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#SDN #OpenStack #Cloud #devops #SDAS #SDDC How F5 synthesizes third-party
network and orchestration technologies
The silos within IT are breaking down, at least in terms of awareness of each
other and the need to coordinate provisioning and orchestration of compute,
network and application services. No longer is it acceptable to simply
provide a solution; that solution must integrate, collaborate and
interoperate with a plethora of existing and emerging data center
technologies such as SDN, cloud management platforms, and virtualization
frameworks.
After all, part of the raison d'être for SDN is the need to enable the
network with the agility and flexibility of its counterparts- devops and
application development - necessary to improve service velocity. That goal
cannot be realized by enabling just the underlay networks addressed by SDN
architectures. The applica... (more)
Forceworks Social Media for SMB Success #FAIL
I admit, I bought it. I bought it so hard that I was actually speaking and
training to SMB about the virtues of Social Media for the SMB. The reason I
stopped ? I came to realization that it was all bullshit. Granted this was
five years ago, but I don’t think the situation has improved one bit. As a
former member of the vanguard, leading the charge that Social Media will be
the primary reason your business succeeds, I can clearly remember the ominous
slide that “If you ignore Social Media, your business won’t exist in 5
years”; well,... (more)
Demandware®, Inc. (NYSE: DWRE), the industry-leading provider of enterprise
cloud commerce solutions, today announced the pricing of an underwritten
registered public offering of 3,310,098 shares of its common stock at a price
of $57.00 per share before underwriting discounts. Demandware is selling
2,500,000 shares of common stock in this offering, and certain existing
stockholders are selling 810,098 shares of common stock in this offering. In
addition, the underwriters have a 30-day option to purchase from Demandware
up to 496,515 additional shares of common stock at the public... (more)
The most critical overarching trend for the Asia Pacific technology market in
2014 will be the strengthening of the “age of the customer”, according to
a new Asia Pacific technology predictions 2014 report by Forrester Research,
Inc. (Nasdaq: FORR).
“Keeping up with disruptive technology innovation powered by social,
mobile, analytics, and cloud enablement is critical, but success in the age
of the customer is about more than technology,” writes Dane Anderson, Vice
President, Research Director, Region Manager for Asia Pacific, Forrester
Research. “It hinges on organizations shif... (more)
Numascale today announced the successful validation of the large shared
memory NumaConnect cluster at University of Oslo in Norway. The cluster is
installed under a prototype PRACE study assessing emerging new technologies
for European HPC.
The IBM/Numascale system, installed at University of Oslo in 2012, consists
of 72 IBM x3755 2U servers connected in a 3D torus with NumaConnect, using
four cabinets with 18 servers apiece in a 3x6x4 topology. Each server has 24
cores and 64 GBytes, providing a single system image to all 1728 cores and
4.6 TBytes. The system was designed to me... (more)
Cloud Expo Breaking News By Pat Romanski  SYS-CON Events announced today that AppZero, the fastest way to move enterprise applications to the cloud, will exhibit at SYS-CON's 14th International Cloud Expo®, which will take place on June 10-12, 2014, at the Javits Center in New York City, NY.
AppZero, the fast, flexible way to move server applications can migrate your apps from an old OS to a newer one. Microsoft recommends AppZero Enterprise for application migration for a variety of applications from Windows Server 2003 to either Wind... Nov. 19, 2013 09:45 AM EST Reads: 840 | By Liz McMillan  SYS-CON Events announced today that Axis Communications, the market leader in network video surveillance, will exhibit at SYS-CON's 14th International Cloud Expo®, which will take place on June 10-12, 2014, at the Javits Center in New York City, NY.
Axis is the market leader in network video and a driving force behind the shift from analog to digital video surveillance, which enables a smarter, safer world. Axis offers network video solutions for professional installations featuring products an... Nov. 19, 2013 08:00 AM EST Reads: 864 | By Liz McMillan  There is little doubt that Big Data solutions will have an increasing role in the Enterprise IT mainstream over time. Get a jump on that rapidly evolving trend at Big Data Expo 2014 New York, co-located with 14th Cloud Expo – being held June 10 - 12, 2014, at the Javits Center in New York, NY.
As advanced data storage, access and analytics technologies aimed at handling high-volume and/or fast moving data all move center stage, aided by the cloud computing boom, Big Data Expo is the single mos... Nov. 16, 2013 02:00 PM EST Reads: 1,855 | By Elizabeth White  Cloud computing is transforming the way businesses think about and leverage technology. As a result, the general understanding of cloud computing has come a long way in a short time. However, there are still many misconceptions about what cloud computing is and what it can do for businesses that adopt this game-changing computing model. In this exclusive Q&A; with Cloud Expo Conference Chair Jeremy Geelan, Rex Wang, Vice President of Product Marketing at Oracle, discusses and dispels some of the ... Nov. 12, 2013 11:00 AM EST Reads: 2,721 | By Pat Romanski  The 3rd International SDN Expo, co-located with 14th International Cloud Expo and 5th International Big Data Expo, to be held June 10-12, 2014, at the Javits Center in New York City, N.Y. announces that its Call for Papers is now open. Topics include all aspects of providing or using massively scalable IT-related capabilities as a service using Internet technologies.
According to a recent report by Deloitte Consulting, firms using Software-Defined Networking (SDN) can save up to 50% on their ne... Nov. 11, 2013 01:20 PM EST Reads: 1,038 | By Elizabeth White  The move to the cloud brings a number of new security challenges, but the application remains your last line of defense. Developers are extremely well-poised to perform tasks critical for securing the application – provided that certain key obstacles are overcome.
In his session at the 13th International Cloud Expo®, Wayne Ariola, Chief Strategy Officer at Parasoft, will explore three ways to help development bear the burden of security that the cloud places on them:
Use penetration testing r... Nov. 6, 2013 05:30 AM EST Reads: 3,266 | By Pat Romanski  For half a century, the trajectory of computing has followed a "faster, smaller, cheaper" arc. In his Day 3 Lunchtime Keynote at the 13th International Cloud Expo®, Tim Park, Director, Platform Strategy at Microsoft and alumnus of Nest Labs, will look at how that trajectory is both accelerating and changing course as computing begins to infuse many of the everyday items in our lives. He will walk through the hard problems you need to think about when deploying devices and services for the Intern... Nov. 5, 2013 03:00 PM EST Reads: 2,481 | By Elizabeth White  A day in the life of the future. In his session at the 13th International Cloud Expo®, Lanlogic’s Joe Foos will show how your entire organization can:
Achieve Seamless Communication – voice, video, email and messaging … without playing tag
Enjoy Real Collaboration – meet, work, and share … anytime, anywhere
Enable Unlimited Potential – your cloud will never run out of space, power, or capability
See exactly how the California Strawberry Commission and thousands of other organizations global... Nov. 5, 2013 02:00 PM EST Reads: 2,106 | By Elizabeth White  Nowadays, a large number of sensors and devices are connected to the Internet. Leading-edge M2M technologies integrate various types of sensor data to create a new value for several business decision scenarios.
The transparent cloud is a model of a new M2M emergence integration service platform in which many service providers store and access various types of sensor data in order to create and find out new business values by integrating such data.
In their session at the 13th International C... Nov. 5, 2013 01:00 PM EST Reads: 2,285 | By Liz McMillan  Many organizations are realizing the benefits that come with moving data to the cloud, including faster implementation, elasticity and reduced costs. But the path to the cloud isn’t always smooth. Finding the right cloud service provider takes research, and data security is always a primary concern, especially for organizations that are regulated by privacy laws.
In his session at the 13th International Cloud Expo®, Steve Pate, CTO & Co-Founder of HighCloud Security, will speak to the safest w... Nov. 5, 2013 11:00 AM EST Reads: 2,081 |
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: 13,365  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: 21,301  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: 28,338  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 2013 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 12th Cloud Expo, June 10-13, 2013, at the Javits Center, New York, NY. Reads: 13,856  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: 13,348  By Elizabeth White Industry-specific clouds are those PaaS, IaaS, and PaaS services that are tailored for a specific vertical, such as transportation, retail, finance, and health care. IDC sees a $65 billion market in these industry solutions for 2013, rising to $100 billion in 2016.
The value of industry-specific clouds is that businesses within a vertical can connect to applications, processes, and databases that are pre-defined for that vertical within a public or private cloud. They can extend processes and databases into the business domain, versus defining the data and processes within a generic cloud-based platform.
So, are industry specific clouds right for your business? What options are out there? How do you figure out the ROI? Reads: 11,456  By Pat Romanski SYS-CON Events announced today that Rackspace Hosting, the open cloud company, has been named "Platinum Plus Sponsor" of 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.
Rackspace® Hosting (NYSE: RAX) is the open cloud company, delivering open technologies and powering more than 205,000 customers worldwide. Rackspace provides its renowned Fanatical Support® across a broad portfolio of IT products, including Public Cloud, Private Cloud, Hybrid Hosting and Dedicated Hosting. Rackspace has been recognized by Bloomberg BusinessWeek as a Top 100 Performing Technology Company, is featured on Fortune's list of 100 Best Companies to Work For and is included on the Dow Jones Sustainability Index. Rackspace was positioned in the Leaders Quadrant by Gartner Inc. in the "2011 Magic Quadrant for Managed Hosting." Rackspace is headquartered in San Antonio with offices and data centers around the world.  By Liz McMillan 10th International Cloud Expo, held on June 11-14, 2012 at the Javits Center in New York City, featured 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 our photo album of the show - we'll be adding new images all week. Reads: 14,284  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: 57,657  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: 207,250  By Elizabeth White SYS-CON Events announced today that Dell Inc. has been named "Silver Sponsor" of 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.
For more than 28 years, Dell has empowered countries, communities, customers and people everywhere to use technology to realize their dreams. Customers trust Dell to deliver technology solutions that help them do and achieve more, whether they're at home, work, school or anywhere in their world. Learn more about Dell's story, purpose and people behind its customer-centric approach. Reads: 6,512  By Liz McMillan One of the most compelling promises of the cloud is that you can pull out a credit card and be working in minutes. No purchase orders to fill out, no equipment to wait for on the loading dock. Just instant access to the resources you need, when you need them. But accessibility comes at a price, and an unintentional consequence may be that you create yet another orphaned identity silo. Enterprise IT has spent years consolidating its mishmash of directories, only to discover that cloud now threatens to turn back their hard-won victories.
In his session at the 12th International Cloud Expo, Scott Morrison, CTO and Chief Architect at Layer 7 Technologies, will look at strategies to incorporate identity into cloud applications. Enterprise identity or social login can both be a part of your go-to-cloud strategy, but you must plan for this upfront, rather than try to retrofit identity and access control at a later date. Reads: 6,858 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: 21,934 |
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These days, users are growing more and more accustomed to expecting that they can accomplish productive work from anywhere, at any time, and on any device. As a result, IT professionals are increasingly faced with the challenge of balancing convenience with security, in an effort to provide users wi...
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Cloud computing is changing the IT ecosystem and is now increasingly focused on data analytics.
Cloud computing attention is often paid to moving compute requirements from the enterprise data center to public clouds. While the technology enables a number of innovative solutions around mobile and so...
Start-ups have been formed by leveraging cloud resources but enterprises are taking note and adoption rates are increasing.
While attending the Amazon Web Services (AWS) re:Invent conference last week, I spoke to enterprise customers who described how they benefited from AWS cloud services. One cus...
There's a lot of lip service given to east-west (intra-VM) traffic in emerging data center architectures. We talk about how it's increasing, how it's important, but understanding why it's happening offers some insight into the impact it will have on service placement within next-generation data cent...
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You’ve seen the AWS re:Invent videos:
AWS re:Invent 2013 – Find F5
AWS re:Invent 2013 – Cloud Bursting Reference Architecture (feat. Pearce)
AWS re:Invent 2013 – Cloud Migration Reference Architecture (feat. Pearce)
AWS re:Invent 2013 – F5 AWS Solutions (feat. Pearce & Huang)
AWS re:Invent 2013...
Yesterday over lunch, a good friend of mine from the Limelight Marketing Group and I started talking about my recent transition. As you can imagine being in the DC metro area our discussion centered on the many business challenges associated with sequestration and our deadlocked government leaders. ...
It is almost two years ago now when Dmitriy and I stood in front of the white board at the old GridGain office thinking: “How can we deliver all the real-time performance of GridGain’s in-memory technology to Hadoop customers without asking them rip and replace their systems and without asking them ...
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