SYS-CON Events announced today that ZapThink has been named “Media Sponsor” of SYS-CON’s 11th International Cloud Expo, which will take place on November 5–8, 2012, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA.
ZapThink, A Dovèl Technologies Company, is an advisory and training firm and master of Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Enterprise Architecture, and architectural approaches to Cloud Computing.
For more information, visit http://www.zapthink.com.
Cloud Expo 2012 Silicon Valley, November 5–8, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA, will feature technical sessions from a rock star conference faculty and the leading Cloud industry players in the world.
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Dropbox Supersizes
Dropbox has doubled the space in its existing $99-a-year Pro 50GB and $199-a-year 100GB cloud storage plans without raising prices and introduced a new $499-a-year 500GB plan.
It says it’s responding to user demand though it’s really more a matter of trying to keep up with the competition. Google Drive only costs $60 a year for 100GB and Microsoft’s SkyDrive is $50 a year for 107GB.
Current Dropbox Pro users have been automatically updated to the added space, and all new Pro users can sign up access the new 100GB, 200GB and 500GB plans.
Cloud Expo Silicon Valley: The Wiring Behind the Cloud
APIs are no longer a technical nice-to-have. Now APIs are a necessary business tool for startups to scale, much as Twitter and Facebook used theirs to reach more users.
In his session at the 11th International Cloud Expo, Adam DuVander is Executive Editor of ProgrammableWeb, will show that this is doubly true in the cloud. APIs are the wiring that connects the cloud to apps on tablets, smartphones or TVs. APIs can also speed up business development, even between startups and larger companies. With an API, business relationships become easier, because there’s a defined process waiting for a connection.
Application Security Is a Stack
On December 22, 1944 the German General von Lüttwitz sent an ultimatum to Gen. McAuliffe, whose forces (the Screaming Eagles, in case you were curious) were encircled in the city Bastogne. McAuliffe’s now famous reply was, “Nuts!” which so confounded the German general that it gave the 101st time to hold off the Germans reinforcements arrived four days later.
This little historical tidbit illustrates perfectly the issue with language, and how it can confuse two different groups of people who interpret even a simple word like “nuts” in different ways. In the case of information security, such a difference can have as profound an impact as that of McAuliffe’s famous reply.
Misconceptions or Business Realities?
IDC Canada recently published a study highlighting how IT security fears may be inhibiting Canadian enterprises’ business agility and competitiveness. IDC and TELUS Enterprise Cloud Study, 2012: Three Misconceptions Curb Competitiveness sheds light on the concerns of leading Canadian businesses reluctant to implement nontraditional IT delivery methods, including public cloud-based SaaS applications, despite evidence these solutions can improve productivity, efficiency, and adaptability. Based on IDC’s research, more than 85% of the Canadian enterprises surveyed have significant concerns about public cloud security.
Cleversafe Engineers a New Dispersed Compute Storage Solution with Hadoop
Cleversafe provides dispersed storage solutions that give infinite scale and cost-effective data storage/protection/access. Apache Hadoop and the CDH4 distribution provides all the required software for implementing MapReduce and the other chores associated with analysis over massive quantities of data. What if these two capabilities could be combined in a smart, well engineered way? The potential impact on […]
This post by BobGourley was first published at CTOvision.com.
Suddenly Social Oracle to Buy Involver
Oracle said Tuesday that it’s arranged to acquire privately held Involver and its social marketing platform on undisclosed terms for its Cloud Marketing Suite.
The deal should close this summer.
Involver claims its licensed platform “supports 700,000 brands and agencies who manage audiences of more than 1.6 billion fans and provides marketers with everything they need to create rich experiences across the social web.”
That apparently means folks like Toys “R” Us and MTV building Facebook and Twitter pages good across mobile devices and tablets.
Its widgetry includes Involver SML, a markup language for social media, Visual SML, a drag-and-drop interface, an Audience Management Platform for publishing, monitoring, measuring, and managing social media content across multiple social networks from a central dashboard and a couple of dozen lightweight apps built to help marketers engage their audiences across the social web.
The company is a Facebook Preferred Developer and a technology provider for Facebook’s internal marketing team that built campaigns for the World Cup and the US elections.
Oracle said in its announcement that it expects its combination with Involver “to create the most advanced and comprehensive cloud-based social platform across marketing, sales and service touchpoints.”
Involver’s SML technology is supposed “to extend Oracle’s social platform to help customers more easily and cost-effectively collaborate and build engaging applications and social experiences across their social campaigns and sites.”
Oracle is currently reviewing Involver’s roadmap to see where it can be exploited and expects to throw more money at it. The five-year-old start-up has gotten where it is on $11 million in venture financing. Oracle will pair Involver’s SML with Java and its Oracle Database services.
Oracle’s already picking up social monitoring from Collective Intellect and social analytics from Vitrue to compete with Salesforce, which is buying Buddy Media, and Microsoft, which is buying Yammer.
Oracle says, “Companies are looking to harness the full potential of social media to increase brand loyalty, connect with potential customers and anticipate buyers’ needs.”
The Six Battlefields Disrupting the Cloud Value Chain
As cloud computing matures and hype becomes reality, uptake among small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) and large enterprises is increasing. And although the cloud is still in its infancy, the Cisco Internet Business Solutions Group (IBSG) believes it is an appropriate time to ask: “How is the cloud value chain taking shape, and where are the battlefields I need to be concerned about?”
Five Benefits of a Storage Gateway in the Cloud
Admittedly, I’ve spent a great deal of time extolling the virtues of cloud storage and the reasons why a cloud storage gateway is the easiest way to add cloud storage into existing on-premise storage environments. But if you thought cloud storage gateways were only for on-premise environments, perhaps you may not realize that there are reasons to use gateways in the cloud as well.
CloudAccess Recognized for Technology Innovation
Los Angeles, CA, July 11, 2012 –(PR.com)– Security-as-a-service leader CloudAccess was selected as an Always Global 250 winner by the technology media watchdog AlwaysOn for its unique technology and entrepreneurial approach to the cloud-based security market.
Inclusion in the AlwaysOn Global 250 signifies leadership amongst its peers and game-changing approaches and technologies that are likely to disrupt existing markets and entrenched players in the Global Silicon Valley. CloudAccess was singled out for its contributions to the fast-developing security-as-a-service space, and also for its long term vision in changing the way companies perceive and practice IT asset protection.
“This honor goes beyond the recognition of our scalable, SIEM and identity and access management solutions. It acknowledges the paradigm shift for businesses and validates that enterprise security can safely, efficiently and cost-effectively be managed from the cloud. It is a great honor and I am extraordinarily proud to share this award with the whole CloudAccess team,” said CloudAccess CEO Kevin Nikkhoo.
CloudAccess was specially selected by the AlwaysOn editorial team and industry experts spanning the globe based on a set of five criteria: innovation, market potential, commercialization, stakeholder value, and media buzz.
“This year’s AlwaysOn Global 250 winners are driving the technology market into new, uncharted territory, representing the highest-growth opportunities we’ve seen in the private company marketplace in the history of the Global Silicon Valley,” says Tony Perkins, founder and editor of AlwaysOn.
The AlwaysOn Global 250 winners were selected from among thousands of domestic and international technology companies nominated by investors, bankers, journalists, and industry insiders. The AlwaysOn editorial team conducted a rigorous three-month selection process to finalize the 2012 list.
CloudAccess and the AlwaysOn Global 250 companies will be honored at AlwaysOn’s tenth annual Innovation Summit at the Computer History Museum on July 23th, 2012.
CloudAccess was recognized for its scalable cloud-based security model which provides comprehensive, integrated and cost-effective IT asset protection for such needs as SIEM, Log Management, Single Sign On, WebSSO, Identity Management and Access Management.
“We, as IT professionals, already accept and embrace different cloud-based options. We support dozens of applications in the cloud—some are even of enterprise scale and proprietary in nature. Security-as-a-service is just part of that evolution,” Nikkhoo said. “And CloudAccess is proud to be recognized as an innovator in that space.”
A full list of all the AlwaysOn Global 250 winners can be found on the AlwaysOn website at: http://www.aonetwork.com/AOStory/Announcing-2012-AlwaysOn-Global-250-Top…
For more information about the CloudAccess or security-as-a-service managed from the cloud, please contact CloudAccess at 877-550-2568 or visit the website www.cloudaccess.com or blog site at http://cloudaccesssecurity.wordpress.com/
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