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Right Networks continues focus on tech improvement with new CIO – Accounting Today

August 21, 2017 | Author: admin

Right Networks, which provides cloud hosting services for CPA firms, has named Jim Walsh its new chief information officer (CIO). He will be guiding the technology strategy for the companys cloud infrastructure, and will lead the scaling of the corporate IT and security functions.

Prior to joining Right Networks, Walsh served as vice president and CIO at Virtustream for the past year. Before Virtustream, Walsh spent seven years at Constant Contact helping develop and scale the software as a service companys enterprise systems and technology. Before Constant Contact, Walsh held senior technology management executive positions at Peoplefluent, Saba Software, and Concentra.

This year, Right Networks released a user management portal app, allowing accountants to manage staff permissions and client onboarding themselves should they want to. The company also reached the 100,000 user mark in June.

We are pleased to welcome Jim Walsh to our executive team as Right Networks takes the next step to expand and grow our reach in the marketplace, said John Farrer, CEO of Right Networks, in a statement. Jims extensive experience in helping develop teams, workflow and technology operations for mid-stage and later-stage SaaS companies makes him excellent addition to the team.

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Altinity Provides Cloud Version of ClickHouse on Kodiak Data MemCloud – Markets Insider

August 21, 2017 | Author: admin

LONDON, Aug. 21, 2017 /PRNewswire/ -- Altinity, today announced that it will provide a cloud version of ClickHouse on Kodiak Data MemCloudTM, the edge-cloud for Big Data. ClickHouse is an open-source column-store analytic database that easily outperforms available commercial and open-source offerings on big data workloads. As such it allows users to manage and run real-time queries on petabytes of data without expensive license costs. Many companies around the world are already using ClickHouse for data collection and analysis, including CloudFlare, Nvidia, Carto, Vertamedia, Infinidat and others.

"We were excited when we saw the performance results of ClickHouse running on Kodiak Data's MemCloud," said Altinity's co-founder, Alexander Zaitsev. "Our MemCloud benchmarks clocked in at 1.5-3X faster than our experience with other clouds and the difference is even more impressive where price-performance ratio is concerned. We envy new users who will have an opportunity to try and demo ClickHouse easier than ever, see its outstanding performance results, and deploy production clusters. "

"We designed a memory-speed cloud infrastructure solution from the ground up to make the power of big data analytics accessible to more businesses," said Eddie Lu, VP of Engineering at Kodiak Data. "Seeing how quick and easy it is to deploy clusters for ClickHouse, along with the performance gains over typical leading cloud hosting services, is testament to our vision."

Altinity's mission is to make it easier for all to use, and to benefit from, ClickHouse. The partnership with Kodiak Data brings ClickHouse to the high performance cloud with a few mouse clicks and at a fraction of cost compared to general purpose clouds. Kodiak Data will offer pre-configured and custom clusters for ClickHouse on MemCloud, as well as demo, test and production environments; Altinity will offer professional services, training, and operational services for ClickHouse. Learn more about ClickHouse on MemCloud and take a test drive at http://clickhouse-demo.memcloud.works/.

About Altinity

Altinity is the leading service provider for ClickHouse an open-source column-store analytic database. Altinity helps customers around the world take advantage of the cutting edge technology for managing and analyzing extremely large volumes of data without expensive license costs. Altinity provides 24/7 ClickHouse Support and Professional Services. Visit altinity.com or follow us @AltinityDB. For more information, please contact rel="nofollow">info@altinity.com.

About Kodiak Data

Kodiak Data is an edge-cloud infrastructure company that allows customers to easily deploy and scale big data infrastructure in both public and private clouds. The Kodiak Data platform is the only solution that can create, within minutes, virtual clusters for cloud, data and storage services that run at memory-speed, and scale to the needs of big data applications and processing. For more information about Kodiak Data, visit our sites at http://www.kodiakdata.com and info.kodiakdata.com.

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NASA calls on cloud for online eclipse streaming – GCN.com

August 21, 2017 | Author: admin

NASA calls on cloud for online eclipse streaming

Countless Americans have scrambled over the last few days to find protective glasses and good viewing locations, but NASA has spent the last three years preparing for up to a billion users to view the Aug. 21 total solar eclipse through streaming on NASA TV.

Through NASAs Web Enterprise Service Technology Contract, InfoZen is responsible for hosting streaming on NASA TV, which is hosted on the agencys website. InfoZen provides the majority of its 100 cloud service applications to NASA through Amazon Web Services. One of those services is a searchable multimedia database.

We have architected a solution for the eclipse to use the most robust cloud services and other infrastructure that might come into play with streaming, Sandeep Shilawat, Infozens cloud program manager, told GCN. We have a list of vendor partners [who are] coming up with a backup plan for the backup for the backup.

NASAs 13 NASA TV streams are hosted through the AWS Simple Storage Service known as S3. The service allows NASA to segregate the stream for the eclipse and apply multiple mechanics including auto-scaling caches and time delivery.

There are multiple areas where the eclipse is being monitored, so it is not just North America but worldwide that this event can be viewed, Shilawat said. We are incorporating ways for the global service not to go down.

Viewing estimates for the solar eclipse depend on a variety of factors, including weather and cloud cover. NASA is prepping its website to be able to handle up to a billion viewers just in case more people than expected are not able to physically view the eclipse in person.

Because of how important this event is and the demand worldwide, we are treating this like a NASA launch, said Steve Penyak, senior vice president of IT modernization at InfoZen. It doesnt compare to launching a rocket ship, but with the preparations, planning and looking into contingency plans, we are treating this similarly in terms of choreographing how it is going to be done.

According to NASA, the solar eclipse will begin at 9:05 am PDT in Lincoln Beach, Ore., and the lunar shadow will leave the United States at 4:09 EDT. More information from NASA on the solar eclipse can be found here.

About the Author

Sara Friedman is a reporter/producer for GCN, covering cloud, cybersecurity and a wide range of other public-sector IT topics.

Before joining GCN, Friedman was a reporter for Gambling Compliance, where she covered state issues related to casinos, lotteries and fantasy sports. She has also written for Communications Daily and Washington Internet Daily on state telecom and cloud computing. Friedman is a graduate of Ithaca College, where she studied journalism, politics and international communications.

Friedman can be contacted at sfriedman@gcn.com or follow her on Twitter @SaraEFriedman.

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World’s Largest Open Source Cloud Computing Summit to be Hosted in Sydney – Business Wire (press release)

August 21, 2017 | Author: admin

AUSTIN, Texas--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sydney, Australia, will host thousands of cloud computing experts from more than 50 nations for the OpenStack Summit, November 6-8, at the Sydney Convention and Exhibition Center. This will be the first time the must-attend open infrastructure event has been held in Australia where users like American Airlines, China Railway, Saudi Telecom, Commonwealth Bank, Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), Sprint and Tencent/WeChat will talk about multi-cloud strategies, cost savings and increasing agility with OpenStack.

The biannual OpenStack Summitheld previously in major cities like Paris, Tokyo, Vancouver, San Francisco and Barcelonawill draw thousands of developers, operators, cloud architects, business unit leaders and CIOs from the worlds centers of IT innovation.

Headline sponsors of the Summit include Sydney-based Aptira, global networking leader Cisco, and WeChat provider Tencent, as well as premier sponsors Huawei, IBM, Intel, Mirantis, Red Hat and VMware.

Speakers will report on strong OpenStack adoption among financial services, telecoms and research organizations including: AT&T, Monash University, The Garvan Institute, DragonFly Data Science, Paddy Power Betfair, Verizon, Workday, University of Melbourne, PayPal, Catalyst IT, GoDaddy and Overstock.com.

Discounted Registration

Discounted Early Bird Registration is available until September 8. Sponsorship packages are available until September 27.

Enterprises and service providers in Australia were among the earliest adopters of OpenStack, so its exciting to bring the Summit and thousands of community members globally to Sydney, said Jonathan Bryce, executive director of the OpenStack Foundation. The rapid growth of OpenStackin excess of 40 percent year over yearmeans theres lots to talk about at the Summit in terms of compelling new use cases, instructive new user stories and proven best practices for both developers and cloud operators.

Summit Themes for Sydney

Themes at the Sydney OpenStack Summit include current topics for enterprises like how to build effective multi-cloud strategies. Attendees from carriers and service providers will learn more about how OpenStack is leading in edge computing. Other themes include innovation in open and composable infrastructure, collaboration with adjacent open source communities, digital transformation and infrastructure control. The CFO perspective on business growth and infrastructure cost reduction will feature prominently in many sessions.

OpenStack Summits help IT leaders plan their cloud strategies while sharing real-world experiences operating or consuming OpenStack clouds. During the three-day event, attendees will have the opportunity to hear keynote presentations featuring innovative use cases and live technology demonstrations. They can choose from hundreds of sessions and hands-on workshops for every experience level and organizational role. The Summit offers networking opportunities during the Monday evening Marketplace booth crawl happy hour and the Tuesday afternoon Melbourne Cup viewing party. Learn more about OpenStack Summits and users at the official OpenStack publication, Superuser.

Cloud Application Hackathon to Kick off the Week

The weekend prior to the Summit, a cloud application hackathon will be hosted by the Sydney OpenStack User Group to kick off the event. Hacking Up the Stack will be held November 3-5, at the Doltone House in the Australian Technology Park. OpenStack application hackathons are intended to educate developers on how to build and migrate applications to distributed cloud environments, as well as showcase the diverse use cases for OpenStack. Recent application hackathons have been held in Mexico and Taiwan. More information coming soon: http://hackathon.openstack.org.au/.

Media and Analyst Registration

Members of the media and analysts covering cloud computing can contact Jennifer Fowler (jennifer@cathey.co) for information about event registration.

About OpenStack

OpenStack is the most widely deployed software for public and private clouds, with more than 5 million compute cores in production. It has become a standard for private clouds and is also available via dozens of public cloud providers globally. At its core, OpenStack is an open source integration engine that provides APIs to orchestrate bare metal, virtual machine and container resources on a single network. The same OpenStack code powers a global network of public and private clouds backed by the largest ecosystem of technology providers, to enable cost savings, control and portability.

OpenStack is a global community of 80,000 members supported by the OpenStack Foundation, which facilitates the development of many innovative projects in the open infrastructure space. The community delivers two software releases each year, which are Apache 2 licensed and productized by a large ecosystem of technology vendors in our Marketplace. For more information and to join the community, visit http://www.OpenStack.org.

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AT&T, GE and Oracle offer juiciest cloud salaries, new data reveals – Cloud Tech

August 21, 2017 | Author: admin

Cloud computing skills continue to be in high demand and new figures from PayScale reveal that AT&T, General Electric and Oracle provide the best remuneration for top performers.

The figures, first reported by Forbes, cover a variety of metrics, from employers, to different roles, to company size and years experience, with the data coming from more than 1000 US-based respondents in each case.

If you want to make the most money from your cloudy career, then enterprise IT architect, with a median salary of $138,051, just pips senior solutions architect, with $132,092, as the role with the best remuneration. Solutions architect ($122,593), IT architect ($120,811) and senior systems engineer ($106,170) also broke the six-figure barrier, compared with DevOps engineer ($97,135) and software engineer ($95,962).

When it came to specific companies, AT&T offers almost a quarter of a million dollars ($248,323) for their most experienced roles, with GE and Oracle the only others to offer more than $200k. Comparing against the salary data for the four hypervisor cloud infrastructure vendors, IBM came out with a top salary of almost $175k, with Microsoft ($166k) and Amazon ($164k) close behind and Google albeit with less data to work from at $115k.

Perhaps not surprisingly, larger organisations pay more, although the increments do not entirely match. Organisations with fewer than 600 employees will pay below $116k on average, however the salaries based on more than 100 figures do not see a noticeable pattern (2000-4999 employees, $124,059, 5000-19999, $123,569) until the largest category, enterprises with more than 50,000 employees, whose average salary is $129,291.

These figures may add colour to a UK study released earlier this month by IT resourcing provider Experis, who warned that while the number of cloud vacancies almost doubled at a 97.73% increase year on year, salaries for permanent roles only went up 2.7% on average.

The reasoning, Experis argued, was that as roles for companies maintaining, optimising and enhancing their existing cloud platforms proliferated, less specialised skills were needed for them, making them easier to fill and pay growth to stumble accordingly.

As a result, getting the best certifications is vital to forging a successful cloud career. Writing for this publication earlier this year, Alex Bennett, of IT training school Firebrand Training, put down six of the most sought-after specifications in the industry, from AWS, to Microsoft, as well as the (ISC)2 Certified Cloud Security Professional (CCSP) certification.

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Cloud computing in focus at e-Commerce forum – Oman Tribune

August 21, 2017 | Author: admin

SALALAH

The Fifth International Conference on Electronic Commerce on cloud computing was opened under the patronage of Minister of Legal Affairs HE Dr Abdullah Bin Mohammed Al Saeedi in Salalah.

The two-day conference is organised by Oman Chamber of Commerce and Industry (OCCI) Branch in the Governorate of Dhofar and the Middle East Centre for Consultancy and Studies under the theme Cloud Computing and Future Prospects.

The conference contained working papers, including Cloud Computing and its Economic Impact in the Arab Countries, and International and Local Experience in Cloud Computing, as well as Applications and Solutions in Cloud Computing, and Digital Transformation and the Use of Cloud Computing.

During the conference, an open discussion session was held on several legal visions that would raise awareness on the importance of cloud computing.

The opening ceremony of the conference was attended by HE Sheikh Salim Bin Mustahail Al Maashani, Adviser at the Diwan of Royal Court, HE Dr Khalid Bin Salim Al Saeedi, Secretary General of the State Council, Abdullah Bin Salim Al Rowas, Head of OCCI Branch in Dhofar, and experts in the field of cloud computing.

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Cycle Computing will make Microsoft Azure more appealing to more enterprises – TechRepublic

August 21, 2017 | Author: admin

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For years, TechRepublic has been touting the benefits of cloud computing for business enterprises. As information technology has evolved with ever-increasing innovation, those benefits have continued to multiply. Big data, IoT, artificial intelligence, and big computing all require computational power that often exceeds the capacity any single enterprise can provide. So unless your enterprise is extraordinarily large and technology rich, cloud computing is the only practical answer.

However, there are hurdles to overcome, both technological and cultural, before an enterprise can begin to take advantage of cloud computing computational services. No matter how many assurances are made, many enterprises are uncomfortable with the idea that their data will be "off-premises" on another system. In those situations, enterprises need specialized guidance.

In August 2017, Microsoft acquired Cycle Computing for an undisclosed amount. Cycle Computing specializes in helping enterprises orchestrate high-performance computing jobs, large data workloads, and other big computing jobs in the cloud. Microsoft will use Cycle Computing's expertise to supplement the tools already in place for its Azure platform.

Cycle Computing specializes in providing guidance to enterprises looking to use cloud-based high-performance computing (HPC) and other big computing, intense computational services. Successfully using those types of services requires a certain level of expertise that many enterprises do not possess and can't afford in-house.

Enterprises of all sizes are uncovering situations where the need for HPC services is obvious, but the path to taking advantage of cloud-based computational power is unclear. A company like Cycle Computing, with all of its tools and expertise, can provide guidance and reveal the correct path for these enterprises to follow.

According to the announcement by Jason Zander, Microsoft will use Cycle Computing to help shore up its ability to provide support for Linux HPC workloads. By eliminating a potential hurdle for many enterprises seeking scalable computing power, Microsoft hopes to further accelerate the adoption of cloud-based solutions.

The acquisition confirms Microsoft's commitment to a business strategy that emphasizes its intelligent cloud services. Combine the acquisition of Cycle Computing with the July 2017 acquisition of Cloudyn and you can see a pattern emerging. Microsoft wants to make Azure the most complete, most versatile, and most user-friendly set of cloud computing services available. These acquisitions are designed to eliminate any and all barriers to cloud services adoption in the enterprise.

No matter how fantastic your service or product, the first barrier to overcome when establishing a new market is the inherent enterprise inertia and resistance to change of any kind.

Whether it is increased storage capacity, a collaborative work environment, or super-computational power, it is obvious that Microsoft believes the answer is its intelligent cloud infrastructure and Azure services. The acquisition of Cycle Computing is just another piece of the overall full-service puzzle.

By offering the tools and experienced personnel necessary to orchestrate a sensitive big computing job, Microsoft believes it can make Azure and its myriad services more appealing to more enterprises. The previous success of Cycle Computing suggests that Microsoft may be correct in that assessment. Adding that kind of expertise to Azure will certainly help overcome enterprise inertia.

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BBB Tip of the Week: What to look for in cloud storage – The Spokesman-Review

August 20, 2017 | Author: admin

We have become accustomed to the terminology of the cloud, a digital storage unit in the proverbial sky. It is touted as the solution to keeping track of meaningful photos and videos, important documents, business correspondence and much more. While this is a physical space-saving measure, these items may not be protected unless some security measures are in place. It has been said, There is no cloud. Its just someone elses computer.

Better Business Bureau serving the Northwest provides these tips for researching and choosing a cloud-storage service:

Keep dual copies. It may sound old school, however, keepsakes and important documents are good to keep in a safe or safedeposit box, in addition to storing them on a secure cloud service. Just like your house can burn down, the cloud could burst.

Take responsibility to research. Technology is moving fast and furious. If you are going to move your most prized information to a digital platform you must stay informed. For example, would you keep your life insurance policy in a grocery bag in the back seat of your unlocked car? Without research, this may be the equivalent of what you are doing.

Ask yourself questions. What can cloud storage do for you that you dont have? How will you be using the cloud? What does encryption mean? What is a zero-knowledge provider? What cloud storage do you already have access to? What is the difference between paid and free cloud storage? How do various cloud-storage providers compare with each other?

Read the agreement and know what they offer. It may not be the most interesting read and most likely will require additional research for terms and technology applications. If there is something you do not understand, ask and research until you do.

The bottom line is that there are advantages and risks associated with cloud-based storage. A good place to start research is ftc.gov. For more tips, or if you would like information about consumer assistance, turn to bbb.org. If you are a victim of a scam, report it to bbb.org/scamtracker.

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Get 2 TB of Cloud Storage from Zoolz for Life for Just $50 – The Escapist

August 20, 2017 | Author: admin

2TB of cloud storage is great. 2TB of cloud storage for life is amazing. And 2TB of cloud storage for life for just $49.99? That's right here - get this awesome deal at Escapist Deals.

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10 Bitcoin Wallet Apps You Should Consider Using Today – HuffPost

August 20, 2017 | Author: admin

If youre into the future of digital payment, youve probably already heard of the cryptocurrency, Bitcoin. While Bitcoin is now incredibly difficult to mine, its relatively easy to buy Bitcoins with traditional currency. For anyone wanting to begin their foray into this form of peer-to-peer transaction, which offers anonymity while simultaneously cutting out banks and other traditional third party financial entities, the first step is getting a Bitcoin wallet.

Bitcoins are stored in a digital wallet, stored in the cloud or on your personal computer, which act like a bank account, letting you pay or exchange Bitcoins. Imagine a virtual bank account that allows users to send or receive Bitcoin, or pay for goods from merchants that accept Bitcoin.

Below are eight great options for Bitcoin Wallets, along with two additional helpful apps to get you started, and you can download any of them here on Softonic.

1. Mycelium Bitcoin Wallet

Mycellium is one of the best Bitcoin wallets out there. With this app you can easily send and receive Bitcoins using your mobile device. It allows for cold-storage integrations with hardware Bitcoin wallets like Trezor or KeepKey, and has a unique feature to help manage your private keys as well as a secret number that allows Bitcoins to be spent.

2. Copay

Ever got confused about private keys? Thats where Copay comes in. This open source, multi-signature wallet from BitPay can help you have greater control over your private keys. This multi-signature technology allows Bitcoin wallets to be controlled by multiple private keys and users. Authorization for each transaction can require one, some, or all of these private keys.

3. Coinbase

By far, Coinbase is one of the most popular Bitcoin exchange services used globally. Merchants and consumers can transact with a variety of digital currencies including Bitcoin, Ethereum, and Litecoin.

4. BreadWallet

Breadwallet is another open source and user-friendly wallet, perfect for beginners. Their core design principle is easy and intuitive software, so its a great option for those just starting out with Bitcoin.

5. Airbitz

If youre looking for something that will guarantee a little more privacy then have a look at Airbitz. The unique feature about Airbitz is that it is a completely decentralized wallet. What this means is that neither the company behind it nor any third-party can access your money or data. For those looking for best option in security and anonymity, this may be the wallet for you.

6. Bitcoin Wallet

Bitcoin Wallet is the first mobile Bitcoin app. Designed to make Bitcoin easy to use at a time when these types of apps were limited, its a simple design without all the bells and whistles of newer apps. You can quickly pay by scanning the QR code, which is a big plus.

7. GreenBits

GreenBits has a little bit of everything for everyone. Its a fast and easy to use wallet with multi-signature features and has strong security and privacy features as well.

8. Samourai Wallet

The new kid on the block, Samourai Wallet claims to be the most private and anonymous wallet available, featuring military grade encryption. It is currently available through an alpha release on Android.

Once youve chosen a wallet, its time to buy, convert, and spend your Bitcoin. While Bitcoin is now accepted by over 100,000 merchants worldwide, it still takes some maneuvering to use. In addition, Bitcoin values are extremely volatile and fluctuate daily, so its a good idea to keep an eye on how much your Bitcoin is worth on the open market before you buy, sell, or convert them.

9. Bitpay

Bitpay helps users accept Bitcoins for their business, store them, or convert and spend them as dollars using the BitPay card feature. Its an easy way to manage your Bitcoin finances and transactions, much like a regular checking account would.

10. Bitcoin Checker

If you have enough Bitcoin lying around, you may want to monitor the value of your Bitcoin. Bitcoin values are fluid and just like the stock prices, they can go up and down. Thats where Bitcoin Checker will come in handy. This app will help monitor the major cryptocurrencies from more than 80 stock exchanges worldwide. This gives you a wide range of Bitcoin to monitor.

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