“In the past year, one in seven large organizations detected hackers within their systems.” This is the highest level recorded, said the recently released PwC 2012 Information Security Breaches Survey. It was completed in conjunction with Infosecurity Europe and supported by the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills.
Big Data Hosting
When it comes to building new cloud services, there is a large opportunity for new services built around Big Data.
So when you look at consulting firms that provide application development and integration services, are there opportunities for them to leverage Big Data in their service portfolio?
For enterprise consultancy, cloud platforms and tools such as enterprise integration framework and development software can be used to provide line-of-business, e-commerce and system integration services. And the nice thing about Big Data is that it helps provide opportunities to build financially sustainable services.
While there is a large market for cloud computing and mobility solutions, one of the services that consultants are seeing traction with is through offering Big Data analytics, especially in the Healthcare and Automotive verticals. The nice thing is that these engagements are usually lengthy and comprehensive, which is important for consulting firms who survive on stable, long-term projects to help raise cash flow and utilization rates to help lower overall cost of sales.
Adobe Delivers Web Experience Management in the Cloud
Adobe Systems on Tuesday announced the availability of Adobe® CQ Cloud Manager, a Software-as-a-Service application that provides enterprises the ability to easily and quickly launch marketing initiatives in the cloud. With CQ Cloud Manager, part of the Adobe Digital Marketing Suite, digital marketers have access to an integrated set of cloud-hosted Web Experience Management (WEM) services to create, manage, measure and optimize personalized experiences on websites, mobile devices and social media.
Organizations have the flexibility to work with interactive agencies and infrastructure providers for hosting and management of Adobe CQ in the cloud. And today, Adobe also announced its own managed and hosted service, Adobe CQ Cloud.
FedRAMP PMO Releases First Set of 3PAOs
Late today the FedRAMP Program Management Office released the first list of certified Third Party Assessment Organizations (3PAOs). These companies are accredited to perform initial and periodic assessment of cloud service provider (CSP) systems per FedRAMP requirements, provide evidence of compliance, and play an on-going role in ensuring CSPs meet requirements. FedRAMP provisional authorizations must include an assessment by an accredited 3PAO to ensure a consistent assessment process. he initial set of 3PAOs announced today are (see http://www.gsa.gov/portal/content/131991):
Charting the Adoption of Cloud at Cloud Expo New York
In his session at the 10th International Cloud Expo, Marvin Wheeler, Open Data Center Alliance Chairman, will discuss the success the organization has had in charting the requirements for broad-scale enterprise adoption of the cloud and how 2012 is forecast to be the tipping point for adoption of cloud resources based on ODCA requirements. He will highlight the progress of usage model publication, discuss the prioritization of member requirements and provide insight into Alliance tools to drive POC solution testing and RFP adoption. Delegates will walk away with insight into the organization’s value and real world knowledge that will help shape organizational cloud planning.
Can’t Find Enough Storage Admins to Run Your Business? Automate
Everyone in IT knows Moore’s Law, which states that the number of transistors that can be placed inexpensively on an integrated circuit doubles approximately every two years (sometimes 18 months). Named after Intel co-founder Gordon Moore, who first noted the trend in 1965, Moore’s Law is testament to the tremendous increase in processing power and the consequent changes in business and society we have seen over the last 47 (and counting) years. While Moore predicted the continuation of this trend “for at least 10 years,” current estimates are that this rate of progress will continue to at least 2020. Until, of course, we have the first operational quantum computers, but that’s another story.
Cloud Expo New York: High Performance Database Hosting in the Cloud
Do you like fast MySQL databases? How about superfast databases – like near 300 TPSs? Do you think you can’t find them in the cloud? Well, think again!
In his session at the 10th International Cloud Expo, Daniel Morris, Senior Product Manager at Rackspace Hosting, explains why databases in the cloud are a reality and how you can benefit by implementing them. He will cover built-in redundancy and automated configurations as well as how using container-based virtualization will make your cloud database become blazingly fast – without locking your data into a proprietary platform. He will close by showing some real-world examples utilizing this new technology available from Rackspace.
Leveraging the Cloud for Better User Experience at Cloud Expo New York
The cloud has many benefits, but when it comes to application development, how does the cloud help enterprises and development teams create custom software and applications that end users actually care about? Using real world examples from Adobe, Herff Jones and Navy Federal Credit Union, this session will highlight the advantages cloud computing provides for quickly developing custom software and applications with compelling user experiences.
In their general session at the 10th International Cloud Expo, Anthony Franco, president of EffectiveUI, and Ken Guiberson, CTO of EffectiveUI, will explore:
Using the flexible nature of cloud computing to rapidly design and deploy integrated enterprise applications
Leveraging the cloud for a highly visible and transparent development process
Using a service-oriented architecture (SOA) to create a hybrid cloud
Cloud Backup Or Sync?
Whether your data is stored in the cloud, on your desktop or on your server, you should be backing it up at least daily.
There are a myriad of backup options available on the desktop, from Windows NT Backup to Symantec and other more advanced options.
Some are mirror image backups, some are file by file. As well as backing up we should also be testing our restore processes to make sure our backup files are not corrupt and that we know how to restore if and when that disaster does strike!
These days, thanks to the cloud, backing up has become more simplified and in some cases, more secure and accessible than ever.
By signing up to a Cloud based backup agency such as Livebackup.com.au or Cloudbackup.net.au, or some desktop providers such as McAfee, Western Digital or Symantec, you can be backing up to your …
Why Use OpenNebula on Your Existing VMware Infrastructure?
VMware hypervisors of the ESX family (3.x, 4.x and 5.0) are fully, out-of-the box supported by the latest versions of OpenNebula(3.0+). If you have a server farm based on any of the ESX versions, then you can make use of OpenNebula to better manage your physical (and virtual) resources in order to build a private cloud and provide virtualized environments. OpenNebula is the most powerful open-source alternative to VMware datacenter and cloud suite, delivering enterprise-class functionality, stability and scalability with broader platform support and integration capabilities.