The concept behind the Internet of Things has been around for a while now, ATMs being some of the first enterprise, hardened, network-connected, managed devices for mainstream consumer use. So too with our mobile phones, these are not new concepts to network technicians or hardware geeks. But for the rest of us, we simply never imagined the extents that the “ubiquity of connectedness” would take all other industries, from biotech to automotive, personal care to agriculture, entertainment to custom manufacturing. The list is as long as our imaginations.
Monthly Archives: October 2015
Luxoft Named “Bronze Sponsor” of @ThingsExpo | @Luxoft #IoT #M2M
SYS-CON Events announced today that Luxoft Holding, Inc., a leading provider of software development services and innovative IT solutions, has been named “Bronze Sponsor” of SYS-CON’s @ThingsExpo, which will take place on November 3–5, 2015, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA.
Luxoft’s software development services consist of core and mission-critical custom software development and support, product engineering and testing, and technology consulting.
Delivery and DevOps By @AndiMann | @DevOpsSummit #DevOps #Microservices
Business and IT leaders today need better application delivery capabilities to support critical new innovation. But how often do you hear objections to improving application delivery like, “I can harden it against attack, but not on this timeline”; “I can make it better, but it will cost more”; “I can deliver faster, but not with these specs”; or “I can stay strong on cost control, but quality will suffer”? In the new application economy, these tradeoffs are no longer acceptable. Customers will abandon your brand forever for a slow response or a privacy breach; competitors will steal critical markets if you cannot deliver on time and on budget.
Four Signs Your Mobile App May Be at Risk | @CloudExpo #Cloud
A security profile should be at the top of the developer’s list when compiling a mobile app but that’s hardly the case. That’s a pity, because building a profile is easier to do during the dev phase. Are most mobile apps putting your data at risk? Most likely so. According to the most recent report from Lookout, the number of Android devices affected by malware is more than 6 million.
Luckily, there are telltale signs that indicate an insecure mobile app. Becoming the nose on a hound dog will let you sniff for clues of any potential harm of a data breach. Otherwise it will cost you. The Ponemon Institute’s Cost of Data Breach Study says average costs for a single breach increased by 15% last year, reaching $3.5 million.
[session] Security and Visibility in the Age of IaaS By @CloudPassage | @CloudExpo #Cloud
Modern Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) fundamentally breaks most traditional security tools and approaches. The number of environments used by enterprises is exploding beyond traditional data centers and virtualization. Workloads are becoming elastic with shorter lifespans. Mergers and acquisitions are accelerating. All this makes traditional network and perimeter centric security less scalable, less effective and less efficient.
In his session at 17th Cloud Expo, Sami Laine, Principal Technologist at CloudPassage, will explore how adopting an agile security approach can enable instant visibility and enforcement on every server, from bare metal legacy systems to Public Cloud IaaS providers.
Four DevOps Initiative Questions | @DevOpsSummit #DevOps #Microservices
Look at production incident numbers, most organizations have sufficient data on that and sufficient problems to solve. It ends up being really compelling. Once you show the numbers, generally management just says do it, if that solves the problem just do it. Though you might have to prove that the approach you’re proposing, in other words putting the environments under better control and getting better control on the application releases. You can do that through proof of concept, but I would say that the hard dollar costs are generally there in almost every organization, and that if you’re not coming up with them, keep turning over rocks. Look for various sources of waste in a delivery pipeline process, look for errors, look for other things that you can catch earlier in the cycle and I think you’ll find really compelling numbers.
The Missed Opportunity of Agile SaaS | @CloudExpo #DevOps #Microservices
Agile software development and agile marketing have followed similar, but unique paths. Buggy software, product delays and death marches were the norm in the 90s. A groundswell formed around the idea of taking the agile principles that had been so successful in manufacturing and applying them to software.
APIs and Microservices | @DevOpsSummit #DevOps #API #Microservices
When organizations make the choice to put a digital platform in place, a discussion on MicroServices is never far behind. By putting a MicroServices layer in place, an organization creates the springboard to launch into the digital future, whether that involves apps, rich Web clients, or IoT devices such as in-store beacons.
Bitreserve re-launches as cloud based financial service hub Uphold
Cloud based financial exchange Uphold, formerly Bitreserve, has redesigned its functions, products and services for a relaunch. It now aims to connect banks, credit and debit cards and bitcoin to clients’ digital wallets for instant financial services and transactions.
The service, which began as a pure Bitcoin trader, now offers consumers, businesses and charities the option to fund their Uphold accounts via bank transfer or by linking a credit or debit card. The new options are now available in 33 European countries. Uphold said it plans to roll out these services to the United States, China and India by November.
In a four phase rollout out, members in 33 European countries will be able to fund Uphold accounts via bank transfer from October 14th. Meanwhile, clients in 30 European countries can now fund accounts with credit or debit cards. By November 2015 clients in the US and China will be added to the service.
Phase Three, which is scheduled for December 2015, will see Uphold introduce both physical and virtual payment cards with Visa, MasterCard and Discover card, allowing clients to pay merchants online or in-store, directly from their Uphold accounts. The same services are scheduled to be extended to the Indian market in January 2016 in Phase Four of the plan roll-out of cloud services.
The service aims to connect the world’s legacy and fragmented financial networks and systems with a cohesive cloud-money platform, said Uphold CEO Anthony Watson. Uphold said it will bring instant, transparent, accountable and free financial services for all consumers. “We’re simplifying and radically reducing costs for all financial transactions and services – from currency conversions to international money transfers and payroll to bill payment and remittance,” said Watson, “our mission is to make it easy and frictionless for anyone.”
To date, Uphold has powered over $400 million in transactions by tens of thousands of members across 163 countries, in 24 supported currencies and four precious metals. Around 22 per cent of the world’s publicly traded bitcoin has been transacted on Uphold.
SAP unveils new powers within Analytics in the Cloud
SAP has unveiled a new user-friendly analytics service for enterprises which it claims will give better insights by offering an ‘unparalleled user experience’.
The SAP Cloud for Analytics will be delivered through a planned software as a service (SaaS) offering that unifies all SAP’s analytical functions into one convenient dashboard.
Built natively on the SAP HANA Cloud platform, it will be a scalable, multi-tenant environment at a price which SAP says is affordable to companies and individuals. The new offering aims to bring together a variety of existing services including business intelligence, planning, budgeting and predictive capacity.
According to SAP, it has fine tuned workflows so that it’s easier for user to get from insight to action, as one application spirits the uses through this journey more rapidly. It achieves this by giving universal access to all data, digesting it and forwarding the right components to the right organs of the organisation. An intuitive user interface (UI) will help all users, from specialists such as finance professionals to generalists such as line of business analysts, to build connected planning models, analyze data and collaborate. It can extend to unstructured data, helping users to spot market trends within social media and correlate them with company inventories, SAP claims.
It’s all about breaking down the divisions between silos and blending the data to make visualization and forecasting possible, said Steve Lucas, president, Platform Solutions, SAP. “SAP Cloud for Analytics will be a new cloud analytics experience. That to me is more than visualization of data, that’s realization of success,” said Lucas.
SAP said it is also working with partners to provide seamless workflows.
SAP and Google are collaborating to extend the levels of analysis available to customers, according to Prabhakar Raghavan, VP of Engineering at Google Apps. “These innovations are planned to allow Google Apps for Work users to embed, refresh and edit SAP Cloud for Analytics content directly in Google Docs and Google Sheets,” said Raghaven.