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A Tour of Data Platforms as a Service |
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With the proliferation of both SQL and NoSQL databases, organizations can now target specific fit-for-purpose database tools for their different application needs regarding scalability, ease of use, ACID support, etc. Platform as a Service offerings make this even easier now, enabling developers to roll out their own database infrastructure in minutes with minimal management overhead. However, this same amount of flexibility also comes with the challenges of picking the right tool, on the right provider and with the proper expectations.
In this session we'll compare the NoSQL and SQL offerings from AWS, Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud, their similarities, differences and use cases for each one based on our own client projects.
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Amazon's IoT Strategy: The Force Is Strong with This One |
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Speaker:
Chris Kocher
Founder & Managing Director
Grey Heron
Track:
Wearables & Consumer IoT
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Amazon has gradually rolled out parts of its IoT offerings, but these are just the tip of the iceberg. In addition to optimizing their back-end AWS offerings, Amazon is laying the ground work to be a major force in IoT - especially in the connected home and office.
This session will explain how Amazon is extending its reach to become a major force in IoT by building on its dominant cloud IoT platform, its Dash Button strategy, Replenishment Services, the Echo/Alexa voice recognition control platform, strategic investments of its Alexa Venture Fund, strategic partnerships with 30+ major consumer package goods companies and the 50-60 million current Prime customers.
If you are developing products, services or platforms for IoT, you don’t want to miss this session. Amazon does not just want to dominate the back-end cloud storage, compute and analysis capabilities for IoT data. This is not an incremental, small potatoes effort. It will use its usual low-cost, market-share grabbing approach to stake out a large chunk of the IoT market, especially in the Connected Home and office. This will have significant impacts on Google, Apple, ATT, Comcast and other major and minor IoT players.
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Architecting for the Cloud with Cloud Foundry and Docker on Bluemix |
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Speaker:
Raghavan Srinivas
Cloud Solutions Architect / Evangelist
Microsoft
Track:
Containers & Microservices
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As the world moves towards more DevOps and Microservices, application deployment to the cloud ought to become a lot simpler. The Microservices architecture, which is the basis of many new age distributed systems such as OpenStack and NetFlix, is at the heart of Cloud Foundry - a complete developer-oriented Platform as a Service (PaaS) that is IaaS agnostic and supports vCloud, OpenStack and AWS.
We will discuss the Microservices architecture, 12-factor app, containers, etc., and how to architect applications for the cloud in general and Cloud Foundry in particular. We will harness the power of dependency injection that Spring provides to pick a variety of data sources and services.
Attend this demo-oriented session in which we will cover the basics of Cloud Foundry and walk through an application that was previously hosted outside the cloud and how to stand it up in a cloud with some minimal [mostly] configuration changes using Spring Cloud and other related projects. We will cover many of the Non Functional Requirements(NFR), which is typically in the domain of the architect such as scaling, security and HA and how applications can leverage Bluemix for these.
After attending this session attendees will be able to walk away with a better understanding of Cloud Foundry in general, and Bluemix in particular and how the ecosystem enables deploying applications to the cloud a lot easier. Attendees will also be able to understand how to enable logging, remote debugging, monitoring and so on by turning a few knobs in the platform.
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Be Digital Through Person Engagement Management (PEM) |
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Speaker:
Ajit Sagar
Infosys
Track:
Hot Track 2 | IoT
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In today’s uber-connected, consumer-centric, cloud-enabled, insights-driven, multi-device, glocal world, the focus of solutions has shifted from the product that is sold to the person who is buying the product or service. Enterprises have rebranded their business around the consumers of their products. The buyer is the person and the focus is not on the offering. The person is connected through multiple devices, wearables, at home, on the road, and in multiple locations, sometimes simultaneously. Products have rebranded from content management, asset management, CRM, social media, analytics … to Experience Management for the Consumer. However, the key to success in this IoT enabled world is to treat the buyer as a person and not as a consumer or customer. This means we have to offer the person an immersive experience through their lifecycle every day, at every hour, and everywhere.
In his session at the International Cloud Expo, Ajit Sagar, Associate VP, Digital at Infosys Limited, will focus on the application the evolving technology landscape to engage the persona, not the customer. He will cover shifting trends in personalization, the products that enable applications for the person, and the digital transformation that organizations are undergoing to catch up with connected and highly demanding users of their services
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Beyond Big Data |
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Speaker:
Tony Shan
Chief Architect
CTS
Track:
IoT Developer | Business Cases
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Big Data has grown tremendously in the past few years. Interestingly, the concept of Big Data is dated back to what was characterized as 3Vs about 15 years ago, way before NoSQL, MapReduce, Hadoop, Storm or Spark ever started life. Obviously this kind of 3Vs definition makes less and less sense in the new era. In fact, more tools and product have matured to process large data sets, which makes bigness no longer a pressing problem. The paradigm has shifted to focus on other top issues about data. This presentation examines the trends for the core concerns in today’s environment: Smart, Thing, Actionable, and Relevant (STAR) Data. We will analyze the description and rationale of STAR Data, along with real-life use cases and examples. Best practices and lessons learned will be addressed during the session.
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Clean and Green: IoT's Impact on Smart Buildings |
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Speaker:
Dan Levine
Co-Founder and CEO
CytexOne Technologies
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Hot Track 2 | IoT
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When it comes to IoT in the enterprise, namely the commercial building and hospitality markets, a benefit not getting the attention it deserves is energy efficiency, and IoT's direct impact on a cleaner, greener environment when installed in smart buildings. Until now clean technology was offered piecemeal and led with point solutions that require significant systems integration to orchestrate and deploy. There didn't exist a 'top down' approach that can manage and monitor the way a Smart Building actually breathes - immediately flagging overheating in a closet or over cooling in unoccupied hotel rooms.
In this session, Dan Levine, co-Founder and CEO of CytexOne, will explain how IoT can underpin sustainable solutions for energy efficient building environments and, in the years to come, how it will become a standard that tenants, occupants and Smart Building management can come to trust and rely on as a foundation of their green IT strategies. He will cite specific examples from premier hotels and large office complexes.
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Connected Teams, Connected Code, and the Connected Device: The Challenges of IoT Software Delivery |
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Speaker:
Anders Wallgren
Chief Technology Officer
Electric Cloud
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IoT Developer | Business Cases
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Developing software for the Internet of Things (IoT) comes with its own set of challenges. Security, privacy, and unified standards are a few key issues. In addition, each IoT product is comprised of (at least) three separate application components: the software embedded in the device, the back-end service, and the mobile application for the end user’s controls. Each component is developed by a different team, using different technologies and practices, and deployed to a different stack/target – this makes the integration of these separate pipelines and the coordination of software updates for IoT more problematic. How do you coordinate the diverse moving parts that must come together when developing your IoT product or updating each of its components?
In this session Anders Wallgren will deep dive into some of the challenges and share tips and best practices used by IoT developers to streamline and accelerate their product design, development, test and manufacturing.
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Container Security Compliance for Financial Services |
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Many banks and financial institutions are experimenting with containers in development environments, but when will they move into production? Containers are seen as the key to achieving the ultimate in information technology flexibility and agility. Containers work on both public and private clouds, and make it easy to build and deploy applications.
The challenge for regulated industries is the cost and complexity of container security compliance. VM security compliance is already challenging, and containers increase the problem exponentially. Simplifying and automating security compliance will be critical to achieving the high ROI expected from containers.
In this session, we will provide an overview of the best practices for deploying and securing containers in production environments for financial services and other regulated industries. This session will cover:
- Container Operational Issues and Best Practices
- Comparison of VM and Container Security Threats
- Strategies for Minimizing Container Attack Surfaces
- Strategies for Mitigating Known Container Vulnerabilities
- Achieving Container Security Compliance
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Context, Wearables, and WebRTC: Communications Next |
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Speaker:
Erik Perotti
Senior Manager
Plantronics
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Wearables & Consumer IoT
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Big data, cloud, analytics, contextual information, wearable tech, sensors, mobility, and WebRTC: together, these advances have created a perfect storm of technologies that are disrupting and transforming classic communications models and ecosystems. Please join Erik Perotti , Senior Manager of Innovation and New Ventures at Plantronics and PLT Labs, for an overview of this technological shift, including associated business and consumer communications impacts, and opportunities it may enable, complement or entirely transform.
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Cutting Through The Fog of the Internet of Things |
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There is an ever-growing explosion of new devices that are connected to the Internet using “cloud” solutions. This rapid growth is creating a massive new demand for efficient access to data. And it’s not just about connecting to that data anymore.
This new demand is bringing new issues and challenges and it is important for companies to scale for the coming growth. And with that scaling comes the need for greater security, gathering and data analysis, storage, connectivity and, of course, the need to find a platform (solution) that is capable of quickly and easily managing all of these complex necessities.
There are answers to this important and growing opportunity and there are ways for savvy businesses to “cut through the IoT fog.” With a an Application Enablement Platform that is capable of receiving data at “high availability,” connectivity and processes that are always active, and an alerting process that is real-time, companies can reap significant benefits.
The bottom line is that sensors and devices are becoming smarter, gateways are essential for filtering, Application Enablement Platforms are important and available, but protocols and standards are still needed.
Attendees will learn:
- A greater understanding of IoT and how to navigate
- What an effective solution looks like
- How to select and work with the right solution provider
- The fastest path to success and ROI
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Data-Driven DevOps - Improve Velocity and Quality of Software Delivery with Metrics and Feedback |
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Speaker:
Andi Mann
Chief Technology Advocate
Splunk
Track:
DevOps, Continuous Delivery and APIs
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Much of the value of DevOps comes from a (renewed) focus on measurement, sharing, and continuous feedback loops. In increasingly complex DevOps workflows and environments, and especially in larger, regulated, or more crystallized organizations, these core concepts become even more critical.
This session will show how, by focusing on 'metrics that matter,' you can provide objective, transparent, and meaningful feedback on DevOps processes to all stakeholders. Learn from real-life examples how to use the data generated throughout application delivery to continuously identify, measure, and improve deployment speed, code quality, process efficiency, outsourcing value, security coverage, audit success, customer satisfaction, and business alignment.
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DevOps in an Open and Heterogeneous World |
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Speaker:
Flint Brenton
CEO
CollabNet
Track:
DevOps, Continuous Delivery and APIs
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Keeping pace with advancements in software delivery processes and tooling is taxing even for the most proficient organizations. Point tools, platforms, open source and the increasing adoption of private and public cloud services requires strong engineering rigor – all in face of developer demands to use the tools of choice. As Agile has settled in as a mainstream practice, now DevOps has emerged as the next wave to improve software delivery speed and output. To make DevOps work, organizations must focus on what is most relevant to deliver value, reduce IT complexity, create more repeatable agile-based processes and leverage increasingly secure and stable, cloud-based infrastructure platforms.
This session will outline strategies for unifying a continuously changing, fragmented and disparate set of technologies and processes within common community architecture. Attendees will learn how building a unified DevOps architecture that provides contextual oversight of tools and platforms can help organizations better align Agile and DevOps processes to IT infrastructure, and the need to continuously refine and improve the overall software delivery life cycle.
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DevOps, Digital, and Cloud: Two's Company, Three's a Crowd? |
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Speaker:
Jason Bloomberg
President
Intellyx
Track:
DevOps, Continuous Delivery and APIs
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Cloud computing is unquestionably one of the driving forces of DevOps, as the automation of operations transforms enterprise software development. DevOps, however, is more than a technology trend, as it represents a move toward silo-busting, self-organizing horizontal teams that drive business velocity.
At the same time, enterprise Digital Transformation represents an upheaval across the enterprise, as customer preferences and behavior drive enterprise technology decisions. This transformation extends well beyond technology, however, as companies must rethink their organizational structure, moving toward silo-busting, self-organizing horizontal teams...sound familiar?
DevOps, Digital, Cloud - three separate transformative trends, or one mega-trend? Or perhaps nothing more than enough buzzwords to win at buzzword bingo?
The big picture here isn't simply a shift in the way companies produce software, a rework of the customer experience, or automated outsourced infrastructure. It's an end-to-end change in the way enterprises work, as they transform into software-driven organizations.
Attendees of this session will:
- Understand how cloud computing underlies and connects the notions of Digital and DevOps
- Peel away the buzzwords and understand the common business context for the "Digital revolution" and the "DevOps revolution"
- Learn new ways to bring disparate conversations together into a single, unified discussion of business transformation
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Emerging IoT Markets - MSPs, Take Notice |
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Managed IT services wasn't even a phrase until the early 2000s and, today, there are over 75,000 IT service providers in North America alone. By 2020, there are going to be 50 billion connected devices, and managed IT services might cease to be a phrase again. Unless the MPSs adapt to the new, connected world, we are going to see diminishing returns in that space. Learn more about the different opportunities IoT will create for MSPs and IT service providers – from on-site services, to monitoring, managing and consulting.
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Empowering the Enterprise to Take Full Advantage of Everything Azure |
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Speaker:
Collin Steele
Director of Sales – Cloud Services
Hanu Software
Track:
Enterprise Cloud Adoption
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The cloud era has reached the stage where it is no longer a question of whether a company should migrate, but when. Enterprises have embraced the outsourcing of where their various applications are stored and who manages them, saving significant investment along the way. Plus, the cloud has become a defining competitive edge. Companies who fail to successfully adapt risk failure.
The media, of course, continues to extol the virtues of the cloud, including how easy it is to get there. Migrating to the cloud is a simple affair – just call up a cloud provider and your wishes come true! The reality is quite different, however, as enterprises struggle with a wide variety of migration issues, from security to overtaxed IT teams and everything in-between.
This session will examine the cloud migration issues facing today’s enterprise - and how Hanu Software empowers companies to adopt an infrastructure based on Microsoft Azure, a Tier 1 cloud provider, in the simplest and most seamless ways possible.
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Encryption in the Cloud: What You Need to Know |
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Speaker:
Darren Guccione
CEO
Keeper Security, Inc
Track:
Mobility & Security
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Unless your company can spend a lot of money on new technology, re-engineering your environment and hiring a comprehensive cybersecurity team, you will most likely move to the cloud or seek external service partnerships.
Join cybersecurity expert, Darren Guccione, as he reveals what you need to know when it comes to encryption in the cloud. Topics will include:
- Choosing secure cloud vendors - third-party penetration testing, security audits and certifications. Depending on your business requirements, you may need to verify that your cloud vendor is certified to handle your data properly. If you process or store credit cards, PCI-DSS is a necessity. Additionally, depending on your security needs, a certification for a Cyber Security Framework (such as ISO 27001 or NIST Framework) may also be necessary. If you are an organization that is certified under SOC / SSAE16, you will also likely need to review the cloud vendor’s SOC report.
- Where is the encryption key stored and why is it important? Does your cloud provider have the ability to decrypt your encrypted data? If so, then your data could be compromised if the cloud provider is hacked and the encryption keys are compromised. Even if your data is “encrypted” in the cloud does not necessarily mean that it is secure, depending on where the keys are stored.
- Zero-knowledge architecture - A zero-knowledge security architecture ensures that your encryption keys are never available to the cloud vendor. This means that even if the cloud provider is hacked, or otherwise compromised, that your encrypted data stored in the cloud remains secure. The encryption keys are only available to the client, and thus access to the unencrypted data is restricted to the client.
- The fine print - User agreements.
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Expanding WebRTC Capabilities Beyond the Typical Use Cases |
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For basic one-to-one voice or video calling solutions, WebRTC has proven to be a very powerful technology. Although WebRTC’s core functionality is to provide secure, real-time p2p media streaming, leveraging native platform features and server-side components brings up new communication capabilities for web and native mobile applications allowing for advanced multi-user use cases such as video broadcasting, conferencing, media recording and others.
This presentation will discuss how to utilize a flexible mobile-optimized session and signaling architecture to support p2p mesh, router (SFU) and mixer (MCU) strategies for connecting media streams. In addition, we will look at example APIs and integrations for new WebRTC use cases such as team collaboration, virtual classrooms, broadcasting, archiving and security.
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From IT Service Management to DevOps |
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Speaker:
JP Morgenthal
Sr. Principal
CSC
Track:
DevOps, Continuous Delivery and APIs
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CIOs and those charged with running IT Operations are challenged to deliver secure, audited, and reliable compute environments for the applications and data for the business. Behind the scenes these tasks are often accomplished by following onerous time-consuming processes and often the management of these environments and processes will be outsourced to multiple IT service providers. In addition, the division of work is often siloed into traditional "towers" that are not well integrated for cross-functional purposes. So, when traditional IT Service Management (ITSM) meets the cloud, and equally, DevOps, the is invariably going to be conflict.
IT/ESM needs a reboot. As a factor of IT Transformation and Digital Transformation, IT no longer stands alone—or at least in a modern workplace it should not stand alone—it is the hub through which all other business services will see their efforts delivered. Marketing requires large-scale data analytics and webscale support for customer and partner access. Finance needs 360 degree views of how money is flowing through the business inclusive of unintended consequential impacts.
The next incarnation of ESM is DevOps. It is all about leveraging a common set of tools and practices to deliver continuous delivery focused on operations management. This includes all aspects of managing, communications, automation, reporting, and monitoring. It's all about operating IT in an era where everything is software and programmable.
This session will explore the impact of the API economy, Service Integration & Management, and a growing software-defined infrastructure on the next generation of IT operations and how to prepare for the forthcoming changes.
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General Session | Cats Herding: Why It’s Time for a Millennial Approach to Storage |
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Speaker:
Scott Cleland
Senior Director of Product Marketing
HGST
Track:
All Tracks
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Creating replica copies to tolerate a certain number of failures is easy, but, very expensive at cloud-scale. Conventional RAID has lower overhead, but it is limited in the number of failures it can tolerate. And the management is like herding cats (overseeing capacity, rebuilds, migrations, and degraded performance). A new approach is necessary, one that supports the attributes of the cloud with the millions of applications and users depending on it for their business and personal lives. Object storage is the millennial approach to cloud-based data storage, archival, retrieval and cost. Why? Because it delivers significantly higher data reliability and allows virtually unlimited expansion for storage. Perfect for a hash-tagging, selfie-taking, always communicating and collaborating in an on-demand world.
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General Session | Creating Horizontal IoT Marketplaces and Democratizing Apps and Services |
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Speaker:
Esmeralda Swartz
VP, Marketing Enterprise and Cloud
Ericsson
Track:
All Tracks
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What a difference a year makes. Organizations aren’t just talking about IoT possibilities, it is now baked into their core business strategy. With IoT, billions of devices generating data from different companies on different networks around the globe need to interact. From efficiency to better customer insights to completely new business models, IoT will turn traditional business models upside down. In the new customer-centric age, the key to success is delivering critical services and apps with a consistent quality of experience irrespective of device, app or network. Open platforms are enabling the creation of game-changing apps that fundamentally transform a company’s approach for unleashing new value from core assets and data.
As software and sensors running on everything from industrial machinery to smart city services continue to advance, we’re entering an era where agents (services) can control the actions of interconnected intelligent things. As a result, the relationships between devices, device manufacturers and their owners, applications and service providers will become increasingly more complex. Physical access and one-off contracts will be replaced by software that can support the frequent negotiations for access to things and the data they generate. Not only that, but it will happen in an agile and scalable way where all parties involved in the transaction are appropriately compensated.
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General Session | Slow Is the New Down: Keep Your Business in Business by Ensuring Successful User Experiences |
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Speaker:
Sean Armstrong
Vice President of Products
AppNeta
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All Tracks
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Your business relies on your applications and your employees to stay in business. Whether you develop apps or manage business-critical apps that help fuel your business, what happens when users experience sluggish performance? You and all technical teams across the organization - application, network, operations, among others, as well as, those outside the organization, like ISPs and third-party providers, are called in to solve the problem.
Join AppNeta to learn about the root cause of performance issues and how innovative solutions are bridging the gap between siloed technical teams, as well as, outside providers. Explore what arsenal of tools is needed to help ensure a successful user experience and keep your business, in business.
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Harness IoT and Predictive Analytics for Efficient and Reliable Operations |
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Speaker:
Jonathan Quint
CEO and Founder
Ontegrity
Track:
Big Data | Analytics
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Companies can harness IoT and predictive analytics to sustain business continuity; predict and manage site performance during emergencies; minimize expensive reactive maintenance; and forecast equipment and maintenance budgets and expenditures.
Providing cost-effective, uninterrupted service is challenging, particularly for organizations with geographically dispersed operations. Accordingly, businesses are turning to IoT applications and data analytics to monitor operations, identify trends, generate real‐time alarms, and preempt service disruptions. Algorithms, data mining, predictive analytics, a knowledge base, and application expertise must be applied to interpret data so organizations can develop concrete actions that reduce operating costs and increase reliability and asset life.
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How the Cloud Fixes Bimodal IT |
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Speaker:
Jason Bloomberg
President
Intellyx
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Enterprise Cloud Adoption
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As enterprises around the world struggle with their digital transformation efforts, many are finding that innovative digital teams are moving much faster than their hidebound IT organizations. Rather than struggling to convince traditional IT to get with the digital program, executives are taking advice from IT research firm Gartner, and encouraging existing IT to continue in their desultory ways.
However, many CIOs are realizing the dangers of following Gartner’s advice. The central challenge with bimodal IT is that it encourages IT management to shift their transformation efforts away from 'slow' IT to 'fast' digital efforts.
As cloud computing becomes a standard part of the IT repertoire, however, the bimodal divide begins to break down. True, 'fast' IT takes the cloud for granted, but even 'slow' IT finds substantial value in the cloud as well.
The result: enterprise cloud efforts become the common platform and frame of reference for all speeds of IT, breaking down the bimodal pattern that is so dangerous for organizations as they become increasingly digital.
Attendees of this session will:
- Gain an understanding of the bimodal pattern in today's enterprises and why Gartner's advice is so dangerous
- Learn how the cloud impacts both 'fast' digital efforts as well as 'slow' IT organizations
- Understand how the cloud can help 'slow' IT to transform, thus enabling the enterprise to achieve its end-to-end digital goals
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Leveraging PaaS to Build an Enterprise Data Lake and Analytics Platform |
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Speaker:
Ramanujam Rao
Vice President
Asurion
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Containers & Microservices
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Asurion is a global leader in technology protection services and the business operates in the intersection of consumer devices, mobile technologies and IoT. Analytics forms the backbone for its products, services and competitive advantage. Analytics for us, is not isolated silos of reporting, dashboards, predictive and big-data analytics, but, a series of rich models that emerge when we combine all data within the enterprise.
With our enterprise data currently at 3 Petabyte, and growing at over 2 Petabyte every year, there is an urgency to manage data volume from diverse sources, and to efficiently mine rich, timely insights from it. A data-lake architecture for transactional, operational, and reference data, built on a cloud-hosted platform, was our solution for our needs, but it also came with their own challenges
This talk focuses on how we built and operationalized an enterprise-grade integrated analytics platform on a cloud-based data lake, using Hadoop, Spark, Hive, Parquet and Storm.while also leveraging out of box functionality from AWS, such as Kinesis, Redshift and EMR. A platform serving all enterprise needs, from reporting/BI/dashboards, customer hub, to predictive modeling. We will also discuss challenges building a production system at scale, including design choices for ingestion, integration with enterprise data, PII encryption, APIs, data governance, access control and visualization by business users.
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Lunch Power Panel | DevOps Patterns and Anti-Patterns: How to Do the Right Things in the Real World |
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In the world of DevOps there are ‘known good practices’ – aka ‘patterns’ – and ‘known bad practices’ – aka ‘anti-patterns.' Many of these patterns and anti-patterns have been developed from real world experience, especially by the early adopters of DevOps theory; but many are more feasible in theory than in practice, especially for more recent entrants to the DevOps scene.
This panel session will discuss the patterns and anti-patterns of DevOps, and what it means to ‘do the right thing’ in a DevOps way, but in the real world. In particular, panelists will share their ideas about at how these patterns/anti-patterns intersect with real world challenges, such as crystallized systems, regulated industries, distributed workforces, existing ‘best practices’, cultural change, organizational structures, and more. Other topics will include:
- DevOps Theory vs. Practice
- What are some anti-patterns
- What are some patterns
- Culture vs. Process
- Starting with Technology
- DevOps – a team? A role? Neither? Both?
- What is possible, what is not?
- ITIL/ITSM and DevOps
- Best practices or not?
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Network-Aware Orchestration: The Next Level of SD-WAN |
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Speaker:
Olivier Huynh Van
CTO and Co-Founder
Glue Networks
Track:
Containers & Microservices
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Enterprise networks are complex. Moreover, they were designed and deployed to meet a specific set of business requirements at a specific point in time. But, the adoption of cloud services, new business applications and intensifying security policies, among other factors, require IT organizations to continuously deploy configuration changes. Therefore, enterprises are looking for better ways to automate the management of their networks while still leveraging existing capabilities, optimizing performance and reducing operational risk through standardization and best-practice architectures.
Software-defined networking (SDN) promises to provide network configuration management via software to make a network more agile and adaptable. With SDN, network configurations can be managed centrally, and devices can be reprogrammed as needed on the fly, optimizing hardware infrastructure and minimizing operational spending.
This session will discuss extending SDN from data centers to the WAN. Attendees will learn:
- How to leverage Internet broadband and cellular as cost-effective alternatives to private circuits on a global scale, while simplifying overall network architecture
- The three common approaches to SD-WAN and the specific advantages and disadvantages of each
- Why network-aware orchestration is needed for SD-WAN deployments
- The role of DevOps in making the transition from traditional, manually deployed networks to SD-WAN
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Plotting the Best Course Around Multi-Cloud Adoption - What You Need to Know to Leverage the Multi-Cloud for Success |
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Speaker:
Yoav Mor
Multi-Cloud Solution Evangelist
Cloudyn
Track:
Enterprise Cloud Adoption
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Up until last year, enterprises that were looking into cloud services usually undertook a long-term pilot with one of the large cloud providers, running test and dev workloads in the cloud. With cloud’s transition to mainstream adoption in 2015, and with enterprises migrating more and more workloads into the cloud and in between public and private environments, the single-provider approach must be revisited.
Join us for this thought provoking session, in which we will examine the risks of sourcing IT resources from a single cloud service vendor, as well as the benefits to be reaped by adopting multi-cloud strategies.
Main takeaways:
- Lock-in, pace of innovation, pricing fluctuations, and other limiting factors in the single-provider approach
- The benefits in diversifying the cloud portfolio: business, operations and finance
It’s not about one cloud or the other: it’s about deploying the optimal mix of clouds for your enterprise’s workloads and applications.
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Power Panel | The IoT Is a Mess: That's the Good News! |
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There are several IoTs: the Industrial Internet, Consumer Wearables, Wearables and Healthcare, Supply Chains, and the movement toward Smart Grids, Cities, Regions, and Nations. There are competing communications standards every step of the way, a bewildering array of sensors and devices, and an entire world of competing data analytics platforms. To some this appears to be chaos, but this panel views the vast toolbox of options being offered and how individual IoT project managers benefit from the choice of tools being offered to them.
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Proactive vs. Reactive – A Better Approach to Cloud Security |
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Speaker:
Stephen Coty
Chief Security Evangelist
Alert Logic
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Mobility & Security
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How will your company move to the cloud while ensuring a solid security posture? Organizations from small to large are increasingly adopting cloud solutions to deliver essential business services at a much lower cost. According to cyber security experts, the frequency and severity of cyber attacks are on the rise, causing alarm to businesses and customers across a variety of industries. To defend against exploits like these, a company must adopt a comprehensive security defense strategy that is designed for their business. In 2015, organizations such as United Airlines, Sony Corp, Anthem and the Office of Personnel Management experienced data breaches through malware and other targeted attacks.
Join Alert Logic's Chief Evangelist, Stephen Coty, as he takes you into the evolving world of cybercrime and gives you an insider's look into the tactics utilized by fast, well-funded and organized attackers. He will review real examples and case studies of recent breaches, and you will learn expert strategies for protecting your information in the cloud.
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Scaling Massive Enterprise Content Stores in the Cloud |
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Speaker:
John Newton
CTO, Founder and Chairman
Alfresco
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Containers & Microservices
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In this session John Newton will describe how to scale cloud-based content management repositories to store, manage, and retrieve billions of documents and related information with fast and linear scalability. Using new techniques of information modeling, indexing, and processing, new cloud-based systems can support cloud-based workloads previously not possible for high-throughput insurance, banking, and case-based applications.
The session will address the challenges of scaling document repositories to this level; architectural approaches for coordinating data; search and storage technologies, Solr, and Amazon storage and database technologies; the breadth of use cases that modern content systems need to support; how to support user applications that require subsecond response times.
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Step-by-Step IoTization |
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Speaker:
Tony Shan
Chief Architect
CTS
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IoT Developer | Business Cases
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The paradigm has shifted. A Gartner survey shows that 43% of organizations are using or plan to implement the Internet of Things in 2016. However, not just a handful of companies are still using the old-style ad-hoc trial-and-error ways, unaware of the critical barriers, paint points, traps, and hidden roadblocks. How can you become a winner?
This talk presents a methodical approach to guide the holistic adoption and enablement of IoT implementations. This overarching model is an adaptive framework to systematically handle the rapid changes and exponential growth, composed of the following modules: Prototype, Extend, Assess, Strategize, Formulate, Accelerate, Initiate, and Revamp (PEAS FAIR). We will zoom in to individual components in each module. Working examples will be discussed to illustrate the practical use of this method in the real world, along with best practices and lessons learned to help organizations IoTize step by step.
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Storage Analytics Engines in Cloud and Heterogeneous Environments |
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Speaker:
Peter McCallum
VP of Datacenter Solutions
FalconStor
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Big Data | Analytics
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Predictive analytics tools monitor, report, and troubleshoot in order to make proactive decisions about the health, performance, and utilization of storage. Most enterprises combine cloud and on-premise storage, resulting in blended environments of physical, virtual, cloud, and other platforms, which justifies more sophisticated storage analytics.
This session covers using predictive analytics to monitor and adjust functions like performance, capacity, caching, security, optimization, uptime and service levels; identify trends or patterns to forecast future requirements; detect problems before they result in failures or downtime; and convert insight into actions like changing policies, storage tiers, or DR strategies.
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The Agile Accelerator: Where Designers, Product Managers and Engineers Collaborate in the Cloud |
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Speaker:
Charles Kendrick
CTO & Chief Architect
Isomorphic Software
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DevOps, Continuous Delivery and APIs
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Between the mockups and specs produced by analysts, and resulting applications built by developers, there exists a gulf where projects fail, costs spiral, and applications disappoint. Methodologies like Agile attempt to address this with intensified communication, with partial success but many limitations.
In this session, we present a revolutionary model enabled by new technologies. Learn how business and development users can collaborate - each using tools appropriate to their expertise - to build mockups and enhance them all the way through functional prototypes, to final deployed applications. This approach helps you improve usability, exceed end-user expectations, and still hit project milestones.
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Top Reasons Your Organization Benefits from Cloud Bursting |
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Speaker:
Scott Jeschonek
Director Cloud Solutions
Avere Systems
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Hot Track 1 | Cloud
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When it comes to cloud computing, the ability to turn massive amounts of compute cores on and off on demand sounds attractive to IT staff, who need to manage peaks and valleys in user activity. With cloud bursting, the majority of the data can stay on premises while tapping into compute from public cloud providers, reducing risk and minimizing need to move large files.
Hear from Scott Jeschonek, Director of Product Management at Avere Systems on the IT and business benefits that cloud bursting provides, including increased compute capacity, lower IT investment, financial agility, and, ultimately, faster time to market.
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WebSocket – Its Impact on Hybrid Cloud Computing, Streaming Services, Microservices and the Web of Things |
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Speaker:
Frank Greco
Director of Technology
Kaazing Corporation
Track:
Containers & Microservices
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WebSocket is effectively a persistent and fat pipe that is compatible with a standard web infrastructure; a "TCP for the Web." If you think of WebSocket in this light, there are other more hugely interesting applications of WebSocket than just simply sending data to a browser.
We will compare other modern web connectivity methods such as HTTP/2, HTTP Streaming, Server-Sent Events and new W3C event APIs with WebSocket. This session will also look at how WebSocket provides innovative enhancements for dynamic hybrid cloud computing connectivity. And by providing proprietary TCP-based IoT with a common connectable substrate (Web of Things), we can obtain advantages for connected devices such as global reach, ease of deployment, economies of scale, ease of development, etc.
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What Added Value Can a Development Company Bring to Your Software Product? |
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Every successful software product evolves from an idea to an enterprise system. Notably, the same way is passed by the product owner's company. This report represents a generalized overview of the evolution of a software product, the product owner, the needs that arise at various stages of this process, and the value brought by a software development partner to the product owner as a response to these needs.
- Evolution of the project = evolution of needs
- Value chain in software product evolution
- How a software development company can facilitate startups
- Growing scale and complexity, benefits of ongoing collaboration
- Engagement models: it's never too late to start a valuable cooperation!
All in all, the key value that can be added to the success of your product does not comprise technical expertise and corresponding development resources only; true success is possible when the software development company becomes a reliable long-time partner that keeps developing the product further and making it continuously relevant.
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Presentation Slides By Liz McMillan  All organizations that did not originate this moment have a pre-existing culture as well as legacy technology and processes that can be more or less amenable to DevOps implementation. That organizational culture is influenced by the personalities and management styles of Executive Management, the wider culture in which the organization is situated, and the personalities of key team members at all levels of the organization. This culture and entrenched interests usually throw a wrench in the work... Apr. 20, 2018 09:30 AM EDT Reads: 7,876 | By Liz McMillan  In his session at 21st Cloud Expo, James Henry, Co-CEO/CTO of Calgary Scientific Inc., introduced you to the challenges, solutions and benefits of training AI systems to solve visual problems with an emphasis on improving AIs with continuous training in the field. He explored applications in several industries and discussed technologies that allow the deployment of advanced visualization solutions to the cloud. Apr. 20, 2018 07:00 AM EDT Reads: 4,650 | By Pat Romanski  Enterprises are moving to the cloud faster than most of us in security expected. CIOs are going from 0 to 100 in cloud adoption and leaving security teams in the dust. Once cloud is part of an enterprise stack, it’s unclear who has responsibility for the protection of applications, services, and data.
When cloud breaches occur, whether active compromise or a publicly accessible database, the blame must fall on both service providers and users.
In his session at 21st Cloud Expo, Ben Johnson, C... Apr. 20, 2018 03:30 AM EDT Reads: 3,609 | By Liz McMillan  Agile has finally jumped the technology shark, expanding outside the software world. Enterprises are now increasingly adopting Agile practices across their organizations in order to successfully navigate the disruptive waters that threaten to drown them. In our quest for establishing change as a core competency in our organizations, this business-centric notion of Agile is an essential component of Agile Digital Transformation.
In the years since the publication of the Agile Manifesto, the conn... Apr. 19, 2018 11:30 PM EDT Reads: 3,599 | By Liz McMillan  Major trends and emerging technologies – from virtual reality and IoT, to Big Data and algorithms – are helping organizations innovate in the digital era. However, to create real business value, IT must think beyond the ‘what’ of digital transformation to the ‘how’ to harness emerging trends, innovation and disruption. Architecture is the key that underpins and ties all these efforts together. In the digital age, it’s important to invest in architecture, extend the enterprise footprint to the cl... Apr. 19, 2018 11:00 PM EDT Reads: 9,815 | By Liz McMillan  Data is the fuel that drives the machine learning algorithmic engines and ultimately provides the business value.
In his session at Cloud Expo, Ed Featherston, a director and senior enterprise architect at Collaborative Consulting, discussed the key considerations around quality, volume, timeliness, and pedigree that must be dealt with in order to properly fuel that engine. Apr. 19, 2018 10:45 PM EDT Reads: 22,346 | By Elizabeth White  Effectively SMBs and government programs must address compounded regulatory compliance requirements. The most recent are Controlled Unclassified Information and the EU's GDPR have Board Level implications. Managing sensitive data protection will likely result in acquisition criteria, demonstration requests and new requirements. Developers, as part of the pre-planning process and the associated supply chain, could benefit from updating their code libraries and design by incorporating changes.
In... Apr. 19, 2018 10:00 PM EDT Reads: 6,281 | By Elizabeth White  No hype cycles or predictions of zillions of things here. IoT is big. You get it. You know your business and have great ideas for a business transformation strategy. What comes next? Time to make it happen. In his session at @ThingsExpo, Jay Mason, Associate Partner at M&S Consulting, presented a step-by-step plan to develop your technology implementation strategy. He discussed the evaluation of communication standards and IoT messaging protocols, data analytics considerations, edge-to-cloud tec... Apr. 19, 2018 07:00 PM EDT Reads: 5,945 | By Liz McMillan  Everything run by electricity will eventually be connected to the Internet. Get ahead of the Internet of Things revolution. In his session at @ThingsExpo, Akvelon expert and IoT industry leader Sergey Grebnov provided an educational dive into the world of managing your home, workplace and all the devices they contain with the power of machine-based AI and intelligent Bot services for a completely streamlined experience. Apr. 19, 2018 12:45 PM EDT Reads: 3,648 | By Liz McMillan  HyperConvergence came to market with the objective of being simple, flexible and to help drive down operating expenses. It reduced the footprint by bundling the compute/storage/network into one box. This brought a new set of challenges as the HyperConverged vendors are very focused on their own proprietary building blocks. If you want to scale in a certain way, let's say you identified a need for more storage and want to add a device that is not sold by the HyperConverged vendor, forget about it... Apr. 19, 2018 12:00 PM EDT Reads: 5,352 | By Elizabeth White  The next XaaS is CICDaaS. Why? Because CICD saves developers a huge amount of time. CD is an especially great option for projects that require multiple and frequent contributions to be integrated. But… securing CICD best practices is an emerging, essential, yet little understood practice for DevOps teams and their Cloud Service Providers. The only way to get CICD to work in a highly secure environment takes collaboration, patience and persistence. Building CICD in the cloud requires rigorous ar... Apr. 19, 2018 09:45 AM EDT Reads: 4,144 | By Pat Romanski  In past @ThingsExpo presentations, Joseph di Paolantonio has explored how various Internet of Things (IoT) and data management and analytics (DMA) solution spaces will come together as sensor analytics ecosystems. This year, in his session at @ThingsExpo, Joseph di Paolantonio from DataArchon, added the numerous Transportation areas, from autonomous vehicles to “Uber for containers.” While IoT data in any one area of Transportation will have a huge impact in that area, combining sensor analytic... Apr. 19, 2018 06:00 AM EDT Reads: 5,756 | By Pat Romanski  It is of utmost importance for the future success of WebRTC to ensure that interoperability is operational between web browsers and any WebRTC-compliant client. To be guaranteed as operational and effective, interoperability must be tested extensively by establishing WebRTC data and media connections between different web browsers running on different devices and operating systems.
In his session at WebRTC Summit at @ThingsExpo, Dr. Alex Gouaillard, CEO and Founder of CoSMo Software, presented ... Apr. 19, 2018 05:00 AM EDT Reads: 3,692 | By Pat Romanski  What's the role of an IT self-service portal when you get to continuous delivery and Infrastructure as Code? This general session showed how to create the continuous delivery culture and eight accelerators for leading the change. Don Demcsak is a DevOps and Cloud Native Modernization Principal for Dell EMC based out of New Jersey. He is a former, long time, Microsoft Most Valuable Professional, specializing in building and architecting Application Delivery Pipelines for hybrid legacy, and cloud ... Apr. 19, 2018 03:15 AM EDT Reads: 7,081 | By Elizabeth White  The “Digital Era” is forcing us to engage with new methods to build, operate and maintain applications. This transformation also implies an evolution to more and more intelligent applications to better engage with the customers, while creating significant market differentiators.
In both cases, the cloud has become a key enabler to embrace this digital revolution. So, moving to the cloud is no longer the question; the new questions are HOW and WHEN. To make this equation even more complex, most ... Apr. 19, 2018 02:45 AM EDT Reads: 4,717 | By Pat Romanski  To get the most out of their data, successful companies are not focusing on queries and data lakes, they are actively integrating analytics into their operations with a data-first application development approach. Real-time adjustments to improve revenues, reduce costs, or mitigate risk rely on applications that minimize latency on a variety of data sources. In his session at @BigDataExpo, Jack Norris, Senior Vice President, Data and Applications at MapR Technologies, reviewed best practices to ... Apr. 18, 2018 11:00 PM EDT Reads: 6,750 | By Elizabeth White  WebRTC is great technology to build your own communication tools. It will be even more exciting experience it with advanced devices, such as a 360 Camera, 360 microphone, and a depth sensor camera. In his session at @ThingsExpo, Masashi Ganeko, a manager at INFOCOM Corporation, introduced two experimental projects from his team and what they learned from them. "Shotoku Tamago" uses the robot audition software HARK to track speakers in 360 video of a remote party. "Virtual Teleport" uses a multip... Apr. 18, 2018 11:00 PM EDT Reads: 3,481 | By Elizabeth White  As ridesharing competitors and enhanced services increase, notable changes are occurring in the transportation model. Despite the cost-effective means and flexibility of ridesharing, both drivers and users will need to be aware of the connected environment and how it will impact the ridesharing experience. In his session at @ThingsExpo, Timothy Evavold, Executive Director Automotive at Covisint, discussed key challenges and solutions to powering a ride sharing and/or multimodal model in the age ... Apr. 18, 2018 10:00 PM EDT Reads: 5,239 | By Liz McMillan  CIOs and those charged with running IT Operations are challenged to deliver secure, audited, and reliable compute environments for the applications and data for the business. Behind the scenes these tasks are often accomplished by following onerous time-consuming processes and often the management of these environments and processes will be outsourced to multiple IT service providers. In addition, the division of work is often siloed into traditional "towers" that are not well integrated for cro... Apr. 18, 2018 07:00 PM EDT Reads: 7,255 | By Pat Romanski  Vulnerability management is vital for large companies that need to secure containers across thousands of hosts, but many struggle to understand how exposed they are when they discover a new high security vulnerability. In his session at 21st Cloud Expo, John Morello, CTO of Twistlock, addressed this pressing concern by introducing the concept of the “Vulnerability Risk Tree API,” which brings all the data together in a simple REST endpoint, allowing companies to easily grasp the severity of the ... Apr. 18, 2018 11:45 AM EDT Reads: 3,680 | By Elizabeth White  With the introduction of IoT and Smart Living in every aspect of our lives, one question has become relevant: What are the security implications? To answer this, first we have to look and explore the security models of the technologies that IoT is founded upon. In his session at @ThingsExpo, Nevi Kaja, a Research Engineer at Ford Motor Company, discussed some of the security challenges of the IoT infrastructure and related how these aspects impact Smart Living. The material was delivered interac... Apr. 18, 2018 02:00 AM EDT Reads: 8,568 | By Elizabeth White  Hardware virtualization and cloud computing allowed us to increase resource utilization and increase our flexibility to respond to business demand. Docker Containers are the next quantum leap - Are they?! Databases always represented an additional set of challenges unique to running workloads requiring a maximum of I/O, network, CPU resources combined with data locality. Apr. 17, 2018 07:00 PM EDT Reads: 4,604 | By Pat Romanski  The now mainstream platform changes stemming from the first Internet boom brought many changes but didn’t really change the basic relationship between servers and the applications running on them. In fact, that was sort of the point.
In his session at 18th Cloud Expo, Gordon Haff, senior cloud strategy marketing and evangelism manager at Red Hat, will discuss how today’s workloads require a new model and a new platform for development and execution. The platform must handle a wide range of rec... Apr. 17, 2018 11:15 AM EDT Reads: 6,600 | By Liz McMillan  Recently, WebRTC has a lot of eyes from market. The use cases of WebRTC are expanding - video chat, online education, online health care etc. Not only for human-to-human communication, but also IoT use cases such as machine to human use cases can be seen recently. One of the typical use-case is remote camera monitoring. With WebRTC, people can have interoperability and flexibility for deploying monitoring service.
However, the benefit of WebRTC for IoT is not only its convenience and interopera... Apr. 17, 2018 03:00 AM EDT Reads: 3,724 | By Pat Romanski  Most technology leaders, contemporary and from the hardware era, are reshaping their businesses to do software. They hope to capture value from emerging technologies such as IoT, SDN, and AI. Ultimately, irrespective of the vertical, it is about deriving value from independent software applications participating in an ecosystem as one comprehensive solution. In his session at @ThingsExpo, Kausik Sridhar, founder and CTO of Pulzze Systems, discussed how given the magnitude of today's application ... Apr. 17, 2018 03:00 AM EDT Reads: 4,497 | By Elizabeth White  Companies are harnessing data in ways we once associated with science fiction. Analysts have access to a plethora of visualization and reporting tools, but considering the vast amount of data businesses collect and limitations of CPUs, end users are forced to design their structures and systems with limitations. Until now. As the cloud toolkit to analyze data has evolved, GPUs have stepped in to massively parallel SQL, visualization and machine learning. Apr. 17, 2018 12:15 AM EDT Reads: 6,673 | By Elizabeth White  The past few years have brought a sea change in the way applications are architected, developed, and consumed—increasing both the complexity of testing and the business impact of software failures. How can software testing professionals keep pace with modern application delivery, given the trends that impact both architectures (cloud, microservices, and APIs) and processes (DevOps, agile, and continuous delivery)? This is where continuous testing comes in. D Apr. 16, 2018 10:45 PM EDT Reads: 4,792 | By Pat Romanski  Between the mockups and specs produced by analysts, and resulting applications built by developers, there exists a gulf where projects fail, costs spiral, and applications disappoint. Methodologies like Agile attempt to address this with intensified communication, with partial success but many limitations.
In his session at @DevOpsSummit at 19th Cloud Expo, Charles Kendrick, CTO at Isomorphic Software, presented a revolutionary model enabled by new technologies. Learn how business and develop... Apr. 15, 2018 09:00 PM EDT Reads: 5,293 | By Elizabeth White  Most people haven’t heard the word, “gamification,” even though they probably, and perhaps unwittingly, participate in it every day.
Gamification is “the process of adding games or game-like elements to something (as a task) so as to encourage participation.” Further, gamification is about bringing game mechanics – rules, constructs, processes, and methods – into the real world in an effort to engage people.
In his session at @ThingsExpo, Robert Endo, owner and engagement manager of Intrepid D... Apr. 15, 2018 06:00 PM EDT Reads: 17,168 | By Pat Romanski  Gemini is Yahoo’s native and search advertising platform. To ensure the quality of a complex distributed system that spans multiple products and components and across various desktop websites and mobile app and web experiences – both Yahoo owned and operated and third-party syndication (supply), with complex interaction with more than a billion users and numerous advertisers globally (demand) – it becomes imperative to automate a set of end-to-end tests 24x7 to detect bugs and regression.
In th... Apr. 14, 2018 03:15 AM EDT Reads: 4,378 |
@CloudExpo Stories By Liz McMillan  In his Opening Keynote at 21st Cloud Expo, John Considine, General Manager of IBM Cloud Infrastructure, led attendees through the exciting evolution of the cloud. He looked at this major disruption from the perspective of technology, business models, and what this means for enterprises of all sizes. John Considine is General Manager of Cloud Infrastructure Services at IBM. In that role he is responsible for leading IBM’s public cloud infrastructure including strategy, development, and offering m... Apr. 20, 2018 09:45 AM EDT Reads: 5,033 | By Elizabeth White  DXWorldEXPO LLC announced today that All in Mobile, a mobile app development company from Poland, will exhibit at the 22nd International CloudEXPO | DXWorldEXPO. All In Mobile is a mobile app development company from Poland. Since 2014, they maintain passion for developing mobile applications for enterprises and startups worldwide. Apr. 20, 2018 09:30 AM EDT Reads: 1,597 | By Yeshim Deniz  DXWorldEXPO LLC announced today that ICC-USA, a computer systems integrator and server manufacturing company focused on developing products and product appliances, will exhibit at the 22nd International CloudEXPO | DXWorldEXPO.
DXWordEXPO New York 2018, colocated with CloudEXPO New York 2018 will be held November 11-13, 2018, in New York City.
ICC is a computer systems integrator and server manufacturing company focused on developing products and product appliances to meet a wide range of ... Apr. 20, 2018 09:00 AM EDT Reads: 171 | By Yeshim Deniz  Sanjeev Sharma Joins November 11-13, 2018 @DevOpsSummit at @CloudEXPO New York Faculty. Sanjeev Sharma is an internationally known DevOps and Cloud Transformation thought leader, technology executive, and author. Sanjeev's industry experience includes tenures as CTO, Technical Sales leader, and Cloud Architect leader. As an IBM Distinguished Engineer, Sanjeev is recognized at the highest levels of IBM's core of technical leaders. Apr. 20, 2018 09:00 AM EDT Reads: 2,327 | By Yeshim Deniz  We are seeing a major migration of enterprises applications to the cloud. As cloud and business use of real time applications accelerate, legacy networks are no longer able to architecturally support cloud adoption and deliver the performance and security required by highly distributed enterprises. These outdated solutions have become more costly and complicated to implement, install, manage, and maintain.SD-WAN offers unlimited capabilities for accessing the benefits of the cloud and Internet. ... Apr. 20, 2018 08:45 AM EDT Reads: 1,499 | By Yeshim Deniz  As Cybric's Chief Technology Officer, Mike D. Kail is responsible for the strategic vision and technical direction of the platform. Prior to founding Cybric, Mike was Yahoo's CIO and SVP of Infrastructure, where he led the IT and Data Center functions for the company. He has more than 24 years of IT Operations experience with a focus on highly-scalable architectures. Apr. 20, 2018 08:45 AM EDT Reads: 3,005 | By Pat Romanski  Headquartered in Plainsboro, NJ, Synametrics Technologies has provided IT professionals and computer systems developers since 1997. Based on the success of their initial product offerings (WinSQL and DeltaCopy), the company continues to create and hone innovative products that help its customers get more from their computer applications, databases and infrastructure. To date, over one million users around the world have chosen Synametrics solutions to help power their accelerated business or per... Apr. 20, 2018 08:45 AM EDT Reads: 2,179 | By Liz McMillan  Dion Hinchcliffe is an internationally recognized digital expert, bestselling book author, frequent keynote speaker, analyst, futurist, and transformation expert based in Washington, DC. He is currently Chief Strategy Officer at the industry-leading digital strategy and online community solutions firm, 7Summits. Apr. 20, 2018 08:30 AM EDT Reads: 2,472 | By Yeshim Deniz  Founded in 2000, Chetu Inc. is a global provider of customized software development solutions and IT staff augmentation services for software technology providers. By providing clients with unparalleled niche technology expertise and industry experience, Chetu has become the premiere long-term, back-end software development partner for start-ups, SMBs, and Fortune 500 companies. Chetu is headquartered in Plantation, Florida, with thirteen offices throughout the U.S. and abroad. Apr. 20, 2018 08:30 AM EDT Reads: 2,568 | By Yeshim Deniz  Bill Schmarzo, author of "Big Data: Understanding How Data Powers Big Business" and "Big Data MBA: Driving Business Strategies with Data Science," is responsible for setting the strategy and defining the Big Data service offerings and capabilities for EMC Global Services Big Data Practice. As the CTO for the Big Data Practice, he is responsible for working with organizations to help them identify where and how to start their big data journeys. He's written several white papers, is an avid blogge... Apr. 20, 2018 08:15 AM EDT Reads: 3,013 | By Yeshim Deniz  DXWorldEXPO LLC announced today that Dez Blanchfield joined the faculty of CloudEXPO's "10-Year Anniversary Event" which will take place on November 11-13, 2018 in New York City. Dez is a strategic leader in business and digital transformation with 25 years of experience in the IT and telecommunications industries developing strategies and implementing business initiatives. He has a breadth of expertise spanning technologies such as cloud computing, big data and analytics, cognitive computing, m... Apr. 20, 2018 08:00 AM EDT Reads: 2,459 | By Liz McMillan  In his session at 21st Cloud Expo, James Henry, Co-CEO/CTO of Calgary Scientific Inc., introduced you to the challenges, solutions and benefits of training AI systems to solve visual problems with an emphasis on improving AIs with continuous training in the field. He explored applications in several industries and discussed technologies that allow the deployment of advanced visualization solutions to the cloud. Apr. 20, 2018 07:00 AM EDT Reads: 4,650 | By Elizabeth White  We all know that end users experience the Internet primarily with mobile devices. From an app development perspective, we know that successfully responding to the needs of mobile customers depends on rapid DevOps – failing fast, in short, until the right solution evolves in your customers' relationship to your business. Whether you’re decomposing an SOA monolith, or developing a new application cloud natively, it’s not a question of using microservices – not doing so will be a path to eventual b... Apr. 20, 2018 06:45 AM EDT Reads: 1,845 | By Elizabeth White  I think DevOps is now a rambunctious teenager - it's starting to get a mind of its own, wanting to get its own things but it still needs some adult supervision," explained Thomas Hooker, VP of marketing at CollabNet, in this SYS-CON.tv interview at DevOps Summit at 20th Cloud Expo, held June 6-8, 2017, at the Javits Center in New York City, NY. Apr. 20, 2018 03:45 AM EDT Reads: 1,818 | By Pat Romanski  Enterprises are moving to the cloud faster than most of us in security expected. CIOs are going from 0 to 100 in cloud adoption and leaving security teams in the dust. Once cloud is part of an enterprise stack, it’s unclear who has responsibility for the protection of applications, services, and data.
When cloud breaches occur, whether active compromise or a publicly accessible database, the blame must fall on both service providers and users.
In his session at 21st Cloud Expo, Ben Johnson, C... Apr. 20, 2018 03:30 AM EDT Reads: 3,609 | By Yeshim Deniz  In this presentation, you will learn first hand what works and what doesn't while architecting and deploying OpenStack. Some of the topics will include:- best practices for creating repeatable deployments of OpenStack- multi-site considerations- how to customize OpenStack to integrate with your existing systems and security best practices. Apr. 20, 2018 03:15 AM EDT Reads: 1,171 | By Elizabeth White  "MobiDev is a software development company and we do complex, custom software development for everybody from entrepreneurs to large enterprises," explained Alan Winters, U.S. Head of Business Development at MobiDev, in this SYS-CON.tv interview at 21st Cloud Expo, held Oct 31 – Nov 2, 2017, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA. Apr. 20, 2018 12:45 AM EDT Reads: 4,640 | By Liz McMillan  Agile has finally jumped the technology shark, expanding outside the software world. Enterprises are now increasingly adopting Agile practices across their organizations in order to successfully navigate the disruptive waters that threaten to drown them. In our quest for establishing change as a core competency in our organizations, this business-centric notion of Agile is an essential component of Agile Digital Transformation.
In the years since the publication of the Agile Manifesto, the conn... Apr. 19, 2018 11:30 PM EDT Reads: 3,599 | By Liz McMillan  Major trends and emerging technologies – from virtual reality and IoT, to Big Data and algorithms – are helping organizations innovate in the digital era. However, to create real business value, IT must think beyond the ‘what’ of digital transformation to the ‘how’ to harness emerging trends, innovation and disruption. Architecture is the key that underpins and ties all these efforts together. In the digital age, it’s important to invest in architecture, extend the enterprise footprint to the cl... Apr. 19, 2018 11:00 PM EDT Reads: 9,815 | By Pat Romanski  Leading companies, from the Global Fortune 500 to the smallest companies, are adopting hybrid cloud as the path to business advantage. Hybrid cloud depends on cloud services and on-premises infrastructure working in unison. Successful implementations require new levels of data mobility, enabled by an automated and seamless flow across on-premises and cloud resources. In his general session at 21st Cloud Expo, Greg Tevis, an IBM Storage Software Technical Strategist and Customer Solution Architec... Apr. 19, 2018 11:00 PM EDT Reads: 1,844 | By Liz McMillan  "We work around really protecting the confidentiality of information, and by doing so we've developed implementations of encryption through a patented process that is known as superencipherment," explained Richard Blech, CEO of Secure Channels Inc., in this SYS-CON.tv interview at 21st Cloud Expo, held Oct 31 – Nov 2, 2017, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA. Apr. 19, 2018 11:00 PM EDT Reads: 3,446 |
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Sponsorship opportunities are now open for Cloud Expo 2016 New York, June 7-9, 2016, at the Javits Convention Center in New York, NY, and Cloud Expo 2016 Silicon Valley, Nov. 1-3, 2016, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA. For sponsorship, exhibit opportunities and show prospectus, please contact Carmen Gonzalez, carmen (at) sys-con.com. |
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This week I had the pleasure of delivering the opening keynote at Cloud Expo New York. It was amazing to be back in the great city of New York with thousands of cloud enthusiasts eager to learn about the next step on their journey to embracing a cloud-first worldl." |
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How does Cloud Expo do it every year? Another INCREDIBLE show - our heads are spinning - so fun and informative." |
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Thank you @ThingsExpo for such a great event. All of the people we met over the past three days makes us confident IoT has a bright future." |
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One of the best conferences we have attended in a while. Great job, Cloud Expo team! Keep it going." |
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SYS-CON Media has a flourishing Media Partner program in which mutually beneficial promotion and benefits are arranged between our own leading Enterprise IT portals and events and those of our partners.
If you would like to participate, please provide us with details of your website/s and event/s or your organization and please include basic audience demographics as well as relevant metrics such as ave. page views per month.
To get involved, email Lissette Mercado at [email protected].
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@CloudExpo Blogs By Liz McMillan  All organizations that did not originate this moment have a pre-existing culture as well as legacy technology and processes that can be more or less amenable to DevOps implementation. That organizational culture is influenced by the personalities and management styles of Executive Management, the wider culture in which the organization is situated, and the personalities of key team members at all levels of the organization. This culture and entrenched interests usually throw a wrench in the works because of misaligned incentives. Apr. 20, 2018 09:30 AM EDT Reads: 7,876 | By Elizabeth White  DXWorldEXPO LLC announced today that All in Mobile, a mobile app development company from Poland, will exhibit at the 22nd International CloudEXPO | DXWorldEXPO. All In Mobile is a mobile app development company from Poland. Since 2014, they maintain passion for developing mobile applications for enterprises and startups worldwide. Apr. 20, 2018 09:30 AM EDT Reads: 1,597 | By Yeshim Deniz  DXWorldEXPO LLC announced today that ICC-USA, a computer systems integrator and server manufacturing company focused on developing products and product appliances, will exhibit at the 22nd International CloudEXPO | DXWorldEXPO.
DXWordEXPO New York 2018, colocated with CloudEXPO New York 2018 will be held November 11-13, 2018, in New York City.
ICC is a computer systems integrator and server manufacturing company focused on developing products and product appliances to meet a wide range of computational needs for many industries. Their solutions provide benefits across many environments, ... Apr. 20, 2018 09:00 AM EDT Reads: 171 | By Yeshim Deniz  As Cybric's Chief Technology Officer, Mike D. Kail is responsible for the strategic vision and technical direction of the platform. Prior to founding Cybric, Mike was Yahoo's CIO and SVP of Infrastructure, where he led the IT and Data Center functions for the company. He has more than 24 years of IT Operations experience with a focus on highly-scalable architectures. Apr. 20, 2018 08:45 AM EDT Reads: 3,005 | By Yeshim Deniz  We are seeing a major migration of enterprises applications to the cloud. As cloud and business use of real time applications accelerate, legacy networks are no longer able to architecturally support cloud adoption and deliver the performance and security required by highly distributed enterprises. These outdated solutions have become more costly and complicated to implement, install, manage, and maintain.SD-WAN offers unlimited capabilities for accessing the benefits of the cloud and Internet. SD-WAN helps enterprises to take advantage of the exploding landscape of cloud applications and serv... Apr. 20, 2018 08:45 AM EDT Reads: 1,499 | By Pat Romanski  Headquartered in Plainsboro, NJ, Synametrics Technologies has provided IT professionals and computer systems developers since 1997. Based on the success of their initial product offerings (WinSQL and DeltaCopy), the company continues to create and hone innovative products that help its customers get more from their computer applications, databases and infrastructure. To date, over one million users around the world have chosen Synametrics solutions to help power their accelerated business or personal computing needs. Apr. 20, 2018 08:45 AM EDT Reads: 2,179 | By Liz McMillan  Dion Hinchcliffe is an internationally recognized digital expert, bestselling book author, frequent keynote speaker, analyst, futurist, and transformation expert based in Washington, DC. He is currently Chief Strategy Officer at the industry-leading digital strategy and online community solutions firm, 7Summits. Apr. 20, 2018 08:30 AM EDT Reads: 2,472 | By Yeshim Deniz  Founded in 2000, Chetu Inc. is a global provider of customized software development solutions and IT staff augmentation services for software technology providers. By providing clients with unparalleled niche technology expertise and industry experience, Chetu has become the premiere long-term, back-end software development partner for start-ups, SMBs, and Fortune 500 companies. Chetu is headquartered in Plantation, Florida, with thirteen offices throughout the U.S. and abroad. Apr. 20, 2018 08:30 AM EDT Reads: 2,568 | By Yeshim Deniz  Bill Schmarzo, author of "Big Data: Understanding How Data Powers Big Business" and "Big Data MBA: Driving Business Strategies with Data Science," is responsible for setting the strategy and defining the Big Data service offerings and capabilities for EMC Global Services Big Data Practice. As the CTO for the Big Data Practice, he is responsible for working with organizations to help them identify where and how to start their big data journeys. He's written several white papers, is an avid blogger and is a frequent speaker on the use of Big Data and data science to power the organization's key ... Apr. 20, 2018 08:15 AM EDT Reads: 3,013 | By Yeshim Deniz  DXWorldEXPO LLC announced today that Dez Blanchfield joined the faculty of CloudEXPO's "10-Year Anniversary Event" which will take place on November 11-13, 2018 in New York City. Dez is a strategic leader in business and digital transformation with 25 years of experience in the IT and telecommunications industries developing strategies and implementing business initiatives. He has a breadth of expertise spanning technologies such as cloud computing, big data and analytics, cognitive computing, machine learning and the Internet of Things. Apr. 20, 2018 08:00 AM EDT Reads: 2,459 | By Liz McMillan  In his session at 21st Cloud Expo, James Henry, Co-CEO/CTO of Calgary Scientific Inc., introduced you to the challenges, solutions and benefits of training AI systems to solve visual problems with an emphasis on improving AIs with continuous training in the field. He explored applications in several industries and discussed technologies that allow the deployment of advanced visualization solutions to the cloud. Apr. 20, 2018 07:00 AM EDT Reads: 4,650 | By Ed Featherston  The cloud wars rage on. The room is full of 800lb gorillas that have been battling over market share and supremacy for several years now. You know who the key players are - Amazon, Microsoft, Google and IBM – all still standing. Three year ago, Gartner described the market as ‘still evolving and maturing’. However, last year, they described the market as ‘in a state of upheaval’ with many providers shifting their strategies as they struggle to obtain market share. Apr. 20, 2018 06:45 AM EDT Reads: 8,761 | By Elizabeth White  We all know that end users experience the Internet primarily with mobile devices. From an app development perspective, we know that successfully responding to the needs of mobile customers depends on rapid DevOps – failing fast, in short, until the right solution evolves in your customers' relationship to your business. Whether you’re decomposing an SOA monolith, or developing a new application cloud natively, it’s not a question of using microservices – not doing so will be a path to eventual business failure. Apr. 20, 2018 06:45 AM EDT Reads: 1,845 | By Elizabeth White  I think DevOps is now a rambunctious teenager - it's starting to get a mind of its own, wanting to get its own things but it still needs some adult supervision," explained Thomas Hooker, VP of marketing at CollabNet, in this SYS-CON.tv interview at DevOps Summit at 20th Cloud Expo, held June 6-8, 2017, at the Javits Center in New York City, NY. Apr. 20, 2018 03:45 AM EDT Reads: 1,818 | By Pat Romanski  Enterprises are moving to the cloud faster than most of us in security expected. CIOs are going from 0 to 100 in cloud adoption and leaving security teams in the dust. Once cloud is part of an enterprise stack, it’s unclear who has responsibility for the protection of applications, services, and data.
When cloud breaches occur, whether active compromise or a publicly accessible database, the blame must fall on both service providers and users.
In his session at 21st Cloud Expo, Ben Johnson, Co-Founder and CTO of Obsidian Security, explored how both groups must do more to make cloud more sec... Apr. 20, 2018 03:30 AM EDT Reads: 3,609 | By Stefan Bernbo  Many factors are contributing to the endlessly increasing volumes of data that organizations must now deal with, including cloud-based infrastructure and virtualization. This data contains a wealth of information that enterprises can use to transform their businesses, but first, a place for it must be found. Software-defined storage (SDS) has been gaining ground because it is highly flexible as well as affordable. Apr. 20, 2018 03:15 AM EDT Reads: 1,720 | By Yeshim Deniz  In this presentation, you will learn first hand what works and what doesn't while architecting and deploying OpenStack. Some of the topics will include:- best practices for creating repeatable deployments of OpenStack- multi-site considerations- how to customize OpenStack to integrate with your existing systems and security best practices. Apr. 20, 2018 03:15 AM EDT Reads: 1,171 | By Ed Featherston  Supply Chain. Logistics. Provenance. Hot topics around the dinner table with the family I am sure. Okay, maybe not so much. Even so, these all impact our lives daily, while we may be blissfully unaware of it. Take the dinner table for example. That savory grilled salmon filet on your plate may have come all the way from China. Those carrots and asparagus? Possibly shipped in from Peru. The fresh (out of season) fruit? Chile or Mexico could have been the origination point. What gets all those items from their source to your dinner table, while they are still fresh, is all about the supply chain... Apr. 20, 2018 03:15 AM EDT Reads: 2,085 | By Elizabeth White  "MobiDev is a software development company and we do complex, custom software development for everybody from entrepreneurs to large enterprises," explained Alan Winters, U.S. Head of Business Development at MobiDev, in this SYS-CON.tv interview at 21st Cloud Expo, held Oct 31 – Nov 2, 2017, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA. Apr. 20, 2018 12:45 AM EDT Reads: 4,640 | By Rostyslav Demush  How much does it cost to make an app is almost as popular a question as it is confusing.
No one tries to learn the exact costs of, say, making a movie: people realize that there’s an overwhelming amount of variables involved on which they depend.
But almost every day a new inquiry is posted on a tech forum, Quora, or Reddit as to how much it’d take to build a mobile business app. Apr. 19, 2018 11:15 PM EDT Reads: 3,212 |
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