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Announcing @Streamlyzer to Exhibit at @CloudExpo | #Streaming #OTT #VOD
SYS-CON Events announced today that Streamlyzer will exhibit at the 19th International Cloud Expo, which will take place on November 1–3, 2016, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA.
Streamlyzer is a powerful analytics for video streaming service that enables video streaming providers to monitor and analyze QoE (Quality-of-Experience) from end-user devices in real time.
OnProcess to Discuss #IoT at @ThingsExpo | #M2M #DigitalTransformation
OnProcess Technology has announced it will be a featured speaker at @ThingsExpo, taking place November 1 – 3, 2016, in Santa Clara, California. Dan Gettens, OnProcess’ Chief Analytics Officer, will discuss how Internet of Things (IoT) data can be leveraged to predict product failures, improve uptime and slash costly inventory stock.
@ThingsExpo is an annual gathering of IoT and cloud developers, practitioners and thought-leaders who exchange ideas and insights on topics ranging from Big Data in IoT, smart grids, wearables and incorporating IoT into modern data centers.
Tech News Recap for the Week of 10/24/2016
Were you busy this week? Here’s a tech news recap of articles you may have missed for the week of 10/24/2016.
The Dyn DDoS attack that occurred last week was likely the work of script kiddies, according to Flashpoint. Microsoft announced it’s launching the public beta of Azure Analysis Services. They also unveiled the Surface Studio PC, in addition to new Windows 10 features. Apple presented the new Macbook Pro, with touch screen keys and a price jump. Red Cross personal data breach of 550,000 blood donors and more top news this week you may have missed!
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Tech News Recap
- How the Dyn DDoS attack unfolded last week
- Watch the Microsoft Surface PC Live Event Recap
- Personal data of 550,000 Red Cross blood donors was breached
- Dyn DNS DDoS likely the work of script kiddies, says Flashpoint
- Are software-defined data centers growing in Health IT?
- Intel Builders Summit 2016 – Barcelona
- Hyper-converged infrastructure appliances: making software-defined data center architecture ubiquitous
- 6 small steps to digital transformation
- IT spending on ‘innovation‘ is now a priority
- OpenStack: it’s interoperable after all
- Microsoft announced Tuesday that it’s launching the public beta of Azure Analysis Services
- 8 strategies for achieving IT goals
- Meet Microsoft’s new Surface Studio desktop PC, designed with creators in mind
- VMware insists Amazon deal will grow, not drain, its business
- 11 new Windows 10 features Microsoft secretly revealed during the Surface PC event
- Apple adds touch screen keys to Macbook Pro but the price jump startles some
- 4 ways businesses can prevent pricey data breaches
- Facebook & Mark Zuckerberg are changing the way data centers are designed
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Amazon Cloud Posts Yet Another Stellar Quarter Results
Amazon Cloud posted yet another impressive number for the last quarter, signaling the continued strength of this line of Amazon’s business. AWS reported a sale of $3.2 billion, and this is almost 55 percent higher than the $2.08 billion it posted during the same period, a year ago. The operating income of the company was $1.02 billion, up nearly 96 percent from the $521 million it posted a year ago.
These numbers clearly show that AWS is growing at an incredible pace, despite facing intense competition from deep-pocketed companies such as Microsoft and Google. Much of this success can be attributed to a simple and clear strategy of helping business leverage the power of AWS to improve their performance. When AWS was launched ten years ago, it allowed firms to rent computing capacity, which means, they paid only for what they used. Such a model made cloud more accessible for all companies, including startups with limited budgets.
Another important strategy that AWS followed was to make strategic partnerships at the right times. Recently, AWS announced a partnership with VMware, under which VMware’s cloud software will run on AWS. Other similar partnerships have helped AWS to gain a strong foothold in the cloud market, and this in turn, has helped it to stay ahead of its competitors.
Even during the earnings call, AWS reiterated that the company will focus on helping more businesses to move to AWS, from both on-premise and hybrid environment. To this end, it has launched a new tool called Server Migration Service, that’ll ease the process of moving legacy applications to the cloud. This tool will help IT teams to create incremental replication of virtual machines from their on-premise infrastructure to AWS, with an aim to help them reap the many benefits that come with public cloud. This is an important move because moving legacy applications to the cloud is a painful process, to say the least, and this is mainly why many companies are opting for a hybrid environment. As a result, they miss out on the flexibility and cost-saving that a public cloud offers. With this tool, companies now have the option to move their operations entirely to the cloud, so they can make the most of the benefits offered by it.
Besides this tool, Amazon Cloud has also announced that it’ll add data center facilities across many new geographical regions. This move is in tune with the trend of keeping data as close to the customers as possible, so they experience low latency and faster access speeds. Some countries like Germany even mandate that data should be kept only within its sovereign borders, so the new data center facilities are being setup to comply with these regulations as well. These strategies are likely to bring more benefits to AWS and its customers in the future.
Despite all these positive data, shares of Amazon fell in after hours trading, with an almost six percent drop towards the end. This fall is because the parent company’s profits was lesser than what was expected. In this sense, Amazon Cloud can be the silver lining for this company.
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[session] Empowering Enterprise Security with the IoT By @SecureChannels | @ThingsExpo #IoT #IIoT #M2M #API
The Internet of Things (IoT) promises to simplify and streamline our lives by automating routine tasks that distract us from our goals. This promise is based on the ubiquitous deployment of smart, connected devices that link everything from industrial control systems to automobiles to refrigerators. Unfortunately, comparatively few of the devices currently deployed have been developed with an eye toward security, and as the DDoS attacks of late October 2016 have demonstrated, this oversight can have devastating, if not catastrophic results.
[session] Long Live Multi-Factor Authentication | @CloudExpo #API #Cloud #Security
President Obama recently announced the launch of a new national awareness campaign to “encourage more Americans to move beyond passwords – adding an extra layer of security like a fingerprint or codes sent to your cellphone.” The shift from single passwords to multi-factor authentication couldn’t be timelier or more strategic. This session will focus on why passwords alone are no longer effective, and why the time to act is now.
In his session at 19th Cloud Expo, Chris Webber, security strategist at Centrify, will discuss how we can move away from passwords towards better, more secure methods of identity verification.
IBM DevOps Workshop at @CloudExpo | @IBMDevOps @Skytap #Agile #DevOps
Join IBM November 2 at 19th Cloud Expo at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA, and learn how to go beyond multi-speed it to bring agility to traditional enterprise applications.
Technology innovation is the driving force behind modern business and enterprises must respond by increasing the speed and efficiency of software delivery. The challenge is that existing enterprise applications are expensive to develop and difficult to modernize. This often results in what Gartner calls “Bimodal IT,” where business struggle to apply modern tools and practices to traditional monolithic applications. But these existing assets can be modernized and made more efficient without having to be completely overhauled. By leveraging methodologies like DevOps and agile, alongside emerging technologies like cloud-native services and containerization, traditional applications and teams can be more easily modernized without risking everything that depends on them. This session will describe how to apply lessons learned from modern app development, including the starting point to modernization that many enterprises are using to quickly improve speed, efficiency, and software quality.
What Do DDOS Attacks Mean for Cloud Users? | @CloudExpo #Cloud #Cybersecurity
Cloud services are supposedly known for being highly available but various types of outages prevent users from accessing those services, sometimes on very large scale. What are the implications of DDOS attacks on Cloud services and what are the alternatives?
Last Friday, DDOS attacks disrupted major parts of the internet in both North America and Europe. The attacks seems largely targeted on DNS provider Dyn disrupting access to major service providers such as Level 3, Zendesk, Okta, Github, Paypal, and more, according to sources like Gizmodo. This kind of botnet-driven DDOS attack is a harbinger of future attacks that can be carried out over an increasingly connected device world based on the Internet of Things (IoT) and poorly secured devices.
Cloudian raises $41m for ‘rapid adoption’ of object storage platform
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Hybrid cloud object storage system provider Cloudian has announced the completion of a $41 million (£33.8m) financing round, with the funds helping the company expand sales and marketing as well as growing international operations.
The funding round includes existing investors including Intel Capital, INCJ, Eight Roads, and Goldman Sachs, as well as new investors Lenovo, City National Bank, Epsilon Venture Partners, and DVP Investment.
“Connected devices are already generating millions of terabytes of information every day. The challenge is both to manage that information and to analyse and derive value from it,” said Lisa Spelman, vice president and general manager of Intel’s data centre marketing group in a statement. “We believe Cloudian’s unified storage approach, which combines data management and data analytics in a single platform running on Intel Architecture, positions data centre managers exceptionally well to extract value from the massive volumes of information created by accelerating device connectivity and advances in machine learning.”
The path of Lenovo integrating with Cloudian dates back to an OEM agreement back in June which enables Lenovo’s salesforce to offer Cloudian-based object storage. The manufacturer added that Cloudian’s storage solution was the ‘clear winner’ for driving ‘innovation, efficiency and investment protection into the data centre’.
Similarly, Cloudian is one of the various vendors integrating with Coldline, Google’s latest cold storage service announced earlier this month. Cloudian’s HyperStore product is seamless integrated with Coldline, offering up to hundreds of petabytes of on-premise storage, as this company blog post explains.
Total funding for Cloudian stands at $81.68 million, in five rounds from eight investors.