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Opening Keynote | Mission-Critical Applications in the Cloud – Myth or Reality?
SOA & Cloud Computing
 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. 17, 2013 11:45 AM EDT Reads: 1,179 |
 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. 17, 2013 02:00 AM EDT Reads: 2,175 |
 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: 999 |
 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: 1,466 |
 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: 1,270 |
 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: 1,306 |
 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: 1,604 |
 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: 1,340 |
 When I was writing about the cloud and disaster recovery I was only considering the tip of the iceberg, the obvious over-provisioning of expensive, specialized infrastructures needed in case the production environment failed. A duplicate data center is necessary today but perhaps less...Apr. 29, 2013 07:00 AM EDT Reads: 2,016 |
 In our Internet-driven world, both organizations and consumers have come to expect fast, always-on data access from any device. As a result, content providers are tasked with delivering massive files and streaming media to tablets and smartphones while simultaneously ensuring superior ...Apr. 27, 2013 03:00 PM EDT Reads: 2,235 |
 Outsourcing commodity capabilities to the low-cost provider while focusing your strategic value-add on customized offerings is an oft-repeated pattern in the world of business, but it hasn’t really taken hold in the world of IT until the rise of Cloud Computing. The reason it’s taken s...Apr. 27, 2013 02:00 PM EDT Reads: 2,478 |
 The most essential element in optimizing performance is detecting issues before they impact your systems. However, you need to implement constant monitoring on your operating environment to gain this early insight. There are tools to help, but finding one that provides all the right in...Apr. 27, 2013 11:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,666 |
 Testing tools and frameworks are infinitely useful when planning cloud architecture for many reasons.
“The confidence of a well-tested codebase brings the ability to deploy quickly, and often. Testing infrastructure assures that incremental changes to the codebase do not affect the ov...Apr. 25, 2013 11:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,835 |
 Last night CloudVelocity CEO Rajeev Chawla was able to talk to Brian Gracely at The Cloudcast on CloudVelocity and the hybrid cloud. The 33 minute interview (Accelerating the Hybrid Cloud (#83) is now available for download. A special thanks to Brian, who asked some of the most probin...Apr. 23, 2013 08:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,245 |
 In recent years, IT departments have been confronted with the convergence of several highly disruptive trends that have fundamentally altered the enterprise IT landscape, particularly when it comes to how data and applications are managed. Mobility and the rise of BYOD (bring your own ...Apr. 19, 2013 02:00 PM EDT Reads: 2,131 |
 As the proliferation of the cloud continues, Cloud Protection Gateways are increasingly being discussed as a way to address security issues surrounding cloud adoption. Whatever stage of cloud adoption your organization is in, a thorough vetting of the different gateways available will ...Apr. 19, 2013 12:30 PM EDT Reads: 1,375 |
 The "Force Majeure" provision, a Latin term roughly meaning an "Act of God" is commonly found in most services agreements. But should it be included in your cloud services contract?
This nugget is a common clause in contracts that essentially frees both parties from liability or obli...Apr. 19, 2013 09:15 AM EDT Reads: 1,296 |
 Forward-thinking organizations realize that accelerating the speed with which they can deliver new applications and services is critical in making their enterprise more agile – and by extension delivering critical business competitiveness. In order to do so, they must break the cycle t...Apr. 17, 2013 03:54 PM EDT Reads: 1,587 |
 Health care organizations are moving infrastructure and data to the cloud at a fairly rapid pace. A recent study suggests the cloud computing market in health care is expected to reach $5.4 billion by 2017. Enticing as the cloud is, when dealing with highly sensitive and regulated info...Apr. 17, 2013 03:06 PM EDT Reads: 1,201 |
 Cloud has arrived. Everyone in the business, from the CEO to the customer relations manager, wants in on a computing model that promises to lower costs while delivering better service and greater efficiency. The business finally sees the potential of IT to add value, yet such high expe...Apr. 17, 2013 11:00 AM EDT Reads: 2,205 |
 APIs are the coding interfaces that enable developers to create third-party apps, plug-ins, and add-ons that extend the functionality and potential of existing Software-as-a-Service products. Pedro's comments reframe the entire API industry and, if pursued, would fundamentally alter th...Apr. 17, 2013 11:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,708 |
 Forrester analyst James Staten says that “the whole value of cloud computing is tied to areas of IT that can be standardized, automated, and shared among multiple constituents.[1]” Automation through the cloud is the next step for cloud-based innovation to reduce costs and increase pro...Apr. 13, 2013 01:00 PM EDT Reads: 2,016 |
 The lack of emphasis on self-service Private Clouds is a telling indicator of the state of Cloud Computing (in particular, Infrastructure-as-a-Service, or IaaS) in the enterprise. If an enterprise IT shop were to truly implement a self-service Private Cloud, and actually got it to work...Apr. 12, 2013 11:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,614 |
 The success or failure of public cloud services can be measured by whether they deliver high levels of performance, security and reliability that are on par with, or better than, those available within enterprise-owned data centers.
Gartner predicts that the global public cloud comput...Apr. 11, 2013 01:00 PM EDT Reads: 1,354 |
 CIOs understand the importance of analytics and BI. According to a 2012 survey of 2300 CIO by Gartner, analytics and BI are their number one technology priority. Analytics and BI can make bigger business impact when they can access more data. With data in the cloud and Big Data silos, ...Apr. 11, 2013 11:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,731 |
 Six months ago my boss sent me an interactive calculator that the New York Times created to help people decide whether it’s a better financial decision to buy a home or simply rent one. He shared the calculator with me because, at the time, we were looking for interesting ways to visua...Apr. 10, 2013 10:00 AM EDT Reads: 2,167 |
 If you were to ask EMC or VMware whom they consider their major threat and competition you’d be easily forgiven for being mistaken to think it was NetApp, HP or offerings such as Hyper-V. The current cloud era has undoubtedly been spearheaded by the likes of Google, Amazon and Facebook...Apr. 5, 2013 02:45 PM EDT Reads: 2,296 |
 Today’s IT infrastructure is in the midst of a major transformation. In many ways, the data center is a victim of its own success. The growing number of technologies and applications residing in the data center has spawned increasing complexity, which makes IT as a whole less responsiv...Apr. 5, 2013 02:15 PM EDT Reads: 2,693 |
 When VMware announced its hybrid cloud initiative it made perfect sense. The hybrid cloud market could provide substantial growth opportunities for VMware, as discussed in VMware Crosses the Rubicon and Hybrid is a Whole New Cloud. Yet one respected tech analyst has recently suggested ...Apr. 4, 2013 09:00 AM EDT Reads: 2,129 |
 The ability to guarantee performance to thousands of applications at once has garnered praise from analysts and enterprises alike. Without this guarantee, cloud providers will not be able to meet the rising performance requirements of enterprise customers. Given the compelling advantag...Apr. 3, 2013 09:45 AM EDT Reads: 2,053 |
 Symantec recently took a stroll down memory lane to revisit the first seeds of cloud computing that took hold more than a half-century ago.
Symantec created an interactive timeline that illustrates the history of cloud computing, highlighting just how far the technology has progresse...Apr. 1, 2013 02:30 PM EDT Reads: 2,708 |
 The enhanced adoption of Cloud, Big Data, Mobility is causing more services to be developed and aggregated, hence there is a greater emphasis on Agile for service aggregation. Agile processes have specific methods to manage the rapid development cycles and changing requirements in appl...Apr. 1, 2013 09:00 AM EDT Reads: 3,612 |
 OpenStack is an Infrastructure as a Service offering. (see my prior post for an explanation of IaaS).
OpenStack is an OpenSource project, founded by RackSpace, NASA and others.
OpenStack can be deployed as a public or private cloud.
Project NOVA, or OpenStack Compute, provisions and...Apr. 1, 2013 05:45 AM EDT Reads: 4,306 |
 The Big Data and Cloud “movements” have acted as catalysts for tremendous growth in fit-for-purpose databases. Along with this growth, we see a new set of challenges in how we access the data through our business-critical applications. Let’s take a brief look at the evolution of these ...Mar. 30, 2013 11:00 AM EDT Reads: 2,112 |
 VMware’s (VMW) recent hybrid cloud announcement was both expected and yet provocative. It falls into a pattern of successful moves made in virtualization security and networking as the company to grow its addressable market by virtualizing servers and delivering increased IT agility, e...Mar. 30, 2013 10:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,832 |
 Organizations today understand that better access to information assets can improve their bottom-line. But they struggle with the variety of enterprise, cloud and big data sources, and all their associated access mechanisms, syntax, security, etc. Data abstraction overcomes data sourc...Mar. 28, 2013 09:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,912 |
 The responsibility for proper consumption of Cloud resources doesn’t fall to a single role in our organization. Rather, developers, operations personnel, as well as the managers responsible for the Cloud provider business relationship must work together to ensure the code is correct, t...Mar. 27, 2013 09:45 AM EDT Reads: 2,068 |
 More and more of our lives are lived online. Our music collections, bookshelves, vacation memories and more are increasingly digitized and uploaded into the cloud, the vast network of server farms that provide the bulk of online storage today. Research firm Gartner projects that by 201...Mar. 26, 2013 04:00 PM EDT Reads: 2,125 |
 OpenStack is an OpenSource offering of Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS). For a review, here is a quick overview of IaaS and OpenStack.
OpenStack is admittedly not trivial to manually install. I have started a manual install beginning with the Identity Service (keystone) here, other ...Mar. 26, 2013 10:30 AM EDT Reads: 1,487 |
 Everyone has an argument for the ideal technological approach to cloud computing: public vs. private (vs. hybrid), open vs. closed, vertical vs. horizontal, etc. Larry Ellison’s thoughts on the proprietary cloud aside, an open cloud environment is inevitable. Companies will have a vari...Mar. 25, 2013 10:00 AM EDT Reads: 2,317 |
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