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Building a Complete IoT Solution that Will Last 10 Years
With so much going on in this space you could be forgiven for thinking you
were always working with yesterday's technologies. So much change, so
quickly. What do you do if you have to build a solution from the ground up
that is expected to live in the field for at least 5-10 years?
This is the challenge we faced when we looked to refresh our existing
10-year-old custom hardware stack to measure the fullness of trash cans and
compactors.
In his session at @ThingsExpo, Alan Williamson, a principal at ParkerGale
Capital, will take a deep dive on some of the decisions they made and why
they went a given path, from utilizing custom boards to
single-board-computers, from cellular networks to LoRa and Sigfox, and
choosing the necessary software stack that can support this in the long run.
Speaker Bio
Alan Williamson ... (more)
For SAP, 2016 will go down as the year of the partnership. The SAP/Apple
announcement took all the headlines, but SAP SAPPHIRE NOW featured many other
announcements affecting everything from SAP hosting to data visualization.
While it's understandable that those flashy announcements will get the most
attention, the implications of the new partnerships for big data might prove
to be the most important revelation.
VMware Partnership Makes HANA Big Data Easier and More Flexible
The VMware/SAP announcement didn't attract a lot of buzz, but it's big news
to SAP customers. The release of... (more)
How SD WAN Will Help Enterprise IoT Networking
Although it has gained significant traction in the consumer space, IoT is
still in the early stages of adoption in enterprises environments. However,
many companies are working on initiatives like Industry 4.0 that includes IoT
as one of the key disruptive technologies expected to reshape businesses of
tomorrow. The key challenges will be availability, robustness and reliability
of networks that connect devices in a business environment. Software Defined
Wide Area Network (SD-WAN) is expected to play a key role in overcoming these
c... (more)
Connected Airports and Airline Baggage
The Internet of Things can drive efficiency for airlines and airports.
In their session at @ThingsExpo, Shyam Varan Nath, Principal Architect with
GE, and Sudip Majumder, senior director of development at Oracle, will
discuss the technical details of the connected airline baggage and related
social media solutions. These IoT applications will enhance travelers'
journey experience and drive efficiency for the airlines and the airports.
The session will include a working demo and a technical deep dive into the
solution delivered via the IoT Clo... (more)
In Privilege We Trust: Locking Down Super-Users for Maximum Cybersecurity
Privileged Identity Management (PIM) is the lowest common denominator in
today's most treacherous corporate and governmental security breaches. Or
more accurately: Privilege Mismanagement. Sony, Target, Anthem, JP Morgan
Chase, the city of San Francisco and many others succumbed to the reality
that the identity of a single super-user account can be subverted for the
purposes of manipulating sensitive organizational data, correspondence,
commercial goods and intellectual property.
It's a numbers game. Think ... (more)
The Journey to IT Self-Service and Cloud Cost Visibility
Leading cloud-centric IT organizations are establishing core capabilities to
improve productivity, control costs and provide a highly responsive end-user
experience. Key steps along this journey include creating an end-user cloud
services catalog, automating workflows and provisioning, and implementing IT
showback and chargeback.
In his session at 19th Cloud Expo, Mark Jamensky, executive vice president of
Products at Embotics, will walk attendees through an in-depth case study of
enterprise IT management products provider ... (more)
@CloudExpo Stories By Elizabeth White With so much going on in this space you could be forgiven for thinking you were always working with yesterday’s technologies. So much change, so quickly. What do you do if you have to build a solution from the ground up that is expected to live in the field for at least 5-10 years?
This is the challenge we faced when we looked to refresh our existing 10-year-old custom hardware stack to measure the fullness of trash cans and compactors. Sep. 5, 2016 04:00 AM EDT Reads: 2,140 | By Elizabeth White  Cloud computing is being adopted in one form or another by 94% of enterprises today. Tens of billions of new devices are being connected to The Internet of Things.
And Big Data is driving this bus. An exponential increase is expected in the amount of information being processed, managed, analyzed, and acted upon by enterprise IT. This amazing is not part of some distant future - it is happening today. One report shows a 650% increase in enterprise data by 2020. Other estimates are even higher.... Sep. 5, 2016 02:00 AM EDT Reads: 3,284 | By Pat Romanski  As cloud adoption continues to transform business, today’s global enterprises are challenged with managing a growing amount of information living outside of the data center. The rapid adoption of IoT and increasingly mobile workforce are exacerbating the problem. Ensuring secure data sharing and efficient backup poses capacity and bandwidth considerations as well as policy and regulatory compliance issues. Sep. 4, 2016 08:30 PM EDT Reads: 751 | By Elizabeth White  Internet of @ThingsExpo, taking place November 1-3, 2016, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA, is co-located with 19th Cloud Expo and will feature technical sessions from a rock star conference faculty and the leading industry players in the world.
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 - comp... Sep. 4, 2016 08:15 PM EDT Reads: 4,022 | By Elizabeth White  Developing software for the Internet of Things (IoT) comes with its own set of challenges. Security, privacy, and unified standards are a few key issues. In addition, each IoT product is comprised of (at least) three separate application components: the software embedded in the device, the back-end service, and the mobile application for the end user’s controls. Each component is developed by a different team, using different technologies and practices, and deployed to a different stack/target –... Sep. 4, 2016 07:00 PM EDT Reads: 802 | By Liz McMillan  Data is the fuel that drives the machine learning algorithmic engines and ultimately provides the business value.
In his session at Cloud Expo, Ed Featherston, a director and senior enterprise architect at Collaborative Consulting, will discuss the key considerations around quality, volume, timeliness, and pedigree that must be dealt with in order to properly fuel that engine. Sep. 4, 2016 06:45 PM EDT Reads: 2,234 | By Elizabeth White Leading cloud-centric IT organizations are establishing core capabilities to improve productivity, control costs and provide a highly responsive end-user experience. Key steps along this journey include creating an end-user cloud services catalog, automating workflows and provisioning, and implementing IT showback and chargeback.
In his session at 19th Cloud Expo, Mark Jamensky, executive vice president of Products at Embotics, will walk attendees through an in-depth case study of enterprise I... Sep. 4, 2016 05:15 PM EDT Reads: 556 | By Liz McMillan The Internet of Things can drive efficiency for airlines and airports.
In their session at @ThingsExpo, Shyam Varan Nath, Principal Architect with GE, and Sudip Majumder, senior director of development at Oracle, will discuss the technical details of the connected airline baggage and related social media solutions. These IoT applications will enhance travelers' journey experience and drive efficiency for the airlines and the airports.
The session will include a working demo and a technical d... Sep. 4, 2016 05:15 PM EDT Reads: 750 | By Liz McMillan  SYS-CON Events announced today that Pulzze Systems will exhibit at the 19th International Cloud Expo, which will take place on November 1–3, 2016, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA.
Pulzze Systems, Inc. provides infrastructure products for the Internet of Things to enable any connected device and system to carry out matched operations without programming.
For more information, visit http://www.pulzzesystems.com. Sep. 4, 2016 03:00 PM EDT Reads: 830 | By Elizabeth White  We are always online. We access our data, our finances, work, and various services on the Internet. But we live in a congested world of information in which the roads were built two decades ago. The quest for better, faster Internet routing has been around for a decade, but nobody solved this problem.
We’ve seen band aid approaches like CDNs that attack a niche's slice of static content part of the Internet, but that’s it. It does not address the dynamic services-based Internet of today. It doe... Sep. 4, 2016 03:00 PM EDT Reads: 790 | By Pat Romanski  While DevOps promises a better and tighter integration among an organization’s development and operation teams and transforms an application life cycle into a continual deployment, Chef and Azure together provides a speedy, cost-effective and highly scalable vehicle for realizing the business values of this transformation.
In his session at @DevOpsSummit at 19th Cloud Expo, Yung Chou, a Technology Evangelist at Microsoft, will present a unique opportunity to witness how Chef and Azure work tog... Sep. 4, 2016 01:45 PM EDT Reads: 733 | By Elizabeth White  Almost two-thirds of companies either have or soon will have IoT as the backbone of their business in 2016. However, IoT is far more complex than most firms expected. How can you not get trapped in the pitfalls?
In his session at @ThingsExpo, Tony Shan, a renowned visionary and thought leader, will introduce a holistic method of IoTification, which is the process of IoTifying the existing technology and business models to adopt and leverage IoT. He will drill down to the components in this fra... Sep. 4, 2016 01:00 PM EDT Reads: 908 | By Pat Romanski  Traditional on-premises data centers have long been the domain of modern data platforms like Apache Hadoop, meaning companies who build their business on public cloud were challenged to run Big Data processing and analytics at scale. But recent advancements in Hadoop performance, security, and most importantly cloud-native integrations, are giving organizations the ability to truly gain value from all their data.
In his session at 19th Cloud Expo, David Tishgart, Director of Product Marketing ... Sep. 4, 2016 12:00 PM EDT Reads: 1,248 | By Elizabeth White  Why do your mobile transformations need to happen today? Mobile is the strategy that enterprise transformation centers on to drive customer engagement.
In his general session at @ThingsExpo, Roger Woods, Director, Mobile Product & Strategy – Adobe Marketing Cloud, covered key IoT and mobile trends that are forcing mobile transformation, key components of a solid mobile strategy and explored how brands are effectively driving mobile change throughout the enterprise. Sep. 4, 2016 11:30 AM EDT Reads: 1,228 | By Elizabeth White  SYS-CON Events announced today that 910Telecom will exhibit at the 19th International Cloud Expo, which will take place on November 1–3, 2016, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA.
Housed in the classic Denver Gas & Electric Building, 910 15th St., 910Telecom is a carrier-neutral telecom hotel located in the heart of Denver. Adjacent to CenturyLink, AT&T;, and Denver Main, 910Telecom offers connectivity to all major carriers, Internet service providers, Internet backbones and ... Sep. 4, 2016 11:00 AM EDT Reads: 2,285 | By Liz McMillan Although it has gained significant traction in the consumer space, IoT is still in the early stages of adoption in enterprises environments. However, many companies are working on initiatives like Industry 4.0 that includes IoT as one of the key disruptive technologies expected to reshape businesses of tomorrow. The key challenges will be availability, robustness and reliability of networks that connect devices in a business environment. Software Defined Wide Area Network (SD-WAN) is expected to... Sep. 4, 2016 11:00 AM EDT Reads: 796 | By Elizabeth White  Data is an unusual currency; it is not restricted by the same transactional limitations as money or people. In fact, the more that you leverage your data across multiple business use cases, the more valuable it becomes to the organization. And the same can be said about the organization’s analytics.
In his session at 19th Cloud Expo, Bill Schmarzo, CTO for the Big Data Practice at EMC, will introduce a methodology for capturing, enriching and sharing data (and analytics) across the organizati... Sep. 4, 2016 10:15 AM EDT Reads: 881 | By Liz McMillan  There is growing need for data-driven applications and the need for digital platforms to build these apps.
In his session at 19th Cloud Expo, Muddu Sudhakar, VP and GM of Security & IoT at Splunk, will cover different PaaS solutions and Big Data platforms that are available to build applications.
In addition, AI and machine learning are creating new requirements that developers need in the building of next-gen apps. The next-generation digital platforms have some of the past platform needs a... Sep. 4, 2016 10:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,278 | By Liz McMillan  19th Cloud Expo, taking place November 1-3, 2016, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA, will feature technical sessions from a rock star conference faculty and the leading industry players in the world.
Cloud computing is now being embraced by a majority of enterprises of all sizes. Yesterday's debate about public vs. private has transformed into the reality of hybrid cloud: a recent survey shows that 74% of enterprises have a hybrid cloud strategy. Meanwhile, 94% of enterpri... Sep. 4, 2016 10:00 AM EDT Reads: 3,445 | By Liz McMillan  SYS-CON Events announced today that Numerex Corp, a leading provider of managed enterprise solutions enabling the Internet of Things (IoT), will exhibit at the 19th International Cloud Expo | @ThingsExpo, which will take place on November 1–3, 2016, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA.
Numerex Corp. (NASDAQ:NMRX) is a leading provider of managed enterprise solutions enabling the Internet of Things (IoT). The Company's solutions produce new revenue streams or create operating... Sep. 4, 2016 09:00 AM EDT Reads: 755 |
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In the first part of this series, we discussed the evolution of Azure IaaS and role of Azure Resource Manager. The next installment of the series explains the key differences between Azure Service Management (ASM) and Azure Resource Management (ARM) models. We will also take a look at key concepts and terminology related to ARM.
ASM or ARM?
One of the key tenets of cloud, especially infrastructure services, is programmability. Almost every cloud provider exposes a set of APIs to manipulate the virtual infrastructure programmatically. Even before the Cloud Computing term became a buzzword, Am...
In a series of articles, I am going to share my thoughts on the state of IT infrastructure and how we've arrived with current architecture trends. The topic today is SAN.
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It was late 2011 and Steven Donovan was comfortable working at SHI International Corporation, a growing information technology firm, as a personal computer break/fix technician. His company had been growing quickly from a $1 million "software-only" regional re-seller into eventually becoming a $6 billion global provider of information technology products and services.
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The world of business is changing. Disruptive shifts in power are forcing everyone to question the established status quo. In particular, savvy chief executives are tasking IT organizations to help create compelling customer experiences, support new business models and adopt agile operational processes.
That's why the vast majority of IT and business leaders are joining forces on the organizations’ most pressing commercial needs and wants. They seek an open and flexible business technology foundation that's an enabler, rather than an inhibitor, to meaningful and substantive workflow progress....
Web-scale IT is a pattern of global-class computing that delivers the capabilities of large cloud service providers within an enterprise IT setting by reimagining positions across several dimensions. The unprecedented explosion of Big Data and cloud services is driving the development of new storage architectures to store the information produced by this web-scale trend. It is becoming increasingly clear that even a linear growth trajectory for storage is insufficient to deliver the quantity of storage needed for data produced by the Internet of Things. Current architectures have bottlenecks t...
Since its introduction in 2009, Microsoft Azure has gone through a significant transformation. What started as a hardcore set of platform services is now a force to be reckoned within the infrastructure market as well.
According to Gartner, Azure is inching closer to AWS, firmly securing its place in the top right section of the Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) Magic Quadrant, which is reserved only for the market leaders.
Today is another exciting day as an Evangelist to a Big Data company, because I love me some data and I love making it accessible to everyone. I got it in my head that I wanted to take my other “how to”, start to finish, make it easy for everyone approach to analytics, and build something that would do the same for people interested in IoT. So I went ahead and started on my IoT journey today in the way I figured it was best. I bought a bunch of sensors and components and a Raspberry Pi (R-Pi) 3, yes I am turning into a hipster nerd. I had asked around to some folks I knew were doing cool R-Pi ...
Improving end-user experiences and leveraging big data analytics helps Aimia head off digital disruption and improve core operations and processes.
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Every time I call up any customer support and hear the familiar 'all our representatives are busy dealing with other customers,' that my call is very important to them and from the more technologically advanced ones that I am 'fourth in the queue and my approximate wait time is 23 minutes,' I wonder why can't they simply call me back when they are free? They already have my contact number. Some of them actually play some music while I wait - which is still better than those who actually take that opportunity to inform me about their new products.
As good Venn diagrams always show it's the intersection areas that offer the sweet spot for trends and markets, and an especially potent one is the intersection of Cloud computing, with the blockchain and also digital identity, particularly when considered within contexts such as Digital Democracy.
Given the diversity of each field alone there are multiple perspectives to this, more the start of a conversation rather than a definitive design.
This is an unusual blog for me. Usually I talk about how organizations can more effectively leverage data and analytics to power their business. However, as I conduct more Big Data Vision Workshops, I have come to realize that a big part of the success of these engagements is the ability to “listen and comprehend.”
Here are some observations and tips for “listening and comprehending” more effectively. I’ve classified this as “facilitation” because I seek to “facilitate” a dialogue with the client where I can learn enough about the client’s business to help them build the right Big Data busine...
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