Trends from Cloud Expo Europe 2012
Submitted by Kaz Brecher on January 31, 2012
Last week, I had the pleasure of attending Cloud Expo Europe in London with our host, Interxion, one of Europe’s top carrier-neutral colocation providers. With our more pervasive deployments in the ASEAN region and the United States, it was a chance for us to gather first-hand information on the IT challenges and state of the market for EU businesses. We had assumed that, in addition to the heavy burden of legacy infrastructure, security and compliance would be the top concerns.
It seems that companies operating offices in Europe are less wary of Patriot Act implications and simply take for granted that, with all of the regulatory differences between EU countries, if a government wants to subpoena your data, even your own government, it’s just the price of doing business. The enterprise security strategy becomes a combination of leveraging unshared infrastructure as much as possible and taking advantage of APIs into the cloud orchestration software, so that additional layers of anti-malware and other measures can be integrated.
From a Morphlabs perspective, this was welcomed news, as our hosted private mCloud Data Center Unit affords these benefits. Additionally, our solution met with a warm reception for being both a fully-integrated and complete cloud from day one but also elastic in ways that private cloud deployments have not been able to deliver to date. Our Dynamic Resource Scaling technology, which allows provisioning of dedicated hardware to allow true hybrid cloud-bursting, was the subject of much discussion at the booth – solving a problem that many enterprise IT organizations face when trying to find the pricing and flexibility of AWS but with the security and controls of a private cloud.
Finally, the last major theme that kept coming up was quality of service and guaranteed performance. There are many different ways to approach this problem, depending on the architecture of your cloud. But when using Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), performance will always be an issue on shared hardware. And the networking itself is becoming part of the problem. This has been nagging at our engineers as well and prompted us to move to the more modular hyperscale computing architecture that we deliver today. We believe that while these advances provide immediate and significant benefits to our customers, we can continue to improve even more, which is why we are implementing all SSD-based options into our solution as well. Stay tuned, or come chat with us at Cloud Connect in Santa Clara in a few weeks!
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