Why You Need an API-First Strategy for the Cloud

Everyone talks about a cloud-first or mobile-first strategy. It’s the trend du jour, and for good reason as these innovative technologies have revolutionized an industry and made savvy companies a lot of money. But consider for a minute what’s emerging with the Age of Context and the Internet of Things. Devices, interfaces, everyday objects are becoming endowed with computing smarts. This is creating an unprecedented focus on the Application Programming Interface (API) as developers seek to connect these devices and interfaces to create new supporting services and hybrids. I call this trend the move toward an API-first business model and strategy.

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Aria Systems Invites Condé Nast to Discuss Recurring Revenue Models

Recurring Revenue expert Aria Systems commends Condé Nast’s decision to launch a new division for online shopping and kindly invites the publisher of the world’s top magazines to a conversation about all the possible recurring revenue models they could employ to ensure success. Recent news reports said the publisher’s U.S. and international units would start up the London-based division in January 2014.
Those same news reports reported the publisher wants to tap into the exploding enthusiasm for online shopping globally.
“We welcome Condé Nast to the brave new world of online retailing, the fastest growing sector of recurring revenue,” said Tom Dibble, President and CEO at Aria Systems. “We invite them to talk to us about how to get to market quickly and find the model that will work best for their business.”

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Aria Systems Invites Condé Nast to Discuss Recurring Revenue Models

Recurring Revenue expert Aria Systems commends Condé Nast’s decision to launch a new division for online shopping and kindly invites the publisher of the world’s top magazines to a conversation about all the possible recurring revenue models they could employ to ensure success. Recent news reports said the publisher’s U.S. and international units would start up the London-based division in January 2014.
Those same news reports reported the publisher wants to tap into the exploding enthusiasm for online shopping globally.
“We welcome Condé Nast to the brave new world of online retailing, the fastest growing sector of recurring revenue,” said Tom Dibble, President and CEO at Aria Systems. “We invite them to talk to us about how to get to market quickly and find the model that will work best for their business.”

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NRRC Video Series – Video 7

IIn September, the NCOIC delivered the Geospatial Community Cloud (GCC) demonstration. Sponsored by the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, this demonstration showed how an interoperable, hybrid-cloud operating environment can be quickly enabled and used as a rapid response capability.While this demonstration was designed around lessons learned in the 2010 Haitian Earthquake, the effort showed how a cloud services brokerage approach could be used to quickly provide critical information technology infrastructure support to an unplanned event.
The NCOIC is an international organization for accelerating the global implementation of network centric principles and systems–to improve information sharing among various communities of interest for the betterment of their productivity, interactivity, safety, and security. The NCOIC Rapid Response Capability (NRRC) video series supports that mission by broadly disseminating information about the GCC demonstration for the good of the global community.

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NRRC Video Series – Video 7

IIn September, the NCOIC delivered the Geospatial Community Cloud (GCC) demonstration. Sponsored by the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, this demonstration showed how an interoperable, hybrid-cloud operating environment can be quickly enabled and used as a rapid response capability.While this demonstration was designed around lessons learned in the 2010 Haitian Earthquake, the effort showed how a cloud services brokerage approach could be used to quickly provide critical information technology infrastructure support to an unplanned event.
The NCOIC is an international organization for accelerating the global implementation of network centric principles and systems–to improve information sharing among various communities of interest for the betterment of their productivity, interactivity, safety, and security. The NCOIC Rapid Response Capability (NRRC) video series supports that mission by broadly disseminating information about the GCC demonstration for the good of the global community.

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TelecityGroup Wins ‘Best Data Center’ Award

TelecityGroup has won the “Best Data Center” award at Capacity Media’s 2013 Global Carrier Awards held in Amsterdam.
The award recognizes TelecityGroup’s innovation, vision and excellence in delivering the premium data center environments for the global carrier community. In particular, the ecosystems present in TelecityGroup’s facilities act as rich marketplaces where carriers are able to interconnect with each other and tap into the widest possible selection of customers and suppliers.

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TelecityGroup Wins ‘Best Data Center’ Award

TelecityGroup has won the “Best Data Center” award at Capacity Media’s 2013 Global Carrier Awards held in Amsterdam.
The award recognizes TelecityGroup’s innovation, vision and excellence in delivering the premium data center environments for the global carrier community. In particular, the ecosystems present in TelecityGroup’s facilities act as rich marketplaces where carriers are able to interconnect with each other and tap into the widest possible selection of customers and suppliers.

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Continuous Deployment: Are You Afraid It Might Work?

Continuous Deployment makes software development and your deployment environment safe so anyone can commit code. Read about these and other advantages in this article.
I’ve been wondering for a few years now, why it’s so hard to get companies to prioritize the work that I feel is important. I mean, I’m telling you how to do it and you aren’t listening – don’t you want to build quality software?
Would you listen to that argument? I wouldn’t. Everybody has an opinion about how to do things, what makes one better than another?

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Continuous Deployment: Are You Afraid It Might Work?

Continuous Deployment makes software development and your deployment environment safe so anyone can commit code. Read about these and other advantages in this article.
I’ve been wondering for a few years now, why it’s so hard to get companies to prioritize the work that I feel is important. I mean, I’m telling you how to do it and you aren’t listening – don’t you want to build quality software?
Would you listen to that argument? I wouldn’t. Everybody has an opinion about how to do things, what makes one better than another?

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Axis Announces New ARTPEC-5 Chip

Axis Communications has announced the next generation of its market-leading system-on-chip for network video cameras and video encoders. The new ARTPEC-5 is based on dual core multiprocessor architecture, features a larger cache size and higher memory throughput. More processing power and performance provide increased capabilities for intelligent video processing and video analytics applications.
More processing power and performance on Axis new ARTPEC-5 chip provide increased capabilities for intelligent video processing and video analytics applications.

More processing power and performance on Axis new ARTPEC-5 chip provide increased capabilities for intelligent video processing and video analytics applications.
The new ARTPEC-5 chip features support for the H.264 High Profile (HiP) video compression standard and high frame rate (60 fps) encoding in full HDTV resolution (1080p). This resembles twice the frame rate and resolution offered by conventional HDTV video surveillance solutions today. High frame rates allow for capturing quick movements in detail such as when license plates of fast moving vehicles need to be identified. With full HDTV resolution, large overview areas can be monitored without compromises on image detail as will be required when an incident occurs.

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