By Shelly Palmer  Every physical object or “thing” that can be embedded with sensors will be embedded with sensors. Whether you call it the Internet of Things, the Internet of Everything, M2M, a smarter planet, the Industrial Internet or something else, the trend is clear. With so much activity and inte... Dec. 26, 2015 08:00 AM EST Reads: 414 |
By Elizabeth White  "We are the first enterprise class data virtualization platform. We help organizations become more resilient in the area of backup disaster recovery," explained Chak Singamsetti, Senior Solutions Architect at Actifio, in this SYS-CON.tv interview at 17th Cloud Expo, held November 3-5, ... Dec. 26, 2015 07:15 AM EST Reads: 492 |
By Pat Romanski  Consumer IoT applications provide data about the user that just doesn’t exist in traditional PC or mobile web applications. This rich data, or “context,” enables the highly personalized consumer experiences that characterize many consumer IoT apps. This same data is also providing bran... Dec. 26, 2015 07:00 AM EST Reads: 548 |
By Elizabeth White  Application development is changing dramatically. PaaS can help by pulling together cloud infrastructure, containers, microservices, and DevOps so you can deliver apps faster. Download now. Dec. 26, 2015 07:00 AM EST Reads: 248 |
By Liz McMillan  The web app is agile. The REST API is agile. The testing and planning are agile. But alas, data infrastructures certainly are not. Once an application matures, changing the shape or indexing scheme of data often forces at best a top down planning exercise and at worst includes schema c... Dec. 26, 2015 07:00 AM EST Reads: 570 |
By Pat Romanski  "As a technology provider we believe that business comes first and customers should start thinking that technology is something that helps them to enable new business models," stated Ermanno Bonifazi, Founder and CEO of Solgenia, in this SYS-CON.tv interview at 17th Cloud Expo, held No... Dec. 26, 2015 06:00 AM EST Reads: 480 |
By Pat Romanski  "There's a very common problem that the enterprise data industry hasn't solved yet - as companies add data and new features into their application they add new data stores that are specialized for those purposes and it becomes an operational nightmare to manage. We think we have an int... Dec. 26, 2015 05:00 AM EST Reads: 199 |
By Pat Romanski  "We're seeing a lot of activity in IoT in the healthcare space - a lot of new devices coming in. We are seeing a huge demand in building smart offices, smart infrastructures, smart cloud applications," explained Shrikant Pattathil, President of Harbinger Systems, in this SYS-CON.tv int... Dec. 26, 2015 04:00 AM EST Reads: 446 |
By Pat Romanski  "Open source is a very powerful thing and lies at the heart of most modern technology. It's useful to a lot of people and a lot of companies invest in it," stated Alex Gorbachev, President of Intelligent Systems Services Inc., in this SYS-CON.tv interview at 17th Cloud Expo, held Novem... Dec. 26, 2015 03:45 AM EST Reads: 449 |
By Harry Trott  Collaboration is a big focus area among technology start-ups. The past five years have seen a range of new products in this area that have completely transformed the way businesses work. Thanks to the likes of Trello and Slack, team members do not even have to live in the same city or ... Dec. 26, 2015 02:45 AM EST Reads: 378 |
By Yaniv Yehuda  In today's rapidly changing IT world, database experts who wish to remain relevant must keep up-to-date on all kinds of technology - both database-related and other.
DBAs should understand new data-related technologies but also other newer technologies that interact with database syst... Dec. 26, 2015 02:15 AM EST Reads: 245 |
By Steve Watts  It’s a given that employee access to corporate systems should be both as secure and simple as possible. However, time-strapped CIOs under pressure from demanding staff and challenged with authenticating users all over the world on multiple devices, have been torn between relying on the... Dec. 26, 2015 02:15 AM EST Reads: 418 |
By Anders Wallgren  The Internet of Things (IoT) continues to be a major topic of discussion in the tech industry. Many people want to know: how is the IoT influencing me already? That’s one of the themes of this week’s conversation between Electric Cloud CTO Anders Wallgren and Software Engineering Daily... Dec. 26, 2015 01:30 AM EST Reads: 196 |
By Liz McMillan  "We specialize is business process automation and our focus today is the Internet of Things and we are promoting a platform called Connect2me," stated Yasser Khan, Founder of Plasma, in this SYS-CON.tv interview at @ThingsExpo, held November 3-5, 2015, at the Santa Clara Convention Cen... Dec. 26, 2015 01:00 AM EST Reads: 198 |
By Elizabeth White  IoT is the next development of how the Internet is applied to the world. TAM for M2M/IoT is estimated at $19 trillion. The IoT device count is in the billions but will not traverse the service providers’ networks. Service providers and vendors are struggling to understand how to map th... Dec. 26, 2015 12:30 AM EST Reads: 301 |
By Pat Romanski  Containers have changed the mind of IT in DevOps. They enable developers to work with dev, test, stage and production environments identically. Containers provide the right abstraction for microservices and many cloud platforms have integrated them into deployment pipelines. DevOps and... Dec. 26, 2015 12:00 AM EST Reads: 256 |
By Liz McMillan  "We've made it easy for customers that want to build their own cloud infrastructure by delivering a fully integrated software and hardware in a rack," explained Stefaan Vervaet, Director of Strategic Alliances at HGST, in this SYS-CON.tv interview at 17th Cloud Expo, held November 3-5,... Dec. 25, 2015 10:45 PM EST Reads: 418 |
By Liz McMillan  An edge gateway is an essential piece of infrastructure for large scale cloud-based services.
In his session at 17th Cloud Expo, Mikey Cohen, Manager, Edge Gateway at Netflix, detailed the purpose, benefits and use cases for an edge gateway to provide security, traffic management and... Dec. 25, 2015 04:00 PM EST Reads: 496 |
By Elizabeth White  Redis is not only the fastest database, but it has become the most popular among the new wave of applications running in containers. Redis speeds up just about every data interaction between your users or operational systems.
In his session at 17th Cloud Expo, Dave Nielsen, Developer... Dec. 25, 2015 03:45 PM EST Reads: 495 |
By Liz McMillan  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, se... Dec. 25, 2015 02:30 PM EST Reads: 446 |
By Carmen Gonzalez  @DevOpsSummit taking place June 7-9, 2016 at Javits Center, New York City, and Nov 1-3, 2016, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA, is co-located with the 18th International @CloudExpo and will feature technical sessions from a rock star conference faculty and the le... Dec. 25, 2015 01:00 PM EST Reads: 378 |
By Aruna Ravichandran  At year-end, we often consider where we’ve fallen short over the last twelve months – and how we can do better over the next twelve. For IT leaders, DevOps is likely to be a primary concern for 2016. As application awesomeness becomes more important to the business, IT must get great c... Dec. 25, 2015 01:00 PM EST Reads: 375 |
By Elizabeth White  Enterprises can achieve rigorous IT security as well as improved DevOps practices and Cloud economics by taking a new, cloud-native approach to application delivery. Because the attack surface for cloud applications is dramatically different than for highly controlled data centers, a d... Dec. 25, 2015 11:30 AM EST Reads: 440 |
By Elizabeth White  Clearly the way forward is to move to cloud be it bare metal, VMs or containers. One aspect of the current public clouds that is slowing this cloud migration is cloud lock-in. Every cloud vendor is trying to make it very difficult to move out once a customer has chosen their cloud.
In... Dec. 25, 2015 11:00 AM EST Reads: 238 |
By Pat Romanski  @DevOpsSummit taking place June 7-9, 2016 at Javits Center, New York City, and Nov 1-3, 2016, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA, is co-located with the 18th International @CloudExpo and will feature technical sessions from a rock star conference faculty and the le... Dec. 25, 2015 10:30 AM EST Reads: 358 |
By Tim Prendergast  The rise of cloud-based infrastructure was one of the biggest developments in IT during the past few years, and now we are seeing extensive innovations in cloud security as well. More companies are moving their business-critical data away from onsite data centers and into cloud-based i... Dec. 25, 2015 10:30 AM EST Reads: 351 |
By Liz McMillan  This video highlights IBM's capabilities for managing and optimizing hybrid cloud environments. Learn how to balance the needs of business with the needs of corporate IT departments. Now you can maximize speed while maintaining the ability to deploy complex applications quickly in a co... Dec. 25, 2015 10:00 AM EST Reads: 438 |
By Bob Muglia  Last year, I made some predictions about how the cloud and data would change the technology landscape. This included the now clear rise of SQL, the consolidation of cloud application vendors, the end of the war between the public and private cloud, and the growth of analytics fueled by... Dec. 25, 2015 10:00 AM EST Reads: 328 |
By Liz McMillan  "We announced CryptoScript, it's a new way of programming a hardware security module, which technically requires standard APIs and very specific knowledge. With CryptoScript we hope to change that a bit," explained Johannes Lintzen, Vice President of Sales at Utimaco, in this SYS-CON.t... Dec. 25, 2015 09:30 AM EST Reads: 290 |
By Elizabeth White  In their session at 17th Cloud Expo, Hal Schwartz, CEO of Secure Infrastructure & Services (SIAS), and Chuck Paolillo, CTO of Secure Infrastructure & Services (SIAS), provided a study of cloud adoption trends and the power and flexibility of IBM Power and Pureflex cloud solutions.
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By Pat Romanski  "The problem with IoT today is that people aren't looking to buy IoT, what they're really trying to do is buy a business outcome or trying to figure out ways to improve the business outcome. It just so happens that IoT may be the technology that can help do that," stated Dave McCarthy,... Dec. 25, 2015 07:00 AM EST Reads: 414 |
By Pat Romanski  Electric power utilities face relentless pressure on their financial performance, and reducing distribution grid losses is one of the last untapped opportunities to meet their business goals. Combining IoT-enabled sensors and cloud-based data analytics, utilities now are able to find, ... Dec. 25, 2015 06:00 AM EST Reads: 625 |
By Liz McMillan  "Security starts very simply at home when you're on your PC. At DataClear we thought 'How do we make a secure desktop for people and for corporations,'" explained Tony Teora, CEO of DataClear, in this SYS-CON.tv interview at 17th Cloud Expo, held November 3-5, 2015, at the Santa Clara ... Dec. 25, 2015 05:00 AM EST Reads: 381 |
By Greg O'Connor  The relentless doubling of compute horsepower every 18 - 24 months known as Moore’s Law is one of the trends that has shaped the IT industry. Machine virtualization and cloud computing have combined to reduce the time it takes to create a new machine that harnesses the latest in comput... Dec. 25, 2015 04:30 AM EST Reads: 421 |
By Elizabeth White  "What is the next step in the evolution of IoT systems? The answer is data, information, which is a radical shift from assets, from things to input for decision making," stated Michael Minkevich, VP of Technology Services at Luxoft, in this SYS-CON.tv interview at @ThingsExpo, held Nov... Dec. 25, 2015 12:00 AM EST Reads: 408 |
By Pat Romanski  "IoT is really hitting its stride. The adoption rates are increasing and Vitria is in a good position to help people deliver on the value of IoT," explained Mike Houston, Marketing & Product Marketing Professional at Vitria Technology, in this SYS-CON.tv interview at @ThingsExpo, held ... Dec. 25, 2015 12:00 AM EST Reads: 418 |
By Pat Romanski  "IoT is going to be a huge industry with a lot of value for end users, for industries, for consumers, for manufacturers. How can we use cloud to effectively manage IoT applications," stated Ian Khan, Innovation & Marketing Manager at Solgeniakhela, in this SYS-CON.tv interview at @Thin... Dec. 24, 2015 11:15 PM EST Reads: 388 |
By Elizabeth White  Struggling to keep up with increasing application demand? Learn how Platform as a Service (PaaS) can streamline application development processes and make resource management easy. Dec. 24, 2015 01:30 PM EST Reads: 276 |
By Elizabeth White  "Logz.io is a log analytics platform. We offer the ELK stack, which is the most common log analytics platform in the world. We offer it as a cloud service," explained Tomer Levy, co-founder and CEO of Logz.io, in this SYS-CON.tv interview at DevOps Summit, held November 3-5, 2015, at t... Dec. 24, 2015 12:45 PM EST Reads: 358 |
By Liz McMillan  Organizations already struggle with the simple collection of data resulting from the proliferation of IoT, lacking the right infrastructure to manage it. They can't only rely on the cloud to collect and utilize this data because many applications still require dedicated infrastructure ... Dec. 24, 2015 09:30 AM EST Reads: 576 |