Data security has long been thought the exclusive domain of large enterprises. Why would cyber-criminals bother with small and midsized companies when the big prizes are to be found hacking into large organizations?
Unfortunately an increasing number of smaller companies find themselves at risk of infiltration, antivirus corruption, and data theft. Hackers are catching on that smaller offices are a softer target. Security in these organizations is generally looser as they often lack the financial resources for a comprehensive security system.
Announcing @Cisco Named “Gold Sponsor” of @CloudExpo 2015 NY | @CiscoCloud [#Cloud]
SYS-CON Events announced today that Cisco, the worldwide leader in IT that transforms how people connect, communicate and collaborate, has been named “Gold Sponsor” of SYS-CON’s 16th International Cloud Expo®, which will take place on June 9-11, 2015, at the Javits Center in New York City, NY.
Cisco makes amazing things happen by connecting the unconnected. Cisco has shaped the future of the Internet by becoming the worldwide leader in transforming how people connect, communicate and collaborate. Cisco and our partners are building the platform for the Internet of Everything by connecting the world of many clouds into the global interconnected Intercloud.
Cloud365 moves in to Equinix’s Melbourne data centre for Australian cloud push
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Equinix has announced that app hosting provider Cloud365 has selected its first Melbourne data centre to consolidate its push in Australia.
With Cloud365’s infrastructure deployed across Australia, New Zealand, Singapore and the US, the deal makes sense geographically as the Melbourne ME1 data centre can allow a high-speed, low latency and high availability cloud environment for its customers.
The deal represents a significant win for Equinix, who partnered up with Google last month to deliver services across three continents, including New York, Atlanta and Frankfurt, the current data centre darling.
“Cloud is the key driver for our clients and we’re seeing growing demand from customers as they realise the benefits of not having to invest in their own infrastructure and network capacity,” said Darren Moss, general manager and founder of Cloud365. “Equinix allows us to reduce costs and optimise infrastructure, giving us freedom to be great at what we do by serving our customers in migrating them to the cloud at the application layer.”
The state of the cloud in Asia Pacific is expected to grow to $31.9bn (£17.2bn) in 2020, from $6.9bn (£3.7bn) last year. The Asia Cloud Computing Association (ACCA) puts out yearly reports on the market, and this year’s version (pdf) saw the Pacific entrants – New Zealand and Australia – gain four places each, to second and third respectively.
Elsewhere, data released today from Synergy Research has found that Equinix is the market leader in three of the main seven countries for retail colocation revenues. The Redwood firm ranks highest in the US, the UK and Germany, with the US far and away the leader in global revenue with over 30% share.
“Looking ahead, the colocation market is actually reasonably well insulated against the huge shift in enterprises pushing IT workloads to the cloud,” commented Synergy Research chief analyst John Dinsdale. “The market will continue to grow.”
‘Cowboys & Bureaucrats’ with @QubellInc | @DevOpsSummit [#DevOps]
“We have developers who are really passionate about getting their code out to customers, no matter what, in the shortest possible time. Operations are very focused on procedures and policies,” explained Stan Klimoff, CTO of Qubell, in this SYS-CON.tv interview at DevOps Summit, held Nov 4–6, 2014, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA.
ES6 & Javascript in Harmony
ECMAScript 6 brings powerful new capabilities and some tasty syntactical sugar to the ubiquitous Javascript language, as it continues to grab an ever increasing slice of developer mindshare.
Now that the ES6 feature set is frozen and just minor refinements will be made over the coming months, much of this new functionality has already landed in modern browsers, and will continue to roll out with each new browser update.
For the impatient, there are also now several excellent precompile / polyfill / shim tools available, so you can start using these new features immediately; safely knowing that your code will run ‘natively’ on every Javascript platform.
Using Eclipse and WebLogic, Deploy to the Cloud
My first blog showed how to move to Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) using Tomcat. This blog will show how to do the same using WebLogic Server, deploying webapps via eclipse to a remote WebLogic instance running in the cloud.
Let’s say we plan to move our app to production on Amazon Elastic Cloud (EC2). We have already developed the application using eclipse and have tested it on WebLogic running locally. Now, we may want to test our app on an EC2 environment before moving to production.
‘Different Clouds’ Presentation By @CiscoCloud | @CloudExpo [#Cloud]
As cloud gives an opportunity to businesses to buy services externally – how is cloud impacting your customers?
In his General Session at 15th Cloud Expo, Fabio Gori, Director of Worldwide Cloud Marketing at Cisco, provided answers to big questions: Do you see hybrid cloud as where the world is going? What benefits does it bring? And how does Cisco connect all of these clouds? He also discussed Intercloud and Cisco’s investment on it.
Internet of Things NY Keynote Proposals Now Open | @ThingsExpo [#IoT]
The 3rd International @ThingsExpo, co-located with the 16th International Cloud Expo – to be held June 9-11, 2015, at the Javits Center in New York City, NY – announces that it is now accepting Keynote Proposals.
The Internet of Things (IoT) is the most profound change in personal and enterprise IT since the creation of the Worldwide Web more than 20 years ago.
All major researchers estimate there will be tens of billions devices – computers, smartphones, tablets, and sensors – connected to the Internet by 2020. This number will continue to grow at a rapid pace for the next several decades.
Tech News Recap for the Week of 11/24/2014
With a short week due to Thanksgiving, here’s a quick tech news recap of articles you may have missed.
Tech News Recap
New Malware has been used for surveillance in 10 countries including Russia and Mexico. A study has found that Internet of Things in the enterprise is up three-fold since 2012. VMware is currently offering a 25% discount on vSOM. Computerworld provided its 2015 predictions around IT spending. The adoption of cloud computing continues to accelerate in the enterprise space. Ebay pulled it’s app from the App Store and InformationWeek provided a list of 10 Windows Tablets and Laptops that are under $200 to keep in mind as the holidays approach.
- Cloud Computing Adoption Continues Accelerating In the Enterprise
- VMware is offering a 25% vSOM discount that ends December 31st!
- New Malware Used for Surveillance in 10 Countries, Symantec Says
- Hacker Disrupts Government Websites in Canada
- IoT in the Enterprise Up Three-Fold, Study Finds
- Health IT Success Hinges on CIO-Business Collaboration
- Senator Tom Coburn agrees that Bitcoin is not legal currency
- Computerworld’s 2015 Forecast Predicts Security, Cloud Computing and Analytics Will Lead IT Spending
- 10 Windows Tablets, Laptops Under $200 – Holiday Steals
- BYOD needs to shift to account for wearables
- Five Trends That Will Drive Data Storage in 2015
- Ebay Pulled From App Store As Company Rethinks Its Same-Day Delivery Plans
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UX for the ‘Internet of Things’ By @PARCinc | @ThingsExpo [#IoT]
One of the biggest challenges when developing connected devices is identifying user value and delivering it through successful user experiences.
In his session at Internet of @ThingsExpo, Mike Kuniavsky, Principal Scientist, Innovation Services at PARC, described an IoT-specific approach to user experience design that combines approaches from interaction design, industrial design and service design to create experiences that go beyond simple connected gadgets to create lasting, multi-device experiences grounded in people’s real needs and desires.