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Executive Summary HP shuts down its cloud business. Did you even know they had one? Microsoft and Amazon are having much better success with the cloud, as their quarterly earnings clearly show. There could also soon be a new entrant in the cloud space as one of the world’s largest companies is getting serious.   Hosts: John Kresic, Tom Kresic, Mike Kresic Running Time: 40:53     IT Pro News HP cloud is shutting down Microsoft cloud is doing well $8.2B/yr Amazon cloud is doing great $2B/q 78% YoY Walmart is worried and is looking more at drones and e-commerce and open source cloud 97% retail Mastercard thinks anything can be a credit card     Help Us Spread the Word! Please let your Twitter followers know about this podcast. Simply click here now to post a tweet.   If you enjoyed this episode of IT Pro Show, please head over to iTunes, leave a rating, write a review and subscribe.   Subscribe to the ITPS podcast. It’s absolutely free! Subscribe with iTunes Subscribe with RSS (for Android and other non-iTunes) Subscribe with Stitcher Radio Subscribe with TuneIn Radio Subscribe with iHeart Radio  

Executive Summary: With some news of serious automobile hacking in recent weeks, what steps are you taking to secure your company's fleet of commercial vehicles? Did you ever even imagine that would be an IT Pro consideration? Now that Windows 10 is out, are you worried about unleashing Cortana in your enterprise? It may be listening more than you want. Tons of IT Pro news in this week's show and John's really excited about the bookshelf, too.   Hosts: John Kresic, Tom Kresic, Mike Kresic Running Time: 46:01     IT Pro News: Chrysler issues recall for a security hack in 1.4 M vehicles Blackberry denies its OS was to blame in the Jeep hack. Blackberry servers shut down for being too secure? HTC is now both worthless AND insecure Windows 10 launches, but not for enterprises yet? Cortana is listening. How should IT Pros configure it for their enterprise? Alphabet now owns Google. Say what? Amazon is GA with its 5x faster MySQL offering of Aurora AWS BAA for HIPAA available to US customers AWS improves App Health Monitoring in Beanstalk Should Water-Cooled Datacenters add Water to the PUE? Wall Street likes Azure as a growth engine for the stock price IT Pros will have to wait for Surface Hub devices due to availability EMC will resell Hortonworks as Big Data gets popular HP’s next corporate evolution is back to a better dress code     Bookshelf: infographics done right: The Fallen of World War II what is an API? A political boundary draft proposal for DNS-based Secured Email     [box style="quote"]Help Us Spread the Word! Please let your Twitter followers know about this podcast. Simply click here now to post a tweet.   If you enjoyed this episode of IT Pro Show, please head over to iTun...

Executive Summary: Lots of earnings news and unusual pairings of platforms and services. A study reveals just how few people in this world develop the software that we use. OpenStack hits a milestone (as does this podcast) and John debuts a new segment about future tech trends. We'll need your help to decide if it should become a repeating segment. All this and lots more enterprise news to cover since we've been away for a few weeks. Hosts: John Kresic, Tom Kresic, Mike Kresic Running Time: 36:19     IT Pro News: Microsoft earnings call shows that IT Pros are swapping Commercial Licensing for Commercial Cloud. Google Cloud happy to host Windows Servers. New Visual Studio is ready for developers IBM has a small earnings miss but the waiting is hard to do IBM and Apple promote another set of mobile apps for the enterprise MS Office will now save to your Google Drive directly ODF standard v1.2 is published (not Microsoft’s OOXML) US students win Math Olympiad for the first time since 1994 How few software developers are in the world? 0.25% OpenStack turns 5 with 4M lines of code   Future watch: SUSE Server 12 could run on ARM Container management hits v1.0 with Kubernetes Hyper may be a portable Docker engine Dell is ready for Windows 10 IoT Terminals   IT Pro Bookshelf: ELIoT is just starting.        

Executive Summary: Companies continue to jockey for position with early mover advantage in containers and Docker. We've got news from two companies trying to do just that. Plus the annual update on IT language rankings, some big Skype upgrades and all of the other enterprise news making waves as we lead up to American Independence Day weekend.     Hosts: John Kresic, Tom Kresic, Mike Kresic Running Time: 32:51     IT Pro News: VMware already has Docker in preview RedHat building its enterprise influence with container support Node.js switches to open governance IT Language rankings, where you will be hiring from in the future APIs are being copyrighted? NSA studied commercial AV companies to hide better Skype upgrades are here for Office365 Visual Studio 2015 is almost ready too SaaS market is just starting, as incumbents join in Alexa Voice Services are being opened to 3rd party developers Hortonworks turns 4 IBM Barcode anniversary in 1976 - the UPC   IT Pro Bookshelf: John wants you to watch this. Do it. Now. Mobile is eating the world (30 minutes)      

Executive Summary: Oracle wants to be your cloud platform of choice and makes several announcements to support that direction. Meanwhile, the latest data breaches affect the US government and a Polish airport. And Google collects data at such a rapid rate, they have to build their own network switches.   Hosts: John Kresic, Tom Kresic, Mike Kresic Running Time: 46:01     IT Pro News: US OPM data breach at 18M, COBOL unfairly blamed. Planes grounded after airline corporate network attacked Google had to build its own network switches. ECMAscript v6 is out Larry likes the cloud business for Oracle. More from the Oracle Cloud Announcements. Calculating your PaaS/In-House inflection point. You may have to pay attention to the Windows 10 upgrade paths if you are domain-joined but not on an Enterprise edition. Microsoft shows some execs the door. Disney tech workers are okay now? Going after the corporate iPad with new HP Windows tablets. Is a Surface Hub over $7000 good for team collaboration? AWS updates RedShift Docker source donated to a hopeful Linux Foundation Open Container Project. FitBit has a nice IPO. Congrats to cloud pioneer Netflix on it’s 7:1 stock split.   Event Calendar: We cover upcoming IT Conferences during the 1st show of each month. Is there a conference you think we should be mentioning in this segment? Let us know!     IT Pro Bookshelf: Plenty of free eBooks from Microsoft Press        

Executive Summary: Google made several announcements at their developer conference last week. We'll talk about some of those from the enterprise IT angle. What impact might they have within your organization? What should you be doing to prepare? And Windows 10 gets an official release date courtesy of Cortana.   Hosts: John Kresic, Tom Kresic, Mike Kresic Running Time: 37:33     Thanks to the university blog at Capella for including the IT Pro Show in the list of 5 podcasts Every IT Professional Should Hear.   IT Pro News: FCC wants us to subsidize internet for low-income households. What about mobile? Ford Sync 3 is rolling out. Is it part of your business? Does Intel standardizing on USB-C make accessories easier to manage for the IT pro? (Android M shows USB-C support too) Windows 10 set for release in a few weeks. Are you ready to respond?   IT Pro Main Topic: Google I/O 2015 Google I/O said to be boring. Is that good for IT Pros? Several announcements around smart home issues. Apple Pay cloned Project Vault to increase security Android M changes permissions model for apps, better power management and USB-C IoT Brillo is an Android subset, with Weave as a comm language VR video production was open-sourced (12,600 x 6,000 @ 120Hz) Lollipop adoption is about 10%      

Executive Summary: You can't talk about enterprise cloud solutions with a vendor for very long before you'll hear about OpenStack. They are all throwing their support behind this, for the most part. But are they "all in"? Is this enough? Several announcements of late are encouraging if you are a fan. We'll have a discussion about where things are today and what the future may hold. Dissenting opinions offered, too. Of course.     Hosts: John Kresic, Tom Kresic, Mike Kresic Running Time: 29:45      IT Pro News: Java turns 20 IBM brings its iOS apps to the Watch What are you doing about e-signatures? OneDrive for Business, now with DLP HP excluded from cloud industry analysts   IT Pro Main Topic: OpenStack Summit was May 18-22 Canonical Launches Ubuntu Advantage Storage at OpenStack Summit EMC and Canonical expand OpenStack relationship New IBM OpenStack services support hybrid Cloud apps IBM brings OpenStack to SoftLayer OpenStack Launches Community App Catalog To Make Installing Cloud Stacks And Apps Easier David Chapell at Ignite, comparing clouds   Event Calendar: We cover upcoming IT Conferences during the 1st show of each month. Is there a conference you think we should be mentioning in this segment? Let us know! Google I/O May 28-29        

Executive Summary: Microsoft says this will be the last version of Windows. It'll just come in a dizzying number of SKUs. And what's the impact to IT Pros for smart cars? We've got this week's IT Pro news roundup. Hosts: John Kresic, Tom Kresic, Mike Kresic Running Time: 29:49     Listener Feedback: Graham asks about Microsoft’s disappearing feature pack, but not service packs.   IT Pro News: IT Pros need to select editions of Windows 10 or stick to iOS deployments in the enterprise Congrats to v 1.0 of Menuet OS More data and IT Pros needed for the future of smart cars and smart infrastructure Cloud wars continue as Google cuts GCP prices 30% Visual search the Wolfram way Know your rights for your laptop at an international airport. IT Pro impact? Low. Verizon buys AOL after dumps it’s FIOS business. IT Pro impact? High, but in the future. CMOS Integrated Nano-Photonics is coming along.        

Executive Summary: John and Mike are back from Microsoft Ignite, the Redmond company’s new annual gathering for IT pros. We’ll recap what we saw, what we heard and share our thoughts on what we liked and what we didn’t.   Hosts: John Kresic, Tom Kresic, Mike Kresic Running Time: 48:13     IT Pro Main Topic: Microsoft Ignite Recap Microsoft welcomes 23,000 IT pros to Chicago The Ignite Website has the keynote and session materials available The keynote was long and tested the audience Themes are driving Microsoft investments: more personal computing, intelligent cloud, reinvent productivity & business process Announcement of Windows Update for Business so you can select your distribution ring Office 365 includes Delve mines your calendar and email for you and your team, providing you with a dashboard Skype and PBX integration may not come together nicely, but the unpriced Surface Hub looks like a great way to improve the collaboration experience While Azure Stack seems to have only snuck into the conference, Hyper-V and System Center, docker containers look promising And too many more sessions to cover      

Executive Summary: Some huge financial numbers from the biggest cloud vendors as they release quarterly results. John and I get ready for Microsoft Ignite and share some tips for prepping in this mobile age.   Hosts: John Kresic, Tom Kresic, Mike Kresic Running Time: 30:59     IT Pro News: Amazon Web Services in $5B Microsoft has a $21B quarter Google "only" has a $17B quarter Comcast drops its acquisition of TWC So much for Skype integration; Facebook Messenger gets video Will you have enough space for your IoT data? Bare metal switches let you be just like Facebook EY wants to help your digital business with Microsoft How is tech changing how your Chiefs? So Outlook.com is now a platform?   IT Pro Main Topic: Ready to Ignite We’re heading to Chicago for the Microsoft Ignite Conference next week Hashtag #msignite No printed conference guide this year. It’s all in OneNote. Sync it to your device. Mobile app is also available now. You gotta export your schedule to a local calendar, though. Expecting to hear plenty about Azure and Windows Server vNext, Nano Server and how server releases will be packaged in the new monthly update model. Satya Nadella is giving the Keynote on Monday. First time in a long time they have the MSFT CEO for the conference.        

Executive Summary: Technology doesn't always lead to better customer experiences. One example is the trend to see robocalls replacing emails as cheap ways to contact you. If you have a call center, what does mean to your data center technologies?   Hosts: John Kresic, Tom Kresic, Mike Kresic Running Time: 40:47       IT Pro News: Security updates Microsoft is retooling SQL Server 2014 SP1. It will be re-released in “weeks”. Many iOS apps vulnerable to AFN kit bug   Microsoft Windows10 ready this summer, says AMD CEO Three years in, AMD leaves the HD server market Windows 10 security innovations at RSA Microsoft announces Azure Service Fabric cloud platform for building microservices. Swift tops list of most-loved programming languages in survey. Blackberry is trying to recapture it's security mojo. VMware is integrating its management solutions Google Cloud virtual machines, now super-sized.. Ubuntu 15.04 Launches with support for OpenStack Kilo. IBM's cloud story is not telling good stories based on financial results.. HP to sell Snapfish photo sharing service.     IT Pro Main Topic: Voice in the Data Center In the not-so-cool department, interactive robo-calls from the cloud are as cheap as e-mail. Skype for Business IVR Call Center now a Contact Center (with video?) print, web, mobile, voice, video?        

Executive Summary: Microsoft shares release plans for some server products, including the next version of SharePoint. Office365 will let you share large attachments now. Email administrators recoil in horror at that news. IBM and HP are making some cloud news. And we've got other stories in this week's enterprise IT news roundup edition.     Hosts: John Kresic, Tom Kresic, Mike Kresic Running Time: 21:40   IT Pro News: Microsoft Sharepoint 2016 slated for second quarter next year Does Office 365 email support for 150MB attachments? Sure! TrueCrypt audit completed and very positive. HP is definitely in the cloud. or not. or maybe. Amazon Lambda is in full production Amazon introduces an Elastic File System IBM Watson Health Cloud includes major partners IBM buys Explorys, a Cleveland Clinic startup Event Calendar: We cover upcoming IT Conferences during the 1st show of each month. Is there a conference you think we should be mentioning in this segment? Let us know!   TechniCLE speaking, Cleveland, May 20      

Executive Summary: As Microsoft turns 40, we reflect on how they’ve shaped the face of IT. And we’ll look ahead to what may be in store. What is the current role of the CIO in bringing innovation?   Hosts: John Kresic, Tom Kresic, Mike Kresic Running Time: 37:58       IT Pro News: Mono v4 is out and it’s from Microsoft Oracle 12c can officially run on Amazon RDS. AWS D2 8xlarge available, with 48 TB storage and 3GBps read/write Apple and IBM introduce additional mobile apps for enterprise verticals. HP selling openStack in a box       IT Pro Main Topic: Microsoft Turns 40 Microsoft turned 40 this week. How did the technology help you make the transition to PC era? Dev tools OS(es) Productivity Networking Databases, web servers, management suites IE (killing Netscape) .Net (against Java)     CDO vs CIO: How will IT make the transition to the next era? Same story: Old guard v. the Disruptors Sourcing of solutions now coming from “risky” vendors faster upgrade cycles than the last era        

Executive Summary: John attended an invitation-only Microsoft event focused on cloud security and compliance. Sobering statistics on cyber attack trends and a vast array of topics you can't afford to ignore when it comes to protecting your company's brand and assets. We'll recap.   Hosts: John Kresic, Tom Kresic, Mike Kresic Running Time:       Microsoft Cloud event: Transparency and Trust, a Security and Legal summit Hosted in Cleveland at Microsoft office on March 12, 2015   Topics Covered: Cyber Security and Cloud Trends, WW Chief Security Advisor Tim Rains How Microsoft Asst General Counsel uses Office365, Dennis Garcia Azure Tech Specialist Delbert Murphy on how Microsoft Cloud is secured MS-IT Principal Program Manager Maya Davis on Azure Adoption panel and lunch   Fun Facts: 6B Bing queries/month, 2.4M emails/day for Hosted Exchange,  for 400M accounts on Outlook.com, 250M active OneDrive users, 48M Xbox accounts, 50B minutes/month of Skype, 90 markets ww MSFT adopt cloud privacy standard ISO/IEC 27018 Independently verified. See Trust Center   Security highlights: 243 DAYS to detect intrusion Daily Breach costs are up 15%YoY to $3.5M/day CEO scale problem now, at $3T lost productivity and growth complexity: on-prem+cloud+hybrid at remote+at work+at home with work devices+personal devices+social media channels       Forensics Lab: taking the fight to the cyber criminals (gov collab to take down botnets) staffed with 100 people learnings go into products unique to Microsoft Data Breach Calculator     Legal Best Practices Pre-contract framework of Transparency, Protect, Comply, Control Transparency: who are the subs, who easy is an audit reports, DC pinning Protect: who is the privacy regulator that validates, Batman clause (cybercrime fighting ability) Comply: ISO 27001 and 27018; HIPAA and BAA;  FISMA; FERPA; CJIS Control: your data ownership; what of 3rd party requests; law enforcement requests and reporting; sue others to protect YOU; (in1H2014, 5 Enterprise Customer requests from Law for 5 users were either rejected or redirected to the actual customer) (Ireland DC for US citizen is in court)     Azure specialist Security of hard drives: Hotel California policy (never leave: shredded) Defense in Depth: physical, network, Host Security, app sec, data sec; IAM, configuration and vulnerability scanning, 24/7/365 Incident response     Event Calendar: SEE US AT MICROSOFT IGNITE in Chicago May 3-8!    

Executive Summary: You've heard of Open Stack software. What about those white boxes that seem to be trendy? Do you have plans to look at open source hardware in your data center? We'll discuss the pros and cons and what the value proposition seems to be.     Hosts: John Kresic, Tom Kresic, Mike Kresic Running Time: 40:24       IT Pro News: Bad management and bad crypto leaves over 20,000 routers running SSL VPN vulnerable Previews of the new Skype and Office are available Softphones deployed at Liberty Mutual Number of EEs drops as Developer counts rise in US Linux 4.0 to support non-rebooting patches Amazon Glacier gets a Google competitor in Nearline AWS updates for Vcenter as a console and VM migration Updated AWS Redshift drivers are 6-35% faster and are supported by SAS, Tableau, others AWS updates for Directory Service lets you have hosted Windows servers that are domain joined to your enterprise new AWS certifications announced, including DevOps Engineer Microsoft running a campaign about Azure Hybrid Cloud and AWS weaknesses     IT Pro Main Topic: Open Source Hardware in the Data Center Are we ready for Open Source Hardware in the Data Center? Open Compute Project site the mission “We believe that openly sharing ideas, specifications and other intellectual property is the key to maximizing innovation and reducing operational complexity in the scalable computing space.” news of a developing OSHW supply chain stories of founding members BofA, Goldman Sachs, Fidelity Investments, Capital One prepping or deploying OSHW Are we ready to have more in-house engineers? is it really more? Is this pursuit any more risk to the enterprise than open source software? Is opex support the biggest part of our costs or is it acquisition cost? why are we still integrators? why not buy appliances? How is this mixed with a cloud architecture?                             IT Pro Bookshelf: Combining Business Process Management and Enterprise Architecture for Better Business Outcomes, IBM redbook