Multiple agencies across the U.S. government are paying closer attention to the software they are buying. More specifically, they want to know what open source and third party components were used to build the software applications. The report notes:
U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) wants to know what open source components are being used in medical devices.
DevOps for Mainframes | @DevOpsSummit #Agile #DevOps #ContinuousDelivery
How can a dinosaur adapt to the modern world? Well, if your ‘dinosaur’ happens to be a mainframe environment, then we suggest you take a good long at DevOps. The next generation of application delivery and agile methodologies are illuminating the challenges and solutions mainframe engineers face on a daily basis. As Continuous Delivery and DevOps evolve, so too should your mainframe and its processes.
[slides] Cloud Adoption and #DigitalTransformation | @CloudExpo #AI @TIBCO
In this strange new world where more and more power is drawn from business technology, companies are effectively straddling two paths on the road to innovation and transformation into digital enterprises. The first path is the heritage trail – with “legacy” technology forming the background. Here, extant technologies are transformed by core IT teams to provide more API-driven approaches. Legacy systems can restrict companies that are transitioning into digital enterprises. To truly become a leader in the space, it’s necessary to accommodate, incorporate, and exploit the new breed of enterprise technologies — cloud, Big Data, and APIs.
Tech News Recap for the Week of 12/05/2016
Were you busy this week? Here’s a tech news recap of articles you may have missed for the week of 12/05/2016!
What IT decision makers will be focusing on in 2017, why AWS is the IBM for the cloud computing age, ThyssenKrupp is the victim of a massive cyber attack, HPE rolls out micro datacenter, NetSuite goes global under Oracle’s flag, banks are gearing up for blockchain and more tops news this week you may have missed!
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Tech News Recap
- Supercharging Networks with SDN and NFV
- Why analytics and data storage will lead cloud adoption in 2017
- Alibaba Cloud aims to take on AWS with move into Europe
- NetSuite goes global under Oracle’s flag
- vRealize Operations Manager – Improve Monitoring & Capacity Planning Capabilities
- SimpliVity and Huawei team up in hyperconverged play
- Amazon is supercharging its cloud computing revenue
- HPE rolls out Micro Datacenter
- Cisco On The Road will be held December 15th at Gillette Stadium
- Why AWS is the IBM for the cloud computing age
- Why #vBrownBag is more than just a podcast with GP’s Chris Williams
- Qantas flying high with cloud based innovation: AWS
- Dell EMC puts Dell’s stamp on VxRack
- IT priorities 2017: What will IT decision makers be focusing on?
- ThyssenKruppp, one of the world’s largest steel makers, is a victim of massive cyber attack
- Banks are gearing up for transition to blockchain in 2017
Join us at Cisco On The Road on 12/15 at Gillette Stadium in Foxboro, Massachusetts. Keynote presentations include “What’s Next for Networking Engineering,” “Security Architecture for Present Day Threats,” and more. Plus experience the latest in Cisco Meraki Cloud Management in a special hands-on lab!
By Jake Cryan, Digital Marketing Specialist
The Top 10, Top 10 Predictions for 2017 | @CloudExpo #IoT #M2M #Cloud #Security
The time of year when crystal balls get a viewing and many pundits put out their annual predictions for the coming year. Rather than thinking up my own, I figured I’d regurgitate what many others are expecting to happen.
8 Predictions About How the Security Industry Will Fare in 2017 – An eWeek slideshow looking at areas like IoT, ransomware, automated attacks and the security skills shortage in the industry. Chris Preimesberger (@editingwhiz), who does a monthly #eweekchat on twitter, covers many of the worries facing organizations.
[slides] #LowCode and #NoCode Platforms | @ThingsExpo @Metavine #AI #ML
The Internet of Things will challenge the status quo of how IT and development organizations operate. Or will it? Certainly the fog layer of IoT requires special insights about data ontology, security and transactional integrity. But the developmental challenges are the same: People, Process and Platform and how we integrate our thinking to solve complicated problems. In his session at 19th Cloud Expo, Craig Sproule, CEO of Metavine, demonstrated how to move beyond today’s coding paradigm and share the must-have mindsets for removing complexity from the development process, accelerate application delivery times, and ensure that developers will become heroes (not bottlenecks) in the IoT revolution.
[video] Cloud Solutions | @CloudExpo @PentaSecSystems @cisluser #Cloud
Infrastructure is widely available, but who’s managing inbound/outbound traffic? Data is created, stored, and managed online – who is protecting it and how?
In his session at 19th Cloud Expo, Jaeson Yoo, SVP of Business Development at Penta Security Systems Inc., discussed how to keep any and all infrastructure clean, safe, and efficient by monitoring and filtering all malicious HTTP/HTTPS traffic at the OSI Layer 7. Stop attacks and web intruders before they can enter your network.
AI vs Digital Technologies in 2017 | @CloudExpo #AI #DigitalTransformation
Almost a year ago, I wrote these words, “Technology has reached the tipping point for me, it moved from a help to a hindrance.” The plethora of adrenaline- and endorphin-inducing mobile apps, 24×7 news, notifications, alerts and updates, drip fed my brain and hindered my “deep work and deep thoughts.” In Cal Newport’s new book titled, Deep Work he posits that most knowledge workers need concentration and substantial time, dedicated and uninterrupted, to produce their best work. He argues that a lot of technologies and open office layouts today inhibit creativity, “deep work” and “deep thoughts,” and are the very things that are most highly valued, and one of the key differentiators between humans and robots.
FINRA Leads the Way in Cloud Adoption
If you thought cloud storage is only for private companies, you can’t be any farther from the truth. In fact, many government agencies, including data-sensitive organizations like the US Army and FBI, are moving their operations to the cloud, mainly because of the many benefits that come with it. Some financial organizations have also started looking into cloud, thanks to the Financial Industry Regulation Authority (FINRA)’s move to adopt cloud in a big way.
At the recently concluded Amazon’s conference, Steve Randich, the executive VP of FINRA, opined that cybersecurity is better in the cloud than in private data centers, and this is why it’s a good idea for financial companies to move their sensitive and confidential data to the cloud. This step has allayed the fear of many financial institutions who believe that data security is one of the biggest problems of cloud storage. A few years back, cloud security was in its nascent stages, so these fears made sense. However today, cloud security has improved by leaps and bounds, and these advancements make cloud one of the safest places to park your data.
These reasons are exactly why FINRA chose Amazon Web Services (AWS) as its service provider. Randich trusts cloud so much that the organization moved its primary and mission critical applications to AWS in the first move itself. There was no question of pilot testing by moving smaller applications. FINRA’s surveillance application alone processes more data on a single day, typically around 75 billion events a day, and this is more than what credit card companies like Visa and MasterCard process over a period of six months. Such is the magnitude of the data handled by FINRA, and it’s heartening to see that all of it is done in the cloud now!
In addition, FINRA has to search through this data and run advanced queries to identify insider trading or any other wrongful trading from this vast amount of data, and AWS makes it possible with its advanced query tools that come with a simple interface. As a result, the search process is greatly simplified, and at the same time, the results are accurate – something that is a must for FINRA’s operations.
This successful adoption of cloud by FINRA has boosted the confidence levels of other financial providers too. Randich says that he gets queries from many financial organizations about their cloud adoption, and is confident that more companies will take to the cloud in the near future. Already CapitalOne has partnered with AWS to move its applications to the cloud, and it won’t be long before other financial companies also follow suit.
Such a move augurs well for not just AWS, but for the cloud industry as a whole. Traditionally, financial companies are the slowest to adopt cloud, and it looks like cloud has broken this final frontier too. Given this scenario, it’s no surprise that many cloud providers including Google and Microsoft, are creating new products and entering into partnerships with other service providers to offer top of the line cloud experience for its customers.
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Top 10 disasters of 2016 reaffirm need for cloud business continuity strategy
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With 2016 drawing to a close – and some may argue with good cause – it is time to assess the landscape throughout the year. According to figures published by managed service providers IT Specialists (ITS), the 10 largest business continuity disasters of the year in the UK include storms, fires, and power outages.
Particularly observant readers of this publication will note a similar study was conducted by ITS back in May, which focused on the top 10 disasters between April 2015 and March 2016. Only two which were on that list; storm Katie and the Saltley recycling fire, which were both in March.
The full list is: storm Gertrude, in January; storm Katie; the Saltley fire; damage to an electricity cable in Cromer in April; a major power feature at a London data centre in July; flash floods in September; a fire in Exeter in October which gutted the Royal Clarence Hotel; storm Angus and a Soho power cut in November; and more London-based flooding earlier this month.
So what does this mean for your business? Put simply, be prepared for anything. “Investing in forward planning can save valuable time, protect the organisation’s revenue and preserve its customer base,” said Matt Kingswood, UK head of ITS in a statement. “We urge businesses to formulate a business continuity programme to identify inefficient processes that cost the organisation money on a daily basis and can prove a barrier to business continuity.”
Writing for this publication back in May on how to create a solid disaster recovery strategy, Kingswood cited an unnamed accountancy firm which was a “poster child” for business continuity, having been affected by a fire in Holborn in spring 2015, whose servers were on the cloud so employees could keep working. “No insurance policy will help employees continue working if they don’t have access to business-critical applications,” Kingswood warned.
“To gain the most ROI from business continuity, businesses need to form a cloud-based data backup strategy, give employees network access, set guidelines for personal device use, provision a telephony solution, have a plan for Internet outages, and set up an alternate workspace.”