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"We are a modern development application platform and we have a suite of
products that allow you to do application release automation, we do version
control, and we do application life cycle management," explained Flint
Brenton, CEO of CollabNet, in this SYS-CON.tv interview at DevOps 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)
Full Conference Registration Gold Pass and Exhibit Hall ▸ Here
Register For @CloudExpo ▸ Here via EventBrite
Register For @ThingsExpo ▸ Here via EventBrite
Register For @DevOpsSummit ▸ Here via EventBrite
Sponsorship Opportunities
Sponsors of Clo... (more)
Why Self-Service Analytics Is Replacing Traditional Business Intelligence
By Pritika Ramani, Product Analyst, ManageEngine
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.
While there are several analytics tools in the market, most tend to be either
complicated or expensive to use. Self-service analytical tools, on the other
hand, offer a rare combination of simplicity and affordability, making them
popular among users. With the emergence of these comprehensive tools, every
IT user can access data from various silos, get unifi... (more)
CloudJumper, a Workspace as a Service (WaaS) platform innovator for agile
business IT, has been recognized with the Customer Value Leadership Award for
its nWorkSpace platform by Frost & Sullivan. The company was also featured in
a new report(1) by the industry research firm titled, "Desktop-as-a-Service
Buyer's Guide, 2016," which provides a comprehensive comparison of DaaS
providers, including CloudJumper, Amazon, VMware, and Microsoft.
The awards by Frost & Sullivan recognize companies throughout a range of
regional and global markets for superior leadership, technological
innovation, customer service, and strategic product development. Frost &
Sullivan's industry analyst team benchmarks market participants and measures
their performance through independent, primary interviews, and secondary
industry research in order to evaluate and identify best practices. Fros... (more)
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Guaranteeing Performance for Your Virtualized Apps and Private Cloud
Fact: storage performance problems have only gotten more complicated, as
applications not only have become largely virtualized, but also have moved to
cloud-based infrastructures. Storage performance in virtualized environments
isn't just about IOPS anymore. Instead, you need to guarantee performance for
individual VMs, helping applications maintain performance as the number of
VMs continues to go up in real time.
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In his session at 19th Cloud Expo, Dhiraj Sehgal, Product and Marketing at
Tintri, shared success stories from a few folks who have already started
using VM-aware storage. By managing storage operations at the VM-level,
they've been able to solve their most vexing storage problems, and create
infrastruc... (more)
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)
A Pair of Virtual Technologies to Create True Scale-out Storage
Almost three years ago, VMware introduced the world to its virtual SAN. This
new solution enabled customers to use storage within ESXi servers without the
need for external storage - an exciting promise for organizations that wanted
to quickly scale their virtual storage. Now, it's time to check in on this
technology and see if it's living up to its promise.
VMware became a player in the storage array and software market when it
launched vSAN. Server admins were looking forward to using vSAN because it
gave them a symmetrical architecture that did not require external storage,
thus being able to use storage within existing servers. It also doesn't
require specialized storage skills. However, no one solution can be all
things to all enterprises, and as enterprises began to deploy vSAN across
their enviro... (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)
Full Conference Registration Gold Pass and Exhibit Hall ▸ Here
Register For @CloudExpo ▸ Here via EventBrite
Register For @ThingsExpo ▸ Here via EventBrite
Register For @DevOpsSummit ▸ Here via EventBrite
Sponsorship Opportunities
Sponsors of Cloud Expo / @ThingsExpo wil... (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)
It is not often that movies and television shows give viewers the opportunity
to explore the world of hacking and digital security in a realistic manner.
After two seasons, "Mr. Robot" has attracted its share of IT professionals as
well as average citizens. The show has offered numerous depictions that are
of particular interest to those who make their living by protecting their
organizations.
The critically acclaimed television series offers fictional situations rather
than documentary evidence. However, the plots and actions of both the
security engineers and hackers are realistic enough that they can send a
shiver down the spine of any professional responsible for safeguarding their
organization's system and responding to incidents. This two-part post
explores some of the most chilling incidents depicted on the show - incidents
that are especially disturbing bec... (more)
Business Transformation Challenge: Constantly Move Forward, or Die
I’m a fan of Woody Allen movies, especially his earlier movies (can’t
tell you how much I learned from the movie “Everything You Always Wanted to
Know About Sex…” but that’s a topic for a different blog). In the Woody
Allen classic “Annie Hall,” Woody Allen’s character (Alvy Singer) makes
the following statement:
“A relationship, I think, is like a shark, you know? It has to constantly
move forward or it dies. And I think what we got on our hands is a dead
shark.”
This is relevant to a business – either your business is constantly moving
forward or the business dies. And this is especially true for organizations
seeking to leverage Big Data and the Internet of Things to drive business
transformation. If you are not constantly trying to move forward on
transforming your business, then it’s pretty cer... (more)
Ten Tips on How to Maximize Your @CloudExpo and @ThingsExpo Sponsorship
Benefits
@CloudExpo and @ThingsExpo, two of the most important technology events in
the world, have hosted hundreds of sponsors and exhibitors since their launch
eight years ago.
In this blog post, I provide 10 tips on how our sponsors and exhibitors can
maximize their participation at our events. But before reading my top 10 tips
for our sponsors and exhibitors, please take a moment and watch this brief
Sandy Carter video.
"Cloud Expo was really the event to connect with thought leaders, innovators,
business folks who are interested in what the cloud can bring to their
business. You know really how it allows them to bring the transformation of
the business process."
Sandy Carter, IBM's General Manager for the Cloud Ecosystem and Developers
1) Sponsor and exhibit in both New York and Silicon V... (more)
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@ThingsExpo Stories 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. 29, 2016 09:00 PM EST Reads: 1,680 | By Yeshim Deniz  20th Cloud Expo, taking place June 6-8, 2017, at the Javits Center in New York City, NY, 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. Nov. 29, 2016 08:15 PM EST Reads: 1,512 | By Elizabeth White  Internet-of-Things discussions can end up either going down the consumer gadget rabbit hole or focused on the sort of data logging that industrial manufacturers have been doing forever. However, in fact, companies today are already using IoT data both to optimize their operational technology and to improve the experience of customer interactions in novel ways. In his session at @ThingsExpo, Gordon Haff, Red Hat Technology Evangelist, will share examples from a wide range of industries – includin... Nov. 29, 2016 05:45 PM EST Reads: 1,372 | By Elizabeth White  Fact is, enterprises have significant legacy voice infrastructure that’s costly to replace with pure IP solutions. How can we bring this analog infrastructure into our shiny new cloud applications? There are proven methods to bind both legacy voice applications and traditional PSTN audio into cloud-based applications and services at a carrier scale. Some of the most successful implementations leverage WebRTC, WebSockets, SIP and other open source technologies.
In his session at @ThingsExpo, Da... Nov. 29, 2016 05:15 PM EST Reads: 1,445 | By Carmen Gonzalez  WebRTC is the future of browser-to-browser communications, and continues to make inroads into the traditional, difficult, plug-in web communications world. The 6th WebRTC Summit continues our tradition of delivering the latest and greatest presentations within the world of WebRTC. Topics include voice calling, video chat, P2P file sharing, and use cases that have already leveraged the power and convenience of WebRTC. Nov. 29, 2016 04:45 PM EST Reads: 1,364 | By Liz McMillan  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... Nov. 29, 2016 04:15 PM EST Reads: 3,055 | 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.
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 compa... Nov. 29, 2016 04:15 PM EST Reads: 418 | 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. 29, 2016 02:30 PM EST Reads: 879 | By Carmen Gonzalez  20th Cloud Expo, taking place June 6-8, 2017, at the Javits Center in New York City, NY, 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. Nov. 29, 2016 02:15 PM EST Reads: 1,872 | By Liz McMillan  Today we can collect lots and lots of performance data. We build beautiful dashboards and even have fancy query languages to access and transform the data. Still performance data is a secret language only a couple of people understand. The more business becomes digital the more stakeholders are interested in this data including how it relates to business. Some of these people have never used a monitoring tool before. They have a question on their mind like “How is my application doing” but no id... Nov. 29, 2016 01:45 PM EST Reads: 1,964 | By Elizabeth White  @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. Nov. 29, 2016 01:45 PM EST Reads: 1,823 | By Liz McMillan  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, examin... Nov. 29, 2016 01:00 PM EST Reads: 1,508 | By Elizabeth White  Machine Learning helps make complex systems more efficient. By applying advanced Machine Learning techniques such as Cognitive Fingerprinting, wind project operators can utilize these tools to learn from collected data, detect regular patterns, and optimize their own operations. In his session at 18th Cloud Expo, Stuart Gillen, Director of Business Development at SparkCognition, discussed how research has demonstrated the value of Machine Learning in delivering next generation analytics to impr... Nov. 29, 2016 12:15 PM EST Reads: 6,846 | By Elizabeth White  In an era of historic innovation fueled by unprecedented access to data and technology, the low cost and risk of entering new markets has leveled the playing field for business. Today, any ambitious innovator can easily introduce a new application or product that can reinvent business models and transform the client experience. In their Day 2 Keynote at 19th Cloud Expo, Mercer Rowe, IBM Vice President of Strategic Alliances, and Raejeanne Skillern, Intel Vice President of Data Center Group and G... Nov. 29, 2016 12:00 PM EST Reads: 1,651 | 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. 29, 2016 11:00 AM EST Reads: 5,568 | 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. 29, 2016 10:30 AM EST Reads: 2,508 | 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. 29, 2016 09:00 AM EST Reads: 1,701 | 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. 29, 2016 08:45 AM EST Reads: 1,279 | 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. 29, 2016 07:45 AM EST Reads: 1,473 | By Carmen Gonzalez  The 20th International Cloud Expo has announced that its Call for Papers is open. Cloud Expo, to be held June 6-8, 2017, at the Javits Center in New York City, brings together Cloud Computing, Big Data, Internet of Things, DevOps, Containers, Microservices and WebRTC to one location.
With cloud computing driving a higher percentage of enterprise IT budgets every year, it becomes increasingly important to plant your flag in this fast-expanding business opportunity. Submit your speaking proposal ... Nov. 29, 2016 07:15 AM EST Reads: 1,836 |
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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...
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...
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.
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...
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.
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.
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.
In his keynote at 18th Cloud Expo, Andrew Keys, Co-Founder of ConsenSys Enterprise, provided an overview of the evolution of the Internet and the Database and the future of their combination – the Blockchain.
Andrew Keys is Co-Founder of ConsenSys Enterprise. He comes to ConsenSys Enterprise with capital markets, technology and entrepreneurial experience. Previously, he worked for UBS investment bank in equities analysis. Later, he was responsible for the creation and distribution of life settlement products to hedge funds and investment banks. After, he co-founded a revenue cycle management...
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