Join Badgeville and guests Doug Palmer, Deloitte Consulting Principal and Brace Rennels, Director of Community Strategy at EMC for this upcoming webinar, where you will learn:
Key trends driving gamification strategies
Practical tips for designing gamification by audience type
Best practices for building long-term gamification solutions
Doug will share best practices learned from introducing gamification into some of the largest organizations around the world, including key challenges and barriers to overcome.
Brace will share his experiences on how a global technology company like EMC is currently leveraging gamification to drive sustainable engagement across its community, and what key techniques have contributed to its success.
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NCOIC/NGA Demonstrates Use of Cloud in Disaster Response
The NGA project began in late 2012 with Cycle One, during which the cloud infrastructure was defined and built. The NCOIC team established standards and processes, utilized best practices, and addressed potential problems such as ownership, bandwidth, latency, availability, access and security. Cycle One team members were:
SAP Workloads Moving to the Cloud
Targeting ERP workloads for optimization helps gain business benefits while adoption cloud technology.
With increased automation of business processes, enterprises are integrating closely with their customers and partners to transform into connected businesses. At the same time, social and mobile interactions are growing at an unprecedented rate, resulting in data storage growth and accompanying demands for analytics. In this new environment, businesses are faced with a significant growth in compute, storage and network infrastructure. Rather than just add more resources to their existing data centers, organizations are either optimizing their in-house resources or looking for external IT resources to fulfill their needs.
While optimizing IT resources, finding common workloads can provide a lot of benefits as standardization allows large gains due to better IT management. In a typical large organization, supporting Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) software constitutes a sizable portion of IT infrastructure. This makes ERP workloads an ideal target candidate to apply cloud techniques for optimization.
The HIPAA Final Rule and Staying Compliant in the Cloud
The HIPAA Omnibus Final Rule went into effect on March 26, 2013. In order to stay compliant, the date for fulfilling the new rules is September 23, 2013, except for companies operating under existing “business associate agreements (BAA),” may be allowed an extension until September 23, 2014.
As healthcare and patient data move to the cloud, HIPAA compliance issues follow. With many vendors, consultants, internal and external IT departments at work, the question of who is responsible for compliance comes up quite often. Not all organizations are equipped or experienced to meet the HIPAA compliance rules by themselves. Due to the nature of the data and the privacy rules of patients, it is important to secure the data correctly the first time.
Telx to Exhibit at Cloud Expo Silicon Valley
SYS-CON Events announced today that Telx, leading provider of global interconnectivity, cloud enablement services and 100% Uptime SLA data center facilities, will exhibit at SYS-CON’s 13th International Cloud Expo, which will take place on November 4–7, 2013, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA.
Telx is a leading provider of interconnection and data center services in strategic, high-demand North American markets. With 20 datacenters supported by 100% Uptime SLAs and 24 Hour Cross Connect guarantees, Telx increases speed to market and reduces connectivity costs by providing direct connections to a community of the industry’s highest performance networks and access to 1,100+ customers, including leading telecommunications carriers, ISPs, cloud providers, content providers and enterprises. Telx is a privately held company headquartered in New York City, servicing 13 US markets with six facilities across the New York / New Jersey Metro area, two facilities in Chicago, two facilities in Dallas, four facilities in California (Los Angeles, San Francisco, and two in Santa Clara), two Pacific Northwest facilities (Seattle and Portland), and facilities in Atlanta, Miami, Phoenix and Charlotte, N.C.
Growth of Cloud-based Mobile Platforms
This morning I was reviewing the preliminary results of my «State of Enterprise Mobility 2013» survey. Over 210 people have now completed it. Thank You!!!!! The results are very interesting and point to many changes in perceptions and preferences year-over-year. Stay tuned here for the complete and final results soon.
I was surprised to see that 34.7% of participants now prefer cloud-based mobile platforms. That is especially meaningful when you consider 23% don’t even use a mobile platform. If my math is right, 45% of those that use or want to use a mobile platform prefer a cloud-based platform. That is meaningful.
Is the Cloud Really Less Costly Than On-Premise?
To state the obvious, businesses of all sizes are moving their applications to the cloud or renting software as a service (SaaS) instead of licensing or buying the software outright.
The number one reason people cite is cost. Businesses large and small are under the impression they can save a bundle by moving their apps to the cloud. At the same time, companies who handle a move to the cloud badly can suffer a negative backlash from their user community.
When you consider all the cost factors, like your time, energy and risk to your business, will you save money in the long run by going with SaaS? The short answer is no.
One thing is clear: businesses will pay less up front for cloud vs. on-premise. Modern SaaS systems are rented on a pay-as-you-go basis, or might have short-term contracts. Average license fees for equivalent on-premise software range from two to three years’ worth of SaaS subscriptions. Add in 20% annual maintenance when you buy and install your own software and you are in concept paying three years’ worth of subscription revenues up front for the same tools.
Deep Insight and Collaboration in the Cloud: A Customer Story
Recently, one of our customers, let’s call him PointInFact, had a very typical problem. After deploying a new version of its software, some user requests degraded horribly. Requests that should have taken half a second took up to a minute. Interestingly, the PointInFact team runs a multi-tenant SaaS solution in the AWS Cloud and relies heavily on cloud services. This reliance makes User Experience Management and fault domain isolation very challenging.
Back Story: Application Running in the AWS Cloud
PointInFact runs a SaaS service. Internally this results in a multi-tenant service where each customer has his own instance of the application he subscribes to. All of these applications and services are hosted in Amazon’s EC2 Cloud where they dynamically create new application environments and offload some functionality to AWS by using the provided services. As a SaaS business, customer satisfaction is very important to them, as a consequence they monitor all applications and services centrally and from an end-user and server-side perspective with Compuware APM.
Transporting HIPAA Best Practices to the Cloud
The people assigned to rethink the role of cloud computing by those charged with HIPAA best practices management and security have a daunting task on their hands these days. There are many decisions that should be made, and not a lot of emerging information and best practices.
However, as more cloud providers hit the market, many are offering HIPAA-compliant cloud services. At least, that’s what they are selling. The trick is to arm yourself with enough information to make sure you make the right choices, and move in the right directions.
The most important best practice is to understand the existing requirements, and then understand how the emerging uses of cloud computing could provide compliant and secure HIPAA solutions. The good news is that this is not the first time we’ve dealt with HIPAA data outside of our own data centers; we’ve been working with managed services, hosting, and co-location providers for years.
NetIQ to Exhibit at Cloud Expo Silicon Valley
SYS-CON Events announced today that NetIQ, a global, enterprise software company, will exhibit at SYS-CON’s 13th International Cloud Expo, which will take place on November 4–7, 2013, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA.
NetIQ is a global, enterprise software company with a relentless focus on customer success. Our portfolio includes scalable, automated solutions for Identity, Security, Access, Governance, Systems and Application, Service, and Workload Management that help organizations securely deliver, measure and manage computing services across physical, virtual and cloud computing environments.