SYS-CON Events announced today that SecurityStockWatch.com has been named “Media Sponsor” of SYS-CON’s 11th International Cloud Expo, which will take place on November 5–8, 2012, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA.
SecurityStockWatch.com is the #1 security solutions portal for “Secure ID Solutions” and “Fraud Prevention Solutions.” We invite you to visit Google to verify our top rankings first hand. Our B2B and B2Gov channel reaches your target markets and based on our demographics and traffic, we can assure your company of an excellent business development opportunity. What is YOUR cloud computing solution?
Hybrid Clouds – Beyond the Private Cloud Horizon
The million dollar question has been “Can an organization move all its applications to a public cloud?”. Instead of moving all applications to the public cloud, many organizations are choosing a hybrid approach where on-premise resources can be leveraged and can interact with external resources. A hybrid cloud is a combination of public, private and community clouds. Most private clouds are internal, however there can be situations where private clouds are hosted at a vendor site. For this discussion, I am focusing on the private clouds that are hosted internal to the organization. Utilizing hybrid clouds may require redesigning systems based on a determination of what data resides internally and what data can be moved externally. Generally organizations choose to have critical and sensitive data reside internally and move non-sensitive data outside the organization. Core business applications or services can be retained internally and can interact with the non core applications or services that can reside external to the organization. One of the programs I led in the past used the public cloud to gather non sensitive information and subsequently this data was funneled internally. This information was then manipulated and rendered for applications that performed customer reporting and related business intelligence.
ByteHouse Offering to Make Your ‘Web Hosting Life Easier’ with Plesk 11
Parallels has always been the leader in the web hosting control panel market and we are pleased to be a launch partner and provide their latest and most advance feature packed version to all our web hosting clients. Plesk 11 is an easy to use language rich control panel that has addressed many of the concerns of the web hosting community with an upgrade of the reseller package that enables users to have complete control of their customer facing stores, discounts, billing and US and international taxation.
The new feature rich product also provides you Parallel’s upgraded site builder re-branded “Web presence builder” that provides an easy to use point and click drag and drop instant web site builder. There are over 100 pre-configured templates to cater to the myriad of small business and hobbies that you may have. For those more adventurous, you have the option of clicking on the hundreds of open source applications such as WordPress or Drupal web development products and downloading them pre-configured hassle free.
“We are excited to offer such a powerful and extensive range of feature rich products to our web hosting customers that we believe will make their web hosting life easier whilst having greater control of their hosting environments” says Fred Jones, ByteHouse product development manager.
How Web Content Filtering is Affected by Social Networking
Research and Markets has added Frost & Sullivan’s new report “Analysis of Global Web Content Filtering Market” to their offering. anylises
The prevention of malware exposure, content liabilities, and meeting government compliance has grown significantly in demand in the last three years. However, vendors are in a constant state of competition in which acquisitions, partnerships, volatile rebranding, consolidation, and aggressive pricing structures have created global strategic and tactical marketing. Cloud solutions have become a disruptive technology for on-premise appliances where cloud solutions are seen as a new way to reduce total cost of ownership (TCO) and capital expenditures (CAPEX). Mobile and remote devices are becoming a new paradigm for corporate environments with laptops, tablets, and smartphones as a major concern.
-Web 2.0 applications such as Facebook and Twitter, along with a growing establishment of new Web sites, opened new channels for malware distributors to perform malicious attacks.
-Organizations face the complexity of managing evolving malware, maintaining productivity, and meeting compliance.
-Number of malicious sites identified each day, percent of legitimate sites compromised by malware distributors.
-Employees have become a liability to an organization’s security; throughout 2011 major corporations experienced security breaches as a result of Web 2.0 Web site access.
-Access to inappropriate content such as pornography, violence, and racism can create litigations and lawsuits that could range in the millions of dollars.
-Loss of productivity remains a top concern with executives, where content management becomes highly complex and laborious.
-Social networking sites can cause productivity concerns because of cyber slacking activities.
-Large enterprises seek solutions offering simplified, single-console management features that can control a large number of devices and users.
-Web content filtering vendors must address requirements presented by legacy systems, different platforms, and a variety of information technology (IT) environments in enterprises.
-Additional features such as data loss prevention (DLP), antivirus, and network optimization tools are becoming increasingly integrated within secure Web gateway solutions.
-Cloud computing, or software-as-a-service (SaaS) Web content filtering solutions, provide SME’s with low total cost of ownership (TCO) and efficient offsite filtering abilities.
-Partnerships with major Web 2.0 sites and major acquisitions of smaller security vendors indicate a new trend in achieving market leadership and penetration.
-Frost & Sullivan believes convergence of Web content filtering with additional security solutions will become the new paradigm within the next five years.
For more information visit http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/2mgc9n/analysis_of_global
The Web Host Industry Review “Media Sponsor” of Cloud Expo Silicon Valley
SYS-CON Events announced today that The Web Host Industry Review has been named “Media Sponsor” of SYS-CON’s 11th International Cloud Expo, which will take place on November 5–8, 2012, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA.
Since 2000, The Web Host Industry Review has made a name for itself as the foremost authority of the Web hosting industry providing reliable, insightful and comprehensive news, reviews and resources to the hosting community. TheWHIR Blogs provides a community of expert industry perspectives. The Web Host Industry Review Magazine also offers a business-minded, issue-driven perspective of interest to executives and decision-makers. WHIR TV offers on demand web hosting video interviews and web hosting video features of the key persons and events of the web hosting industry. WHIR Events brings together like-minded hosting industry professionals and decision-makers in local communities. TheWHIR is an iNET Interactive property.
Dating site dumps Amazon EC2: “100% uptime a required SLA”
The storm which accounted for Amazon’s cloud outage over the weekend has resulted in one company ditching the AWS system over fears of further unavailability.
From 2300 EST on June 30 users of several high profile sites such as Pinterest, Netflix and Instagram were unable to access content, with AWS “investigating connectivity issues”. The issue was resolved by 0054 EST on June 31 but updates on power restoration appeared sporadically throughout the day.
It appears, however, that for one company this downtime was the final straw.
WhatsYourPrice.com, an online dating service which allows users to arrange dates by naming their price, has gone its own way with Amazon following the provider’s latest EC2 outage. Reports state that WhatsYourPrice.com has now upped sticks and moved to Las Vegas-based cloud provider FiberHub.
Perhaps the most worrying aspect of this was that, according to WhatsYourPrice, Amazon’s support team …
A New Open Journal on Data Science
Springer has introduced a new open, peer-reviewed journal focused on Data Science: EPJ Data Science. What makes this a Data Science journal is novel uses of statistics, data analysis, computer techniques and public data sources to research a topic in another domain, rather than methodological research. Here are a few examples of the papers you’ll find in the journal: A confirmation of the “Pollyanna Hypothesis” that we use more positive words than negative words (and so negative sentiments carry more weight than positive ones). An analysis of the Love Parade disaster, using photographs, satellite images, and public documents to investigate…
David Smith
Cloud and the Clichéd Vendor Lock-in
I started my career in late 90s selling Microsoft Application Platform that included the servers and the developer tools. One of the most common customer objections that I used to handle was “vendor lock-in”. Every time I pitched MS SQL Server or Visual Basic, the immediate concern from the customers was getting locked into the Microsoft platform.
A decade later, “Vendor lock-in” still remains a hurdle that the technical sales rep has to go through. But the landscape has changed significantly. Now the vendor lock-in argument has shifted to the Cloud. I often hear lock-in in the context of Amazon Web Services. AWS competitors use the lock-in factor to create FUD among the customers with a hope to increase their sales prospects. But how much of this is a real concern? Should businesses be really worried about getting locked into one platform?
IEEE Computer Society “Association Sponsor” of Cloud Expo Silicon Valley
SYS-CON Events announced today that The IEEE Computer Society has been named “Association Sponsor” of SYS-CON’s 11th International Cloud Expo, which will take place on November 5–8, 2012, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA.
The IEEE Computer Society is the computing professional’s single, unmatched source for technology information, inspiration and collaboration. By making the most up-to-date and advanced information in the computing world easily accessible, we are the source that computing professionals trust to provide high quality, state-of-the-art information on an on-demand basis.
SMBs Looking Toward the Clouds
I read an interesting article the other day by a German employee of Fujitsu, in which he noted that 99% of German companies fit the definition of small to medium businesses, and are therefore prime candidates to benefit from cloud computing.
He was describing the legendary German “mittelstand,” legions of primarily family-owned businesses that have often been around for centuries. Traditional, yet flexible enough to adapt continually to consequential trends and remain in business.
The US offers similar numbers of SMBs and a reasonable facsimile of the German family-owned tradition. I was struck by this especially last week, when I visited a few such businesses in the region of rural Illinois where I’ve been based the past few months. One was a construction materials company, another a landscaping company, another a small publisher.
Each have adopted in recent years, moving from paper forms and shoeboxes to laptops, wireless networks, thumb drives, and all the rest. Now they are moving toward, or at least considering, cloud computing.
The construction materials company produces, among other things, as many as 100 heavy, custom-designed concrete blocks for residential and commercial fences. It contracts with local concrete producers to get its raw materials, and get them where they need to be. In another part of its business, precision, radio-controlled elevators and chutes have replaced labor-intensive wheelbarrows. RFID provides inventory control that was unthought of in the past.
The landscaping company now tracks the amount of times spent on every aspect of all of its jobs through custom USB devices, uses the real-time data to ameliorate bottlenecks, and the archived data to show compliance with state and federal regulations. The owners now want to license their software and delivery system to the thousands of similar small landscaping firms throughout the US.
The publisher has been designing on Macs for a generation, but still relies on its own servers. A spring thunderstorm recently gorked the system, seriously threatening the deliver of two core newspapers. High-quality color photography is a recent addition to the newspaper industry; its reporters would like to transmit stories and pictures from the field. But the owner doesn’t want to add complexity to what already appears to him as a baffling IT infrastructure.
These anecdotes are real. There are thousands upon thousands more like them in the US, Germany, and no doubt most countries of the world. None of these people is looking to save money on their technology spend per se; all are looking to keep pace with the world while avoiding the creation of full-fledged IT departments.
They’re looking to cloud solutions to meet their need. They understand they need at least one person who truly understands this stuff, but they’d prefer to focus themselves and the rest of their employees on the core business.
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