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Are You Ready for GDPR (The EU General Data Protection Regulation)?
In his general session at 21st CloudEXPO, Greg Dumas, Calligo's Vice
President and G.M. of US operations, discussed the new Global Data Protection
Regulation and how Calligo can help business stay compliant in digitally
globalized world.
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Speaker Bio
Greg Dumas is Calligo's Vice President and G.M. of US operations. Calligo is
an established service provider that provides an innovative platform for
trusted cloud solutions. Calligo's customers are typically most concerned
about GDPR compliance, application performance guarantees & data privacy.
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Greg has over 25 years of experience as an international sales, marketing &
operations executive. His background has focused primarily on virtualization
and internet securit... (more)
In a recent post, titled "10 Surprising Facts About Cloud Computing and What
It Really Is", Zac Johnson highlighted some interesting facts about cloud
computing in the SMB marketplace:
Cloud Computing is up to 40 times more cost-effective for an SMB, compared to
running its own IT system. 94% of SMBs have experienced security benefits in
the cloud that they didn't have with their on-premises service Recovery times
for SMB are four times faster for businesses using cloud computing when
compared to those not utilizing cloud services. For SMB, energy use and
carbon emissions could be cut by 90% by using cloud computing, saving the
environment and energy costs.
These advantages show a strong indication that SMB information technology
should be dominated by the adoption of cloud computing services. Although
one of the most prominent of these cloud services is Microsoft'... (more)
DXWorldEXPO LLC announced today that Kevin Jackson joined the faculty of
CloudEXPO's "10-Year Anniversary Event" which will take place on November
11-13, 2018 in New York City.
Kevin L. Jackson is a globally recognized cloud computing expert and
Founder/Author of the award winning "Cloud Musings" blog. Mr. Jackson has
also been recognized as a "Top 100 Cybersecurity Influencer and Brand" by
Onalytica (2015), a Huffington Post "Top 100 Cloud Computing Experts on
Twitter" (2013) and a "Top 50 Cloud Computing Blogger for IT Integrators" by
CRN (2015). Mr. Jackson's professional career includes service in the US Navy
Space Systems Command, Vice President J.P. Morgan Chase, Worldwide Sales
Executive for IBM and NJVC Vice President, Cloud Services. He is currently
part of a team responsible for onboarding mission applications to the US
Intelligence Community cloud comput... (more)
Is There More Than Bitcoin to Blockchain?
Absolutely, because today's blockchain is opening up a pathtowards the
delivery of trusted online services.
To understand this statement, you need to see blockchain as more that it's
more famous bitcoin use case. As a fundamental digital tool, blockchain is a
shared, immutable ledger for recording the history of transactions. If used
in this fashion, it can enable transactional applications that can have
embedded trust, accountability and transparency attributes. Instead of having
a Bitcoin blockchain that is reliant on the exchange of cryptocurrencies with
anonymous users on a public network, a Business blockchain can provide a
permissioned network with known and verified identities. With this kind of
transactional visibility, all activities within that network are observable
and auditable by every network user. This end-to... (more)
Organizations around the world are struggling to cope with the current data
explosion. A vital characteristic of this data is that it is unstructured and
represents things like email, images, and videos. Storage of this form of
data is typically in an object format which differs significantly from the
database norm. Databases housed data grows very slowly because most of it is
structured. Object storage formats are now being used to optimize access to
large amounts of non-transactional files across a growing number of vertical
markets.
These markets include:
Media and Entertainment - video Pre- through Post-Production which requires
secure distribution and hassle-free scalability on a mix of standard hardware
Retail Consumers - HTTP accessible Photo and Video Sharing that offloads SQL
databases to custom metadata which significantly reduces web applications
comp... (more)
Cloud computing innovation will power enterprise transformation in 2018.
Cloud growth is also driving a rapid rise in the storage market, exacerbating
the enterprise challenge around storage cost and complexity. The business
reason behind this marketplace reality is the proliferation of real-time data
from the web, mobile devices, social media, sensors, log files, and
transactional applications. Big Data has also found a home on the operational
side of many market verticals in applications ranging from fraud detection to
the processing of video evidence.
Originally coined to describe datasets whose size stretched beyond the
ability of traditional databases to manage, the term's scope has
significantly expanded to include technology and services that capture,
store, manage and analyze extensive collections of data, to solve complex
problems. Despite concerns regard... (more)
By Kevin Jackson & Dez Blanchfield
Digital Transformation often needs Intelligent Automation. This type of
change is the focus of a recent “Pioneers of Possible” podcast. In
discussion with Elli Hurst - Vice President, Global Automation - IBM Global
Business Services (GBS), Dez Blanchfield finds out how her life’s journey
inspires her in helping IBM clients use Intelligent Automation to enable
globally integrated capabilities.
With six years at Price Waterhouse and 24 years at IBM, Elli seems to have
moved a long way from her family’s restaurant business. The service
industry passion that she learned from her father, however, is still deep in
her heart. That care and passion areevident in how she focuses on
understanding her client’s desired business outcomes. By using these
targeted outcomes as a beacon for every engagement, her team helps clients
align and execut... (more)
Digital Transformation Drives Mainframe's Future
Digital Transformation is amplifying mainframe as mission critical to
business growth more than ever before. With 70% of the world's corporate data
and over half of the world's enterprise applications running on mainframe
computers, they are at the core of just about every transaction. A single
transaction can, in fact, drive up to 100 system interactions. The continued
increase in mainframe transaction volumes, growing on average 7-8% a year for
78% of customers, has even led to a new buzzword: The Connected Mainframe.
According to IDC's research, connected mainframe solutions generate almost
$200 million in additional revenue per year while simultaneously improving
staff productivity and cutting operational costs. Over 50% of the benefit
value comes from higher transaction volumes, new services, and business
expan... (more)
Cloud, mobility and the Internet of Things have obliterated the traditional
perimeter that protected organizations. The result: Higher productivity, but
bigger challenges for security, data protection, and mobile device
management.
This episode of the “The Endpoint Imperative” podcast series from Intel,
Kevin L. Jackson and Intel’s Yasser Rasheed explore the new normal for
security, with a focus on the end users.
Kevin: The topic for this episode is,"The Perimeter is Dead, Long Live the
Perimeter". With me is Yasser Rasheed Director of Business Client Security
with Intel. Yasser welcome back.
Yasser: Hi Kevin, happy to be back.
Kevin: This time, however, I'd like to really talk to you about this security
perimeter thing. Cloud mobility and the internet things have really
obliterated what I've always referred to as the wall and moat security
paradigm, where working ins... (more)
The enterprise data storage marketplace is poised to become a battlefield. No
longer the quiet backwater of cloud computing services, the focus of this
global transition is now going from compute to storage. An overview of recent
storage market history is needed to understand why this transition is
important.
Before 2007 and the birth of the cloud computing market we are witnessing
today, the on-premise model hosted in large local data centers dominated
enterprise storage. Key marketplace players were EMC (before the Dell
acquisition), NetApp, IBM, HP (before they became HPE) and Hitachi. Company
employees managed information technology resources (compute, storage,
network) and companies tightly controlled their data in facilities they
managed. Data security, legal and regulatory concerns, for the most part,
were very localized. The data itself was highly structur... (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)
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