SOASTA on Tuesday announced complete native app support with mPulse, its award-winning Real User Monitoring (RUM) solution, which now delivers the first and only multi-dimensional views of actual user behavior whether on mobile web, web or native mobile applications. Using the same advanced touch-tracking technology as SOASTA’s TouchTest, mPulse records precise mobile user gestures and actions to monitor native Apple iOS and Google Android mobile applications. Best of all, native app monitoring is delivered instantly, without long delays waiting for app store approval or re-certification.
A Hybrid Future: Blending Public and Private Clouds
“Organizations take time to evolve. That’s why we’re bound for a hybrid future, where public and private clouds blend to create a shared infrastructure that spans application, organization and data center boundaries,” noted Esmeralda Swartz, CMO of MetraTech, in this exclusive Q&A with Cloud Expo conference chairs Larry Carvalho and Vanessa Alvarez.
Cloud Computing Journal: How are cloud standards playing a role in expanding adoption among users? Are standards helping new business models for service providers?
The next steps to avoid a cloud burst
Simon Taylor, Chairman and Co-founder, Next Generation Data
There isn’t much in the way of silver linings when clouds stop working, which they tend to do from time to time. While no doubt you will have put in place comprehensive service level agreements with your providers, these on their own cannot deliver maximum cloud cover.
In the end your cloud lives in a data centre or data centres which could be based anywhere – locally, on the other side of the country, in another country altogether. Unfortunately some of these aren’t always particularly secure or efficient and even the most diligent cloud provider cannot predict or prevent the consequences of data centre downtime caused by power outages, storm damage or security breaches.
Many cloud providers are also often reliant on third party data centres for hosting services being delivered to your business which can cause added complications. But in …
Achieving Business Transformation by Aligning i-SCM with a Robust IT Strategy
Can adapting to the new best practices actually help you gain the business benefits that you are looking for? With the implementation of tools such as the Intelligent Supply Chain Management (iSCM), there are possibilities of ensuring the realization of business goals that reduce the risk of time and costs, overrunning. So, when it comes to the iSCM approach, there are several ways in which companies can succeed with its implementation:
How does iSCM impact overall business benefits?
As a business owner, there may be several instances when meeting customer demands, overcoming uncertainties and reducing costs for manufacturing is virtually impossible. The inclusion of better practices such as the iSCM would help improve the overall situation such as improving real-time visibility of supply chain extensions and the manufacturing operations. Regardless, of the time and effort taken to implement these management system, one can see that it is possible to implement seamless synchrony between the demand and its actual fulfillment. All this will be immediately implementable with the help of real-time analytics and rapid decision-making.
Facilitating your own iSCM solutions can only be done with the help of external advisors such as technological consultants like HCL Tech amongst others offer the following solutions:
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Offering an opportunity assessment within the iSCM solutions offerings
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Touchstone, an HCL Tech trademark offers KPI measurement and better benchmarking solution
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iVision, an HCL Tech trademark offers solutions towards supply chain visibility and collaboration
How can functionalities improve the solution?
Here’s a look at the way in which functionalities can improve the following:
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Capturing customer demand with the ability to accurately forecast demands
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Incorporating operations such as collaborative supply chain planning and execution
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Ensuring supply chain operations are monitored in real-time and highlighting bottlenecks with the supply chain impact
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Creating visibility on end-to-end supply chain data and its processes
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Collaborating with the various stakeholders through various communication platforms such as e-mail, text, portal alerts and other forms
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Improving visibility of partners involved across multi-tiers of supply chain and cloud platforms
What remains to be seen, is whether the implementation of the iSCM systems will improve the overall business performance in the form of successfully integrating with business goals with the expected outcome of the performance.
To know more about the article you can read the case study written by experts at HCL Technologies.
The Cloud Credential Council Releases Executive FedRAMP Certification Course
Addressing the global cloud skills gap is the number one priority to help accelerate the successful adoption of Cloud, according to the Cloud Credential Council. To address the skills gap specifically related to FedRAMP, the Cloud Credential Council has released an online course and exam for FedRAMP authored by leading government cloud expert Kevin L. Jackson.
The Cloud Credential Council Releases Executive FedRAMP Certification Course
Addressing the global cloud skills gap is the number one priority to help accelerate the successful adoption of Cloud, according to the Cloud Credential Council. To address the skills gap specifically related to FedRAMP, the Cloud Credential Council has released an online course and exam for FedRAMP authored by leading government cloud expert Kevin L. Jackson.
Real-Time Fraud Detection in the Cloud
This article explores how to detect fraud among online banking customers in real-time by running an ensemble of statistical and machine learning algorithms on a dataset of customer transactions and demographic data. The algorithms, namely Logistic Regression, Self-Organizing Maps and Support Vector Machines, are operationalized using a multi-agent framework for real-time data analysis. This article also explores the cloud environment for real-time analytics by deploying the agent framework in a cloud environment that meets computational demands by letting users’ provision virtual machines within managed data centers, freeing them from the worry of acquiring and setting up new hardware and networks.
Real-time decision making is becoming increasingly valuable with the advancement of data collection and analytics techniques. Due to the increase in the speed of processing, the classical data warehousing model is moving toward a real-time model. A platform that enables the rapid development and deployment of applications, reducing the lag between data acquisition and actionable insight has become of paramount importance in the corporate world.
The new Nokia is placing its bets on cloud and CEM
Clare McCarthy, Practice Leader, Telco IT
Nokia held its fifth analyst event in advance of the TM Forum’s Management World (TMF Live!) in Nice. After six years under the NSN banner, the company did not hesitate to return to a Nokia brand that fronts a networks business. The “new Nokia” comprises three business units:
- Nokia Networks includes all of its core and radio access network solutions, as well as its customer experience management (CEM) and OSS solutions and services – basically the whole of the former NSN business, which accounts for 90% of new Nokia’s business.
- The business unit Here accounts for Nokia’s mapping arms, including the Navtec acquisition, and accounts for around 7% of revenues.
- Technologies comprises all of Nokia’s patents, including some from its device heritage, and accounts for 3% of revenues.
Objectives for the “new Nokia”
Nokia’s services business, which is included in …
New Cloud Study Shows Fivefold Increase in SaaS Adoption Since 2011
A study of 1358 respondents have shown a dramatic rise in cloud adoption over the past few years. North Bridge Venture Partners, in partnership with GigaOm Research have published the results of the 2014 Future Of Cloud Computing Survey – according to this report, SaaS adoption has grown five-fold since the 2011 to 74% today. PaaS, on the other hand, has seen an even higher rate of growth; a six-fold increase over the past four years to 41%.
Standardizing and Centralizing Data Assets
I was asked by Mr. Peter Hastings (NH DoIT Commissioner) to document the benefits and activities behind the Standardization and Centralization Initiative (SACI). This initiative concerns the standardization of the software configuration management tool, defect tracking tool and standardizing production compiles across the enterprise of state government. In addition this includes the storage of assets for disaster recovery purposes, securing and controlling state source data assets, intellectual property and mission-critical data assets across the enterprise of state government.
This article will cover how the State of NH is working to save money in efficiencies related to standardizing and centralizing state data assets. Every state wants to save money for its citizens and stakeholders but saving money in state government can be a very challenging task. The fact that every agency in state government is basically its own separate entity makes this even more difficult. Initiatives of this size and scope can be complicated to implement if agencies don’t understand the value and don’t feel the need to cooperate or collaborate to achieve success and understand that the savings is in their best interest. In today’s economy no one wants to spend any money to achieve any savings to begin with because they don’t have the money to make any capital investments.