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2017 Predictions -- from AI and Machine Learning to Security, Mobile, IT
Employment Landscape and M&A; Activity
Specifically, in 2017 we predict that machine learning will show up in new
and exciting ways. Some people believe that machine learning is the same as
artificial intelligence, but what you are really looking at is this concept
of being able to be more human with your IT infrastructure. At the Microsoft
Build Event last year developers were shown the concept of bots being able to
write code that can interact with you in the communication channel you use -
be it Skype, email, or something different. The ultimate concept is that the
infrastructure IT you use will have the ability to interface with an
intelligent back-end system that benefits you - the everyday user. These
interfaces are now exposed to developers and, in turn, are being embedded
into business ... (more)
As more organizations try to determine where best to deploy their limited
budgets to support data and analytics initiatives, they realize a need to
ascertain the financial value of their data and analytics - which means basic
economic concepts are coming into play. While many of you probably took an
economics class in college not too long ago, some more "seasoned" readers may
be rusty.
The starting point for this topic began with a blog that I wrote several
months ago titled "Determining the Economic Value of Data" and this key
observation that started that conversation:
Data is an unusual currency. Most currencies exhibit a one-to-one
transactional relationship. For example, the quantifiable value of a dollar
is considered to be finite - it can only be used to buy one item or service
at a time, or a person can only do one paid job at a time. But measuring the
va... (more)
How valuable would it be to know everything about your customer's
interactions with your competition? Creating a 360-degree customer view is
considered the holy grail of customer intelligence, and you can create it,
today.
Would you like to know how much they're spending, when they're spending, why
they're buying with the competition and not you, what drives their purchase
behavior and what steps you can take to capture a greater share of wallet.
This consumer intelligence is fundamentally obtained and analyzed through the
creation of a 360-degree customer profile platform, which your organization
can create without a lot of effort and without hiring expensive consultants
or data scientists.
For many organizations, creating a 360-degree platform which they can feed
data into can represent the largest challenge. How do we collect the data?
Where will it come from? H... (more)
HomeKit, Brillo, Alljoyn...Oh My! Seeking the Wizard of IoT
Things are changing so quickly in IoT that it would take a wizard to predict
which ecosystem will gain the most traction. In order for IoT to reach its
potential, smart devices must be able to work together. Today, there are a
slew of interoperability standards being promoted by big names to make this
happen: HomeKit, Brillo and Alljoyn.
In his session at @ThingsExpo, Adam Justice, vice president and general
manager of Grid Connect, will review what happens when smart devices don't
work together, and will look at each standard in detail, highlighting
strengths and weaknesses. He will also look at whether standards can
co-exist, and what it would take to make this happen.
Speaker Bio
Adam Justice is vice president and general manager of Grid Connect, a
manufacturer and distributor of networking products and ... (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 ... (more)
"We are an all-flash array storage provider but our focus has been on
VM-aware storage specifically for virtualized applications," stated Dhiraj
Sehgal of Tintri 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.
DevOps - Operations Pain in Data Management
Updating DevOps to the latest production data slows down your development
cycle. Probably it is due to slow, inefficient conventional storage and
associated copy data management practices.
In his session at @DevOpsSummit at 20th Cloud Expo, Dhiraj Sehgal, in Product
and Solution at Tintri, will talk about DevOps and cloud-focused storage to
update hundreds of child VMs (different flavors) with updates from a master
VM in minutes, saving hours or even days in each development cycle. He will
also discuss how the "Ops" side of DevOps is ... (more)
The mad dash to connect virtually every noun to the internet or the Internet
of Things is creating a massive M2M network for all the devices, systems,
sensors and actuators to connect & communicate on the Internet.
With that, they need a communications protocol to understand each other. One
of those is Message Queue Telemetry Transport (MQTT). MQTT is a “subscribe
and publish” messaging protocol designed for lightweight machine-to-machine
(or IoT) communications.
In this episode of Lightboard Lessons, I light up how MQTT works.
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What are These "Things? The Intruders of Things
Internet [email protected], taking place June 6-8, 2017 at Javits Center, New
York City, is co-located with 20th [email protected] and will feature
technical sessions from a rock star conference facult... (more)
True Story. Over the past few years, Fannie Mae transformed the way in
which they delivered software. Deploys increased from 1,200/month to
15,000/month. At the same time, productivity increased by 28% while
reducing costs by 30%. But, how did they do it?
During the All Day DevOps conference, over 13,500 practitioners from around
the world to learn from their peers in the industry. Barry Snyder, Senior
Manager of DevOps at Fannie Mae, was one of 57 practitioners who shared his
real world journey through his enterprise transformation.
Choke Point or Checkpoint. Eddie Webb, Director of Software Delivery
Platforms at Liberty Mutual, also shared his organization's journey into
DevOps. Eddie described how they evolved their organization, tool chain,
and processes to go from 20% of builds being deployed to 60% over the past 18
months. He described how they documen... (more)
Digital Transformation in the Insurance Industry
By Omed Habib
The insurance industry is well aware that digital transformation is coming,
even if some CIOs can’t really say what their individual companies will
look like at the end of it all. In a survey of thousands of C-level execs
around the world, insurance came in among the top five industries that are
most likely to see “moderate to massive” digital disruption within the
next 12 months. Only 20 percent of business leaders felt that they had the
talent they needed to transform the enterprise, though. Here’s a closer
look at what’s coming next in the exciting new era of software-defined
insurance companies.
The Growth of the Insurance Model
The basic business model of the insurance industry hasn’t changed much
since Edward Lloyd opened his coffee shop for seafaring folk in London in
1688. In the decades after Sh... (more)
Intellyx's 2017 Digital Transformation Predictions
Guest post by Intellyx Principal Analyst Charles Araujo
Once again, we find ourselves at the dawn of a new year.
And many would say, not a moment too soon. With a series of tumultuous
elections around the world and an unusual number of celebrity passings, it's
been a rough year.
But there is at least one bright spot from 2016: Intellyx's digital
transformation prognostications were close to spot on!
As is our tradition, each year we review last year's predictions and make all
new fresh ones! This year, it is my turn to review Jason's 2016 predictions
and let you know what I see happening in the coming year.
A Look Back on a Year of Inflection Points
Our predictions for 2016 centered on one thing: inflection points.
We predicted that blockchain, IoT security and open source web scale
technology would all turn the corner... (more)
Enterprise DevOps Journey, The Things No One Told Me...
When you focus on a journey from up-close, you look at your own technical and
cultural history and how you changed it for the benefit of the customer. This
was our starting point: too many integration issues, 13 SWP days and very
long cycles. It was evident that in this fast-paced industry we could no
longer afford this reality. We needed something that would take us beyond
reducing the development lifecycles, CI and Agile methodologies. We made a
fundamental difference, even changed our culture.
In his session at @DevOpsSummit at 20th Cloud Expo, Amir Fried, Software
Architect at Amdocs, will take you through Amdocs past, present and future,
sharing valuable insights.
Speaker Bio
Amir Fried is a Software Architect at Amdocs, a company with more than 25,000
employees serving customers in over 90 countries. He is... (more)
@CloudExpo Stories By Liz McMillan  WebRTC is about the data channel as much as about video and audio conferencing. However, basically all commercial WebRTC applications have been built with a focus on audio and video. The handling of “data” has been limited to text chat and file download – all other data sharing seems to end with screensharing. What is holding back a more intensive use of peer-to-peer data? In her session at @ThingsExpo, Dr Silvia Pfeiffer, WebRTC Applications Team Lead at National ICT Australia, looked at differ... Jan. 20, 2017 02:30 AM EST Reads: 5,014 | By Elizabeth White  Adding public cloud resources to an existing application can be a daunting process. The tools that you currently use to manage the software and hardware outside the cloud aren’t always the best tools to efficiently grow into the cloud. All of the major configuration management tools have cloud orchestration plugins that can be leveraged, but there are also cloud-native tools that can dramatically improve the efficiency of managing your application lifecycle.
In his session at 18th Cloud Expo, ... Jan. 20, 2017 02:15 AM EST Reads: 6,041 | By Liz McMillan  Security, data privacy, reliability and regulatory compliance are critical factors when evaluating whether to move business applications from in-house client hosted environments to a cloud platform. In her session at 18th Cloud Expo, Vandana Viswanathan, Associate Director at Cognizant, In this session, will provide an orientation to the five stages required to implement a cloud hosted solution validation strategy. Jan. 20, 2017 02:00 AM EST Reads: 3,616 | By Liz McMillan  The security needs of IoT environments require a strong, proven approach to maintain security, trust and privacy in their ecosystem. Assurance and protection of device identity, secure data encryption and authentication are the key security challenges organizations are trying to address when integrating IoT devices. This holds true for IoT applications in a wide range of industries, for example, healthcare, consumer devices, and manufacturing.
In his session at @ThingsExpo, Lancen LaChance, vic... Jan. 20, 2017 02:00 AM EST Reads: 6,571 | By Elizabeth White  With the proliferation of both SQL and NoSQL databases, organizations can now target specific fit-for-purpose database tools for their different application needs regarding scalability, ease of use, ACID support, etc. Platform as a Service offerings make this even easier now, enabling developers to roll out their own database infrastructure in minutes with minimal management overhead. However, this same amount of flexibility also comes with the challenges of picking the right tool, on the right ... Jan. 20, 2017 02:00 AM EST Reads: 5,320 | By Liz McMillan  With all the incredible momentum behind the Internet of Things (IoT) industry, it is easy to forget that not a single CEO wakes up and wonders if “my IoT is broken.” What they wonder is if they are making the right decisions to do all they can to increase revenue, decrease costs, and improve customer experience – effectively the same challenges they have always had in growing their business. The exciting thing about the IoT industry is now these decisions can be better, faster, and smarter. Now ... Jan. 20, 2017 01:45 AM EST Reads: 4,263 | By Elizabeth White  "Splunk basically takes machine data and we make it usable, valuable and accessible for everyone. The way that plays in DevOps is - we need to make data-driven decisions to delivering applications," explained Andi Mann, Chief Technology Advocate at Splunk and @DevOpsSummit Conference Chair, in this SYS-CON.tv interview at @DevOpsSummit at 19th Cloud Expo, held November 1-3, 2016, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA. Jan. 20, 2017 01:15 AM EST Reads: 2,138 | By Liz McMillan  Security, data privacy, reliability, and regulatory compliance are critical factors when evaluating whether to move business applications from in-house, client-hosted environments to a cloud platform. Quality assurance plays a vital role in ensuring that the appropriate level of risk assessment, verification, and validation takes place to ensure business continuity during the migration to a new cloud platform. Jan. 20, 2017 01:15 AM EST Reads: 1,344 | By Pat Romanski  Who are you? How do you introduce yourself? Do you use a name, or do you greet a friend by the last four digits of his social security number? Assuming you don’t, why are we content to associate our identity with 10 random digits assigned by our phone company? Identity is an issue that affects everyone, but as individuals we don’t spend a lot of time thinking about it. In his session at @ThingsExpo, Ben Klang, Founder & President of Mojo Lingo, discussed the impact of technology on identity. Sho... Jan. 20, 2017 12:45 AM EST Reads: 4,108 | By Pat Romanski  A critical component of any IoT project is what to do with all the data being generated. This data needs to be captured, processed, structured, and stored in a way to facilitate different kinds of queries. Traditional data warehouse and analytical systems are mature technologies that can be used to handle certain kinds of queries, but they are not always well suited to many problems, particularly when there is a need for real-time insights. Jan. 20, 2017 12:00 AM EST Reads: 6,335 | By Elizabeth White  In his session at DevOps Summit, Tapabrata Pal, Director of Enterprise Architecture at Capital One, will tell a story about how Capital One has embraced Agile and DevOps Security practices across the Enterprise – driven by Enterprise Architecture; bringing in Development, Operations and Information Security organizations together. Capital Ones DevOpsSec practice is based upon three "pillars" – Shift-Left, Automate Everything, Dashboard Everything. Within about three years, from 100% waterfall, C... Jan. 19, 2017 11:45 PM EST Reads: 9,924 | By Liz McMillan  WebRTC has had a real tough three or four years, and so have those working with it. Only a few short years ago, the development world were excited about WebRTC and proclaiming how awesome it was.
You might have played with the technology a couple of years ago, only to find the extra infrastructure requirements were painful to implement and poorly documented. This probably left a bitter taste in your mouth, especially when things went wrong. Jan. 19, 2017 09:45 PM EST Reads: 7,704 | By Pat Romanski  "We provide DevOps solutions. We also partner with some key players in the DevOps space and we use the technology that we partner with to engineer custom solutions for different organizations," stated Himanshu Chhetri, CTO of Addteq, in this SYS-CON.tv interview at DevOps at 18th Cloud Expo, held June 7-9, 2016, at the Javits Center in New York City, NY. Jan. 19, 2017 09:00 PM EST Reads: 4,574 | By Pat Romanski  DevOps tends to focus on the relationship between Dev and Ops, putting an emphasis on the ops and application infrastructure. But that’s changing with microservices architectures. In her session at DevOps Summit, Lori MacVittie, Evangelist for F5 Networks, will focus on how microservices are changing the underlying architectures needed to scale, secure and deliver applications based on highly distributed (micro) services and why that means an expansion into “the network” for DevOps. Jan. 19, 2017 08:45 PM EST Reads: 5,407 | By Liz McMillan  WebRTC is bringing significant change to the communications landscape that will bridge the worlds of web and telephony, making the Internet the new standard for communications. Cloud9 took the road less traveled and used WebRTC to create a downloadable enterprise-grade communications platform that is changing the communication dynamic in the financial sector. In his session at @ThingsExpo, Leo Papadopoulos, CTO of Cloud9, discussed the importance of WebRTC and how it enables companies to focus o... Jan. 19, 2017 07:30 PM EST Reads: 4,240 | By Elizabeth White  Web Real-Time Communication APIs have quickly revolutionized what browsers are capable of. In addition to video and audio streams, we can now bi-directionally send arbitrary data over WebRTC's PeerConnection Data Channels. With the advent of Progressive Web Apps and new hardware APIs such as WebBluetooh and WebUSB, we can finally enable users to stitch together the Internet of Things directly from their browsers while communicating privately and securely in a decentralized way. Jan. 19, 2017 05:15 PM EST Reads: 3,121 | 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... Jan. 19, 2017 04:45 PM EST Reads: 3,776 | By Carmen Gonzalez  @DevOpsSummit at Cloud taking place June 6-8, 2017, at Javits Center, New York City, 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. The widespread success of cloud computing is driving the DevOps revolution in enterprise IT. Now as never before, development teams must communicate and collaborate in a dynamic, 24/7/365 environment. There is no time to wait for long developm... Jan. 19, 2017 04:45 PM EST Reads: 3,501 | By Elizabeth White  "We're bringing out a new application monitoring system to the DevOps space. It manages large enterprise applications that are distributed throughout a node in many enterprises and we manage them as one collective," explained Kevin Barnes, President of eCube Systems, in this SYS-CON.tv interview at DevOps at 18th Cloud Expo, held June 7-9, 2016, at the Javits Center in New York City, NY. Jan. 19, 2017 04:15 PM EST Reads: 5,424 | By Liz McMillan  In his General Session at 17th Cloud Expo, Bruce Swann, Senior Product Marketing Manager for Adobe Campaign, explored the key ingredients of cross-channel marketing in a digital world. Learn how the Adobe Marketing Cloud can help marketers embrace opportunities for personalized, relevant and real-time customer engagement across offline (direct mail, point of sale, call center) and digital (email, website, SMS, mobile apps, social networks, connected objects). Jan. 19, 2017 04:00 PM EST Reads: 5,446 |
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Online travel and events pioneer lastminute.com leverages Big Data analytics with speed at scale to provide business advantages to online travel services.
We'll explore how lastminute.com manages massive volumes of data to support cutting-edge machine-learning algorithms to allow for speed and automation in the rapidly evolving global online travel research and bookings business.
In-house IT professionals and managed service providers (MSPs) have had an interesting relationship over the course of IT history. Yes, they are vastly different, but if we drew a Venn diagram of IT and the MSP, the intersection of the two is worth exploring, particularly regarding how IT professionals can best manage their MSPs and work harmoniously to advance the common goal of IT performance.
For IT professionals, the very utterance of the acronym “MSP” may conjure feelings of skepticism and fearing the reaper, which doesn’t need to be the case. MSPs don’t always equal outsourcing IT in i...
It wasn’t that long ago when the first smartphone came out, and we saw the pace of connected devices and associated mobile applications accelerate beyond what anyone could have imagined. Shortly after that, something incredible happened, we reached the point where there were more connected devices than people on the planet. Since then, we’ve used this to measure the growth of the Internet of Things (IoT). Research predicts there will be as many as 50 to 100, and possibly even 200 billion connected devices by 2020. Some businesses are already set up for IoT, like operators of large networks of ...
It's been way too long, but the next in the series of IoT "Build-along-at-home" videos is done. In this edition I will show you the "Hello World" project for interacting with the IO ports on your Raspberry Pi. Please click here to watch the video and as always, comments and questions are appreciated and welcomed! If you are the type (like me) who just likes to figure stuff out on their own, I have heavily commented the code for you so you can get started quickly without the video, but it will help you with the hardware assemblies! Also I am already working on the next projects, using the moist...
You think you know what’s in your data. But do you? Most organizations are now aware of the business intelligence represented by their data. Data science stands to take this to a level you never thought of – literally. The techniques of data science, when used with the capabilities of Big Data technologies, can make connections you had not yet imagined, helping you discover new insights and ask new questions of your data.
In his session at @ThingsExpo, Sarbjit Sarkaria, data science team lead at PHEMI, discussed how data science is changing our ideas of what’s possible with data, using examp...
Enterprises are rapidly implementing private clouds for sound business reasons. Private clouds offer greater agility, enabling companies to quickly adapt to constantly changing business needs and innovate faster than competition. Digital and cloud services can be provided to developers at a pace of innovation that equals any public cloud. Companies can maintain security and compliance, along with the reliability, availability and stability of IT systems of large enterprises. Private clouds also provide better SLAs for new services than most public clouds offer. 
With artificial intelligence and big data making prominent waves in industries everywhere, IBM is offering several new cloud services that will pair with their BlueMix service. It will offer better organization, smoother data generation, and accelerated migration to the cloud. Ultimately, businesses can experience greater effectiveness in every department. 
‘Tis the season for technology predictions in 2017. This one goes in-depth on the job skills that will be most important in the year ahead. There's nothing too extreme (we're not actually hiring robots yet) but mobile and big data jobs, two trends a few years back, are at the bottom of this top ten list. Programmers and help desk employees are in highest demand. Any and all of these job roles will likely be involved with cloud apps and services in some way.
I’m told that it has been 21 years since Scrum became public when Jeff Sutherland and I presented it at an Object-Oriented Programming, Systems, Languages & Applications (OOPSLA) workshop in Austin, TX, in October of 1995. Time sure does fly. Things mature. I’m still in the same building and at the same company where I first formulated Scrum.[1] Initially nobody knew of Scrum, yet it is now an open source body of knowledge translated into more than 30 languages[2] People use Scrum worldwide for developing software and other uses I never anticipated[3].
When call centers first came about in the 1960s, they were built over PBX systems. Private Branch Exchanges (PBX) are essentially a small-scale version of the telephone exchange and are typically handled by one of the few telephone network providers in the country. Fast forward to today, a call center software provider does not need to own even the VoIP line that is necessary to handle communication. The software can simply connect to third party VoIP services with the help of an API and get started on their service.
The cloud has brought down the cost of operating a business and while this i...
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 today!
LogitBot in New York identifies, manages, and contextually categorizes truly massive and diverse data sources.
The next BriefingsDirect Voice of the Customer digital transformation case study highlights how high-performing big-data analysis powers an innovative artificial intelligence (AI)-based investment opportunity and evaluation tool. We'll learn how LogitBot in New York identifies, manages, and contextually categorizes truly massive and diverse data source
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