Mobile is almost old news now isn’t it? What more can we say about how important mobile technology is in the workplace? The visionary CIO trusts in a mobile device future with employees securely connecting to the corporate datacenter from an array of tightly locked-down devices – stop me if you’ve heard this one before.
Workers are “empowered” via mobile smartphones, tablets and laptops to work anywhere securely with appropriate controls and policies in place across the corporate IT stack to ensure that security is never an issue.
So What Kind of Consultant Are You?
Yesterday over lunch, a good friend of mine from the Limelight Marketing Group and I started talking about my recent transition. As you can imagine being in the DC metro area our discussion centered on the many business challenges associated with sequestration and our deadlocked government leaders. After a short while, she then hit me with the quintessential question,”So what kind of consultant are you?”
“Our baseline offerings are social media, business analytics, cyber security and hybrid information technology (IT) ecosystems. The modern organization continually engages its customers, constituents and stakeholders through social media. Analytics provides institutional knowledge of those customers needs and wants. Cyber security protects your customers, their transactions and your business processes. Finally, your hybrid IT ecosystem delivers your essential business processes – commerce, offering catalog, service delivery and customer support – through a cloud-based business engine.”
AppZero to Exhibit at Cloud Expo 2014 New York
SYS-CON Events announced today that AppZero, the fastest way to move enterprise applications to the cloud, 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, NY.
AppZero, the fast, flexible way to move server applications can migrate your apps from an old OS to a newer one. Microsoft recommends AppZero Enterprise for application migration for a variety of applications from Windows Server 2003 to either Windows Server 2012 or Windows Azure.
Platform-as-a-Service Offerings Grow in the Cloud
Add another fill-in-the-blank-as-a-service that’s making waves in the cloud.
Verizon, which just recently launched a major overhaul to its cloud platform, announced plans to integrate the VMware/EMC-backed Cloud Foundry open-source platform-as-a-service (PaaS) initiative into its offering, according to an article on Networkworld.com.
Here’s why that news is important: the PaaS market is getting awfully crowded, awfully fast. Seen by many as a secondary player in the cloud compared to the much larger and more robust IaaS and SaaS markets, the PaaS industry has in recent months become a focus for many of the leading cloud computing vendors. PaaS could be an important initiative in the cloud because of what it enables.
Most PaaS are a cloud-based application development platform used to build apps that are hosted in the cloud. Others view the PaaS market, especially open source PaaS tools like Cloud Foundry and others, as being an intermediary that acts as a portal to access infrastructure from Amazon, OpenStack or other IaaS. More vendors are getting in on the PaaS action.
SYS-CON Events Announces Axis Communications to Exhibit at Cloud Expo NY
SYS-CON Events announced today that Axis Communications, the market leader in network video surveillance, 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, NY.
Axis is the market leader in network video and a driving force behind the shift from analog to digital video surveillance, which enables a smarter, safer world. Axis offers network video solutions for professional installations featuring products and solutions that are based on innovative and open technical platforms.
AppZero Collaborates with Microsoft to Support Windows Server
AppZero, a fast, more flexible way to move server applications, announced on Monday a collaboration with Microsoft in which Microsoft is recommending AppZero for moving a variety of applications from Windows Server 2003, which reaches the end of extended support in July, 2015, to Microsoft’s newer operating systems. The collaboration will help educate Systems Integrators and enterprises about the benefits of Windows Server 2012, Windows Server Hyper-V, and Windows Azure.
AppZero extracts existing applications, leaving the operating system behind, and migrates the applications to a new machine. Many applications can be moved without code changes from older operating systems to Windows Server 2012 and Windows Azure with AppZero’s enterprise migration tool. AppZero will be providing support for Windows Server 2012 R2 by the end of 2013.
Making the Cloud a Little Safer for Healthcare
We’ve touched on cloud security risks here on the Ananova blog in the past. In case you missed any of the articles, here’s a quick fact: cloud hosting is just as risky as traditional hosting. While it may seem as if it is more vulnerable to hacker attacks, that is just simply not true. It’s all in the way you store your data, and the strength of the password that protects it.
When you turn to cloud hosting for the healthcare industry, it becomes even more important to follow best practices. You don’t want the medical records, social security numbers, imaging files like x-rays and MRIs, and other confidential data to be compromised!
Making the Cloud a Little Safer for Healthcare
We’ve touched on cloud security risks here on the Ananova blog in the past. In case you missed any of the articles, here’s a quick fact: cloud hosting is just as risky as traditional hosting. While it may seem as if it is more vulnerable to hacker attacks, that is just simply not true. It’s all in the way you store your data, and the strength of the password that protects it.
When you turn to cloud hosting for the healthcare industry, it becomes even more important to follow best practices. You don’t want the medical records, social security numbers, imaging files like x-rays and MRIs, and other confidential data to be compromised!
Cloud Brokerage: Cloud-As-We’d-Like-It-To-Be | Part 2
In a previous blog we introduced the topic of cloud-as-it-is versus cloud as-we’d like-it-to-be. The cloud services broker (CSB) business model is gaining momentum as one way to turn the cloud into as-we’d-like-it-to-be. CSB is a term used for the activity of brokerage and also for the software that supports that brokerage activity. What is it all about?
The Gartner guys have defined it in this way: “CSB is an IT role and business model in which a company or other entity adds value to one or more (public or private) cloud services on behalf of one or more consumers of that service via three primary roles including aggregation, integration and customization brokerage. A CSB enabler provides technology to implement CSB, and a CSB provider offers combined technology, people and methodologies to implement and manage CSB-related projects.”
What Does the Cloud Mean for ERP?
The gap is widening between legacy ERP and cloud ERP as traditional on-premise tools are shifting toward delivery of applications over the Internet. The sudden growth spurt for ERP in the cloud is largely driven by the vast cost savings resulting from the increased productivity and efficiency that characterize the move to web-based business applications.
Industry insiders have recently begun to draw attention to the upsurge in new ERP developers as an indication that the competitive landscape has shifted, and that long established players will need to adapt in order to maintain their market share in the years ahead.