Undoubtedly one of the key reasons for so many innovations happening in the information technology space is consumerization. While some feel that consumerization has reached the tipping point, consumers (and businesses as well) are still looking for newer avenues to do things more intuitively and effectively. Video is emerging as the new commodity to enhance the overall experience of how information and knowledge is shared and also how consumers and businesses collaborate. Voice is becoming passé and video has the potential to replace it.
Building solutions that are centered on video has its own challenges and some of these can be well addressed by cloud computing. Before finalizing on the roadmap for any future video-based solutions, it’s important to understand and develop the right perspective on the role of cloud computing for video.
Liaison Acquires Hubspan, Creating Cloud-Based Integration Leader
Liaison Technologies has acquired Hubspan figuring that the merger of the two integration companies will create the pure-play leader in the fast-growing cloud-based business integration sector.
Terms were not disclosed.
Hubspan was founded in 2000 and is credited with building the industry’s first cloud-based single-instance multi-tenant integration platform delivered on a subscription basis.
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The Future of Security in the Enterprise
Security, over the years, has evolved from an absolute concept of a binary decision: is it secure or is it not? As we move forward, I believe very strongly that what we’re evolving into is, as we’ve heard people talk about, risk management.
Risk management starts to include things that are beyond the security borders. As I talked to customers out here, I was having an «aha» moment. A little while ago, at one of our converged cloud chats, we were talking about how things fail. Everything fails at some point, and chaos takes over.
So rather than talking about security, which is a set of absolutes or a concrete topic, and boxing ourselves into threats from a security perspective, the evolution of that goes into enterprise resiliency. What that means is that it’s a combination of recoverability, security, performance, and all the other things that bring together a well-oiled business that can let you take a shot to the gut, get back up, and keep going.
Cloud Computing: Amazon’s Offering Glacier Cold Storage
Amazon has brought out a new cloud service called Glacier to freeze out the competition.
It wants companies to archive and back up their data, all the stuff they have to hang on to for years and years to comply with all the rules, but don’t have to access very often.
Storing all this pack rat data is expensive. Amazon is offering to do it for a penny a gigabyte a month, a “significant savings” it figures is “disruptive.”
As is typical with Amazon there’s no up-front fee and it’s pay-as-you-go. Archives are apparently saved in “vaults” in Amazon’s data center in Virginia via a Glacier API although the FAQ says the “service redundantly stores data in multiple facilities and on multiple devices within each facility.”
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Cloud Computing: Piston to Field an OpenStack to Play With
Piston Cloud is about to release Airframe, a cut-down version of its Piston Enterprise OpenStack platform built so business users have a free way to evaluate and get comfortable with OpenStack in a pre-production environment.
It’s supposed to be ideal in pilot deployments, proof of concept and lab environments.
The bare-metal cloud management platform is said to install in less than 10 minutes – which, if true, is probably remarkable – and deliver all the core OpenStack services including compute, storage, networking and cloud management.
Revolution R Enterprise Wins Data Science Technology Award
A big thank-you to all the R users out there who voted for Revolution R Enterprise in DataWeek Awards. We’re so pleased to be recognized by the voters and the DataWeek judging panel with the Top Innovator Award for Data Science Technology. We’re looking forward to the awards ceremony next week at DataWeek SF (in San Francisco, September 24-27). If you’d like to come along and join us and 1000 of the other most innovative data-centric companies who are attending, speaking, and participating in this first annual event, you can register here with the code DataWeek25 for a 25% discount….
David Smith
CIO as Innovator: Enabling the Strategy-Focused IT Organization
We are now in process of launching our flagship best practices publication, the Cloud CIO guide @ CloudCIO.info. While the technology aspects of Cloud Computing are important, what is actually most noteworthy about the trend is the transformation of the role of the CIO, to become a board-level change agent specializing in innovation. A headline […]
Mind the gap – the "consumerisation of innovation"
The landscape of IT innovation is changing.
“Back in the day” (said in my gravelly old-man voice from my Barcalounger wearing my Netware red t-shirt) companies who were developing new technology solutions brought them to the enterprise and marketed them to the IT management stack.
CIOs, CTOs and IT directors were the injection point for technology acceptance into the business. Now, that injection point has been turned into a fire hose.
Think about many of the technologies we have to consider as we develop our enterprise architectures: tablets, smartphones, cloud computing, application stores, and file synchronisation.
Because our users and clients are consuming these technologies today outside of IT, we need to be aware of what they are using, how they are using it, and what bunker-buster is likely to be dropped into our lap next.
Sure, you can argue that “tablets” had been around for a number of years …