SYS-CON Events announced today that the International Association of Privacy Professionals will exhibit at SYS-CON’s 14th International Cloud Expo®, which will take place on June 10–12, 2014, at the Javits Center in New York City, New York.
The International Association of Privacy Professionals (IAPP) is the largest and most comprehensive global information privacy community and resource, helping practitioners develop and advance their careers and organizations manage and protect their data. A non-for-profit association, the IAPP helps define, support and improve the privacy profession globally.
A New Way to Send and Receive Payments
Arlington Computer Products improved their financial processes and operations using the new AribaPay cloud-based B2B payment service.
Agile business services are entering into a new era, an integrated and on-demand approach to ordering, billing, and settlement processes between buyers and seller. A prime example is Ariba’s partnership with Discover, the financial services organization, to create AribaPay.
At the recent 2014 Ariba LIVE Conference in Las Vegas, BriefingsDirect had an opportunity to learn first-hand how the new approach works and benefits a first major user, ACP. To understand how AribaPay fulfills the last critical step in an end-to-end P2P process, we sat down with Arly Guenther, Chief Executive Officer at Arlington Computer Products in Buffalo Grove, Illinois, and Drew Hofler, Manage Cash Solution Marketing Director at Ariba, an SAP company. The discussion is moderated by me, Dana Gardner, Principal Analyst at Interarbor Solutions.
It’s advantage to IBM in the Asia-Pacific cloud race
Adrian Ho, Principal Analyst, Enterprise
There is mounting enthusiasm for cloud services in the Asia-Pacific region, and enterprises are building the business case for cloud. The ultimate aim for enterprises is to build secure but extremely agile ICT infrastructures that will allow them to be nimble and innovative, and to move faster than their competitors. The cloud dividend delivers the highest yield for enterprises if it can help them to achieve that competitive advantage over their peers.
A series of cloud announcements at IBM Impact potentially put clear water between IBM and its competitors in the region. The company gave details of its highly anticipated Cloud Marketplace, which will be driven by role-based service offerings. In addition, it has launched integration services that help enterprises integrate and orchestrate their complex hybrid cloud environments. More importantly, with BlueMix IBM is building a developer and independent software vendor (ISV) community that will …
Why Amazon and Netflix are embroiled in the fight of the century
The battle for viewership in the streaming age is well and truly joined. Amazon and Netflix, the two leading players in this market, have both redoubled their efforts to get the upper hand in market share, creating original programming and investing in its infrastructure.
Netflix, notably, has a ‘Long Term View’, first outlined a year ago and updated several times since, asserting that as “apps are replacing channels, remote controls are disappearing, and screens are proliferating…linear TV is popular, but ripe for replacement.”
Amazon, however, has an industry leading cloud infrastructure behind it, as well as $61bn in revenue compared to Netflix’s $3.6bn. Netflix, not surprisingly, has the upper hand in terms of subscribers, but it’s not an open and shut case – 30m for Netflix with 7.8m outside the US, compared to 10m for Amazon Prime. Crucially, two thirds (67%) of streaming subscribers use Netflix …
Why Amazon and Netflix are embroiled in the fight of the century
The battle for viewership in the streaming age is well and truly joined. Amazon and Netflix, the two leading players in this market, have both redoubled their efforts to get the upper hand in market share, creating original programming and investing in its infrastructure.
Netflix, notably, has a ‘Long Term View’, first outlined a year ago and updated several times since, asserting that as “apps are replacing channels, remote controls are disappearing, and screens are proliferating…linear TV is popular, but ripe for replacement.”
Amazon, however, has an industry leading cloud infrastructure behind it, as well as $61bn in revenue compared to Netflix’s $3.6bn. Netflix, not surprisingly, has the upper hand in terms of subscribers, but it’s not an open and shut case – 30m for Netflix with 7.8m outside the US, compared to 10m for Amazon Prime. Crucially, two thirds (67%) of streaming subscribers use Netflix …
See Inside Your Cloud
Server virtualization is no longer hype. It¹s reality. But as the infrastructure has converged, with server virtualization leading consolidation efforts, blind spots now exist causing more and more data to be hidden from enterprise tools. With more emphasis on data analysis for application performance and customer experience monitoring, virtualization teams are challenged to deliver visibility for virtual server traffic.
The Five Biggest Data Center Trends of 2014
Data centers managers and system administrators have a lot to keep up with in 2014. The way we store and process data is changing rapidly, making data centers easier to manage, more environmentally friendly, and cost effective. While this post doesn’t cover all of the ways that data centers are changing, here’s a look at some of the top data center trends going on this year:
Flash storage – Though still expensive, the cost of flash storage has been falling in recent years. It can handle data at much faster rates than conventional hard disks, which makes them an attractive option for managers weighing performance over cost.
Bringing Your Legacy Apps to the Cloud
Getting your new applications into the cloud is a relatively simple procedure. However, enterprises are faced with a large number of existing applications in their current portfolio that may not be ready for the new cloud world. Before migrating legacy apps to the cloud, like moving to a new house, enterprises need to assess their current portfolio of apps and determine what they should consolidate, what they should get rid of and what they should keep.
But deciding what to keep is only half of the equation. Enterprises need to understand how some application properties and the development process need to change in order to have a successful migration. Companies can reduce their costs significantly by optimizing their applications development and maintenance. Moving away from the “old way” to the “new way” not only results in saving money, but will also result in saving significant time.
Bringing Your Legacy Apps to the Cloud
Getting your new applications into the cloud is a relatively simple procedure. However, enterprises are faced with a large number of existing applications in their current portfolio that may not be ready for the new cloud world. Before migrating legacy apps to the cloud, like moving to a new house, enterprises need to assess their current portfolio of apps and determine what they should consolidate, what they should get rid of and what they should keep.
But deciding what to keep is only half of the equation. Enterprises need to understand how some application properties and the development process need to change in order to have a successful migration. Companies can reduce their costs significantly by optimizing their applications development and maintenance. Moving away from the “old way” to the “new way” not only results in saving money, but will also result in saving significant time.
How Does the Network Change in a Cloud World?
Most enterprises are already considering how to enable their private clouds within their environment. The challenge today is how does the network adapt to this changing environment? How does the flexibility of a cloud operational model change the network? What does it mean for IT and network administrators?
In her session at 14th Cloud Expo, Kelly Wanser, Founder and CEO of Stateless Networks, will discuss:
The challenges with today’s networks
What the software-defined datacenter in a cloud world requires
IT’s role in building the network to power the new datacenter