Cavirin Systems has just announced C2, a SaaS offering designed to bring continuous security assessment and remediation to hybrid environments, containers, and data centers. Cavirin C2 is deployed within Amazon Web Services (AWS) and features a flexible licensing model for easy scalability and clear pay-as-you-go pricing.
Although native to AWS, it also supports assessment and remediation of virtual or container instances within Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform (GCP), or on-premise. By drawing on a comprehensive library of curated industry guidelines, control frameworks, and best practices, Cavirin promises to keep a wary eye on your hybrid cloud security and help you harden it against real and potential threats.
[slides] Continuous Deep Learning for Visual Systems | @CloudExpo @CalSci #AI #ML #DL #Cloud
In his session at 21st Cloud Expo, James Henry, Co-CEO/CTO of Calgary Scientific Inc., introduced you to the challenges, solutions and benefits of training AI systems to solve visual problems with an emphasis on improving AIs with continuous training in the field. He explored applications in several industries and discussed technologies that allow the deployment of advanced visualization solutions to the cloud.
What Is an Enterprise Health Cloud? | @CloudExpo #Cloud #BigData #Analytics
Digital transformation has changed the way users interact with the world, and the traditional healthcare experience no longer meets rising consumer expectations. Enterprise Health Clouds (EHCs) are designed to easily and securely deliver the smart and engaging digital health experience that patients expect today, while ensuring the compliance and data integration that care providers require.
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[video] @AndiMann’s Data-Driven Decisions | @ClodExpo @Splunk #DevOps
DevOps promotes continuous improvement through a culture of collaboration. But in real terms, how do you: Integrate activities across diverse teams and services? Make objective decisions with system-wide visibility? Use feedback loops to enable learning and improvement?
With technology insights and real-world examples, in his general session at @DevOpsSummit, at 21st Cloud Expo, Andi Mann, Chief Technology Advocate at Splunk, explored how leading organizations use data-driven DevOps to close their feedback loops to drive continuous improvement.
Cisco to acquire Cmpute.io to help companies ease multi-cloud deployments
Cisco has announced its intention to acquire Cmpute.io to help organisations get the most out of their multi-cloud deployments.
The acquisition, which is expected to close in the second quarter of Cisco’s 2018 fiscal year, was announced on Cisco’s blog, with Rob Salvagno, head of Cisco’s M&A and venture investment team, writing that the addition of Cmpute.io’s technology will “help customer optimise their cloud consumption to ensure optimal business value.”
Longer-term industry watchers may remember Cmpute.io in its previous life as Batch.ly. The company offers four paths to cloudy application optimisation; instance right sizing, putting instance types with the right application based on performance; cost and time saving; as well as availability, automatically balancing application workloads across instance categories.
This is by no means the first cloud-based buy made by Cisco this year. 2017 has seen the acquisition of SD-WAN provider Viptela, for $610 million back in May, while October saw $1.9 billion splashed out for cloud collaboration provider BroadSoft.
The importance of managing multi-cloud environments continue to be a hot button issue for organisations. A research study from BMC Software released last month found that for the majority of IT decision makers polled, current multi-cloud management approaches needed rethinking.
According to the research, cost optimisation was the most popular reason to go multi-cloud, ahead of increased agility and risk mitigation. “With a multi-cloud strategy, customers need to budget, buy, and consume differently,” added Salvagno.
Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed.
Why the overall cloud opportunity moves far beyond the public cloud
If you want to appreciate the full extent of the cloud computing phenomena, then you need to comprehend the ongoing impact to the IT ecosystem. It's been fueled by a disruptive series of innovations that have enabled software developers to accelerate the speed of digital transformation.
The cloud delivery and consumption model has revolutionized the entire IT industry. But the cloud opportunity extends well beyond the public cloud – which makes up less than half of all cloud-related spending today – and includes private and hybrid clouds, as well as managed cloud services, cloud-related professional services, and hardware and software infrastructure for building clouds.
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In its first forecast of the 'whole cloud' opportunity, International Data Corporation (IDC) estimates that worldwide whole cloud revenues will reach $554 billion in 2021 – that's more than double those of 2016.
"The most obvious takeaway from this forecast is that the shift to the cloud consumption model – in all its forms – is a mass movement, and will continue to be such over the forecast period," said Frank Gens, senior vice president and chief analyst at IDC.
The past few years have produced a steady stream of innovative new services introduced by the major public cloud service providers, including blockchain services, IoT back-end data services, encryption services, serverless computing services, and even new computing hardware services.
IDC expects the pace of innovation on public clouds to continue and, more likely, to accelerate. Similarly, IDC expects to see a steady expansion of enterprise workloads on the cloud as cloud service providers and their partners focus on new deployment scenarios for these workloads.
Despite lingering concerns about security, vendor and technology lock-in, and interoperability, IDC believes that cloud computing will continue to dominate and transform enterprise computing for years to come.
Key highlights from the IDC forecast include:
In 2016, public cloud services accounted for 41 percent of all cloud-related spending. By 2021, this figure will increase to 48 percent. And, when spending on hardware and software that enables public cloud services, and managed and professional services around the cloud are included, these figures rise to 65 percent and 68 percent, respectively.
Spending on managed and professional services around cloud adoption are, collectively, the second largest opportunity in the whole cloud market, accounting for 31 percent of all cloud-related spending in 2016 and 2021.
The hyperscale datacenters operated by cloud service providers are dramatically altering the market for infrastructure hardware and software. By 2021, cloud service providers will account for 76 percent of cloud-related infrastructure hardware and software spending.
Consider the Human Side of IT | @CloudExpo #AI #ML #DX #Cloud
Artificial intelligence, virtual reality, software-defined networking, Hyperconverged Infrastructure, the cloud. These are all technological advancements intended to improve how IT systems and operations work, to give the business better agility and reduced costs, and ultimately to give end-users a new and better experience. Quite often, however, IT’s creators and consumers alike lose sight of the […]
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[video] Custom Applications with @InteractorTeam | @CloudExpo #AI #Cloud
«The reason Tier 1 companies are coming to us is we’re able to narrow the gap where custom applications need to be built. They provide a lot of services, like IBM has Watson, and they provide a lot of hardware but how do you bring it all together? Bringing it all together they have to build custom applications and that’s the niche that we are able to help them with,» explained Peter Jung, Product Leader at Pulzze Systems Inc., in this SYS-CON.tv interview at 21st Cloud Expo, held Oct 31 – Nov 2, 2017, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA.
Meeting Network Traffic and Speed Growth Challenges | @CloudExpo #API #SDN #Cloud
Today’s hyper-connectivity of both people and things has led to an enormous jump in network traffic. Global IP traffic will increase nearly threefold over the next five years. It’s not going to lessen, nor is it going to get slower. These factors create a need for high-speed networks to ensure service level and capacity. 100G network links are deployed by telecom networks and data centers, serving hundreds of thousands of users, so that these providers can keep pace with customer demand. This then creates the need to test and troubleshoot on the networks at 100G link speed.
Evatronix to Exhibit at @CloudExpo | #IoT #SmartCities #DigitalTransformation
SYS-CON Events announced today that Evatronix will exhibit at SYS-CON’s 21st International Cloud Expo®, which will take place on Oct 31 – Nov 2, 2017, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA.
Evatronix SA offers comprehensive solutions in the design and implementation of electronic systems, in CAD / CAM deployment, and also is a designer and manufacturer of advanced 3D scanners for professional applications.