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Issue 2 of our e-magazine TRANSFORM is now available:
Download Transform Issue 2 (18-page PDF).
This edition is written as a more detailed response to the recent Cloud
strategy published by Canada Health Infoway, that we initially reviewed here.
At a headline level the Infoway document identifies a number of very
important Cloud architecture principles most notably:
Cloud 2.0 : How Cloud can accelerate more social media based methods for
e-Health C-SOA : The intersection of Cloud and the SOA (Service Oriented
Architecture) TCi : Trusted Cloud infrastructure - How to certify supplier
services as being suitably secure for these new applications
With thanks to our co-authors for this great edition, including Rackspace,
Vaultive and a keynote contribution from Robert Griffin, Chief Security
Officer for EMC RSA and lead for the OASIS KMIP project.
Stay tuned for a follow up... (more)
Definitions of cloud computing are easy to find, but a single, authoritative
definition is hard to come by. Perhaps the best work in this area was done by
Böhm, et al. By compiling characteristics of 17 different scholarly and
industrial definitions, the authors identified five primary characteristics
of cloud computing allowing a definition such as: "Cloud computing is a
service that delivers scalable hardware and/or software solutions via the
Internet or other network on a pay-per-usage basis." (Emphasis indicates
essential definition elements).
Cloud computing can further be ... (more)
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"Impetus has become very busy working with large companies - it's been a huge
shift in our business - helping them with their Big Data initiatives and
their cloud computing initiatives," stated Praveen Kankariya, CEO of Impetus
Technologies, in this SYS-CON.tv interview with Cloud Expo Conference Chair
Jeremy Geelan at the 11th International Cloud Expo, held November 5-8, 2012,
at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA.
A Rock Star Faculty, Top Keynotes, Sessions, and Top Delegates!
Cloud Expo 2013 New York, June 10-13, at the Javi... (more)
By Daniel Abadi
Editor’s note: The piece below by Daniel Abadi first appeared on the
Hadapt blog and is republished with permission here. The framework presented
provides insight into the very dynamic market around “Big Data
Innovators” and should be of use for classifying many other firms in this
interesting space. -bg
Recently InformationWeek published a piece, authored by Doug Henschen, that
listed 13 innovative Big Data vendors. The complete list is reproduced below:
1. MongoDB
2. Amazon (Redshift, EMR, DynamoDB)
3. Cloudera (CDH, Impala)
4. Couchbase
5. Datameer
6. Dat... (more)
SAN JOSE, CA -- (Marketwire) -- 01/02/13 -- SPYRUS today announced that two
editions of the SPYRUS Secure Pocket Drive (SPD) have been made available for
use by the United States Department of Agriculture's (USDA) International
Technology Services (ITS) customers. Secure Pocket Drive allows users to run
their own customized applications and third-party productivity software, such
as Microsoft Office locally in addition to accessing corporate networks and
virtual desktop infrastructures (VDI). The USDA estimates up to 40,000 units
of the Secure Pocket Drive will be deployed to its... (more)
Cloud Expo Breaking News By Elizabeth White  “There’s been a lot of talk about cloud in Europe and that means there’s a lot of demand for cloud and also for data center space,” explained Jelle Frank van der Zwet, Manager Cloud Segment at Interxion, in this SYS-CON.tv interview with Cloud Expo Conference Chair Jeremy Geelan at the 11th International Cloud Expo, held November 5-8, 2012, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA.
Cloud Expo 2013 New York, June 10–13, at the Javits Center in New York City, New York, will feature... Jan. 1, 2013 02:00 PM EST Reads: 889 | By Pat Romanski  “We are the plumbing for the cloud – we provide a whole pedigree of products all the way from the storage subsystems to the servers,” explained Ilker Cebeli, Director of Cloud Computing at QLogic, in this SYS-CON.tv interview with Cloud Expo Conference Chair Jeremy Geelan at the 11th International Cloud Expo, held November 5-8, 2012, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA.
Cloud Expo 2013 New York, June 10–13, at the Javits Center in New York City, New York, will feature techni... Jan. 1, 2013 01:30 PM EST Reads: 1,284 | By Liz McMillan  “The cloud adoption isn’t completely done. People who are coming into the cloud are realizing that they still have compliance requirements regardless of where their data lives,” stated Dan Rojas, Director of Strategic Development at Coalfire, in this SYS-CON.tv interview with Cloud Expo Conference Chair Jeremy Geelan at the 11th International Cloud Expo, held November 5-8, 2012, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA.
Cloud Expo 2013 New York, June 10–13, at the Javits Center i... Jan. 1, 2013 12:00 PM EST Reads: 900 | By Liz McMillan  “Symantec has been in the cloud for quite a while – we have been helping companies build highly resilient clouds for many years,” explained Dave Elliott, Senior Product Marketing Manager, Global Cloud Marketing at Symantec, in this SYS-CON.tv interview with Cloud Expo Conference Chair Jeremy Geelan at the 11th International Cloud Expo, held November 5-8, 2012, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA.
Cloud Expo 2013 New York, June 10–13, at the Javits Center in New York City, Ne... Jan. 1, 2013 11:00 AM EST Reads: 1,207 | By Pat Romanski “Impetus has become very busy working with large companies – it’s been a huge shift in our business – helping them with their Big Data initiatives and their cloud computing initiatives,” stated Praveen Kankariya, CEO of Impetus Technologies, in this SYS-CON.tv interview with Cloud Expo Conference Chair Jeremy Geelan at the 11th International Cloud Expo, held November 5-8, 2012, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA.
Cloud Expo 2013 New York, June 10–13, at the Javits Center in... Jan. 1, 2013 11:00 AM EST Reads: 807 | By Elizabeth White  “We’re a software vendor that provides a package platform to cloud providers that enables them to onboard software to the cloud,” explained Alban Richard, CEO of UShareSoft, in this SYS-CON.tv interview with Cloud Expo Conference Chair Jeremy Geelan at the 11th International Cloud Expo, held November 5-8, 2012, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA.
Cloud Expo 2013 New York, June 10–13, at the Javits Center in New York City, New York, will feature technical sessions from a roc... Jan. 1, 2013 10:00 AM EST Reads: 1,630 | By Elizabeth White  “We’re a full solution provider so even before cloud was a hot term we were doing managed hosting, dedicated hosting, and co-location – we’ve been doing that for 13 years in the hosting space,” stated Robert Miggins, SVP of Business Development for PEER 1 Hosting, in this SYS-CON.tv interview with Cloud Expo Conference Chair Jeremy Geelan at the 11th International Cloud Expo, held November 5-8, 2012, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA.
Cloud Expo 2013 New York, June 10–13, ... Jan. 1, 2013 10:00 AM EST Reads: 1,403 | By Elizabeth White  “We are a scale-out SQL database, perfect for Big Data and the cloud. People are here to try to figure out how to deal with Big Data and the cloud together,” stated Mark Sarbiewski, CMO of Clustrix, in this SYS-CON.tv interview with Cloud Expo Conference Chair Jeremy Geelan at the 11th International Cloud Expo, held November 5-8, 2012, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA.
Cloud Expo 2013 New York, June 10–13, at the Javits Center in New York City, New York, will feature tech... Jan. 1, 2013 10:00 AM EST Reads: 907 | By Elizabeth White  SYS-CON Events announced today that ScaleMP, a leading provider of virtualization solutions for high-end computing, will exhibit at SYS-CON's 12th International Cloud Expo, which will take place on June 10–13, 2013, at the Javits Center in New York City, New York.
ScaleMP is the leader in virtualization for high-end computing, providing maximum performance and lower total cost of ownership (TCO). The innovative Versatile SMP™ (vSMP) architecture aggregates multiple independent systems into a si... Dec. 31, 2012 09:00 AM EST Reads: 1,249 | By Liz McMillan  “Software defined networking is a key thing at Cloud Expo. Broadcom has been on the forefront of software defined networking. We have been a part of the OpenFlow effort from the early days,” explained Sujal Das, Director of Product Marketing at Broadcom Corporation, in this SYS-CON.tv interview with Cloud Expo Conference Chair Jeremy Geelan at the 11th International Cloud Expo, held November 5-8, 2012, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA.
Cloud Expo 2013 New York, June 10–13... Dec. 31, 2012 08:00 AM EST Reads: 1,502 |
Best Recent Articles on Cloud Computing & Big Data Topics  By Jeremy Geelan The Arlington, Virginia-based National Science Foundation has just released its "Report on Support for Cloud Computing" - in response to the America Competes Reauthorization Act of 2010, Section 524.
It is an absolute must-read for all concerned with current and future research projects in Cloud Computing. Reads: 6,357  By Jeremy Geelan "The volume of data we're generating now from machines pales in comparison to the volume of data we'll soon generate from our own bodies," says data security expert Dave Asprey. Writing in a Trend Micro blog, Asprey - who is one of the leaders in the emerging Quantified Self movement - explains his vision of a world in which personal biometrical data is shared via the cloud. Reads: 10,262  By Wolfram Jost Cloud computing has caught the attention of business leaders around the world in every
industry because of its enormous transformative potential. Visionary companies know that
the value of the cloud is far greater than the current focus solely on technology and operating
costs: when combined with a collaborative approach to designing processes, cloud computing
will change how we do business.
Reads: 14,773  By Elizabeth White Want to make sense of the hottest new concept in Enterprise IT?
Want to understand in just hours what experts have spent many hundreds of days deciphering?
Cloud computing is a technology that has rapidly evolving peppered with a lot of hype along the way. Customers find it hard to navigate through this and make sense of what aspects of this technology will give them real business benefit.
Cloud Computing Bootcamp, led by our 2012 Bootcamp Instructor Larry Carvalho, is a great way to get a practical understanding of this technology. We offer multiple days of actionable insight into what vendor offerings are currently available and help you comprehend their strategy.
The ever-popular Bootcamp, which is now held regularly around the world, is being held in conjunction with the 10th Cloud Expo, June 11-14, 2012, at the Javits Center, New York, NY. Reads: 8,091  By Larry Bettino Did you know that ninety percent of the data in the world has been created in the last two years? Every day, we create 2.5 quintillion (or 2.518) bytes of data, according to IBM.
As corporations across all industries globally are struggling with how to retain, aggregate and analyze this mounting volume of what the industry refers to as Big Data, it also provides a unique opportunity for innovative startups that recognize the business prospects Big Data presents. Big Data is not just unlocking new information but new sources of economic and business value.
Interactivity is driving Big Data, with people and machines both consuming and creating it. Digital companies focused on becoming good at aggregating and analyzing the data created by the end users of their product, who then provide their customers with solid insights taken from that data are at a distinct competitive advantage over others in the marketplace. Reads: 6,325  By Elizabeth White SYS-CON Events announced today that SHI, a $4 billion+ global provider of information technology products and services, has been named Platinum Plus Sponsor of SYS-CON's 10th International Cloud Expo, which will take place on June 11–14, 2012, at the Javits Center in New York City, New York.
Founded in 1989, SHI International Corp. is a global provider of technology products and services. Driven by the industry's most experienced and stable sales force and backed by software volume licensing experts, hardware procurement specialists, and certified IT service professionals, SHI delivers custom IT solutions to Corporate, Enterprise, Public Sector, and Academic customers. With over 1,800 + employees worldwide, SHI is the largest Minority/Woman Owned Business Enterprise (MWBE) in the U.S. and is ranked 19th among Everything Channel's VAR 500 list of North American IT solution providers. Reads: 4,554  By Elizabeth White SYS-CON Events announced today that Rackspace Hosting, the service leader in cloud computing, has been named "Platinum Plus Sponsor" of SYS-CON's 10th International Cloud Expo, which will take place on June 11-14, 2012, at the Javits Center in New York City, New York, and the 11th International Cloud Expo, which will take place on November 5-8, 2012, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA.
SYS-CON Events announced today that Rackspace Hosting, the service leader in cloud computing, has been named "Platinum Plus Sponsor" of SYS-CON's 10th International Cloud Expo, which will take place on June 11-14, 2012, at the Javits Center in New York City, New York, and the 11th International Cloud Expo, which will take place on November 5-8, 2012, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA  By Elizabeth White 9th International Cloud Expo, held on November 7 - 10, 2011, in Santa Clara, CA, attracted more than 120 sponsors and exhibitors with over 7,500 registered delegates and four content-packed days with a rich array of sessions about the business and technical value of cloud computing led by exceptional speakers from every sector of the cloud computing ecosystem.
The Cloud Expo series is the fastest-growing Enterprise IT event in the past 10 years, devoted to every aspect of delivering massively scalable enterprise IT as a service.
We invite you to enjoy here our photo album of the show. Reads: 10,646  By Carmen Gonzalez Ulitzer.com announced "the World's 30 most influential Cloud bloggers," who collectively generated more than 24 million Ulitzer page views. Ulitzer's annual "most influential Cloud bloggers" list was announced at Cloud Expo, which drew more delegates than all other Cloud-related events put together worldwide. "The world's 50 most influential Cloud bloggers 2010" list will be announced at the Cloud Expo 2010 East, which will take place April 19-21, 2010, at the Jacob Javitz Convention Center, in New York City, with more than 5,000 expected to attend. Reads: 40,345  By Kevin Hartig Cloud computing is becoming one of the next industry buzz words. It joins the ranks of terms including: grid computing, utility computing, virtualization, clustering, etc.
Cloud computing overlaps some of the concepts of distributed, grid and utility computing, however it does have its own meaning if contextually used correctly. The conceptual overlap is partly due to technology changes, usages and implementations over the years.
Trends in usage of the terms from Google searches shows Cloud Computing is a relatively new term introduced in the past year. There has also been a decline in general interest of Grid, Utility and Distributed computing.
Likely they will be around in usage for quit a while to come. But Cloud computing has become the new buzz word driven largely by marketing and service offerings from big corporate players like Google, IBM and Amazon. Reads: 194,291  By Elizabeth White SYS-CON Events announced today that Cloud Expo 2012 New York, the 10th International Cloud Computing Conference & Expo, will take place June 11-14, 2012, at the Javits Center in New York City.
The International Cloud Computing Conference & Expo series is the world's leading Cloud-focused event and is held three times a year, in New York, Silicon Valley and in Europe. Over 400 corporate sponsors and 20,000 industry professionals have participated in Cloud Expo since its inception, more than all other Cloud-related events put together.
"10th Cloud Expo is trending to be both the biggest ever and the best-attended event in the international Cloud Expo series to date, so it is only natural that we should be holding it in the biggest and best conference venue anywhere on the East Coast, the Jacob K. Javits Convention Center," stated Carmen Gonzalez, CEO of Cloud Expo. "If you are not at Cloud Expo New York, June 11-14, at the Javits Center, then you risk not getting the relevant parts of your IT infrastructure into the Cloud in time." Reads: 14,556  By Pat Romanski Hadoop, MapReduce, Hive, Hbase, Lucene, Solr? The only thing growing faster than enterprise data these days is the landscape of big data tools. These tools, which are designed to help organizations turn big data into opportunities, are gaining deeper insight into massive volumes of information. A recent Gartner report predicts that enterprise data will increase by 650% over the next five years, which means that the time is now for IT decision makers to determine which big data tools are the best - and most cost-effective - for their organization. Reads: 10,228 By Roger Strukhoff Cloud Expo, Cloud Expo East, Cloud Expo West, Cloud Expo Silicon Valley, Cloud Expo Europe, Cloud Expo Tokyo, Cloud Expo Prague, Cloud Expo Hong Kong, Cloud Expo Sao Paolo are trademarks and /or registered trademarks (USPTO serial number 85009040) of Cloud Expo, Inc. Reads: 14,321 |
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Another year, another dollar… or something like that. It’s time for an update on the 6 things I think I think for Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) in the coming year!
1. Hybrid Cloud Computing
2012 Perspective: Hybridization WAS key in 2011 and I’m doubling down in 2012. If you’ve paid attenti...
I was talking to one of the prominent General Partners at a Venture Capital firm here in Silicon Valley over the holidays…discussing how the Cloud market is evolving. We both agreed that 2013 will mark yet another shift in the evolution of web applications.
I personally simplified this view of clou...
Christmas Eve and the AWS/Netflix outage to me aren't so much about whether or not the Cloud is viable or scary or dangerous. Rather, the event resonated with users across the United States because the Cloud delivers so much utility to each of us. And regardless of who was at fault--Netflix or Amazo...
We have previously written about the importance of discipline in terms of art like Big Data. There are plenty of indications that more discipline and rigor is required on how we use the term. To date, our key message has been that it is the enterprise CTO who is responsible for defining how the term...
This is a question we get a lot. In the web hosting industry, most customers know they need some variation of web hosting technology to power their company website, professional blog or ecommerce site. However, although most consumers and small to medium sized businesses understand they need web hos...
Long a leader in storage technology, IBM last summer gave us a peek at some of the advances they’re making in storage. Today, IBM has created a high-speed storage system than can scan over 10 billion files in just under 45 minutes. The previous system from IBM scanned just 1 billion files over three...
Ecosystem could be "the word" of 2013, if only vendors, providers, ISVs and other technology conglomerates stop acting in a "This Town ain't big enough for the both of us" way.
As an App user* I am increasingly amazed, affected and annoyed by what in my view can only be described as turf wars betwe...
Using the Holiday season as a way to educate about the cloud.
Happy holidays to all of you and may the season keep your perimeters protected, your assets secure and your networks free of nasty little elves!
Twas the night before Christmas
and all through the net
No access was stirring;
No hacke...
Knowing what to test is half the battle. Knowing how it was tested the other. Knowing what that means is the third. That’s some testing, real clear numbers.
In most countries, top speed is no longer the thing that auto manufacturers want to talk about. Top speed is great if you need it, but for t...
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