As the Internet of Things becomes more capable, moving from an initial ad hoc bundle of chaos to an optimized set of interconnected assets, we will need to ensure it performs and is reliable.
But this means the tools measuring the performance and reliability of the IoT will also need to mature as the need for timely, understandable, quality, business-critical information becomes paramount. Sensors that are malfunctioning, devices that are offline, data that’s little more than noise can all scuttle the best IoT monitoring strategies.
Let’s fix them. Let’s make sure the «Things» in IoT are doing what they are supposed to be doing.
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One in four cloud service clients willing to be held to ransom – study
One in four companies would be willing to pay a ransom to criminals who stole their information, with 14% of them willing to pay over a million dollars, says a study. Companies with cyber insurance are most likely to hand over cash.
This revelation comes from a survey of cross industry sample of 200 IT and security professionals by the Cloud Security Alliance. The study’s objective was to examine how industries around the world are managing cloud adoption.
Exposure is increasing, according to the survey, which indicated that IT professionals are struggling to cater for the demand for new cloud services, receiving on average 10.6 requests each month for new cloud services. Only 71.2% of companies now have a formal process for users to request new cloud services and of these 65.5% admitted that they ‘only partially’ follow it. Due diligence is impossible under the circumstances because it takes an IT security team 17.7 days on average to evaluate the security of a cloud provider, the study says.
The most common reason for rejecting a cloud service is not related to security or compliance but the fact that a comparable cloud solution is already in place. Small companies are most likely to judge a cloud service by the cost, with the lack of budget, in 28.4% of cases, being the most popular criteria for rejection.
The lack of security could cause problems in future because many companies are now putting sensitive customer information in the cloud. The most commonly purchased cloud system is customer relationship management (CRM), which was identified as a purchase by 36.3% of the survey sample. The figures may reflect a degree of complacency as ‘just 35.0% of IT and security professionals believe that cloud-based systems of record are less secure than their on-premises counterparts’, says the report.
Despite the perceived improvement in security from cloud services, 60.8% of companies have taken the precaution of appointing a chief information security officer. However, these relatively new roles are ill-defined and responsibilities, such as ransom negotiation, vary across companies.
“It’s shocking that so many companies are willing to pay even a penny’s ransom,” said Skyhigh Networks spokesman Nigel Hawthorn, “The idea that some would pay more than $1m is downright staggering. Hackers are increasingly confident they can hold businesses over a barrel.”
BT wins £24 million worth of EU cloud service contracts
Telco BT has won new two cloud service contracts with European Commission worth £24 million, which brings its total of EC contract wins to four in 12 months.
The brief, to provide public and private cloud services across 52 major European institutions, agencies and bodies, is one of the largest government contracts in Europe. Among the clients receiving the cloud computing services are the European Parliament, the European Council and the European Defence Agency.
The two framework contracts, announced this week, were awarded in December 2015, and will run for a maximum of four years once legal details have been finalised. Once work begins BT will implement the contracted private cloud services, after which it will become one of five providers competing to run public cloud projects.
The two new deals are the third and fourth European Commission framework contract wins awarded to BT in 2015, all of which involved open calls for tender from all EC approved suppliers.
In August 2015 BT signed a seven year £11.5 million (€15.2m) framework contract with the European Commission to provide voice services across 21 major European institutions, agencies and bodies. This followed March’s award of a five year £42 million (€55.7m) framework contract for the delivery of dedicated internet access to all major European institutions, agencies and bodies across the 28 member states. BT has provided services to the European Union for more than a decade.
The newly contracted services will be hosted from a geographically diverse spread of data centres within the European Union and all customer data will remain within the Union. As part of the tender process BT had to prove it could meet strict EU requirements for data sovereignty, compliance, security and privacy.
BT will integrate and manage the data centre estate using its Compute Management System (CMS), a single, federated portal for IT services which, BT claims, is its ‘secret sauce’ for winning contracts.
“This is a milestone in our journey to be the leading global cloud services integrator,” said Corrado Sciolla, BT Global Services’ president.
Why Content Personalization Startups Are Going to Be Big in 2016 | @CloudExpo #Cloud
Understanding the core objective is alone not enough to find greater success with content marketing. The reason very few marketers find their content marketing strategies effective is because of the lack of personalization.
Content marketing is everywhere and it is not going away anytime soon. A survey conducted by IDC found that CMOs at some of the biggest technological companies in the world regarded building content marketing competency as the second most important initiative in their organizations just behind ROI. Yet, as another study from the CMO council shows, less than 2 percent of marketers believe their content marketing strategy is highly effective.
Key Points from 2015 – The Cloud’s the Limit By @MonicaBrink | @CloudExpo #Cloud
We are well into the first month of 2016, and many predictions from the cloud sector have started to reveal different trends that we may see over the next 12 months. In 2015 we saw IaaS (Infrastructure as a Service) and PaaS (Platform as a Service) growing 51 per cent, with cloud firmly being pushed into the limelight. Looking to the future, there are many indications of what to expect in the year to come, including improvements to current-generation cloud environments as well as private cloud resurging amongst early and late cloud adopters,
DevOps in 2016 | @DevOpsSummit #DevOps #Microservices #ContinuousDelivery
DevOps will play a major role in 2016 simply because DevOps is all about savings which is fundamentally different from the traditionally IT budgeted projects; without DevOps the dollars are anyway drained for nothing because the teams are working in silos which leads to the delay due to inter dependency, poor code quality, too much of un-warranted hand overs, post deployment issues, inconsistent environment, non-availability of infra structural resources etc as per Forrester research 60% of application failure & downtime are related to releases despite 75% of IT operation time spent on release management.
Big Data Life in 2023 | @CloudExpo #IoT #M2M #BigData #ML #Microservices
Instead of writing yet another “Big Data Predictions for the Next Year” blog, I thought I’d do something a bit different. Instead of predicting – like everyone else – what’s going to happen in 2016, let’s instead look out a few years and see how data and analytics might transform our lives and the lives of those around us. Probably a silly exercise, but a fun way to wrap up 2015 nonetheless.
My wellness band actually woke me up about 15 minutes before my alarm because it had used data about my sleep patterns to determine that I was ready to get up (it automatically turns off my alarm so that it doesn’t bother my wife). I slept well last night. I get a gold star. Yippee…
Interface Masters to Exhibit at @CloudExpo | #IoT #BigData #DevOps #Microservices
SYS-CON Events announced today that Interface Masters Technologies, a leading vendor in the network monitoring and high speed networking markets, will exhibit at the 18th International CloudExpo®, which will take place on June 7-9, 2016, at the Javits Center in New York City, New York, and the 19th International Cloud Expo, which will take place on November 1–3, 2016, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA.
Continuous Discussions from 2015 | @DevOpsSummit #DevOps #Microservices
We started our Continuous Discussions (#c9d9) video podcast in late 2014 as a way for the DevOps community to connect with each others – sharing experiences, lessons learned and tips – to accelerate our mutual success.Each #c9d9 episode focuses on a different topic relating to your software delivery process, and features different speakers from around the development and IT community. Every two weeks, we get together for a casual video chat (over Hangout) to share best practices – and war stories – relating to real-world examples of implementing Agile, DevOps and Continuous Delivery.
Customer Story: This Data Scientist Needs Statistica on Mac
The following post is a customer story submitted to our Advocacy program by Ken Reed. We are incredibly thankful to Ken for sharing his story with us and allowing us to share it with you! Read on for Ken’s experience choosing and using Parallels Desktop. Name: Ken Reed Geography: Irvine, California Industry: Education Role: Data Scientist Meet Ken: I’ve been using […]
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