Apache Hadoop is emerging as a distributed platform for handling large and fast incoming streams of data. Predictive maintenance, supply chain optimization, and Internet-of-Things analysis are examples where Hadoop provides the scalable storage, processing, and analytics platform to gain meaningful insights from granular data that is typically only valuable from a large-scale, aggregate view. One architecture useful for capturing and analyzing streaming data is the Lambda Architecture, representing a model of how to analyze real-time and historical data together.

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Subscription business models are fast proving to be the best thing ever for businesses. Recurring revenues that come in day after day, week after week are a boon to business and while the perpetual licensing software sales model has done wonders for the industry so far, the question is how well planned is the subscription economy?
Some of the names that already forayed into this include names such as Adobe, which after much criticism still went ahead with its Cloud Subscription Suite. Primarily driven by memberships and subscription plans, the Adobe Creative Cloud is a great example of a trailblazer company that is forward-looking. There are many others following suit, such as Autodesk, that has transformed their offering in a fully cloud-based model available on a subscription basis. There are hundreds of more examples.

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The Internet of Things. Cloud. Big Data. Real-Time Analytics. To those who do not quite understand what these phrases mean (and let’s be honest, that’s likely to be a large portion of the world), words like “IoT” and “Big Data” are just buzzwords. The truth is, the Internet of Things encompasses much more than jargon and predictions of connected devices. According to Parker Trewin, Senior Director of Content and Communications of Aria Systems, “IoT is big news because it ups the ante: Reach out and touch somebody is becoming reach out and touch everything.” In my previous blog, we talked about absolutely everything from cars and houses to your family members will be connected to the internet. However, revenue projections involved in those applications are left in the hands of consumer adopters, and if you want to keep up with IoT on an enterprise level then you have to step up your game. We’re not talking about your toaster tweeting that your toast is ready; we’re talking about billions of dollars on the table, and if you don’t take it then someone else will.

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Carl Bradley, U.S. Navy (Ret.), is a Cyber Security Consultant, Information Assurance & IT Security Consulting & Intelligence Strategy, HP Enterprise Services, U.S. Public Sector.
SecuritySolutionsWatch.com: Thank you for joining us today, Carl. Before discussing HP Enterprise Security Consulting Services in greater detail, please tell us about your background.
Carl Bradley: It’s my pleasure to be with you today. Before coming to HP Enterprise Services, U.S. Public Sector Consulting and Intelligence, I served in the Intelligence Community for more than 20 years as a Naval Intelligence Officer. I had the opportunity to be on the ground floor, helping to draft Department of Defense (DoD) cybersecurity defense techniques, policies, and designing technical capabilities to defend against vulnerabilities and nation-state and non-nation state advanced persistent threats. Since joining the private sector for the last seven years, I’ve focused my efforts around cybersecurity, cloud computing and systems engineering disciplines for the Intelligence Community, DoD and other federal and commercial clients.

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IndependenceIT has announced general availability of its latest generation Cloud Workspace® Suite software featuring enhanced capabilities. New features include universal and fully automated RemoteApp server role deployment and configuration; multi-application delivery with Microsoft RemoteApp; RemoteApp data layer and corporate shared file structure access, and fully automated RemoteApp application collection entitlements for end users.

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Sumo Logic has announced comprehensive analytics capabilities for organizations embracing DevOps practices, microservices architectures and containers to build applications. As application architectures evolve toward microservices, containers continue to gain traction for providing the ideal environment to build, deploy and operate these applications across distributed systems. The volume and complexity of data generated by these environments make monitoring and troubleshooting an enormous challenge for development and operations teams. The Sumo Logic Collector and Application for Docker now allow DevOps teams to easily collect any data from the Docker infrastructure and the applications running within the container to quickly identify and resolve critical issues.

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«Vicom Computer Services is a service provider and a value-added reseller and we provide technology solutions, infrastructure solutions, security and management services solutions,» stated Amitava Das, Chief Technology Officer at Vicom Computer Services, in this SYS-CON.tv interview at 16th Cloud Expo, held June 9-11, 2015, at the Javits Center in New York City.

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Analysts predict that 268 billion mobile apps will be downloaded by 2017, further evidence that mobile apps have become the most diverse and broadly adopted software in existence. To thrive in this new reality, developing and delivering applications that drive superior user experiences and engage your customers and staff is the new business imperative. Examples of this new cloud-centric, mobile-first application economy are everywhere, and they are radically changing the world of business.
In entertainment, applications like Netflix and Hulu have already transformed video delivery, and are becoming the new standards. In the payments sector, applications like Google Wallet and PayPal are challenging the dominance of traditional banks and credit cards. In transportation, software-driven services like Uber and Lyft are rewriting both the back office and customer experience world of taxi and limo services.

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The Software Defined Data Center (SDDC), which enables organizations to seamlessly run in a hybrid cloud model (public + private cloud), is here to stay. IDC estimates that the software-defined networking market will be valued at $3.7 billion by 2016.
Security is a key component and benefit of the SDDC, and offers an opportunity to build security ‘from the ground up’ and weave it into the environment from day one.
In his session at 16th Cloud Expo, Reuven Harrison, CTO and Co-Founder of Tufin, will discuss the main security considerations enterprises face when rolling out SDDCs and how they can harness key functionality of a virtual environment to achieve more granular security controls across hybrid environments.

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Yes, you read that right. The price/performance of your cloud computing infrastructure could vary as much as 1000 percent depending on time and location. High levels of variability have actually been seen within the same cloud service provider (CSP) processing the exact same job. This also means that the cost to you of processing the exact same job in the cloud could vary by this much as well.
This surprising result was discovered by a Rice University group, headed by Dr. T. S. Eugene Ng, that has been focusing on cloud computing. Recently they published their joint work with Purdue University: Application-Specific Configuration Selection in the Cloud: Impact of Provider Policy and Potential of Systematic Testing, in the IEEE INFOCOM 2015 Conference Proceedings. That paper took a first step towards understanding the impact of cloud service provider policy and tackling the complexity of selecting configurations that can best meet the price and performance requirements of applications. That work resulted in a collaboration between Rice University and Burstorm, a developer of computer aided design (CAD) software specifically built to support cloud computing architects.

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