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Opening Keynote | Mission-Critical Applications in the Cloud – Myth or Reality?
SOA & Cloud Computing
 There’s lots of talk today about the “cloud” today. But what exactly is it? Some may argue that the cloud is just marketing hype – a buzzword for a broad range of solutions being billed the latest, greatest trend that everyone is trying to exploit. Others – who oftentimes have a vested...Aug. 28, 2012 08:15 AM EDT Reads: 3,606 |
 There are a few absolutes when it comes to school. First, lunches will always be terrible. Second, your locker will be too small to fit your oversized textbooks. Finally, there's a high likelihood that some of your student data will be stored in the cloud.
This student data includes...Aug. 28, 2012 06:00 AM EDT Reads: 3,803 |
 Some Cloud leaders have declared victory by leveraging the Cloud for infrastructure or software services and using the utility based, on demand capabilities. However, leaders can explore and realize higher levels of reuse and sharing by identifying specific processes that can be transi...Aug. 27, 2012 06:00 AM EDT Reads: 5,093 |
 Undoubtedly one of the key reasons for so many innovations happening in the information technology space is consumerization. While some feel that consumerization has reached the tipping point, consumers (and businesses as well) are still looking for newer avenues to do things more intu...Aug. 27, 2012 05:00 AM EDT Reads: 3,990 |
 Eucalyptus is an open source Infrastructure as a Service cloud offering. What is unique about Eucalyptus is that it is compatible with Amazon AWS APIs.
Eucalyptus leverages operating system virtualization, such as KVM or XEN, to achieve isolation between applications and stacks. Oper...Aug. 24, 2012 11:00 AM EDT Reads: 3,983 |
 Has cloud computing matured yet? This is of course the $64,000 question and if we knew the answer to this poser we would all be a lot clearer on the general ‘state of the virtualized multi-tenant nation’ than perhaps we are today.
What we see happening at the coalface of average compa...Aug. 24, 2012 08:15 AM EDT Reads: 2,781 |
 Hybrid computing typically is combining private and public clouds. We feel that many of our customers still have a traditional environment, and that traditional environment will not go away anytime soon. However, they're actually looking at combining that traditional environment, the d...Aug. 23, 2012 10:00 AM EDT Reads: 4,481 |
 We are witnessing the large-scale industrialization of the data center, owned and operated by the ICT operators who specialize in that task, with security technologies in the hands of the end user to remove any need to trust their human operators.
The traditional “protect the perimete...Aug. 20, 2012 08:15 AM EDT Reads: 4,636 |
 We have entered the “Age of Big Data” according to a recent New York Times article. This comes as no surprise to most organizations already struggling with the onslaught of data coming from an increasing number of sources and at an increasing rate. The 2011 IDC Digital Universe Study r...Aug. 19, 2012 08:15 AM EDT Reads: 4,840 |
 Customer engagement has long benefited from data and analytics. Knowing more about each of your customers, their attributes, preferences, behaviors and patterns, is essential to fostering meaningful engagement with them. As technologies advance, and more of people’s lives are lived onl...Aug. 16, 2012 06:00 AM EDT Reads: 4,965 |
 In this CTO Power Panel at the 10th International Cloud Expo, moderated by Cloud Expo Conference Chair Jeremy Geelan, Vineet Tyagi; Head of Impetus Labs at Impetus Technologies; Darryl Brown, CMO at Appcore; Govind Rangasamy, Director of Product Management at Eucalyptus Systems; Frank ...Aug. 13, 2012 07:00 AM EDT Reads: 5,452 |
 The open source world is experiencing some watershed developments that are pushing enterprise-level technologies into a new space that CIOs must now take heed of.
Open source, open standards, open data, open platforms and open clouds are now driving our collective technology futures f...Aug. 13, 2012 04:30 AM EDT Reads: 3,485 |
 In this Cloud Expo Power Panel moderated by Cloud Expo Conference Chair Jeremy Geelan in our Times Square studio, Ash Massoudi, CEO at NextAxiom Technology; Henry Fastert, Chief Technologist & Managing Partner at SHI International; Allyson Klein, Director of Leadership Marketing at Int...Aug. 11, 2012 11:15 AM EDT Reads: 4,762 |
 In this Big Data Power Panel at the 10th International Cloud Expo, moderated by Cloud Expo Conference Chair Jeremy Geelan, Govind Rangasamy, Director of Product Management at Eucalyptus Systems; Kevin Brown; CEO of Coraid, Inc.; Christos Tryfonas, CTO and Co-Founder of Cetas; and Max R...Aug. 11, 2012 11:00 AM EDT Reads: 4,306 |
 In this “Cloud Trends” Power Panel at the 10th International Cloud Expo, moderated by Cloud Expo Conference Chair Jeremy Geelan, Karen Padir, EVP of Products & Engineering at EnterpriseDB, and Aaron Hollobaugh, VP of Marketing & Communications at Hostway Corporation, map the hottest ar...Aug. 10, 2012 08:30 AM EDT Reads: 2,695 |
 Is VMware slowly becoming the new Oracle? That was the question being asked after the backlash to their initial vRAM licensing model at the launch of vSphere 5. With VMware's somewhat quick retraction, it was ensured that any unsavoury Larry Ellison comparisons were quickly put to bed....Aug. 9, 2012 08:15 AM EDT Reads: 3,588 |
 The London Olympics are not using the Cloud. Cloud seems a good match for the Olympics for provisioning a scalable and on demand architecture quickly, and then taking it down after the event. That is precisely what the technology supports. The integration and deployment of the infrastr...Aug. 9, 2012 06:00 AM EDT Reads: 2,499 |
 Today’s information technology era is driven by software providers of all shapes and sizes. On the one hand we have big or very big providers who have established themselves through very sophisticated business models and ecosystem channels they have invested in for a long time. Tried a...Aug. 9, 2012 05:45 AM EDT Reads: 4,920 |
 IT networks have reached a juncture where they must transition from static, host-centric, vLAN centric infrastructures, to modern, efficient programmable network fabrics that allow enterprises to leverage capacity on demand. They must also have the ability to move virtual machine (VM) ...Aug. 8, 2012 08:45 AM EDT Reads: 3,193 |
 As observed in my earlier articles, the Java EE PaaS portfolio is gaining in strength each day, with support from major players such as IBM, Oracle, VMWare, Redhat , Google and Amazon.
However unlike the Microsoft > .NET Framework > Azure PaaS equation where there is just one version ...Aug. 8, 2012 08:00 AM EDT Reads: 6,140 |
 The costs of holistic security are very different from company to company when considering direct costs, soft costs, hidden requirements, scope of services, and migration issues.
What is it they say…you get what you pay for, right? In most cases, that is a spot on assessment but in te...Aug. 4, 2012 02:15 PM EDT Reads: 2,331 |
 Jim Barksdale is a pretty quotable guy, work for him for a few years like I did at Netscape and you leave with a small library of "Barksdalisms" that just stick with you. One of Jim's sayings was, "It ain't dogfood unless the dog comes off the porch to eat it...".
While Jim was makin...Aug. 4, 2012 12:00 PM EDT Reads: 2,025 |
 The software application developer is about to become the cloud software-as-a-service application developer. At least this is the truism that we must accept if we give full credence to the ‘trending’ topics coming out of IT vendors’ newswires just now.
Logically, as an industry, we ap...Aug. 3, 2012 01:45 PM EDT Reads: 2,598 |
 We have a fascinating show today, because we are going to learn about how a prominent European IT-enabled business services provider, Steria, is leveraging cloud services to manage complexity and deliver better services to customers.
Paul, is that what you are finding -- that the clou...Aug. 1, 2012 02:00 PM EDT Reads: 3,016 |
 In the first quarter of 2012, FEMA reported 12 natural disasters throughout the country, including tornadoes, flooding, mudslides and severe storms from Florida to Alaska. The threats to your data are limitless – natural disasters, fires, water damage, equipment theft and hardware fail...Aug. 1, 2012 08:00 AM EDT Reads: 2,386 |
 We can probably all agree that the cloud computing service-based model of application delivery has received more than its fair share of hype, over-embellished hyperbole and hyper-cross-talk in the last few years. Surely now then we have come to a new plateau in cloud, i.e., the time fo...Jul. 28, 2012 11:00 AM EDT Reads: 2,313 |
 IT costs were always a worry, but only an occasional one. Cloud computing has changed that.
Here's how it used to be. The New System was proposed. Costs were estimated, more or less accurately, for computing resources, staff increases, maintenance contracts, consultants and outsourcin...Jul. 21, 2012 01:00 PM EDT Reads: 3,315 |
 As every technology literate reader will know, there is little to learn about the cloud computing service-based model of IT delivery from 14th century Sardinian legal codes and laws.
At least, that’s what I thought until I spent a break on the island this weekend and read about the “C...Jul. 21, 2012 01:00 PM EDT Reads: 3,048 |
 Last week one news item that attracted media attention was the hacking of some nearly 450,000 passwords from Yahoo Service called ‘Yahoo Voice'. The communications on the incident state that, SQL Injection is the primary technique adopted by hackers to get the information out of databa...Jul. 21, 2012 12:00 PM EDT Reads: 4,595 |
 While consumers and enterprises hail “the cloud” for its ability to provide flexible, low-cost and easily accessible computing power, traditional hardware and software providers tend to see the innovation somewhat differently. For these companies the cloud is a disruption of the highes...Jul. 21, 2012 11:00 AM EDT Reads: 2,713 |
 Business management and ERP have undergone huge technological, social and economic shifts. The explosion of cloud computing, mobility of business users, Big Data demands and microscopic focus on cost cutting are changing the pace and direction of every company’s IT strategy.
Five yea...Jul. 20, 2012 03:00 PM EDT Reads: 3,340 |
 As hype dies down, companies are seeing real success in their cloud deployments, and money is pouring in, according to a recent post on InfoWorld.com.
The cloud is in the process of crossing from the experimental phase to production systems that businesses can rely upon. Yet his has n...Jul. 20, 2012 11:00 AM EDT Reads: 2,515 |
 This post describes a prototype implementation of a simple PAAS built on the Hadoop YARN framework and the key findings from the experiment. While there are some advantages to using Hadoop YARN, there is at least one unsolved issue that would be difficult to overcome at this point.
H...Jul. 18, 2012 10:00 AM EDT Reads: 2,887 |
 The huge growth in mobile technologies and new free collaboration services (e.g. Dropbox) is forcing organizations to find ways to coexist with these technologies, taking advantage of the efficiencies they bring, and ensuring that their data assets are adequately protected. Organizatio...Jul. 17, 2012 10:30 AM EDT Reads: 2,546 |
 Open source has proven to be a good option for building, managing, and delivering scalable infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) clouds and platform-as-a-service (PaaS) clouds. Typically, most open source cloud platforms support multiple virtualization technologies, giving enterprises a r...Jul. 16, 2012 05:00 AM EDT Reads: 4,471 |
 Over the last couple of years much has changed in the way enterprises map their enterprise IT architecture and realize their business capabilities. Till 2010 or so, enterprise architecture have been purely built on:
On Premise Packaged Applications (SAP, Oracle, Siebel)
On Premise Cu...Jul. 13, 2012 11:45 AM EDT Reads: 4,450 |
 As more and more companies rely on data as the foundation for accurate strategic decision making and use it to underpin the development and evolution of their core products and service offerings, the value of data to most companies is understandably on the rise. Yet, despite an awarene...Jul. 12, 2012 03:45 PM EDT Reads: 3,483 |
 Big Data appears to have made more headlines in the last 12 to 18 months than almost any other technology subject, other than cloud computing and the Bring Your Own Device phenomenon.
Note to self: don’t “phenomena” usually involve oceans parting and/or lightning flashes and frogs fal...Jul. 12, 2012 01:53 PM EDT Reads: 1,782 |
 Research from Host Analytics and Dimensional Research reveal IT is spending significantly for cloud services. And CIOs are practicing what they preach, as IT departments outpace all other business units in cloud adoption, according to an article on CIO.com
Cloud technology surveys – w...Jul. 12, 2012 10:45 AM EDT Reads: 2,083 |
 Cloud security is in a state of flux. Actually it’s not really, but discussion is rife across the industry regarding the general state of cloud data and application welfare. Questions flutter around whether particular services are secure, whether multi-tenant clouds can be locked down ...Jul. 11, 2012 05:00 PM EDT Reads: 3,046 |
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