The Think Up project will present a group of 13 excellent ICT companies from Torino and Piemonte region at CeBIT 2010, one of the biggest trade shows for the ICT sector worldwide.
The Engine Networks stand will be located in Pavillion 9 (Future Park), dedicated to innovative technologies and products, within the area coordinated by ICE (Italian Institute for Foreign Trade).
With around 4,300 exhibitors and several networking events, CeBIT attracted more than 400,000 visitors in 2009.
The 2010 edition will be devoted to the theme of “Connected Worlds”: conferences, b2b meetings, promotional actions and additional activities will be organized to boost the discussion on this thematic.
Charles Babcock recently wrote an article entitled, “Hybrid Clouds Floating to Enterprise Forefront” which ran in InformationWeek. He attended the Cloud Computing Conference & Expo, where speakers raised the prospect of private clouds working with public clouds, creating hybrid clouds.
The hybrid cloud is not a term we’ve never seen or heard before. However, it seems in his article that there aren’t many providers out there actually doing the hybrid cloud approach with their clients. But Engine Networks is. For over two years Engine Networks has offered a private cloud solution in conjunction with our public cloud hosting solution. Our clients’ ability to have their own internal cloud which has the capability to spill over and utilize our public cloud when necessary has proved itself very valuable. So yes, Mr. Babcock and the Expo speakers, the hybrid cloud computing approach is going to continue to gain traction.
For those companies who are fearful of “losing control” in the cloud, the private cloud approach is extremely beneficial because those companies are able to gain access to the benefits of cloud computing while still controlling their own infrastructure in house. So not only is the private cloud a good starting point, but with the right cloud technology (like Engine Networks’s), it doesn’t have to be the end of their cloud strategy.
New to the idea of Software as a Service SaaS Virtualization? This video from Salesfor will help bring you up to speed:
This short video clip, produced by Salesforce.com, effectively points out that managed cloud hosting is a superior way to run your business. It’s clear that multitenancy is simply a more efficient way to approach IT infrastructure.
For those of you who are new to cloud, some of the major benefits of cloud computing are that your data is:
secure
backed up in another location (redundant)
not limited in storage or resources
To help you better understand Infrastructure as a Service (Iaas), Common Craft recently put out a cool little video that is put together like School House Rock for the 21st century.
I always keep an eye open for better ways to explain the benefits of virtualization and cloud computing to not-so-technically-inclined friends as well as potential clients. I found these quick videos to be expremely helpful in succinctly illustrating cloud computing hosting.
Matt Cutts, a software engineer and an eloquent corporate spokesman for Google, spoke at PubCon earlier this month and later gave a video interview to Web Pro News, in which he said that the speed at which web pages are available might become a factor in SEO moving into 2010. He said that because many within Google consider fastness to be vital to the web, the company is considering making web site speed a factor in calculating page rankings. Those comments have confused and scared many folks as to how speed might impact their businesses.
With Engine Networks you don’t have to worry about that, becouse our backbone is peering dirctly with Google backbone improving connectivity and gaining speed and reactiveness.
Our peering policy is open. That means that we would like to peer with everyone who wants to peer with us. There are only a few basics (see “Peering Requirements”) we assume you can agree into.
We do not ask for a written peering contract but if you require we will sign a contract if we agree with the content.
If you would like to have a peering with us, please contact us via peering@enginenetworks.net and provide us the required informations (see below).
Any Peer must agree into the following conditions:
- Peer must operate a Network Operations Centre (NOC) which can be contacted 24×7x365 by eMail or phone if necessary.
- Peer must cooperate in case of network abuse. On occurrence of Denial of Service attacks Peer shall implement filters on request.
- Routes should be aggregated as much as possible. We will not accept any announcement smaller than /24.
- Routes must be registered at RIPE using a route object.
- Peers should enforce routing integrity by means of filters to their customers.
- Peering-Point(s) (if not clear).
- Your IP-Address (required)
- Your AS (required)
- Your AS-Set (please tell us if you haven’t one)
- Your recommended prefix limit we should use (if missing we will choose it)
- If you would like to use an MD5 password, please choose a password or ask us to choose it. (if missing, no password will be configured)
We are currently present at the following Public Peering Points:
- SWISS-IX (Switzerland, Zürich)
We are currently working to be present at the following Public Peering Points:
- MIX (Italy, Milan)
- DE-CIX (Germany, Frankfurt/Main)
- TIX (Switzerland, Zürich)
- CIXP (Switzerland, Geneva)
If you are present at two or more peering points, we would like to peer at multiple IXP’s for increased resiliency.
Not all Cloud hosting uses the same computing technology, resulting in dramatically varying levels of scalability, reliability and performance. Our HP & VMware Cloud hosting platform uses genuine, purpose-built HP Blade server technology coupled with VMware (the industry’s premier virtualisation software), to control server resources.
Hardware Configuration.
We utilise multiple HP Blade enclosures which contain up to 16 Blades per enclosure. HP Blades are servers that are mounted vertically which allows more units to fit into a smaller amount of data centre space, resulting in energy savings.
Our storage arrays employ fibre channel disks connected via fibre optics which are the fastest disks in the world today, and the best way to connect storage devices to Blade servers. Read/write bottlenecks encountered when using classic VPS (Virtual Private Servers) and physical dedicated servers are now a thing of the past.
Geniune Cloud Hosting
We have carefully selected this combination of technology and specific type and configuration of hardware because together, they provide scalability, reliability and performance above anything else available today. Many other hosting providers advertise their offering as Cloud but in reality, they provide single stand-alone servers which are virtualised. Our genuine Cloud Hosting platform simply cannot be bettered.
A marketing software as a service company needed a reliable, redundant infrastructure promising security and compliance for guaranteed uptime and compatibility. Engine Networks combined their platform with VMware vCloud, LeftHand SAN technology and HP Blades to create a cost effective, scalable, reliable and compliance solution with VPN to allow communication betweeb customers in-house servers and Engine Networks’ virtual cloud. Learn how Engine Networks built and public and private hybrid cloud solution that met Customers compliance and scale needs.
Website traffic fluctuates. Time of day, seasonality, promotions, popularity, and flash crowds can all drive peak volumes. While you can anticipate and plan for some of this volume, few of us guess right all the time.
To complicate matters, your visitors expect steady, fast performance regardless of the traffic your site receives. Building your own infrastructure to handle peak traffic requires capital investment and facilities space – and no matter how big you build it, it still may not be enough. Having to choose between overspending or under-provisioning is a classic dilemma.
But by deploying your web application in the cloud, you can avoid this dilemma. You can eliminate the upfront fixed investment, and still gain access to compute resources to meet peak loads with on demand scalability, while still paying only for the compute time you actually use.
With Engine Networks vCloud, you can deploy your entire web application infrastructure in the cloud – whether you’re developing an entirely new service or enhancing an existing one. Your developers can provision multiple production-scale systems on demand in the cloud – saving time and expense over traditional testing scenarios and enabling faster handoff from development to operations. And if you’re starting a new line of business, you can launch on the web with a robust, state-of-the-art infrastructure without tying up limited capital.
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Matt Cutts, a software engineer and an eloquent corporate spokesman for Google, spoke at PubCon earlier this month and later gave a video interview to Web Pro News, in which he said that the speed at which web pages are available might become a factor in SEO moving into 2010. He said that because many within Google consider fastness to be vital to the web, the company is considering making web site speed a factor in calculating page rankings. Those comments have confused and scared many folks as to how speed might impact their businesses.
