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20th International 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. Meanwhile, 94% of enterprises are using some form of
XaaS - software, platform, and infrastructure as a service.
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Cloud Expo is the single show where delegates and technology vendors can meet
to experience and discuss the entire world of the cloud.
Learn what is going on, contribute to the discussions, and ensure that your
enterprise is as "Cloud-Ready" as it can be!
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The IoT and Next-Generation Monitoring Challenges
By Zachary Flower
We're living in the future.
Thanks to the Internet of Things (IoT), our world is more automated and
connected than ever before. Just about everything, from cars to
refrigerators, to coffee machines, has the ability to connect to the
Internet, allowing us to micromanage each individual device. This type of
automation is an exciting direction for the world to be moving in and the
benefits it brings to businesses are huge.
Optimizing Processes
A great example of a traditionally non-networked company using IoT to make
smarter decisions is Rolls-Royce. By integrating networked sensors into their
aircraft engines, Rolls-Royce can send engine data back to monitoring
stations on the ground and stay ahead of the curve on everything from
performance to malfunctions. In a nutshell, they've created their own ver... (more)
SYS-CON Events announced today that Linux Academy, the foremost online Linux
and cloud training platform and community, will exhibit at SYS-CON's 20th
International Cloud Expo®, which will take place on June 6-8, 2017, at the
Javits Center in New York City, NY.
Linux Academy was founded on the belief that providing high-quality, in-depth
training should be available at an affordable price. Industry leaders in
quality training, provided services, and student certification passes, its
goal is to change lives by teaching Linux and cloud technology to the tens of
thousands of students that learn at the Linux Academy.
For more information, please visit https://linuxacademy.com/.
@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... (more)
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Automating Security Compliance on Amazon Web Services
The unique combination of Amazon Web Services and Cloud Raxak, a Gartner Cool
Vendor in IT Automation, provides a seamless and cost-effective way of
securely moving on-premise IT workloads to Amazon Web Services. Any
enterprise can now leverage the cloud, manage risk, and maintain continuous
security compliance. Forrester's analysis shows that enterprises need
automated security to lower security risk and decrease IT operational costs.
Through the seamless integration into Amazon Web Services, Raxak Protect
automates security for any workload running on traditional IT, private
clouds, and public clouds. A line of business user with no security
experience can now provision a VM on Amazon Web Services with a CISO (Chief
Information Security Officer) defined security profile (e.g., PCI-DSS, HIPAA,
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"There is a huge interest in Kubernetes. People are now starting to use
Kubernetes and implement it," stated Sebastian Scheele, co-founder of Loodse,
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.
SYS-CON Events presented the Kubernetes and Google Container Engine
Workshop, on November 3, 2016, in conjunction [email protected] at
19th Cloud Expo at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA.
This workshop led by Sebastian Scheele, co-founder of Loodse, introduced
participants to Kubernetes and Google Container Engine (GKE). Through a
combination of instructor-led presentations, demonstrations, and hands-on
labs, students learned the key concepts and practices for deploying and
maintaining applications using Kubernetes.
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My Firsthand Account of a Third-Party Problem
By Mehdi Daoudi
In the digital world, performance, availability, and reliability are key
pillars of business that can impact revenue, reputation, and operational
excellence. We often write about the impact that third-party services have on
performance on our blog, but sometimes that impact is felt in our personal
lives as well.
Every year, we monitor major retailers’ performance and availability during
Black Friday and Cyber Monday, testing to capture the inevitable failures
and outages as traffic volumes climb to record highs. This year, however,
most of these retailers did amazingly well and I am very happy for them.
The few glitches that did occur were, yet again, due to some third-party
element, whether it be a tracking beacon, a picture enhancement service, a
social tag, etc.
Most of these retailers have been prepar... (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)
NFV Microservices - Architecture for Next Generation Digital Service
Providers
By Neil McEvoy
Telcos embarking on a journey to adopt and exploit the NFV trend face a big
challenge of existing legacy complexity, and a key message I have been
marketing is that there already are best practices that can be reused from
the Enterprise sector, especially from leading ‘digital natives' like
Netflix and Linkedin.
NTT Communications is a great example of this, employing the same
‘toolchain' of DevOps apps like Github, Ansible, Docker and Jenkins to do
exactly that, better automate their own operations practices such as
distributing NMS updates across multiple global data centers.
The other key ingredient of the Cloud Native formula is ‘microservices',
the approach to Cloud-centric software engineering pioneered by Netflix, that
is the architecture equivalent of ‘eating an el... (more)
Cloud and Object Storage Are in Your Future, What Are Some Questions?
IMHO there is no doubt that cloud and object storage are in your future, what
are some questions?
Granted, what type of cloud and object storage or service along with for work
or entertainment are some questions.
Likewise, what are your cloud and object storage concerns (assuming you
already have heard the benefits)?
Some other questions include when, where for different applications workload
needs, as well as how and with what among others.
Keep in mind that there are many aspects to cloud storage and they are not
all object, likewise, there are many facets to object storage.
Recently I did a piece over at InfoStor titled Cloud Storage Concerns,
Considerations and Trends that looks at the above among other items
including:
Is cloud storage cheaper than traditional storage? How do you access cloud ... (more)
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Scaling Massive Enterprise Content Stores in the Cloud
Using new techniques of information modeling, indexing, and processing, new
cloud-based systems can support cloud-based workloads previously not possible
for high-throughput insurance, banking, and case-based applications.
In his session at 18th Cloud Expo, John Newton, CTO, Founder and Chairman of
Alfresco, described how to scale cloud-based content management repositories
to store, manage, and retrieve billions of documents and related information
with fast and linear scalability.
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He addressed the challenges of scaling document repositories to this level;
architectural approaches for coordinating data; search and storage
technologies, Solr, and Amazon storage and database technologies; the breadth
of use cases that modern co... (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)
@CloudExpo Stories By Pat Romanski  The cloud market growth today is largely in public clouds. While there is a lot of spend in IT departments in virtualization, these aren’t yet translating into a true “cloud” experience within the enterprise. What is stopping the growth of the “private cloud” market?
In his general session at 18th Cloud Expo, Nara Rajagopalan, CEO of Accelerite, explored the challenges in deploying, managing, and getting adoption for a private cloud within an enterprise. What are the key differences between wh... Jan. 6, 2017 10:15 PM EST Reads: 5,668 | By Liz McMillan  Companies can harness IoT and predictive analytics to sustain business continuity; predict and manage site performance during emergencies; minimize expensive reactive maintenance; and forecast equipment and maintenance budgets and expenditures. Providing cost-effective, uninterrupted service is challenging, particularly for organizations with geographically dispersed operations. Jan. 6, 2017 10:15 PM EST Reads: 3,553 | By Liz McMillan  "ReadyTalk is an audio and web video conferencing provider. We've really come to embrace WebRTC as the platform for our future of technology," explained Dan Cunningham, CTO of ReadyTalk, in this SYS-CON.tv interview at WebRTC Summit at 19th Cloud Expo, held November 1-3, 2016, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA. Jan. 6, 2017 09:30 PM EST Reads: 1,876 | By Elizabeth White  Discover top technologies and tools all under one roof at April 24–28, 2017, at the Westin San Diego in San Diego, CA. Explore the Mobile Dev + Test and IoT Dev + Test Expo and enjoy all of these unique opportunities: The latest solutions, technologies, and tools in mobile or IoT software development and testing. Meet one-on-one with representatives from some of today's most innovative organizations Jan. 6, 2017 05:30 PM EST Reads: 568 | By Liz McMillan  IoT offers a value of almost $4 trillion to the manufacturing industry through platforms that can improve margins, optimize operations & drive high performance work teams. By using IoT technologies as a foundation, manufacturing customers are integrating worker safety with manufacturing systems, driving deep collaboration and utilizing analytics to exponentially increased per-unit margins.
However, as Benoit Lheureux, the VP for Research at Gartner points out, “IoT project implementers often u... Jan. 6, 2017 05:30 PM EST Reads: 648 | By Liz McMillan  What are the successful IoT innovations from emerging markets? What are the unique challenges and opportunities from these markets? How did the constraints in connectivity among others lead to groundbreaking insights?
In her session at @ThingsExpo, Carmen Feliciano, a Principal at AMDG, answered all these questions and shared how you can apply IoT best practices and frameworks from the emerging markets to your own business. Jan. 6, 2017 05:15 PM EST Reads: 549 | By Pat Romanski  Extreme Computing is the ability to leverage highly performant infrastructure and software to accelerate Big Data, machine learning, HPC, and Enterprise applications. High IOPS Storage, low-latency networks, in-memory databases, GPUs and other parallel accelerators are being used to achieve faster results and help businesses make better decisions.
In his session at 18th Cloud Expo, Michael O'Neill, Strategic Business Development at NVIDIA, focused on some of the unique ways extreme computing is... Jan. 6, 2017 03:30 PM EST Reads: 6,005 | By Liz McMillan  "There is a huge interest in Kubernetes. People are now starting to use Kubernetes and implement it," stated Sebastian Scheele, co-founder of Loodse, 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. Jan. 6, 2017 02:45 PM EST Reads: 1,641 | By Elizabeth White  The WebRTC Summit New York, to be held June 6-8, 2017, at the Javits Center in New York City, NY, announces that its Call for Papers is now open. Topics include all aspects of improving IT delivery by eliminating waste through automated business models leveraging cloud technologies. WebRTC Summit is co-located with 20th International Cloud Expo and @ThingsExpo. WebRTC is the future of browser-to-browser communications, and continues to make inroads into the traditional, difficult, plug-in web co... Jan. 6, 2017 02:45 PM EST Reads: 2,478 | By Elizabeth White  SYS-CON Events announced today that Linux Academy, the foremost online Linux and cloud training platform and community, will exhibit at SYS-CON's 20th International Cloud Expo®, which will take place on June 6-8, 2017, at the Javits Center in New York City, NY. Linux Academy was founded on the belief that providing high-quality, in-depth training should be available at an affordable price. Industry leaders in quality training, provided services, and student certification passes, its goal is to c... Jan. 6, 2017 02:45 PM EST Reads: 1,348 | By Elizabeth White  Creating replica copies to tolerate a certain number of failures is easy, but very expensive at cloud-scale. Conventional RAID has lower overhead, but it is limited in the number of failures it can tolerate. And the management is like herding cats (overseeing capacity, rebuilds, migrations, and degraded performance). In his general session at 18th Cloud Expo, Scott Cleland, Senior Director of Product Marketing for the HGST Cloud Infrastructure Business Unit, discussed how a new approach is neces... Jan. 6, 2017 02:30 PM EST Reads: 4,203 | By Pat Romanski  The unique combination of Amazon Web Services and Cloud Raxak, a Gartner Cool Vendor in IT Automation, provides a seamless and cost-effective way of securely moving on-premise IT workloads to Amazon Web Services. Any enterprise can now leverage the cloud, manage risk, and maintain continuous security compliance. Forrester's analysis shows that enterprises need automated security to lower security risk and decrease IT operational costs.
Through the seamless integration into Amazon Web Services, ... Jan. 6, 2017 02:00 PM EST Reads: 1,209 | By Carmen Gonzalez  @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. Jan. 6, 2017 12:15 PM EST Reads: 2,704 | By Pat Romanski  In this strange new world where more and more power is drawn from business technology, companies are effectively straddling two paths on the road to innovation and transformation into digital enterprises. The first path is the heritage trail – with “legacy” technology forming the background. Here, extant technologies are transformed by core IT teams to provide more API-driven approaches. Legacy systems can restrict companies that are transitioning into digital enterprises. To truly become a lead... Jan. 6, 2017 12:00 PM EST Reads: 1,889 | By Liz McMillan  "Avere Systems is a hybrid cloud solution provider. We have customers that want to use cloud storage and we have customers that want to take advantage of cloud compute," explained Rebecca Thompson, VP of Marketing at Avere Systems, in this SYS-CON.tv interview at 18th Cloud Expo, held June 7-9, 2016, at the Javits Center in New York City, NY. Jan. 6, 2017 11:45 AM EST Reads: 5,966 | 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 more... Jan. 6, 2017 11:00 AM EST Reads: 2,420 | By Liz McMillan  IoT is fundamentally transforming the auto industry, turning the vehicle into a hub for connected services, including safety, infotainment and usage-based insurance. Auto manufacturers – and businesses across all verticals – have built an entire ecosystem around the Connected Car, creating new customer touch points and revenue streams.
In his session at @ThingsExpo, Sanjay Khatri, Head of Platform Product Marketing at Cisco Jasper, shared real-world examples of how IoT transforms the car from ... Jan. 6, 2017 11:00 AM EST Reads: 1,064 | By Liz McMillan  SYS-CON Events announced today that Fusion, a leading provider of cloud services, will exhibit at SYS-CON's 20th International Cloud Expo®, which will take place on June 6-8, 2017, at the Javits Center in New York City, NY. Fusion, a leading provider of integrated cloud solutions to small, medium and large businesses, is the industry’s single source for the cloud. Fusion’s advanced, proprietary cloud service platform enables the integration of leading edge solutions in the cloud, including cloud... Jan. 6, 2017 10:30 AM EST Reads: 2,133 | By Elizabeth White  SYS-CON Events announced today that Enzu will exhibit at SYS-CON's 20th International Cloud Expo®, which will take place on June 6-8, 2017, at the Javits Center in New York City, NY, and the 21st International Cloud Expo®, which will take place October 31-November 2, 2017, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA.
Enzu’s mission is to be the leading provider of enterprise cloud solutions worldwide. Enzu enables online businesses to use its IT infrastructure to their competitive a... Jan. 6, 2017 10:00 AM EST Reads: 1,095 | By Elizabeth White  SYS-CON Events announced today that Cloud Academy will exhibit at SYS-CON's 20th International Cloud Expo®, which will take place on June 6-8, 2017, at the Javits Center in New York City, NY.
Cloud Academy is the industry’s most innovative, vendor-neutral cloud technology training platform.
Cloud Academy provides continuous learning solutions for individuals and enterprise teams for Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform, and the most popular cloud computing technologies. ... Jan. 6, 2017 07:45 AM EST Reads: 763 |
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