One of the biggest challenges facing schools today has nothing to do with demographics, enrollment numbers or curriculum. It is complying with the 1974 Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA), also known as the Buckley Amendment, which sets strict standards for the protection of students’ data. Violating FERPA can result in loss of Federal funding, fines or a state civil suit for any school or college which receives federal funds. It has been said that few other laws have affected the daily administration of schools and colleges as much as FERPA.
Monthly Archives: October 2015
Bringing an End to the Back End By @Xeniar | @CloudExpo #Cloud
Nikolai Fasting: We have a completely different vision. Most BaaS address back-end developers. However, we want to make the back-end obsolete. We are addressing innovative front-end developers who want to be creative. We don’t want them to worry about the back-end.
We also offer a broader range of features that makes solving problems easier than combining multiple solutions.
Amazon enhances AWS with new analytics tools
On the eve of its AWS re:Invent 2015 event internet giant Amazon is positioning itself for a run at the business intelligence market.
Already announced is the Amazon Elasticsearch Service, is a managed service designed to make it easier to deploy and operate Elasticsearch in the AWS cloud, on which more later.
In addition the WSJ is reporting the likely launch of a new analytics service, codenamed SpaceNeedle, which is set to augment AWS with business intelligence tools. The reported strategic aim of this new service is to both strengthen Amazon’s relationship with AWS customers and allow it to broaden its total available market.
Back to the Elasticsearch service, BCN spoke to Ian Massingham, UK Technical Evangelist at AWS, to find out what the thinking behind it is. “This service is intended for developers running applications that use Elasticsearch today, or developers that are considering incorporating Elasticsearch into future applications,” he said “Elasticsearch is a popular open-source search and analytics engine for use cases such as log analytics, real-time application monitoring, and click stream analytics.”
Apparently Wikipedia uses Elasticsearch to provide full-text search with highlighted search snippets, as well as search-as-you-type and did-you-mean suggestions, while The Guardian uses Elasticsearch to combine visitor logs with social network data to provide real-time feedback to its editors about the public’s response to new articles.
Expect more AWS news as the re:Invent event gets underway. Already Avere Systems has unveiled Avere CloudFusion, a file storage application for AWS, that aims to provides a cloud file system to leverage Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) and Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS) with the cost efficiencies of Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3), all with the simplicity of network-attached storage.
Wind River announces upgraded IoT software platform
Embedded tech vendor Wind River has announced an upgraded portfolio of IoT software development tools for the internet of things (IoT).
The wholly-owned Intel subsidiary made the announcement at the Embedded Linux Conference in Dublin this week, and claimed to bring added flexibility and interoperability to its open-source platform, Wind River Linux 8. It also says it’s thrown in improved user experience and scalability for addressing IoT, stating that a combination of its virtualization services also allows customers to begin developing apps for IoT platforms within minutes of set-up and installation.
Speaking on the development of the upgraded platform, which will underpin a number of Wind River’s existing technology profiles, general manager of OS platforms Dinyar Dastoor is proud of the work the firm’s doing in driving the development of IoT.
“Wind River Linux allows customers to extract vast amounts of business intelligence and value from their data, and supports devices of all sizes, architectures and industries – from general purpose and high-performing real-time devices to carrier grade, virtualization, and highly secure military applications,” he said. “With the latest version of Wind River Linux and our updated Open Virtualization profile, we are delivering a versatile and robust Linux offering to the market that is ideally suited for the development if IoT devices.”
Wind River’s Linux platform is born out of the Linux Foundation’s Yocto Project, a hardware-agnostic an open-source collaboration project designed to provide templates, tools and methodologies for implementing tailored Linux systems on any embedded product – hypothetically ideal for IoT products, software and infrastructures. Jim Zemlin, the Linux Foundation’s executive director, is looking forward to the company’s continued participation with the project, based on its extensive contribution thus far – Wind River has so far contributed more than one third of the lines of code used by Yocto.
“Wind River continues to do important work with the Linux community, as well as foster open-source innovation,” he said. “We look forward to the company’s ongoing contributions to the Yocto Project, and their market success with products like Wind River Linux.”
Visit Europe’s leading IoT event – Internet of Things World Europe – in Berlin on 5 – 7 October 2015
Oracle launches Communications Analytics portfolio
Enterprise software giant Oracle has unveiled a new product portfolio called Oracle Communications Analytics, a business intelligence suite aimed at communications providers.
The portfolio is a combination pre-existing products and four new ones: Oracle Communications Customer Experience Analytics, Oracle Communications Network Assurance Analytics, Oracle Communications Analytics Big Data Platform, and Oracle Communications Analytics Diameter Adapter.
The Customer Experience Analytics application is designed to offer customer care people a bunch of useful analytical information in one place. The Network Assurance Analytics app offers insights into Diameter network performance, while the Analytics Big Data Platform pretty much does what it says on the tin and the Big Data Adapters are tools designed to feed in that big data.
“CSPs have an advantage – they have a lot of data about how their network operates and the kinds of experiences that customers are having,” said Doug Suriano, GM of Oracle Communications. “But without the right big data and analytics tools, the data will remain unused and siloed in various systems. Our expanded Oracle Communications Analytics portfolio is designed with this challenge in mind, offering the broader Oracle expertise in big data as well as the industry-specific understanding of the communications market.”
“As the telecommunications industry accelerates its rate of change, it’s critical that CSPs leverage and monetize their network, service, and customer information,” said Clare McCarthy, practice leader, Telecom Operations and IT, Ovum. “To do so, they must first design analytics solutions that address their business problems in real time—and integrate them with existing data warehouse and analytics solutions. The latest releases of Oracle Communications Analytics products respond to this need and can provide value to CSPs looking to advance their big data and analytics efforts.”
IoT: Tabs to Be Read Later By @PSilvas | @ThingsExpo #IoT #M2M #BigData #InternetOfThings
One I’ve been holding on to almost the longest is an interesting INC article Our Future Will be Analog, Not Digital. Geoffrey James talks about the Internet of Things and how people think the convenience of connectivity is more important than the risks involved. He talks about how snail mail, cash and unplugging are tending up along with how analog objects are becoming status symbols. This is a good one if you think all this connectivity will become so hackable and fragile that no one will want to use it.
Tech News Recap for the Week of 9/28/2015
Were you busy last week? Here’s a quick tech news recap of articles you may have missed from the week of 9/28/2015.
The iPhone 6s smashed first weekend sales records. Microsoft is beating both Amazon and Google to cloud computing in India. The NFV, SDN, and wireless network infrastructure market is on pace to reach $21 billion by 2020. Microsoft and Tesla talk software-defined batteries.
Tech News Recap
- iPhone 6s smashes first weekend sale record
- Microsoft is beating Amazon and Google to cloud computing in India
- The NFV, SDN & Wireless Network Infrastructure Market will reach $21 Billion by 2020
- Microsoft, Tesla say software-defined batteries could mix and match power on the fly
- Five Strategic Acquisitions That Reshaped VMware
- The Evolving Role of the Chief Information Officer
- 10 must-have Apple Watch apps making the most of watchOS2
- How to Prepare Your Environment for the Software Defined Networking Era
- From Lebanon to Jinchang: The Global Reach of VDI
- Two Questions To Ask Before Kicking Off a Digital Transformation
- The Elusive Mystique Of The Digital Enterprise
Register for tomorrow’s webinar with Principal Architect Nick Phelps on VMware NSX vs. Cisco ACI!
By Ben Stephenson, Emerging Media Specialist
Tech News Recap for the Week of 9/28/2015
Were you busy last week? Here’s a quick tech news recap of articles you may have missed from the week of 9/28/2015.
The iPhone 6s smashed first weekend sales records. Microsoft is beating both Amazon and Google to cloud computing in India. The NFV, SDN, and wireless network infrastructure market is on pace to reach $21 billion by 2020. Microsoft and Tesla talk software-defined batteries.
Tech News Recap
- iPhone 6s smashes first weekend sale record
- Microsoft is beating Amazon and Google to cloud computing in India
- The NFV, SDN & Wireless Network Infrastructure Market will reach $21 Billion by 2020
- Microsoft, Tesla say software-defined batteries could mix and match power on the fly
- Five Strategic Acquisitions That Reshaped VMware
- The Evolving Role of the Chief Information Officer
- 10 must-have Apple Watch apps making the most of watchOS2
- How to Prepare Your Environment for the Software Defined Networking Era
- From Lebanon to Jinchang: The Global Reach of VDI
- Two Questions To Ask Before Kicking Off a Digital Transformation
- The Elusive Mystique Of The Digital Enterprise
Register for tomorrow’s webinar with Principal Architect Nick Phelps on VMware NSX vs. Cisco ACI!
By Ben Stephenson, Emerging Media Specialist
IoT Ready Infrastructure By @PSilvas | @ThingsExpo #IoT #M2M #API #BigData
IoT applications will come in all shapes and sizes but no matter the size, availability is paramount to support both customers and the business. The most basic high-availability architecture is the typical three-tier design. A pair of ADCs in the DMZ terminates the connection. They in turn intelligently distribute the client request to a pool (multiple) of IoT application servers which then query the database servers for the appropriate content. Each tier has redundant servers so in the event of a server outage, the others take the load and the system stays available.
How to Run Windows Notepad on Mac
Anybody who codes regularly or hates formatting discrepancies has a fondness for a good, basic text-editing program. Say what you like about these no-frills text editors, but they’re useful and easy to use. A perennial favorite amongst users: Windows Notepad. Notepad is a fan-favorite for a lot of reasons—for instance, its familiarity; its ability to […]
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