By Ryan Kamauff Here are the top cyber news and stories of the day. Four simple steps to protect the US from hackers – Gartner is forecasting an additional 8% cyber spend by firms in 2013, already. As well, the barrier to entry for hacking has been lowered (as Matt and I discussed in yesterday’s podcast, here). Geoff Collins of 1E states that here are the four steps necessary; “First is “Application white-listing,” which allows only authorized software to run on a computer or network. Second and third are very rapid patching of Operating Systems and software. The fourth is minimizing the number of people on a network who have “administrator” privileges.” Via USA Today, more here. Chinese university tied to “APT1″ army cyber unit – “Reuters’ Melanie Lee points out that a number of papers on computer network security and intrusion accessible on the Internet link the ... (more)

Accelerating #DigitalTransformation | @CloudExpo @FormationDS #DataCenter

Download Slide Deck: ▸ Here Download Slide Deck: ▸ Here Accelerating Transformation Projects with Dynamic, Software-Defined Storage Organizations planning enterprise data center consolidation and modernization projects are faced with a challenging, costly reality. Requirements to deploy modern, cloud-native applications simultaneously with traditional client/server applications are almost impossible to achieve with hardware-centric enterprise infrastructure. Compute and network infrastructure are fast moving down a software-defined path, but storage has been a laggard. Until now. Download Slide Deck: ▸ Here In his session at 18th Cloud Expo, Mark Lewis, Chairman and CEO of Formation Data Systems, detailed how to deploy dynamic, software-defined storage infrastructure to transform storage from monolithic silos to an elastic pool of petabyte-scale storage resource... (more)

The Best Programming Languages | @CloudExpo #IoT #AI #API #Java #Python

Five of the Best Programming Languages and Frameworks for a Small Business Choosing a programming framework for a small business can be overwhelming- there are so many. Here are a few of the best choices, to help you get started. Ask a room of ten developers which programming framework is the ‘best on the market,' and you're liable to receive ten different answers. Each developer will sing the praises of a different language, and each one will very probably feel that theirs is the only logical choice. The most confusing thing, though? Each and every one of those developers will be correct. Wait, what? I'll be blunt: there is no universal programming framework. The language your organization should work with - whether it's for web development, mobile development, or traditional development - depends entirely on your unique situation. The perfect choice for one busine... (more)

Java vs. Python: Which One Is Best for You? | @DevOpsSummit #APM #Java #Python

Java vs. Python: Which One Is Best for You? By Kevlin Henney Few questions in software development are more divisive or tribal than choice of programming language. Software developers often identify strongly with their tools of choice, freely mixing objective facts with subjective preference. The last decade, however, has seen an explosion both in the number of languages used in production and the number of languages an individual developer is likely to employ day to day. That means that language affiliations are sometimes spread more loosely and broadly across different codebases, frameworks, and platforms. Modern projects and modern developers are increasingly polyglot—able to draw on more languages and libraries than ever before. Informed choice still has a part to play. From that bustling bazaar of programming languages, let’s narrow our focus to two survivor... (more)

Secure Container Delivery Pipelines with Docker @DevOpsSummit #DevOps #Microservices

Building Effective, Secure Container Delivery Pipelines with Docker, rkt et al. Opinions on how best to package and deliver applications are legion and, like many other aspects of the software world, are subject to recurring trend cycles. On the server-side, the current favorite is container delivery: a “full stack” approach in which your application and everything it needs to run are specified in a container definition. That definition is then “compiled” down to a container image and deployed by retrieving the image and passing it to a container runtime to create a running instance. Here, I’d like to talk about how we can apply lessons from experience of shipping code using many different formats in order to build effective, secure Container Delivery pipelines. The way it’s described above, container delivery does not sound much different from most other packagin... (more)

Guide to #ContinuousTesting | @DevOpsSummit @RainforestQA #IoT #DevOps

Download Guide ▸ Here Download Guide ▸ Here A Guide to Laying the Groundwork for a Scalable Continuous Testing Strategy Continuous testing helps bridge the gap between developing quickly and maintaining high quality products. But to implement continuous testing, CTOs must take a strategic approach to building a testing infrastructure and toolset that empowers their team to move fast. Download our guide to laying the groundwork for a scalable continuous testing strategy. Download Guide ▸ Here @ThingsExpo - The World's Largest 'Internet of Things' Event, November 1-3, 2016, at the Santa Clara Convention Center! Secrets of Sponsors and Exhibitors ▸ Here Secrets of Cloud Expo Speakers ▸ Here All major researchers estimate there will be tens of billions devices - computers, smartphones, tablets, and sensors - connected to the Internet by 2020. This number will contin... (more)

Moving Security into the #DevOps Lifecycle by @MMurray | @DevOpsSummit

The speed of product development has increased massively in the past 10 years. At the same time our formal secure development and SDL methodologies have fallen behind. This forces product developers to choose between rapid release times and security. In his session at DevOps Summit, Michael Murray, Director of Cyber Security Consulting and Assessment at GE Healthcare, will examine the problems and present some solutions for moving security in to the DevOps lifecycle to ensure that we get fast AND secure. Speaker Bio: Michael Murray is the Director of Cyber Security Consulting and Assessment at GE Healthcare, responsible for providing architecture and security assessment services to support GE Healthcare's engineering teams in building secure products. A career information security professional, he has taken leadership roles in organizations ranging from small consul... (more)

Actifio Automates #DevOps | @DevOpsSummit @Actifio #Chef #Puppet #Microservices

Actifio Automates DevOps Across Full Lifecycle of Application Data Actifio, the copy data virtualization company, today announced a series of new features and functional enhancements to better support the growing number of customers leveraging its virtual data pipeline technology in support of DevOps use cases. While infrastructure is increasingly seen as a commodity inside large enterprises, applications – where the technology touches the business – are becoming more strategic. Managing the flow of data that powers those applications presents a range of challenges at every stage of their lifecycle. First, creating applications takes too long. Accessing the production data developers need to build new applications wastes weeks - even months - given the challenges of provisioning new storage, moving data, masking it, and keeping it current. Once an application is b... (more)

This Week in Website Performance

This Week in Website Performance is a weekly feature of the Monitis.com blog. It summarizes recent articles about website performance. Why? Because your friends at Monitis.com care. Hacking the brains of other people with API design. Author: Jesper Louis Anderson. Writing code intended to fail… improves performance? In this non-intuitive paradigm, chaotic fault injection forces developers to write more robust code. This results in a product that is more resistant to small faults and ultimately better performing. Page speed really does matter Author: Anirudh Surendranath. Here is a good discussion of the various factors that affect page speed. From perception of speed to importance of outliers, this discussion touches on the top aspects of page speed as well as improvements. How I Made my Blog 2.3x Faster Author: Alex Browne. Owning a Ruby on Rails blog site hosted on ... (more)

Cloud People: A Who's Who of Cloud Computing

Behind every cloud service or cloud-based solution, there are real people... A robust ecosystem of solutions providers has emerged around cloud computing. But who are the CEOs & CTOs behind those providers, who are the internal and external entrepreneurs driving companies involved in the Cloud, who are the leading engineers, developers, analysts, researchers, marketing professionals, authors...who, in short, are the people behind the cloud? This list will be updated weekly between now and November 4-7, 2013, when 13th Cloud Expo | Cloud Expo Silicon Valley opens its doors in the Santa Clara Convention Center, in the heart of California's Silicon Valley. Here are some highly prominent "Cloud People" to kick off with... RANDY BIAS | @randybias "Randy Bias is visionary. He sees things others don't." [Emphasis added.] That is how Mårten Mickos puts it, as succinctly as ever.... (more)

Cloud Expo, Inc. Announces Cloud Expo 2011 New York Venue

Click Here to Save $800 at Cloud Expo New York ! Cloud Expo, Inc. announced on Thursday that Cloud Expo 2011 New York, the 8th International Cloud Computing Conference & Expo, will take place June 6-9, 2011, at the Javits Center in New York City. Cloud Expo - International Cloud Computing Conference & Expo series is the world’s leading Cloud-focused event and is held in New York, Silicon Valley, Prague, Tokyo, and Hong-Kong. Over 900 corporate sponsors and more than 65,000 industry professionals have participated in Cloud Expo since its inception, tenfold more than all other Cloud-related events put together. Click Here to Save $800 at Cloud Expo New York ! "Cloud Expo was announced on February 24, 2007, the day the term ‘cloud computing' was coined," said Fuat Kircaali, Chairman and Founder of Cloud Expo, Inc. "Cloud has become synonymous with ‘computing' and ‘soft... (more)