October 21, 2013
Volume XLV, Issue 9
Important TOWN HALL MEETING at CCW:2013
Is the controversy surrounding NSA surveillance a threat to advancement of the cloud computing industry? Or is this an opportunity for responsive solutions, legislative reform, and new business practices to accelerate growth?
Register today for CLOUD COMPUTING WEST 2013 (CCW:2013), the Cloud Computing Association's (CCA) and Distributed Computing Industry Association's (DCIA) business strategy summit taking place October 27th-29th at The Cosmopolitan in Las Vegas, NV.
Don't miss the timely and important Sunday afternoon Opening Session TOWN HALL MEETING ON THE NSA PRIVACY SCANDAL AND THE CLOUD COMPUTING INDUSTRY. Make your voice heard, understand the real impacts, and come away with a clear action plan that will help increase sales and boost profitability.
What can be done in response to this challenge so that your business actually improves as a result and the industry continues to advance? What improvements in architecture, encryption, and data processing methods could mitigate threats like this through new technological solutions?
Will the NSA controversy spur passage of new laws and the establishment of new regulations — how can legislative reform benefit the cloud computing industry? What business practices, voluntary industry standards, and other private sector actions can we take individually and jointly to overcome this issue and help expand our businesses?
Center for Democracy and Technology (CDT) Senior Counsel and Freedom, Security & Technology Project Director Greg Nojeim, along with Las Vegas Sands Corporation Global CIO Les Ottolenghi, Rackspace Cloud Products Program Manager Tom Hopkins, Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati Of Counsel Gerry Stegmaier, Rafelson Media CEO Peter Rafelson, Edwards Wildman Palmer Partner Larry Freedman, and others will assess the impact of this controversy, outline the legislative reform process underway in Congress, and drive for proactive responses the cloud computing industry can make to foster growth.
Has this scandal affected your business and if so how? What should Congress do to mitigate this and prevent a recurrence?
How can the cloud computing industry respond to increase our growth prospects? This is your chance to better understand the impacts of this controversy on business, to make your voice heard on this vital issue, and to come away with a clear action plan that will help expand sales and boost profitability through more advanced solutions and improved business practices.
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Cloud Computing Adoption in Media & Entertainment
Plan now to attend CLOUD COMPUTING WEST 2013 (CCW:2013), the Cloud Computing Association's (CCA) and Distributed Computing Industry Association's (DCIA) business strategy summit taking place October 27th-29th at The Cosmopolitan in Las Vegas, NV.
Monday morning October 28th will start with Continental Breakfast in the Exhibit Hall followed by Opening Plenary Session keynotes on "The State of Cloud Computing Adoption for Entertainment" by Amazon Web Services (AWS) Media & Entertainment Partner Eco-System Manager Bhavik Vyas and ABI Research's Practice Director Sam Rosen, who will address the "Consumer Transition to the Cloud: Service Provider & OTT Video, Gaming, and Music Services."
Next we'll explore "The Needs of Enterprise End-Users in the Media Sector" with Netflix Architect and Principal Engineer Mikey Cohen examining key "Cloud Migration Considerations" and Las Vegas Sands Corporation Global CIO Les Ottolenghi outlining "International Media Enterprise Requirements."
After a mid-morning Networking Break, we'll delve into some of the "Latest Trends and Newest Offerings" with Microsoft Platform Technology Evangelist Yung Chou keynoting on "Hybrid Cloud, An Emerging IT Computing Model" and Rackspace Cloud Products Program Manager Tom Hopkins presenting "Strawberry Coconut Cloud — You Choose the Flavor."
Then a panel discussion of "Outstanding Issues" will add Hughes Hubbard & Reed New Media, Entertainment & Technology Leader Dan Schnapp to the morning's keynote speakers. We'll break for our Conference Luncheon, followed by Dessert and Coffee Service in the Exhibit Hall and then tracks exploring in detail cloud solutions for the entertainment and media sector (the eCLOUD) as well as the impact of mobile cloud computing and big data (the mCLOUD).
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The mCLOUD at CLOUD COMPUTING WEST
Starting Monday afternoon October 28th at CLOUD COMPUTING WEST 2013 (CCW:2013), a series of mCLOUD sessions will cover "Mobile Storage Considerations" by CSS Corp. VP and CTO Carrier Services Melody Yuhn, "Lowering Latency" by Aryaka President & CEO Ajit Gupta, "HyperElasticity" by Kwaai Oak CTO Reza Rassool, and a panel discussion adding Sprint Nextel Cloud Solutions Manager Jay Gleason and Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati Of Counsel Gerry Stegmaier will examine "Mobile and Big Data Management."
After a mid-afternoon Networking Break, The mCLOUD will continue with sessions including "Big Data Infrastructure" by HP Converged Systems Senior Vice President & General Manager Tom Joyce, "Cloud & Big Data — The Perfect Storm" by ViaWest CTO Jason Carolan, "Analytic Programs" by Master Control Senior Product Manager Cloud Solutions Victor Gill, "Big Data Software Applications" by Oracle Director Product Marketing SDP and Cloud Solutions Brian Kracik, and a panel discussion on "Security & Reliability Issues" will add BrightLine Principal Cloud Assurance and Compliance Doug Barbin and VASCO Data Security VP of Product Marketing Michael O'Malley.
Monday will end with an Evening Networking Reception.
Tuesday morning, the mCLOUD will continue with FalconStor VP Enterprise Solutions Chris Poelker on "The Cloud and Big Data," Red Bend Software EVP Marketing Lori Sylvia offering guidance on "Differentiating with Cloud-Based Mobile Services," and "Mobile Cloud / Big Data Economics" presented by SoftServe VP Technology Solutions Russ Hertzberg, followed by a panel on "Future Mobile Cloud & Big Data Opportunities" will add NTT Data Vice President Alkesh Shah and Rafelson Media CEO Peter Rafelson.
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Report from CEO Marty Lafferty
 During next week's CLOUD COMPUTING WEST 2013 (CCW:2013), you'll interact with media and entertainment sector companies like ABC-Disney-ESPN, Comcast, DirecTV, Netflix, Sony Games, and Warner Bros.; cloud computing leaders like Amazon Web Services (AWS), IBM, Microsoft, Oracle, Rackspace, and TransLattice; mobile cloud players like AT&T, Dell, Hewlett-Packard, NTT Data, Sprint Nextel, and Toshiba; insightful analysts, advocates, and industry observers — like ABI Research, CDT, Hughes Hubbard, and the authors of 21st Century Television: The Players, The Viewers, The Money and Securing the Cloud.
This will be made possible by industry leading exhibitors Aspera, a Platinum Sponsor; Oracle Communications and Savvis, Gold Sponsors; A10 Networks, Citrix, SoftServe, TransLattice, and VASCO, Silver Sponsors; and ABI Research, Marketing Partner for CCW:2013
Without their valuable support, the Cloud Computing Association's (CCA) and Distributed Computing Industry Association's (DCIA) business strategy summit taking place October 27th-29th at The Cosmopolitan in Las Vegas, NV, would not be possible.
Delegates will be particularly interested in the fascinating demos and presentations of new services by this year's exhibitors.
Aspera is the creator of next-generation transport technologies that move the world's data at maximum speed regardless of file size, transfer distance, and network conditions.
As organizations turn to the cloud for improved efficiency and unprecedented scalability, Aspera enables data- and processing-intensive workflows with high-speed transfer available on-demand and maximum speed ingest and distribution of big data to and from cloud storage.
More than 1,700 organizations across a variety of industries on six continents rely on Aspera software for the business-critical transport of their digital assets.
Oracle Communications solutions span the communications industry landscape — from cross-channel customer experience and business and operational support systems, to network service and session delivery and control solutions — enabling service providers and enterprises to deliver and monetize innovative digital lifestyle services, build strong customer relationships, and streamline operations.
Savvis, a CenturyLink company, is a global leader in cloud infrastructure and hosted IT solutions for enterprises.
Nearly 2,500 unique clients, including more than 30 of the top 100 companies in the Fortune 500, use Savvis to reduce capital expense, improve service levels and harness the latest advances in cloud computing.
A10 Networks is the technology leader in Application Networking.
A10's flagship high-performance AX Series platforms offer solutions for three key markets: Application Delivery/Server Load Balancing, IPv6 Migration, and Cloud Computing & Virtualization.
Citrix transforms how businesses and IT work and people collaborate in the cloud era.
With market-leading cloud, collaboration, networking, and virtualization technologies, Citrix powers mobile workstyles and cloud services, making complex enterprise IT simpler and more accessible for 260,000 organizations.
SoftServe is a leading global provider of high quality software development, testing, and technology consulting services.
The company is committed to bringing the best commercial software to independent software vendors and enterprises.
SoftServe combines its unmatched experience with best practices delivering SaaS/Cloud, Mobility and SDLC innovative solutions.
TransLattice geographically distributes SQL databases and applications for enterprise, cloud, and hybrid environments to provide data where and when it is needed.
This new approach to enterprise infrastructure provides corporate-wide visibility while enabling data location compliance, significantly reduced deployment complexity and costs, and dramatically improved system availability and scalability.
VASCO is a world leader in strong authentication and e-signature solutions, specializing in online accounts, identities and transactions.
As a global software company, VASCO serves a customer base of approximately 10,000 companies in over 100 countries, including more than 1,700 international financial institutions.
ABI Research, established in 1990, is a market intelligence company specializing in global technology markets.
Its unique blend of quantitative forecasting and trend analysis helps ABI Research to quantify the important markets of today, define the strategic technologies of tomorrow, and provide insight on how technology is adopted into vertical markets.
This year's CCW:2013 themes are Revolutionizing Entertainment & Media and The Impact of Mobile Cloud Computing & Big Data. A Town Hall Meeting has been added to the agenda to address the NSA privacy scandal and how to optimize business results of our industry response.
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The eCLOUD at CLOUD COMPUTING WEST
Starting Monday afternoon October 28th at CLOUD COMPUTING WEST 2013 (CCW:2013), a series of eCLOUD sessions will feature such topics as "The Cloud & Television" by Frank Aycock, author of 21st Century Television: The Players, The Viewers, The Money, "Collaboration & Production" by TransLattice CEO Frank Huerta, "Editing & Transcoding" by V2 Solutions VP of Media Technology and Solutions Adam Powers, and a panel discussion with Rafelson Media CEO Peter Rafelson, GenosTV CTO Mike West, TransLattice Architect and Director of Research Robert Ross, and ZYNC Render CMO Todd Prives.
After a mid-afternoon Networking Break, the eCLOUD will continue with "Cloud-Based Content Management Processes" by Autodesk Senior Global Industry Marketing Manager Richard Blatcher, "Distribution Channel Storage" by Savvis Senior Director - Media Tom Moran, "Cloud-Based Delivery Systems" by Intertrust Technologies Corp. Vice President for Product Management John Gildred, "Cloud Media Lockers" by Securing the Cloud Author Vic Winkler, and a panel discussion adding Akamai Product Line Director Enterprise Cloud Gary Ballabio and PADEM Group President and Chief Analyst Allan McLennan will discuss "Security & Reliability Issues."
Monday will end with an Evening Networking Reception.
Tuesday morning, the eCLOUD will resume with IBM Cloud Architecture Executive Mark Sorency explaining "How to Build Your Cloud Strategy," Unitas Global Co-Founder Grant Kirkwood discussing "Cloud Vendor Selection for Media Companies," and SAP America Media Industry Principal Kurt Kyle examining "Cloud Economics in the Entertainment Sector," followed by a panel forecasting "Future Cloud Opportunities for Media & Entertainment" that will add Citrix Principal Product Manager Cloud Platform Group Manan Shah.
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Final Considerations at CLOUD COMPUTING WEST
Following the mid-morning Networking Break at CLOUD COMPUTING WEST 2013 (CCW:2013) on Tuesday October 29th, "Final Considerations" will feature DataDirect Networks Director of Marketing for Cloud, Content & Media Mike King answering the question, "Does Object Storage Actually Fit into File-Based Workflows," Dell Enterprise Cloud Evangelist Michael Elliott discussing "Hybrid Clouds — The End State" as well as plenary keynotes from Aspera Director of Cloud Platforms & Services Jay Migliaccio and Equilibrium CEO Sean Barger on "The Cloud Changes Everything — Why Linear Television Channels Will Soon Be A Memory."
The closing plenary panel on "What's Next for Cloud Computing" will add Edwards Wildman Palmer Partner Larry Freedman and Equilibrium VP of Business Development Daniel Kenyon.
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Why Attend CLOUD COMPUTING WEST?
Why do you need to ATTEND CLOUD COMPUTING WEST 2013 (CCW:2013)? This year's themes are "Revolutionizing Entertainment & Media" and "The Impact of Mobile Cloud Computing & Big Data."
Find out before anyone else how major players in the Media & Entertainment Sector — like ABC-Disney-ESPN, Comcast, DirecTV, Netflix, Sony Games, Warner Bros., etc. — intend to exploit cloud-based solutions in 2014… and just as important, what they won't be doing in the cloud anytime soon.
Be the first to learn what mobile cloud computing movers-and-shakers — such as AT&T, Dell, Hewlett-Packard, NTT Data, Sprint Nextel, Toshiba, etc. — have in store for next year to dramatically accelerate "Content Everywhere"… and the already exploding "Bring-Your-Own-Device (BYOD)" phenomenon.
Preview where the top Cloud Computing Leaders — including Amazon Web Services (AWS), IBM, Microsoft, Oracle, Rackspace, TransLattice, etc. — plan to take the industry in 2014… and have your questions about what these new directions mean to you personally answered by them.
Hear the warnings from the most insightful analysts, advocates, and industry observers — like ABI Research, CDT, Hughes Hubbard, and the authors of 21st Century Television: The Players, The Viewers, The Money and Securing the Cloud, etc. — about what could burst the Cloud Computing Bubble for some entities… and how to leverage efforts and innovations already in progress to blow away obstacles standing in the way of success.
And the most important reason you MUST ATTEND — CCW:2013 is the single best way to prepare yourself with the knowledge, resources, and contacts you need to advance in your career during 2014 amidst the highly kinetic activities and rapidly expanding markets developing around Cloud Computing.
CCW:2013 takes place next week — October 27th-29th — at The Cosmopolitan in Las Vegas, NV.
You'll network with speakers, featured delegates, and exhibitors — in addition to the above participants — ranging literally from A10 Networks to ZYNC Render.
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GOVERNMENT VIDEO IN THE CLOUD at GVE 2013
The needs for cloud solutions for producing, storing, distributing, and analyzing government-owned video content are now greater than ever.
The DCIA will present GOVERNMENT VIDEO IN THE CLOUD (GVIC), a Conference within the Government Video Expo 2013 on Wednesday December 4th at the Washington Convention Center in Washington, DC. The CCA offers sponsorship opportunities for this event.
Government Video Expo, co-located with InfoComm's GovComm, brings the east coast's largest contingent of video production, post, digital media, and broadcast professionals together with the government AV/IT specialists. The combined event features over 150 exhibits and nearly 6,000 registrants.
The DCIA's GVIC will focus on cloud solutions for government video, including intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance; and other use cases such as agency communications and law enforcement.
The GVIC opening keynote by Tim Bixler, Federal Manager, Solutions Architecture, Amazon Web Services (AWS), will offer an "Update on Cloud Video Services Adoption in the Public Sector." How are branches of the military and agencies of government progressing in their migration to cloud-based video solutions? What cloud video service offerings are the most beneficial and why
The first two case studies will be: "Cloud Solutions for Government Video Production" by Greg Parker, CEO & Founder, Raketu Communications. How can cloud computing being applied to workflow processes for government video from collaboration to editing to applying metadata to transcoding? And "Cloud-Based Management of Government Video Assets" by Frank Cardello, General Manager, Platform, T3Media, Which cloud deployment and service models are best for securely transferring and supporting access to highly sensitive visual data?
The first GVIC panel will add Cirina Catania, Independent Video Producer, to the discussion and cover "Considerations for Creating Government Video in the Cloud." What criteria should be employed in selecting cloud solutions for production tasks ranging from conceptualization of original video to aggregation of unstructured multimedia field data?
After a networking break, the second GVIC keynote by Adam Firestone, Director, Solutions, WSO2 Federal Systems, will address "Security & Reliability Concerns Unique to Government Video in the Cloud." How can encryption and process control techniques from the private sector be applied to protect the confidentiality of video assets associated with the missions of military and government agencies?
The next two case studies will cover "Distribution of Government-Owned Video from the Cloud" by Adam Powers, VP of Media Technology & Solutions. V2Solutions. What cloud-based solutions are available to safely and dependably share multimedia data among multiple users of otherwise incompatible clouds? And "Analysis of Aggregated Government Video Content" by Michael Rowny, CEO, PixSpan. High resolution video and images are Big Data. What techniques will facilitate the on-ramp to the cloud and save on cloud storage with full preservation of fidelity?
The closing GVIC panel discussion will add Larry Freedman, Partner, Edwards, Wildman, Palmer, and examine "Considerations for Cloud Dissemination of Government Video." What lessons learned from private sector business intelligence (BI) and mobile device management (MDM) in the cloud can be applied to delivery systems for sensitive government video?
CONNECTING TO THE CLOUD at 2014 CES
The DCIA will present CONNECTING TO THE CLOUD, a Conference within the 2014 International Consumer Electronics Show (CES), on January 8th in the Las Vegas Convention Center, Las Vegas, NV. The CCA is handling sponsorships.
Ten keynotes and four panel discussions will highlight the very latest advancements in cloud-based solutions that are now revolutionizing the consumer electronics (CE) sector. Special attention will be given to the impact on consumers, telecom industries, the media, and CE manufacturers of accessing and interacting with cloud-based services using connected devices.
Top program topics include case studies on how cloud-based solutions are now being deployed for fixed and mobile CE products — successes and challenges; the effects on consumers of having access to services in the cloud anytime from anywhere — along with related social networking trends; what broadband network operators and mobile Internet access providers are doing to help manage — and spur — the migration to interoperable cloud services; some in traditional entertainment industries find this technology overwhelmingly threatening and disruptive — others see enormous new opportunities; and how the value proposition for CE manufacturers will continue to evolve to providing cloud-based value-adding services — rather than conventional hardware features.
An opening panel focus group will explore "The Impact on Consumers of Connecting to the Cloud for Media Access and Storage." What do cloud-based streaming and storage mean to users in terms of accessing entertainment content and experiencing movies, music, TV shows, games, etc.?
The first keynote will answer the question, "Who's Connecting What to the Cloud?" How should cloud computing be defined in this context? What are the key economic considerations as well as prospects for sustainability of the cloud-enabled delivery phenomenon?
The next session will address, "Where Are There Problems Connecting to the Cloud?" What are the bottlenecks standing in the way of faster and wider adoption of cloud-based services among connected-device end-users? Which participants in the distribution chain need to change?
Two back-to-back keynotes will examine "Consumer Benefits of Cloud-Delivered Content: Ubiquity, Cost, Portability Improvements." How can cloud-based solutions applied to popular entertainment bring advantages to users over older methods of online distribution? What is the role of social networking in this arena? And "Consumer Drawbacks of Cloud-Delivered Content: Privacy, Reliability, Security Issues." What has been the experience to date of confidential data being inadvertently leaked or intentionally hacked? What can users do to mitigate not having access to their applications or accidentally losing their data when they go offline? What happens if a cloud provider goes out of business?
The follow-on panel will discuss "The Impact on Telecommunications Industries of Cloud Computing." What does cloud computing mean to broadband network operators and mobile carriers in terms of managing their intellectual property (IP), allocating network resources, and developing and provisioning new services?
Then twin keynotes will delve into "Telecommunications Industry Benefits of Cloud-Delivered Content: New Opportunities." How can cloud-based solutions applied to popular entertainment bring advantages to broadband network operators over older methods of distribution? And "Telecommunications Industry Drawbacks of Cloud-Delivered Content: Infrastructure Challenges." How does the on-demand always-accessible nature of cloud-based entertainment delivery challenge conventional distribution systems?
The next panel will address "The Impact on Entertainment Industries of Cloud Computing." What do cloud storage and distribution mean to content rights-holders in terms of managing their intellectual property (IP), realizing cost savings, reaching new audiences, analyzing usage, and implementing new business models?
Twin keynotes will highlight "Entertainment Industry Benefits of Cloud Computing: Cost Savings & Efficiency." How can cloud-based solutions applied to popular entertainment production, storage, and delivery bring advantages to content creators and content distributors? And "Entertainment Industry Drawbacks of Cloud Computing: Disruption & Security." How does the advent of "content everywhere" challenge current distribution systems? What additional security and reliability issues are raised?
Additional keynotes will introduce the subjects "Consumer Electronics Industry Benefits of Cloud-Based Services: New Revenue Streams." How can offering access to applications and content in the cloud provide new monetization opportunities to CE manufacturers, sellers, and partners? And "Consumer Electronics Industry Drawbacks of Cloud-Based Services: Complexity." How do the added administrative and operational challenges of managing cloud-based solutions affect the CE business?
The closing panel will draw on all the preceding sessions to more deeply analyze "The Impact on the Consumer Electronics Industry of Cloud Computing." What are the implications of devices being ubiquitously "connected to the cloud" for the organizations that make, market, and maintain these products and are involved in provisioning these services?
Please contact the DCIA today for consideration to speak during CTTC at CES.
5th Amendment Privileges & Cloud Computing
Excerpted from Fierce Government Report by Molly Walker
As cloud computing technology continues to become more pervasive, the application of the Fifth Amendment to protecting a suspect's encrypted data is likely to become a more prevalent issue in litigation, finds a paper by J. Adam Engel, Vice President of Lycurgus Group published in the Whittier Law Review.
Until now, suspects have infrequently invoked their Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination when the government has sought to compel suspects and defendants to provide passwords and encryption keys to access digital assets, he writes.
That's due in part to the fact that the right is limited to testimonial evidence — evidence that explicitly or implicitly, provides or discloses information — and that the "foregone conclusion" doctrine usually applies, says Engle.
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The foregone conclusion doctrine says that providing information is not subject to the Fifth Amendment if the government knows that the data exists, knows where it's located and providing the evidence adds little or nothing to the government's case, writes Engle.
Rather than storing digital assets directly on computers or smartphones, the cloud has enabled data to be stored remotely. Cloud computing makes the possession of an encryption key or password more important to the government, as it needs to show ownership or access information.
"As a result, suspects and defendants may be successful in arguing that the foregone conclusion doctrine does not make the privilege against self-incrimination inapplicable," writes Engle.
There are significant policy implications should more suspects begin invoking their Fifth Amendment privileges to protect digital assets in the cloud and avoid admission that they are, in fact, the owner of those assets.
"If people using advanced encryption techniques are not compelled to provide passwords and encryption keys, then potential criminals will be able to defeat the efforts of law enforcement officers to obtain such evidence, even when warrants have been obtained," writes Engle.
Engle predicts this will make the prosecution of child pornography and terrorism cases "exceedingly difficult if not impossible."
For more: go to the paper download page on SSRN, "Rethinking the Application of the Fifth Amendment to Passwords and Encryption in the Age of Cloud Computing."
CDN Market Will be Worth $7.4 Billion by 2017
According to a new market research report, "Global Content Delivery Networks (CDN) Market (Delivery Technologies, Hardware, Analytics, Monitoring, Encoding, Transparent Caching, DRM, CMS, OVP) - Trends, Geographical Analysis & Worldwide Market Forecasts (2012 - 2017)", published by MarketsandMarkets, the total CDN market is expected to reach $7.4 billion by 2017 with a CAGR of 24.6%.
Over the last decade, the Internet has exhibited the utmost growth and trend-change over use of online content. The ever-evolving Internet has resulted in growing Internet traffic, content richness, and the network complexities to manage efficient content delivery to users. To counter these Internet limitations, content delivery drawbacks (CDNs) have evolved.
CDNs have emerged as one of the most lucrative markets for the existing players as well as for new market players. Rapid explosion of web-based content mainly online music, online video, and online transaction-based services have spurred the demand for CDNs.
Online content is growing at a rapid rate from content provider businesses as well as from individuals who have started posting or uploading their content online to share with their peers. As the Internet traffic load increases, it becomes difficult to manage this growth in traffic and provide quality of service to end-users.
Due to the increasing demand for quality of services, new players have entered into this market with their network optimization solutions. With this increase, competition has intensified. Content providers have to clearly differentiate their products among other CDN providers for achieving better adoption among users.
The global Content Delivery Network Market is expected to grow from $2.1 billion in 2011 to $7.4 billion by 2017, at estimated CAGR of 24.6% from 2012 to 2017.
North America commanded the largest share; i.e., 64.3% of the overall managed Content Delivery Network Market in 2011 at $1.3 billion; and is expected to reach $4.6 billion by 2017, at a CAGR of 24.1% from 2012 to 2017.
In addition to market sizes and forecasts, the report also provides a detailed analysis of the market trends and factors influencing market growth, offering in-depth geographic analysis of the Content Delivery Network Market in North America, Europe, Asia-Pacific, Latin America and Middle East & Africa.
The report draws a competitive landscape of the Content Delivery Network Market, providing an in-depth comparative analysis of technological and marketing strategies.
Video Delivers Business Value with RTE
Excerpted from CIO Report
The adoption of mobile and cloud computing has provided a foundation on which to drive rapid growth of video services in 2013 and beyond. The availability and rapid adoption of high quality, full-featured mobile devices and tablets has altered how businesses store and process data, as well as where and how an employee accesses its applications and services. As we move to wide-spread use of mobile video, the use cases will change.
Now, IT and business leaders want to use video services to improve business processes by delivering valuable insights in near real-time. In order to accomplish this, businesses have combined mobile, cloud, and video to deliver what Lopez Research defines as Right-time Experiences (RTE).
In this paper, learn how utilizing video within business processes will create RTEs that improve the delivery and impact of communication while at the same time capturing and sharing real-time data.
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Xbox Live Cloud Computing Changes Gaming Forever
Excerpted from Gizmodo Report by Mario Aguilar
At Microsoft's huge Xbox reveal last spring, the company made a big hubub about the 300,000 cloud servers it would be adding to help speed up GPU and CPU heavy tasks. But in an interview with Gizmodo, Xbox Live Lead Programmer John Bruno detailed how it could change the way we think about gaming in the future.
Powerful cloud computing lets developers offload tasks like graphics processing and AI computation from Xbox One's local resources. As we've noted before, this lets game developers build games bigger than what the hardware can support on its own.
Dedicated servers for all.
In large measure, Xbox Live is about multiplayer gaming, and in effort to make its offering competitive, Microsoft is offering the benefits of its scalable dedicated server resources to all developers for free. This sounds like a lot of techno-babble, but it's a big deal.
As the developer of Tinfall explained back in June, scalable, dedicated server resources vastly improve gaming. They make multiplayer gaming more reliable by preventing disconnects, and they also make games fair by eliminating any advantages a player hosting a game might have.
Big game studios can pay for their own server resources that are allocated regionally depending on who is logging on to play games where. Xbox's offer of free cloud computing allows all developers to take advantage of big-ticket resources, even if they're not that big.
Games that evolve.
The lofty potential of Xbox Live's Cloud Computing is that it allows developers to evolve games and experiences over time. In Xbox's commonly cited example, Forza studies your driving style over time to evolve its AI.
But according to Bruno, this is just the tip of the iceberg. "It could change the way developers think about their franchises and their intellectual property." What if a game purchase was a constantly evolving experience that grew over time-more like what we're used to from software these days. Bruno declined to comment on the future of business models, but he did note that it would be interesting to see developers grow their games over time. Imagine a world without expansion packs.
Where does that leave us?
Bruno is obviously touting all of the benefits of Xbox Live in an effort to lure in both developers and customers. It remains to be seen how many people will actually take advantage of the possibilities on Xbox one. What' pretty certain is that there's an opportunity, and that's always a good thing.
Cloud Computing Reduces Costs for Media Producers
Excerpted from CloudTweaks Report by Ted Navarro
Modern multimedia production and delivery is heavily dependent on computational power and data storage. For media producers and post-production companies, whether they work with video, audio, or both, efficient workflows require massive amounts of processing power and the efficient storage, movement, and delivery of multi-terabyte files.
Until the advent of cloud computing and Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS), that meant there was a huge barrier to entry into the media production business. If a company wanted to compete with other production houses or agencies, it had to make huge investments in infrastructure. However, the days of the massively expensive server farm are rapidly approaching their end. IaaS solutions that are specifically tailored to the media creation industry are rapidly making the old approach obsolete.
Media production is more complex today than it has ever been, with media data increasing in complexity and size to a level that would have been hard to imagine just a few years ago. Traditional infrastructure provisioning strategies no longer provide sufficiently flexible and scalable solutions. The cloud is the solution and will help media producers create better content more quickly.
A few examples of flexible and scalable ways to access the benefits that cloud computing brings to media production:
Low Initial Capital Expenditure.
Media production at a professional level used to require an enormous upfront investment in technology infrastructure and the technical staff to manage it. A major benefit of cloud computing technology is that the creative industries are alleviated of the need to invest heavily in technology that would rapidly become obsolete. Cloud computing allows the media production industry to provision only the technology they need, when they need it, avoiding excessive CAPEX.
Flexible Infrastructure Deployment.
As anyone who has worked in the media industry knows, sometimes work outstrips available resources and other times there is insufficient work to pay for the upkeep of existing infrastructure. Cloud computing helps production houses take advantage of the best times while avoiding the crippling costs associated with fallow periods. Media production companies can quickly provision servers to meet the demands of specific projects and shut them down when they are no longer needed.
Predictable Costs.
IaaS pricing is granular and predictable. It allows for precise cost analysis and prediction on a per project basis. Each resource used in a media production workflow is metered, and companies pay only for what they use.
If you work in media production, your company can take advantage of cloud computing media services for: media asset management, cloud transcoding, high-speed file transfer, automated content verification, and video quality control.
With cloud computing, you can expect increased performance, lowered costs, and improved collaboration.
Enterprise Mobility Solutions Leverage Cloud Services
Excerpted from Business2Community Report by John Ashmit
Enterprise mobility and cloud computing have been going hand in hand for some time as organizations try to leverage upon the feasibility of both to create a more seamless ecosystem of information sharing.
But still there are few voids, where many organizations still hang-on to the old fashion computing as their primary focus. There is no denying the fact that mobility has transformed the way organizations do business. The operational architecture has changed substantially to give way for a more connected set of possibilities resulting in empowered results.
Over the years, organizations have adopted mobility in order to stay competitive in this highly dynamic business ecosystem. On the other hand, mobility has also come at the forefront to become a viable solution for eliminating location constraints.
The rise of smartphones and tablets had made it impact on both consumer end as well as enterprise ecosystem. It has helped organizations achieve flexibility and cultivate optimal efficiency. There is no denying the fact that incorporating mobile solutions in the core business work flow helps improve productivity and reduce operation costs.
With the coming of age of enterprise mobility, organizations have started to look at new horizons of inter-connectivity between employees. This not only permits them to access data from a range of devices but also ensures timely decision making capabilities.
As more and more platforms come into picture, developers have started to implement web applications running on HTML5. Mobile among enterprises is all about building a workforce which is highly productive and feasible in transforming in accordance to the changing dynamics of the market.
There are times when employees have to access vital data at remote locations, which makes mobility a vital option.
But the biggest boost to mobility has surely come with the merging of cloud computing, which has not only decreased downtime but enhanced backend data integration. The current paradigm in the enterprise mobility sectors is going through a radical shift as organization are trying to implement a hybrid mix of mobility and cloud.
They have started to shift towards an agile mobile enterprise application platform in order to alter the nature and practices of organizational architecture, business workflow, supply chains and ROI. The combination of cloud and mobility solution is highly divine and can give a huge boost to the overall productivity of any organization.
Using mobile best practices, developers are trying to expand the end user engagement as well as boosting business growth. The rapid increase in the real time data access is a significant aspect in the enterprise ecosystem and has become a reality with cloud based mobile apps.
Cloud mobility which can be implemented both in consumer sectors as well as enterprises ecosystem has become the need of the hour. This flexibility is the core reason why many analysts believe of more than 600 percent rise in cloud computing in the next decade. With security modules being implemented into cloud as well as mobility organizations are getting more feasible.
These types of mobile-based services that can deliver a secure and agile mobile work environment are the way for the future.
The Role of Cloud Computing in Big Data
Excerpted from SQLAuthority Report
Cloud is the biggest buzzword around from last few years. Everyone knows about the cloud and it is extremely well defined online. In this article, we will discuss cloud in the context of big data.
Cloud computing is a method of providing shared computing resources to the application which requires dynamic resources. These resources include applications, computing, storage, networking, development, and various deployment platforms. The fundamentals of cloud computing are that it shares pretty much all the resources and is delivered to end-users as a service.
Examples of cloud computing and big data are Google and Amazon. Both have fantastic big data offerings with the help of the cloud. We will discuss this later in this blog post.
There are three different cloud deployment models: 1) the public cloud, 2) the private cloud, and 3) the hybrid cloud.
Public cloud is the cloud infrastructure build by commercial providers (Amazon, Rackspace, etc.) that creates a highly scalable data center that hides the complex infrastructure from the consumer and provides various services.
Private cloud is the cloud infrastructure build by a single organization where they are managing highly scalable data center internally.
Hybrid cloud is the cloud infrastructure built with the composition of two or more clouds like public and private cloud. Hybrid cloud gives the best of both worlds as it combines multiple cloud deployment models together.
There are many characteristics of cloud architecture and cloud computing which are also essentially important for big data as well. They highly overlap and at many places it just makes sense to use the power of both the architecture and build a highly scalable framework.
Here is the list of all the characteristics of cloud computing important in big data: scalability, elasticity, ad-hoc resource pooling, low cost to setup infrastructure, pay per use or pay as you go, and highly available.
There are many players in big data cloud but we will list a few of the known players in this list.
Amazon is arguably the most popular Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) provider. The history of how Amazon started in this business is very interesting. It started out with a massive infrastructure to support its own business. Gradually it figured out that its own resources are underutilized most of the time. It decided to get the maximum out of the resources it had and hence it launched its Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) service in 2006. Its products have evolved a lot recently and now cloud service is one of its primary businesses besides its retail selling.
Amazon also offers big data services through its Amazon Web Services. Here is the list of these services: Amazon Elastic MapReduce — it processes very high volumes of data; Amazon DynammoDB — it is fully managed NoSQL (Not Only SQL) database service; Amazon Simple Storage Services (S3) — a web-scale service designed to store and accommodate any amount of data; Amazon High Performance Computing — it provides low-tenancy tuned high performance computing cluster; and Amazon RedShift — it is petabyte scale data warehousing service.
Though Google is known for Search Engine, we all know that it is much more than that. Google Compute Engine — it offers secure, flexible computing from energy efficient data centers. Google Big Query — it allows SQL-like queries to run against large datasets. Google Prediction API — it is a cloud-based machine learning tool.
Besides Amazon and Google we also have other players in the big data market as well. Microsoft is also attempting big data with the cloud with Microsoft Azure. Additionally Rackspace and NASA together have initiated OpenStack. The goal of Openstack is to provide a massively scaled, multitenant cloud that can run on any hardware.
The cloud based solutions provides a great integration with the big data's story as well it is very economical to implement as well. However, there are few things one should be very careful when deploying big data on cloud solutions. Here is a list of a few things to watch: data integrity, initial cost, recurring cost, performance, data access security, location, and compliance.
Every company has different approaches to big data and has different rules and regulations. Based on various factors, one can implement a custom big data solution on a cloud.
Why Crowdsourcing Is the Next Cloud Computing
Excerpted from Wired Report by Alpheus Bingham
Few would dispute the enormous impact that cloud computing has had on the technology and business landscape during the past decade. In 2001, the approach to hosting business applications on the emerging web wasn't even remotely proven and, in fact, had failed because the first generation of web-hosted application service providers (ASPs) got it all wrong.
But over the course of a decade, what we now call cloud-based or software-as-a-service (SaaS) applications has taken the world by storm and become mainstream. Today, cloud computing is an umbrella term that applies to a wide variety of successful technologies (and business models), from business apps like Salesforce.com, to infrastructure like Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2), to consumer apps like Netflix. It took years for all these things to become mainstream, and if the last decade saw the emergence (and eventual dominance) of the cloud over previous technologies and models, this decade will see the same thing with crowdsourcing.
Both an art and a science, crowdsourcing taps into the global experience and wisdom of individuals, teams, communities, and networks to accomplish tasks and work. It doesn't matter who you are, where you live, or what you do or believe — in fact, the more diversity of thought and perspective, the better. Diversity is king and it's common for people on the periphery of — or even completely outside of — a discipline or science to end up solving important problems.
The specific nature of the work offers few constraints — from a small business needing a new logo, to the large consumer goods company looking to ideate marketing programs, or to the nonprofit research organization looking to find a biomarker for ALS, the value is clear as well.
To get to the heart of the matter on why crowdsourcing is this decade's cloud computing, several immediate reasons come to mind:
Crowdsourcing Is Disruptive.
Much as cloud computing has created a new guard that in many ways threatens the old guard, so too has crowdsourcing. For example, a research team leader may believe that crowdsourcing innovation challenges is a sign of failure because his team couldn't solve problems on its own. Or, he may believe that opening the challenge up to problem solvers from outside the organization risks intellectual property leakage. While these concerns have some legitimacy, they can be overcome through diligent education, communication, change management, working with a trusted partner and dealing with fundamental issues such as organizational culture. Crowdsourcing will be more disruptive for some and less so for others. But this shouldn't dissuade you from at least experimenting with crowdsourcing and learning from your experiences.
Crowdsourcing Provides On-Demand Talent Capacity.
Labor is expensive and good talent is scarce. Think about the cost of adding ten additional researchers to a 100-person R&D team. You've increased your research capacity by 10% (more or less), but at a significant cost — and, a significant FIXED cost at that. If demand on these resources fluctuates you may find that they are not always fully utilized. Not only does crowdsourcing lend additional "virtual" talent capacity to solving the problems, but the problems can be deconstructed, distributed, solved and reassembled in parallel without having to rely on captive resources. You can crowdsource as many innovation challenges as you need, when you need them. It's the massively parallel equivalent of cloud computing and it allows for near infinite and fully variable capacity.
Crowdsourcing Enables Pay-for-Performance.
You pay as you go with cloud computing — gone are the days of massive upfront capital expenditures followed by years of ongoing maintenance and upgrade costs. Crowdsourcing does even better: you pay for solutions, not effort, which predictably sometimes results in failure. In fact, with crowdsourcing, the marketplace bears the cost of failure, not you. Crowdsourcing innovation challenges not only enables you to tap into a diversity that you don't possess (and never will since you can't hire all the potentially beneficial perspectives and technical disciplines), but you can do so with significantly less cost and risk than if you were to make additional hires. Crowdsourcing is highly complementary to existing ways of assigning and completing tasks and work and should be viewed as an important and valuable tool in your innovation toolbox.
Crowdsourcing "Consumerizes" Innovation.
Crowdsourcing can provide a platform for bi-directional communication and collaboration with diverse individuals and groups, whether internal or external to your organization — employees, customers, partners and suppliers. Much as cloud computing has consumerized technology, crowdsourcing has the same potential to consumerize innovation, and more broadly, how we collaborate to bring new ideas, products and services to market.
Crowdsourcing Provides Expert Services and Skills That You Don't Possess.
One of the early value propositions of cloud-based business apps was that you didn't need to engage IT to deploy them or Finance to help procure them, thereby allowing general managers and line-of-business heads to do their jobs more fluently and more profitably. Crowdsourcing service providers possess unique talent, expertise, methodologies and experience to help organizations rapidly achieve their goals, be it logo design, solving innovation challenges, or designing high profile custom prize competitions. Most organizations have no way of even beginning to figure out how to reach thousands or even millions of diverse people from around the world. Crowdsourcing service providers already have captive communities that you can readily connect to and collaborate with in order to achieve your key objectives.
When predicting the "next big thing," parallels can be drawn between where cloud computing was several years ago and where crowdsourcing is today and where it is headed in the future. Crowdsourcing can be seen as a catalyst for global innovation and is something businesses should keep an eye on going forward.
Coming Events of Interest
CLOUD COMPUTING WEST 2013 - October 27th-29th in Las Vegas, NV. Two major conference tracks will zero in on the latest advances in applying cloud-based solutions to all aspects of high-value entertainment content production, storage, and delivery; and the impact of mobile cloud computing and Big Data analytics in this space.
Government Video Expo 2013 - December 3rd-5th in Washington, DC. Government Video Expo, co-located with InfoComm's GovComm, brings the east coast's largest contingent of video production, post, digital media, and broadcast professionals together with the government AV/IT specialists. The combined event features over 150 exhibits and nearly 6,000 registrants.
GOVERNMENT VIDEO IN THE CLOUD - December 4th in Washington, DC. This DCIA Conference within Government Video Expo focuses specifically on cloud solutions for and case studies related to producing, storing, distributing, and analyzing government-owned video content.
International CES - January 7th-10th in Las Vegas, NV. The International CES is the global stage for innovation reaching across global markets, connecting the industry and enabling CE innovations to grow and thrive. The International CES is owned and produced by the Consumer Electronics Association (CEA), the preeminent trade association promoting growth in the $209 billion US consumer electronics industry.
CONNECTING TO THE CLOUD - January 8th in Las Vegas, NV. This DCIA Conference within CES will highlight the very latest advancements in cloud-based solutions that are now revolutionizing the consumer electronics (CE) sector. Special attention will be given to the impact on consumers, telecom industries, the media, and CE manufacturers of accessing and interacting with cloud-based services using connected devices.
CCISA 2013 – February 12th–14th in Turin, Italy. The second international special session on Cloud Computing and Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) and its Applications within the 22nd Euromicro International Conference on Parallel, Distributed, and Network-Based Processing.
NAB Show - April 5th-10th in Las Vegas, NV. From broadcasting to broader-casting, NAB Show has evolved over the last eight decades to continually lead this ever-changing industry. From creation to consumption, NAB Show has proudly served as the incubator for excellence — helping to breathe life into content everywhere.
Media Management in the Cloud — April 8th-9th in Las Vegas, NV. This two-day conference provides a senior management overview of how cloud-based solutions positively impact each stage of the content distribution chain, including production, delivery, and storage.
CLOUD COMPUTING EAST 2014 - May 13th-14th in Washington, DC. Three major conference tracks will zero in on the latest advances in the application of cloud-based solutions in three key economic sectors: government, healthcare, and financial services.
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