Grazed from FCW. Author: Cobly Hochmuth.

No "one size fits all" at the Pentagon. The different levels of mission risk at the Defense Department have posed a major challenge to building out DOD’s cybersecurity posture. Now, according to Deputy CIO Richard Hale, the department is working to make distinctions on the varying levels of risk by mission in order to make better decisions.

"Cybersecurity should vary by mission," Hale said in his keynote at the MeriTalk Cloud Computing Brainstorm event in Washington, D.C., on Sept. 10. "I shouldn’t spend as much money on morale and welfare website as I do on nuclear command control, it doesn’t make any sense."…

Grazed from ActiveState. Author: PRNewsWire.

ActiveState, the leading independent Cloud Foundry provider, with Stackato, today announced the Cloud Luminary Fireside Chats Webcast Series. The monthly series is hosted by cloud computing expert Bernard Golden, Vice President, Strategy at ActiveState. The Cloud Luminary Fireside Chats explore the latest developments at the forefront of cloud computing. Registration takes place once to access the whole series. Register now on the Cloud Luminary Fireside Chats website.

"Cloud Luminary Fireside Chats is a series of interactive discussions with people working on the frontier of cloud computing to explore and debate the developments in technology and what they mean for the future of the IT industry," said Bernard Golden, VP, Strategy at ActiveState. "Today’s successful IT strategies are driven by those who adopt a new mental framework and leverage the enormous capabilities cloud computing affords…

Grazed from CloudComputingTech. Author: Editorial Staff.

Josh Garza, the CEO of GAW Miners, first made a name for himself by building one of the top online retail stores for cryptocurrency mining equipment. Garza has pivoted that operation into the cloud by launching what he has dubbed hashlets. These hashlets are designed to create Bitcoins using a combination of ASIC (Application Specific Integrated Circuits) and cloud data center technology.

CloudWedge first reported on organizations wanting to use cloud to mint Bitcoins back in March 2014. The write up chronicled CloudHashing.com’s method of selling cloud contracts that “Reserves a certain amount of computational power for your own Bitcoin mining endeavours.” Garza and GAW Miners look to gain a piece of this market share by shifting his company from the online retail world. Instead of selling Bitcoin mining hardware, GAW Miners has pivoted into selling cloud mining contracts. According to Garza, the move was met with unprecedented success…

Grazed from Business2Community. Author: Michelle Hughes.

We all know how IT works, the traditional way of building an IT network involves servers, hardware, licenses and software, all of which is an expensive process involving many IT infrastructural demands with sometimes lengthy deployments. This traditional full IT model may be widely used but new technologies are changing the IT industry forever.

Now there are easy, affordable ways to take IT online and ‘virtualise’ the IT processes thanks to Cloud computing. Cloud computing provides easy access via online applications which therefore means there is no involvement of expensive IT hardware. Cloud computing is defined by the National Institute of Standards and Technology as a way of ‘delivering computing as a service’ instead of a product…

Grazed from Forbes. Author: Thomas J. Bittman.

As cloud computing becomes widely adopted, organizations still maintain vastly different schools of thought on what the term “cloud” really means. That’s partly due to the term “cloud computing” being used for a broad collection of services, delivered at many different layers (infrastructure, application platform, software, and business process), and implemented in a variety of different ways (public, private, hybrid, on-premises, and off-premises).

There’s a big difference between “cloud” for bottom-line improvement and “cloud” for top-line improvement; and they can be diametrically opposed strategies. Cloud does not have a single value proposition for all types of services or enterprises, and there are risks to those who ignore its many variations…

Grazed from InfoWorld.  Author: Juan Carlos Perez.

Microsoft has begun a months-long rollout of Delve, the first Office 365 application that taps into the suite’s Office Graph machine learning capabilities and maps connections between co-workers, documents, and information.  Delve, announced in March with the code-name Oslo, is designed to automatically surface colleagues, files and data that are more relevant and important to users’ work.

Delve renders these connections via a very visual card-based interface, and bases its output on an analysis of a number of signals and elements from each individual user, such as Exchange Online email message exchanges, OneDrive for Business stored content, SharePoint Online collaboration activity and Yammer enterprise social networking interactions…

Grazed from WhaTech. Author: Editorial Staff.

IBM SOA is used to implement cloud systems that stretch the boundaries of the enterprise to user end points, permitting marketing departments to target smartphones, implementing management decentralization and supporting user empowerment. SOA forms the base for business intelligence (BI) and analytics systems. It enables organizational ability to perform diagnostic analytics.

IBM is the leader in SOA overall. IBM is the leader because it has invested in integration and analytics technology needed to achieve comprehensive IT systems implementation that achieves support for collaborative systems. The implementation of SOA depends on a broad set of technology frameworks that interact seamlessly to achieve the end point integration needed to manage complexity of modern IT systems. IBM stands alone in the IT industry with that capability of managing complexity…

Grazed from InsuranceNetworking. Author: Tony Cosentino.

It’s widely agreed that cloud computing is a major technology innovation. Many companies use cloud-based systems for specific business functions such as customer service, sales, marketing, finance and human resources. More generally, however, analytics and business intelligence (BI) have not migrated to the cloud as quickly. But now cloud-based data and analytics products are becoming more common. This trend is most popular among technology companies, small and midsize businesses, and departments in larger ones, but there are examples of large companies moving their entire BI environments to the cloud. Our research into big data analytics shows that more than one-fourth of analytics initiatives for companies of all sizes are cloud-based.

Like other cloud-based applications, cloud analytics offers enhanced scalability and flexibility, affordability and IT staff optimization. Our research shows that in general the top benefits are lowered costs (for 40 percent), improved efficiency (39 percent) and better communication and knowledge sharing (34 percent). Using the cloud, organizations can use a sophisticated IT infrastructure without having to dedicate staff to install and support it. There is no need for comprehensive development and testing because the provider is responsible for maintaining and upgrading the application and the infrastructure…

Grazed from MarketWire. Author: PR Announcement.

CANARIE, a vital component of Canada’s digital infrastructure supporting research, education and innovation, today announced the results of a survey conducted with a cohort of its Digital Accelerator for Innovation and Research (DAIR) users. DAIR offers one year of cloud-based compute, network and storage resources for entrepreneurs and small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) to develop, test, prototype and demonstrate next-generation products.

Canadian companies are embracing cloud computing because the technology allows them to cost-effectively build products that can quickly scale to meet the demands of a global customer base. To date roughly 300 SMEs across Canada have used the DAIR platform to support product development and customer trials prior to commercial introduction of a wide array of software as a service (SaaS) applications…

Grazed from CIO. Author: Bernard Golden.

Last week I visited VMworld 2014, where a horde of steely-eyed virtualization acolytes swarmed into the din of an expo floor, creating an atmosphere redolent of a religious revival being held in a Vegas casino. Vendor booths filled Moscone Center’s South Hall to bursting, ranging from enormous displays presented by longtime technology stalwarts such as HP and IBM down to a multitude of tiny booths displaying products from new market entrants…

All came to pay fealty to the industry’s dominant virtualization player and claim their place in the VMware firmament. The outpouring of energy (and money) made the show floor something like a natural wonder akin to the Niagara Falls – overwhelming, awe-inspiring and vastly entertaining…