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The Future of IoT through Location-Based Services
Connected devices and the industrial internet are growing exponentially every
year with Cisco expecting 50 billion devices to be in operation by 2020. In
this period of growth, location-based insights are becoming invaluable to
many businesses as they adopt new connected technologies. Knowing when and
where these devices connect from is critical for a number of scenarios in
supply chain management, disaster management, emergency response, M2M,
location marketing and more.
In his session at @ThingsExpo, Mario Proietti, CEO of LocationSmart,
discussed how Internet connectivity enables location-based services to take
advantage of everything available on the World Wide Web and how this data
helps expand the possibilities for how we communicate, collaborate and
commute.
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Sensor Analytics Ecosystems, Fulfilling the IoT Potential
The Internet of Things (IoT), in all its myriad manifestations, has great
potential. Much of that potential comes from the evolving data management and
analytic (DMA) technologies and processes that allow us to gain insight from
all of the IoT data that can be generated and gathered. This potential may
never be met as those data sets are tied to specific industry verticals and
single markets, with no clear way to use IoT data and sensor analytics to
fulfill the hype being given the IoT today.
More important are the solution spaces that can only be addressed through the
convergence of the IoT with DMA. These solution spaces are being defined by
cultural, regulatory, environmental, political and economic factors.
Building upon his talk at @ThingsExpo 2014 Silicon Valley, Joseph di
Paolantonio, an independent ind... (more)
Container Monitoring: Top Docker Metrics to Watch
By Stefan Thies
Monitoring of Docker environments is challenging. Why? Because each container
typically runs a single process, has its own environment, utilizes virtual
networks, or has various methods of managing storage. Traditional monitoring
solutions take metrics from each server and applications they run. These
servers and applications running on them are typically very static, with very
long uptimes. Docker deployments are different: a set of containers may run
many applications, all sharing the resources of one or more underlying hosts.
It's not uncommon for Docker servers to run thousands of short-term
containers (e.g., for batch jobs) while a set of permanent services runs in
parallel. Traditional monitoring tools not used to such dynamic environments
are not suited for such deployments. On the other hand, s... (more)
Internet of @ThingsExpo, taking place June 6-8, 2017at Javits Center, New
York City, is co-located with the 20th International @CloudExpo and will
feature technical sessions from a rock star conference faculty and the
leading industry players in the world. @ThingsExpo New York Call for Papers
is now open.
@CloudExpo / @ThingsExpo 2017 New York
(June 6-8, 2017, Javits Center, Manhattan)
@CloudExpo / @ThingsExpo 2017 Silicon Valley
(October 31 - November 2, 2017, Santa Clara Convention Center, CA)
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 several
d... (more)
Getting a Competitive Edge from Comprehensive Data Analysis
The next BriefingsDirect Voice of the Customer digital transformation case
study explores how linen services industry leader AmeriPride Services uses
big data to gain a competitive and comprehensive overview of its operations,
finances and culture.
We’ll explore how improved data analytics allows for disparate company
divisions and organizations to come under a single umbrella -- to become more
aligned -- and to act as a whole greater than the sum of the parts. This is
truly the path to a digital business.
Here to describe how digital transformation has been supported by innovations
at the big data core, we’re joined by Steven John, CIO, and Tony Ordner,
Information Team Manager, both at at AmeriPride Services in Minnetonka,
Minnesota. The discussion is moderated by BriefingsDirect's Dana Gardner,
Principa... (more)
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The Next Generation Customer Engagement: Mobile Transformation
Why do your mobile transformations need to happen today? Mobile is the
strategy that enterprise transformation centers on to drive customer
engagement.
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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.
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Speaker Bio
Roger Woods is Director, Mobile Product & Strategy - Adobe Marketing Cloud.
He owns the Adobe Marketing Cloud m... (more)
Is American E-Commerce About to Be Caught Napping with Payment Methods
With a slow-growing domestic market and their own consumers increasingly
shopping cross border, US e-commerce sites are starting to realize they need
to compete globally. But are they ready for it? And are their payment service
providers?
A.T Kearney´s "2015 Global Retail E-Commerce Index Report "put it in a
nutshell: with the global explosion of e-commerce, being able to effectively
sell across borders is going to be a key differentiator between the next
round of online-retail winners and losers. By being good at selling across
borders, the winners will be able to expand into new markets without the cost
of having a physical footprint in those markets(1). This will give them the
competitive edge over rivals still locked into just their domestic markets.
The challenge this poses is especially rele... (more)
@GonzalezCarmen has been ranked the Number One Influencer and @ThingsExpo has
been named the Number One Brand in the "M2M 2016: Top 100 Influencers and
Brands" by Onalytica.
Onalytica analyzed tweets over the last 6 months mentioning the keywords M2M
OR "Machine to Machine." They then identified the top 100 most influential
brands and individuals leading the discussion on Twitter.
Machine to Machine (M2M) refers to direct communication between devices using
any communications channel, including wired and wireless. The M2M market is
undergoing a fast transformation as enterprises are increasingly realizing
the value of connecting geographically dispersed people, devices, sensors and
machines to corporate networks. Today, industries such as healthcare,
automotive, oil and gas, precision agriculture, military, government, smart
cities/municipalities, manufacturing, a... (more)
ThingsExpo Named World's Most Influential M2M Media Brand
@ThingsExpo has been named the Top 5 Most Influential M2M Brand by Onalytica
in the ‘Machine to Machine: Top 100 Influencers and Brands.' Onalytica
analyzed the online debate on M2M by looking at over 85,000 tweets to provide
the most influential individuals and brands that drive the discussion.
According to Onalytica the "analysis showed a very engaged community with a
lot of interactive tweets.
The M2M discussion seems to be more fragmented and driven by some of the
major brands present in the M2M space.
This really allows some room for influential individuals to create more high
value interactions amongst community members."
@ThingsExpo ranked as the 5th "Most Influential" #M2M Brand in the World" and
the most influential M2M media brand, followed by @CloudExpo at 41st, and
@DevOpsSummit at 76th.
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@CloudExpo Stories By Liz McMillan  All clouds are not equal. To succeed in a DevOps context, organizations should plan to develop/deploy apps across a choice of on-premise and public clouds simultaneously depending on the business needs. This is where the concept of the Lean Cloud comes in - resting on the idea that you often need to relocate your app modules over their life cycles for both innovation and operational efficiency in the cloud.
In his session at @DevOpsSummit at19th Cloud Expo, Valentin (Val) Bercovici, CTO of Soli... Nov. 27, 2016 09:30 AM EST Reads: 1,007 | By Elizabeth White  In his keynote at 19th Cloud Expo, Sheng Liang, co-founder and CEO of Rancher Labs, discussed the technological advances and new business opportunities created by the rapid adoption of containers. With the success of Amazon Web Services (AWS) and various open source technologies used to build private clouds, cloud computing has become an essential component of IT strategy. However, users continue to face challenges in implementing clouds, as older technologies evolve and newer ones like Docker c... Nov. 27, 2016 08:45 AM EST Reads: 2,390 | By Elizabeth White  As ridesharing competitors and enhanced services increase, notable changes are occurring in the transportation model. Despite the cost-effective means and flexibility of ridesharing, both drivers and users will need to be aware of the connected environment and how it will impact the ridesharing experience. In his session at @ThingsExpo, Timothy Evavold, Executive Director Automotive at Covisint, discussed key challenges and solutions to powering a ride sharing and/or multimodal model in the age ... Nov. 27, 2016 08:45 AM EST Reads: 670 | By Liz McMillan  In IT, we sometimes coin terms for things before we know exactly what they are and how they’ll be used. The resulting terms may capture a common set of aspirations and goals – as “cloud” did broadly for on-demand, self-service, and flexible computing. But such a term can also lump together diverse and even competing practices, technologies, and priorities to the point where important distinctions are glossed over and lost. Nov. 27, 2016 08:30 AM EST Reads: 1,204 | By Pat Romanski  Join Impiger for their featured webinar: ‘Cloud Computing: A Roadmap to Modern Software Delivery’ on November 10, 2016, at 12:00 pm CST.
Very few companies have not experienced some impact to their IT delivery due to the evolution of cloud computing. This webinar is not about deciding whether you should entertain moving some or all of your IT to the cloud, but rather, a detailed look under the hood to help IT professionals understand how cloud adoption has evolved and what trends will impact th... Nov. 27, 2016 08:00 AM EST Reads: 2,245 | By Carmen Gonzalez  With major technology companies and startups seriously embracing IoT strategies, now is the perfect time to attend @ThingsExpo 2016 in New York. Learn what is going on, contribute to the discussions, and ensure that your enterprise is as "IoT-Ready" as it can be! Internet of @ThingsExpo, taking place June 6-8, 2017, at the Javits Center in New York City, New York, is co-located with 20th Cloud Expo and will feature technical sessions from a rock star conference faculty and the leading industry p... Nov. 27, 2016 07:45 AM EST Reads: 1,516 | By Elizabeth White  As data explodes in quantity, importance and from new sources, the need for managing and protecting data residing across physical, virtual, and cloud environments grow with it. Managing data includes protecting it, indexing and classifying it for true, long-term management, compliance and E-Discovery. Commvault can ensure this with a single pane of glass solution – whether in a private cloud, a Service Provider delivered public cloud or a hybrid cloud environment – across the heterogeneous enter... Nov. 27, 2016 07:45 AM EST Reads: 1,155 | By Pat Romanski  In his session at 19th Cloud Expo, Claude Remillard, Principal Program Manager in Developer Division at Microsoft, contrasted how his team used config as code and immutable patterns for continuous delivery of microservices and apps to the cloud. He showed how the immutable patterns helps developers do away with most of the complexity of config as code-enabling scenarios such as rollback, zero downtime upgrades with far greater simplicity. He also demoed building immutable pipelines in the cloud ... Nov. 27, 2016 07:15 AM EST Reads: 1,493 | By Pat Romanski  In past @ThingsExpo presentations, Joseph di Paolantonio has explored how various Internet of Things (IoT) and data management and analytics (DMA) solution spaces will come together as sensor analytics ecosystems. This year, in his session at @ThingsExpo, Joseph di Paolantonio from DataArchon, added the numerous Transportation areas, from autonomous vehicles to “Uber for containers.” While IoT data in any one area of Transportation will have a huge impact in that area, combining sensor analytic... Nov. 27, 2016 07:15 AM EST Reads: 1,091 | By Carmen Gonzalez Internet of @ThingsExpo, taking place June 6-8, 2017 at the Javits Center in New York City, New York, is co-located with the 20th International Cloud Expo and will feature technical sessions from a rock star conference faculty and the leading industry players in the world. @ThingsExpo New York Call for Papers is now open. Nov. 27, 2016 07:00 AM EST Reads: 1,588 | By Elizabeth White  When it comes to cloud computing, the ability to turn massive amounts of compute cores on and off on demand sounds attractive to IT staff, who need to manage peaks and valleys in user activity. With cloud bursting, the majority of the data can stay on premises while tapping into compute from public cloud providers, reducing risk and minimizing need to move large files.
In his session at 18th Cloud Expo, Scott Jeschonek, Director of Product Management at Avere Systems, discussed the IT and busin... Nov. 27, 2016 06:45 AM EST Reads: 3,488 | By Pat Romanski  Everyone knows that truly innovative companies learn as they go along, pushing boundaries in response to market changes and demands. What's more of a mystery is how to balance innovation on a fresh platform built from scratch with the legacy tech stack, product suite and customers that continue to serve as the business' foundation.
In his General Session at 19th Cloud Expo, Michael Chambliss, Head of Engineering at ReadyTalk, discussed why and how ReadyTalk diverted from healthy revenue and mor... Nov. 27, 2016 06:15 AM EST Reads: 1,129 | By Pat Romanski  You have great SaaS business app ideas. You want to turn your idea quickly into a functional and engaging proof of concept. You need to be able to modify it to meet customers' needs, and you need to deliver a complete and secure SaaS application. How could you achieve all the above and yet avoid unforeseen IT requirements that add unnecessary cost and complexity? You also want your app to be responsive in any device at any time.
In his session at 19th Cloud Expo, Mark Allen, General Manager of... Nov. 27, 2016 05:15 AM EST Reads: 1,273 | By Elizabeth White  Whether your IoT service is connecting cars, homes, appliances, wearable, cameras or other devices, one question hangs in the balance – how do you actually make money from this service? The ability to turn your IoT service into profit requires the ability to create a monetization strategy that is flexible, scalable and working for you in real-time. It must be a transparent, smoothly implemented strategy that all stakeholders – from customers to the board – will be able to understand and comprehe... Nov. 27, 2016 05:00 AM EST Reads: 3,596 | By Liz McMillan  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 18th Cloud Expo, Dave Nielsen, Developer Relations at Redis Labs, shared the functions and data structures used to solve everyday use cases that are driving Redis' popularity. Nov. 27, 2016 04:15 AM EST Reads: 3,229 | By Liz McMillan  We're entering the post-smartphone era, where wearable gadgets from watches and fitness bands to glasses and health aids will power the next technological revolution. With mass adoption of wearable devices comes a new data ecosystem that must be protected. Wearables open new pathways that facilitate the tracking, sharing and storing of consumers’ personal health, location and daily activity data. Consumers have some idea of the data these devices capture, but most don’t realize how revealing and... Nov. 27, 2016 04:00 AM EST Reads: 4,879 | By Liz McMillan  Major trends and emerging technologies – from virtual reality and IoT, to Big Data and algorithms – are helping organizations innovate in the digital era. However, to create real business value, IT must think beyond the ‘what’ of digital transformation to the ‘how’ to harness emerging trends, innovation and disruption. Architecture is the key that underpins and ties all these efforts together. In the digital age, it’s important to invest in architecture, extend the enterprise footprint to the cl... Nov. 27, 2016 04:00 AM EST Reads: 1,470 | By Pat Romanski Connected devices and the industrial internet are growing exponentially every year with Cisco expecting 50 billion devices to be in operation by 2020. In this period of growth, location-based insights are becoming invaluable to many businesses as they adopt new connected technologies. Knowing when and where these devices connect from is critical for a number of scenarios in supply chain management, disaster management, emergency response, M2M, location marketing and more.
In his session at @Th... Nov. 27, 2016 03:30 AM EST Reads: 3,567 | By Pat Romanski  Cognitive Computing is becoming the foundation for a new generation of solutions that have the potential to transform business. Unlike traditional approaches to building solutions, a cognitive computing approach allows the data to help determine the way applications are designed. This contrasts with conventional software development that begins with defining logic based on the current way a business operates.
In her session at 18th Cloud Expo, Judith S. Hurwitz, President and CEO of Hurwitz & ... Nov. 27, 2016 02:00 AM EST Reads: 5,434 | By Elizabeth White  In addition to all the benefits, IoT is also bringing new kind of customer experience challenges - cars that unlock themselves, thermostats turning houses into saunas and baby video monitors broadcasting over the internet. This list can only increase because while IoT services should be intuitive and simple to use, the delivery ecosystem is a myriad of potential problems as IoT explodes complexity. So finding a performance issue is like finding the proverbial needle in the haystack. Nov. 27, 2016 01:15 AM EST Reads: 5,779 |
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Way back in 1969, as a kid, I watched a very interesting movie – “2001: A Space Odyssey”. It was a science fiction where a super intelligent computer program HAL is in-charge of a mission to Jupiter which also carries several astronauts. The program becomes rogue and tries to kill all the astronauts. The hero survives and manages to disable the program. There is a lot more to the plot, but the fight between human and computer is still vivid in my memory.
In 1969, such a scenario looked possible. After all 32 years is a lot of time given the rate of our progress. We are now in 2016, and it app...
IT leaders face a monumental challenge. They must figure out how to sort through the cacophony of new technologies, buzzwords, and industry hype to find the right digital path forward for their organizations. And they simply cannot afford to fail. Those organizations that are fastest to the right digital path will be the ones that win. The path forward, however, is strewn with the legacy of decisions made long ago — often before any of the current leadership team assumed their roles. While it’s fun to think about the future with a green-field mindset, that’s not reality for IT leaders sitting ...
As we enter the final week before the 19th International Cloud Expo | @ThingsExpo in Santa Clara, CA, it's time for me to reflect on six big topics that will be important during the show.
Hybrid Cloud
This general-purpose term seems to provide a comfort zone for many enterprise IT managers. It sounds reassuring to be able to work with one of the major public-cloud providers like AWS or Microsoft Azure while still maintaining an on-site presence.
There was a time, in the 1990s, when Silicon Valley and Redmond thought Washington DC didn’t matter. Top executives would occasionally appear in front of Congress to inveigh mostly against one another, then quickly return home to resume making money. The notion that clueless DC regulators and legislators mattered was ridiculed when it wasn’t ignored.
Interoperability continues to be one of healthcare IT’s biggest trends in 2016 as the industry sees momentous forward movement.
In fact, interoperability is not a new trend. It has been an important mission (and a challenge) for healthcare administrators for decades, but the past couple of years have been game-changing.
First, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) wants interoperability to be a common feature in all EHRs by 2024 so that patient data can be shared across systems to provide better care at a lower cost. Since the 2009 passage of the Health Information Technolog...
Walk through an airport or a shopping mall and you may notice little pieces of information popping up: “Flight delayed at gate G5”; “Stop into our shop right now and receive up to 20 percent off your order”; etc. Did you sign up for those notifications? Most likely not, but don’t worry, your phone hasn’t been hacked. The notifications are a result of beacon technology.
Last week I mentioned to one of my U.S.-based colleagues that I would be out of office for three days at the Irish National Digital Week (NDW16), taking the opportunity because the event was being held in Skibbereen, just a few kilometres down the road from my home office. He asked, "Surely an event of that type would be held in Dublin?" And I replied, "Well there's a story here that needs to be told; one that will have profound implications for business in Ireland and probably internationally".
The 2017 procurement landscape has its own impressive retinue of decision bots, automated processes, and data-driven insights.
The next BriefingsDirect technology innovation thought leadership discussion explores how rapid advances in artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning are poised to reshape procurement -- like a fast-forwarding to a once-fanciful vision of the future.
The cloud promises new levels of agility and cost-savings for Big Data, data warehousing and analytics. But it’s challenging to understand all the options – from IaaS and PaaS to newer services like HaaS (Hadoop as a Service) and BDaaS (Big Data as a Service). In her session at @BigDataExpo at @ThingsExpo, Hannah Smalltree, a director at Cazena, provided an educational overview of emerging “as-a-service” options for Big Data in the cloud. This is critical background for IT and data professionals, as experts estimate that “as-a-service” cloud sourcing will increase from today’s 15% to 35% by 20...
Unless your company can spend a lot of money on new technology, re-engineering your environment and hiring a comprehensive cybersecurity team, you will most likely move to the cloud or seek external service partnerships. In his session at 18th Cloud Expo, Darren Guccione, CEO of Keeper Security, revealed what you need to know when it comes to encryption in the cloud.
The Internet of Things (IoT) promises to change everything by enabling “smart” environments (homes, cities, hospitals, schools, stores, etc.) and smart products (cars, trucks, airplanes, trains, wind turbines, lawnmowers, etc.). I recently wrote about the importance of moving beyond “connected” to “smart” in a blog titled “Internet of Things: Connected Does Not Equal Smart”. The article discusses the importance of moving beyond just collecting the data, to transitioning to leveraging this new wealth of IoT data to improve the decisions that these smart environments and products need to make: t...
Time and again, those keeping a pulse on the Internet of Things (IoT) space frequently hear about the “rise of the machines.” Humanity is not only discovering fascinating ways to integrate machines into our daily lives, but also finding new uses for machines as well. How? Machines are now “internet-connected” just like the smartphones we carry around in our pockets. And this isn’t just on the commercial side with the likes of smart thermostats or connected vehicles – even tractors and oil and gas machinery are industrial examples of where new “things” are now on the digital network. ...
When we talk about the impact of BYOD and BYOA and the Internet of Things, we often focus on the impact on data center architectures. That's because there will be an increasing need for authentication, for access control, for security, for application delivery as the number of potential endpoints (clients, devices, things) increases. That means scale in the data center.
What we gloss over, what we skip, is that before any of these "things" ever makes a request to access an application it had to execute a DNS query. Every. Single. Thing. 
I spend a lot of time helping organizations to “think like a data scientist.” My book “Big Data MBA: Driving Business Strategies with Data Science” has several chapters devoted to helping business leaders to embrace the power of data scientist thinking. My Big Data MBA class at the University of San Francisco School of Management focuses on teaching tomorrow’s business executives the power of analytics and data science to optimize key business processes, uncover new monetization opportunities and create a more compelling, engaging customer and channel engagement.
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