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Companies have always been concerned that traditional enterprise software is
slow and complex to install, often disrupting critical and time-sensitive
operations during roll-out. With the growing need to integrate new digital
technologies into the enterprise to transform business processes, this
concern has become even more pressing.
A 2016 Panorama Consulting Solutions study revealed that enterprise resource
planning (ERP) projects took an average of 21 months to install, with 57
percent of these projects experiencing timeline overruns. A span of almost
two years can be a long time when disruptive change comes in weeks or months
rather than years. Any executive that has been around enterprise software
implementations knows not only that new systems can take a long time to
implement, but can take almost as long to change or update with new
technologies.
Drivers o... (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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Speaker Bio
Doug Vanderweide has developed software and conducted DevOps for more than 20
years. He'... (more)
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 balance and flexibility. It helps companies achieve a wide
array of business goals, including availability, reliability, security and
cost-efficiency.
Still, there are a number of challenges associated with hybrid cloud. Here
are four management issues that companies need to address to enjoy a
successful hybrid cloud implementation.
Managing complexity.
More clouds can sometime... (more)
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The Role of DevOps in Digital Transformation
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.
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In this power panel at @DevOpsSummit 20th Cloud Expo, moderated by DevOps
Conference Co-Chair Andi Mann, panelists Dhiraj Sehgal, Product and Marketing
at Tintri, Leo Vasiliou, Director of Web Performance Engineering at
Catchpoint Systems, Thomas Hooker, Vice President of Marketing at CollabNet,
Josh Atwell, Developer Advocate at NetApp, Don Demcsak, DevOps and Cloud
Native Modernization Principal at Dell EMC, and Lev Lesokhin, EVP ... (more)
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 application economy. With CA software at
the center of their IT strategy, organizations can leverage the technology
that changes the way we live - from the data center to the mobile device.
CA's software and solutions help customers thrive in the new application
economy by delivering the means to deploy, monitor and secure their
applications and infrastructure.
For more informa... (more)
"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.
With major technology companies and startups seriously embracing Cloud
strategies, now is the perfect time to attend 21st Cloud Expo, October 31 -
November 2, 2017, at the Santa Clara Convention Center, CA, and June 12-14,
2018, at the Javits Center in New York City, NY, and learn what is going on,
contribute to the discussions, and ensure that your enterprise is on the
right path to Digital Transformation.
Track 1. Enterprise Cloud | Cloud-Native
Track 2. Big Data | A... (more)
The Benefits of Hybrid IT: Expectations vs. Reality
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.
Certainly, every business has a varying expectation of what they'd like to
gain by migrating applications or infrastructure to the cloud, but the most
compelling incentives are by far the opportunity to achieve a simplified
management process, faster deployment, or a cost efficiency that benefits
their bottom line.
Unfortunately, for many organizations, achieving these benefits isn't always
easy-or even the reali... (more)
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There's a lot to gain from cloud computing, but success requires a thoughtful
and enterprise focused approach. Cloud computing decouples data and
information from the infrastructure on which it lies. A process that is a LOT
more involved than dragging some folders from your desktop to a shared drive.
Cloud computing as a mission transformation activity, not a technological
one.
As an organization moves from local information hosting to the cloud, one of
the most important challenges is addressing cloud computing as a mission
transformation activity, not a technological one. Cloud computing isn't a new
technology. It's a new way of consuming and provisioning information
technology services. Adopting cloud computing means paralleling your mission
processes, rethinking the economic models and abstracting your applicati... (more)
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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 S... (more)
Cloud Expo, Inc. has announced today that Andi Mann and Aruna Ravichandran
have been named Co-Chairs of @DevOpsSummit at Cloud Expo 2017.
[email protected] at Cloud Expo New York will took place on June 6-8, 2017,
at the Javits Center in New York City, New York, [email protected] at Cloud
Expo Silicon Valley will take place Oct. 31-Nov. 2, 2017, at the Santa Clara
Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA.
"DevOps is a key part of the culture of any successful enterprise today, and
of any enterprise that wants to be successful," said Roger Strukhoff,
Conference Chair of Cloud Expo. "We're now clearly in an era of lean, agile,
and flexible development and operations."
"DevOps is set to be one of the most profound disruptions to hit IT in
decades," said Andi Mann. "It is a natural extension of cloud computing, and
I have seen both firsthand and in independent research the... (more)
DevOps at Cloud Expo taking place October 31 - November 2, 2017, at the
Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA, will feature technical
sessions from a rock star conference faculty and the leading industry players
in the world.
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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.
DevOps at Cloud Expo will expand the DevOps community, enable a wide sharing
of knowledge, and educate delegates and technology providers alike. Recent
research has shown that DevOps dramatically reduces development time, the
amount of enterprise IT profe... (more)
@MicroservicesExpo Stories 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 examined how DevOps helps to meet the de... Jun. 24, 2017 04:45 AM EDT Reads: 371 | 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. 24, 2017 04:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,203 | 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. 24, 2017 03:45 AM EDT Reads: 1,515 | 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. 24, 2017 03:30 AM EDT Reads: 1,753 | 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 comp... Jun. 24, 2017 02:30 AM EDT Reads: 1,397 | 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. 24, 2017 02:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,777 | 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 bala... Jun. 24, 2017 01:15 AM EDT Reads: 1,489 | 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. 24, 2017 12:45 AM EDT Reads: 1,598 | By Amy Eager Companies have always been concerned that traditional enterprise software is slow and complex to install, often disrupting critical and time-sensitive operations during roll-out. With the growing need to integrate new digital technologies into the enterprise to transform business processes, this concern has become even more pressing. A 2016 Panorama Consulting Solutions study revealed that enterprise resource planning (ERP) projects took an average of 21 months to install, with 57 percent of th... Jun. 24, 2017 12:45 AM EDT Reads: 898 | 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. 24, 2017 12:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,581 | By Kevin Jackson There's a lot to gain from cloud computing, but success requires a thoughtful and enterprise focused approach. Cloud computing decouples data and information from the infrastructure on which it lies. A process that is a LOT more involved than dragging some folders from your desktop to a shared drive. Cloud computing as a mission transformation activity, not a technological one.
As an organization moves from local information hosting to the cloud, one of the most important challenges is addressi... Jun. 23, 2017 06:45 PM EDT Reads: 863 | By Elizabeth White @DevOpsSummit at Cloud Expo taking place Oct 31 - Nov 2, 2017, at the Santa Clara Convention Center, 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. 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 ... Jun. 23, 2017 04:15 PM EDT Reads: 777 | 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. 23, 2017 04:00 PM EDT Reads: 1,002 | 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. 23, 2017 02:45 PM EDT Reads: 2,086 | By Pat Romanski  What's the role of an IT self-service portal when you get to continuous delivery and Infrastructure as Code? This general session showed how to create the continuous delivery culture and eight accelerators for leading the change. Don Demcsak is a DevOps and Cloud Native Modernization Principal for Dell EMC based out of New Jersey. He is a former, long time, Microsoft Most Valuable Professional, specializing in building and architecting Application Delivery Pipelines for hybrid legacy, and cloud ... Jun. 23, 2017 02:15 PM EDT Reads: 1,061 | 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. 23, 2017 01:45 PM EDT Reads: 436 | 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. 23, 2017 12:30 PM EDT Reads: 1,518 | By Elizabeth White  21st International Cloud Expo, taking place October 31 - November 2, 2017, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA, will feature technical sessions from a rock star conference faculty and the leading industry players in the world. Cloud computing is now being embraced by a majority of enterprises of all sizes. Yesterday's debate about public vs. private has transformed into the reality of hybrid cloud: a recent survey shows that 74% of enterprises have a hybrid cloud strategy. Me... Jun. 23, 2017 12:15 PM EDT Reads: 1,200 | By Yeshim Deniz Cloud Expo, Inc. has announced today that Andi Mann and Aruna Ravichandran have been named Co-Chairs of @DevOpsSummit at Cloud Expo Silicon Valley which will take place Oct. 31-Nov. 2, 2017, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA. "DevOps is at the intersection of technology and business-optimizing tools, organizations and processes to bring measurable improvements in productivity and profitability," said Aruna Ravichandran, vice president, DevOps product and solutions marketing... Jun. 23, 2017 09:15 AM EDT Reads: 945 | 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. 23, 2017 07:15 AM EDT Reads: 1,652 |
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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 cope with disruption.
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 businesses with an existing base of IT expertise.
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 become software companies to remain competitive.
The value IT brings to such companies is unquestiona...
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...
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