Our C2S Secure Cloud is a secure cloud implementation which features security measures such as integrated crypto and strong authentication. The cloud implementation is designed in such a way that the C2S administrators can in no way access your information, a key requirement for environments where information protection is a key requirement. Naturally, the C2S…
Social computing means a lot of things to people. Some think it means whatsapp, facebook, twitter. And it does, these are social media, or more specifically websites where virtually all content is user-generated. However, this is not truly what social computing is about. Social computing, or social networking, is a key enabler for analytics (big data).…
SMAC is an acronym for a set of recently emerged technologies which together make up the third platform. See here for more information on the third platform. SMAC stands for social, mobile, analytics, cloud. These are short for: Social technologies / social networks Mobile devices or mobile computing Data analytics, or big data Cloud computing or…
We are often asked what the third platform actually means or what it is. This post will attempt to answer this question. In essence the third platform is a combination of recently emerged or emerging technologies, mainly mobile computing/devices, social technologies (social media), cloud computing and big data or analytics. The Internet of Things (IoT)…
The third platform is changing everything. It is changing computing as we know it, it is changing the provisioning of IT services to internal or external customers as we know it, and thus it is changing the IT department as we know it. We have written about this before. In this article we would like…
First, we had Bring Your Own Bottle (BYOB) parties. Then, we got Bring Your Own Devices, as part of the new way of working (device independent and location independent, using web protocols and devices like smartphones and tablets. A sidestep, when it was found that BYOD led to an uncontrollable, unmanageable and (most importantly) unsupportable…
So hundreds of pictures of celebrities in the nude have been released on the internet, supposedly because the Apple iCloud has been hacked – or so the rumor goes. Let’s explore this news for a bit. Facts What do we know so far? Well, we know hundreds of pictures of celebrities in the nude have…
The integration of different cloud services can be a complex effort. We can borrow some concepts from a service oriented architecture (SOA) to ease the complications of such an integration. Just like in an SOA we have an Enterprise Service Bus (ESB), in the cloud service integration we would have a Cloud Service Bus (CSB) or Cloud…
Is it possible to run an enterprise in the cloud? Is it possible to have virtually nothing on-premise and everything serviced from the cloud? Here is a thought experiment for a traditional office, to see how far we can go in moving to cloud services. Assumptions are the following: Standard wintel office environment Users need…
Software defined networking (SDN). Software defined storage (SDS). Software defined datacenter (SDD)… What’s not software defined these days? And yes, there’s also software defined radio (SDR), and undoubtedly other software defined… things. In this article the focus will be on those elements that will make an infrastructure software defined, these will be datacenter, storage, network and…
Data is the commodity of the twenty-first century. Data can give you a competitive advantage, as knowledge is power and data is the basis for that knowledge. The management of data, the commercialization of data and the ability to ask smart, value adding questions to a dataset will be key differentiating factors in this data-driven…