Friday 03 September 2010
The Cloud Leadership Forum, produced by International Data Corp (IDC) and IDG Enterprise, today announced the Forum’s finalized agenda, which will bring together the cloud industry’s most influential vendors, senior IT executives and IDC analysts on June 13-15 in Santa Clara, California, to examine ways to advance the successful adoption of public, private and hybrid cloud models.
Session content for this groundbreaking event was crafted by IDC and IDG Enterprise with the help of an influential advisory board representing a who’s who in the cloud space including such industry juggernauts as Accenture, Akamai, Amazon, AT&T, Citrix, Cisco, CSC, Dell, HP, Fujitsu, IBM, Intel Corp., Juniper, Microsoft, Salesforce.com, SAP, Sun National Bank, Symantec, Tickets.com, USGA, and Verizon Business, who will be announcing the newest addition to its growing suite of cloud-based services — Verizon Cloud Storage.
Featured presenters at the Cloud Leadership Forum will discuss strategies for building a sound business case in light of various cloud options, identify the most promising immediate and long-term applications of cloud computing, explore the industry and customer partnerships that can accelerate cloud’s successful adoption, and drill down into the security and interoperability issues surrounding the transition to the cloud.
Presenters at the Cloud Leadership Forum include:
– Simon Aspinall, senior director, SP Data Center and Mobility
Solutions, Cisco Systems
– Alan Boehme, senior vice president, IT Strategy & Enterprise
Architecture, ING
– Brian Boruff, global vice president, Emerging Technologies &
Strategic Growth Markets, CSC
– Angela Brandt, manager, Security Engineering, Verizon Business Global
Services
– CAPTAIN Nicholas V. Buck, served as director, Ground Mission Framework
and Services Program, National Reconnaissance Office, US Navy
– Jessica Carroll, managing director, Information Technologies, United
States Golf Association
– Dr. Willy Chiu, vice president, IBM Cloud Labs & HiPODS, IBM
Software Group
– Erich Clementi, vice president, Strategy and General Manager,
Enterprise Initiatives, IBM
– Joe Crawford, executive director, IT Solutions, Verizon Business
– John Gallant, senior vice president and chief content officer, IDG
Enterprise, Publishers of CIO, Computerworld, CSO, InfoWorld and
Network World
– Frank Gens, senior vice president & chief analyst, IDC
– Siki Giunta, vice president, Cloud Computing and Software Services,
CSC
– James Harris, managing director, Cloud Computing, Accenture
– Ken Harris, CIO & senior vice president, Shaklee Corp.
– Tim O’Brien, senior director, Platform Strategy Group, Microsoft Corp.
– Domnick Parretta, managing partner, Valorem Consulting Group, LLC
– Mike Pearl, advisory partner, US Cloud Computing Leader,
PricewaterhouseCoopers
– Thor Geir Ramleth, senior vice president & CIO, Bechtel Group,
Inc.
– James Rinaldi, CIO, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory
– John Rizzi, vice president, Product Management and Strategy,
Tickets.com
– Ricardo Santos, product and offering lad, Infrastructure, Accenture
– Kumud Srinivasan, vice president, IT & General Manager, IT
Engineering, Intel Corporation
– Willie M. Tejada, vice president, Application and Site Acceleration,
Akamai Technologies
– Jason Waxman, general manager, High Density Computing Data Center
Group, Intel Corporation
– David Yen, executive vice president and general manager, Fabric and
Switching Technologies, Juniper Networks
IDC Analysts More than a dozen top IDC analysts will be on-site to facilitate roundtable discussions on challenging cloud-related issues and provide one-on-one advice to attendees.
IDC Analysts* attending the Cloud Leadership Forum include:
– Jean Bozman, research vice president, Enterprise Servers
– Jeanne Capachin, research vice president, Global Banking
– Chris Christiansen, program vice president, Security Products and
Services
– Laura Dubois, program director, Storage Software
– Robert Mahowald, research vice president, SAAS and Cloud Services
– Courtney Munroe, group vice president, Worldwide Telecom
– Bob Parker, group vice president, Manufacturing Insights and Retail
Insights
– Steve Hendrick, group vice president, Application Development and
Deployment
– Gard Little, research manager, Worldwide Services
– Melanie Posey, research director, Telecom
– David Potterton, vice president, Global Research
– David Tapper, vice president, Outsourcing and Offshore Services
– Vivian Tero, research manager, Compliance Infrastructure
– Rick Villars, vice president, Storage Systems and Executive Strategies
*Attendees will have the opportunity to meet one-on one-with IDC analysts in attendance.
Sponsors for the Cloud Leadership Forum include: Accenture, Akamai, Cisco, CSC, IBM, Intel, Juniper Networks, Meraki, Microsoft, PWC and Verizon Business.
For more information about the Cloud Leadership Forum, including a complete agenda and list of presenters, please visit http://www.cloudleadershipforum.com.
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About IDG Enterprise IDG Enterprise, an International Data Group (IDG) company, brings together unique editorial brands (CIO, Computerworld, CSO, DEMO, InfoWorld, ITworld, and Network) to serve the information needs of our technology and security-focused audiences. As a digital-centric media company we serve our reader and advertiser audiences with award-winning content and community, driving conversation and conversion, across our entire portfolio of awarding-winning, websites, events, magazines, products and services. In addition, the CIO Executive Council, a peer advisory service, brings together the nation’s top CIOs, as well as provides community and leadership development tools for their staffs. IDG Enterprise is a subsidiary of International Data Group (IDG), the world’s leading media, events, and research company. Company information is available at http://www.idgenterprise.com.
About IDC International Data Corporation (IDC) is the premier global provider of market intelligence, advisory services, and events for the information technology, telecommunications, and consumer technology markets. IDC helps IT professionals, business executives, and the investment community make fact-based decisions on technology purchases and business strategy. More than 1,000 IDC analysts provide global, regional, and local expertise on technology and industry opportunities and trends in over 110 countries. For more than 46 years, IDC has provided strategic insights to help our clients achieve their key business objectives. IDC is a subsidiary of IDG, the world’s leading technology media, research, and events company.
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No doubt its an innovative concept but somewhere it is threatening IT jobs. IDC has predicted that by 2012, investment on cloud service will increase to $42 billion. Analyst firm indicated that as time will pass cloud computing will become more and more prevalent it will replace the jobs performed by IT professionals. There’s nothing to worry, this won’t happen at least for the next few months. As of now SaaS is in and cloud computing is the next level but not its replacement. It is more likely to take five years for any company to switch over. Initially, cloud computing will create new jobs for monitoring infrastructure performance, datacenter operations, shifting to cloud service provider like Google, Amazon etc. According to Mark McDonald, Vice President of Gartner’s group, there will not be much growth in these infrastructure jobs at cloud providers end, due to the economies of scale that came from massive, highly automated and virtualized service-based infrastructures.
This is basically the shift from blue-collar to white-collar IT professionals. Configurations and maintainance of infrastructure jobs will face a major risk as outsourcing the functionality would just ignore administration. So, lesser jobs will emerge for server administrators, database administrators and infrastructure as network staff and companies don’t need to carry their extra burden. Some of these people can be retained by companies but will be given the role of datacenter automation or some monitoring work instead of CRM. And the in-house software developers’ job will be more of SaaS integration with SaaS.
Novell’s perspective on the cloud is we envision ourselves as an arms vendor to the cloud. We are not going to be off creating a Novell cloud; we don’t believe we hold that place in the market. Rather, we see people who are: Google, Amazon, Rackspace. They’re going to need infrastructure tools to run their clouds, which is basically the next generation of what a data center is. Because we made a strategic decision as a business on selling to the cloud providers, that’s a small target market, so we can have traditional partners focus on selling to the end customers today, and we can make a small investment in selling to cloud providers and building that relationship because it’s a small universe of people.
Novell transitioning to a very indirect form of business, where our operating system goes to market to the ISVs, our management tools go to market through solution providers or cloud vendors, our security offering goes to market through cloud providers. You’re starting to see an evolution in Novell as an infrastructure/plumbing vendor.
Does this mean Google wants to be in the software development game or the web hosting business? What’s the company’s vision for App Engine, and where does it fit in the cloud computing landscape? SearchCloudComputing.com caught up with Mike Repass, product manager for Google App Engine, during a recent trip to California. here are lots of people carving out bits of the public web and fencing it off. We’d like to keep it open and App Engine is a way to encourage that. We’re saying, let’s build a business that supports web advocacy, even though it may be low margin, let’s make it easy for people to build on the web. We’re never going to get to the level of Microsoft, in terms of the number of people we have in support and training and all of that, but maybe we can think up some novel solutions for that.
Hosting is a commodity business. Adwords, is the highest margin business of all time, and we’ll never get that margin off App Engine. It’s the same for Saleforce.com on their core business, selling CRM as a service, versus Force.com. They are really pushing Force.com, but perhaps for promotional purposes or lead generation, it’s a loss leader and perhaps we are in the same boat. The question gets at, what are Google’s core competencies? We know how to deal with hundreds of thousands of machines. All our hardware is custom built and not something we could easily serve up at a raw level in a way that makes sense to people. Infrastructure as a service would be a play against Google’s core competencies.
Despite what some vendors might tell you, the use of open source software will be a fundamental element to the future of public and private cloud computing infrastructure, according to The 451 Group. Speaking at Red Hat Inc.’s Open Source Cloud Computing Forum Webcast on Wednesday, the New York-based research firm said open source and cloud computing could actually be a match made in technology heaven. Significant advantages include the reduced barriers to entry, open data standards and APIs, and flourishing support communities. For companies like Red Hat, ISVs have to more fully embrace moving apps that enterprises need to the public cloud, according to Red Hat CTO Brian Stevens. For the future, the company wants to see a higher degree of compatibility between external cloud providers, zero cost of entry and exit for users moving to cloud-based environments, better data mobility, the elimination of ISV licencing obstacles, and an overall reduction in complexity for on-premise cloud installations.
The Google Inc. and Amazon.com Inc. success stories were also echoed by Aslett, who said both public cloud platforms benefited from low cost licencing and flexibility, as well as the ability to empower their developers. Other benefits that open source will bring to private cloud environments include lowered barriers to adoption, de facto interoperability standards, SLA-based subscription pricing, flexible licencing, and the ability to choose whether or not you want to contribute your source code modifications, ut while open source has certainly shaped the foundation of cloud computing and its biggest success stories, some industry watchers have argued that the cloud model threatens to introduce a new layer of complexity for organizations, whether they are taking advantage of public clouds or building out private clouds.
As the company recently announced the availability of Adobe LiveCycle ES Developer Express software - a full version of Adobe LiveCycle ES hosted in the Amazon Web Services cloud computing environment. Adobe continues to push the boundaries when supporting its enterprise developer community,” said Adam Selipsky (pictured), vice president of product management and developer relations for Amazon Web Services. “We are excited to see Adobe extend to its customers the vast potential for unlocking productivity by providing access to enterprise-scale environments in the cloud by offering developer access to its comprehensive LiveCycle ES solution via Amazon Web Services,” he added.
Adobe LiveCycle ES is a server solution that, according to Adobe, “combines data capture, information assurance, document output, process management and content services to help organizations in numerous industries create and deliver rich applications that reduce paperwork, accelerate decision-making. Using the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) and Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) technologies, Adobe’s offering provides a virtual, self-contained development environment where enterprise developers can prototype, develop, and test Adobe LiveCycle ES applications without needing to install and configure Adobe LiveCycle ES themselves.
With Adobe LiveCycle ES Developer Express, Adobe LiveCycle ES applications are pre-configured as ready to run server instances on the Amazon EC2 server. This can help reduce the time required to boot new server instances to minutes, allowing enterprise developers to quickly begin testing and modifying applications. Developers can effectively bullet-proof their applications without having to invest in a development environment or test lab.
The issue was that the publisher of some of Orwell’s works had challenged Amazon’s right to reissue the works. It is possible that Amazon may have been too hasty in researching the strength of the copyrights held by the publishers in question. But that is the sort of thing that is usually argued endlessly in civil courts. Customarily a cease-and-desist order is handed out initially while the case proceeds, the ultimate decision coming only after months or years. But this case played out on Internet time. There was a challenge, and bang – there went the contents of the book, instantly scooped from the personal libraries of people who had paid to own it. I have as yet heard no report that an actual cease-and-desist order was officially issued by a court, but perhaps Amazon was sufficiently convinced it was in violation of a copyright that it ceased-and-desisted of its own accord.
Now take a wider view: what does this say about The Cloud? Here’s an example: imagine a business that has stored its archived records with a Cloud provider which offers a special benefit, say a particularly safe encryption scheme. The business is honest and pays its rent, the provider is honest and abides by all the rules, but a third company gets a cease-and-desist order, claiming patent infringement related to some minor aspect of the encryption program. And even if there is prior notice given, the businesses involved would have to do some fast scrambling to get multiple terabytes of information stored elsewhere before the lights go out. Even if the complaint of the third company were finally determined to be worthless, a good deal of time would be lost – time, in a field that is developing faster than any we’ve ever known.
The Cloud Manifesto document appears to describe design principles and guidelines for system interoperability in cloud computing. Many industry leaders are positioning Linux/Unix operating systems and Open Source technologies as the platform for cloud computing. IBM, Sun, Google, Amazon, and RedHat are all developing and supporting Linux-based cloud solutions. Microsoft is likely upset not because they were left out of the design discussions but because this important future technology is being focused on a platform that Microsoft once publicly stated to be irrelevant in the technology marketplace. It goes without saying that Microsoft is viewing a variant of Windows Server as the best platform for cloud computing, and the lack of an invite just may be an indication that large sectors of the industry do not share that view.
When these discussions take place I hope Microsoft is open to the idea that many chairs at the discussion table will be filled by vendors and developers who believe Linux is the future of cloud computing. Microsoft has already decided that cloud computing should operated on Microsoft platforms. The problem is that Linux may have just found a niche that Microsoft wasn’t expecting, and if so, Mr. Martin’s frustration bears evidence to their concern.
Using Amazon’s high speed internal network, you will be able to move your data onto, or off of, just about any storage device — as long as it meets the compatibility requirements. It’s not to difficult to understand why you would want this capability, but Amazon does offer a few ideas. Loading data into the cloud for the first time has never been faster. Using Amazon S3 for storage of your website for disaster recovery purposes? Now you can get your website back up and running faster. Maybe you want to use S3 to store basic backups, whether full or incremental. Partners send you data on devices on a regular basis? Now they can send that data directly to your S3 bucket. This new service basically works by you putting your data on a storage device and then ship that device to Amazon Web Services to process in their secure data center. Of course there are a few other steps to complete prior to shipping off your device. The beta is currently limited to importing data to AWS for US buckets. The export capability and support for EU buckets will come later.
