Moving to the cloud not only enables application development and testing organizations to reduce capital outlays; it can also reduce IT cycle times while improving quality.
8 Decimal capital attended Security Token Realised Conference in London on the 23rd-24th of January 2019 and shared our perspectives on the topic of Investing in the Security Token Ecosystem. Our presentation was focused on the topic of Investing in the Security Token Ecosystem, in which we are sharing some of our thoughts on the space regarding the benefits of security tokens, the evolution of the Security Token hype cycle & liquidity, our investment criteria and our thoughts on what type of projects would have less friction in terms of adoption. Additionally, we provided an explanation on why we invested into Securitize, Open Finance and Bibox Bond, as well as a Security Token project we are currently working on with Fuhua Group, tokenizing $1B dollar worth of buildings & hotels.
Tokenization on Blockchain is a steady trend. It seems that everything is being tokenized on Blockchain from paintings, diamonds and company stocks to real estate. Thus, we took an asset, tokenized it and created its digital representation that lives on Blockchain. Blockchain guarantees that the ownership information is immutable.
Unfortunately, some problems need to be solved before we can successfully tokenize real-world assets on Blockchain. Main problem stems from the fact that so far, no country has a solid regulation for cryptocurrency. For example, what happens if a company that handles tokenization sells the property? They have no legal rights on the property and thus are not protected by the law. Another problem is that this system brings us back some sort of centralization. The whole idea of Blockchain and especially smart contracts is to create a trustless environment.
Tokenization is a method that converts a digital value into a digital token. Tokenization can be used as a method that converts rights to an asset into a digital token.
The tokenization system can be implemented local to the data that is tokenized or in a centralized model. We will discuss tokenization implementations that can provide scalability across hybrid cloud models. This session will position different data protection techniques, use cases for blockchain, and protecting blockchain.
Blockchain technology is being touted as the Next Big Thing, seemingly capable of great feats of strength and perhaps even curing the common cold. But what exactly is it and how could it contribute to a security program? This session will describe how blockchain works, define its value proposition, and identify specific use cases where blockchain makes sense and some where it doesn't. Along the way, we will discuss similar capabilities and technologies that accomplish the objectives.
Fighting Financial Crime with Artificial IntelligenceDataWorks Summit
How can we take the state of the art in deep learning and AI research, and transplant it into a large bank to deliver useful results which impact the general public? To answer this broad-reaching question, we take the viewer through a solution Think Big Analytics recently deployed at a major European bank for fraud detection, using state of the art AI techniques and a near-real time open-source architecture. We show how financial transactions can be transposed into a form where the latest AI techniques in image recognition can be leveraged, in surprisingly novel ways. We have been able to more accurately detect fraud and reduce financial crime, cutting losses and improving customer experience. We describe some architectures which can be used to do this in production, at scale, in global financial institutions.
Speaker:
Tim Seears, Director of Data Science, Think Big Analytics, a Teradata Company
Economics, broadly defined, is concerned with the description and analysis of the production, distribution, and consumption of goods and services. Also related is how individuals and groups make choices about these goods and services, and the consequences of their decisions. Decisions might be explicitly in regard to money and resources, but the same principles pertain to any kind of decision. The general form of the problem is that wants are bigger than resources, and even if two choices are both free, there is an opportunity cost in terms of deploying resources or focus into one area and not another. The same structure of decision-making among multiple options, with there being an opportunity cost to the road not taken, may persist regardless of domain, whether in classical economics or distributed ledger economics.
Top trends in Payments: 2020 highlighted the payments industry’s flux driven by new trends in technology adoption, innovative solutions, and changing consumer behavior. The pandemic has tested the digital mastery of players, who are already grappling with transition. Non-cash transactions are on a robust growth path, accelerated by increased adoption during COVID-19. Regulators are working to instill trust and address non-cash payments risk amid unparalleled growth as players collaborate to quell uncertainty. Regional initiatives, such as the P27 (Nordics real-time payments system) and the EPI (European Payments Initiative), are gaining traction in response to country-level fragmentation and competition.
Investment in emerging technologies is looked upon as an elixir to mitigate fraud, data-driven offerings are being considered for providing value-added propositions, and distributed ledger technology is in focus for digital currency solutions, efficiency enhancement, and cost gains. New players, such as retailers/merchants, are integrating payments into their value chains while technology giants are upscaling their financial services game by weaving offerings around payments as a center stage. Constrained by budgets, firms consider business models such as Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) to provide cost-effective and superior customer experience.
As the industry’s first Secure Internet Gateway in the cloud, Cisco Umbrella provides the first line of defense against threats on the internet, protecting all your users within minutes.
Cisco Advanced Malware Protection offers global threat intelligence, advanced sandboxing and real-time malware blocking to prevent breaches while it continuously analyzes file activity across your network, so that you can quickly detect, contain and remove advanced malware.
Presentation of Cisco Security Architecture and Solutions such as Cisco Advanced Malware Protection (AMP) and Cisco Umbrella during Simplex-Cisco Technology Session that took place at the Londa Hotel in Limassol on 14 March 2018.
8 Decimal capital attended Security Token Realised Conference in London on the 23rd-24th of January 2019 and shared our perspectives on the topic of Investing in the Security Token Ecosystem. Our presentation was focused on the topic of Investing in the Security Token Ecosystem, in which we are sharing some of our thoughts on the space regarding the benefits of security tokens, the evolution of the Security Token hype cycle & liquidity, our investment criteria and our thoughts on what type of projects would have less friction in terms of adoption. Additionally, we provided an explanation on why we invested into Securitize, Open Finance and Bibox Bond, as well as a Security Token project we are currently working on with Fuhua Group, tokenizing $1B dollar worth of buildings & hotels.
Tokenization on Blockchain is a steady trend. It seems that everything is being tokenized on Blockchain from paintings, diamonds and company stocks to real estate. Thus, we took an asset, tokenized it and created its digital representation that lives on Blockchain. Blockchain guarantees that the ownership information is immutable.
Unfortunately, some problems need to be solved before we can successfully tokenize real-world assets on Blockchain. Main problem stems from the fact that so far, no country has a solid regulation for cryptocurrency. For example, what happens if a company that handles tokenization sells the property? They have no legal rights on the property and thus are not protected by the law. Another problem is that this system brings us back some sort of centralization. The whole idea of Blockchain and especially smart contracts is to create a trustless environment.
Tokenization is a method that converts a digital value into a digital token. Tokenization can be used as a method that converts rights to an asset into a digital token.
The tokenization system can be implemented local to the data that is tokenized or in a centralized model. We will discuss tokenization implementations that can provide scalability across hybrid cloud models. This session will position different data protection techniques, use cases for blockchain, and protecting blockchain.
Blockchain technology is being touted as the Next Big Thing, seemingly capable of great feats of strength and perhaps even curing the common cold. But what exactly is it and how could it contribute to a security program? This session will describe how blockchain works, define its value proposition, and identify specific use cases where blockchain makes sense and some where it doesn't. Along the way, we will discuss similar capabilities and technologies that accomplish the objectives.
Fighting Financial Crime with Artificial IntelligenceDataWorks Summit
How can we take the state of the art in deep learning and AI research, and transplant it into a large bank to deliver useful results which impact the general public? To answer this broad-reaching question, we take the viewer through a solution Think Big Analytics recently deployed at a major European bank for fraud detection, using state of the art AI techniques and a near-real time open-source architecture. We show how financial transactions can be transposed into a form where the latest AI techniques in image recognition can be leveraged, in surprisingly novel ways. We have been able to more accurately detect fraud and reduce financial crime, cutting losses and improving customer experience. We describe some architectures which can be used to do this in production, at scale, in global financial institutions.
Speaker:
Tim Seears, Director of Data Science, Think Big Analytics, a Teradata Company
Economics, broadly defined, is concerned with the description and analysis of the production, distribution, and consumption of goods and services. Also related is how individuals and groups make choices about these goods and services, and the consequences of their decisions. Decisions might be explicitly in regard to money and resources, but the same principles pertain to any kind of decision. The general form of the problem is that wants are bigger than resources, and even if two choices are both free, there is an opportunity cost in terms of deploying resources or focus into one area and not another. The same structure of decision-making among multiple options, with there being an opportunity cost to the road not taken, may persist regardless of domain, whether in classical economics or distributed ledger economics.
Top trends in Payments: 2020 highlighted the payments industry’s flux driven by new trends in technology adoption, innovative solutions, and changing consumer behavior. The pandemic has tested the digital mastery of players, who are already grappling with transition. Non-cash transactions are on a robust growth path, accelerated by increased adoption during COVID-19. Regulators are working to instill trust and address non-cash payments risk amid unparalleled growth as players collaborate to quell uncertainty. Regional initiatives, such as the P27 (Nordics real-time payments system) and the EPI (European Payments Initiative), are gaining traction in response to country-level fragmentation and competition.
Investment in emerging technologies is looked upon as an elixir to mitigate fraud, data-driven offerings are being considered for providing value-added propositions, and distributed ledger technology is in focus for digital currency solutions, efficiency enhancement, and cost gains. New players, such as retailers/merchants, are integrating payments into their value chains while technology giants are upscaling their financial services game by weaving offerings around payments as a center stage. Constrained by budgets, firms consider business models such as Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) to provide cost-effective and superior customer experience.
As the industry’s first Secure Internet Gateway in the cloud, Cisco Umbrella provides the first line of defense against threats on the internet, protecting all your users within minutes.
Cisco Advanced Malware Protection offers global threat intelligence, advanced sandboxing and real-time malware blocking to prevent breaches while it continuously analyzes file activity across your network, so that you can quickly detect, contain and remove advanced malware.
Presentation of Cisco Security Architecture and Solutions such as Cisco Advanced Malware Protection (AMP) and Cisco Umbrella during Simplex-Cisco Technology Session that took place at the Londa Hotel in Limassol on 14 March 2018.
The presentation was used during the keynote session in the Blockchain DLT Summit at Lima, Peru (November 14). Thanks to the summit sponsors UTEC, R3, BCP, and Microsoft Peru.
Cognitive Computing: Company presentation by Tomer Weingarten, Co-Founder & CEO of SentinelOne at the NOAH Conference 2019 in Tel Aviv, Hangar 11, 10-11 April 2019.
Building a Next-Generation Security Operation Center Based on IBM QRadar and ...IBM Security
Learn about Sogeti’s journey of creating a new Security Operation Center, and how and why we leveraged QRadar solutions. We explore the full program lifecycle, from strategic choices to technical analysis and benchmarking on the product. We explain how QRadar accelerates the go-to-market of the SOC, and how we embed IBM Security Intelligence offerings in our solution. Having a strong collaboration between different IBM stakeholders such as Software Group, Global Technology Services, as well as the Labs, was key to client satisfaction and operational effectiveness. We also show the value of integrating new QRadar features in our SOC roadmap, in order to constantly stay ahead in the cyber security game.
Exploring Blockchain Technology, Risks, and Emerging TrendsAmazon Web Services
Blockchain has become a hot topic for enterprises, start-ups, entrepreneurs, and regulatory bodies. Born from bitcoin in 2008, blockchain's promise of a distributed ledger has far greater implications than cryptocurrency. Companies are now beginning to understand its disruptive potential and are experimenting with its most promising applications. But, few companies have asked the more fundamental question: Are we ready to adopt a shared public database for financial transactions? In this session, we cover the concepts of blockchain and use cases in the enterprise. We also demonstrate blockchain in use and show how to implement it using AWS services.
Speaker: Anand Iyer, Principal Solutions Architect, AWS
Top 20 Security Controls for a More Secure InfrastructureInfosec
The CIS® (Center for Internet Security, Inc.®) Controls offer 20 proven, globally recognized best practices for securing your IT systems and data against the most pervasive attacks. Join Tony Sager, CIS Senior Vice President and Chief Evangelist, to learn:
- Origin and purpose of the CIS Controls
- How to prioritize implementation
- How to make the CIS Controls a foundational part of your security program, and improve your enterprise defenses, operations, compliance and security awareness
Watch the full webinar: https://www2.infosecinstitute.com/l/12882/2018-12-06/bcbc68
Blockchain use cases in 2022 real world industry applicationsArpitGautam20
These are interesting predictions and real-world industry applications of Blockchain Technology that will take the world by storm in 2022! https://arsr.tech/blockchain-use-cases-in-2022-real-world-industry-applications/
In the keynote 2022 Digital Asset Outlook report, we performed a deep dive into the 12 + 1 key themes, which will have the most significant disruptive effect and incremental delta in 2022. The report features exclusive insights from pioneers in digital assets, blockchain investing, NFT, metaverse and gaming, legal and cybersecurity.
As we get to know what life in the digital domain is like, one of the revelations we've had is that many large and plenty of smaller organisations are targets of espionage, of the nefarious APT.
During the last decade, it has become gospel to wait, watch, analyse and learn if you detect such an attacker in your infrastructure. Why? Because you get one chance to do the eviction of the attacker right. And if you fail, all your efforts will eventually have been for nothing.
But for how long should you wait and watch? When have you watched long enough? When have you learned enough? And how do you make that decision?
That is the challenge I hope the Cyber Threat Intelligence Matrix can help you face in a more structured manner.
Asset Tokenization - An Introduction and Overview, Guest Lecture at SMU Patrick Schueffel
This presentation provides an introduction and overview to the topic of Asset Tokenization. It explains why Asset Tokenization can help to unlock massive values on a global scale by democratizing investment processes in the capital markets. It highlights the significance of these concepts by drawing historical parallels.
This PPT covers the following concepts:
What is Block Chain?
Brief History of Block Chain
Bitcoins
Distributed Ledger
Describing a Block
Example of Block Chain
Proof-of-Work
Peer-to-Peer Network
Recent Developments of Block Chain
Cybersecurity: Cyber Risk Management for Banks & Financial InstitutionsShawn Tuma
Everyone should now understand that no bank or financial institution is immune from cyber risk. Many are now ready to move forward with improving their cyber risk posture but do not know what to do next or how to prioritize their resources. Recognizing that cybersecurity is an overall business risk issue that must be properly managed to comply with many laws and regulations governing banks and financial institutions, this presentation will provide a strategy for how to better understand and manage such risks by:
(1) Providing an overview of the legal and regulatory framework;
(2) Examining the most likely real-world risks; and
(3) Providing strategies for how to manage such risks, including cyber insurance and the development and implementation of an appropriate cyber risk management program (which is not as difficult as it sounds).
Shawn E. Tuma, cybersecurity and data privacy attorney at Spencer Fane, LLP, delivered the presentation titled Cybersecurity: Cyber Risk Management for Banks & Financial Institutions (and Attorneys Who Represent Them) at the Southwest Association of Bank Counsel 42nd Annual Convention on September 20, 2018 (formerly, Texas Association of Bank Counsel).
Nozomi Networks is the leader of industrial cybersecurity, delivering real-time visibility to manage cyber risk & improve resilience for industrial operations. With one solution, customers gain advanced cybersecurity, improved operational reliability & easy IT/OT integration. Innovating the use of artificial intelligence, the company helps the largest industrial sites around the world See and Secure™ their critical industrial control networks. Today Nozomi Networks supports over a quarter of a million devices in the critical infrastructure, energy, manufacturing, mining, transportation & utility sectors, making it possible to tackle the escalating cyber risks to operational networks (OT).
The Cybersecurity Risk Management Framework Strategy for Defense Platform Systems course prepares command leadership to implement the National Institute of Standards and Technology’s (NIST) cybersecurity Risk Management Framework (RMF) from a Platform Information Technology (PIT) perspective.
This one-day workshop reviews the five functions of cybersecurity that leadership must consider when making decisions about program resources and requirements.
This talk will introduce Zero-Knowledge Proofs (ZKPs) and explain why they are a key element in a growing number of privacy-preserving, digital-identity platforms. Clare will provide basic illustrations of ZKPs and leave the necessary mathematics foundations to the readers.
After this talk you will understand that there is a variety of ZKPs, it’s still early days, and why ZKP is such a perfect tool for digital identity platforms. This talk includes significant updates from the newly-organized ZKProof Standardization organization plus a signal of maturity: one of the first known ZKP vulnerabilities.
Clare will explain why ZKPs are so powerful, and why they are building blocks for a range of applications including privacy-preserving cryptocurrency such as Zcash, Ethereum, Artificial Intelligence, and older versions of Trusted Platform Modules (TPMs). The presentation includes many backup slides for future learning and researching, including four slides of references.
Sustainable Blockchain and Blockchain for Climate Action Soren Gigler
The presentation focused on the role blockchain can play in supporting the green transition. There is an urgent need to enhance the sustainability of blockchain. At the same time, blockchain offers important and unique opportunities as an enabler to enhance the sustainability across all sectors of the economy and contribute to climate action
Making the leap from "gatekeeper" to strategic business partner often requires the QA/test group to centralize and standardize the selection of test tools, the development of test processes and templates and the training of testing staff. Only then can it break the organizational silos which typically hobble testing efforts, present a consistent and credible face to their business customers and develop the specialized expertise needed to meet today's testing challenges.
John Fodeh - Adventures in Test Automation-Breaking the Boundaries of Regress...TEST Huddle
EuroSTAR Software Testing Conference 2012 presentation on Adventures in Test Automation-Breaking the Boundaries of Regression Testing by John Fodeh.
See more at: http://conference.eurostarsoftwaretesting.com/past-presentations/
The presentation was used during the keynote session in the Blockchain DLT Summit at Lima, Peru (November 14). Thanks to the summit sponsors UTEC, R3, BCP, and Microsoft Peru.
Cognitive Computing: Company presentation by Tomer Weingarten, Co-Founder & CEO of SentinelOne at the NOAH Conference 2019 in Tel Aviv, Hangar 11, 10-11 April 2019.
Building a Next-Generation Security Operation Center Based on IBM QRadar and ...IBM Security
Learn about Sogeti’s journey of creating a new Security Operation Center, and how and why we leveraged QRadar solutions. We explore the full program lifecycle, from strategic choices to technical analysis and benchmarking on the product. We explain how QRadar accelerates the go-to-market of the SOC, and how we embed IBM Security Intelligence offerings in our solution. Having a strong collaboration between different IBM stakeholders such as Software Group, Global Technology Services, as well as the Labs, was key to client satisfaction and operational effectiveness. We also show the value of integrating new QRadar features in our SOC roadmap, in order to constantly stay ahead in the cyber security game.
Exploring Blockchain Technology, Risks, and Emerging TrendsAmazon Web Services
Blockchain has become a hot topic for enterprises, start-ups, entrepreneurs, and regulatory bodies. Born from bitcoin in 2008, blockchain's promise of a distributed ledger has far greater implications than cryptocurrency. Companies are now beginning to understand its disruptive potential and are experimenting with its most promising applications. But, few companies have asked the more fundamental question: Are we ready to adopt a shared public database for financial transactions? In this session, we cover the concepts of blockchain and use cases in the enterprise. We also demonstrate blockchain in use and show how to implement it using AWS services.
Speaker: Anand Iyer, Principal Solutions Architect, AWS
Top 20 Security Controls for a More Secure InfrastructureInfosec
The CIS® (Center for Internet Security, Inc.®) Controls offer 20 proven, globally recognized best practices for securing your IT systems and data against the most pervasive attacks. Join Tony Sager, CIS Senior Vice President and Chief Evangelist, to learn:
- Origin and purpose of the CIS Controls
- How to prioritize implementation
- How to make the CIS Controls a foundational part of your security program, and improve your enterprise defenses, operations, compliance and security awareness
Watch the full webinar: https://www2.infosecinstitute.com/l/12882/2018-12-06/bcbc68
Blockchain use cases in 2022 real world industry applicationsArpitGautam20
These are interesting predictions and real-world industry applications of Blockchain Technology that will take the world by storm in 2022! https://arsr.tech/blockchain-use-cases-in-2022-real-world-industry-applications/
In the keynote 2022 Digital Asset Outlook report, we performed a deep dive into the 12 + 1 key themes, which will have the most significant disruptive effect and incremental delta in 2022. The report features exclusive insights from pioneers in digital assets, blockchain investing, NFT, metaverse and gaming, legal and cybersecurity.
As we get to know what life in the digital domain is like, one of the revelations we've had is that many large and plenty of smaller organisations are targets of espionage, of the nefarious APT.
During the last decade, it has become gospel to wait, watch, analyse and learn if you detect such an attacker in your infrastructure. Why? Because you get one chance to do the eviction of the attacker right. And if you fail, all your efforts will eventually have been for nothing.
But for how long should you wait and watch? When have you watched long enough? When have you learned enough? And how do you make that decision?
That is the challenge I hope the Cyber Threat Intelligence Matrix can help you face in a more structured manner.
Asset Tokenization - An Introduction and Overview, Guest Lecture at SMU Patrick Schueffel
This presentation provides an introduction and overview to the topic of Asset Tokenization. It explains why Asset Tokenization can help to unlock massive values on a global scale by democratizing investment processes in the capital markets. It highlights the significance of these concepts by drawing historical parallels.
This PPT covers the following concepts:
What is Block Chain?
Brief History of Block Chain
Bitcoins
Distributed Ledger
Describing a Block
Example of Block Chain
Proof-of-Work
Peer-to-Peer Network
Recent Developments of Block Chain
Cybersecurity: Cyber Risk Management for Banks & Financial InstitutionsShawn Tuma
Everyone should now understand that no bank or financial institution is immune from cyber risk. Many are now ready to move forward with improving their cyber risk posture but do not know what to do next or how to prioritize their resources. Recognizing that cybersecurity is an overall business risk issue that must be properly managed to comply with many laws and regulations governing banks and financial institutions, this presentation will provide a strategy for how to better understand and manage such risks by:
(1) Providing an overview of the legal and regulatory framework;
(2) Examining the most likely real-world risks; and
(3) Providing strategies for how to manage such risks, including cyber insurance and the development and implementation of an appropriate cyber risk management program (which is not as difficult as it sounds).
Shawn E. Tuma, cybersecurity and data privacy attorney at Spencer Fane, LLP, delivered the presentation titled Cybersecurity: Cyber Risk Management for Banks & Financial Institutions (and Attorneys Who Represent Them) at the Southwest Association of Bank Counsel 42nd Annual Convention on September 20, 2018 (formerly, Texas Association of Bank Counsel).
Nozomi Networks is the leader of industrial cybersecurity, delivering real-time visibility to manage cyber risk & improve resilience for industrial operations. With one solution, customers gain advanced cybersecurity, improved operational reliability & easy IT/OT integration. Innovating the use of artificial intelligence, the company helps the largest industrial sites around the world See and Secure™ their critical industrial control networks. Today Nozomi Networks supports over a quarter of a million devices in the critical infrastructure, energy, manufacturing, mining, transportation & utility sectors, making it possible to tackle the escalating cyber risks to operational networks (OT).
The Cybersecurity Risk Management Framework Strategy for Defense Platform Systems course prepares command leadership to implement the National Institute of Standards and Technology’s (NIST) cybersecurity Risk Management Framework (RMF) from a Platform Information Technology (PIT) perspective.
This one-day workshop reviews the five functions of cybersecurity that leadership must consider when making decisions about program resources and requirements.
This talk will introduce Zero-Knowledge Proofs (ZKPs) and explain why they are a key element in a growing number of privacy-preserving, digital-identity platforms. Clare will provide basic illustrations of ZKPs and leave the necessary mathematics foundations to the readers.
After this talk you will understand that there is a variety of ZKPs, it’s still early days, and why ZKP is such a perfect tool for digital identity platforms. This talk includes significant updates from the newly-organized ZKProof Standardization organization plus a signal of maturity: one of the first known ZKP vulnerabilities.
Clare will explain why ZKPs are so powerful, and why they are building blocks for a range of applications including privacy-preserving cryptocurrency such as Zcash, Ethereum, Artificial Intelligence, and older versions of Trusted Platform Modules (TPMs). The presentation includes many backup slides for future learning and researching, including four slides of references.
Sustainable Blockchain and Blockchain for Climate Action Soren Gigler
The presentation focused on the role blockchain can play in supporting the green transition. There is an urgent need to enhance the sustainability of blockchain. At the same time, blockchain offers important and unique opportunities as an enabler to enhance the sustainability across all sectors of the economy and contribute to climate action
Making the leap from "gatekeeper" to strategic business partner often requires the QA/test group to centralize and standardize the selection of test tools, the development of test processes and templates and the training of testing staff. Only then can it break the organizational silos which typically hobble testing efforts, present a consistent and credible face to their business customers and develop the specialized expertise needed to meet today's testing challenges.
John Fodeh - Adventures in Test Automation-Breaking the Boundaries of Regress...TEST Huddle
EuroSTAR Software Testing Conference 2012 presentation on Adventures in Test Automation-Breaking the Boundaries of Regression Testing by John Fodeh.
See more at: http://conference.eurostarsoftwaretesting.com/past-presentations/
How to take organizations to higher testing maturity suresh bose anagha mahaj...Anagha Mahajan
Description:
For the past many years, the focus of the industry was on improving quality by writing better code and using automation and engineering. These efforts did show results but we are still far from an illusive zero-defect state while fulfilling expected time to market.
In order to further boost software quality improvement efforts, the focus has now shifted to improving testing processes. Test Maturity Model integration (TMMi) is a detailed model for test process assessment and improvement. TMMi staged model contains stages or levels that determine the maturity of an organization and lays down roadmap for moving from one maturity level to next. As the processes evolve, an organization passes from adhoc (L1) to Optimized levels (L5). Application of TMMi will lead organizations to highly mature test process, reduced rework (about 10%), increase in defect removal efficiency (about 85%), higher productivity (about 10 test cases per day or 15% higher) and faster time to market.
Learning Objectives:
1. How can your organization improve the effectiveness of testing
2. How can you sustain testing maturity
3. What is the improvement roadmap for the implementation journey to improve testing processes
4. Why TMMI is preferred to CMMI for any testing organization
AppSphere 15 - Capgemini Autonomics: PaaS for Automating Business OutcomesAppDynamics
Fortune 1000 organizations have traditionally outsourced maintenance and management of their application ecosystem to service providers in offshore models. As the value of labor arbitrage decreases because of diminishing cost benefits, organizations are shifting their attention to digital labor. The new value drivers for service delivery are velocity, quality, predictability and intelligent automation. Autonomics has arrived as a vehicle to achieve these new value drivers and serves as a central nervous system for companies to transform into a digital enterprise. Capgemini has launched an Autonomic Platform-as-a-Service that leverages best of breed technology partners such as AppDynamics that integrates and extends APM with process automation to create a new digital service delivery model.
This deck was originally presented at AppSphere 2015.
Lean Innovation in Insurance with Cognizant Digital FoundryVMware Tanzu
SpringOne Platform 2016
Speakers: Rag Ramanathan; Senior Director, Cognizant & Satish Venkatesan; Senior Director, Cognizant
Insurers are increasingly leveraging digital technologies to bring in significant changes to their business and operating models. Many strategic programs are currently underway within life, P&C and retirement service providers to embrace customer centricity, API-based distribution channels, loss control through real-time digital data and a lean operating model.
Join Cognizant’s session to learn how we bring together our industry expertise in Insurance and our Lean/Agile techniques, powered by vast experience with Spring and PCF, to innovate with our clients and create business value.
The first part of the session will cover Cognizant cloud-native digital business solutions and platforms (drone, IoT, innovation prototyping platforms etc.) that supports the business and next-gen IT transformations within insurers. Spring Framework, Cloud Foundry and container based technologies serves as architectural building blocks and delivery platforms.
While developing new applications using modern frameworks like Spring and Spring Boot already reduce the time to value for businesses, additional software components and tools further accelerate the time. The second part of this session will cover such tools as developer Blueprints, Microservices, and a single Portal for enabling these on multiple PaaS environments. These additional tools and software help our development teams accelerate value creation for clients by focusing on the business application rather than infrastructure and frameworks setup.
ATAGTR2017 Artificial Intelligence in Software Testing – DemystifiedAgile Testing Alliance
The presentation on Artificial Intelligence in Software Testing – Demystified was done during #ATAGTR2017, one of the largest global testing conference. All copyright belongs to the author.
Author and presenter : Ramakrishnan Venkatasubramanian
Application Modernization With Cloud Native Approach_ An in-depth Guide.pdfbasilmph
Taking outdated applications and upgrading its platform infrastructure, internal
systems, and the way of using is known as application modernization. The
advantages of application modernization can be summarized as increasing the
speed with which new features are delivered, exposing the functionality of existing
applications to be consumed via API by other services, and re-platforming applications from on-premises to cloud-native application modernization.
NEC Backup as a Service reduces administrative tasks, helping it departments...InteractiveNEC
Cloud solutions continue to grow not only in adoption but also in importance in customer IT strategies. In typical risk-averse practices, cloud solutions were initially used near the fringes of IT environments, delivering test and development functions far outside most of the core mission-critical workloads sustaining internal and external business operations. Likewise, customers in regulated industries such as healthcare or government were initially wary of the security and performance of services delivered from third-party data centers. These dynamics are changing rapidly, however, as both the customer and vendor behavior around cloud have matured considerably. Cloud providers have expanded their data center locations, added almost every flavor of regulatory compliance, and enhanced security capabilities. These developments have dramatically lowered the traditional barriers to cloud adoption, allowing customers in almost any industry to have at least the possibility of deploying most of their workloads through cloud delivery methods.
In the digital-centric business environments of today, the integration of cloud computing with progressive software development stands as a key driver in reshaping IT infrastructures.
Read this Article here: https://ciente.io/blogs/cloud-computing-and-software-a-dynamic-duo-for-it-transformation/
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How to add security in dataops and devopsUlf Mattsson
The emerging DataOps is not Just DevOps for Data. According to Gartner, DataOps is a collaborative data management practice focused on improving the communication, integration and automation of data flows between data managers and consumers across an organization.
The goal of DataOps is to create predictable delivery and change management of data, data models and related artifacts. DataOps uses technology to automate data delivery with the appropriate levels of security, quality and metadata to improve the use and value of data in a dynamic environment.
This session will discuss how to add Security in DataOps and DevOps.
Migrating to Cloud: Inhouse Hadoop to Databricks (3)Knoldus Inc.
Modernize your Enterprise Data Lake to Serverless Data Lake, where data, workloads, and orchestrations can be automatically migrated to the cloud-native infrastructure.
Why Is Demand For Legacy App Modernization Increasing.docxansibytecodellp
This article discusses the main trends and advantages in this transformational journey as well as the reasons behind the growing need for legacy modernization services.
Maximizing ROI with Legacy Application MigrationMindfire LLC
A legacy application is a framework or system that is primarily old-fashioned or obsolete. These are frameworks, systems, or equipment that keeps being utilized regardless of their outmoded build. Usually, they’re on-premises applications or frameworks that organizations have been using and have used for a very long time. They usually include applications that run on old languages like COBOL or old operating systems. They can include anything from CRM tools to custom and industry-explicit applications.
Azure Migration
Azure migration is the process of moving your workloads to the Azure cloud. This can include migrating your infrastructure, databases, and applications. Azure migration can help you improve your scalability, reliability, and security, while also reducing your costs. Csharptek is a trusted microsoft solution partner in Digital and Innovation (Azure)for Azure migration. We have a team of experienced and certified Azure professionals who can help you with every aspect of your migration. We offer a variety of services to meet your needs, and we're committed to helping you achieve your business goals.
The Big Three tech trends—mobility, cloud computing and the
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1. • Cognizant Reports
Leveraging Cloud for Non-Production
Environments
Moving to the cloud not only enables application development and testing
organizations to reduce capital outlays; it can also reduce IT cycle times
while improving quality.
cognizant reports | January 2014
2. Executive Summary
Organizations are operating in a tough business
environment marked by stiff competition, increasing regulations and dynamic consumer behavior. Given the escalating dependence on IT for
competitive advantage, technology projects
are growing in number, scope and complexity,
even while cycle times are narrowing. This puts
pressure on development and testing teams,
many of which are struggling with insufficient
in-house infrastructures and budget constraints.
The cloud addresses the traditional limitations
of in-house IT environments, including the huge
costs associated with buying, building, running
and maintaining IT infrastructure, as well as the
time delays in provisioning IT services.
Cloud architectures also provide immediate
and cost-effective access to a vast pool of computing resources, resulting in reduced cycle times.
Cloud facilitates real-time collaboration among
developers, testing teams and other stakeholders,
who can more readily test and share feedback to
positively impact application behavior at the enduser level.
Additionally, the cloud’s pay-per-use model
provides financial flexibility by reducing Op-Ex
and eliminating the need for upfront Cap-Ex,
allowing teams to create sophisticated labs, which
are not always feasible in-house.
While there are many success stories of early
adopters, several factors have caused some
IT organizations to tread cautiously or avoid cloud
altogether. These issues include security, lack
of control over data and infrastructure, the
complexity of seamless integration of internal
legacy systems and cloud management. However,
most challenges can be overcome by:
• Basing your evaluation of moving to the cloud
on clearly identified business requirements.
the cultural and process
changes that must be overcome to effectively
embrace cloud computing.
• Utilizing IT and non-production teams to
ascertain the overall organization’s preparedness to move to the cloud, manage legacy systems, and ensure that development and test
environments match business requirements.
• Establishing processes and proper administration to manage cloud utilization and costs.
• Understanding
cognizant reports
• Carefully evaluating vendors and their terms
and conditions. Organizations would do
well to partner with providers capable of
assessing their cloud needs and delivering
managed services to leverage the true power
of the cloud.
Forces Driving Cloud Testing
Because of the growing reliance on software
to enhance productivity and gain competitive advantage, development and testing (or
“non-production”) teams are now required to
quickly and nimbly deliver a greater number of
core run-the-business applications. The truth is, IT
departments are challenged to keep up. Roughly
94% of IT executives surveyed by IDG Research
for Delphix, a provider of agile data management
services, said it is difficult to deliver projects on
time and budget, with 76% saying the level of
difficulty is either increasingly aggravated or
staying the same. The level of difficulty is greater
during development (48%), followed by testing
(38%), according to the 108 executives surveyed.1
We believe the time has come to think beyond the
manual creation of in-house testing environments
and utilize cloud computing for testing, especially
with the following pressures that IT organizations
face:
Time-to-Market Pressure
Due to stiff competition, businesses are increasingly releasing and updating customer-facing
and internal applications to retain existing
customers and attract new ones. This places
enormous pressure on non-production teams
to quickly turn around projects. However,
procuring computing and storage resources for
application development and testing is no easy
task. It involves seeking permission and budget
sanctions from IT teams, which typically takes
several weeks. Improper scheduling of projects
and sharing of resources among multiple teams
sometimes lead to non-availability of resources,
resulting in unwarranted delays. Further, this
approach is not suitable for handling sudden
spikes in demand for non-production activity.
Challenges with In-house Environments
Software applications are becoming large and
complex as IT touches more business functions
and grows in importance, particularly in the
consumer products and services industry. For
instance, a hundred million lines of software code
2
3. are built into today’s high-end cars; meanwhile,
the U.S. government’s healthcare Web site
(www.healthcare.gov) has 500 million lines of
code, and Facebook runs on more than 60 million
lines of code.2
Many times, the infrastructure provided
for non-production environments is obsolete and does not scale. Poorly built environments cannot support the rigorous
needs of application development and do not
facilitate full test coverage, resulting in defects
creeping into production. Unscheduled infrastructure maintenance that causes environment
unavailability and downtime at inopportune times
is not uncommon. With development projects
becoming increasingly distributed, traditional
approaches can no longer guarantee continuous communication and high-level collaboration
among geographically dispersed non-production teams. Moreover, in addition to their core
activities, non-production teams are sometimes
required to manage environments due to a lack
of resources.
Cost Pressure
Despite the economic rebound, IT budgets have
been flat to negative since the dot-com bust of
2002 and were projected to be slightly down
this year, with a weighted global average decline
of 0.5%, according to the Gartner Executive
Programs survey of 2,053 global CIOs in the
fourth quarter of 2012.3 Non-production projects require large Cap-Ex budgets to purchase
application development and testing tools, hardware, etc. and maintain them. Working with limited budgets may prohibit teams from fully and
reliably executing projects that meet business
objectives. This increases project risk and may
require organizations to incur additional expenditures to deploy resources in order to purge
software of defects, contend with application rollout delays and manage customer frustration.
Demand Variations
Demand for non-production activity is sporadic,
typically involving crests and prolonged troughs.
Hence, computing resources procured to meet
demand often remain underutilized when demand
recedes. Teams also tend to retain non-production
environments created for a particular assignment
in the event they are needed again due to setup
complexity, thus locking up computing resources.
It is, therefore, not surprising that 70% of the IT
budget is allocated to keeping idle servers turned
on, according to CloudTimes.org.4
Moving to the Cloud
Nearly half (47%) of 542 organizations in the
U.S. and Europe already use the cloud for
application development and testing, with another
43% planning to move (see Figure 1), according to
a survey by Luth Research and Vanson Bourne,
sponsored by CA Technologies.5
Existing IT environments in many organizations do not support the growing infrastructural needs and other business requirements
Applications Moving to Cloud
Back-office (HR/CRM)
5555
38
6
Consumer-facing
5757
37
6
Core LOB
51
51
48
10
Test/Development
47
47
43
10
51
51
Communication/VOIP
52
52
Workforce Productivity
0%
18
34
40%
20%
Are currently in cloud
12
37
4848
IT Security
7
39
52
IT Management
8
40
54
54
Web Infrastructure
9
40
60%
Are planning to move to cloud
80%
Will never move to cloud
Source: “TechInsights Report: Cloud Succeeds. Now What?” CA Technologies, May 2013.
Figure 1
cognizant reports
3
100%
4. of non-production teams, as well as quick turnaround objectives. Developers and testers require
more flexible and streamlined workflow processes
and on-demand access to computing resources
to accelerate delivery. Moving non-production
activities to the cloud delivers much-needed
operational agility, as well as cost advantages, in
addition to the following benefits
•
Streamlined application delivery: Cloudbased environments provide on-demand
access to a vast array of computing resources,
such as the browsers, servers, operating systems, application builds, etc. required to build
and operate sophisticated environments. The
self-service model allows teams to easily build,
change and scale up and down environments
almost instantly, without the involvement of
the core IT organization.
This reduces wait times
and tightens the overall development cycle.
As infrastructure is not
owned by the company,
teams can focus on coding and innovation without worrying about infrastructure maintenance
issues.
As infrastructure is
not owned by the
company, teams
can focus on coding
and innovation
without worrying
about infrastructure
maintenance.
• It is not always an option to reproduce and
resolve bugs with limited in-house resources,
and when it is, these tasks are often
time-consuming and challenging to complete. The cloud allows rapid reproduction of
bugs without worrying about scale. Moreover,
Quick Take
Panasonic’s Venture into the Cloud
With the amount of software embedded in automobiles growing rapidly and delivery cycles halved over
a three-year timeframe, Panasonic Automotive Systems Company of America (PASA) was hard-pressed
to deliver software systems quickly.
PASA, which manufactures in-vehicle infotainment (IVI) systems, employed distributed teams across
the globe and procured more bandwidth and other resources to meet the tight deadlines. But the
company was encountering long build times (running from 10 to 30 minutes and even 117 minutes for one
project, due to rapidly increasing source code) and unreliable builds, which slowed delivery and reduced
the time for testing. Collaboration was another issue, as development teams in Europe, India and Japan
were unable to use the same toolsets in the same ways and operate on the same processes as their
counterparts in the Atlanta-based data center even though they were linked.6
These integration and coordination issues prolonged the development lifecycle and boosted
expenditures on hardware and human resources, which increased project costs; meanwhile, existing IT
infrastructure was insufficient to meet demand peaks.7
These issues promoted PASA to move development to the cloud. The company used Electric
Cloud’s build acceleration and optimization software as a service (SaaS) and CloudOne PaaS. Moving to
the cloud helped PASA cut build time across many projects by about 400%, enhancing the overall
development velocity by 200%.8
The waiting period for developers submitting concurrent build requests was reduced from one hour
to 10 minutes. Reduced process cycle times provided more testing opportunities. With development
consolidated on the cloud, global teams could share and collaborate, as they had the same experience
for authentication, access to the same version and configuration of the development environment.9
The pay-per-use option, quick and easy access to tools and simpler resource consumption
tracking allowed PASA to handle growing IVI requirements without increasing its infrastructure spending
or development costs. Further, PASA was able to realize its ROI within two months of deploying the
solution.
cognizant reports
4
5. the cloud also facilitates secured real-time
collaboration among distributed teams
through shared access to virtual machines
that run test code. Developers and testers can
discuss and fix bugs iteratively in real-time,
allowing the dispersed team to deliver quality
output more quickly.
Cloud platforms reduce overall development
time by about 15%, on average, according
to a recent survey of more than 400 developers conducted in December 2012. (See sidebar,
previous page, for Panasonic’s venture into
the cloud).10
•
Financial flexibility: Pay-per-use is perhaps
the most attractive feature drawing more
companies toward the cloud. Using the cloud’s
platform-as-a-service (Paas) model, organizations can quickly spin up environments based
on requirements and scale down environments
when demand ebbs, paying only for what they
consume. With cloud computing, teams will
have access to the latest development and
testing tools, while organizations are liberated
from incurring Cap-Ex to buy infrastructure to
meet demand peaks and computing resources
that often remain idle during periods of low
demand.
Testing in the cloud can initially be more costly
than in-house testing, as organizations must
design their systems to work with the cloud’s
underlying architecture, which can consume
both time and money. However, over the
long term, this approach can save 30% to
40% of total expenditures, according to IDC.11
•
•
Quality: The cloud allows teams to create production-like environments that were
previously not feasible with in-house resources.
This allows extensive testing of applications
cognizant reports
Innovation: Moving to the cloud frees teams
from maintenance and troubleshooting
activities, enabling them to focus more on IT
strategies to drive business. Rapid prototyping allows organizations to quickly identify
whether a project is worth pursuing so that it
can decide early on whether to terminate it or
invest further, thus saving time and resources,
as well as increasing the pace of innovation.
Operational Challenges
As with any new technology, the cloud
presents new challenges, even while addressing
the limitations of a traditional non-production
development. Among these challenges are:
•
By not owning the IT infrastructure, organizations also cut infrastructure maintenance and
support costs, as well as the number of human
resources required to support non-production
teams, which reduces Op-Ex. Additional cost
benefits stem from factors such as optimal
compute, storage and software utilization
through virtualization; reduction in support
costs through standardization; and reduced
manual intervention through automation.
with different network configurations to
simulate how they will behave with real end
users so that there are no surprises once
the application is put into production. Teams
can develop prototypes faster, evaluate their
performance and gain feedback from users,
designers and other stakeholders iteratively.
This ensures that the application aligns
with user requirements, reduces the need
for changes in the development phase, and
improves the reliability of the applications.
Security and control: Safeguarding data
and the lack of control over infrastructure
are perhaps the biggest reasons many organizations move cautiously when it comes to
cloud adoption. Since all services are hosted
remotely, the organization often does not know
where the data is stored and the servers are
located. There is no clarity on what happens
to the data if a vendor suddenly exits from the
cloud business or the contract expires. Organizations must keep track of all the data stored
in the cloud; otherwise, sensitive business data
might be left in the public cloud forever.
Recent cloud outages12 at major cloud
vendors have fueled doubts about cloud’s
efficiency. However, over time, cloud vendors
have experienced fewer outages, and they
often provide better uptime and use the latest
security systems compared with in-house
data centers. Organizations must perform due
diligence to evaluate security and contingency
aspects while choosing a vendor (see sidebar,
next page).
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6. Quick Take
A Cloud Suitor Checklist
Attributes of an effective cloud partner include:
• Availability of a vast pool of computing resources with the latest skills.
• Ability to complement the non-production team’s skill set and support requirements.
• Demonstrated level of security and regulatory compliance.
• Documented cloud reliability and high service availability.
• Transparency in pricing and provision of cost calculators.
• Range of technical support provided.
•
Integrating legacy systems: Many organizations still depend on legacy applications and
platforms for critical business processes. The
complex interdependency of these systems
often does not allow for seamless integration
with the cloud and creates interoperability
issues. More than half (58%) of 300 European
IT leaders cited complexity of their IT environments as the biggest impediment to large-scale
adoption of the cloud, according to a recent
NTT Europe survey.13
•
Cloud management: The key to realizing cloud
computing’s true advantages is to manage
its usage through prudent capacity planning
and monitoring. Non-production teams must
carefully plan infrastructure requirements in
advance and turn off cloud resources as soon
as the job is complete; otherwise, costs will
escalate, making the cloud much more expensive than on-premises labs.
One way to overcome this is to employ
software tools such as Cloudyn, Cloudability
Significant Challenges by Cloud Maturity
% of Respondents
50%
25%
0%
Cloud Beginners
Security
Cloud Explorers
Governance/Control
Integration with private cloud
Compliance
Lack of expertise
Cloud-Focused
Integration with internal systems
Managing multiple clouds
Source: “RightScale State of the Cloud Report,” 2013
Note:
“Cloud Beginners” are new to cloud computing and seek experience to determine its use in future projects.
“Cloud Explorers” already have multiple projects and applications in the cloud and are focused on expanding their
cloud usage.
“Cloud-Focused” are heavy users of cloud infrastructure and are looking to optimize cloud operations and
cloud costs.
Response base: 625 business executives
Figure 2
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7. and Newvem to monitor and manage costs.
The tools provide usage and cost analytics and
allow custom report creation based on metrics
such as time, project, application, etc. They
provide daily updates and alerts on possible
budget overruns to reduce unwanted surprises
late in the process.
Fear of vendor lock-in is another worrisome
issue. Moving to a new cloud vendor is not
an easy process, as a lack of standardization
results in poor interoperability among cloud
vendors.14
Embracing Cloud
The aforementioned challenges, however,
should not deter organizations from exploring
cloud. That’s because in many cases, existing
IT environments have outlived their useful life.
As organizations spend more time using cloud
computing, they will better understand and
experience the benefits and report fewer
challenges, according to a recent RightScale
survey15 (see Figure 2, previous page).
Organizations can overcome all of these
challenges through proper capacity planning,
carefully choosing vendors and working closely
with them, while establishing processes and
controls to monitor and manage cloud usage.
Those fearing security and other risks associated
with the public cloud can build a private cloud and
gain more control, but that requires huge capital
expenditures and large-scale adoption to provide
a cost advantage.16
Many organizations have started their journey
by moving non-production projects to the cloud
to reap immediate benefits while giving themselves time to explore other cloud capabilities.
Public cloud provides immediate benefits to organizations. Working with an experienced partner
that thoroughly understands the business and
technological challenges and has an established
industry track record offering managed services
can provide a smooth transition to the cloud.
As cloud computing matures and standards are
established, more organizations will consider
using it for non-production activities. By then,
smart organizations will have progressed to
utilizing the cloud to enable more cost-effective
and innovative ways of working.
Footnotes
“Enterprise Application Development MarketPulse,” IDG for Delphix, October 2012,
http://www.delphix.com/2012/10/cio-survey-reveals-it-leaders-struggle-to-meet-big-demand-forenterprise-app-testing-development-and-rollouts-next-year/.
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2
“Codebases,” Information Is Beautiful, October 30, 2013,
http://www.informationisbeautiful.net/visualizations/million-lines-of-code/.
3
“Gartner Executive Program Survey of More Than 2,000 CIOs Shows Digital Technologies Are
Top Priorities in 2013,” Gartner, January 16, 2013,
http://www.gartner.com/newsroom/id/2304615.
4
“Getting Private Cloud? Better Change Your Funding Model,” By the Bell, September 25, 2012,
http://bythebell.com/2012/09/getting-private-cloud-better-change-your-funding-model.html.
5
“TechInsights Report: Cloud Succeeds. Now What?” CA Technologies, May 2013,
http://www.ca.com/us/~/media/Files/whitepapers/techinsights-report-cloud-succeeds.pdf.
6
“How Cloud Accelerates Development and Delivery of In-car Software,” ZDnet, Sept. 5, 2013,
http://www.electric-cloud.com/pdf/EC-CS_panasonic.pdf.
7
“The Cloud Behind the Connected Car: A Case Study on Cloud-Based Software Development,”
Electric Cloud, 2012,
http://www.zdnet.com/how-cloud-accelerates-development-and-delivery-of-in-car-software-7000020263/.
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Ibid.
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“How Cloud Accelerates Development and Delivery of In-car Software,” ZDnet, Sept. 5, 2013,
http://www.electric-cloud.com/pdf/EC-CS_panasonic.pdf.
10
“By Using Cloud Platforms, Developers Reduce Development Time by Nearly 15%,” Evans Data Corp.,
January 9, 2013,
http://www.evansdata.com/press/viewRelease.php?pressID=196.
11
“Testing in the Cloud,” Software Magazine, July 2013,
http://www.softwaremag.com/content/ContentCT.asp?P=3516.
12
“Downtime Report: Top Ten Outages in 2013,” Neverfail, Dec. 19, 2013,
http://www.neverfailgroup.com/blog/announcements/downtime-report-top-ten-outages-in-2013/.
13
“Growing Pains In The Cloud,” NTT Communications, 2013,
http://www.eu.ntt.com/fileadmin/NTT-Europe/media/PDF/Research_Reports/NTT_Research_Report_
Growing_Pains_In_The_Cloud_FINAL.pdf.
14
“The Big Lesson Cloud Computing Needs To Learn From The History Of The Web,” ZDNet.com,
June 27, 2013,
http://www.zdnet.com/the-big-lesson-cloud-computing-needs-to-learn-from-the-history-of-theweb-7000017343/.
15
“RightScale State Of The Cloud Report 2013,” RightScale, March 2013,
http://www.rightscale.com/pdf/rightscale-state-of-the-cloud-report-2013.pdf.
16
“Put Your Test Lab In Cloud,” InformationWeek, 2012,
http://www.informationweek.com/services/hosted-applications/put-your-test-lab-in-thecloud/232700441?ct=1022&pgno=1.
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“The Cloud Behind the Connected Car: Cloud-Based Software Development at Panasonic
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https://www.brighttalk.com/webcast/7695/83777.
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