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SYS-CON Events announced today that Pythian, a global IT services company
specializing in helping companies leverage disruptive technologies to
optimize revenue-generating systems, has been named "Bronze Sponsor" of
SYS-CON's 17th Cloud Expo, which will take place on November 3-5, 2015, at
the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA.
Founded in 1997, Pythian is a global IT services company that helps companies
compete by adopting disruptive technologies such as cloud, Big Data, advanced
analytics, and DevOps to advance innovation and increase agility.
Specializing in designing, implementing, and managing systems that directly
contribute to revenue growth and business success, Pythian's highly skilled
technical teams work as an integrated extension of our clients' organizations
to deliver continuous transformation and uninterrupted operational
excellence.
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DevOps Is Changing from Solving Problems to Driving Business
DevOps has traditionally played important roles in development and IT
operations, but the practice is quickly becoming core to other business
functions such as customer success, business intelligence, and marketing
analytics.
Modern marketers today are driven by data and rely on many different
analytics tools. They need DevOps engineers in general and server log data
specifically to do their jobs well. Here's why: Server log files contain the
only data that is completely full and accurate in the context of how search
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WebRTC Reborn
WebRTC has had a real tough three or four years, and so have those working
with it. Only a few short years ago, the development world were excited about
WebRTC and proclaiming how awesome it was.
You might have played with the technology a couple of years ago, only to find
the extra infrastructure requirements were painful to implement and poorly
documented. This probably left a bitter taste in your mouth, especially when
things went wrong.
Those in the industry have been working hard to sweeten the deal again -
efforts have been made to bring WebRTC into the main... (more)
Five Steps to DevOps Success - Avoiding the High Cost of Downtime
In a recent research, analyst firm IDC found that the average cost of a
critical application failure is $500,000 to $1 million per hour and the
average total cost of unplanned application downtime is $1.25 billion to $2.5
billion per year for Fortune 1000 companies. In addition to the findings on
the cost of the downtime, the research also highlighted best practices for
development, testing, application support, infrastructure, and operations
teams.
In his session at DevOps Summit, Anand Akela, Director of Product... (more)
The next BriefingsDirect big data innovation case study interview highlights
how Rolta AdvizeX in Independence, Ohio creates analytics-driven solutions in
the healthcare and retail industries.
We'll also delve into how the right balance between open-source and
commercial IT products helps in creating a big-data capability, and we'll
further explore how converged infrastructure solutions are hastening the path
to big-data business value and cloud deployment options.
To learn more about how big data can be harnessed for analysis benefits in
healthcare and retail, please join me in ... (more)
One of the perennial cloud predictions has been that 200x would be the year
of the Platform as a Service (PaaS) cloud. The logic goes that if an
automated data center in the sky is good, an automated development platform
in the sky must be even better.
“Normal” clouds like Amazon AWS give the developer a virtual computer to
load their OS and App onto. PaaS gives the developer a virtual computer with
the OS, database and middleware “pre-loaded,” thereby simplifying the
deployment.
Yet so far, PaaS adoption has been anemic and Gartner puts PaaS at 1% of the
overall cloud market. ... (more)
@CloudExpo Stories By Pat Romanski  SYS-CON Events announced today that Pythian, a global IT services company specializing in helping companies leverage disruptive technologies to optimize revenue-generating systems, has been named “Bronze Sponsor” of SYS-CON's 17th Cloud Expo, which will take place on November 3–5, 2015, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA.
Founded in 1997, Pythian is a global IT services company that helps companies compete by adopting disruptive technologies such as cloud, Big Data, advance... Aug. 25, 2015 03:30 PM EDT | By Liz McMillan  SYS-CON Events announced today that DataClear Inc. will exhibit at the 17th International Cloud Expo®, which will take place on November 3–5, 2015, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA.
The DataClear ‘BlackBox’ is the only solution that moves your PC, browsing and data out of the United States and away from prying (and spying) eyes. Its solution automatically builds you a clean, on-demand, virus free, new virtual cloud based PC outside of the United States, and wipes it clean... Aug. 25, 2015 01:00 PM EDT Reads: 268 | By Elizabeth White  Through WebRTC, audio and video communications are being embedded more easily than ever into applications, helping carriers, enterprises and independent software vendors deliver greater functionality to their end users. With today’s business world increasingly focused on outcomes, users’ growing calls for ease of use, and businesses craving smarter, tighter integration, what’s the next step in delivering a richer, more immersive experience?
That richer, more fully integrated experience comes ab... Aug. 25, 2015 12:45 PM EDT Reads: 464 | By Liz McMillan  With the proliferation of connected devices underpinning new Internet of Things systems, Brandon Schulz, Director of Luxoft IoT – Retail, will be looking at the transformation of the retail customer experience in brick and mortar stores in his session at @ThingsExpo.
Questions he will address include:
Will beacons drop to the wayside like QR codes, or be a proximity-based profit driver?
How will the customer experience change in stores of all types when everything can be instrumented and a... Aug. 25, 2015 11:45 AM EDT Reads: 349 | By Liz McMillan  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... Aug. 25, 2015 11:15 AM EDT Reads: 327 | By Pat Romanski  In their Live Hack” presentation at 17th Cloud Expo, Stephen Coty and Paul Fletcher, Chief Security Evangelists at Alert Logic, will provide the audience with a chance to see a live demonstration of the common tools cyber attackers use to attack cloud and traditional IT systems.
This “Live Hack” uses open source attack tools that are free and available for download by anybody. Attendees will learn where to find and how to operate these tools for the purpose of testing their own IT infrastructu... Aug. 25, 2015 11:00 AM EDT Reads: 255 | By Glenn Rossman  Red Hat is investing in Tesora, the number one contributor to OpenStack Trove Database as a Service (DBaaS) also ranked among the top 20 companies contributing to OpenStack overall.
Tesora, the company bringing OpenStack Trove Database as a Service (DBaaS) to the enterprise, has announced that Red Hat and others have invested in the company as a part of Tesora's latest funding round.
The funding agreement expands on the ongoing collaboration between Tesora and Red Hat, which dates back to Febr... Aug. 25, 2015 10:15 AM EDT Reads: 217 | By Elizabeth White  Any Ops team trying to support a company in today’s cloud-connected world knows that a new way of thinking is required – one just as dramatic than the shift from Ops to DevOps. The diversity of modern operations requires teams to focus their impact on breadth vs. depth.
In his session at DevOps Summit, Adam Serediuk, Director of Operations at xMatters, Inc., will discuss the strategic requirements of evolving from Ops to DevOps, and why modern Operations has begun leveraging the “NoOps” approa... Aug. 25, 2015 09:45 AM EDT Reads: 262 | By Elizabeth White  Too often with compelling new technologies market participants become overly enamored with that attractiveness of the technology and neglect underlying business drivers. This tendency, what some call the “newest shiny object syndrome,” is understandable given that virtually all of us are heavily engaged in technology. But it is also mistaken. Without concrete business cases driving its deployment, IoT, like many other technologies before it, will fade into obscurity. Aug. 25, 2015 09:45 AM EDT Reads: 243 | By Elizabeth White  The Internet of Things (IoT) is about the digitization of physical assets including sensors, devices, machines, gateways, and the network. It creates possibilities for significant value creation and new revenue generating business models via data democratization and ubiquitous analytics across IoT networks. The explosion of data in all forms in IoT requires a more robust and broader lens in order to enable smarter timely actions and better outcomes. Business operations become the key driver of I... Aug. 25, 2015 09:30 AM EDT Reads: 254 | By Elizabeth White  Culture is the most important ingredient of DevOps. The challenge for most organizations is defining and communicating a vision of beneficial DevOps culture for their organizations, and then facilitating the changes needed to achieve that. Often this comes down to an ability to provide true leadership.
As a CIO, are your direct reports IT managers or are they IT leaders? The hard truth is that many IT managers have risen through the ranks based on their technical skills, not their leadership ab... Aug. 25, 2015 09:15 AM EDT Reads: 129 | By Elizabeth White  SYS-CON Events announced today that G2G3 will exhibit at SYS-CON's @DevOpsSummit Silicon Valley, which will take place on November 3–5, 2015, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA.
Based on a collective appreciation for user experience, design, and technology, G2G3 is uniquely qualified and motivated to redefine how organizations and people engage in an increasingly digital world. Aug. 25, 2015 08:15 AM EDT Reads: 337 | By Pat Romanski  SYS-CON Events announced today that IceWarp will exhibit at the 17th International Cloud Expo®, which will take place on November 3–5, 2015, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA.
IceWarp, the leader of cloud and on-premise messaging, delivers secured email, chat, documents, conferencing and collaboration to today's mobile workforce, all in one unified interface Aug. 25, 2015 08:15 AM EDT Reads: 287 | By Elizabeth White  In today's digital world, change is the one constant. Disruptive innovations like cloud, mobility, social media, and the Internet of Things have reshaped the market and set new standards in customer expectations. To remain competitive, businesses must tap the potential of emerging technologies and markets through the rapid release of new products and services. However, the rigid and siloed structures of traditional IT platforms and processes are slowing them down – resulting in lengthy delivery ... Aug. 21, 2015 01:00 PM EDT Reads: 475 | By Liz McMillan  SmartBear Software has updated its API tools, ServiceV for API service virtualization and LoadUI NG for API load testing, to accelerate development and testing processes in Agile teams. Updates to ServiceV enable software teams to rapidly build advanced mocks from real-time API traffic and quickly switch between virtualized “mock” services and actual APIs during diagnostic, load or integration testing in the continuous delivery lifecycle. Aug. 21, 2015 11:00 AM EDT Reads: 271 | By Elizabeth White  “Threats are always evolving and the days of ‘set it and forget it’ malware and virus scanners are over if you want to keep your business information secure,” explained Abel Sussman, Director of Federal Services at Coalfire, in this exclusive Q&A; with Cloud Expo Conference Chair Roger Strukhoff.
Cloud Computing Journal: Security threats seem so widespread and diverse that it seems companies need a framework before they tackle individual issues. To what degree do you take this point of view?... Aug. 19, 2015 02:45 PM EDT Reads: 354 | By Liz McMillan  Mobile, social, Big Data, and cloud have fundamentally changed the way we live. “Anytime, anywhere” access to data and information is no longer a luxury; it’s a requirement, in both our personal and professional lives. For IT organizations, this means pressure has never been greater to deliver meaningful services to the business and customers. Aug. 16, 2015 10:00 PM EDT Reads: 729 | By Liz McMillan  DevOps is about increasing efficiency, but nothing is more inefficient than building the same application twice. However, this is a routine occurrence with enterprise applications that need both a rich desktop web interface and strong mobile support. With recent technological advances from Isomorphic Software and others, rich desktop and tuned mobile experiences can now be created with a single codebase – without compromising functionality, performance or usability.
In his session at DevOps Su... Aug. 16, 2015 03:00 PM EDT Reads: 511 | By Elizabeth White  SYS-CON Events announced today that Key Information Systems, Inc. (KeyInfo), a leading cloud and infrastructure provider offering integrated solutions to enterprises, will exhibit at the 17th International Cloud Expo®, which will take place on November 3–5, 2015, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA.
Key Information Systems is a leading regional systems integrator with world-class compute, storage and networking solutions and professional services for the most advanced softwa... Aug. 15, 2015 03:15 PM EDT Reads: 437 | By Liz McMillan  Learn how you can use the CoSN SEND II Decision Tree for Education Technology to make sure that your K–12 technology initiatives create a more engaging learning experience that empowers students, teachers, and administrators alike. Aug. 14, 2015 04:15 PM EDT Reads: 497 |
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