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Nutanix Enterprise Cloud for DevOps
DevOps is often described as a combination of technology and culture. Without
both, DevOps isn't complete. However, applying the culture to outdated
technology is a recipe for disaster; as response times grow and connections
between teams are delayed by technology, the culture will die. A Nutanix
Enterprise Cloud has many benefits that provide the needed base for a true
DevOps paradigm.
In his general session at 20th Cloud Expo, Chris Brown, a Solutions
Marketing Manager at Nutanix, will explore the ways that Nutanix technologies
empower teams to react faster than ever before and connect teams in ways that
were either too complex or simply impossible with traditional
infrastructures.
Speaker Bio
Chris Brown is a Solutions Marketing Manager at Nutanix. He has 6 years of IT
experience, with the majority of that time being spent i... (more)
Agile as a Lawnmower
By Justin Collier
My son is 14 yrs old. I've been consistently trying to encourage him to do
two things. One, think ahead to the next logical outcome and, two, do it
right the first time. When he helps with projects around the house, he has a
tendency to get it to an "almost complete" state. For example, recently he
went out and mowed the backyard. I told him beforehand to move some brush
(thorny rose trimmings) that needed burning so that he could completely mow
the yard. At the end of the day, he comes in with a look of victory and
accomplishment and proudly states, "I'm done!" (as with all chores assigned
to my children, their definition and my definition of "done" are quite
different). Unbeknownst to me, my son has informed his mother that he can't
move the thorny rose trimmings because he can't find his gloves (separate
father/son lesson) ... (more)
Amazon's Cloud Billowing into IoT, AI, and Just About Everything Else
Amazon started as an online bookseller 20 years ago. Since then, it has
evolved into a technology juggernaut that has disrupted multiple markets and
industries and touches many aspects of our lives. It is a relentless
technology and business model innovator driving disruption throughout
numerous ecosystems.
Amazon's AWS revenues alone are approaching $16B a year making it one of the
largest IT companies in the world. With dominant offerings in Cloud, IoT,
eCommerce, Big Data, AI, Digital Assistants, Robotics, shipping logistics and
other emerging technologies, developers and competitors ignore Amazon at
their peril.
In his session at @ThingsExpo, Chris Kocher, Founder & Managing Director of
Grey Heron, will provide an overview of Amazon's initiatives in these areas,
insights of where Amazon may ... (more)
Six Ways CIOs Can Drive Digital Transformation and Lead Their Companies
Toward Revenue
By Megan Van Vlack
Growing a digital business is essential for virtually every enterprise across
every industry. Large enterprises and small businesses alike are digitizing
their internal and customer-facing processes and services to increase
efficiency, scale their businesses, and collect meaningful data. Yet, while
many companies have launched digital services to collect data, we haven’t
fully tapped into the potential of data analytics—even though studies
suggest that digital will be a top differentiator in years to come. Curious
how you can get a better handle on digital transformation? Read on to learn
why it’s so crucial, plus discover six key ways to digitize your business.
Why Digital Transformation Is Such a Big Deal
A recent survey of 573 senior executives from North and... (more)
SYS-CON Events announced today that OpsGenie 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.
OpsGenie delivers alerts with all the supporting information to the right
people, enabling them to assess the incident and take appropriate actions
rapidly. Email and SMS delivery times can be unpredictable. OpsGenie provides
mobile apps to take advantage of push notifications technology and deliver
notifications in near real time, and allows users to define multiple
notifications methods that can be used in succession. For instance, users can
choose to receive notifications via email or mobile push notifications
immediately, and set to receive a text message or a phone call if they don't
see the alert in 5 minutes.
Users are empowered to manage their contact details and notifica... (more)
Persistent Storage for Containers
In recent years, containers have taken the world by storm. Companies of all
sizes and industries have realized the massive benefits of containers, such
as unprecedented mobility, higher hardware utilization, and increased
flexibility and agility; however, many containers today are non-persistent.
Containers without persistence miss out on many benefits, and in many cases
simply pass the responsibility of persistence onto other infrastructure,
adding additional complexity.
In his session at @DevOpsSummit at 20th Cloud Expo, Denis Guyadeen, a Product
Manager at Nutanix, will explore the benefits of persistent containers, talk
about why persistence for containers makes sense and explore some of the
Nutanix technologies that enable this persistence.
Speaker Bio
Denis Guyadeen is a Product Manager at Nutanix and currently leading the
c... (more)
Improve Your UX and You're Bound to See eCommerce Success
By Scott Davis
Commerce has become both digital and global: Online sales are expected to
exceed $1.6 trillion dollars by 2020. As a customer preferred way of doing
business, ecommerce offers increased selection, value, and convenience.
Online shopping also offers merchants increased access to customer data and
opportunities to capitalize on that information.
If your business isn’t keeping pace with best practices in ecommerce
UX—not to mention leveraging mobile to capture even more
opportunities—you’ll miss out on the continuously growing percentage of
consumer online spending. In 2016, for instance, shoppers made 51 percent of
their purchases online (compared to 48 percent in 2015 and 47 percent in
2014). Regardless of the path of innovation you choose in the ecommerce
space, your online presence should be o... (more)
SYS-CON Events announced today that Peak 10, Inc., a national IT
infrastructure and cloud services provider, 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.
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.
Annual Hybrid IT Research: A Conceptual and Real-World Look at Hybrid IT
Everywhere we turn in our industry we can find strong opinions about the
direction, type and nature of cloud's impact on computing and business.
Another word that is used in every context in our industry is "hybrid."
I... (more)
How Continuous Integration Works, and the Big Benefit No One Talks About
By Sarah Albeb
In a digital world that moves as fast as ours, programmers are applying new,
creative ways of thinking to the software development process in a non-stop
push for ever-faster turnaround times. In DevOps, Continuous Integration (CI)
is increasingly the integration method of choice, in large part because of
the speed at which it enables the release of new features, bug fixes, and
product updates.
CI dictates that every time a developer pushes code to an application, an
automated process grabs the current code from a shared repository, integrates
the new build, and tests the software for problems. This approach leads to
faster results and ensures software is tested on a regular basis, which
enables further DevOps automation processes such as delivery, deployment, and
experimentation.... (more)
Hybrid Cloud Transformation: New Platforms, Technologies and Solutions
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In an era of historic innovation fueled by unprecedented access to data and
technology, the low cost and risk of entering new markets has leveled the
playing field for business. Today, any ambitious innovator can easily
introduce a new application or product that can reinvent business models and
transform the client experience.
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In their Day 2 Keynote at 19th Cloud Expo, Mercer Rowe, IBM Vice President
of Strategic Alliances, and Raejeanne Skillern, Intel Vice President of Data
Center Group and GM, discussed how clients in this new era of innovation can
apply data, technology, plus human ingenuity to springboard to advance new
business value and opportunities.
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How Customers Are Operationalizing Their DevOps Tool Chain from
Planning-to-Ops
Without lifecycle traceability and visibility across the tool chain,
stakeholders from Planning-to-Ops have limited insight and answers to who,
what, when, why and how across the DevOps lifecycle. This impacts the ability
to deliver high quality software at the needed velocity to drive positive
business outcomes.
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In his session at @DevOpsSummit 19th Cloud Expo, Eric Robertson, General
Manager at CollabNet, showed how customers are able to achieve a level of
transparency that enables everyone from Planning-to-Ops to make informed
decisions based on business priority and leverage automation to accelerate
identifying issues and fast fix to drive continuous feedback and KPI insight.
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@CloudExpo Stories By Elizabeth White  SYS-CON Events announced today that Clouber 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. Clouber offers Migration as a Service (MaaS) across Private and Public Cloud (AWS, Azure, GCP) including bare metal migration to cloud. Clouber’s innovative technology allows for migration projects to be completed in minutes instead of weeks. For more updates follow #clouberio Jun. 2, 2017 05:00 PM EDT Reads: 878 | By Liz McMillan  SYS-CON Events announced today that Striim will exhibit at SYS-CON's 20th International Cloud Expo® | @ThingsExpo New York, which will take place on June 6-8, 2017, at the Javits Center in New York City, NY.
Striim™ (pronounced “stream”) is an enterprise-grade, real-time integration and intelligence platform. Striim makes it easy to ingest high volumes of streaming data – including enterprise data via log-based change data capture – for real-time log correlation, cloud integration, edge process... Jun. 2, 2017 05:00 PM EDT Reads: 507 | By Pat Romanski  When growing capacity and power in the data center, the architectural trade-offs between server scale-up vs. scale-out continue to be debated. Both approaches are valid: scale-out adds multiple, smaller servers running in a distributed computing model, while scale-up adds fewer, more powerful servers that are capable of running larger workloads. It’s worth noting that there are additional, unique advantages that scale-up architectures offer. One big advantage is large memory and compute capacity... Jun. 2, 2017 04:45 PM EDT Reads: 939 | By Yeshim Deniz  SYS-CON Events announced today that CAST Highlight 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. CAST Highlight is an ultra-rapid code-scanning SaaS offering that identifies potential IT risks and cost savings opportunities across distributed application portfolios. By delivering data and insights on the health of portfolios, CAST Highlight provides IT leaders with objectivity and c... Jun. 2, 2017 04:45 PM EDT Reads: 672 | By Liz McMillan  In this presentation, Striim CTO and founder Steve Wilkes will discuss practical strategies for counteracting fraud and cyberattacks by leveraging real-time streaming analytics.
In his session at @ThingsExpo, Steve Wilkes, Founder and Chief Technology Officer at Striim, will provide a detailed look into leveraging streaming data management to correlate events in real time, and identify potential breaches across IoT and non-IoT systems throughout the enterprise. Strategies for processing massiv... Jun. 2, 2017 03:54 PM EDT Reads: 136 | By Pat Romanski  You know you need the cloud, but you’re hesitant to simply dump everything at Amazon since you know that not all workloads are suitable for cloud. You know that you want the kind of ease of use and scalability that you get with public cloud, but your applications are architected in a way that makes the public cloud a non-starter. You’re looking at private cloud solutions based on hyperconverged infrastructure, but you’re concerned with the limits inherent in those technologies. Jun. 2, 2017 03:45 PM EDT Reads: 1,338 | By Elizabeth White Amazon started as an online bookseller 20 years ago. Since then, it has evolved into a technology juggernaut that has disrupted multiple markets and industries and touches many aspects of our lives. It is a relentless technology and business model innovator driving disruption throughout numerous ecosystems. Amazon’s AWS revenues alone are approaching $16B a year making it one of the largest IT companies in the world. With dominant offerings in Cloud, IoT, eCommerce, Big Data, AI, Digital Assista... Jun. 2, 2017 03:30 PM EDT Reads: 1,513 | By Elizabeth White  SYS-CON Events announced today that Progress, a global leader in application development, 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.
Enterprises today are rapidly adopting the cloud, while continuing to retain business-critical/sensitive data inside the firewall. This is creating two separate data silos – one inside the firewall and the other outside the firewall. Cloud ISVs oft... Jun. 2, 2017 03:30 PM EDT Reads: 4,166 | By Elizabeth White  The current age of digital transformation means that IT organizations must adapt their toolset to cover all digital experiences, beyond just the end users’. Today’s businesses can no longer focus solely on the digital interactions they manage with employees or customers; they must now contend with non-traditional factors. Whether it's the power of brand to make or break a company, the need to monitor across all locations 24/7, or the ability to proactively resolve issues, companies must adapt to... Jun. 2, 2017 03:23 PM EDT Reads: 211 | By Pat Romanski  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/... Jun. 2, 2017 03:15 PM EDT Reads: 2,981 | By Pat Romanski  SYS-CON Events announced today that Progress, a global leader in application development, 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. Enterprises today are rapidly adopting the cloud, while continuing to retain business-critical/sensitive data inside the firewall. This is creating two separate data silos – one inside the firewall and the other outside the firewall. Cloud ISVs ofte... Jun. 2, 2017 02:45 PM EDT Reads: 4,111 | 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... Jun. 2, 2017 02:00 PM EDT Reads: 5,692 | By Elizabeth White  You know you need the cloud, but you’re hesitant to simply dump everything at Amazon since you know that not all workloads are suitable for cloud. You know that you want the kind of ease of use and scalability that you get with public cloud, but your applications are architected in a way that makes the public cloud a non-starter. You’re looking at private cloud solutions based on hyperconverged infrastructure, but you’re concerned with the limits inherent in those technologies. Jun. 2, 2017 01:45 PM EDT Reads: 564 | By Yeshim Deniz  SYS-CON Events announced today that Striim 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. Striim is pronounced "stream", with two i's for integration and intelligence. The company was founded in 2012 as WebAction, with a mission to help companies make data useful the instant it's born. The leaders behind the Striim platform thrive on building technology companies that raise expectations for how the wor... Jun. 2, 2017 12:30 PM EDT Reads: 823 | By Pat Romanski  In his session at 20th Cloud Expo, Brad Winett, Senior Technologist for DDN Storage, will present several current, end-user environments that are using object storage at scale for cloud deployments including private cloud and cloud providers. Details on the top considerations of features and functions for selecting object storage will be included. Brad will also touch on recent developments in tiering technologies that deliver single solution and an end-user view of data across files and objects... Jun. 2, 2017 12:30 PM EDT Reads: 1,015 | By Elizabeth White  IBM helps FinTechs and financial services companies build and monetize cognitive-enabled financial services apps quickly and at scale. Hosted on IBM Bluemix, IBM’s platform builds in customer insights, regulatory compliance analytics and security to help reduce development time and testing. In his session at 20th Cloud Expo, Tom Eck, Industry Platforms CTO at IBM Cloud, will discuss how these tools simplify the time-consuming tasks of selection, mapping and data integration, allowing developers ... Jun. 2, 2017 11:30 AM EDT Reads: 1,390 | By Yeshim Deniz  DevOps is often described as a combination of technology and culture. Without both, DevOps isn't complete. However, applying the culture to outdated technology is a recipe for disaster; as response times grow and connections between teams are delayed by technology, the culture will die. A Nutanix Enterprise Cloud has many benefits that provide the needed base for a true DevOps paradigm. Jun. 2, 2017 10:45 AM EDT Reads: 5,948 | By Nishanth Kadiyala  Join us at Cloud Expo June 6-8 to find out how to securely connect your cloud app to any cloud or on-premises data source – without complex firewall changes. More users are demanding access to on-premises data from their cloud applications. It’s no longer a “nice-to-have” but an important differentiator that drives competitive advantages. It’s the new “must have” in the hybrid era. Users want capabilities that give them a unified view of the data to get closer to customers and grow business. The... Jun. 2, 2017 10:15 AM EDT Reads: 607 | By Liz McMillan  New competitors, disruptive technologies, and growing expectations are pushing every business to both adopt and deliver new digital services. This ‘Digital Transformation’ demands rapid delivery and continuous iteration of new competitive services via multiple channels, which in turn demands new service delivery techniques – including DevOps. In this power panel at @DevOpsSummit 20th Cloud Expo, moderated by DevOps Conference Co-Chair Andi Mann, panelists will examine how DevOps helps to meet th... Jun. 2, 2017 10:15 AM EDT Reads: 4,878 | By Elizabeth White  SYS-CON Events announced today that A&I; Solutions 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. Founded in 1999, A&I; Solutions is a leading information technology (IT) software and services provider focusing on best-in-class enterprise solutions. By partnering with industry leaders in technology, A&I; assures customers high performance levels across all IT environments including: mai... Jun. 2, 2017 10:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,786 |
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Industry after industry is under siege as companies embrace digital transformation (DX) to disrupt existing business models and disintermediate their competitor’s customer relationships. But what do we mean by “Digital Transformation”? The coupling of granular, real-time data (e.g., smartphones, connected devices, smart appliances, wearables, mobile commerce, video surveillance) with modern technologies (e.g., cloud native apps, big data architectures, hyper-converged technologies, artificial intelligence, blockchain) to enhance products, processes, and business-decision making with customer, ...
In his opening keynote at 20th Cloud Expo, Michael Maximilien, Research Scientist, Architect, and Engineer at IBM, will motivate why realizing the full potential of the cloud and social data requires artificial intelligence. By mixing Cloud Foundry and the rich set of Watson services, IBM's Bluemix is the best cloud operating system for enterprises today, providing rapid development and deployment of applications that can take advantage of the rich catalog of Watson services to help drive insights from the vast trove of private and public data available to enterprises. 
The consumer IoT market is growing at an astounding rate – device ownership increased 259% from 2015 to 2016.
In her session at @ThingsExpo, Noelani McGadden, Vice President of IoT at PlumChoice, will present thought-provoking insights from a recent survey, while exploring the opportunities and challenges as the market continues to grow. The data highlights which types of devices consumers currently own and are planning to purchase, the reasons why they’re purchasing these devices and their preferred method for help (phone call, chat, etc.). She will also discuss drivers of consumer behavior...
SYS-CON Events announced today that delaPlex 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. delaPlex pioneered Software Development as a Service (SDaaS), which provides scalable resources to build, test, and deploy software. It’s a fast and more reliable way to develop a new product or expand your in-house team.
In his keynote at @ThingsExpo, Chris Matthieu, Director of IoT Engineering at Citrix and co-founder and CTO of Octoblu, focused on building an IoT platform and company. He provided a behind-the-scenes look at Octoblu’s platform, business, and pivots along the way (including the Citrix acquisition of Octoblu).
The Internet of Things (IoT) promises to change everything by enabling “smart” environments (homes, cities, hospitals, schools, stores, etc.) and smart products (cars, trucks, airplanes, trains, wind turbines, lawnmowers, etc.). I recently wrote about the importance of moving beyond “connected” to “smart” in a blog titled “Internet of Things: Connected Does Not Equal Smart”. The article discusses the importance of moving beyond just collecting the data, to transitioning to leveraging this new wealth of IoT data to improve the decisions that these smart environments and products need to make: t...
In order to meet the rapidly changing demands of today’s customers, companies are continually forced to redefine their business strategies in order to meet these needs, stay relevant and continue to see profitable growth. IoT deployment and development is integral in this transformation, and today businesses are increasingly seeing the value of investing their resources into IoT deployments. These technologies are able increase ROI through projects such as connecting supply chains or enabling smart office capabilities for employees. 
A strange thing is happening along the way to the Internet of Things, namely far too many devices to work with and manage. It has become clear that we'll need much higher efficiency user experiences that can allow us to more easily and scalably work with the thousands of devices that will soon be in each of our lives. Enter the conversational interface revolution, combining bots we can literally talk with, gesture to, and even direct with our thoughts, with embedded artificial intelligence, which can process our conversational commands and orchestrate the outcomes we request across our persona...
Internet of @ThingsExpo, taking place October 31 - November 2, 2017, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA, is co-located with the 21st International Cloud Expo and will feature technical sessions from a rock star conference faculty and the leading industry players in the world. @ThingsExpo Silicon Valley Call for Papers is now open.
The 21st International Cloud Expo has announced that its Call for Papers is open. Cloud Expo, to be held October 31 - November 2, 2017, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA, brings together Cloud Computing, Big Data, Internet of Things, DevOps, Digital Transformation, Machine Learning 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!
Multiple data types are pouring into IoT deployments. Data is coming in small packages as well as enormous files and data streams of many sizes. Widespread use of mobile devices adds to the total. In this power panel at @ThingsExpo, moderated by Conference Chair Roger Strukhoff, panelists will look at the tools and environments that are being put to use in IoT deployments, as well as the team skills a modern enterprise IT shop needs to keep things running, get a handle on all this data, and deliver the analytics that add value.
Machine learning, AI, cognitive computing, natural language understanding, image recognition, pattern matching, autonomous devices – these are just a few of 2017’s loosely defined catchall phrases. But in practice, they each refer to a significant field of study that is guaranteed to have an impact on the way people live and how business is done. So here are five things that you, as the leader of an organization that is singularly focused on creating shareholder value (however you define it), need to know
For a recent University of San Francisco MBA class, I wanted to put my students in a challenging situation where they would be forced to make difficult data science trade-offs between gathering data, preparing the data and performing the actual analysis.
The purpose of the exercise was to test their ability to “think like a data scientist” with respect to identifying and quantifying variables that might be better predictors of performance.
Apache OpenWhisk on IBM Bluemix provides a powerful and flexible environment for deploying cloud-native applications driven by data, message, and API call events. In his session at 20th Cloud Expo, Daniel Krook, Software Architect, IBM Watson and Cloud Platform, and Distinguished IT Specialist, will discuss why serverless architectures are attractive for many emerging cloud workloads and when you should consider OpenWhisk for your next project. Then get started on Bluemix with three sample applications covering how the OpenWhisk programming model enables you both to implement REST APIs and pr...
With 10 simultaneous tracks, keynotes, general sessions and targeted breakout classes, Cloud Expo and @ThingsExpo are two of the most important technology events of the year. Since its launch over eight years ago, Cloud Expo and @ThingsExpo have presented a rock star faculty as well as showcased hundreds of sponsors and exhibitors! In this blog post, I provide 7 tips on how, as part of our world-class faculty, you can deliver one of the most popular sessions at our events. But before reading these essential tips, please take a moment and watch this brief video from Sandy Carter.
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