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Top Continuous Integration Tools
By Angela Stringfellow
Poorly managed development projects are bound to crash eventually. It's
likely happened to you a dozen of times already. While writing code can be a
lot of fun, managing code and dependencies can quickly become a maze of its
own when you're dealing with the continuous growth of your codebase and
feature branches. At Stackify, we aim to make the lives of developers easier
(and less frazzling). One way to de-stress your work is with the aid of
continuous integration tools.
Continuous Integration came as an adoption of a more refined programming
practice, which aims to help developers with preventing serious integration
pitfalls. As you continue to build your project, there are more things to
integrate, and back-tracking can quickly become a time-consuming chore. CI
Tools automate many tedious tasks and make it ea... (more)
SYS-CON Events announced today that Anexia will exhibit at SYS-CON's 18th
International Cloud Expo®, which will take place on June 6-8, 2017, at the
Javits Center in New York City, NY. Anexia offers high-quality customized
managed hosting solutions for SaaS and IaaS companies. The company was
founded in 2006 in Klagenfurt, Austria. Today, it has additional offices in
Vienna, Graz, Munich, Cologne and New York City to serve numerous
international customers. For more information, visit
https://www.anexia-it.com.
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
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Building a Hybrid Data Pipeline for Salesforce and Hadoop
My team embarked on building a data lake for our sales and marketing data to
better understand customer journeys. This required building a hybrid data
pipeline to connect our cloud CRM with the new Hadoop Data Lake. One
challenge is that IT was not in a position to provide support until we proved
value and marketing did not have the experience, so we embarked on the
journey ourselves within the product marketing team for our line of business
within Progress.
In his session [email protected], Sumit Sarkar, Product Marketing Engineer at
Progress, will discuss how the key to delivering on this was using standard
interfaces using a bi-directional data pipeline to connect the systems. On
the Salesforce side, we were able to get frictionless access to the data lake
using clicks-not-code via OData. On the Hadoop side... (more)
SYS-CON Events announced today that Peak 10, Inc., a national IT
infrastructure and cloud services provider, will exhibit at SYS-CON's 18th
International Cloud Expo®, which will take place on June 6-8, 2017, at the
Javits Center in New York City, NY.
Peak 10 provides reliable, tailored data center and network services, cloud
and managed services. Its solutions are designed to scale and adapt to
customers' changing business needs, enabling them to lower costs, improve
performance and focus internal resources on core competencies.
For more information, visit http://www.peak10.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 star conference faculty and the
leading industry players in the world.
DevOps at Cloud Expo / ... (more)
"We build IoT infrastructure products - when you have to integrate different
devices, different systems and cloud you have to build an application to do
that but we eliminate the need to build an application. Our products can
integrate any device, any system, any cloud regardless of protocol,"
explained Peter Jung, Chief Product Officer at Pulzze Systems, in this
SYS-CON.tv interview [email protected], held November 1-3, 2016, at the Santa
Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA.
SYS-CON Events announced today that Pulzze Systems will exhibit at the 20th
International Cloud Expo, which will take place June 6-8, 2017 at the Javits
Center in New York City and at 21st International Cloud Expo which will take
place October 31 - November 2, 2017 at the Santa Clara Convention Center in
Santa Clara, CA.
Pulzze Systems, Inc. provides infrastructure products for the Inter... (more)
SYS-CON Events announced today that Tappest will exhibit MooseFS 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.
MooseFS is a breakthrough concept in the storage industry. It allows you to
secure stored data with either duplication or erasure coding using any
server. The newest - 4.0 version of the software enables users to maintain
the redundancy level with even 50% less hard drive space required. The
software functions on all major operating systems and is used around the
world by businesses, universities and NGOs. The MooseFS team provides on-site
implementation and support for your operations.
For more information, visit https://moosefs.com.
The World's Largest "Cloud Digital Transformation" Event
@CloudExpo / @ThingsExpo 2017 New York
(June 6-8, 2017, Javits Center, Manhattan)
@Cl... (more)
SYS-CON Events announced today that CollabNet, a global leader in enterprise
software development, release automation and DevOps solutions, will be a
Bronze Sponsor of SYS-CON's 20th International Cloud Expo®, taking place
from June 6-8, 2017, at the Javits Center in New York City, NY.
CollabNet offers a broad range of solutions with the mission of helping
modern organizations deliver quality software at speed. The company's latest
innovation, the DevOps Lifecycle Manager (DLM), supports Value Stream Mapping
for the development and operations tool chain by offering DevOps Tool Chain
Integration and Traceability; DevOps Tool Chain Orchestration; and DevOps
Insight and Intelligence. CollabNet also offers traditional application
lifecycle management, ALM, for the enterprise through its TeamForge product.
To learn about CollabNet solutions, visit: https://www.collab.net/... (more)
Top DevOps Tools
By Angela Stringfellow
Even though DevOps has been around for a few years, it still is a fuzzy area
for some organizations. A mashup of development and operations teams, DevOps
centers on collaboration and a culture that seamlessly integrates developers
and IT operations teams working to put out the best new apps. Because DevOps
encompasses two teams working from ideation through product release, DevOps
tools fall into several categories including those for logging, monitoring,
automation, security, and configuration management.
Due to the intensive work DevOps engineers and their teams complete on a
daily basis, they don't have time to search for tools to help them complete
their work more efficiently and productively. That's why we have searched for
the top DevOps tools and created this list of the most reliable, secure,
relevant, and useful tools... (more)
Enabling FinTechs for Success through Business-Driven Cloud Security
FinTechs use the cloud to operate at the speed and scale of digital financial
activity, but are often hindered by the complexity of managing security and
compliance in the cloud.
In his session at 20th Cloud Expo, Sesh Murthy, co-founder and CTO of Cloud
Raxak, will show FinTechs how proactive and automated cloud security enables
FinTechs to leverage the cloud to achieve their business goals. Through
business-driven cloud security, FinTechs can speed time-to-market, diminish
risk and costs, maintain continuous compliance, and set themselves up for
success.
Speaker Bio
Sesh Murthy is the Co-Founder and CTO of Cloud Raxak. Before Cloud Raxak, he
was the Vice President of Cloud Innovation at IBM Global Services. He has 29
years of experience in creating value for customers in cloud and technology
se... (more)
When you have a billion users, people notice. That's where our story about
DevOps and Yahoo! starts. For Kishore Jalleda and Gopal Mor, both engineers
at Yahoo!, when something goes wrong on a Yahoo! page, people will notice.
Correction: a lot of people will notice.
Of course, Yahoo!, like all services on the Internet, constantly improves its
products. In fact, they have 100+ iterations and experiments happening at
any given time. Some changes bring new innovation to the forefront and
others alter the user experience.
When iterations and experiments are served in front of loyal users who have
become comfortable with a specific user experience, they sometimes react with
a natural resistance to the change. When change causes, or appears to
cause, breaks in service, the backlash can be crippling. Frequent spurts of
backlash resulting from these changes became know... (more)
Continuous Deployment for Docker: Lessons Learned from Rolling Out a Real
Live Service
Most companies are adopting or evaluating container technology - Docker in
particular - to speed up application deployment, drive down cost, ease
management and make application delivery more flexible overall.
As with most new architectures, this dream takes a lot of work to become a
reality. Even when you do get your application componentized enough and
packaged properly, there are still challenges for DevOps teams to making the
shift to continuous delivery and achieving that reduction in cost and
increase in speed.
In her session at @DevOpsSummit at 20th Cloud Expo, Stefana Muller, Vice
President of Datagrid Systems, will share the journey her engineering team
took to continuously deploy their containerized application over the past
year. Highlighting the pitfalls and lessons l... (more)
@CloudExpo Stories By Liz McMillan  HyperConvergence came to market with the objective of being simple, flexible and to help drive down operating expenses. It reduced the footprint by bundling the compute/storage/network into one box. This brought a new set of challenges as the HyperConverged vendors are very focused on their own proprietary building blocks. If you want to scale in a certain way, let’s say you identified a need for more storage and want to add a device that is not sold by the HyperConverged vendor, forget about it... Apr. 9, 2017 01:15 PM EDT Reads: 2,366 | By Elizabeth White SYS-CON Events announced today that CollabNet, a global leader in enterprise software development, release automation and DevOps solutions, will be a Bronze Sponsor of SYS-CON's 20th International Cloud Expo®, taking place from June 6-8, 2017, at the Javits Center in New York City, NY. CollabNet offers a broad range of solutions with the mission of helping modern organizations deliver quality software at speed. The company’s latest innovation, the DevOps Lifecycle Manager (DLM), supports Value S... Apr. 9, 2017 01:15 PM EDT Reads: 2,053 | By Elizabeth White SYS-CON Events announced today that Tappest will exhibit MooseFS 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. MooseFS is a breakthrough concept in the storage industry. It allows you to secure stored data with either duplication or erasure coding using any server. The newest – 4.0 version of the software enables users to maintain the redundancy level with even 50% less hard drive space required. The software func... Apr. 9, 2017 12:30 PM EDT Reads: 2,201 | By Yeshim Deniz SYS-CON Events announced today that Anexia will exhibit at SYS-CON's 18th International Cloud Expo®, which will take place on June 6-8, 2017, at the Javits Center in New York City, NY. Anexia offers high-quality customized managed hosting solutions for SaaS and IaaS companies. The company was founded in 2006 in Klagenfurt, Austria. Today, it has additional offices in Vienna, Graz, Munich, Cologne and New York City to serve numerous international customers. For more information, visit https://www... Apr. 9, 2017 12:30 PM EDT Reads: 1,706 | By Liz McMillan  SYS-CON Events announced today that Anexia will exhibit at SYS-CON's 18th International Cloud Expo®, which will take place on June 7-9, 2016, at the Javits Center in New York City, NY. Anexia offers high-quality customized managed hosting solutions for SaaS and IaaS companies. The company was founded in 2006 in Klagenfurt, Austria. Today, it has additional offices in Vienna, Graz, Munich, Cologne and New York City to serve numerous international customers. Apr. 9, 2017 12:00 PM EDT Reads: 7,014 | By Yeshim Deniz SYS-CON Events announced today that Peak 10, Inc., a national IT infrastructure and cloud services provider, will exhibit at SYS-CON's 18th International Cloud Expo®, which will take place on June 6-8, 2017, at the Javits Center in New York City, NY. Peak 10 provides reliable, tailored data center and network services, cloud and managed services. Its solutions are designed to scale and adapt to customers’ changing business needs, enabling them to lower costs, improve performance and focus intern... Apr. 9, 2017 11:15 AM EDT Reads: 1,602 | By Liz McMillan  SYS-CON Events announced today that CrowdReviews.com has been named “Media Sponsor” of 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. CrowdReviews.com is a transparent online platform for determining which products and services are the best based on the opinion of the crowd. The crowd consists of Internet users that have experienced products and services first-hand and have an interest in letting other potential buyers... Apr. 9, 2017 11:00 AM EDT Reads: 4,431 | By Pat Romanski  SYS-CON Events announced today that StorageCraft Technology Corp, a global leader in backup and disaster recovery, 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.
The StorageCraft family of companies, founded in 2003, provides award-winning backup, disaster recovery, system migration and data protection solutions for servers, desktops and laptops in addition to powerful data analytics. Apr. 9, 2017 10:45 AM EDT Reads: 2,823 | By Yeshim Deniz My team embarked on building a data lake for our sales and marketing data to better understand customer journeys. This required building a hybrid data pipeline to connect our cloud CRM with the new Hadoop Data Lake. One challenge is that IT was not in a position to provide support until we proved value and marketing did not have the experience, so we embarked on the journey ourselves within the product marketing team for our line of business within Progress.
Apr. 9, 2017 08:45 AM EDT Reads: 1,749 | By Elizabeth White  In his session at Cloud Expo, Alan Winters, an entertainment executive/TV producer turned serial entrepreneur, will present a success story of an entrepreneur who has both suffered through and benefited from offshore development across multiple businesses: The smart choice, or how to select the right offshore development partner Warning signs, or how to minimize chances of making the wrong choice
Collaboration, or how to establish the most effective work processes
Budget control, or how to max... Apr. 9, 2017 08:30 AM EDT Reads: 2,442 | By Elizabeth White  Cloud adoption is often driven by a desire to increase efficiency, boost agility and save money. All too often, however, the reality involves unpredictable cost spikes and lack of oversight due to resource limitations.
In his session at 20th Cloud Expo, Joe Kinsella, CTO and Founder of CloudHealth Technologies, will tackle the question: “How do you build a fully optimized cloud?” He will examine:
Why TCO is critical to achieving cloud success – and why attendees should be thinking holisticall... Apr. 9, 2017 08:15 AM EDT Reads: 890 | By Yeshim Deniz We build IoT infrastructure products - when you have to integrate different devices, different systems and cloud you have to build an application to do that but we eliminate the need to build an application. Our products can integrate any device, any system, any cloud regardless of protocol," explained Peter Jung, Chief Product Officer at Pulzze Systems, in this SYS-CON.tv interview at @ThingsExpo, held November 1-3, 2016, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA Apr. 9, 2017 08:15 AM EDT Reads: 1,770 | By Elizabeth White  SYS-CON Events announced today that Super Micro Computer, Inc., a global leader in compute, storage and networking technologies, 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.
Supermicro (NASDAQ: SMCI), the leading innovator in high-performance, high-efficiency server technology, is a premier provider of advanced server Building Block Solutions® for Data Center, Cloud Computing, Enterprise IT, Hadoop/... Apr. 9, 2017 08:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,668 | By Elizabeth White  In his session at 20th Cloud Expo, Scott Davis, CTO of Embotics, will discuss how automation can provide the dynamic management required to cost-effectively deliver microservices and container solutions at scale. He will discuss how flexible automation is the key to effectively bridging and seamlessly coordinating both IT and developer needs for component orchestration across disparate clouds – an increasingly important requirement at today’s multi-cloud enterprise. Apr. 9, 2017 06:00 AM EDT Reads: 3,405 | By Liz McMillan  Interoute has announced the integration of its Global Cloud Infrastructure platform with Rancher Labs’ container management platform, Rancher. This approach enables enterprises to accelerate their digital transformation and infrastructure investments. Matthew Finnie, Interoute CTO commented “Enterprises developing and building apps in the cloud and those on a path to Digital Transformation need Digital ICT Infrastructure that allows them to build, test and deploy faster than ever before. The int... Apr. 9, 2017 03:00 AM EDT Reads: 3,205 | By Yeshim Deniz  "We're a global managed hosting provider. Our core customer set is a U.S.-based customer that is looking to go global," explained Adam Rogers, Managing Director at ANEXIA, in this SYS-CON.tv interview at 18th Cloud Expo, held June 7-9, 2016, at the Javits Center in New York City, NY. Apr. 9, 2017 01:45 AM EDT Reads: 1,537 | By Yeshim Deniz  Judith Hurwitz is president and CEO of Hurwitz & Associates, a Needham, Mass., research and consulting firm focused on emerging technology, including big data, cognitive computing and governance. She is co-author of the book Cognitive Computing and Big Data Analytics, published in 2015. Her Cloud Expo session, "What Is the Business Imperative for Cognitive Computing?" is scheduled for Wednesday, June 8, at 8:40 a.m. In it, she puts cognitive computing into perspective with its value to the busin... Apr. 9, 2017 01:30 AM EDT Reads: 1,786 | By Elizabeth White  As software becomes more and more complex, we, as software developers, have been splitting up our code into smaller and smaller components. This is also true for the environment in which we run our code: going from bare metal, to VMs to the modern-day Cloud Native world of containers, schedulers and micro services. While we have figured out how to run containerized applications in the cloud using schedulers, we've yet to come up with a good solution to bridge the gap between getting your contain... Apr. 8, 2017 08:15 PM EDT Reads: 9,545 | By Elizabeth White  SYS-CON Events announced today that Auditwerx 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. Auditwerx specializes in SOC 1, SOC 2, and SOC 3 attestation services throughout the U.S. and Canada. As a division of Carr, Riggs & Ingram (CRI), one of the top 20 largest CPA firms nationally, you can expect the resources, skills, and experience of a much larger firm combined with the accessibility and attent... Apr. 8, 2017 05:00 PM EDT Reads: 3,245 | By Pat Romanski  SYS-CON Events announced today that Interoute has been named “Bronze Sponsor” of 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. Interoute is the owner operator of Europe's largest network and a global cloud services platform, which encompasses over 70,000 km of lit fiber, 15 data centers, 17 virtual data centers and 33 colocation centers, with connections to 195 additional partner data centers. Our full-service Unifie... Apr. 8, 2017 03:45 PM EDT Reads: 1,944 |
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“Apophenia is the propensity to see patterns in random data.” We encounter it all the time in the real world. Examples include gamblers who see patterns in how the cards are being dealt or investors who imagine patterns in the movement of certain stocks, or basketball fans who believe that their favorite player has the “hot hand.” But apophenia has no place in the world of data science, especially when data science is trying to help us make better decisions about critical things such as the quality of healthcare, where to allocate police resources, ensuring that our airplanes operate effectiv...
Digital leaders think differently about the role and value of digital technologies, including the ability of these tools to enable competitive advantage in the form of revenue growth, and positively impact work and jobs. As a result, leaders are developing more aggressive technology plans and strategies than digital laggards.
There has never been a reasonable expectation of online privacy, and there never will be. Regardless of what you may have recently heard about joint resolutions or nullifications, nothing has changed. Internet Service Providers (ISPs) have always had the right to use your data as they see fit, within a few Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and Federal Communications Commission (FCC) parameters. This has not changed. And you have given FANG (Facebook, Amazon, Netflix, and Google) the right to use your data as they see fit (with a few privacy policy exceptions and within the few aforementioned FTC ...
Anyone who knows me, knows that I’m extremely passionate about opportunities involving Internet of Things (IoT) – or should I call it Identity of Things – and what it will bring to end-consumers and businesses alike! The industry of connected devices is growing at a breakneck speed and consumers are getting more and more excited as they learn about the ever-expanding possibilities.
But are brands preparing themselves properly for IoT? Do they know the complexities involved?
Cloud usage continues to gain momentum across all industries. In a recent FutureScape: Worldwide Cloud 2017 Predictions report, IDC predicted that between 60 percent and 70 percent of all software, services and technology spending will be on the cloud by 2020.
With this increase in cloud usage comes a corresponding need for employees with cloud skills. Supply has not kept pace with demand, however. The State of Cloud Readiness Study 2016 found that 53 percent of IT leaders are struggling to acquire the necessary skills to support cloud initiatives within their organizations, while almost hal...
Special thanks for the help on this blog to the coolest, most hip group of industry experts that I have ever met: the Pathfinders. The Pathfinders is an elite forces group of master system engineers inside of Dell EMC who tackle our customers’ most difficult and inspiring challenges. I am honored to be part of that club! Suppose an autonomous vehicle learns of a more efficient route and wants sell this knowledge to other autonomous cars for a fee (using blockchain to handle machine to machine transaction). Suppose the autonomous vehicle could start to monetize itself; to self-fund its own op...
There was a recent tabloid piece featuring a video of a woman asking Alexa if it was connected to the CIA. At the time, the Echo Dot she was speaking to did not respond to the question. She asked a few times, and each time the Echo was silent. Conspiracy theorists weighed in. It was an amusing video, but the Daily Mail’s clickbait headline raises a legitimate question: Can Alexa lie?
According to Amazon, you can “use the Alexa Voice Service (AVS) to add intelligent voice control to any connected product that has a microphone and speaker.” Alexa uses machine learning to help it recognize what ...
In 2016, total worldwide retail sales reached $22 trillion, of which digital commerce makes up $1.9 trillion, or 8.7% of the total. While the majority of retail sales still occur in brick-and-mortar stores, overall growth is predominantly driven by digital commerce, which was expected to expand rapidly worldwide at a 23.7% growth rate in 2016, and by 2020 to represent 14.6% of total retail spending of $27 trillion. Of course, digital commerce numbers vary depending on the product category. Online sales penetration for many product types - electronics, apparel, furniture, home improvement, etc...
Digital transformation is happening everywhere. It starts with an expectation that whatever an organization does in the real world is supported by—and expands through—its digital presence. As the process continues, digital transformation should drive innovative ways to engage customers, get the most from resources and differentiate its way into completely new markets.
All these great expectations come from both within and outside an organization, and can add up to a big challenge for any team. According to MIT Sloan Management Review, “Preparing for a digital future is no easy task. It means ...
Digital transformation.
It’s only two simple words, but in the increasingly complex, customer-centric enterprise IT landscape, it’s a phrase that carries multiple meanings — to the point where some would probably observe, tongue-in-cheek, that it doesn’t mean anything anymore.
It’d be hard to argue that “digital transformation” hasn’t been pushed into buzzword territory by those of us who write about business IT, but I feel like that speaks more of the concept’s genuine relevance and importance to the success of today’s digital first enterprises than just simple hype. The sports media talks ...
"My role is working with customers, helping them go through this digital transformation. I spend a lot of time talking to banks, big industries, manufacturers working through how they are integrating and transforming their IT platforms and moving them forward," explained William Morrish, General Manager Product Sales at Interoute, in this SYS-CON.tv interview at 18th Cloud Expo, held June 7-9, 2016, at the Javits Center in New York City, NY.
Next month will mark the 47th anniversary of Apollo 13. The film that recounts the story is a favorite of mine, probably because it so masterfully captures the incredible suspense, fear, and hope felt by people everywhere, that I personally recall very well. I also know how an organization’s digital transformation can generate similar reactions! Apollo 13 was likely a casualty of the space program’s incredibly aggressive schedule. NASA, with U.S. political and military leaders, was motivated by competition from the U.S.S.R. and fear of the potential consequences of not being first. Urgency oft...
Trends as Internet of things (IoT), distributed IT, data sovereignty requirements, and pervasive security concerns are combining to challenge how IT operates. Thanks to adoption of hybrid IT, tech organizations are shifting to become strategists and internal service providers.
To help us define a new ideology for hybrid IT, we're joined by Neil Thurston, Chief Technologist for the Hybrid IT Practice at Logicalis Group in the UK. The discussion is moderated by Dana Gardner, Principal Analyst at Interarbor Solutions.
The Big Bang Theory is the pre-eminent explanation for the origins of the universe. It proposes, from an explosion of atoms, the universe rapidly expanded and in doing so created everything we know. But it did so in an erratic, haphazard and unstructured way. For every life form, an infinite amount of inhospitable desolate galaxies, planets and black holes were also created.
Big Data is often associated with the birth of what is known as the Third Generation of IT and many are now at a crossroads: Do they continue down the current path, hoping to stumble upon a planet Earth as they navigate a...
Today, it seems like we’re reading about more advanced and intelligent kiosk implementations across every industry. Whether it is in healthcare with the medication disposal kiosks, Walgreens introduced last fall in 14 locations across Indiana, or it’s the new self-service devices at McDonald’s for automating ordering. Even sporting and entertainment venues are getting in the game by introducing kiosks and integrated mobile solutions to bring new levels of play and competition to sports such as golf and bowling. Managing data flowing to and from these devices back to the enterprise can be compl...
Technologies help us deliver on a business strategy. Without a strategy, there is no rationale for deploying technologies. In addition, there is no rationale for digital transformation, unless there is a need for business transformation. If you believe this as we do, then strategy development will be a priority. Strategies, however, are developed under the guidance of a doctrine. The purpose of a doctrine is to create a high level understanding of what we we want to achieve with our strategy, and the concepts that must be employed to achieve it. An organization's doctrine will guide strat...
I happened to be in India last November when prime minister Modi announced the demonetization program, where 86% of the currency in the form of two paper bills (Rs. 500 and 1000 denomination) were made defunct. People were given time to deposit their existing currencies in the bank. Those who had unusually high volume of such currencies were supposed to declare the legal source or face stiff penalties such as 60-75% tax. The goal was to catch the money hoarders and black marketers who avoid paying taxes on such undeclared money.
When discussing disruptive technologies, the topic of blockchain inevitably enters the conversation. Gartner recently listed blockchain as one of the ‘Key platform-enabling technologies to track.’ Approximately $1.4B has been invested in blockchain just this year, according to PwC executive Seamus Cushley. IBM announced this week a Blockchain-as-a-Service Enterprise offering at their Interconnect Conference. While there is a lot of ‘hype vs reality’ discussions going on, there is no arguing that blockchain is being taken very seriously across industries and cannot be ignored.
George Lucas, creator of Star Wars, once said, "You can't do it unless you can imagine it." Inour latest research on the future state of work in the retail sector, we find many industry executives struggling to imagine where the future is leading them and their organizations, not to mention the role digital technologies will play along the way.
Traditional retailers are challenged by rapidly emerging new business models, such as Amazon Go and Facebook's launch of its digital commerce platform, Marketplace. Moreover, pioneering companies in the sharing economy (i.e., Uber) are expanding from...
SYS-CON Events announced today that Technologic Systems Inc., an embedded systems solutions company, will exhibit at SYS-CON's @ThingsExpo, which will take place on June 6-8, 2017, at the Javits Center in New York City, NY. Technologic Systems is an embedded systems company with headquarters in Fountain Hills, Arizona. They have been in business for 32 years, helping more than 8,000 OEM customers and building over a hundred COTS products that have never been discontinued. Technologic Systems’ product base consists of a wide variety of off-the-shelf PC/104 single board computers, computer-on-mo...
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