The growing popularity of IoT has spawned the debate on privacy once again. Last year, Samsung stoked controversy by warning customers that their Smart TV Voice Recognition system was capable of “listening” to personal and sensitive information spoken by customers. Not only this, all of this intercepted information is transmitted over a non-encrypted connection to be stored in a third party server.
Elevating Your Professional Cloud Computing Career | @CloudExpo #API #Cloud #DigitalTransformation
It was late 2011 and Steven Donovan was comfortable working at SHI International Corporation, a growing information technology firm, as a personal computer break/fix technician. His company had been growing quickly from a $1 million «software-only» regional re-seller into eventually becoming a $6 billion global provider of information technology products and services.
At that time, cloud computing was just starting to explode onto the information technology scene. Although Amazon Web Services had been offering its Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) since 2006, browser-based enterprise applications from companies like Google had only been around since 2009. Steven wanted to somehow elevate himself professionally so after hearing good things about the National Cloud Technologist Association’s CloudMASTER® certification, which was available at the New Jersey Institute of Technology, he enrolled. After a short, but intense, online curriculum Steven earned NCTA CloudMASTER® Certificate 11002.
[session] The Journey to IT Self-Service By @MJamensky | @CloudExpo #API #ITaaS #Cloud
Leading cloud-centric IT organizations are establishing core capabilities to improve productivity, control costs and provide a highly responsive end-user experience. Key steps along this journey include creating an end-user cloud services catalog, automating workflows and provisioning, and implementing IT showback and chargeback.
In his session at 19th Cloud Expo, Mark Jamensky, executive vice president of Products at Embotics, will walk attendees through an in-depth case study of enterprise IT management products provider Serena Software and its journey to enhancing ITaaS and IT cost visibility capabilities. The session will share best practices, lessons learned and key technologies used along the way.
[session] The Journey to IT Self-Service By @MJamensky | @CloudExpo #API #ITaaS #Cloud
Leading cloud-centric IT organizations are establishing core capabilities to improve productivity, control costs and provide a highly responsive end-user experience. Key steps along this journey include creating an end-user cloud services catalog, automating workflows and provisioning, and implementing IT showback and chargeback.
In his session at 19th Cloud Expo, Mark Jamensky, executive vice president of Products at Embotics, will walk attendees through an in-depth case study of enterprise IT management products provider Serena Software and its journey to enhancing ITaaS and IT cost visibility capabilities. The session will share best practices, lessons learned and key technologies used along the way.
Announcing @XWin32 to Exhibit at @CloudExpo Silicon Valley | #API #Cloud #Linux
SYS-CON Events announced today that StarNet Communications will exhibit at the 19th International Cloud Expo, which will take place on November 1–3, 2016, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA.
StarNet Communications’ FastX is the industry first cloud-based remote X Windows emulator. Using standard Web browsers (FireFox, Chrome, Safari, etc.) users from around the world gain highly secure access to applications and data hosted on Linux-based servers in a central data center.
Microsoft overhauls Salesforce in enterprise SaaS, Synergy argues
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Microsoft has overtaken Salesforce to become the leading software as a service (SaaS) vendor despite a fragmented market, according to the latest note from Synergy Research.
The analyst firm, which extensively covers cloud software and infrastructure markets, argues that with the latest Q2 data to hand, the global enterprise SaaS market grew by 33% year on year to hit more than $11 billion (£8.3bn) in quarterly revenues.
The space is divided up by Synergy into several buckets. Collaboration, the largest segment, grew by 37% and has Microsoft, Cisco, and Citrix as leaders. Perhaps surprisingly, the analysts see the ERP market as the quickest growing, by 49% year on year and Oracle, SAP and NetSuite as the leaders.
The former was acquired by the latter for $9.3bn in July, and at the time, Synergy chief analyst John Dinsdale argued the move would help bolster Oracle’s play in ERP, as well as CRM, although still being behind Microsoft and Salesforce. CRM is considered by the analysts as the smallest segment, behind HR and human capital management (HCM), of which the leaders are ADP, Workday, and Ultimate Software, system infrastructure SaaS, with IBM, SAP and Oracle leading the way, and a more general bucket for other enterprise apps.
Dinsdale argues that with this analysis, the widely thought concept of the ‘born in the cloud’ companies biting at the heels of the established legacy software vendors may be something of a misnomer. “In SaaS a big battle is playing out between the traditional broad-based software vendors and companies that are focused on a specific application or industry sector, many of which are entirely cloud based,” he said.
“It might be tempting to assume that the latter camp are leading the charge, but in fact the traditional software vendors are growing their SaaS revenues more rapidly, helped by their huge base of on-premise software customers that can be aggressively targeted for conversion to a SaaS consumption model,” Dinsdale added.
IBM study assesses improving hybrid cloud usage – with innovation the key
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A study from IBM has revealed a major increase in organisations having fully integrated cloud initiatives – but the cloud is not used for everything.
78% of the survey respondents, in the study of 1,000 C-suite executives entitled ‘Tailoring hybrid cloud: Designing the right mix for innovation, efficiency and growth’, say their cloud initiatives are fully integrated or coordinated, up from 34% in 2012. Among high performing organisations, this number rises further to 83%.
In terms of adopting hybrid cloud solutions, the key drivers are lowering the total cost of ownership (54%), facilitating innovation (42%), improving operational efficiencies (42%) and more readily meeting customer expectations (40%). Companies undertaking cloud initiatives said they were most likely to expand into new industries (76%), as well as creating new revenue sources (71%) and supporting new business models (69%).
“Enterprises are moving to the cloud, especially hybrid cloud, faster than anyone expected to support their digital transformation, drive business model innovation and fuel growth,” said Marie Wieck, general manager of middleware at IBM. “As clients continue to reap the benefits of integrating their on-premises infrastructure with the cloud, we see them increasing their investments in new workloads on public clouds.
“Successful clients have integrated plans to place workloads where they fit best, and IBM’s hybrid cloud strategy provides this on-ramp for flexibility and growth,” Wieck added.
In the study, IBM recommended three actions for businesses to drive competitive advantage through cloud adoption. Organisations need to deepen their understanding of the business implications and the financial cases of cloud and then use that knowledge from there, as well as better manage the complexity of multiple cloud ecosystem partners, and establish strict control policies.
IBM’s various partnerships have hit the headlines this week. At the VMworld event in Las Vegas VMware announced an update and the continuation of its deal with IBM, noting that more than 500 new clients, including Marriott International and Monitise, were running VMware’s software on IBM’s cloud. Meanwhile, when cloud storage firm Box announced its latest financial results, the company’s partnership with IBM, launched last year, was cited as a contributing factor in eight ‘six figure’ deals.
Cybersecurity Crosses the Chasm | @CloudExpo #Cloud #Security #DigitalTransformation
As cloud security is rapidly advancing, enterprises can begin to prevail over digital disruption by increasingly using cloud-defined security.
The next BriefingsDirect cybersecurity innovation and transformation panel discussion explores how cloud security is rapidly advancing, and how enterprises can begin to innovate and prevail over digital disruption by increasingly using cloud-defined security.
We’ll examine how a secure content collaboration services provider removes the notion of organizational boundaries so that businesses can better extend processes. And we’ll hear how less boundaries and cloud-based security together support transformative business benefits.
Thin client reseller business alert – Cross-selling opportunity
With the increase in cloud and virtualization networks, the thin-client reseller business became lucrative. Many top brands in the hardware industry, such as Dell and HP, entered this market and are still the leaders. Thin-client technology enables organizations to centrally host resources on a server and securely publish them to any remote device at […]
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Virtualization in Definition-Driven API Development | #CloudExpo #API #Cloud #Virtualization
Agile development is highly iterative, and relies upon the rapid development of software and early feedback. These practices are well understood and practiced in mature application development teams.
The shift to an agile software development process has helped teams accelerate time to market, improve quality and reduce costs. With new technologies and processes that have hit the market, these same benefits can now be delivered to API development teams.