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Cloud Expo, one of the biggest events in cloud computing world will be held from the 3rd to 5th November 2015 in the Silicon Valley. This unique opportunity will provide a platform for delegates and technology vendors to meet and broaden their understanding as well as explore mutually beneficial partnerships in the clouds pace. There will be more than 175 sessions, addressed by the who’s who of the cloud and big data world. This one-of-its-kind event will explore various aspects of cloud computing under a single umbrella, including topics like: Containers - New Ways to Deploy and Manage Applications Open Data cloud Cloud data management HCI changing cloud computing Cloud security Enabling Cloud Chargebacks Getting along with Cloud Platform Battle According to a survey conducted by 451 research, predictions are that the worldwide cloud computing market will grow at a 36% compound annual growth rate (CAGR) through 2016, reaching a market size of $19.5B by 2016. This defin...

Those attending VMworld in San Francisco in the summer this year could not escape mention of the “Unified Hybrid Cloud” and the stories seem to have now made their way across the Atlantic to VMworld Europe in Barcelona. Last week Bill Fathers EVP & GM of VMware’s Cloud Services Business lay out this case all over again, “VMware's approach is about empowering organizations to securely build, run and deliver any application across any environment. Our public cloud, vCloud Air, and global service provider ecosystem, vCloud Air Network, form the core components of our Unified Hybrid Cloud and remove that compromise from consideration." With so much attention (hype?), it may be worth taking a slightly longer look at what the fuss is all about. First what has changed? The Public Cloud aka Amazon has been around for long enough to have become a staple and even the software-defined data center is reasonably commonplace now. How is this offering from VMware different? The se...

SDDC the abbreviation of Software defined data centre has become the latest jargon used by anybody and everybody in the Storage, Virtualization and cloud technology domain. It was forged by Steve Herrod, VMware’s former CTO in 2012. Having got a bit of premise for this buzzword, let’s delve into its fundamentals and workings. SDDC essentially revolves around providing a facility wherein all elements of a data storage infrastructure like storage, Networking, Compute and security are Virtualised and delivered as a service. Deployment, provisioning, configuration and operation of the entire infrastructure is abstracted from hardware and implemented through software. SDDC aspires to provide a single pane view to centrally manage all the hardware, software, information and management tasks. This single interface will enable management in gaining business intelligence and will save time to a very large extend. This concept is gaining popularity as it reduces complexity and provide...