Sunday 14 March 2010
CloudSlam’10™, a virtual conference developed to promote collaborative analysis of the latest trends and challenges in the world of Cloud Computing, will commence on March 23. CloudSlam’10™ is organized by leading experts and authorities in the Cloud Computing industry and backed up by the world’s largest Cloud Computing community. Key topics will include Cloud Standards, Security, Transition Strategies, Compliance & Impact of Cloud Computing on the Global Economy. Attendees will hear breaking news, views & opinions which are exclusive to CloudSlam’10™.
CloudSlam’10™ gives industry leaders’ and professionals’ keen insights into published research, unique and evolving ideas and best practices, as well as an opportunity to network with leading experts within the Cloud Computing industry. The conference is designed to be a thought leadership platform for Business, Government and Academia. It’s also an ideal opportunity for corporate leaders to glean information on the latest innovations in Cloud Computing, generate new contacts and develop ideas on how to capitalize on what’s estimated to eventually become a $100 billion dollar market.
The CloudSlam’10™ speaker line-up will highlight new players in the Cloud Computing arena, as well as established players like IBM, who has been selected to be the Exclusive Diamond Collaborator for CloudSlam’10™. Dr. Kristof Kloeckner, CTO Enterprise Initiatives and Vice President Cloud Platforms, IBM Corporation, will present the Day One Headline Keynote address at the CloudSlam’10™ virtual event.
Drawing on experience of working with IBM customers and IBM’s internal cloud deployments, Dr. Kloeckner will review the conditions under which Cloud Computing can deliver its promise of cost reductions, delivery efficiency, flexibility and agility, as well as share insights around customer adoption based on careful selection of workloads and appropriate deployment models.
In addition, IBM senior software engineer Doug Tidwell will discuss the need for and status around cloud computing standards.
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Commenting on the announcement today, CloudSlam’10™ Chairman – Khazret Sapenov said, “We are truly delighted to have IBM join this year’s proceedings as our Headline collaborator for the event. IBM brings a wealth of expertise and know-how which we are certain will educate our event delegates, Cloud Computing group community members, as well as the Global audiences tuning in worldwide.”
CloudSlam’10™ - Produced by Cloudcor, Inc.™, is the premier Cloud Computing event. As an affordable way for industry leaders to exchange ideas and experiences, CloudSlam’10™ opens new horizons of cloud computing and serves as a springboard to success. CloudSlam’10™ will take place March 23-25 2010 -Online. For more information, contact Khazret Sapenov at k.sapenov@cloudslam.org or visit http://cloudslam10.com
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Red Hat Targets Cloud Computing
Red Hat, the world’s leading provider of open source solutions, today delivered on its JBoss Open Choice strategy and announced availability of JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 5.0. This core middleware product represents next generation Java application platforms and will be integral to Red Hat’s cloud foundation.
JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 5.0 supports developer choice and aims to provide a consistent foundation to support the wide variety of Java programming and component models, including Plain Old Java Objects, Java EE, Spring Framework, OSGi, Google Web Toolkit and a variety of Rich Internet Application frameworks and dynamic languages. Additionally, the platform spans the growing number of operating models, from traditional on-premise lightweight Java applications, to newer internal and external cloud-based deployments. Customers are expected to benefit from easier application development and deployment, developer choice in programming models, protection against programming model changes and an easier transition to newer application deployment models.
“JBoss Enterprise Middleware allows us to be extremely flexible with our architecture. We can deploy on a range of options to suit our needs which is unlike any other IT vendor we have considered,” said Tim Dion, CIO, Sensei Inc., a developer of innovative mobile and Web-based solutions that motivate and empower consumers to take charge of their well-being(www.sensei.com). “With the addition of cloud enabled platforms Red Hat is anticipating our technology needs for the future which will help us make a seamless transition into cloud computing environments. Healthcare innovation, and the role mobile technology is playing in particular, is transforming individuals and organizations. Cloud computing environments like JBoss help bring these innovations to the masses.”
Recent IDC research predicts spending on IT cloud services to grow almost threefold, reaching $42 billion by 2012 and capturing 25% of IT spending growth in 2012 and nearly a third of growth the following year*. Further IDC indicates that successful suppliers will need to address both the biggest challenges of cloud services, and the biggest traditional IT user issues.**
“Not only have we delivered on our JBoss Open Choice strategy by releasing JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 5.0, but we are contributing to the future of Java application platforms from traditional to cloud-based environments,” said Craig Muzilla, vice president, middleware, Red Hat. “Ultimately, we aim to give customers the flexibility to choose the right programming and deployment models to stay ahead of their competition.”
Red Hat’s middleware portfolio is designed to help customers take advantage of cloud computing. As a core component of Red Hat’s cloud computing foundation, customers should be able to combine JBoss Enterprise Application Platform and Red Hat Enterprise Linux with integrated virtualization technologies that provide customers with a fully virtualized, standards-based enterprise open source cloud computing service platform, supporting both on-premise and off-premise cloud deployments.
JBoss Enterprise Application Platform is the first commercially available Java EE application server available in Amazon’s Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2). This new release is expected to also be made available on Amazon EC2, as well as other environments that achieve Red Hat’s Premier Cloud Provider Certification.
JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 5.0 is designed to leverage a second generation service-based Microcontainer architecture to provide a consistent and modular series of enterprise deployment features for clustering, caching, transactions, web services, security and more, regardless of the selected programming model or deployment style. This unique JBoss Microcontainer architecture makes it possible for JBoss solutions to support many different programming models. It also makes it possible to separate enterprise services to be more configurable, which enables easier development and deployment. The new release also features an advanced administrative console that makes configuring traditional and cloud-based application grids simpler and easier.
Features of JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 5.0 include:
– Second-generation service-based architecture: The core JBoss Microcontainer provides improved class-loading, performance, life-cycle management and flexibility across a wide variety of programming and component models including; Java EE, POJOs, OSGi, Spring Framework and more in both traditional on-premise and cloud operating environments. The Microcontainer also provides the ability to separate enterprise services from the core runtime engine, making it more configurable.
– Improved management and configuration: An embedded version of the JBoss Operations Network administrative console provides a comprehensive interface to manage and configure applications, control application server operations and provide insight into performance metrics for both on and off premise applications.
– Java EE Support: JBoss Enterprise Application Platform supports the full Java EE 5 standard, as well as providing support for several upcoming Java EE 6 standards, including the Java EE Web Profile concept.
– Major component upgrades: Upgrades include enterprise versions of the JBoss Application Server, Hibernate, Seam, JBoss Cache and JBoss Web Services that provide performance enhancements for scalability, high availability and intelligent load balancing across a variety of deployment environments. The new release also features support for distributed transactions and comprehensive web services stack support.
Operational management is available in the latest JBoss Operations Network (ON) release, JBoss ON 2.3. This release provides comprehensive management support including configuring application clusters in traditional and cloud-based deployments as well as availability and performance management across a variety of operating environments.
Developer tooling is available with JBoss Developer Studio, an Eclipse-based integrated development environment that provides a comprehensive set of tools developers need to quickly build rich, highly interactive applications and services using technologies like Seam, Java EE, Spring, Hibernate, AJAX, RichFaces and more.
JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 5.0 is available today to select customers through the first customer ship (FCS) program. Learn more about the new JBoss platform during the live JBoss World keynote, or recorded versions available at www.jbossworld.com.
*IDC Press Release, IDC Finds Cloud Computing Entering Period of Accelerating Adoption and Poised to Capture IT Spending Growth Over the Next Five Years, Doc #prUS21480708, 20 Oct 2008
**IDC eXchange, IT Cloud Services User Survey, pt.3: What Users Want From Cloud Services Providers, Doc #213, 3 Oct 2008.
About Red Hat, Inc.
Red Hat, the world’s leading open source solutions provider, is headquartered in Raleigh, NC with over 65 offices spanning the globe. CIOs ranked Red Hat as one of the top vendors delivering value in Enterprise Software for five consecutive years in the CIO Insight Magazine Vendor Value survey. Red Hat provides high-quality, affordable technology with its operating system platform, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, together with applications, management and Services Oriented Architecture (SOA) solutions, including JBoss Enterprise Middleware. Red Hat also offers support, training and consulting services to its customers worldwide. Learn more: http://www.redhat.com.
Liquidware Labs
Liquidware Labs Inc. (LWL), the market leader in virtual desktop and application assessment and diagnostics, today launched VDI.com, a brand new Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) authority website featuring in-depth discussion articles and forums led by well-known industry gurus such as Tom Howarth, Michael Keen, Dennis Zimmer, David Bieneman and J. Tyler Rohrer.
VDI.com has been structured and designed to be far more interactive than blogs and other forums to provide members with extensive intelligence in key areas such as application and remote desktop virtualization, security, mobility, cloud computing, assessment, design, user profile and performance experience, hypervisor comparisons, hosted computing TCO, and much, much more.
“I am excited to have VDI.com as a virtual community water cooler and to be able to interact directly with the VDI community in this way,” said Michael Keen, contributing writer to DABCC and Enterprise Strategist at Alliance Technologies, Des Moines, IA. “The forums have heavy hitting industry leaders participating and answering tough questions facing today’s VDI administrators. Having this as a key industry resource will help organizations ensure VDI implementation success.”
The participating industry luminaries will actively contribute to the forum with an aim to share their immense experience with organizations seeking assurances that embarking on a VDI strategy is one that will bring the desired business benefits to their company’s overall strategic requirements.
Registration and participation in www.VDI.com is free, visit today to join and start participating in the industry’s latest, exciting VDI forum!
ABOUT LIQUIDWARE LABS INC.
Liquidware Labs Inc. (LWL) is the market leader in virtual desktop and application assessments, bringing a completely new and innovative approach to accelerating the adoption and consumption of virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI). Described by analysts and the industry as providing the “on ramp to VDI”, LWL provides a combination of software and consulting methodology to intelligently assess desktop and application viability for virtualization. The company’s Stratusphere(TM) platform provides organizations previously unattainable visibility into the configuration, usage and performance of their virtual (and physical) desktop infrastructure and deployments. The LWL leadership team is comprised of virtualization industry veterans that collectively have skills within professional services, software development, virtualization assessments and deployments and have been selling and marketing virtualization since 2002. LWL products are VMware and Citrix certified, and are available through a global network of certified partners. Visit www.liquidwarelabs.com for further information.
Contacts:
Jane Rimmer Tyler Rohrer
jane.rimmer@liquidwarelabs.com tyler.rohrer@liquidwarelabs.com
+44 7710 633488 866-914-9667
Google Apps customers can now employ a sort of safety net to protect corporate documents and files in Google Docs. Called CloudSave, users are able to conduct legal discovery and “un-delete” previously deleted documents as needed. CloudSave comes courtesy of Salvair, a company that works to increase organizational efficiency through cloud computing solutions. They recently announced the release of version 2 software for Google Docs Archival and eDiscovery. Traditionally, Salvair offers software, services and training for companies evaluating and subsequently implementing Google Apps. Encompassing migration, integration and usability for the enhancement of the Google Apps experience, Salvair focuses on software that supplements Google Apps within the enterprise.
By employing CloudSave, documents, spreadsheets, presentations and PDFS can be readily backed up, making it a useful eDiscovery tool. Companies can benefit from the flexibility of archiving documents for an entire domain or for specific users, while enjoying the access and ease of Google Docs. Because eDiscovery isn’t just for companies, Salvair offers discounted pricing for educational and non-profit organizations. Considering that use of Google Docs is an affordable option for business document suites, not to mention collaboration and messaging, why not use the money you’re saving to ensure security and protection of your files? Price varies by options but starts at US$ 25 per user, or a minimum of US$ 15,000.
Enterprises large and small are drawn by the advantages of cloud computing pay-for-use, self-service, elastic scalability and the elimination of hardware management – resulting in very low barriers to entry and exit and high agility. However, enterprises are also concerned about security, quality of service, integration, compliance, lock-in, and the long-term costs of public clouds.
Private clouds for the exclusive use of one enterprise can however mitigate these concerns by giving the enterprise greater control. In a keynote address to be given at SYS-CON’s 4th International Cloud Computing Conference & Expo, Richard Sarwal (pictured), SVP of Development for Oracle Enterprise Manager, will explore how enterprises are likely to adopt public and private cloud computing, building on a foundation of virtualization infrastructure and management systems. At the 4th International Cloud Computing Conference & Expo, November 2-4, 2009, being held in the Santa Clara Convention Center, Santa Clara, CA, more than 1,500 delegates will find out how cloud computing is transforming the way that enterprises everywhere build and deploy applications.
Provided below are two quotes, one from Larry Ellison of Oracle and one from Andy Isherwood of HP (both from 2008 so maybe their perspectives have changed). Not everyone, even those that would be serving this new Cloud Computing environment, are convinced that Cloud Computing is a new and improved way to do business. In fact, these two are claiming that they are already doing it. Luckily for us, not everyone is of the same mindset as these two but clients do have concerns and in some instances, rightly so.
The interesting thing about Cloud Computing is that we’ve redefined Cloud Computing to include everything that we already do. We don’t understand what we would do differently in the light of Cloud Computing other than change the wording of some of our ads. Gartner is also stressing to clients that they need to evaluate providers and service providers to ensure that their decisions to move to a Cloud Computing environment is the right one for them and their shareholders.
Organizations potentially can gain a competitive or cost advantage through selective adoption of cloud computing, but not without first taking a comprehensive look at the associated risks, ensuring that they are consistent with business goals, along with the expectations of regulators, auditors, shareholders and partners. Clients are not blind to these issues and you can see by this chart that their concerns map exactly to what we have been discussing as concerns with Cloud Computing.
With Window 7 released to manufacturing on schedule, more and more businesses are examining their feelings about the move from Windows XP. Though somewhat uncharted waters, the overall consensus is good. Confidence has been restored and definite plans are in place by many to make the transition as soon as possible. TechRepublic recently featured the results of a pool of IT decision makers in various industries. These IT leaders were asked if they plan to deploy Windows 7 by the end of 2010. Ffifty-percent said they are expecting to have it done by that time with the remaining majority set to deploy at a later date. Below are a few of the reasons given in favor of early adoption as well as those for the delayed.
Cloud computing on the horizon - The impact of the adoption of cloud computing solutions makes it virtually impossible to say what the next generation of desktop computing will be like. A delay in the move from XP could place the business at a disadvantage, especially in terms of security.
Each version takes advantage of a cloud computing solution Panda call Collective Intelligence. Using that has helped the company minimise the resources required to protect your machine and boast just an 8MB memory footprint while running. Panda are also claiming an 80% performance improvement over previous editions, 60% improved browsing speed, and 40% improved downloading speed. In the same way Kaspersky introduced its Ultra Portables solution earlier this month; Panda has decided to target netbooks with one of its Antivirus SKUs giving antivirus, anti-spyware, firewall, ID protection, anti-phishing, and anti-rootkit protection for mobile users.
For those not using a netbook there are three options. The Pro suite gives you a basic range of protection, Internet Security adds 2GB of online backup and recovery tools, anti-spam, parental controls, Web Filter, and Information Filter technology. Global Protection takes the online backup storage to 5GB, adds CD/DVD backups, and introduces PC tune-up. Panda’s latest products seem to offer everything you need, but it looks like you need to buy at least Internet Security 2010 if you don’t want to rely on other security software as well. I don’t appreciate them charging extra for a three PC license though and I hope they revise that so the one PC license price becomes the three PC license price.
While certain applications do rely on the storage of such data as customer records, emails and documents within the cloud, there is an entire class of applications that reap the benefits of cloud computing without any risk to confidential data. Take Internet security, for example, and web filtering specifically. Anyone using a recent Firefox browser has likely seen the red “attack page” warning before going to a web site. This safety mechanism comes to the browser through the power of cloud computing. Google does some basic security checks when it visits websites and publishes its findings for Firefox users and alongside search results.
In the real world, however, running every file that gets downloaded and then monitoring and mining data on everything it does is impractical–the memory and processing requirements are just too high. The same is true of websites; a thorough, automated evaluation of a website is a very slow process. Any vendor offering an appliance or desktop application performing this function would soon learn that end users won’t tolerate the required delays and would opt instead to turn off the feature.
When you move the in-depth scanning techniques into the cloud–with its theoretically limitless computing capabilities–and add in efficiencies gained by scanning a website or file only once, regardless of the number of users visiting it, that is the real power of the cloud. Traditional tradeoffs between security and performance can be re-evaluated as virtual supercomputers are applied to security problems and millions of users gain the benefit of a single in-depth scan.
InformationWeek reports that the NSA is testing a system which will use a cloud computing element to house data for the department. The magazine reports that at a recent cloud computing symposium at the National Defense University’s Information Resources Management College, director of technology for NSA’s integrated intelligence program Randy Garrett said the organization was not planning on using cloud computing to cut down on costs - as many others do. Instead, Garrett said the agency was looking at ways to do things that “were essentially impossible before.
The magazine points out that the efforts from the NSA are part of Intelligence Community Directive 501, which was put in place to promote information sharing among agencies in the intelligence community. While the NSA is looking into using cloud computing to do things that were not possible with traditional computing, an increasing number of businesses are using the tool to cut down on costs and reduce pollution. A report from NetSuite found that by using cloud computing companies can save the equivalent of 423,000 metric tons of carbon dioxide.
