Risk Tree API: Expose Your Vulnerabilities Vulnerability management is vital for large companies that need to secure containers across thousands of hosts, but many struggle to understand how exposed they are when they discover a new high security vulnerability. In his session at 21st Cloud Expo, John Morello, CTO of Twistlock, will address this pressing concern by introducing the concept of the "Vulnerability Risk Tree API," which brings all the data together in a simple REST endpoint, allowing companies to easily grasp the severity of the vulnerability. He will provide attendees with actionable advice related to understanding and acting on exposure due to new high severity vulnerabilities. Speaker Bio John Morello is the CTO of Twistlock, leading the work with strategic customers and partners and driving the product roadmap. Prior to Twistlock, John was the CISO o... (more)

How to Fully Automate CI/CD | @DevOpsSummit #CI #CD #DevOps #Automation

Imagine a world where your Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment environment is 100% automated, including the passing of credentials. Capital One, a leading U.S. bank, has achieved this, and Andrey Utis, Director, Software Engineering, at Capital One, outlined how they achieved this in this talk, Application Secret Management with KMS, at the All Day DevOps conference. Andrey started by stating what we all know - security needs to be at the forefront. Additionally, a message we heard over and over at the All Day DevOps conference is to automate where you can automate. That combination can be daunting and seemingly impossible. How can we automate security when someone needs to enter credentials and we can't store credentials where everyone can get to them? After all, credentials give you access to databases that often contain personally identifiable informati... (more)

Simple Secrets of Successful Knowledge Management | @CloudExpo #AI #ML #Cloud

Simple Secrets of Successful Knowledge Management By LeAnn Smiles, Product Analyst, ManageEngine Knowledge that doesn't serve is knowledge wasted. And for knowledge gained from experience and research to be useful, IT enterprises need to organize, manage and offer it in the best way possible. Fortunately, the best way isn't a Herculean task when you employ simple tricks to build a profound knowledge base (KB). A sound knowledge base eliminates the need to rediscover or reformulate knowledge and improves the support process. With that in mind, consider these best practices to help build a successful knowledge base. 1. Collect information to build your KB. The most important part of knowledge management is building knowledge itself. The first step is to identify prospective areas from which knowledge can be derived and extract information. Resolutions on common issues can... (more)

[slides] Divergent Patterns for DevOps | @DevOpsSummit @RedHatNews #DevOps #CloudNative

Download Slide Deck: ▸ Here Download Slide Deck: ▸ Here Generalists and Specialists: Divergent Patterns for DevOps In IT, we sometimes coin terms for things before we know exactly what they are and how they'll be used. The resulting terms may capture a common set of aspirations and goals - as "cloud" did broadly for on-demand, self-service, and flexible computing. But such a term can also lump together diverse and even competing practices, technologies, and priorities to the point where important distinctions are glossed over and lost. This is the case with DevOps. On the one hand, many DevOps discussions focus on culture, breaking down silos, making everyone responsible for security, and giving developers operational responsibility for their applications. This is primarily a developer-centric view of DevOps. On the other hand, DevOps (or cloud-native operations ... (more)

IBM Named "Diamond Sponsor" of @CloudExpo | #CloudNative #DevOps #DX

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. Hybrid Cloud Transformation: New Platforms, Technologies and Solutions View Keynote ▸ Here Download Slide Deck ▸ Here In an era of historic innovation fueled by unprecedented access to data and technology, the low cost and risk of entering new markets has leveled the playing field for business. Today, any ambitious innovator can easily introduce a new application or product that can reinvent business models and transform the client experience. View Keynote ▸ Here Download Slide Deck ▸ Here In their Day 2 Keynote at 19th Cloud Expo, Mercer Rowe, IBM Vice President of Strategic Alliances, and Raejeanne Skillern, Intel Vice President of D... (more)

Datera to Exhibit at @CloudExpo | @DateraInc #Cloud #Serverless #DataCenter

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. Datera delivers enterprise-class performance combined with the simplicity and agility of hyperscale clouds - all on-premises in a private cloud infrastructure. This is the dawn of the data era. For more information, please visit http://datera.io/. 21st International Cloud Expo, taking place October 31 - November 2, 2017, at the Santa Clara C... (more)

Announcing @SkyScaleLLC to Exhibit at @CloudExpo | #API #AI #DX #Security

SYS-CON Events announced today that SkyScale 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. SkyScale is a world-class provider of cloud-based, ultra-fast multi-GPU hardware platforms for lease to customers desiring the fastest performance available as a service anywhere in the world. SkyScale builds, configures, and manages dedicated systems strategically located in maximum-security facilities, allowing customers to focus on results while minimizing capital equipment investment. For more information, please visit http://www.skyscale.com/. 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 i... (more)

How We Compute Today: What Modern Infrastructure Looks Like | @DevOpsSummit #DevOps #APM #Monitoring

How We Compute Today: What Modern Infrastructure Looks Like By Michael Churchman Today's infrastructure is not your grandparents' IT infrastructure, nor is it the infrastructure from a generation ago. The days of punch cards, vacuum tubes, ferrite core memory, floppies, and dial-up Internet are over. Today's infrastructure is also not the IT infrastructure that it five years ago, or even a year ago for that matter. Modern infrastructure is changing constantly, and all that we can do is provide a snapshot of infrastructure at the moment, along with a general picture of where it's going. If you are going to monitor infrastructure effectively, you need to understand what infrastructure looks like today, how it is changing, and what it will include tomorrow. Hardware: Less of Moore's Let's start by making a basic distinction: Hardware infrastructure is relatively stable ... (more)

Serverless, FaaS, AWS Lambda | @CloudExpo #AWS #CloudNative #Serverless

If you are part of the cloud development community, you certainly know about “serverless computing,” almost a misnomer. Because it implies there are no servers which is untrue. However the servers are hidden from the developers. This model eliminates operational complexity and increases developer productivity. We came from monolithic computing to client-server to services to microservices to the serverless model. In other words, our systems have slowly “dissolved” from monolithic to function-by-function. Software is developed and deployed as individual functions – a first-class object and cloud runs it for you. These functions are triggered by events that follow certain rules. Functions are written in a fixed set of languages, with a fixed set of programming models and cloud-specific syntax and semantics. Cloud-specific services can be invoked to perform complex ta... (more)

51 Useful #Docker Tools | @DevOpsSummit #CloudNative #DevOps #Serverless #Kubernetes

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)

DXWorldExpo Named “Global Sponsor” of @CloudExpo | #AI #DX #IoT #IIoT #FinTech #SmartCities

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)