At the recent Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Parallels announced that Parallels Remote Application Server (RAS) supports Microsoft Azure. This blog post will show you this new support and what it now enables end users to do in Parallels RAS. A future post will discuss in some detail how IT admins configure Parallels RAS (and […]
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SYS-CON Events announced today that Interoute has been named “Bronze Sponsor” of SYS-CON’s 20th International Cloud Expo®, which will take place on June 6-8, 2017, at the Javits Center in New York City, NY.
Interoute is the owner operator of Europe’s largest network and a global cloud services platform, which encompasses over 70,000 km of lit fiber, 15 data centers, 17 virtual data centers and 33 colocation centers, with connections to 195 additional partner data centers. Our full-service Unified ICT platform serves startups and international enterprises, as well as every major European telecommunications service provider and major operators across the world, global internet giants, governments and universities.
FinTechs use the cloud to operate at the speed and scale of digital financial activity, but are often hindered by the complexity of managing security and compliance in the cloud.
In his session at 20th Cloud Expo, Sesh Murthy, co-founder and CTO of Cloud Raxak, will show FinTechs how proactive and automated cloud security enables FinTechs to leverage the cloud to achieve their business goals. Through business-driven cloud security, FinTechs can speed time-to-market, diminish risk and costs, maintain continuous compliance, and set themselves up for success.
2016 has been an amazing year for Docker and the container industry. We had 3 major releases of Docker engine this year , and tremendous increase in usage. The community has been following along and contributing amazing Docker resources to help you learn and get hands-on experience. Here’s some of the top read and viewed content for the year. Of course releases are always really popular, particularly when they fit requests we had from the community.
SYS-CON Events announced today that Tappest will exhibit MooseFS at SYS-CON’s 20th International Cloud Expo®, which will take place on June 6-8, 2017, at the Javits Center in New York City, NY.
MooseFS is a breakthrough concept in the storage industry. It allows you to secure stored data with either duplication or erasure coding using any server. The newest – 4.0 version of the software enables users to maintain the redundancy level with even 50% less hard drive space required. The software functions on all major operating systems and is used around the world by businesses, universities and NGOs. The MooseFS team provides on-site implementation and support for your operations.
Developers want to create better apps faster. Static clouds are giving way to scalable systems, with dynamic resource allocation and application monitoring. You won’t hear that chant from users on any picket line, but helping developers to create better apps faster is the mission of Lee Atchison, principal cloud architect and advocate at New Relic Inc., based in San Francisco. His singular job is to understand and drive the industry in the areas of cloud architecture, microservices, scalability and availability. In a keynote presentation, he spoke to a standing-room-only crowd at New York’s Cloud Expo about how highly available, highly scalable systems can help developers attain the goal of better apps faster.
Every major organization across all sectors are experimenting with cloud, and public libraries are no exception to this rule. Auburn Public Library is leading the way by using the Cloud Library platform to enable its patrons to access all the content they want.
Currently, the library uses OverDrive to give its patrons access to ebooks and downloadable audio books. However, they have to access it through a different website to listen to audio books. This can prove to be inconvenient because patrons have to search for the content they want on the library’s site, but have to go elsewhere to download or listen to it.
To overcome this inconvenience, Auburn Public Library is migrating to Cloud Library over the next few weeks, so users can download or checkout ebooks directly from a single site instead of going back and forth.
Cloud Library will be integrated with the library’s own system in such a way that patrons can access content directly from the library’s site, in addition to print content. Also, it will work in tandem with the library’s checkout system. Every time, a patron checks out a book, the system will prompt them to download the corresponding ebook or audio book.
To provide that, the library is working to have its entire catalog in print, ebook and audio book formats, so patrons can choose whichever format they want. Going forward, the need for more copies of the same book will go down, so the library can focus on expanding its collection. Particularly, it wants to offer patrons more back listed books, so they can enjoy a wide collection of content.
Library employees are currently busy marking each item in the library’s catalogue with RFID tags and barcodes that can be used with the new self checkout system. This checkout system is expected to become available by end of May while the Cloud Drive app is expected to be functional from May 11th onwards.
In order for patrons to start using this new system, they have to download the Cloud Drive app, as this will allow readers to read or listen to books right from their smartphones, tablets and even computers. Since this app is available on Android, Kindle, Nook and Apple devices, users should have no problem making this switch.
This move by the Auburn Public Library is another step forward in our digital lifestyle. The comfort and convenience that comes with reading or listening to a book for your personal device is unmatched, and this public library is taking giant leaps to make this a reality for its patrons.
The one downside to this plan is it won’t work with basic e-readers, and patrons need to mandatorily download the Cloud Drive app. This can be a spot of bother for those who’re not familiar with technology, especially the senior citizens. But, they always have the choice to borrow print books or they can take the help of library employees to download and install the app for them.
It’s hoped that other libraries follow suit to offer more digitized versions of books to their respective patrons.
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These and many other insights are from a recent survey completed by MIT Technology Review Custom and Google Cloud, Machine Learning: The New Proving Ground for Competitive Advantage (PDF, no opt-in, 10 pp.). 375 qualified respondents participated in the study, representing a variety of industries, with the majority being from technology-related organisations (43%). Business services (13%) and financial services (10%) respondents are also included in the study. Please see page 2 of the study for additional details on the methodology.
Key insights include the following:
Oracle has announced its public cloud services have achieved various security and compliance certifications, including ISO 27001, HIPAA, SOC1 and SOC2, in what the company describes as ‘continued momentum’ for its products.
The Redwood giant’s platform as a service (PaaS) and infrastructure as a service (IaaS) has received Service Organisation Control (SOC) attestations across a variety of key services, while its Fusion software as a service (SaaS) is HIPAA-accredited and the ISO 27001 was awarded for ‘the proper management and security of assets such as financial information, intellectual property, employee details or information entrusted to an organisation by third parties’.
The move puts Oracle alongside its various industry competitors; for example, Microsoft’s SOC1 and SOC2 information can be found here – copies of the report are only available to customers who have signed an NDA – while ISO 27001 can be found here. The Oracle accreditations were administered by Schellman & Co.
“Oracle is continuously investing time and resources to meet our customers’ strict requirements across highly regulated industries,” said Erika Voss, Oracle global senior director for public cloud compliance, risk and privacy in a statement. “These new certifications not only validate the reliability and security features of the Oracle Cloud; they effectively make Oracle’s solutions available to thousands of new customers in the healthcare and public sector industries.”
Writing for this publication last year, Frank Krieger, director of compliance at cloud hosting provider iland, explained the benefits of ISO 27001. “The business benefits of ISO 27001 certification are many,” Krieger wrote. “ISO 27001 is an effective way to reduce the risk of your organisation suffering a data breach, satisfies audit requirements and establishes trust both internally and externally that security controls are properly managed, providing customers with greater confidence in doing business with you.”
Oracle’s efforts to become the leader in public cloud, after a slow initial start, have been well documented. The company announced total cloud revenues, including IaaS, at $1.2bn in its most recent quarter, with CTO Larry Ellison telling analysts that its next-generation data centres have capabilities which potentially dwarf Amazon Web Services (AWS). According to figures from Synergy Research, the four leading players in the cloud IaaS market – AWS, Microsoft, IBM and Google – remain entrenched, although singling out Oracle for its high growth rate.
You can check the full list here.