Enabling Actionable Insight: Solving the Data Veracity Problem from the Cloud The excitement around the possibilities enabled by Big Data is being tempered by the daunting task of feeding the analytics engines with high quality data on a continuous basis. As the once distinct fields of data integration and data management increasingly converge, cloud-based data solutions providers have emerged that can buffer your organization from the complexities of this continuous data cleansing and management so that you're free to focus on the end goal: actionable insight. In his session at Big Data Expo, Pat Adamiak, VP, Product Marketing at Liaison Technologies, will show through practical customer examples: How to keep your data scientists from becoming data janitors. How cloud-based data solutions providers bring elasticity, scalability, reduced time to insight, and the pow... (more)

The Era of Smart Data Is Upon Us By @CloudianStorage | @CloudExpo [#Cloud]

The Era of Smart Data Is Upon Us - How Hybrid Clouds Provide Scalable Storage for the Internet of Things Analytics is the foundation of smart data and now, with the ability to run Hadoop directly on smart storage systems like Cloudian HyperStore, enterprises will gain huge business advantages in terms of scalability, efficiency and cost savings as they move closer to realizing the potential of the Internet of Things. In his session at 16th Cloud Expo, Paul Turner, technology evangelist and CMO at Cloudian, Inc., will discuss the revolutionary notion that the storage world is tr... (more)

Recurring Revenue Still Flying High By @AriaSystemsInc | @CloudExpo

By Tim Clark Innovative companies who provide their products and services on a recurring basis have continued to generate new sales and drive greater profits since Aria Systems published its Big Book of Recurring Revenue Innovators e-book in Spring of this year. From established names such as Microsoft, ESPN, Toyota, and United Airlines to start-ups like JustFab, recurring revenue-based companies continue to show the potential for tremendous growth. JustFab, which sells women’s shoes, handbags, jewelry, denim, and athletic gear by subscription, joined the Billion-Dollar Club of c... (more)

Cloud: Pets, Cattle &...Chickens? By @BernardGolden | @CloudExpo [#Cloud]

Cloud Computing: Pets, Cattle and ... Chickens? If you've spent any time at leading cloud computing conferences, you may have come across the meme "pets vs cattle." (Here is a lengthy slideshare presentation by Randy Bias of EMC/Cloudscaling discussing the difference between pets and cattle in a cloud computing world.) The message associated with this meme is that we should have different attitudes about traditional infrastructure versus today's cloud infrastructure. Traditional infrastructure is expensive and individuated - we give servers names, we lavish attention on them, and... (more)

Put Your Data in the Driver’s Seat By @MadhukarKumar | @CloudExpo [#Cloud]

Put Your Data in the Driver's Seat with a Data-Centric IT Approach Are your applications getting in the way of your business strategy? It's time to rethink your IT approach. In his session at 16th Cloud Expo, Madhukar Kumar, Vice President, Product Management at Liaison Technologies, will discuss a new data-centric approach to IT that allows your data, not applications, to inform business strategy. By moving away from an application-centric IT model where data integration and analysis are subservient to the constraints of applications, your organization will be better poised to:... (more)

Using DevOps to Troubleshoot Performance Issues | @DevOpsSummit [#DevOps]

In my  previous article, I had introduced how DevOps can play a role in JVM troubleshooting. In this series, I would like to share a case study that we encountered in our organization and how we isolated the issue before engaging the right team to fix it. One of our customers upgraded to the latest application release from previous release and noticed a significant performance degradation in the throughput. As a first step, we confirmed the customer claim by reproducing the reported issue in our environment. Having a local reproduction environment opened up opportunities to try ... (more)