Entries filed under “Cloud in Industry”

Big Data Big Boys EMC Positioned for the Future

By William | Published May 19, 2013

Over at The Nation, Nophakhun Limsamarnphun writes that EMC understands the enormity of endless data and what can and will be done with it.

To take advantage of this emerging trend, Joe Tucci, chairman and CEO of EMC whose revenues topped US$21.7 billion last year, told the EMC World 2013 conference in Las Vegas early this month that it’s necessary for EMC to deliver efficiency, control, choice and agility to its customers. The world is entering a new era of so-called third-generation IT platform that can support billions of mobile device users, cloud computers, and social media, according to Tucci.

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CohesiveFT Listed as Finalist in Coveted Public Cloud Award

By William | Published May 17, 2013

CohesiveFT announces that it has been put on a list for an award in the category of Public Cloud Services & Infrastructure for the 6th International Datacenter Awards.

The need for business application-layer security remains universal, and largely unanswered by IaaS and Cloud vendors,” said CohesiveFT CEO Patrick Kerpan. ”By combining VNS3 Overlay SDN with IaaS provider infrastructure security features, our customers are able to create and control a multidimensional security solution.”

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@WalmartLabs Announces Acquisition to Bolster Cloud Presence

By William | Published May 16, 2013

Over at TechCrunch, Josh Constine reports that @WalmartLabs has acquired OneOps to increase its Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) offerings. The retail giant also procured social software developers Tasty Labs in a related move.

OneOps developed a Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) capability that Walmart explains will enable it to “significantly accelerate” its PaaS and Private Cloud Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) strategies. The company offered developer tools built from the ground up for those who host their applications on cloud services like Amazon Web Services, for example, as well as Rackspace and HP Cloud. Developers could publish to any cloud and seamlessly port their apps elsewhere as needed, eliminating lock-in.

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Cloud Big Data Market to Reach $16.52 Billion by 2018

By William | Published May 15, 2013

Over at Talkin Cloud, Chris Talbot reports that the business analytics market based in the cloud will see a significant increase over the next few years.

According to a new report from MarketandMarkets, the cloud analytics market and its related sub-markets will grow at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 25.8 percent over the next five years. By 2018, that means the overall cloud business analytics market will total $16.52 billion. That’s a huge number no matter how you look at it, but compared to today’s market value of $5.25 billion, it’s clear the industry is expecting a spectacular increase.

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Chief Cloud Architect for Netflix Takes on Herculean Job

By William | Published May 14, 2013

Matt Petronzio at Mashable interviews Adrian Cockcroft about his role in the massive cloud deployment that Netflix utilizes.

My job is to have an overall view of the components and patterns that Netflix uses to build its streaming service in the cloud. When I see a gap or have an idea for something we need to build, my job is to set the context around that idea for the engineers, then get out of their way and let them figure out the details. I also document and explain the architecture by running internal training classes and external presentations at conferences. I have had most input on the availability and disaster recovery mechanisms built into the architecture.

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Interop Panel Discusses the Relevance of SDN

By William | Published May 13, 2013

David F. Carr at Information Week covers the keynote panel at Interop and their conversation regarding the future of SDN and network admin.

The point of SDN is to make networks easy to configure and reconfigure in software rather than hardware, with many more networking functions migrating from being embedded capabilities of a network appliance to being defined in software. Network systems are migrating incrementally in that direction as networks follow the same path toward virtualization as servers and storage, he said. Ultimately, the goal is to provide every data center with the flexibility associated with cloud computing.

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Google to Switch to Debian Linux Distribution

By William | Published May 12, 2013

At Information Week, Charles Babcock reports that Google is no longer employing its custom version of Linux instead opting for the open-sourced Debian.

In moving to Debian, Google is demonstrating that it wants Google Compute Engine to become less Google-technology specific and more of a standard platform. Compute Engine’s predecessor, App Engine, a developer’s platform as a service, restricted itself to Google’s favorite language, Python, at its launch. Compute Engine workloads based on Debian means the favored operating system will be supported by a community larger than Google’s development team itself.

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Australian HPC Company Looking to the Cloud for Rendering Blockbusters

By William | Published May 10, 2013

Trevor Clarke at The Sydney Morning Herald, writes that Animal Logic realizes the potential the cloud can provide when faced with the need for additional resources in rendering visual effects.

Despite this computing power, in the last nine months the company’s workload – it has been working on The Great Gatsby, Walking with Dinosaurs for the BBC and also Iron Man 3 – has meant it needed additional resources, which it sourced from service provider Steam Engine.

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Job of the Week II: Software Development Manager for AWS

By William | Published May 9, 2013

Amazon Web Services in Seattle is looking for a Software Development Manager in our 2nd installment of Job of the Week.

We’re looking for strong engineering leaders to build scalable and compelling mobile applications that span a broad range of devices and screen sizes.

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NASDAQ OMX Announces Virtual Data Room Called WorkSpace

By William | Published May 9, 2013

At PRWeek, Brittaney Kiefer reports that NASDAQ OMX has launched WorkSpace to solidify the company’s handling of sensitive data in real-time.

Launched on Monday, WorkSpace is part of NASDAQ OMX’s corporate solutions group. The virtual data room allows users to protect sensitive and proprietary information online, update it in real-time, and collaborate with colleagues on issues such as mergers and acquisitions, IPO preparation, bankruptcies and restructurings, auditing, reporting, market research, and fundraising. WorkSpace also offers an iPad app to give users mobile access to the platform.

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