SYS-CON Events announced today that Silanis, the world’s leading electronic signature provider, will exhibit at SYS-CON’s 14th International Cloud Expo®, which will take place on June 10–12, 2014, at the Javits Center in New York City, New York.
Silanis is the world’s leading electronic signature provider. Since the company was founded in 1992, our software has automated business transactions that require secure, compliant and enforceable e-signatures. Recognized as the enterprise market leader, we are responsible for processing more than 600 million e-signed transactions annually – more than any other e-signature vendor. These transactions represent billions of dollars’ worth of regulated business processes taking place 24/7 around the globe, from insurance applications and consumer loans to federal procurement contracts. Our customers represent the leading organizations within their respective fields, including four of North America’s top 10 banks, eight of the top 15 insurers and the entire US Army, among others.
Teaching an Old Dog New Tricks: Blending Cloud and Desktop Applications
In 2013, Adobe took the bold step of moving from a perpetual licensing model to a subscription-based model to sell its creative software. The world is becoming more connected, collaborative and mobile, and Adobe wanted to make the shift to meet those needs. The process began in 2012 when Adobe launched the first phase of Creative Cloud, which provided Adobe’s full set of creative applications as a membership. In the year since, Adobe built the infrastructure to store and share files in the cloud, and acquired Behance, a thriving social network used by millions of people to connect, showcase their work, and discover other talent. For users, there is a blending of sorts of cloud computing and desktop applications: Customers will continue to install and use the creative applications on their desktop just as they always have, but the apps will increasingly be part of a larger creative process centered on Creative Cloud.
IBM Launches Enterprise Cloud Marketplace
IBM on Monday launched a new cloud marketplace that brings together IBM’s vast portfolio of cloud capabilities and new third-party services in a way that delivers a simple and easy experience for three key user groups within the enterprise – developers, IT managers and business leaders to learn, try, and buy software and services from IBM and its global partner ecosystem.
According to Robert LeBlanc, Senior Vice President, IBM Software & Cloud Solutions, «IBM Cloud marketplace puts Big Data and Analytics, mobile, social, commerce, integration – the full power of IBM-as-a-Service and our ecosystem – at our clients’ fingertips to help them quickly deliver innovative services to their constituents.”
Strengthen Your Business Reputation with Every Application Interaction
In today’s application economy, enterprise organizations realize that it’s their applications that are the heart and soul of their business. If their application users have a bad experience, their revenue and reputation are at stake.
As public, private and hybrid cloud are becoming mainstream and applications are transitioning to these complex environments, IT has to effectively manage applications running on mobile devices to legacy mainframes and traditional multi-tier application servers and everywhere in the middle. Operational complexity due to running applications in the diverse and distributed environment makes it difficult for IT to have complete control over the environment. At the same time, tolerance for application downtime is decreasing, the cost of service slowdowns and interruptions is increasing, and the resources dedicated to manage the entire, complex, heterogeneous environment are flat at best if not shrinking. You don’t need a crystal ball to see that this is a recipe for disaster.
US judge orders Microsoft to give up overseas cloud data
A US judge has ruled that US-based providers must hand over customer emails even if they are stored in a location overseas.
The decision comes amidst a challenge from Microsoft with regard to an Ireland-based customer, claiming that as the US government does not have jurisdiction overseas the company should not be forced to disclose user data.
Yet Judge James C. Francis has dismissed this claim, further jeopardising the data security of US cloud providers.
Judge Francis explained the issue at stake. “Federal courts are without authority to issue warrants for the search and seizure of property outside the territorial limits of the United States,” he noted. “Therefore, Microsoft concludes, to the extent that the warrant here requires acquisition of information from Dublin, it is unauthorised and must be quashed.
He continued: “That analysis, while not inconsistent with the statutory language, is undermined by the structure of the SCA (Stored …
IBM Launches Enterprise Cloud Marketplace
IBM on Monday launched a new cloud marketplace that brings together IBM’s vast portfolio of cloud capabilities and new third-party services in a way that delivers a simple and easy experience for three key user groups within the enterprise – developers, IT managers and business leaders to learn, try, and buy software and services from IBM and its global partner ecosystem.
According to Robert LeBlanc, Senior Vice President, IBM Software & Cloud Solutions, «IBM Cloud marketplace puts Big Data and Analytics, mobile, social, commerce, integration – the full power of IBM-as-a-Service and our ecosystem – at our clients’ fingertips to help them quickly deliver innovative services to their constituents.”
IAPP to Exhibit at Cloud Expo New York
SYS-CON Events announced today that the International Association of Privacy Professionals will exhibit at SYS-CON’s 14th International Cloud Expo®, which will take place on June 10–12, 2014, at the Javits Center in New York City, New York.
The International Association of Privacy Professionals (IAPP) is the largest and most comprehensive global information privacy community and resource, helping practitioners develop and advance their careers and organizations manage and protect their data. A non-for-profit association, the IAPP helps define, support and improve the privacy profession globally.
Disruptive Web Innovation
Forgotten in the outcry over the NSA snooping on people’s online activities is that our favorite websites and online marketers do the same thing every day. However, profiling, tracking and third-party leaks will soon be tools of the past. Re2You is re-imagining how we use the Internet. This new cloud OS creates a dynamic, drag-and-drop interface for an entirely new and secure, privacy respecting Web experience—as well as cookie free new marketing opportunities.
A very simple idea actually, but broadly effecting every side of internet use, privacy, marketing, interface, the whole nine yards: Re2You’s software creates an abstraction layer that not only lets users drag and drop content from Web applications and online services, but also provides a wealth of secure data that is only made available with the user’s permission.
The Importance of Context to Mobility
My grandfather has a bumper sticker on his pickup truck that says “He who dies with the most toys, wins.” Since my world revolves more around API Management than collecting die-cast models of John Deere tractors, I have my own version of the saying – “He who has the most context wins.” Context has always been an important part of managing data or applications, but the proliferation of enterprise B2E (business-to-employee) and B2C (business-to-consumer) mobile apps has significantly increased the need for context-based policy.
The Importance of Context to Mobility
My grandfather has a bumper sticker on his pickup truck that says “He who dies with the most toys, wins.” Since my world revolves more around API Management than collecting die-cast models of John Deere tractors, I have my own version of the saying – “He who has the most context wins.” Context has always been an important part of managing data or applications, but the proliferation of enterprise B2E (business-to-employee) and B2C (business-to-consumer) mobile apps has significantly increased the need for context-based policy.