Cloud computing is increasingly becoming part of the enterprise IT landscape. In fact, a recent cloud security survey conducted by HP reveals that 70 percent of all respondents say their company is using some form of the cloud. The study also found that cloud penetration jumps to 80 percent for enterprise-size organizations. With such dramatic growth figures, it is no wonder that enterprise companies are carefully reviewing cloud security policies’ implication on cloud data. Here’s another fact from that same survey: While more than half of those using the public cloud are confident that critical and sensitive data can be secured in the public cloud, 16 percent of all companies in the cloud reported at least one public cloud breach in the past 12 months.
Agile Development for the Database By @Datical | @DevOpsSummit [#DevOps]
Few companies are able to implement Agile Development across the organization because there exists a chasm between the Application Development team and the Database Administrators.
All too often, database development is an afterthought in Agile Development. Developers perfect how best to implement a solution in code, but tend to spend too little time on representing that solution in the Database. This is unfortunate, given that 65% of your change requests require changes to the application schema, according to independent research conducted by Simon Management Group. This finding implies that Database changes are every bit as important as the Application Code, and should be treated as tier-one artifacts in your release process.
If You Can’t See It, You Can’t Manage It By @AppDynamics | @DevOpsSummit [#DevOps]
“There was 5 exabytes of information created between the dawn of civilization through 2003, but that much information is now created every 2 days, and the pace is increasing…,” – Eric Schmidt, Former CEO, Google. If IT leaders hadn’t already heard Schmidt’s famous quotation, today they are definitely facing the challenge he describes. Gone are […]
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2015 Will Be the Year of the Platform By @ServiceNow | @CloudExpo [#Cloud]
This past year has continued to see rising enterprise cloud adoption, and with it efforts from tech giants to control the cloud through price wars. Like most things, the path we’ve taken to this point will certainly impact where the road ahead will lead.
If 2014 was the continued battle for cloud infrastructure, 2015 will be the rise of the cloud platform, as enterprises will focus on creating apps and workflows that take advantage of the growing platform options across enterprise needs such as HR, Financial Services and IT. The rise of the platform will bring with it a variety of other changes – all of which stem from more and more CIOs turning to the cloud to deliver substantial innovation and business results. From verticalization to data as a service, we’ll ring in the new year with dramatic changes to the cloud landscape that stand to transform how we view and utilize cloud technologies. Below are five enterprise cloud platform inspired predictions for this coming year.
The Vital Role of Customer Experience By @AriaSystemsInc | @CloudExpo [#Cloud]
My bright blue bathing suit had turned pale pink from all the chemicals in the pool and I knew it was only a matter of time before the chlorine ate through the nylon fabric. Once, when I waited too long to replace an old suit, the front of my trunks ripped wide open and the see-through mesh lining underneath left little to the imagination. I did not want to repeat that walk of shame back to the locker room.
So I did what millions of shoppers do every day: I signed into Amazon and with a few simple clicks, I found and ordered my favorite suit. And then, because it doesn’t get any easier than Amazon, I picked up a few spare bicycle tires, filters for the vacuum cleaner and a novel I’d been meaning to read.
Your Enterprise Has Too Many Cyber-ish People | @CloudExpo [#Cloud]
Sitting through a number of presentations at various cyber conferences recently I’m struck that many enterprises cyber security planning comes down to having ‘the best people’ doing really pretty boring jobs. Jobs like keeping software updated, tracking down holes in the firewalls, waiting for alarms to go off, being fed alerts about out-of-date software: in short lots of controlled firefighting. But it all seems like enterprises are just working harder (and expensively) by throwing more people at the problem – instead of finding new ways of doing their business securely.
Sony Hack Shows Need for ‘Internet of Things’ Security | @ThingsExpo [#IoT]
There are boggling challenges on the planet, each of them affecting all of us, one way or another. Food. Clean water. Vaccinations. Health care in general. Then those second-level concerns which are also catalysts for the big problems: transportation, communications, finance.
There are about 7.2 billion people on the Earth-around a modest 7 gigapeople in computer terms. (This should give one an idea of how big all those magnitudes beyond a gigabyte-terabytes, petabytes, exabytes, and zettabytes–really are.)
Trillions of dollars will be required to solve any of the big problems for all the people of the world. I would like to think that millions of dedicated people devising vast IoT solutions will make steady progress in each area over the coming years and decades.
Modern Collaborative Troubleshooting By @AppDynamics | @DevOpsSummit [#DevOps]
With the troubleshooting virtual war room capabilities, AppDynamics now provides customers with a powerful ad-hoc virtual space that gives Ops & Dev teams one place they can chat, make system changes in real time, view and annotate events on second-interval charts so everyone (even non-AppDynamics users) can collaborate in a view that unites the different aspects of troubleshooting to provide common context and common data to all. The entire decision-making process can be indexed in knowledge management systems.
Three Reasons Why Sony Hack Will Change Security | @CloudExpo [#Cloud]
By Anup Ghosh
Editor’s note: As an advisor to Invincea I closely track not only their capabilities but the context they provide the community. Anup Ghosh, CEO of Invincea published well reasoned context on the Sony Hack at the Invincea blog, it is reposted below for your consideration. – bg UPDATED: on 12/19/14, the FBI officially declared North Korea to be […]
Industry Reactions to Devastating Sony Hack | @CloudExpo [#Cloud]
A group of hackers called GOP (Guardians of Peace) has taken credit for the attack and they claim to have stolen terabytes of files. Sony admitted that a large amount of information has been stolen, including business and personnel files, and even unreleased movies.
On Friday, security firm Identity Finder revealed that the attackers leaked what appears to be sensitive personal data on roughly 47,000 individuals, including celebrities.
North Korea is considered a suspect, but the country’s officials have denied any involvement, and Sony representatives have not confirmed that the attack was traced back to the DPRK.
Researchers from various security firms have analyzed a piece of malware that appears to have been used in the Sony hack. The threat is designed to wipe data from infected systems.