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The CMP 2.0: Bringing Automation, Orchestration and Governance to Cloud
Native Apps and DevOps
As many know, the first generation of Cloud Management Platform (CMP)
solutions were designed for managing virtual infrastructure (IaaS) and
traditional applications. But that's no longer enough to satisfy evolving and
complex business requirements.
In his session at 21st Cloud Expo, Scott Davis, Embotics CTO, will explore
how next-generation CMPs ensure organizations can manage cloud-native and
microservice-based application architectures, while also facilitating agile
DevOps methodology. He will explain how automation, orchestration and
governance are fundamental to managing today's hybrid cloud environments and
are critical for digital businesses to deliver services faster, with better
user experience and higher quality, all while saving money.
Speaker Bio
Embotics CT... (more)
As organizations abandon the waterfall method of software development for
Agile, many are stuck in what Hasan Yasar terms Water-Scrum-Fall. That is,
the organization has not effectively embraced Agile and DevOps principles and
remains in silos with no links to business goals. Enter DevOps, an extension
of Agile thinking. While Agile embraces constant change and embeds the
customer into the process, DevOps embraces constant testing and delivery and
embeds operations into the team to internalize expertise on deployment and
maintenance.
This is how Hasan started his talk, Multi Security Checkpoints on DevOps
Platform, at the All Day DevOps conference.
In his talk, Hasan lays out a plan to get organizations to DevSecOps. Really,
DevOps is a risk mitigation strategy, built on situational awareness,
automation, and repetition. But, security is where a lot of DevOps
imp... (more)
Five Ways Workflow Automation Is Changing the Workplace
These days, change is the only constant. In order to adapt and thrive in an
ever-advancing and sometimes chaotic workforce, companies must leverage
intelligent tools to streamline operations. While we're only at the dawn of
machine intelligence, using a workflow manager will benefit your company in
both the short and long term. Think: reduced errors, improved efficiency and
more empowered employees-and that's just the start. Here are five other
reasons workflow automation is leading a revolution in the 9-5 world.
Increased Productivity
Think of how much time you and your employees spend on routine tasks.
Workflow automation is the antithesis of manual work. It takes the brunt of
follow-ups and tracking, and allows more time for higher-value tasks. A study
by Siemens Enterprise Communications found that a busines... (more)
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Using Microservices for Application Integration
The proper isolation of resources is essential for multi-tenant environments.
The traditional approach to isolate resources is, however, rather
heavyweight.
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In his session at 18th Cloud Expo, Igor Drobiazko, co-founder of elastic.io,
will draw upon their own experience with operating a Docker container-based
infrastructure on a large scale and present a lightweight solution for
resource isolation using microservices. He will also discuss the
implementation of microservices in data and application integration in
general, share the challenges they ran into using open source technologies
like Apache Mesos and Marathon for Docker containers and what solutions they
found to deal with them.
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Optimizing Alignment - Dovetailing DevOps and the Cloud
As DevOps methodologies expand their reach across the enterprise,
organizations face the daunting challenge of adapting related cloud
strategies to ensure optimal alignment, from managing complexity to ensuring
proper governance.
How can culture, automation, legacy apps and even budget be reexamined to
enable this ongoing shift within the modern software factory?
In her Lunch Keynote at @DevOpsSummit at 21st Cloud Expo, Aruna Ravichandran,
VP, DevOps Solutions Marketing, CA Technologies, will be joined by a panel of
industry experts and real-world practitioners who will share their insight
into an emerging set of best practices that lie at the heart of today's
digital transformation. Specific topics to be addressed include:
Standing up self-service infrastructure to enable DevOps Leveraging DevOps to
drive com... (more)
Going Serverless the Amazon Lambda Way? Stay Calm and Monitor On!
While some vendors scramble to create and sell you a fancy solution for
monitoring your spanking new Amazon Lambdas, hear how you can do it on the
cheap using just built-in Java APIs yourself. By exploiting a little-known
fact that Lambdas aren't exactly single-threaded, you can effectively
identify hot spots in your serverless code.
In his session at @DevOpsSummit at 21st Cloud Expo, Dave Martin, Product
owner at CA Technologies, will give a live demonstration and code
walkthrough, showing how to overcome the challenges of monitoring S3 and RDS.
This presentation will provide an overview of necessary Amazon Lambda
concepts and discus how to integrate the monitoring data with other tools.
This presentation is for experienced Java coders, but does not require any
familiarity with Amazon Lambdas specifi... (more)
Open Source Tool Chains for Continuous Testing
The goal of Continuous Testing is to shift testing left to find defects
earlier and release software faster. This can be achieved by integrating a
set of open source functional and performance testing tools in the early
stages of your software delivery lifecycle.
There is one process that binds all application delivery stages together into
one well-orchestrated machine: Continuous Testing. Continuous Testing is the
conveyer belt between the Software Factory and production stages. Artifacts
are moved from one stage to the next only after they have been tested and
approved to continue. New code submitted to the repository is tested upon
commit. When tests fail, the code is rejected. Subsystems are approved as
part of periodic builds on their way to the delivery stage, where the system
is being tested as production ready.... (more)
Ten Tips on How to Maximize Your @CloudExpo and @ThingsExpo Sponsorship
Benefits
@CloudExpo and @ThingsExpo, two of the most important technology events in
the world, have hosted hundreds of sponsors and exhibitors since their launch
10 years ago.
In this blog post, I provide 10 tips on how our sponsors and exhibitors can
maximize their participation at our events. But before reading my top 10 tips
for our sponsors and exhibitors, please take a moment and watch this brief
Sandy Carter video.
"Cloud Expo was really the event to connect with thought leaders, innovators,
business folks who are interested in what the cloud can bring to their
business. You know really how it allows them to bring the transformation of
the business process."
Sandy Carter
1) Sponsor and exhibit in both New York and Silicon Valley
Cloud Expo and @ThingsExpo New York and Silicon Valley pr... (more)
Three Steps to DevOps for Core Enterprise Teams
Did you know that you can develop for mainframes in Java? Or that the testing
and deployment can be automated across mobile to mainframe?
In his session and demo at @DevOpsSummit at 21st Cloud Expo, Dana Boudreau, a
Senior Director at CA Technologies, will discuss how increasingly teams are
developing with agile methodologies, using modern development environments,
and automating testing and deployments, mobile to mainframe.
Speaker Bio
Dana Boudreau is a Senior Director at CA Technologies. As a leader in Agile
development, hedirects CA Technologies Mainframe Application Development
solution portfolio, including Endevor, InterTest, File Master Plus, SymDump
and Gen solutions. He has vast experience in leading mainframe as well as
distributed teams, joining CA after over 20 years at IBM. Dana works closely
with CA's main... (more)
SYS-CON Events announced today that DXWorldExpo has been named "Global
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.
The Key to IT Business
Digital Transformation is the key issue driving the global enterprise IT
business. Digital Transformation is most prominent among Global 2000
enterprises and government institutions.
Global 2000
Global 2000 companies have more than US$40 trillion in annual revenue - more
than 50% of the world's entire GDP. The Global 2000 spends a total of US$2.4
trillion annually on enterprise IT. The average Global 2000 company has US$11
billion in annual revenue. The average Global 2000 company spends more than
$600 million annually on enterprise IT.
Governments throughout the world spend another US$500 billion on IT - much of
it ... (more)
Top Docker Tools: 51 Useful Docker Tools for Every Stage of the Development
Pipeline
By Angela Stringfellow
Docker is sweeping across startups and enterprises alike, changing the way we
build and ship applications. It's the most prominent and widely known
software container platform, and it's particularly useful for eliminating
common challenges when collaborating on code (like the "it works on my
machine" phenomenon that most devs know all too well). With Docker, you can
run and manage apps side-by-side - in isolated containers - resulting in
better compute density. It's something that many developers don't think
about, but you can even use Docker with ASP.NET.
You probably don't need to be sold on the many appealing Docker capabilities,
but you might not be familiar with the wide range of third-party tools that
integrate seamlessly with Docker, from logging tools ... (more)
@DevOpsSummit Stories By Pat Romanski As many know, the first generation of Cloud Management Platform (CMP) solutions were designed for managing virtual infrastructure (IaaS) and traditional applications. But that’s no longer enough to satisfy evolving and complex business requirements.
In his session at 21st Cloud Expo, Scott Davis, Embotics CTO, will explore how next-generation CMPs ensure organizations can manage cloud-native and microservice-based application architectures, while also facilitating agile DevOps methodology. He will explain how automation, orchestration and governance are fundamental to managing today’s hybrid cloud environments and are critical for digital businesses to deliver services faster, with better user experience and higher quality, all while saving money. Aug. 4, 2017 06:15 PM EDT Reads: 292 | By Pat Romanski  SYS-CON Events announced today that App2Cloud 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.
App2Cloud is an online Platform, specializing in migrating legacy applications to any Cloud Providers (AWS, Azure, Google Cloud). Aug. 4, 2017 05:45 PM EDT Reads: 771 | By Elizabeth White While some vendors scramble to create and sell you a fancy solution for monitoring your spanking new Amazon Lambdas, hear how you can do it on the cheap using just built-in Java APIs yourself. By exploiting a little-known fact that Lambdas aren’t exactly single-threaded, you can effectively identify hot spots in your serverless code.
In his session at @DevOpsSummit at 21st Cloud Expo, Dave Martin, Product owner at CA Technologies, will give a live demonstration and code walkthrough, showing how to overcome the challenges of monitoring S3 and RDS. This presentation will provide an overview of necessary Amazon Lambda concepts and discus how to integrate the monitoring data with other tools. Aug. 4, 2017 05:15 PM EDT Reads: 180 | SYS-CON Events announced today that DXWorldExpo has been named “Global 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. Digital Transformation is the key issue driving the global enterprise IT business. Digital Transformation is most prominent among Global 2000 enterprises and government institutions. Aug. 4, 2017 04:15 PM EDT Reads: 1,864 | By Pat Romanski The goal of Continuous Testing is to shift testing left to find defects earlier and release software faster. This can be achieved by integrating a set of open source functional and performance testing tools in the early stages of your software delivery lifecycle.
There is one process that binds all application delivery stages together into one well-orchestrated machine: Continuous Testing. Continuous Testing is the conveyer belt between the Software Factory and production stages. Artifacts are moved from one stage to the next only after they have been tested and approved to continue. New code submitted to the repository is tested upon commit. When tests fail, the code is rejected. Subsystems are approved as part of periodic builds on their way to the delivery stage, where the system is being tested as production ready. The release process stops when tests fail. The key is to shift test ... Aug. 4, 2017 04:15 PM EDT Reads: 214 | By Yeshim Deniz  SYS-CON Events announced today that Datera, that offers a radically new data management architecture, has been named "Exhibitor" 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.
Datera is transforming the traditional datacenter model through modern cloud simplicity.
The technology industry is at another major inflection point. The rise of mobile, the Internet of Things, data storage and Big Data are challenging the existing design patterns of the Data Center. The increase in complexity of managing legacy systems alongside new systems is beyond the ability of most IT departments. This leads to multiple tiers of storage and high economic costs, during a time in which IT is expected to do more with less. Aug. 4, 2017 04:15 PM EDT Reads: 1,659 | By Yeshim Deniz  DX World EXPO, LLC., a Lighthouse Point, Florida-based startup trade show producer and the creator of "DXWorldEXPO® - Digital Transformation Conference & Expo" has announced its executive management team. The team is headed by Levent Selamoglu, who has been named CEO. "Now is the time for a truly global DX event, to bring together the leading minds from the technology world in a conversation about Digital Transformation," he said in making the announcement. Aug. 4, 2017 03:30 PM EDT Reads: 2,920 | By Liz McMillan As DevOps methodologies expand their reach across the enterprise, organizations face the daunting challenge of adapting related cloud strategies to ensure optimal alignment, from managing complexity to ensuring proper governance.
How can culture, automation, legacy apps and even budget be reexamined to enable this ongoing shift within the modern software factory? Aug. 4, 2017 03:15 PM EDT Reads: 286 | By Elizabeth White  When you focus on a journey from up-close, you look at your own technical and cultural history and how you changed it for the benefit of the customer. This was our starting point: too many integration issues, 13 SWP days and very long cycles. It was evident that in this fast-paced industry we could no longer afford this reality. We needed something that would take us beyond reducing the development lifecycles, CI and Agile methodologies. We made a fundamental difference, even changed our culture. Aug. 4, 2017 03:00 PM EDT Reads: 638 | By Elizabeth White  SYS-CON Events announced today that Calligo has been named “Bronze 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. Calligo is an innovative cloud service provider offering mid-sized companies the highest levels of data privacy. Calligo offers unparalleled application performance guarantees, commercial flexibility and a personalized support service from its globally located cloud platforms. Through its four pillars of focus, Calligo delivers a platform that businesses can trust to deliver the high level of service and protection they expect and is lacking in many cloud offerings. Aug. 4, 2017 01:30 PM EDT Reads: 1,185 | By Elizabeth White  SYS-CON Events announced today that Datera 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. Datera offers a radically new approach to data management, where innovative software makes data infrastructure invisible, elastic and able to perform at the highest level. It eliminates hardware lock-in and gives IT organizations the choice to source x86 server nodes, with business model options that best align to their goals. Aug. 4, 2017 12:00 PM EDT Reads: 934 | By Carmen Gonzalez  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. Aug. 4, 2017 11:30 AM EDT Reads: 858 | By Pat Romanski  "At the keynote this morning we spoke about the value proposition of Nutanix, of having a DevOps culture and a mindset, and the business outcomes of achieving agility and scale, which everybody here is trying to accomplish," noted Mark Lavi, DevOps Solution Architect at Nutanix, in this SYS-CON.tv interview at @DevOpsSummit at 20th Cloud Expo, held June 6-8, 2017, at the Javits Center in New York City, NY. Aug. 4, 2017 11:30 AM EDT Reads: 1,578 | By Elizabeth White  “Why didn’t testing catch this” must become “How did this make it to testing?” Traditional quality teams are the crutch and excuse keeping organizations from making the necessary investment in people, process, and technology to accelerate test automation. Just like societies that did not build waterways because the labor to keep carrying the water was so cheap, we have created disincentives to automate.
In her session at @DevOpsSummit at 20th Cloud Expo, Anne Hungate, President of Daring Systems, discussed how to break the cycle of manual testing as de-facto – empowering development and quality to lead with automation. Learn about the changes in reporting, behaviors, and communication necessary to make automation the first choice. Aug. 4, 2017 11:30 AM EDT Reads: 618 | By Yeshim Deniz  SYS-CON Events announced today that Cloud Academy named "Bronze Sponsor" of 21st International Cloud Expo which will take place October 31 - November 2, 2017 at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA. Cloud Academy is the industry’s most innovative, vendor-neutral cloud technology training platform. Cloud Academy provides continuous learning solutions for individuals and enterprise teams for Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform, and the most popular cloud computing technologies. Get certified, manage the full lifecycle of your cloud-based resources, and build your knowledge based using Cloud Academy’s expert-created content, comprehensive Learning Paths, and innovative Hands-on Labs. Aug. 4, 2017 11:00 AM EDT Reads: 2,764 | By Carmen Gonzalez The best way to leverage your Cloud Expo presence as a sponsor and exhibitor is to plan your news announcements around our events. The press covering Cloud Expo and @ThingsExpo will have access to these releases and will amplify your news announcements. More than two dozen Cloud companies either set deals at our shows or have announced their mergers and acquisitions at Cloud Expo. Product announcements during our show provide your company with the most reach through our targeted audiences. Aug. 4, 2017 11:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,355 | 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. Aug. 4, 2017 10:15 AM EDT Reads: 3,012 | 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 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. Aug. 4, 2017 09:15 AM EDT Reads: 3,914 | By Yeshim Deniz  "DX encompasses the continuing technology revolution, and is addressing society's most important issues throughout the entire $78 trillion 21st-century global economy," said Roger Strukhoff, Conference Chair. "DX World Expo has organized these issues along 10 tracks with more than 150 of the world's top speakers coming to Istanbul to help change the world." Aug. 4, 2017 09:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,463 | By Elizabeth White  SYS-CON Events announced today that Cloudistics, an on-premises cloud computing company, has been named “Bronze 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.
Launched in 2016, Cloudistics helps anyone bring the power of the cloud to the data center in an easy-to-use, on- premises cloud platform that automatically provides high performance resources for all types of applications: Docker, Splunk, Hadoop, Citrix® VDI, and many other high performance workloads. With no onsite controllers to install or maintain, it’s easy to scale across a large site or multiple locations – all from a single, centralized dashboard. Aug. 4, 2017 08:30 AM EDT Reads: 3,160 | By Liz McMillan  "With Digital Experience Monitoring what used to be a simple visit to a web page has exploded into app on phones, data from social media feeds, competitive benchmarking - these are all components that are only available because of some type of digital asset," explained Leo Vasiliou, Director of Web Performance Engineering at Catchpoint Systems, 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. Aug. 4, 2017 08:30 AM EDT Reads: 1,604 | By Pat Romanski  SYS-CON Events announced today that Akvelon 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.
Akvelon is a business and technology consulting firm that specializes in applying cutting-edge technology to problems in fields as diverse as mobile technology, sports technology, finance, and healthcare. Aug. 4, 2017 06:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,487 | By Liz McMillan  Kubernetes is an open source system for automating deployment, scaling, and management of containerized applications. Kubernetes was originally built by Google, leveraging years of experience with managing container workloads, and is now a Cloud Native Compute Foundation (CNCF) project. Kubernetes has been widely adopted by the community, supported on all major public and private cloud providers, and is gaining rapid adoption in enterprises. However, Kubernetes may seem intimidating and complex to learn. This is because Kubernetes is more of a toolset than a ready solution. Hence it’s essential to know when and how to apply the appropriate Kubernetes constructs. Aug. 4, 2017 06:00 AM EDT Reads: 2,053 | 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. Aug. 4, 2017 04:15 AM EDT Reads: 1,000 | By Elizabeth White  "We are an IT services solution provider and we sell software to support those solutions. Our focus and key areas are around security, enterprise monitoring, and continuous delivery optimization," noted John Balsavage, President of A&I; Solutions, in this SYS-CON.tv interview at 20th Cloud Expo, held June 6-8, 2017, at the Javits Center in New York City, NY. Aug. 4, 2017 04:15 AM EDT Reads: 1,584 |
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We've all read the dystopian fiction, watched those apocalyptic movies and heard a myriad of prophetic warnings heralding our obsolescence. Surely now we're just a couple of years from flipping the switch on a Skynet of our own making and condemning mankind to the annals of history.
Actually, we're not entirely sure what the future holds, but it's probably not fire and brimstone.
For detractors and naysayers of technology, could there be a more fitting image than Terminator 2's opening shot? A...
In preparation for General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) compliance, a global 100 financial services organization embarked on a journey to assess its core information processing environments with the objective of identifying opportunities to strengthen its data privacy protection programs. This article focuses on the technology challenges, approach, and lessons learned for the centralized testing environment.
With continuous delivery (CD) almost always in the spotlight, continuous integration (CI) is often left out in the cold. Indeed, it's been in use for so long and so widely, we often take the model for granted. So what is CI and how can you make the most of it? This blog is intended to answer those questions.
Before we step into examining CI, we need to look back. Software developers often work in small teams and modularity, and need to integrate their changes with the rest of the project code b...
When you work with React app, it normally needs some data from the server to store it for immediate use (e.g., show it on the page). If the app works with some complex relational database the work than may be a bit challenging. In this article I am going to describe the issues with organizing the data, which we faced during our work on one of DashBouquet projects, and I will also speak about our solutions.
From manual human effort the world is slowly paving its way to a new space where most process are getting replaced with tools and systems to improve efficiency and bring down operational costs. Automation is the next big thing and low code platforms are fueling it in a significant way.
The Automation era is here. We are in the fast pace of replacing manual human efforts with machines and processes. In the world of Information Technology too, we are linking disparate systems, softwares and tool...
The renowned military strategist John Boyd taught that people and institutions collect favorite philosophies, strategies, theories and ideologies over a period of time, and then try to align the future to fit them. The problem with this is the future is rarely like the past, and trying to fit new data into old paradigms often forces us to perform irrational mental gymnastics, which leaves us farther from the truth.
Since the emergence of the Agile Manifesto back in 2001, agile quickly established itself as the prevalent software development methodology. The industry rapidly adopted shorter sprints of work, regular reassessment and so on. So, surely, in 2017 there's no question as to whether we're working in an agile manner? I think you'd be surprised.
DevOps sees the coming together of practices, philosophies, and tools that allow you to create services and applications very quickly. This means that you can improve on your apps and evolve them at a much faster rate than those developers who are using traditional software development processes. We’ve talked about DevOps, in general, a great deal, but today, we’re going to dig a little deeper and take a look at Java DevOps specifically.
Many organizations are now looking to DevOps maturity models to gauge their DevOps adoption and compare their maturity to their peers. However, as enterprise organizations rush to adopt DevOps, moving past experimentation to embrace it at scale, they are in danger of falling into the trap that they have fallen into time and time again.
Unfortunately, we've seen this movie before, and we know how it ends: badly.
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