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“Ultimately, we believe that advancement in cloud computing technology will be driven by open source initiatives where large communities of engineers can collaborate and develop new code for the new applications and demands posed by the cloud model,” says Shelton Shugar, SVP Cloud Computing at Yahoo! – and upcoming Keynote Speaker at SYS-CON’s 4th International Cloud Computing Expo, in this Exclusive Q&A with Cloud Computing Expo Conference Chair Jeremy Geelan.Jeremy Geelan: What are the chief advantages of Cloud Computing from the point of view of Yahoo!’s customers worldwide?
Shelton Shugar: Yahoo! has more than 500 million unique users per month across the world. Yahoo! Cloud services enable us to provide superior user experiences and deliver targeted content to our enormous audience. Examples include faster content access around the globe, real-time sports updates, a personalized homepage experience, targeted news feeds, geo-specific ads and many more. In addition, Yahoo! Cloud technologies enable us to innovate faster based on common, global and scalable platforms, thus enabling consumers to gain access to innovative features and products faster than ever before.
As one of the largest providers of consumer Internet services in the world, Yahoo’s cloud operates at virtually unprecedented scale, making it a unique environment and testing ground for cloud computing technologies.Geelan: You have been quoted as saying that “Cloud is pushing up the Operational Excellence curve” – what exactly do you mean by that?Shugar: Almost no other company can boast of having to tune its infrastructure to deal with the technical requirements and high standards of performance that are involved in serving more than 500 million unique users per month across the world. To meet this challenge, Yahoo!’s Cloud includes a collection of infrastructure and functional services targeted at dramatically improving the company’s efficiency throughout the entire product development cycle, from gathering user feedback and insight, to feature testing and iteration to ongoing product operations.Cloud technologies allow us to achieve higher agility and quality while maintaining scale to meet the needs of our users. When I say “Cloud is pushing up the Operational Excellence (OE) Curve,” I mean simply that cloud enable our developers to focus more on creating great products for our users and less on the “heavy-lifting” of building complex infrastructure.Geelan: As we approach the zettabyte (and perhaps even yottabyte) age, can value really be extracted from the voluminous data that is now in existence? How is that possible?Shugar: Yes, it’s possible using technologi such as Hadoop. Hadoop is an open source distributed file system and parallel execution environment. Yahoo! runs Hadoop on tens of thousands of servers, enabling us to process and extract value from massive amounts of data. Apache Hadoop is an open source project of the Apache Software Foundation. Yahoo! is the largest contributor to Hadoop technology as well as its largest user.
Yahoo! recognized that the next-generation Web-scale services demand large distributed systems, and a growing number of other companies and organizations are likely to need similar capabilities. In addition to contributing most of the Hadoop code base, Yahoo! provides open source resources to the academic research community enabling them to access Internet-scale supercomputers for conducting systems and applications research.
Geelan: So exploring data-intensive computing in industry is clearly gaining momentum; what specific initiatives has Yahoo! been taking to encourage expertise in Hadoop and progress toward faster supercomputers? (Just a few, maybe – I know there are many!!)
Shugar: Earlier this year, Yahoo! announced the Yahoo! Distribution of Hadoop, in response to frequent requests from the community. Yahoo! is opening up its investment in Hadoop quality engineering via the Yahoo! Distribution of Hadoop, which has been tested and deployed at Yahoo! on the largest Hadoop clusters in the world and is based entirely on code available from Apache Hadoop. By making the Yahoo! Distribution of Hadoop generally available, Yahoo! is contributing back to the Apache Hadoop community so that the ecosystem can benefit from Yahoo!’s quality and scale investments.
In addition to Hadoop, Yahoo! is heavily investing in other cloud-related technologies such as storage, distributed caching, and serving to solve massive data-intensive computing challenges with serving our consumers.Yahoo! also has very strong expertise in next generation cloud computing and data management technologies, and is leveraging its leadership in open source software, including Hadoop and Pig, to contribute to global, collaborative efforts around Internet-scale computing.Over the past few years, we have made significant partnerships and have contributed technology to some of the leading research and development entities worldwide:
Deployment of a supercomputing-class data center, called M45, for cloud computing research (first deployed at Carnegie Mellon University).July 2008: Open Cirrus™ testbed formed with Hewlett Packard, Intel, the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, the Infocomm Development Authority (IDA) in Singapore, and the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) in Germany
April 2009: University of California at Berkeley, Cornell University and the University of Massachusetts at Amherst join Carnegie Mellon University to take advantage of Yahoo!’s cloud computing resources
June 2009: Participation at Open Cirrus Summit, three new sites to join Open Cirrus: the Russian Academy of Sciences, Korean Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (ETRI), and Malaysian Institute of Microelectronic Systems (MIMOS).Geelan: When Yahoo! contributes to open source software such as Pig and Hadoop, what does the company get back?Shugar: Yahoo! is a long-time supporter and contributor to open source software. Yahoo! is a platinum sponsor of The Apache Software Foundation, and the leading contributor to Hadoop to date, for example. Several members of Yahoo!’s development teams are active, long-term code contributors to Apache Hadoop, and we are committed to advancing the state-of-the-art in distributed computing through the incubation of new Apache projects.
We currently, and will continue to, actively collaborate with the industry, academia and the open source community, including through our Open Cirrus consortium, involvement with Hadoop, Pig and gradually other cloud-related technologies, and support of Apache. We are contributing back to the community so that the ecosystem can benefit from Yahoo!’s quality and scale investments, renowned technologists and innovation in next-generation Web technologies.
Yahoo! benefits from the contributions of others to open source projects and is able to collaborate with and sometimes hire the most talented researchers and engineers in the world, based on their interest in large scale application of open source technologies.
Geelan: And how does helping developers help Yahoo! in bottom line terms?Shugar: We believe that the developer community is a key component in making Yahoo! a success. The challenges the industry is facing today in terms of large-scale, global cloud solutions are bigger than any one company (big or small) is able to solve on its own. As we contribute to the community, we also learn from the community, and third party developers are a valuable resource helping to speed innovation
a leading innovator and provider of virtual and cloud security will exhibit and present at SYS-CON’s 4th International Cloud Computing Conference & Expo, which will take place on Santa Clara Convention Center, in Santa Clara, California. The event is expected to attract over 1,500 developers, engineers, architects, IT managers, and hardware and software professionals.
Altor will deliver the session “Revolutionizing Security in Virtual Data Center” which will be held at 2:20 pm on Session attendees will learn how to achieve unprecedented levels of security and efficiency by implementing capabilities available in next generation security for virtualized environments. “Purpose-built security that addresses the unique demands of virtualization can actually help organizations realize most of the promised ROI from going virtual,” said Kevin Piper, Altor director of technical operations, who will be delivering the session. “Attendees will learn how to recognize virtualization security, what it adds to physical security measures and what is required to get started.”Altor Networks is a leading innovator and provider of virtual and cloud security. The company’s flagship product was the industry’s first purpose-built virtual firewall. Now in its third release, the Altor VF includes integrated intrusion detection, VMotion and VCEnter support as well as VMWare VMSafe API certification. Altor VF is in use worldwide at major firms spanning financial services, manufacturing, telecommunications, service providers as well as government and academic institutions. Altor helps data center administrators control and segment access to their virtual machines with the enforcement of customizable and centrally managed security policies.
4th International Cloud Computing Conference & ExpoAt the 4th International Cloud Computing Conference & Expo, being held in the Santa Clara Convention Center, Santa Clara, CA, more than 1,500 delegates will find out how cloud computing is transforming the way that enterprises everywhere build and deploy applications. Now held three times a year – in New York, Prague, and Santa Clara – the Cloud Computing Conference & Expo series is the fastest-growing Enterprise IT event, devoted to every aspect of delivering massively scalable enterprise IT as a service. The event is co-located with our 7th International Virtualization Conference & Expo.
More Than 100 Cloud Sessions by a Rock Star Faculty4th International Cloud Computing Conference & Expo in November will offer 100+ technical breakout sessions, 120 speakers from 80+ leading companies, three top major industry keynotes, two Power Panels, SYS-CON.TV interviews with industry luminaries, product launches and other special events plus a 2-Day Expo Floor – there’s no event with a technical program as wide and deep. If you’re already a Cloud player – or would like to be – this is the one event to attend this year.
“Bringing the Economics of the Web to Enterprise IT Through Cloud Computing” is the conference theme and our organizing principle is that through our intensive three-day schedule of keynotes, and general and breakout sessions, attending delegates will be assured of leaving the Conference with abundant resources, ideas and examples they can apply immediately to leveraging the Cloud, helping them to maximize performance, minimize cost and improve the scale of their endeavors.
Introducing “SOA in the Cloud” and “RIAs in the Cloud” 4th International Cloud Computing Conference & Expo in November will introduce two new and dedicated tracks – “SOA in the Cloud” and “RIAs in the Cloud” – which will examine how service oriented architecture, AJAX, rich internet applications, enterprise mashups, social media and Web 2.0 find their new place in the Cloud.
Tactical Cloud Computing is a technology branch referring to the use of cloud computing technology and techniques for the support of localized and short-lived information access and processing requirements.
Register Now For This Panel FREE with Coupon Code (First 50 registrations): VIPguestAt SYS-CON’s 1st Annual Government IT Conference & Expo in Washington DC on October 6, 2009, there will be a “Tactical Cloud Computing” Panel, to be simulcast on SYS-CON.TV, in which speakers from Unisys, SAIC and Lockheed Martin will be discussing possible and already existing use cases with GovIT Expo technical chair Kevin L. Jackson, who will be moderating.”Defense, homeland security and law enforcement organizations are looking to leverage this new and exciting IT capability,” says Jackson, who explains that possible use cases might include any or all of the following: Cloudbursting” to support cyclic data processing requirementsEstablishing a cloud-based collaboration environment in order to coordinate firefighting resources during a wildfire
Virtually binding shipboard IT infrastructures in order to create a battlegroup infrastructure-as-a-service platform
Virtually binding land vehicle based servers and storage resources into a battlefield data centerDynamic provisioning of virtual cloud-based servers in order to automate exploitation and dissemination of unmanned air vehicle (UAV) streaming video feedsRegister Today for GovIT Expo Sponsor and/or Exhibit at GovIT ExpoView the Full Conference Schedule
About the Panelists: Melvin B. Greer – Lockheed Martin Melvin Greer is Senior Research Engineer, SOA/Cloud Computing Chief Architect, and Director SOA Competency Center, Lockheed Martin, Advanced Technologies Office. With over 20 years of systems and software engineering experience, he is a recognized expert in Service Oriented Architecture and Cloud Computing. He functions as a principal investigator in advanced research studies. In addition to his professional and investment roles, Greer is a Certified Enterprise Architect, Fellow and Adjunct Faculty at the Federal Enterprise Architects Institute, and a member of the International Monetary Fund / World Bank, Bretton Woods Committee. He is a frequent speaker at conferences and universities and is an accomplished author – Software as A Service Inflection Point, Using Cloud Computing to Achieve Business Agility is his most recently published book.Kartik Mecheri is the Chief Technologist for a large government contract and works for Unisys Federal Division. He is a leader in designing transformational modernization strategies building on enterprise SOA, BPMS, and asset re-use. He has over 10 years experience working with large federal systems modernization. As chief technologist and thought leadership he is responsible for providing senior government agency officials consultative advice related to the latest technologies to enable them to take advantage of the benefits experienced with emerging technologies. As a member of the Unisys consulting team he has also led large government agencies in the challenge of implementing Service Orientated Architecture and other latest technologies in adopting enterprise wide architecture solutions. He has a Masters in Engineering.
Cloud Computing Journal announced today that the voting in its first annual Cloud Computing Readers’ Choice Awards is now open. Voting will end , and winners will be announced the week of, at the 4th International Cloud Computing Conference & Expo.So vote for your favorite Cloud products and services today, don’t put it off, voting takes just a few seconds.
“The Enterprise IT and Infrastructure professionals and their managers, who together constitute the dedicated readers of Cloud Computing Journal, are personally, professionally, and often passionately involved in the front-line of Cloud Computing,” said Jeremy Geelan, Sr. Vice-President of SYS-CON Media, when the awards were initially announced this Summer. “Their recognition is hard to win. That is why we are so excited to be launching these Readers’ Choice awards, an open competition that gives everyone an equal chance, no matter what part of the Cloud ecosystem they inhabit, of giving recognition to the solutions they commend the most.”
CIO, CTO & Developer ResourcesSYS-CON’s Readers’ Choice Awards, also known as the “Oscars of the Software Industry,” has been one of the most prestigious industry award programs for more than a decade. This year’s cloud computing awards will be given in 18 categories and award-winning products and services will be 100% selected by Cloud Computing Journal readers…so don’t hesitate, cast your vote right now.
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The Conservative Party has appointed LBi, Europe’s largest online marketing and technology agency, as its lead digital partner in the run-up to the General Election. LBi will be providing The Conservative Party with a range of digital services, including web development, online advertising, and e-commerce. The main focus of their work will be the development of online tools that will help Conservative supporters campaign and raise money for the candidates and issues they care about. The first stage of this project will be launched at this year’s party conference.The Conservative Party has appointed LBi, Europe’s largest online marketing and technology agency, as its lead digital partner in the run-up to the General Election. LBi will be providing The Conservative Party with a range of digital services, including web development, online advertising, and e-commerce. The main focus of their work will be the development of online tools that will help Conservative supporters campaign and raise money for the candidates and issues they care about. The first stage of this project will be launched at this year’s party conference.Conservative Online Spokesman, Jeremy Hunt said: “I’m delighted that the Conservative Party is working with LBi. This is an important partnership between the political party that is leading the way in its use of the internet, and an agency that is leading the way in the digital industry. We have been working on some very exciting plans together, as you’ll be seeing over the coming weeks.”Anil Pillai, Managing Director of LBi UK, added: “Ever since our first meeting we felt a real connection with the Conservative Party seeing the common challenges and opportunities that digital media presents on the run up to the General Election. At LBi we seek to innovate and connect with an audience using the best blend of experts in the field around user experience, creative, CRM and technology. We shared an immediate understanding that this would be an absolute pre requisite to a successful relationship and LBi are really excited to be on board as the Conservative Party’s prime digital partner.”For further information please contact: Sarah van Praagh, Press contact, LBi UK 44 20 7063 6465, Sarah.VanPraagh@LBi.com Sue Beeby, Press contact Conservatives 44 7838 160 292 Eva Ottosson, Group Communications Manager, LBI International AB 46 709 41 21 40, eva.ottosson@lbi.comAbout LBi: LBi is a global digital marketing and technology agency, blending insight, creativity and expertise to solve business problems. The largest genuinely full service agency of its kind in Europe, LBi provides the full range of digital capabilities, including digital strategy, branded content, service design, media, CRM, technology, managed hosting and support services. The Company employs approximately 1,500 professionals located primarily in the major European, American and Asian business centers; such as Amsterdam, Atlanta, Berlin, Brussels, London, Milan, Mumbai, New York, Paris and Stockholm. LBi is listed on Nasdaq OMX in Stockholm and NYSE Euronext in Amsterdam (symbol: LBI). www.lbi.com
a leading developer of enterprise payment solutions, reports strong increase in merchant demand for Card Information Replacement Technology Shift4’s DOLLARS ON THE NET™ payment gateway is fully integrated with CIRT to deliver fast, reliable and secure electronic transactions for merchants of all sizes while greatly simplifying PCI Compliance. “Shift4 is pleased and encouraged to see others in the payments industry introducing new technologies that may hold the promise of protecting cardholder data (CHD) throughout the entire transaction lifecycle. The market is showing strong demand for technologies that remove sensitive cardholder data from the merchant’s payment system and replace it with something that merely represents the real numbers. At this critical point in the vetting of these new technologies, it is essential that merchants seek out and understand the differences between true tokenization and other offerings, which may be called tokenization but are in fact, encryption. Shift4 has been providing true tokenization to our merchants since 2005,” said Dave Oder, President and CEO, Shift4 Corporation. Card Information Replacement Technologies from Shift4 include: 4Go SafeSwipe™, i4Go™, and tokenization. These offerings safeguard the merchant payment environment by removing and replacing sensitive CHD from the payment process before it enters the Point-of-Sale (POS) system, Property Management System (PMS), or in the world of the Internet, the merchant’s site or hosting provider’s environment. CIRT simplifies the process of securing sensitive information by preventing it from being stored, processed, or transmitted in the merchant environment, which greatly reduces the cost and complexity of Payment Card Industry (PCI) compliance. Essentially, merchants utilizing CIRT are much more likely to be able to achieve and maintain a state of PCI compliance while concurrently removing all cardholder data from their payment environment.
“As the industry continues to acknowledge and adopt technologies that address Real Security issues, it is important to understand the differences between true tokenization and offerings that are tokenization in name only. There are a lot of adaptations that use the name only but are, in fact, various encryption key handlers, hashing schemes, and ‘at-once’ transaction schemes. Many of the new end-to-end encryption schemes limit merchants’ choices regarding which bank or processor they will be able to work with. By working with Shift4, merchants retain the power of choice and can work with any bank or processor they see as most beneficial to their business,” said Steve Sommers, Senior Vice President, Applications Development, Shift4 Corporation. Tokenization was defined for the first time in the Payment Industry in 2005 at a Security Conference in Las Vegas, Nevada. Shift4’s tokenization replaces a card number with a randomly generated unique alphanumeric value that represents the card information for a particular transaction and merchant, used mostly, but not exclusively, for post authorization data retention. In some tokenization in name only adaptations, which use keys or partial keys, a key being compromised would have to be reported as a breach. Since, by definition, Shift4 tokens are not CHD and there are no keys associated with the true token, they have no value if stolen and do not need to be protected under PCI rules. The power of the true tokenization is the token provider’s system. The system must be robust and feature rich to provide the merchant with all the capability they would have if they had retained the card number, including reporting, retrieval, and chargeback defense. Shift4’s token is not a key, a partial key, a hash, or any 1-to-1 relationship with a card number and can be stored up to 24 months or as long as the merchant’s retention period dictates. This way, the token can be used in any check-in/check-out scenario like hotel and auto-rental, a book and ship scenario of Mail-Order/Telephone-Order (MOTO) and eCommerce, or other scenarios such as “card-on-file” and recurring billing scenarios.
About Shift4 Corporation Shift4®, a leading developer of secure financial transaction processing software and services, provides web-based, real-time enterprise payment solutions for leaders in the hospitality, retail, food services, auto rental and eCommerce markets. Through connectivity to most major processors, DOLLARS ON THE NET provides both high-speed and low-cost authorizations and settlements for credit, debit, check, private label and gift card transactions. DOLLARS ON THE NET also includes the ability to access, review and edit transactions prior to settlement, as well as a searchable, 24-month archive of transactions for reporting and chargeback defense
