SYS-CON Events announced today that ScaleOut Software, a leading provider of in-memory data grids (IMDGs), will exhibit at SYS-CON’s 12th International Cloud Expo, which will take place on June 10–13, 2013, at the Javits Center in New York City, New York.
ScaleOut Software develops software products that provide scalable, highly available memory-based storage and analysis for operational data in server farms, compute grids, and the cloud. Since our first products shipped in January 2005, we have consistently developed leading-edge technologies that help our customers solve scalability and performance challenges and gain competitive advantages for their businesses.
AWS Adds Elastic Transcoder
Amazon Web Services is now hawking Amazon Elastic Transcoder, described as a highly scalable service for transcoding video files between different digital media formats that’s supposed to save users a lot of time and money by eliminating complexity.
Amazon said customers can use the stuff to convert their large high-resolution “master” video files into smaller versions optimized for playback on web sites, mobile devices, connected TVs and other video platforms.
Elastic Transcoder apparently removes the need to manage infrastructure and transcoding software, providing scalability and performance by leveraging AWS services.
Innodisk USA to Exhibit at Cloud Expo New York
SYS-CON Events announced today that Innodisk USA, a leading manufacturer of DRAM and Flash storage products, will exhibit at SYS-CON’s 12th International Cloud Expo, which will take place on June 10–13, 2013, at the Javits Center in New York City, New York.
Innodisk is a leading manufacturer of DRAM and Flash Storage products, with an emphasis on the Enterprise, Server, Industrial, Military, Networking, and Gaming Markets. At Innodisk, we are dedicated to serving our customers and business partners with a commitment to Absolute Service™. We are widely recognized for our expertise in the custom design of industrial embedded memory, as curated by our in-house hardware, software and firmware development teams. We are dedicated to technical innovation and the revolution of Industrial DRAM and Flash Storage products.
Cloud Expo New York: How to Use Google Apps Script
Google Apps Script is a cloud-based JavaScript environment that allows you to write powerful applications and workflows around Google Apps such as Gmail, Docs, Drive, and Sheets. The development is entirely within a browser and it’s free and easy to get started.
In his session at the 12th International Cloud Expo, Arun Nagarajan, Senior Developer Advocate at Google, will demonstrate all the capabilities of Google Apps Script. Delegates will walk away being able to write their first script.
Addressing the GRC Market
Startup Convercent builds tools to fill void in GRC market by implementing and measuring compliance to corporate values and culture.
GRC has traditionally provided companies with tools to help customers meet government and industry regulations, enforce corporate policies and better deal with risk. Yet the areas of corporate culture and values — which are becoming increasing important in today’s business climate — were rarely addressed.
“Our platform allows companies to take the fuzzy-wuzzy of ethics –- to take the sign off the wall — and turn it into structured data to measure employee actions against the organization’s stated values and culture,” said Patrick Quinlan, Convercent’s CEO.
PEER 1 Hosting to Exhibit at Cloud Expo New York
SYS-CON Events announced today that PEER 1 Hosting, the global IT hosting provider, will exhibit at SYS-CON’s 12th International Cloud Expo, which will take place on June 10–13, 2013, at the Javits Center in New York City, New York.
PEER 1 Hosting is one of the world’s leading IT hosting providers. The company is built on two obsessions: Ping & People. Ping, represents its commitment to best-in-breed technology, founded on a high performance 10Gbps FastFiber Network™ and 25K miles of fiber, we’re connected by 19 state-of-the-art datacenters, 21 points-of-presence and 10 colocation facilities in 14 cities throughout North America and Europe. People, represents its commitment to delivering outstanding customer service to its more than 10,000 customers worldwide, backed by a 100 percent uptime guarantee and 24x7x365 FirstCall Support™.
Help Define a Standardized Cloud Provider Profile
As discussed on this thread in one of our Linkedin groups, we are starting the process of building a directory of Cloud Providers and also facilitating competitive assessment of the services they offer. Here’s a quick draft to get the dialogue started, that we`d like to refine with crowd inputs.. Cloud Provider Profile Data Centres […]
SaaS Creating Eventually Consistent Business Model
The success of SOA, which grew out of the popular Object Oriented development paradigm, was greatly hampered by the inability of architects to enforce its central premise of reuse. But it wasn’t just the lack of reusing services that caused it to fail to achieve the greatness predicted, it was the lack of adopting the idea of an authoritative source for business critical objects, i.e. data.
A customer, an order, a lead, a prospect, a service call. These «business objects» within SOA were intended to represented by a single, authoritative source as a means to ultimately provide a more holistic view of a customer that could be then be used by various business applications to ensure more quality service.
It didn’t turn out that way, mores the pity, and while organizations adopted the protocols and programmatic methods associated with SOA, they never really got down to the business of implementing authoritative sources for business critical «objects». As organizations increasingly turn to SaaS solutions, particularly for CRM and SFA solutions (Gartner’s Market Trends: SaaS’s Varied Levels of Cannibalization to On-Premises Applications published: 29 October 2012) the ability to enforce a single, authoritative source becomes even more unpossible. What’s perhaps even more disturbing is the potential inability to generate that holistic view of a customer that’s so important to managing customer relationships and business processes.
Is "Little data" Big Data’s new battleground?
Mark Little, Principal Analyst, Consumer, Ovum
“You have zero privacy anyway, get over it,” Sun Microsystems chief executive Scott McNealy is quoted as saying at a product launch back in 1999. McNealy will surely have grown almost as tired of hearing his famous quote as consumers appear to be of being tracked on the Internet, and Ovum’s latest Consumer Insights survey suggests that two-thirds of the Internet population is very tired indeed.
Internet players and data collectors of every type are at risk of taking the consumer’s personal data, their “little data,” for granted, turning the Big Data value system into a battleground.
Regulation and hardening attitudes are squeezing the supply of personal data
Since Scott McNealy made his famous quote there have been many privacy infringements and policy errors. These have mostly involved major players, and notable examples include Google Street View’s covert collection of consumers …
Cloud Migration Is Not Enough
Cloud migration has become known as a critical solution for public cloud deployment. Yet cloud migration is not sufficient for hybrid cloud and enterprise cloud requirements. Enterprises will require cloud integration.