Today when it comes to analytics it’s a choice between simplicity and power:
Experts can use automated techniques like machine learning
Analysts can manually do statistical analysis
Business users can use rudimentary visual analysis
The future is Advanced Analytics for All (AA4A) combining the power of machine learning with the simplicity of visual analysis. Cloud computing cuts the cost of such computationally expensive analysis, and makes it available to everyone over any device.
In his session at the 13th International Cloud Expo®, Arijit Sengupta, CEO of BeyondCore, will discuss through real case studies how AA4A methodology is already saving lives, money and delivering invaluable insights automatically.
Cloud Expo: Converging OpenStack Compute with NexentaStor Storage
Reliable, scalable storage is a key component of cloud deployments. Those deploying an infrastructure cloud frequently opt for network-attached storage (NAS) over local storage, to make it simpler to implement enterprise-grade features.
By combining OpenStack Compute, today’s industry-standard open source cloud platform, with NexentaStor, the most popular open storage solution, companies can build clouds that are feature rich, avoid vendor lock-in, offer complete control of the stack, and reduce costs by unlocking the ability to use less expensive commodity hardware.
In his session at the 13th International Cloud Expo®, Boris Renski, Co-Founder & Executive Vice President of Mirantis, will discuss how Mirantis, a leader in engineering services for OpenStack Cloud, and Nexenta, which provides enterprise-class storage solutions, integrated NexentaStor with OpenStack Compute.
Cloud Expo Silicon Valley: Would You SaaS Your Security Management?
In his session at the 13th International Cloud Expo®, Dave Asprey, VP of Cloud Security at Trend Micro, will discuss why security management belongs in the cloud even if your company’s other systems have not yet been moved to the cloud. Understand how to shift your focus and rethink security management itself.
Cloud Expo delegates will:
Learn the pros and cons of hosting your own security management solution
Understand how threats are evolving and how security management systems respond
Gain new ideas about how to manage security across mixed environments with cloud and virtualized private data centers
Cloud Expo Silicon Valley: Business APIs in the Cloud
Business Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) are becoming the predominant mode of driving applications from multiple touch-points (mobile, web, tablets, game consoles, ebook readers, phablets, automobiles, etc) and these APIs are being liberated from sitting behind corporate firewalls and migrating to the cloud.
In his session at the 13th International Cloud Expo®, Sal Visca, CTO at Elastic Path Software, will describe the approach Elastic Path has taken to develop an intelligent (Level 3) REST API that can be used on-premise, in the cloud or set up in a hybrid environment and how these APIs can provide a mediation layer that can provide tremendous application deployment flexibility.
Gamification Webinar: Build an Enterprise Strategy That Lasts
Join Badgeville and guests Doug Palmer, Deloitte Consulting Principal and Brace Rennels, Director of Community Strategy at EMC for this upcoming webinar, where you will learn:
Key trends driving gamification strategies
Practical tips for designing gamification by audience type
Best practices for building long-term gamification solutions
Doug will share best practices learned from introducing gamification into some of the largest organizations around the world, including key challenges and barriers to overcome.
Brace will share his experiences on how a global technology company like EMC is currently leveraging gamification to drive sustainable engagement across its community, and what key techniques have contributed to its success.
NCOIC/NGA Demonstrates Use of Cloud in Disaster Response
The NGA project began in late 2012 with Cycle One, during which the cloud infrastructure was defined and built. The NCOIC team established standards and processes, utilized best practices, and addressed potential problems such as ownership, bandwidth, latency, availability, access and security. Cycle One team members were:
SAP Workloads Moving to the Cloud
Targeting ERP workloads for optimization helps gain business benefits while adoption cloud technology.
With increased automation of business processes, enterprises are integrating closely with their customers and partners to transform into connected businesses. At the same time, social and mobile interactions are growing at an unprecedented rate, resulting in data storage growth and accompanying demands for analytics. In this new environment, businesses are faced with a significant growth in compute, storage and network infrastructure. Rather than just add more resources to their existing data centers, organizations are either optimizing their in-house resources or looking for external IT resources to fulfill their needs.
While optimizing IT resources, finding common workloads can provide a lot of benefits as standardization allows large gains due to better IT management. In a typical large organization, supporting Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) software constitutes a sizable portion of IT infrastructure. This makes ERP workloads an ideal target candidate to apply cloud techniques for optimization.
Partner to Partner: The Value of Integrating Parallels Plesk Automation and Parallels Business Automation Standard
Guest blog by Ehsan Mirdamadi, CEO at Cirrus Tech Ltd. (http://www.cirrusone.ca/)
Web hosting companies today live in a world where our clients are looking for solutions to their business problems, not just a bunch of raw technology. But providing a broad variety of solutions and tailoring them to each client’s needs creates management inefficiencies, drives up costs, and drives us crazy. If only there were a way to seamlessly automate and manage all these components…
Integrating Parallels Business Automation Standard and Parallels Plesk Automation has been a crucial component in helping us to manage this complexity. Parallels Business Automation Standard automates our billing and business processes, while Parallels Plesk Automation does the same for hosting and related services. We think that Parallels Business Automation Standard and Parallels Plesk Automation are probably the most comprehensive solutions out there, and, while they are effective individually, bringing them together was a vital part of our strategy to enter the era of solutions.
Using these two systems together has enabled us to take control of our services while giving our customers an unparalleled level of flexibility. Our customers are thrilled. We’ve even heard from people who didn’t know this amount of flexibility existed. Suddenly, there’s less of a need for expensive IT consultants, because our solution makes it possible to build a service like CirrusOne, our cloud server offering, independently.
Our CirrusOne scalable cloud platform is powered by Parallels Cloud Server, and uses Parallels Plesk Automation to automate services for customers, which are in turn billed through Parallels Business Automation Standard. We feel that this integrated approach delivers a better experience for customers.
Here are five reasons we like using Parallels Plesk Automation and Parallels Business Automation Standard together, and why we think they’re the right answer for our customers. Using these products together allows us to:
1. Deploy services faster and create natural upgrade paths to new services
2. Easily add services such as MightyCall from Infratel and SmarterMail
3. Establish greater control over a large service range
4. Secure data by separating administration from customer servers
5. Reduce expenditures on server licenses
Before the Parallels Business Automation Standard and Parallels Plesk Automation integration project, many of our customers had to use three different platforms for three different service types. Closing the gap between traditional shared hosting and enterprise class hosting has meant using more services, and spending more time managing them. But now, with the help of Parallels products, we can deploy services fast, and administer them from a convenient place. It’s made our business more flexible, more efficient, and more profitable.
The HIPAA Final Rule and Staying Compliant in the Cloud
The HIPAA Omnibus Final Rule went into effect on March 26, 2013. In order to stay compliant, the date for fulfilling the new rules is September 23, 2013, except for companies operating under existing “business associate agreements (BAA),” may be allowed an extension until September 23, 2014.
As healthcare and patient data move to the cloud, HIPAA compliance issues follow. With many vendors, consultants, internal and external IT departments at work, the question of who is responsible for compliance comes up quite often. Not all organizations are equipped or experienced to meet the HIPAA compliance rules by themselves. Due to the nature of the data and the privacy rules of patients, it is important to secure the data correctly the first time.
Hybrid Cloud Computing Overview & Benefits
A hybrid cloud offers both affordability and security by splitting business requirements so that each process demand goes into the right cloud
As we witness high adoption rates for the public cloud and the private cloud, businesses are turning towards a hybrid cloud computing solution. The reason is obvious; in the initial days of cloud computing technology, enterprises used public clouds extensively for VDI, RDP and BYOD requirements. However, over the last few years security issues, operational challenges and data compliance issues have become a growing concern. This is why businesses started shifting to the private cloud. While the private cloud offered more control and visibility over business processes, huge investments and infrastructure management still remained a concern.
With shrinking IT budgets and rising business demands, companies are looking for an intermediate model of cloud computing technology. The hybrid cloud computing solution rightly fits into this space. Certain applications require …