An innovative unification of technology, business requirements and economic factors raise the spark for Cloud. Cloud Computing is all the rage in the IT industry. Yet,everyone seems to have a different definition of cloud computing.
Cloud Usage in Business Today and Tomorrowrftclouds
Reach for the Clouds, Inc. was formed to organizations migrate to the cloud with One Solution, One platform, one with your customer.
http://bit.ly/1wqmNX3
Cloud Computing for Banking
What does the future of cloud computing for banking look like—both in the near and long terms? Accenture sees cloud computing as an important step in the continuing industrialization of IT and thus capable of ultimately playing a key role in enabling high performance.
An innovative unification of technology, business requirements and economic factors raise the spark for Cloud. Cloud Computing is all the rage in the IT industry. Yet,everyone seems to have a different definition of cloud computing.
Cloud Usage in Business Today and Tomorrowrftclouds
Reach for the Clouds, Inc. was formed to organizations migrate to the cloud with One Solution, One platform, one with your customer.
http://bit.ly/1wqmNX3
Cloud Computing for Banking
What does the future of cloud computing for banking look like—both in the near and long terms? Accenture sees cloud computing as an important step in the continuing industrialization of IT and thus capable of ultimately playing a key role in enabling high performance.
International Journal of Engineering Research and Applications (IJERA) is an open access online peer reviewed international journal that publishes research and review articles in the fields of Computer Science, Neural Networks, Electrical Engineering, Software Engineering, Information Technology, Mechanical Engineering, Chemical Engineering, Plastic Engineering, Food Technology, Textile Engineering, Nano Technology & science, Power Electronics, Electronics & Communication Engineering, Computational mathematics, Image processing, Civil Engineering, Structural Engineering, Environmental Engineering, VLSI Testing & Low Power VLSI Design etc.
Security and Privacy of Sensitive Data in Cloud Computing : A Survey of Recen...csandit
Cloud computing is revolutionizing many ecosystems by providing organizations with
computing resources featuring easy deployment, connectivity, configuration, automation and
scalability. This paradigm shift raises a broad range of security and privacy issues that must be
taken into consideration. Multi-tenancy, loss of control, and trust are key challenges in cloud
computing environments. This paper reviews the existing technologies and a wide array of both
earlier and state-of-the-art projects on cloud security and privacy. We categorize the existing
research according to the cloud reference architecture orchestration, resource control, physical
resource, and cloud service management layers, in addition to reviewing the existing
developments in privacy-preserving sensitive data approaches in cloud computing such as
privacy threat modeling and privacy enhancing protocols and solutions.
Cloud Computing In Banking And Finance IndustryTyrone Systems
Cloud computing allows organizations to get up and running on an outsourced IT infrastructure without the time or cost investment. It also allows financial firms to start modernizing their technology with minimal investments.
Cloud computing technology has been a new buzzword in the IT industry and expecting a new horizon for coming world. It is a style of computing which is having dynamically scalable virtualized resources provided as a service over the Internet.
The disruptions in 2017 will be an extension of trends that took off in 2016, albeit with higher adoption rate and stronger reinforcements. India’s e-commerce revenue is growing steadily to reach its $120 billion mark by 2020 and playing a big part to its progress would be cloud.
Clloud computing provisioing and benifits altanai bisht 2nd year , part iiALTANAI BISHT
What is a cloud?
Definition , Benefits
Usage scenarios , Architecture
Cloud provisioning and management
Automated provisioning
Reservation & Scheduling
Open source
Virtualization
Storage architecture in the cloud
Piloting innovations on a cloud
Cloud Computing & ITSM - For Better of for Worse?ITpreneurs
his article explores the question whether the relationship will be “a marriage made in heaven?” It also explores the issue of “who is the bride and who is the groom?” As you read further, you can also decide whether the relationship between Cloud Computing and ITSM is “for better or for worse?”
In this presentation CompTIA explores 5 key trends surrounding the transition from the POW era (PC-centric, On-premise, Web 1.0) to the SMAC era (Social, Mobile, Analytics, Cloud). The dual perspective of end users and IT channel firms provides a nuanced view of where things stand today and where they may be headed.
Cloud computing continues to transform the way organization are doing business, proving to be a transformative innovation for many enterprises. Considering how far the cloud has come in recent years spurs questions of what the future will look like and what types of changes we can expect.
Mentions about the details and the advantages that cloud computing has to offer in E commerce which is highly use by high tech customers at present modern technology age.
The future of cloud computing is rapidly entering the phygital world. The cloud has turned out to be the foundation of a successful digital enterprise. However, only a few organizations have been able to optimize this powerful tool, and others misunderstood and underutilized this. Here is a complete guide on Cloud Computing. https://www.netsolutions.com/insights/what-is-cloud-computing/
A set of computers and computer network resources based on the standard cloud computing model, in which a service provider makes resources, such as applications and storage, available to the general public over the Internet .
Public cloud services may be free or offered on a pay-per-usage model.
Applications, storage, and other resources are made available to the general public by a service provider. There are service providers like Amazon, Microsoft or Google who own all infrastructure at their data center.
In almost every organisation, irrespective of its size and industry sector, IT infrastructure managers today are grappling with the same challenges: how to transform IT efficiency; increase agility and flexibility; and lower overheads in such a way that performance, availability, resilience, data security and compliance remain under tight control.
Cloud computing services cover a vast range of options now, from the basics of storage, networking, and processing power through to natural language processing and artificial intelligence as well as standard office applications.
International Journal of Engineering Research and Applications (IJERA) is an open access online peer reviewed international journal that publishes research and review articles in the fields of Computer Science, Neural Networks, Electrical Engineering, Software Engineering, Information Technology, Mechanical Engineering, Chemical Engineering, Plastic Engineering, Food Technology, Textile Engineering, Nano Technology & science, Power Electronics, Electronics & Communication Engineering, Computational mathematics, Image processing, Civil Engineering, Structural Engineering, Environmental Engineering, VLSI Testing & Low Power VLSI Design etc.
Security and Privacy of Sensitive Data in Cloud Computing : A Survey of Recen...csandit
Cloud computing is revolutionizing many ecosystems by providing organizations with
computing resources featuring easy deployment, connectivity, configuration, automation and
scalability. This paradigm shift raises a broad range of security and privacy issues that must be
taken into consideration. Multi-tenancy, loss of control, and trust are key challenges in cloud
computing environments. This paper reviews the existing technologies and a wide array of both
earlier and state-of-the-art projects on cloud security and privacy. We categorize the existing
research according to the cloud reference architecture orchestration, resource control, physical
resource, and cloud service management layers, in addition to reviewing the existing
developments in privacy-preserving sensitive data approaches in cloud computing such as
privacy threat modeling and privacy enhancing protocols and solutions.
Cloud Computing In Banking And Finance IndustryTyrone Systems
Cloud computing allows organizations to get up and running on an outsourced IT infrastructure without the time or cost investment. It also allows financial firms to start modernizing their technology with minimal investments.
Cloud computing technology has been a new buzzword in the IT industry and expecting a new horizon for coming world. It is a style of computing which is having dynamically scalable virtualized resources provided as a service over the Internet.
The disruptions in 2017 will be an extension of trends that took off in 2016, albeit with higher adoption rate and stronger reinforcements. India’s e-commerce revenue is growing steadily to reach its $120 billion mark by 2020 and playing a big part to its progress would be cloud.
Clloud computing provisioing and benifits altanai bisht 2nd year , part iiALTANAI BISHT
What is a cloud?
Definition , Benefits
Usage scenarios , Architecture
Cloud provisioning and management
Automated provisioning
Reservation & Scheduling
Open source
Virtualization
Storage architecture in the cloud
Piloting innovations on a cloud
Cloud Computing & ITSM - For Better of for Worse?ITpreneurs
his article explores the question whether the relationship will be “a marriage made in heaven?” It also explores the issue of “who is the bride and who is the groom?” As you read further, you can also decide whether the relationship between Cloud Computing and ITSM is “for better or for worse?”
In this presentation CompTIA explores 5 key trends surrounding the transition from the POW era (PC-centric, On-premise, Web 1.0) to the SMAC era (Social, Mobile, Analytics, Cloud). The dual perspective of end users and IT channel firms provides a nuanced view of where things stand today and where they may be headed.
Cloud computing continues to transform the way organization are doing business, proving to be a transformative innovation for many enterprises. Considering how far the cloud has come in recent years spurs questions of what the future will look like and what types of changes we can expect.
Mentions about the details and the advantages that cloud computing has to offer in E commerce which is highly use by high tech customers at present modern technology age.
The future of cloud computing is rapidly entering the phygital world. The cloud has turned out to be the foundation of a successful digital enterprise. However, only a few organizations have been able to optimize this powerful tool, and others misunderstood and underutilized this. Here is a complete guide on Cloud Computing. https://www.netsolutions.com/insights/what-is-cloud-computing/
A set of computers and computer network resources based on the standard cloud computing model, in which a service provider makes resources, such as applications and storage, available to the general public over the Internet .
Public cloud services may be free or offered on a pay-per-usage model.
Applications, storage, and other resources are made available to the general public by a service provider. There are service providers like Amazon, Microsoft or Google who own all infrastructure at their data center.
In almost every organisation, irrespective of its size and industry sector, IT infrastructure managers today are grappling with the same challenges: how to transform IT efficiency; increase agility and flexibility; and lower overheads in such a way that performance, availability, resilience, data security and compliance remain under tight control.
Cloud computing services cover a vast range of options now, from the basics of storage, networking, and processing power through to natural language processing and artificial intelligence as well as standard office applications.
As the amount of data used by organizations continues to grow, securing critical information and programs on in-house computer servers has become crucial. Cloud computing offers secure access to users from anywhere and has been widely accepted around the world for its business efficiencies, cost-effectiveness, and competitive advantages.
This e-Book explores the business benefits of cloud migration, including flexibility, higher security, easy accessibility, data recovery, and minimal maintenance. It also provides an overview of the leading cloud service providers, such as Microsoft Azure, Citrix, CompTIA, and AWS.
The e-Book covers the following topics:
The history of cloud computing
An explanation of the three different cloud computing services
A comparative analysis of Cloud vs On-Premises
The advantages of Cloud computing
Quick stats on Cloud-migrated business profits
The top 10 entrepreneurial benefits of Cloud migration
Common Cloud migration challenges faced by every CIO
How to overcome these challenges with Cloud skilling plan solutions
A roadmap to master Azure, Citrix, CompTIA, and AWS Cloud certifications
We hope this e-Book provides valuable insights for organizations considering Cloud migration or looking to optimize their existing Cloud solutions.
Check for more information in these blogs: https://www.netcomlearning.com/blogs/347/microsoft-azure-certification-path-for-2023-the-ultimate-microsoft-azure-certifications-training-guide.html
For aws: https://www.netcomlearning.com/blogs/585/the-ultimate-guide-to-aws-certification-how-to-get-certified-and-succeed-in-your-career.html
As banks adapt to market changes and new technology landscapes, cloud computing is playing a major role, providing alternative ways to access to core banking technology.
Cloud computing adoption in sap technologiessveldanda
Cloud computing is emerging as an exciting trend in the ICT and with this presentation we tried to explore opportunities of adopting Cloud computing in SAP Technologies
If there is any trend that has created such a buzz in recent times, it has got be cloud computing. But does this mean that you should provide your software-plus-service from the cloud? Or should you tread with caution and wait for the market to stabilize? This paper attempts to provide Sanity-as-a-Service to ISV’s, Software-enabledbusinesses and Enterprises on cloud-enabling their software.
While use of the cloud today is generally associated with the ability to reduce costs and improve efficiency, widespread adoption of this technology is projected to have a transformative effect on all businesses of all sizes.
Netmagic talks about the increasing preference for hybrid cloud computing and why it is the future of IT. Know more information from Netmagicsolutions.com
Cloud computing has been a buzzword in the IT industry for quite some time now. Though it has been around for quite a while, its popularity has increased manifold in the last few years. The reason for this is simple – the benefits of cloud computing are simply too hard to ignore.
In a nutshell, cloud computing is the delivery of computing services—including servers, storage, databases, networking, software, analytics, and intelligence—over the Internet (“the cloud”) to offer faster innovation, flexible resources, and economies of scale.
https://dailytimeupdate.com/cloud-computing-definition/
Cloud Computing
Cloud Computing is the emerging concept and technology which extensively changed the structure of IT industry by decreasing the requirements of Software's, Licenses, Storage Space, Hardware etc.
What is Cloud Computing? A Complete GuideAlaina Carter
Cloud computing is the on-demand delivery of IT-enabled capabilities over the Internet to offer business agility and growth. It works on the pay-as-you-go pricing model, and it has turned out to be the foundation of a successful digital enterprise. Read this complete cloud computing guide to know more.
Motorola two way radio construction guideDavid Martin
Material costs are high. Profit margins are thin. Construction contractors are counting pennies. It’s a prime time for business radio two-way retailers to emphasize the cost benefits of Motorola business two-way radios.
Greater Efficiency and Improved Safety for Inmate TransportationDavid Martin
Elite Prisons Transportation Module is a Transportation Management Solution that manages schedules, logistics, staff and vehicles for secure transfer of inmates outside of a facility.
Electronic Health Records Integration with Corrections Case ManagementDavid Martin
Syscon has developed a sophisticated and corrections-specific Electronic Health Records (EHR) system that is fully integrated within our comprehensive Jail Management solution.
An expanded view by data plan size, OS, device type and LTEDavid Martin
A report demystifying data usage trends on cellular and Wi-Fi networks with an expanded view by data plan size, OS, device type and LTE. Know more at: http://goo.gl/ZQaZMU
Reducing the Cost without Compromising SafetyDavid Martin
For the corrections agency executive, effectively addressing this question will be the number one objective for the balance of this decade, and likely beyond.
Electronic Health Records Integration with Corrections Case ManagementDavid Martin
It is through this consolidated view of an offender that line officers and case workers concerned with all aspects of security – inmate, staff and public – develop a knowledge and understanding of the individual inmate.
An Analysis of Data-Usage Patterns in the most Advanced 4g LTE MarketsDavid Martin
While much has been written about the speed and size of uptake of LTE technology around the world, there has been very little commentary about the impact of LTE adoption on consumer usage behavior. Know more at: http://www.mobidia.com
WorkflowJAIL Delivers Innovation and Value from a Name You Can TrustDavid Martin
Across the United States, county jails face the same, difficult challenge: how to reduce operational costs intelligently, without compromising the safety of corrections staff, inmates, or the general public.
A group of Internet-based applications that build on the ideological and technological foundations of Web 2.0, and that allow the creation and exchange of user-generated content.
Cloud Computing | Dimension Data EuropeDavid Martin
A model for delivering information technology services in which resources are retrieved from the internet through web-based tools and applications, rather than a direct connection to a server.
Big data analytics applies to data sets whose size is beyond the ability of commonly used software tools to capture, manage, and process data in a timely fashion.
Transcript: Selling digital books in 2024: Insights from industry leaders - T...BookNet Canada
The publishing industry has been selling digital audiobooks and ebooks for over a decade and has found its groove. What’s changed? What has stayed the same? Where do we go from here? Join a group of leading sales peers from across the industry for a conversation about the lessons learned since the popularization of digital books, best practices, digital book supply chain management, and more.
Link to video recording: https://bnctechforum.ca/sessions/selling-digital-books-in-2024-insights-from-industry-leaders/
Presented by BookNet Canada on May 28, 2024, with support from the Department of Canadian Heritage.
GDG Cloud Southlake #33: Boule & Rebala: Effective AppSec in SDLC using Deplo...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.
Search and Society: Reimagining Information Access for Radical FuturesBhaskar Mitra
The field of Information retrieval (IR) is currently undergoing a transformative shift, at least partly due to the emerging applications of generative AI to information access. In this talk, we will deliberate on the sociotechnical implications of generative AI for information access. We will argue that there is both a critical necessity and an exciting opportunity for the IR community to re-center our research agendas on societal needs while dismantling the artificial separation between the work on fairness, accountability, transparency, and ethics in IR and the rest of IR research. Instead of adopting a reactionary strategy of trying to mitigate potential social harms from emerging technologies, the community should aim to proactively set the research agenda for the kinds of systems we should build inspired by diverse explicitly stated sociotechnical imaginaries. The sociotechnical imaginaries that underpin the design and development of information access technologies needs to be explicitly articulated, and we need to develop theories of change in context of these diverse perspectives. Our guiding future imaginaries must be informed by other academic fields, such as democratic theory and critical theory, and should be co-developed with social science scholars, legal scholars, civil rights and social justice activists, and artists, among others.
Accelerate your Kubernetes clusters with Varnish CachingThijs Feryn
A presentation about the usage and availability of Varnish on Kubernetes. This talk explores the capabilities of Varnish caching and shows how to use the Varnish Helm chart to deploy it to Kubernetes.
This presentation was delivered at K8SUG Singapore. See https://feryn.eu/presentations/accelerate-your-kubernetes-clusters-with-varnish-caching-k8sug-singapore-28-2024 for more details.
Software Delivery At the Speed of AI: Inflectra Invests In AI-Powered QualityInflectra
In this insightful webinar, Inflectra explores how artificial intelligence (AI) is transforming software development and testing. Discover how AI-powered tools are revolutionizing every stage of the software development lifecycle (SDLC), from design and prototyping to testing, deployment, and monitoring.
Learn about:
• The Future of Testing: How AI is shifting testing towards verification, analysis, and higher-level skills, while reducing repetitive tasks.
• Test Automation: How AI-powered test case generation, optimization, and self-healing tests are making testing more efficient and effective.
• Visual Testing: Explore the emerging capabilities of AI in visual testing and how it's set to revolutionize UI verification.
• Inflectra's AI Solutions: See demonstrations of Inflectra's cutting-edge AI tools like the ChatGPT plugin and Azure Open AI platform, designed to streamline your testing process.
Whether you're a developer, tester, or QA professional, this webinar will give you valuable insights into how AI is shaping the future of software delivery.
JMeter webinar - integration with InfluxDB and GrafanaRTTS
Watch this recorded webinar about real-time monitoring of application performance. See how to integrate Apache JMeter, the open-source leader in performance testing, with InfluxDB, the open-source time-series database, and Grafana, the open-source analytics and visualization application.
In this webinar, we will review the benefits of leveraging InfluxDB and Grafana when executing load tests and demonstrate how these tools are used to visualize performance metrics.
Length: 30 minutes
Session Overview
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During this webinar, we will cover the following topics while demonstrating the integrations of JMeter, InfluxDB and Grafana:
- What out-of-the-box solutions are available for real-time monitoring JMeter tests?
- What are the benefits of integrating InfluxDB and Grafana into the load testing stack?
- Which features are provided by Grafana?
- Demonstration of InfluxDB and Grafana using a practice web application
To view the webinar recording, go to:
https://www.rttsweb.com/jmeter-integration-webinar
State of ICS and IoT Cyber Threat Landscape Report 2024 previewPrayukth K V
The IoT and OT threat landscape report has been prepared by the Threat Research Team at Sectrio using data from Sectrio, cyber threat intelligence farming facilities spread across over 85 cities around the world. In addition, Sectrio also runs AI-based advanced threat and payload engagement facilities that serve as sinks to attract and engage sophisticated threat actors, and newer malware including new variants and latent threats that are at an earlier stage of development.
The latest edition of the OT/ICS and IoT security Threat Landscape Report 2024 also covers:
State of global ICS asset and network exposure
Sectoral targets and attacks as well as the cost of ransom
Global APT activity, AI usage, actor and tactic profiles, and implications
Rise in volumes of AI-powered cyberattacks
Major cyber events in 2024
Malware and malicious payload trends
Cyberattack types and targets
Vulnerability exploit attempts on CVEs
Attacks on counties – USA
Expansion of bot farms – how, where, and why
In-depth analysis of the cyber threat landscape across North America, South America, Europe, APAC, and the Middle East
Why are attacks on smart factories rising?
Cyber risk predictions
Axis of attacks – Europe
Systemic attacks in the Middle East
Download the full report from here:
https://sectrio.com/resources/ot-threat-landscape-reports/sectrio-releases-ot-ics-and-iot-security-threat-landscape-report-2024/
Builder.ai Founder Sachin Dev Duggal's Strategic Approach to Create an Innova...Ramesh Iyer
In today's fast-changing business world, Companies that adapt and embrace new ideas often need help to keep up with the competition. However, fostering a culture of innovation takes much work. It takes vision, leadership and willingness to take risks in the right proportion. Sachin Dev Duggal, co-founder of Builder.ai, has perfected the art of this balance, creating a company culture where creativity and growth are nurtured at each stage.
Let's dive deeper into the world of ODC! Ricardo Alves (OutSystems) will join us to tell all about the new Data Fabric. After that, Sezen de Bruijn (OutSystems) will get into the details on how to best design a sturdy architecture within ODC.
LF Energy Webinar: Electrical Grid Modelling and Simulation Through PowSyBl -...DanBrown980551
Do you want to learn how to model and simulate an electrical network from scratch in under an hour?
Then welcome to this PowSyBl workshop, hosted by Rte, the French Transmission System Operator (TSO)!
During the webinar, you will discover the PowSyBl ecosystem as well as handle and study an electrical network through an interactive Python notebook.
PowSyBl is an open source project hosted by LF Energy, which offers a comprehensive set of features for electrical grid modelling and simulation. Among other advanced features, PowSyBl provides:
- A fully editable and extendable library for grid component modelling;
- Visualization tools to display your network;
- Grid simulation tools, such as power flows, security analyses (with or without remedial actions) and sensitivity analyses;
The framework is mostly written in Java, with a Python binding so that Python developers can access PowSyBl functionalities as well.
What you will learn during the webinar:
- For beginners: discover PowSyBl's functionalities through a quick general presentation and the notebook, without needing any expert coding skills;
- For advanced developers: master the skills to efficiently apply PowSyBl functionalities to your real-world scenarios.
Neuro-symbolic is not enough, we need neuro-*semantic*Frank van Harmelen
Neuro-symbolic (NeSy) AI is on the rise. However, simply machine learning on just any symbolic structure is not sufficient to really harvest the gains of NeSy. These will only be gained when the symbolic structures have an actual semantics. I give an operational definition of semantics as “predictable inference”.
All of this illustrated with link prediction over knowledge graphs, but the argument is general.
2. opinion piece | Cloud Computing
Many CIOs view cloud computing as their salvation in the current economic
downturn, as it promises to deliver IT services to subscribers at a lower cost.
Before signing up for ‘services in the cloud’, organisations should distinguish
the hype from reality.
Ask a pool of IT professionals for a definition of cloud computing and you are more than
likely to get several different answers. Some define it narrowly as ‘accessing virtual servers
over the Internet.’ Others see it as a broader, encompassing term like Gary Middleton,
Business Development Manager at Dimension Data, who defines it as ‘a highly scalable
method of delivering computing and application resources as a service over a network,
which may be the Internet and infrastructure not owned by the organisation’.
The concept of cloud computing is not new. A variation of cloud computing, software as
a service (SaaS), has been around for more than eight years. SaaS utilises cloud computing
in its architecture and is essentially a single application delivered and licensed remotely by a
cloud provider to subscribers for use as a service on demand.
Salesforce.com is a well known example of
an enterprise application sold as a service.
Other variations of cloud computing include
platform as a service (PaaS), such as the
SAP suite, and infrastructure as a service
(IaaS), for example, Akami Video Network.
What’s the hype all about?
The hype in the industry currently focuses
mostly around PaaS and IaaS, which are
key cloud platform offerings. Organisations
can outsource their enterprise application
processing to cloud providers without
having to concern themselves any longer
with idle CPUs or unused drive space. The
cloud service provider charges only for
services utilised on a ‘pay per usage’ basis.
The reality is that many vendors are selling
themselves as cloud providers, especially
PaaS and IaaS providers, but few are able
to deliver on their promises. Service levels
between providers and subscribers are for
the most part non-existent. Also, issues
around data security, vendor lock-in and
privacy have not yet been answered.
Middleton believes that there is a lot of
knowledge to be gained and education
that needs to take place before cloud
computing revolutionises and reaches a
level of maturity.
“Network traffic patterns have changed
more in the last five years than in the
last twenty-five, but computing fabrics
will place even more demand onto
networks...”
He says,
“Computing and networking are
merging into seamless ‘computing
fabrics’ where the network is critical
to successful delivery of application
services. Network traffic patterns have
changed more in the last five years than
in the last twenty-five, but computing
fabrics will place even more demand
onto networks that are probably not
ready to cope with the current traffic
loads. Networks and network clouds
will need ongoing investment to ensure
that they are robust enough to handle
cloud computing.”
Get ready to fly in the sky
The nirvana of true cloud computing is not
a reality yet, but that doesn’t mean that
potential cloud users cannot start with
their preparations. Rather than jumping
“Network traffic patterns have changed
more in the last five years than in the last
twenty-five, but computing fabrics will place
even more demand onto networks...”
3. opinion piece | Cloud Computing
Modular Computing
Hardware Centric
Hardware servers for specific
application functions
X86 blade servers penetrating
market more deeply
Hardware scaled out as
computing demand grew
Virtual Computing
Software Centric
Decouple applications from
the hardware and application
to server ratios change 1:1
to 20:1
Applications become more
mobile and able to move from
one server to another
Cloud Computing
Network Centric
Compute workloads much
more mobile and can move
from data centre to data centre
to platform as a server provider
Changes the data centre
financial models (Capex
to opex)
The network becomes an even more critical computing asset
Computing changes over time make the underlying network ever more critical
onto the bandwagon, consider the various
stages of evolution of cloud computing
and align your organisation’s strategy to
it. For example, start by migrating basic
services to SaaS.
Also, ensure that the basic building blocks
in your infrastructure are in place to
support cloud computing. The data centre
is the focus area for this ‘cloud’ evolution.
In the data centre, data is stored and
processed and it is the hub from where
applications are run and delivered. Data
centres are already undergoing the next
evolutionary step to deliver improved
performance at lower monetary and
environmental cost via server and storage
virtualisation projects.
Most importantly, the network in the data
centre is the foundation and it is critical to
enable cloud computing.
“10 Gigabit Ethernet is the answer to
delivering increased performance. We
are also already starting to see unified
fabrics or the converging of networks
within data centres to support data and
storage traffic,”
explains Middleton.
With a solid network in the data centre,
organisations can then start building an
internal cloud where applications move
in a largely automated infrastructure.
Moreover, with a true cloud-based business
application architecture, organisations can
begin to outsource less critical applications
with low expectations on service quality to
cloud providers.
Cloud heaven
The value proposition of true cloud
computing is compelling. The efficiencies of
a centralised computing infrastructure that
can easily be accessed via the Internet, will
enable organisations, for example, to scale
up or down applications on demand, to
handle a higher or lower number of users.
This will change the data centre’s financial
model from Capex to Opex as cloud
computing users can avoid investments
in hardware, software and services, and
rather pay a cloud provider only for what
they use.
IT operations will be agile and mostly
outsourced, which will lower costs and
increase performance. Applications will be
delivered to end users much faster than
they are today and information workers
will be able to connect to their applications
over any infrastructure, using any device,
whether it be a phone, a PDA or netbooks.
“...with a true cloud-based business
application architecture, organisations
can begin to outsource less critical
applications with low expectations on
service quality to cloud providers.”
“...with a true cloud-
based business
application
architecture,
organisations can
begin to outsource
less critical
applications with
low expectations
on service
quality to cloud
providers.”
Time
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