DevOpsGuys G-Cloud success


"DevOpsGuys has continued its G-Cloud success with a range of cloud services available on the latest G-Cloud Framework – G-Cloud 7.
"G-Cloud is a government initiative that provides public sector organisations with a single source of cloud-based services via an online marketplace.  It is designed to save public sector organisations and suppliers the time and cost traditionally associated with individual procurement contracts.
"DevOpsGuys has a wealth of experience in working within the public sector, enabling and supporting clients through their digital transformation journey.  Imperative to supporting and delivering critical services is the underlying performance of its cloud services, to which DevOpsGuys have added and made enhancements to its portfolio. DevOpsGuys has been approved to supply under Lot 1: Infrastructure as a Service, (IaaS); Lot 3: Software as a Service (SaaS) and Lot 4: Specialist Cloud Services (SCS).
"James Smith, CEO of DevOpsGuys said 'We are delighted to be reaffirmed as a G-Cloud supplier on this latest iteration; G-Cloud 7, and welcome the opportunity to continue the great work we are doing with public sector organisations.'
"Since its inception in March 2012, public sector spending through G-Cloud has reached more than £800m with sales in 2015 rising by more than 80%, up from £447m in 2014.  The significant growth is in line with the prioritisation of cloud computing within central government."

What Does 2015 Taught Us About Cloud?


IBM blog "Thoughts On Cloud", published an article on "5 things 2015 taught us about cloud".


 1. Containers are here to stay. Our first question sought to get the crowd’s opinion on the year’s biggest story. The consensus? Containers. While enterprises were beginning to test containers around this time last year, their usage is now ubiquitous across leading organizations and enterprises.
2. Next year may (finally) be the year of hybrid cloud. It seems like every year for the past few years someone has declared it “The Year of Hybrid Cloud.” But are we really there? Has a hybrid approach become the norm? Are we well past “The Year of Hybrid Cloud,” or is it yet to come?
3. Cloud has evolved from a data security concern to a data security solution. This year, the tech world witnessed some of the most highly publicized data breaches in history, but the cloud is rarely to blame, according to McGee. “Interestingly, most of the high profile security breaches involved internal non-cloud IT problems,” he wrote. “Enterprises are starting look to cloud to help with security given the rigorous processes and standardized environments.”
4. Open source foundations taught us that we all get along after all. In the open technology space, 2015 saw the growth and increased adoption of OpenStack and Cloud Foundry. It also saw the formation of the Cloud Native Computing Foundation and the Open Container Initiative, among others. Most recently, an open source Swift programming language was announced to developers’ delight.
5. More is expected of developers than ever before—and they’re delivering. For many organizations, it’s not enough for developers to simply write code for an application (or part of an application) and be done with it. Developers are increasingly being asked to understand the full stack—and at least have a working knowledge of cloud computing.

 Read more on >> Thoughts on Cloud (IBM)

Future of Cloud Computing: Is IT Dead?

AWS Announces New Office in Istanbul/Turkey




Amazon Web Services Turkey has announced that it has opened an office to support the rapid adoption of cloud computing in the country.

“The office is now open and operational in Istanbul and is supporting businesses of all sizes, from start-ups to some of the country’s oldest and most established enterprises, as Turkish organizations make the transition to the AWS cloud,” said a press release issued on Dec. 3. 

The AWS, owned by web giant Amazon.com, offers a fully featured technology infrastructure platform in the cloud comprised of a broad set of compute, storage, database, analytics, application, and deployment services from data center locations, according to the press release. 

“Turkish organizations were amongst the earliest adopters of cloud services when AWS launched in 2006.

Customers based in Turkey are now using AWS to run everything from development and test environments to Big Data analytics, from mobile, web and social applications to enterprise business applications and mission critical workloads. AWS now counts some of Turkey’s most well-known and fastest growing businesses as customers including, Peak Games, Yemeksepeti and Siberalem.com as well as some of the largest companies in the world, such as Digitürk, Arçelik, Vestel Elektronik, Pegasus Airlines, MetGlobal and Türk Telekom,” the press release stated. 

“Turkish companies have been innovating on AWS for nearly a decade and are using the cloud to accelerate time to market and expand their businesses to reach customers around the world,” said Murat Yanar, AWS Turkey Country Manager of Amazon Web Services. 

“The decision to open an AWS office in Turkey speaks to the rapidly growing customer base, the broad set of talent here and the investment we are making to support cloud adoption in the country. We are excited to work with even more Turkish companies to help them drive innovation within their organizations while maintaining industry-leading levels of reliability, privacy, and security,” Yanar added.
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