How can organizations use enterprise/private cloud capabilities to improve information-sharing?
In his session at the 7th International Cloud Expo, Ira A. (Gus) Hunt, CTO to the CIO of the Central Intelligence Agency, will discuss how the Intelligence Community has been using enterprise/private cloud capabilities to improve information-sharing across the entire community.
Ira A. (Gus) Hunt currently serves as the Chief Technology Officer for the Chief Information Officer in CIA. In this capaci...Sep. 6, 2010 01:45 PM EDT Reads: 1,256
As much as information technology has changed in the last 10 years, the next decade promises even more significant change. And as cloud technology becomes more prevalent, IT enterprises will be driven to reconsider the status quo around just about everything we know, including Physical Infrastructure, Virtualization, Automation, Service Management, and Security.
Cloud technology and virtualization of virtually everything means rethinking the economic models around physical infrastructure, the e...
The last decade saw the growth of Virtualization from its humble beginnings as a developer tool to its increasing adoption in data centers worldwide. It dramatically improved resilience, scalability, portability and utilization, and became one of the key foundations of the Cloud. But the story is only just beginning...
In his keynote at Cloud Expo Prague, Pete Malcolm, CEO of Abiquo, discussed where you will learn about the next chapter in the Virtualization story. What it is, what it means, w...
You may be reluctant to move your enterprise application workloads to the cloud, fearing a lack of security, compliance issues such as data location regulations, and having to rewrite your applications.
In his keynote at Cloud Expo Prague, Sam Gross, Vice President of Global IT Outsourcing Solutions at Unisys Corporation, discussed the latest technologies and approaches that help knock down these barriers, creating the opportunity for attendees to consider cloud managed services as part of the...
Virtualization is one of the key foundations of the Cloud, but many enterprises are finding the rapid growth in the number of virtual machines extremely difficult to manage. Far from reducing provisioning times and improving utilization, many organizations have found that “virtualization sprawl” has reduced the effectiveness of their IT infrastructure teams, and failed to make anticipated cost savings. Furthermore, vendor lock-in has resulted in the artificially high expense of maintaining virtu...
When building a utility or cloud business plan, Wall Street IT can provide important lessons.
In his session at the 7th International Cloud Expo, Mike Tardif, President of Adaptivity, will lay out a blueprint for the CIO on how to define, fund and implement a successful transition from siloed IT to a cloud utility model.
As the President of Adaptivity, Mike Tardif is responsible for overseeing corporate business and product direction and leading the company to achieve its long-term goals. In t...
The Wall Street Journal has reported that Mark Hurd, HP's recently deposed CEO, is talking to Larry Ellison, Oracle's un-deposable chief, about joining the gang in Redwood Shores. The report didn't say or guess what Hurd would do there, instead revisiting the details of Hurd's HP ouster and gently aiding inferences that he might replace one or both of Oracle's co-presidents and maybe eventually Ellison himself. But, isn't the probable answer as clear as the Sun in the sky?
Gartner has established two Global IT Councils – one of them is on cloud computing. The council members are notable people from IT, mostly CIOs. The report explains the issues, provides the views of the council members and provides recommendations on what is the way forward. It identifies seven distinct area. [...]
Today, "cloud storage" is more than a buzzword. It is a more cost-effective and secure way of protecting mission-critical data and many organizations are already taking advantage of it. Even though there are strong signals of market adoption, per Joel Christner, chief scientist at StorSimple, many challenges still exist today when it comes to using cloud storage natively for traditional on-premises applications, and security remains a concern in terms of data privacy, confidentiality, and contro...
There is an interesting bit in high-tech that isn’t much mentioned but happens pretty regularly – when a good idea is adapted and moved to new uses, raising it a bit in the stack or revising it to keep up with the times. The quintessential example of this phenomenon is the progression from “subroutines” to “libraries” to “frameworks” to “APIs” to “Web Services”. The progression is logical and useful, but those assembler and C programmers that were first stuffing things into reusable subroutines ...
This past week I spent a few days in San Francisco attending the VMworld 2010 event which included a Wednesday evening concert with the Australian band INXS.
Despite some long lines (or queues) waiting to get into sessions, keynotes or lunch resulting in delays reminiscent of trying to put too many virtual machines (VMs) onto a given number of physical machines (PMs) in the quest to drive up utilization, the overall event was fantastic.
While at the event, I had a chance to meet up with fe...
Databases, Data Warehouses, Map Reduce, Hadoop, Realtime Data Warehouses,... What is the right technology for your "big data" analytics challenges? The best fit will depend on your specific requirements on three fronts:
* Speed (How long can you afford to wait for the results of your big data processing? Is latency of several hours acceptable, or do you need analytics insight at the speed of your business transactions and events, i.e. in seconds?)
* Scale (How much data are you gat...
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