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"Deloitte" is the brand under which tens of thousands of dedicated professionals in independent firms throughout the world collaborate to provide audit & assurance, consulting, risk and financial advisory, risk management, tax, and related services to select clients. These firms are members of Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu Limited, a UK private company limited by guarantee ("DTTL"). Each DTTL member firm provides services in particular geographic areas and is subject to the laws and professional regulations of the particular country or countries in which it operates. Each DTTL member firm is structured in accordance with national laws, regulations, customary practice, and other factors, and may secure the provision of professional services in its territory through subsidiaries, affiliates, and other related entities. Not every DTTL member firm provides all services, and... (more)

In 2014 Big Data Investments Will Account for Nearly $30 Billion - Eventually Accounting for $76 Billion by 2020 End

DALLAS, Aug. 21, 2014 /PRNewswire-iReach/ -- Amid the proliferation of real time data from sources such as mobile devices, web, social media, sensors, log files and transactional applications, Big Data has found a host of vertical market applications, ranging from fraud detection to R&D.; Photo - http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20140821/138541 "Big Data Market: 2014 – 2020 – Opportunities, Challenges, Strategies, Industry Verticals & Forecasts" Key Findings: In 2014 Big Data vendors will pocket nearly $30 Billion from hardware, software and professional services revenues Big Data investments are further expected to grow at a CAGR of nearly 17% over the next 6 years, eventually accounting for $76 Billion by the end of 2020 The market is ripe for acquisitions of pure-play Big Data startups, as competition heats up between IT incumbents Nearly every large scale IT ven... (more)

Thales Datacryptor Recognized as Best Encryption Solution in Info Security Products Guide 2013 Global Excellence Awards

RSA Conference, San Francisco - March 1st, 2013 - Thales, leader in information systems and communications security, announces that Info Security Products Guide, the industry's leading information security research and advisory guide, has named the Thales Datacryptor line of network encryption solutions Gold Winner of the 2013 Global Excellence Awards in the Best Encryption category. The prestigious global excellence awards recognize Thales as a global leader in the security industry with advanced, ground-breaking products and solutions. More than 50 judges from a broad spectrum of industry voices around the world participated and their average scores determined the 2013 Global Excellence Awards Finalists and Winners. Winners were announced during an awards dinner and presentation on February 27, 2013 in San Francisco attended by finalists, judges and industry peer... (more)

March 2013 Server and StorageIO Update Newsletter

March 2013 Server and StorageIO Update Newsletter By Greg Schulz March 2013 News letter Welcome to the March 2013 edition of the StorageIO Update news letter. You can get access to this news letter via various social media venues (some are shown below) in addition to StorageIO web sites and subscriptions. Click on the following links to view the March 2013 edition as (HTML sent via Email) version, or PDF versions. Visit the news letter page to view previous editions of the StorageIO Update. You can subscribe to the news letter by clicking here. Enjoy this edition of the StorageIO Update news letter, let me know your comments and feedback. Ok, nuff said. Cheers gs Greg Schulz - Author Cloud and Virtual Data Storage Networking (CRC Press, 2011), The Green and Virtual Data Center (CRC Press, 2009), and Resilient Storage Networks (Elsevier, 2004) twitter @storageio Al... (more)

Announcing Remote VM Access By Fax

By popular demand we are delighted to announce the world exclusive launch of cloud server access over fax. PALO ALTO, CA - April 1, 2013 - CloudSigma, an international, customer-centric, pure-cloud Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) provider, today announced that its customers will now be able to benefit from fax access to their cloud servers. Complementing the existing SSH and VNC access, 'remote desktop via fax' provides users without internet connection the ability to view their cloud servers. Robert Jenkins CEO at CloudSigma announced the service this morning stating "we are always listening to customers and they were clear, where is your fax access? For some VNC just isn't performant enough. This new service is a world first for CloudSigma and the result of six months innovation. Customers can now remotely view their screens from anywhere in the world via fax. ... (more)

Cloud Player – Derrick Harris, Senior Writer, GigaOM Part 1

We recently had the pleasure of having an extended conversation with Derrick Harris, senior writer at GigaOM. Our discussion covered big data and cloud, social media, tech startups, and much more. This is the first of two parts; Part 2 is available, here. Gathering Clouds: To start, can you tell us a bit about your [...] The post Cloud Player – Derrick Harris, Senior Writer, GigaOM Part 1 appeared first on Gathering Clouds. ... (more)

Appery.io – The Mobile App Platform

The entire Exadel team is super excited to launch Appery.io. First, some history. Appery.io has come a very long way since its roots as a prototype-building tool. Because of its heritage, the service is great at rapidly building mobile apps using a visual IDE. However, the product is now a complete cloud-based platform with integrated backend services and a rich catalog of plug-ins that make it easy to integrate with cloud services (including enterprise systems such as Salesforce.com). We are introducing a new brand to reflect the evolution of Appery.io as well as to support where our platform is headed. . A Complete Mobile Platform An app is not just UI. An app is not just backend services. A true mobile app is UI, plus mobile backend services, and access to 3rd party APIs. Appery.io is unique because it is the only cloud-based platform with visual development tool... (more)

ManageEngine Introduces Industry-First ‘Enterprise Search’ for IT Teams in IT360

Single Console for Searching Multi-Vendor Enterprise IT Applications and Assets -With No Database Expertise Required Users can search any IT application's RDBMS Try interactive demo of IT360 with enterprise search at http://ow.ly/k1r6N Register to download IT360 now for sneak-peek before May 2013 launch at http://ow.ly/k5i2I Service Desk and IT Support, Earls Court, London, UK - 23rd April, 2013 -ManageEngine, the real-time IT management company, today announced the addition of enterprise search to its integrated IT management solution, IT360. The industry-first move introduces a unified search console that is capable of searching databases of any third-party IT management and business applications, without requiring the user to understand the underlying database architectures or write SQL queries. Larger enterprises often have multiple IT management tools for variou... (more)

Who’s Who in Cloud April 19, 2013

Some cloud laughs courtesy of CloudTweaks In a week marred by tragedy in Boston, its hard to say that cloud has been the only thing we thought about. Yet, this week has been ripe with some very interesting announcements and analyses, courtesy of some very smart thought leaders. Major trends we’ve observed this week focus on AWS, Windows Azure dropping its price to be more competitive with AWS, big data and cloud developments, and more evidence that cloud adoption is increasingly a measure of the technology reaching a level of maturity that lends itself to enterprise applicability. Did we miss anything good? Let us know on Twitter @cloudgathering. Derrick Harris discusses the billions that storing big data will reap for cloud storage companies. Check out Derrick’s Cloud Player interview here. David Linthicum reaffirms the necessity for smart planning in cloud governa... (more)

Platform As A Service, Giving the IT world D-Business, Know your DAM use cases

By Marcus Williams Today’s cyber news we are tracking: Platform As A Service, Giving the IT world d business, Know your DAM use cases, and more… Platform As A Service Platform As A Service (PaaS) is slowly becoming popular in the IT industry.  Organizations are beginning to invest in a quicker solution for their everyday operations.  PaaS affords customers the opportunity to lease virtualized software to coherently function in the same capacity of existing applications.   Mario Cruz, the CTO for Choose Digital, decided to invest in PaaS.  He explained in this article how PaaS revolutionize his past experienced in new develop products.  “In my old life, a project could take easily four to six months…”.  Click PaaS to read more. Giving the IT world D-Business Some analyst predict d business will replace its predecessor e business.  Digital business or d business is ... (more)

BridgeHead & NetApp Collaborate to Offer Hospitals Data and Storage Management Solutions

Best-of-breed vendors leverage their specialties to provide a comprehensive data and storage management solution for healthcare organizations Woburn, MA & Ashtead, UK — May 10, 2013 — BridgeHead Software, the Healthcare Data Management company, today announced its membership in the NetApp Alliance Partner Program. The initiative arose following agreement by both companies of their synergies within the healthcare space. BridgeHead and NetApp collaborate to enable hospitals to store, protect and share their most valuable asset, their data, for the betterment of patient care. Our joint solutions can provide healthcare organizations with a full, end-to-end suite of data management and storage capabilities. These include, but are not limited to, clinical and administrative data archiving, information lifecycle management (ILM), comprehensive data protection and security, ... (more)

DXWorldEXPO Digital Transformation Stories
Cloud is the motor for innovation and digital transformation. CIOs will run 25% of total application workloads in the cloud by the end of 2018, based on recent Morgan Stanley report. Having the right enterprise cloud strategy in place, often in a multi cloud environment, also helps companies become a more intelligent business. Companies that master this path have something in common: they create a culture of continuous innovation. In his presentation, Dilipkumar will outline the latest resear...
Business professionals no longer wonder if they'll migrate to the cloud; it's now a matter of when. The cloud environment has proved to be a major force in transitioning to an agile business model that enables quick decisions and fast implementation that solidify customer relationships. And when the cloud is combined with the power of cognitive computing, it drives innovation and transformation that achieves astounding competitive advantage.
Cloud-enabled transformation has evolved from cost saving measure to business innovation strategy -- one that combines the cloud with cognitive capabilities to drive market disruption. Learn how you can achieve the insight and agility you need to gain a competitive advantage. Industry-acclaimed CTO and cloud expert, Shankar Kalyana presents. Only the most exceptional IBMers are appointed with the rare distinction of IBM Fellow, the highest technical honor in the company. Shankar has also receive...
Bill Schmarzo, author of "Big Data: Understanding How Data Powers Big Business" and "Big Data MBA: Driving Business Strategies with Data Science," is responsible for setting the strategy and defining the Big Data service offerings and capabilities for EMC Global Services Big Data Practice. As the CTO for the Big Data Practice, he is responsible for working with organizations to help them identify where and how to start their big data journeys. He's written several white papers, is an avid blogge...
Serveless Architectures brings the ability to independently scale, deploy and heal based on workloads and move away from monolithic designs. From the front-end, middle-ware and back-end layers, serverless workloads potentially have a larger security risk surface due to the many moving pieces. This talk will focus on key areas to consider for securing end to end, from dev to prod. We will discuss patterns for end to end TLS, session management, scaling to absorb attacks and mitigation techniques.
Enterprises have taken advantage of IoT to achieve important revenue and cost advantages. What is less apparent is how incumbent enterprises operating at scale have, following success with IoT, built analytic, operations management and software development capabilities - ranging from autonomous vehicles to manageable robotics installations. They have embraced these capabilities as if they were Silicon Valley startups.
The standardization of container runtimes and images has sparked the creation of an almost overwhelming number of new open source projects that build on and otherwise work with these specifications. Of course, there's Kubernetes, which orchestrates and manages collections of containers. It was one of the first and best-known examples of projects that make containers truly useful for production use. However, more recently, the container ecosystem has truly exploded. A service mesh like Istio addr...
Whenever a new technology hits the high points of hype, everyone starts talking about it like it will solve all their business problems. Blockchain is one of those technologies. According to Gartner's latest report on the hype cycle of emerging technologies, blockchain has just passed the peak of their hype cycle curve. If you read the news articles about it, one would think it has taken over the technology world. No disruptive technology is without its challenges and potential impediments t...
With the mainstreaming of IoT, connected devices, and sensors, data is being generated at a phenomenal rate, particularly at the edge of the network. IDC's FutureScape for IoT report found that by 2019, 40% of IoT data will be stored, processed, analyzed and acted upon at the edge of the network where it is created. Why at the edge? Turns out that sensor data, in most cases, is perishable. Its value is realized within a narrow window after its creation. Further, analytics at the edge provides o...
Evan Kirstel is an internationally recognized thought leader and social media influencer in IoT (#1 in 2017), Cloud, Data Security (2016), Health Tech (#9 in 2017), Digital Health (#6 in 2016), B2B Marketing (#5 in 2015), AI, Smart Home, Digital (2017), IIoT (#1 in 2017) and Telecom/Wireless/5G. His connections are a "Who's Who" in these technologies, He is in the top 10 most mentioned/re-tweeted by CMOs and CIOs (2016) and have been recently named 5th most influential B2B marketeer in the US. H...