Dyn solutions are at the core of Internet Performance. Through traffic management, message management and performance assurance, Dyn is connecting people through the Internet and ensuring information gets where it needs to go, faster and more reliably than ever before. Founded in 2001 at WPI, Dyn’s global presence services more than four million enterprise, small business and personal customers.
Monthly Archives: September 2014
IaaS and SaaS: @Hostway Accelerates Growth with Parallels | @CloudExpo
Parallels, the platform provider for cloud service delivery and Hostway, a leading provider of cloud, managed and hybrid hosting services, announced that Hostway has implemented Parallels Automation to support its syndicated Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) and Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) offerings, enabling resellers to deliver branded cloud services efficiently and cost-effectively.
Hostway offers one of the hosting industry’s broadest solution portfolios that supports more than 200,000 customers directly and more than 40 million indirectly. Hostway’s success is heavily reliant on its large network of resellers and distribution partners.
BSQUARE Named “Bronze Sponsor” of @ThingsExpo [@EmbeddedExperts / #IoT]
BSQUARE is a global leader of embedded software solutions. We enable smart connected systems at the device level and beyond that millions use every day and provide actionable data solutions for the growing Internet of Things (IoT) market. We empower our world-class customers with our products, services and solutions to achieve innovation and success. For more information, visit www.bsquare.com.
Announcing @SimpleECM “Exhibitor” of @CloudExpo Silicon Valley
SimpleECM is the only platform to offer a powerful combination of enterprise content management (ECM) services, capture solutions, and third-party business services providing simplified integrations and workflow development for solution providers. SimpleECM is opening the market to businesses of all sizes by reinventing the delivery of ECM services. Our APIs make the development of ECM services simple with the use of familiar technologies for a frictionless integration directly into web applications. The simple integration framework lets customers select and easily customize only the services they need, to deliver solutions quickly and easily. Our flexible usage-based pricing model means that you only pay for the services that you use.
The Healthcare Industry Must Address Data Security Threats [#Cloud]
Despite the data privacy protections supposedly conferred by regulations like HIPAA and HITECH, consumers’ confidential health and personal information is still not safe enough. That’s the lesson to be learned from Franklin, TN-based Community Health Systems’ (CHS) August 18 regulatory filing. In the filing, CHS disclosed that the names, SSNs, addresses, birth dates, and phone numbers of approximately 4.5 million people across 28 states have been stolen, according to Computerworld. Those 4.5 million victims, whom Computerworld reported had either received or been referred for services to CHS-affiliated physicians, are now at risk of identity theft, thanks to the security weaknesses of their healthcare provider. This latest large-scale data breach serves to highlight just how critical data security is in today’s connected age.
Ericsson’s move to cloud services: Analysing the state of the telco cloud market
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Earlier this week, it was confirmed that Swedish telecoms provider Ericsson had bought a majority stake in platform as a service (PaaS) provider Apcera.
The deal, to close in Q4, sees Ericsson strengthen its position in the cloud market. Apcera will continue as a standalone company, with Ericsson shoving funds into Apcera’s technology and sales operations.
The telco cloud is an expansive opportunity and market place. One only needs to look at the initiatives Verizon is introducing with Verizon Cloud, for instance, or how CenturyLink is beefing up its portfolio.
Ericsson’s route, on the surface, looks similar. The Swedish telco’s offering, Ericsson Cloud System, adds cloud capabilities to an existing operator network. Yet Ericsson sees PaaS as key to success in cloud – hence the buying of Apcera. But Apcera’s USP is one of policy and governance – a vital cornerstone to larger enterprises using the cloud.
“Cloud technology is disrupting the global ICT infrastructure market, and service providers must modernise to provide more value to their customers,” an Ericsson press release trumpeted. And this realignment is becoming prevalent elsewhere in the business, too. Only a week ago, Ericsson announced discontinuation of its modem business, “redirecting investment from modems to radio networks”, according to the press bumf.
This all leads in to how Ericsson is going to change its strategy through 2015. Ericsson’s portfolio will comprise three arms: operator telecom cloud, with network functions; operator IT cloud, with OSS/BSS, media and IT functions; and operator commercial cloud, with commercial anything-as-a-service (XaaS) offerings.
Offering cloud services appears, on first glance, to be a straightforward value-add for telcos, who already leverage a huge network. Take CenturyLink, for example. The communications firm slashed their prices on cloud storage, in line with competitors, back in May. More recently they launched a private cloud, but with the aim of private cloud security and public cloud agility.
Richard Seroter, director of CenturyLink Cloud, told CloudTech at the time the company was “bullish” in the public cloud market. It’s an indication of how seriously telcos are taking this – and for more evidence, look no further than Verizon.
Verizon Cloud has got some serious weight behind it, including integration with AWS and partnerships with Oracle. It’s clear that stakeholders from both sides see the benefit, and it helps keep mobile operators and telcos agile – a key point made by Ericsson earlier this week.
SoftLayer Named “Gold Sponsor” of @CloudExpo Silicon Valley [@SoftLayer]
SoftLayer, an IBM Company, provides cloud infrastructure as a service from a growing number of data centers and network points of presence around the world. SoftLayer’s customers range from Web startups to global enterprises. Products and services include bare metal and virtual servers, networking, turnkey big data solutions, private cloud solutions, and more. SoftLayer’s unique advantages include the industry’s first Network-Within-a-Network topology for true out-of-band access, and an easy-to-use customer portal and robust API for full remote-access of all product and service management options. SoftLayer was founded in 2005 and is headquartered in Dallas, Texas. SoftLayer was acquired by IBM in July, 2013.
Announcing @EdgeCast Networks “Gold Sponsor” of @CoudExpo Silicon Valley
Delivering any data, anywhere, anytime, EdgeCast is the world’s fastest and most reliable content delivery network. The company was founded in 2006 by technology entrepreneurs with years of experience building companies in the infrastructure, web services, and application delivery spaces. EdgeCast built its global delivery network to provide the fastest, smartest content delivery on the planet. And, according to the independent experts, they did exactly that – they consistently rank among the very best-performing CDNs in the industry.
Verizon Named “Gold Sponsor” of @CloudExpo Silicon Valley [@Verizon]
SYS-CON Events announced today that Verizon has been named “Gold Sponsor” of SYS-CON’s 15th International Cloud Expo®, which will take place on November 4-6, 2014, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA. Verizon Enterprise Solutions creates global connections that generate growth, drive business innovation and move society forward. With industry-specific solutions and a full range of global wholesale offerings provided over the company’s secure mobility, cloud, strategic networking and advanced communications platforms, Verizon Enterprise Solutions helps open new opportunities around the world for innovation, investment and business transformation. Visit verizonenterprise.com to learn more.
@CloudExpo | How the #Cloud Fulfills the Best-of-Breed Dream (Part 2)
If the existing system does fifteen things, write down the major tasks of that system and divide them into as many verticals as necessary to describe the broad functional areas that require attention. If the replacement is intended to be a custom-developed, on-premises system, it’s perfectly reasonable for that system to be expected to accomplish most of the fifteen things in question.
However, if SaaS-based solutions are being considered as replacements, keep in mind that SaaS-based solutions are narrow and deep: they are usually highly specialized to take on a very specific vertical and are designed to integrate tightly with other highly-specialized software, feeding cross-referenced information between each other. SaaS solutions are designed to satisfy all your needs in a specific vertical, and that vertical cannot be “the entire operation of the company.”