Worldwide Weekly – Feb.20
IBM Promises Cloud Computing Advice At Upcoming Pulse Conference – ChannelWeb – By Rick Whiting, ChannelWeb IBM channel partners looking for some ideas on how to make money from cloud computing will get some guidance this weekend at the …… View related stories »
CSC to Present at World’s Largest Cloud Computing Event – SYS-CON Media (press release) – "Cloud Expo was announced on February 24, 2007, the day the term ‘cloud computing’ was coined," said Fuat Kircaali, founder and CEO of SYS-CON Events. …… View related stories »
Cloud Security Alliance and IEEE Join Forces to Identify Cloud Security … – SYS-CON Media (press release) – “The true promise of cloud computing will only be realized if all aspects of security are addressed and communicated in a truly open and collaborative …… View related stories »
Rulers of the Cloud: Will Cloud Computing Be the Second Coming of Cisco? – ReadWriteWeb (blog) – This post is part of our ReadWriteCloud channel, which is dedicated to covering virtualization and cloud computing. The channel is sponsored by Intel and ……
Decisions selects Cloud Computing Centre to host SaaS business – TMC Net – Feb 19, 2010 (TELECOMWORLDWIRE via COMTEX) — Database software provider Decisions has chosen the Cloud Computing Centre to host and manage all of its …… View related stories »
Acumen to Provide Cloud Computing Services in Support of Electronic Health Records – TMCnet – In order to track, manage and report on this effort, Acumen Solutions plans to implement a cloud computing CRM and Project Management solution from …… View related stories »
The goal of cloud computing – NetworkWorld.com – In our last newsletter we pointed out how some industry purists believe that the phrase private cloud computing is an oxymoron – that cloud computing by …… View related stories »
Citrix, Novell Partner on Virtualization, Cloud Computing – Server Watch – By Larry Barrett Citrix Systems and Novell this week said they will collaborate on interoperability and assessment tools to reduce the costs and complexity ……
Where does Ray Ozzie lead Microsoft?
What does Ray Ozzie consider?
Do you remember the keynote of Microsoft Professional Developer Conference(PDC) 2009 held in Los Angeles in November, 2009? In this keynote, Rey Ozzie who is CSA (Chief Software Architect: president software designer) of the company explained the situation and plan of Windows Azure. It is orderly logic so that it may be usual, and it seems to have obtained an understanding of audiences. However, he sent the message to collaborate with open source products. It surprised all the people and made vague expectation hold.
The following logos are projected on the screen of a PDC keynote. Then, Ray Ozzie invited Matt Mullenweg of WordPress on the stage. And, there was the demonstration which deploys WordPress to Windows Azure. In the demonstration of this WordPress, it is displayed to the message that MySQL and Apache are prepared for the polite thing. Where is Rey Ozzie’s intention?
For the leaders of the company to send a certain message about a theme called the open source in Microsoft which everyone’s has watched interestingly is that it is very exceptional. Steve Ballmer visited Japan early in November, and played the keynote speaker of Microsoft Developer Forum. However, he did not touch on an open source at all.
On the other hand, the engineers of the company are seen as if they were asking for interoperability with an open source. First, PHP SDK for Windows Azure in Codeplex was announced around May, last year. It is an open source project which ties up PHP developers and Windows Azure, and is a part of the interoperability which Microsoft commits. Then, Azure Team announced Windows Azure Tools for Eclipse late in October in front of PDC. Furthermore, Simon Davies introduced Ruby on Rails, as an open source project on Windows Azure late of November.
Here, I will return to the PDC keynote of Ray Ozzie. He projected the above mentioned logos on the screen, and hinted TomCat running on the demonstration of WordPress. However, he is not explaining positioning of those open sources in Windows Azure Platform. Furthermore, Codeplex which is an open source repository, and each engineers’ blog are private for Microsoft. That is, although the pliability of Windows Azure was proved by engineers, this directivity may tone down.
The great transformation of Microsoft
I think that there are three big points of argument in present Microsoft. 1) Microsoft should maintain the present profit profile which consists of software package products. 2) The company should make the new profit profile which consists of on-line services. 3) The company should make public cloud who cooperated with the open source. The last one is an excessive actual theory. Needless to say, the pillars of the profit of Microsoft are packages, such as a Windows client, Office, Windows Server and SQL Server. And it seems that the sales by on-line services, such as BPOS, are less than 1% of the whole.
Should Microsoft be converted into the business centering on service in such a situation? Is essentially this conversion required? Probably, the leaders of Redmond have repeated such self-question answering themselves like every day. However, the user is honest. And the market is cool. Remember the determination of a Los Angeles city at the end of last year. In this city, as a result of examining 14 kinds of candidates about the application with which 34,000 city personnel are provided, Google Apps was chosen. Microsoft Office is given to the personnel engaged in creative work. And Google Apps can be given to a great portion of personnel.
If you are an employee of Microsoft which lives in a Los Angeles city, is judgment of such administration refuted? Probably, applause should be sent from a taxpayer’s position. And commoditization of IT is not having restricted to administration and there is same tendency also in private enterprises. Remember that the news that the Panasonic group shifted to Lotus Live enlivened the space of each media even in Japan. That is, when a large-scale organization provides all the personnel with PC, the user corresponding to the price of Windows 7 or Microsoft Office will become a minority group.
The price of Windows 7 Ultimate in the United States is 319.99 dollars, and the price of a notebook PC called Mini10 of DELL which run Ubuntu is 299 dollars. The leaders of Redmond should face this reality squarely. An organization like a Los Angeles city gives the personnel PC of 300 dollars or less, is paying Google the countervalue of a small sum, and will complete the investment of most. As everyone knows, the measure of the profitability of an enterprise system is the cost effectiveness. Therefore, all the enterprises take in cloud computing and Microsoft is also following in footsteps using Azure.
Observe the keynote of Tech-Days 2010 in Tokyo
Is charm felt for this company if Microsoft does not have Windows Azure? If such a question is carried out, most people will answer it as no. Windows Azure is expected as a pillar which bears the future of Microsoft. However, if interoperability with an open source is not taken in when promoting cloud computing, the market size will be restricted by itself. The idea of Ray Ozzie and members of Azure team is removing old restrictions of all Microsoft products and accepting an open source.
Tech-Days 2010 will be held in Tokyo at next week. You should observe the message about interoperability with an open source in the keynote. The future of Windows Azure and Microsoft should be able to be divined by whether it is forward or retreated compared with PDC.
Akihiro Oba who’s an officer of Microsoft and Developer & Platform Director will be on the keynote stage. From Redmond, Steve Marks, the technical strategist for Windows Azure, will participate as a demonstrator. The logo of the open source camp which Ray Ozzie showed by PDC should be shown once again. Many people desire explanation about the open source correspondence for these three months.
James Hamilton who wrote the paper which was excellent about the container data center has pointed out private cloud’s nonsensicalness by the own blog just recently (Private Clouds Are Not The Future). For example, there was no vendor which is easier to sell the imperfect product like a private cloud construction kit than Microsoft. However, Microsoft has raised Azure, without carrying out it. I wish Microsoft making public cloud successful.
Also for the reason, Microsoft should tell a Japanese developer and a Japanese user Rey Ozzie’s message, the necessity of interoperability with an open source. It does not only remain in Japan, but becomes the voice which support Rey Ozzie who promotes an unprecedented great transformation, and should be fed back also to Redmond.
Microsoft of Japan should support your wonderful chief architect strongly. It will be allowed even if an outsider like me approves of the message which the chief architect of Microsoft emitted.
Cloud Computing Battle in Japanese Government : It is not a Joke [ #scloud #openmeti ]
The Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications (MIC) began to invite a public comment last week using Twitter( #scloud ). As everyone knows, MIC has much administration functions including local government offices. Therefore, the study group for realizing the design named Smart Cloud is already launched in their inside. The member consists of several scholars, the Tokushima governor, FUJITSU, NTT, IBM Japan, Nihon Unisys, NTT DATA, KDDI, Internet Initiative Japan, Hitachi, NEC, Intel, and Nomura Research Institute.
The propriety to the open source was mainly discussed by the above-mentioned Twitter. That is, it is contrast of the idea which asks for protection of a domestic vendor, and the idea which searches for the productivity for a user. Of course, although the conclusion has not come out, I think that there was a significant argument.
And the Ministry of Economy Trade and Industry (METI) began to invite a public comment on several using Twitter ( #openmeti ). Several persons including me sent the question why two government offices could not cooperate. METI has answered "Since we prepare a platform, MIC should approve" to the question. Furthermore, it was said proudly that a 100 million yen budget was added up for this purpose.
Wait just for a moment! I want to say that it is national cash. Whether MIC will agree or dissent, it is uncertain. Does METI need to appropriate a large amount of budget for such a plan so much? Although many people have emitted the same question, METI has not answered.
There were two announcements today also. One is a thing from MIC, and the verification for cloud computing for 400 local government offices is referred to as beginning from April. Another is a thing from METI who announced their Online Policy Council of Citizens in English. http://www.meti.go.jp/english/press/data/20100216_01.html
However, signs of talking between METI and METI are not visible.
Although both are conscious of the word of being open, aiming at cloud computing, however, there is only the un-open policy in the government.
Major newspaper publishing companies should know such a situation. However, they are keeping silence.
It was proved that politics and journalism do not exist in Japan.
It is not a joke.
Worldwide Weekly – Feb.12
SGI Offers Cyclone Cloud Computing for HPC – eWeek – SGI is taking its technical computing expertise to the cloud. SGI is rolling out Cyclone, its cloud computing environment for the HPC (high-performance …… View related stories »
Users Use Applications. Applications Use Clouds – SYS-CON Media (press release) – then you certainly have a firm understanding of what cloud computing is and what it can do. But most end-users and business stakeholders won’t be attending …… View related stories »
Private Cloud Deployments: Top 8 Planning Requirements – San Francisco Chronicle – Virtualization does not obviate the need for management; it makes it more critical, especially as cloud computing is based on real time compute pools and ……
Cloud computing advances – 2TheAdvocate – Cloud computing creates a virtual world in which computer users on Southern’s network can share software and perform research using a single server cluster …… View related stories »
How To Protect Your Company In The Cloud – InformationWeek – A well-crafted service-level agreement and exit strategy are essential as you engage with cloud computing providers. By Jonathan Feldman Business executives …
VMware Shows Partners New Cloud Computing Technologies – ChannelWeb – All the talk at the VMware Partner Exchange conference in Las Vegas about cloud computing meshed exactly with what solution providers are currently thinking …… View related stories »
Global Governmental Cloud Computing – SYS-CON Media (press release) – Yup @ruv, Goodwill Ambassador for Cloud Computing, strange I know. For those of you unfamiliar with the Westminster Forum Projects in the UK, …
Microsoft, NSF Form Cloud Computing Collaboration – PC World – Researchers selected by the US National Science Foundation will have free access to Microsoft’s Windows Azure cloud computing platform under a deal …… View related stories »
[Column] Revolution of media – A contact point of Electronic Book and Japanese publishing circles
The "JEPA Japan Electronic Publishing Association" organized by 13 companies of major company publication, such as Kodansha, Shinchosha, and Shogakukan, started deliberations in January of this year, about the full-scale correspondence to electronic publishing. One of members has spoken as follows. "What suited some press reports is not done. That is, we do not block contents. If the talk is settled by a proper rule and rates, contents should be offered positively."
Unlike the U.S., Japan has rule of the market by major company commission, and there are many small bookstores. Therefore, in the case of Japan, probably, a certain relief disposal is needed when shifting to an electron from paper. Amazon Japan aims at the Japanese version service start in Kindle around October, this year. In that case, what do we do with a newspaper world?
Takashi Kawachi
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The motion of the newspaper industry of Japan is actually slow. For example, in the case of Nikkei, charged contents offer was started, but the price is the same thing of 4000 yen as paper. They are wishing it wants without extending the sale of electronic media. That is, it is the postponement in question and the persons in charge of management have escaped from reality. — A.C.
Full recovery of IT market in Japan becomes after the 2013 fiscal year — The influence of Cloud is also restrictive
As for the result of the investigation conducted in November, 2009, according to the announcement on February 3 of Gartner, IT drive to invest of Japanese companies is still a low stake. And recovery of a drive to invest is carried out if it cannot expect at least 2010. According to prediction of the company, full recovery of IT market in Japan has a high possibility of becoming after the 2013 fiscal year.
The investment in the major company beyond 1,000 employees is decreasing greatly, and that has had big influence also on market size especially in the 2009 fiscal year. Therefore, IT market size in the 2009 fiscal year is seen in the company, if it becomes a decrease of 5.2% compared with last fiscal year and about 1 trillion yen contracts by a pace of expansion.
In addition to the economic growth rate in the last fiscal year, business will begin to recover IT market size in the 2010 fiscal year for a while as of April when the budget for fiscal 2010 will be decided. And it is predicted that the company becomes minus 1.2% by a last-fiscal-year ratio supposing the company which revives a project coming out.
As a topic of IT which attracts attention, "cloud", "information security management and the measure against a disaster recovery", and "server supposition" are mentioned.
KIRIN Holdings improves private cloud using virtual technology
KIRIN Holdings which has various business corporations, such as liquor, a drink and food, and medical supplies, is employing the system as "private cloud." The companies including the system of Mercian which had a capital tie-up, collect most systems of a group company into two of data centers. Furthermore, KIRIN uses those data centers from about 500 branch distributed all over the country, and uses two data centers and a hosting service properly.
The server of the 1st data center which is using the package for Widows/Linux is the target of virtualization fundamentally. Now, about 30 percent of all the servers cope with virtual environment. There is the about 700 number of a server on the whole including information systems, such as operating systems including a main frame, groupware, a portal, mail, etc. Since full use of virtual technology is made, if one virtual machine is counted among one set, the total number of servers will amount to about 1000 sets.
Private cloud of KIRIN is not completion now. Virtual technology is used and concentration of the further server hardware is advanced. The server which is applying as a virtual machine now is about 30% of the whole. This will be increased to about 50% in 2010. Therefore, reexamination of a server network will become the point from now on.
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NEC BIGLOBE considers the integration of 3G and WiMAX for cloud terminals
NEC BIGLOBE (BIGLOBE) will put on the cloud terminal into the market which carries Android OS, and will start offer the communications service for these terminals, and application / contents service. The company is using the vertical integration type business model which ISP’s (Internet Service Provider’s) is one-stop, and provides with hardware, communications service, and application itself. It will sell with the whole cloud terminal enterprise in 2012, and raising into 10 billion yen business is a target further.
NEC BIGLOBE plans the service deployment which employed efficiently vertical integration type advantages, such as cooperation with the service provided for personal computers, such as an E-mail and a photograph share, and form of use of setting needlessness. It says, "The profit by sale of a terminal is not expected so much" (Yoshikiyo Yamamoto manager of BIGLOBE personal operation division ). It is the purpose of the company to raise rather the profit by a terminal, the communications service provided by a set, and the platform service for an application or contents offer as a pillar of big business.
The feature of this new service is in the communications service which BIGLOBE provides, and a cloud terminal is due to correspond to wireless LAN, the 3rd generation mobile communications (3G), and three kinds of communication lines of WiMAX. About 3G and WiMAX which will mainly be used by a place where one has gone, BIGLOBE serves as MVNO (virtual mobile phone service company), and is considering the service which can use the direction which 3G and WiMAX tend to use according to use environment.
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