Why most Managed Service IT Companies, Cloud Resellers
and their clients are looking at outsourcing options for their
critical IT Services.
http://kryptostech.com/the-outsourcing-it-decision/
Learn How to Maximize Your ServiceNow InvestmentStave
Understand how leading companies are adopting an aPaaS strategy
Learn the evolution of ServiceNow's platform capabilities
Assert IT's influence over shadow IT practices
How the WAN is driving digital transformationMonkeyscratcher
This IDC Info Brief presents the findings of the survey responses from 300 network experts and decision makers (across Europe). The survey responses have been scored to group organizations into 3 levels of WAN maturity, based on their approach to infrastructure, intelligence and operations.
Profitability in the Direct-to-Consumer Marketplace: A Playbook for Media and...Cognizant
Amid constant change, industry leaders need an upgraded IT infrastructure capable of adapting to audience expectations while proactively anticipating ever-evolving business requirements.
Policy Administration Modernization: Four Paths for InsurersCognizant
The pivot to digital is fraught with numerous obstacles but with proper planning and execution, legacy carriers can update their core systems and keep pace with the competition, while proactively addressing customer needs.
The Work Ahead in Utilities: Powering a Sustainable Future with DigitalCognizant
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Forrester Report: Master DevOps For Faster Delivery Of Software InnovationSEBASTIEN DENES
Organizations of all sizes and in every industry face opportunities and threats caused by digitally empowered customers. Acquiring new customers — or losing existing ones — has never been easier. Companies can't afford to move fast only in some areas; the whole organization must race together toward customer obsession. This report argues that application development and delivery (AD&D) professionals must master modern application delivery practices within their organizations and apply them across their entire software portfolio to improve their odds of winning in the modern digital marketplace. This is an update of a previously published report; Forrester reviews and updates it periodically for continued relevance and accuracy.
The Work Ahead: Transportation and Logistics Delivering on the Digital-Physic...Cognizant
The T&L industry appears poised to accelerate its long-overdue modernization drive, as the pandemic spurs an increased need for agility and resilience, according to our study.
Learn How to Maximize Your ServiceNow InvestmentStave
Understand how leading companies are adopting an aPaaS strategy
Learn the evolution of ServiceNow's platform capabilities
Assert IT's influence over shadow IT practices
How the WAN is driving digital transformationMonkeyscratcher
This IDC Info Brief presents the findings of the survey responses from 300 network experts and decision makers (across Europe). The survey responses have been scored to group organizations into 3 levels of WAN maturity, based on their approach to infrastructure, intelligence and operations.
Profitability in the Direct-to-Consumer Marketplace: A Playbook for Media and...Cognizant
Amid constant change, industry leaders need an upgraded IT infrastructure capable of adapting to audience expectations while proactively anticipating ever-evolving business requirements.
Policy Administration Modernization: Four Paths for InsurersCognizant
The pivot to digital is fraught with numerous obstacles but with proper planning and execution, legacy carriers can update their core systems and keep pace with the competition, while proactively addressing customer needs.
The Work Ahead in Utilities: Powering a Sustainable Future with DigitalCognizant
Utilities are starting to adopt digital technologies to eliminate slow processes, elevate customer experience and boost sustainability, according to our recent study.
Forrester Report: Master DevOps For Faster Delivery Of Software InnovationSEBASTIEN DENES
Organizations of all sizes and in every industry face opportunities and threats caused by digitally empowered customers. Acquiring new customers — or losing existing ones — has never been easier. Companies can't afford to move fast only in some areas; the whole organization must race together toward customer obsession. This report argues that application development and delivery (AD&D) professionals must master modern application delivery practices within their organizations and apply them across their entire software portfolio to improve their odds of winning in the modern digital marketplace. This is an update of a previously published report; Forrester reviews and updates it periodically for continued relevance and accuracy.
The Work Ahead: Transportation and Logistics Delivering on the Digital-Physic...Cognizant
The T&L industry appears poised to accelerate its long-overdue modernization drive, as the pandemic spurs an increased need for agility and resilience, according to our study.
The Work Ahead in Manufacturing: Fulfilling the Agility MandateCognizant
According to our research, manufacturers are well ahead of other industries in their IoT deployments but need to marshal the investment required to meet today’s intensified demands for business resilience.
Cognitive Integration: How Canonical Models and Controlled Vocabulary Enable ...Cognizant
For pharmaceuticals companies dealing with multiple partners' systems, employing a canonical model for data communications facilitates point-to-point integration, and applying a controlled vocabulary (CV) in such models alleviates semantical ambiguity and facilitates cognitive and systems integration. We demonstrate how this works with a pharma business scenario involving Contract Research Organizations (CROs).
Operations Workforce Management: A Data-Informed, Digital-First ApproachCognizant
As #WorkFromAnywhere becomes the rule rather than the exception, organizations face an important question: How can they increase their digital quotient to engage and enable a remote operations workforce to work collaboratively to deliver onclient requirements and contractual commitments?
How are technology leaders helping their organizations adapt to the
accelerating change and complexity that mark today’s competitive
and economic landscape? To find out, we spoke in person with 622
Midmarket CIOs, spanning growth and mature markets. These in-person
conversations, along with our statistical analyses of responses, underscore
the evermore vital role of the CIO.
Pandemic has taken a fair share of the toll on every economy, affecting millions of businesses across the globe. As organizations are adopting technology and innovation to fulfil their quest for growth, they must comprehend, the ghost of cyberattack will come to haunt them sooner or later. Cyber breaches will not only cause brand degradation, but also lead to loss of digital assets, and change in consumer behaviour. As a result, companies are considering corporate cyber insurance as a part of their cybersecurity strategies. Click on the link to read what cyber insurance is and why companies direly need it.
The Work Ahead in Intelligent Automation: Coping with Complexity in a Post-Pa...Cognizant
Intelligent automation continues to be a top driver of the future of work, according to our recent study. To reap the full advantages, businesses need to move from isolated to widespread deployment.
The Currency of Trust: Why Banks and Insurers Must Make Customer Data Safer a...Capgemini
Are banks and insurers a safe pair of hands when it comes to customer data? Our global survey of more than 180 senior data privacy and security professionals – as well as 7,600 consumers – found that less than a third (29%) of these organizations offer both strong data privacy practices and a sound security strategy. Just one in five (21%) are highly confident that they can detect a cybersecurity breach.
This picture has so far not unduly affected consumers’ perceptions of the industry. We found that 83% of consumers trust banks and insurers when it comes to data. And while one in four institutions have reported being victim of a hack, just 3% of consumers believe their own bank or insurer has ever been breached. However, with the pending General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) regulations, this trust factor is likely to change as transparency increases. Financial organizations have to reveal a data breach 72 hours after the incident.
Banks and insurance firms have a clear incentive therefore to fortify their defences. As well as avoiding the prohibitive fines and penalties that will result from compromised data, protecting privacy offers a strategic business advantage. Addressing security concerns will drive greater adoption of low-cost digital channels. We found that security concerns deter nearly half of consumers (47%) from using digital channels. It will also reduce churn and attract competitors’ customers – 74% of consumers would switch their bank or insurer in the event of a data breach.
Preparing to be a trusted data steward is no easy task, however. It means raising the bar on multiple dimensions:
• Aligning data practices with consumers’ expectations
• Finding innovative ways of providing non-intrusive security to consumers
• Building the capabilities required to monitor cyber risks on a real-time basis
• Revisiting the data governance model.
Building your reputation for data privacy and robust security is definitely challenging. But, those who strike the right chord with consumers will enjoy a competitive advantage over their peers. The winners will be those who triumph in the trust game.
AI in Media & Entertainment: Starting the Journey to ValueCognizant
Up to now, the global media & entertainment industry (M&E) has been lagging most other sectors in its adoption of artificial intelligence (AI). But our research shows that M&E companies are set to close the gap over the coming three years, as they ramp up their investments in AI and reap rising returns. The first steps? Getting a firm grip on data – the foundation of any successful AI strategy – and balancing technology spend with investments in AI skills.
As technology demands on logistics services providers (LSPs) become more intense, organizations are seeking to integrate or consolidate their third-part logistics (3PL) providers' solutions for tasks such as warehousing, inventory management, shipment management, cross-docking, order management, bar coding, analytics and far more. We offer a roadmap for selecting whether to make such a transition in logistics systems via a big bang or phased/pilot approach.
The Work Ahead: How Data and Digital Mastery Will Usher In an Era of Innovati...Cognizant
In this installment of our Work Ahead series, we focus on the impact of digital transformation on the life sciences industry and what it will take to transform an industry value chain in need of drastic modernization.
Accelerate Business Growth and Outcomes with AICognizant
Here’s how 10 organizations are using AI to accelerate decision making, improve processes, enhance user engagement, reduce costs and drive business performance.
Trends such as Big Data and BYOD have made the network more critical than ever. Research shows the pain points IT departments are experiencing with network infrastructure—and the investments they’re making to improve capacity , scalability and flexibility.
Based on a review of technology vendors at Contact Center Week, Contact Center Technology Trends: Part 1 focuses on five tech fields making waves in the industry: cloud computing, security, social media, gamification and artificial intelligence.
The Work Ahead in Manufacturing: Fulfilling the Agility MandateCognizant
According to our research, manufacturers are well ahead of other industries in their IoT deployments but need to marshal the investment required to meet today’s intensified demands for business resilience.
Cognitive Integration: How Canonical Models and Controlled Vocabulary Enable ...Cognizant
For pharmaceuticals companies dealing with multiple partners' systems, employing a canonical model for data communications facilitates point-to-point integration, and applying a controlled vocabulary (CV) in such models alleviates semantical ambiguity and facilitates cognitive and systems integration. We demonstrate how this works with a pharma business scenario involving Contract Research Organizations (CROs).
Operations Workforce Management: A Data-Informed, Digital-First ApproachCognizant
As #WorkFromAnywhere becomes the rule rather than the exception, organizations face an important question: How can they increase their digital quotient to engage and enable a remote operations workforce to work collaboratively to deliver onclient requirements and contractual commitments?
How are technology leaders helping their organizations adapt to the
accelerating change and complexity that mark today’s competitive
and economic landscape? To find out, we spoke in person with 622
Midmarket CIOs, spanning growth and mature markets. These in-person
conversations, along with our statistical analyses of responses, underscore
the evermore vital role of the CIO.
Pandemic has taken a fair share of the toll on every economy, affecting millions of businesses across the globe. As organizations are adopting technology and innovation to fulfil their quest for growth, they must comprehend, the ghost of cyberattack will come to haunt them sooner or later. Cyber breaches will not only cause brand degradation, but also lead to loss of digital assets, and change in consumer behaviour. As a result, companies are considering corporate cyber insurance as a part of their cybersecurity strategies. Click on the link to read what cyber insurance is and why companies direly need it.
The Work Ahead in Intelligent Automation: Coping with Complexity in a Post-Pa...Cognizant
Intelligent automation continues to be a top driver of the future of work, according to our recent study. To reap the full advantages, businesses need to move from isolated to widespread deployment.
The Currency of Trust: Why Banks and Insurers Must Make Customer Data Safer a...Capgemini
Are banks and insurers a safe pair of hands when it comes to customer data? Our global survey of more than 180 senior data privacy and security professionals – as well as 7,600 consumers – found that less than a third (29%) of these organizations offer both strong data privacy practices and a sound security strategy. Just one in five (21%) are highly confident that they can detect a cybersecurity breach.
This picture has so far not unduly affected consumers’ perceptions of the industry. We found that 83% of consumers trust banks and insurers when it comes to data. And while one in four institutions have reported being victim of a hack, just 3% of consumers believe their own bank or insurer has ever been breached. However, with the pending General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) regulations, this trust factor is likely to change as transparency increases. Financial organizations have to reveal a data breach 72 hours after the incident.
Banks and insurance firms have a clear incentive therefore to fortify their defences. As well as avoiding the prohibitive fines and penalties that will result from compromised data, protecting privacy offers a strategic business advantage. Addressing security concerns will drive greater adoption of low-cost digital channels. We found that security concerns deter nearly half of consumers (47%) from using digital channels. It will also reduce churn and attract competitors’ customers – 74% of consumers would switch their bank or insurer in the event of a data breach.
Preparing to be a trusted data steward is no easy task, however. It means raising the bar on multiple dimensions:
• Aligning data practices with consumers’ expectations
• Finding innovative ways of providing non-intrusive security to consumers
• Building the capabilities required to monitor cyber risks on a real-time basis
• Revisiting the data governance model.
Building your reputation for data privacy and robust security is definitely challenging. But, those who strike the right chord with consumers will enjoy a competitive advantage over their peers. The winners will be those who triumph in the trust game.
AI in Media & Entertainment: Starting the Journey to ValueCognizant
Up to now, the global media & entertainment industry (M&E) has been lagging most other sectors in its adoption of artificial intelligence (AI). But our research shows that M&E companies are set to close the gap over the coming three years, as they ramp up their investments in AI and reap rising returns. The first steps? Getting a firm grip on data – the foundation of any successful AI strategy – and balancing technology spend with investments in AI skills.
As technology demands on logistics services providers (LSPs) become more intense, organizations are seeking to integrate or consolidate their third-part logistics (3PL) providers' solutions for tasks such as warehousing, inventory management, shipment management, cross-docking, order management, bar coding, analytics and far more. We offer a roadmap for selecting whether to make such a transition in logistics systems via a big bang or phased/pilot approach.
The Work Ahead: How Data and Digital Mastery Will Usher In an Era of Innovati...Cognizant
In this installment of our Work Ahead series, we focus on the impact of digital transformation on the life sciences industry and what it will take to transform an industry value chain in need of drastic modernization.
Accelerate Business Growth and Outcomes with AICognizant
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Trends such as Big Data and BYOD have made the network more critical than ever. Research shows the pain points IT departments are experiencing with network infrastructure—and the investments they’re making to improve capacity , scalability and flexibility.
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The invention of wireless technology is rapidly increasing and forces telecom professionals to learn about such technology, if they want to create a bright future in this field. Our 4G Training program comes to teach you how the technology works. We have a team of highly skilled and most talented experts who has gained tremendous knowledge on various technologies and try to deliver best training solutions within high success rate.
6 rules of pain and pleasure the science behind all human actionArman Sadeghi
"Everyone has specific formulas for what works for them. How can you use these rules to influence and motivate yourself to do the things that you want and need to do? For one, knowledge is power. Use the rules of the pain and pleasure principle to your advantage. In addition, think about what works for you. Knowing that your brain is focused on this moment, come up with ways of making future pain seem more real now.
This is from an article that appeared on the Titanium Success website:https://titaniumsuccess.com/6-rules-of-pain-and-pleasure-the-science-behind-all-human-action/
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Stilt - Giving Purchasing Power Back to SMB's. This is an overview of our demand aggregation platform that help small businesses executives and procurement and purchasing professionals get immediate savings of 20% or more.
EMC Perspective: What Customers Seek from Cloud Services ProvidersEMC
This EMC Perspective elaborates on how service providers can capitalize on the fast-growing cloud services market by being responsive to customers' goals, concerns, and performance and support requirements.
Cloud technology is no longer a new player in the market,
but it’s a mature and integral part of the IT landscape and a
key parameter in driving business growth. It is an
indispensable topic among CXOs. A research by Fraedon has
found that almost half of the banks find their legacy
systems to be the biggest hindrance in their growth.
BroadSoft UC-One: Communications transformation - key to competitive advantageBroadSoft
Are you ready to transform your communications into a strategic competitive advantage? This e-book outlines the significant role communications plays in competing in today's global economy, and the benefits of leveraging the cloud and other innovative technologies to improve workplace communications.
Find out how cloud unified communications leads to higher productivity, faster decision making, and more streamlined processes to help you grow your business and deliver better customer value.
Becoming a Software-Centric Business - Best Path Forward in an Uncertain Post...Cognizant
Innovating in a post-pandemic world will pose new challenges — from unpredictable shifts in customer behavior to development teams that work from home by necessity or choice. Adapting quickly to new risks and opportunities requires a modern infrastructure and application architecture, new processes and a culture that rewards experimentation.
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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SaaS, or Software as a Service, is radically transforming conventional software tools for micro/SMEs by diminishing transaction costs, increasing market flexibility and providing
cost effective outsourcing solutions to IT. Unlike any other time in history, micro/SMEs have a level playing field with large enterprise and Fortune 500 companies through early adoption of a myriad of SaaS solutions, which are enabling massive efficiency gains in areas such as: ERP, CRM, BI & HR solutions to name a few.
DRIVERS AND IMPEDIMENTS TO DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION - THE RESEARCHTom Rieger
In August 2020 EnterpriseDB and Platform 3 jointly asked 1000s of IT professionals their perspectives and priorities. This paper is a detailed view of those results.
Digital Transformation and Application Decommissioning - THE RESEARCHTom Rieger
The resulting research paper from the August 2020 market surveying of 1000s of IT professionals around the current state of affairs and what is happening over the next 18-14 months.
Personal 2014-white paper-business intelligence analytics trendsSoorjaneel Chaterjie
Considering the information highway is pouring in big data into businesses, I feel that in next five years, business analytics will change radically. This whitepaper discusses some of the radical changes that I feel will happen in this area.
Cloud computing is now a viable option for businesses seeking to outsource part or all of their IT operations. But in this new era — where the power of the Internet is harnessed for IT tasks — outsourcing to the cloud can be a strategic maneuver, not just a cost-cutting measure.
The decision to co-locate all or part of the data center facility can be a risky one. Because the decision to build vs. buy is essentially one of cost, IT decision makers must put in the time and effort in requirements gathering, determining the needs of the business, and selecting a co-location vendor to ensure the engagement is successful.
This solution set will take IT decision makers through the following process to select a co-location vendor that fits the organization’s needs:
* Determine if a co-location strategy is a fit with the business.
* Understand the market and vendor offerings.
* Evaluate vendor offerings and proposals.
* Manage the co-location relationship.
Use this solution set to ensure that the organization’s co-location strategy is a success.
Digitizing Insurance - Transforming Legacy Systems to Adopt Modern and Emergi...RapidValue
This paper explains how insurers can use the digitization (digitalization) opportunity to deliver greater value to their customers. It is also, revealed how the companies can gain competitive advantage. Insurers are able to engage more intensely with the existing customers and also, attract newer customers with the help of innovative products. Digitizing improves profitability and facilitates growth.
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Builder.ai Founder Sachin Dev Duggal's Strategic Approach to Create an Innova...Ramesh Iyer
In today's fast-changing business world, Companies that adapt and embrace new ideas often need help to keep up with the competition. However, fostering a culture of innovation takes much work. It takes vision, leadership and willingness to take risks in the right proportion. Sachin Dev Duggal, co-founder of Builder.ai, has perfected the art of this balance, creating a company culture where creativity and growth are nurtured at each stage.
Epistemic Interaction - tuning interfaces to provide information for AI supportAlan Dix
Paper presented at SYNERGY workshop at AVI 2024, Genoa, Italy. 3rd June 2024
https://alandix.com/academic/papers/synergy2024-epistemic/
As machine learning integrates deeper into human-computer interactions, the concept of epistemic interaction emerges, aiming to refine these interactions to enhance system adaptability. This approach encourages minor, intentional adjustments in user behaviour to enrich the data available for system learning. This paper introduces epistemic interaction within the context of human-system communication, illustrating how deliberate interaction design can improve system understanding and adaptation. Through concrete examples, we demonstrate the potential of epistemic interaction to significantly advance human-computer interaction by leveraging intuitive human communication strategies to inform system design and functionality, offering a novel pathway for enriching user-system engagements.
Let's dive deeper into the world of ODC! Ricardo Alves (OutSystems) will join us to tell all about the new Data Fabric. After that, Sezen de Bruijn (OutSystems) will get into the details on how to best design a sturdy architecture within ODC.
LF Energy Webinar: Electrical Grid Modelling and Simulation Through PowSyBl -...DanBrown980551
Do you want to learn how to model and simulate an electrical network from scratch in under an hour?
Then welcome to this PowSyBl workshop, hosted by Rte, the French Transmission System Operator (TSO)!
During the webinar, you will discover the PowSyBl ecosystem as well as handle and study an electrical network through an interactive Python notebook.
PowSyBl is an open source project hosted by LF Energy, which offers a comprehensive set of features for electrical grid modelling and simulation. Among other advanced features, PowSyBl provides:
- A fully editable and extendable library for grid component modelling;
- Visualization tools to display your network;
- Grid simulation tools, such as power flows, security analyses (with or without remedial actions) and sensitivity analyses;
The framework is mostly written in Java, with a Python binding so that Python developers can access PowSyBl functionalities as well.
What you will learn during the webinar:
- For beginners: discover PowSyBl's functionalities through a quick general presentation and the notebook, without needing any expert coding skills;
- For advanced developers: master the skills to efficiently apply PowSyBl functionalities to your real-world scenarios.
PHP Frameworks: I want to break free (IPC Berlin 2024)Ralf Eggert
In this presentation, we examine the challenges and limitations of relying too heavily on PHP frameworks in web development. We discuss the history of PHP and its frameworks to understand how this dependence has evolved. The focus will be on providing concrete tips and strategies to reduce reliance on these frameworks, based on real-world examples and practical considerations. The goal is to equip developers with the skills and knowledge to create more flexible and future-proof web applications. We'll explore the importance of maintaining autonomy in a rapidly changing tech landscape and how to make informed decisions in PHP development.
This talk is aimed at encouraging a more independent approach to using PHP frameworks, moving towards a more flexible and future-proof approach to PHP development.
Connector Corner: Automate dynamic content and events by pushing a buttonDianaGray10
Here is something new! In our next Connector Corner webinar, we will demonstrate how you can use a single workflow to:
Create a campaign using Mailchimp with merge tags/fields
Send an interactive Slack channel message (using buttons)
Have the message received by managers and peers along with a test email for review
But there’s more:
In a second workflow supporting the same use case, you’ll see:
Your campaign sent to target colleagues for approval
If the “Approve” button is clicked, a Jira/Zendesk ticket is created for the marketing design team
But—if the “Reject” button is pushed, colleagues will be alerted via Slack message
Join us to learn more about this new, human-in-the-loop capability, brought to you by Integration Service connectors.
And...
Speakers:
Akshay Agnihotri, Product Manager
Charlie Greenberg, Host
Accelerate your Kubernetes clusters with Varnish CachingThijs Feryn
A presentation about the usage and availability of Varnish on Kubernetes. This talk explores the capabilities of Varnish caching and shows how to use the Varnish Helm chart to deploy it to Kubernetes.
This presentation was delivered at K8SUG Singapore. See https://feryn.eu/presentations/accelerate-your-kubernetes-clusters-with-varnish-caching-k8sug-singapore-28-2024 for more details.
UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series, part 3DianaGray10
Welcome to UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series part 3. In this session, we will cover desktop automation along with UI automation.
Topics covered:
UI automation Introduction,
UI automation Sample
Desktop automation flow
Pradeep Chinnala, Senior Consultant Automation Developer @WonderBotz and UiPath MVP
Deepak Rai, Automation Practice Lead, Boundaryless Group and UiPath MVP
Kubernetes & AI - Beauty and the Beast !?! @KCD Istanbul 2024Tobias Schneck
As AI technology is pushing into IT I was wondering myself, as an “infrastructure container kubernetes guy”, how get this fancy AI technology get managed from an infrastructure operational view? Is it possible to apply our lovely cloud native principals as well? What benefit’s both technologies could bring to each other?
Let me take this questions and provide you a short journey through existing deployment models and use cases for AI software. On practical examples, we discuss what cloud/on-premise strategy we may need for applying it to our own infrastructure to get it to work from an enterprise perspective. I want to give an overview about infrastructure requirements and technologies, what could be beneficial or limiting your AI use cases in an enterprise environment. An interactive Demo will give you some insides, what approaches I got already working for real.
Key Trends Shaping the Future of Infrastructure.pdfCheryl Hung
Keynote at DIGIT West Expo, Glasgow on 29 May 2024.
Cheryl Hung, ochery.com
Sr Director, Infrastructure Ecosystem, Arm.
The key trends across hardware, cloud and open-source; exploring how these areas are likely to mature and develop over the short and long-term, and then considering how organisations can position themselves to adapt and thrive.
GDG Cloud Southlake #33: Boule & Rebala: Effective AppSec in SDLC using Deplo...James Anderson
Effective Application Security in Software Delivery lifecycle using Deployment Firewall and DBOM
The modern software delivery process (or the CI/CD process) includes many tools, distributed teams, open-source code, and cloud platforms. Constant focus on speed to release software to market, along with the traditional slow and manual security checks has caused gaps in continuous security as an important piece in the software supply chain. Today organizations feel more susceptible to external and internal cyber threats due to the vast attack surface in their applications supply chain and the lack of end-to-end governance and risk management.
The software team must secure its software delivery process to avoid vulnerability and security breaches. This needs to be achieved with existing tool chains and without extensive rework of the delivery processes. This talk will present strategies and techniques for providing visibility into the true risk of the existing vulnerabilities, preventing the introduction of security issues in the software, resolving vulnerabilities in production environments quickly, and capturing the deployment bill of materials (DBOM).
Speakers:
Bob Boule
Robert Boule is a technology enthusiast with PASSION for technology and making things work along with a knack for helping others understand how things work. He comes with around 20 years of solution engineering experience in application security, software continuous delivery, and SaaS platforms. He is known for his dynamic presentations in CI/CD and application security integrated in software delivery lifecycle.
Gopinath Rebala
Gopinath Rebala is the CTO of OpsMx, where he has overall responsibility for the machine learning and data processing architectures for Secure Software Delivery. Gopi also has a strong connection with our customers, leading design and architecture for strategic implementations. Gopi is a frequent speaker and well-known leader in continuous delivery and integrating security into software delivery.
2. Why most Managed Service IT Companies, Cloud Resellers
and their clients are looking at outsourcing options for their
critical IT Services
At the beginning, quality assurance offshore outsourcing started as more of a cost saving initiative, with the
customers outsourcing a few simple applications to one or more vendors. As the customers began to see success
with this model, they started outsourcing more complex applications and very quickly the process evolved in the late
90s to customers outsourcing business critical applications and business processes. When we analyse this evolution
in a little more detail, in the initial stages of outsourcing, the customer employees who were involved with the
applications being outsourced, generally moved up the ladder to shoulder bigger responsibilities within the
customer’ organization, typically in business critical areas and also spend some time in supervising the vendor
personnel deployed in the outsourced engagements. Because of the close relationship between the employees of
the customer’ organization and the employees of the vendor organization who started in the offshore engagements,
no ethical issues were observed either at the client end or at the vendor end.
After various survey suggestion the biggest challenge IT executive face is maintaining infrastructure, lack of staffs,
find the right specialised staff with right skills to cloud computing, information security, data analytics, data centre
etc.
Skill Crunch:
According to Deloitte Access Economics, Australian Computer Society and Cisco Global Cloud found that the IT and
data centre will grow from 259 in number at the end of 2015 to 485 by 2020. By 2020, 92 percent of workloads will
be processed by cloud data centre; 8 percent will be processed by traditional data centre. Overall data centre
workloads will be more than double from 2015 to 2020; however, cloud workloads will be more than triple over the
same period. The workload density (that is, workloads per physical server) for cloud data centres was 7.3 in 2015 and
will grow to 11.9 by 2020. Comparatively, for traditional data centres, workload density was 2.2 in 2015 and will grow
to 3.5 by 2020.
By 2020, 68 percent of the cloud workloads will be in public cloud data centres, up from 49 percent in 2015 and 32
percent of the cloud workloads will be in private cloud data centres, down from 51 percent in 2015 (CAGR of 15
percent from 2015 to 2020).
By 2020, 74 percent of the total cloud workloads will be software-as-a-service (SaaS) workloads, up from 65 percent
in 2015. 17 percent of the total cloud workloads will be infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) workloads, down from 26
percent in 2015. 8 percent of the total cloud workloads will be platform-as-a-service (PaaS) workloads, down from 9
percent in 2015.
3. Outsourcers as Trusted Partners:
However, as rivalry increments, many organizations can't discover the aptitudes they require: specialist co-ops have
likewise been enlisting intensely, and many offer positions with higher pay rates, better package, more open doors
for difficulties and progression, and abroad open doors that individual buyers of IT just can't coordinate.
Outsources are building focuses of magnificence in the abilities that are identified with key change ranges. This
dynamic implies that, in acknowledgment of the focused and testing market for IT aptitudes, a developing number
of organizations are swinging to outsourcing – both for its innovative advantages and as a method for guaranteeing
that they will dependably have entry to a pool of gifted authorities with the capacity to guide that advanced change
after some time.
Besides, on account of the adaptability of cloud conveyance models, those outsources may simply be overseeing
access to outsider cloud applications, or running them in the interest of the end-client association.
Such environments are managed to the customer’s business objectives, and are often designed with built-in
integration, reporting and monitoring capabilities that ensure they operate in support of business governance
objectives. Thanks to continuous improvement programs in place at most cloud providers, many cloud systems
achieve a higher level of compliance with corporate controls and regulatory compliance than businesses would be
able to implement internally.
Those customers also benefit from the fact that they do not have to be burdened with the day-to-day administration
of those systems. And, since cloud applications are run on shared infrastructure that typically offer high levels of
scalability during times of surging demand, outsourcers can easily add capacity to deal with peaks in business traffic
– with no interruption to business processes.
The resurgence of outsourcing has been mainly clear within the mid-marketplace, wherein companies are less
confused by means of inflexible legacy systems and tactics than huge organizations. Such organizations are small
sufficient to trade their direction, but large sufficient to be able to participate in ongoing relationships with provider
carriers whose outsourced packages and enterprise methods becomes essential to the organisation’s survival.
As the ones outsourced offerings become more and more feature-wealthy, mid-market agencies will lean on them
an increasing number of as they are looking for to increase their enterprise into new markets, enhance collaboration
with deliver chain companions, and enhance customer support through leveraging new technology. Enterprise
surveys confirm the significance of those modifications to mid-market organizations. Exploring the motivations of
agencies in adopting cloud offerings, the solar winds IT developments document 2016 determined that 76 percent
of mid-market organizations rated cloud technologies as vital to their lengthy-time period commercial enterprise
success.
Midmarket organizations were quicker than little or substantial organizations to influence cloud service to relocate
applications and databases. They were the well on the way to influence cloud service for capacity (44 percent).
Somewhere in the range of 32 percent of respondents supported this with cases that they were especially pulled in
to cloud advancements' capacity to enhance application dependability.
4. Curiously, mid-market organizations were less worried than little or enormous organizations about conveyance
related concerns, for example, building versatile administration alternatives, lessening the cost of foundation, and
dispensing with obligation regarding basic framework. This proposes mid-market organizations see outsourcing
suppliers not similarly as product suppliers of advancements, but rather more significantly as vital accomplices for
long haul connections.
Selecting the Right Partners:
Selecting the right partners is critical for a business to ensure that their cloud transformation is both relevant to their
current needs, and executed in such a way as to support the growth of the business well into the future. The market
is awash with service providers all making claims about their capabilities, and businesses need to do extensive due
diligence with any potential provider to make sure they are both a good cultural and strategic fit.
This process includes addressing questions such as:
1) What technologies and services are critical to the company’s forward strategy, and how will the outsourcer
provider them?
2) Do they demonstrate successful similar deployment?
3) Do they have comprehensive disaster recovery plan?
4) Does the outsourcer have enough staff to both support your business on an ongoing basis, and to react to
emergencies as they come up? If not, do they have support networks to ramp up capabilities quickly if necessary?
5) Do they know the ins and outs of your industry vertical? Who else are they supporting in the industry, and
how?
6) What type of relationship do you want to have with your provider, and do they have a similar mindset
around issues such as staff secondment, 24x7 support, and so on?
7) What security, backup, data stewardship and other processes are in place to protect your confidential and
business-critical information?
8) Do they have service level agreement and strong history of service level performance?
9) Can they configure the solution to meet my needs?
10) What kind of ROI can you expect from the relationship, and how and at what point will you review the
relationship to measure progress against those goals?
Careful research will ease the process of narrowing down your list of potential providers – and summarising your
search in a series of clearly elucidated business benefits that you can take to the executive.
Indeed, executive support can be one of the hardest parts of the cloud transformation, with 59 percent of midmarket
respondents to the survey saying that convincing business decision-makers of the need for, and benefit of, cloud
5. services was among their biggest challenges. That compares to 41 percent and 40 percent of those from large and
small companies.
Mid-market companies were also more concerned than other-sized companies about security and compliance issues
(76 percent versus 69 percent of large and 64 percent of small businesses).
Conclusion:
Outsourcing has dependably had a scenario to tell – however with cloud-based services offering more adaptability
and power than any other time in recent activity, that story has turned out to be more fascinating than any time in
recent retention. By utilizing the force of key outsourcing, organizations of any size can both bypass the difficulties
of the market's incessant abilities deficiency and position themselves for another level of key development.
With support from officials and the quality of a nearby and viable outsource, today's offerings permit outsourcing
suppliers and their clients to invest less energy taking a shot at key strategic business capacities – and additional time
cooperating on the things that matter most to the business: productivity, gainfulness, development and – most
critical of all – consumer loyalty.