One of the questions I’ve been asked from the beginning of the Federal Cloud First initiative, is, “If my data is in The answer is not as clear-cut as the question. In theory, most cloud services offer extremely resilient platforms and a modicum of disaster recovery is built in. In fact, those cloud service provider (CSP) systems that have received an ATO through the FedRAMP program do have fairly sophisticated contingency plans in place, with Recovery Time Objectives (RTO) and Recovery Point Objectives (RPO) clearly articulated- and plenty of alternate processing sites, policies, and procedures in place in the event of a contingency. So, it’s in there right?
Consumerization of the Enterprise By @BostonVC | @CloudExpo [#Cloud]
Consumer VCs like to make light of the Founders Fund mantra ‘We wanted flying cars, instead we got 140 characters.’ For those of us working in the enterprise, it’s actually the reverse, “They promised us 140 characters, instead we got Workday.”
Since 2010, SaaS applications were supposed to “consumerize”, but as anyone who has used the majority of SaaS applications released prior to 2014 knows, they are still clunky, punishing interfaces that happen to be hosted in someone else’s datacenter. 2014 is proving to be the year where this changes, with a large wave of new-generation SaaS apps that really deliver on a delightful user experience. Employees and managers are taking notice of these new user-friendly tools, causing adoption to explode from the bottoms up.
Compuware May Have a Future | @CloudExpo [#Cloud #DevOps]
Finance experts say the continued profits from Compuware’s mainframe business will be key to paying off the debt from the company’s $2.4-billion buyout.
A business plan based on giant mainframes might seem precarious and antiquated in today’s era of cloud computing and wearable devices. But industry experts note that predictions of an imminent Death of the Mainframe have been coming for decades and were always proven wrong.
640px-Compuware_logo.svgJason Bloomberg, president of Intellyx, an IT consulting firm, said mainframe computers are still heavily used in industries including banking, insurance, airlines and manufacturing and can be more reliable than putting data in the cloud. He declined to speculate how long mainframes will stay in use.
Playing the Big Hunch: Enterprise Predictions for 2015 By @EmulationFAN
For many of us in the enterprise software industry, modernizing IT while maintaining legacy systems is a tightrope walk where it pays to look ahead, stay balanced, and be nimble.
As 2014 races to a close, those of us focused on terminal emulation software solutions have a responsibility to look ahead and prepare for what the coming year will bring. With an eye toward a very real future, and insights brought by recent technology challenges and innovations, we offer four key predictions that will continue to inform and propel the connection of people to data.
The Mobile Experience By @VZCloud | @CloudExpo [#Cloud]
Mobile commerce traffic is surpassing desktop, yet less than 20% of sales in the U.S. are mobile commerce sales.
In his session at 15th Cloud Expo, Dan Franklin, Segment Manager, Commerce, at Verizon Digital Media Services, defined mobile devices and discussed how next generation means simplification. It means taking your digital content and turning it into instantly gratifying experiences.
12 #Cloud Blogs You Should Have Read in 2014 By @ActiveState | @CloudExpo
Over the past year we’ve published some great posts on the ActiveState blog, all worth a read (if you haven’t already). Phil Whelan (@philwhln), Bernard Golden (@bernardgolden), John Wetherill (@bcferrycoder), and Troy Topnik (@troytop) have contributed some excellent articles on Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS), DevOps, Docker, Cloud Foundry, virtualization, microservices…the list goes on. So in case you missed it, here are 12 cloud computing blogs written in 2014 that you need to read:
Agility and DevOps with @ActiveState | @DevOpsSummit [#DevOps]
“Our premise is Docker is not enough. That’s not a bad thing – we actually love Docker. At ActiveState all our products are based on open source technology and Docker is an up-and-coming piece of open source technology,” explained Bart Copeland, President & CEO of ActiveState Software, in this SYS-CON.tv interview at DevOps Summit at Cloud Expo®, held Nov 4-6, 2014, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA.
The Purposed Cloud with @Stratogent CEO | @CloudExpo [#Cloud]
“We are a managed services company. We have taken the key aspects of the cloud and the purposed data center and merged the two together and launched the Purposed Cloud about 18–24 months ago,” explained Chetan Patwardhan, CEO of Stratogent, in this SYS-CON.tv interview at 15th Cloud Expo, held Nov 4–6, 2014, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA.
Internet of Things and WebRTC with @Acision’s @PDunkley | @ThingsExpo [#IoT #WebRTC]
“In the past year we’ve seen a lot of stabilization of WebRTC. You can now use it in production with a far greater degree of certainty. A lot of the real developments in the past year have been in things like the data channel, which will enable a whole new type of application,” explained Peter Dunkley, Technical Director at Acision, in this SYS-CON.tv interview at @ThingsExpo, held Nov 4–6, 2014, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA.
Connecting Cloud and the Data Center By @MarkleyBoston | @CloudExpo [#Cloud]
Companies in all industries have been moving some aspects of their operations away from traditional IT and data center functions to the cloud – but usually not everything. Doing so can be somewhat scary, for a myriad of reasons, especially if a company’s cloud strategy isn’t locked up, secure and ironed out ahead of time. More often than not, companies are finding their way to the hybrid cloud – commonly defined as the combination of an on-premise cloud or IT operation and a public cloud service.