“By bringing OAuth to enterprise identity and access management systems, we are revolutionizing the way that businesses secure the integration of enterprise, partner and external applications,” said Alistair Farquharson, CTO at SOA Software, SOA Software, as his company today announced SOA Software OAuth Server, described by SOA Software as “the industry’s first comprehensive OAuth solution for the enterprise.”

“Enterprises can use the SOA Software OAuth Server to allow their users to approve mobile, web, and desktop applications to act on their behalf and securely share private data, without the need for legally complex, risky and heavyweight mechanisms,” Farquharson added.

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“By bringing OAuth to enterprise identity and access management systems, we are revolutionizing the way that businesses secure the integration of enterprise, partner and external applications,” said Alistair Farquharson, CTO at SOA Software, SOA Software, as his company today announced SOA Software OAuth Server, described by SOA Software as “the industry’s first comprehensive OAuth solution for the enterprise.”

“Enterprises can use the SOA Software OAuth Server to allow their users to approve mobile, web, and desktop applications to act on their behalf and securely share private data, without the need for legally complex, risky and heavyweight mechanisms,” Farquharson added.

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Israeli-based Newvem, a start-up cloud operation analytics service, can do triage, so to speak, on anybody’s Amazon installation, pinpointing where the user or corporation of any size may be losing money by using the widgetry incorrectly or over-provisioning with resources that are too big for the job.
A user can stay up-to-date in real-time with what he’s spending on Amazon compute or storage, and find out precisely what resources are being deployed or where his governance is going awry.
From what it’s seen so far, the company estimates that 50% of Amazon users have security issues, 30% run an outage risk and 15% under-utilization problems.
Since Newvem started offering a free beta of its just released Amazon Cloud Care healthcare service eight months ago, its top 25 customers, mostly large accounts, have upped their use of the Amazon cloud anywhere from 3x to a whopping 70x.

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“Next-generation security must be built on automated and actionable intelligence that can be quickly shared to meet the demands of modern and evolving networks,” said Nawaf Bitar, senior vice president and general manager, Security Business Unit, Juniper Networks, as Juniper today unveiled its next-generation security products for protecting data center environments, fortified by the Junos Spotlight Secure a global attacker intelligence service

“This is only possible if you are able to collect definitive information about attackers,” Bitar continued. “Junos Spotlight Secure provides the platform to deliver advanced intelligence with device-level attacker tracking. This integrated approach improves security intelligence, provides collective defense against attackers and delivers true defense in-depth for the data center,” he added.

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IaaS, PaaS and SaaS, like many other acronyms in the IT industry, leave us lost in translation. With the initial confusion aside, they simply explain the three main developments in cloud computing. As a pooled collection of resources and services that are hosted on the Internet, the Cloud, often referred to as a stack, is categorized into three main service models: Infrastructure, Platform and Software as a Service translate to IaaS, PaaS and SaaS, respectively.
These services function thanks to virtualization, with the availability of high-speed networks and capabilities of modern browsers. With the use of these technologies, it has become less necessary for businesses to have their own infrastructure or software. Yet still IaaS, PaaS and SaaS remain a grey area, and many individuals struggle to differentiate between them to find the optimum solution for their business.

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“Next-generation security must be built on automated and actionable intelligence that can be quickly shared to meet the demands of modern and evolving networks,” said Nawaf Bitar, senior vice president and general manager, Security Business Unit, Juniper Networks, as Juniper today unveiled its next-generation security products for protecting data center environments, fortified by the Junos Spotlight Secure a global attacker intelligence service

“This is only possible if you are able to collect definitive information about attackers,” Bitar continued. “Junos Spotlight Secure provides the platform to deliver advanced intelligence with device-level attacker tracking. This integrated approach improves security intelligence, provides collective defense against attackers and delivers true defense in-depth for the data center,” he added.

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The bloviations of a wacko CEO in the US against French workers provided some comic fodder this week. Making fun of the French is a bit of a national sport in the US, and the expected barbed retorts have come back from France this week.

More seriously, the “dirigiste” approach to government taken by France’s Fifth Republic since its founding in 1958 can seem to many Americans to be an impediment to economic and societal growth. But the less varnished, ostensible free-market approach taken by the US can seem barbaric to our European friends.

Indeed, France trails several of its neighbors in our rankings at the Tau Institute. We weigh several technology factors (such as bandwidth and Internet access) into our Tau Index, along with societal factors (such as corruption and human development), and integrate all this with the local cost-of-living.

The Netherlands emerges on top in Western Europe. Several Scandinavian and Baltic countries, as well as the UK and Germany, also fare better than France in our rankings.

Yet the US does no better than France. The two countries are in a virtual statistical dead heat, ranking barely in the Top 40 among the 102 countries we survey. Clearly, France could be doing better. Just as clearly, the US could as well.

Our rankings do not account for the type of government in power. The hardline Communists of Vietnam have propelled their country to near the top of our rankings, as have the egalitarian democrats of Finland and the Netherlands,

We don’t profess to say that one country’s government is better than anothers. Neither do we make hard predictions of how a high ranking may directly improve a nation’s economic and societal growth. We do, however, measure dynamism – technology can be disruptive, even as it’s a major driver of global change and development.

Among the more dynamic places we’ve ranked highly over the past two years are Egypt and Tunisia – and Vietnam. Today, the most dynamic regions we’ve found are Eastern Europe, Southeast Asia, and in terms of raw potential, Eastern Africa. The US and France are equally undynamic, even as Silicon Valley remains a great technology inventor and France remains the second-strongest economy in Europe.

But we can’t forget that Canada outpaces the US in North America, and several countries outpace France in Europe. So I say “Vive la France” and “God bless America” – and both of you get your act together when it comes to IT. The world will pass you both by as you continue your lengthy pissing match.

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The bloviations of a wacko CEO in the US against French workers provided some comic fodder this week. Making fun of the French is a bit of a national sport in the US, and the expected barbed retorts have come back from France this week.

More seriously, the “dirigiste” approach to government taken by France’s Fifth Republic since its founding in 1958 can seem to many Americans to be an impediment to economic and societal growth. But the less varnished, ostensible free-market approach taken by the US can seem barbaric to our European friends.

Indeed, France trails several of its neighbors in our rankings at the Tau Institute. We weigh several technology factors (such as bandwidth and Internet access) into our Tau Index, along with societal factors (such as corruption and human development), and integrate all this with the local cost-of-living.

The Netherlands emerges on top in Western Europe. Several Scandinavian and Baltic countries, as well as the UK and Germany, also fare better than France in our rankings.

Yet the US does no better than France. The two countries are in a virtual statistical dead heat, ranking barely in the Top 40 among the 102 countries we survey. Clearly, France could be doing better. Just as clearly, the US could as well.

Our rankings do not account for the type of government in power. The hardline Communists of Vietnam have propelled their country to near the top of our rankings, as have the egalitarian democrats of Finland and the Netherlands,

We don’t profess to say that one country’s government is better than anothers. Neither do we make hard predictions of how a high ranking may directly improve a nation’s economic and societal growth. We do, however, measure dynamism – technology can be disruptive, even as it’s a major driver of global change and development.

Among the more dynamic places we’ve ranked highly over the past two years are Egypt and Tunisia – and Vietnam. Today, the most dynamic regions we’ve found are Eastern Europe, Southeast Asia, and in terms of raw potential, Eastern Africa. The US and France are equally undynamic, even as Silicon Valley remains a great technology inventor and France remains the second-strongest economy in Europe.

But we can’t forget that Canada outpaces the US in North America, and several countries outpace France in Europe. So I say “Vive la France” and “God bless America” – and both of you get your act together when it comes to IT. The world will pass you both by as you continue your lengthy pissing match.

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Thereʼs a popular childrenʼs book called Whereʼs Waldo, in which the lead character – with his signature red-and-white striped shirt and somewhat goofy expression – is obscured by various collections of people and things. Heʼs hidden, but in plain sight (if youʼll excuse the oxymoron) and itʼs the young readerʼs task to locate him in every illustration. By the end of the book, children become adept at locating the enigmatic Waldo in a glance.
We can only hope that this instructional parable reminds us of how sometimes the simplest truth can be obstructed by our need to make things complex. And so it is with the new world of work. If you want to know where the jobs are, hereʼs a hint: Theyʼre in plain sight.
You might call this new, adult game Whereʼs the Work. And the stakes couldnʼt be higher.

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In his session at the 12th International Cloud Expo, Richard Taggart, CTO of SHI, will share a collection of best Information Technology Practices and Innovation Programs that have been proven to work in real life situations. These practices are some of the best ideas taken from SHI’s database of customer submissions. These programs include those designed to solve business to technology alignment issues, technology effectiveness, and new ways to stimulate true innovation in IT. Taggart is the former SVP and Corporate CIO of the Walt Disney Company.
Rich Taggart is CTO at SHI. He has over 25 years of experience in a variety of roles in IT and management. Prior to joining SHI, he was the Senior Vice President and Corporate CIO at the Walt Disney Company in Burbank, California. In this role, he was responsible for support of the Disney Corporate organization which included brand management, finance, human resources, legal, and other corporate functions and for support of departmental and global shared services applications.

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