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HP Enables Partners to Accelerate Cloud Services Delivery

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HP today announced two new HP Cloud Builder programs that enable partners to leverage HP Cloud Services, the company’s public cloud, to expand their cloud practices and generate new revenue opportunities.

HP also introduced three new "as a service" offerings from HP Cloud Services that provide customers with faster time to value and simplified cloud deployment.

As part of HP’s Converged Cloud strategy, the new additions to the HP Cloud Builder program enable global system integrators (GSIs) and value-added resellers (VARs) to offer their customers a hybrid delivery model across private, managed and public cloud environments. HP partners are looking for new and innovative ways to assist their customers’ move to the cloud. By adopting these programs, partners gain access to specialized personnel and training that enables them to respond faster, and drive greater profitability and innovation for their customers.

The two new HP Cloud Builder programs, unveiled at the 2013 HP Global Partner Conference, expand opportunities in the cloud for GSIs and VARs. HP’s public cloud partner program for GSIs enables them to leverage tools and capabilities to simplify the cloud transition for customers. In addition, HP announced the general availability of its public cloud partner program for VARs, which provides reward incentives to partners referring customers to HP Cloud Services.

HP public cloud partner program for global system integrators HP’s public cloud program for GSIs enables partners to provide consulting services, build applications or resell services leveraging HP Cloud Services. It provides partners with the tools to rapidly and reliably transition customers to the cloud. Program members have access to designated cloud testing environments; collaborative go-to-market opportunities; and sales, technical and support resources that expand their public cloud practices.

Deloitte Consulting LLP, a global financial services firm, and Infosys, a technology consulting and outsourcing provider, are working with HP Cloud Services and the HP partner program for GSIs to help meet the high demand among enterprise customers to leverage the public cloud. As a result, Deloitte and Infosys have the means to help their customers solve complex business problems, foster innovation and drive growth.

"HP’s public cloud partner program for GSIs provides global system integrators with access to HP Cloud Services to grow their public cloud practice," said Chris Weitz, Deloitte Consulting director and leader of Deloitte’s cloud computing practice. "Deloitte has joined HP’s public cloud partner program for GSIs to help meet the high demand among enterprises to define a cloud strategy, move to the cloud and remain competitive."

HP public cloud partner program for value-added resellers HP’s public cloud program for VARs rewards partners for referring customers to HP Cloud Services and maintaining long-term relationships with annuity-based commissions. The program helps VARs and channel partners capture new markets and attract customers through HP training, cobranding opportunities and marketing tools.

Starting summer 2013, HP will expand the program to provide financial incentives for channel partners reselling HP Cloud Services.

"By engaging with HP’s public cloud partner program for VARs, we are able to meet the needs of our customers by offering solutions that help them innovate and scale with their business," said Al Chien, vice president, Sales and Marketing, Dasher Technologies.

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New HP Cloud Services offerings HP has expanded its HP Cloud Services portfolio with new private beta "as a service" offerings that support a reliable application infrastructure and enable customers to achieve rapid business results:

        –  HP Cloud Monitoring helps users identify potential issues before they
            impact production with infrastructure metrics, alerts and notification
            tools.
        –  HP Cloud Load Balancer optimizes application response times and
            reduces IT management costs by distributing web traffic across
            multiple servers.
        –  HP Cloud DNS saves developers’ time and provides quick and easy access
            to a faster, reliable global DNS service by translating domain names
            to IP addresses using a global network of servers.

"Partners and organizations alike are strapped for resources, making it difficult to invest in the newest technologies for their customers," says Roger Levy, vice president, Technology and Customer Operations, Cloud Services, HP. "HP’s partner programs and service additions demonstrate our ongoing commitment to engage partners and clients in innovative technology capabilities, helping them to reach new markets, grow their customer base and, ultimately, ensure their profitability."

Availability All HP Cloud Services offerings announced today are initially available in private beta. Additional information is available at HP Cloud Matters.

Additional information about HP Cloud Services is available at hpcloud.com and the HP Cloud Matters blog. Additional information an HP Converged Cloud is available online. Up-to-the-minute information is available on Twitter at @HPCloud and @HPNews.

HP’s premier Americas client event, HP Discover, takes place June 11-13 in Las Vegas.

This news release contains forward-looking statements that involve risks, uncertainties and assumptions. If such risks or uncertainties materialize or such assumptions prove incorrect, the results of HP and its consolidated subsidiaries could differ materially from those expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements and assumptions. All statements other than statements of historical fact are statements that could be deemed forward-looking statements, including but not limited to statements of the plans, strategies and objectives of management for future operations; any statements concerning expected development, performance, market share or competitive performance relating to products and services; any statements regarding anticipated operational and financial results; any statements of expectation or belief; and any statements of assumptions underlying any of the foregoing. Risks, uncertainties and assumptions include macroeconomic and geopolitical trends and events; the competitive pressures faced by HP’s businesses; the development and transition of new products and services and the enhancement of existing products and services to meet customer needs and respond to emerging technological trends; the execution and performance of contracts by HP and its customers, suppliers and partners; the protection of HP’s intellectual property assets, including intellectual property licensed from third parties; integration and other risks associated with business combination and investment transactions; the hiring and retention of key employees; assumptions related to pension and other post-retirement costs and retirement programs; the execution, timing and results of restructuring plans, including estimates and assumptions related to the cost and the anticipated benefits of implementing those plans; the resolution of pending investigations, claims and disputes; and other risks that are described in HP’s filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission, including HP’s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended October 31, 2012. HP assumes no obligation and does not intend to update these forward-looking statements.

Copyright 2013 Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P. The information contained herein is subject to change without notice. The only warranties for HP products and services are set forth in the express warranty statements accompanying such products and services. Nothing herein should be construed as constituting an additional warranty. HP shall not be liable for technical or editorial errors or omissions contained herein.

Source:http://www.marketwatch.com/story/hp-enables-partners-to-accelerate-cloud-services-delivery-2013-02-20

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Dell’s Future: 3 Wild Cards CIOs Should Understand

When Dell’s board of directors recently approved a $24 billion bid led by CEO and founder Michael Dell and private equity firm Silver Lake Partners to take the company private, it marked the largest leveraged buyout since the financial crisis. Another twist to the deal is Microsoft, which will provide $2 billion to support the "long-term success of the PC ecosystem."

While Dell remains a major hardware provider — 70% of its revenue still comes from PCs and related software and peripherals — the company has taken significant steps over the past few years to transform itself from a PC and server vendor into an end-to-end enterprise services provider. Since 2007, Dell has acquired 27 companies in pursuit of this strategy, including application modernization services firms Clerity Solutions and Make Technologies in 2012, managed security services firm SecureWorks in 2011, and Perot Systems in 2009, resulting in a 19.2% year-over-year growth rate in its services and software revenue over the same period.

Still, while it’s received positive reviews for its IT outsourcing (ITO) capabilities from research firms including Gartner and Forrester, Dell has struggled to be perceived as a top-tier ITO provider outside of niche areas like healthcare and government. Even in the managed desktop arena, where Dell should maintain a value proposition rivaled only by HP, it has been unable to coordinate its services and OEM businesses to meaningfully compete with the likes of IBM, TCS and Wipro.

For CIOs considering buying in to Dell’s ITO vision, the transaction (assuming it’s approved by shareholders) will have ramifications in three main areas:

– The benefits and risks of going private. On the positive side, now that every dollar invested doesn’t need to move the near-term earnings needle, Dell will be able to make longer-term investments to grow and enhance its services business without sweating market scrutiny and quarterly earnings pressures. The company can also focus management attention and resources on unifying its string of acquisitions into an integrated software, hardware, and services platform. As Dell’s CFO Brian Gladden recently commented, "Without having the scrutiny that is associated with a publicly traded stock, we can make the necessary investment and stick to plan, [and] in some cases be more aggressive than we can today."

Conversely, the limited buyout will put serious pressure on the company’s balance sheet. That could inhibit its ability to invest to expand and improve its ITO capabilities — with some $17 billion of new debt, Dell will be obliged to satisfy its creditors first and ITO customers second. Such uncertainly is anathema to companies outsourcing their IT infrastructures. When the foundation of the business is on the line, CIOs want stable providers that present little risk of unexpected pivots that might force them to scramble for alternatives. Yet Dell’s new set of financial pressures could result in spin-outs of business lines deemed to be "non-core" to the future, though it is difficult to tell at this point whether legacy hardware businesses or newer ITO businesses would be targeted for divesture.

– The Microsoft investment and its potential impact on future service offerings. Yes, Microsoft’s $2 billion did not buy it board seats or voting rights. But that level of investment is generally not without some strings attached. While Microsoft can bring innovation, improved software and cloud capabilities and resources and knowledge to optimize Dell’s services offerings — especially those that leverage Microsoft products — Dell may find itself under pressure to index more heavily to Microsoft offerings. And that may hinder Dell being perceived as technology-agnostic provider, a la Accenture, and frustrate efforts to gain traction in the ITO space.

– Michael Dell himself. He is certainly putting his proverbial money where his mouth is by contributing his entire 17% ownership interest as part of the privatization bid, along with some $700 million from one of his investment companies. Dell’s vision and energy drove his namesake company from a $1,000 startup operating out of a dorm room to one of the largest PC suppliers in the world, and having a substantial part of his personal fortune on the line makes it likely that energy will be out in full force. However, there’s also a real possibility that Dell’s actions are motivated more by considerations of his legacy or a determination to double down on the OEM business than by a burning desire to build a legitimate Tier 1 enterprise-class ITO provider.

7 Steps To Protect Your Position

Dell’s buyout could end up benefitting customers by bringing a more strategic, enterprise-level focus. But it also raises concerns — we can’t know with any certainty how a privately held Dell will fare in a competitive ITO market, and its true commitment to the ITO business will likely not be fully understood for months to come. For now, CIOs contemplating a relationship with Dell should:

– Think twice about a long-term relationship. Factor in uncertainty when defining term commitments. CIOs contemplating large-scale projects should be especially sensitive to the risk of unforeseen changes of strategic direction (on Dell’s part) and the effect on service delivery. Contract term lengths (original and renewal options alike) should be of appropriate duration to allow a timely exit should the relationship not meet expectations.

– Question its dedication to ITO. Depending on cash flow, Dell may be forced to concentrate on meeting its outstanding debt obligations vs. investing its ITO business, corresponding innovation, complementary acquisitions and new corporate customer relationships. Insist on multi-level formal governance provisions in all agreements, as well as upfront meetings with senior executives to gain comfort in Dell’s commitment to the ITO space in general, and to you as a customer in particular.

– Maximize flexibility while minimizing downside risk. Place a premium on low/no service commitments, low-cost terminations for convenience, step-in rights, technology currency and innovation/productivity requirements. At the same time, uncertainty over future direction and the comparative opaqueness of private company financials place a heightened importance on audit rights, disengagement assistance and divestiture support and termination for change of control.

Source: http://www.informationweek.com/global-cio/interviews/dells-future-3-wild-cards-cios-should-un/240148382

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SaaS remains most popular form of cloud computing

Software as a service (SaaS) continues to be the top cloud service that the UK enterprises plan to use in 2013, despite newer cloud services such as datacentre as a service, database as a service or even testing and development as a service.

A majority (55%) of respondents of the TechTarget and Computer Weekly UK IT priorities survey 2013 cited SaaS as the external cloud service that they will use this year.

Infrastructure as a service (IaaS) was the second most popular cloud service, with around 34% of some 400 IT executives surveyed planning to use it.

In comparison, only 12% of respondents said they will use datacentre as a service and only 11% said they will use collaboration as a service.

Other cloud computing services such as testing and development and private cloud design were also cited by less than 20% of the respondents.

In addition, only 16% said they will use security as a cloud service emphasising the cloud computing security risks and concerns.

UK businesses are still very cautious about investing in cloud computing in 2013, with only 30% of IT executives planning to increase their cloud budget for 2013. This compared with 46% investing in software and 43% investing in hardware resources this year.

Among their IT objectives for 2013, 33% said they planned to expand IT to support business growth, 23% planned to automate the business more and 14% planned to maintain service levels with flat budgets.

But despite cloud being touted as the technology that can help businesses automate, support growth and cut management costs, a large majority (71%) of IT executives said they would use on-premise hardware or software deployment models for 2013.

The study also showed that server virtualisation and datacentre consolidation still topped the list of IT priorities for UK enterprises, with only 13% opting for a public cloud infrastructure deployment model.

Biggest cloud concerns
While security and reliability of data remained the top concerns for UK IT professionals when it came to cloud computing, other challenges such as reliability, lack of interoperability and problems of migrating workloads to and from the cloud also ranked high in users’ cloud concern list.

As for cloud service providers, only a slightly higher percentage of respondents (27%) picked external cloud platforms to private cloud platforms (22%).

The study also revealed that following datacentre consolidation as top IT priority, IT professionals preferred to implement policies around BYOD trends over use of cloud services. For example, nearly half (49%) said they are planning policies around allowing users to bring their own smartphones, and another 29% are looking at how to allow employees to use their tablet devices on the corporate network.

But only 12% said they are planning to implement policies around using email services such as Gmail, 13% are planning to allow employees to use Google Docs, and 16% are implementing strategies for employees to use Dropbox – all personal cloud storage services. 

Source: http://www.computerweekly.com/news/2240177830/SaaS-remains-most-popular-form-of-cloud-computing-for-UK-IT

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Software Testing And Maintenance Makes The Software Reliable

Introduction:- There are so many software companies running in the market, which provide the software services like:- software development, web development, application development, software testing, software maintenance, search engine optimization and many more. Software testing plays a major role in the success of any software because compatibility and accuracy of software matters on its testing portion. It stated as the validation of a software program, guides the software design and development according to the requirement. In simple words, software testing is the process of execution of a program finding errors in its functionality, security and productivity of the product.

Software testing can be implemented at any time during development process, but it is mostly evaluated after the completion of designing and coding portion of the software.

People think like software testing makes the software risk free but it is not true. Basically, it reduces the risk of application that occurs in the software but not completely. The two major areas of testing are:- correctness testing and reliable testing.

Now-a-days, most of the software engineers ready to move in testing field for its creativity, its challenge of automation, its elation to system thinking. Most of the software companies in India also work as outsourcer, they do the project of another company on the contract basis, that type of companies are called Offshore Software companies. These software companies provide the services: – software application testing, outsourced software testing, security testing, unit testing, insurance testing and mobile domain testing.

There are two techniques used in testing White Box Testing and Black Box Testing. Black box testing is used to check the application of software externally whereas; white box testing is used to check internally. Thorough analysis and testing of application program needs the broad knowledge of testing techniques and requires the testing tools.

Testing engineers have the capability to handle:-

  1. Both manual as well as automation testing.
  2. Open source technology as well as commercial

Source: http://www.flightcasteranalytics.com/2012/03/software-testing-and-maintenance-makes-the-software-reliable/

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Chinese Programmer Won the Third in Facebook Hacker Cup

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On 18 March, 2012 Facebook Hacker Cup was held at Facebook offices in Menlo Park in USA. It began at 10 a.m. and lasted for 3 hours. Competitors are top programmers from the world, each of whom were given three unrelated technical problems and were required to finish within three hours. The Competition Committee determined the results according to their speed and accuracy.

Russian programmer Roman Andreev solved a technical problem with 1 hour and 4 minutes and was the champion of this Facebook Hacker Cup. The silver medal winner is American programmer Tomek Czajka, who solved a technical problem with 1 hour and 5 minutes, just one minute behind Roman Andreev. And Lou Tiancheng from China won the third place, spending one hour and 44 minutes to solve a technical problem.

What’s pity, none of them solve the three problems within given time. Facebook plans to hold the Hacker Cup every spring.

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NelsonHall pubishes Software Testing market analysis

The software testing market has rebounded very strongly after the exit of the 2009 crisis. The scale of the rebound has been unexpected: NelsonHall estimates altogether that the number of software testing specialists i.e. career tests, has grown by 65% in two years, rising to ~170,000 career testers across the world. This growth level is rare in the IT services industry, if not unprecedented.

The report has been constructed following the usual NelsonHall market analysis methodology, multiple in depth vendor interviews with the markets leading protagonists including, Accenture, Amdocs, Atos, Capgemini/Sogeti, Capita Assurance and Testing, CAST Software, Chakkilam Infotech/Cigniti, Cognizant, CSC (including AppLabs), Experimentus, HCL Technologies, HP Enterprise Services, HP Software, IBM Global Services, IBM Rational, Infosys, iGATE/Patni, ITC Infotech, L&T Infotech, Logica, Mahindra Satyam/Tech Mahindra, Maveric Systems, MindTree, MTP, QA Infotech, Smartesting, Sopra, SQS, Steria, TCS, Tieto and Wipro.

The report consists of 89 pages, consists of 9 chapters and 26 data charts and was conducted by NelsonHall’s IT Outsourcing research director, Dominique Raviart. If you’d like to find out more about the report and NelsonHall’s findings please contact Rob Hughes.

Founded in 1998, NelsonHall is a leading analyst and advisory firm with an evidence-based approach to market and service provider assessments, with an unrivalled BPO knowledge covering an extensive range of business processes and industry sectors.

Source: http://www.cisionwire.com/nelsonhall/r/nelsonhall-pubishes-software-testing-market-analysis,c9236492

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Study: Cloud computing becoming pervasive, and IT needs to take control now

Cloud computing may be taking the business world by storm, but its success could mean a “perfect storm” that endangers the role of IT.

As a result, IT needs to step up now and change its approach to cloud services. This includes building trust with the lines of business, beginning to manage public cloud services, and pursuing increased automation for service provisioning and operations.

These are the key findings of a survey commissioned by BMC Software and conducted by Forrester Research. The study, “Delivering on High Cloud Expectations,” shows that business units’ demand for speed and agility is leading them to circumvent IT and acquire cloud services, more than half of them from what were termed “unmanaged” clouds.

Brian Singer, Lead Solutions Marketing Manager for BMC, said his company commissioned the survey in an effort to confirm what the company was hearing anecdotally from customers. “Cloud and software as a service (SaaS) are in enterprises in a big way,” Singer said, “and we wanted to see how IT was dealing with them.”

For the study, researchers polled 327 enterprise infrastructure executives and architects in the United States, Europe, and Asia-Pacific. Among the key findings:

  • Today, 58 percent run mission critical workloads in unmanaged public clouds, regardless of policy. The researchers use “unmanaged” to describe clouds that are managed by the cloud operators, but not by the company buying the service.
  • In the next two years, 79 percent plan to run mission-critical workloads on unmanaged cloud services.
  • Nearly three out of four responders, 71 percent, thought that IT should be responsible for public cloud services.
  • Seventy two percent of CIOs believe that the business sees cloud computing as a way to circumvent IT.

Source: http://www.zdnet.com/blog/gardner/study-cloud-computing-becoming-pervasive-and-it-needs-to-take-control-now/4561?tag=content;search-results-river

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Software Testing Tools to Test Cloud Computing Applications

With its dynamic scalablity, flexibility and virtualized resources are provided as a service, Cloud Computing is seen as the dawn of a new era for application services and has received its fair share of plaudits.  With Google Documents, Flickr, Buzzword and Zoho as examples of general purpose applications that use Cloud Computing Technology it is only a matter of time just before Cloud Computing is noticed as the most viable alternative for application development and deployment.

With IT Giants such as Microsoft, Google and Amazon all vying for a position inside the Cloud Computing space you’d anticipate there to be a plethora of Cloud based Software program Applications  at present available.  Even although this is certain to be the case in the near future, at present Software program Testing appears to be the present favoured use of Cloud environments.

A recent survey by Evans Information, an independent investigation firm that conducts periodic surveys of developers , discovered that of those using cloud facilities to run applications, 49.8% said they were performing so experimentally or for prototyping 28.6% for non-essential business applications and 21.6% for organization crucial applications.  They see Cloud environments as being “good for testing simply because they can be set and torn down quickly, occasionally at less expense than on-premise facilities”. 

The question to answer then is what Software testing tools are available to aid developers and Quality Assurance people in their application development and testing procedures.  Software program Testing tools that are used for testing of conventional applications are of small use when applied to Cloud Testing as there is a need for tools to allow Software program developers and Tester to analyse the network, desktop and implications of adjustments within the Cloud.

A growing selection of Cloud based Open Source Software Testing Tools are being published.

Cloud Tools for example is a set of tools for deploying, managing and testing Java EE applications on Amazon’s Elastic Computing Cloud (EC2). Containing 3 primary parts, which consists of machine images that can be configured to run on Tomcat and Maven &amp Grails plug-in this is an remarkable tool to use for Open source cloud software program testing.

PushToTest TestMaker is a distributed test environment that can run tests on test equipment, or in a Cloud Computing environment.  It introducing particular commands to support automatic Cloud Testing services.

Cloud Tools and PushToTest Test Maker represent examples of products that will support shape the future of robust Cloud based Software program Testing Applications.  Although the technologies is in its infancy, a number of testing tools are emerging that can supply help in cloud based software testing.

Source: http://www.technethuancavelica.com/software-testing-tools-to-test-cloud-computing-applications.htm

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Regression testing redefined

This comes from Wikipedia:

Regression testing is to determine whether a change in one part of the software affects other parts of the software

This is not wrong, but it’s incomplete. Discovering that “a change in one part of the software affects other parts of the software” is only one part of regression testing, the second part is to determine if the change is a bug or it is not. A change may as well be either of:

  • Expected change , because the other part interacts (directly or indirectly)with the part that changed
  • Unexpected change, which does not bug anyone and is fine
  • Test data issue (i.e. unsupported backward-compatibility between minor builds)
  • Anything else

On iterative project, especially those claiming to be agile we quite often end up doing considerable test adjustments during so called regression tests. We still call them regression testing and we report our progress against old test cases, but we almost never run those tests the way we run them last time.

Just in case – I want to say that I distinguish process of bug retesting (we do it when developer claim to have fixed a bug) which not just consist of checking if the defect as reported do not appear any more – it include process of testing around the bug, but that’s a different topic. In this blog I want to discuss so called “old feature testing”. I’ve seen many projects doing it just before shipping the next iteration.

Source: http://www.softwaretestingclub.com/profiles/blogs/regression-testing-redefined?xg_source=activity

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Amazon is No. 1. Who’s next in cloud computing?

Amazon Web Services is, by all accounts, the largest cloud service provider by far, although good luck finding third-party numbers to verify that. Amazon, like most of the big cloud providers, doesn’t disclose much about current or planned data centers.

New research from Accenture analyst Huan Liu estimates that Amazon’s Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) runs on a whopping 450,000 servers. Amazon does not break out AWS revenue, but some say it could already be a billion dollar business.

So, stipulating AWS as No. 1, here are seven cloud rivals that could give it a run for its money over the next few years.

1: Rackspace: While Rackspace encompasses managed services and pure hosting businesses, it’s also a major cloud provider with actual, paying customers.  Measuring by revenue and VMs, Rackspace currently has a lock on the No. 2 slot by a wide margin, said Gartner analyst Lydia Leong. As one data point, Rackspace public cloud revenue rose to $189 million in fiscal year 2011, up from $100M the previous year. Going forward, that business should only grow as Rackspace brings more OpenStack implementations online.

2: Google: If you’re talking number of physical servers, Google could already be the biggest cloud player. As for paying customers? That’s harder to discern. Google is one of the few companies that can (and does) invest in the pure computing firepower to contend with AWS. If you count all that Google Apps and Gmail storage, then Google’s obviously a huge player. The Google App Engine platform-as-a-service is still around but isn’t a factor for business developers.

3: Microsoft: Two-year-old Windows Azure has big capacity, but actual traction is unclear — but it is clear Microsoft is going for the gusto. Microsoft just launched an Azure-focused startup accelerator in Israel to help boost demand. Next week, it is expected to announce timing for the first of its ERP products — actually the first of any of its major products — to run on Azure. And, going forward, Microsoft Azure’s embrace of Hadoop could attract more of the next-generation big-data workloads that the cloud vendors compete for.

4: IBM: IBM SmartCloud is coming up fast on AWS and Rackspace even now, according to one cloud storage expert. That news surprised me but probably shouldn’t have, given IBM’s size and resources. And face it: IBM knows data centers. Like Microsoft, it is bringing Hadoop into its cloud with its InfoSphere BigInsights service.

5: Hewlett-Packard: HP’s been all over the map on cloud plans, promising an Azure-based implementation a few years ago that has gone nowhere and more recently standing up an OpenStack-based public cloud. Zorawar “Biri” Singh, SVP for HP cloud services, told the New York Times last week that HP’s cloud will add features and capabilities beyond what AWS provides.  HP has also said it wants to challenge AWS for the hearts and minds of cloud developers. HP has had its share of woes lately, but it’s still a tech power, and provided the cloud is a priority with new management, it would be hard to rule out.

6: VMware: VMware’s vCloud already runs a ton of clouds for third-party providers, and the company’s Cloud Foundry platform-as-a-service is gaining traction. All of that plus the Mozy cloud storage service, which VMware manages for parent EMC, means that the company — which dominates server virtualization inside the firewall — is gaining a pretty impressive toehold in the cloud beyond as well.

7: Facebook: Don’t laugh. It’s a wildcard, but Facebook is putting serious sweat into data centers. And it’s applying lessons learned to the Open Compute Project, which aims to apply open source development to hardware design. With more than 800 million users, Facebook knows a thing or two about cloud infrastructure. True, Facebook doesn’t offer cloud services now, but then again, Amazon used to just sell books. Facebook could evolve into many things. GigaOM’s Derrick Harris has already suggested that Facebook could be your next software vendor.

Source: http://gigaom.com/cloud/amazon-is-no-1-whos-next-in-cloud-computing/

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