When you have a billion users, people notice. That’s where our story about DevOps and Yahoo! starts. For Kishore Jalleda and Gopal Mor, both engineers at Yahoo!, when something goes wrong on a Yahoo! page, people will notice. Correction: a lot of people will notice.
Of course, Yahoo!, like all services on the Internet, constantly improves its products. In fact, they have 100+ iterations and experiments happening at any given time. Some changes bring new innovation to the forefront and others alter the user experience.
Deciding to Insource or Outsource the SOC | @CloudExpo #Cloud #Security #Analytics
These days attacks are becoming more sophisticated and more common. Mobile devices, cloud computing and the Internet of Things have increased the number of access points that must be secured. To complicate matters, CISOs are been directed to secure system without compromising the seamless experience that customers expect across channels, and if the organization is in a regulated industry, compliance issues likely increase the team’s workload.
To best detect threats and respond to incidents quickly, many organizations decide they need a security operations center to provide proper protection and continuous prevention. Then they must decide whether to build an internal Security Operations Center (SOC) or outsource.
Harnessing Lightning: The Power of DevOps + ITOM
Did you miss our recent webinar, “Harnessing Lightning: DevOps + ITOM for Secure & Compliant Hybrid Cloud Ops?” Simon Johnson, Senior VP of Client Services and Jay Keating, Senior VP of Cloud and Managed Services explain how to embrace, not resist, DevOps, the pivotal role of IT as the control plane for workload distribution, how to transform your IT with a next-gen IT Operations Transformation Framework, and much more.
We’re at a time that IT has become a business and the value that IT can give to the business exceeds what it’s ever been able to do before. The ability to gain a competitive advantage to technological innovation is really driving the business to demand a lot more from IT. With this, we are seeing the expansion of new approaches to delivering IT services. We are seeing hybrid clouds as a strategy around agility and time-to-market and we are seeing DevOps as another key area, bringing two traditionally disparate organizations together.
This helps to accelerate the application delivery cycle to take advantage of transition points in the market. At that time, that’s driving operational complexity into IT organizations. It teaches you how to work with agile delivery techniques, how to report in a timely manner and be the thought leader and key decision maker to enable and drive business value through IT innovation.
To download the webinar, please click here!
By Jake Cryan, Digital Marketing Specialist
Announcing @CRIAuditwerx to Exhibit at @CloudExpo New York | #API #Cloud #Agile
SYS-CON Events announced today that Auditwerx will exhibit at SYS-CON’s 20th International Cloud Expo®, which will take place on June 6-8, 2017, at the Javits Center in New York City, NY.
Auditwerx specializes in SOC 1, SOC 2, and SOC 3 attestation services throughout the U.S. and Canada. As a division of Carr, Riggs & Ingram (CRI), one of the top 20 largest CPA firms nationally, you can expect the resources, skills, and experience of a much larger firm combined with the accessibility and attention of a boutique firm.
Integrate #Blockchain into Business | @CloudExpo #IoT #AI #FinTech #Bitcoin
In 2016, blockchain technology came close to hitting its peak on Gartner’s annual Hype Cycle, signaling an imminent shift from an emerging, theoretical technology to widespread adoption. Like cloud, big data, and the Internet of Things (IoT) before it, blockchain is the tech industry’s latest Next Big Thing. Analysts and industry experts say it holds immense potential for organizations, but many business leaders don’t yet see a practical application for their operations. While a lot of people know blockchain is the technology behind Bitcoin, Ethereum, and other cryptocurrencies, what about enterprise applications in other industries?
[session] Bridging the Gap with MongoDB on AWS | @CloudExpo #API #Cloud #Agile #Security
MongoDB Atlas leverages VPC peering for AWS, a service that allows multiple VPC networks to interact. This includes VPCs that belong to other AWS account holders. By performing cross account VPC peering, users ensure networks that host and communicate their data are secure.
In his session at 20th Cloud Expo, Jay Gordon, a Developer Advocate at MongoDB, will explain how to properly architect your VPC using existing AWS tools and then peer with your MongoDB Atlas cluster. He’ll discuss the security advantages you immediately gain, easier configuration of whitelisting networks and potential cost savings on bandwidth.
[session] Composable Infrastructure and Multi-Cloud By @HTBase | @CloudExpo #API #Cloud #Storage #DataCenter
Imagine having the ability to leverage all of your current technology and to be able to compose it into one resource pool. Now imagine, as your business grows, not having to deploy a complete new appliance to scale your infrastructure. Also imagine a true multi-cloud capability that allows live migration without any modification between cloud environments regardless of whether that cloud is your private cloud or your public AWS, Azure or Google instance. Now think of a world that is not locked into that rigid appliance vendor or specific public cloud provider, where all silos are now unified into one. No longer do you have to imagine as that is Composable Infrastructure.
[session] Offshore Development: How Not to Screw It Up | @CloudExpo @MobiDev_ #Cloud #DigitalTransformation
In his session at Cloud Expo, Alan Winters, an entertainment executive/TV producer turned serial entrepreneur, will present a success story of an entrepreneur who has both suffered through and benefited from offshore development across multiple businesses:
The smart choice, or how to select the right offshore development partner
Warning signs, or how to minimize chances of making the wrong choice
Collaboration, or how to establish the most effective work processes
Budget control, or how to maximize project results within possible constraints
Deloitte Acquires Day 1 Solutions
Deloitte announced on Monday that it has acquired all the assets of a cloud consulting company called Day 1 Solutions. Terms of the deal were not disclosed.
Day 1 Solutions is a consulting firm based in McLean, Virginia. This company specializes in providing consulting services to government and commercial organizations that are looking to migrate some or all of their operations to the cloud. Specifically, it consults in the areas of systems integration, managed services and AWS products. In fact, Day 1 Solutions is a certified AWS partner and its customer base extends across a range of different sectors in both the governmental and commercial sphere.
With this acquisition, Deloitte has further strengthened itself as a cloud consulting provider. Since 2015, this company wants to establish itself as a leading provider of cloud consulting services as it believes that the cloud ecosystem is the backbone of innovation. The company strongly believes that a good cloud system can help a business to reach new heights, and it wants to provide the right suggestions that can help its clients achieve this pinnacle of success.
By adding these companies like Day 1 Solutions, Deloitte is getting closer to achieving its objectives in the world of cloud consulting. The knowledge and expertise of Day 1 Solutions can go a long way in helping Deloitte to provide a much deeper cloud expertise in a fast-moving digital environment.
In addition to expertise and capabilities, this acquisition also brings a GSA Schedule 70 contracting positions on many government organizations like NASA, Air Force’s Netcents 2 and Army’s Information technology Services. This contract can give Deloitte a better foothold into the government cloud consulting market – an area that it has been looking to capture over the last couple of years.
To make the most of this acquisition and also to expand its own offering, Deloitte is planning to hire 3,000 new engineers who’ll focus on providing cloud technology integration services in the areas of analytics and cognitive offerings. Most of these engineers will work out of its new centers in the cities of Washington DC, Orlando and New York City. The three new studios will come up to facilitate interaction between its employees and customers, and will also facilitate new cloud tool development. With these three new data centers, the total number of Deloitte digital studios will be 44.
This acquisition, once again, is expected to give immense benefits to everyone involved. Of course, the major beneficiary is Deloitte, as it gets a prime government contract for providing cloud consulting services, in addition to the expertise, customer base and experience of Day 1 Solutions.
As for Day 1 Solutions, this was the expected result as most smaller companies end up being acquired by larger companies for a substantial amount, though in this case, the exact financial details are not known.
For the cloud market and its many players, this acquisition represents one more step towards a unified cloud system. It also means a more streamlined and probably, even a better cloud consulting service.
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Healthcare firms believe their data is safer in the cloud than on-prem for a disaster
As more and more traditionally slower-moving industries start to move their resources to the cloud, an interesting note from Evolve IP: healthcare IT professionals believe their data is safer in the cloud than on-premises when faced with a hardware issue or environmental disaster.
The report, which surveyed 180 healthcare professionals, found that for environmental disasters, 61% of respondents felt their information was safest in a private cloud, compared to 27.5% for a private cloud and 11.5% on premise, while for malicious attacks and hardware malfunctions 58.5% each also preferred a private cloud. Interestingly, for attacks on premise (32%) was significantly the second most popular option.
Healthcare organisations have on average between two and three services in the cloud with data backup, servers and data centres being the most widely deployed services. 85% of all organisations polled said they had at least one service in the cloud, while more than four in five respondents (81%) say they plan on adding new or additional cloud services in the next three years.
The research also found that rollouts had not been a universal success, however. Almost two in five said they had deployed a cloud solution on their own as opposed to using a third party provider – lower than the figure for all industries – with a third (32.5%) admitting they would outsource to a solution provider given the chance next time.
One of the key elements for healthcare organisations moving to the cloud is HIPAA accreditation; 85% of respondents said they were aligned with HIPAA requirements, with a further 32% also citing PCI (payment card industry) compliance.
Writing for this publication last year, Karin Ratchinsky, director of vertical marketing strategy at Level 3 Communications – since acquired by CenturyLink – argued that while using cloud-based technologies for back end functions was steadily rising, the use cases elsewhere were similarly important. “Healthcare leaders want to funnel capital into cash flow-generating activities that allow them to deliver improved outcomes,” Ratchinsky wrote.
“Cloud computing lets healthcare organisations focus on healthcare rather than data centres, digital real estate to house them, and skilled professionals to maintain and operate them.”