Electronic signatures are an important component of any web application. They make it possible to keep business processes online even when a signature is required on a contract, form or application. If you are interested in learning how to quickly integrate e-signatures into your cloud applications, this webinar is for you. Mauro Franco, Business Analyst, will demonstrate how to use e-SignLive’s REST API and SDKs to enable end-to-end electronic business processes.
Monthly Archives: June 2014
Cloud Environment Can Enable Fast, Secure Collaboration Among Industries
Cyber-secure cloud computing can help both businesses and governments improve their ability to collaborate with non-traditional partners so they can quickly and cost-effectively tackle complex problems. That’s the message Kevin Jackson of the Network Centric Operations Industry Consortium will deliver to world technology leaders this month.
Jackson is scheduled to present an open process developed by NCOIC to facilitate cross-domain interoperability and secure information sharing among different systems and users at Cloud Expoin New York on June 10 and at the World Congress of Cloud Computing in Dalian, China on June 20.
The Cloud Goes to Washington: Does It Matter Where Your Data Is?
Has Washington finally caught on to the cloud? As a “borderless technology,” cloud computing is subject to the laws and regulations of many different countries – some more than others. The American legal and regulatory system has recently been paying more attention to cloud computing, so as a result new laws and regulatory regimes may be on the horizon. In order to make good business decisions, it is important to understand where the legal and regulatory environment is headed and how possible changes might affect cloud computing deployment, adoption, and usage. What is the Supreme Court case The American Broadcasting Companies v. Aereo really about and how is it related to cloud computing? What exactly is the FCC doing about Net Neutrality and should the cloud computing industry and enterprises that use cloud be concerned? What new measures are law makers taking to address privacy and security concerns in the cloud? What other cloud-related issues are the executive and legislative branch concerned about?
SoftLayer’s Jonathan Wisler: IBM partnership “phenomenal”
SoftLayer has announced the opening of a Hong Kong data centre, with Jonathan Wisler, EMEA managing director at SoftLayer, saying the company’s partnership with IBM continues to accelerate.
The infrastructure as a service provider opened up in Hong Kong on Monday, with further plans to expand in London later this year – as Salesforce.com did last week – as well as expansion in Europe, South America, Latin America and Asia.
Wisler notes that ‘performance, network and data privacy laws’ form the reason behind the move.
“We’re building out these data centres based on customer demand,” he tells CloudTech. “It gets you closer to the end user, it makes it more of a high performance delivery platform, so in addition to the hosting we provide we’re also a very large network provider so with our service you get hosting plus network, and we manage that network.
“Building out data …
Misconceptions Around App Testing in the Private Cloud
The private cloud is misunderstood. At this stage, vendors can be forgiven for not having a firm idea of what the private cloud is and how it can uniquely improve their processes. Too many service providers have branded legacy technologies as “cloud-based,” warping buyers’ expectations about what a private cloud actually is and should do. In some cases, what developers and testers get with these cloud-washed solutions are nothing more than heavily virtualized environments that offer little or none of the scalability, automation, self-service, and on-demand provisioning associated with cloud computing at-large.
As a result, organizations may think of the private cloud as simply a slight update to their internal IT systems, a fresh coat of paint on the same aging infrastructure that they have been looking to leave behind as new dynamic applications become more central to their businesses. They want a cloud platform that can enable more agile software lifecycles, with streamlined testing and abundant resources for developers, but these misconceptions may lead them to conclude that the public cloud is the only way to achieve these goals and facilitate quicker time-to-market, as well as higher programmer productivity.
The Federal Government Journey to Cloud Computing: Lessons Learned
In February 2011, Vivek Kundra announced the “Cloud First” policy across the US Government. The directive, issued through the Office of Management and Budget, required agencies to give cloud technology first priority in developing IT projects. He also described cloud computing as a “10 year journey”. According to a Deltek report, federal agency spending on cloud computing will grow from $2.3 billion in fiscal 2013 to $6.1 billion by fiscal 2018. This forecast clearly raises the importance of understanding what has happened over the past few years.
The Agile Enterprise Private Cloud
Business differentiation depends upon the efficient development, deployment and management of new applications.
In his session at 14th Cloud Expo, Ruslan Synytsky, CTO of Jelastic, will describe and demonstrate how an enterprise can utilize a private cloud to deliver a scalable, highly available and self-managed platform for DevOps, architects and developers, while retaining control of the IT infrastructure.
VASCO Data Security Named “Bronze Sponsor” of Cloud Expo New York
SYS-CON Events announced today that VASCO Data Security International, Inc., a global leader in authentication, digital signatures, and identity management, has been named “Bronze Sponsor” of SYS-CON’s 14th International Cloud Expo®, which will take place on June 10–12, 2014, at the Javits Center in New York City, New York.
VASCO is a leading supplier of strong authentication and e-signature solutions and services specializing in Internet security applications and transactions. VASCO has positioned itself as a global software company for Internet security serving a customer base of approximately 10,000 companies in more than 100 countries, including approximately 1,700 global financial institutions. VASCO’s primary markets are the financial sector, enterprise security, e-commerce and e-government.
The Seven Deadly Sins of Private Cloud
The private cloud momentum among enterprises is undeniable. Private cloud is able to deliver the agility and ease-of-use that users have come to expect – without sacrificing any of the security or control that is critical to so many industries. But implemented incorrectly, there’s no question that private clouds can be a costly and frustrating undertaking.
In his session at 14th Cloud Expo, Stuart Robbins, CIO Evangelist at Metacloud, will spell out the most common mistakes that he and his colleagues have seen in their experience working with companies that have attempted to implement private clouds. He’ll talk about what has gone wrong for these firms, as well as what steps your company can take to avoid falling into similar traps as you pursue your own private cloud.
Open source cloud: Exploring the commercial applications
During the course of the last twelve months the OpenStack community has advanced as more users of the leading open-source cloud technology have been reporting their progress – with the help of their partners – towards making a meaningful impact on their business goals and objectives.
We’ve also learned how these progressive technology users are pioneering changes in their own organisations – enabling them to become more competitive in the Global Networked Economy.
The OpenStack Summit 2014 opened with a keynote on the first day of the conference featuring lessons learned from industry leading organizations that have already deployed these open cloud technologies. Each case study had multiple instances of OpenStack that have been applied for a variety of commercial application scenarios.
Jonathan Bryce, the Executive Director of the Foundation, introduced the growing community of OpenStack Superusers. Glenn Ferguson, Head of Private of Cloud Enablement at Wells Fargo Bank and Chris Launey …