Cloud computing's potential doesn't begin and end with the PC. Cloud services are increasingly consumed on mobile devices such as tablets and smartphones. Although modern desktop and mobile operating systems may still not be developed with a “cloud first” strategy, many third-party app developers are working at integrating with cloud services and using cloud back-ends to process and serve content.
In his session at the 9th International Cloud Expo, Steve Tack, CTO of APM Solutions at Compuware...Sep. 16, 2011 01:57 PM EDT
As 'the cloud' becomes the mainstream platform for IT innovation, platform architects will combine smart devices, global networks, and application models inspired by Twitter and Facebook to let people do what they do best: recognize what’s not normal, and either address the problem or pursue the opportunity.
The first decade of cloud computing decisively demonstrated that massively sharable/scalable systems can shrink operating costs and slash development delays, but the era of 'Cloud 2' goes ...
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IT is sexy again: enterprise mobility is at the top of the priority list of most organizations nowadays. However, the dream of the mobile enterprise is permeated with challenges in areas such as identity, device management, application management, and data sharing among many others. In recent years, the evolution of cloud infrastructures has become an ideal vehicle to address most of these challenges and enable the next generation of mobile applications in the enterprise.
In his session at the...
Video surveillance has become part of our everyday lives; its uses range from basic video surveillance to advanced business intelligence analytics, and everything in between. The technology, however, has remained relatively stagnant in recent years. There have been recent changes with the proliferation of intelligent network-based video devices, in the form of IP cameras and video encoders, as well as the ability to transport and record video data through existing networks and the internet.
In ...
Whether you are an IT manager or a cloud provider, migrating existing applications into the cloud can be complicated, time-consuming, and costly.
In his session at the 9th International Cloud Expo, Adiascar Cisneros, Professional Services Manager at Racemi Inc., will cover migration strategies that enable you to move existing applications into the cloud without having to rebuild them, thereby minimizing risk, reducing costs, and streamlining delivery timelines. The migration of simple applicat...
Big Data has become very popular as what can probably best be described as "loosely structured large scale data," i.e., data sets of relatively small files. For example, log files for analytics purposes. These data sets can become so large that they cannot be stored with traditional technologies (such as relational databases).
The exponential growth in unstructured data sets with movies, pictures and documents has created a similar situation for large files: companies are aggregating data beyo...
Cloud computing provides near-effortless on-demand infrastructure resources. But ultimately, enterprises only care about the workloads/applications that run on these cloud infrastructures. Today’s workloads can be very complex with multiple layers of applications, interfaces and dependencies. Managing and operating these workloads holistically is important to drive the next level of efficiency. Similar to cloud computing, it should be possible for workloads to be simply defined, operated and man...
When you hear of Platform-as-a-Service what typically comes to mind are names like Heroku, EngineYard, DotCloud, and CloudFoundry.com – hosted Public PaaS providers. But there is an emerging trend where enterprises require PaaS capabilities, but are demanding it on their own terms. They want a PaaS behind their firewall to enable a secure cloud – a private PaaS.
In his session at the 9th International Cloud Expo, Bart Copeland is President & CEO of ActiveState Software, will cover:
The drive...
What does the CIO of the National Reconnaissance Office have in common with the CEOs of Abiquo, Apprenda, Tier3, and OpSource, the Co-Founder & CTO of Dell Boomi, the CTOs of Rackspace, BMC, NextIO, and UShareSoft, and the Chief Cloud Executive at VMware? Answer: all are members of the distinguished Speaker Faculty of Cloud Expo Silicon Valley, due to take place November 7-10, 2011, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA - the heart of Silicon Valley.
While the benefits and value of the federal cloud computing policy can be debated, the world’s transition to cloud computing as an integral component of any IT infrastructure cannot be denied. The prudent government executive should, therefore, heed the lessons learned from the many private industry...
I recently added a Vizio tablet to my list of technological acquisitions. It’s a relatively good Android-based tablet that is very reasonably priced compared to equivalent functional models. However, I realized today a pattern emerging regarding my usage of the device--I’m more willing to pay for co...
If you happen to be managing a virtual server environment, such as VMware or Hyper-V, you are probably aware of the importance of backup software to protect your valuable applications and data in case of disaster. You may also be keenly conscious of the unique needs that virtual server environments ...
In most fantasy RPGs and in historical context, a fort is a well built defensive position that allows you to detect attacks and funnel them to places where they can be defeated. It's well constructed, has restricted points of entry, and has defense in depth. A trade network on the other hand is a le...
Deploying Cloud infrastructure is not a typical technology project. Success of a Cloud implementation depends on governance, policies, constraints and business relationship management. This article focuses on some basic important areas that cannot be ignored while implementing a Public Cloud soluti...
Just when you were having all that fun running around the waterpark and playing those arcade games comes news that the card processing system of Vacationland Vendors Inc., a Wisconsin Dells firm that supplies arcade games and installs vending machines, was breached. From the notice on their website...
We often get requests for best practices related to relational database security in the context of cloud computing. People want to install their database of choice, whether it be Oracle, MySQL, MS SQL, or IBM DB2…
This is a complex question but it can be broken down by asking “what’s new in the clo...
An interesting* side-effect of deploying applications in public cloud computing environments is the fact that access to management functions is often accessible, necessarily, to any one. We rely instead on credentials and API keys to prevent unauthorized access and, given that we really can’t do muc...
Today, the argument regarding responsibility for auto-scaling in cloud computing as well as highly virtualized environments remains mostly constrained to e-mail conversations and gatherings at espresso machines. It’s an argument that needs more industry and “technology consumer” awareness, because i...
I question myself, when every technology decision maker/investor and consumer makes a choice to embark on the journey to achieve economies of scale... do they have a strategy?
1. Virtualization and Automation are building blocks of Cloud computing platform. They alone will not solve any problems
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