Targeted attacks on the network of a business can be big trouble. A business should know where to look and what to look for to stop the attacks. Businesses are aware of the dangers of hackers. They know that a hacker can steal private information that hey store on their computer networks. They recognize that hackers can create problems for the business and the business's computer systems through a variety of different ways. Being aware of the dangers and knowing what to do about them is not the same thing. Unless a business has a big IT department, their ideas about network security are not always correct. They may not realize that they are the target of hackers. They may assume that hackers either try to cast a wide net with the hope of catching someone or they target bigger companies. A smart business recognizes the threats of targeted attacks and knows where and ho... (more)

Meeting Network Traffic and Speed Growth Challenges | @CloudExpo #API #SDN #Cloud

Today's hyper-connectivity of both people and things has led to an enormous jump in network traffic. Global IP traffic will increase nearly threefold over the next five years. It's not going to lessen, nor is it going to get slower. These factors create a need for high-speed networks to ensure service level and capacity. 100G network links are deployed by telecom networks and data centers, serving hundreds of thousands of users, so that these providers can keep pace with customer demand. This then creates the need to test and troubleshoot on the networks at 100G link speed. Why network traffic replay is helpful Quality and maturity are critical when deploying new solutions today because there are so many services and subscribers depending on stable data networks. Testing new network solutions or new versions of networking products or applications is a challenge becau... (more)

Cloud Collaboration Reaches New Heights for Fujitsu and Citrix | @CloudExpo #VDI #Cloud #Virtualization

Cloud Collaboration Reaches New Heights for Fujitsu and Citrix Long-term partners Fujitsu Limited and Citrix Systems Japan have announced a new virtual desktop service based in the cloud. Designed to take some of the pain out of digital transformation, the new offering makes it easier to create digital workspaces in a secure manner that's scalable. The Fujitsu Managed Infrastructure Service Virtual Desktop Service VCC (Virtual Client on Cloud) employs the Citrix suite of virtual desktop infrastructure products, including Citrix XenApp, Citrix XenDesktop, and Citrix ShareFile. The two companies have been working together in the VDI space for decades, but this new agreement enables Fujitsu to sell the new service. "Fujitsu has always provided cutting-edge and highly reliable technology that supports society and our customers," explained Matsuhiro Kishimoto, Senior Fe... (more)

[slides] @NetApp’s Cloud Storage-as-a-Service | @CloudExpo #DevOps #SDN #DataCenter

Download Slide Deck: ▸ Here Download Slide Deck: ▸ Here Delivering on Cloud Storage-as-a-Service for a Major Asia Pacific Telco In his session at 21st Cloud Expo, Michael Burley, a Senior Business Development Executive in IT Services at NetApp, described how NetApp designed a three-year program of work to migrate 25PB of a major telco's enterprise data to a new STaaS platform, and then secured a long-term contract to manage and operate the platform. This significant program blended the best of NetApp's solutions and services capabilities to enable this telco's successful adoption of private cloud storage and launching of virtual storage services to its enterprise market. Download Slide Deck: ▸ Here By evolving the engagement from a solution to a systems integration orientation, NetApp became a key partner with this telco in its enterprise business. A collaborativ... (more)

[session] Software-Defined Servers | @DevOpsSummit @TidalScale #SDN #SDS #DevOps

Test Automation with Software-Defined Servers In their session at @DevOpsSummit at 21st Cloud Expo, Michael Berman, VP Engineering at TidalScale, and Ivo Jimenez, Engineer at TidalScale, will describe how automating tests in TidalScale is easy thanks to WaveRunner. They will show how they use WaveRunner, Jenkins, and Docker to have agile delivery of TidalScale. Speaker Bio Michael Berman is VP Engineering at TidalScale. TidalScale is developing a scale up compute and resource architecture for customers to perform big data exploration and real time analytics. TidalScale's platform aggregates commodity server hardware into a single coherent supercomputer. Prior to TidalScale, he was CTO at Catbird Networks, where he was responsible for the design and requirements for Catbird vSecurity, the industry leader in security virtualization. Michael was previously a principal... (more)

Multi-Hypervisor #Monitoring | @CloudExpo #DevOps #AI #DX #Virtualization

Simplifying the Monitoring of Multi-Hypervisor Infrastructures Over the years, many enterprises have achieved tremendous cost reductions and management simplicity through virtualizing their IT infrastructure. According to Gartner, while some firms have virtualized over 90% of their servers, on an average, most firms have over 75% of their servers in a virtualized infrastructure, indicating the growth and maturity of the x86 server virtualization market. VMware dominated the virtualization market for several years but organizations are now also adopting other hypervisors such as Microsoft Hyper-V, Citrix XenServer, Oracle VM Server, Red Had Virtualization, etc. Additionally, the Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM) is an alternative for handling virtualization in Linux environments. And, the advent of hyper-converged infrastructures has introduced new hypervisors such... (more)

The VDI Landscape | @CloudExpo #VDI #Cloud #IoT #AI #DX #Virtualization

The VDI Landscape: What Came Before and What's Possible Now Digital transformation can be exciting, but it also can be painful. Organizations are trying to better support a growing mobile workforce that needs the flexibility to work from anywhere on any device. The ability to do so offers a distinct competitive advantage, as productivity soars. Virtualizing applications and desktops has been an important step toward achieving these productivity gains, but the first generation of virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) and application publishing solutions not only failed to deliver on cost savings and streamlined IT promises, but they contributed an overwhelming level of complexity that ballooned the operating expenses of these implementations - an unpleasant surprise. Now, many organizations that implemented these first-generation solutions need to determine a migratio... (more)

[slides] Modernize Your Applications | @CloudExpo @InteractorTeam #DX #AI #IoT #SDN

Download Slide Deck: ▸ Here Download Slide Deck: ▸ Here Modernize Your Applications Through Novel Abstractions and Configurations Most technology leaders, contemporary and from the hardware era, are reshaping their businesses to do software. They hope to capture value from emerging technologies such as IoT, SDN, and AI. Ultimately, irrespective of the vertical, it is about deriving value from independent software applications participating in an ecosystem as one comprehensive solution. Download Slide Deck: ▸ Here In his session at @ThingsExpo, Kausik Sridhar, founder and CTO of Pulzze Systems, discussed how given the magnitude of today's application ecosystem, tweaking existing software to stitch various components together leads to sub-optimal solutions. This definitely deserves a re-think, and paves the way for a new breed of lightweight application servers that ... (more)

What Type of File System? | @CloudExpo @CompuverdeSDS #SDS #SDN #DataCenter

What Type of File System Are You Really Getting? The cloud's massive success and the growing desire for Big Data analytics are just two of the factors that are making traditional storage architectures obsolete. Organizations cannot afford to scale bygone storage appliances. Even if they could, the time it would take is unacceptable in the digital world. Adding multiple servers could not accommodate storage demands, either. Vertical storage architecture contains bottlenecks that slow performance to a crawl. Along with cloud and analytics, another technological advancement has emerged in the data center: software-defined storage (SDS). Because SDS decouples the programming that controls storage-related tasks from the physical storage hardware, it dramatically reduces costs associated with hardware. Fewer, less-expensive servers can be used to improve both capacity an... (more)

[session] A Cloud-based HPC Visualization Cluster | @CloudExpo @PenguinHPC #Cloud #Virtualization

Efficient Access to a Cloud-based HPC Visualization Cluster Data scientists must access high-performance computing resources across a wide-area network. To achieve cloud-based HPC visualization, researchers must transfer datasets and visualization results efficiently. HPC clusters now compute GPU-accelerated visualization in the cloud cluster. To efficiently display results remotely, a high-performance, low-latency protocol transfers the display from the cluster to a remote desktop. Further, tools to easily mount remote datasets and efficiently transfer that data into the HPC cluster are described, including performance characterization results. In his session at 21st Cloud Expo, Brian Fromme, a solutions engineer at Penguin Computing, will discuss how together, high-performance data transfer and display technologies are finally solving the challenges of remote acce... (more)

File System Market vs. Object Storage | @CloudExpo #Cloud #DataCenter #Storage #AI #DX

An article published in The Register states that object storage has missed its opportunity to serve the secondary storage market. How did this happen? Let's rewind the clock a bit. A few years ago, object storage was the new technology that promised to replace file system in the secondary storage market. It would scale beyond the limits of file systems and deliver better costs. The trade-off would be lower ease-of-use with new protocols that required rewriting of the applications. File systems would keep its place as the tier-one storage solution, because of its superior performance. The world order was clear with object storage elbowing file system out of secondary storage and gradually squeezing it out of tier one as its performance improved. The marketing message was that the role of the file system was rapidly diminishing, because its technology could not keep up... (more)