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"Cloud Musings" Joins Dell Content Provider Network
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Why You Need to Pay Attention to Cloud Computing
The adoption of cloud computing is revolutionizing today’s business. This trend has also elevated the importance of IT and business alignment because cloud enables new business models that have until now were not economically viable. A recent study confirmed this trend by showing that the vast majority of organizations of all sizes use both Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) and hosted infrastructure services. In fact, both SaaS and IaaS are currently being used most by organizations with less than 100 employees.
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Internet of Things Usage Models By @Kevin_Jackson | @ThingsExpo [#IoT]
"The next generation of technology solutions will transform lives, businesses and economies."
- Computing Everywhere - As mobile devices continue to proliferate, Gartner predicts an increased emphasis on serving the needs of the mobile user in diverse contexts and environments, as opposed to focusing on devices alone.
- The Internet of Things - The combination of data streams and services created by digitizing everything creates four basic usage models — Manage, Monetize, Operate and Extend. These four basic models can be applied to any of the four "Internets."
- 3D Printing - Worldwide shipments of 3D printers are expected to grow 98 percent in 2015, followed by a doubling of unit shipments in 2016. 3D printing will reach a tipping point over the next three years as the market for relatively low-cost 3D printing devices continues to grow rapidly and industrial use expands significantly.
- Advanced, Pervasive and Invisible Analytics - Analytics will take center stage as the volume of data generated by embedded systems increases and vast pools of structured and unstructured data inside and outside the enterprise are analyzed. Big data remains an important enabler for this trend but the focus needs to shift to thinking about big questions and big answers first and big data second.
- Context-Rich Systems - Ubiquitous embedded intelligence combined with pervasive analytics will drive the development of systems that are alert to their surroundings and able to respond appropriately.
- Smart Machines - Deep analytics applied to an understanding of context provide the preconditions for a world of smart machines. This foundation combines with advanced algorithms that allow systems to understand their environment, learn for themselves, and act autonomously.
- Cloud/Client Computing - The convergence of cloud and mobile computing will continue to promote the growth of centrally coordinated applications that can be delivered to any device. In the near term, the focus for cloud/client will be on synchronizing content and application state across multiple devices and addressing application portability across devices. Over time, applications will evolve to support simultaneous use of multiple devices.
- Software-Defined Applications and Infrastructure - Agile programming of everything from applications to basic infrastructure is essential to enable organizations to deliver the flexibility required to make the digital business work. Software-defined networking, storage, data centers and security are maturing. Cloud services are software-configurable through API calls, and applications, too, increasingly have rich APIs to access their function and content programmatically. Rules, models and code that can dynamically assemble and configure all of the elements needed from the network through the application are needed.
- Web-Scale IT - Web-scale IT is a pattern of global-class computing that delivers the capabilities of large cloud service providers within an enterprise IT setting. Web-scale IT does not happen immediately, but will evolve over time as commercial hardware platforms embrace the new models and cloud-optimized and software-defined approaches reach mainstream.
- Risk-Based Security and Self-Protection - In a digital business world, security cannot be a roadblock that stops all progress. Organizations will increasingly recognize that it is not possible to provide a 100 percent secured environment. Once organizations acknowledge that, they can begin to apply more-sophisticated risk assessment and mitigation tools. On the technical side, recognition that perimeter defense is inadequate and applications need to take a more active role in security gives rise to a new multifaceted approach.
- HOL2: Data-driven decisions with Big Data and analytics
- HOL5: Transforming your IT to take advantage of the Nexus of Forces: Mobile, cloud, social and analytics
- MT6: Conquering cloud chaos: Simplifying and centralizing multi-cloud integration and management
- MT16: Connecting people through Unified Communications & Collaboration (UCC)
- MT17: The business computing imperative: Delivering end user productivity and IT control
- MT24: Enabling mobility without compromising security
- MT25: Overcoming compliance challenges: A 5-step path to governance
- MT27: 7 ways social insights help Staples Inc. get closer to its customers and reshape its brand
- MT31: LinkedIn: Accelerated growth via Integration Platform as a Service (IPAAS)
- MT57: Optimize your virtual infrastructure and lower OPEX with advanced virtualization monitoring
- MT60: Orchestrating your cloud services and applications
- MT64: Rethinking innovation to enhance customer experience
(This content is being syndicated through multiple channels including Dell Corporation. The opinions expressed are the authors own and do not represent the views of any other company or organization.)
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Cloud Architects Set to Gather at NexGen Cloud Conference and Expo
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ServiceRocket Strengthens TrainingRocket Service Offering
ServiceRocket, a provider of training, utilization and support technology and services to maximize Customer Success, today unveiled TrainingRocket 4. Used by fast growing software companies and enterprise organizations alike, TrainingRocket is a highly effective, on-demand learning platform powering the online universities at many of today's fast growing software companies, including Cloudera, NGINX, Mulesoft and Pentaho. The company's innovative customer training platform is a comprehensive, enterprise-ready Learning Management System (LMS) consolidating disparate functions within a friendly and easy-to-use user interface. The solution was designed by a training company for training departments to grow and service their customers by enabling end-users to get up and running on software applications quickly, and start using them proficiently.
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Vets360 Founder Honored at the 'Champions' Leadership Conference
Veteran's 360 and Rick Collins, Founder & Executive Director of Vets 360, Inc., are being honored at this year's Champions Leadership, and Research Conference™ . This event, November 6th-7th, 2014 at the Washington Duke Inn & Golf Club in Durham, NC, is an independent conference, and a component of eMerging Entrepreneurs'“Veterans Economic Advancement project.” A 501(c)(3) non-profit organization, eMerging Entrepreneurs, Inc. provides Career Transition Assistance, Small Business Training, and Entrepreneurial Developmental services to veterans, military spouses, and under-served minority communities. The organization employs a grassroots approach to assisting those who seek to advance their small business interests; partnering with state & federal agencies, universities, local chambers of commerce, and military installations in an effort to extend high-tech training & resource solutions to under-served communities. "Cloud Musings" and GovCloud Network are proud to be strong supporters of Vets 360
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Ingram Micro Honors Veterans with a $10,000 Gift to Veterans 360
On Veteran's Day, hundreds of military veterans, active-duty service members and retirees were recognized and celebrated along with family members at the third annual Ingram Micro Veterans Day ceremonies held across three Ingram Micro locations from Santa Ana, California to Indianapolis and Buffalo.
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What Are You Waiting For? The #Cloud Era Is Here! By @Kevin_Jackson
The revolutionary business aspects of cloud excite me every day, but the business diversity is even more exciting. This fact really struck me after teaching my last Learning Tree Cloud Computing Introduction class in New York City. I’ve been in the regular rotation here for four months now and have taught three classes during that time. The chart below breaks out the students in these classes by industry.
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Great Leaders Are Ambidextrous, Are You?
There are many important characteristics of great leaders. Team players, good listeners and visionary are clear hallmarks. But being ambidextrous is required now more than ever. Ambidextrous leadership is a balanced approach where flexible leadership behaviors that lead to better business outcomes are the rule.
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Cloud Computing Advantages and Disadvantages By @Kevin_Jackson [#Cloud]
What is Cloud Computing & what are its advantages & disadvantages. Join us for this installment of our Technical Insight series as expert Learning Tree instructor Kevin Jackson examines the following questions- How can Cloud Computing help your business and do you need to be concerned about Cloud Computing security? Learn more at http://www.LearningTree.com/WhatisCloud.
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Schizophrenic About Cloud?
This week Dell released its first Global Technology Adoption Index (GTAI). This survey of more than 2,000 global organizations took a close look at how organizations are truly using security, cloud, mobility and big data to drive success. While the data collected from this effort should put to rest any doubts about the value of cloud computing, it also calls into question our collective mental state. Are half of us schizophrenic?
The survey data showed that 97 percent of organizations surveyed use or plan to use cloud. This high percentage is not surprising given that the data also showed a strong correlation between cloud use and company growth. Of those using cloud, 72 percent of organizations surveyed experienced 6 percent growth or more in the last three years, with just 4 percent experiencing zero or negative growth. This is in sharp contrast with companies not using cloud, where just 24 percent have growth rates of 6 percent or more, and 37 percent experienced either zero or negative growth. So with this overwhelmingly positive evidence supporting rapid adoption of cloud, why do 52% of the IT decision-makers surveyed still consider security a barrier for expanding cloud computing use?
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Announcing @VZCloud Marketplace Is Open |@CloudExpo [#Cloud]
Verizon Enterprise Solutions is simplifying the cloud-purchasing experience for its clients, with the launch of Verizon Cloud Marketplace, a key foundational component of the company's robust ecosystem of enterprise-class technologies. The online storefront will initially feature pre-built cloud-based services from AppDynamics, Hitachi Data Systems, Juniper Networks, PfSense and Tervela.
Available globally to enterprises using Verizon Cloud, Verizon Cloud Marketplace provides a one-stop shop for software-based cloud resources that are certified to operate in Verizon's cloud environments. Designed to free clients' IT staff from the time and effort required to configure, deploy and fine-tune applications, Verizon Cloud Marketplace helps enterprises speed innovation cycles with easy, predictable deployments of new cloud-based services and applications to enable operational transformation initiatives and optimize the digital experience.
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Rosslyn Analytics: Data Predictions for 2015
Following many conversations with clients, partners and prospects, Rosslyn Analytics has published its annual predictions for data analytics in 2015.
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Super Smart Person's Guide to Cloud Computing - San Diego
We are offering a fun and educational event just about the cloud. This session will help CEOs, Directors, Managers, and Dilberts learn what the heck the cloud is all about. Don’t get left out of the conversation. Learn how your business / organization can benefit from this technology. The cloud is all around you and you need to know what it is.
When: January 29, 2015
Time: 4:00 – 7:00 (ish)
Location: San Diego – Specific Location TBD – trust us we’ll pick a cool place.
Cost: $50 donation payable to Veterans 360
This event is hosted by Veterans 360 and GovCloud Network.
( This content is being syndicated through multiple channels. The opinions expressed are solely those of the author and do not represent the views of GovCloud Network, GovCloud Network Partners or any other corporation or organization.)
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Cloud Computing Promises: Fact or Fiction
Cloud computing is currently making information technology headlines, and vendors are aggressively promoting the many benefits it can provide organizations. This White Paper addresses the claims and questions that are often raised in relation to cloud computing and provides a clear view of what the cloud can—and can’t—deliver in reality.( This content is being syndicated through multiple channels. The opinions expressed are solely those of the author and do not represent the views of GovCloud Network, GovCloud Network Partners or any other corporation or organization.)
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A Managed Services Business Owner's Lament
A few days ago I received a call from a small business owner asking if I would meet him for coffee. He wanted to run some ideas past me on how he could enhance his current business with cloud computing. This is the sort of request that I can never turn down so we quickly made an appointment for the next day. After exchanging pleasantries and settling down with our lattes, he started to give me an overview of his current business.
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Convergence: The Catalyst to Transform Scientific Research
by Melvin Greer
Greer Institute for Leadership and Innovation
A new transformative research approach is gaining global attention and adoption. The scientific opportunities enabled by convergence—the coming together of insights and approaches from originally distinct fields—will make fundamental contributions in our drive to provide creative solutions to the most difficult problems facing us as a society. This convergence provides power to think beyond usual paradigms and to approach issues informed by many perspectives instead of few.Two entities converge when advances and time channel them to the same point. This is an appropriate way to characterize and address converging research in life sciences and engineering, computation, and physical sciences. Convergence is an approach to problem solving that cuts across disciplinary boundaries. It integrates knowledge, tools, and ways of thinking from life and health sciences, physical, mathematical, and computational sciences, engineering disciplines, and beyond to form a comprehensive synthetic framework for tackling scientific and societal challenges that exist at the interfaces of multiple fields.
Advanced technologies (i.e. big data, cloud, and high performance computing) are accelerating the impact and innovation obtained via convergence of biology and data science. With nearly $450 billion annually in research expenditures, Arizona State University is a research leader, partnering with companies like Dell and Intel to transform scientific research.
Their complex adaptive systems initiative is harnessing the power of advanced technologies to accelerate big data and high performance computing research in complex adaptive systems. They are making medical breakthroughs in areas of cancer and diabetes research.
I’m very excited about the opportunities to investigate the transformative benefits of convergence. My participation in The National Academy of Science expert committee to explore the application of convergence approaches to biomedical research and beyond is a critical first step. This approach is intended to realize the untapped potential from the merger of multiple disciplines to address key challenges that require such close collaborations. One example of the high impact transformation is my research investigation into the impact of synthetic biology on effective utilization of green IT and energy development and deployment systems. Its primary focus is on development of a synthetically generated DNA BioFab that enhances the photosynthetic properties of algae. This research will report on the process of synthetic engineering of natural occurring DNA for a specific purpose, in this case sustainable energy.
Bringing together the insights enabled by rapid progress across multiple disciplines has the potential to transform science for the benefit of society. Its critical we bring awareness of this convergence to a wider range of audiences and stakeholders and catalyze the systematic efforts necessary to harness its power most effectively.
(This post was written as part of the Dell Insight Partners program, which provides news and analysis about the evolving world of tech. To learn more about tech news and analysis visit Tech Page One. Dell sponsored this article, but the opinions are our own and don’t necessarily represent Dell’s positions or strategies.)
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CONGRATULATIONS! Inaugural Cloud Computing Class at Mira Costa College Graduates!!
Anthony Dorrah, Jose Chapman, Mike Chatelain, Lisa Heiden, Ginelle Johnson, Robert Minson, Alfredo Morales
We are so proud of the success of out first cloud computing training class. This group took the challenge of changing their careers, studying hard and focusing their efforts in order to reap the rewards! We are ecstatic over there accomplishment of :'
100% PASS RATE ON COMPTIA CLOUD ESSENTIALS EXAM!!!
Mira Costa, Vets360 and GovCloud Network are STILL in their corner helping them to successfully land a job in their new career but we are not stopping here!
Information session for the next cloud computing class
is scheduled for
Thursday, January 22nd, 6pm at the
Mira Costa San Elijo Campus
Room 303.
Please contact Mira Costa Community College for more information.
( This content is being syndicated through multiple channels. The opinions expressed are solely those of the author and do not represent the views of GovCloud Network, GovCloud Network Partners or any other corporation or organization.)
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2015 Predictions That Will Rock the World (Again!) By @Kevin_Jackson
The worlds of cloud, mobile, social and cyber will continue expanding, permuting and recombining. Their individual effect on society and commerce will become moot as these technological capabilities merge to deliver products and services straight out of Star Trek!
Traditional system integrators will finally realize that their current product and labor based business model is about to go the way of the dinosaurs. Customers will act on market shifts that makes the purchase and resale of hardware and software no longer viable opting instead for the integration of cloud-based services. They will insist on the use of more agile commodity IT services in the development of their custom systems of record.
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How Resilient are FedRAMP Clouds Anyway? By @Kevin_Jackson | @CloudExpo [#Cloud]
One of the questions I've been asked from the beginning of the Federal Cloud First initiative, is, "If my data is in The answer is not as clear-cut as the question. In theory, most cloud services offer extremely resilient platforms and a modicum of disaster recovery is built in. In fact, those cloud service provider (CSP) systems that have received an ATO through the FedRAMP program do have fairly sophisticated contingency plans in place, with Recovery Time Objectives (RTO) and Recovery Point Objectives (RPO) clearly articulated- and plenty of alternate processing sites, policies, and procedures in place in the event of a contingency. So, it's in there right?
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