Business Intelligence Vendors and Their Partners ? Rough Seas Ahead
The traditional business intelligence ecosystem is built on the numerous strategic partnerships that exist between BI software vendors, which provide the technology, and value added resellers (VARs), which provide customized solutions based on that technology. As in all partnerships, both sides need to have something significant to gain for their partnership to be successful. In the business intelligence industry, this has indeed been the case for a long time. The software vendors use their channel partners to distribute their software to a larger audience and these, in turn, have made a pretty penny from commissions, consulting and implementation fees.
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Cloud Computing: Verizon Builds Hybrid Cloud with VMware vCloud Datacenter
Verizon, which is really into this cloud business ? against the day when phones as we know them evaporate into the ether ? and so means to have clouds for everybody eventually, has added to its very high-end, mission-critical, totally handheld public cloud of last year. It?s taken VMware?s Datacenter widgetry and built a somewhat lower-end hybrid cloud on its own far-flung global IP network that?s gonna be cheaper than its initial offering and is more for enterprise folks that are already VMware-virtualized internally and can manage the virtual machines themselves, folks who want to export and import images between their private cloud and Verizon?s public cloud less dynamically than with vMotion.
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Choosing Your Cloud Vendor
Expanding on the " introduction to cloud computing" article, here are some additional suggestions for choosing a cloud service model provider. In a typical Cloud Computing data centre, an application set will generally be hosted over Virtual Machines running on a large number of Physical Machines. Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) is a definite factor when considering a move for some enterprise services into the cloud. There are certainly arguments both for and against the merits, especially when considering the impact of risk on an enterprise that choses to transfer risk with the adoption of a cloud service.
HP Ousts Dell in the Battle for 3PAR
The last several days have been pretty interesting with tech giants Dell and HP trying to outbid each other for the data storage technology company 3Par . After Dell made its intention to grab 3PAR ?s virtualization goodies public, HP did not waste much time to initiate a steep counteroffer of $24 a share fuelling a spell bounding bidding war. It has turned out that Dell could not really match up to HP's generous and unconditional $33-per-share offer which the board of 3Par found irresistible. Dell certainly could not have been too happy with the outcome as 3PAR's virtualization technology would have been a major asset to boost its cloud computing business which trails behind HP's in more ways than one.
Textbooks or the Cloud?
A heavy book! What would you rather carry on your back ? textbooks or lighter than air apps and data? When I went to school (six miles each way in the snow and rain, LOL), every year the books got heavier. Now, students can look forward to easy trips home with courses online ? brought to them by the cloud. I recently read a commentary that said textbooks met the needs of 19th and 2oth century students, but that they fall short of the needs of today?s interactive students. ?They are old-school delivery that supports old-school pedagogy,? the author stated. ? (OK, I must admit, I had to go to Wikipedia to find out what ?pedagogy? means.)
Cloud Computing: I Can Get Along With It All
There?s a wonderful song named ?Clay Pigeons,? written by the late Blaze Foley. In it, he expresses the need to ?get along with it all?get back in the game, and start playing again.? It?s been a few months since I?ve written about Cloud Computing, and I guess I can take some inspiration from old Blaze there. It?s tough to stay relevant in a world that seems only to move ever faster, in an echo chamber that seems only to be ever more cacophonic. The Great Cloud Computing Land Rush is on. It has been for more than a year now. In the midst of ongoing concerns about security, products and services associated with Cloud Computing will no doubt rack up substantial revenues this year, next year, and beyond. Cloud Computing is a syncretic pistache of several things; it?s not just the Next Big Thing That May Never Be. A few months ago, I was enthusiastic about Cloud and its potential in developing countries. The idea of putting the capex burden on the IT provider, rather than the end-user organization, seemed huge. It still does. Infrastructure-as-a-Service, yippee, and Nic Carr?s vision of The Big Switch come to life. But somewhere along the line I grew disenchanted. It?s probably because I?m getting older. The IT Tide Lifts All Boats, Right? |I?ve been writing about leading-edge technology trends since I was Managing Editor of the very first mobile computing magazine (called Portable Computer) in the early 80s. Our inaugural issue had an interview with Adam Osborne, no less. The great debate of the age was whether MS-DOS was going to blow away the better established CP/M as the dominant operating system. (NB: It did.) All these years, I (and thousands of industry writers, researchers, developers, and buyers) held this unshakeable belief that computer technology was going to make for a better world, if not save it entirely. The post-industrial Information Age was upon us, promising to build future societies anchored to innovation, and to deliver a modicum of prosperity to nations, even entire regions, that missed out on the Industrial Revolution. But to paraphrase an old Yiddish saying, ?Man plans, Buddha laughs.? Hatred among peoples plagues the world day as it did in the age of Homer, in biblical times, and in other ancient societies too numerous to mention. How can Cloud Computing be considered consequential on a planet where military drones and car bombs rain death indiscrimately more or less, where random crime plagues our sick societies on our six inhabited continents, where ?healing? and ?closure? are so starkly trumped by open-ended violence? This was on my mind. So I didn?t write about Cloud Computing. The Fight Continues Meanwhile, others have. My colleague Jeremy Geelan has just put together a list of 50 influential Cloud Computing bloggers, and it illustrates the wide scope, the breadth and depth, of our little syncretic pastiche. A couple of things jumped out at me as I perused this list of writers. The first was a chart provided by Geva Perry?s ?Thinking Out Cloud? blog, which listed the top challenges and issues raised by potential cloud adopters. The chart comes from an IDC survey, and featured no less than eight key issues that were mentioned by at least 76% of all respondents. It?s no surprise that Security topped this list, with 87.5% of respondents mentioning it. But the other seven issues were tightly bunched?Reliability was mentioned by 83.3% of respondents, followed by Performance at 82.9%. Then it gets interesting. The remaining issues included ?On-demand payment model may cost more,? ?Lack of interoperability standards,? Bringing back in-house may be difficult,? ?Hard to integrate with in-house IT,? and ?Not enough ability to customize.? These all strike me as classic CYA rationales for either not wanting to push forward with Cloud Computing, or making darned sure someone else gets stuck with the blame if it doesn?t meet expectations. The second was an entry that I noticed from Scott Sanchez at Cloudnod.com, in which he bemoans a very specific lack of communication, which could be impeding the adoption of Cloud. As Scott writes, ?What stood out for me in (something I just read) is that most enterprises are still neglecting their auditors. Organizations that are interested in cloud computing must educate not just their security teams about how cloud is different, they must educate the auditors. ?Don?t just think about your internal auditors, even go as far as to pay for a few days of training for your key external auditors if you have the budget. Teach them that although this is a new model of computing, security levels can be maintained even though they may look different. Help them to help you.? Both Scott and the source of his comment--a posting at Christopher Hoff?s Rational Survivability blog, which is also on Jeremy Geelan?s ?50? list?were talking about security, but the concept of teaching an organization a new model of computing is a profound one. It?s always been this way. The first PCs were snuck into offices under budget lines allocated for typewriters and office supplies. Top executives viewed a laptop computer as an assistant?s tool for years, rather than their link to their enterprise and the world. Corporate email didn?t become common until AOL popularized the use of personal email. To this day, it?s a struggle to find enterprise software that is truly Web-centric. And now, you?re telling people to put everything into a cloud that doesn?t really reside in any particular place? My Head Back in the Clouds For the past year, I?ve been living in a place where construction workers wear flip-flops, where graduation from elementary school is a big deal for many, where remittances are a major component of GDP. This place is hardly the most indigent place in its region or the world. Planet Earth in 2010 is a place where Peru and Jamaica are near the median in per capita income. Troubled Mexico is in the top third, as is Libya. Greece is withn the top 15%. Can Cloud Computing make a difference in such a world? It seems that there is no choice; it has to. It?s too much to expect human nature to evolve at a pace faster than its current Darwinian, geological pace. But it?s nice to know that so many are trying so hard to achieve a global shift in how we think about IT, its deployment, and its use, even as IT remains one of the great hopes for societal transformation, ie, better health, more wealth, less grinding poverty. Thanks for keeping up the good fight, everyone. I just need to be get along with it all, and start writing again.
Taleo Buys Learn.com for $125m
Taleo, the SaaS-based talent agency that just put ex-Sun CEO Jonathan Schwartz on its board, is buying its SaaS strategic partner Learn.com for $125 million cash to expand its cloud offering, thinking it will be ?the world?s largest vertical cloud provider.? It says it will make Taleo the only public vendor to offer software across the four critical components of a talent-optimized organization: recruiting, performance management, compensation management and now learning management, a market estimated to be worth $1 billion in 2011 according to Bersin & Associates.
Cloud Computing: Arcot Goes to CA for $200m
CA is buying Arcot Systems, the privately held subscription-based on-premises and cloud authentication and fraud prevention ISV, for $200 million cash. Its software and 165 employees are bound for CA?s Identity and Access Management (IAM) unit to be combined with CA?s SiteMinder portfolio and is supposed to add to the company?s cloud security strategy. Arcot claims to prevent fraudulent transactions for about a million online credit card transactions a day using a software-only approach. It co-wrote the 3-D Secure protocol for online payment security with Visa and has 35 patents awarded or pending.
Storm Clouds: Disruptive Technologies Create ?New Normal,? Dispel Myths
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 emergence of a new class of providers as well as a greater degree of standardization around virtualized OS & Middleware configurations. In his general session at Cloud Expo Prague, David Milot, Unisys Managing Partner, discussed what you need to consider to ensure your enterprise?s foray into cloud computing successfully and securely meets the needs of your enterprise, today and tomorrow.
Eliminate Vendor Lock-in with Next-Generation Virtualization Management
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 virtualized environments. At Cloud Expo Prague, Pete Malcolm, CEO ofAbiquo, discussed how next-generation virtualization management can completely eliminate vendor lock-in, substantially reduce provisioning times, realize utilization goals and ultimately achieve the cost savings promised by the virtualization ideal.
Why the Time Is Right for Enterprise Cloud Computing
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 their data center journey to secure "IT as a Service." He also discussed what you must consider to ensure your enterprise's cloud computing strategy successfully and securely meets the needs of your business, today and tomorrow.
An Open Cloud Ecosystem - the Gathering Storm
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, why open standards are key, and, most important, how it will revolutionize the way your organization manages IT.
Cloud Computing: HP Goes into the Insta-Cloud Business
HP?s got a private cloud-in-a-box scheme that it trotted out Monday ahead of VMworld called HP CloudStart that?s supposed to provide the cloud-smitten enterprise that?s hanging back everything it needs to get cloud-borne in a mere 30 days complements of HP?s Cloud Consulting Services, so what it?s gonna cost is anybody?s guess. It?s also promising that the platform will push out into a hybrid environment down the road. HP will sell CloudStart, which is for compute services, in Asia-Pacific and Japan to start, expecting to go global in December.
Nokia Kills Ovi Files Cloud Computing Storage
Nokia will be canning its free 10GB mobile cloud-based file-sharing service Ovi Files come October 1 for lack of popularity apparently. Its 1.5 million registered users will have to find other accommodations like maybe Nokia Ovi Suite, which requires a wired connection. Meantime nobody will lose anything because, it says, ?Ovi Files simply creates an ?online mirror? of the files saved on your Windows PC or Mac, so your original files will remain intact. The files on your computer are always treated as the master version, even if some are selected as ?Anytime Files.??
Belgacom?s Hosting Unit Falls to AccelOps
AccelOps, the three-year-old start-up that monitors data centers, networks and clouds with software delivered either SaaS or as a virtual appliance, has enticed Belgacom ICT, the old Belgian PTT?s pan-European IT arm, into its fold. Belgacom means to use the stuff for its 200 hosted commercial IT services customers. AccelOps, which baby-sits service, performance, availability, security and change management, reportedly won a run-off against competitors like Nimsoft and Zenoss. Belgacom reportedly liked the idea that the widgetry was agent-free, multi-tenant as well as multi-site and of course scaled.
F5 Helps Cloud Provider SpringCM Deliver Enterprise Content Management
F5 Networks, Inc., a provider of Application Delivery Networking (ADN), on Friday announced that SpringCM, an award-winning cloud enterprise content management platform, uses F5 BIG-IP solutions to meet rapidly growing customer demand. The enhanced application performance and virtual server infrastructure optimization that F5 products deliver are vital to achieving the cost-effectiveness, reliability, and performance required for an enterprise-class cloud service.
And Now, Here It Is, Your Moment of zEn(terprise)
On 9/10/10 IBM will start shipping the zEnterprise 196 server, powered by the new z196 microprocessor, a 4-core chip with a record-breaking clock speed of 5.2GHz per core. Configured with the maximum 96 cores, the system can execute over 50 billion instructions per second, making it 60% more powerful than its predecessor with the same power consumption. Entry-level pricing is about $1M for a 20-core model. It is positioned as both a mainframe a cloud server - supporting both Power7 and x86 apps, and allowing for dozens of logical partitions and up to 100,000 virtual OS images.
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