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SYS-CON Events announced today that Chris Matthieu, Director of IoT Engineering at Citrix and co-founder and CTO of Octoblu, will keynote 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. His keynote "How We Built and Scaled an IoT Platform and Business" will focus on building an IoT platform and company.  He will provide a behind-the-scenes look at Octoblu’s platform, business, and pivots along the way (including the Citrix acquisition of Octoblu). Register FREE Before Friday! ▸ Here Your registration includes: IoT | Big Data & Analytics IoT | Wearables IoT | Industrial Internet WebRTC Summit | Hot Topics The World's Largest "Internet of Things" Event, November 3-5 at the Santa Clara Convention Center! All major researchers estimate there will be tens of billions devices - ... (more)

Building a Global IoT Community | @ThingsExpo #IoT #M2M #Microservices

Building a Global IoT Community The promise of IoT is to have all things connected, feeding data and pushing content and solutions. This connectivity and the data from it has the potential to provide richer customer experiences, better business results, and much more informed consumers. So what happens when we take what is personal and enhance it with technology? Tile enables people to choose the things that matter most to them, and make those things connected. No other mass market IoT device does that at scale. In his session at @ThingsExpo, Guilherme Chapiewski, VP of Engineer... (more)

Dell + (EMC+VMW) = A $67B Gamble | @CloudExpo #BigData #Microservices

Yesterday, Dell announced the largest technology M&A; in history with a proposed $67B buyout of EMC and VMware (via EMC’s 80% ownership of VMW). The combined company will have over $80B in revenue, employ tens of thousands of people around the world and sell everything from PCs, servers & storage to security software and virtualization software. Not to be overlooked is the fact that Dell and EMC will be private companies and free from the scrutiny of activist investors. Dell has to borrow a ton of money to make this deal, like $40B debt. The annual interest payment will be $2.5B!... (more)

The Road to Enterprise PaaS | @CloudExpo @RedHatNews #DevOps #BigData #Microservices

Click Here to Download Whitepaper Now! Interested in leveraging automation technologies and a cloud architecture to make developers more productive? Learn how PaaS can benefit your organization to help you streamline your application development, allow you to use existing infrastructure and improve operational efficiencies. Begin charting your path to PaaS with OpenShift Enterprise. Click Here to Download Whitepaper Now! Register FREE Before Friday! ▸ Here Your registration includes: ▸ Cloud Expo sessions ▸ Big Data Expo sessions ▸ @ThingsExpo sessions ▸ DevOps sessions ▸ Container... (more)

M2M and IoT in Health Care at @ThingsExpo By @AMorawski | @Vodafone_M2M #IoT #M2M

The Transformative Power of M2M and IoT in Health Care Health care systems across the globe are under enormous strain, as facilities reach capacity and costs continue to rise. M2M and the Internet of Things have the potential to transform the industry through connected health solutions that can make care more efficient while reducing costs. In fact, Vodafone's annual M2M Barometer Report forecasts M2M applications rising to 57 percent in health care and life sciences by 2016. Lively is one of Vodafone's health care partners, whose solutions enable older adults to live independent... (more)

DevOps Summit Accepting Keynote Proposals | @DevOpsSummit [#DevOps]

DevOps Summit 2015 New York, 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 it is now accepting Keynote Proposals. The widespread success of cloud computing is driving the DevOps revolution in enterprise IT. Now as never before, development teams must communicate and collaborate in a dynamic, 24/7/365 environment. There is no time to wait for long development cycles that produce software that is obsolete at launch. DevOps may be disruptive, but it is essential. The DevOps Summit at Cloud Ex... (more)

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SYS-CON Events announced today that Vitria will exhibit, conduct a demo theater presentation, and CTO Dale Skeen will deliver a technical session at @ThingsExpo, which will take place on November 3–5, 2015, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA. Vitria is a leading provider of advanced analytics platforms that enable businesses to transform their operations and boost revenue growth through Faster Analytics, Smarter Actions, and Better Outcomes Faster.
In today's enterprise, digital transformation represents organizational change even more so than technology change, as customer preferences and behavior drive end-to-end transformation across lines of business as well as IT. To capitalize on the ubiquitous disruption driving this transformation, companies must be able to innovate at an increasingly rapid pace.
Join IBM Bluemix on November 4 at 17th Cloud Expo at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA, and learn how to jump start your IoT strategy with MobileFirst, cloud and cognitive computing. Transform everyday MobileFirst Cloud Apps into IoT solutions in 2.5 seconds! What happens when you combine a SmartPhone, a watch and a sassy robot with one MobileFirst Application? What happens when Watson does it - on Cloud!?! Join this session to see IOT in action! There are over nine billion Internet of Things devices in the world today, and the number is growing. Move your MobileFirst Appde...
Bsquare's Director of Products, Dave McCarthy, will deliver a presentation from the main stage of the fourth annual @ThingsExpo, addressing the audience of IoT and cloud executives, vendors, media and analysts on "The Business Case for IoT." Bsquare will also demonstrate how its business-oriented IoT platform, DataVTM, adds intelligence and connectivity to remote corporate assets, and then utilizes the data generated to improve business outcomes such as uptime, asset utilization, warranty and maintenance cost reduction, and business and regulatory compliance.
SYS-CON Events announced today that O'Reilly Media has been named “Media Sponsor” of SYS-CON's 17th International Cloud Expo®, which will take place on November 3–5, 2015, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA. O'Reilly spreads the knowledge of innovators through its technology books, online services, research, and tech conferences. An active participant in the technology community, O'Reilly has a long history of advocacy, meme-making, and evangelism.
In his session at @ThingsExpo, Ivan R. Judson, Senior Engineer at Microsoft, will explore AllJoyn, an application level protocol for the Internet of Things supported by Microsoft and other members of the AllSeen Alliance. He will present the Cordova plugin that enables Cordova-based applications to talk to AllJoyn-enabled devices and present open source clients for the Lifx light bulb, LG television, and a mobile chat application.
SYS-CON Events announced today that Chris Matthieu, Director of IoT Engineering at Citrix and co-founder and CTO of Octoblu, will keynote 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. His keynote "How We Built and Scaled an IoT Platform and Business" will focus on building an IoT platform and company. He will provide a behind-the-scenes look at Octoblu’s platform, business, and pivots along the way (including the Citrix acquisition of Octoblu).
DevOps is a software development method that places emphasis on communications between Software Engineering, Quality Assurance and IT Operations (SEQAITO ) with the goal to produce software and services to improve, increase the operational performance for the Enterprise. Communications is key not only between the SEQAITO team members but also the communication between the applications and the SEQAITO team. How can an organization provide the human communication and the application communication to the SEQAITO team to ensure the successful development, deployment of the application?
Internet ready devices are becoming increasingly common, yet architecturally they often still act like point-to-point networks. Meanwhile, containers are making rapid deployments across networks painless, but knowing where and when to deploy them to meet market demand is just as critical. In his session at 17th Cloud Expo, Matt Torrisi, Customer Success Operations at Dyn, will discuss what the public internet in the middle really looks like, and how operators can build their networks for better performance and security.
SYS-CON Events announced today that Sensorberg will exhibit at 17th Cloud Expo, which will take place on November 3–5, 2015, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA. Since 2013, Sensorberg GmbH, based in Berlin, has provided a beacon-based, platform-independent, all-in-one proximity campaign solution. The Sensorberg cloud-based management platform is the company’s core and enables proximity campaigns to be planned, designed and managed. Sensorberg provides open source SDKs (software-development kits) that can be incorporated into any app, rendering it beacon-compatible, and su...
Those in the industry have been working hard to sweeten the deal again - efforts have been made to bring WebRTC into the mainstream and as a result the technology is experiencing a rebirth. Thanks to those who have remained dedicated to improving the situation for those around them, WebRTC is finally starting to fulfill the original expectations that were had of it. Both the technology and the support networks have been built up to make experimenting with it again a pleasure, not a pain. WebRTC has grown up.
SYS-CON Events announced today that TechTarget has been named “Media Sponsor” of SYS-CON's 17th International Cloud Expo®, which will take place on November 3–5, 2015, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA. TechTarget storage websites are the best online information resource for news, tips and expert advice for the storage, backup and disaster recovery markets.
Harbinger Systems, a global company providing software technology services, today announced that it is participating as a Speaker and an Exhibitor at Cloud Expo Silicon Valley from November 3-5, 2015, at the Santa Clara Convention Center, CA. Managed by SYS-CON Events, the 17th International Cloud Expo brings the world of Cloud Computing, Big Data/analytics, Internet of Things and DevOps on one platform. “Participating as a speaker and an exhibitor for the third consecutive year makes this event special for us. This is an excellent platform to meet with industry veterans and exchange views...
Who are you? How do you introduce yourself? Do you use a name, or do you greet a friend by the last four digits of his social security number? Assuming you don’t, why are we content to associate our identity with 10 random digits assigned by our phone company? Identity is an issue that affects everyone, but as individuals we don’t spend a lot of time thinking about it.
Beacon technology offers a new way for companies to deliver value to their customers by enabling micro-location based interaction at every physical touch point. This knowledge opens up a new playground for creating personalized services and inventing new experiences between a company and its customers, but how exactly can organizations monetize this? For the past two years we have heard about mobile notifications and messaging, but this has not taken off and could be considered spamming.
Contextual Analytics of various threat data provides a deeper understanding of a given threat and enables identification of unknown threat vectors. In his session at @ThingsExpo, David Dufour, Head of Security Architecture, IoT, Webroot, Inc., will discuss how through the use of Big Data analytics and deep data correlation across different threat types, it is possible to gain a better understanding of where, how and to what level of danger a malicious actor poses to an organization, and to determine the measures to implement to prevent future occurrences.
The security devil is always in the details of the attack: the ones you've endured, the ones you prepare yourself to fend off, and the ones that, you fear, will catch you completely unaware and defenseless. The Internet of Things (IoT) is nothing if not an endless proliferation of details. It's the vision of a world in which continuous Internet connectivity and addressability is embedded into a growing range of human artifacts, into the natural world, and even into our smartphones, appliances, and physical persons. In the IoT vision, every new "thing" - sensor, actuator, data source, data con...
For manufacturers, the Internet of Things (IoT) represents a jumping-off point for innovation, jobs, and revenue creation. But to adequately seize the opportunity, manufacturers must design devices that are interconnected, can continually sense their environment and process huge amounts of data. As a first step, manufacturers must embrace a new product development ecosystem in order to support these products.
The Internet of Things (IoT) promises to evolve the way the world does business; however, understanding how to apply it to your company can be a mystery. Most people struggle with understanding the potential business uses or tend to get caught up in the technology, resulting in solutions that fail to meet even minimum business goals. In his session at @ThingsExpo, Jesse Shiah, CEO / President / Co-Founder of AgilePoint Inc., showed what is needed to leverage the IoT to transform your business. He discussed opportunities and challenges ahead for the IoT from a market and technical point of vie...
WebRTC services have already permeated corporate communications in the form of videoconferencing solutions. However, WebRTC has the potential of going beyond and catalyzing a new class of services providing more than calls with capabilities such as mass-scale real-time media broadcasting, enriched and augmented video, person-to-machine and machine-to-machine communications. In his session at @ThingsExpo, Luis Lopez, CEO of Kurento, will introduce the technologies required for implementing these ideas and some early experiments performed in the Kurento open source software community in areas ...