It’s not an illusion: The safety boundaries we used to rely on at the moment are little greater than vapor. The migration of applications to the cloud, mobility and businesses granting nonemployees access to sensitive resources are trends challenging CIOs everywhere — at a time when it’s miles expected to “do more with less” and deliver added value while staff sizes shrink and the selection of users and applications explodes. What is the trick for handling this modification? Standards. More precisely, a collection of contemporary identity management protocols aligned with fresh Web-based development methods and a touch of seniority from a de facto standard many enterprises use today for single sign-on. Webcasts More >> White Papers More >> Reports More >> This modern protocol set is built on developer-friendly frameworks, like REST and JavaScript Object Notation (JSON), and standards, including the System for Cross-Domain Identity Management, OAuth and OpenID Connect, and the venerable Security Assertion Markup Language. You will need all of those pieces for... Read More »

Several months ago, I said that Netflix’s push to drive the adoption of its open-source cloud-management toolkit, NetflixOSS, had the capability to “ruin cloud computing.” Portion of my argument revolved across the Netflix Aminator tool, which facilities the creation of Amazon Machine Images (AMIs). While Aminator can be a wide variety for Netflix, I argued that it encourages precisely the wrong habits for almost all of businesses attempting to deploy applications within the cloud. After many long discussions about that initial article, i think there’s still significant confusion about how one should best use AMIs (or the equivalent from other public cloud providers), and so i’m dedicating this column to what I call “the baking debate.” Webcasts More >> White Papers More >> Reports More >> Let’s start with some background: Anyone who desires to use a public infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) provider like Amazon Web Services (AWS) must use machine images. These machine images are what they sound like — a picture of a virtual server... Read More »

VMware reported third-quarter results on Oct. 21 that said it grew 14% over its third quarter last year. That sounds about right for a corporation stressed from Microsoft’s free Hyper-V and open source code on one side, and Amazon Web Services and other cloud suppliers at the other. It’s called the commoditization of the virtualization market; everyone’s heard about it. And i am here to inform you, it is not happening, in any case not within the way that Wall Street analysts assume it’s miles. It’s coming, as surely because the next ice age, but VMware keeps putting new management products on top of the info center’s virtualized environment. It’s started reaching out to cope other sorts of virtual machines. In various ways it stays three steps sooner than commoditization’s noose. Webcasts More >> White Papers More >> Reports More >> How can that be? Don’t market survey figures show Microsoft’s Hyper-V gaining faster that can be purchased and pushing out VMware’s ESX Server? Yes,... Read More »

Charles Phillips doesn’t have plenty of patience for old perceptions of his company. Elevate the numerous ERP, CRM, HCM and asset management pieces and parts rolled up into Infor, and Phillips, CEO, is probably going to show the discussion to the company’s ION integration services layer, the slick new task-oriented user interfaces or the Ming.le social and event hub. Sitting in a conference room in Infor’s slick new headquarters in Manhattan’s trendy Flatiron neighborhood, Phillips is filling InformationWeek in at the two latest initiatives within the reinvention of Infor. The 1st is UpgradeX, a program designed to accelerate Infor’s move into the cloud by helping customers move to the most recent, 10x versions of Infor applications managed by Infor and running on Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud infrastructure. Webcasts More >> White Papers More >> Reports More >> The second one initiative is Rhythm, a cloud-based e-commerce platform that Phillips says may help customers build state-of-the-art Web storefronts backed by product configuration capabilities, recommendation engines,... Read More »

Microsoft this week unveiled something lots of its customers has been looking ahead to: assist in getting them into cloud computing — hybrid cloud computing, to be exact. Whether large enterprises or small business, it is going to become easier to utilize auxiliary cloud services through standard Windows Server management. Businesses which were reluctant to get the cloud journey underway on their lonesome — not enough IT staff, no budget for off-premises public cloud use — can now turn to the familiar Windows Server and System Center, the Windows Server systems management console, and find an embedded roadmap to the cloud. The enhancements would be present in the 2012 Release 2 versions of every, which become available Oct. 18. Webcasts More >> White Papers More >> Reports More >> Some people thought Microsoft’s naming of its Windows Azure cloud services meant that Windows was now inside the cloud. Actually, it is the wrong way around. It means the Azure cloud will soon be in Windows,... Read More »