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Technology Isn't the Answer to Surviving Digital Disruption
Guest post by Charles Araujo, Principal Analyst, Intellyx
There's a funny thing about digital transformation: we are simultaneously
over-hyping it and understating it. On the one hand, every tech company in
the world is talking about it. It doesn't matter how mundane the technology;
every company is somehow relating their products to digital transformation.
On the other, many people are failing to grasp the import and impact of what
digital transformation really means. In far too many cases, business and IT
leaders are dismissing it as nothing more than a marketing ploy. The
unfortunate result is that the over-hypedness of digital transformation is
obscuring its real meaning.
This dichotomy is most apparent in what I call the tech company fallacy.
Everywhere I turn, I hear another company executive make a procl... (more)
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Organizational Agility for Digital Transformation (Cultural Change, Change
Management)
Successful digital transformation requires new organizational competencies
and capabilities. Research tells us that the biggest impediment to successful
transformation is human; consequently, the biggest enabler is a properly
skilled and empowered workforce. In the digital age, new individual and
collective competencies are required.
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In his session at 19th Cloud Expo, Bob Newhouse, CEO and founder of Agilitiv,
drew together recent research and lessons learned from emerging and
established companies, providing a road map for engaging our organizations in
the creation and support of digital value chains.
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Speaker Bio
Bob Newhouse is CEO and founder of Agilitiv. Previous... (more)
Internet of @ThingsExpo, taking place June 6-8, 2017 at Javits Center, New
York City, is co-located with 20th International @CloudExpo and will feature
technical sessions from a rock star conference faculty and the leading
industry players in the world.
@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)
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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
decades.
With major t... (more)
"Coalfire is a cyber-risk, security and compliance assessment and advisory
services firm. We do a lot of work with the cloud service provider
community," explained Ryan McGowan, Vice President, Sales (West) at Coalfire
Systems, Inc., in this SYS-CON.tv interview at 19th Cloud Expo, held November
1-3, 2016, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA.
The World's Largest "Cloud Digital Transformation" Event
@CloudExpo / @ThingsExpo 2017 New York
(June 6-8, 2017, Javits Center, Manhattan)
@CloudExpo / @ThingsExpo 2017 Silicon Valley
(Oct. 31 - Nov. 2, 2017, Santa Clara Convention Center, CA)
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Sponsorship Opportunities
Sponsors of Cloud Expo / @ThingsExpo wil... (more)
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The Lean Cloud: The Need for Multi-Cloud DevOps
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.
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In his session at @DevOpsSummit at19th Cloud Expo, Valentin (Val) Bercovici,
CTO of SolidFire, discussed how to leverage this concept to seize on the
creativity and business agility to make it real.
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Valentin (Val) Bercovici, a longtime NetApp executive and member of the
Office of the CTO, ... (more)
Our Top 100 Sponsors and the Leading "Digital Transformation" Companies
(ISC)2, 24Notion (Bronze Sponsor), 910Telecom, Accelertite (Gold Sponsor),
Addteq, Adobe (Bronze Sponsor), Aeroybyte, Alert Logic, Anexia, AppNeta,
Avere Systems, BMC Software (Silver Sponsor), Bsquare Corporation (Silver
Sponsor), BZ Media (Media Sponsor), Catchpoint Systems (Silver Sponsor), CDS
Global Cloud, Cemware, Chetu Inc., China Unicom, Cloud Raxak, CloudBerry
(Media Sponsor), Cloudbric, Coalfire Systems, CollabNet, Inc. (Silver
Sponsor), Column Technologies, Commvault (Bronze Sponsor), Connect2.me,
ContentMX (Bronze Sponsor), CrowdReviews (Media Sponsor) CyberTrend (Media
Sponsor), DataCenterDynamics (Media Sponsor), Delaplex, DICE (Bronze
Sponsor), EastBanc Technologies, eCube Systems, Embotics, Enzu Inc., Ericsson
(Gold Sponsor), FalconStor, Formation Data Systems, Fusion, Hanu Softw... (more)
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Driving Digital Transformation through Infrastructure Built for Open Source
Information technology is an industry that has always experienced change, and
the dramatic change sweeping across the industry today could not be
truthfully described as the first time we've seen such widespread change
impacting customer investments. However, the rate of the change, and the
potential outcomes from today's digital transformation has the distinct
potential to separate the industry into two camps: Organizations that see the
change coming, embrace it, and successful leverage it; and on the other side,
organizations that will find themselves as roadkill on the technology
highway.
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Config as Code vs Immutable Continuous Delivery in the Cloud
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.
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He showed how the immutable patterns help 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 using both containers and VMs.
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Claude Remillard is Principal Program Manager in Developer Division
responsible for the DevOps and DevTest experience on Azure. He previously was
President and... (more)
Pokeman Go has been a raging success. But its launch was marred by frequent
downtimes and dropped connections. In a recent chat at the Google Cloud
Platform Next Conference, Niantic CTO Phil Keslin talked about the “hair
on fire” experience where the team had to firefight and upgrade key
components on the live production system in order to handle the unexpected
surge in new users joining in.
Among the various upgrades made to the system, Niantic had to replace the
network load balancer with a much more sophisticated HTTP/S load balancing
system that could handle a larger overall throughput and offer faster
connections. Keslin says that this timely upgrade made it possible for his
team to launch in Japan without an incident although the number of new user
signups at this point was triple what it was during their earlier US launch.
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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.
However in working with our data science teams, I have come to realize that
we also need to address the other side of the data science equation; that we
need to teach the data scientists in order for them to think like business
executives. If the data science team cannot present the analytic results in a
w... (more)
Embedded Microsoft
In his session at @DevOpsSummit at 19th Cloud Expo, Yoseph Reuveni, Director
of Software Engineering at Jet.com, will discuss Jet.com's journey into
containerizing Microsoft-based technologies like C# and F# into Docker. He
will talk about lessons learned and challenges faced, the Mono framework
tryout and how they deployed everything into Azure cloud.
Speaker Bio
Yoseph Reuveni is a technology leader with unique experience developing and
running high throughput (over 1M tps) distributed systems with extremely low
latency (under 10ms). He is working at Jet.com as a Director of Software
Engineering leading key initiatives around service containerization, scaling
and geo-redundancy. His extensive knowledge integrating Docker, Mesos, Kafka,
and many more pieces of the Big Data stack resulted in numerous performance
boosts and operational cutoffs. Y... (more)
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In his session at 19th Cloud Expo, Mark Allen, General Manager of... Nov. 30, 2016 08:15 AM EST Reads: 1,506 | By Elizabeth White Successful digital transformation requires new organizational competencies and capabilities. Research tells us that the biggest impediment to successful transformation is human; consequently, the biggest enabler is a properly skilled and empowered workforce. In the digital age, new individual and collective competencies are required.
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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.
The IoT continued its toddler-like growth and stumbles in 2016. Here are five trends to look for in 2017 as the IoT enters its adolescence and how to benefit from them.
1. Ecosystems begin to determine winners and losers
Previously these were nice in-the-future concerns; now they will really count. Filling out a whole product value proposition through partnerships has repeatedly proven its importance across B2B and enterprise software sectors. In the IoT, they will be even more critical.
Cyberattacks are relentless. The pace of attacks shows no sign of slowing, and organizations understand that 100 percent prevention of attacks is not possible. Traditional prevention and detection techniques are falling short, and security professionals are scrambling for new paradigms that can more effectively detect attacks and mitigate the growing levels of damage.
In this climate of confusion, deception-based solutions offer a viable and proven way to stop attackers in their tracks. Why? Because instead of sitting back and waiting to be the victim, detection technologies let organizations...
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.
The developments in Google’s Cloud Computing segment, especially the Cloud Machine Learning service, have been so rapid that Google calls it one of its fastest growing product areas. Google has been ramping up their Cloud Platform quite aggressively in recent months. Just a few weeks ago, the Google Cloud Platform opened its newest zone in Tokyo, increasing the total number of regions they are present in to six - three in the US and one each in Belgium and Taiwan and Tokyo.
Not long ago, the company announced its acquisition of Orbitera, a cloud commerce company. for more than a hundred mil...
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.
Between 2005 and 2020, data volumes will grow by a factor of 300 – enough data to stack CDs from the earth to the moon 162 times. This has come to be known as the ‘big data’ phenomenon. Unfortunately, traditional approaches to handling, storing and analyzing data aren’t adequate at this scale: they’re too costly, slow and physically cumbersome to keep up. Fortunately, in response a new breed of technology has emerged that is cheaper, faster and more scalable. Yet, in meeting these new needs they break many of the traditional security approaches on which enterprises depended. In these massive d...
Modern organizations typically use several IT tools to monitor their applications, networks and other IT components in real time. Unfortunately, this leads to independent data islands, which creates a one-dimensional view of IT. In order to make strategic decisions, organizations need an IT operational analytics tool to analyze data from multiple sources, spot trends and make better decisions. 
The Jevons Paradox suggests that when technological advances increase efficiency of a resource, it results in an overall increase in consumption. Writing on the increased use of coal as a result of technological improvements, 19th-century economist William Stanley Jevons found that these improvements led to the development of new ways to utilize coal. In his session at 19th Cloud Expo, Mark Thiele, Chief Strategy Officer for Apcera, compared the Jevons Paradox to modern-day enterprise IT, examining how the Internet and the cloud has allowed for the democratization of IT, resulting in an increa...
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 & Associates, Inc., put cognitive computing into perspective with its value to the business. The sessi...
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