The Amazon API battle for the cloud rages on
Grazed from GigaOM. Author: Barb Darrow.
The battle over whether it’s productive for cloud providers to clone Amazon’s APIs will rage on this week. Amazon rival Rackspace built its new cloud platform atop OpenStack and will not support the popular Amazon APIs while Eucalyptus, famously, will. Rackspace President Lew Moorman is not sure what that support buys Eucalyptus.
“API cloning does not get you to interoperability. The cloud is not a protocol. It’s a deep piece of technology that has to be replicated. If Amazon decided to open source its technology that would be a different story,” Moorman said in an interview going into today’s GigaOM Structure event where he will speak…
Computing, Content, Applications, and Commerce in the Cloud: Legacy Network Operator Threats and Opportunities
Grazed from Research & Markets. Author: PR Announcement.
(http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/fvb653/computing_content) has announced the addition of the "Computing, Content, Applications, and Commerce in the Cloud: Legacy Network Operator Threats and Opportunities" report to their offering.
Migration to the cloud will affect more than just IT outsourcing of datacenters. Cloud represents opportunities and threats to existing network operators as applications, content, commerce, and computing migrate to the cloud. Game changing technologies including 4G, IP Multimedia Subsystem, and cloud computing will transform wireless communications. This transformation will be a boon for some who recognize and seize the opportunities and a bane for others who do not adjust their strategies, products and solutions…
Ubiquisys in First Demonstration of Smart Cells based on Intel Architecture on Live Mobile Network
Grazed from MarketWatch. Author: PR Announcement.
Ubiquisys, the developer of 3G and LTE small cells, will demonstrate smart cells running on a live mobile network at Small Cells World Summit in London on 26-28 June. The smart cell is a new class of device: a small cell base station with a fully integrated cloud computing platform. Ubiquisys has developed a new range of communications-tuned computing modules based on Intel(R) architecture. With support from Intel, Ubiquisys has integrated these modules into a range of 3G/LTE/WiFi small cell base stations, adding massive processing power and storage at the edge of the network.
Small cell deployments in public spaces — incorporating combinations of 3G, WiFi and LTE — are growing rapidly, as they multiply the capacity of mobile networks whilst driving down costs. Users experience major improvements in data performance because the signal is delivered over a short range. But cloud media and core network applications remain at the far end of an often congested commodity backhaul connection, severely restricting the user experience benefits. Smart cells overcome this challenge by bringing context-specific media and applications closer to mobile users, opening new opportunities for operators, end-users and application developers…
CloudConnect is Charting a Course to the Cloud
Grazed from TheSuit. Author: David Novak.
Cloud Computing represents the biggest shift in computing in the last 15-years. It’s as fundamental as the move from client-server computing to web-centric computing, and in many ways more so. Cloud computing is changing business models in that it now gives people the ability to efficiently allocate computing power on demand, in a true utility model. It changes the very landscape of the way companies use IT resources.
By the end of 2012, cloud spending will triple to $42-billion. Already, the money spent on cloud computing is growing at over five times the rate of traditional, on-premise IT. Cloud adopters are enjoying lower costs and greater ability to adapt to changing market conditions…
Cloud Computing Simply Isn’t That Scary Anymore: Survey
Cloud computing just isn’t as scary as it once was to companies and their CIOs. A new survey of 785 companies finds a meager 3% considering it to be too risky — down from 11% last year. Only 12% say the cloud platform is too immature, and that’s down from 26% a year ago. Furthermore, 50% of the survey respondents now say they have “complete confidence” in the cloud — up from 13% a year ago.
Of course, looking at it another way, that means 50% aren’t quite comfortable. But still, cloud is finding its way into day-to-day business.
These are the findings of a new survey conducted by North Bridge Venture Partners. The survey had a lot of industry support behind it, sponsored by 39 companies, including Amazon Web Services, Rackspace, Eucalyptus, and Glasshouse…
ComputeNext Multi-Cloud Marketplace Launches as Structure Launchpad Participant
As a cloud service brokerage, or CSB, ComputeNext is a helping define a market segment projected to yield $5 billion in sales by 2014, according to Gartner’s projections this is the fastest growing area of cloud computing.
This LaunchPad event is held live on June 20th at 5PM PDT in Silicon Valley where the cloud computing, big data, and mobile mindshare come to feel the pulse of IT and disruptive technology. Video streams and recorded captures can be found at: www.livestream.com/gigaomstructure
ComputeNext has been called an "uber-aggregator" of cloud services, and has been gaining traction amongst public cloud providers, bringing choice and interoperability to cloud consumers through a marketplace portal which they deem to be the equivalent of Expedia for cloud computing…
Cores in the cloud: Does brawny or wimpy win?
Grazed from GigaOM. Author: Kevin C. Tofel.
As the cloud of web services expands, more servers are needed. But should those servers be brawny cores filled with raw power or lightweight wimpy cores in greater numbers? Since we can’t have the two arm wrestle for the win, Jason Waxman, VP and GM, Cloud Infrastructure Group, Intel Corporation offered perspective on Wednesday at GigaOM Structure 2012in San Francisco.
There are pros and cons to each, says Waxman, whose company makes both types of chips in the high-end Xeon and low-power Atom lines to name a few. How then should a company plan their infrastructure? “It doesn’t matter,” Waxman notes. Instead of planning for one scenario or the other, dynamic technology with a range of options is the best approach…
Fat databases, small pipes: The problem of data inertia
Grazed from GigaOM. Author: Kevin Fitchard.
As datasets get fatter and cumbersome, it’s becoming increasingly harder to move them around. Even the fattest multi-gigabit pipes look like cocktail straws when you’re talking about petabyte databases. At a panel discussion at GigaOM’s Structure conference, cloud computing executives pointed out that it’s going to become more and more difficult to move these massive troves of data to the applications that use them – or vice versa.
One option is to simply move the application closer to the data. NYSE Euronext has built out its own data centers in New Jersey and London in order to be close to its principal exchanges and customers, said Ken Barnes, SVP and global head of platforms of NYSE Technologies. At first, that proximity was necessary for latency reasons – in the securities trading business, milliseconds count – but NYSE finds that the issue of bandwidth is now becoming its bigger concern as its customers move massive amounts information in and out of its data centers…
Rackspace exec warns of Amazon lock-in
Grazed from ComputerWorld. Author: Joab Jackson.
Customers of Amazon Web Services may be unknowingly locking their data and computational logic in with the popular cloud service, making it difficult to move or significantly modify those resources, the president of a competing cloud provider asserted Wednesday.
As cloud computing matures, "people will want to invent and build new features, ones that they then can run anywhere. I think if we just wait around for Amazon to build things, we will have a hard time as an industry," said Lew Moorman, president of hosted service provider Rackspace. "It’s not even a criticism of Amazon. What I’m asking for is an open alternative."
Moorman addressed the topic at the GigaOm Structure conference in San Francisco and spoke with IDG News Service after his talk…
2012 Future of Cloud Computing Survey Exposes Hottest Trends in Cloud Adoption
North Bridge Venture Partners today announced the results of its second annual Future of Cloud Computing Survey. Supported by 39 industry collaborators spanning established leaders, emerging, fast-growth companies, and startups — the 2012 survey captures current industry perceptions, sentiments and emerging trends in cloud computing. This year’s collaborators include companies such as Amazon Web Services, Rackspace, Eucalyptus, and Glasshouse. A total of 785 respondents spanning industry experts, users and vendors participated in the survey.
Respondents were asked about a wide range of key issues impacting cloud computing, including drivers for cloud computing, inhibitors, best practices, sourcing, total cost of ownership (TCO), cloud’s impact on multiple business sectors, and emerging cloud technologies. The survey provides many insights into the adoption of cloud computing, including the cloud configurations and applications that are forming around specific business needs including Big Data, business continuity, collaboration and storage…