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)
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)
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 ... (more)
A completely new computing platform is on the horizon. They're called
Microservers by some, ARM Servers by others, and sometimes even ARM-based
Servers. No matter what you call them, Microservers will have a huge impact
on the data center and on server computing in general.
What Is a Microserver...and What Isn't
Although few people are familiar with Microservers today, their impact will
be felt very soon. This is a new category of computing platform that is
available today and is predicted to have triple-digit growth rates for some
years to come - growing to over 20% of the server market by 2016 according to
Oppenheimer ("Cloudy With A Chance of ARM" Oppenheimer Equity Research
Industry Report).
According to Chris Piedmonte, CEO of Suvola Corporation - a software and
services company focused on creating preconfigured and scalable Microserver
appliances for deployin... (more)
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.
DevOps at @CloudExpo / @ThingsExpo 2017 New York
(June 6-8, 2017, Javits Center, Manhattan)
DevOps at @CloudExpo / @ThingsExpo 2017 Silicon Valley
(October 31 - November 2, 2017 Santa Clara Convention Center, CA)
Speaking Proposals ▸ Here
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 results. Among the proven benefits,
DevOps is correlated with 20% faster time-to-market, 22% improvement in
quality, and 18% reduction in dev... (more)
With big corporations moving to the cloud for their computation needs, a new
type of resource usage model has come up recently that is called Server-less
Computing. Contrary to the meaning of the term “Server-less” in
“Server-less Computing,” it does not mean that servers are not involved.
Rather, it means that the developer is no longer required to worry about
provisioning and maintaining servers.
Server-less pushes the focus of the developer to adding features to their
applications, instead of working on the underlying infrastructure. The
concept behind this form of computation is that any web app, or rather any
workflow can be broken into multiple subtasks. These subtasks can then be
composed to perform the required actions. Thinking in terms of subtasks helps
the developers break down the monolithic application into several functional
components that can be sc... (more)
Delivering Microservices in a Hybrid Environment
Microservices are a very exciting architectural approach that many
organizations are looking to as a way to accelerate innovation. Microservices
promise to allow teams to move away from monolithic "ball of mud" systems,
but the reality is that, in the vast majority of organizations, different
projects and technologies will continue to be developed at different speeds.
How to handle the dependencies between these disparate systems with different
iteration cycles? Consider the "canoncial problem" in this scenario:
microservice A (releases daily) depends on a couple of additions to backend B
(releases quarterly).
In his session at 17th Cloud Expo, Andrew Phillips, head of strategy at
XebiaLabs, discussed decoupling as the key principle for tackling this
problem, with the aim of eliminating the dependency as much as possi... (more)
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)
Microservices: To Do or Not to Do
As enterprise business moves from monoliths to microservices, adoption and
successful implementations of microservices become more evident. The goal of
microservices is to improve software delivery speed and increase system
safety as scale increases. Documenting hurdles and problems for the use of
microservices will help consultants, architects and specialists to avoid
repeating the same mistakes and learn how and when to use (or not use)
microservices at the enterprise level. The circumstance when microservices is
an appropriate solution described in this article and based on the authors'
work experiences, best practices available in the microservices community.
However, using microservices architecture does not guarantee success to the
enterprise.
Introduction
In software development, smaller is usually better. More minor things ... (more)
Digital transformation. Digital strategy. Digital leadership. Digital
enterprise. Digital customer journey.
It seems the list of things that have gone digital is unending and remarkably
broad.
Underlying all of these intertwined digital concepts? Unquestionably, some
kind of technology.
Digital technology.
Just one problem: nobody agrees on just what constitutes digital technology.
And without a grasp on what technologies are digital - or more to the point,
what technologies are not digital - we've built our entire digital edifice on
a foundation of sand.
Ones and Zeroes
We can all agree that the broadest definition of digital technology would be
technology that uses ones and zeroes to represent data. After all, bits - aka
binary digits - are where we got the word digital in the first place.
Using this definition, digital technology launched on Valentine's Day in ... (more)
@DevOpsSummit at Cloud Expo taking place June 6-8, 2017, at Javits Center,
New York City, and is co-located with the 20th International Cloud Expo and
will feature technical sessions from a rock star conference faculty and the
leading industry players in the world.
DevOps at Cloud Expo / @ThingsExpo 2017 New York
(June 6-8, 2017, Javits Center, Manhattan)
DevOps at Cloud Expo / @ThingsExpo 2017 Silicon Valley
(October 31 - November 2, 2017, Santa Clara Convention Center, CA)
Download Show Prospectus ▸ Here
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 development cycles that produce software that is obsolete at launch.
DevOps may be disruptive, but it is essential.
@DevOpsSummit w... (more)
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