For months now, Microsoft has been telling everyone about the pending update to Windows 10: the Creators Update. The release date has now been set, and it is April 11. If you wish to install the Windows 10 Creators Update in a brand new VM, you can do so now: an Installation ISO was […]
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“We’re a global managed hosting provider. Our core customer set is a U.S.-based customer that is looking to go global,” explained Adam Rogers, Managing Director at ANEXIA, in this SYS-CON.tv interview at 18th Cloud Expo, held June 7-9, 2016, at the Javits Center in New York City, NY.
I recently had a conversation with Jennifer Lent from TechTarget. She’s a respected thinker in our field and covers major trends. We spoke about the emergence of BizDevOps and its implications for businesses. We tackled a number of topics. She wrote about our conversation in a recent article, “BizDevOps: Here’s how to make it happen in your organization.”
Cybersecurity is a critical component of software development in many industries including medical devices. However, code is not always written to be robust or secure from the unknown or the unexpected. This gap can make medical devices susceptible to cybersecurity attacks ranging from compromised personal health information to life-sustaining treatment. In his session at @ThingsExpo, Clark Fortney, Software Engineer at Battelle, will discuss how programming oversight using key methods can increase the cybersecurity of medical device code to prevent weaknesses and vulnerabilities from being introduced into a device. These include automatic code scanners, runtime analysis, following coding standards, and binary analysis tools to monitor for unexpected behavior.
Snowflakes are beautiful, unique creations. But, let’s keep them in nature. They don’t belong in our server infrastructure. Snowflake servers, where every configuration is just a little different, can introduce unnecessary security vulnerabilities and complications. While common in IT infrastructure, in the DevOps realm, they are gradually becoming ancient history. At the recent All Day DevOps conference, Erlend Oftedal (@webtonull), with Blank and head of the OWASP Norway chapter, discussed the benefits of immutable infrastructure practices within serverless architectures. Erland walked us through the positive effects on security as well as offered insight on potential problems.
As your business grows, your technology requirements-and likely your physical footprint-will grow along with it. Improving infrastructure often means increased expenses due to additional physical data centers, expanded network capacity and improved server efficiency. Many organizations turn to the cloud as a less costly way to get better technology.
Whether you’ve already made the leap to the cloud or you’re still considering your options, you’re probably wondering how to control cloud-related costs and save money over the long haul. When it comes to doing business in the cloud, everything from data migration to resource sprawl can strain a business’s budget.
SYS-CON Events announced today that Anexia will exhibit at SYS-CON’s 18th International Cloud Expo®, which will take place on June 6-8, 2017, at the Javits Center in New York City, NY. Anexia offers high-quality customized managed hosting solutions for SaaS and IaaS companies. The company was founded in 2006 in Klagenfurt, Austria. Today, it has additional offices in Vienna, Graz, Munich, Cologne and New York City to serve numerous international customers. For more information, visit https://www.anexia-it.com.
My team embarked on building a data lake for our sales and marketing data to better understand customer journeys. This required building a hybrid data pipeline to connect our cloud CRM with the new Hadoop Data Lake. One challenge is that IT was not in a position to provide support until we proved value and marketing did not have the experience, so we embarked on the journey ourselves within the product marketing team for our line of business within Progress.
It’s a trend which has been monitored extensively over the past several months, and now another research firm has lent its weight to the theory: Microsoft Azure is gaining ground over Amazon Web Services (AWS) in cloud infrastructure.
451 Research, in its latest report, argues that Azure has emerged as the predominant primary infrastructure as a service (IaaS) provider in Europe, cited by 43% of the more than 700 respondents compared with 32% for AWS. Globally, the figure for AWS rises to 55%.
Yet digging further into the statistics adds a further layer of intrigue. For the first time in the survey, AWS fell behind other IaaS providers in terms of value for money – with Google topping the bill – and the ‘understands my business’ category, with IBM SoftLayer and Azure scoring higher.
Taking into account the two overall variables of promise and fulfilment (below), AWS still rules the roost with 76 for promise and 77 for fulfilment, ahead of Microsoft (74 and 73), Google (73 and 74) and IBM (72 and 70). The analysis also shows, as this publication has previously reported, how far ahead the four main players are ahead of the competition.
One aspect which could be considered, however, is around multi-cloud. According to 451’s Cloud Transformation Vendor Window study, 48% of AWS users are also using Azure, with 51% on Azure using AWS.
Melanie Posey, research vice president and lead analyst on the study, argues that organisations are not actively using both providers to support the same workload, such as compute in AWS and storage in Azure.
What companies are doing, however, is leveraging the two providers to host and support efforts in different regions, such as workloads being delivered from AWS to customers and end users in North America, but an app on Azure for European customers.
Last month, Microsoft published an extensive comparison guide between AWS and Azure services, going through the entire gamut from storage and compute, to Internet of Things (IoT) and mobile.
“As the leading public cloud platforms, Azure and AWS each offer businesses a broad and deep set of capabilities with global coverage. Yet many organisations choose to use both platforms together for greater choice and flexibility, as well as to spread their risk and dependencies with a multi-cloud approach,” the document explains. Posey, however, argues that despite the chummy opening, the guide’s real aim is to ‘translate’ AWS services into Azure, and showing organisations how to migrate from one to the other.
Elsewhere, almost four in five organisations polled said their IT environments required ‘moderate’ or ‘significant’ transformation to meet business requirements in the coming five years, while 22% of enterprises say they have adopted a ‘cloud-first’ approach.
Last month, a survey from Sumo Logic found that, of the 230 respondents from organisations with more than 500 employees, Azure (66%) outranked AWS (55%) in usage.
By now, every company in the world is on the lookout for the digital disruption that will threaten their existence. In study after study, executives believe that technology has either already disrupted their industry, is in the process of disrupting it or will disrupt it in the near future.
As a result, every organization is taking steps to prepare for or mitigate unforeseen disruptions. Yet in almost every industry, the disruption trend continues unabated.