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DevOps - The Symptom of an Agile Organization
DevOps is all the rage these days and with good reason as it promises to
reduce the time-to-market for new applications. It also promises to improve
change management, allowing teams to deploy changes to their applications
quickly and efficiently. However, DevOps isn't something you buy, install, or
implement; rather it is the symptom of an appropriate organizational system.
In his session at @DevOpsSummit New York, Mark Thiele, EVP, Data Center
Technologies at SUPERNAP International, discussed how to get to the right
organizational model that will allow DevOps practices to flourish.
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Speaker Bio
Mark Thiele's responsibilities at SUPERNAP include evaluating new data center
technologies, developing new sites, identifying partners and providing
industry thought leadership. His insights on the nex... (more)
Lori MacVittie with @DevOpsSummit conference chair Andi Mann before
delivering her session at Cloud Expo New York
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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.
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In her session at DevOps Summit, Lori MacVittie, Evangelist for F5 Networks,
focused 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.
Speaker Bio
Lori MacVittie is responsible for education and evangelism of application
services available across F5's entire product suite. Her role includes
authorship of technical materials and participation in a number ... (more)
"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.
@DevOpsSummit at Cloud Expo taking place June 6-8, 2017, at Javits Center,
New York City, and 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.
DevOps at Cloud Expo / @ThingsExpo 2017 New York
(June 6-8, 2017, Javits Center, Manhattan)
DevOps at Cloud Expo / @ThingsExpo 2017 Silicon Valley
(October 31 - November 2, 2017, Santa Clara Convention Center, CA)
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Orchestrating Distributed Deployments with Docker and Containers
Thanks to Docker, it becomes very easy to leverage containers to build, ship,
and run any Linux application on any kind of infrastructure. Docker is
particularly helpful for microservice architectures because their successful
implementation relies on a fast, efficient deployment mechanism - which is
precisely one of the features of Docker.
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Microservice architectures are therefore becoming more popular, and are
increasingly seen as an interesting option even for smaller projects, instead
of being reserved to the largest, most complex application stacks. But those
architectures bring a new set of challenges. Breaking down an application
into many smaller components means that each individual piece is simpler and
easier to reason with; but now we need something to tie all thos... (more)
2016 has been an amazing year for Docker and the container industry. We had
3 major releases of Docker engine this year , and tremendous increase in
usage. The community has been following along and contributing amazing Docker
resources to help you learn and get hands-on experience. Here's some of the
top read and viewed content for the year:
Releases
Of course releases are always really popular, particularly when they fit
requests we had from the community. In particular, we had:
Docker for Mac & Docker for Windows Beta and GA release blog posts, and the
video
Docker 1.12 Built-in Orchestration release, and the DockerCon keynote where
we announced it
And the release of the Docker for AWS and Azure beta
Windows Containers
When Microsoft made Windows 2016 generally available, people rushed to
Our release blog to read the news Tutorials to find out how to use Windows
c... (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)
IBM Offers New Ways to Find Value in Unstructured Data with New Bluemix
Features
There are many good things to say about IBM Bluemix cloud services. In case
you aren't familiar with this cloud computing software, it's a new tool that
lets you solve real-world problems with the help of IBM infrastructure,
Watson, and IBM's many software programs and services. It all comes together
on the Bluemix cloud platform to create a unique and useful data collection
for companies to analyze and learn from. It's being touted as one of the best
new tools for helping businesses solve their biggest problems and improve
their bottom lines through the Internet of Things.
Now, IBM has announced several new cloud data services and features that will
go with Bluemix. The goal of these updates is to offer accelerated migration
of data to the cloud, greater organization of applications, ... (more)
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DevOps and Microservices - An In-Depth Look at Security Challenges
DevOps and microservices are permeating software engineering teams broadly,
whether these teams are in pure software shops but happen to run a business,
such Uber and Airbnb, or in companies that rely heavily on software to run
more traditional business, such as financial firms or high-end manufacturers.
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Microservices and DevOps have created software development and therefore
business speed and agility benefits, but they have also created problems;
specifically, they have created software security issues.
In his session at @DevOpsSummit at 19th Cloud Expo,Co-Founder of Aporeto,
talked about these issues, covering both the challenges and solutions that
organizations are seeing today.
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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,
Digital Transformation, Machine Learning and WebRTC to one location.
@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)
Speaking Proposals ▸ Here
Topics will include:
APIs Architecture Artificial Intelligence Big Data & Analytics Business Apps
Cognitive Computing Containers Content Delivery Databases Deep Learning
Developer Community DevOps & Tools Digital Transformation Enterprise &
Migration Financial Technology Healthcare Machine Learning Microservices
Mobile Networking Security & Compliance Se... (more)
DevOps is being widely accepted (if not fully adopted) as essential in
enterprise IT. But as Enterprise DevOps gains maturity, expands scope, and
increases velocity, the need for data-driven decisions across teams becomes
more acute. DevOps teams in any modern business must wrangle the ‘digital
exhaust' from the delivery toolchain, "pervasive" and "cognitive" computing,
APIs and services, mobile devices and applications, the Internet of Things,
and now even blockchain.
In this power panel at @DevOpsSummit 19th Cloud Expo, moderated by DevOps
Conference Chair Andi Mann, Gordon Haff, senior cloud strategy marketing and
evangelism manager at Red Hat; Dave Bilbrough, product evangelist for the
Adobe Marketing Cloud; and Paul Peissner, Customer Success Specialist at
CollabNet, explored this emerging use of Big Data generated by the digital
business to complete the DevO... (more)
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 is
a good thing for the consumers, it also means a rise in the number of
competitors one has to deal with. Service providers in saturated industries
have tried to carve a niche by launching what are now known as industry
cloud applications. In short, these are niche cloud applicat... (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: 5,011 | 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: 6,040 | 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: 3,614 | 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: 9,923 | 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: 4,571 | 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: 5,405 | 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: 3,120 | 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: 3,500 | 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 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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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 comp...
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.
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...
When new technology becomes available to the public, it is often met with trepidation by those who feel it’s unnecessary or even hindering. Typically, younger generations embrace technology while older people scorn it, but of course, this is not universal. The “Internet of Things” (IoT) or the growing trend to have internet connectivity in traditionally non-tech devices such as clothing, accessories, and home appliances, offers a lot of benefits to people of all generations. For example, being able to track your health data and fitness information is useful to young millennials trying to be f...
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].
We’re starting to see predictions about what’s going to be hot in enterprise technology in 2017. Cloud (yet again), Blockchain, Big Data / Analytics, Internet of Things (IoT) are all among the top of the list. However, it was Krish Subrumanian’s humorous tweet that started me thinking about what will be the single most important contribution from the enterprise technology community in 2016. While all the aforementioned technologies will certainly see a lot of interest and growth, they’re all enabled by a Web platform.
The emerging Internet of Everything creates tremendous new opportunities for customer engagement and business model innovation. However, enterprises must overcome a number of critical challenges to bring these new solutions to market. In his session at @ThingsExpo, Michael Martin, CTO/CIO at nfrastructure, outlined these key challenges and recommended approaches for overcoming them to achieve speed and agility in the design, development and implementation of Internet of Everything solutions within your organization.
The U.S. Presidential election is finally over. The protests are winding down, they’ve stopped burning cars in Oakland (for now), and the talks of California succession are waning. But I am struggling to return to “normal” because in this election, truth got hammered. Many candidates treated opinions as “truth” and a large portion of the American public grabbed a hold of these “truths” as gospel. It may have been a good time to be in the “fact checking” business, but I’m not sure how effective even the fact checkers could be given the spontaneous nature of “opinions as facts” being thrown arou...
If it weren’t for digital technology, today’s business transformations would look quite different – but that doesn’t mean that the transformations are inherently digital. The digital appellation is a poor fit to begin with, and now it’s growing long in the tooth. 2017 may very well be the year it becomes passé, and we move onto the Next Big Thing. In times of disruption, buzzwords play an important role. As new technologies, approaches, and priorities spring up, we need a common vocabulary so that we can cogently discuss such innovations. Never forget, however, that digital transformation was ...
Artificial Intelligence is the discipline of thinking machines. The field is growing dramatically with the proliferation of high powered computers into homes and businesses and especially with the growing power of smartphones and other mobile devices. Artificial intelligence software is assisting people in most every discipline. The many functions of AI are considered by many to be threatening many human jobs across multiple industries, but others consider it a great producer of jobs since it will help create entirely new industries and free more humans to innovate and create.
With cybersecurity on the everyone's mind, 2017 will be see the emergence of True Fog Computing and Programmable/Intelligent Edge Devices with the strongest security measures to-date.
As 2017 kicks into full gear and a particularly interesting 2016 fades into the rearview mirror, we took a look around the IIoT landscape to see what this year might potentially have in store. We will be unveiling five IIoT-related predictions throughout this week and into next, so stay tuned and let us know what you think!
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.
Smart Cities are here to stay, but for their promise to be delivered, the data they produce must not be put in new siloes.
In his session at @ThingsExpo, Mathias Herberts, Co-founder and CTO of Cityzen Data, discussed the best practices that will ensure a successful smart city journey. 
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.
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