Enterprise Cloud adoption revolves around pushing the BYOD movement and focusing on data security.
In his session at the 13th International Cloud Expo®, Ross Brouse, COO and President of Solar VPS, will cover how cloud adoption is driven by consumerism and how humanity needs to socialize. He will also discuss our addiction to new gadgets and the ability of data to stay secure in a growing collaborative world. The Cloud is a drug and we’re just getting hooked.
Ross Brouse, COO and President of Solar VPS, is a true creative thinker. He believes the solution to most challenges involves discipline, positive reinforcement and innovative problem solving. As an industry leader, he draws from decades of experience in film and television production, graphic design and development, and managed IT. A graduate of New York University, Ross founded FortressITX’s subsidiary company, Solar VPS, in 2005.
Establish and Manage a Recurring Revenue Model
Microsoft has recently made large business bets on recurring revenue models. That’s because offering goods and services on a recurring basis doesn’t just create incremental, new revenue; it is fast becoming the primary driver of revenue growth for many enterprises.
However, for companies to offer products or services that their customers want and will buy on a recurring basis, it’s critical that they’re able to employ the features, benefits, and capabilities necessary to support the recurring revenue model of their choosing. At the same time they must continue to insure or improve customer satisfaction and retention. This all requires a new breed of billing, without stressing IT or finance.
CA Opens Technology Center in Silicon Valley
From delivering breakthrough software solutions for cloud, mobility and security to helping IT professionals manage and accelerate service delivery from the device to the data center, CA Technologies sees innovation (and innovative thinkers) as its core mission.
CA has brought together all of their Silicon Valley offices and capabilities into a single location that will inspire even bigger thinking. “CA Technologies has always had a strong presence in Silicon Valley, although this fact is not well known,” noted CEO Mike Gregoire. “We’re here to change that.”
CA has invited the Valley’s best and brightest to visit their new campus for lunch and to meet the R&D leadership team at their careers event on Monday, October 7th, from 12:00 to 2:00 pm. to network with peers and with some of CA’s leading engineers to hear how CA Technologies is at the center of IT innovation.
CA Opens Technology Center in Silicon Valley
From delivering breakthrough software solutions for cloud, mobility and security to helping IT professionals manage and accelerate service delivery from the device to the data center, CA Technologies sees innovation (and innovative thinkers) as its core mission.
CA has brought together all of their Silicon Valley offices and capabilities into a single location that will inspire even bigger thinking. “CA Technologies has always had a strong presence in Silicon Valley, although this fact is not well known,” noted CEO Mike Gregoire. “We’re here to change that.”
CA has invited the Valley’s best and brightest to visit their new campus for lunch and to meet the R&D leadership team at their careers event on Monday, October 7th, from 12:00 to 2:00 pm. to network with peers and with some of CA’s leading engineers to hear how CA Technologies is at the center of IT innovation.
WebRTC Summit | Building a Self-Hosted WebRTC Project
Learn how to build WebRTC applications from scratch, all the while discussing many of the issues surrounding WebRTC development in a business environment.
In his session at WebRTC Summit, Rod Apeldoorn, Programmer and WebRTC Wrangler at Priologic Software, will be using EasyRTC Open Source. The added control granted by a self-hosted solution is a key requirement for many WebRTC pilot projects prior to releasing to the cloud. Working our way up from a simple video chat, we’ll look at data channels, multi-party streaming, and enforcing server side control.
Cloud Expo Silicon Valley: Becoming a Federal Cloud Service Provider
Now make the right tactical decisions to navigate FedRAMP successfully.
FedRAMP – or the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program – is a Cloud Service Provider’s gateway to the lucrative world of federal contracting. However there are tactical engineering decisions that must be made to ensure a smooth journey through the FedRAMP accreditation process.
In his session at the 13th International Cloud Expo®, Lunarline’s Director of FedRAMP Services Alan Yuriditsky will share his experience guiding CSPs through FedRAMP. His discussion will focus on key tactical moves CSPs can make that streamline compliance, reduce cost and make FedRAMP easier.
OpenStack Fundamentals: From AWS Cloud to OpenStack Cloud
Take your business seamlessly from AWS to OpenStack, or even adopt a hybrid cloud strategy using public and private OpenStack clouds.
In his session at the 13th International Cloud Expo®, DeWayne Filppi, Director of Solution Architecture at GigaSpaces, will discuss how to build a portable application that can run on Amazon and on OpenStack. He will also discuss how to migrate to a hybrid cloud environment that will interoperate between an AWS cloud and an OpenStack cloud, achieving high availability and reducing costs.
Cloud Expo: Fast, Lean, Agile – How Software Is Developed & Deployed
The way software is developed and deployed is undergoing an enormous shift. Hardware used to provide resilience – now you design for failure. Developers used to focus on just development – now they must think of test and deployment from the start. Old models are replaced by the agile model.
In his session at the 13th International Cloud Expo®, Marten Mickos, CEO of Eucalyptus Systems, will discuss these major shifts and outline best practices observed at leading companies.
Marten Mickos is the CEO of Eucalyptus Systems. A veteran of open source, infrastructure software and global businesses, he previously was CEO of MySQL AB where he grew the company from garage start-up to the second largest open source company in the world. After the acquisition by Sun Microsystems of MySQL AB, he served as SVP of the Database Group.
Mickos holds a M.Sc. in technical physics from Helsinki University of Technology in his native Finland. He is a member of the board of directors of Nokia.
Cloud Computing Advantages for Small Businesses
Nothing levels the playing field like cloud computing, at least in terms of smaller businesses being able to gain a foothold in a particular market.
Small and midsize businesses have much to gain from embracing business cloud solutions. Cloud platforms allow SMEs to compete in the cloud giant-controlled environment and creates a level playing field required to succeed in business.
Some small and medium companies have yet to fully realize the advantages that cloud solutions can provide. In the meantime, hundreds of cloud vendors are preparing for the expected major upswing in popularity among cloud services for SMEs and for private consumers as well.
Business Development Director Paul Bryce of Node4 stated that one of the most important benefits of cloud computing is the extensive environment that gives enough leverage for SMEs to compete with the giants in the industry. With VMware, EMC and Cisco as one among the many cloud partners, SMEs can have the most cost-effective, yet very efficient IT infrastructure.
Can managed services balance BYOD security and compliance concerns?
BYOD security is and has been a major point of interest (perhaps hype) in IT for some time now. The desire for employees to use their own smartphones and devices frames an opportunity for businesses to cut capital expenses and increase efficiency.
Despite the potential upsides, and while there are many companies that have come to embrace such an approach, there are major hurdles where security and compliance are concerned.
As an added layer of complexity, many companies are also balancing the cloud and network requirements of BYOD with the degree to which they have outsourced their infrastructure to managed service providers or other outsourced cloud and infrastructure providers.
What primary concerns of BYOD do managed services figure in?
Security: One of the chief challenges to BYOD, and a major component of maintaining compliance, security on the technical end benefits from seasoned practitioners. Most companies instituting BYOD policies and procedures …