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Keeping Pace with the Multi-Cloud Movement
A common misconception about the cloud is that one size fits all. Companies
expecting to run all of their operations using one cloud solution or service
must realize that doing so is akin to forcing the totality of their business
functionality into a straightjacket. Unlocking the full potential of the
cloud means embracing the multi-cloud future where businesses use their own
cloud, and/or clouds from different vendors, to support separate functions or
product groups. There is no single cloud solution ideal for all applications,
and some applications might not fit the cloud at all. For example, certain
applications have more stringent security or compliance requirements that
require a private cloud or traditional on-premises deployment. For the
foreseeable future, the majority of companies will maintain a hybrid cloud
envi... (more)
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Your Data Center Is Doomed
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.
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In his session at 20th Cloud Expo, Don Browning, VP of Cloud Architecture at
Turner, posited that disruption is inevitable for companies that refuse to
embrace the cloud and the culture shift that comes along with it.
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Speaker Bio
Don Browning, VP of Cloud Architecture at Turner, is responsible for the
global entertainment and news company's transformation into a clo... (more)
What Are Microservices?
By Angela Stringfellow
Microservices are increasingly used in the development world as developers
work to create larger, more complex applications that are better developed
and managed as a combination of smaller services that work cohesively
together for larger, application-wide functionality. Tools such as Service
Fabric are rising to meet the need to think about and build apps using a
piece-by-piece methodology that is, frankly, less mind-boggling than
considering the whole of the application at once. Today, we'll take a look at
microservices, the benefits of using this capability, and a few code
examples.
What Are Microservices?
Microservices is a form of service-oriented architecture style (one of the
most important skills for Java developers) wherein applications are built as
a collection of different smaller services rather than one wh... (more)
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Using Architectural Analysis to Design and Deliver Microservices
For organizations that have amassed large sums of software complexity, taking
a microservices approach is the first step toward DevOps and continuous
improvement / development. Integrating system-level analysis with
microservices makes it easier to change and add functionality to applications
at any time without the increase of risk.
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Before you start big transformation projects or a cloud migration, make sure
these changes won't take down your entire organization.
In his session at @DevOpsSummit at 20th Cloud Expo, Pavel Rabinovich, Sr.
Program Manager at CAST, discussed how microservices + system-level analysis
= the perfect combination in creating a nimble organization that can flex
with new technologies and demands... (more)
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Serverless - The Next Major Shift in Cloud Computing
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.
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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 with
heavy investments in serverless computing, when most of the industry has its
eyes on Docker and containers.
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Doug Vanderweide has developed software and conducted DevOps for more than 20
years. He's... (more)
Being experienced startup folks we are not scared of bleeding edge tech.
For instance, in 2005 we made the jump to virtual machines when most
companies hadn't even heard of virtualization, in order to create our cloud
platform, AppLogic. This time around we were already very familiar with
containers, including many of the limitations, and believed they offered a
lot of advantages in speed and cost so we decided to go with Docker running
on AWS.
Our engineers have written a lot of apps including both interactive user apps
and infrastructure level services and we're pretty adept at creating
stateless systems where that's possible. Unfortunately, some of the third
party software we needed to use, especially open source, wasn't written with
stateless in mind.
For us combining Dev and Ops wasn't a choice, but a necessity. We couldn't
afford another hire to run ops. N... (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)
"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.
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Is SaaS Dead?
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, cloud marketplaces and
DevOps are changing the economics of hosting and delivering software.
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Will we see Application Server Providers (ASP2) that focus on delivering
great software hosted within "dedicated" cloud environments or within the
clients' cloud environment? Will the Sa... (more)
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Offshore Development: How Not to Screw It Up
In his session at 20th 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 maximize project results within possible constraints
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You will see how it is possible to find your perfect software development
partner and establish a long-term business partnership in the world of
offshore development.
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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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@MicroservicesExpo 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: 1,066 | By Pat Romanski For organizations that have amassed large sums of software complexity, taking a microservices approach is the first step toward DevOps and continuous improvement / development. Integrating system-level analysis with microservices makes it easier to change and add functionality to applications at any time without the increase of risk. Before you start big transformation projects or a cloud migration, make sure these changes won’t take down your entire organization. Jun. 19, 2017 11:45 AM EDT Reads: 765 | 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: 825 | By Stefana Muller Containers, microservices and DevOps are all the rage lately. You can read about how great they are and how they’ll change your life and the industry everywhere. So naturally when we started a new company and were deciding how to architect our app, we went with microservices, containers and DevOps. About now you’re expecting a story of how everything went so smoothly, we’re now pushing out code ten times a day, but the reality is quite different. Jun. 19, 2017 10:30 AM EDT Reads: 1,713 | 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: 1,055 | 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: 923 | By Mark Leake A common misconception about the cloud is that one size fits all. Companies expecting to run all of their operations using one cloud solution or service must realize that doing so is akin to forcing the totality of their business functionality into a straightjacket. Unlocking the full potential of the cloud means embracing the multi-cloud future where businesses use their own cloud, and/or clouds from different vendors, to support separate functions or product groups. There is no single cloud so... Jun. 19, 2017 08:00 AM EDT Reads: 824 | By Stackify Blog Microservices are increasingly used in the development world as developers work to create larger, more complex applications that are better developed and managed as a combination of smaller services that work cohesively together for larger, application-wide functionality. Tools such as Service Fabric are rising to meet the need to think about and build apps using a piece-by-piece methodology that is, frankly, less mind-boggling than considering the whole of the application at once. Today, we'll ... Jun. 19, 2017 07:00 AM EDT Reads: 542 | 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: 1,237 | By Jason Bloomberg  If you cannot explicitly articulate how investing in a new technology, changing the approach or re-engineering the business process will help you achieve your customer-centric vision of the future in direct and measurable ways, you probably shouldn’t be doing it.
At Intellyx, we spend a lot of time talking to technology vendors. In our conversations, we explore emerging new technologies that are either disrupting the way enterprise organizations work or that help enable those organizations to ... Jun. 18, 2017 10:15 AM EDT Reads: 889 | By Jason Bloomberg  In the decade following his article, cloud computing further cemented Carr’s perspective. Compute, storage, and network resources have become simple utilities, available at the proverbial turn of the faucet. The value they provide is immense, but the cloud playing field is amazingly level. Carr’s quote above presaged the cloud to a T.
Today, however, we’re in the digital era. Mark Andreesen’s ‘software is eating the world’ prognostication is coming to pass, as enterprises realize they must be... Jun. 18, 2017 09:30 AM EDT Reads: 1,331 | By Kong Yang  Hybrid IT is today’s reality, and while its implementation may seem daunting at times, more and more organizations are migrating to the cloud. In fact, according to SolarWinds 2017 IT Trends Index: Portrait of a Hybrid IT Organization 95 percent of organizations have migrated crucial applications to the cloud in the past year. As such, it’s in every IT professional’s best interest to know what to expect. Jun. 18, 2017 09:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,009 | 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 | By Todd Matters  For most organizations, the move to hybrid cloud is now a question of when, not if. Fully 82% of enterprises plan to have a hybrid cloud strategy this year, according to Infoholic Research. The worldwide hybrid cloud computing market is expected to grow about 34% annually over the next five years, reaching $241.13 billion by 2022.
Companies are embracing hybrid cloud because of the many advantages it offers compared to relying on a single provider for all of their cloud needs. Hybrid offers bal... Jun. 18, 2017 06:30 AM EDT Reads: 800 | By Chris Schwarz  Colocation is a central pillar of modern enterprise infrastructure planning because it provides greater control, insight, and performance than managed platforms.
In spite of the inexorable rise of the cloud, most businesses with extensive IT hardware requirements choose to host their infrastructure in colocation data centers. According to a recent IDC survey, more than half of the businesses questioned use colocation services, and the number is even higher among established businesses and busin... Jun. 14, 2017 11:06 AM EDT Reads: 561 | 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 07:00 AM EDT Reads: 2,353 | 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: 2,115 | 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: 2,165 | 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: 2,147 | 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: 2,656 |
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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 and process individual requests and then the process ends.
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 scaling.
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.
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...
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