Getting Serious About Mobile Security

Technologies like biometric authentication and DLP are making enterprise mobility more secure. Are mobile UC and mobile-first team collaboration apps keeping pace?

One of my longtime favorite observations about UC and mobility is that everyone in the UC space talks about mobility, but nobody in the mobile business talks about UC. The focus there instead is on security, which happens to be an area of ongoing concern among those of us watching activities around mobile UC and the rise of mobile-first team collaboration apps.

It might seem that the mobile security story broke onto the scene with the advent of BYOD and the trend of allowing personally owned devices to access corporate systems. This trend, however, only intensified what was already a serious information security concern. On top of traditional worries, an organization's attack surface increased exponentially as it rolled out BYOD and had corporate data residing on so many easy to lose or steal devices. Further, as BYOD took off, the only platform capable of delivering enterprise-grade security was BlackBerry, and no one was bringing his or her own BlackBerry.

Bringing better security to BYOD

For most of us, our mobile and personal devices have become extensions of our lives and even bodies. Most of us carry our smartphones with us all the time, and when we can’t find them, we feel lost.

We are essentially always on, always connected to the Internet. This notion of anytime, anywhere access has extended not only to our personal lives but also our professional.

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In the name of employee productivity, Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) policies have become widespread and blurred the lines between our personal and corporate lives. Employees bringing their personal devices into work-related activities and communications both inside and outside of regular working hours have become the norm practice.

How data analytics could reshape NSW

Establishing New South Wales’ Data Analytics Centre and creating a regime where government entities are compelled to hand over data to it could rank as Victor Dominello’s single biggest achievement in public life, the NSW minister for innovation and better regulation told a conference today.

Addressing the Gartner Business Intelligence, Analytics & Information Management Summit in Sydney, the minister said that the DAC, established last year, had the potential to deliver better outcomes for NSW communities in areas ranging from fighting childhood obesity to efficient use of public safety resources.

“Governments that don’t have data, governments that don’t have information, make decisions in the dark – and that’s not good for any of us,” Dominello said.

Intelligent Virtual Assistant Market to Reach $3.6 Billion by 2020

Allied Market Research forecasts the global intelligent virtual assistant (IVA) market to earn revenue of $3.6 billion by 2020, at a compounded annual growth rate of of 35.2 percent.

Among the technologies involved, speech recognition and text-to-speech are the most dominant, the firm stated in its "World Intelligent Virtual Assistant (IVA) - Market Opportunities and Forecasts, 2014-2020" report.

The financial services industry was the highest revenue-generating segment, accounting for 39.9 percent share in 2014. IVA solutions are widely used in the BFSI sector, owing to faster response time, improved customer handling, and high customer satisfaction. However, the automotive segment is expected to witness the fastest growth during the forecast period, driven by a huge surge in in-car infotainment systems that enable drivers and passengers to surf the Internet, navigate, and make calls through speech recognition technology.

Call to improve Internet security

SHANGHAI needs to improve information security in an increasingly digitized world by establishing a comprehensive online identification recognition and protection system, a lawmaker said yesterday during the annual session of the Shanghai People’s Congress.

“It will be much safer and convenient,” said Hu Chuanping, chief of the Third Research Institute of the Ministry of Public Security, which is responsible for online security.

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Data analytics is at the juncture of man and machine

The network, in my mind’s eye, feels like a complex labyrinth with winding passages leading to opened and closed ports and firewalls exploding. Interestingly, when I did a little Google search to make sure I had my Greek mythology correct, I stumbled across this nugget of wisdom.

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In reference to Ovid’s Metamorphoses, and the labyrinth built by Daedalus, Wikipedia warns, “This story thus encourages others to consider the long-term consequences of their own inventions with great care, lest those inventions do more harm than good.”

Happy Birthday, Hadoop: Celebrating 10 Years of Improbable Growth

It’s hard to believe, but the first Hadoop cluster went into production at Yahoo 10 years ago today. What began as an experiment in distributed computing for an Internet search engine has turned into a global phenomenon and a focal point for a big data ecosystem driving billions in spending. Here are some thoughts on the big yellow elephant’s milestone from the people involved in Hadoop’s early days.

Hadoop’s story started before January 2006, of course. In the early 2000s, Doug Cutting, who created the Apache Lucene search engine, was working with Mike Cafarella to build a more scalable search engine called Nutch. They found inspiration in the Google File System white paper, which Cutting and Cafarella used as a model. Cutting and Cafarella built the Nutch Distributed File System in 2004, and then built a MapReduce framework to sit atop it a year later.

The software was promising, says Cutting, who is now the chief architect at Cloudera, but they needed some outside support. “I was worried that, if the two of us working on it then, Mike Cafarella & I, didn’t get substantial help, then the entire effort might fizzle and be forgotten,” Cutting tells Datanami via email. “We found help in Yahoo, who I started working for in early 2006. Yahoo dedicated a large team to Hadoop and, after a year or so of investment, we at last had a system that was broadly usable.”

On January 28, 2006, the first Nutch (as it was then known) cluster went live at Yahoo. Sean Suchter ran the Web search engineering team at Yahoo and was the first alpha user for the technology that would become Hadoop. Suchter, who is the founder and CEO of Hadoop performance management tool provider Pepperdata, remembers those early days.

Read More: http://www.datanami.com/2016/01/28/happy-birthday-hadoop-celebrating-10-years-of-improbable-growth/

Hadoop turns 10, Big Data industry rolls along

It's hard to believe, but it's true. The Apache Hadoop project, the open source implementation of Google's File System (GFS) and MapReduce execution engine, turned 10 this week.

The technology, originally part of Apache Nutch, an even older open source project for Web crawling, was separated out into its own project in 2006, when a team at Yahoo was dispatched to accelerate its development.

Proud dad weighs in

Doug Cutting, founder of both projects (as well as Apache Lucene), formerly of Yahoo, and presently Chief Architect at Cloudera, wrote a blog post commemorating the birthday of the project, named after his son's stuffed elephant toy.

In his post, Cutting correctly points out that "Traditional enterprise RDBMS software now has competition: open source, big data software." The database industry had been in real stasis for well over a decade. Hadoop and NoSQL changed that, and got the incumbent vendors off their duffs and back in the business of refreshing their products with major new features.

Read More: http://www.zdnet.com/article/hadoop-turns-10-big-data-industry-rolls-along/