges, Opportunities & Forecasts (2012 - 2017)
- Maschinenidentifikationsmodul von Gemalto als erstes nach ISO/TS-16949 zertifiziert, der höchsten Qualitätsnorm der Kfz-Industrie
- Gemalto Machine Identification Module First to Achieve ISO/TS 16949, The Highest Automotive-Grade Certification
- Le module d'identification des machines de Gemalto est le premier à obtenir l'ISO/TS 16949, la plus haute certification de qualité automobile
- Equinix and Carpathia Hosting Extend Alliance in Hong Kong
- Kentucky HS Student Uses Smartphones at School -- With the Music Director's Enthusiastic Approval
- Research and Markets: Global Messaging Security Market 2011-2015: Cisco Systems Inc., McAfee Inc., Symantec Corp., and Trend Micro Inc. Dominate Market
- Radisphere iPhone Application Speeds Delivery of Critical Radiology Information to Improve Quality of Care
- More News...
Cloud Expo Breaking News By Liz McMillan  “Big Data eliminates the data silos that formerly existed, improving the depth and quality of analysis that can take place,” observed Scott Kinka, Chief Technology Officer at Evolve IP, in this exclusive Q&A; with Cloud Expo Conference Chair Jeremy Geelan. “Without these barriers, Kinka continued, “we gain access to information that was never before available. We can see where there are underserved markets, opportunities, problems that need to be addressed.”
Agree or disagree? – "While the IT sa... Jul. 5, 2012 07:30 AM EDT Reads: 3,106 | By Pat Romanski  “Big Data analytics will shape the form of nearly every process going forward in time, from the color of the latest fashions, what the candidates say in one town versus another to the chemical composition of the latest super drug,” noted Steve Knodl, Director of Product Management at NextIO, in this exclusive Q&A; with Cloud Expo Conference Chair Jeremy Geelan. “Whether these are considered “new” products,” Knodl continued, “or continuous improvement on previous processes is largely in the eyes o... Jul. 5, 2012 07:00 AM EDT Reads: 2,448 | By Jeremy Geelan  This year's Cloud Expo New York appeared to be double the size of last year. Not only were there more solution providers on the expo floor, there appeared to me quite a few additional sessions to attend. I felt even the session quality was better than last year, with more knowledge spread across various tracks, and it was obvious the expertise was well, more expert than before. There also appeared to be more attendees, and in greater diversity than the previous year. Of course, all of this impro... Jul. 5, 2012 05:45 AM EDT Reads: 1,817 | By Liz McMillan  “The speed of businesses is accelerating, requiring continuous tuning and optimization of business processes and operations,” noted Bruce Fingles, CIO and VP of Product Quality at Xsigo Systems, in this exclusive Q&A; with Cloud Expo Conference Chair Jeremy Geelan. “IT organizations must have an infrastructure that enables them to partner with business leaders and respond quickly to changes that can help drive the business forward,” Fingles concluded.
Cloud Computing Journal: Agree or disagree? ... Jul. 5, 2012 05:00 AM EDT Reads: 3,716 | By Elizabeth White  SYS-CON Events announced today that ERP.com 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.
ERP.com is the authority site for enterprise resource planning (ERP). Members of ERP.com and visitors to the site can streamline their business software selection process by searching the comprehensive database of software solutions and ERP packages.
ERP.com also has in-house... Jul. 4, 2012 03:00 PM EDT Reads: 606 | By Liz McMillan  10th International Cloud Expo, held on June 11–14, 2012 at the Javits Center in New York City, featured four content-packed days with a rich array of sessions about the business and technical value of cloud computing led by exceptional speakers from every sector of the cloud computing ecosystem.
The Cloud Expo series is the fastest-growing Enterprise IT event in the past 10 years, devoted to every aspect of delivering massively scalable enterprise IT as a service.
We invite you to enjoy our ph... Jul. 4, 2012 08:00 AM EDT Reads: 2,154 | By Elizabeth White  “Cloud computing represents a paradigm shift for IT, transforming computing power into a utility,” observed James Weir, CTO and Co-Founder of UShareSoft, in this exclusive Q&A; with Cloud Expo Conference Chair Jeremy Geelan. “While cloud adoption remains in the early stages,” Weir continued, “this shift means that the overall market will grow massively in the coming years.”
Cloud Computing Journal: Agree or disagree? – "While the IT savings aspect is compelling, the strongest benefit of cloud co... Jul. 4, 2012 06:00 AM EDT Reads: 4,383 | By Elizabeth White  “One of the greatest challenges to security in the cloud is management,” noted David Meizlik, Vice President of Marketing at Dome9 Security, in this exclusive Q&A; with Cloud Expo Conference Chair Jeremy Geelan. “With cloud computing,” Meizlik explained, “the infrastructure is owned and maintained by a third party, so you can’t just walk down the hall to get to your infrastructure.”
Cloud computing represents the advent of a global computing utility that transcends national boundaries. Is that w... Jul. 4, 2012 05:00 AM EDT Reads: 4,583 | By Liz McMillan  “The productization of Big Data will be an interesting trend to track, and I think we'll start to see some significant investment in this area over the coming months,” noted Scott Sneddon, Vyatta’s Director of Cloud Solutions, in this exclusive Q&A; with Cloud Expo Conference Chair Jeremy Geelan. “We at Vyatta think this trend is exciting,” Sneddon continued, “because these kinds of new ventures will always need powerful and creative networking and security solutions.”
Cloud Computing Journal: A... Jul. 4, 2012 12:30 AM EDT Reads: 1,701 | By Jeremy Geelan  "It was my first time at a Cloud Expo show, so I wasn’t sure what to expect. But man, what a blast it turned out to be. Great exhibits, great audience, great floor traffic, great conversations with IT leaders and folks in the channel." With those words, Tom Gaydos - Director, Marketing & Sales Operations at Evolve IP - begins a blog post on the "Cloud IQ" blog in which he reports on Evolve IP's experiences at the 10th International Cloud Expo, which was held in New York's Javits Center June 11-1... Jul. 3, 2012 11:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,484 |
Best Recent Articles on Cloud Computing & Big Data Topics  By Jeremy Geelan The Arlington, Virginia-based National Science Foundation has just released its "Report on Support for Cloud Computing" - in response to the America Competes Reauthorization Act of 2010, Section 524.
It is an absolute must-read for all concerned with current and future research projects in Cloud Computing. Reads: 3,886  By Jeremy Geelan "The volume of data we're generating now from machines pales in comparison to the volume of data we'll soon generate from our own bodies," says data security expert Dave Asprey. Writing in a Trend Micro blog, Asprey - who is one of the leaders in the emerging Quantified Self movement - explains his vision of a world in which personal biometrical data is shared via the cloud. Reads: 5,757  By Wolfram Jost Cloud computing has caught the attention of business leaders around the world in every
industry because of its enormous transformative potential. Visionary companies know that
the value of the cloud is far greater than the current focus solely on technology and operating
costs: when combined with a collaborative approach to designing processes, cloud computing
will change how we do business.
Reads: 9,056  By Elizabeth White Want to make sense of the hottest new concept in Enterprise IT?
Want to understand in just hours what experts have spent many hundreds of days deciphering?
Cloud computing is a technology that has rapidly evolving peppered with a lot of hype along the way. Customers find it hard to navigate through this and make sense of what aspects of this technology will give them real business benefit.
Cloud Computing Bootcamp, led by our 2012 Bootcamp Instructor Larry Carvalho, is a great way to get a practical understanding of this technology. We offer multiple days of actionable insight into what vendor offerings are currently available and help you comprehend their strategy.
The ever-popular Bootcamp, which is now held regularly around the world, is being held in conjunction with the 10th Cloud Expo, June 11-14, 2012, at the Javits Center, New York, NY. Reads: 6,045  By Larry Bettino Did you know that ninety percent of the data in the world has been created in the last two years? Every day, we create 2.5 quintillion (or 2.518) bytes of data, according to IBM.
As corporations across all industries globally are struggling with how to retain, aggregate and analyze this mounting volume of what the industry refers to as Big Data, it also provides a unique opportunity for innovative startups that recognize the business prospects Big Data presents. Big Data is not just unlocking new information but new sources of economic and business value.
Interactivity is driving Big Data, with people and machines both consuming and creating it. Digital companies focused on becoming good at aggregating and analyzing the data created by the end users of their product, who then provide their customers with solid insights taken from that data are at a distinct competitive advantage over others in the marketplace. Reads: 3,853  By Elizabeth White SYS-CON Events announced today that SHI, a $4 billion+ global provider of information technology products and services, has been named Platinum Plus Sponsor of SYS-CON's 10th International Cloud Expo, which will take place on June 11–14, 2012, at the Javits Center in New York City, New York.
Founded in 1989, SHI International Corp. is a global provider of technology products and services. Driven by the industry's most experienced and stable sales force and backed by software volume licensing experts, hardware procurement specialists, and certified IT service professionals, SHI delivers custom IT solutions to Corporate, Enterprise, Public Sector, and Academic customers. With over 1,800 + employees worldwide, SHI is the largest Minority/Woman Owned Business Enterprise (MWBE) in the U.S. and is ranked 19th among Everything Channel's VAR 500 list of North American IT solution providers. Reads: 2,996  By Elizabeth White SYS-CON Events announced today that Rackspace Hosting, the service leader in cloud computing, has been named "Platinum Plus Sponsor" of SYS-CON's 10th International Cloud Expo, which will take place on June 11-14, 2012, at the Javits Center in New York City, New York, and the 11th International Cloud Expo, which will take place on November 5-8, 2012, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA.
SYS-CON Events announced today that Rackspace Hosting, the service leader in cloud computing, has been named "Platinum Plus Sponsor" of SYS-CON's 10th International Cloud Expo, which will take place on June 11-14, 2012, at the Javits Center in New York City, New York, and the 11th International Cloud Expo, which will take place on November 5-8, 2012, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA  By Elizabeth White 9th International Cloud Expo, held on November 7 - 10, 2011, in Santa Clara, CA, attracted more than 120 sponsors and exhibitors with over 7,500 registered delegates and four content-packed days with a rich array of sessions about the business and technical value of cloud computing led by exceptional speakers from every sector of the cloud computing ecosystem.
The Cloud Expo series is the fastest-growing Enterprise IT event in the past 10 years, devoted to every aspect of delivering massively scalable enterprise IT as a service.
We invite you to enjoy here our photo album of the show. Reads: 6,725  By Carmen Gonzalez Ulitzer.com announced "the World's 30 most influential Cloud bloggers," who collectively generated more than 24 million Ulitzer page views. Ulitzer's annual "most influential Cloud bloggers" list was announced at Cloud Expo, which drew more delegates than all other Cloud-related events put together worldwide. "The world's 50 most influential Cloud bloggers 2010" list will be announced at the Cloud Expo 2010 East, which will take place April 19-21, 2010, at the Jacob Javitz Convention Center, in New York City, with more than 5,000 expected to attend. Reads: 34,083  By Kevin Hartig Cloud computing is becoming one of the next industry buzz words. It joins the ranks of terms including: grid computing, utility computing, virtualization, clustering, etc.
Cloud computing overlaps some of the concepts of distributed, grid and utility computing, however it does have its own meaning if contextually used correctly. The conceptual overlap is partly due to technology changes, usages and implementations over the years.
Trends in usage of the terms from Google searches shows Cloud Computing is a relatively new term introduced in the past year. There has also been a decline in general interest of Grid, Utility and Distributed computing.
Likely they will be around in usage for quit a while to come. But Cloud computing has become the new buzz word driven largely by marketing and service offerings from big corporate players like Google, IBM and Amazon. Reads: 185,810  By Elizabeth White SYS-CON Events announced today that Cloud Expo 2012 New York, the 10th International Cloud Computing Conference & Expo, will take place June 11-14, 2012, at the Javits Center in New York City.
The International Cloud Computing Conference & Expo series is the world's leading Cloud-focused event and is held three times a year, in New York, Silicon Valley and in Europe. Over 400 corporate sponsors and 20,000 industry professionals have participated in Cloud Expo since its inception, more than all other Cloud-related events put together.
"10th Cloud Expo is trending to be both the biggest ever and the best-attended event in the international Cloud Expo series to date, so it is only natural that we should be holding it in the biggest and best conference venue anywhere on the East Coast, the Jacob K. Javits Convention Center," stated Carmen Gonzalez, CEO of Cloud Expo. "If you are not at Cloud Expo New York, June 11-14, at the Javits Center, then you risk not getting the relevant parts of your IT infrastructure into the Cloud in time." Reads: 11,377  By Pat Romanski Hadoop, MapReduce, Hive, Hbase, Lucene, Solr? The only thing growing faster than enterprise data these days is the landscape of big data tools. These tools, which are designed to help organizations turn big data into opportunities, are gaining deeper insight into massive volumes of information. A recent Gartner report predicts that enterprise data will increase by 650% over the next five years, which means that the time is now for IT decision makers to determine which big data tools are the best - and most cost-effective - for their organization. Reads: 6,342 By Roger Strukhoff Cloud Expo, Cloud Expo East, Cloud Expo West, Cloud Expo Silicon Valley, Cloud Expo Europe, Cloud Expo Tokyo, Cloud Expo Prague, Cloud Expo Hong Kong, Cloud Expo Sao Paolo are trademarks and /or registered trademarks (USPTO serial number 85009040) of Cloud Expo, Inc. Reads: 12,330 |
|
|
About Cloud Computing Journal
Cloud Computing Journal aims to help open the eyes of Enterprise IT professionals to the economics and strategies that utility/cloud computing provides.
ADD THIS FEED TO YOUR ONLINE NEWS READER
|
You’ve either read about or lived through the massive storm that hit the Mid-Atlantic coast last week. And, by the way, if you are going through a loss, damage or worse, I do hope you can recover quickly and wish you the best. The weather took out power for millions including a Virginia ‘cloud’ d...
Remember the Maginot line and how powerful and defensive it was going to be… And then the Germans just bypassed it? Remember the West Wall, where the Allies were going to throw themselves against in the waning days of World War II… And then it was not just pierced but effectively eliminated as a pro...
Local File Server for team collaboration is a very familiar use case. Typically a local IT administrator set up a file server in a Local Area Network(LAN) environment, such as in a branch office. The whole office then use network shares to share files. For example, below is a picture of a Shared fo...
A single configuration error can have far flung impact across IT and the business
Chaos theory claims a butterfly flapping its wings in one area of the world can result in a hurricane elsewhere. The impact of devops – or the lack thereof – may not be as devastating, but it does have an impact in te...
We’re all hungry for best practices and tips for securing data in the cloud and also how shared computer resources can and should work to ensure privacy and protection. The focus is on data security, especially data at rest.
Cloud computing is all about increased scalability and productivity. Howev...
About a dozen years ago, the storage utility model was a novel concept. The idea was that businesses could literally plug applications into enterprise storage, enabling them to outsource administration and begin paying on a monthly usage basis. While the concept was attractive, unfortunately, many o...
Subscribe to Cloud Computing Journal Email News Alerts
Subscribe via RSS
