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Is Cloud Computing On Course to Becoming a $100 Billion Market?

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"Cloud computing’s not a panacea and it’s not the ideal solution for every business situation," wrote Oracle SVP Bob Evans recently in Forbes, "but at the same time, it’s no longer some nebulous (pardon me) theory whose risk is high and whose potential benefits are impossible to quantify."Evans was commenting on the state of the infrastructure industry in response to a report by McKinsey consultants James Kaplan, Chris Rezek, and Kara Sprague in which they suggested that the recent IDC saying spending on third-party-managed and public-cloud environments will surpass $70 billion in 2015 might significantly under-estimate the true size of the market.

Clouds Without Borders: How to Achieve True Application Interoperability

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Anyone who has moved houses knows there is nothing worse than hauling boxes and boxes of stuff, only to unpack it all on the other end and discover that the beloved furniture and knick-knacks do not work in the new place. Portability is a tricky concept, and moving applications to the cloud is not much different than moving house. Just as every home is uniquely suited to certain décor pieces and not to others, every cloud requires certain specifications. The code and configurations that worked like a charm in one cloud environment suddenly look like a bull in a china shop when moved to a new cloud.The Myth of Cloud PortabilityOne of the most

Vegas, IBM, Innovation, Cloud, and a Good Scotch

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Vegas to Boston, with a nice glass of scotch in my hand, I settled in for yet another red-eye flight (I am getting way too old for this). There was plenty of time to reflect on what had been a jam-packed couple of days at the IBM Impact 2012 global conference themed, "Innovate, Transform, Grow." Already in high gear, our partnership with IBM was highlighted in a 451 Research report IBM chooses AppZero as application virtualization partner for SmartCloud written by

Cloud Computing: Skytap Offers Ready-to-Go Cloudera Hadoop

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Skytap, the cloud platform that offers virtual lab automation as a service, now has pre-configured Cloudera Hadoop (CDH4) templates in its library that can be used to spin up and manage physical or virtual clusters of up to 50 Hadoop nodes.With complexity removed, the company claims a 10-node system should take no more than 10 minutes to deploy. In Cloudera system one node is always dedicated to Cloudera Manager.The templates eliminate the time required to manually download, install, configure and network all of the required software and hardware components together.Skytap expects the widgetry to be used for Hadoop experimentation or to test

Cloud Computing: AWS Out to Dethrone Apple, Google

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Andy Jassy, the head of Amazon's cloud business and the Harvard MBA who wrote its business plan, told the Sunday Telegraph in London over the weekend that AWS could some day displace Apple as the world's most valuable tech company."We don't say to ourselves, ‘What we're really doing is trying to build the largest technology company in the world,'" he told the paper. "We just happen to think, with how much computing is going to move to the cloud, and with the breadth and global footprint that we have, and our continuing [commitment] to iterate at a very fast pace, it just has the chance to be the largest technology company."Amazon doesn't break

Cloud Expo NY: Calculating the True Value of Industry-Specific Clouds

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Industry-specific clouds are those PaaS, IaaS, and PaaS services that are tailored for a specific vertical, such as transportation, retail, finance, and health care. IDC sees a $65 billion market in these industry solutions for 2013, rising to $100 billion in 2016.The value of industry-specific clouds is that businesses within a vertical can connect to applications, processes, and databases that are pre-defined for that vertical within a public or private cloud. They can extend processes and databases into the business domain, versus defining the data and processes within a generic cloud-based platform.So, are industry specific clouds right for

Cloud Computing: Online Learning Pioneer Picks Up $103M in Funding

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Online learning company Lynda.com has gotten $103 million in funding from Accel Partners and equity investor Spectrum Equity. Meritech Capital Partners also participated.It's the first money Lynda has taken from the outside and is meant to push the 17-year-old company into the international arena, which will mean localization, and add to its curriculum. It expects to scale its web and video platform.Its video learning platform, available in monthly and annual subscriptions, teaches computer skills such as 3D and animation, audio, business, design, development, home computing, photography, video and web and interactive design to individuals as

Private Cloud Deployment: Six Factors to Consider

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There was a time when we questioned the viability, if not the necessity of investing in cloud computing. Yet over the last couple years, that question has been answered with a definitive yes.Today, the subsequent debate has turned to benefits of the private cloud over the public cloud. With pundits on both sides still weighing in, this is a discussion that still rage in many quarters.Many organizations, citing concerns around security, have been less than enthusiastic about the idea of turning over sensitive customer information and company intellectual property to a 3rd party. They point to breaches such as those experienced by Amazon EC2 and

Cloud application adoption driven by new wave of SaaS integration

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Although cloud applications have been hailed by many organizations, a lack of tighter integration between apps continues to hold back adoption.Application vendors continue to try and bring about the next phase of integration to win over enterprise customers. This month, Box unveiled Box Embed, a framework that will allow customers to access files from within the dashboard of other cloud apps. Similarly, Nubera launched CloudWork, an app integration service, to pair with its cloud application store.According to a recent survey of IT pros by Dimensional Research, 67% of respondents said integrating data between applications was their biggest concern

With Recent Intel and CA Acquisitions, The Cloud API Market is On Fire

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It’s been a busy few weeks in the cloud API space with a fury of acquisitions. First came news the Intel Intel was reportedly acquiring Mashery, a 125 person firm for about $180 million, then came news of CA CA’s intent to acquire Layer 7 Technologies. On top of those stories came news that Mulesoft had acquired ProgrammableWeb, a company that pioneered the idea of open APIs. It seems that the business of APIs has never been hotter.First, a bit of background. An application programming interface or API is simply a protocol or application communication channel intended to be used as an interface by software components to communicate with each