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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)
Cloud Expo on Ulitzer
SYS-CON Events (http://events.sys-con.com) announced today that the "show
prospectus" for the 5th International Cloud Computing Conference & Expo
(www.CloudComputingExpo.com) is now shipping.
5th International Cloud Expo will take place April 19-21, 2010, at the Jacob
Javits Convention Center in New York City with more than 5,000 delegates and
over 100 sponsors and exhibitors participating in the conference.
Cloud Expo is the world's leading Cloud-focused event and is held five times
a year, in New York, Silicon Valley, Europe, Japan, and Brazil.
Over 200 corporate sponsors and 10,000 industry professionals became part of
Cloud Expo since its inception, more than all other Cloud-related events put
together worldwide.
"Cloud Expo was announced on February 24, 2007, the day the term ‘cloud
computing' was coined," said Fuat Kircaali, founder and C... (more)
In the run-up to the next Cloud Expo, 7th Cloud Expo (November 1–4, 2010)
being held at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Silicon Valley, it's time
to give my earlier list a complete overhaul.
Here, accordingly, is an expanded list of the most active players in the
Cloud Ecosystem.
I have increased it from the 'mere' 150 I identified back in January of this
year, to 250, testimony – as if any 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 of the companies themselves. Omissions to this Top 250 list should be
sent to me via Twitter (twitter.com/jg21) and I will endeavor to include them
in any future revision of this newly expanded rou... (more)
Integration challenges in cloud computing have always been intriguing to me
and I had posted a previous blog on the importance of SaaS vendors supporting
standards enabling easier connectivity.
Patchwork solutions integrating applications written over the years have
created an inventory of application portfolios so complicated to maintain
that their budget drains a large percentage of corporate information
technology expenditure even today.
>Cloud computing makes the need of world-class integration services important
to the overall success of solutions. Vendors are not ignoring this customer
need. Several studies indicate integration as a top barrier to cloud
computing. Informatica has built a cloud integration solution. IBM purchased
CastIron in May, 2010.
Start-ups like SnapLogic and RunMyProcess seem to be changing fundamental
techniques of delivering integrati... (more)
DevOps: Unify Your Tests - Or Fail
While testing is often ignored when it comes to DevOps - it could be the most
important aspect of achieving true DevOps success. Without rethinking
automated testing from the ground-up, the entire DevOps productivity gain
cannot be realized.
Large tech companies build their own rapid test automation that runs in
minutes across functional, performance, security and other tests.
In his session at DevOps Summit, Kevin Surace, CEO of Appvance, will discuss
how we learn from these real-world successes and achieve a 95% time reduction
in creating and running automated unified tests. Otherwise enterprises must
make a tradeoff between velocity and quality. Learning from the leaders, that
tradeoff does not need to be made.
Speaker Bio
Kevin Surace is a well-known Silicon Valley innovator and CEO of Appvance. He
has been featured in Busines... (more)
Top Continuous Integration Tools
By Angela Stringfellow
Poorly managed development projects are bound to crash eventually. It's
likely happened to you a dozen of times already. While writing code can be a
lot of fun, managing code and dependencies can quickly become a maze of its
own when you're dealing with the continuous growth of your codebase and
feature branches. At Stackify, we aim to make the lives of developers easier
(and less frazzling). One way to de-stress your work is with the aid of
continuous integration tools.
Continuous Integration came as an adoption of a more refined programming
practice, which aims to help developers with preventing serious integration
pitfalls. As you continue to build your project, there are more things to
integrate, and back-tracking can quickly become a time-consuming chore. CI
Tools automate many tedious tasks and make it ea... (more)
I'm happy to announce I will be presenting 10 Steps To Unified Cloud
Computing at SYS-CON's Cloud Computing Conference & Expo, Wednesday April 1,
at 9:25 - 10:10 am.
This presentation will examine the opportunities for unified cloud computing
in order to create an open and standardized cloud interface for the
unification of various cloud APIs. A singular programmatic point of contact
that can encompass the entire infrastructure stack as well as emerging cloud
centric technologies all through a unified interface.
In this vision for a unified cloud interface the use of the resource
description framework (RDF) is an ideal method to describe a semantic cloud
data model (taxonomy & ontology). The benefit to an RDF based ontology
languages is they act as general method for the conceptual description or
modeling of information that is implemented by web resources. These we... (more)
VKernel's patent-pending Capacity Analyzer technology enables you to achieve
maximum VMware ESX performance with the right amount of resources. Capacity
Analyzer is the only VMware monitoring software that actually predicts
problems days before they occur so you can avoid critical issues.
Designed for enterprise scalability, Capacity Analyzer proactively monitors
shared CPU, memory, network, and disk (storage and disk I/O) utilization
trends in VMware ESX environments and delivers actionable analytics that
allow you to:
Predict and avoid costly performance degradations and downtime by properly
allocating resources Find available capacity to get more out of your existing
VMware infrastructure so that you can delay unnecessary purchases Safely
increase virtual machine (VM) densities to lower the cost per VM Identify
your top resources consumers Set alerts to take the ... (more)
Mini-MSFT is back, with a post about Microsoft turning The Corner. It’s
interesting to contrast his point of view with that of MG Siegler over at
ParisLemon. Given my own perception of Valley bias on the part of Siegler
(he is one of the new voices of TechCrunch after all), it’s great to see
that we’re making progress which is being met with receptivity and not
suspicion. Further, everyone is focused on the most important beneficiaries
- customers.
I have to admit, since returning to the company a little over a year ago, I
have had this sense that things are looking up. Don’t get me wrong,
there’s no shortage of frustrations for me, but that’s to be expected
when you come from a tiny company where you were the founder and CEO to a
large company where you a cog in a wheel.
With the new fiscal year, I have a new role and a new team, and I plan on
making liberal... (more)
Amazon Web Services announced today a limited public beta of Virtual Private
Cloud (Amazon VPC), a service that makes it possible for customers to create
their own logically isolated set of Amazon EC2 instances to connect to their
existing network over a secured VPN connection. With this, Amazon is taking a
major step in making its cloud computing services even more
enterprise-friendly than they already were.
Amazon CTO Werner Vogels published a detailed blog post regarding this
service, in which he acknowledges that enterprises tend to find it
challenging to transition applications and services to the cloud when they
have often invested years of resources and tons of money setting up their own
IT infrastructure (datacenters, networks, etc.). He also says ‘private
clouds’, which are basically emulations of cloud computing inside private
networks, are not true cloud... (more)
Cloud Computing Expo on Ulitzer
Many in the industry have heard of Hadoop, and in his session at Cloud
Computing Conference & Expo, Christophe Bisciglia, Co-Founder of Cloudera,
gets a little deeper. Hadoop is based on the same methods Google uses to
store and process petabytes of data, but thanks to contributions from many in
the open source community you can leverage these same methods to make sense
of every increasing volumes of enterprise data. Bisciglia will highlight the
technical and business issues that make Hadoop so powerful for large scale
data processing.
The 4th International Cloud Computing Conference & Expo is co-located with
the 7th International Virtualization Conference & Expo and will be taking
place November 2-4, 2009 at the Santa Clara Convention Center, Santa Clara,
CA.
Register Today and Save !
Sponsor and/or Exhibit Today
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