AWS has announced an expansion of its services into an Asia-Pacific region in the first half of 2010, enabling businesses to deploy compute and storage resources in close proximity to their end-users in the region.
Sonian will access AWS’s infrastructure services from multiple Availability Zones in Singapore in the first half of 2010, then in other Availability Zones within Asia over the second half of 2010.
Congratulations to Amazon Web Services for finalizing Statement on Auditing Standards No. 70 (SAS70) Type II Audit, and has obtained a favorable unbiased opinion from its independent auditors.
SAS70 certifies that AWS has had an in-depth audit of its controls, specifically as it relates to operational performance and security to safeguard customer data. All Sonian customers benefit from this attention to security and operating efficiency.
This week’s Goldman Sachs Report “A Paradigm Shift for IT: The Cloud,” gives us a view into IT decision maker attitudes about cloud computing and where enterprise workloads will be processed in the future.
Over the next three years a majority of compute workloads will migrate from non-cloud on-premises infrastructure to a hybrid public/private cloud ecosystem. Cloud means scale up in real-time to process data and then scale down when the work is done. No wasted compute power sitting idle.
The winners will be the companies that early on figured out how to harness the cloud infrastructure as a service for SaaS delivery and those that provide enabling technologies to help IT buyers get more value for their IT budget dollars. Sonian’s Universal Data Management cloud-powered platform is one such example of putting the cloud to good use today, solving the information governance pain point in a modern, secure, reliable and efficient manner.
RightScale has published their estimates of daily EC2 launches. It’s really impressive to see these stats and know that Sonian is contributing to the cloud-scale initiative. Organizations of all sizes can benefit from “cloud bursting” capabilities when extra CPU is needed to process big data sets. Virtual Private Cloud techniques enable on-demand cloud infrastructure to be a virtual extension of an enterprise data center without sacrificing security.
Our pioneering cloud-compute friends at RightScale published some very interesting observations about Amazon Web Services’ Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) daily CPU launches. They estimate a daily load factor of 50,000 CPU launches. The real potential of cloud computing (and I mean “true” cloud computing…. not legacy data centers masquerading as a “cloud”) is the ability to harness this on-demand “horsepower” in a scale-up and scale-down manner, embedding operational and infrastructure efficiency throughout the software stack.
Traditional enterprise software was not created to take advantage of the cloud’s ability to scale horizontally on-demand “up and down.” To truly embrace cloud computing new software stacks are required to break with the past constraints of fixed CPU to process more work for less costs. It’s the smart way and the right way to manage enterprise IT needs.
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