Everyone has heard of the 50 Shades of Grey. But do you know the "36 Shades
of Hybrid IT"? These shades are a new way of describing the 36 point
solutions across a hybrid IT environment. Enterprises looking to transform
the way information technology is leveraged should evaluate their options by
analyzing a transition across three specific high-level domains and their
relevant sub-domains, namely:
IT Implementation Model Traditional Managed Service Provider Cloud Service
Provider Technology Service Model Infrastructure-as-a-Service
Platform-as-a-Service Software-as-a-Service Deployment Model Private Hybrid
Community Public
Combinatorically (3 IT Models x 3 Service Models x 4 Deployment Models = 36
options) these components are used to identify the "36 Shades of Hybrid IT".
These domains and sub-domain outline a structured decision process that aims
to place the rig... (more)
The Internet of Things (IoT) is an uninterrupted connected network of
embedded objects/ devices with identifiers without any human intervention
using standard and communication protocol. It provides encryption,
authorization and identification with different device protocols like MQTT,
STOMP or AMQP to securely move data from one network to another. IoT in
connected Government helps to deliver better citizen services and provides
transparency. It improves the employee productivity and cost savings. It
helps in delivering contextual and personalized service to citizens and
enhances the security and improves the quality of life. With secure and
accessible information government business makes more efficient, data driven,
changing the lives of citizens for the better. IoT focused Connected
Government solution helps in rapidly developing preventive and predictive
ana... (more)
End of year predictions in December are as predictable as tomorrow's sunrise,
but a recent video on 2017 Technology Trends helped me really understand how
important a digital transformation strategy is to just about any business
executive. The CSC Town Hall conversation actually identified some of the
specific tasks that today's corporate executive really need to address in the
coming year. To enhance your opportunity for 2017 business success, your
action item list should include:
Reconfiguring both corporate front and back office operations for digital
execution which is expected to reshape organizational structures, employee
compensation models and every business' partner community; Preparing for
intelligent machines advisory services to the enterprise that will
drastically increase productivity and business competition; Leveraging the
industrial internet, aka t... (more)
IBM Cloud is now providing developers with the infrastructure and portal to a
5 qubit quantum computer. This equips them with the ability to build
interfaces between classic computers and IBM's quantum platform.
Quantum computers make direct use of quantum-mechanical phenomena, such as
superposition and entanglement to perform operations on data. Quantum
computers are different from binary digital electronic computers based on
transistors. Whereas common digital computing requires that the data be
encoded into binary digits (bits), each of which is always in one of two
definite states (0 or 1), quantum computation uses quantum bits, which can be
in superpositions of states.
IBM also announced today:
The release of a new API (Application Program Interface) for the IBM Quantum
Experience that enables developers and programmers to begin building
interfaces between it... (more)
A couple of weeks ago while attending IBM Interconnect 2017 I had the awesome
opportunity to participate in the IBM Interconnect 2017 Podcast Series with
Dez Blanchfield. I not only got to pontificate on all things tech, but also
had the honor of collaborating with some of the best minds in the business.
The series is provided below in it entirety.
ENJOY!
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According to the IBM Institute for Business Value the market will see a rapid
adoption of initial cognitive systems. The most likely candidates have moved
beyond descriptive and diagnostic, predictive and routine industry-specific
capabilities. Seventy percent of survey respondents are currently using
advanced programmatic analytics in three or more departments. In fact, the
widespread adoption of cognitive systems and artificial intelligence (AI)
across various industries is expected to drive worldwide revenues from nearly
US$8.0 billion in 2016 to more than US$47 billion in 2020.
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The analyst firm IDC predictsthat the banking, retail, healthcare and
discrete manufacturing industries will generate more than 50% of all
worldwide cognitive/ AI revenues in 2016. Banking and retail will each
deliver nearly US$1.5 billion, while healthcare and... (more)
When executing an effective digital transformation strategy, management is
tasked with placing the right workload into the most appropriate IT
environment. This represents a shift from buying parts for self-assembly to
composing services through self-serve consumption and pay-per-use models.
Quite often this transition also leads to the adoption of software defined
environments across the enterprise infrastructure.
Software defined infrastructures do, however, bring with them some very
unique challenges. Many of the most prevalent issues are centered around the
relatively immature state of the technology itself. The most significant
aspect of this challenge is the lack of industry standards for device
control. Control software must know the status of all network devices and
trunks, no matter what vendor equipment is being used. While OpenFlow stands
today as the d... (more)
NATO ACT 'Art of the Possible' Interoperability Demonstration
GovCloud Network is proud to have served as the Program Manager for the NATO
Allied Command Transformation, "Art of the Possible" Interoperability
Demonstration on December 16, 2016. supporting the The Network Centric
Operations Industry Consortium (NCOIC), this effort featured an important
demonstration for military, government and business leaders by its
member-companies to underscore the benefits of collaborating via an
interoperable network environment. The demonstration used a secure,
federated-cloud infrastructure to highlight the consortium's work over the
past few years in how to develop a trusted environment, including governance
processes and federation management as well as interoperability verification.
This demonstration itself is an outgrowth of the NCOIC Interoperability
Verification (IV)... (more)
In today's globally connected world, data security breaches are bound to
occur. This, in turn, increases the importance of digital forensic readiness,
or the ability to access and trust computer log data in the identification of
a breach and the determination of what datasets may have been compromised. As
organizations rapidly move into the cloud, the complexities of this
multi-jurisdictional and multi-tenancy environment has made the importance of
cloud forensics even more pronounced. This reality has also drastically
heightened the legal risk associated with information technology operations.
Cloud and digital forensics readiness are therefore critical to business
disaster recovery, continuity of business services and cloud ecosystem
management.
The benefits of digital forensic readiness include:
Reducing the cost of cyber investigations; Quick determination of re... (more)
Enterprise mobility has become table stakes in the world of business. The
ability to access current information at any time, from anywhere, on any
device has really become a cliché. The familiarity we all have with
smartphones and wireless access, actually obscures the true difficulty of
developing and executing an effective corporate mobile strategy. This
reality is driven by the fact that companies must actually have two mobile
strategies.
The first face of mobility is an inside strategy focused on supporting
employees and business partners. From this viewpoint, mobility becomes the
central point of access and the management tool for corporate information and
intelligence. The organizational goal here is to introduce context to
business processes in order to offer viable options and drive better
decisions. An additional benefit of this capability is to create fr... (more)
As cloud computing simultaneously transforms multiple industries many have
wondered about how this trend will affect manufacturing. Often characterized
as "staid," this vertical is not often cited when leading edge technological
change is the topic. This view, however, fails to address the revolutionary
nexus of cloud computing and the manufacturing industry. Referred to as
Digital Thread and Digital Twin; these cloud driven concepts are now driving
this vertical's future.
Digital Thread is a communication framework that connects traditionally
siloed elements in manufacturing processes in order to provide an integrated
view of an asset throughout the manufacturing lifecycle. Digital thread
implementation also requires business processes that help weave data-driven
decision management into the manufacturing culture.
A Digital Twin is a virtual representation of a man... (more)
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