by Mark Walker, VP, Technical Resources, Scribe Software (@markatscribe) With no need for infrastructure support, the proliferation of cloud applications has made it easy for Line-of-Business (LOB) managers to implement functional systems without input from IT, swiping a credit card to embrace the promise of immediate process efficiencies. The dark side, of course, is a…
Every time someone says, “There’s an app for that,” there must also be, behind the scenes, an API for that. Today, APIs have become the most attractive properties in many companies’ digital portfolios. With the dominance of the mobile web and the corresponding shift of website traffic to API or “web services” traffic, companies of all sizes are…
Cloud-based systems are attractive as a standard part of the corporate landscape, because they are usually cheaper, faster and easier to deploy than internal IT systems. The path to the cloud is a must for most enterprise, however, an assessment of information risk precede that takes into account the complexities of cloud systems, the data…
Amazon Web Services (AWS) third quarter revenue report continues to soar marking its climb towards its $1 Billion revenue mark. AWS, the unmatched ruler of the public cloud moves steadily on its third quarter sales. This was the prediction released by Technology Business Research, Incorporated (TBRI). According to the research firm, AWS’s recorded revenue for…
A growing number of CIOs and IT departments are turning to the cloud to help them gain a competitive advantage for their business, reduce costs and do more with less. Nearly three-quarters of CIOs agreed that they were already using the cloud. NTT Com Security, the company behind the global information security and risk management…
There’s no denying that cloud computing technology is one of the most beneficial technologies that have been developed in recent years, as it provides benefits in terms of capability and cost-efficiency, while also negating the limitations that geographical locations used to bear on IT. However, adoption has been slower than expected, mainly because it had…
Heart failure will remain among most deadly and costly diseases for human beings unless we discover new methods to detect the illness much earlier. Every individual is impacted by their health, social and environmental needs. To truly treat each patient as an individual, and provides professional the most comprehensive care, big data analytics technology today…
When Google first unveiled key details about their Google BigQuery early last year, it shook up the search engine industry from the perspective of businesses who rely on the search engine giant for their traffic, and industry experts whose jobs it is to anticipate and optimize their clients’ content for the best search engine placements….
Verizon has finally made public in the New York Interop Show the details of its new business cloud service, the Verizon Cloud. The company fearlessly announced last October 3 that the new IaaS offering will be more performance user friendly over other cloud providers, which obviously everybody knows pertain to Amazon. Verizon has re-engineered its…
At the same time that organizations are moving many of their IT assets to the cloud, the problem of how to manage all of an organization’s IT assets has, in many ways, become more complex. Scenarios include public cloud, private cloud, hybrid cloud, BYOD, the mobile workforce, software-by-subscription, and more — in most cases existing…