AppMesh, a year-old start-up begun by Salesforce veterans, says it’s the first mobile-only CRM app built for sales reps.
The company has no interest in managers – well, at least not yet – only the under-served sales pro.
AppMesh claims to have what it calls a “post-cloud architecture,” an eye-catching way of saying the user can sync data across mobile devices using whatever connectivity’s available but stores all of the info on the device itself, no cloud needed.
Anyway, the widgetry integrates contextual awareness into core phone, calendar and e-mail applications for a unified always-available view of customer data and interactions. In other word, it’ll set user priorities.
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Cloud Expo NY: The Answer to Data Scientist Scarcity Lies in Automation
If zettabytes of data exist, why is less than 1% of the world’s data being analyzed today? Seasoned entrepreneur and startup CEO Radhika Subramanian believes that the inability to analyze and gain value from Big Data is because organizations are taking a services-centered approach. As the title of the session implies, Subramanian believes that the data needs to do the talking, not armies of analysts searching and querying databases. Her company has developed high-speed, advanced algorithms to automate pattern detection for rapid, real-time discovery of the “unknown unknowns” in structured and unstructured data.
In their session at the 12th International Cloud Expo, Radhika Subramanian, CEO of Emcien, teams up with internationally renowned High-Performance Computing luminary Dr. David Bader to tackle Big Data’s biggest challenges. Together they will ask, “What if you didn’t have to analyze data at all?
Big Time – Introducing Hadoop on Azure
In the last couple of years Hadoop has become synonymous with Big Data. This framework is so vast and popular that Microsoft recently announced, for the first time in its history, that it is going to invest in this large-scale, open-source project as its solution for Big Data.
In his session at 12th Cloud Expo | Cloud Expo New York [June 10-13, 2013], delegates will be able to learn how Hadoop works on Windows Azure including an exploration of different storage options, e.g., AVS and S3, how Hadoop on Azure integrates with other cloud services, understanding key scenarios for Hadoop in the Microsoft ecosystem, and discovering Hadoop’s role in a cloud environment.
Cloud Expo New York: See Inside Your Cloud
Tools used by data center and cloud operations teams to manage infrastructure have zero visibility of network traffic in the public cloud or virtual network. And what you can’t see, you can’t manage or secure. A new approach is required to gain visibility to traffic in virtual networks, remote data centers or public cloud infrastructure.
In his session at the 12th International Cloud Expo, David Reoch, Senior Director of Cloud Solutions at Gigamon, will show new techniques that enable existing monitoring, analysis and security tools to gain pervasive visibility into the ever-expanding network fabric.
Healthcare Data on the Cloud – The Reality of Sensitive Information Online
The convenience, efficiency and cost benefits cloud computing offers organizations has made moving healthcare data and records to the cloud make sense for hospitals, physicians and other healthcare providers. Security and data breaches are a concern for any industry utilizing the cloud, but healthcare unfortunately seems to be particularly vulnerable to attacks. The Washington Post recently reported that The Department of Homeland Security is fearful that the health industry is “inviting” an attack with its out-of-date policies and lack of oversight.
A recent WIRED article discussed the current state of healthcare information in the cloud, including specifics on the vulnerabilities facing healthcare providers using cloud applications and why consumers should be concerned about their healthcare data being on the cloud.
According to the article, hackers are particularly interested in healthcare information because of its comparatively substantial dollar value. An individual’s medical identity can be worth as much as $50, a significant amount considering a social security number is worth just $1. With personal medical information in hand, thieves are able to commit medical identity theft by using someone else’s personal information to receive goods or services, potentially wreaking havoc on that person’s records and creating liabilities for service providers and increasing costs for everyone.
Cloud Expo NY | How Private Cloud Works in Real Life: Deployment Examples
Companies around the world are moving into on-premise private cloud environments. Many connect their private cloud to their public cloud service providers.
In his session at the 12th International Cloud Expo, Brian Patrick Donaghy, CEO of Appcore, will talk about examples of what worked, what failed and why we should think about this evolution. Questions covered will include:
Can you really move from virtualization into automated and orchestrated private cloud?
What are the benefits? Costs in money and time? Risks?
IBM to Present Opening Keynote at Cloud Expo New York
Our more interconnected planet is accelerating the adoption and convergence of next-generation architectures, in the form of cloud, mobile and instrumented physical assets. Organizations that can effectively balance optimization and innovation, will be in a position to leverage new systems of engagement, out maneuver their peers and achieve desired outcomes.
In his Opening Keynote at the 12th International Cloud Expo, Danny Sabbah, CTO and General Manager Next Generation Platform at IBM, will detail the critical architectural considerations and success factors organizations must internalize to successfully implement, optimize and innovate using next generation architectures.
Cloud, DevOps, and the Enterprise
The lack of emphasis on self-service Private Clouds is a telling indicator of the state of Cloud Computing (in particular, Infrastructure-as-a-Service, or IaaS) in the enterprise. If an enterprise IT shop were to truly implement a self-service Private Cloud, and actually got it to work properly, then the enterprise development teams would be able to manage the entire production environment for themselves. There’d be nothing left for the operational IT folks to do except make sure to replace bad hard drives and the like. No more server or network administration. No more break/fix. No more reason to get that healthy salary – or any salary at all, for that matter.
Six Steps to Get Started with Windows Azure Active Directory
Windows Azure Active Directory ( WAAD ), a cloud-friendly REST-based implementation of Active Directory for identity management of cloud applications, is now generally available for production cloud apps as a FREE service. WAAD provides consistent centralized identity management for Microsoft Office 365, Windows Intune and your own cloud-based applications. In addition, WAAD can be integrated with an on-premise Windows Server Active Directory via DirSync and Active Directory Federation Services ( ADFS ) gateway components.
In this article, I’ll provide a set of resources that you can use to get started exploring and leveraging Windows Azure Active Directory for your applications …
Navigating the Crowded Cloud Market
Cost, tech, service: Which do you value most in a cloud solution?
Whenever you go shopping there are usually a few factors that determine what you buy and what you pass up.
One is obviously money (though we all wish this wasn’t the case). Price can be a deciding factor, but often we will pay a little more for something if it offers measurable value.
Another factor is trust: Do you know what’s being sold? Do you trust who’s selling it? Can you trust that it will fulfill your needs?
The flipside of trust is often chance: Are you willing to take a chance on a new product that will hopefully deliver the same or better results than your tried-and-true choice?