DALLAS, Aug. 21, 2014 /PRNewswire-iReach/ -- Amid the proliferation of real time data from sources such as mobile devices, web, social media, sensors, log files and transactional applications, Big Data has found a host of vertical market applications, ranging from fraud detection to R&D.; Photo - http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20140821/138541 "Big Data Market: 2014 – 2020 – Opportunities, Challenges, Strategies, Industry Verticals & Forecasts" Key Findings: In 2014 Big Data vendors will pocket nearly $30 Billion from hardware, software and professional services revenues Big Data investments are further expected to grow at a CAGR of nearly 17% over the next 6 years, eventually accounting for $76 Billion by the end of 2020 The market is ripe for acquisitions of pure-play Big Data startups, as competition heats up between IT incumbents Nearly every large scale IT ven... (more)

The Next Chapter in the Virtualization Story Begins

Cloud Expo Europe €550 Savings here! Cloud Expo West $800 Savings here! Cloud Computing Journal recently caught up with Pete Malcolm, CEO of cloud management innovators Abiquo - a major new player in the fast-emerging Cloud ecosystem and Platinum Plus Sponsor of 6th Cloud Expo being held in Prague, the Czech Republic, 21-22 June 2010. Malcolm is keynoting at the event. His theme will be "An Open Cloud Ecosystem - the Gathering Storm." Explore Cloud Expo Sponsorship & Exhibit Opportunities ! Abiquo was also Platinum Plus Sponsor of the 5th International Cloud Expo held April 19-21, 2010 at the Jacob Javits Convention Center in New York City Cloud Computing Journal: How would you define the difference between Private clouds and Public Clouds, and why is the distinction so important in the context of Cloud Computing? Pete Malcolm: Actually, I think people get rather too hun... (more)

For Valentine's Day | @CloudExpo #DevOps #BigData #IoT #ML #Microservices

For Valentine's Day, here's a lighthearted look at the "relationship" between two complementary technologies: service virtualization and cloud dev/test labs. Dear Service Virtualization, Hey, I know it's been a while since we started being "a thing." When we met, everyone said you were just mocking, and that I wasn't real enough to make a living, with my head in the clouds. Yet, here we are, a few years later. Service Virtualization, you complete me. As a young Dev/Test Cloud, I always wanted to try new things. And what better use for Cloud than experimenting with software for startup companies? I was flexible, I thought I had the capacity to handle anything. I'd stay up all night studying or partying, but sometimes I'd crash. So what if some college kid's cloud-based photo-sharing site experiment goes down? It wasn't going to impact anyone's life. But when it came... (more)

The Top 150 Players in Cloud Computing

Cloud Expo Early Bird Savings A robust ecosystem of solutions providers is emerging around cloud computing. Here, SYS-CON's Cloud Computing Journal expands its list of most active players in the fast-emerging Cloud Ecosystem, from the 'mere' 100 we identified back in January of this year, to half as many again - testimony, if any further were needed, to the fierce and continuing growth of the "Elastic IT" paradigm throughout the world of enterprise computing. Editorial note: The words in quotation marks used to describe the various services and solutions in this round-up are in every case taken from the Web sites cited. As ever we encourage software engineers, developers, IT operations managers, and new/growing companies in every case to "suck it and see" by downloading or otherwise sampling the offering in question for themselves. (Omissions to this Top 150 list sh... (more)

Verizon Cloud-Based Computing as a Service

Verizon Business introduced an on-demand, cloud-based Computing as a Service (CaaS) solution -- designed to meet the stringent security and performance requirements of their enterprise customers. This new offering helps businesses take advantage of cloud (IP-based) computing to more efficiently and securely manage IT computing resources -- server, network and storage -- to meet day-to-day business demands. This CaaS solution, which leverages Verizon's global IP infrastructure and data centers, enables companies to use a Web-based portal to employ computing resources in the quantities and duration dictated by their own business needs. As a result, businesses pay for the resources used and avoid having to build out for peak capacity requirements by buying new equipment and adding IT or networking staff. Designed for mid-to-large-sized businesses, CaaS is ideal for new dev... (more)

GSA Releases Cloud Computing RFQ

Following through on a much anticipated action, GSA released their Cloud Computing Request For Quotation (RFQ) today. Cloud computing is a major part of President Obama's reform effort and this RFQ focuses on IaaS service offerings available within a public cloud deployment model. The implementation is a Low Impact System as defined in National Institute of Science and Technology (NIST) Federal Information Processing Standard (FIPS) Publication 199. According to that publication, the potential impact is low if the loss of confidentiality, integrity, or availability could be expected to have a limited adverse effect on organizational operations, organizational assets, or individuals. A limited adverse effect means that, for example, the loss of confidentiality, integrity, or availability might: cause a degradation in mission capability to an extent and duration that... (more)

Conclusion: Cloud Computing and the New Role of the IT manager

Read Part 1 and Part 2 (IaaS) and Part 3 (SaaS) here. In the previous entries we discussed the possible impact of IaaS (Infrastructure as a Service), SaaS (Software a as a Service) and even briefly PaaS (Platform as a Service) on the role of our Cloud IT Manager separately. It is, however, important to realize these three models are not happening separately; they are all happening at the same time and as result are influencing each other. As all three models are delivered "as a service", vendors are preparing themselves to play their role in 1, 2 or even all 3 of these markets. Will our Cloud IT Manager only be a consumer of services provided by these vendors or will he retain other responsibilities as well? Sourcing services will certainly be a core activity, not only for end user services (like CRM) but also for IT services like Infrastructure, security and suppor... (more)

Migrating away from Salesforce.com? Beware!

Salesforce.com is not a fan of customers who attempt to leave. I can’t blame them, nobody likes to lose a customer. When you start to lose a lot of customers, it can make you a little desperate, but this does not seem to apply Salesforce.com, I mean in the last year alone their stock has gone up 20 points. They have obviously done an excellent job of convincing business of the value of Cloud CRM. So why are they so hostile about people wanting to leave? Maybe they are just paranoid. Ever since they launched in 1999, they have absolutely “Owned” the cloud CRM space. To succeed they had to win two battles, first was the concept of CRM which many companies had come to think was a waste of time, and the second was that this was Software as a Service running in the cloud, whatever that was. No small feat. But they did win, and are still winning. For years they looked in... (more)

Nexenta Systems Demonstrates Continued Momentum - Announces Significant Expansion to Worldwide Channel Partnerships

MOUNTAIN VIEW, CA -- (Marketwire) -- 08/09/09 -- Nexenta Systems, the leading provider of hardware independent NAS and SAN solutions utilizing the ZFS file system, today announced new additions to its growing roster of channel partnerships with leading systems integrators and solution providers worldwide. NexentaStor is now available as the foundation of total solutions including the breakthrough price/performance and price/capacity of NexentaStor from dozens of systems integrators and solution providers around the world. "NexentaStor offers a unique value proposition to leading system integrators and solution providers who, for the first time, are able to enter the market for enterprise class storage with a software-based NAS and SAN solution that supports your existing storage hardware and delivers capabilities superior to legacy solutions at a fraction of the co... (more)

CA to Acquire NetQoS, Inc. in $200 Million All-Cash Transaction

ISLANDIA, N.Y. and AUSTIN, Texas, Sept. 14 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- CA, Inc. (Nasdaq: CA), the world's leading independent IT management software company, today announced that it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire privately-held NetQoS(R) Inc., a leading provider of network performance management and service delivery solutions, for $200 million. "CA offers the industry's strongest and most complete service assurance and delivery portfolio," said Ajei Gopal, executive vice president of CA's Products and Technology Group. "With the addition of the NetQoS network flow monitoring, unified communications management, and response time analytic network solutions, CA will further strengthen its ability to help enterprise IT organizations and service providers deliver reliable, flexible and cost-effective IT and business services." "NetQoS customers and partne... (more)

The Planet Joins Commission Junction Affiliate Network

The Planet, the global leader in IT hosting, today continued the expansion of its Partner Plus Program by joining the Commission Junction affiliate network. A leading provider of affiliate marketing solutions, Commission Junction’s extensive network of publishers expands The Planet’s visibility among Web-based buyers. With the increasing popularity of cap-ex-free IT and cloud computing, The Planet offers Web content publishers the ability to profitably reference the company’s broad range of solutions. The Planet advertiser program through Commission Junction offers solutions that range from affordable, dedicated servers to fully managed hosting. The Planet pays affiliates an industry-leading, one-time $150 commission for each newly referred customer who completes a Web purchase. “With this partnership, we’re enhancing our visibility among the Web’s biggest influen... (more)