How many net-connected doodads are secure? The answer: none of them. Every device is woefully unprotected from various attacks, and to make matters worse, many of them might contain confidential information ripe for the picking. And if all that weren’t sufficiently disconcerting, the vendors of such miscellany aren’t particularly motivated to make them secure – even if they knew how to do it properly. Which they don’t. Nevertheless, we blindly forge ahead, building out the Internet of Things (IoT), as though the security issues will somehow resolve themselves. Just how worried should we be?
Private cloud and elasticity: Friends or foes?
Too often companies are faced with a choice: elasticity or security.
On the upside, the benefits of cloud computing are achieved through elasticity as much as anything else. As Craig Sheridan notes:
“More specifically then, elasticity in the cloud is the ability of an application to automatically adjust the infrastructure resources it uses to accommodate varied workloads and priorities, while maintaining availability and performance in a context-aware environment.”
Elasticity, then, enables businesses to tap into what can be understood as the cost saving mechanisms of cloud. The ability to scale up and down resources as you need them enables businesses to pay for what they actually use rather than provisioning a guestimate for what they will need and accepting the potential money lost.
However, for many enterprises, elasticity of cloud is at odds with their current abilities. These enterprise architectures are not designed to take advantage of elasticity benefits for …
AWS re:Invent 2013 – F5 AWS Solutions (feat. Pearce & Huang)
It’s an all Nathan Pearce Wednesday at F5’s AWS booth. I meet with Sr. Technical Marketing Manager Nathan Pearce – who also pulls in Geoff Huang, Dir, Product Management – to chat about all the F5 solutions for AWS. We talk Bring Your Own License, pay by the hour along with the free F5 test drive on AWS.
AWS re:Invent 2013 – F5 AWS Solutions (feat. Pearce & Huang)
It’s an all Nathan Pearce Wednesday at F5’s AWS booth. I meet with Sr. Technical Marketing Manager Nathan Pearce – who also pulls in Geoff Huang, Dir, Product Management – to chat about all the F5 solutions for AWS. We talk Bring Your Own License, pay by the hour along with the free F5 test drive on AWS.
AWS re:Invent 2013 – Cloud Migration Reference Architecture (feat. Pearce)
I meet with Sr. Technical Marketing Manager Nathan to whiteboard his Cloud Migration reference architecture. Instead of a temporary, short term cloud burst, now we discuss migrating applications to the cloud…as in a DevOps scenario.
AWS re:Invent 2013 – Cloud Migration Reference Architecture (feat. Pearce)
I meet with Sr. Technical Marketing Manager Nathan to whiteboard his Cloud Migration reference architecture. Instead of a temporary, short term cloud burst, now we discuss migrating applications to the cloud…as in a DevOps scenario.
Akamai – Improving the User Experience with Innovation
Every day, technology is advancing and becoming more futuristic to meet the demands of the end users. Each company is seen vying with one another to improve their products and services and to be the first in the market to introduce their wares. Of course all are not successful, and only a few emerge as leaders; Akamai is seen as the foremost provider of ground-breaking cloud technology. The reason being is the company comes out with innovative technologies that meet with the users’ approval and needs on the button along with round the clock support for customers.
The foremost of the latest innovations we see is the improved security on their ground-breaking cloud platform with no compromise whatsoever on operation that the individual, firms and businesses are looking out for. The Akamai Intelligent Platform has become even more of a boon to users with its acquisition of FastTCP technology as proved by the increase in upgraded functioning which boosted to 105 % in China, 8% in Japan, 15% in North America and 22% in Europe. The Akamai customer can now enjoy faster downloads on anything on the internet from games to videos.
Akamai – Improving the User Experience with Innovation
Every day, technology is advancing and becoming more futuristic to meet the demands of the end users. Each company is seen vying with one another to improve their products and services and to be the first in the market to introduce their wares. Of course all are not successful, and only a few emerge as leaders; Akamai is seen as the foremost provider of ground-breaking cloud technology. The reason being is the company comes out with innovative technologies that meet with the users’ approval and needs on the button along with round the clock support for customers.
The foremost of the latest innovations we see is the improved security on their ground-breaking cloud platform with no compromise whatsoever on operation that the individual, firms and businesses are looking out for. The Akamai Intelligent Platform has become even more of a boon to users with its acquisition of FastTCP technology as proved by the increase in upgraded functioning which boosted to 105 % in China, 8% in Japan, 15% in North America and 22% in Europe. The Akamai customer can now enjoy faster downloads on anything on the internet from games to videos.
On-Premise or Cloud ERP – Which Is Right for Your Business?
If you want to implement an ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) system, then you will undoubtedly have to answer a lot of questions before you can be sure that the system will run smoothly. But before anything, you should ask a simple question about deployment. Will you need to host your ERP system on-premise using your own servers or will you be using a SaaS (Software-as-a-Service) provider? It will be a major decision, since you will need to choose who handles the hardware and software.
Big companies usually tend to want to deploy on-premises. This could be a because of paranoia, but big companies want total control over their data. But many smaller companies will opt to choose the SaaS method so they can save on upfront capital expenditures. Since they won’t have to buy their own hardware, the SaaS option will be cheaper (at least in the short-term).
But between the largest and smallest companies, there are businesses in the middle that have to make a tough choice. To make the best decision, they will need to weight three variables: total cost of ownership, customization options, and integration.
Accelerate the SDLC with Service Virtualization
Learn why Service Virtualization is a must-have for accelerating the SDLC and bringing higher quality functionality to the market faster—at a lower cost.
No matter what industry you’re in, software is increasingly becoming the interface to your business. Organizations that are able to increase the speed and quality of innovative software releases will capitalize on differentiable competitive advantages; those that cannot will languish behind competitors.
Not surprisingly, many enterprises have begun flirting with the idea of accelerating the SDLC to drive innovation through software. However, it’s critical to realize that there’s an optimal balance between speed and quality with software delivery-as with all engineered products. We’re in an era in which leading organizations must reassess the true “cost of quality” for software. Remember: the cost of quality isn’t the price of creating quality software-it’s the penalty or risk incurred by failing to deliver quality software.