Download Slide Deck: ▸ Here Download Slide Deck: ▸ Here 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. Download Slide Deck: ▸ Here 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, discussed how together, high-performance data ... (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)

How Access Management Protects Today’s No-Perimeter Network | #SDN #Cloud #Security

How Access Management Protects Today's No-Perimeter Network The rule of thumb for network security today is that there is no perimeter anymore. An outsider can easily become an insider once perimeter security is breached. Every day, attackers find new ways to breach enterprise perimeter security through ransomware, malware or phishing through social engineering. This is not to suggest that all is lost. Rather, organizations can defeat cybercriminals, in part, by better managing what has already been put in place. As an example of what can go wrong if that doesn't happen, consider the following story. On the way in to his office one day, Chris, the CSO of Big Deal Company, runs into Kate from cryptography, who comments that their IT admin, Tim, has been hard at work since about 5:00 a.m. This seems odd, since Tim is not known to be a morning person. Kate says Tim requ... (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)

Performance: The Key to Data Efficiency By @Permabit | @CloudExpo [#Cloud]

Data efficiency - the combination of technologies including data deduplication, compression, zero elimination and thin provisioning - transformed the backup storage appliance market in well under a decade. Why has it taken so long for the same changes to occur in the primary storage appliance market? The answer can be found by looking back at the early evolution of the backup appliance market, and understanding why EMC's Data Domain continues to hold a commanding lead in that market today. Data Efficiency Technologies The term "data efficiency" encompasses a variety of different technologies that enable the most effective use of space on a storage device by both reducing wasted space and eliminating redundant information. These technologies include thin provisioning, which is now commonplace in primary storage, as well as less extensively deployed features such as co... (more)

Monetizing Big Data with Hadoop By @MapR | @BigDataExpo [#BigData]

The Telecom Marketing Journey: Monetizing Big Data with Hadoop Forget the funnel. Your customers no longer adhere to that nice, neat linear purchase model. Stop looking at the calendar. They don't need yet another holiday offer, event-themed promotion, or long weekend sale. Don't plan on following them around like a heartbroken teenage sweetheart either. Many of your customers (current and potential) will send your emails straight to spam, unsubscribe from newsletters, block ads and refuse to share their locations with you. (Well, they might share some data, but only if you promise a big discount in return.) So what's a marketer to do? Cheer up! Communications Service Providers have the most important tool necessary to communicate effectively with customers: Big Data. McKinsey's DataMatics 2013 survey found that companies that extensively use customer analytics are ... (more)

Modernizing Existing Infrastructure | @CloudExpo @FalconStor #Cloud #BigData

Modernizing Existing Infrastructure with Truly Heterogeneous Software-Defined Storage Let's face it, embracing new storage technologies, capabilities and upgrading to new hardware often adds complexity and increases costs. In his session at 18th Cloud Expo, Seth Oxenhorn, Vice President of Business Development & Alliances at FalconStor, will discuss how a truly heterogeneous software-defined storage approach can add value to legacy platforms and heterogeneous environments. The result reduces complexity, significantly lowers cost, and provides IT organizations with improved efficiencies, all while delivering real freedom and flexibility. Come learn how to #BeFree. Speaker Bio Seth Oxenhorn is Vice President of Business Development & Alliances at FalconStor. He leads FalconStor's global business development efforts to establish and grow key strategic partnerships and ... (more)

Harness APIs to Deliver Competitive Applications in the ‘Cloud of Clouds’

Based on Andi Mann's presentation at Cloud Expo 2013 Silicon Valley IT organizations face a growing demand for faster innovation and new applications to support emerging opportunities in social, mobile, growth markets, Big Data analytics, mergers and acquisitions, strategic partnerships, and more. This is great news because it shows that IT continues to be a key stakeholder in delivering business service innovation. However, it also means that IT must deliver new innovation despite flat budgets, while maintaining existing services that grow more complex every day. The 'Cloud of Clouds' This is where cloud computing can help to deliver business outcomes, especially if you look beyond just one or two cloud providers, to the almost limitless variety of interconnected and intermediated cloud services - what I call the 'cloud of clouds'. This is true especially for founda... (more)

[session] Containerized Storage By @Nexenta | @DevOpsSummit #Containers #Docker #API #DevOps #SDN #BigData

Containerized Storage for the Enterprise Cloud Containers allow for compute processes to be isolated from each other and portable, but not all applications and solutions are run only in the compute layer; many require the use of some storage. Deployment of software-defined storage can be the first step in this evolution, providing portability and scalability with persistent storage. This could be in the form of storage that the containers connect to locally or in a remote or cloud location, or it could be storage residing in the containers. In his session at DevOps Summit, Michael Letschin, Field Chief Technology Officer at Nexenta Systems, Inc., will examine the latest in "containerized" storage and give the pros and cons of each. Speaker Bio Michael Letschin has more than 15 years of experience in the IT industry and currently serves as the Field CTO for Nexenta. ... (more)

Azure Is King of the Hill | @CloudExpo @Azure #BigData #IoT #DataCenter

As I wrote earlier this year over at InfoWorld, Microsoft took another step toward being king of the cloud hill when it announced in January that it was releasing its Azure stack to the public. There are many technical reasons why this is cool, but more importantly, it's the psychological advantage this gives Microsoft. Google has always had the ability for developers using its stack to develop locally on the same tools that run in Google App Engine. It recently forked its environments, so now the local and cloud environments are slightly different for some of the configurations -- I can't tell you how many nights I have lost sleep because of environments being slightly different! Development and hosting are two completely different things. What Microsoft did is one-upped Google and Amazon. The psychological advantage comes into play for companies that aren't 100 ... (more)

Hyperconverged Infrastructure | @CloudExpo #DataCenter #ML #Virtualization

You've probably heard a multitude of things around hyperconvergence or hyperconverged infrastructure as these are becoming hot new industry buzzwords, but what do these terms really mean? Are vendors that say they have hyperconverged infrastructure really living up to the promises of true hyperconvergence or is it just marketing hype? The terms "hyperconvergence" and "hyperconverged infrastructure" originated in a meeting between Jeff Ready and Jason Collier of Scale Computing and Arun Taneja of the Taneja Group. According to these three, the term was coined to mean the inclusion of a virtualization hypervisor into a complete infrastructure solution that included storage, compute, and virtualization. Some have thought that hyperconverged is synonymous with terms like ultraconverged or superconverged but that was not the intention. If we hold this intended definition... (more)