Some cloud-based file sync vendors tout their solutions as viable alternatives for the online backup of business information stored on laptops and desktops. But existing sync products lack a variety of critical backup capabilities, including those required to secure enterprise data. Understanding the differences between cloud-based sync and cloud-based endpoint backup is critical to properly protecting sensitive business information.
In his session at the 12th International Cloud Expo, Andrew Renz, Principal Enterprise Engineer at Code 42, will define cloud-based sync and cloud-based endpoint backup, and provide recommendations for which solution type best meets your data needs. He will share wisdom gained from his experience selecting and/or deploying enterprise backup solutions for Apple, Oracle, Expedia and Intuit.
Strategies for Big Data, Cloud, and Mobile
Large enterprises should not just wade into big data as an isolated function, but should anticipate the strategic effects and impacts of big data — as well the simultaneous complicating factors of cloud computing and mobile — as soon as possible.
When we collect data, we have some sort of goal in minds of what we might get out of it. When we put the pieces from the data together, it either maybe doesn’t fit as well as you thought or you are successful and you continue to do the same thing, gathering archives of information.
Strategies for Big Data, Cloud, and Mobile
Large enterprises should not just wade into big data as an isolated function, but should anticipate the strategic effects and impacts of big data — as well the simultaneous complicating factors of cloud computing and mobile — as soon as possible.
When we collect data, we have some sort of goal in minds of what we might get out of it. When we put the pieces from the data together, it either maybe doesn’t fit as well as you thought or you are successful and you continue to do the same thing, gathering archives of information.
Cloud Expo New York | CEO Insider: Overcoming Cloud Barriers
Bring the solution to your CEO. In his session at the 12th International Cloud Expo, Rob LaMear, CEO & Founder of Fpweb.net, shares his findings while talking cloud with over 1,000 CEOs around the globe. Delegates will learn what cloud barriers exist and how to remove them.
Rob LaMear IV is CEO & Founder of Fpweb.net. He started Fpweb.net from scratch and believes that the key to success has been its people and the energy they bring, hands down. He has been with SharePoint since its inception and his passion for customer care and delivering a premium product has set a new standard in SharePoint Hosting. As much as he likes work and technology, LaMear loves spending time with his family completely unplugged and has never missed an opportunity to join a pickup game of soccer in the park.
HP Sells webOS to LG; Uses Android Itself
HP is selling webOS, the last vestige of its $1.2 billion acquisition of Palm in 2010. The once promising operating system is going to LG, the giant Korean electronics firm, which means to use it in smart TVs.
According to CNET, which broke the story, LG is getting the webOS source code, licenses from HP, patents from Palm, related documentation, engineering talent and related webOS web sites on undisclosed terms.
LG said it was definitely not using the widgetry in a smartphone. It’s got Android for that.
LG also said webOS will remain open source and supposedly it won’t be forked.
HP is retaining rights to webOS solutions and to webOS cloud technologies, including its apps catalogue and updating service.
Samsung Uses Centrify for Safer Android Platform
Centrify has signed its biggest contract ever.
Samsung has OEM’d Centrify’s Active Directory-based security and cloud identity technology intending to put the widgetry on millions of its notoriously insecure Android-based smartphones and tablets to out BlackBerry.
BlackBerry is generally acknowledged to have the most secure mobile devices and, having made its bones in the consumer space, where it’s now far and away the leader, Samsung is out to woo the enterprise customer helped along by the problems besetting BlackBerry and spooking its users.
Does Your Cloud Quiesce? It Should
Quiescence, in a nutshell, is your mom telling you to “finish what you’re doing but don’t start anything new, we’re getting ready to go”.
It’s an integral capability of load balancers (of enterprise-class load balancers, at least) that enables the graceful shutdown of application instances for a variety of purposes (patches, scheduled maintenance, etc… ).
In more modern architectures this capability forms the foundation for non-disruptive (and thus live) migration of virtual machines.During the process the VM is moved and launched in location Y, the load balancer continues to send requests to the same VM in location X. Once the VM is available in location Y, the load balancer will no longer send new requests to location X but will continue to manage existing connections until they are complete.
Cloud bursting, too, is enabled by the ability of a load balancer to quiesce connections at a global layer (virtual pattern) and at the local layer (bridged pattern).
Load balancers must be able to support a “finish what’s been started but don’t start anything new” mode of operation on any given application.
CipherCloud Protects Box
CipherCloud, the cloud information protection start-up, has moved its encryption platform to Box.com to make it safer for any organization that uses Box’ ostensibly secure file-sharing widgetry and by default encourage cloud adoption by those spooked at the mere thought of putting data in the cloud despite the cloud’s obvious collaborative and cost advantages.
CipherCloud’s open platform provides encryption, tokenization, malware detection and user activity auditing that forestalls downloads of confidential content based on security policies.
Velocity is Key to Cloud Maturity
When you think Cloud, whether Private or Public, one of the key advantages that comes to mind is speed of deployment. All businesses crave the ability to simply go to a service portal, define their infrastructure requirements and immediately have a platform ready for their new application. Coupled with that you instantly have service level agreements that generally centre on uptime and availability.
Velocity is Key to Cloud Maturity
When you think Cloud, whether Private or Public, one of the key advantages that comes to mind is speed of deployment. All businesses crave the ability to simply go to a service portal, define their infrastructure requirements and immediately have a platform ready for their new application. Coupled with that you instantly have service level agreements that generally centre on uptime and availability.