There is almost a deafening discussion going on about the self-centeredness of today’s young adults. Weather you call them Generation Y, millennials or twenty-somethings, the general refrain seems to be a perception that the entire lot of them only care about themselves.
Patricia Greenfield of the University of California in Los Angeles actually used the Google Ngram Viewer to study this perception. Her findings, published in Psychological Science, showed that there has indeed been a distinct rise in more individualistic words such as “choose,” “get,” “feel,” “unique,” “individual” and “self” and a decrease in community-focused words such as “obliged,” “give,” “act,” “obedience,” “authority,” “pray” and “belong.”

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What winning sales organizations do to separate themselves from the competition by creating market advantage through improved user experiences and better information services.
The next BriefingsDirect thought-leader interview focuses on what winning sales organizations do to separate themselves from the competition by creating market advantage through improved user experiences and better information services.

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of cloud, colocation, managed services and disaster recovery solutions, will exhibit at SYS-CON’s 16th International Cloud Expo®, which will take place on June 9-11, 2015, at the Javits Center in New York City, NY.
TierPoint, LLC, is a leading national provider of information technology and data center services, including cloud, colocation, disaster recovery and managed IT services, with corporate headquarters in St. Louis, MO. TierPoint was formed through the strategic combination of some of the country’s most respected and innovative data centers and IT solution providers whose origins date back as early as 1995.

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Cloud storage provider Dropbox has announced it has achieved certification with the emerging privacy standard ISO/IEC 27018, boosting its security credentials.

ISO 27018 was published on July 30 2014 by the International Organisation for Standardisation (ISO) as a follow up to the widely accepted ISO 27001 information security standard. It aims to put together a code of practice for protection of personally identifiable information (PII) in public clouds. The standard has already been taken up by Microsoft, as CloudTech reported back in February.

The benefits for consumers of Dropbox taking up this standard includes transparency on what the storage vendor does and doesn’t do with your data, the ability to add, modify or delete data from Dropbox at any time, as well as annual audits from an independent third party.

“We’re pleased to be one of the first companies to achieve ISO 27018 certification,” the company said. “Privacy and data protection regulations and norms vary around the world, and we’re confident this certification will help our customers meet their global compliance needs.”

“Businesses in the UK and all over the world are trusting Dropbox to make collaboration easier and boost productivity,” said Mark van der Linden, Dropbox UK country manager. “Our ISO 27018 accreditation shows we put users in control of their data, we are transparent about where we store it, and we operate to the highest standards of security. Dropbox is one of the first cloud services for business to be recognised with this latest independently-verified standard.”

Dropbox has had its fair share of security worries, including the recent development of a phishing attack, which asks users to download confidential documents.

The company’s certificate, which can be seen here, runs from May 13 2015 to September 30 2017.

With several hundred implementations of IoT-enabled solutions in the past 12 months alone, this session will focus on experience over the art of the possible. Many can only imagine the most advanced telematics platform ever deployed, supporting millions of customers, producing tens of thousands events or GBs per trip, and hundreds of TBs per month.
With the ability to support a billion sensor events per second, over 30PB of warm data for analytics, and hundreds of PBs for an data analytics archive, in his session at @ThingsExpo, Jim Kaskade, Vice President and General Manager, Big Data & Analytics at CSC, will overview how user-based auto insurance can be implemented at scale. He will demonstrate a production deployment based on a cloud-hosted, cyber-secured, real-time to batch analytics telematics platform that enables what we commonly refer to as the “Smart Car.” He will also touch on how Internet of Things is being truly implemented across several verticals including Banking, this Insurance example, Health, Manufacturing, Transportation, Utilities, and Retail.

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For years, we’ve relied too heavily on individual network functions or simplistic cloud controllers. However, they are no longer enough for today’s modern cloud data center. Businesses need a comprehensive platform architecture in order to deliver a complete networking suite for IoT environment based on OpenStack.
In his session at @ThingsExpo, Dhiraj Sehgal from PLUMgrid will discuss what a holistic networking solution should really entail, and how to build a complete platform that is scalable, secure, agile and automated.

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DevOps approaches within “Unicorns” vary significantly from the reality of DevOps in the enterprise. Most enterprises manage portfolios of heterogeneous applications that are increasingly interconnected, delivered by global teams, at various stages of technology maturity, and are often encumbered by additional compliance and governance obligations.
In his session at DevOps Summit, Dalibor Siroky, Director and co-founder at Plutora, will discuss the emerging and evolving experiences of Agile, Continuous Delivery and DevOps across Plutora’s enterprise customers, in particular how enterprises are going faster with transparency and efficient control measures.

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