Posts Tagged ‘business cloud’

#BigData in the #Cloud: Get Our Perspective at VMware @vCloud #CloudTalk, Tues. April 10th

Posted: April 4, 2012, 3:07 pm

TwitterMeet us on Twitter, next Tuesday, April 10th at 11am PT/ 2pm ET for #CloudTalk hosted by VMware vCloud, to hear our perspective on how we see big data evolving in the cloud this year.

Also, get insight into our new fully managed enterprise-grade, Apache™ Hadoop™-based data analytics platform, now in technical preview, announced April 4th. The SunGard Unified Analytics ServicesSM (UAS) will address the growing business requirement organizations face to extract more business intelligence and value from their massive volumes of structured, semi-structured and unstructured resources that continue to grow exponentially. The service will allow organizations to eliminate costs needed to purchase and manage physical infrastructure for their Big Data workloads.

Tweet us @SunGardAS prior to the #cloudtalk with any questions or topics you’d like us to discuss.

Here’s how to participate in #cloudtalk:

  • Follow the #cloudtalk hashtag (via TweetChat, TweetGrid, TweetDeck or another Twitter client) and watch the real-time stream.
  • At 11am PT/ 2pm ET @vCloud will pose a few questions using the #cloudtalk hashtag to get the conversation rolling.
  • Tag your tweets with the #cloudtalk hashtag. @reply other participants and react to their questions, comments, thoughts via #cloudtalk. Engage!
  • #cloudtalk should last about an hour.

(Get more details on the next #cloudtalk at VMware’s vCloud blog.)

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Posted in Cloud Business Drivers, cloud models, cloud trends, IT and the Cloud

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@Cloud_Connect Santa Clara 2012: @SunGardAS Highlights and Happenings

Posted: February 27, 2012, 9:34 pm

Cloud Connect 2012The @SunGardAS team had a jam-packed schedule and exciting time at Cloud Connect Santa Clara last week!  In case you missed the conference, here are some highlights from the conference and show floor.

Cloud Connect was an especially exciting week for SunGard as we announced our partnership with Amazon Web Services to deliver highly available cloud computing offerings.  The first phase of the relationship will provide SunGard and AWS customers bi-directional disaster recovery services between the companies’ clouds, without transporting data over the public internet. Get AWS announcement details.

Holding down the fort at booth 414, our team met with show attendees to discuss today’s hottest cloud trends – including compliance, private cloud options, organizational readiness, disaster recovery in the cloud and of course cloud security.

Rich Miller, editor of Data Center Knowledge, stopped by our booth at to give us his take on the conference, trends he was hearing and some thoughts on the direction of cloud computing as it relates to data centers. Watch video here.

 

During the conference, a few of our cloud experts had the opportunity to present on a few topics – both of which were well attended and well received.  Check out this clip of David Ayers, senior product manager of Cloud Services, previewing his presentation entitled “Taking a Private Path to the Cloud”.

Get copies of both SunGard Cloud Connect presentations on SlideShare:

We weren’t “all business” at the conference; we actually had a little fun too! Booth visitors were offered scratch-off tickets for a chance to win a MacBook® Air, Apple® iPad® 2 or a $5 Starbucks® gift card.

Frank Owen, IT operations manager and owner of  TechVirtuoso blog, won an iPad2 while Ron Hayes of Avaya Government Solutions scored the grand prize – a MacBook® Air! Unfortunately we missed catching the big win on camera, but don’t worry this reenactment we filmed captures all the excitement! Watch video here.

Thanks to those who attended the SunGard presentations and also stopped by our booth. For additional conference updates, photos and resources follow us on Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn and YouTube.

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Posted in Cloud Adoption, Cloud Applications, cloud scalability, Cloud security, cloud trends, IT and the Cloud, Uncategorized

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Designing for Failure Conditions

Posted: July 25, 2011, 8:57 am

Today we hear from Chip Childers, product architect for SunGard’s Enterprise Cloud Services and partners with our product management and product engineering teams to drive the overall solution design of the service…CM

I’m a big fan of designing systems to deal with component failures. But let’s be honest, doing that perfectly is pretty darn hard.

In the research paper “Fundamental Concepts of Dependability,” all possible sources of fault conditions have been classified into 16 different categories. In another paper, “Software Architecture Reliability Analysis using Failure Scenarios,” an 8-step failure analysis process is proposed for how to understand a system’s potential failure conditions. All this is about identifying and classifying fault conditions—neither provides any design or logic to resolve the issues

I’m going to go out on a limb, and declare that nobody is doing that type of full and formal analysis for their cloud applications. (OK, perhaps somebody, but certainly not many.)

So that’s the problem in a nutshell. How can you really say that you have fully designed for failure, given all of the possible failure conditions? And for the 90% of the cloud platform population that just want to get their apps built, how much time should they really be spending on solving this problem? And what if you have legacy applications that can’t be designed in a truly “failure proof” way?

This is where an enterprise class cloud infrastructure comes in. An enterprise cloud has the resiliency, redundancy, data restoration, disaster recovery and security capabilities needed to keep your system secure and operating, and the enterprise cloud provider backs those capabilities with a Service Level Agreement. Further, an enterprise cloud also offers 24/7/365 management and monitoring of your virtualized infrastructure.

Failure can not be completely avoided, but you are better off knowing that the underlying platform design was build with resiliency in mind and that you have someone watching your back when things do go wrong.

To what extent could an enterprise cloud transform your company?

Visit our Cloud Solutions Center for videos, white papers and case studies about SunGard’s Enterprise Cloud Services.

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