Category: News

Grazed from InfoWorld. Author: David Linthicum.

Don’t look now, but the U.S. cloud service broker (CSB) market will grow from $225.4 million in 2013 to $2 billion by 2018, growing 55.3 percent per year. The global CSB market will grow from $1.6 billion in 2013 to $10.5 billion by 2018, growing 46.2 percent per year, according to MarketsandMarkets.

I deal with CSBs more and more as an increasing number of enterprises move to multicloud approaches. Another factor is that IT increasingly takes on the role of providing cloud services to the rest of the enterprise, and it needs automated ways to manage those services…

Grazed from V3.co.uk. Author: Daniel Robinson.

OpenStack specialist Mirantis has joined the Cloud Foundry Foundation in a move being slated as furthering open standards in the maturing cloud industry, as Mirantis looks to support customers topping off their cloud computing stack with a developer layer for building out applications and services.

Mirantis styles itself as the "pure-play" OpenStack company, offering a straight build of the open source cloud computing framework that is not integrated with proprietary technology. Other vendors offer an OpenStack build that is designed to operate with their existing products, such as VMware, which runs OpenStack atop vSphere…

Grazed from Lexology. Author: Neasa Ni ghrada.

On 1 August 2014, the International Standards Organisation (ISO) and the International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC) published the first privacy-specific international standard for the cloud: ISO/IEC 27018 "Code of practice for protection of personally identifiable information (PII) in public clouds acting as PII processors". Early adopters Microsoft announced on 16 February 2015 that it was the first company to receive certification for the standard.

ISO/IEC 27018 builds on existing ISO standards such as ISO 27001 (the existing best practice for information security management) and is aimed at increasing confidence in data security and cloud computing. Adoption of the standard would complement one of the exceptions to the prohibition on transferring personal data outside of the EEA such as model contracts, Binding Corporate Rules and Safe Harbour…

Grazed from EnterpriseNetworkingPlanet. Author: Joe Stanganelli.

This was the primary message at February’s Boston presentation of the invitation-only Oracle Cloud Roadshow, an eight-city tour of talks on Oracle Cloud developments particularly pertinent to software resellers, independent software vendors (ISVs), original equipment manufacturers (OEMs), and other enterprises and SMEs. Speakers highlighted both the positive outcomes of increased cloud deployment and the new pain points that have arisen with the democratization of efficiency.

Jeff Kaplan, Managing Director of Massachusetts-based cloud computing consultancy THINKstrategies, delivered a keynote at the event with the running theme of a tale of two cloud cities, frequently referring to the present-day market climate as "the best of times and the worst of times."…

Grazed from NetworkWorld. Author: Brandon Butler.

One of the first casualties of the OpenStack world is Nebula, a company founded by a of the pioneer of the open source cloud computing movement. Nebula posted an announcement on its website yesterday announcing it is shutting down. Chris Kemp, the former CTO for IT at NASA where much of OpenStack’s code was initially developed, founded the company in 2011.

Analysts say the move is not indicative of larger problems within the OpenStack community, but rather reflects the difficulties startups will have in competing with large name-brand vendors who are able to commit the resources needed over a long period of time to this still maturing market…

Grazed from Mashable. Author: Stephanie Walden.

By now, you’ve heard about the cloud -– and you’ve also likely heard about the benefits of using cloud computing for your business or enterprise. But people outside the world of IT may not know that there are multiple types of cloud — and we’re not talking about cumulus versus cirrus. Have you heard of the "private cloud" or the "hybrid cloud"? Do you know the advantages of each?

While there isn’t a specific industry or workload that universally makes sense for each type of cloud, there are certain considerations enterprises should take into account when deciding upon the right fit: For example, does the company frequently handle sensitive customer information online? Do they have a highly secretive recipe or patented design that needs to be protected? In these cases, public cloud computing may be a riskier choice…

Grazed from TechTarget. Author: Jason Bystrak.

You don’t have to look too hard to find overwhelming evidence that cloud computing adoption is growing at a fast rate. IDC estimates the public cloud market, which reached nearly $46 billion in 2013, will continue growing at 23% CAGR through 2018. On the private cloud side, IDC estimates that worldwide spending on hosted private cloud services will surpass $24 billion by 2016.

For some value-added resellers (VARs), these statistics generate little more than an eye roll. After all, how much excitement can selling hosted Exchange subscriptions for $6 per mailbox with razor-thin margins generate, compared with the $10,000 on-premises Exchange server sales of the not-so-distant past?…

Grazed from MarketWire. Author: PR Announcement.

Delphix, the market leader in data as a service (DaaS), today announced the company has updated its award-winning DaaS Platform to support Amazon GovCloud, OpenStack, and KVM hypervisor environments for simple migration to both private and public clouds. With support for Amazon GovCloud, Delphix enables government agencies to achieve successful cloud migration to Amazon Web Services while increasing data security, gaining data agility, and lowering cost.

Cloud deployments are becoming not just feasible but essential for federal agencies. The cloud promises transformative gains in execution, increased service offerings, and lowered costs. The "Cloud First" mandate has spurred agencies to migrate many of their non-product applications to the cloud, however these agencies face several challenges, including the complexity of deployments, governance, and costs. Cloud computing opens many new opportunities for faster execution, increased service offerings, and lower infrastructure costs, but complexity and risk concerns often stall progress or limit the type of applications that agencies are comfortable migrating…

Grazed from CCI. Author: Nick Pollard.

The technology increases efficiency by removing the need for physical infrastructure, but cloud contracts can present significant practical obstacles to incident response (IR) strategies. When a security incident happens, the speed at which the breach is identified is integral. The faster the response, the more quickly infectious malware can be halted, access stopped, sensitive data protected, and the threat remediated.

This makes a significant difference in controlling risk, costs, and exposure. But in a cloud world, the challenge arises when a company wants access to the servers that infrastructure is based on. Often, data centre providers will not allow a business to get into these, making it impossible to know where the attack is coming from…

Grazed from TechCrunch. Author: Ross Momtahan.

One of the rare occasions that the subject of data centres has ended up in the mainstream news was fairly recently, when Facebook built a new data centre in Sweden. It was a precious moment when our industry – which despite being responsible for so much cool stuff in the world is not exactly considered to be the most glamorous to the average Joe – was seen on the likes of Gawker and the Mail Online.

Of course, the Facebook factor is a strong reason for this public interest – but there is something inherently… cool… about building a data centre in such a remote location (not to mention the green credentials). But Facebook isn’t doing this for the PR; it sees real potential for savings in this region…