This document discusses cloud computing from different perspectives in the IT industry. It explores how cloud computing is viewed differently depending on one's position in the industry, partnerships, customers, and suppliers. It also examines the roles of channel partners and value-added resellers in cloud computing and their need to understand the technology in order to educate customers and transform their businesses for the cloud world.
A presentation I made at the RegLab Annual Conference in Uppsala in March 2015, http://www.reglab.se/arskonferens/. "At Reglab, regions, national state authorities and researchers meet and can add to their competence on issues of development and growth."
My ppt from today's presentation at the EdTech Seminar organized by Ulf Skarin of Veckans Affärer at Swedish Parliament, http://riksdagsseminarium-svensk-edtech.confetti.events/
Chasing the tale of the unicorn: A study of stockholm's misty meadowsRobin Teigland
Stockholm currently has some of the most successful high-tech startup companies in the world. New findings from a research team at the Stockholm School of Economics suggest that infrastructure, networks, business climate and supportive policies are key factors that explain Sweden’s success. The research report is part of the Innovative Internet project, funded by the Internet Foundation in Sweden, IIS.
This report presents the preliminary results of The Innovative Internet project, a three-year project funded by the Internet Foundation in Sweden, IIS. The project’s primary objective is to examine how the internet and digitalization have influenced entrepreneurship and innovation in Sweden.
A presentation I made at the RegLab Annual Conference in Uppsala in March 2015, http://www.reglab.se/arskonferens/. "At Reglab, regions, national state authorities and researchers meet and can add to their competence on issues of development and growth."
My ppt from today's presentation at the EdTech Seminar organized by Ulf Skarin of Veckans Affärer at Swedish Parliament, http://riksdagsseminarium-svensk-edtech.confetti.events/
Chasing the tale of the unicorn: A study of stockholm's misty meadowsRobin Teigland
Stockholm currently has some of the most successful high-tech startup companies in the world. New findings from a research team at the Stockholm School of Economics suggest that infrastructure, networks, business climate and supportive policies are key factors that explain Sweden’s success. The research report is part of the Innovative Internet project, funded by the Internet Foundation in Sweden, IIS.
This report presents the preliminary results of The Innovative Internet project, a three-year project funded by the Internet Foundation in Sweden, IIS. The project’s primary objective is to examine how the internet and digitalization have influenced entrepreneurship and innovation in Sweden.
When an industry speaker dropped out of Channel Focus and Bob Snyder was asked to step in. The only problem was that the topic was Cloud Computing and the Channel.
As an industry we can't even agree on a definition. We either love the concept or hate it. And we haven't yet figured out how to sell it into the channel (let alone achieve sales-through).
See how Bob tackles the problem of addressing 100 Tier 1 channel managers on the topic They Love to Hate.
When an industry speaker dropped out of Channel Focus and Bob Snyder was asked to step in. The only problem was that the topic was Cloud Computing and the Channel.
As an industry we can't even agree on a definition. We either love the concept or hate it. And we haven't yet figured out how to sell it into the channel (let alone achieve sales-through).
See how Bob tackles the problem of addressing 100 Tier 1 channel managers on the topic They Love to Hate.
The disruptive potential of new technologies is growing at a staggering speed and challengers in the market are more vigorous than ever. The combination of these new possibilities and the rise of new competitors are the main drivers that are accelerating innovation. This is the reason why leaders put technology on top of their list of factors that will determine their organization’s future.
Third & Fourth Industrial Revolution - DalarnaRobin Teigland
My slides from a presentation in Falun, Sweden in June 2016 for a networking event for SMEs from the Dalarna region: http://www.mellansvenskahandelskammaren.se/Events/4201/Valkommen-pa-Supernatverkstraff
Flying High in a Globally Connected WorldAnja Hoffmann
CEOs are startled by the rising expectations of the connected customers. New digital technologies like mobile, analytics, and social media are advancing rapidly on the economic landscape. Data is the new "oil" in every industry, also in the travel industry. But there's a lot more to consider when you're looking for the next disruptive innovation in your industry.
How do you serve connected customers?
📗 Fintech Trends for 2022 – Building for Resilience & Security
Since we first published our white paper on the state of play for technology in modern financial services, a lot has gone on.
However, the overarching themes of this paper remain relevant: financial services and products must be based on trusted, secure and resilient tech for the exciting innovations in the industry to take hold.
Our Fintech Marketing Lead, Michael Jaiyeola, produces this paper in collaboration with our global fintech clients, internal engineering and project management teams and influential subject matter experts [see below].
👉 Discover 5 key tech trends shaping modern financial services.
👉 Learn how to bridge the gap between business and tech functions for strategic success.
“Here we bring you a report that describes some of the technologies needed to be competitive, agile and innovative in this new age of human-centric technology.”
@Phil Harrison, CCO Fintech Trifork & Erlang Solutions.
#emergingtech #financialservices #diversityandinclusion #womenintechnology #futureofwork #distributedcomputing #systemresilience #cybersecurity #web3 #blockchain #cbdc #payments #ai #embeddedfinance #opensourcesoftware #functionalprogramming #erlang #elixirlang
SMAC : social mobile analytics and Cloud is today disrupting markets in a big way. Today smaller business and the giants both can use SMAC as an enabler to innovate and create product differentiation.
How Social, Mobile, Analytics and Cloud Technologies are Reshaping the Enterprise : By Malcolm Frank, Cognizant Executive Vice President, Strategy & Marketing
http://www.cognizant.com/smac
Cognizant is the only company to earn a place in the list of Forbes fastest growing technology companies every year since the list’s inception. Its intriguing growth leaves us inquisitive – is there a framework to excel? Has Cognizant found the same? It is known that the book Built to Last by Jim Collins and Jerry Porras influenced Francisco D’Souza (CEO of Cognizant) the most. He is committed to establish a “cult like” culture focused on core values. But, beyond this, does their dual mandate of run better and run different have any role in their monumental growth? Cognizant is not only preaching about helping their clients to transform in order to run better and run different but also walking the talk by practicing the dual mandate within organization from its early days. This paper digs into Cognizant’s history and current trends to understand what they have done to run better and run different.
A discussion of IT channel segmentation and the shift to Segmentation 2.0...include "a fresh look," what channel partners want, what's missing from traditional segmentation, and a few notes on impact of cloud.
Using the Vuvuzela of World Cup fame to illustrate how traditional one-note marketing is yielding to an orchestra of social media and digital marketing.
Speech to Europe's top electronics retailers at RETAILVISION London 2010. Important to view with NOTES visible as I do not read off slides and notes will help get across the points.
SaaS: Why the Channel Does (and Doesn't) Buy ItBob Snyder
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This presentation is meant for retailers and distributors to consider some of the upcoming Consumer Electronics product highlights. It was delivered in Dubai and adapted to local interests.
Dev Dives: Train smarter, not harder – active learning and UiPath LLMs for do...UiPathCommunity
💥 Speed, accuracy, and scaling – discover the superpowers of GenAI in action with UiPath Document Understanding and Communications Mining™:
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Get an exclusive demo of the new family of UiPath LLMs – GenAI models specialized for processing different types of documents and messages
This is a hands-on session specifically designed for automation developers and AI enthusiasts seeking to enhance their knowledge in leveraging the latest intelligent document processing capabilities offered by UiPath.
Speakers:
👨🏫 Andras Palfi, Senior Product Manager, UiPath
👩🏫 Lenka Dulovicova, Product Program Manager, UiPath
A tale of scale & speed: How the US Navy is enabling software delivery from l...sonjaschweigert1
Rapid and secure feature delivery is a goal across every application team and every branch of the DoD. The Navy’s DevSecOps platform, Party Barge, has achieved:
- Reduction in onboarding time from 5 weeks to 1 day
- Improved developer experience and productivity through actionable findings and reduction of false positives
- Maintenance of superior security standards and inherent policy enforcement with Authorization to Operate (ATO)
Development teams can ship efficiently and ensure applications are cyber ready for Navy Authorizing Officials (AOs). In this webinar, Sigma Defense and Anchore will give attendees a look behind the scenes and demo secure pipeline automation and security artifacts that speed up application ATO and time to production.
We will cover:
- How to remove silos in DevSecOps
- How to build efficient development pipeline roles and component templates
- How to deliver security artifacts that matter for ATO’s (SBOMs, vulnerability reports, and policy evidence)
- How to streamline operations with automated policy checks on container images
Generative AI Deep Dive: Advancing from Proof of Concept to ProductionAggregage
Join Maher Hanafi, VP of Engineering at Betterworks, in this new session where he'll share a practical framework to transform Gen AI prototypes into impactful products! He'll delve into the complexities of data collection and management, model selection and optimization, and ensuring security, scalability, and responsible use.
DevOps and Testing slides at DASA ConnectKari Kakkonen
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zkStudyClub - Reef: Fast Succinct Non-Interactive Zero-Knowledge Regex ProofsAlex Pruden
This paper presents Reef, a system for generating publicly verifiable succinct non-interactive zero-knowledge proofs that a committed document matches or does not match a regular expression. We describe applications such as proving the strength of passwords, the provenance of email despite redactions, the validity of oblivious DNS queries, and the existence of mutations in DNA. Reef supports the Perl Compatible Regular Expression syntax, including wildcards, alternation, ranges, capture groups, Kleene star, negations, and lookarounds. Reef introduces a new type of automata, Skipping Alternating Finite Automata (SAFA), that skips irrelevant parts of a document when producing proofs without undermining soundness, and instantiates SAFA with a lookup argument. Our experimental evaluation confirms that Reef can generate proofs for documents with 32M characters; the proofs are small and cheap to verify (under a second).
Paper: https://eprint.iacr.org/2023/1886
GraphRAG is All You need? LLM & Knowledge GraphGuy Korland
Guy Korland, CEO and Co-founder of FalkorDB, will review two articles on the integration of language models with knowledge graphs.
1. Unifying Large Language Models and Knowledge Graphs: A Roadmap.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.08302
2. Microsoft Research's GraphRAG paper and a review paper on various uses of knowledge graphs:
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/blog/graphrag-unlocking-llm-discovery-on-narrative-private-data/
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In this presentation, we examine the challenges and limitations of relying too heavily on PHP frameworks in web development. We discuss the history of PHP and its frameworks to understand how this dependence has evolved. The focus will be on providing concrete tips and strategies to reduce reliance on these frameworks, based on real-world examples and practical considerations. The goal is to equip developers with the skills and knowledge to create more flexible and future-proof web applications. We'll explore the importance of maintaining autonomy in a rapidly changing tech landscape and how to make informed decisions in PHP development.
This talk is aimed at encouraging a more independent approach to using PHP frameworks, moving towards a more flexible and future-proof approach to PHP development.
Encryption in Microsoft 365 - ExpertsLive Netherlands 2024Albert Hoitingh
In this session I delve into the encryption technology used in Microsoft 365 and Microsoft Purview. Including the concepts of Customer Key and Double Key Encryption.
Alt. GDG Cloud Southlake #33: Boule & Rebala: Effective AppSec in SDLC using ...James Anderson
Effective Application Security in Software Delivery lifecycle using Deployment Firewall and DBOM
The modern software delivery process (or the CI/CD process) includes many tools, distributed teams, open-source code, and cloud platforms. Constant focus on speed to release software to market, along with the traditional slow and manual security checks has caused gaps in continuous security as an important piece in the software supply chain. Today organizations feel more susceptible to external and internal cyber threats due to the vast attack surface in their applications supply chain and the lack of end-to-end governance and risk management.
The software team must secure its software delivery process to avoid vulnerability and security breaches. This needs to be achieved with existing tool chains and without extensive rework of the delivery processes. This talk will present strategies and techniques for providing visibility into the true risk of the existing vulnerabilities, preventing the introduction of security issues in the software, resolving vulnerabilities in production environments quickly, and capturing the deployment bill of materials (DBOM).
Speakers:
Bob Boule
Robert Boule is a technology enthusiast with PASSION for technology and making things work along with a knack for helping others understand how things work. He comes with around 20 years of solution engineering experience in application security, software continuous delivery, and SaaS platforms. He is known for his dynamic presentations in CI/CD and application security integrated in software delivery lifecycle.
Gopinath Rebala
Gopinath Rebala is the CTO of OpsMx, where he has overall responsibility for the machine learning and data processing architectures for Secure Software Delivery. Gopi also has a strong connection with our customers, leading design and architecture for strategic implementations. Gopi is a frequent speaker and well-known leader in continuous delivery and integrating security into software delivery.
Securing your Kubernetes cluster_ a step-by-step guide to success !KatiaHIMEUR1
Today, after several years of existence, an extremely active community and an ultra-dynamic ecosystem, Kubernetes has established itself as the de facto standard in container orchestration. Thanks to a wide range of managed services, it has never been so easy to set up a ready-to-use Kubernetes cluster.
However, this ease of use means that the subject of security in Kubernetes is often left for later, or even neglected. This exposes companies to significant risks.
In this talk, I'll show you step-by-step how to secure your Kubernetes cluster for greater peace of mind and reliability.
The Metaverse and AI: how can decision-makers harness the Metaverse for their...Jen Stirrup
The Metaverse is popularized in science fiction, and now it is becoming closer to being a part of our daily lives through the use of social media and shopping companies. How can businesses survive in a world where Artificial Intelligence is becoming the present as well as the future of technology, and how does the Metaverse fit into business strategy when futurist ideas are developing into reality at accelerated rates? How do we do this when our data isn't up to scratch? How can we move towards success with our data so we are set up for the Metaverse when it arrives?
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Observability Concepts EVERY Developer Should Know -- DeveloperWeek Europe.pdfPaige Cruz
Monitoring and observability aren’t traditionally found in software curriculums and many of us cobble this knowledge together from whatever vendor or ecosystem we were first introduced to and whatever is a part of your current company’s observability stack.
While the dev and ops silo continues to crumble….many organizations still relegate monitoring & observability as the purview of ops, infra and SRE teams. This is a mistake - achieving a highly observable system requires collaboration up and down the stack.
I, a former op, would like to extend an invitation to all application developers to join the observability party will share these foundational concepts to build on:
7. • Now, there are only two kinds of
people thinking about Cloud
Computing: those who believe it is
the future of information technology
and those who are in complete
denial.
• ...the natural evolution of computing is to
become a utility
Barry X Lynn, CEO 3Tera
8. What you describe as Cloud Computing
depends upon where you stand in the
industry, who your partners, customers and
suppliers are.
9. Science 19 February 2010:
Vol. 327. no. 5968, pp. 970 - 971
DOI: 10.1126/science.1185138
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Perspectives Atmospheric Science:
Can We Understand Clouds Without Turbulence?
E. Bodenschatz,1,2 S. P. Malinowski,3 R. A. Shaw,4 F. Stratmann5 Just over 50 years ago, Henry Houghton published an essay
in Science entitled "Cloud physics: Not all questions about nucleation, growth, and precipitation of water particles are yet
answered" (1). Since then, understanding of cloud processes has advanced enormously, yet we still face some of the basic
questions Houghton drew attention to. The interest in finding the answers, however, has steadily increased, largely because
clouds are a primary source of uncertainty in projections of future climate (2). Why is our understanding of
cloud processes still so inadequate, and what are the prospects for the future?
10.
11.
12.
13. CLOUDS IN THE IT TROPOSPHERE
Stratus INFRASTRUCTURE &
DATA STORAGE
Alto PLATFORM
Cirrus APPLICATIONS
24. Four Types of SMBs
• The laggards (16%)
have a basic
infrastructure and
limited willingness to
invest in the near term.
“HELMUT”
2010 –IDC’s European Vertical Markets recently released a new report, which
clusters the Western European Small and Medium-sized Business (SMB) business
environment.
25. • Wait-and-see companies
(36%) have a solid
deployment of IT but
prefer to wait until
technology is mature and
widely present in the
market before engaging in
other significant IT
investments.
Four Types of SMBs
“MARIE”
28. • The fast followers
(16%) cluster despite
a lower-than-average
adoption of IT is the
most keen to close
the technology gap
with early adopters.
Four Types of SMBs
“HARRY”
29. Channel Partners
• Come in similar flavours to match
their SMB customers
• If they can transform themselves,
they can’t transform their customer’s
business
• Issues surround the financial aspect
of climbing on-board the CLOUD
30. The role of the
channel in the
Cloud World....
33. Channel Partners
• It wouldn’t be a “sea-change” if no
one got swamped...
• Battle for who will educate the
market
• The emergence of new players
• The re-defining of distributors
• A foot in one world, the other in
the other
35. Capgemini Sees Real Demand
• "If we were having this discussion a year ago, I
think we would have said it was an interesting
hype, but that we haven't quite worked it out
yet and we haven't got enough experience,"
says David Boulter, VP of this newest group.
• “Ultimately, all companies will use aspects of
cloud computing and services...”
CAPGEMINI’s Infostructure Transformation Services launched this year!
41. CHANNEL MEDIA
EUROPE...
publishers of industry
eNEWSLETTERS
for channel
www.ConsumerIT.eu
www.IT-SP.eu
www.On-CE.eu
www.ProAVbiz-Europe.com
www.ECInews.eu
www.DigitalSignageNews.eu
Editor's Notes
Expressions in English that mean you are SOLID...
--Well Grounded
--Both Feet on the Ground
Expressions in English that mean you can’t focus, you drift...
--Your Head in the Clouds
--A cloud on the horizon
--Please come down to earth
--How’s the weather UP there?
Even in French
--ETRE DANS LA LUNE
NEED FOR CLOUD STANDARDS.
JANUARY 08, 2010
Cerf urges standards for cloud computing
Management of cloud assets requires protocols, standards, and research, Internet protocol designer says
By Paul Krill | InfoWorld
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Vint Cerf, a co-designer of the Internet's TCP/IP protocols and considered a father of the Internet itself, emphasized the need for data portability standards for cloud computing during an appearance on Thursday evening.
There are different clouds from companies such as Microsoft, Amazon, IBM and Google, but a lack of interoperability between them, Cerf explained at a session of the Churchill Club business and technology organization in Menlo Park, Calif.
"At some point, it makes sense for somebody to say, 'I want to move my data from cloud A to cloud B,' " but the different clouds do not know each other, he said.
"We don't have any inter-cloud standards," Cerf said. The current cloud situation is similar to the lack of communication and familiarity among computer networks in 1973, said Cerf, who is vice president and chief Internet evangelist at Google.
"People are going to want to move data around, they're going to want to ask clouds to do things for them," said Cerf. They might even want to have multiple clouds interact with each other in order to take advantage of the computing power offered through such combinations, he said.
"There's a whole raft of research work still to be done and protocols to be designed and standards to be adopted that will allow people to manage assets" in clouds, Cerf said. Google, for its part, is resonant with this notion, he said. But right now, users can get data out of the Google cloud but perhaps not send it to another cloud.
He also stressed cloud security. "Strong authentication will be a critical element in the securing of clouds," said Cerf. The Obama Administration, for its part, has expressed a desire to use cloud-based computing techniques to make government more efficient and for inter-agency communication, he said.
Commenting on other topics, Cerf predicted a growing role for mobile devices in everyday life and connections of more appliances, including home appliances and office equipment, to the Internet. "Once you do that, the mobile [device] is potentially the remote controller for all of these things," he said.
"The mobile now replaces all those little remotes that are sitting on the table in front of you," said Cerf.
He endorsed the notion of opening access to "white spaces" -- unused broadcasting spectrum serving as a buffer between TV channels -- as a way to expand broadcast access. Google would like to see the white spaces unlicensed and said technology today exists to enable use of the white spaces.
Questioned about offering inexpensive wireless or broadband services, Cerf said different entities should continue building and operating different pieces of the Internet and put them together, rather than Google itself taking on the whole task. He explained that Google had gotten involved in plans to build a free WiFi service for San Francisco and developed a pilot project for Mountain View, Calif., south of San Francisco. But the project scope began expanding to include 29 jurisdictions in the area.
"As a business model, it's hard for me to imagine a global company like Google wanting to invest in infrastructure for the entire world," Cerf said.
Cerf also said he has been working with NASA to see if the interplanetary protocols in development can be put on top of the Google-backed Android OS for mobile devices. Eventually, mobile devices might be able to communicate with satellites via these protocols, thus enabling more complex space missions involving multiple space crafts, he said.
Optical switching also has caught his attention. "I have become very excited about optical switching as an efficient way of moving huge quantities of information back and forth," Cerf said.
Cerf also endorsed the notion of IP-based television to support services such as on-demand programming. "A packaged-switch system can support on-demand more easily," he said.
This article, "Cerf urges standards for cloud computing," originally appeared at InfoWorld.com.
http://www.infoworld.com/d/cloud-computing/cerf-urges-standards-cloud-computing-817
Not all cloud images are pretty, fluffy and kind
Mainstream IT Buys into Cloud Computing: CA to Acquire 3Tera - A Message from Barry X Lynn, CEO 3Tera
Filed under: 3tera, AppLogic, Cloud Computing, Customers, Random Thoughts, Utility Computing — Tags: 3tera, barry x lynn, ca — bxl — February 24, 2010 @ 7:13 am
We started 3Tera to radically ease the way IT deploys, maintains and scales – MANAGES - applications. Our AppLogic® cloud computing platform provides the foundation of our partners’ orchestration of cloud services for public and private clouds around the world. Today, we’re taking the next step in moving toward making cloud computing mainstream by joining CA.
CA and 3Tera share a common vision for the future of cloud computing, and we are excited about the opportunities that this acquisition will create for our customers, partners and their cloud users.
This is a historic moment in Cloud Computing. The significance of this acquisition is a heck of a lot more than just a land grab in a hot space. We are confident that as a team, CA and 3Tera, will extend our leadership of the cloud computing platform market.
We are honored, given the plethora of Cloud Computing companies that have emerged in the last few years, that CA has chosen us. We really are!
It would probably be arrogant to suggest that we, in turn, chose CA. So I won’t suggest that. But the fact is, we had many options for the future and this is the one that excited us the most.
Now, there are only two kinds of people thinking about Cloud Computing: those who believe it is the future of information technology and those who are in complete denial.
I’ve been around a long time, probably longer than most of the readers of this post. During this time, I have seen three major paradigm shifts in IT.
For my first 20 years in this game, Moore’s Law was, as it always has been, and still will be for a while, in effect. Computers became exponentially more powerful, faster and cheaper. But, for those 20 years it was big central computers doing everything.
So, the first paradigm shift was away from these big centralized systems to client server or distributed systems. There were those who had the vision that inexpensive work stations and servers, connected over a network, would take on much of the load that the big central computers were processing. And there were also those who were in denial.
The second big shift was the rise of the browser and eCommerce. Some of you may be surprised that I did not say the Internet. The fact is, though, Internet technology was around for years before there was a consumer-based Internet, deployed by the government as a way to interconnect various agencies. It was known as the ArpaNet. The browser put a user friendly graphical user interface on top of it and eCommerce was born.
There were those who had a vision that the Internet would be a common way for businesses and consumers to communicate and become widely used for effecting financial transactions. And there were those who were in denial.
The third shift is Cloud Computing. Computing is pervasive. It is no longer something used and accessed by an elite few. Computing is as much a part of life as telephone, television, electricity, etc.
So, the natural evolution of computing is for it to become a utility that anyone can tap into, like other utilities, consuming only what one needs–no more, no less– but always having enough available capacity when needed.
This is Cloud Computing – the encapsulation of applications as autonomous services, abstracted from infrastructure that its users do not care about, except that it’s available and reliable when needed – services that can be available anytime, anywhere, when called upon.
There are those who believe Cloud is the future and there are those in denial.
Like distributed systems, which became pervasive when the ability to precisely manage networks of servers and work stations became available; and, like the Internet, which became pervasive when the ability to manage dynamic web sites securely with high performance; so will go Cloud Computing.
I’ve heard some compare what is going on now to the internet bubble of the ‘90s. I’ve actually heard it referred to as the Cloud bubble. The big difference between the Internet bubble and the Cloud bubble is that today’s economy doesn’t dictate the kind of crazy valuations we saw in the ‘90s (or maybe today’s economy is just more realistic than that of the Internet bubble).
But they have something very significant in common, I believe.
During the Internet bubble, everyone and his brother with a web site, from giant infrastructure companies to retailers of boutique niche products, were perceived to be the future. When the dust settled though, most couldn’t maintain their value – except for the Internet infrastructure providers, that is. It was not just anyone with an Internet presence. It was mostly those who enabled the Internet – who provided the infrastructure to deal with it – to manage it!
Just as everyone tried to stake a claim to a piece of the Internet in the ‘90s, now there are a gazillion companies with Cloud presence. When the dust settles, though, the long term value will be retained for the shareholders of the companies that provide the infrastructure, enabling capabilities and management of Cloud Computing.
CA is a management company. Their mission has always been and remains centered on the management of information technology. Their ability to adapt and manage each generation of technology has enabled them to thrive through all of these shifts.
While there are several management vendors out there, we see most figuring out how to shoehorn customers’ needs into what they already have. But tails can only wag dogs for a short period of time. The big winners will be those who adapt and evolve what they have into real, more than wannabe, Cloud Computing management.
That’s the historic statement. CA has drawn that line in the sand, and we’re thrilled to be part of it.
The leading innovator of IT management technology and the leading innovator of Cloud Computing technology are now one and the same!
Gartner says there needs to be these 5 attributes to call it a Cloud:
Service-Based
Scalable and Elastic
Shared
Metered by Use
Use Internet Technologies
Think about—wherever you are—looking up at the night sky.
You look up and describe exactly what you see. Someone else, on the other side of the world, does the same.
You both describe a beautiful night sky but what you see varies from where you are standing.
What you describe as Cloud Computing depends upon where you stand in the industry, who your partners, customers and suppliers are.
HECK, AFTER ALL THESE YEARS, OUR TOP SCIENTISTS HAVE ONLY NOW FIGURED OUT THAT WE DON’T YET EVEN UNDERSTANDING THE MOST BASIC CLOUD PROCESSES IN NATURE...
SO IN A WAY, ONCE AGAIN, COMPUTING PARALLELS NATURE
There’s another problem. Just as in nature, you can see many different types of clouds. My favourite, the altocumulus is very different than, let’s say, the stratus cloud. And these cloud types with different characteristics are present at different levels in the sky: for example, cirrus live above 18,000 feet while my altocumulus prefer a zone between 6000-20,000 ft.
Clouds in the IT troposphere come in different varieties-- differing by what they service (whether they host platforms, deliver applications, or supply infrastructure and data storage.) You could say Applications are the stratus while Infrastructure is the cirrus but any way you look at it we end up paralleling nature’s troposphere.
There are also virtual private clouds, public clouds, hybrids and more as the IT industry scrambles to define each new usage.
Gartner says there needs to be these 5 attributes to call it a Cloud:
Service-Based
Scalable and Elastic
Shared
Metered by Use
Use Internet Technologies
On the other side, while vendors are fighting each other to define cloud computing, cloud computing is already redefining the landscape. Vendors are rising or falling as they attack and parry in the marketplace with cloud versus traditional computing.
Lenticular clouds, technically known as altocumulus standing lenticularis, are stationary lens-shaped clouds that form at high altitudes, normally aligned at right-angles to the wind direction. They have been mistaken for UFOs (or “visual cover” for UFOs) because these clouds have a characteristic lens appearance and smooth saucer-like shape.Read more on wikipediaSee more on google images
There’s another problem. Just as in nature, you can see many different types of clouds. My favourite, the altocumulus is very different than, let’s say, the stratus cloud. And these cloud types with different characteristics are present at different levels in the sky: for example, cirrus live above 18,000 feet while my altocumulus prefer a zone between 6000-20,000 ft.
Clouds in the IT troposphere come in different varieties-- differing by what they service (whether they host platforms, deliver applications, or supply infrastructure and data storage.) You could say Applications are the cirrus while Infrastructure is the stratus (I’ll leave that to TECH GUYS to debate) but any way you look at it we end up paralleling nature’s troposphere.
There are also virtual private clouds, public clouds, hybrids and more as the IT industry scrambles to define each new usage.
Gartner says there needs to be these 5 attributes to call it a Cloud:
Service-Based
Scalable and Elastic
Shared
Metered by Use
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On the other side, while vendors are fighting each other to define cloud computing, cloud computing is already redefining the landscape. Vendors are rising or falling as they attack and parry in the marketplace with cloud versus traditional computing.
THE WAR BETWEEN WEB & WINDOWS IS OVER. WEB WON.
Precisely because we are connected we can be as free as a cloud
CLOUD is further complicated at the different TIERS of customers. TIER 1, the FORTUNE 500 think of cloud in one way.
We are mote concerned with how SMBs will react. IDC’s European Vertical Markets recently released a new report, which clusters the Western European Small and Medium-sized Business (SMB) business environment.
OK, I DID ADD THE NAMES JUST TO anthropomorphize THESE CLUSTERS...but...
NOW we can see CLOUD has to move through not just TIER 1 vs TIER 2, but has to float by different types of customer culture in each TIER.
IF there are so many different customers, how can there be only ONE CLOUD? And even nature has no answer for than and is multifarious
NEGATIVES YOU HEAR THE “MARIE”s of THIS WORLD...
... Relies totally on network connections, if the network goes down then you’re done until the computer is back up, or if the network is bogged up then everything will be slower.
Doesn’t use a hard drive, while it also can be a benefit it is also a negative as some applications might require a hard drive attached to the computer.
Changes in applications happen without your knowledge or consent, your data is not directly in your hands but in the hands of a third-party.
You are dependant on your internet connection which could be a problem if connection fails and could be a problem for mission critical applications. When your offline cloud computing simply doesn’t work
Although even on a fast connection it may be slow trying to access a similar software program on your desktop.
Stored data might not be secure; with cloud computing all your data is stored on the cloud.
Stored data can be lost as well, data stored on the cloud is unusually safe but if your data goes missing you have no physical or local backup.
How to we distinguish ourselves
David Boulter, vice president of Capgemini's new Infostructure Transformation Services, which launched on Monday.
David Boulter, vice president of Capgemini's new Infostructure Transformation Services, which launched on Monday.
Capgemini is seeing real demand from its customers around the world for cloud computing and services and that the company now has experience in the area, according to Boulter.
"If we were having this discussion a year ago, I think we would have said it was an interesting hype, but that we haven't quite worked it out yet and we haven't got enough experience," said Boulter.
Ultimately, all companies will use aspects of cloud computing and services. However, companies shouldn't rush to start using the cloud, according to Boulter. Whether or not it makes sense to move an application to the cloud depends a lot on a company's business model for the application in question. If there is a lot of variable demand on the application, then it can make sense to move the application to the cloud, Boulter said.
But for a number business sectors that is not a valid advantage, because the volumes their systems have to handle are fairly stable, according to Boulter. Also, a lot of companies' legacy applications can't be cloud-enabled, he said.
BUT WHEN THE WAR IS OVER, WHAT WILL BE LEFT IN THE LANDSCAPE FOR RESELLERS...
LOVELY PHOTO, ISN’T IT?
NOTE THE SMALL SIGN in front of THE TRACTOR: FOR SALE.
IT’S BEAUTIFUL BUT IF THE REAL ESTATE CAN’T SUPPORT YOU, WHAT’S IT WORTH?