Last chance to register for our webinar event tomorrow!
Join us for this live event as we discuss the move towards “Big Data” and how it will impact organizations and government agencies as they search for a more robust and reliable approach to capturing, storing, manipulating and analyzing digital information.
In fact, according to a recent survey conducted by IDC, the digital information will grow by 1.2 zettabytes and be 44 times larger than in was in 2009. Even more interesting, the report notes that by 2020, much of this data will be held in cloud environments or will be “touched by cloud.”
This session will provide you with an understanding of how organizations and agencies can apply cloud architectures to help deal with the data deluge, allowing them to more quickly spot business trends and engage, retain and serve customers better than ever before.
Join us on Thursday, August 26, 2010 to:
• Discover how “Big Data” will enable new types of application architectures, such as mapreduce for some common batch operations.
• Understand how this impacts traditional servers, relational databases and SAN architectures
• Learn how to take advantage of Big Data and control costs by incorporating cloud platform and infrastructure technologies.
Register Now!
It’s hard to believe summer is almost over! We are in the final stretch and I must admit, personally I am excited for school to start so I can get back some of my sanity. (Note “some” – not “all”)
With the close of summer comes the close of our very successful webinar series – The Execs Guide to Cloud Computing. Each webinar in the series produced record attendance. If you missed any of the past sessions be sure to check out the recordings below:
1.) Part 1: Strategic Implications of Cloud Computing
2.) Part 2: The Cloud Adoption Life Cycle
3.) Part 3: Cloud Architecture, Modeling and Design
4.) Part 4: The Move Towards Big Data <REGISTER NOW!!>
The last webinar is definitely one you don’t want to miss and just happens to be in Appistry’s sweet spot! As I’m sure you know, it’s a total coincidence that it happened this way;)
In this next and final series we will discuss the move towards “Big Data” and how it will impact organizations and government agencies as they search for a more robust and reliable approach to capturing, storing, manipulating and analyzing digital information.
In fact, according to a recent survey conducted by IDC, the digital information will grow by 1.2 zettabytes and be 44 times larger than in was in 2009. Even more interesting, the report notes that by 2020, much of this data will be held in cloud environments or will be “touched by cloud.”
This session will provide you with an understanding of how organizations and agencies can apply cloud architectures to help deal with the data deluge, allowing them to more quickly spot business trends and engage, retain and serve customers better than ever before.
Join us on Thursday, August 26, 2010 to:
• Discover how “Big Data” will enable new types of application architectures, such as mapreduce for some common batch operations.
• Understand how this impacts traditional servers, relational databases and SAN architectures
• Learn how to take advantage of Big Data and control costs by incorporating cloud platform and infrastructure technologies.
Register Now!
We’ve been generating some great crowds for our summer webinar series. As a quick recap we started this campaign in May 2010 shortly after the release of the much anticipated book – The Execs Guide to Cloud Computing.
We thought it would be beneficial to cover some of the chapters of the book through a series of webinars because there is surprisingly little information available about cloud computing from the enterprise IT executive.
The third installment of the series will be held on July 22, 2010 and will discuss Cloud Modeling, Architecture and Design
Date: Thursday, July 22, 2010
Time: 11:00 PST/1:00 CST/2:00 EST
This next session we will discuss modeling and architecture techniques to help facilitate your cloud planning, implementation and migration.
This session will provide you with a Cloud Reference Model, a Cloud Reference Architecture, and a repeatable Cloud Modeling Approach to help you identify patterns and support your business objectives.
Join us on Thursday, July 22, 2010 to:
• Learn about the cloud reference model and architecture, and how it will facilitate the implementation of your cloud architecture.
• Discover how to identify and document cloud patterns that meet your organization’s business requirements.
• Learn how to document cloud patterns using a standard set of symbols mapped to the cloud reference model.
Join us for this live event as we share our successes leveraging these cloud modeling and architecture approaches and learn how to apply them to your enterprise.
Seminar Series Schedule:
1. 5/6/10: Strategic Implications of cloud computing and why executives should care!
2. 6/17/10: The Cloud Adoption Lifecycle
3. 7/22/10: Cloud Architecture, Modeling and Design
4. 8/12/10: The Move Towards Big Data
Hopefully you saw our big announcement this morning! We are excited to announce strategic alliances with several of the leading Hadoop ecosystem vendors including Concurrent, Datameer and Kitenga.
So what does this mean and why is it important you ask?
We are really excited to announce these partnerships because each of these vendors add unique value by simplifying the development of analytical applications on Hadoop and hiding the complexity of the underlying MapReduce framework.
If your following corporate trends, you’ll see that “Big Data” is playing a more strategic role in helping enterprises understand and serve their customers. As a result, a broader set of users now require a more reliable and robust file storage system that is both easy-to-use and works with their existing Hadoop applications. In the simplest terms, our partnerships with leading Hadoop vendors make this vision of a more robust storage system possible.
Under the terms of the partnership, each of these vendors’ products has been validated against Appistry CloudIQ Storage Hadoop Edition, which offers plug-and-play compatibility with the Hadoop Distributed File System (HDFS), and each will work with Appistry to support joint customers using CloudIQ Storage in place of HDFS.
Without any changes to their applications, users of the Concurrent, Datameer and Kitenga products can choose Appistry CloudIQ Storage as a more robust file system for their enterprise-grade Hadoop deployments. CloudIQ Storage is fully decentralized and offers higher availability and greater reliability than HDFS, whose “NameNode” is a single point of failure and network bottleneck.
Be sure to check out the full announcement
Here is a quick overview of the partners and their offerings:
• Concurrent develops software to help enterprises realize the full benefits of parallel computing clusters. Concurrent has released the Cascading open-source project, a layer over MapReduce that allows developers to rapidly create complex data processing and computing applications through a straightforward Java API. Cascading provides simpler abstractions to define applications and glue them together, as well as interfaces to work with external systems.
• Datameer offers the a big data analytics solution built on Hadoop that helps business users access, analyze and use massive amounts of data. Founded by Hadoop veterans in 2009, the company’s breakthrough product, Datameer Analytics Solution (DAS), provides unparalleled access to data with minimal IT resources. DAS scales to 4,000 servers and petabytes of data and is available for all major Hadoop distributions including Apache, Cloudera, Yahoo!, IBM, and Amazon.
• Kitenga provides an innovative multi-media content mining solution for non-programming professionals, designed to reduce or eliminate the complexity, risk and cost typically associated with implementing massively scaled-out multimedia content mining solutions. Kitenga’s ZettaVox application combines ready-to-run content processing elements with a full-fledged content mining/analytics solution that distributes processing over cloud and cluster-based computing assets by leveraging the open-source Hadoop framework. The entire process can be monitored, batched, and the results analyzed using sophisticated visualization and analytics tools.
We encourage you to check out our additional resources to learn more about Appistry CloudIQ Hadoop Edition:
Appistry CloudIQ Storage, Hadoop Edition is available for free download through Appistry’s Peer2Peer community:
http://www.appistry.com/community/go/cloudiq-community-edition-download.
Appistry Web Site: www.appistry.com
CloudIQ Storage Product Page: http://www.appistry.com/products/cloud-iq-storage
CloudIQ Storage Hadoop Edition Page: http://www.appistry.com/products/cloud-iq-storage/hadoop-edition
Hopefully you’ve heard about our summer webinar series – The Execs Guide to Cloud Computing. Just in case you missed Part 1, you can catch the replay Part 1 – Strategic Implication of Cloud Computing at: http://www.appistry.com/media/execs_guide_strategic_implications/
As a quick reminder we assembled this webinar series because there is surprisingly little information available about cloud computing from the enterprise IT executive. And we thought this series would be a great way to cover topics taken from the just released book: The Execs Guide to Cloud Computing
We are now promoting the second installment of our webinar series titled Exec’s Guide Part 2: The Cloud Adoption Lifecycle
Join us on Thursday, June 17, 2010 at 11:00 PST/1:00 CST/2:00 EST as we discuss what IT and Business leaders need to know about cloud computing to be successful.
Just to give you a little background, this next webinar about the Cloud Adoption Lifecycle webinar will discuss effective and efficient methodologies for adopting cloud computing.
Key takeaways from the webinar include:
• Uncover the various stages of the cloud adoption lifecycle from initial proof-of-concepts, requirements gathering and implementation of an enterprise-scale cloud computing strategy.
• Understand the major milestones and best practices in the cloud adoption lifecycle
• Learn cloud adoption best practices and common pitfalls to avoid as you begin your journey with cloud computing.
Here is a quick look at what we have in store for the summer!
Seminar Series Schedule:
1. 5/6/10: Strategic Implications of cloud computing and why executives should care!
2. 6/17/10: The Cloud Adoption Lifecycle
3. 7/15/10: Cloud Architecture, Modeling and Design
4. 8/12/10: The Move Towards Big Data
