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Making Financial Sense of PaaS, Part Deux
Part I
In my blog, “Making Financial Sense of PaaS,” I provided an analysis of
delivering a newly-developed mobile application using a variety of platforms.
Subsequent to my posting I had some great conversations about the content
with Brent Smithurst (@brentsmi) from ActiveState and Mark Thiele
(@mthiele10) from Switch. Brent is from a PaaS software provider and Mark is
a world-renowned expert on data center operations and architecture, so
clearly their insight is extremely relevant and credible.
As pointed out by Mark, it’s very easy to make the cloud look financially
attractive when pricing out a single application versus a portfolio of
applications. Indeed, I would have to agree one of the most difficult things
is to formulate an apples-to-apples comparison of cloud to data center. Even
with the concept of reservations,... (more)
The WebRTC Summit 2015 New York, to be held June 9-11, 2015, at the Javits
Center in New York, NY, announces that its Call for Papers is open.
Topics include all aspects of improving IT delivery by eliminating waste
through automated business models leveraging cloud technologies. WebRTC
Summit is co-located with 16th International Cloud Expo, @ThingsExpo, Big
Data Expo, and DevOps Summit.
WebRTC is the future of browser-to-browser communications, and continues to
make inroads into the traditional, difficult, plug-in web communications
world.
Topics include all aspects of improvi... (more)
SYS-CON Media announced today that @WebRTCSummit Blog, the largest WebRTC
resource in the world, has been launched with over 2,200 original WebRTC
stories.
@WebRTCSummit Blog offers top articles, news stories, and blog posts from the
world's well-known experts and guarantees better exposure for its authors
than any other publication.
WebRTC Summit Blog can be bookmarked ▸ Here
WebRTC Summit conference site can be bookmarked ▸ Here
WebRTC Is Disrupting Web Communications.
Attend the WebRTC Summit & Join In the Fun!
WebRTC is the future of browser-to-browser communications, and conti... (more)
The 3rd International Internet of @ThingsExpo, co-located with the 16th
International Cloud Expo - to be held June 9-11, 2015, at the Javits Center
in New York City, NY - announces that its Call for Papers is now open.
The Internet of Things (IoT) is the most profound change in personal and
enterprise IT since the creation of the Worldwide Web more than 20 years ago.
All major researchers estimate there will be tens of billions devices -
computers, smartphones, tablets, and sensors - connected to the Internet by
2020. This number will continue to grow at a rapid pace for the next s... (more)
The next edition of the HP Discover Podcast Series delves into how Telum in
Northeast Mexico improves their ISP services delivery reliability through
quality assurance and higher availability using advanced monitoring software.
To learn more about how they have matured their process, technology and IT
culture, we are joined by Max Garza O'Ward, Head of IT Operations at Telum,
an ISP based in Monterrey, Mexico. The discussion is moderated by me, Dana
Gardner, Principal Analyst at Interarbor Solutions.
Here are some excerpts:
Gardner: Why are reliability and high performance are so ... (more)
Cloud Expo 2015 TV commercials will feature @ThingsExpo, which was launched
last year in June 2014 at New York City's Javits Center as the largest
'Internet of Things' event in the world.
The next @ThingsExpo will take place June 9-11, 2015 in New York City.
Since its launch in 2008, Cloud Expo TV commercials have been aired on
CNBC, Fox News Network, and Bloomberg TV.
Please enjoy our 2015 commercial.
Cloud, Big Data, and the 'Internet of Things'
Are you ready to put your data in the cloud?
What is the future of security in the cloud?
Does Docker quickly advance the development... (more)
@CloudExpo Stories By Carmen Gonzalez  @ThingsExpo has been named the Top 5 Most Influential Internet of Things Brand by Onalytica in the ‘The Internet of Things Landscape 2015: Top 100 Individuals and Brands.' Onalytica analyzed Twitter conversations around the #IoT debate to uncover the most influential brands and individuals driving the conversation.
Onalytica captured data from 56,224 users. The PageRank based methodology they use to extract influencers on a particular topic (tweets mentioning #InternetofThings or #IoT in this ... Apr. 2, 2015 11:30 PM EDT Reads: 809 | By Pat Romanski  The 5th International DevOps Summit, co-located with 17th International Cloud Expo – being held November 3-5, 2015, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA – announces that its Call for Papers is open.
Born out of proven success in agile development, cloud computing, and process automation, DevOps is a macro trend you cannot afford to miss. From showcase success stories from early adopters and web-scale businesses, DevOps is expanding to organizations of all sizes, including the... Apr. 2, 2015 07:30 PM EDT Reads: 844 | By Elizabeth White  SYS-CON Events announced today that the DevOps Institute has been named “Association Sponsor” of SYS-CON's DevOps Summit, which will take place on June 9–11, 2015, at the Javits Center in New York City, NY.
The DevOps Institute provides enterprise level training and certification. Working with thought leaders from the DevOps community, the IT Service Management field and the IT training market, the DevOps Institute is setting the standard in quality for DevOps education and training. Apr. 2, 2015 07:00 PM EDT Reads: 1,543 | By Liz McMillan  SYS-CON Events announced today that robomq.io will exhibit at SYS-CON's @ThingsExpo, which will take place on June 9-11, 2015, at the Javits Center in New York City, NY.
robomq.io is an interoperable and composable platform that connects any device to any application. It helps systems integrators and the solution providers build new and innovative products and service for industries requiring monitoring or intelligence from devices and sensors. Apr. 2, 2015 06:00 PM EDT Reads: 1,709 | By Elizabeth White  Today, IT is not just a cost center. IT is an enabler and driver of business. With the emergence of the hybrid cloud paradigm, IT now has increasingly more capabilities to create new strategic opportunities for a business. Hybrid cloud allows an organization to utilize multi-tenant public clouds, dedicated private clouds, bare metal hosting, and the associated support and services for the right use cases through an on-demand, XaaS model. This model of IT creates tremendous opportunities for busi... Apr. 2, 2015 05:00 PM EDT Reads: 3,570 | By Elizabeth White  Businesses are looking to empower employees and departments to do more, go faster, and streamline their processes. For all workers – but mobile workers especially – utilizing the cloud to reconnect documents and improve processes without destructing existing workflows can have a dramatic impact on productivity.
In his session at 16th Cloud Expo, Mark Grilli, vice president of Acrobat Solutions marketing at Adobe Systems Incorporated, will outline new ways that the cloud is changing the way peo... Apr. 2, 2015 04:00 PM EDT Reads: 1,560 | By Liz McMillan  Internet of Things (IoT) will be a hybrid ecosystem of diverse devices and sensors collaborating with operational and enterprise systems to create the next big application.
In their session at @ThingsExpo, Bramh Gupta, founder and CEO of robomq.io, and Fred Yatzeck, principal architect leading product development at robomq.io, will discuss how choosing the right middleware and integration strategy from the get-go will enable IoT solution developers to adapt and grow with the industry, while at... Apr. 2, 2015 03:45 PM EDT Reads: 1,054 | By Elizabeth White  The 17th International Cloud Expo has announced that its Call for Papers is open. 17th International Cloud Expo, to be held November 3-5, 2015, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA, brings together Cloud Computing, APM, APIs, Microservices, Security, Big Data, Internet of Things, DevOps and WebRTC to one location.
With cloud computing driving a higher percentage of enterprise IT budgets every year, it becomes increasingly important to plant your flag in this fast-expanding bu... Apr. 2, 2015 03:30 PM EDT Reads: 926 | By Elizabeth White  SYS-CON Events announced today that MangoApps will exhibit at SYS-CON's 16th International Cloud Expo®, which will take place on June 9-11, 2015, at the Javits Center in New York City, NY., and the 17th International Cloud Expo®, which will take place on November 3–5, 2015, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA.
MangoApps provides private all-in-one social intranets allowing workers to securely collaborate from anywhere in the world and from any device. Social, mobile, and eas... Apr. 2, 2015 03:00 PM EDT Reads: 3,337 | By Elizabeth White  SYS-CON Events announced today that Solgenia will exhibit at SYS-CON's 16th International Cloud Expo®, which will take place on June 9-11, 2015, at the Javits Center in New York City, NY, and the 17th International Cloud Expo®, which will take place on November 3–5, 2015, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA.
Solgenia is the global market leader in Cloud Collaboration and Cloud Infrastructure software solutions. Designed to “Bridge the Gap” between Personal and Professional S... Apr. 2, 2015 03:00 PM EDT Reads: 3,198 | By Elizabeth White  WSM International has launched a DevOps services division that offers assessment, consulting and implementation to large enterprises and organizations with complex infrastructures.
The concept of DevOps is to blend information technology (IT) software development with operations to optimize the computing infrastructure according to the specific needs of the organization. According to a recent press release from Gartner, "By 2016, DevOps will evolve from a niche strategy employed by large cloud ... Apr. 2, 2015 03:00 PM EDT Reads: 1,538 | By Liz McMillan  SYS-CON Events announced today that QTS Realty Trust, one of the nation’s largest and fastest-growing providers of data center facilities and cloud services and a leader in security and compliance, will exhibit at SYS-CON's 16th International Cloud Expo®, which will take place on June 9-11, 2015, at the Javits Center in New York City, NY.
QTS Realty Trust, Inc. (NYSE: QTS) is a leading national provider of data center solutions and fully managed services, and a leader in security and compliance... Apr. 2, 2015 03:00 PM EDT Reads: 1,481 | By Liz McMillan  SYS-CON Events announced today that WSM International (WSM), the world’s leading cloud and server migration services provider, will exhibit at SYS-CON's 16th International Cloud Expo®, which will take place on June 9-11, 2015, at the Javits Center in New York City, NY.
WSM is a solutions integrator with a core focus on cloud and server migration, transformation and DevOps services. Apr. 2, 2015 03:00 PM EDT Reads: 1,531 | By Liz McMillan  SYS-CON Events announced today that Litmus Automation will exhibit at SYS-CON's 16th International Cloud Expo®, which will take place on June 9-11, 2015, at the Javits Center in New York City, NY.
Litmus Automation’s vision is to provide a solution for companies that are in a rush to embrace the disruptive Internet of Things technology and leverage it for real business challenges. Litmus Automation simplifies the complexity of connected devices applications with Loop, a secure and scalable clou... Apr. 2, 2015 02:30 PM EDT Reads: 932 | By Elizabeth White  OmniTI has expanded its services to help customers automate their processes to deliver high quality applications to market faster.
Consistent with its focus on IT agility and quality, OmniTI operates under DevOps principles, exploring the flow of value through the IT delivery process, identifying opportunities to eliminate waste, realign misaligned incentives, and open bottlenecks. OmniTI takes a unique, value-centric approach by plotting each opportunity in an effort-payoff quadrant, then work... Apr. 2, 2015 02:00 PM EDT Reads: 1,197 | By Jason Bloomberg  Even though it’s now Microservices Journal, long-time fans of SOA World Magazine can take comfort in the fact that the URL – soa.sys-con.com – remains unchanged. And that’s no mistake, as microservices are really nothing more than a new and improved take on the Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) best practices we struggled to hammer out over the last decade. Skeptics, however, might say that this change is nothing more than an exercise in buzzword-hopping. SOA is passé, and now that people are ... Apr. 2, 2015 01:00 PM EDT Reads: 1,542 | By Elizabeth White  Hosted PaaS providers have given independent developers and startups huge advantages in efficiency and reduced time-to-market over their more process-bound counterparts in enterprises. Software frameworks are now available that allow enterprise IT departments to provide these same advantages for developers in their own organization.
In his workshop session at DevOps Summit, Troy Topnik, ActiveState’s Technical Product Manager, will show how on-prem or cloud-hosted Private PaaS can enable organ... Apr. 2, 2015 12:00 PM EDT Reads: 1,555 | By Elizabeth White  With the arrival of the Big Data revolution, a data professional is expected to master a broad spectrum of complex domains including data processing, mathematics, programming languages, machine learning techniques, and business knowledge. While this mastery is undoubtedly important, this narrow focus on tool usage has divorced many from the imagination required to solve real-world problems. As the demand for analysis increases, the data science community must transform from tool experts to "data... Apr. 2, 2015 12:00 PM EDT Reads: 1,027 | By Carmen Gonzalez  The world's leading Cloud event, Cloud Expo has launched Microservices Journal on the SYS-CON.com portal, featuring over 19,000 original articles, news stories, features, and blog entries.
DevOps Journal is focused on this critical enterprise IT topic in the world of cloud computing.
Microservices Journal offers top articles, news stories, and blog posts from the world's well-known experts and guarantees better exposure for its authors than any other publication.
Follow new article posts on T... Apr. 2, 2015 12:00 PM EDT Reads: 1,691 | By Elizabeth White  SYS-CON Events announced today that Emcien will exhibit at SYS-CON's 16th International Cloud Expo®, which will take place on June 9-11, 2015, at the Javits Center in New York City, NY.
Emcien’s vision is to let anyone use data to know the future. Emcien has built an automated, predictive analysis product that improves the lives of real people. Emcien allows people to automate their data analysis so they can build a better future. Apr. 2, 2015 12:00 PM EDT Reads: 994 |
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