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How to Make Use of Serverless Compute Solutions for IoT Device Simulation
When shopping for a new data processing platform for IoT solutions, many
development teams want to be able to test-drive options before making a
choice. Yet when evaluating an IoT solution, it's simply not feasible to do
so at scale with physical devices. Building a sensor simulator is the next
best choice; however, generating a realistic simulation at very high TPS with
ease of configurability is a formidable challenge. When dealing with multiple
application or transport protocols, you would be looking at some significant
engineering investment.
On-demand, serverless computing enables developers to try out a fleet of
devices on IoT gateways with ease. With a sensor simulator built on top of
AWS Lambda, it's possible to elastically generate device sensors that report
their state to the cloud.... (more)
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
For more information visit https://www.clouber.io/.
The World's Largest "Cloud Digital Transformation" Event
@CloudExpo / @ThingsExpo 2017 New York
(June 6-8, 2017, Javits Center, Manhattan)
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(Oct. 31 - Nov. 2, 2017, Santa Clara Convention Center, CA)
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The Need for the Public Cloud Alternative
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.
Private cloud infrastructure based on composable technologies result in
environments that are suitable for all your workloads while also providing
you with many of the benefits of the public cloud, and without the pitfalls.
Composable infrastructure is an emerging data center architecture that
provides you with the resource flexibility inherent in tra... (more)
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Building the Future of Monitoring with Artificial Intelligence
Today we can collect lots and lots of performance data. We build beautiful
dashboards and even have fancy query languages to access and transform the
data. Still performance data is a secret language only a couple of people
understand. The more business becomes digital the more stakeholders are
interested in this data including how it relates to business. Some of these
people have never used a monitoring tool before. They have a question on
their mind like "How is my application doing" but no idea how to get a proper
answer.
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In his session at 19th Cloud Expo, Alois Reitbauer, Chief Technical
Strategist at Dynatrace, discussed how they have worked to build a
conversational interface on top of Artificial Intelligence to... (more)
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DevOps in an Open and Heterogeneous World
Keeping pace with advancements in software delivery processes and tooling is
taxing even for the most proficient organizations. Point tools, platforms,
open source and the increasing adoption of private and public cloud services
requires strong engineering rigor - all in the face of developer demands to
use the tools of choice. As Agile has settled in as a mainstream practice,
now DevOps has emerged as the next wave to improve software delivery speed
and output. To make DevOps work, organizations must focus on what is most
relevant to deliver value, reduce IT complexity, create more repeatable
agile-based processes and leverage increasingly secure and stable,
cloud-based infrastructure platforms.
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In his session at @DevOpsSummit at 18th Clo... (more)
Value Stream Mapping
Regardless of what business you're in, it's increasingly a software-driven
business. Consumers' rising expectations for connected digital and physical
experiences are driving what some are calling the "Customer Experience
Challenge."
In his session at @DevOpsSummit at 20th Cloud Expo, Marco Morales, Director
of Global Solutions at CollabNet, will discuss how organizations are
increasingly adopting a discipline of Value Stream Mapping to ensure that the
software they are producing is poised to offer continuous improvements to
customers' experience of products and services.
Speaker Bio
Marco Morales has over 20 years of experience in the development and delivery
of software systems for companies that include automotive, manufacturing, and
cable. Starting with the development of microprocessors and then moving into
embedded software development,... (more)
How to Become the "Most Popular" @CloudExpo, @ThingsExpo and @DevOpsSummit
Speaker
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.
"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... (more)
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Using Microservices for Application Integration
The proper isolation of resources is essential for multi-tenant environments.
The traditional approach to isolate resources is, however, rather
heavyweight.
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In his session at 18th Cloud Expo, Igor Drobiazko, co-founder of elastic.io,
will draw upon their own experience with operating a Docker container-based
infrastructure on a large scale and present a lightweight solution for
resource isolation using microservices. He will also discuss the
implementation of microservices in data and application integration in
general, share the challenges they ran into using open source technologies
like Apache Mesos and Marathon for Docker containers and what solutions they
found to deal with them.
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Speaker Bio
Igor ... (more)
In his General Session at 16th Cloud Expo, David Shacochis, host of The
Hybrid IT Files podcast and Vice President at CenturyLink, investigated three
key trends of the "gigabit economy" though the story of a Fortune 500
communications company in transformation.
Narrating how multi-modal hybrid IT, service automation, and agile delivery
all intersect, he will cover the role of storytelling and empathy in
achieving strategic alignment between the enterprise and its information
technology.
Speaker Bio
David Shacochis currently leads the Cloud Ecosystem team at CenturyLink,
responsible for partner integration, technology evangelism, and platform
metrics for one of the major cloud computing platforms in the world. As a
senior leader within the CenturyLink Cloud Development Center, he is
commercially responsible for cloud ecosystem growth as well as technology
partner ... (more)
Supercharging Your Hybrid Cloud with Modern IT Operations
Cloud promises the agility required by today's digital businesses. As
organizations adopt cloud based infrastructures and services, their IT
resources become increasingly dynamic and hybrid in nature. Managing these
require modern IT operations and tools.
In his session at 20th Cloud Expo, Raj Sundaram, Senior Principal Product
Manager at CA Technologies, will discuss how to modernize your IT operations
in order to proactively manage your hybrid cloud and IT environments. He will
be sharing best practices around collaboration, monitoring, configuration and
analytics that will help you boost experience and optimize utilization of
your modern IT Infrastructures.
Speaker Bio
Raj Sundaram is a Director of Product at CA Technologies for the company's
Agile Ops and cloud management solutions. Prior to joining CA, h... (more)
What Is Function-as-a-Service? Serverless Architectures Are Here
By Matt Watson
It has never been a better time to be a developer. Thanks to cloud computing,
deploying our applications is much easier than it used to be. How we deploy
our apps continues to evolve thanks to cloud hosting, Platform-as-a-Service
(PaaS), and now Function-as-a-Service.
What Is Function-as-a-Service (FaaS)?
FaaS is the concept of serverless computing via serverless architectures.
Software developers can leverage this to deploy an individual "function",
action, or piece of business logic. They are expected to start within
milliseconds and process individual requests and then the process ends.
Principles of FaaS:
Complete abstraction of servers away from the developer Billing based on
consumption and executions, not server instance sizes Services that are
event-driven and instantaneously scala... (more)
@MicroservicesExpo Stories By Liz McMillan When shopping for a new data processing platform for IoT solutions, many development teams want to be able to test-drive options before making a choice. Yet when evaluating an IoT solution, it’s simply not feasible to do so at scale with physical devices. Building a sensor simulator is the next best choice; however, generating a realistic simulation at very high TPS with ease of configurability is a formidable challenge. When dealing with multiple application or transport protocols, you would be... Jun. 8, 2017 01:30 AM EDT Reads: 1,680 | 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. 7, 2017 12:00 PM EDT Reads: 1,635 | 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. 7, 2017 03:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,810 | By Pat Romanski Regardless of what business you’re in, it’s increasingly a software-driven business. Consumers’ rising expectations for connected digital and physical experiences are driving what some are calling the "Customer Experience Challenge.” In his session at @DevOpsSummit at 20th Cloud Expo, Marco Morales, Director of Global Solutions at CollabNet, will discuss how organizations are increasingly adopting a discipline of Value Stream Mapping to ensure that the software they are producing is poised to o... Jun. 6, 2017 06:15 AM EDT Reads: 1,842 | By Elizabeth White  This talk centers around how to automate best practices in a multi-/hybrid-cloud world based on our work with customers like GE, Discovery Communications and Fannie Mae. Today’s enterprises are reaping the benefits of cloud computing, but also discovering many risks and challenges. In the age of DevOps and the decentralization of IT, it’s easy to over-provision resources, forget that instances are running, or unintentionally expose vulnerabilities. Jun. 6, 2017 03:45 AM EDT Reads: 2,365 | By Elizabeth White Cloud promises the agility required by today’s digital businesses. As organizations adopt cloud based infrastructures and services, their IT resources become increasingly dynamic and hybrid in nature. Managing these require modern IT operations and tools. In his session at 20th Cloud Expo, Raj Sundaram, Senior Principal Product Manager at CA Technologies, will discuss how to modernize your IT operations in order to proactively manage your hybrid cloud and IT environments. He will be sharing bes... Jun. 6, 2017 02:15 AM EDT Reads: 4,392 | By Pat Romanski  DevOps at Cloud Expo – being held October 31 - November 2, 2017, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA – announces that its Call for Papers is open. Born out of proven success in agile development, cloud computing, and process automation, DevOps is a macro trend you cannot afford to miss. From showcase success stories from early adopters and web-scale businesses, DevOps is expanding to organizations of all sizes, including the world's largest enterprises – and delivering real r... Jun. 5, 2017 09:45 AM EDT Reads: 1,977 | 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... Jun. 3, 2017 09:15 PM EDT Reads: 6,914 | By Stackify Blog It has never been a better time to be a developer! Thanks to cloud computing, deploying our applications is much easier than it used to be. How we deploy our apps continues to evolve thanks to cloud hosting, Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS), and now Function-as-a-Service.
FaaS is the concept of serverless computing via serverless architectures. Software developers can leverage this to deploy an individual "function", action, or piece of business logic. They are expected to start within milliseconds... Jun. 2, 2017 11:45 PM EDT Reads: 2,440 | By Pat Romanski  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 intern... Jun. 2, 2017 11:30 PM EDT Reads: 7,125 | By Elizabeth White  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 Day 3 Keynote at 20th Cloud Expo, Chris Brown, a Solutions Marketing Manager at Nutanix, will explore t... May. 31, 2017 02:15 PM EDT Reads: 7,697 | By Elizabeth White  Most DevOps journeys involve several phases of maturity. Research shows that the inflection point where organizations begin to see maximum value is when they implement tight integration deploying their code to their infrastructure. Success at this level is the last barrier to at-will deployment. Storage, for instance, is more capable than where we read and write data. In his session at @DevOpsSummit at 20th Cloud Expo, Josh Atwell, a Developer Advocate for NetApp, will discuss the role and value... May. 29, 2017 11:00 PM EDT Reads: 1,964 | By Stackify Blog  There are two main reasons for infrastructure automation. First, system administrators, IT professionals and DevOps engineers need to automate as many routine tasks as possible. That’s why we build tools at Stackify to help developers automate processes like application performance management, error monitoring, and log management; automation means you have more time for mission-critical tasks. Second, automation makes the management of complex, diverse environments possible and allows rapid scal... May. 26, 2017 09:15 PM EDT Reads: 3,514 | By Liz McMillan  One of the biggest challenges with adopting a DevOps mentality is: new applications are easily adapted to cloud-native, microservice-based, or containerized architectures - they can be built for them - but old applications need complex refactoring. On the other hand, these new technologies can require relearning or adapting new, oftentimes more complex, methodologies and tools to be ready for production.
In his general session at @DevOpsSummit at 20th Cloud Expo, Chris Brown, Solutions Marketi... May. 26, 2017 01:15 PM EDT Reads: 2,354 | By Pat Romanski  We all know that end users experience the internet primarily with mobile devices. From an app development perspective, we know that successfully responding to the needs of mobile customers depends on rapid DevOps – failing fast, in short, until the right solution evolves in your customers' relationship to your business. Whether you’re decomposing an SOA monolith, or developing a new application cloud natively, it’s not a question of using microservices - not doing so will be a path to eventual ... May. 25, 2017 10:45 AM EDT Reads: 2,262 | 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... May. 24, 2017 12:00 PM EDT Reads: 5,681 | 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... May. 23, 2017 11:45 PM EDT Reads: 8,264 | By Elizabeth White  SYS-CON Events announced today that HTBase 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. HTBase (Gartner 2016 Cool Vendor) delivers a Composable IT infrastructure solution architected for agility and increased efficiency. It turns compute, storage, and fabric into fluid pools of resources that are easily composed and re-composed to meet each application’s needs. With HTBase, companies can quickly prov... May. 22, 2017 08:00 PM EDT Reads: 6,807 | By Yeshim Deniz  @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... May. 21, 2017 10:15 PM EDT Reads: 4,802 | By Carmen Gonzalez 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 the... May. 21, 2017 08:45 PM EDT Reads: 15,128 |
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The purpose of this article is draw attention to key SaaS services that are commonly overlooked during contact signing that are essential to ensuring they meet the expectations and requirements of the organization and provide guidance and recommendations for process and controls necessary for achieving quality SaaS contractual agreements.
The first step to solving a problem is recognizing that it actually exists. And whether you've realized it or not, cloud services are a problem for your IT department.
Even if you feel like you have a solid grasp of cloud technology and the nuances of making a cloud purchase, business leaders don't share the same confidence. Nearly 80% feel that IT lacks the skills necessary to help with cloud purchases-and they're looking to cloud brokers for help instead.
It's time to admit we have a cloud services problem and start adapting to modern business technology. Part of that is understanding whic...
According to a recent Gartner study, by 2020, it will be unlikelythat any enterprise will have a “no cloud” policy, and hybrid will be the most common use of the cloud. While the benefits of leveraging public cloud infrastructures are well understood, the desire to keep critical workloads and data on-premise in the private data center still remains. For enterprises, the hybrid cloud provides a best of both worlds solution. However, the leading factor that determines the preference to the hybrid cloud, among other things, is “security.” Moreover, as the growth of the public cloud infrastructure...
In this modern world of IT, you've probably got some new colleagues in your life-namely, the cloud and SaaS providers who now hold your infrastructure in their hands.
These business relationships-yes, they're technology-based, but cloud and SaaS are business models-will become as important to your IT team and your company as the hardware and software you used to install. Once you've adopted SaaS, or inherited SaaS, it's on you to avoid price hikes, licensing issues and app or provider sprawl. Budgeting for these apps, which means understanding their pricing models, is also likely in IT's ha...
Google's Cloud team this week discussed multicloud integration with their own platform and AWS using Google Cloud Endpoints and AWS' Lambda. The Cloud Endpoints let you develop open APIs, and you can then call those APIs up from Lambda. This may be the way forward for businesses eager to get their multiple public cloud providers integrated. We're interested in the network dependency that's now been introduced as the two providers connect. We'll see what other integration or multicloud management tools come out as this trend grows.
IT leaders have always had their hands full with ghost issues on-premises. But for businesses that rely on remote and branch offices, monitoring a sprawling network of on-premises equipment introduces even more challenges.
That's why we move to the cloud, right? To help us eliminate truck rolls, improve cost efficiency and centralize management of applications across all locations.
When you've migrated to the cloud (even if it's just for something like office applications like Office 365 or G Suite), you've already considered compliance, licensing, budget concerns. But what happens when yo...
As more organizations move to the public cloud, they face an important decision: Should they use just one cloud provider, such as Amazon Web Services (AWS), or should they adopt a multi-cloud strategy, one that makes use of multiple cloud providers?
There are several major cloud platform providers, including AWS, Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud Platform. The advantage of a multi-cloud strategy is that organizations can reap significant benefits by using the best of different platforms, rather than relying on a single provider for all of their cloud needs.
Have you ever had the feeling of Silicon Valley envy? Think of a company like Airbnb experiencing exponential growth by making the most of AWS cloud computing. It would be nice if we could all just leave our legacy-laden on-premises data centers behind and go all-in on the cloud.
Traditional businesses are moving more and more workloads to the cloud, but there's one important distinction to keep in mind when comparing yourself to companies that have avoided on-premises infrastructure.
To more closely examine the variety of ways in which IT departments around the world are integrating cloud services, and the effect hybrid IT has had on their organizations and IT job roles, SolarWinds recently released the SolarWinds IT Trends Report 2017: Portrait of a Hybrid Organization. This annual study consists of survey-based research that explores significant trends, developments, and movements related to and directly affecting IT and IT professionals.
A Man in the Middle attack, or MITM, is a situation wherein a malicious entity can read/write data that is being transmitted between two or more systems (in most cases, between you and the website that you are surfing). MITMs are common in China, thanks to the “Great Cannon.”
The “Great Cannon” is slightly different from the “The Great Firewall.” The firewall monitors web traffic moving in and out of China and blocks prohibited content.
The Great Cannon, on the other hand, acts as a man in the middle and is not just able to eavesdrop on the conversation taking place between two or more syste...
When you decide to launch a startup company, business advisors, counselors, bankers and armchair know-it-alls will tell you that the first thing you need to do is get funding. While there is some validity to that boilerplate piece of wisdom, the availability of and need for startup funding has gone through a dramatic transformation over the past decade, and the next few years will see even more of a shift.
A perfect storm of events is causing this seismic shift. On the macroeconomic side this storm includes the still-persistent repercussions of the Great Recession, historically low interest ...
In the famous comedy by William Shakespeare, “The Taming of the Shrew,” the main plot depicts the courtship of Petruchio and Katherina, the headstrong, uncooperative shrew. Initially, Katherina is an unwilling participant in the relationship, but Petruchio breaks down her resistance with various psychological torments, which make up the “taming” — until she finally becomes agreeable.
An analogous challenge exists when using predictive analytics with healthcare data. Healthcare data can often seem quite stubborn, like Katherina. One of the main features of healthcare data that needs to be “tam...
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