MokiMobility has released a new version of their MokiManage iPad kiosk management app.
In this video Ty Allen, President and co-founder, introduces the new release.
MokiMobility Releases Updated iPad Kiosk App
SYS-CON.tv Interview: The Open Hybrid Cloud
“Open is what Red Hat’s DNA is going back to the early days of Linux, and we feel that open is even more fundamental with cloud,” stated Gordon Haff, Cloud Evangelist at Red Hat, in this SYS-CON.tv interview with Cloud Expo Conference Chair Jeremy Geelan at the 11th International Cloud Expo, held November 5-8, 2012, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA.
Cloud Expo 2013 New York, June 10–13, at the Javits Center in New York City, New York, will feature technical sessions from a rock star conference faculty and the leading Cloud industry players in the world.
The Limits of Cloud: NICS and Nets
You might have noticed that in general, enterprise-grade networking solutions aren’t always available for general deployment in public cloud environments.
You might also have noticed that when you provision a compute instance in a public cloud environment you get one public (and usually one private) IP address.
I’ll stop for a moment and let you consider the relationship between these two facts.
Many mature enterprise-grade networking solutions require at least two network interfaces – one for traffic (data plane) and one for management (control plane) and often suggest a third for optimal, best-practice deployment. It’s been a long time since I’ve seen mature networking solutions that don’t employ segregated management networks. Those solutions that sit inline and that are in the line of fire, as you will, from concentrated network and application-layer attacks, absolutely need segregated management as a means to control the solution and mitigate an in-progress attack or sudden spike in utilization that might be overwhelming the primary network.
2012 Cloud Data Trends – Year in Review
It was nearly a year ago that I authored a post predicting ten hot trends in cloud data for 2012. While there’s a strong temptation to cast old predictions into ancient history and dive into ten predictions for 2013, I felt it more appropriate to first glance back and reflect on how those past predictions fared.
After all, much can transpire over the course of 12 months — hot technologies cool off, fads pass, buzzwords vanish — and, of course, some technologies really stick. So let’s take this opportunity to revel in our success or eat our humble pie. Without much ado, here are the predicted 2012 trends and how they fared:
The Top 10, Top 10 2013 Predictions
Like last year, everyone has their Technology predictions with their annual lists for the coming year. Instead of coming up with my own, I figured I’d simply regurgitate what many others are expecting to happen.
Cloud computing in 2013: Two warnings: @DavidLinthicum has his two tragic cloud computing predictions for 2013 (price wars & skills shortage). Nice to see some realism mixed with all the ‘this is the greatest.’
10 Cloud Predictions for 2013: CIO has an interesting slide show covering things like Hybrid Cloud, Management, Brokers, SDN, Outages and a few other critical components.
RSA’s Art Coviello: 8 Computer Security Predictions For 2013: Attacks grow, Hackers grow, business’s not prepared grows along with investment, analysis and intelligence to mitigate threats.
Security Predictions 2013-2014: Emerging Trends in IT and Security: SANS gets some input from various industry folks on what they think. Areas like authentication, mobile devices, Windows 8, geo-forensics, gamification and others are highlighted
High Velocity Hybrid Cloud: CloudVelocity Emerges from Stealth Mode
«Our goal is to enable enterprises to operate hybrid clouds as seamless extensions of the data center,» said Rajeev Chawla, CEO of CloudVelocity, as the previously stealth-mode company Denali emerged today as CloudVelocity, dedicated to the development of a hybrid cloud automation platform.
Jonathan Schwartz Launches eHealthcare Start-Up
«Everyone cares about health in a deeply personal way,» blogged former Sun CEO Jonathan Schwartz on Tuesday as he alerted the world to the existence of his new website, PictureofHealth.com.
One in three mission critical apps currently in the cloud, says survey
Research from identity management provider SailPoint has revealed that US and UK based IT leaders see one in three mission critical apps as currently in the cloud, with that figure rising sharply by 2015.
The Market Pulse Survey of 400 IT and business leaders, which defined ‘mission critical’ as apps mainly focused on storage, file-sharing and communications, forecast that the number is expected to grow to one in two in three years.
The figures differed slightly dependent on which side of the Atlantic respondents were based – 32% in the US compared to 30% in the UK for cloudy mission critical apps now – but the consensus was the same.
Another element of the research centred on pain points with moving to the cloud, with the usual suspects present.
Security was the top risk for 73% of US and 74% of UK-based respondents, with compliance and (56% US, 52% UK) and uptime …
SYS-CON.tv Interview: The API Revolution
“The demand for APIs is really all around the mobile device. Mobile devices actually need APIs and that need is driving the advent of the API revolution.” stated Alistair Farquharson, CTO of SOA Software, in this SYS-CON.tv interview with Cloud Expo Conference Chair Jeremy Geelan at the 11th International Cloud Expo, held November 5-8, 2012, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA.
Cloud Expo 2013 New York, June 10–13, at the Javits Center in New York City, New York, will feature technical sessions from a rock star conference faculty and the leading Cloud industry players in the world.
Mobile Cloud and Big Data – Cloud Power to the Next Level
I worked extensively in the telecommunications area to lead large, innovative nationwide mobile application and portal rollouts that included mobile platforms, applications, databases, services and integration mechanisms. With the explosion of the Cloud and Mobile Cloud, the entre digital landscape is changing. With 4G, bandwidth and latency issues are on the path of being progressively addressed. Not just traditional computers, but mobile devices are accessing Cloud and Big Data services like never before. Mobile applications need to run efficiently on various devices such as Androids, iPhones. Mobile applications have forced the push of processing and storage from the devices to the Cloud. The key is to ensure that native application development is minimized and the Cloud handles the backend, heavy lifting functions that can be then rendered on the mobile devices as thin native clients or browsers on the devices. Cloud can handle all the key aspects of managing the data and security in a standard manner for many applications and can provide the on demand and scalability capabilities to support such applications. Cloud computing services can also provide powerful capabilities to process the data and render useful information and hence processing and the deployment time may be significantly reduced.