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An article published in The Register states that object storage has missed
its opportunity to serve the secondary storage market. How did this happen?
Let's rewind the clock a bit. A few years ago, object storage was the new
technology that promised to replace file system in the secondary storage
market. It would scale beyond the limits of file systems and deliver better
costs. The trade-off would be lower ease-of-use with new protocols that
required rewriting of the applications. File systems would keep its place as
the tier-one storage solution, because of its superior performance. The world
order was clear with object storage elbowing file system out of secondary
storage and gradually squeezing it out of tier one as its performance
improved. The marketing message was that the role of the file system was
rapidly diminishing, because its technology could not keep up... (more)
Containers are things for your things. That is true in the development world
too - containers are things for your software, and, like containers for your
things, software containers can help you be organized, efficient, and secure.
Chris Morgan (@cmorgan_cloud), the Technical Director, OpenShift Partner
Ecosystem at Red Hat, delivered a keynote at the 2016 All Day DevOps
conference. Chris lives and breathes containers and recently discussed how
they are transforming DevOps pipelines.
Chris started with an encouraging figure -- DevOps has a 74% adoption rate
(at least on a path towards full adoption) at the enterprise level. The
reason is that DevOps helps solve issues around:
Slow service delivery Poor service quality Frequent down times
However, the needs of development and the desires of IT can often hamper full
DevOps adoption, which is where containers can help. ... (more)
SYS-CON Events announced today that MobiDev, a client-oriented software
development company, will exhibit at SYS-CON's 21st International Cloud
Expo®, which will take place October 31-November 2, 2017, at the Santa Clara
Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA.
MobiDev is a software company that develops and delivers turn-key mobile
apps, websites, web services, and complex software systems for startups and
enterprises. Since 2009 it has grown from a small group of passionate
engineers and business managers to a full-scale mobile software company with
over 200 developers, designers, quality assurance engineers, project managers
in house, specializing in the world-class mobile and web development.
The company's main focus is saving the time and efforts of clients by
providing full-cycle product development, offering dedicated project teams
for long-term collaborations... (more)
SYS-CON Events announced today that Ayehu will exhibit at SYS-CON's 21st
International Cloud Expo®, which will take place on October 31 - November
2, 2017 at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara California.
Ayehu provides IT Process Automation & Orchestration solutions for IT and
Security professionals to identify and resolve critical incidents and enable
rapid containment, eradication, and recovery from cyber security breaches.
Ayehu provides customers greater control over IT infrastructure through
automation.
Ayehu solutions have been deployed by major enterprises worldwide, and
currently, support thousands of IT processes across the globe. The company
has offices in New York, California, and Israel.
@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 ... (more)
Reboot Your Leadership for DevOps Success: Why Culture Trumps Tech in the
DevOps Stakes
Culture is the most important ingredient of DevOps. The challenge for most
organizations is defining and communicating a vision of beneficial DevOps
culture for their organizations, and then facilitating the changes needed to
achieve that. Often this comes down to an ability to provide true leadership.
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As a CIO, are your direct reports IT managers or are they IT leaders? The
hard truth is that many IT managers have risen through the ranks based on
their technical skills, not their leadership ability. Many are unable to
effectively engage and inspire, creating forward momentum in the direction of
desired change. Renowned for its approach to leadership and emphasis on their
people, organizations increasingly look to our military for insight into
these... (more)
SYS-CON Events announced today that GrapeUp, the leading provider of rapid
product development at the speed of business, will exhibit at SYS-CON's 21st
International Cloud Expo®, which will take place October 31-November 2,
2017, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA.
Grape Up is a software company, specialized in cloud native application
development and professional services related to Cloud Foundry PaaS. With
five expert teams that operate in various sectors of the market across the
USA and Europe, we work with a variety of customers from emerging startups to
Fortune 1000 companies.
For more information, visit http://www.GrapeUp.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 fac... (more)
Mark Burgess (@markburgess_osl) is a theoretical physicist, but in his
keynote at the 2016 All Day DevOps conference, he talked more about economics
and human interactives than physics. What does either have to do as the
keynote for a conference on DevOps?
Well, for a little more background, Mark Burgess is also the founder and
former CTO of CFEngine, a configuration management and automation framework,
and is the author of Promise Theory. While at CFEngine, Mark worked to apply
a theory of how the autonomous agents in software interact with each other.
Promise Theory was born.
Promise Theory sits counter to obligation theories. Obligation theories view
human interactions and behavior under the assumption that people (or agents,
in the case of software) choose behavior based on their obligation to follow
the rules. Agents are obligated to take a certain action. Prom... (more)
"A lot of times people will come to us and have a very diverse set of
requirements or very customized need and we'll help them to implement it in a
fashion that you can't just buy off of the shelf," explained Nick Rose, CTO
of Enzu, in this SYS-CON.tv interview at 18th Cloud Expo, held June 7-9,
2016, at the Javits Center in New York City, NY.
SYS-CON Events announced today that Enzu will exhibit at SYS-CON's 21st
Int\ernational Cloud Expo®, which will take place October 31-November 2,
2017, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA.
Enzu's mission is to be the leading provider of enterprise cloud solutions
worldwide. Enzu enables online businesses to use its IT infrastructure to
their competitive advantage. By offering a suite of proven hosting and
management services, Enzu wants companies to focus on the core of their
online business and let Enzu ... (more)
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Fly Two Mistakes High - Keeping High Availability in the Cloud
When building large, cloud-based applications that operate at a high scale,
it's important to maintain a high availability and resilience to failures. In
order to do that, you must be tolerant of failures, even in light of failures
in other areas of your application.
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"Fly two mistakes high" is an old adage in the radio control airplane hobby.
It means, fly high enough so that if you make a mistake, you can continue
flying with room to still make mistakes.
In his session at 18th Cloud Expo, Lee Atchison, Principal Cloud Architect
and Advocate at New Relic, discussed how this same philosophy can be applied
to highly scaled applications, and can dramatically increase your resilience
to failure.
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Who Needs Release Orchestration and Why?
By Jason J. Lenny
IT organizations are relying more and more on using release orchestration
tools instead of tracking their software releases using programs like Excel,
Google Docs, and PowerPoint. Much of the popularity of release orchestrators
can be attributed to their versatility-they're extremely useful to different
people doing a variety of work across the delivery pipeline. Today we're
going to explore a few of the different technology roles that can benefit the
most from release orchestration.
Release Managers
As the primary users of release orchestrators, Release Managers get a number
of benefits. Taking releases out of Excel and putting them in a unified place
lessens some of the burdens of providing visibility and status updates,
freeing release managers to focus on tracking risks, dependencies, and the
overall pl... (more)
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 often get requests to connect these silos using
technologies such as VPN; however, these tend to be difficult to manage and
are not engineered for accessing business data from the cloud.
"Progress® DataDirect® offers the industry's first vendor-agnostic hybrid
data gateway that enables any cloud application to securely access
on-premises data without requiring changes to their c... (more)
@CloudExpo Stories By Elizabeth White  "We are a monitoring company. We work with Salesforce, BBC, and quite a few other big logos. We basically provide monitoring for them, structure for their cloud services and we fit into the DevOps world" explained David Gildeh, Co-founder and CEO of Outlyer, in this SYS-CON.tv interview at DevOps Summit at 20th Cloud Expo, held June 6-8, 2017, at the Javits Center in New York City, NY. Jun. 19, 2017 01:30 PM EDT Reads: 1,068 | By Pat Romanski  Both SaaS vendors and SaaS buyers are going “all-in” to hyperscale IaaS platforms such as AWS, which is disrupting the SaaS value proposition. Why should the enterprise SaaS consumer pay for the SaaS service if their data is resident in adjacent AWS S3 buckets? If both SaaS sellers and buyers are using the same cloud tools, automation and pay-per-transaction model offered by IaaS platforms, then why not host the “shrink-wrapped” software in the customers’ cloud? Further, serverless computing, cl... Jun. 19, 2017 11:15 AM EDT Reads: 826 | By Pat Romanski  The financial services market is one of the most data-driven industries in the world, yet it’s bogged down by legacy CPU technologies that simply can’t keep up with the task of querying and visualizing billions of records.
In his session at 20th Cloud Expo, Karthik Lalithraj, a Principal Solutions Architect at Kinetica, discussed how the advent of advanced in-database analytics on the GPU makes it possible to run sophisticated data science workloads on the same database that is housing the ric... Jun. 19, 2017 11:00 AM EDT Reads: 888 | By Yeshim Deniz  SYS-CON Events announced today that IBM has been named “Diamond Sponsor” of SYS-CON's 21st Cloud Expo, which will take place on October 31 through November 2nd 2017 at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, California. Jun. 19, 2017 10:00 AM EDT Reads: 2,154 | By Elizabeth White  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. 19, 2017 09:45 AM EDT Reads: 827 | By Liz McMillan  The taxi industry never saw Uber coming. Startups are a threat to incumbents like never before, and a major enabler for startups is that they are instantly “cloud ready.” If innovation moves at the pace of IT, then your company is in trouble. Why? Because your data center will not keep up with frenetic pace AWS, Microsoft and Google are rolling out new capabilities.
In his session at 20th Cloud Expo, Don Browning, VP of Cloud Architecture at Turner, posited that disruption is inevitable for com... Jun. 19, 2017 09:30 AM EDT Reads: 1,056 | By Elizabeth White  In 2014, Amazon announced a new form of compute called Lambda. We didn't know it at the time, but this represented a fundamental shift in what we expect from cloud computing. Now, all of the major cloud computing vendors want to take part in this disruptive technology.
In his session at 20th Cloud Expo, Doug Vanderweide, an instructor at Linux Academy, discussed why major players like AWS, Microsoft Azure, IBM Bluemix, and Google Cloud Platform are all trying to sidestep VMs and containers wit... Jun. 19, 2017 08:30 AM EDT Reads: 924 | By Liz McMillan  "Loom is applying artificial intelligence and machine learning into the entire log analysis process, from start to finish and at the end you will get a human touch,” explained Sabo Taylor Diab, Vice President, Marketing at Loom Systems, in this SYS-CON.tv interview at 20th Cloud Expo, held June 6-8, 2017, at the Javits Center in New York City, NY. Jun. 19, 2017 07:30 AM EDT Reads: 1,114 | By Liz McMillan  Wooed by the promise of faster innovation, lower TCO, and greater agility, businesses of every shape and size have embraced the cloud at every layer of the IT stack – from apps to file sharing to infrastructure. The typical organization currently uses more than a dozen sanctioned cloud apps and will shift more than half of all workloads to the cloud by 2018. Such cloud investments have delivered measurable benefits. But they’ve also resulted in some unintended side-effects: complexity and risk. ... Jun. 19, 2017 07:15 AM EDT Reads: 1,047 | By Yeshim Deniz SYS-CON Events announced today that MobiDev, a client-oriented software development company, will exhibit at SYS-CON's 21st International Cloud Expo®, which will take place October 31-November 2, 2017, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA. MobiDev is a software company that develops and delivers turn-key mobile apps, websites, web services, and complex software systems for startups and enterprises. Since 2009 it has grown from a small group of passionate engineers and business... Jun. 19, 2017 06:45 AM EDT Reads: 1,312 | By Yeshim Deniz SYS-CON Events announced today that GrapeUp, the leading provider of rapid product development at the speed of business, will exhibit at SYS-CON's 21st International Cloud Expo®, which will take place October 31-November 2, 2017, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA. Grape Up is a software company, specialized in cloud native application development and professional services related to Cloud Foundry PaaS. With five expert teams that operate in various sectors of the market acr... Jun. 19, 2017 06:30 AM EDT Reads: 1,241 | By Yeshim Deniz SYS-CON Events announced today that Ayehu will exhibit at SYS-CON's 21st International Cloud Expo®, which will take place on October 31 - November 2, 2017 at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara California. Ayehu provides IT Process Automation & Orchestration solutions for IT and Security professionals to identify and resolve critical incidents and enable rapid containment, eradication, and recovery from cyber security breaches. Ayehu provides customers greater control over IT infras... Jun. 19, 2017 06:15 AM EDT Reads: 1,356 | By Elizabeth White  In his session at Cloud Expo, Alan Winters, an entertainment executive/TV producer turned serial entrepreneur, presented 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 ma... Jun. 19, 2017 03:45 AM EDT Reads: 1,238 | By Yeshim Deniz SYS-CON Events announced today that Enzu will exhibit at SYS-CON's 21st Int\ernational Cloud Expo®, which will take place October 31-November 2, 2017, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA. Enzu’s mission is to be the leading provider of enterprise cloud solutions worldwide. Enzu enables online businesses to use its IT infrastructure to their competitive advantage. By offering a suite of proven hosting and management services, Enzu wants companies to focus on the core of their ... Jun. 18, 2017 04:45 PM EDT Reads: 1,203 | By Yeshim Deniz  SYS-CON Events announced today that CA Technologies has been named "Platinum Sponsor" of SYS-CON's 21st International Cloud Expo®, which will take place October 31-November 2, 2017, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA. CA Technologies helps customers succeed in a future where every business - from apparel to energy - is being rewritten by software. From planning to development to management to security, CA creates software that fuels transformation for companies in the applic... Jun. 18, 2017 03:45 PM EDT Reads: 1,929 | By Liz McMillan  A look across the tech landscape at the disruptive technologies that are increasing in prominence and speculate as to which will be most impactful for communications – namely, AI and Cloud Computing. In his session at 20th Cloud Expo, Curtis Peterson, VP of Operations at RingCentral, highlighted the current challenges of these transformative technologies and shared strategies for preparing your organization for these changes. This “view from the top” outlined the latest trends and developments i... Jun. 18, 2017 12:00 PM EDT Reads: 800 | By Liz McMillan  Artificial intelligence, machine learning, neural networks. We’re in the midst of a wave of excitement around AI such as hasn’t been seen for a few decades. But those previous periods of inflated expectations led to troughs of disappointment. Will this time be different?
Most likely. Applications of AI such as predictive analytics are already decreasing costs and improving reliability of industrial machinery. Furthermore, the funding and research going into AI now comes from a wide range of com... Jun. 18, 2017 11:15 AM EDT Reads: 824 | By Liz McMillan  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. 18, 2017 09:30 AM EDT Reads: 1,174 | By Elizabeth White  It is ironic, but perhaps not unexpected, that many organizations who want the benefits of using an Agile approach to deliver software use a waterfall approach to adopting Agile practices: they form plans, they set milestones, and they measure progress by how many teams they have engaged. Old habits die hard, but like most waterfall software projects, most waterfall-style Agile adoption efforts fail to produce the results desired. The problem is that to get the results they want, they have to ch... Jun. 18, 2017 07:45 AM EDT Reads: 740 | By Pat Romanski  "When we talk about cloud without compromise what we're talking about is that when people think about 'I need the flexibility of the cloud' - it's the ability to create applications and run them in a cloud environment that's far more flexible,” explained Matthew Finnie, CTO of Interoute, in this SYS-CON.tv interview at 20th Cloud Expo, held June 6-8, 2017, at the Javits Center in New York City, NY. Jun. 18, 2017 07:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,136 |
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What's disruptive innovation, and why does it matter to leaders in the C-suite? It's how the savvy non-conformist will target market opportunities. How does this happen, when established companies seem to have the advantage? Creative software developers can quickly apply new technologies and digital business models to capture untapped demand.
For a phrase that’s being thrown around a lot recently, what does “Digital Transformation” really mean? When someone says that they want to digitally transform their business, what does one really mean, why do they want to do it, and should they approach this “digital transformation” process?
First off, let’s start with a definition. If we don’t know what we are trying to achieve, then how do we know how to get there? Or to quote the famous Greek philosopher Yogi Berra: “If you don’t know where you are going, you’ll end up someplace else.”
The Internet of Things (IoT) has evolved quite rapidly, especially if you consider how long it took for little packet-switching networks like ARPANET to morph into today’s nearly ubiquitous internet. Our nascent IoT ecosystem is already populated by billions of sensors and connected devices, hundreds of millions of servers, and thousands of hybrid clouds serving billions of people… all of them perpetually producing and/or consuming data in an explosion of information.
Tomorrow will be nothing like today. It may look and feel a lot like today – you’ll get up, have breakfast, exercise, go off to work, etc. But tomorrow will be nothing like today. Tomorrow there will be 600,000 new smartphone activations, 540,000 new computers sold, hundreds of thousands of new cloud computing credentials issued, hundreds more petabytes of data traveling through the Internet, thousands more miles driven by autonomous vehicles, millions of new words interpreted by Natural Language Understanding (NLU) systems, billions of new patterns learned by machines, and billions of new lin...
The size of competitors and the longevity of their brands, are less predictive of future success than the quality and speed of their information logistics systems, and their ability to use it as a competitive advantage.
More data is being generated today than ever before, and successful companies are investing in business analytics and big data solutions to mine competitive advantages. There is a new sense of urgency today as businesses realize data has a shelf life, and the value of it diminishes rapidly over time. In an always-connected world where consumers and their needs are transient,...
Digital technology innovations and advancements, and our adoption of them, have changed us. We are different consumers, employers and employees. Our expectations have increased. We have become mobile, impatient and demanding. We are global. We demand immediate, accurate and real-time responses. We use our technology not just for reading historic events and news, but also for predicting our future turn while navigating at 60 MPH.
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...
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...
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...
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...
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 world does business. The team include core executives from GoldenGate Software (acquired by Oracle in 2...
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.
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 the demands of Digital Transformation – including accelerating application delivery, closing feedback ...
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. 
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. 
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