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San Jose, CA
The Fog Computing Conference will provide attendees with understanding and insight into this new phenomenon. Fog Computing–“closer to the ground” as opposed to “up there” in the cloud--is bringing computing and storage back to the Enterprise itself. It not only provides operational efficiencies beyond the concept of cloud storage and services, but further serves to offer additional security options so vital in today’s increasingly insecure work environment.
The Fog Computing Conference will focus on the most compelling trends driving the fog computing opportunity, including:
• Stream Databases
• Predictive Analytics
• Real Time Business Intelligence
• Operations Optimization
• Distributed Networks
• Dynamic Spectrum
• Edge Routing
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September 29, 2014 The Cloud Gold Rush - Is On! Cloud has matured over the last 5 years and so has the perception around its value. Distributors, resellers, telecom carriers, managed service providers, professional service teams, global enterprises, SMBs, and even individual consumers, are all cloud participants in an exponentially multi-billion industry.
The digital land grab is on, profits are soaring, and the value to the Fortune 100 or an individual customer is so great that literally no one is ignoring cloud anymore. Valuations on cloud companies often run 10 times revenue, and the tempo and cash amounts of acquisitions continue to set all-time highs, while innovation and talent are the fuel behind some of the most amazing technologies in human history.
The Perception Timeline (News  - Alert) of Cloud - Cloud started off as vaporware. Everyone said they were going to move to the cloud, but didn’t have a single SKU to do it with!
- Cloud was the new buzz word for anything hosted on the Internet. Larry Ellison, founder of Oracle (News - Alert), would have quite a bit of fun mocking this concept although in typical Larry fashion, he was already planning on how to cash in.
- Cloud moved from merely hosting applications to Infrastructure as a Service (“IaaS”). At this point, IT engineers were quick to mock it as “just another way to virtualize”.
- Cloud soon had an irresistible cost model that even global Fortune 100 enterprises couldn’t compete with. Cost was the primary driver, just as security was the primary concern. As such, cloud companies quickly became $1B+/year entities hosting mostly non-mission critical workloads.
- Cloud performance reached new peaks with super-dense compute farms, high speed ultra-low latency networking, and blazing fast infinite storage at rock bottom prices. Alien technologies either invented or used solely within cloud (like distributed object storage and a complex set of “dark arts” tuning across all these technologies) became pervasive. With the ability to blend software innovations with hardware tuning, a revolution in datacenter design was spawned by the cloud, unmatched by the enterprise.
- As cloud’s adoption grew, the battle of cloud differentiators began in 2014. Noticeable gaps emerged in how clouds either handled or ignored top of mind issues like migration, security, transport/connectivity, support, and cooperation with the channel. You can read about that here: http://www.cioinsight.com/it-strategy/cloud-virtualization/slideshows/10-key-factors-of-cloud-migration.html/.
- Cloud then expands internationally as it goes mainstream. Entire companies exist solely in the cloud. In fact, several of the newest and fastest rising companies are using cloud as one of their many disruptive angles to successfully unseat incumbents across a wide range of business models. As clouds began to meet security, regulatory, and other requirements, mission-critical workloads from banking, healthcare, legal, manufacturing, and other verticals now call cloud their home.
- As IaaS grew, the symbiotic relationship between servers and desktops became acute in the cloud. VDI failed in the enterprise for many reasons: cost, technical difficulty, lack of software tuning in coordination with a very specific hardware infrastructure (without which it could never scale), and last but not least, VDI was intended as an onsite solution and those resources now live in the cloud. As such, we are now seeing the rapid rise and market acceptance of Desktop as a Service (DaaS) or hosted virtual desktops (HVDs). Today, only Amazon and dinCloud offer the widest range of services in cloud+ virtual desktops. Many cloud service providers do not have a DaaS play. Conversely, many DaaS providers are ala carte, lacking the full cloud service provider portfolio to enable them as a real player...Read More
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