As 2013 ended and 2014 began, the cloud prognosticators came out in true
form, including AppZero CEO Greg O'Connor. Here are some of the more
interesting predictions and surprising areas of agreement.
Five Cloud Predictions of 2014
Hybrid Cloud will dominate. Cloud security will ramp and organizations will
bring their own security to the public cloud. Datacenters will be
consolidated. 2014 is the year of PaaS. Lots of money will be spent on cloud
computing!
Hybrid Cloud is the way to go according to Business Today : "This year's
catchwords will be "hybrid cloud," or the combination of both private and
public cloud services. Analyst house Gartner released a report revealing that
half of major enterprises will deploy hybrid cloud solutions by 2017.
Security concerns will drive encryption everywhere, says Richard Seroter,
head of cloud product management, CenturyLink... (more)
AppZero, a fast, flexible way to move enterprise applications to the cloud,
has announced that AppZero Cloud Edition is available to try on Amazon Web
Services (AWS) free of charge, as an AWS Test Drive. AppZero's
award-winning application migration tool enables users to move server
applications onto physical, virtual or cloud servers, simply, fast, and with
no code changes -- at the push of a button.
AWS Test Drive provides a private IT sandbox environment containing
preconfigured server based solutions. In under an hour, and using a
step-by-step lab manual and video, launch, ... (more)
Webinar Registration Link
Webinar: Microsoft & AppZero Present: Migrate from WS03 to WS12 or Windows
Azure in one step
Wednesday, Dec. 11, 2013 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM EST
Plan ahead to remediate your Windows Server 2003 applications.
With Windows Server 2003 end of extended support approaching, companies are
faced with moving large numbers of enterprise applications. Join Microsoft
and AppZero for an informative webinar on upgrading production applications
from WS2003 to WS2012 or Windows Azure. AppZero's one-step application
migration lets you modernize your applications and move to ... (more)
AppZero, the fastest, most flexible way to move server applications,
announced on Wednesday its predictions for top Enterprise IT priorities as we
head into 2014. Based on its research and work within the industry, AppZero
declares modernization as the top priority for any Enterprise IT department
As Windows Server 2003 reaches end of support in July 2015, enterprises need
to move their applications onto a newer operating system, or find themselves
at risk with no patches or security updates. According to a recent survey
produced by AppZero, industry experts estimate that there a... (more)
AppZero, the fastest way to move enterprise applications, today announced the
results of its first "State of Readiness for Windows Server 2003 End of
Support (EOS)" survey. The 2013 results of more than 200 Fortune 1,000
companies show that 40% of respondents wish to move to the cloud as part of
their EOS remediation efforts.
The full results of the survey are available here and indicate that with
eighteen months until support ends, the majority of respondents still have
significant numbers of machines running WS2003. Security compliance and
vulnerability management are a majo... (more)
Adine Deford is the CMO for AppZero – the fastest and most flexible way to move workloads across clouds and datacenter servers, without re-engineering, re-installation, or lock-in.
With more than two decades of technology marketing experience, she has a deep understanding of the power of “trigger events” in launching disruptive technologies. She predicts that the end of life for Windows Server 2003 scheduled for July 2015, will be the event that puts application migration, particularly cloud migration on the map. You can follow her on Twitter at @AdineDeford.
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