«ElasticBox is an enterprise company that makes it very easy for developers and IT ops to collaborate to develop, build and deploy applications on any cloud – private, public or hybrid,» stated Monish Sharma, VP of Customer Success at ElasticBox, in this SYS-CON.tv interview at DevOps Summit, held Nov 4–6, 2014, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA.
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BTMU Selects @VASCODataNews to Secure Online Banking Services [#Cloud]
VASCO Data Security International, Inc., announced on Wednesday that The Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ, Ltd. (BTMU) has implemented VASCO’s two-factor authentication solutions to protect retail banking customers accessing the bank’s online banking services.
DIGIPASS for Mobile for smartphones will be deployed as a one-time password (OTP) service to secure the bank’s «Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ Direct» retail banking service. VASCO’s VACMAN Controller, a large-scale authentication platform, will provide the verification engine for high volume authentication requests. DIGIPASS authenticators are being offered to customers free of charge.
‘Tiered Archive Appliance’ By @QuantumCorp | @CloudExpo [#Cloud]
More and more file-based and machine generated data is being created every day causing exponential data and content growth, and creating a management nightmare for IT managers.
What data centers really need to cope with this growth is a purpose-built tiered archive appliance that enables users to establish a single storage target for all of their applications – an appliance that will intelligently place and move data to and between storage tiers based on user-defined policies.
In her session at 15th Cloud Expo, Janae Lee, Senior Vice President of Strategy at Quantum, will discussed how VM applications can simply send user file data via NAS or HTTP to an intelligent storage target and user content will automatically route content to the appropriate archive tier(s) to deliver the desired mix of resiliency and access – whether it is private or hybrid cloud storage for broad access, or tape for less active long term protection.
She also discussed how this simplified blending of storage to enable protection and timely access to valuable data and content is the future of archive
What Are JavaScript Source Maps? By @Logentries
It’s generally a good practice to minify and combine your assets (JS & CSS) when deploying to production. This process reduces the size of your assets and dramatically improves your website’s load time.
Source maps create a map from these compressed asset files back to the source files.
This map allows you to debug and view the source code of your compressed assets, as if you were actually working with the originals.
Take a look at jQuery minified & combined code that was generated from the original. The code practically unreadable and would be difficult to debug.
But, as we all know, no matter how thoroughly you test, sometimes bugs fall will through the cracks. This is why it’s useful to debug Javascript code in production, and that’s when source maps come in handy.
Ten Tips for Facilitating a #DevOps Culture By @Rex_Morrow | @DevOpsSummit
“Culture” is nebulous and seemingly ephemeral, as it consists of a lot of touchy-feely sentiments which tend to be at odds with how engineers have trained themselves to think – rationally and logically.
DevOps is generally recognized as a means of driving better business outcomes via improvements in process, tools, and culture within the IT organization. Process is immediately recognizable – it’s the way you’re doing business today, and everyone involved can probably identify at least a couple of tweaks they believe would improve the process overall. Tooling is a bit more difficult, as to do it right you need to invest in tools which support your workflows, and if your process is broken or less than ideal today then selecting the right tool becomes much more complicated – the conventional wisdom is to first optimize your process and workflows, and then to select the right tool for the job. The third aspect, however, is much harder to nail down. “Culture” is nebulous and seemingly ephemeral, as it consists of a lot of touchy-feely sentiments which tend to be at odds with how engineers have trained themselves to think – rationally and logically.
Announcing @AppZero_Inc and @DellServices Deliver WS 2003 Migrations
AppZero, the fastest, most flexible way to move enterprise applications to the cloud, announced an alliance with Dell Services to help customers migrate off Windows Server 2003 before it reaches end of extended support on July 14, 2015. With extended support ending, many organizations are still either unaware of the coming end, or are struggling with legacy applications that still require the old architecture.
‘Internet of Things Moves into the Mainstream’ By @Autodesk | @ThingsExpo [#IoT]
The Internet of Things (IoT) is rapidly in the process of breaking from its heretofore relatively obscure enterprise applications (such as plant floor control and supply chain management) and going mainstream into the consumer space. More and more creative folks are interconnecting everyday products such as household items, mobile devices, appliances and cars, and unleashing new and imaginative scenarios. We are seeing a lot of excitement around applications in home automation, personal fitness, and in-car entertainment and this excitement will bleed into other areas. On the commercial side, more manufacturers will embed sensors in their products and connect them to the Internet to monitor their performance and offer pro-active maintenance services. As a result, engineers who know how to incorporate software and networking into their mechanical designs will become more in demand.
Cloud-Based Healthcare By @HarbingerSys | @CloudExpo [#Cloud]
Over the last few years the healthcare ecosystem has revolved around innovations in Electronic Health Record (HER) based systems. This evolution has helped us achieve much desired interoperability. Now the focus is shifting to other equally important aspects – scalability and performance. While applying cloud computing environments to the EHR systems, a special consideration needs to be given to the cloud enablement of Veterans Health Information Systems and Technology Architecture (VistA), i.e., the largest single medical system in the United States.
VistA is a collection of over 168 application packages/modules and is based on the client-server communication model operating on RPC broker. Moving VistA to a cloud platform is still in its infancy.
Infographic: DevOps Toolkit By @Logentries | @DevOpsSummit [#DevOps]
Over the past year I reckon I have spoken to more than a thousand Developers/IT Os/DevOps folk through customer calls, demos of Logentries, at conferences such as Velocity, DevOpsDays, AWS re:Invent as well as a bunch of other more low key meetups across US and Europe.
Naturally, one of the first questions I tend to ask is: “hey what do you use for logging?”
Quickly followed by: “What other tools do you use?”
How Green Data Centers Achieve Efficiency
Data centers have matured immensely over the past decade with today’s data centers being greener than ever. Pike Research mentions that the green data center market was worth $17.1 billion in 2012. The green data center economy is expected to grow rapidly throughout this decade. Pike Research estimates that the total market value for green data centers will increase to $45 billion by 2016.