Category: News

Grazed from IIR Telecoms & Technology.  Author: Event Announcement.

Software Defined Networking & Network Functions Virtualisation will fundamentally redefine how service providers across the world manage and deploy services across the network.  The industry metamorphosis towards virtual and software based networking platforms has been gaining significant momentum over the last 3 years. 2014 has seen an increase in Proof of Concept and lab trials undertaken between vendors and service providers.

Across the remainder of the year, and going in to 2015, there is widely anticipated uptake and deployment of SDN enabled networks and NFV based services in an increasing number of service providers. In previous years, the biggest question in the industry has been “what is SDN? What is NFV?”. The fundamental principal of both is now more commonly understood and acknowledged within the industry, and the forthcoming 18 months will see a shift in emphasis from “what is” to “how”…

Grazed from WhaTech. Author: Editorial Staff.

When I was started work, many years ago, the IBM360 ruled the computing universe and networks, even on-premise networks, were almost non-existent. Part of my job as a university laboratory technician was to trot across the campus every afternoon with a computer program represented on a stack of punched cards and offer these up at the great IBM 360. The following day I would go and collect the cogitations of this colossus, spelt out on reams of computer print out.

Then one day that task disappeared overnight: terminals were installed in my department that read the cards and transmitted the data electronically to the IBM360. I tell this tale to reinforce these comments by Peter Coffee of Salesforce.com blogging on GigaOM to argue that the age of cloud has well and truly arrived and the era of dedicated, on-premise hardware is well and truly over…

Grazed from Gravitant. Author: PR Announcement.

Gravitant announced that it has integrated its cloudMatrix cloud brokerage and management applications with ServiceNow’s service request portal. This capability will be demonstrated at Knowledge 14. With this integration, ServiceNow customers can:

• Enable their IT organizations to become service brokers that can deliver services at the speed of cloud while still maintaining governance and control.
• Extend their ServiceNow catalog to become a dynamic IT-as-a-Service Catalog.
• Extend ticket-taking workflows with new cloud solutions, procurement and governance apps from Gravitant, which are critical to cloud consumption and governance.
• Match their application and business needs to the best-fit cloud provider from a broad ecosystem…

Grazed from CDMMedia.  Author: Event Announcement.

The CIO GAS Summit, to be held on September 17, 2014, is a unique opportunity for the region’s greatest IT thinkers to collaborate on current industry challenges and trends. Attending CIOs and IT executives engage in peer-on-peer networking, whilst discussing the issues currently affecting CIOs from a variety of industries.

Here are a few topics to be discussed:

• Cloud Computing as a Transformational Business Enabler
• DBaaS (Database as a Service)
• Network Functions Virtualisation
• Big Data – Storing & Protecting Your Most Valuable Assets
• Securing Your Business for Mobility, Cloud Apps and Social Media…

Grazed from ODCA.  Author: Event Announcement.

Forecast is the Open Data Center Alliance’s flagship conference created by enterprise IT executives for enterprise IT executives. With topics scoping the latest best practices and emerging challenges facing enterprise cloud deployments and top opportunities in business analytics, Forecast delivers a wealth of new content, unparalleled networking opportunities, and insight on deepening engagement with the ODCA under one roof.

Now in its third year, Forecast 2014 is regarded as a destination conference for honing IT strategy, discovering solutions and services that meet business needs, and delivering real results to your company’s business…

Grazed from ISC Events.  Author: Event Announcement.

To meet the growing interest in using high performance computing (HPC) as a service, ISC Cloud 2014, to be held on September 29-20, 2014, in Heidelberg, Germany, will bring together researchers, engineers, consultants as well as hardware and software providers to discuss the most timely HPC cloud topics and trends.

Adding even greater depth to the event this year, we’ve selected expert speakers with firsthand experience in cloud usage. They will report on the latest achievements in the HPC cloud technologies, provide perspective on their benefits and challenges, and offer practical recommendations about how to best utilize cloud-based computing…

Grazed from: ISC Events.  Author: Event Announcement.

Our second annual ISC Big Data conference will build on the success of the 2013 event, presenting attendees with the latest developments in data-centric computing from both industry players and researchers. Our conference theme – From Data to Knowledge – reflects the nature of all big data applications, encapsulating the challenges as well as the solutions.

ISC Big Data’14, to be held on October 1-2, in Heidelberg, Germany, will explore all aspects of that data-to-knowledge path. At center-stage is Hadoop, a rapidly evolving parallel framework for digesting some of the largest datasets in the world…

Grazed from IT World Canada. Author: Andrew Brooks.

While there are security, compliance and portability concerns with “as-a-service” models, SaaS, PaaS and IaaS look set for further growth While the Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) model remains dominant in terms of market share, growth and breadth of coverage, a new research report says other cloud computing models have established themselves as contenders and are themselves undergoing rapid growth despite some issues.

Worldwide SaaS revenues will reach US$53 billion by 2018, or 59 per cent of the enterprise public cloud computing market, says a new report from U.K.-based Juniper Research. SaaS brought in US$23.2 billion last year. The report, titled “Cloud Computing – Enterprise Markets: SaaS, PaaS & IaaS, 2014-2018,” SaaS will remain the dominant cloud model, thanks in part to its relative maturity and widespread acceptance, and broad recognition of the comparative benefits and risks of commissioning cloud-based software…

Grazed from ImagoTechMedia.  Author: Event Announcement.

From bricks to bytes – Tackling the widening scope of data centre management.  Businesses, public services and individuals are embracing digitisation of tasks and processes at a pace that is simply breathtaking. The convenience of mobility, comfort of social connections, precision of analytic, scalability of clouds and pervasiveness of Internet of Things(IOT) are all contributing to growth in volume of data and processing workloads. 

This in turn is creating demand for data capture, manipulation, distribution and storage like never before. The datacentre as an entity that enables digital disruption is enjoying unprecedented growth. It has been crowned as a strategic asset that provides the platform for innovation and competitive advantage. Large budgets have defined the spectrum of stakeholders involved in datacentre decisions, ranging from the CFOs office that needs ROI assurances, the CIOs office that needs to orchestrate delivery capability, the corporate risk office that needs to mitigate business exposure and most importantly, the evolving pool of data centre professionals who need to stay ahead of the curve…

Grazed from ImagoTechMedia.  Author: Event Announcement.

IP EXPO Europe is Europe’s number ONE IT infrastructure and cloud event, the ONE place where technology comes together. IP EXPO Europe is the only must-attend show of the year for CIO’s, heads of IT, technology experts and engineers.

In just two days, you can immerse yourself in the very latest developments in Cloud, Security, Data Centre, Mobility, Analytics, Infrastructure and more. IP EXPO Europe has 300+ exhibitors and 300+ free to attend seminars from both business and technically inspired thought leaders…