Forward-thinking organizations realize that accelerating the speed with which they can deliver new applications and services is critical in making their enterprise more agile – and by extension delivering critical business competitiveness. In order to do so, they must break the cycle that holds many IT organizations captive. In many cases, development bemoans central IT for delays in provisioning development platforms, IT begrudges the Security and Audit teams for the processes and procedures that help create these delays, and these teams are in turn frustrated by the lack of compliance that results in unnecessary audit findings. In the process, Development is often seen as throwing the proverbial pig over the wall – sometimes with more lipstick than other times. When you add to this mix a healthy dose of firefighting and pressure from business units to innovate faster, it’s easy to see how this can become a downward spiral for organizations.
Monthly Archives: April 2013
Can Health Care Data Be Secure in the Cloud? (Infographic)
Health care organizations are moving infrastructure and data to the cloud at a fairly rapid pace. A recent study suggests the cloud computing market in health care is expected to reach $5.4 billion by 2017. Enticing as the cloud is, when dealing with highly sensitive and regulated information, it’s important to proceed with caution.
The good news for pharma companies, biotech firms and research hospitals – organizations most likely to move heavy big data payloads to the cloud- is that there are some security best practices that can protect data at rest in the cloud.
Choosing a Cloud Protection Gateway Provider
As the proliferation of the cloud continues, Cloud Protection Gateways are increasingly being discussed as a way to address security issues surrounding cloud adoption. Whatever stage of cloud adoption your organization is in, a thorough vetting of the different gateways available will be important to address key security issues, including data residency concerns, industry compliance and internal security best practices.
Cloud Protection Gateways will be an integral part of your cloud adoption strategy. These gateways are built to intercept sensitive data while it is still physically on the premise of an organization and replace it with a random tokenized or strongly encrypted value. This process renders the data meaningless should anyone attempt to hack the data while it’s in transit, being processed or stored in the cloud. Choosing a provider means trusting that provider’s technological capabilities and soundness.
Find Out Which Google Services Were Down Today
Seven Google services were down part of today. Take a look at the apps status dashboard for details. As of this writing the Admin Control Panel/API still shows a service outage symbol but the details indicate the problem has been resolved.
Cloud Expo New York: Using APIs for Better Business Partnerships
There’s no denying the opportunities that Open APIs and Business to Developer initiatives offer today, but for many businesses APIs are going to be a huge driver of business partner programs. Successful B2B API programs introduce a completely new set of requirements that go far beyond the capabilities of most API Management platforms.
In his session at the 12th International Cloud Expo, Alistair Farquharson, CTO of SOA Software, will discuss how a B2B API program can help drive your business, what the challenges are, and how to make sure you succeed. In this session you’ll learn:
The differences between Open APIs and B2B APIs
Security Concerns
Monitoring
QoS Management
How to plan, build and run APIs to enable business partners
How to selectively share your APIs with your partners’ developers
The API Distribution Market Is Due for Disruption
APIs are the coding interfaces that enable developers to create third-party apps, plug-ins, and add-ons that extend the functionality and potential of existing Software-as-a-Service products. Pedro’s comments reframe the entire API industry and, if pursued, would fundamentally alter the existing dynamics between developers and third-party app businesses.
“We’re now in a phase of market maturity and people are starting to realize that they need to be careful about what the API is exposing and what the end user will see around the SaaS product,” said Pedro after presenting at the API Strategy and Practice Conference, hosted by 3Scale and API Evangelist, and held in New York in late February, 2013.
Conversation with One of CloudNOW’s Top 10 Women: Lori MacVittie
F5 Sr. Technical Marketing Manager Lori MacVittie received CloudNOW’s prestigious Top 10 Women in Cloud award for her exceptional contributions to the cloud community. CloudNOW, an executive consortium of the leading women in cloud computing, presented the award during UBM Tech’s Cloud Connect—the premier technology event for cloud computing.
I’ve had the good fortune to have known and worked with Lori for almost 7 years and sat down with her to talk about cloud, convergence and application delivery.
Peter: First, Congratulations Lori on yet another award. If I remember correctly, this is the 2nd year in a row that your contributions, accomplishments, and thought leadership has been recognized by CloudNOW. How’d you get so smart?
Reflections on the Future of Platform as a Service (PaaS)
Cloud solutions are evolving rapidly with users eager to easily leverage the underlying infrastructure. Platform as a Service (PaaS) is one option that help developers meet their needs.
Typical cloud computing conferences feature a large contingent of pay-to-pay sponsors who are looking primarily for ROI from marketing budgets at these shows. It is always refreshing to attend a sponsored event where speakers focus instead on energetic presentations and panel discussions aimed at gaining clarity on evolving topics. Platform as a Service (PaaS) is one aspect of cloud computing that is still evolving but maturing quickly. Deploycon 2013 was a good sponsored workshop (held in conjunction with the Cloud Connect conference) to set the tone on the future of PaaS.
Alcatel-Lucent Enterprise expands its cloud vision
Brian Riggs, Principal Analyst, Enterprise
Through 2013 Alcatel-Lucent Enterprise (ALU-E) will roll out a set of solutions on which its partners can offer a range of hosted unified communications (UC) services. The company’s strategy is different to those of its competitors in that it will deliver separate solutions for enterprises and SMBs, as well as a set of application services.
These will be offered to operators, and also sold to value-added resellers and distributors that want to compete not only against telcos’ managed services but hosted services as well.
ALU-E’s hosted UC platform for enterprise-grade services became available earlier this year, with a handful of partners offering services based on it. The SMB platform and application service are in a less mature state; both are still in development, and no service provider partners are associated with them as yet. ALU-E is in a similar position to Avaya, which …
Impetus Technologies to Exhibit at Cloud Expo New York
SYS-CON Events announced today that Impetus Technologies, a Big Data thought leader and innovation-based software services company, will exhibit at 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.
Impetus operates on a global delivery model and has executed large-scale Big Data projects with vertical domain expertise in areas such as financial services, media, manufacturing, retail, healthcare, and telecom. Impetus’ experience extends across the Big Data ecosystem including Hadoop, NoSQL, NewSQL, MPP databases, machine learning, and visualization.