For better or worse, DevOps has gone mainstream. All doubt was removed when IBM and HP threw up their respective DevOps microsites. Where are we on the hype cycle? It’s hard to say for sure but there’s a feeling we’re heading for the “Peak of Inflated Expectations.” What does this mean for the enterprise? Should they avoid DevOps? Definitely not. Should they be cautious though? Absolutely. The truth is that DevOps and the enterprise are at best strange bedfellows. The movement has its roots in the tech community’s elite. Open source projects and methodologies driven by the alumni of companies like Netflix, Google and Amazon. This is a great thing for the evolution of DevOps. It can be alienating for Enterprise IT though. Learning about Netflix and their simian armies, or Facebook and their mind-melting scale is fascinating. Can you take it back to the office on Monday morning though?

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What do we know so far about cloud computing? Well, first the hype-cycle slowed down and we started realizing that hybrid cloud (as a combination of public and private resources) was a relatively sensible idea, i.e., from both an expenditure (public) and security (private) perspective. Now we know which data and processing tasks to put where – and when, right?
Not exactly, it’s still not all quite crystal clear in cloud is it?
The nomenclature, taxonomy and classification of the cloud are all part of the problem. At the risk of introducing a new term, it may be useful to talk about the workload cloud.

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Due of the rise of Hadoop, many enterprises are now deploying their first small clusters of 10 to 20 servers. At this small scale, the complexity of operating the cluster looks and feels like general data center servers. It is not until the clusters scale, as they inevitably do, when the pain caused by the exponential complexity becomes apparent. We’ve seen this problem occur time and time again.
In his session at Big Data Expo, Greg Bruno, Vice President of Engineering and co-founder of StackIQ, described why clusters are so different from farms of single-purpose servers that reside in traditional data centers, and why without an automated solution that can address the cluster requirements, real pain is coming and failure is certain.

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We are so proud of the success of out first cloud computing training class. This group took the challenge of changing their careers, studying hard and focusing their efforts in order to reap the rewards! We are ecstatic over there accomplishment of :’
100% PASS RATE ON COMPTIA CLOUD ESSENTIALS EXAM!!!
Mira Costa, Vets360 and GovCloud Network are STILL in their corner helping them to successfully land a job in their new career but we are not stopping here!
Information session for the next cloud computing class is scheduled for Thursday, January 22nd, 6pm at the Mira Costa San Elijo CampusRoom 303.
Please contact Mira Costa Community College for more information.

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The recent trends like cloud computing, social, mobile and Internet of Things are forcing enterprises to modernize in order to compete in the competitive globalized markets.
However, enterprises are approaching newer technologies with a more silo-ed way, gaining only sub optimal benefits.
The Modern Enterprise model is presented as a newer way to think of enterprise IT, which takes a more holistic approach to embracing modern technologies.

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CIOs surveyed by investment firm Piper Jaffray in its latest study have reported dissatisfaction with public cloud solutions, and are departing Google as their choice of public cloud provider.

The report, which polled 112 CIOs across eight industries, found nearly three quarters (73%) had allocated budget to private, hybrid or public cloud projects in 2015, yet the security of public cloud was cited by 35% of respondents as the primary reason for keeping data on premise.

Amazon Web Services remains the most popular public cloud provider and is growing, with 35% of respondents citing it compared to 33% in 2014. It was a similar story with the top three, Microsoft Azure (21% this year, 20% last year) and Rackspace (16% this year, 15% last year), while Google’s usage went down to 7% from 12%. IBM SoftLayer went up to 6% share, while other players – VMware, Verizon, Dell, Savvis, HP, polled 3% or less.

The results in the Piper Jaffray survey ring true when compared to recent industry research in the cloud infrastructure market, which showed Microsoft as taking the clear second place behind AWS – and according to the report, it indicates how organisations will continue to take up Microsoft in 2015.

Cloud budgets are up 6% year over year, with on-premises spending up 2%. 89% of those polled said they would expect their private cloud spending to increase, with a similar number (88%) agreeing for AWS and 70% saying their Microsoft Azure cloud spending would go up.

Gene Munster, a Piper Jaffray analyst, told the WSJ that the Google losses were predominantly attributed to their losing the ‘initial branding war’ with AWS.

Google has been pushing its cloud options aggressively in recent months, offering one terabyte of free Drive storage to every customer who bought a Chromebook during December. Compare that with Microsoft allowing free unlimited storage to Office 365 customers, however, and it doesn’t look as rosy, even though Microsoft had a several hour outage in November.

Read more: Cloud computing and the changing role of the CIO: Which is best for your business?

Of course, I work for an API security/management vendor (Axway), so you might think “he would say that”. But, having an API Management strategy in place means that API Keys are protected at Runtime by an API Gateway, and issued at Design Time by an API Portal. What all of the recent API Key vulnerability victims have in common is a lack of an API Gateway in place, or an API Management strategy. An API Management strategy allows administrators to manage how API Keys are issued, typing them to the lifecycle of the API. In the screenshot below, we can see how an API Key can be issued for an app (in this case, the sample API Days voting app used at our API Security workshops at the API Days conference):

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The shift to the cloud is in full swing. More and more organizations are adopting Software-as-a-Service(SaaS), forcing IT organizations to develop new strategies to secure the onslaught of data created and stored in cloud applications. Failure to develop strategies to close security gaps can result in compliance violations and data breaches. In some cases, organizations incur fines, but in extreme cases, businesses are forced to reorganize, replace the CEO, or even shut down completely. Perhaps the most overlooked factor in these cases is the effect this has on customers, who place their personal and financial information in the hands of major companies.

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Grow your business with enterprise wearable apps using SAP Platforms and Google Glass. SAP and Google just launched the SAP and Google Glass Challenge, an opportunity for you to innovate and develop the best Enterprise Wearable App using SAP Platforms and Google Glass and gain valuable market exposure.
In his session at @ThingsExpo, Brian McPhail, Senior Director of Business Development, ISVs & Digital Commerce at SAP, outlined the timeline of the SAP Google Glass Challenge and the opportunity for developers, start-ups, and companies of all sizes to engage with SAP today.

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