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The VDI Landscape: What Came Before and What's Possible Now
Digital transformation can be exciting, but it also can be painful.
Organizations are trying to better support a growing mobile workforce that
needs the flexibility to work from anywhere on any device. The ability to do
so offers a distinct competitive advantage, as productivity soars.
Virtualizing applications and desktops has been an important step toward
achieving these productivity gains, but the first generation of virtual
desktop infrastructure (VDI) and application publishing solutions not only
failed to deliver on cost savings and streamlined IT promises, but they
contributed an overwhelming level of complexity that ballooned the operating
expenses of these implementations - an unpleasant surprise.
Now, many organizations that implemented these first-generation solutions
need to determine a migratio... (more)
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)
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)
Did You Want a Side of SLBS (Serverless BS) with Your Software or Hardware
FUD?
A few years ago a popular industry buzzword term theme included server less
and hardware less.
It turns out, serverless BS (SLBS) and hardware less are still trendy, and
while some might view the cloud or software-defined data center (SDDC)
virtualization, or IoT folks as the culprits, it is more widespread with
plenty of bandwagon riders. SLBS can span from IoT to mobile, VDI and
workspace clients (zero or similar), workstations, server, storage, networks.
To me what’s ironic is that many purveyors of of SLBS also like to talk
about hardware.
What's the issue with SLBS?
Simple, on the one hand, there is no such thing as software that does not
need hardware somewhere in the stack. Second, many purveyors of SLBS are
solutions that in the past would have been called shrink-wrap. Thirdly ... (more)
"We formed Formation several years ago to really address the need for bring
complete modernization and software-defined storage to the more classic
private cloud marketplace," stated Mark Lewis, Chairman and CEO of Formation
Data Systems, in this SYS-CON.tv interview at 18th Cloud Expo, held June 7-9,
2016, at the Javits Center in New York City, NY.
20th International Cloud Expo, taking place June 6-8, 2017, at the Javits
Center in New York City, NY, 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. Meanwhile, 94% of enterprises are using some form of
Xa... (more)
Composable Infrastructure and Multi-Cloud
Imagine having the ability to leverage all of your current technology and to
be able to compose it into one resource pool. Now imagine, as your business
grows, not having to deploy a complete new appliance to scale your
infrastructure. Also imagine a true multi-cloud capability that allows live
migration without any modification between cloud environments regardless of
whether that cloud is your private cloud or your public AWS, Azure or Google
instance. Now think of a world that is not locked into that rigid appliance
vendor or specific public cloud provider, where all silos are now unified
into one. No longer do you have to imagine as that is Composable
Infrastructure.
In his session at 20th Cloud Expo, Bruno Andrade, CEO and Founder of HTBase,
will discuss Composable Infrastructure, the next evolution of
hyper-convergen... (more)
What Type of File System Are You Really Getting?
The cloud's massive success and the growing desire for Big Data analytics are
just two of the factors that are making traditional storage architectures
obsolete. Organizations cannot afford to scale bygone storage appliances.
Even if they could, the time it would take is unacceptable in the digital
world. Adding multiple servers could not accommodate storage demands, either.
Vertical storage architecture contains bottlenecks that slow performance to a
crawl.
Along with cloud and analytics, another technological advancement has emerged
in the data center: software-defined storage (SDS). Because SDS decouples the
programming that controls storage-related tasks from the physical storage
hardware, it dramatically reduces costs associated with hardware. Fewer,
less-expensive servers can be used to improve both capacity an... (more)
SYS-CON Events announced today that Cloudistics, an on-premises cloud
computing company, 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.
Cloudistics delivers a complete public cloud experience with composable
on-premises infrastructures to medium and large enterprises. Its
software-defined technology natively converges network, storage, compute,
virtualization, and management into a single platform to drive unprecedented
simplicity in the data center. Customers can start with a base infrastructure
and scale to multi-site and multi-geo infrastructures with predictable
economics and performance.
With open and secure virtual networking, elastic storage, application
orchestration and SaaS management, Cloudistics is the blueprint for
application-optimized ... (more)
Simplifying the Monitoring of Multi-Hypervisor Infrastructures
Over the years, many enterprises have achieved tremendous cost reductions and
management simplicity through virtualizing their IT infrastructure. According
to Gartner, while some firms have virtualized over 90% of their servers, on
an average, most firms have over 75% of their servers in a virtualized
infrastructure, indicating the growth and maturity of the x86 server
virtualization market.
VMware dominated the virtualization market for several years but
organizations are now also adopting other hypervisors such as Microsoft
Hyper-V, Citrix XenServer, Oracle VM Server, Red Had Virtualization, etc.
Additionally, the Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM) is an alternative for
handling virtualization in Linux environments. And, the advent of
hyper-converged infrastructures has introduced new hypervisors such... (more)
"We are a leader in the market space called network visibility solutions - it
enables monitoring tools and Big Data analysis to access the data and be able
to see the performance," explained Shay Morag, VP of Sales and Marketing at
Niagara Networks, in this SYS-CON.tv interview at 19th Cloud Expo, held
November 1-3, 2016, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA.
Niagara Networks exhibited at the 19th International Cloud Expo, which took
place at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA, in November
2016.
Niagara Networks offers the highest port-density systems, and the most
complete Next-Generation Network Visibility systems including Network Packet
Brokers, Bypass Switches, and Network TAPs.
For more information, visit http://niagaranetworks.com.
The World's Largest "Cloud Digital Transformation" Event
@CloudExpo / @ThingsExpo 2017 New... (more)
Everything You Need to Know About ITSM Analytics
By Sridhar Iyengar, Vice President, Product Management, ManageEngine
ManageEngine conducted a survey to understand what IT pros need from an
advanced analytics tool. The survey looked at the critical areas of analytics
and reporting for service desk management around incident management, asset
management and change management.
Here's what they had to say:
Who needs reporting the most?
76.6 percent indicated CIOs and service desk managers.
Service desk managers and CIOs are key decision makers who need insight from
their data to formulate better strategies. For instance, by tracking
including technician performance, service desk responsiveness, IT user
preferences, customer satisfaction, SLA violation rate, and other critical
metrics, they can better analyze costs, trends, manage resources, and improve
overall service q... (more)
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@ThingsExpo Stories By Pat Romanski  SYS-CON Events announced today that Datanami has been named “Media Sponsor” of SYS-CON's 21st International Cloud Expo, which will take place on Oct 31 – Nov 2, 2017, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA. Datanami is a communication channel dedicated to providing insight, analysis and up-to-the-minute information about emerging trends and solutions in Big Data. The publication sheds light on all cutting-edge technologies including networking, storage and applications, and thei... Jul. 4, 2017 04:15 AM EDT Reads: 918 | By Elizabeth White  The Internet giants are fully embracing AI. All the services they offer to their customers are aimed at drawing a map of the world with the data they get. The AIs from these companies are used to build disruptive approaches that cannot be used by established enterprises, which are threatened by these disruptions. However, most leaders underestimate the effect this will have on their businesses. In his session at 21st Cloud Expo, Rene Buest, Director Market Research & Technology Evangelism at Ara... Jul. 4, 2017 02:45 AM EDT Reads: 1,567 | By Elizabeth White  With the introduction of IoT and Smart Living in every aspect of our lives, one question has become relevant: What are the security implications? To answer this, first we have to look and explore the security models of the technologies that IoT is founded upon. In his session at @ThingsExpo, Nevi Kaja, a Research Engineer at Ford Motor Company, discussed some of the security challenges of the IoT infrastructure and related how these aspects impact Smart Living. The material was delivered interac... Jul. 4, 2017 02:30 AM EDT Reads: 1,830 | By Elizabeth White  In his session at @ThingsExpo, Eric Lachapelle, CEO of the Professional Evaluation and Certification Board (PECB), provided an overview of various initiatives to certify the security of connected devices and future trends in ensuring public trust of IoT. Eric Lachapelle is the Chief Executive Officer of the Professional Evaluation and Certification Board (PECB), an international certification body. His role is to help companies and individuals to achieve professional, accredited and worldwide re... Jul. 4, 2017 01:15 AM EDT Reads: 2,321 | By Liz McMillan  IoT solutions exploit operational data generated by Internet-connected smart “things” for the purpose of gaining operational insight and producing “better outcomes” (for example, create new business models, eliminate unscheduled maintenance, etc.). The explosive proliferation of IoT solutions will result in an exponential growth in the volume of IoT data, precipitating significant Information Governance issues: who owns the IoT data, what are the rights/duties of IoT solutions adopters towards t... Jul. 4, 2017 01:15 AM EDT Reads: 2,247 | 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. Jul. 3, 2017 09:15 PM EDT Reads: 2,653 | By Pat Romanski  SYS-CON Events announced today that TechTarget has been named “Media Sponsor” of SYS-CON's 21st International Cloud Expo, which will take place on Oct 31 – Nov 2, 2017, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA. TechTarget storage websites are the best online information resource for news, tips and expert advice for the storage, backup and disaster recovery markets. Jul. 3, 2017 08:15 PM EDT Reads: 932 | By Elizabeth White  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 Assista... Jul. 3, 2017 07:30 PM EDT Reads: 2,438 | By Elizabeth White  The current age of digital transformation means that IT organizations must adapt their toolset to cover all digital experiences, beyond just the end users’. Today’s businesses can no longer focus solely on the digital interactions they manage with employees or customers; they must now contend with non-traditional factors. Whether it's the power of brand to make or break a company, the need to monitor across all locations 24/7, or the ability to proactively resolve issues, companies must adapt to... Jul. 3, 2017 07:15 PM EDT Reads: 2,239 | By Pat Romanski  "MobiDev is a Ukraine-based software development company. We do mobile development, and we're specialists in that. But we do full stack software development for entrepreneurs, for emerging companies, and for enterprise ventures," explained Alan Winters, U.S. Head of Business Development at MobiDev, in this SYS-CON.tv interview at 20th Cloud Expo, held June 6-8, 2017, at the Javits Center in New York City, NY. Jul. 3, 2017 05:00 PM EDT Reads: 973 | 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... Jul. 3, 2017 04:15 PM EDT Reads: 2,049 | By Pat Romanski  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. Jul. 3, 2017 04:00 PM EDT Reads: 1,701 | By Liz McMillan  In this presentation, Striim CTO and founder Steve Wilkes will discuss practical strategies for counteracting fraud and cyberattacks by leveraging real-time streaming analytics. In his session at @ThingsExpo, Steve Wilkes, Founder and Chief Technology Officer at Striim, will provide a detailed look into leveraging streaming data management to correlate events in real time, and identify potential breaches across IoT and non-IoT systems throughout the enterprise. Strategies for processing massive ... Jul. 3, 2017 03:30 PM EDT Reads: 1,843 | By Liz McMillan  SYS-CON Events announced today that Conference Guru has been named “Media Sponsor” of SYS-CON's 21st International Cloud Expo, which will take place on Oct 31 – Nov 2, 2017, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA.
A valuable conference experience generates new contacts, sales leads, potential strategic partners and potential investors; helps gather competitive intelligence and even provides inspiration for new products and services. Conference Guru works with conference organi... Jul. 3, 2017 03:00 PM EDT Reads: 919 | By Liz McMillan  SYS-CON Events announced today that SourceForge has been named “Media Sponsor” of SYS-CON's 21st International Cloud Expo, which will take place on Oct 31 – Nov 2, 2017, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA. SourceForge is the largest, most trusted destination for Open Source Software development, collaboration, discovery and download on the web serving over 32 million viewers, 150 million downloads and over 460,000 active development projects each and every month. Jul. 3, 2017 02:45 PM EDT Reads: 983 | By Pat Romanski  Multiple data types are pouring into IoT deployments. Data is coming in small packages as well as enormous files and data streams of many sizes. Widespread use of mobile devices adds to the total. In this power panel at @ThingsExpo, moderated by Conference Chair Roger Strukhoff, panelists looked at the tools and environments that are being put to use in IoT deployments, as well as the team skills a modern enterprise IT shop needs to keep things running, get a handle on all this data, and deliver... Jul. 3, 2017 02:45 PM EDT Reads: 1,733 | By Liz McMillan  The current age of digital transformation means that IT organizations must adapt their toolset to cover all digital experiences, beyond just the end users’. Today’s businesses can no longer focus solely on the digital interactions they manage with employees or customers; they must now contend with non-traditional factors. Whether it's the power of brand to make or break a company, the need to monitor across all locations 24/7, or the ability to proactively resolve issues, companies must adapt to... Jul. 3, 2017 02:30 PM EDT Reads: 1,264 | 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... Jul. 3, 2017 01:30 PM EDT Reads: 1,275 | By Liz McMillan  SYS-CON Events announced today that Telecom Reseller has been named “Media Sponsor” of SYS-CON's 21st International Cloud Expo, which will take place on Oct 31 – Nov 2, 2017, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA. Telecom Reseller reports on Unified Communications, UCaaS, BPaaS for enterprise and SMBs. They report extensively on both customer premises based solutions such as IP-PBX as well as cloud based and hosted platforms. Jul. 3, 2017 12:00 PM EDT Reads: 734 | By Pat Romanski  Internet of @ThingsExpo, taking place October 31 - November 2, 2017, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA, is co-located with 21st Cloud Expo and will feature technical sessions from a rock star conference faculty and the leading industry players in the world.
The Internet of Things (IoT) is the most profound change in personal and enterprise IT since the creation of the Worldwide Web more than 20 years ago.
All major researchers estimate there will be tens of billions devic... Jul. 3, 2017 12:00 PM EDT Reads: 2,298 |
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As more technologies become software-defined, their adoption demands a significant shift in thinking about how a business organizes its value stream. This shift may be difficult, but it enables you to anticipate changes and position your business to react when software-defined technologies emerge. Recently a new set of tools and practices has emerged to create and manage environments. Known as Infrastructure as Code (IaC), it enables infrastructure management through a software-defined layer.
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 id...
DevOps at Cloud Expo, taking place October 31 - November 2, 2017, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA, is co-located with 21st 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 w...
After more than five years of DevOps, definitions are evolving, boundaries are expanding, ‘unicorns’ are no longer rare, enterprises are on board, and pundits are moving on. Can we now look at an evolution of DevOps? Should we? Is the foundation of DevOps ‘done’, or is there still too much left to do? What is mature, and what is still missing? What does the next 5 years of DevOps look like? In this Power Panel at DevOps Summit, moderated by DevOps Summit Conference Chair Andi Mann, panelists loo...
In the world of DevOps there are ‘known good practices’ – aka ‘patterns’ – and ‘known bad practices’ – aka ‘anti-patterns.' Many of these patterns and anti-patterns have been developed from real world experience, especially by the early adopters of DevOps theory; but many are more feasible in theory than in practice, especially for more recent entrants to the DevOps scene. In this power panel at @DevOpsSummit at 18th Cloud Expo, moderated by DevOps Conference Chair Andi Mann, panelists discussed...
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...
"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.
"Suddenly a lot of companies started focusing on producing services in the cloud. I like to call it Cloud Native - everything is built for the cloud. The main concept there is to enable developers to work fast," explained Ben Bernstein, CEO & Co-Founder of Twistlock, in this SYS-CON.tv interview at 20th Cloud Expo, held June 6-8, 2017, at the Javits Center in New York City, NY.
"Tintri focuses on the Ops side of the DevOps, which basically is pushing more and more of the accessibility of the infrastructure to the developers and trying to get behind the scenes," explained Dhiraj Sehgal of Tintri in this SYS-CON.tv interview at 20th Cloud Expo, held June 6-8, 2017, at the Javits Center in New York City, NY.
"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.
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. 
The cloud ushered in a fundamental change in the way applications are deployed. Instead of worrying about how much dedicated hardware to order for your data center, you simply spin up as many servers as you need to do the job, then decommission them once the job is done. Yet, you still have to plan how many servers you will need at each stage of processing; you still have to remember to decommission them when done; and you pay for the entire virtual machine during the time you use it even though...
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 ...
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.
DevOps at Cloud Expo, taking place October 31 - November 2, 2017, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA, is co-located with 21st 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 w...
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...
SYS-CON Events announced today that CHEETAH Training & Innovation will exhibit at SYS-CON's 21st International Cloud Expo®, which will take place on Oct. 31 – Nov 2, 2017, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA. CHEETAH Training & Innovation is a cloud consulting and IT training firm specializing in improving clients cloud strategies and infrastructures for medium to large companies.
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