Learn about the complex regulations surrounding HIPAA compliance and other considerations for running sensitive data in the Cloud.
In their session at the 12th International Cloud Expo, Ken Ziegler, CEO of Logicworks, and Frank Nydam, Director of Healthcare Solutions at VMware, will discuss the best practices for leveraging virtualization and cloud technologies without sacrificing security or compliance. Care providers, State and Federal entities, integrators and SaaS providers large and small will benefit from understanding the basics of protecting sensitive healthcare data, including PHI and EMR, in today’s fast-paced environment. The HIPAA Omnibus Rule and Business Associates Agreements (BAA) will also be covered in this important session for compliance-sensitive organizations.
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Achieving Scale and Performance in the Cloud
New breakthroughs in cloud-based data management empower databases with the necessary elasticity they need to be truly responsive to the ebbs and tides of supply and demand.
Cloud computing allows all capital assets – computing power, memory and storage for example – to be exchanged at the best price, giving everyone the best value for their money. Like any free market, it will only deliver its full benefits to buyers and sellers if the right conditions are available. There can be no barriers to entry, and assets in the cloud must be capable of free movement.
Unfortunately, the unsuitability of traditional relational database management systems (RDBMS) has created such a blockage. Their lack of elasticity or liquidity demobilizes computing resources. However, new developments in cloud database technology (like database bursting and hibernating functions) show how the database component can have the necessary fluidity to bring cloud-computing closer to ‘perfect market’ conditions and begin to deliver its full benefits.
Cloud Expo | IBM & OpenStack Together: Accelerating Cloud Adoption & ROI
Speed-to-market and improving ROI for new cloud services are an important element for adopting cloud computing. Open source technology translates into savings for clients in terms of flexibility and interoperability. OpenStack is leading the way in open source for IaaS, capturing the attention of the cloud customers, business partners and vendors alike, and producing the ubiquitous open source cloud computing platform for public and private clouds.
In his session at the 12th International Cloud Expo, Andrew Trossman, Distinguished Engineer, IBM Common Cloud Stack at IBM, will discuss IBM’s role in OpenStack including key contributions to strengthen OpenStack, ending with a wrap up of an overview of IBM’s plans for the adoption of OpenStack as part of the IBM SmartCloud portfolio.
Intel Buys Stonesoft for McAfee
Intel security unit McAfee, the semiconductor’s largest acquisition ever, is buying Stonesoft Oyi, a Finnish company founded in 1990 that’s got next-generation network firewalls. It’s paying $389 million cash.
That’s a 128% premium to the outfit’s closing price on May 3 or $5.90 (€4.5) a share.
Intel, which says it’s been looking for a better firewall solution and evasion-prevention widgetry for some time to ward off cyber-attacks, expects the market to be worth over $4 billion by 2016.
CEO Ilkka Hiidenheimo, who owns 16.3% of the company and will make $61.5 million on the deal, claims Stonesoft+McAfee will offer “a 360-degree solution.”
Certifiably Cloud: AWS Announces Accreditation
Are you AWS certified?
Last week several reporters, including Gathering Clouds friend in the field Barb Darrow, analyzed Amazon’s recent announcement of its cloud certification program. Widely seen as a positive move for the company, the announcement does raise some questions.
While the practice of certification is well established, AWS’ announcement is of particular note, as it both solidifies the company from the perspective of it’s platform and tools becoming trainable skills (and therefore more applicable to enterprise standards of usage) and positions the service as becoming far more self-supporting (since it will require those specific trainable skills). If we thought AWS was a sticky service before (in terms of its proprietary functionalities, third party tool sets, and APIs, this move certainly makes that notion even clearer.
VMware: Hybrid Cloud Leader?
As Amazon (AMZN) continues with its amazing public cloud momentum, Palo Alto-based VMware (VMW) has stepped up its efforts to educate the industry about an even more powerful and disruptive form of cloud computing, called hybrid cloud. According to VMware, hybrid cloud promises to be an upcoming disruption in how applications and services are delivered […]
Adobe Abandons Shrinkwrap for the Cloud
Adobe Monday became the first major software house to dump traditional
shrinkwrapped software for cloud subscriptions.
Others like Microsoft have a foot in both camps. Adobe says it’s going
100% cloud. The announcement was made at the Adobe MAX conference,
Lunch Keynote at Cloud Expo | Strategies for App Delivery in the Cloud Era
Cloud computing continues to gain momentum as enterprises of all sizes and across all industries seek to harness the business agility promised by this computing model. Despite its long-accepted benefits, the cloud has also fallen victim to performance and reliability challenges, combined with a perceived lack of security. As a result this has led to slower predicted growth and adoption of this still promising infrastructure methodology.
In his Lunch Keynote at the 12th International Cloud Expo, Neil Cohen, Akamai’s Vice President of Global Product Marketing, will discuss how to overcome these challenges, and the role application delivery solutions play in optimizing public and hybrid cloud architectures without sacrificing performance, security or control.
Is Windows Server 2003 EOL a Mini Y2K Event for the Enterprise?
A mini Y2K event for applications stranded on those old, obsolete servers. The challenge is clear. EOL means no more patches and security vulnerabilities increase on a daily basis. For those wishing to keep their machines running, this is a situation that requires action..
There are things in life that are just painful — Doing dishes, paying taxes, going to the dentist, and upgrading software. One of the most painful IT lifecycle events is upgrading from an older version of an operating system (OS) to a newer one. In fact, there are 10s of millions of servers still running Windows Server 2003, hosting applications that run important functions. The problem is that Window Server 2003 is about to lose support from Microsoft (end of life (EOL)) leaving many with a really difficult choice. Upgrade or face escalating risk of security holes being exploited without any patches or support. Holy strawberries Batman, we’re in a jam.
Cloud Expo New York: Why Hybrid Cloud Is Necessary
Server virtualization was just the beginning of the journey to IT-as-a-Service. Businesses today are looking for on-demand access to cloud resources by extending beyond their data centers without sacrificing performance, agility and security. They want to maximize their existing investments in technology, people and processes while still providing their users access to the support, applications and device choices they demand.
In his session at the 12th International Cloud Expo, Mathew Lodge, VP of VMware’s Cloud Services group, will tackle the transition from building a traditional private cloud to seamless access and utilization of a customized hybrid cloud environment, creating a borderless data center with limitless resources for IT, developers and their users.