SYS-CON Events announced today that McAfee, a wholly owned subsidiary of Intel Corporation, has been named “Gold Sponsor” of SYS-CON’s 12th International Cloud Expo, which will take place on June 10–13, 2013, at the Javits Center in New York City, New York.
McAfee, a wholly owned subsidiary of Intel Corporation (NASDAQ:INTC), empowers businesses, the public sector, and home users to safely experience the benefits of the Internet. The company delivers proactive and proven security solutions and services for systems, networks, and mobile devices around the world. With its Security Connected strategy, innovative approach to hardware-enhanced security, and unique Global Threat Intelligence network, McAfee is relentlessly focused on keeping its customers safe.
Monthly Archives: February 2013
Cloud Expo New York Speaker Profile: Greg O’Connor – AppZero
With Cloud Expo New York | 12th Cloud Expo [June 10-13, 2013] hurtling towards us, let’s start to take a look at the distinguished individuals in our incredible Speaker Faculty for the technical and strategy sessions at the conference coming up June 10-13 at the Jacob Javits Center in New York City.
We have technical and strategy sessions for you all four days dealing with every nook and cranny of Cloud Computing and Big Data, but what of those who are presenting? Who are they, where do they work, what else have they written and/or said about the Cloud that is transforming the world of Enterprise IT, side by side with the exploding use of enterprise Big Data – processed in the Cloud – to drive value for businesses…?
AWS Launches OpsWorks
Amazon Web Services has launched AWS OpsWorks to help developers manage the complete application lifecycle.
The move recognizes that more and more applications are running in the cloud and that developers have been using third-party tools – perhaps at the expense of flexibility, control or custom tooling – at least that’s Amazon’s story – to manage resource provisioning, configuration management, deployment, monitoring and access control.
OpsWorks is supposed to automate things end-to-end so developers can orchestrate the tasks required to model, deploy, scale and maintain their applications.
It’s said to support a variety of application architectures and any software with a scripted installation.
Rackspace examines cloudy cost savings in new survey
Nearly nine in 10 companies agree that moving to the cloud has resulted in cost savings, according to a new survey from open cloud provider Rackspace.
The research looked at over 1300 US and UK-based companies, as well as conducting qualitative interviews with executives surveyed.
Of course, it’s not the biggest surprise that a cloud vendor is advocating companies moving to the cloud.
In a whitepaper illustrating the research, this was made abundantly clear in terms of what the survey had found. Cloud computing “saves money”, “helps increase competitiveness” and “offers exciting opportunities for businesses of all sizes”, according to the research.
Sounds good. But what statistics are in the report to back up this assertion?
88% of businesses using the cloud stated that they have saved money as a result, with three in five believing that cloud computing has improved infrastructure efficiency, enabling more time “to focus on …
SAML Finds Its Cloud Legs
Despite the slow descent into irrelevance of SOA and its core standards, several of its ancillary standards remain steadfastly alive and in some cases are growing in relevance. In particular, SAML is gaining steam thanks in large part to the explosive adoption of SaaS.
SAML (Security Assertion Markup Language), now on its second major version, was most commonly associated with efforts by the Liberty Alliance (long since defunct and absorbed into the Kantara Initiative) to federate authentication and authorization across the web. The “big deal” with SAML was that it was easily supported by the browser. Of course when it was introduced there were few services enterprises felt needed federation with corporate systems and thus despite the energy surrounding the project it was largely ineffective at producing the desired results.
SAML Finds Its Cloud Legs
Despite the slow descent into irrelevance of SOA and its core standards, several of its ancillary standards remain steadfastly alive and in some cases are growing in relevance. In particular, SAML is gaining steam thanks in large part to the explosive adoption of SaaS.
SAML (Security Assertion Markup Language), now on its second major version, was most commonly associated with efforts by the Liberty Alliance (long since defunct and absorbed into the Kantara Initiative) to federate authentication and authorization across the web. The “big deal” with SAML was that it was easily supported by the browser. Of course when it was introduced there were few services enterprises felt needed federation with corporate systems and thus despite the energy surrounding the project it was largely ineffective at producing the desired results.
Microsoft, Oracle, SAP: Demystifying cloud vendors
Cutting through the hype of cloud vendors starts by evaluating how ready their cloud services, enabling technologies and professional services are to serve customers today.
That’s one of the key take-aways from a recent webinar I attended titled How Cloud Computing Changes the Vendor Landscape by David Mitchell Smith, VP and Gartner Fellow last week. The slides are available for download here (Free for download after Gartner registration if you are not a Gartner client).
What made this webinar unique and worth mentioning is the framework that was presented for evaluating vendors. Beginning with the well-known Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS), Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) and Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) structure, Gartner added in a Business and Information Systems layer that includes brokerages, management and security.
This is the layer where Gartner says they are seeing enterprise clients most concentrate on emerging technologies.
The cloud vendor landscape is defined by cloud services, professional services for consumption …
AWS Launches OpsWorks
Amazon Web Services has launched AWS OpsWorks to help developers manage the complete application lifecycle.
The move recognizes that more and more applications are running in the cloud and that developers have been using third-party tools – perhaps at the expense of flexibility, control or custom tooling – at least that’s Amazon’s story – to manage resource provisioning, configuration management, deployment, monitoring and access control.
OpsWorks is supposed to automate things end-to-end so developers can orchestrate the tasks required to model, deploy, scale and maintain their applications.
It’s said to support a variety of application architectures and any software with a scripted installation.
Cloud Expo New York: Move to the Cloud and Modernize in One Step
Faced with migrating applications from Windows Server 2003 to Windows 2008 or 2012 when adopting the cloud?
In his session at the 12th International Cloud Expo, Greg O’Connor, President & CEO of AppZero, will demonstrate new “up-level OS” migration capabilities. This technology allows users to effortlessly move server applications from old operating systems to new ones as part of a cloud migration. With Windows Server 2003 end of life approaching, companies will be faced with moving large numbers of enterprise applications. See how you can modernize (OS up level) and transform (move to the cloud) at the same time.
Supporting CIO strategies and priorities from the cloud – Part 2
This is the second part of a two-part article entitled Supporting CIO Strategies and Priorities from the Cloud. In case you have not done so, READ PART 1.
However, to briefly recap: in support of a recent Gartner study that basically states that the function of the modern CIO is in flux and that his or her future focus must incorporate digital assets (aka cloud-based data and applications) to remain relevant, I have taken their listed priorities and illustrated how they could securely work in a cloud-centric model.
In last week’s entry, I make the case that this means the CIO must evolve from overseeing physical resources and installation and refocus on becoming a facilitator of strategic business goals through the means of digital acquisition and expansion. To this end I use cloud-based security as an example of how the technical and business priorities stated in the survey can …