SYS-CON Media has launched WebRTC Journal on Ulitzer.com featuring over 160 original articles, news stories, features, and blog entries. WebRTC (Web Real-Time Communication) is an open source project supported by Google, Mozilla and Opera that aims to enable browser-to-browser applications for voice calling, video chat, and P2P file sharing without plugins. Its mission is “To enable rich, high quality, RTC applications to be developed in the browser via simple Javascript APIs and HTML5.”
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SYS-CON Announces WebRTC Summit November 6-7 Santa Clara Convention Center
SYS-CON Events announced today that the «First International WebRTC Summit» (@WebRTCSummit) will take place Nov 6-7, 2013, at the Santa Clara Convention Center, Santa Clara, CA.
WebRTC (Web Real-Time Communication) is an open source project supported by Google, Mozilla and Opera that aims to enable browser-to-browser applications for voice calling, video chat, and P2P file sharing without plugins. Its mission is “To enable rich, high quality, RTC applications to be developed in the browser via simple Javascript APIs and HTML5.”
A survey by TokBox found that the WebRTC adoption rate among small organizations is growing quickly where over 25% of developers say it is important for their work.
Cloud Expo Silicon Valley: Everything-as-a-Channel
Leverage your existing channels, and identify new ones to increase revenue…
In a recent Gartner report, Lisa Arthur of Forbes predicted that in five years the CMO will surpass the CIO in purchase authority for IT. As the SaaS business model continues to erode the authority of IT in the decision process of acquiring software and apps, opportunities to transform the channel are emerging all around us – platforms that have never been considered part of the traditional channel are being opportunistically recognized in developing new revenue streams and providing routes to market.
What Do All these SMAC Developments Mean?
I see digital transformation spinning off many different business trends and technology waves. Consumers want to consume media on mobile devices. This in turn drives tablet sales, as most media is easier to view on tablets. Tablets and other mobile devices encourage and promote the digitization of customer engagements and produce more data (code halos) that enables new business models to emerge based on a strategic use of big data analytics tied to marketing and commerce platforms.
The more data and commerce that flows through mobile devices, the more companies focus on mobile marketing and sales channels. I see no end to the popularity of mobile devices, so this trend is guaranteed to continue. The question for us now is how this will impact traditional sales and marketing channels and strategies.
Government Agencies Decoding Encryption – How to Keep Cloud Data Private
The latest reports surrounding the surveillance programs of the NSA and their International counterparts reveal that these agencies have been able to decode the encryption methods some enterprises and organizations use to keep their online data private.
While these headlines are likely disconcerting for those operating in the U.S. or using software applications from cloud providers, as stated in our recent press release and blog post, enterprises do not need to allow their fears to slow down or stop their cloud adoption.
More attention has been turning to tokenization recently as a strong approach to secure sensitive data. Tokenization, like encryption, encodes or conceals data so it is protected from unauthorized parties. But unlike encryption, in which a mathematical link back to the original data’s true form still exists; tokenization is unique in that it completely removes the original data from the systems in which the replacement tokens reside (in this case, the cloud itself). You can find out more information about tokenization on this resource page.
When implemented in its strongest fashion (a randomized token generation approach
IBM Wins Its Largest U.S. Cloud-Computing Contract
That’s one big check for Big Blue.
IBM won a federal cloud-computing contract with a maximum value of $1 billion, its largest such agreement with the U.S. government, according to an article on Bloomberg.com.
The Interior Department awarded similar, 10-year pacts to nine other suppliers, including Lockheed Martin Corp. (LMT), which also described the agreement as its largest federal cloud contract.
The deals might reach a combined $10 billion, allowing the agency to speed its efforts to move information to the cloud, a Web-based pool of shared resources such as data storage and software. Other U.S. departments may eventually tap the program.
The agreement shows that “IBM’s ability to help governments transform with new technologies, like cloud, continue to grow,” Michael Rowinski, a spokesman for the Armonk, New York-based company, said in an e-mail yesterday.
Cloud Expo Silicon Valley: Zero to Empire in 89 Days
In his session at the 13th International Cloud Expo®, Hollis Tibbetts, Director for Global Marketing Operations for Dell Software Group, will discuss how you can create a revenue generating machine with Social Media + Cloud in under 90 days.
Hollis Tibbetts is currently Director for Global Marketing Operations for Dell Software Group. He has established himself as a successful software marketing and technology expert. His various strategy, marketing and technology articles are read nearly 50,000 times a month.
Hollis has developed substantial expertise in middleware, SaaS, Cloud, data management and distributed application technologies, with over 20 years experience in marketing, technical, product management, product marketing and business development roles at leading companies in such as Pervasive, Aruna (acquired by Progress Software), Sybase (now SAP), webMethods (now Software AG), M7 Corporation (acquired by BEA/Oracle), OnDisplay (acquired by Vignette) and KIVA Software (acquired by Netscape). He has established himself as an industry expert, having authored a large number of technology white papers, as well as published media articles and book contributions.
I’m Not Scared of DevOps and You Shouldn’t Be Either
DevOps is speeding towards the IT world like a freight train and the hype around it is deafening. There is no reason to be afraid of this change as it is the natural reaction to the agile movement that revolutionized development just a few years ago. By definition, DevOps is the natural alignment of IT performance to business profitability. The relevance of this has yet to be quantified but it has been suggested that the route to the CEO’s chair will come from the IT leaders that successfully make the transition to a DevOps model. If this still seems foreign to you, I recommend reading up on DevOps Blog from IT Revolution, the OpsCode Blog, and check out The Phoenix Project.
Despite all the talk around simple monitoring tools, breaking through the walls between Dev and Ops still poses a real challenge. This is because of a misunderstanding around Operations real purpose – extracting real value from its resources. According to Kevin Behr the definition of Operations is the act of harvesting value from IT resources. Anything that prevents this from happening is a detriment to the business. This means that firefighting and war room sessions are a hindrance to the DevOps model. The following screenshots are good examples of a war room scenario.
Middle East Tech Leaders
The top half dozen Arabic Middle Eastern countries in our current rankings at the Tau Institute are Jordan, Morocco, Tunisia, UAE, Saudi Arabia, and Oman. The first three stand clearly ahead of the others, and also rank in the top half of the 102 countries we’ve ranked worldwide. Jordan actually outpaces the United States.
How can this latter statement be true? Jordan is a small, oil-poor, relatively undeveloped nation, with a per-person income level less than one-tenth that of the US. Its entire economy is about the size of that of Vermont, with overall prosperity on a par with Sri Lanka.
But relatively speaking, the Kingdom is doing well in comparison with its neighbors, and on a «pound-for-pound» basis against the wealthier nations of the world.
How We Do It
We integrate several technology and social factors into our algorithms — on the one hand including average bandwidth, access to broadband, number of dataservers, on the other hand including income disparity, perception of corruption, human development, and the local cost of living. This results in rankings that show how well the nations of the world are doing compared to what they already have, with the dynamic that the top performers will continue to outpace the laggards.
Our rankings also reflect a lot of time spent, by me and by our associates and advisors, living in the various corners of the world. They reflect how one can sense optimism in the streets of Jordan, despite tremendous challenges that are only being exacerbated by a flood of refugees from Syria, while sensing a pernicious, lingering pessimism in a United States that seems maddeningly glued to a downward trajectory.
There are similar real-world reflections in other parts of the world as well. Travel to Estonia (ranked #2 in our research) and you’ll find an exuberance lacking in, say, Italy (ranked #76), despite an income level in the latter country that’s still more than twice that of Estonia. Dynamic Poland (#14) and problematic Russia (#80) provide another contrast. There are literally thousands of such comparisons that can be drawn from our research.
We will another major update at Cloud Expo in Silicon Valley the week of November 4. We are also working on developing regional and city rankings, a massive undertaking for us that won’t be complete until sometime next year.
Tiny but Committed
Our Institute is small, headquartered on a former liberal-arts college campus in Northern Illinois, and in Metro Manila, Philippines. We are also committed unequivocally to peaceful means of solving all problems. This can be a difficult point of view to adhere to, but having seen enough violence on small scales and larger scales, I for one take the view that no further human progress is possible through violent means of any type.
I have recently been tweeting a lot and writing a bit about my loathing of NSA spying (which I consider a violent act in that it is purely intimidating), and my enormous reservations about the current march to war against Syria by the Obama Administration.
As a small example, I see the potential disruption this bellicosity will cause in Jordan, and of course it will do nothing but harm to Syria, which already ranks low in our research. We would also love to be able to dig more deeply into the technology infrastructures and potential of all of our Middle Eastern leaders, as well as the countries that lag. But violence (and its potential) puts the kibosh on that. Surely, there are ways to exert irresistible, non-violent pressure on the bad actors of the world without becoming a bad actor oneself.
I am happy to share more details of our research and debate our approach and point of view with anyone at anytime. Perhaps I’ll see you in Santa Clara, or elsewhere — just send me a tweet to engage.
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Cloud Expo Silicon Valley: Performance Is Not a Commodity
Performance is the intersection of power, agility, and control. If you value performance you don’t want to use an oversubscribed, commodity cloud as the cornerstone of your business.
In his general session at the 13th International Cloud Expo®, Nathan Day, Chief Scientist at SoftLayer, will discuss the features of a cloud that combine to create a truly performant environment.
Nathan Day is Chief Scientist at SoftLayer, where he is responsible for the design, creation, and implementation of the proprietary SoftLayer Infrastructure Management System (IMS). Prior to SoftLayer, he served as VP of Development at The Planet where he oversaw the back-end management system. Prior to joining The Planet, Day held the position as Senior Application Developer at Catalog.com. His employment history includes positions with Texas Instruments, MCI WorldCom, and the Jet Propulsion Laboratory. He brings extensive experience in product and software development. His skill set includes PHP, Cold Fusion, Perl, HTML, XML, C, C++, and Python. Mr. Day earned a BS in Aerospace Engineering and an MS in Aerospace Engineering from Texas A&M University.