The Digital Universe in 2020

Consumers and the Digital Universe

 Where are you in the Digital Universe? See how data is growing all around you, and all around the world—your expanding “digital shadow,” the rise of the “Internet of things,” the exploding impact of young people. See where consumers stand in the Digital Universe in this infographic.






SOURCE: EMC.com and yoyoclouds.com

MindMap – Cloud Computing Vendor Ecosystem 2012

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Cloud Vendors Ecosystem

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INFOGRAPHIC: Who’s Afraid of the Big Bad Cloud?

A really thoughtful infographic from CA Technologies’ CloudViews, based on a recent survey of IT leaders. 

It shows just how and why some companies have been slow to adapt Cloud Computing.

To read the complete story, CLICK HERE 

To view the INFOGRAPHIC, CLICK HERE

Reblogged from yoyoclouds.com

Big Data & The Cloud

A good presentation by Joe Ziegler at the 5th Elephant conference in Bangalore.

View to know WHY Cloud is Big Data's BEST FRIEND !

Big Data & The Cloud from Amazon Web Services

Eucalyptus - An Overview of On-premise IaaS and AWS

Presentation from AWS Worldwide Public Sector team's conference Building and Securing Applications in the Cloud (http://aws.amazon.com/campaigns/building-securing-applications-cloud/).

Eucalyptus - An Overview of On-premise IaaS and AWS from Amazon Web Services

Infographic : Hypervisor Tug-of-War

 

We've described the battle between VMware and Microsoft as a hypervisor war going back as far as the first release of Microsoft Virtual Server. Unfortunately for Microsoft, that war was pretty ugly. On the one side, VMware had guns and cannons, and on the other side, Microsoft was throwing rocks. Ok, maybe it wasn't quite that bad, but you get the picture.

Fast forward and Microsoft has added a lot of weaponry with the introduction of Microsoft Hyper-V, the company's true hypervisor. And the Redmond giant's offering just keeps on getting better. But, so too does the ESX hypervisor from VMware. A virtual tug-of-war if you will.

Check out this latest Infographic coming from the folks at SolarWinds. 

Instead of depicting this as a hypervisor war, the InfoGraphic calls it the Hypervisor Tug-of-War.

The survey information clearly shows that VMware remains in control. However, there are some interesting data points in there as well.

• Survey responders believe that VMware is far and away going to be the most trusted private cloud vendor, with a whopping 76.9%
• However 76.1% believe Microsoft will close the functionality gap with VMware thanks to Hyper-V 3.0
• While trying to break beyond the barrier of VM Stall, it sounds like 56.8% of key applications will be deployed on a private cloud next year, while 57.7% have already moved beyond the 40% mark of their datacenter being virtualized
• 70% of end users still deploy more than one virtualization tool

And at the bottom, we see that VMware still commands a lead in the hypervisor tug-of-war.

 

 

 

Reblogged from VMBlog

Infographic by SolarWinds

 

Infographic: The Big Data Boom

Our age has moved into a complex situation. On the one hand, we are experiencing an ever-increasing level of home clouds and, while on the other hand, commodity data services are hungrily intensifying. In the midst of this chaos, big data and cloud computing have secured their bond, and their friendship has come forward. This has prompted a sigh of relief from the user group.

Data is a common problem in organizations, and hence they want to figure out how to get their enterprise data assets under control. The friendship mantra of big data and the cloud can be verified by analyzing the emergence of cloud computing with the processing power to manage exabytes of information. Being able to handle large amounts of information is a priority for big enterprises in the industry because organizations are trying to get their data under control. Nevertheless, learning from the great success of big data in the cloud world, many governments have also become active players in the cloud domain.

Emerging big data trends show that organizations are getting to the analytical states of their processes, gaining the ability to determine value, and getting to know what their data is doing in a particular state of their business. This also requires the combination of huge amounts of data into common, accessible points that provide mission-critical business intelligence (BI). Data warehousing and the ability to look the value of information, either in an operation state or in a decision support state, are also factors of prime importance.

Nearly all the latest market trends point to the notion of being agile and being customer responsive. Interestingly, not all big data cloud servers are the same. The technology that Microsoft provides is completely different from the technology that Google provides. The time it takes to push a big data project to completion inevitably depends on the technology used by the server. This leads us to the question of which service provider to choose and which to ignore.

To support an adaptive organization, big data is one of the critical elements. The ability of cloud computing to provision computer resources, storage, network capacity and, above all, do all this magic at a moment’s notice makes big data and the cloud the dearest of friends. There is a long way to go, but for now they seem to be friends for life.



Source : cloudtweaks.com
Infographic Source: Netuitive
Write Up Source : Big Data And Cloud Computing – Friends For Life

Pros and Cons of Hybrid Cloud

Benefits and Limitations of investing in a Hybrid Cloud

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Pros and Cons of Private Cloud

Benefits and Limitations of investing in a Private Cloud

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Pros and Cons of Public Cloud

Benefits and Limitations of investing in a Public Cloud

 

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Infographic: Why are more more businesses moving to the cloud?

The cloud is one of the quickest growth areas in the IT sector, more and more businesses are using the cloud for their day to day processes and according to analysts TechMarketView, the UK market for cloud computing reached £1.2bn in 2011, 38 percent higher than the previous year. That’s some serious growth!

But why are businesses moving to the cloud? The reality is the cloud is fast becoming hard to ignore and in the infographic below we take a look at why:

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Infographic : Understanding Hybrid Cloud Computing

The term “hybrid” can hold a different meaning from industry to industry. Generally speaking, it describes the combination of two things to make one. In the cloud computing industry, there are a series of technologies you can use to run your web environments, from cloud to dedicated.

Users can have a hybrid environment at Rackspace by connecting Cloud Servers and dedicated servers via RackConnect™. Here is a fun illustration that highlights this technology in the simplest of terms.


Hybrid Hosting
 

This illustration is meant to be a general explanation of what “hybrid” means in the cloud computing world. With the Rackspace solution, RackConnect, you do in fact need a firewall to connect dedicated and cloud servers. The data transferred between the two can be done over a private network.
A better explanation can be seen here:
http://www.rackspace.com/hosting_solutions/hybrid_hosting/

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Infographic : How Cloud Computing is Saving the Earth

Since the first Earth Day in 1970, the rise of information technology has meant progress but it has also raised many challenges. Even with green IT initiatives, global data center energy consumption is on the rise and IT departments are continuing to look for ways to become more efficient.

The nature of cloud computing solves for many IT problems and in the infographic below, we have illustrated how cloud computing is making a difference. In addition, projects like Open Compute, are helping IT industries create more efficient data centers.


Rackspace® — [INFOGRAPHIC] How Cloud Computing is Saving the Earth




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Infographic : API Adoption And The Open Cloud - What Is An API?

You probably use application programming interfaces (APIs) multiple times a day and aren’t even aware of it. They make it easier to share photos with friends, access massive data stores and drive new app development.

With the rise of APIs, including our own Open Cloud API, we’ve compiled an overview to help you understand how APIs work, how you’re already using them, and how businesses are finding big successes with APIs.


Rackspace® — API Adoption And The Open Cloud: What Is An API? [Infographic]




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Infographic : Hosting to Storage - Why the Cloud is a Big Deal for Small Businesses

Cloud computing helps businesses get off the ground with little upfront investment and operate on a shoestring while accessing technology and applications traditionally reserved for big businesses.

Services like web hosting, hosted storage, and email hosting take the financial strain and workload off of business so they can focus on their core competencies. Take a look at what a big deal the cloud is becoming for small businesses.


Rackspace® — [INFOGRAPHIC] Hosting to Storage: Why the Cloud is a Big Deal for Small Businesses





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Infographic : Healthcare in the Cloud

Cloud computing is changing the way healthcare delivers care. Over 70% of health care providers are planning to deploy cloud technologies like email, collaboration, scheduling, and other systems so they can focus on patient care, not caring for complex IT systems.

The growing healthcare IT industry is in the spotlight this week with National Health IT Week sponsored by Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society. In recognition of the partnership between the cloud and healthcare, we took a look at how cloud computing is impacting the healthcare industry.


Rackspace® — [Infographic] Healthcare in the Cloud



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Cloud Infographic: The World And Big Data

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CLOUD INFOGRAPHIC: GOOGLE DRIVE VS THE COMPETITION

Google's cloud service is serious about taking on the competition. 

This infographic compares Google Drive to its top three competitors: Dropbox, Microsoft's Skydrive, and Apple's iCloud. Besides comparing size, pricing, and platform support, we also take a look at a brief history of these cloud services.

There are hundreds of cloud services available today, a fact which does not make it any easier for users to select a cloud storage provider that fits their needs.

Google is no longer the only kid on the cloud computing block. In fact, Apple, Microsoft, Amazon and even private parties are entering into the cloud storage industry, and rather aggressively. The race is on for these cloud storage services to bring in the most customers and attract the most attention, but who is the best of the best? Answering this question is not as simple as one might hope. In fact, there’s a lot more to selecting the best cloud storage company than meets the eye. 

This is because cloud storage is customized to users based on their distinct needs, which means while a certain cloud storage may be perfect for one individual, it might not work well for another.

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Original source : infographiclabs.com cloudtweaks.com

Cloud Computing & the Public Sector ?

Source: AMD and Redshift Research

Cloud Infographic: The World And Big Data

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