A few weeks ago I was trying to update some files I have stored on a cloud storage service (that will remain nameless). I had moved my files there a while back as a way to make it easier to access them from my various devices and to avoid losing them during the next inevitable hard drive failure. For the most part I’ve been happy with the service, but on this day, I was unable to access the site.
Not good, as I was rushing to make some changes and send the files to a colleague.
Frustrated by my situation, I asked a co-worker to see if he was also having problems. He was, so we did the next logical thing you would expect. We went to the service provider’s status page to see what they had to say. According to it, the service was healthy and there were no current service or maintenance notices.
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Cloud Expo Silicon Valley: Encryption – Getting Peace of Mind in the Cloud
Security remains a high consideration for adoption of Cloud. Protection of data is at the center of a Cloud security strategy. Where the data is stored, how the data is secured, and who has access to the data? Encryption is one of the key technologies to address these concerns, securing data in the cloud, and to provide peace of mind to cloud adopters.
Like any other technology, no single solution fits all scenarios. Should you use full disk encryption, database encryption technologies or an encryption gateway? Is there a need to encrypt backup data? You have to address these and many other questions while planning for an encryption solution. There are many considerations related to transparency, usability, and ease of management. There are also issues related to who owns, manages and has access to encryption keys. On top of that, a solution that works well in an IaaS cloud may not work well in an SaaS environment.
IT Still Controls Most Cloud Usage: Cisco Survey
Cisco, like everybody else in IT, believes that cloud computing is central to the Internet of Things (the belief that everything with an on/off switch will eventually be wired or wirelessly connected and controlled by someone – or some thing – somewhere in the world). This isn’t a difficult concept to understand.
Naturally, all of this plays directly into the products and services that Cisco makes – all those switches, routers, random connectors, intelligent network software and so on – that link devices to systems to people and back again, according to an article on eWEEK.
Cisco estimated in an extensive research report, «The Impact of Cloud on IT Consumption Models,» that connections among people, processes, data and things will surge from 10 billion today to 50 billion by 2020.
WebRTC Summit | Interoperable WebRTC and Why It Is Important
There are many potential applications for WebRTC and for many interoperability is not a requirement. However, this does not mean that there is not a need for interoperability, particularly at the signaling level, for other applications.
Many people have dismissed interoperability as a consideration when using WebRTC – often due to the fact that their favored use cases do not require it (and in some cases are even hampered by it).
In his session at WebRTC Summit, Peter Dunkley, Technical Director at Crocodile RCS, will look at the other side and discuss the case for interoperability and explain how WebRTC can be used to enhance and extend existing services in a way provides benefits to service providers and their customers. He will conclude with a look at some of the open-source options available today for building interoperable WebRTC applications.
Cloud Expo | Platform Gravity: New Paradigm for Cloud-Based Enterprises
With the explosion of SaaS and reduced costs of changing applications, organizations have more freedom to choose between products and are no longer bound by the platform stickiness of traditional enterprise software. A new analogy – «platform gravity» – better describes today’s enterprise application market.
As apps vie for customers in the face of diminishing client lock-in, pricing, features, and ecosystems exclusively govern application traction – forcing vendors to innovate faster, listen better, and refocus efforts on users.
In his session at the 13th International Cloud Expo®, Patrick White, CEO at Synata, will discuss best practices for selecting and deploying applications in this world of endless choice and explore how developers can thrive in this new environment.
Enterprise Mobility and Network Centric Management Strategies
Some of the most technologically advanced organizations in the world today are utilizing strategies based on the concept of the Network Centric Organization. These strategies, methodologies and concepts are important for just about any organization that is geographically dispersed and requires the organization and management of remote and mobile workforces and assets.
The concept of the «network centric» organization relates to the fact that people, objects, events, activities, assets, inventories, locations, fleets, equipment, tools, etc, are all connected to the Internet (aka network), monitored, and most often visible on a map. All of these connected components are providing data in real-time that can be used to manage operations. This collected data is wirelessly sent to a central server where it forms a real time and unified view of operations that can be used for analysis, forecasting, resource allocation, planning and real time decision-making.
The concept of the «network centric» organization relates to the fact that people, objects, events, activities, assets, inventories, locations, fleets, equipment, tools, etc, are all connected to the Internet (aka network), monitored, and most often visible on a map. All of these connected components are providing data in real-time that can be used to manage operations. This collected data is wirelessly sent to a central server where it forms a real time and unified view of operations that can be used for analysis, forecasting, resource allocation, planning and real time decision-making.
Cloud Expo: Delivering Database as a Service with Oracle Database 12c
IT leaders are turning to the cloud to increase agility and reduce costs. During this session, learn how Oracle offers a complete Database as a Service (DBaaS) solution that delivers on a broad range of requirements including simplified database consolidation, mission-critical deployments and extreme scalability.
In his session at the 13th International Cloud Expo®, Willie Hardie, VP Database Product Management at Oracle, will discuss how the new multitenant architecture in Oracle Database 12c lends itself to providing DBaaS, and you’ll gain exposure to a number of customer case studies that demonstrate how delivering DBaaS is providing a superior service while lowering CapEx and OpEx costs.
Time To Join The DevOps Movement
CA Technologies says, “For DevOps to work correctly, it must be treated as a movement, not a market for a specific vendor’s products.” As Arlo Guthrie once sang, with three people it is an organization. But if we can find … Continue reading 
Cloud Expo Silicon Valley: New Cloud. New Rules
Your IT organization needs to support creativity and enable disruption through developing new products more quickly, and cutting free of old rules and rethinking business models. Cloud should be the answer… but in many cases it’s only the answer for certain types of workloads and applications due to performance, dependency, management and security challenges.
The cloud needs be so much more than it currently is for the next great wave of innovation to take off – we need a fundamentally better cloud.
In his General Session at the 13th International Cloud Expo®, Jim Anthony, VP of Sales Engineering at Verizon Terremark, will discuss the current challenges in cloud computing, the features needed in future cloud services, and Verizon’s next-generation platform that will deliver a new level of simplicity and performance with a new approach designed to make the cloud fast, predictable and cost-effective.
Is IDaaS a Trustworthy and Feasible Option?
Despite accusations against the gov’t of data harvesting and privacy invasion, IDaaS is a feasible and trustworthy option to maintain identity protection.
Conspiracy theorists and other concerned citizens will insist the government is watching every keystroke, keeping a record of every website, transaction, text and email. Shades of 1984’s Big Brother, right? These last few weeks, the news has been brimming with revelations of data surveillance and monitoring by the government (not to mention data harvesting corporations like Google, Yahoo, Facebook etc…). Everyone, including the security buffs at CloudAccess, is sensitive as to what is being looked at, stored, and analyzed for hazily defined purposes. Privacy is no longer as private as you think; and hasn’t been for many years.