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The Business Cloud Summit promises to be the UK’s premier Cloud event of 2010
Sep 1st
The Business Cloud Summit 2010 – 30 November, London, England
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The Business Cloud Summit 2010 will be Europe’s Cloud Computing event of the year. Unfolding over one day, it will comprise two highly focused streams, exploring current and future Cloud Computing issues in both the public and private sectors. The agenda will build on the success of the 2009 
Summit, delivering a unique mix of focus and leading industry insight, and ensuring that the 2010 Summit will be marked in the diaries of CIOs, CEOs and COOs from across the UK and Europe.
With dedicated content streams covering the key issues in both the public and private sectors, this one-day event will include top-level insight, relevant to all forward-thinking technology professionals, across all industries and all sectors; drilling down into the Cloud issues that affect central and local government, the NHS, education and the third sector.
The Business Cloud Summit is the only UK event of its type to offer specific content aimed at line of business managers in HR, finance, CRM and IT. It’s the only place where professionals from all areas of the Cloud industry will be brought together under one roof; infrastructure providers, buyers, end-users, influencers and decision makers.
The Cloud for 2010
According to IDC, 2009 was the year that Cloud Computing was ‘seeded’. In 2010 Cloud computing is now part of the mainstream. End users are embracing the cost and productivity benefits of the model with enthusiasm. At a time when the world is still emerging carefully from the worst economic downturn in living memory, lower start-up costs and total cost of ownership of Cloud Computing, delivering ROI of over 1000% in some cases, are welcomed with enthusiasm by CIOs, CEOs and CFOs in organisations across every business sector.
2010 is the year of Cloud adoption:
- By 2012, a fifth of all businesses will own no IT assets – Gartner
- The Cloud services market will surge to around $150bn in 2013 – Gartner
- The market for cloud services will account for 10% of all IT spending by 2013 – IDC
For more information see: http://www.businesscloud9.com/summit/2010
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Practically Speaking about Amazon Web Services – Part 2: A Cloud Giant
Sep 1st
Practically Speaking about Amazon Web Services – Part 2: A Cloud Giant
We saw the various innovative cloud products and services offered by Amazon Web Services in Part 1. At this stage, it is quite natural that we have the business economics going on in our mind as how big is the cloud business industry and what part is being played by Amazon. Let us have a look at how Amazon Web Services has fared in analysts views. After all, before Amazon Web Services came along, Amazon was the least known for putting up a fight with IT Giants: such as: Microsoft, IBM, Google etc., where they not?
IDC, in a press release dated June 23rd,2010, says that global revenue of public cloud services which was around $ 16 Billion in 2009 will grow to $ 55.5 Billion in 2014. The research report further states that IT cloud services are crossing the chasm with modest revenue; fastest growth of about CAGR 27.4%.
-Reference: Worldwide and Regional Public IT Cloud Services 2010–2014 Forecast by IDC – (IDC #223549)
Another report released by UBS Investment Research analysts Brian Pitz and Brian Fitzgerald says that, for the type of cloud services offered by Amazon Web Services the market size can be pegged at around $ 15 to 20 Billion in the year 2014.
As per analysts, Amazon Web Services clocked revenue of about $ 0.5 Billion in 2010; could go up to $ 2.54 Billion in 2014. And this is about a 5% of total market share! And a market share of about 15% in similar services! Analysts predict that from the last quarter of 2010, Amazon Web Services revenue will have an impact on Amazon Inc., as a company. Well, not minding accuracy of these market share figures, one can clearly say that Amazon is an early pioneer player poised to grow big.
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HP Launches CloudStart to Fast Track Private Clouds
Aug 30th
SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 30, 2010
HP today announced HP CloudStart, the industry’s first all-in-one solution for deploying an open and flexible private cloud environment within 30 days.
Built on an HP Converged Infrastructure, HP CloudStart simplifies and speeds private cloud deployments. Consisting of hardware, software and services, HP CloudStart empowers businesses to deliver pay-per-use services reliably and securely from a common portal, and it offers the ability to scale and deploy new services automatically. Real-time access to consumption and chargeback reports allows clients to operate their private clouds in the same fashion as a public cloud.
With HP’s open architecture approach, clients are able to integrate their private clouds with third-party enterprise portals, public cloud services, usage billing packages and multiplatform resource management.
“To better serve the needs of their enterprises, clients are asking us to help them become internal service providers with the ability to deliver applications through a highly flexible private cloud environment,” said Gary M. Budzinski, senior vice president and general manager, Technology Services, HP. “With CloudStart, HP is enabling clients to optimize applications for private cloud computing today, while providing a platform for a comprehensive, open and hybrid environment in the future.”
HP CloudStart delivers private cloud compute service in 30 days
HP CloudStart is delivered by HP Cloud Consulting Services, which provides the expertise needed for clients to transform their existing delivery approaches into more efficient shared-services models.
HP BladeSystem Matrix, enhanced with HP Cloud Service Automation software and data services provided by HP StorageWorks, forms the backbone of the CloudStart offering. It enables clients to reduce provisioning times up to 80 percent(2) with one-touch provisioning across infrastructure, applications and business services.
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The Week Ahead – 3 Part Series Called:”Practically Speaking about Amazon Web Services”
Aug 29th
CloudTweaks Update
In the coming weeks CloudTweaks will be going through some continued developments to offer our readers a more international perspective. We’ve added some new contributors to our team.
Malick and AWS expert from Chennai, India, will be adding a 3 Part Series called: “Practically Speaking about Amazon Web Services” starting on Monday.
Nimantha from Sri Lanka, is a very gifted technical writer and will be a very important part of this team. Some of his work can be found at: http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/library/ws-cloudcomputing/
Vallabh is an assistant editor for an online technology newspaper. He will be covering Cloud Computing Events and doing interviews with key individuals in and around Bangalore, India.
Anthony Park, has been with us for awhile and is our contributing editor in North America.
He is a vital part of CloudTweaks and will be attending the HP Cloud Tech Day next week offering insightful information on the event. Anthony is also responsible for interviews with key executives in the industry.
Stay tuned for an exciting week…
CloudTweaks
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Advantages of SaaS (Software as a Service)
Aug 26th
SaaS Applications
credit to saasblogs for image
Nowadays software-as-a service (SaaS) is the most promising development in marketing and business world. Despite the increasing popularity and market share of SaaS, traditional in-house software vendors still seem to be resisting this concept.
However, as time moves on and individuals grasp a better understanding of Cloud Services the number of firms are adopting. Almost all types of business applications such as: CRM, Inventor, Accounting, Marketing and Project Management to name a few are now SaaS based.
Reasons behind the success of SaaS:
Vendor’s Responsibility
SaaS providers are responsible for managing and maintaining both the software and hardware components of the application. The network issues such as data redundancy, data backup and recovery are also planned and managed by the vendors. They upgrade the software on regular intervals.
Economic
Ownership
Since SaaS vendors charge a set price per user per month, the firms don’t have to pay extra money for modules they don’t even use. It literally removes the maintenance, end user support, and administration costs of the software. The implementation and customization costs of SaaS are also lower than the traditional software. All this results in a very low total cost of ownership (TCO).
Scalability
Hosted software, another term for SaaS offers you more scalability in using the software. By utilizing SaaS you are free to use as much or as little part of any software as you need. This gives you easy and economical access to many programs.
Regular Upgrading
SaaS Vendors regularly upgrade their software, so that the users don’t have to put any effort into installing and upgrading the applications.
Easy Access
A major advantage of SaaS is it can easily and quickly be accessed from anywhere with a web browser. This gives users a great facility even when they are at home or in another country. They can access real time synchronized applications from Laptops and Smart Phones.
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10 Cloud Computing Startups that you may or may not have heard of…
Aug 24th
10 Cloud Computing Startups that you may or may not have heard of…
Tap In Systems
They offer Management of Your Cloud Services. This gives you control over your virtual infrastructure, automating the deployment of cloud services around 
your IT policies. Keep your applications running smoothly by monitoring all your cloud services with a single management system that is integrated with your operational processes.
WolfNetworks
WOLF is a browser based On Demand Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) for rapidly designing and delivering database driven multi-tenant Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) applications.
CloudLab
Offers Cloud Services, Hybrid and Dedicated Clouds. They make it possible for your business to benefit from cloud hosting even if security, regulatory or technical requirements have previously prevented it.
CloudSilicon
Intends to become the utility of choice for a multitude of small and medium sized businesses, delivering enterprise grade IT systems from the cloud, effectively, securely and economically.
Morphlabs’ mCloud
MorphLabs series enables the rapid deployment of the most sophisticated Cloud Delivery platforms for MSPs and Enterprise data centers. Built on industry-leading cloud standards facilitating the hybrid implementation of both public and private virtual resources, the mCloud™ series virtualizes commodity hardware while simplifying system administration and application management.
iSpaces
iSpaces provides a multi-desktop cloud operating system that is simple to you use, incredibly fast, constantly persistent and universally accessible. The beta release of iSpaces is coming out on September 15th.
8KMiles
Is an internet company that is focused on building solutions around cloud computing. 8KMiles is an Amazon System Integration partner and AWS Solution Developer. 8KMiles’ Cloud Solutions group offers cloud consulting, engineering and migration services to help companies leverage the power of cloud computing.
CloudLinux
Is innovative software company dedicated to serving the needs of hosting service providers, is the recipient of the 2010 Best Start-Up Award by the The Cloud Computing World Forum in the “World Series” Innovation competition. Cloud Linux received the award for its new innovation on how to “crash proof” servers as hosting providers migrate to a cloud based services model.
CloudSleuth
CloudSleuth delivers a test lab that brings real-time views of cloud performance to the forefront. For those members shopping around for a cloud service provider, the CloudSleuth platform delivers visualization and performance benchmarks that give them the power to compare the response times and availability of the top cloud service providers.
Lookout
Is a mobile security company dedicated to making the mobile experience safe for everyone. Today, with users across 400 mobile networks in 170 countries, Lookout is a world leader in smartphone protection which will be big in the cloud computing market..
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Cloud Computing Firm NetApp Explores the Possibilities at VMworld 2010
Aug 18th
Cloud Computing Firm NetApp Explores the Possibilities at VMworld 2010
SUNNYVALE, CA–(Marketwire – August 18, 2010) – NetApp (NASDAQ: NTAP) executives will discuss the hottest trends in infrastructure transformation,
cloud computing, and virtualization at VMworld® 2010 San Francisco. Manish Goel, executive vice president of Product Operations; Jay Kidd, senior vice president of Product Strategy and Development in the Storage Solutions Group; and Val Bercovici, NetApp cloud czar, will all present at the show. NetApp is a Global Diamond sponsor of VMworld® 2010 San Francisco, which takes place August 30-September 2, 2010, at Moscone Center in San Francisco, California.During the show, NetApp will demonstrate how organizations can use virtualization to transform the foundation of their business with a shared IT infrastructure. The NetApp booth (#601) will feature joint solutions from NetApp, Cisco, and VMware and highlight infrastructure solutions for cloud computing, desktop virtualization, and business applications. Visitors can schedule private demonstrations with NetApp vExperts.
Following is a list of the various sessions NetApp will present during VMworld®:
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9 Great Open Source Cloud Services to help build your business
Aug 17th
DuraSpace
The DuraSpace organization unveiled the open source code for the new DuraCloud platform, a hosted service and open technology that makes it easy for organizations and end users to use cloud services. DuraCloud is an open source platform that is built upon commercial cloud infrastructure. The platform itself deploys into a cloud server environment and is integrated with multiple cloud storage providers, including Amazon AWS and RackSpace.
OpenStack
What the software does: The goal of OpenStack is to allow any organization to create and offer cloud computing capabilities using open source 
software running on standard hardware. OpenStack Compute is software for automatically creating and managing large groups of virtual private servers. OpenStack Storage is software for creating redundant, scalable object storage using clusters of commodity servers to store terabytes or even petabytes of data.
Enomaly
Elastic Computing Platform (Enomaly ECP) has often been described as the world’s first true IaaS platform. Enomaly is the leader in empowering telecom, IDC and managed hosting operators to deliver the benefits of Cloud Computing to their 
customers As one of the earliest pioneers of cloud computing, Enomaly has the experience to help you monetize the cloud.
Cloudera
offers enterprises a powerful new data platform built on the popular Apache Hadoop open-source software package. We unlock the storage and processing technologies of the world’s biggest Web companies, allowing our growing list of global customers to use Hadoop to solve problems and achieve their particular business needs.
Eucalyptus
Eucalyptus is an open source solution that originates from an NSF funded research project at University of California, Santa Barbara. The open source model is generally considered a superior way of creating infrastructure software. Innovation is faster, users and customers have more freedom and flexibility, lock-in is avoided, and secondary benefits accrue from the massive ecosystems that naturally evolve around the most prolific open source products.
Hibari
Gemini Mobile Technologies (“Gemini”) announced at “Wireless Japan 2010″ in Tokyo that it will release Hibari (meaning “Cloud Bird” in Japanese) as open source. Hibari is a database optimized for the highly reliable, highly available storage of massive data, so-called “Big Data.” Hibari can be used in Cloud Computing Applications such as web mail, Social Networking Services (SNS), and other services requiring storage of tera-bytes and peta-bytes of new daily data.
Globus Nimbus
Nimbus is a set of open source tools that together provide an “Infrastructure-as-a-Service” (IaaS) cloud computing solution. Our mission is to evolve the infrastructure with emphasis on the needs of science, but many non-scientific use cases are supported as well.
Nimbus allows a client to lease remote resources by deploying virtual machines (VMs) on those resources and configuring them to represent an environment desired by the user.
OpenNebula
OpenNebula is an open-source toolkit to easily build any type of cloud: private, public and hybrid. OpenNebula has been designed to be integrated with any networking and storage solution and so to fit into any existing data center.
With OpenNebula you can transform your data center into a flexible and agile virtual infrastructure which dynamically adapts to the changing demands of the service workload.
Joyent
Joyent’s Smart Technologies provide application virtualization, which is different from all other major cloud vendors who are focused on hardware virtualization. Joyent’s approach provides applications with better performance and cost effectiveness, due to higher application density and hardware utilization in our Smart Technology stack.
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Thunder in the cloud: $6 cloud-based denial-of-service attack
Aug 11th
When you hear the rumble of thunder, then you know the storm is near. Two security researchers warned that cloud-based denial-of-service attacks are looming on the horizon. With $6 and a homemade “Thunder Clap” program, security experts David Bryan and Michael Anderson managed to take down their client’s server with the help of Amazon’s EC2 cloud infrastructure.
The cloud-based denial-of-service attack was part of a DefCon presentation called, Cloud Computing, a Weapon of Mass Destruction? In the description for their DefCon talk, they wrote, “We have been using the cloud computing environment to test real world scenarios for different types of attacks, such as Distributed Denial of Service, Flooding, and Packet Fragmentation.”
According to a report from DarkReading, the security consultants told DefCon attendees, “With the help of the cloud, taking down small and midsize companies’ networks is easy.” Bryan said, “It’s essentially a town without a sheriff.”
After Bryan and Anderson entered a name and credit card number, the experts created a handful of virtual server instances on Amazon’s EC2. They started with only three virtual servers, uploaded their prototype attack tool, called Thunder Clap, scaled up to 10 servers, and then took their client’s company off the Internet.
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RightNow Delivers First Customer Experience Cloud Platform
Aug 11th
(Press Release ITWire Aug 11th)
RightNow today unveiled the first customer experience cloud platform, RightNow CX Cloud Platform making it possible for organisations to create, extend and integrate mission-critical customer experience solutions in the cloud.
The new RightNow App Builder opens up the RightNow platform, allowing RightNow clients and partners to create new customer experience applications natively within the RightNow suite and extend RightNow CX to incorporate client- and industry-specific business processes. For example, adding a new service channel such as in-game help, building desktop extensions such as an order processing component, or creating industry specific workflows and applications to tailor RightNow CX for specific vertical markets.
The RightNow CX Cloud Platform provides all the elements required to deliver exceptional customer experiences in today’s demanding business environment, including:
· RightNow App Builder, a complete suite of tools to rapidly create, extend, configure and integrate customer experience applications on the RightNow platform
· RightNow Knowledge Foundation, intelligent authoring, social collaboration, and access for delivering relevant, timely and consistent knowledge across all customer interactions
· Mission Critical Operations, a cloud delivery infrastructure that provides the reliability, security and scalability demanded for mission-critical business processes
RightNow Helps Organisations Design, Build and Connect Customer Experience Applications in the Cloud
Purpose built for customer experience applications, RightNow App Builder allows RightNow clients, partners and developers to build custom customer experience applications and create, extend, configure and integrate unique processes, all on the RightNow platform.
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