If the leadership in your organization is mature and has a good track record – rest assured that a risk-mitigated decision to dabble in the public cloud is a vote of confidence in your direction.
It’s little more than innate human nature to strive to control the environment around us. From macro-level examples, including the very democratic foundation of our governments, to things we do every day; our desire to control is evident in all aspects of our lives. Have you ever lined up in the automated check-out line at the grocery store even though a «manned» (gasp!) cashier was available? You’re not alone.
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Cloud Expo New York: API Security, Does My Business Need an OAuth Server?
Many have heard of OAuth but are unsure of how it might apply to their business.
In his session at the 12th International Cloud Expo, Alistair Farquharson, CTO of SOA Software, will describe how OAuth can be used to facilitate certain business models and simplify the sharing of private data.
Alistair Farquharson is a visionary industry veteran focused on using disruptive technologies to drive business growth and improve efficiency and agility within organizations. As the CTO of SOA Software Alistair is helping to shape and mature the enterprise API and SOA industry. Alistair is responsible for product strategy and development for this leading Enterprise API and SOA Governance company. He spends a great deal of time and energy shaping customer and industry direction with regular conference keynote appearances, discussions with customers, and even the occasional foray into writing code. Alistair has been at the forefront of many technology waves from enterprise web architecture, through web services and SOA, and now into APIs. His expertise spans a wide range of technologies and businesses, and he brings a unique global focus to everything he does.
Retailers Turn Cloud Computing into Sales
It turns out cloud computing could be the most useful sales associate on the floor, and you won’t have to worry about it stealing sales leads, ala “Glengarry Glen Ross.”
With the help of cloud computing, some brick-and-mortar stores are combating showrooming, a trend where consumers look at items in a store before buying them online, usually at lower prices, according to an article on Wired.com.
Clouds offer retailers a way to explore the potential of Big Data analytics to understand their customers better. In order to compete with e-tailers, retailers are tapping social networks to learn what customers are saying about them and about their competitors. Weather data is being used to influence product-purchasing decisions, and merchandise promotions are organized around social events.
In many cases, brick-and-mortar retailers are even finding new data sources. Some companies are tracking the movement of customers within stores and analyzing how many stop at displays to improve the effectiveness of merchandising. Others are considering installing license-plate cameras in parking lots to find out which customer is about to walk into the store.
Cloud Expo New York | Enterprise Cloud: Five Dirty Little Secrets
You’re getting pitched every day from your legacy enterprise software and hardware vendors about «cloud.» They’re doing an amazing job of convincing your CIO and CTO about what cloud is and how you should use it. The reality is they’re defending their shrinking market share and keeping you on the legacy treadmill for as long as they can by selling you solutions that aren’t «cloud.»
In her session at the 12th International Cloud Expo, Niki Acosta, Cloud Evangelista for Rackspace, will talk through the five dirty little secrets your legacy IT vendors won’t tell you about cloud. Attendees will leave with an understanding of how you should really be thinking about building enterprise apps for the cloud while embracing the fundamental shift away from legacy IT.
Joyent Moves To Take On Amazon
Joyent, one of the original infrastructure clouds that set up about the same time as Amazon Web Services but without Amazon’s giant fallback cushion, restructured its cloud line Thursday, adding a bunch of new instances that pretty much map to Amazon’s.
It also introduced reserved pricing plans.
Cloud Success Tips from the Future
Imagine if you could take a time machine five years into the future, so that you would know which of today’s new technologies panned out and which did not.
Most companies have only started using cloud in the past two years. But there are some companies that have been using cloud for five years or more. They are “five years into the future” — they’ve learned things that companies that just…
Optimize Your Virtual Environment to Obtain Maximum Business Value
Everyone is virtualizing, but are they realizing any of the promised savings? This overview of IBM’s new virtualization optimization solutions will show you how integrated Cloud Solutions like SmartCloud Provisioning and SmartCloud Monitoring can deliver the savings virtualization promises.
Organizations are using intelligent management and analytics to provide the insight needed to optimize their virtualized infrastructure and dramatically improve availability, reduce data storage footprints and streamline patch management. In his session at 12th Cloud Expo | Cloud Expo New York [June 10-13], IBM’s Dan Carr will review lessons learned from real-world experience.
Juniper & Seagate Invest in Cloudscaling
Cloudscaling, the four-year old start-up that insists it’s got the most advanced OpenStack infrastructure system, has picked up a $10 million B round from Trinity Ventures and two new investors, new strategic partners Juniper Networks and Seagate.
It reportedly got a $4 million A round from Trinity in 2011.
In April Cloudscaling wheeled out its turnkey Open Cloud System (OCS) 2.5, which it integrated with Juniper’s virtual network control (VNC) technology, JunosV Contrail, signaling their partnership.
The two now plan other joint networking solutions that would support a new generation of cloud-aware enterprise workloads.
The Register thinks Juniper may wind up buying the company.
Cloudscaling also joined the Seagate Cloud Builder Alliance Partner program in April and, as part of the program, it and Seagate are focused on developing optimized storage solutions for OpenStack.
Is Free Encryption Worth It?
“The last time I checked, people do not change their social security numbers very often…”
While in constant debate over data encryption and ease of access, I encountered a train of thought that made my jaw drop. A tradeshow attendee suggested encrypting everything, but just use a weak algorithm; so as not to make it impossible to decode if needed in the future.
Before smirking and quoting statistics as truth, I stopped to ponder: was there any merit to the statement, what was the sensitivity level of the data, where was it being stored, who had access to it, what was the definition of a weak algorithm, was this archival data or was it accessed and changed often?
Through conversation, the premise was potentially plausible (with some big question marks), but the logic was still thoroughly flawed. Yes, the data was constantly changing and only updated records were being sent to branch offices via a public cloud file sharing service, but the data did contain personally identifiable information. The last time I checked, people do not change their social security numbers very often and data captured by an intruder will stay in its captured state.
BUMI to Exhibit at Cloud Expo New York
SYS-CON Events announced today that BUMI (Backup My Info!), the premium provider of managed online backup and recovery solutions for small to mid-sized businesses, will exhibit at SYS-CON’s 12th International Cloud Expo, which will take place on June 10–13, 2013, at the Javits Center in New York City, New York.
Manhattan-based BUMI (Backup My Info!) is a premium managed service provider specializing in online data backup and recovery. Founded in 2002, the company’s data backup and recovery service is utilized by more than 500 businesses while its partner program currently boasts over 40 active partners. BUMI clients include professional service organizations such as banking, financial, insurance, accounting, hedge funds and law firms. BUMI has won numerous awards including 2011 Customer Service Provider of the Year and 10 Best Companies to Work For (New York Enterprise Report), 2010 “16 Hot Companies Running Under the Radar” (eWeek), 2010 Windows IT Pro Editors’ Best and Community Choice Awards (Best Backup Software Product).