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Codete to Exhibit at @CloudEXPO | @CodeteGmbH @KPrzystalski #Cloud #FinTech #AI #Blockchain #MachineLearning #ArtificialIntelliegence
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Announcing @ThousandEyes “Technology Sponsor” of @CloudEXPO | #Cloud #AI #SaaS #DNS #Monitoring #AIOps #DevOps #CloudNative #Serverless
ThousandEyes is a software-as-a-service (SaaS) product that uses synthetic monitoring probes to measure network performance. The product includes elements of network tomography for loss and latency, route analytics to visualize BGP advertisements, DNS monitoring, VoIP monitoring, website monitoring for HTTP and HTTPS and SNMP device polling.
Should Data (or Information) Go on Your Balance Sheet? | @CloudEXPO #BigData #AI #DigitalTransformation
Take Facebook, for example. Facebook’s market cap is $444 billion, but its book value (value of its tangible assets) is only $66 billion. For a conventional company, the $378 billion difference between these numbers represents the market’s expectation of future earnings potential.
However, since Facebook doesn’t put data on its balance sheet, just how much of this $378 billion represents the value of its data and how much is the expectation of future earnings is anyone’s guess.
If we can’t answer this question, therefore, then our ability to judge the value of companies like Facebook is in jeopardy, making it impossible to either invest in or manage them rationally.
Opinion: Clearing up multi-cloud confusion
There’s no denying the enormous effect that cloud has had on how we purchase and consume technology. In business it has been a game-changer, delivering levels of flexibility and agility previously denied by on-premise IT.
Today in the UK, cloud infrastructure spend now surpasses spend on legacy IT, with the divide set to become even greater in the coming years.
While a hybrid strategy has generally proved a popular option with organisations that want to maintain a mix of cloud services and on-premise IT, an increasing number of businesses today are adopting multi-cloud strategies, with 75 percent of cloud users now deploying two or more cloud-based services.
But what is multi-cloud? While hybrid cloud usually refers to an IT strategy comprising the use of cloud and non-cloud technologies, multi-cloud goes one step further. Organisations deploying a multi-cloud strategy will leverage multiple cloud technologies from more than one vendor – whether private or public – in whichever way best suits their business needs.
One 2018 survey shows 86 percent of enterprises have adopted a multi-cloud strategy, and 60 percent are moving or have already moved their mission-critical apps to the cloud.
This shows how businesses are evolving their cloud strategies; after initially migrating certain applications to the cloud – and potentially being forced to shoe-horn their IT onto one cloud platform regardless of the suitability – they can now pick and choose which model is the best option for individual workloads.
So why multi-cloud? Aside from the obvious objectives of ramping up performance, seeing increased operational efficiency, and having the ability to scale up or down resources, there are some other advantages of adopting a multi-cloud strategy.
Some companies prefer to keep a check on the size of their ‘cloud footprint’ to reduce the risk of downtime and protect themselves from potential outages, bandwidth problems and risk of cyberattack (like DDoS attacks.) In a similar vein, cloud users may want to avoid single vendor lock-in. There is no ‘one-size-fits-all’ solution, and it is unlikely that a single cloud platform will meet all enterprise workload requirements. To truly benefit from the flexibility that the cloud can deliver, organisations shouldn’t feel restricted by their choice of platform.
Analysis from IT trade association CompTIA shows that 83 percent of companies have moved either infrastructure or applications to a second cloud provider. The most popular reason provided by respondents was better offerings or features, followed by security and concerns with their original provider. Other common reasons for migrating include high costs, more open standards and problems with outages.
In addition, a multi-cloud strategy helps enterprises maximise their IT budget, allowing them to negotiate and compare pricing to fully leverage the cost-savings associated with cloud hosting.
However, it is important to separate the reality from the hype that often surrounds any new approach to tech. For example, choosing the right cloud platform can be a confusing process – the monolithic structure of some core enterprise legacy applications means they may not even be compatible with a cloud environment
In addition, managing a multi-cloud environment in which workloads are distributed among several clouds, each with its own attributes and interfaces, can create a lot of work for IT teams. It may involve managing multiple clouds, service level agreements (SLAs), touch points and data flows across different platforms.
Also remember that in this age of GDPR and heightened data privacy regulations, organisations will need to ensure they have the proper data protection, back-up and disaster recovery processes in place, particularly for mission-critical applications and those containing sensitive data.
Despite all this, a considerable number of companies still lack the tools and processes for effective multi-cloud management. One study found that only 41 percent of companies operating in multi-cloud environments have a multi-cloud management strategy, and 38 percent have multi-cloud management procedures and tools in place.
To avoid any potential pitfalls associated with migrating to and managing a multi-cloud environment, more companies are opting for a managed solution approach. Organisations can really benefit from working with a tech-agnostic managed cloud provider that can provide them with the right advice on what cloud is best for them. Further, they can handle the migration and management of all workloads across a multi-cloud environment, ensuring the company remains compliant and helping them to maximise their investment in multi-cloud.
Interested in hearing industry leaders discuss subjects like this and sharing their experiences and use-cases? Attend the Cyber Security & Cloud Expo World Series with upcoming events in Silicon Valley, London and Amsterdam to learn more.
Data Loss Prevention Techniques | @CloudEXPO @ShieldXNetworks #Cloud #AI #AIOps #Serverles #DataCenter #Infosec #Monitoring
ShieldX’s CEO and Founder, Ratinder Ahuja, believes that traditional security solutions are not designed to be effective in the cloud. The role of Data Loss Prevention must evolve in order to combat the challenges of changing infrastructure associated with modernized cloud environments. Ratinder will call out the notion that security processes and controls must be equally dynamic and able to adapt for the cloud. Utilizing four key factors of automation, enterprises can remediate issues and improve their security posture by maximizing their investments in legacy DLP solutions. The factors include new infrastructures opening up, public cloud, fast services and appliance models to fit in the new world of cloud security.
Google Plus back from the dead as ‘Google Currents’ enterprise workspace app
12 Apr, 2019
The now-defunct social media platform Google Plus has been unexpectedly resurrected as an enterprise application to rival the likes of Slack and Facebook Workplace.
After the service sustained a data leak of half a million accounts in October 2018, Google launched a security review and decided to shut down the platform permanently.
A second data leak in December – this time exposing the private data for 52.5 million users – led Google to accelerate its demise from August to April 2019. The platform then officially closed just 10 days ago.
This has also coincided with the launch of Google Currents, which touts itself as a like-for-like replacement to the Google Plus for G Suite app that had been available only for enterprise users.
“Currents is a G Suite app that enables people to have meaningful discussions and interactions across your organization, helping keep everyone in the know and giving leaders the opportunity to connect with their employees,” the company announced.
“Currents makes it easy to have meaningful discussions by enabling leaders and employees to exchange ideas across the organization and gather valuable feedback and input from others – without flooding inboxes.”
Among features in the new platform are analytical tools that let users track how widely-seen their posts across the network are, and priority offered to posts from leadership teams.
Tags and streams, including a ‘home stream’, are designed to show individuals the most relevant posts for them at any time.
Organisations can register with the Google Currents beta now, and all content for existing Google Plus users will automatically transfer upon enrollment. The app is available in all versions of G Suite.
Incidentally the name ‘Google Currents’ is itself a resurrection of the name once prescribed to a social magazine app, or Google’s answer to Apple News. This app launched in 2011 but was replaced two years later with Google Play Newsstand.
Before retiring just days ago, Google Plus endured a torrid life playing second-fiddle to more widely-used platforms such as Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. The data leak in October would have proved the final nail in the coffin but for the subsequent exposure of 52.5 million users not long after.
But Google yet hopes to keep its social media platform alive in some form, with the core code in its consumer-focused app now porting to a business-oriented workplace service.
This also follows the launch of several new G Suite updates at Google Cloud Next 2019, with Sheets, Hangouts, Calendar and Gmail touted for the near future.
Forteem migrates away from legacy tech
12 Apr, 2019
Property maintenance business Fortem has moved away from legacy IT infrastructure and into the cloud, migrating its communications system, business continuity and disaster recovery solutions to its UK-based data centres.
Six Degrees was called upon to implement Avaya’s Unified Communications solution to ensure the company’s contact centre runs more smoothly, according to the firm. It will now enable Forteem’s support to be accessed 24/7, with a range of options for customers to make use of, depending on the urgency of their request.
Another major part of the brief was to run a business continuity, disaster recovery and 24/7 monitoring system, to support Fortem’s in-house IT team deal with end-user incidents and requests.
“We have clear aims for the IT transition programme. At the programme’s core is the need for Fortem to continue its sustained growth, and to build on the excellent reputation the business has with its clients throughout the UK,” said Chris Hone, systems director of Fortem’s business solutions division.
“The vision that drives the programme is to implement a 24×7 monitored IT infrastructure that is secure and scalable, with future-proofed telephony that enhances our communication and collaboration capabilities. We also want to further increase our in-house technical skills and ensure that users receive the highest possible levels of support.”
Fortem’s in-house team will be tasked with the day-to-day running of the IT systems, working with customers and engineering teams to ensure incidents are dealt with as soon as is possible.
“We are working closely with Fortem to take it on a digital transformation journey that addresses business challenges and delivers a robust technology platform that supports its ongoing success,” added Matthew Brouker, group product director at Six Degrees.
“By leveraging the expertise of Six Degrees through a consultative process, Fortem has been able to design, build and manage the optimal environment that will meet its ongoing needs.”
A Serverless Kubernetes? | @CloudEXPO #Serverless #DevOps #Kubernetes
Just announced at Google Next: Knative. Knative provides a set of middleware components that allow you to build container-based applications that can run anywhere: on-premises, in the cloud, or even in a third-party data center.
What’s unique about Knative is the fact that it’s built on a Kubernetes-based framework that provides serverless features. Serverless systems enable developers to focus on writing code without having to worry about building, deploying, and managing an application. Serverless computing, as the name implies, means that users don’t need to deal with the concept of a virtual server, as they do within most public cloud computing systems. You focus on writing the application, and the serverless systems will automatically pick the right configuration, provision the resources, run your code, and return the resources back the way the they came. You don’t provision anything; you only pay for the resources the serverless system uses, and you’re abstracted from the complexity.
Kubernetes Faculty at CloudEXPO Silicon Valley | #CloudNative #Serverless #AI #AIOps #DataCenter #Monitoring #Containers #DevOps #Docker #Kubernetes
As you know, enterprise IT conversation over the past year have often centered upon the open-source Kubernetes container orchestration system. In fact, Kubernetes has emerged as the key technology — and even primary platform — of cloud migrations for a wide variety of organizations.
Kubernetes is critical to forward-looking enterprises that continue to push their IT infrastructures toward maximum functionality, scalability, and flexibility.
As they do so, IT professionals are also embracing the reality of Serverless architectures, which are critical to developing and operating real-time applications and services. Serverless is particularly important as enterprises of all sizes develop and deploy Internet of Things (IoT) initiatives.