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Wednesday, December 17, 2014

IBM Adds 12 Cloud Centers to its Global Cloud Computing Network

IBM Adds 12 Cloud Centers to its Global Cloud Computing Network


ARMONK, N.Y., Dec. 17, 2014 /PRNewswire/

IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced a continued expansion of its global cloud computing network to 40 cloud centers with 12 new locations serving a growing roster of enterprise clients looking to move to hybrid cloud computing.

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IBM will reach customers in 12 new locations including IBM Cloud centers in Frankfurt, Mexico City and Tokyo, and nine more centers through a strategic partnership with Equinix in Australia, France, Japan, Singapore, The Netherlands and the US.

IBM's agreement with Equinix provides direct access to the full portfolio of SoftLayer cloud services via the Equinix Cloud Exchange™ in nine markets worldwide spanning the Americas, Europe and Asia Pacific, including Amsterdam, Dallas, Chicago, Paris, Silicon Valley, Singapore, Sydney, Tokyo and Washington, D.C.  Through this partnership, SoftLayer provides customers with the ability to easily move production workloads in and out of the cloud, thus better enabling them to fully realize their hybrid cloud strategies.

The new IBM Cloud centers in Frankfurt, Mexico City and Tokyo mark the latest delivery of  IBM's $1.2 billion commitment announced in January 2014 commitment to grow IBM's cloud presence around the world to meet these local mandates with performance, security and data controls built in.

Hybrid Cloud Growth in Enterprises

Enterprise cloud deployments, specifically hybrid cloud, are growing at a significant rate.  According to leading technology research firm, Gartner, Inc., nearly half of all enterprises will have a hybrid cloud deployed by 2017.  Chief among the driving forces behind the adoption of cloud computing worldwide including hybrid cloud, are requirements for businesses and governments to store certain data locally to comply with data residency regulations, as well as a growing desire for startups to expand their businesses globally.  IBM estimates about 100 nations and territories have adopted laws that dictate how governments and private enterprises handle personal data.

The new centers further expand IBM's global cloud footprint which includes facilities in Mumbai, London, Amsterdam, Beijing, Hong Kong, Singapore, Melbourne, Toronto, Dallas and Raleigh, N.C., opened this year. This effort includes IBM's business consulting division, which features thousands of cloud experts with deep industry knowledge who are located around the globe to help clients to move to cloud.   IBM consultants are dedicated to working face-to-face with clients to address all of their industry specific needs as they transform to the cloud era.

Open 24 hours a day, seven days a week, the new facilities offer an array of solutions including proven cloud resiliency services. These services guarantee customers up times of 99.99 percent across any IT environment, including traditional IT, public, private, or hybrid cloud deployments. In the event of an outage, the centers' support team can recover data in minutes to ensure that is has little to no impact on business operations while going virtually unseen by customers.

Clients around the world are using IBM cloud centers spread across every major market to help them adopt cloud for growth and innovation.  Since the start of November, IBM has announced more than $4 billion worth of cloud agreements with major enterprises around the world including Lufthansa in Germany, ABN AMRO in the Netherlands, WPP in the UK, Woox Innovations in Hong Kong,Dow Water and Thomson Reuters.

IBM today announced that  global transport operator National Express Group PLC is delivering a data-driven railway to improve both operational performance and customer experience on the IBM Cloud to provide up-to-the-minute train information and allow postcode-to-postcode journey planning – a first in UK rail.

In addition, born-on-the-web innovators are increasingly choosing to build their business on the IBM Cloud. In just the last month, IBM has announced wins with Diabetizer and Preveniomed in Germany, Hancom in South Korea, Musimundo in Argentina and Nubity Inc.in Mexico. Collectively these wins reflect IBM's unique ability to deliver a full range of services through the cloud in ways that other cloud providers cannot match.

"IBM recognizes that businesses and governments need the cloud to help them innovate, grow and operate more efficiently in concert with their existing IT investments," said Jim Comfort, General Manager, IBM Cloud Services.   "Everything IBM does is designed to help companies transition to the cloud in a responsible way at a pace that best fits their business model and industry.   Just as we helped major organizations transform in each preceding era of IT, IBM now serves as the cloud platform for the enterprise."

IBM has announced key cloud investments throughout 2014.   In addition to expanding its global cloud footprint and the establishment of the Bluemix PaaS to bring enterprise developers into the hybrid cloud era, IBM also launched a new Cloud marketplace that brings together IBM's vast portfolio of cloud capabilities and new third-party services in a way that delivers a simple and easy experience for the enterprise. The IBM Cloud marketplace serves as a single online destination serves as the digital front door to cloud innovation bringing together IBM's capabilities-as-a-service and those of partners and third party vendors with the security and resiliency enterprises expect.

IBM Cloud Growth through Strategic Partnerships

Today's announcement with Equinix further extend the reach IBM has achieved through its own cloud portfolio and well as a string of recent cloud partnerships with other notable companies including:

  • SAP selected IBM as a premier strategic provider of Cloud infrastructure services for its business critical applications to accelerate customers' ability to run core business in the cloud. SAP applications are now available through IBM's highly scalable, open and secure cloud and enables SAP HANA Enterprise Cloud to major markets with the addition of the IBM cloud data centers.

  • IBM and Microsoft are working together to provide their respective enterprise software on Microsoft Azure and IBM Cloud. This relationship will give clients, partners and developers more choice in the cloud, helping them drive new business opportunities, spur innovation and reduce costs.

  • IBM and Tencent Cloud recently signed a business cooperation memorandum to collaborate on providing public cloud with Software-as-a-Service solutions for industries. The companies will focus on emerging small and medium enterprises in the smarter cities, healthcare industries and other fields to enable these industries to utilize mobile, cloud computing and big data tools to transform internal processes and operations, thus achieving cloud transformation in the era of mobility.

  • AT&T and IBM are collaborating to speed business adoption of cloud services by extending AT&T NetBondSM services to the SoftLayer platform for stronger security and performance. This extension of the IBM and AT&T alliance will allow businesses to easily create hybrid-computing solutions.

  • IBM and Intel worked together to make SoftLayer the first cloud platform to offer its customers bare metal servers powered by Intel® Cloud Technology that provides monitoring and security down to the microchip level. Through this agreement, the Intel®Trusted Execution Technology provides hardware monitoring and security controls that help assure businesses that a workload from a known location on SoftLayer infrastructure is running on trusted hardware.


In addition to these partnerships, IBM is also contributing Private Computing services from IBM Cloud OpenStack Services platform to the OpenStack and Cloud Foundry Foundations.  The initial usage of these services will offer expanded capabilities to enable automated integration, reduced cycle time and increased quality for software distribution. This will accelerate time to market for all uses of OpenStack based infrastructure.

By better enabling the open community, partnering with key companies that provide even greater value to the IBM Cloud portfolio and continuing to make financial and technological investments that has helped IBM achieve significant growth in its cloud business:

  • IBM reported cloud revenue of $4.4 billion for 2013 – up 69 percent year-to-year

  • IBM cloud revenue has increased 50 percent through the third quarter 2014 with a $3.1 billion run rate in as-a-service revenue.

  • IBM Cloud supports 47 of the top 50 Fortune 500 companies

  • For two years in a row, IBM has been named a leader in the IDC MarketScape on Cloud Professional Services.  (IDC MarketScape: Worldwide Cloud Professional Services 2014 Vendor Analysis, doc #250238, August 2014)

  • Businesses across the U.S. recently ranked IBM the as the number one cloud computing provider, according to an IDC survey of US market preferences for infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS). *Source: IDC's U.S. Outsourced Cloud Services Survey, 4Q13

  • In addition to overall top ranking, IBM was also rated the leader in six of eight major industries covered in the study including Financial Services, Manufacturing, Healthcare, Professional Services, Wholesale and Retail and Public Sector (government).*Source: IDC's U.S. Outsourced Cloud Services Survey, 4Q13

  • IBM also finished in the top three in Transportation and Telecommunications, the only vendor to lead in as many industries and rank no lower than third in any industry. *Source: IDC's U.S. Outsourced Cloud Services Survey, 4Q13

  • Synergy Research Group recently ranked IBM among the top three cloud providers and the leader in hybrid and private cloud engagement in a market analysis of public, private and hybrid IaaS and PaaS.

  • IBM received the 2014 Innovation Award for Operational Improvement from the International Association for Contract and Commercial Management (IACCM) for boldly and rapidly transforming its cloud computing contract process – an achievement that significantly improved the company's ability to quickly serve cloud computing clients around the world.


About IBM Cloud Computing
IBM is the global leader in open enterprise cloud enabling secure data and infrastructure integration in the cloud. For more information about cloud offerings from IBM, visit http://www.ibm.com/cloud. Follow us on Twitter at @IBMcloud and on our blog atwww.thoughtsoncloud.com. Join the conversation #ibmcloud.

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Friday, November 7, 2014

Joyent Open Source its SmartDataCenter and Manta

SmartDataCenter and Manta are now open source


Joyent Inc, virtualization and cloud computing company based in San Francisco, California, to open sources its container technologies SmartDataCenter and Manta. Joyent CTO Bryan Cantrill publishes a following post on Joyent's blog.
November 06, 2014 - by Bryan Cantrill


 Today we are announcing that we are open sourcing the two systems at the heart of our business: SmartDataCenter and the Manta object storage platform. SmartDataCenter is the container-based orchestration software that runs the Joyent public cloud; we have used it for the better half of a decade to run on-the-metal OS containers — securely and at scale. Manta is our multi-tenant ZFS-based object storage platform that provides first-class compute by allowing OS containers to be spun up directly upon objects — effecting arbitrary computation at scale without data movement. The unifying technological foundation beneath both SmartDataCenter and Manta is OS-based virtualization, a technology that Joyent pioneered in the cloud way back in 2006. We have long known the transformative power of OS containers, so it has been both exciting and validating for us to see the rise of Docker and the broadening of appreciation for OS-based virtualization. SmartDataCenter and Manta show that containers aren’t merely a fad or developer plaything but rather a fundamental technological advance that represents the foundation for the next generation of computing — and we believe that open sourcing them advances the adoption of container-based architectures more broadly.

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Without any further ado — and to assure that we don’t fall into the most prominent of my own corporate open source anti-patterns — here is the source for SmartDataCenter and the source for Manta. These are sophisticated systems with many moving parts, and you’ll see that these two repositories are in fact meta-repositories that explain the design of each of the systems and then point to the (many) components that comprise them (all now open source, natch). We believe that some of these subcomponents will likely find use entirely outside of SDC and Manta. For example, Manatee is a ZooKeeper-based system that manages Postgres replication and automates failover; Moray is a key-value service that lives on top of Postgres. Taken together, Manatee and Moray implement a highly-available key-value service that we use as the foundation for many other components in SDC and Manta — and one that we think others will find useful as well.

In terms of source code mechanics, you’ll see that many of the components are implemented in either Node.js or by extending C-based systems. This is not by fiat but rather by the choices of individual engineers; over the past four years, as we learned about the nuances of Node.js error handling and as we invested heavily in tooling for running Node.js in production, Node.js became the right tool for many of our jobs — and we used it for many of the services that constitute SDC and Manta.

And because any conversation about open source has to address licensing at some point or another, let’s get that out of the way: we opted for the Mozilla Public License 2.0. While relatively new, there is a lot to like about this license: its file-based copyleft allows it to be proprietary-friendly while also forcing certain kinds of derived work to be contributed back; its explicit patent license discourages litigation, offering some measure of troll protection; its explicit warranting of original work obviates the need for a contributor license agreement (we’re not so into CLAs); and (best of all, in my opinion), it has been explicitly designed to co-exist with other open source licenses in larger derived works. Mozilla did terrific work on MPL 2.0, and we hope to see it adopted by other companies that share our thinking around open source!

In terms of the business ramifications, at Joyent we have long been believers in open source as a business model; as the leaders of the Node.js and SmartOS projects, we have seen the power of open source to start new conversations, open up new markets and (importantly) yield new customers. Ten years ago, I wrote that open source is “a loss leader — minus the loss, of course”; after a decade of experience with open source business models, I would add that open source also serves as sales outreach without cold calls, as a channel without loss of margin, and as a marketing campaign without advertisements. But while we have directly experienced the business advantages of open source, we at Joyent have also lived something of a dual life: Node.js and SmartOS have been open source, but the distributed systems that we have built using these core technologies have remained largely behind our walls. So that these systems are now open source does not change the fundamentals of our business model: if you would like to consume SmartDataCenter or Manta as a service, you can spin up an instance on the public cloud or use our Manta storage service. Similarly, if you want a support contract and/or professional services to run either SmartDataCenter or Manta on-premises, we’ll sell them to you. Based on our past experiences with open source, we do know that there will be one important change: these technologies will find their way into the hands of those that we have no other way of reaching — and that some fraction of these will become customers. Also based on past experience, we know that some (presumably much smaller) fraction of these new technologists will — by merits of their interest in and contributions to these projects — one day join us as engineers at Joyent. Bluntly, open source is our farm system, and broadening our hiring channel during a blazingly hot market for software talent is playing no small role in our decision here. In short, this is not an act of altruism: it is a business decision — if a multifaceted one that we believe has benefits beyond the balance sheet.

Welcome to open source SDC and Manta — and long-live the container revolution!

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Monday, October 20, 2014

Two Key International Standards for Cloud Computing

JTC 1 Announces Two Key International Standards for Cloud Computing


NEW YORK, Sept. 23, 2014 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The International Organization for Standardization (ISO) and theInternational Electrotechnical Commission (IEC) will release two new International Standards for cloud computing in the coming weeks:

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  • ISO/IEC 17788, Cloud Computing - Overview and Vocabulary

  • ISO/IEC 17789, Cloud Computing - Reference Architecture


These standards were developed as a collaborative project between JTC 1 – ISO/IEC Joint Technical Committee 1, Information Technology – and ITU-T – the International Telecommunication Union's Telecommunication Standardization Sector.

Cloud computing is recognized by governments and private-sector organizations as major, game-changing technology. Over 30 countries participated in JTC 1 Subcommittee (SC) 38 to develop these two cloud computing standards. The Overview and Vocabulary standard provides definitions of common cloud computing terms including those for cloud service categories such as Software as a Service (SaaS), Platform as a Service (PaaS), and Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), as well as for cloud deployment models such as public cloud, and private cloud. The Reference Architecture standard includes diagrams and descriptions of how the various aspects of cloud computing relate to one another.

"Cloud computing is a shift in the paradigm for providing IT capabilities to users that may impact a great deal of future IT products, systems, and services," said Dr. Donald Deutsch, chair of ISO/IEC JTC 1 SC 38. "These first international cloud computing standards provide a sound foundation for follow-on standards as needs become more clear in this area."

According to Karen Higginbottom, JTC 1 chair, "These International Standards for cloud computing will enable better communication between vendors and customers and will provide a basis for emerging and future cloud computing standards."

These two cloud computing International Standards will serve as the basis for three new projects in JTC 1 SC 38:

  • Cloud Computing - Service Level Agreements

  • Cloud Computing - Interoperability and Portability

  • Cloud Computing - Data and their Flow across Devices and Cloud Services 


JTC 1 SC 27, which focuses on security, also has several projects that build upon the fundamentals laid by the two new standards.

The U.S. plays a leading role in JTC 1, with the American National Standards Institute (ANSI) holding the secretariat and Karen Higginbottom, director of standards initiatives at Hewlett-Packard, serving as JTC 1's chair. Dr. Donald Deutsch, vice president, standards strategy and architecture for Oracle, chairs JTC 1 SC 38, the subcommittee responsible for the development of these two new International Standards. The ANSI-Accredited U.S. Technical Advisory Group (TAG) to JTC 1 SC 38 is administered by INCITS, the InterNational

Committee for Information Technology Standards, with Steve Holbrook of IBM serving as chair of the U.S. TAG.

About JTC 1
The Joint Technical Committee (JTC) 1, Information technology, of the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) and International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC), is a consensus-based, globally relevant, voluntary international standards group. More than 2,000 experts from 163 countries come together to develop mutually beneficial guidelines that enhance global trade while protecting intellectual property.

About ANSI
The American National Standards Institute (ANSI) is a private non-profit organization whose mission is to enhance U.S. global competitiveness and the American quality of life by promoting, facilitating, and safeguarding the integrity of the voluntary standardization and conformity assessment system. Its membership is made up of businesses, professional societies and trade associations, standards developers, government agencies, and consumer and labor organizations. The Institute represents the diverse interests of more than 125,000 companies and organizations and 3.5 million professionals worldwide.

The Institute is the official U.S. representative to the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) and, via the U.S. National Committee, the International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC).

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IBM and SAP Accelerate Enterprise Cloud

IBM and SAP Partner to Accelerate Enterprise Cloud Adoption


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16/10/2014

SAP SE and IBM today announced that SAP has selected IBM as a premier strategic provider of cloud infrastructure services for its business-critical applications — accelerating customers’ ability to run core business in the cloud. The SAP HANA Enterprise Cloud service is now available through IBM’s highly scalable, open and secure cloud. SAP HANA Enterprise Cloud will expand to major markets with the addition of the IBM cloud data centers. This is expected to enable customers to deploy their SAP software around the globe in a faster and more secure environment that is backed by IBM’s proven cloud capabilities.

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“We look forward to extending one of the longest and most successful partnerships in the IT industry,” said Bill McDermott, CEO of SAP. “The demand for SAP HANA and SAP Business Suite on SAP HANA in the cloud is tremendous and this global agreement with IBM heralds a new era of cloud collaboration. We anticipate customers will benefit from this collaboration and expansion of SAP HANA Enterprise Cloud.”

“This announcement is a significant milestone in the deployment of enterprise cloud,” said IBM Chairman, President and CEO Ginni Rometty. “It builds on our two companies’ long history of bringing innovation to business, and extends IBM’s position as the premier global cloud platform. Our secure, open, hybrid enterprise cloud platform will enable SAP clients to support new ways to work in an era shaped by Big Data, mobile and social.”

Together, IBM and SAP have the expertise, solutions and cloud infrastructure to deliver SAP business solutions on the IBM Cloud. SAP brings the power of real time through in-memory computing capabilities of SAP HANA combined with the ability to run mission-critical business applications, like SAP Business Suite, in a cloud environment. IBM brings enterprise depth and the open architecture of IBM Cloud Managed Services and SoftLayer — enabling customers to securely manage SAP workloads from trial to production on a consistent infrastructure, with transparency and control over where data resides. In addition, customers will benefit from the technology and services from both companies that offer industry-specific best practices, enabling customers to transform their organizations. SAP and IBM customers of all sizes will benefit from this joint collaboration of two of the most trusted companies in the industry.

Key Benefits to Enterprises of All Sizes Are Expected to Include:

  • Customers can take advantage of SAP HANA Enterprise Cloud with the global footprint of IBM Cloud. This enables customers to put data to work with SAP HANA and business applications in the IBM Cloud built for speed, transparency and control.



  • SAP HANA will run on IBM Cloud to provide an open-standards-based approach that will help create the foundation to more easily integrate existing technology investments with new workloads.



  • IBM and SAP are committed to security for enterprise customers in the cloud. The IBM Cloud provides visibility and control to enable enterprises to apply and extend their security best practices into a cloud environment.



  • Companies will now have additional reach and scale to more easily start locally and scale globally with cloud capabilities and also comply with data residency and other regulatory mandates.


For more information, visit the SAP News Center. Follow SAP on Twitter at @sapnews.

About IBM Cloud Computing
IBM is the global leader in cloud with an unmatched portfolio of open cloud solutions to enable clients for the hybrid cloud era with integration, control over data and expertise. Since the $2 billion acquisition of SoftLayer, IBM has continued to make significant investments in building out a comprehensive cloud portfolio including $1.2 billion to expand its global footprint to 40 data centers and $1 billion investment to establish Bluemix, a cloud platform-as-a-service on Cloud Foundry, to help millions of developers. IBM Cloud has helped more than 30,000 clients around the world. Today, IBM has 100+ cloud SaaS solutions, thousands of experts with deep industry knowledge helping clients transform and a growing global network of data centers. Since 2007, IBM has invested more than $7 billion in 17 acquisitions to accelerate its cloud initiatives. IBM holds 1,560 cloud patents focused on driving innovation. In fact, IBM for the 21st consecutive year topped the annual list of US patent leaders. IBM processes more the 5.5M client transactions daily through IBM’s public cloud. For more information about cloud offerings from IBM, visit http://www.ibm.com/cloud. Follow us on Twitter at @IBMcloud and on our blog at www.thoughtsoncloud.com. Join the conversation #ibmcloud.

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Sunday, October 19, 2014

SAP and Birst Collaborate to Deliver Instant Cloud Analytics


SAP and Birst Collaborate to Deliver Instant Cloud Analytics on the SAP HANA® Cloud Platform


Birst leverages the SAP HANA® Cloud Platform to deliver instant access to cloud and on-premise data and an open platform that turns analytics into action





San Francisco, CA,
October 9, 2014
SAP (NYSE: SAP) today announced a partnership with Birst, a global leader in cloud business intelligence (BI) and analytics, intended to provide customers with instant analytics in the cloud on the revolutionary SAP HANA® Cloud Platform. With this new partnership, it is anticipated organizations will be able to leverage one cloud platform that can deliver instant analytics and the ability to more quickly turn insight into action on data, which is the key to enabling data-driven organizations. This collaboration intends to bring together SAP’s next-generation cloud platform and Birst’s comprehensive two-tier data architecture to provide instant access to an organization’s data and help eliminate BI wait time. The SAP HANA Cloud Platform is based on SAP’s breakthrough in-memory technology and is an open platform for customers and developers to build, extend and run applications in the cloud.

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Birst’s patented analytics engine aims to build a user-ready data store in SAP HANA that can deliver visual discovery, dashboards and enterprise reports across a single business model, accelerated by SAP HANA. This solution is envisioned to be designed to provide instant analytics across on-premise and cloud data sources from large-scale data source vendors.

“Driving better business execution and enabling each and every organization to become data-driven is only achievable when leaders come together to innovate and achieve something that solves real business problems, and that is exactly what Birst and SAP plan to do,” said Brad Peters, chairman and chief product officer, Birst. “The real opportunity in BI lies in our ability to push data to the front lines, empowering every person to make every decision better. Together, SAP and Birst will give customers instant access to data and allow people to turn insight into action – that’s something today’s businesses have been waiting for and we are thrilled to be delivering it.”

“SAP HANA Cloud platform is an innovation platform open for customers and partners to develop and deliver cloud applications, extensions and solutions,” said Steve Lucas, president, Platform Solutions Group. “Our partnership with Birst brings together two leaders in analytics to modernize the cloud analytics market and intends to give customers a single view of business data in real time, in context and in the cloud.”

For more information, visit the SAP News Center. Follow SAP on Twitter at @sapnews.
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About Birst
Birst is a global leader in cloud BI and analytics. The company helps organizations make thousands of decisions better, every day, for every person. Birst's patented two-tier data architecture and comprehensive BI platform sits on top of all of your data, to unify, refine and embed data consistently into every individual decision—up and down the org chart. Thousands of the most demanding businesses trust Birst Cloud BI to make metric-driven business execution a reality. Learn more at www.birst.com and join the conversation @birstbi.

About SAP
As market leader in enterprise application software, SAP (NYSE: SAP) helps companies of all sizes and industries run better. From back office to boardroom, warehouse to storefront, desktop to mobile device – SAP empowers people and organizations to work together more efficiently and use business insight more effectively to stay ahead of the competition. SAP applications and services enable more than 258,000 customers to operate profitably, adapt continuously, and grow sustainably. For more information, visit www.sap.com.

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Friday, September 19, 2014

New Big Data Taxonomy Report by Cloud Security Alliance

Cloud Security Alliance Releases New Big Data Taxonomy Report


Working Group Issues Comprehensive Report to Aid Understanding and Decision Making in Big Data Technology

SAN JOSE, Calif., Sept. 18, 2014 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- CSA Congress 2014 - The Cloud Security Alliance (CSA) Big Data Working Group today released the Big Data Taxonomy Report, a new guidance report that aims to help decision makers understand and navigate the myriad choices within the big data designation, including data domains, compute and storage infrastructures, data analytics, visualization, security and privacy.

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Every day, 2.5 quintillion bytes of data are created -  90% of the data in the world today has been created in the last two years alone. The issues of storing, computing, security, privacy and analytics are all magnified by the velocity, volume, and variety of big data, such as large-scale cloud infrastructures, diversity of data sources and formats, streaming nature of data acquisition and high volume inter-cloud migration.

Big data infrastructure and methodology continue to evolve at a fast pace, but the underlying technologies were, in many cases, invented many years ago. In an effort to help IT decision makers make better, more informed choices associated with these technologies, theCSA Big Data Working Group has created a 40-page guidance report that outlines the six dimensions that arise from the key aspects needed to establish a big data infrastructure. The big data taxonomy includes data domains, compute infrastructure, storage infrastructure, analytics, visualization, security and privacy.

"All 'data' is not equivalent, yet we often find users treating all data components similarly, as they are uncertain as to how to address issues such as latency, or structured verses unstructured data," said Sreeranga Rajan, chair of the Big Data Working Group.  "We hope this report brings clarity to the big data taxonomy, and provides much needed education to help users make better decisions in their own environments."

In the report, each domain is categorized according to how data arises to help decision makers understand the infrastructure choices and requirements for particular types of data. The report also addresses each particular domain in which data arises, to help organizations determine the types of architecture that will be required to store it, process it, and perform analytics on it.

Rajan goes on to add, "The greatly increased digitization of human activity and machine-to-machine communications, combined with large-scale, inexpensive hardware, is making practical many previously academic ideas of parallel and distributed computing, along with new considerations necessary to make them even more useful in real world applications."

The Big Data Taxonomy Report is a result of the CSA Big Data working group, chaired by Sreeranga Rajan of Fujitsu, and co-chaired by Neel Sundaresan of eBay
and Wilco van Ginkel of Verizon.

To access the report visit https://cloudsecurityalliance.org/download/big-data-taxonomy/. Individuals interested in becoming part of the working group can visit https://cloudsecurityalliance.org/research/big-data/#_get_involved

Cloud Security Alliance Congresses continue to be the industry's premier gathering for IT security professionals and executives who must further educate themselves on the rapidly evolving subject of cloud security. In addition to offering best practices and practical solutions for remaining secure in the cloud, CSA Congresses give attendees exposure to industry-specific case studies that will help them learn and leverage best practices used by their peers in moving to a secure cloud.

About the Cloud Security Alliance

The Cloud Security Alliance is a not-for-profit organization with a mission to promote the use of best practices for providing security assurance within Cloud Computing, and to provide education on the uses of Cloud Computing to help secure all other forms of computing. The Cloud Security Alliance is led by a broad coalition of industry practitioners, corporations, associations and other key stakeholders. For further information, visit us at www.cloudsecurityalliance.org, and follow us on Twitter @cloudsa.

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Monday, March 31, 2014

Big Data and Cloud Certification for IT Professionals

Simplilearn Launches Big Data and Cloud Certification for IT Professionals


Simplilearn announces the launch of its Big Data and Cloud certified training via Live Virtual Classroom for IT professionals to give them the opportunity to interact with world-class Big Data and Hadoop instructors and upgrade their skills. Simplilearn is also among the select few to have received accreditation for its E-Learning course on Comptia Cloud Essentials.

Bangalore, India (PRWEB) March 12, 2014

Simplilearn (http://www.simplilearn.com), a leading provider of online training and professional certification courses, announces the launch of Big Data and Cloud certified training for IT professionals. Simplilearn will offer Big Data and Hadoop Live Virtual Classes (LVC) to give professionals the opportunity to interact with world-class Big Data and Hadoop instructors and upgrade their skills. Simplilearn is also amongst the few players to have received accreditation for its E-Learning course on Comptia Cloud Essentials.

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According to global research firm Gartner, by 2015, nearly 4.4 million new jobs in Big Data will be created globally but the supply of resources will meet less than half the demand. According to Krishna Kumar, Founder and CEO, Simplilearn, "Big Data and Cloud Computing are two of the most trending subjects in today’s technology world, creating huge career opportunities for IT professionals. Simplilearn is trying to bridge the demand and supply gap by offering high quality Big Data and Hadoop training for professionals. Our courses have specialized content created to enable professionals become the ‘go-to expert’ in their fields”.

Professionals can choose from two options: classroom training of 4 days for a price of USD 1999 and an Online training course starting from USD 130. The key features of the course will include Hadoop Deployment and Maintenance tips as well as real-life scenario based projects. As part of an introductory offer, customers enrolling for Big Data course will also get complimentary access to high quality Comptia Cloud Essential Audio-visual online course worth USD 150. Java developers, Architects, Analysts, Big Data professionals or anyone who is looking to build a career in Big Data can benefit from these trainings.

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Simplilearn is an online learning destination for young working professionals who are looking at career enhancement through certification courses across industry verticals. With study centers across the globe, Simplilearn.com offers over 80 certification courses across 11 categories. At present, Simplilearn trains about 5000 professionals a month. Simplilearn is a Global Registered Education Provider (REP) of PMI, USA, Accredited Training Organization (ATO) by APMG International, UK, Accredited Examination Center (AEC) by EXIN and PEOPLECERT. All the courses offered at Simplilearn.com are accredited for online delivery and approved worldwide. For more information, visit http://www.simplilearn.com.

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Tuesday, March 11, 2014

Big Data & Cloud Computing Market Worth $16.52 Billion by 2018

Cloud Analytics Market (Big Data & Cloud Computing Technologies) Worth $16.52 Billion by 2018 – New Report by MarketsandMarkets


Cloud analytics market majorly focuses on solutions, delivery models and organization size. (http://www.marketsandmarkets.com/Market-Reports/cloud-based-business-analytics-market-959.html)

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The research report recently conducted a study on the Cloud Based Business Analytics Market: "Cloud Analytics Market [Cloud BI; Cloud Business Intelligence] - Text; Web; Speech; Machine; Video; Predictive Analytics: Global Advancements, Delivery Models, Market Trends, Enterprise Roadmap, Market Forecasts and Analysis (2013 - 2018)", which analyzed and studied the major market drivers, restraints, and opportunities in North America, Western Europe, Eastern Europe, Middle East and Africa, Japan, Asia-Pacific and Latin America.

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The global Cloud Analytics Market is driven by the emergence of Big Data and cloud computing technologies. Over the last few years, businesses have begun cloud computing extensively. in 2010. Big players and new startups have shifted towards cloud BI, business analytics and cloud based business intelligence. Traditional BI and analytics solutions are striving to meet the requirements of today's business needs. Enterprises are struggling with high operating costs, lack of IT expertise and increasing employee mobility. This trend has forced BI vendors to use new ways of delivering business analytics. Analytics on cloud is an emerging term that is a complete combination of services and enables enterprises to move their BI, data warehousing and OLAP workload over the cloud platform.

The adoption of cloud BI or business analytics enables enterprises to collect, access, monitor and share key performance indicators (KPIs) virtually, through any mobile device. Cloud BI utilizes the software-as-a-service (SaaS) licensing model and is also based on a pay-as-you use model, which doesn’t need software and hardware installations. Cloud BI services are accessed by using login credentials in a browser. These services are easily scalable, allowing enterprises to include anyone with an authentic email ID in their BI solution.

MarketsandMarkets has recently conducted a study on the Cloud Analytics Market, analyzing the major market drivers, restraints, and opportunities in North America, Western Europe, Eastern Europe, Middle East and Africa, Japan, Asia-Pacific (Ex-Japan) and Latin America. The study reports that the global Cloud Analytics market is expected to grow from $5.25 billion in 2013 to $16.52 billion by 2018, at an estimated CAGR of 25.8% during this forecast period.

The report also draws the competitive landscape of the cloud analytics market, providing an analysis of the technological and marketing strategies that the key players are adopting in order to gain an edge over their competitors. Some of the major players in this market are IBM, HP, Oracle, Birst, Kognitio, Adaptive Planning, BIME, Cloud9 Analytics, GoodData, Google, Host Analytics and Microsoft.

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Scientific Platform-as-a-Service (sPaaS) Enables Cloud Based Scientific Collaboration

Scientific Platform-as-a-Service (sPaaS) Enables Cloud Based Scientific Collaboration


BRANFORD, Conn., March 10, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- Core Informatics, a leading provider of scientific informatics is seeing strong demand for the Platform for Science, the market's only Scientific Platform-as-a-Service (sPaaS).  Released in November 2013, the Platform for Science is the premiere cloud-based solution providing a marketplace of applications for customers engaged in all phases of scientific product innovation and development.




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Platform for Science provides an ecosystem for scientific collaboration and data management in support of a single laboratory or a virtualized global network of researchers.  The foundation of the marketplace is an integrated suite of Core applications (LIMS, ELN, SDMS) already used by thousands of researchers.  Designed for rapid creation of scientific applications, Platform for Science is a generation beyond traditional applications hosted in the cloud.  The increasing library of apps already includes, Chem ELN, Bio ELN, Compound Registration, Biological Registration, and a collection of Next Generation Sequencing (NGS) workflows that provide out-of-the-box support for Illumina and Ion Torrent platforms.


Hosted by infinitely scalable Amazon Web Services, the 100% web based Platform for Science provides powerful RESTful APIs designed to enable clients, partners and application developers to integrate data from existing software applications and instrumentation. Scientific Platform-as-a-Service capabilities enable a truly global collaborative data network to be realized, integrating both internal and external content.


"We selected Core Informatics and the Platform for Science because their applications matched nicely with our laboratory workflow and sample tracking requirements, and we wanted a cloud-based solution that enabled collaboration with our colleagues in other countries and would scale with our business at an affordable price point," said Carrie Carmichael, Laboratory Manager at Cryogenetics, a Norwegian bio-banking company with offices in Woburn, MA.  "Our Platform for Science account was provisioned within days and was easy to learn and highly customizable."


"We have seen the value that cloud-based platforms can deliver in other enterprise software verticals, Salesforce.com being a clear example," said Josh Geballe, CEO of Core Informatics. "Our marketplace of applications is focused on meeting the needs of specific laboratory workflows and data management requirements.  Whether built by Core Informatics or one of our Partners in Innovation, Platform for Science provides customers with value and operational efficiencies which were previously only available through large, complex, often painful software implementation projects.  We are thrilled to give our clients a better option."


About Platform for Science


Platform for Science (PFS) leverages Core Informatics' unmatched scientific data management software (Core LIMS, Core ELN & Core SDMS) enabling the premiere Scientific Platform as a Service (sPaaS).  Platform for Science alleviates the cost, complexity and delays associated with developing, installing or maintaining custom or purchased on-premise systems by providing access to: 1) an elastic cloud computing infrastructure running in Amazon Web Services and featuring the Core Foundation architecture, and 2) a marketplace of pre-built informatics applications provided through our partner network.  Platform for Science enables scientific innovation by providing a flexible, cost effective and secure way to collect, store, analyze and share data for any laboratory workflow. For further information visit http://www.corelims.com/platform-for-science/


About Core Informatics


Core Informatics provides innovative data management software to accelerate scientific discovery. Leveraging our deep scientific domain expertise and the latest advancements in cloud computing, we accelerate progress in research, development, manufacturing, and quality laboratories, enabling our clients to find new cures for diseases, new sources of renewable energy, and innovative industrial and consumer products.  Founded in 2006, Core Informatics supports customers worldwide from its offices in Branford, CT, Cambridge, MA and London, England. For further information visitwww.CoreInformatics.com.


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Thursday, February 20, 2014

IBM Commits $1.2 Billion to Expand Global Cloud Footprint

IBM Commits $1.2 Billion to Expand Global Cloud Footprint


Builds a Massive Network of Local Cloud Hubs for Businesses Worldwide with 40 Data Centers Across Five Continents

ARMONK, N.Y., Jan. 17, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced plans to commit over $1.2 billion to significantly expand its global cloud footprint. This investment includes a network of data centers designed to bring clients greater flexibility, transparency and control over how they manage their data, run their businesses and deploy their IT operations in the cloud.




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This year IBM plans to deliver cloud services from 40 data centers worldwide in 15 countries and five continents globally, including North America, South America, Europe, Asia and Australia. IBM will open 15 new centers worldwide adding to the existing global footprint of 13 global data centers from SoftLayer and 12 from IBM. Among the newest data centers to launch areChina, WashingtonD.C., Hong Kong, London, Japan, India, Canada, Mexico City and Dallas. With this announcement, IBM plans to have data centers in all major geographies and financial centers with plans to expand in the Middle East and Africa in 2015.


By some estimates, the global cloud market is set to grow to $200 billion by 2020[1]; driven largely by businesses and government agencies deploying cloud services to market, sell, develop products, manage their supply chain and transform their business practices.


"IBM is continuing to invest in high growth areas," said Erich Clementi, senior vice president of IBM Global Technology Services. "Last year, IBM made a big investment adding the $2 billion acquisition of SoftLayer to its existing high value cloud portfolio. Today's announcement is another major step in driving a global expansion of IBM's cloud footprint and helping clients drive transformation."


The new cloud investments IBM is making will provide business clients the ability to place and control their data globally. IBM SoftLayer gives clients the ability to choose a cloud environment and location that best suits their business needs and provides visibility and transparency to where data reside, control of data security and placement.


IBM SoftLayer is able to deliver high performance services globally across the SoftLayer network. The combination of distributed local data centers and a global network allows clients to place data where it is required, when it is required as well as the ability to consolidate or aggregate data as needed. This provides optimized application performance and responsiveness. SoftLayer's unique network architecture allows clients to optimize global performance using a private network and not be subject to the uncontrolled nature of the public networks and the internet.


"Cloudant's global expansion rate is fueled by the always-on commitment we make to our customers," said Cloudant CEODerek Schoettle. "Our mission is to be the standard data layer for Web and mobile applications. That mission requires us to push application data to the network edge, in as many locations as possible. Expanding beyond IBM SoftLayer's current footprint presents significant value to our business. The investment IBM is making to expand their global footprint will not only help fuel our growth, but the growth of thousands of Cloudant users worldwide as well."


In today's world of rapid response with mobile and social data proliferation, this type of automation and speed of access to data with high availability and control makes IBM SoftLayer cloud infrastructure an ideal capability for business clients worldwide.


"Cloud represents a growing area for venture capitalist investment," said Ann Winblad, co-founder and Managing Director of Hummer Winblad Venture Partners. "By investing in the cloud ecosystem, IBM not only makes it easier for enterprises to adopt cloud and drive innovation, but also helps new companies of all sizes get off the ground more quickly."


IBM SoftLayer Underpins IBM's Growing Cloud Portfolio
The acquisition of SoftLayer represents another major investment for IBM clients. Since its acquisition in 2013, IBM SoftLayer has served nearly 2,400 new cloud clients.


In fact, IBM plans to establish SoftLayer as the foundation of its wide ranging cloud portfolio. The SoftLayer infrastructure will provide a scalable, secure base for the global delivery of cloud services spanning IBM's extensive middleware and SaaS solutions.  SoftLayer's flexibility and global network will also facilitate faster development, deployment and delivery of mobile, analytic, social solutions as clients adopt cloud as a delivery platform for IT operations and manage their business.  


Last week IBM made a significant investment and established the IBM Watson Group, a new business unit dedicated to the development and commercialization of cloud-delivered cognitive and Big Data innovations. As part of this initiative IBM will also deploy Watson on SoftLayer.


About IBM Cloud Computing
IBM is the global leader in cloud with an unmatched portfolio of open cloud solutions that help clients to think, build or tap into it. No other company has the ability to bring together unique industry knowledge and unmatched cloud capabilities, that have already helped more than 30,000 clients around the world. Today, IBM has more than 100 cloud SaaS solutions, thousands of experts with deep industry knowledge helping clients transform and a network of 40 data centers worldwide.


Since 2007, IBM has invested more than $7 billion in 15 acquisitions to accelerate its cloud initiatives and build a high value cloud portfolio. IBM holds 1,560 cloud patents focused on driving innovation. In fact, IBM for the 21st consecutive year topped the annual list of US patent leaders. IBM processes more the 5.5M client transactions daily through IBM's public cloud. IBM expects to achieve $7 billion in annual cloud revenue by 2015 For more information about cloud offerings from IBM, visithttp://www.ibm.com/cloud. Follow us on Twitter at @IBMcloud and on our blog at http://www.thoughtsoncloud.com. Join the conversation #ibmcloud.


To learn more about today's news please read A Smarter Planet blog http://ibm.co/1huAhrv.


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Friday, January 24, 2014

Cloud in European Vertical Markets

Cloud in European Vertical Markets


Cloud in European Vertical Markets - Expected Evolution of Cloud Adoption in the Retail, Manufacturing and Energy/Utilities Sectors

DUBLIN, January 22, 2014 /PRNewswire/ --


Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/rt2xcx/cloud_in_european) has announced the addition of the "Cloud in European Vertical Markets - Expected Evolution of Cloud Adoption in the Retail, Manufacturing and Energy/Utilities Sectors" report to their offering.


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Globally, enterprises are moving their IT infrastructure to the cloud, aiming to benefit from advantages of scalability and cost. However, the rate of adoption of cloud is varied with some sectors quick to implement the cloud and others choosing a more gradual approach. In this study, Frost & Sullivan discusses the pace of cloud adoption in 3 sectors - retail, manufacturing, and energy - which exhibit different trends of cloud implementation. The study also highlights the challenges encountered by the energy, retail, and manufacturing verticals and how implementation of cloud can help improve overall efficiency.

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State of Cloud Adoption Among Vertical Sectors




  • The adoption of cloud is expected to benefit organisations due to the cost-effectiveness, simplicity, flexibility, and scalability offered by the model. However, apprehensions concerned with transitioningto new technologies and internal barriers to migration have caused verticals to react differently to implementation of the cloud.



  • Verticals are at different stages of adoption with traditionally conservative industries exhibiting slowtransition than others and with reasonably optimistic outlook towards implementation of new technologies.



  • The report aims to analyse the state of adoption and areas for cloud implementation in the energy, retail, and manufacturing. As these are the 3 industries identified asmost likely to drive smart transformation, there was the need to illustrate the current cloud technologies landscape. This research is based on primary (interviews with stakeholders in the markets) and secondary inputs.



  • The retail sector is the most advanced industry that has adopted cloud technologies. This could be due to the common theme observed in most sectors in the willingness to migrate enterprise applications to the cloud while continuing to operate mission-critical systems on legacy systems.



  • Manufacturing remains slow in cloud technologies adoption despite expectations that the sector would have progressed significantly into smart manufacturing processes via information and communications technologies. The energy sector is the slowest in cloud technologies adoption.



  • An industry with inherent seasonal shifts, the retail sector is customer-facing with an increasing need to use emerging technology trends such as mobile and social media. It, therefore, stands to benefit from the scalability offered by the cloud.



  • This research service will identify the key areas of cloud transition in the retail sector and highlight current cases of retailers and vendors using this technology in the market.



  • The global nature of manufacturing business necessitates the use of cloud technology that can integrate operations across the world, reducing delays due to co-ordination between stakeholders in the manufacturing process.



  • The report discusses the options available for manufacturers to migrate to cloud-based solutions as it traditionally relies on applications that are part of the enterprise resource planning suite.



  • The energy sector is a traditionally conservative and risk-averse industry and is, therefore, relatively slow in the adoption of cloud. However, the rise in big data and the need to be cost-efficient is expected to increase investment in cloud.



  • The report investigates the forces behind transition of energy applications to the cloud and examines the different cases for cloud implementation, as well as the opinions of utilities.



  • The following sections in this research will discuss the challenges encountered by energy, retail, and manufacturing verticals and how implementation of cloud can help improve overall efficiency.


Key Topics Covered:


Executive Summary

Retail Sector

Manufacturing Sector

Energy/Utilities Sector

Conclusion

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