Oracle has some cloud convincing ahead
Oracle’s third quarter earnings conference call will have a healthy dose of Exadata hardware chatter, but a survey indicates that a little more elaboration on the cloud computing story is in order.
The fiscal third quarter will be an interesting one for Oracle. The company had a rare stumble in the second quarter and analysts are looking to see if sales execution issues were a mere blip or something more worrisome. Wall Street is looking for third quarter earnings of 56 cents a share on revenue of $9.02 billion…
Radware Wins TMC’s 2011 Cloud Computing Excellence Award
Radware, a leading provider of application delivery and application security solutions for virtual and cloud data centers, today announced that TMC, publishers of Cloud Computing magazine has named Radware’s ADC-VX™ application delivery controller (ADC) virtualization platform winner of its 2011 Cloud Computing Excellence Award.
Radware’s ADC-VX is the industry’s first ADC virtualization and consolidation technology, specifically designed to combine ADC hardware devices into fewer hardware units. Cloud service providers benefit from Radware ADC-VX’s functionality as a delivery model for on-demand ADC services that can be offered to their end-user customers. It enables real-time provisioning of virtual ADC (vADC) instances while ensuring the resilience and performance predictability needed to provide application delivery offerings backed with high service level agreements (SLAs). Radware’s ADC-VX also delivers fully isolated ADC services to support the cloud provider’s customer or their applications, in solutions containing the industry’s highest density of vADCs to support a wide range of cloud service cost models…
JouleX’s Scott Paisley to Speak at the Green IT and Cloud Summit 2012
Thought leaders from around theworld will convene in Northren Viginia on April 18, 2012.It has been confirmed that Scott Paisley, the Americas Technology Director at JouleX, will be speaking at the Green IT | Cloud Computing 2.0 Summit hosted by the Green IT Council. The venue is located at the Sheraton Premiere near Washington DC on April 18th, 2012. The Green IT Council is a leading Green and Sustainable IT, and cloud computing association dedicated to the energy efficient computing across the enterprise, data center, and society.
JouleX is the leading innovator in sustainable energy management systems for the enterprise. Its flagship solution, the JouleX Energy Manager (JEM), provides the Global 2000 and government agencies with the ability to monitor, analyze and control energy usage for all network-connected devices and systems across the enterprise, including in distributed offices, data centers and facilities. Importantly, JEM is the first network-based energy management system that works without the use of software agents, dramatically reducing installation time and removing the maintenance burden associated with similar technologies. JEM decreases energy costs by up to 60 percent while ensuring availability and provides robust reporting that enables compliance with emerging carbon monitoring requirements…
JouleX was founded in 2009 and since has been distinguished with recent awards and accolades including Gartner Cool Vendor in Green IT and Sustainability, GE Ecomagination Award, BT Green Economy Success for Future Award and Clean Tech Media Award. The company is headquartered in Atlanta with worldwide offices located in Tokyo, Shanghai, Paris, Munich, and Kassel, Germany and throughout the United States.
Cloud Jobs Look Skyward, But Skills Gap Is Growing
While the nation’s employment picture has been looking up in recent months, jobs in the cloud are looking positively skyward, according to the talent intelligence firm Wanted Analytics. However, a skills gap is also on the rise.
More than 5,000 cloud computing job ads were posted online in the U.S. in February, with hiring demand for cloud skills up 92% versus February 2011 and 400% compared with the same time in 2010, Wanted Analytics reported last week. But with demand for cloud skills growing so quickly, the gap between demand and talent supply is making it harder to source candidates, the firm said...
Coping with the Complexity of Cloud and BYOD Security
Thanks to the rise of cloud computing services and the bring-your-own-device (BYOD) phenomenon, there’s a lot more nuance these days involving the securing of mobile computing devices.
While many organizations are still debating the merits of BYOD, companies that have embraced BYOD are finding that BYOD presents a number of challenges that go well beyond access. For example, should an end user be able to access personal applications such as games over the corporate network? And should organizations apply different levels of granular policies across different classes of devices owned by the same user?…
Five Signs Cloud Services May Not Work for You
In an online forum over the last few days, a group of IT executives has debated the "real value" of cloud services. Here is the note that prompted the chat:
Will cloud computing deliver us genuine business benefits or is it a clever technology looking for a home? In the long term could it negatively impact our business?
Several forum participants weighed in, agreeing that they’d read and heard all the "hype" from cloud providers, only to be left still pondering the actual value to their businesses of adopting clouds. In some cases, it was clear that upper management and boards would view a move to cloud simply as an infrastructure upgrade — and an insecure one at that…
EVault Cloud Backup Seeks to Disrupt Symantec Backup Exec
In the cloud computing storage market, EVault — a wholly owned subsidiary of Seagate — is taking aim at Symantec Backup Exec and other client-server data protection platforms. The EVault effort, led by EVault President Terry Cunningham, is loaded with irony.
After all, it was Cunningham who helped to build the Veritas Backup Exec business before Symantec acquired Veritas in 2004. During the glory days of client-server, Veritas helped to position Backup Exec as popular platform for Windows NT Server data and application protection. The Backup Exec team made the Windows NT bet before Microsoft gained critical mass on the server, so the move was a gamble at the time…
Amazon cloud integration in Building Applications in the Cloud
Cloud providers lead you to believe you can take your existing applications and put them on the cloud with no fuss or muss. It is true, the applications can run; but you may find the performance is not what you expected. The fact is that application integration is one of the more complicated aspects of cloud computing, as Christopher M. Moyer told us recently while we discussed issues of iPaaS and application integration.
Moyer, vice president of technology at content aggregator Newstex LLC is the author of the recent Building Applications in the Cloud (Addison-Wesley, 2011). The book focuses on real world experiences with the Amazon cloud using Amazon Web Services (AWS). It discusses the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (ED2), Simple DB, how to properly construct Software as a Service, designing an architecture that takes good advantage of the cloud platform, patterns for executing actions on data and much more…
5 Major Types of Cloud Infrastructure Options
Cloud computing is not an all-or-nothing option. In the past decade, the industry has matured to a point where there are almost a dozen different options to move your data and processes to the cloud. In this post, we will cover the five major options and will talk about the enterprises for whom each of these options are best suited for.
Virtual machines
This is the most common form of cloud setup, where third party service providers give you shared computing resource in their datacenter for an hourly fee. The physical servers at the data center are turned into many virtual server instances, each of which can be run by a different enterprise. Virtual machines can provide you the best utilization of resources by keeping the machines from going idle. This setup is suited for workloads that are highly varying (most websites, blogs) and for smaller enterprises that do not need the flexibility and control of a private cloud. It is very cost-effective, though it might not be suited for high performance computing…
MCPc Enables Mobile Business With Anyplace Workspace
MCPc, Inc., a leading national technology products and solutions provider, announces anyplace workspace(TM), an approach to business technology dedicated to helping organizations reap the benefits of the modern, mobile IT ecosystem. Organizations with an anyplace workspace empower their employees to work from anywhere and on any device — all in a well-managed, secure environment…