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The explosion of new web/cloud/IoT-based applications and the data they
generate are transforming our world right before our eyes. In this rush to
adopt these new technologies, organizations are often ignoring fundamental
questions concerning who owns the data and failing to ask for permission to
conduct invasive surveillance of their customers.
Are You Seeing DOTS? - Data Ownership and Transparent Surveillance
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Organizations that are not transparent about how their systems gather data
telemetry without offering shared data ownership risk product rejection,
regulatory scrutiny and increasing consumer lack of trust in technology in
general.
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In his keynote at @ThingsExpo, Peter Vanderminden, Principal Industry Analyst
at Flatiron Strategies, explored the need for organizations to b... (more)
IT is the functional area where organizations can most effectively and
immediately cut costs and positively impact environmental change. Desktop
virtualization technologies leverage the unused computing power of a single
computer, creating an efficient alternative to traditional desktop-per-user
computing.
"There is no obstacle that can stand in the way of millions of voices calling
for change." In the week of President Obama's inauguration, his words are a
noble call to us all to rise to meet the best in ourselves, many of us are
wondering, 'But how do I tangibly effect change in my own life? Or in my own
organization?'
President Obama built his campaign on the promise of economic stimulus and
aggressive support for green technologies. Recently, he selected alternative
energy supporter and Nobel-prize winning physicist Steven Chu to head the
Department of Energy... (more)
Ever since I first published here my tentative list of Top 50 Bloggers on
Cloud Computing it became clear that an expansion would be needed before too
long. Thanks to community feedback via my Twitter account
(http://twitter.com/jg21) here goes - just three months before Cloud
Expo Silicon Valley (November 7-10) - with an expanded roster, listed as
before in alphabetical order since I am making no attempt at this stage to
rank the various blogs, merely to map - and celebrate - their existence.
Dustin Amrhein | "A View from the Clouds"
Dave Asprey | "Cloudy Words"
Ian Bergin | "Clouded Issues"
Randy Bias | "Cloudscaling"
Rick Blaisdell | "Rickscloud"
Steve Bobrowski | "The Cloud View"
Rene Buest | www.CloudUser.de
Larry Carvalho | "Robust Cloud"
Andrew M. Chapman | "MemorableURL.com"
Sam Charrington | "Cloud Pulse"
Colin Clark | "Cloud Event Processing"
Peter Coffee | cloudb... (more)
Five Reasons to Ditch Email Alerts
Want to improve your email alerts? Think again
Monitoring systems can help you better manage your uptime, but even though
you may spend a lot of time configuring checks and thresholds to identify
problems early, your alerts are only as good as your incident response
processes. One of the biggest challenges we’ve seen when talking with
customers is getting bogged down in email alerts. Despite the increasing
disarray of our inboxes, many monitoring systems and IT Operations teams
still rely on email for alerting, even though most agree it’s messy and too
easy to miss. Looking to improve email alerts? Look again. Here are 5 reasons
why you should ditch email alerts if you’re still using them:
1. Email alerts are too easy to miss
“Hey did you see this latest cat video my friend emailed to me?”
Even if you’re staring at your email inbox ... (more)
The Infrastructure-as-a-Service model of early Cloud Computing providers has
focused on making the hardware layer consumable as on-demand compute and
storage capacity. Stuart Charlton, Chief Software Architect for Elastra, will
be giving a session on 'Cloud Computing and the Next-Generation of Enterprise
Architecture' at SYS-CON's Cloud Computing Expo (November 19-21, 2008) - a
pathbreaking adjunct to the 4th International Virtualization Conference &
Expo being held at The Fairmont Hotel in San Jose, CA.
"This is an important first step," Charlton notes, "but for companies to
harness the power of the cloud, it should enhance the alignment driven by
enterprise architecture, driving down the lead times for delivering IT value
to business, from concept to deployment, and through maintenance."
An architecture-aware cloud computing infrastructure, says Charlton, leads to
I... (more)
Sun Microsystems, Inc. today announced the availability of Sun Virtual
Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) Software 3 , which provides new enhancements
and... Read more at VMblog.com.
... (more)
Today at Citrix Synergy™, the event where virtualization, networking and
application delivery meet, Citrix Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ:CTXS) announced a
significant new upgrade to Citrix Essentials™ for XenServer™ and
Hyper-V™, the recently announced product line that adds advanced
virtualization management capabilities to two of the industry’s fastest
growing virtualization platforms. The new 5.5 version of Citrix Essentials
helps customers of both of these high-growth platforms achieve more
manageable, scalable and agile datacenters by providing open technologies
that leverage their existing investments in the most efficient way possible.
Citrix also announced a new 5.5 version of Citrix XenServer that raises the
bar once again for free, enterprise-class virtualization, adding a wide range
of new features that enable easier management and broader integration with
ent... (more)
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Got back Friday after a week in the East coast attending the Cloud Expo and
meeting with customers/partners.
I roamed around the exhibits and found one vendor area that was always packed
- Microsoft. Folks were attracted to the huge honking collection of
hardware placed right in middle of their exhibit space. Now Microsoft is not
a hardware vendor - but they seem to have partnered with others to bring this
and show their might. It also needed a special drop of electricity into the
hall - 400V or so using a thick cable!
Cloud computing is a collection of components that has to be delivered
seamlessly - and customers notice. Microsoft seems to know that and they
did an excellent job in presenting their story - of course sharing their
stage with a hardware partner - to deliver that message.
Whi... (more)
UPDATE 07/12/12:
Netflix posted this downtime explanation and plan to prevent further downtime
on their website in a very informative post-mortem style:
http://techblog.netflix.com/2012/07/lessons-netflix-learned-from-aws-storm.html
VentureBeat also had some nice insight as to the steps forward for Netflix on
AWS: http://venturebeat.com/2012/07/08/netflix-explains-outage/#bmb=1
In summary, Netflix plans on further testing and hardening their application
architecture design and is also looking for new, outside talent in order to
design more resilient applications on AWS in the future.
We all know it’s not easy nor cheap to build in resilience at so many
levels of complex applications. Good luck to Netflix finding qualified cloud
app architecture ninjas… there just aren’t that many professionals in the
entire world that are truly prepared to design apps that scale thei... (more)
The Mobile Health News Weekly is an online newsletter made up of the most
interesting news and articles related to mobile health that I run across each
week. I am specifically targeting information that reflects market data and
trends.
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According to a new market report published by Transparency Market Research
the global mHealth market is expected to reach $10.2 billion by 2018 from
$1.3 billion in 2012 at an annual rate of 41.5 percent from 2012 to 2018.
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In 2012 the mHealth sector saw venture capital investments reach $907.7
million, with Q3 and Q4 seeing significantly lower financing than the first
t... (more)
Simplexo's full text search application provides significantly more accurate
and useful results and improves on native security and privacy
Simplexo has launched a new application which enables people to securely find
and access information stored in Dropbox, Microsoft Exchange, SharePoint or
Outlook.com with a single search. Using either a Windows PC or any IOS
device, SearchYourCloud will also be available for Google Drive, EverNote,
Sky Drive and other clouds later in the year.
SearchYourCloud enables users to not only find what they are searching for,
but also protects their data and privacy in the cloud. According to Simon
Bain, CTO of Simplexo: "The Simplexo team has worked long and hard to deliver
a remote access solution that does not require users or businesses to
compromise productivity, privacy or security."
SearchYourCloud's completely secured "full-text"... (more)
Every organization is facing their own Digital Transformation as they attempt to stay ahead of the competition, or worse, just keep up. Each new opportunity, whether embracing machine learning, IoT, or a cloud migration, seems to bring new development, deployment, and management models. The results are more diverse and federated computing models than any time in our history.
On-premise or off, you have powerful tools available to maximize the value of your infrastructure and you demand more visibility and operational control. Fortunately, data center management tools keep a vigil on memory contestation, power, thermal consumption, server health, and utilization, allowing better control no matter your cloud's shape. In this session, learn how Intel software tools enable real-time monitoring and precise management to lower operational costs and optimize infrastructure for today even as you're forecasting for tomorrow.
"Calligo is a cloud service provider with data privacy at the heart of what we do. We are a typical Infrastructure as a Service cloud provider but it's been designed around data privacy," explained Julian Box, CEO and co-founder of Calligo, 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.
Isomorphic Software is the global leader in high-end, web-based business applications. We develop, market, and support the SmartClient & Smart GWT HTML5/Ajax platform, combining the productivity and performance of traditional desktop software with the simplicity and reach of the open web.
With staff in 10 timezones, Isomorphic provides a global network of services related to our technology, with offerings ranging from turnkey application development to SLA-backed enterprise support.
Leading global enterprises use Isomorphic technology to reduce costs and improve productivity, developing & deploying sophisticated business applications with unprecedented ease and simplicity.
While a hybrid cloud can ease that transition, designing and deploy that hybrid cloud still offers challenges for organizations concerned about lack of available cloud skillsets within their organization. Managed service providers offer a unique opportunity to fill those gaps and get organizations of all sizes on a hybrid cloud that meets their comfort level, while delivering enhanced benefits for cost, efficiency, agility, mobility, and elasticity.
Concerns about security, downtime and latency, budgets, and general unfamiliarity with cloud technologies continue to create hesitation for many organizations that truly need to be developing a cloud strategy. Hybrid cloud solutions are helping to elevate those concerns by enabling the combination or orchestration of two or more platforms, including on-premise infrastructure, private clouds and/or third-party, public cloud services. This gives organizations more comfort to begin their digital transformation without a complete overhaul of their existing infrastructure - serving as a sort of "mi...
Dion Hinchcliffe is an internationally recognized digital expert, bestselling book author, frequent keynote speaker, analyst, futurist, and transformation expert based in Washington, DC. He is currently Chief Strategy Officer at the industry-leading digital strategy and online community solutions firm, 7Summits.
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