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The DCIA is honored to be an Allied Association of the Consumer Technology Association (CTA) for CES 2018.

We’ll be exhibiting at the show, which runs from January 9th through 12th in Las Vegas, NV.

Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Chairman Ajit Pai this week circulated his Restoring Internet Freedom plan to roll back the 2015 Title II classification of internet service providers (ISPs) in advance of its December 14th Commission open meeting vote.

Chairman Pai’s proposal, which is expected to pass by Republican majority, means ISPs will no longer be considered common carriers subject to mandatory access requirements.

The adoption of the internet of things (IoT) throughout industry is rapidly redefining many areas of business operations.

Pioneering companies are connecting complex physical machinery with big data analytics and generating unforeseen insights, increasing efficiency, and opening up a new era of competitiveness and growth.

The award-winning DCIA co-sponsored Industry of Things World USA (IoTW USA) is coming back to San Diego, CA from March 7th through 9th.

Now in its third year, IoTW USA will bring together more than 600 experts for three days filled with networking, high-level keynotes, and interactive sessions on how the industrial internet of things (IIoT) is impacting organizations and changing business models.

The DCIA commends US lawmakers Senator Ed Markey (D-MA) and Congressman Ted Lieu (D-CA) for introducing the Cyber Shield Act of 2017, which would establish an elective cybersecurity program for internet-connected devices under the direction of the Department of Commerce.

The measure represents common-sense steps that, if followed, would boost productivity and lead to improved cybersecurity, which in turn would help enable the advancement of the internet of things (IoT).

The DCIA salutes the US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and the National Cyber Security Alliance (NCSA) on completing their fourteenth annual National Cybersecurity Awareness Month.

This year’s themes included Cybersecurity in the Workplace is Everyone’s Business, Protecting Critical Infrastructure from Cyberthreats, Simple Steps to Online Safety, The Internet Wants You to Consider a Career in Cybersecurity, and Today’s Predictions for Tomorrow’s Internet.

The DCIA is pleased to announce an extension and deepening of our strategic alliance with the we.CONECT Group for 2018 centering on its “Industry of Things” global franchise.

Since 2014, we.CONECT has grown to become a major player in private sector information, business-to-business (B2B) digital media, and trade event management.

The industrial internet of things (IIoT) promises to generate a new wave of technological innovation that is set to permanently redefine the current digital landscape.

Pioneering businesses are connecting complex, physical machines with first-class analytics to unleash a wealth of new insights that were never before possible.

In the wake of the horrific Las Vegas, NV shooting tragedy, it should be incumbent upon leaders of every industrial sector to examine potential solutions their participating members responsively could offer to improve physical security of the public at large.

The distributed computing industry may be positioned to offer more assistance than one at first would imagine.

The DCIA supports tax cuts proposed by President Donald Trump and Republican lawmakers.

The nine-page framework announced this week would spur Congress to revamp the US tax code by cutting corporate taxes to 20 percent from the current 35% and reducing taxes on foreign profits.

The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), under the direction of internet inventor Tim Berners-Lee, this week issued new recommendations on protecting copyright in online audio and video content and improving the integrity of the internet of things (IoT).

Digital Rights Management (DRM), is central to the recommendations, which enables content rights holders to protect business models based on monetizing their intellectual property (IP) and preventing unauthorized access to their content, and also provides security for IoT devices and autonomous vehicles.

The DCIA is pleased to co-sponsor the 2017 Storage Visions Conference (SV 2017) with the Entertainment Storage Alliance and Coughlin Associates taking place on Monday, October 16th, in Milpitas, CA.

The conference theme is “New Visions for Digital Storage,” and the event will bring together the vendors, end-users, researchers and visionaries who will meet the growing demand for digital storage for all aspects of unstructured and lightly structured data.

This week, Equifax revealed a major compromise of sensitive consumer data affecting more than half of US adults, exceeding the size of breaches recently experienced at Home Depot, Sony, Target, and the Office of Personnel Management (OPM).

Although not as large as last year’s Yahoo incident, Equifax’s breach of 143 million accounts is more serious: exposing names, birth dates, Social Security and driver’s license numbers.

The DCIA is pleased to partner with Qatalyst Global on Industrial Internet of Things (IoT) Europe taking place November 7th and 8th in Munich, Germany, as part of its Industrial IoT Series.

The Industrial IoT promises to generate a new wave of technological innovation that will permanently redefine the current digital landscape.

The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is now accepting comments from industry stakeholders regarding various technical solutions as well as network capabilities to assure Voice-over-Internet Protocol (VoIP) integrity.

The DCIA supports the work of industry standards bodies in developing a framework to mitigate unlawful use of VoIP technologies, such as scam robocalls.

The inaugural National Research Platform (NRP) Workshop attracted more than one-hundred scientists this week in Montana to plan for work that will impact the future of the internet.

Physicists represent early adopters of big data with projects such as the Large Hadron Collider at CERN generating exabytes – or billions of gigabytes of data – in contrast to say a typical Netflix movie of just a few gigabytes.

This week, the DCIA salutes the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) for releasing the final draft of its National Initiative for Cybersecurity Education (NICE) Cybersecurity Workforce Framework.

The expanding universe of connected devices and sensors known as the internet of things (IoT) is forecast to surpass 20 billion devices by 2020.

But the rapid growth and relative immaturity of this emerging sector have enabled a proliferation of insufficiently protected products, which in turn has created vulnerabilities in network security.

This week, US Senators Mike Lee (R-UT) and Patrick Leahy (D-VT) introduced the ECPA Modernization Act of 2017, a bill designed to modernize the privacy laws that protect the digital communications of American citizens.

The measure is more comprehensive than previous versions and would fundamentally reform the existing and outdated Electronic Communications Privacy Act (ECPA).

TechSci Research’s new Global Telecom Cloud Market report projects a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) exceeding 19% in the sector from $11 billion in 2016 to $38.5 billion by 2022 led by AT&T, CenturyLink, and Verizon.

Other major players cited in the report include BT Group, China Telecommunication, Deutsche Telekom, Fusion Telecommunications International, IBM, NTT Communications, Singapore Telecommunications, Telstra, Telus, TATA Communications, Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson, and ZTE.

The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has published its seventh annual privacy scoring report, ranking top technology and telecommunications brands based on how well they protect user data against government intervention, including corporate policies for providing customer notification and challenging National Security Letters (NSLs).

During 2016, for example, the federal government sent nearly fifty-thousand requests for consumer data to Facebook, twenty-eight thousand to Twitter, and more than nine-thousand to Apple.

The tenth annual Verizon Data Breach Investigations Report, based on information from more than 42,000 incidents involving over 1,900 breaches in 84 countries, has just been released for 2017.

The DCIA encourages you to familiarize yourself with the findings of this valuable report and use the information to improve the cybersecurity posture at your organization.

The DCIA commends Cybereason for discovering a vaccine against this week’s cyberattack that targeted government and private corporate servers globally.

Initially dubbed “Petya” due to code in common with earlier malware of that name, Kapersky Labs later renamed it “NotPetya” when such similarities proved superficial.

As the DCIA completes its fourteenth year, we take this opportunity to thank our member companies, association sponsors, and DCINFO readers.

We are privileged to serve a group of organizations as dynamic and diverse as the distributed computing industry.

In a departure from reporting on the impacts of mobile cloud, edge computing, cybersecurity, big data, social networking, or the internet of things on the distribution of high-value content, this week we celebrate a milestone in the delivery of such content.

Nearly a quarter century after initially being proposed, the Olympic Channel will launch on July 15th to more than 35 million homes.

Following up on last week’s report covering the impact on cloud service providers (CSPs) of new cybersecurity regulations in China, this week’s report turns to a similar discussion of new data protection regulation in Europe.

The DCIA’s primary concern is that the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), which becomes effective in May 2018, will impact in a material way the business models of CSPs.

Last month, the DCIA signed-on to an industry letter to the government of China, and we now join a group of more than fifty trade organizations and chambers of commerce in urging officials to delay implementation of a new law that will be harmful to the advancement of cloud computing.

The National People’s Congress’s Standing Committee passed the law in 2016, and supplemental sections published by the government expanded its scope to cover business sectors beyond technology providers, making it even more onerous due to its ambiguous language, restrictive provisions, and anti-competitive regulatory framework.

Following up on our reports focusing on US President Donald Trump’s cybersecurity executive order, White House Cybersecurity Coordinator Rob Joyce this week provided additional insights at a meeting of the National Telecommunications Advisory Committee.

Key provisions include holding agency leaders accountable for IT security within their organizations and requiring agency adherence to the NIST cybersecurity framework.

The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) voted 2-to-1 this week to initiate a process to roll back regulations passed in a 2015 Open Internet Order that would have reclassified internet service providers (ISPs) as Title II common carriers.

The vote initiates a ninety-day Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) comment period, and FCC Chairman Ajit Pai committed to make public any resulting order before voting on it.

US President Donald Trump this week signed the Cybersecurity Executive Order, Strengthening the Cybersecurity of Federal Networks and Critical Infrastructure, intended to increase efficiency and provide additional protections to government information technology (IT) systems.

The directive advances the administration’s efforts to modernize and secure federal networks that have been infiltrated by a variety of cyberattacks.

The $1 trillion spending bill to fund the US federal government through September includes increases in areas of importance to the distributed computing industry.

The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), Department of Homeland Security (DHS), and Secret Service each will receive additional levels of funding for cybersecurity.

The DCIA greatly appreciates Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Chairman Ajit Pai’s investment of time to consult with technology interests regarding a roll-back of Net Neutrality rules created by the Commission in 2015.

The 2015 classification of broadband as a utility under the heavy regulatory framework of the old-monopoly telephone system, in the DCIA’s view, threatened continuing investment and innovation.

The DCIA co-sponsored Delivery of Things World (DoTW) has attracted more than 400 DevOps experts to join us in Berlin this Monday and Tuesday, April 24th and 25th.

Our host for this seminal event, we.CONECT has rapidly become one of the leading business information companies globally, developing and providing digital business information, business events, business communities and event technology, and this event showcases its capabilities particularly well.

The DCIA proudly sponsors the eleventh annual Creative Storage Conference (CS 2017) taking place on May 24th at the Doubletree Hotel in Culver City, CA.

The full-day conference and tradeshow with exhibits will focus on all aspects of digital storage for professional media and entertainment, bringing together vendors, end-users, researchers, and visionaries.

The DCIA endorses a new measure advanced by the Senate Commerce Committee this week to help small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) protect their networks and customers against cyber-attacks.

The Making Available Information Now to Strengthen Trust and Resilience and Enhance Enterprise Technology, or MAIN STREET Cybersecurity Act, passed by voice vote on Wednesday.

This week, the US Senate approved a resolution under the Congressional Review Act to roll-back the broadband consumer privacy rules adopted in October by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), which would have gone into effect later this year.

The US House of Representatives approved a similar measure later in the week.

The broadband consumer privacy rules were intended to protect internet users from certain methods of unauthorized collection and utilization of sensitive data regarding their online activity.

Last week’s appointment by the Trump administration of White House Cybersecurity Coordinator Rob Joyce, formerly of the National Security Agency (NSA), as announced by Homeland Security Advisor Tom Bossert, should represent an important step forward.

The DCIA joins with other technology interests in urging the White House also to fill the role of Federal Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) as soon as possible.

Following up on last week’s report, the Trump administration confirmed this week that it will require federal agencies to abide by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) cybersecurity framework and, on a timely basis, report back on their implementation of its recommendations.

Trump’s larger priorities on cybersecurity include controlling and protecting federal networks and their data, safeguarding critical infrastructure, and securing the nation generally from cyber-threats; and his shorter term goals include curtailing botnets and fostering private sector participation in cyber-initiatives – regardless of politics.

The DCIA is encouraged by the updated draft of the Trump administration cybersecurity executive order now being reviewed by industry leaders, and we are hopeful that the order will be issued shortly.

The order is expected to hold federal managers accountable for vulnerabilities in their technology systems and require adoption of the series of cybersecurity best practices developed by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST).

The DCIA commends the US House of Representatives Committee on Science, Space and Technology this week for approving the “NIST Cybersecurity Framework, Assessment, and Auditing Act of 2017.”

Congressman Ralph Abraham (R-LA) introduced the bill mandating that government agencies adopt the cybersecurity framework developed by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST).

DevTeamSpace this week blogged about the top ten benefits of cloud computing in 2017.

As proponents and early adopters of storing data, accessing programs, and facilitating communications through the internet, DCIA members and DCINFO readers may appreciate the following summary.

According to a report from German insurance company Allianz, between 75 and 96 percent of maritime accidents result from human error – often with fatigue a key factor.

But as a result of increasing internet connectivity and intelligence, remote-controlled and autonomous watercraft will soon be added to the list of disrupted transportation systems, and are expected to be safer, more efficient, and cheaper to run.

The US House of Representatives this week approved by voice vote the Email Privacy Act (HR 387) to protect Americans’ privacy and public safety in the digital age.

House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte (R-VA) applauded passage of the bill:

The DCIA is pleased to report that the Email Privacy Act (HR 387), which has the full support of our organization, will be on the House of Representatives suspension calendar for Monday.

The bill is very similar to the version that passed the House in the 114th Congress, but did not have time to clear the Senate before its final recess.

The DCIA commends the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) for its Cybersecurity Framework, which offers plain language sound advice for enterprise adoption.

The framework helps bridge communication gaps between cybersecurity technologists and people working in other disciplines.

The DCIA alerts member companies and other industry participants that maritime operations will become a new target for cybersecurity regulation in 2017.

This will be a departure from the preferred voluntary approaches that on a vessel-specific basis have been the practice to date.

The DCIA is joining with fellow trade organizations, public interest advocates, and technology companies, to voice our support for the Email Privacy Act (HR 387), and we encourage you to do so.

This measure updates the Electronic Communications Privacy Act (ECPA), the law that sets standards for government access to private internet communications, to reflect internet users’ reasonable expectations of privacy with respect to emails, texts, notes, photos, and other sensitive information stored in the cloud.

The CTA’s enormous and strategically important CES achieved the half-century mark this week in Las Vegas, NV, with the DCIA marking our first decade in being an Allied Association of CTA for this seminal event.

We are grateful to be able to participate at this level.

President-elect Donald Trump this week named Thomas Bossert, who had served as a national security aide in the George W. Bush administration, as his chief advisor on cybersecurity.

Bossert currently consults privately on homeland security matters as a fellow at the Atlantic Council’s Cyber Statecraft Initiative.

The year is ending with action related to cybersecurity in both the US Senate and House of Representatives.

Senator Cory Gardner (R-CO) intends to introduce a bill in the next Congress that would create a select Senate committee to address cybersecurity matters.

Federal Communications Commission Chairman Tom Wheeler, who has served in that role since 2013, made his decision public this week to leave the FCC on January 20th.

His announcement follows the US Senate’s non-renewal of a new term for fellow Democrat Commissioner Jessica Rosenworcel, who will need to depart on January 3rd.

It’s no secret that the expanding universe of connected devices comprising the internet of things (IoT) increasingly represents a primary target for malicious cyberattacks.

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has now released guidelines on how organizations can utilize cybersecurity measures to protect IoT devices, and why an engineering approach for building security into IoT technology is recommended.

In his recent video message, US President-elect Donald Trump committed to task the Joint Chiefs and Department of Defense (DoD) with developing a plan to protect critical infrastructure from cyberattacks.

Engaging the military to address threats to power plants, electricity grids, public transportation systems, and telecommunications networks – areas that are essential to national security and already have significant government involvement at federal, state, and local levels – makes sense; and the first priority task should include shoring up government IT systems.

In proposing his national cybersecurity plan in October, US President-elect Trump said, “As a deterrent against attacks on our critical resources, the United States must possess the unquestioned capacity to launch crippling cyber counterattacks.”

“This is the warfare of the future, and America’s dominance in this arena must be unquestioned,” he added.

The DCIA commends the US House of Representatives Committee on Energy and Commerce for holding a joint hearing of its commerce and technology committees this week on “Understanding the Role of Connected Devices in Recent Cyber Attacks.”

Their hearing addressed the October 21st distribution denial of service (DDoS) attack on Dyn by botnets overwhelming popular consumer websites with junk traffic.

The US President-elect Donald Trump, by his own admission, is not much of a techie.

Even his prolific campaign tweets were actually posted online by aides.

The DCIA commends the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) for its approval of broadband consumer privacy rules on Thursday to protect internet users from certain methods of unauthorized collection and utilization of sensitive data regarding their online activity.

The action represents an important – but by no means final – step towards empowering consumers and thereby fostering sustainable advancement and innovation of online services.

Leading into Security of Things World USA this week in San Diego, CA, the DCIA is pleased to announce an extension and expansion of our partnership with the we.CONECT Group for 2017.

Since 2014, we.CONECT has grown to become a leader in private sector information, business-to-business (B2B) digital media, and trade events.

The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) this week published Guidance on the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) & Cloud Computing, providing important new insights for cloud computing service providers (CSPs).

Can a HIPAA-covered entity or business associate (BA) use a cloud service to store or process electronic protected health information (ePHI)?

Following up on last week’s report, we are pleased to be able to report that one the US Presidential candidates has articulated a strategy on national cybersecurity.

Republican candidate Donald Trump made his remarks in Herndon, VA to a veterans’ group, stating that cybersecurity would be an “immediate and top priority” in his administration.

Two questions I often hear are, “How do fog and edge computing relate to cloud computing?” and “What’s the difference between fog and edge computing?”

It’s helpful to begin with a definition of cloud computing, which continues to be our industry’s leading growth driver as more and more private and public sector organizations of all sizes migrate “to the cloud” for more efficient management of business and technical functions.

On Monday evening, Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump met at Hoftra University in the first of three US Presidential candidate debates.

While our industry did not receive the attention it deserves given the relative importance of distributed computing to economic growth and national security, cybersecurity at least was briefly discussed.

We commend The US House of Representatives for passing legislation this week that will task the Small Business Administration (SBA) with assisting small businesses in improving their preparedness against cyber-threats.

The Improving Small Business Cyber Security Act will increase the cybersecurity offerings of small-business development centers (SMBCs) including awareness building, technical training, and access to expertise in this space.

Plan now to join us this December here in Washington, DC at the Government Video Expo (GVE) 2016 and the National Drone Show (NDS), the next co-located events in the DCIA’s expanded partnership with NewBay Media.

NewBay Media connects and informs millions of constituents in the world’s most dynamic industries through its award-winning content, integrated media capabilities, and high-profile network-building informative events.

Looking ahead to 2017, we’re pleased to announce that the DCIA has been invited to participate as an Allied Association with the Consumer Technology Association (CTA) and plans to exhibit at CES 2017.

CES 2017 takes place on January 5th through 8th in Las Vegas, NV.

There’s now only one month before the DCIA co-sponsored Internet & Mobile World (IMW) 2016, the largest business-to-business (B2B) expo-conference for information technology (IT) and digital solutions in Central & Eastern Europe (CEE).

Taking place on October 5th and 6th in Bucharest, Romania, the event brings together over 8,000 business representatives from across the region. The event agenda is now online and includes topics like robotics for businesses, cybersecurity, developing mobile apps, virtual reality, JavaScript, Java, IoT platforms and many more, to be hosted by over 130 international and local speakers.

Following up on last week’s report, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has placed a request for information (RFI) in the Federal Register to support the new White House Commission on Enhancing National Cybersecurity

Information of interest to the Commission encompasses a great many issues related to cybersecurity concerns and issues that can be forecast through the coming decade.

Computer scientist Jeffrey Voas, through his National Institute of Standards (NIST) Special Publication 800-183, has provided industry with a tool to help address security implications exposed by the Internet of Things (IoT).

He uses the term Network of Things (NoT) in addition to IoT to encompass local area networks of things that are not connected to the internet, which should be included in this consideration.

Following last month’s meeting with the National Counterintelligence and Security Center (NCSC) and leading US telecommunications firms, the NCSC launched a campaign this week entitled “Know the Risk – Raise Your Shield: Supply Chain Risk Management.”

The program is directed at telecommunications and other key infrastructure services companies based in the Unites States.

The DCIA is pleased to expand our partnership with Universum Events to include Internet & Mobile World 2016, the largest business-to-business (B2B) expo-conference for information technology (IT) and digital solutions in Central & Eastern Europe (CEE), taking place on October 5th and 6th in Bucharest, Romania.

President Obama this week issued a new presidential policy directive (PPD) intended to clarify responsibilities within the federal government for responding to online security breaches and cyber-attacks.

The move follows an increase in the occurrence of such incidents that have impacted agencies, companies, and individuals with growing frequency.

We’re pleased to announce the first new agreement of the DCIA’s fourteenth year, a co-sponsorship with the weCONECT Group for the new Rethink! Cloudonomic Minds.

Cloudonomic Minds is a two day event for Internet of Things (IoT) experts, Chief Information Officers (CIOs), cloud computing managers, enterprise architects, and information technology (IT) executives, taking place November 21st and 22nd in London, England.

The White House this week announced new measures to strengthen the federal cybersecurity workforce through recruitment and retention efforts.

The government faces increasingly sophisticated and more-and-more persistent cyber threats posing strategic, economic, and security challenges.

The Democratic presumptive Presidential nominee Hillary Clinton last week released a platform addressing three issues of greatest concern to the DCIA: internet connectivity, cybersecurity, and computer sciences education.

The platform calls for every household in America to have access to broadband by 2020, student loan deferment for young entrepreneurs, and support of the Obama administration positions in such controversial areas as network neutrality.

As the DCIA enters its fourteenth year, we take this opportunity to thank our member companies, association sponsors, conference exhibitors, delegates, and DCINFO readers.

We are privileged to serve a group of organizations as dynamic and diverse as the distributed computing industry.

The Internet of Things (IoT) is creating the largest networks the world has ever seen, along with many fresh opportunities for inventive solutions in distributed computing among numerous sectors of the economy.

And therefore the IoT is presenting a whole new range of targets to potential hackers.

The DCIA is going on the record to oppose an expansion of the National Security Letter (NSL) statute.

We object to recently added language in the Senate Intelligence Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2017.

What are your plans for next week?

On June 21st and 22nd, why not join with thousands of information technology enthusiasts at Cloud & DevOps World.

Music rights holders have had difficulties keeping their business models in sync with both technological capabilities and consumer behavior ever since digital copying of music tracks and distributed computing supplanted analog vinyl album sales.

Once it became possible to make perfect digital replicas of songs – by burning CDs, for example – and simply click to distribute them without degradation – to millions of listeners for instant streaming or easy downloading – methods for monetizing music had to change.

Following the very successful Mobile World Congress in Barcelona earlier this year, the DCIA is pleased to partner with GSMA in presenting the second 2016 installment of Mobile World Congress in Shanghai.

The GSMA represents the interests of the mobile industry worldwide, uniting nearly 800 operators with more than 250 companies in the broader mobile ecosystem.

The DCIA is pleased to partner with Informa Telecoms & Media on Cloud and DevOps World, which will focus on strategies, business models, and technologies that can activate the cloud and drive new opportunities for organizations worldwide.

With less than a month until the 2016 conference kicks off, on June 21st in London, England, I wanted to remind you to register now to attend the event.

We’re now just a few weeks away from DataCloud Europe, taking place on June 8th and 9th at the Grimaldi Forum in Monte Carlo.

Following 2015’s highly successful co-sponsored events, The DCIA is pleased to partner with BroadGroup in presenting this marquee event.

Five of the filmmaking industry’s most experienced audio-visual experts and solution providers will participate in a panel on June 23rd during the Creative Storage Conference (CS 2016), held at the DoubleTree Hotel West Los Angeles in Culver City, CA, and co-sponsored by the DCIA.

The “Conversations with Independent Filmmakers” session will feature leading members of the digital video industry who will discuss how they have improved their creative workflows, the industry trends they’re seeing, as well as challenges and opportunities visual storytellers face today.

The DCIA is pleased to report the passage this week in the US House of Representatives of the Email Privacy Act (HR 699) by a vote of 419 to 0.

We applaud the leadership of Bob Goodlatte (R-VA), Chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, which unanimously approved the measure for consideration by the House.

We hope you’ll join us this week to meet with top DevOps thought leaders and innovators at Delivery of Things World.

This must-attend international continuous delivery event is taking place in Berlin, Germany on April 25th and 26th, and represents our second event in partnership with the we.CONECT Group.

The DCIA joined with fellow Digital Due Process (DDP) participants this week to send a clear message to the House Judiciary Committee.

More than fifty civil society organizations, companies, and trade associations, expressed our support for the Manager’s Substitute Amendment to the Email Privacy Act (H.R. 699).

The DCIA is pleased to announce an expansion of our partnership with NewBay Media to include Government Video Expo 2016.

NewBay Media connects and informs millions of constituents in the world’s most dynamic industries through its award-winning content, integrated media capabilities, and high-profile network-building informative events.

The DCIA is pleased to announce that we will be an Organizational Sponsor for the 2016 Creative Storage Conference (CS 2016), in support of our member company delegates, exhibitors, and speakers.

The Tenth Annual Creative Storage Conference will be held June 23rd at the DoubleTree Hotel – West Los Angeles in Culver City, CA.

This year’s theme is an important one — Closing the Gap: From Vision to Reality — and the 2016 conference promises fresh insights on IoT developments, not only in Singapore, but also around the world.

IoT Asia 2016 takes place this Wednesday and Thursday at the new Singapore EXPO, and aims to further advance conversations and ideas on this rapidly advancing technology movement and how it will impact our lives by delving into the real issues beyond the possibilities.

President Obama’s recently announced Commission for Enhancing National Cybersecurity intends to produce a set of actionable recommendations for the next President by December 1st.

The commission plans to develop its proposal in collaboration with the private sector.

The DCIA would like to remind you about our new service available at no additional charge to member companies, to help them comply with cybersecurity legislation that President Obama signed into law at the end of 2015.

The DCIA’s compliance audit service will help members ensure that their practices conform to the three major provisions of the Cybersecurity Act of 2015.

The DCIA is pleased to announce our new partnership with the Global System for Mobile Communications Association (GSMA), an organization of mobile operators and related companies devoted to supporting the standardization, deployment, and promotion of the GSM mobile telephone system.

GSMA unites nearly 800 operators with more than 250 companies in the broader mobile ecosystem, including handset and device makers, software companies, equipment providers, and Internet companies, as well as organizations in associated industry sectors.

We’re now at the one-month countdown to the third annual Internet of Things (IoT) Asia.

This year’s theme is an important one — Closing the Gap: From Vision to Reality — and the 2016 conference promises fresh insights on IoT developments, not only in Singapore, but also around the world.

Please join us this week at the first of the DCIA’s co-sponsored events with the we.CONECT Group: the brand new Industry of Things World USA.

The focus of this inaugural event is the industrial Internet, which has the power to dramatically alter the competitive landscape for several industries during the coming year.

This week President Obama signed two executive orders and announced the new Cybersecurity National Action Plan (CNAP), an expansive program to improve public and private sector online security.

This follows his signing into law of the Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act (CISA) in December to bolster cooperation between government and industry.

US House of Representatives Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte (R-VA) this week issued the following statement.

“In March, the House Judiciary Committee plans to markup the Email Privacy Act, a bipartisan bill to reform the Electronic Communications Privacy Act (ECPA) of 1986

With recent reports of breaches affecting connected home thermostats and video monitoring systems, it’s time for the industry to address a critical issue threatening success of the very promising Internet of Things (IoT) technology movement.

Consumers must be able to trust that the data their newly connected devices generate, gather, and process is safe.

We’re now at the one-month countdown to the first of the DCIA’s co-sponsored events with the we.CONECT Group: the brand new Industry of Things World USA.

The focus of this inaugural event will be the industrial Internet, which has the power to dramatically alter the competitive landscape for several industries during the coming year.

Internet of Things (IoT) Asia returns in 2016 with fresh insights on IoT developments, not only in Singapore, but also around the world.

This year’s theme is an important one — Closing the Gap: From Vision to Reality.

2016 is emerging as the year that virtual reality will finally arrive.

Oculus Rift, purchased by Facebook in 2014 for $2 billion; HTC Vive Headsets, now partnering with game-maker Valve; and Sony PlayStation’s Morpheus, among others; are leading the consumer technology revolution at this week’s 2016 CES in Las Vegas, NV.

The DCIA is pleased to introduce a new service available at no additional charge to member companies, to help them comply with legislation that President Obama has just signed into law.

The DCIA’s compliance audit service will help members ensure that their practices conform to the three major provisions of the Cybersecurity Act of 2015.

The DCIA is pleased once again to have the honor of serving as an Allied Association of the Consumer Technology Association (CTA), the owner of CES.

CES is the world’s largest consumer electronics and technology tradeshow that takes place every January in Las Vegas, Nevada.

The DCIA this week underscores our support for HR 3869 – The State and Local Cyber Protection Act of 2015.

The bill was introduced in the US House of Representatives by Freshman Congressman Will Hurd (R-TX), who previously served as a CIA agent.

Following this year’s highly successful co-sponsored events, The DCIA is pleased to expand our partnership with BroadGroup for 2016.

BroadGroup is an international consulting firm that tracks cloud computing, data center, and information technology (IT) markets and investments.

The DCIA participates in the Digital Due Process (DDP) coalition, which advocates long overdue reform of the seriously outdated Electronic Communications Privacy Act (ECPA).

ECPA was written thirty years ago, before widespread adoption of the Internet by consumers or the advent of cloud computing.

The US Thanksgiving holiday is an appropriate time to express our sincere thanks to DCIA Members, Partners and Sponsors — and DCINFO readers — for your support in 2015.

I urge you, too, to thank the people most important to you and to reflect on your blessings.

The question I’ve been asked most this week is what can we do as industry participants in response to the horrific attacks in Paris and Beirut.

First, each one of us personally can offer our deepest sympathies to the families of those who lost their lives and our prayers for swift recovery to those who were wounded.

The DCIA is pleased to announce a new partnership with the we.CONECT Group.

Based in Europe, We.CONECT has quickly emerged as a leading company in private sector information, business-to-business (B2B) digital media, and trade events.

The DCIA is expanding our partnership with Informa Telecoms & Media to include Cloud Asia Forum.

Taking place on November 24th and 25th in Hong Kong, the sixth annual Cloud Asia Forum is the most comprehensive cloud computing event in Asia.

The DCIA encourages you to attend an upcoming conference with training sessions on a subject that event sponsors rightly characterize as one of today’s hottest global topics — cyber-crime.

Cyber-crime is certainly a major threat to national security, as well as an enormous concern for the private sector.

The DCIA is pleased to announce an expansion of our partnership with NewBay Media to include Government Video Expo 2015.

NewBay Media connects and informs millions of constituents in the world’s most dynamic industries through its award-winning content, integrated media capabilities, and high-profile network-building informative events.

Following up on the CNN debate this week among Democratic candidates for President of the United States, which major party hopeful demonstrates the most digital aptitude in an increasingly connected world?

As instartlogic notes: we should all want a candidate who understands technology.

The DCIA is pleased to expand our partnership with Informa Telecoms & Media to include the Cloud and DevOps World Forum 2016.

Informa Telecoms & Media is the leading provider of events, research, and training for the global telecommunications and media industries.

With a US government shutdown averted, and following a September 14th Business Software Alliance (BSA) letter to Congressional leaders, Senate attention to passing cybersecurity legislation should now become a priority.

The BSA letter was signed by Adobe Systems, Altium, Apple, AutoDesk, CA Technologies, DataStax, IBM, Microsoft, MiniTab, Oracle, Salesforce, Siemens, and Symantec.

This week, we have some good news to report.

The US Senate has reached an agreement to drop Section 603 of the Intelligence Authorization Act of 2016 (S. 1705).

The DCIA is pleased to announce an expansion of our partnership with NewBay Media to include Government Video Expo 2015.

NewBay Media connects and informs millions of constituents in the world’s most dynamic industries through its award-winning content, integrated media capabilities, and high-profile network-building informative events.

How can we better improve airport operations for seamless baggage and passenger flows?

What are strategies and policies needed to power smart cities of tomorrow?

The DCIA is expanding our partnership with Informa Telecoms & Media to include Cloud Asia Forum.

Taking place on November 24th and 25th in Hong Kong, the sixth annual Cloud Asia Forum is the most comprehensive cloud computing event in Asia.

The DCIA is pleased to join with Digital Media Wire and Empiricly in the launch of their exciting new event, the New York Media Festival (NYME), from October 6th through 9th in New York City.

Digital Media Wire provides strategic consulting and manages marketing campaigns for digital media brands, and owns and produces industry conferences.

The DCIA joined with thirty other trade associations and human rights organizations this week in sending a message to US Senate leadership opposing Section 603 of the Intelligence Authorization Act of 2016 (S. 1705).

Section 603 would incentivize providers of Internet communications services to over-report to government on activities of their users in order to avoid violating the law.

The White House responded this week to all outstanding We the People Petitions.

This included the one submitted by the Digital Due Process (DDP) coalition, in which the DCIA participates, on reform of the seriously outdated Electronic Communications Privacy Act (ECPA)

The DCIA encourages you to contact your US Senator and urge him or her to press for a vote on cybersecurity legislation before Congress begins its August recess.

The Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act (CISA) is a carefully drafted and well-intended measure to support the sharing of critical data regarding cyber-attacks between government and industry.

Last week’s report centering on cybersecurity noted that we’re experiencing more and more demand for data scientists as well as cybersecurity experts in government and industry.

One of the drivers for this is the exponential growth in the generation of digital information by enterprises and agencies.

Companies contacting the DCIA for information technology (IT) support increasingly are seeking resources with expertise in cybersecurity.

There’s no question that data scientists and defenders of digital systems are in enormous demand today.

The DCIA would like to thank the ten attendees who participated in the formative meeting of the Advancement of Digital Rights Management (ADRM) Working Group.

DRM interoperability, integration, and ease-of-use were identified by participants as key areas for industry advancement.

The Distributed Computing Industry Association (DCIA) is pleased to serve as an organizational sponsor of the ninth annual Creative Storage Conference (CSC 2015) taking place this Tuesday June 30th in Culver City, CA.

Hosted by Coughlin Associates and the Entertainment Storage Alliance (ESA), CSC 2015 has as its Platinum Sponsor DCIA Member Company Data Direct Networks (DDN) and as a Gold Sponsor DCIA Member Aspera, an IBM company.

The Advancement of Digital Rights Management (ADRM) Working Group is signing-up participants and discussing, refining, and prioritizing action plans targeting five constituencies in advance of the group’s formative meeting taking place later this week.

Whether you’d like to actively participate, be a passive observer, or merely provide your viewpoint, we’re interested in learning which of these five proposed initiatives you believe is most important for the ADRM to conduct and which the ADRM should do first.

The Distributed Computing Industry Association (DCIA) is going on the record in support of the position taken this week by the Information Technology Industry Council (ITI) and the Software & Information Industry Association (SIIA) regarding encryption technologies.

The Council and Association sent a letter to President Obama opposing any policy actions or measures that would undermine encryption as an available and effective tool.

We’re pleased to extend the DCIA’s partnership with the Cloud Computing Association (CCA) to include its 2015 series of Cloud Computing Boot Camps.

Cloud Computing Boot Camps are designed for small-to-midsize businesses (SMBs) and their counterparts in healthcare organizations and government agencies.

On the heels of the compelling Grand Prix of Monaco, covered live by NBC Sports last Sunday, DataCloud Europe will take place this week hosted by BroadGroup and sponsored by the DCIA.

The 2015 Formula 1 Monaco Grand Prix offered a lesson on the importance of accurate data in real-time decision making.

The Distributed Computing Industry Association (DCIA) is pleased to extend our partnership with Coughlin Associates and the Entertainment Storage Alliance (ESA) as a co-sponsor of the ninth annual Creative Storage Conference (CSC 2015).

CSC 2015 will be held on June 30th in Culver City, CA and has as its Platinum Sponsor DCIA Member Company Data Direct Networks (DDN).

The DCIA is expanding our marketing program with Mediaplanet — entitled Future of Business & Tech — from an initial focus on Cloud Computing now to zero in on the Internet of Things (IoT) with unprecedented depth of coverage.

Our introductory contribution to this major initiative included Cloud Technologies Will Take our Connected Lives to a Whole New Level highlighting Mobile Cloud, Big Data, DevOps, Social Networking, and introducing the IoT.

At the request of member companies, the Distributed Computing Industry Association (DCIA) is establishing a new working group to drive advancement of digital rights management (DRM) technologies, services, and business practices.

Consumer acceptance of remote data storage, mobile cloud services, Internet protocol television (IPTV), social networking, over-the-top (OTT) video, Internet of Things (IoT), and similar trends is rapidly increasing.

In This Issue Cinco de Mayo Msg David Vs. Goliath DRM: Access Control Misguided Opposition Industry Acceptance Potential User Impact Freedom of Speech Beyond Transparency Access and Protection Opponent Hypocrisy Internet Security An Age-Old Problem DRM Advancement Time Now for Action Industry-Wide Change Vol Code of Conduct A Better Future…

For those hoping for a frothy and free-wheeling Cinco de Mayo message, this will surely disappoint. But for those willing to consider a serious topic and take an open-minded approach, this communique could mark a turning point for an oft-maligned industry and provide an opportunity to act meaningfully to benefit all Internet users — and people in general. This week’s minor but festive holiday is observed to commemorate the Mexican army’s unlikely triumph over French forces at the Battle of Puebla on May 5, 1862.

Following the highly successful DataCloud South East Asia earlier this month, we’re pleased to expand the DCIA’s partnership with BroadGroup now to include DataCloud Europe.

But first, please note our new archival webpage for DataCloud South East Asia, under the Past Events tab on the DCIA website

We’re pleased to announce the DCIA’s partnership with Informa Telecoms & Media in presenting the Cloud World Forum (CWF) on June 24th and 25th in London, England.

The seventh annual CWF will be Europe / Middle East / Asia’s (EMEA) largest expo for C-level decision makers focusing on Mobile Cloud, Big Data, Social Networking, and the Internet of Things (IoT).

The 2015 NAB Show is now taking place in Las Vegas, NV, from Saturday April 11th through Thursday April 16th.

In the words of the National Association of Broadcasters (NAB), this show is “the only source to satisfy your appetite for overindulging in hands-on experiences with emerging technologies and the latest innovations, limitless networking and learning opportunities, and the inspiration to take your work to the next level.”

You’re invited to gain a fresh perspective on the future of cloud computing and regional data centers this Wednesday and Thursday at South East Asia’s newest forum in Johor, Malaysia.

Datacloud South East Asia, co-sponsored by BroadGroup and the DCIA, will take place on April 8th and 9th at Traders Hotel in the rapidly growing section of Johor known as Iskandar.

As cloud computing continues to expand globally, demand is increasing for new regional datacenters at the same time as cloud solutions are providing enormous new growth opportunities to enterprises of all shapes and sizes.

DataCloud South East Asia, the upcoming conference co-sponsored by BroadGroup and the DCIA, taking place on April 8th and 9th in Johor, Malaysia, is especially timely and valuable for all interested parties.

In 2003, the Distributed Computing Standards Coalition (DCSC), a narrowly focused technology standards-setting body, resolved to transform itself into a full-blown industry trade association.

The Distributed Computing Industry Association (DCIA) was born, and in the twelve years that have followed

The DCIA is partnering with Mediaplanet in an exciting new marketing campaign entitled Future of Business & Tech in which industry participants are joining forces to raise awareness of the importance of cloud computing to drive innovation and efficiency for businesses and individuals around the globe.

This week, we’re pleased to present the final installment of the DCIA’s Internet of Things (IoT) Marathon webcast, our update on IoT from the distributed computing industry’s perspective, recorded live during the 2015 International CES.

If you missed the Welcome (play-all) or any of the first five flights of video segments covering Smart Objects for Fitness & Healthcare (play-all), Programmable Homes & Energy …

We’re pleased to present the fifth installment of the DCIA’s Internet of Things (IoT) Marathon webcast this week.

The online telecast is our update on IoT from the distributed computing industry’s perspective recorded live during the 2015 International CES.

This week, we’re pleased to bring you the fourth installment of the DCIA’s Internet of Things (IoT) Marathon webcast — our distributed computing industry update on IoT — recorded during the 2015 International CES.

If you missed the Welcome (play-all) or any of the first three flights of video segments covering Smart Objects for Fitness & Healthcare (play-all), Programmable Homes & Energy Management (play-all), or Media Entertainment & Social Networking Solutions (play-all), please click on the preceding links to screen these parts of the webcast.

We’re pleased this week to present the third installment of the DCIA’s Internet of Things (IoT) Marathon webcast recorded during the 2015 International CES.

If you missed the first two flights of video segments in our industry update on the IoT, here are links to play the first, covering Smart Objects for Fitness & Healthcare, to play the second, covering Programmable Homes & Energy Management, or to play the Welcome that we’ve also added.

As the Internet of Things (IoT) continues to grow in prominence, we’re pleased to present the second installment of the DCIA’s IoT Marathon webcast recorded during the 2015 International CES.

If you missed last week’s premiere episode, here’s a link to the initial flight of video segments covering Smart Objects for Fitness & Healthcare.

There’s no doubt that momentum is increasing in the advancement of the Internet of Things (IoT).

This week, we’re pleased to present the first installment of the DCIA’s IoT Marathon webcast recorded during the 2015 International CES; and for each of the next six weeks, we’ll launch a new episode of thematically connected video-segments to complete our industry update on this vital and important technology movement.

Today, I invite you to invest an hour-and-a-half of your time in viewing the initial section of our webcast entitled Smart Objects for Fitness & Healthcare.

The Digital Due Process (DDP) coalition, in which the Distributed Computing Industry Association (DCIA) participates, sent an urgent message to the US Congress this week regarding timely passage of a much-needed update to the 1986 Electronic Communications Privacy Act (ECPA).

Here’s the text of the letter to Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Charles Grassley (R-IA) and Ranking Member Patrick Leahy (D-VT); a similar letter was delivered to corresponding House of Representatives leaders.

Post-production of the DCIA’s Internet of Things (IoT) Marathon is well underway with the goal of completing all aspects of the process in time for the major industry webcast to premiere on February 1st.

In This Issue Tech Is Also Charlie What Did We Learn? Autonomous Data Ctr Report from the CEO CES: IoT Hits Home IoT Connected Life Samsung Harmony Big-Name Companies IoT Dominates CES 9 Best Ideas from CES FTC Warns on Security Wheeler Hints at Rules BitTorrent’s First Film IoT Investors…

The Distributed Computing Industry Association (DCIA) is very excited to enter into the production phase of “DCIA’s Internet of Things (IoT) Marathon” webcast this week during the 2015 International CES.

The IoT is now on an unstoppable growth trajectory to surpass 50 billion smart objects and $3 trillion in revenue by 2020.

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