You’ve heard of downsizing and rightsizing, so how about Cloudsizing? As properly defined, Cloudsizing is: The improvement of efficiency and effectiveness of an organization through the selective use of computing resources that are delivered over the Internet. Simple but powerful, and fairly obvious, considering all that’s been written about Cloud Computing recently.
Nick van der Sweep, HP’s Director of Virtualization and Insight Software ESS Infrastructure Software, gave an information-packed breakout session at SYS-CON’s 4th International Virtualization Conference & Expo last week in San Jose, California. He explained to delegates how to develop a virtualization strategy that will enable the transformation of a datacenter into a cost-effective, energy efficient and responsive IT environment that can dynamically adapt to the changing business requirements.
Just because the web has been open so far doesn’t mean that it will stay that way. Flash and Silverlight, arguably the two market-leading technology toolkits for rich media applications are not open. Make no mistake - Microsoft and Adobe aim to have their proprietary plug-ins, aka pseudo-browsers, become the rendering engines for the next generation of the Web.
While the concept of consolidation is certainly not new to IT organizations, its application is gradually expanding. This convergence of endpoint security and endpoint management has grown to include not just servers and other hardware, but also IT operations and tools. Evidence of this trend can be heard in hallways and lunch rooms as security and administrative teams compare notes.
As described in Part One of this series, the cloud is not the answer for every enterprise or every workload. This is true based on the current economics even without considering additional factors like security, control and SLA’s. On the other hand the economics do point out a major cloud advantage when it comes to short term or variable workloads.
Last week the masses converged on San Jose for the SYS-CON convention that covered SOA, Virtualization and Cloud Computing. The event spanned three days and was very well attended. I was surprised at how crowded the sessions were given the state of the economy these days. People love a trend and Cloud Computing is no exception. I managed to catch a couple of interesting presentations on the cloud computing side that were standing room only.
SYS-CON Events, producer of the 2nd International Cloud Computing Conference & Expo, to be held March 22-24, 2009, in New York City, announces that its Call for Papers has been attracting a record number of submissions. Topics proposed include all aspects of providing or using massively scalable IT-related capabilities as a service using Internet technologies. Financial analysts estimate that by 2011 the volume of Cloud Computing market opportunity will amount to $160BN, including $95N in business and productivity apps (e-mail, office, CRM, etc.) and $65BN in online advertising. Help plant your company’s flag in the fast-expanding business opportunity that is The Cloud: submit your speaking proposal today!