More CEOs are setting bold IT innovation goals for their company. Meanwhile, CIOs are tasked to quickly build the required business technology infrastructure. What’s the primary motivation? The growing expectation that all leading organizations will achieve their key strategic business objectives via superior IT-enabled advancements.
In fact, a recent study found that 55 percent of survey respondents said their environment will be changed ‘significantly’ — 20 percent actually said it will be ‘completely transformed.’ Such major transformations can lead to significant competitive advantages, as long as the IT goals are clearly articulated, according to the findings from a Harvard Business Review (HBR) market study and associated report that was sponsored by Red Hat, Inc.
Container technology is sending shock waves through the world of cloud computing. Heralded as the ‘next big thing,’ containers provide software owners a consistent way to package their software and dependencies while infrastructure operators benefit from a standard way to deploy and run them. Containers present new challenges for tracking usage due to their dynamic nature. They can also be deployed to bare metal, virtual machines and various cloud platforms. How do software owners track the usage of their services for licensing and billing purposes?
In his session at 16th Cloud Expo, Delano Seymour, Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer
at 6fusion, will discuss how to meter and track your services using a consumption-based methodology that keeps pace with this cutting-edge technology.
Software Development Solution category in The 2015 American Business Awards, and will ultimately be a Gold, Silver, or Bronze Stevie® Award winner in the program. More than 3,300 nominations from organizations of all sizes and in virtually every industry were submitted this year for consideration.
«We are honored to be recognized as a leader in the software development industry by the Stevie Awards judges,» said Steve Brodie, CEO of Electric Cloud. «We introduced ElectricFlow and our Deploy application to bring a truly unified approach to software build, test and deployment. Having these capabilities within a single solution is an industry breakthrough, further underscored by the significant achievement of being named a finalist in the 2015 American Business Awards.»
No, this isn’t a tirade on the security of IoT. It’s about story about change. Specifically, change and its implications on security.
Change is constant. There’s a million different axioms and proverbs about change, so it’s really hard to choose just one to sum up how it impacts security. Inarguably it does. And right now there’s a lot of change going on that’s impacting security.
«Micro» movement like microservices and microsegmentation are dramatically changing perimeters and breaking apart traditional «edge» security into distributed pockets of security, each architected specifically for the application or architecture it’s protecting.