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Why PaaS growth is disproportional to other sectors.
“There is a lot of speculation about the growth of PaaS, mostly about how it aligns with the other broad sections of the cloud computing space, namely IaaS and SaaS. The numbers are all over the place. However, based upon our estimations, the PaaS market is expected to reach @ $7.5bn by 2016 and grow at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of about 50%. The bigger story here could be the differential in growth rates of the IaaS, SaaS, and PaaS marketplaces. Or, how they will grow in the next 2 to 5 years. …” Via David Linthicum, GigaOM Pro
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Cloud Computing: IT’s Driving Again
“Verizon’s second annual “State of the Market: Enterprise Cloud” report, released Tuesday, reports that 71% of businesses expect to have public-facing applications in the cloud by 2017. One value of the Verizon report is its ability to track changes from year to year. For example, in 2013 it reported cloud storage was growing at a rate 2.5 times that of VMs deployed. Memory capacity, it said in 2013, was growing even faster, at 2.9 times the rate of VMs deployed, reflecting perhaps an increasing concern for performance. In the 12 months ended July 2014, the rate of growth of storage per VM increased six times over the number of VMs deployed, and the capacity of memory had grown to “a staggering 12 times” the rate of VMs deployed. …” Via Charles Babcock, InformationWeek
Cloud carries security risks, but biz benefits hard to ignore
“Yes, the cloud carries many security risks but the cost benefits it offers makes too much business sense for any enterprise to ignore. That’s the view shared by senior IT executives during a panel discussion Thursday hosted by ZDNet and held at the Cloud Expo Asia conference in Singapore. … For companies that have deeper pockets, such as Sears Holdings, building their own data centers and private clouds will minimize security risks…” Via Eileen Yu, ZDNet
Why Hybrid Cloud Makes Sense
“Cost reduction alone cannot be the only economic justification for cloud adoption. To change the economic model, it is critical to look at what cloud adoption creates in the way of new business models and transactions. The hybrid cloud concept is an important step toward this new paradigm. … However, cloud-based business models, especially for enterprises and SMB, come with their own sets of challenges. … the following business imperatives challenge traditional enterprise IT and cause them to evaluate the applicability of various cloud-based infrastructure services and applications…” Via Ari Banerjee, Light Reading
Microsoft adds IoT, Big Data orchestration services to Azure
“Microsoft added three new big data services to its Azure cloud platform yesterday as part of its ongoing efforts to make Azure a leading platform for big data services and to make it ready to tackle the Internet of Things. … Two of the services — Stream Analytics and Azure Event Hubs — are intended to help customers process data from devices and sensors in the IoT. Meanwhile the Azure Data Factory service is about information production by orchestrating and managing diverse data, especially in hybrid environments where some data sources reside in the cloud and others are on-premise…” Via Thor Olavsrud, CITE World
What’s next for Microsoft’s private cloud?
“Microsoft’s Azure team has been rolling out new services, features and partnerships at a breakneck pace as of late. But the majority of the news announcements have been focused on the public (IaaS, or infrastructure as a service) side of the Microsoft cloud, which has led some to wonder if Microsoft is backing away from its original private, platform-as-a-service (PaaS), focus with Azure. Nothing could be further from the truth, said Microsoft Azure Chief Technical Officer Mark Russinovich. …” Via Mary Jo Foley, ZDNet
Microsoft helping government embrace open source programming
“If we had to name one place where an open and trusted computing platform was most needed, it would be inside government. As part of that, the Obama administration last year signed an executive order requiring government information be open and machine readable. However, it also needs to be secure, because some information needs to be kept secret regardless of platform. … On the front lines of both of these efforts is a company that probably doesn’t come to mind in the open source movement, especially in government. Although it has not until very recently begun taking credit for its efforts, Microsoft is quickly emerging as a major leader for open source. …” Via John Breeden, Fedscoop
Amazon and Microsoft Clouds: Who’s Playing Catch-Up?
“…There are many IaaS (Infrastructure as a Service) hosts, who simply configure a virtual machine and charge for the time resources with which it is configured and the time it’s used. The two biggest by far are Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Azure. In addition, there are a wide variety of PaaS vendors who offer specially preconfigured instances of machines that address specific needs (Web server, git host, and so on). The big action is still in IaaS, though, and Microsoft’s presence in the #2 spot is curious, but not altogether unexpected. … The cloud’s ease of use, the quick expansion of computing power, and the ability to push content-download traffic off the data center (among other advantages) are far too attractive to be passed over. But which cloud host to use?” Via Charles Babcock, InformationWeek
Andy Rubin, Former Head of Android, Departs Google
“Andy Rubin, a high-ranking Google executive who spearheaded the company’s entrance into mobile phones and tablets and was in charge of the company’s nascent robotics group, has left the company. Mr. Rubin is leaving to start a tech incubator focused on start-ups interested in building hardware, he said. … Mr. Rubin’s departure is part of a series of recent executive moves that seem to give Mr. Page more room to focus on the company’s longer-term bets — like robotics — while handing almost all the responsibility for Google products to Sundar Pichai, a rising star. …” Via Conor Dougherty, NY Times
RackWare signs up to NetApp partner program
“Software provider RackWare has joined NetApp’s Alliance Partner Program. The Santa Clara firm is teaming up with NetApp and IBM to integrate its hybrid solution cloud management solution, RackWare Management Module (RMM), with IBM and NetApp technology, today’s announcement said. The aim is to provide customers with the benefits of cloud migration and disaster recovery for legacy and for cloud applications. …” Via Jessica Meek, Channelnomics
Tencent Partners With IBM on Cloud
“IBM and Tencent Cloud today announced plans to extend Tencent’s public cloud platform to the enterprise. The two companies, under the terms of a memorandum of understanding (MOU), will build and market a new class of public cloud tailored for industries, powered by cloud migration and integration services and a range of SaaS offerings — from customer care and digital marketing to enterprise asset management. Tencent Cloud and IBM will jointly promote industry innovation and gain from one another’s resources and global capacity to benefit enterprise customers. …” Via Light Reading
BENEDICT EVANS: ‘Mobile Is Eating the World’
“Andreessen Horowitz partner Benedict Evans is a mobile expert. He analyzes what mobile means for future tech businesses, giving out quick insights and figuring out what the next big thing will be. Evans is excellent at crunching numbers and visually displaying what that data means in a meaningful way that makes sense. This week, he gave a presentation at the Wall Street Journal’s WSJD conference, in which he spoke about the power of mobile. Evans also gave the presentation at Andreessen Horowitz’s a16z Tech Summit. …” Via Maya Kosoff, Business Insider
A reminder from Lockheed Martin that big data can be a slow process
“…Not every company is Facebook, where storage is measured in petabytes, new task-specific data-analysis tools pop up all the time and there are teams of data scientists analyzing every conceivable facet of user behavior. Case in point: Lockheed Martin. Yes, the large government contractor is toeing the cutting edge with its involvement in areas such as quantum computing, but it’s also dealing with some very slow-moving government agencies. According Ravi Hubbly, a senior technology manager at Lockheed, his team is in the process of deploying Hadoop within its clients’ infrastructures less an an engine of innovation and more as a bandage to stop the bleeding from big data. It’s the classic big data problem…” Via Derrick Harris, GigaOM
Five Ways to Move Your Big Data Projects Into the Cloud
“…The cloud provides an agile, scalable foundation for managing and pulling more insights out of the tsunami of data crashing over companies. Its adaptability creates a flexible platform for deploying new sets of analytics tools. Its connectivity makes analytics accessible and easy to use for anyone and allows data and applications to be shared more widely. The abundance of data, emergence of cloud, and advances in analytics mean data-driven decisions can now be an essential, daily and valuable activity for all types of business people — not just data scientists. All of these reasons underscore why companies need to learn to master some key steps for propelling the pairing of the cloud with big data. Here are five…” Via James Kobielus, WIRED
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