Next month, the Network Centric Operations Industry Consortium (NCOIC) will introduce an open pattern that will enable governments, agencies and businesses to create a secure, hybrid IT environment quickly and cost effectively. Cloud computing expert Kevin Jackson has been named to lead the team that will assist organizations in adopting the process, known as the NCOIC Rapid Response Capability (NRRC), into their operations. “The NRRC was initially developed for the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency to test the ability of an open cloud environment to quickly collect, store and share geospatial information in a complex disaster situation,” said Jackson. “We have refined the process with checklists, rules and patterns so it can promote information exchange and collaboration for a wide range of needs, including emergency response, humanitarian assistance and rapid IT infrastructure deployment.”
NRRC Video Series – Video 2: Building the Cloud Infrastructure
NRRC Video Series – Video 2: Building the Cloud Infrastructure
Transforming Business Transformation with Cloud and Agile Architecture
All the Cloud players—both service providers as well as the software and hardware vendors—are missing critical elements of the big picture. From the perspective of the enterprise customer, the transformative nature of the Cloud is but one of many disruptions to the organization. There are global marketplace challenges, regulatory issues, organizational and process changes, as well as disruption across the breadth of IT, from the rise of mobile technologies to Cybersecurity to the Cloud. Cloud Computing is an important part of this story to be sure, but it is but one of many concerns facing the C suite.
The Next Cloud Battleground: PaaS
Back in the day – when the Internets were exploding and I was still coding – I worked in enterprise architecture. Enterprise architecture, for the record, is generally not the same as application development. When an organization grows beyond a certain point, it becomes necessary to start designing a common framework upon which applications can be rapidly developed and deployed.
Architects design and implement this framework and application developers then code their applications for deployment on that architecture.
If that sounds a lot like PaaS it should because deep down, it is.
3 ways application development is thankful for MSPs
In honour of the upcoming holiday, we wanted to spend a little time exploring how application development and product management can leverage managed services as well as (or better) other parts of the organization more traditionally associated with such outsourcing partnership.
Smaller organizations have few, if any infrastructure-specific employees, but instead focus hiring product and development roles to improve the development cycle and strength of features for an application. This makes a lot of sense, especially when provisioning cloud-based infrastructure has never been easier.
Yet, even with outsourced infrastructure, the actual responsibility of managing the more traditional parts of IT fall on the development staff. This is obviously not optimal, given the differences in product development within infrastructure management.
Where does that leave an organization with an over-taxed development team and not enough infrastructure management knowledge internally? Managed services, of course!
Utilizing an MSP means more than simply offloading work …
VASCO to Launch DIGIPASS 760, a Visual Transaction Signing Solution
VASCO Data Security International, Inc. has announced the launch of DIGIPASS 760, a visual transaction signing solution. DIGIPASS 760 is the first successful integration of Cronto’s patented solution into VASCO’s DIGIPASS product line.
DIGIPASS 760 is an innovative authentication device targeted towards banks, enabling them to establish a secure optical communication channel with the client. The solution works with the CrontoSign technology whereby a graphical cryptogram consisting of a matrix of colored dots is displayed on the bank’s website.
IBM-Marist College Team Tests Cloud Tech for System Outage Prevention
IBM and Marist College are evaluating a cloud computing technology intended to help keep communications services running during natural calamities.
The new invention will work to migrate voice and data applications to safer data centers within minutes, IBM said Thursday.
Casimer DeCusatis, IBM engineer, said the technology is aimed at helping data center operators reduce the time of moving services to another location outside disaster-hit areas using mobile devices.
The cloud invention being tested at Marist’s lab leverages software-defined networking technology in order to manage data flows within physical and virtual networks.
Information technology personnel can use the SDN-based technology to access and control network resources via wireless devices and open source networks, IBM says.
IBM sponsors Marist’s lab where technologies related to SDN are being studied.
The disaster prevention technology is slated for commercial release in 2014.
IBM-Marist College Team Tests Cloud Tech for System Outage Prevention
IBM and Marist College are evaluating a cloud computing technology intended to help keep communications services running during natural calamities.
The new invention will work to migrate voice and data applications to safer data centers within minutes, IBM said Thursday.
Casimer DeCusatis, IBM engineer, said the technology is aimed at helping data center operators reduce the time of moving services to another location outside disaster-hit areas using mobile devices.
The cloud invention being tested at Marist’s lab leverages software-defined networking technology in order to manage data flows within physical and virtual networks.
Information technology personnel can use the SDN-based technology to access and control network resources via wireless devices and open source networks, IBM says.
IBM sponsors Marist’s lab where technologies related to SDN are being studied.
The disaster prevention technology is slated for commercial release in 2014.
Is Internet of Things Really Internet of Agents? | Part 1
Machine-to-machine (M2M) technology and the resulting Internet of Things are leading us inexorably toward everything-as-a-service (XaaS). As more things get connected, the range of service opportunities expands. And as those services are presented online, they become available for use, re-use and re-purposing.
At first thought, the idea of more connected devices suggests simply that there will be more devices around, and as such, more products for manufacturers to make and sell. That’s true, but as I suggested in an earlier blog, even the manufacturers will realize that there is actually more value in services related to those connected things than in the things themselves.