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Monthly Archives: May 2017
Decode Customer Experience for Banking with @NewgenSoftware | @CloudExpo #API #Cloud
Newgen Software Inc., a leading global provider of banking software solutions today announced its participation at Texas Bankers Association’s 133rd Annual Convention at Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center, San Antonio, Texas from May 10-12, 2017.
Newgen will be present at booth #524 in the exhibit area to engage with bankers and showcase its smart banking solutions that can transform their customer experience and improve compliance adherence. Newgen’s unified configurable solutions seamlessly integrate with core banking systems and other applications for processing all loan types including commercial and retail loans, commercial and institutional loans (C&I), commercial real estate loans (CRE) and small business administration (SBA) loan. The solutions also cater to online account opening and trade finance requirements.
Secrets of @CloudExpo Faculty | @ThingsExpo #IoT #DevOps #FinTech #AI
With 10 simultaneous tracks, keynotes, general sessions and targeted breakout classes, Cloud Expo and @ThingsExpo are two of the most important technology events of the year. Since its launch over eight years ago, Cloud Expo and @ThingsExpo have presented a rock star faculty as well as showcased hundreds of sponsors and exhibitors! In this blog post, I provide 7 tips on how, as part of our world-class faculty, you can deliver one of the most popular sessions at our events. But before reading these essential tips, please take a moment and watch this brief video from Sandy Carter.
The Titanic and Your Network: 37 Seconds from Disaster? | @CloudExpo #Cloud #Cybersecurity
Put yourself in the shoes of Captain Edward Smith of the RMS Titanic, seconds after the iceberg was reported to him and seconds (there were 37 of them, reportedly) before he reacted. In this critical timeframe – this brief space of time when the inevitability of disaster became clear – was the great ship’s fate decided?
Like the maritime world before marine radar, there are times in IT security when the iceberg of an attack remains shrouded in fog and invisible. Yet there are also times when disaster is clearly right in front of us. It is these times – when we can see the data breach coming and need to steer the ship around it – that truly test our foresight.
[session] Build Great Software Behind Your FinTech Service By @MichalRoza | @CloudExpo #Cloud #FinTech
In his session at 20th Cloud Expo, Michał Różański, co-founder of EARP Integration, will present EARP Integration’s advanced Robo-Advisory Platform. He will illustrate the most important issues on building tailored FinTech software. He will share experiences gained over six years of developing solutions for financial institutions and FinTech companies, including robo-advisors.
He welcomes all FinTech innovators interested in how properly implemented technology can move their businesses forward.
Aryaka report reveals 50% of enterprise traffic is composed of cloud and SaaS traffic
Global enterprise wide area network (WAN) traffic saw an increase of 200% annually, with almost 50% of enterprise traffic composed of cloud and SaaS traffic, according to the latest study from Aryaka.
Aryaka has collated data of enterprise WAN traffic from over 5000 sites in 63 countries in different industries over the past four years to analyse trends, response times and inconsistencies in application performance, WAN reliability and bandwidth access. The report analyses the threshold of the network inconsistencies to affect mission-critical applications over a medium. It also examines conventional application performance time over the public Internet.
WAN traffic increased 248% in Asia-Pacific in 2016 owing to the increased use of cloud technology, Aryaka added, while the use of 100 Mbps links in China last year increased by 25%.
By industry, WAN traffic increased the most in the manufacturing vertical. Network traffic increased 526% in the software and Internet sector, whereas real estate, energy and utilities, and travel industries saw an increase of 200%. A combined 50% of all WAN traffic can be seen coming from HTTP and HTTPS. Aryaka also added that with improved Internet bandwidths and quality, the hand-off between ISPs over the Internet needs to be improved. Latency, packet loss, and jitters need to be addressed when data is transferred between long distances.
Shawn Farshchi, Aryaka president and CEO, said: “With nearly 50% of all global enterprise traffic now comprising cloud and SaaS, and legacy technologies, like MPLS, failing to address this trend, the ability to address the needs of the business translates into better business execution and competitive advantage.”
How a Multi-Cloud Strategy Can Benefit Your Business | @CloudExpo #Cloud #Analytics #DataCenter
As more organizations move to the public cloud, they face an important decision: Should they use just one cloud provider, such as Amazon Web Services (AWS), or should they adopt a multi-cloud strategy, one that makes use of multiple cloud providers?
There are several major cloud platform providers, including AWS, Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud Platform. The advantage of a multi-cloud strategy is that organizations can reap significant benefits by using the best of different platforms, rather than relying on a single provider for all of their cloud needs.
Benefit #ContinuousIntegration | @DevOpsSummit @AppDynamics #DevOps #AI
In a digital world that moves as fast as ours, programmers are applying new, creative ways of thinking to the software development process in a non-stop push for ever-faster turnaround times. In DevOps, Continuous Integration (CI) is increasingly the integration method of choice, in large part because of the speed at which it enables the release of new features, bug fixes, and product updates.
President Trump Signs An Order for Cloud Cybersecurity
President Trump signed an executive order to put an end to the federal government’s cybersecurity woes.
This order mandates a single set of rules for all departments and puts the head of the department as accountable for that agency’s security. The obvious idea behind this accountability is to avoid department heads from passing the blame to the IT department, every time there’s a breach. By doing this, agency heads were caught passing the buck without taking any steps whatsoever to correct them.
To put an end to this blame games, this order was drafted quite some time ago and was supposed to have been signed on January 31 of this year, but was postponed without any reason or explanation. But, finally it was signed and would come into force right away.
An unexpected surprise that came to light in this order was an initiative to move as much of the government’s cyber-defense programs to the cloud. This means, the government wants departments to move their data and applications to the cloud to leverage its many benefits.
This is a significant and sensible move considering that there are roughly 190 departments today. If each department tries to develop its own defenses, then it’ll simply be a duplication of efforts and a waste of resources. A better way would be to share services and resources, so that efforts are more streamlined and departments can follow similar standards.
The Trump administration believes that historically a lot of time and effort went into creating and protecting legacy IT systems in federal departments and this spending did not yield any result. To top it, there are a number of security vulnerabilities as is evident from the many hacking incidents that have taken place over the last few years.
This is critical considering that U.S system’s store a lot of sensitive information about its residents such as their Social Security Number and date of birth, which can cause a lot of problems, when it falls in the wrong markets. There are already many criminals prowling in cyberspace to get such sensitive information, so they can sell it in the black market for a substantial amount of money.
When government systems don’t follow security best practices and use legacy systems, they make it that much more easier for these criminals to get the information they want. So, this move to move to the cloud could enforce better security standards and hopefully, will keep the criminals at bay.
Besides these important strategies, the order signed by President Trump also gives directives on reviewing the general vulnerabilities of the U.S government and its systems, zero in on the main culprits and adversaries of U.S cybersecurity and provide training to the next generation of cybersecurity professionals, so they can handle the future cyber needs of the country.
In all, this is an excellent and much-awaited move that’s needed to beef up the cybersecurity of U.S and also to protect the assets of its citizens.
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Puppet on a string of successes: New products, partners and customers announced
The DevOps landscape got something of a timely boost with a couple of recent pieces of news; open source software provider Puppet announced figures indicating ‘global momentum’ as well as product updates, while CyberArk secured the acquisition of Conjur for $42 million (£32.7m).
Puppet said Thursday that it had added more than 250 new enterprise customers over the past 12 months. The company added that more than 37,000 companies – including more than three quarters of the Fortune 100 – use its product in some capacity. New offices have also been opened in Singapore and Seattle, the latter as an R&D centre, as well as an updated facility in Sydney.
Product news includes updates to Puppet Enterprise, a new version of Open Source Puppet, as well as entirely new products which mark the first the company has brought to market since 2011. The two new products are Lumogon and Puppet Cloud Discovery, which aims to give enterprise IT teams greater insight into the services running across containerised applications and cloud infrastructure.
The company also revealed a series of new partner offerings for Enterprise. The cast list is pretty stellar, with Amazon Web Services (AWS), Cisco, Nutanix and VMware among the companies involved.
“Puppet’s momentum underscores the continued demand that we are experiencing from customers and organisations that need to improve agility, efficiency and reliability to support them through their DevOps and digital transformation journeys,” said Sanjay Mirchandani, president and CEO of Puppet in a statement.
According to research on DevOps salaries published by the company in August, IT manager salaries in the US had gone ‘off the chart’, with more than half of those respondents earning more than $100,000 per year. A report from Rackspace in June found practically all vacancies for cloud and DevOps skills – including Puppet – increasing in number over the past year.
Elsewhere, with the acquisition of Conjur, a provider of DevOps security software, CyberArk “uniquely empowers CIOs and CISOs to accelerate modern software development securely with the industry’s only enterprise class security solution that delivers comprehensive privileged account management and secrets protection”, in the words of the press materials.
Conjur was recently named as a ‘cool vendor’ in DevOps by analyst firm Gartner, in part due to its focus on protecting organisations from cyber attacks which have found their way through the network perimeter.
“While empowering organisations with more efficiency and speed, the DevOps process is also dramatically expanding the attack surface across the entire enterprise,” said Udi Mokady, CyberArk chairman and CEO in a statement. “CyberArk’s acquisition of Conjur further strengthens our market leadership position – providing the industry’s only enterprise-class solution for privileged account security and secrets management on premises, in the cloud and across the DevOps pipeline.”