@DevOpsSummit taking place June 7-9, 2016 at Javits Center, New York City, and Nov 1-3, 2016, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA, is co-located with the 18th International @CloudExpo and will feature technical sessions from a rock star conference faculty and the leading industry players in the world.
HGST’s Cloud Solutions at @CloudExpo | @HGSTStorage #IoT #Microservices
“We’ve made it easy for customers that want to build their own cloud infrastructure by delivering a fully integrated software and hardware in a rack,” explained Stefaan Vervaet, Director of Strategic Alliances at HGST, in this SYS-CON.tv interview at 17th Cloud Expo, held November 3-5, 2015, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA.
Cloudyn gets $11 million to take cloud monitoring global
Cloud monitoring service Cloudyn has raised $11 million to fund global expansion, brand raising and service integration from a Series B round of financing.
The latest cash injection comes 15 months after it was awarded for $4 million as investors noted how it had grown to monitor 8% of all Amazon Web Services. With cloud computing operators now generating $321billion a year, according to 451 Research, the monitoring of both infrastructure and platform services (IaaS and PaaS) is becoming increasingly critical.
The popularity of hybrid clouds, which straddle both public and private premises, has added complexity to the management task, creating a need for specialist monitors such as Isreal-based start up Cloudyn. A study conducted by 451 Research predicts that many companies plan to spend up to 50% of their cloud budget on these services.
Since 2014, when Cloudyn received $4 million in funding, the company says it has focused on winning clients among Fortune 1000 enterprises and managed service providers. Cloudyn has tripled its revenue for three consecutive years while doubling its head count. It currently monitors 200,000 virtual machines and 12,000 concurrent applications.
The new round of venture funding was led by Carmel Ventures and included contributions from previous investors Titanium Investments and RDSeed. Ronen Nir, General Partner at Carmel, will join Cloudyn’s board of directors.
There’s growing need for enterprises to perfect their resource allocation, boost performance and cut reducing cloud spend, according to Ronen Nir, the cloud specialist at Carmel Ventures. “Cloudyn’s technology provides meaningful and actionable data which has both operational and financial metrics,” said Nir.
“The funding will allow us to build on this momentum and increase our market share in North America and global markets,” said Sharon Wagner, CEO of Cloudyn.
Adaptive Two-Factor Authentication | @CloudExpo #WebPerf #Microservices
It’s a given that employee access to corporate systems should be both as secure and simple as possible. However, time-strapped CIOs under pressure from demanding staff and challenged with authenticating users all over the world on multiple devices, have been torn between relying on the fatally flawed password or hard token two-factor authentication (2FA) approach to keep their systems secure. As a result, adaptive authentication has gained popularity as it reduces the time it takes to login by verifying a user based on their location
Skyhigh Networks opens European data centre to resolve Safe Harbour fears
Cloud security vendor Skyhigh Networks has opened a new data centre in Germany as it moves to strengthen its support of European customers and multi-nationals.
The Frankfurt facility is a response to increasing demand for data localisation within Europe, which has been stoked by the recent Safe Harbour ruling by the European Court of Justices.
In October BCN reported how a Court of Justice of the European Union (CREU) ruling puts many companies at risk of prosecution by European privacy regulators if they transfer the data of EU citizen’s to the US without a demonstrable set of privacy safeguards.
The 4,000 firms that transfer their clients’ personal data to the United States currently have no means of demonstrating compliance to EC privacy regulations. As the legal situation currently stands, EU data protection law says companies cannot transfer EU citizens’ personal data to countries outside the EU which have insufficient privacy safeguards.
The new data centre will use a Hadoop cluster to analyse traffic analysis and identify and report on the risk of cloud services. It will provide interception, inspection, encryption and decryption services. The system will also run anomaly detection, reporting and data leak prevention services to secure SkyHigh’s clients’ cloud services.
SkyHigh said the new data centre gives customers a choice over where their data is processed and better performance in addition to privacy and sovereignty. The data centre is on a site owned and managed by European employees.
“We are delighted that Skyhigh Networks has opened a data centre in Europe,” said David Cahill, Security Strategy and Architecture Manager at AIB, a bank with 2.6 million customers and 14,000 employees. Cahill said that conforming to existing European data protection laws and the General Data Protection Regulation expected in 2016 need to be taken “very seriously”.
Sophos drops $32m on SurfRight to enhance threat detection
Security vendor Sophos has bought Dutch cloud security vendor SurfRight, which specialises in endpoint threat detection and response (ETDR) and threat prevention, for $31.8 million.
Sophos said it will immediately integrate the SurfRight technology into its line of endpoint security systems and on completion will make the technology available via its global channel of 15,000 partners.
Sophos will continue development and support for SurfRight’s existing product line including its popular HitmanPro range of malware scanning and removal tools, which has 20 million users worldwide. Sophos will retain all SurfRight employees and the company’s office in Hengelo. SurfRight CEO Mark Loman will join the Sophos Enduser Security Group.
Hengelo-based SurfRight develops technology that detects and stops attacks by interrupting the malware and advanced persistent threat (APT) vectors. The software spots any dubious looking memory manipulations, which are often a hallmark of malicious code that might be running furtive activity. The ability to nip these exploits in the bud can fortify endpoint security mechanisms, by thwarting malicious code’s abuses of processor and memory resources. Surfright’s portfolio also includes anti-espionage and anti-ransom software to prevent the growing threat of malware software such as CryptoLocker.
The logic of the deal, for SurfRight, is a high-growth industry leader with a world channel and the support of specialized product development teams, according to SurfRight CEO Mark Loman. “We built this technology to address every vector of an APT attack in an auto-responding, coordinated manner,” he said.
Sophos’ security strategy uses multiple components of security protection, including network security and endpoint security that continuously communicate with each other. This, says Sophos, makes for faster threat detection and cuts the time and resources needed for investigating security incidents.
Interrupting and mitigating custom-made malware is becoming increasingly important as traditional antivirus and network-based intrusion detection systems cannot cope with the speed of threats generated in the modern cloud environment, according to Dan Schiappa, senior VP of Enduser Security at Sophos.
[slides] Full Stack Application Security in the Cloud | @CloudExpo @Appcito #Cloud
Enterprises can achieve rigorous IT security as well as improved DevOps practices and Cloud economics by taking a new, cloud-native approach to application delivery. Because the attack surface for cloud applications is dramatically different than for highly controlled data centers, a disciplined and multi-layered approach that spans all of your processes, staff, vendors and technologies is required. This may sound expensive and time consuming to achieve as you plan how to move selected applications to the cloud, but smart organizations are actually reporting an improved security posture, accelerated development processes and greater cost savings.
WebRTC Business Models | @ThingsExpo #IoT #RTC #API #WebRTC
WebRTC services have already permeated corporate communications in the form of videoconferencing solutions. However, WebRTC has the potential of going beyond and catalyzing a new class of services providing more than calls with capabilities such as mass-scale real-time media broadcasting, enriched and augmented video, person-to-machine and machine-to-machine communications.
In his session at @ThingsExpo, Luis Lopez, CEO of Kurento, introduced the technologies required for implementing these ideas and some early experiments performed in the Kurento open source software community in areas such as entertainment, video surveillance, interactive media broadcasting, gaming or advertising. He concluded with a discussion of their potential business applications beyond plain call models.
Did You Find All the Parallels Desktop 11 Easter Eggs?
Who doesn’t love a good Easter egg? No, not the kind you go digging for in the grass come springtime, but the kind that get a lot of “ooh’s” and “ah’s” when someone points it out in their favorite movie, book, TV show, etc. The Parallels dev team has been hiding Easter eggs inside of […]
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Cloud Computing Intellectual Property Law: Part 3 | @CloudExpo #Cloud
Cybersecurity and the security of the data in the cloud is a hot topic. The number of companies hacked and the magnitude of losses have been growing at an alarming rate. Earlier this year, an international hacking ring stole as much as $1 billion from over 100 banks in 30 countries in what may be the biggest banking breach ever, and personal information for four million current and former federal employees was stolen when hackers breached the U.S. government’s computer networks.
What about your company’s trade secrets? Are they next? In the “old days” the protection of trade secrets was a simple as locking up your company’s code or formula in a safe or a secure, access-restricted area. But in today’s connected world, where data is often stored on networks designed to be accessed remotely and shared by many employees, “locking up” confidential information while allowing access to those with need-to-know is not as simple.