Category: News

Grazed from TheVarGuy. Author: Elizabeth Montalbano.

While more enterprises have become comfortable with, and even embrace, cloud computing in 2015, concerns about security associated with the technology remain as the year comes to a close, according to a recent survey by Netwrix Corp. The Netwrix 2015 Cloud Security Survey found that 65 percent of companies still have security concerns when migrating to the cloud, while 40 percent are still worried about their loss of physical control over data in the cloud.

Netwrix provides IT auditing software for visibility into IT infrastructure changes and data access, with more than 150,000 IT departments worldwide using the solution. For the survey, the company polled more than 600 IT professionals worldwide in technology, manufacturing, government, healthcare, finance, education and other industries…

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Grazed from Tech.co. Author: Philip Kushmaro.

If you think about just how much data is on the web right now, it’s not surprising that Big Data analytics have become the fastest growing segment of the IT industry. After all, they’re designed to unscramble the mess of online data us laypeople have created and rearrange it into something nice, neat, and understandable.

Naturally, as the year ends, it’s time to reflect on this year’s major players—startups that have continuously flooded news outlets with announcements of funding rounds, prestigious awards, and just plain awesome technology. That being said, here are five Big Data analytics startups that have genuinely impressed us in 2015:…

Read more from the source @ http://tech.co/big-data-startups-won-2015-2015-12

Grazed from InformationWeek. Author: Charles Babcock.

Red Hat reported its third quarter 2016 results Nov. 30, and largely contrary to expectations, it’s still going strong. Advances in cloud computing, VMware’s strong virtualization product line, the Cloud Foundry open source development platform, and Amazon and other cloud computing services were all supposed to be sapping Red Hat’s strength.

On the contrary, as long as Red Hat remains at the core of the enterprise data center with its Red Hat Enterprise Linux operating system, it will remain a viable competitor to VMware, the open source development platform Cloud Foundry, and proprietary clouds. This is something that’s not commonly understood about Red Hat and one reason its stock price, after limping through 2015 (with a low of $67 in August), closed Dec. 23 at $83.99, up over 22% since then…

Grazed from ITProportal. Author: Jeff Denwerth.

In general, cloud penetration across the enterprise in terms of workloads being completed continues to be at a relatively low level, with many analysts firms reporting that penetration is at rates of less than 10 per cent. That said, the journey has begun in most organisations and Ovum has identified that nearly 75 per cent of organisations will adopt some hybrid cloud strategy by 2016. We’re seeing a mixture of SaaS, PaaS and IaaS being consumed by organisations which are clearly determined to utilise next generation cloud technologies to make themselves not only more agile, but also more focused on their own businesses and less on the business of IT.

How will the elimination of US Safe Harbour impact this momentum going forward?

Safe Harbour protections of PII data are, in essence, to be lifted by 1 January 2016. With little time remaining to react, the overwhelming number of US-based SaaS providers are ill prepared to offer a sovereign European SaaS solution within the time available. What’s more, there are also cases such as the US government vs. Microsoft looming in which the central issue of data privacy is evolving from data location to data stewardship…

Grazed from SecurityIntelligence. Author: David Strom.

The ENISA report titled “Secure Use of Cloud Computing in the Finance Sector,” published in December 2015, showed just how far European banks and other financial institutions lag behind with respect to perceptions and usage of cloud computing in their businesses. While more than 87 percent of those institutions are already using some form of cloud computing, their knowledge of basic cloud technologies and best practices is either sadly disappointing or shocking, depending on your perspective.

There’s a Need for More Information Regarding Cloud Security

The study was sponsored by the European Union Agency for Network and Information Security (ENISA is its French acronym) and had input from the Cloud Security Alliance, an international best practices body. The authors, Rossen Naydenov, Dimitra Liveri, Lionel Dupre and Eftychia Chalvatzi, developed two survey instruments: one for financial and cloud service providers, and the other for the national regulatory bodies in various EU countries…

Grazed from Converge. Author: Derek Collison.

In 2016, technical innovation, combined with evolutionary trends, will bring rapid organizational changes and new competitive advantages to enterprises capable of adopting new technologies. Not surprisingly, however, the same dynamics will mean competitive risk for organizations that have not positioned themselves to easily absorb (and profit from) new technological changes. The following predictions touch on some of the areas in IT that I think will see the biggest evolutions in 2016 and beyond.

1. Hadoop: old news in 24 months. Within the next two years, no one will be talking about big data and Apache Hadoop—at least, not as we think of the technology today. Machine Learning and AI will become so good and so fast that it will be possible to extract patterns, perform real-time predictions, and gain insight around causation and correlation without human intervention to model or prepare raw data…

Grazed from TechCrunch.  Author: Mike Ettling.

 The beauty of the cloud is the promise of simplification and standardization — without regard to physical or geographic boundaries. It’s this “any time, any place, any device” flexibility that is driving rapid adoption.

 Grazed from MarketRealist.  Author: Parkter Thomas.

Oracle is spurring its growth in cloud computing by acquiring StackEngine, a Texas-based startup that develops management and automation tools for Docker containers. As a part of its strategic acquisition, StackEngine will be integrated with Oracle’s “public cloud” unit.

Grazed from GovernanceNow.  Author: Shubhendu Parth.

How important a role do you see cloud playing while the government looks to transform IT as a means towards goals like Digital India? Traditional models of IT delivery are not in tune with changing times, especially when India is looking ways to go paperless and digital. In such a dynamic environment, seamless and timely flow of information is the need of the hour, which the cloud technology is capable of.

Governments across the world are on the lookout to host data on the cloud. Meghdhoot, Digital Locker and Meghraj are prime examples of the Indian government’s cloud-based initiatives. Given the limitations in scaling of National Informatics Centre and state data centres, the department of electronics and IT (DeitY) is aggressively working on accreditation of cloud service providers that will be used by central and state government departments and banks, for various e-services…

Grazed from CloudWedge.  Author: Erick Wingfield.

SteelBrick has rapidly gained recognition inside of the SalesForce ecosystem by providing small businesses the ability to “Configure, Price & Quote” their customers.  SteelBrick gives small businesses a rapid method of collecting payments from their customers. SteelBrick automates much of this process, giving it’s users a leg up on the competition. So why is SteelBrick worth $360M when so many other cloud based vendors exist that do essentially the same thing?