|
Top Stories
SYS-CON Events announced today that MobiDev, a client-oriented software
development company, will exhibit at 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.
MobiDev is a software company that develops and delivers turn-key mobile
apps, websites, web services, and complex software systems for startups and
enterprises. Since 2009 it has grown from a small group of passionate
engineers and business managers to a full-scale mobile software company with
over 200 developers, designers, quality assurance engineers, project managers
in house, specializing in the world-class mobile and web development.
The company's main focus is saving the time and efforts of clients by
providing full-cycle product development, offering dedicated project teams
for long-term collaborations, ... (more)
My discussions with organizations looking to “digitally transform”
themselves is yielding some interesting observations. I expect that when
these discussions move into the execution phase, we will start to create some
“Laws of Digital Transformation” that will guide organizations digital
transformation journey. So with that in mind, let me start by proposing these
“4 Laws of Digital Transformation”.
Law #1: It’s About Business Models, Not Just The Business
Digital Transformation is about innovating business models, not just
optimizing business processes
Organizations are looking to leverage these digital assets to create new
“economic moats.” Warren Buffett, the investor extraordinaire,
popularized the term “economic moat.” “Economic moat” refers to a
business’s ability to maintain competitive advantages over its competitors
(through process and technology innovatio... (more)
SYS-CON Events announced today that Dasher Technologies 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.
Dasher Technologies, Inc. ® is a premier IT solution provider that delivers
expert technical resources along with trusted account executives to architect
and deliver complete IT solutions and services to help our clients execute
their goals, plans and objectives.
Since 1999, we've helped public, private and nonprofit organizations
implement technology solutions that speed and simplify their operations. As
one of the fastest growing IT solution providers in the country, we have
gained a reputation for effortless implementations with relentless
follow-through and enduring support.
Our strong technical expertise and vendor independence allow us to integrat... (more)
SYS-CON Events announced today that Massive Networks 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.
Massive Networks mission is simple. To help your business operate seamlessly
with fast, reliable, and secure internet and network solutions. Improve your
customer's experience with outstanding connections to your cloud.
For more information, please visit http://www.massivenetworks.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 industry players
in the world.
Download Show Prospectus ▸ Here
Cloud computing is now being embraced by a majority of enterprises of all
sizes. Yesterday's deb... (more)
Technical Strategy for Industrial IoT, with Real-World Use Cases
No hype cycles or predictions of a gazillion things here. IoT is here. You
get it. You know your business and have great ideas for a business
transformation strategy. What comes next? Time to make it happen.
In his session at @ThingsExpo, Jay Mason, an Associate Partner of Analytics,
IoT & Cybersecurity at M&S; Consulting, will present a step-by-step plan to
develop your technology implementation strategy. He will discuss the
evaluation of communication standards and IoT messaging protocols, data
analytics considerations, edge-to-cloud technical architecture, IoT platform
selection, end-to-end security, enterprise systems integration and
monetization techniques. Seize market opportunities by following this
methodology to design and implement a systems architecture that meets complex
demands for security... (more)
Any significant business process that can be documented and best practices
identified - will be. Any defined process that can be standardized - will
be. Standardized processes that can be codified and automated (through
robotic software automation), will be - if the volume justifies it. If the
process is repeatable across many companies it will be offered as a shared
service on a platform in a cloud.
If you agree with these technology maxims, then you are likely to agree that
most existing business processes offer little competitive advantages in the
long run, and the advantages of new innovations are fleeting so must be
captured early. They will eventually become part of a shared services
platform followed and used by your competitors. For example, 20 and 40 foot
shipping containers offered a competitive advantage for shipping companies
and ports that were ea... (more)
Download Slide Deck: ▸ Here
Download Slide Deck: ▸ Here
How Data Analytics and Cognitive Computing Are Changing the Game for
Financial Services
Historically, some banking activities such as trading have been relying
heavily on analytics and cutting edge algorithmic tools. The coming of age of
powerful data analytics solutions combined with the development of
intelligent algorithms have created new opportunities for financial
institutions.
Download Slide Deck: ▸ Here
In his session at 20th Cloud Expo, Sebastien Meunier, Head of Digital for
North America at Chappuis Halder & Co., discussed how these tools can be
leveraged to develop a lasting competitive advantage in priority areas:
customer analytics, financial crime prevention, regulatory compliance and
risk management.
Download Slide Deck: ▸ Here
Speaker Bio
Sebastien Meunier is an expert in Innovation in Fi... (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)
Snowflakes are beautiful, unique creations. But, let's keep them in nature.
They don't belong in our server infrastructure. Snowflake servers, where
every configuration is just a little different, can introduce unnecessary
security vulnerabilities and complications. While common in IT
infrastructure, in the DevOps realm they are gradually becoming ancient
history.
At All Day DevOps 2016, Erlend Oftedal (@webtonull), with Blank and head of
the OWASP Norway chapter, discussed the benefits of immutable infrastructure
practices within serverless architectures. Erlend walked us through the
positive effects on security as well as offered insight on potential
problems.
Erlend outlined the progress from physical servers to immutable servers,
discussing the benefits of each step and the concerns that lead to the next
phase, ending with immutable servers - that is, they can... (more)
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)
SYS-CON Events announced today that WineSOFT 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.
Based in Seoul and Irvine, WineSOFT is an innovative software house focusing
on internet infrastructure solutions. The venture started as a bootstrap
start-up in 2010 by focusing on making the internet faster and more powerful.
WineSOFT's knowledge is based on the expertise of TCP/IP, VPN, SSL,
peer-to-peer, mobile browser, and live streaming solutions.
For more information, please visit http://www.winesoft.us/.
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.
Downloa... (more)
@CloudExpo Stories By Elizabeth White  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). Sep. 3, 2017 03:45 AM EDT Reads: 1,001 | By Liz McMillan  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. Sep. 3, 2017 03:45 AM EDT Reads: 872 | By Elizabeth White  Organizations do not need a Big Data strategy; they need a business strategy that incorporates Big Data. Most organizations lack a road map for using Big Data to optimize key business processes, deliver a differentiated customer experience, or uncover new business opportunities. They do not understand what’s possible with respect to integrating Big Data into the business model. Sep. 3, 2017 12:15 AM EDT Reads: 1,409 | By Liz McMillan Historically, some banking activities such as trading have been relying heavily on analytics and cutting edge algorithmic tools. The coming of age of powerful data analytics solutions combined with the development of intelligent algorithms have created new opportunities for financial institutions. In his session at 20th Cloud Expo, Sebastien Meunier, Head of Digital for North America at Chappuis Halder & Co., discussed how these tools can be leveraged to develop a lasting competitive advantage ... Sep. 3, 2017 12:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,682 | By Pat Romanski SYS-CON Events announced today that Dasher Technologies 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. Dasher Technologies, Inc. ® is a premier IT solution provider that delivers expert technical resources along with trusted account executives to architect and deliver complete IT solutions and services to help our clients execute their goals, plans and objectives.
Since 1999, we've... Sep. 2, 2017 09:15 PM EDT Reads: 903 | By Elizabeth White  Modern software design has fundamentally changed how we manage applications, causing many to turn to containers as the new virtual machine for resource management. As container adoption grows beyond stateless applications to stateful workloads, the need for persistent storage is foundational - something customers routinely cite as a top pain point. In his session at @DevOpsSummit at 21st Cloud Expo, Bill Borsari, Head of Systems Engineering at Datera, will explore how organizations can reap the ... Sep. 2, 2017 09:00 PM EDT Reads: 841 | By Liz McMillan SYS-CON Events announced today that MobiDev, a client-oriented software development company, will exhibit at 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. MobiDev is a software company that develops and delivers turn-key mobile apps, websites, web services, and complex software systems for startups and enterprises. Since 2009 it has grown from a small group of passionate engineers and business... Sep. 2, 2017 09:00 PM EDT Reads: 1,167 | By Pat Romanski  From 2013, NTT Communications has been providing cPaaS service, SkyWay. Its customer’s expectations for leveraging WebRTC technology are not only typical real-time communication use cases such as Web conference, remote education, but also IoT use cases such as remote camera monitoring, smart-glass, and robotic. Because of this, NTT Communications has numerous IoT business use-cases that its customers are developing on top of PaaS. WebRTC will lead IoT businesses to be more innovative and address... Sep. 2, 2017 09:00 PM EDT Reads: 2,177 | By Liz McMillan  The question before companies today is not whether to become intelligent, it’s a question of how and how fast. The key is to adopt and deploy an intelligent application strategy while simultaneously preparing to scale that intelligence. In her session at 21st Cloud Expo, Sangeeta Chakraborty, Chief Customer Officer at Ayasdi, will provide a tactical framework to become a truly intelligent enterprise, including how to identify the right applications for AI, how to build a Center of Excellence to ... Sep. 2, 2017 08:45 PM EDT Reads: 1,736 | By Yeshim Deniz  WebRTC is the future of browser-to-browser communications, and continues to make inroads into the traditional, difficult, plug-in web communications world. The 6th WebRTC Summit continues our tradition of delivering the latest and greatest presentations within the world of WebRTC. Topics include voice calling, video chat, P2P file sharing, and use cases that have already leveraged the power and convenience of WebRTC. Sep. 2, 2017 08:15 PM EDT Reads: 1,422 | By Elizabeth White  Translating agile methodology into real-world best practices within the modern software factory has driven widespread DevOps adoption, yet much work remains to expand workflows and tooling across the enterprise. As models evolve from pockets of experimentation into wholescale organizational reinvention, practitioners find themselves challenged to incorporate the culture and architecture necessary to support DevOps at scale. Sep. 2, 2017 07:15 PM EDT Reads: 1,576 | By Liz McMillan  Your clients expect transactions to never fail, cloud access to be fast and always on, and their data to be protected - no exceptions. Hear about how Secure Service Container (SSC), an IBM-exclusive open technology, enables secure building and hosting of next-generation applications, both cloud and on-premises. SSC protects the full stack from external and insider threats, allows automatic encryption of data in-flight and at-rest, and is tamper-resistant during installation and runtime – with no... Sep. 2, 2017 06:30 PM EDT Reads: 652 | By Liz McMillan  yperConvergence came to market with the objective of being simple, flexible and to help drive down operating expenses. It reduced the footprint by bundling the compute/storage/network into one box. This brought a new set of challenges as the HyperConverged vendors are very focused on their own proprietary building blocks. If you want to scale in a certain way, let’s say you identified a need for more storage and want to add a device that is not sold by the HyperConverged vendor, forget about it.... Sep. 2, 2017 05:45 PM EDT Reads: 1,468 | By Elizabeth White SYS-CON Events announced today that Massive Networks 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. Massive Networks mission is simple. To help your business operate seamlessly with fast, reliable, and secure internet and network solutions. Improve your customer's experience with outstanding connections to your cloud. Sep. 2, 2017 04:45 PM EDT Reads: 823 | By Elizabeth White No hype cycles or predictions of a gazillion things here. IoT is here. You get it. You know your business and have great ideas for a business transformation strategy. What comes next? Time to make it happen. In his session at @ThingsExpo, Jay Mason, an Associate Partner of Analytics, IoT & Cybersecurity at M&S; Consulting, will present a step-by-step plan to develop your technology implementation strategy. He will discuss the evaluation of communication standards and IoT messaging protocols, dat... Sep. 2, 2017 04:00 PM EDT Reads: 1,004 | By Elizabeth White  An increasing number of companies are creating products that combine data with analytical capabilities. Running interactive queries on Big Data requires complex architectures to store and query data effectively, typically involving data streams, an choosing efficient file format/database and multiple independent systems that are tied together through custom-engineered pipelines. In his session at @BigDataExpo at @ThingsExpo, Tomer Levi, a senior software engineer at Intel’s Advanced Analytics gr... Sep. 2, 2017 03:00 PM EDT Reads: 1,572 | By Pat Romanski  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 option... Sep. 2, 2017 03:00 PM EDT Reads: 860 | 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. Sep. 2, 2017 02:00 PM EDT Reads: 3,123 | 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. 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 r... Sep. 2, 2017 01:00 PM EDT Reads: 1,287 | By Elizabeth White  Virtualization over the past years has become a key strategy for IT to acquire multi-tenancy, increase utilization, develop elasticity and improve security. And virtual machines (VMs) are quickly becoming a main vehicle for developing and deploying applications. The introduction of containers seems to be bringing another and perhaps overlapped solution for achieving the same above-mentioned benefits. Are a container and a virtual machine fundamentally the same or different? And how? Is one techn... Sep. 2, 2017 01:00 PM EDT Reads: 952 |
|
|
|
|
In 2016, artificial intelligence (AI) reached its climax. Research and advisory firm Tractica predicted that the annual worldwide AI revenue will grow from $643.7 million in 2016 to $38.8 billion by 2025. The revenue for enterprise AI applications will increase from $358 million in 2016 to $31.2 billion by 2025, representing a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 64.3%. Thus, IT and business decision makers must face up to the potentials of AI already today. For each kind of organization this leads to the question, which type of technologies or infrastructure they can leverage to operate an A...
In his session at @ThingsExpo, Dr. Robert Cohen, an economist and senior fellow at the Economic Strategy Institute, presented the findings of a series of six detailed case studies of how large corporations are implementing IoT. The session explored how IoT has improved their economic performance, had major impacts on business models and resulted in impressive ROIs. The companies covered span manufacturing and services firms. He also explored servicification, how manufacturing firms shift from selling a product to offering it as a service and discussed methods you can employ to estimate how inv...
Like me, I’m sure that many of you nerds have read the book “I, Robot.” “I, Robot” is the seminal book written by Isaac Asimov (actually it was a series of books, but I only read the one) that explores the moral and ethical challenges posed by a world dominated by robots.
But I read that book like 50 years ago, so the movie “I, Robot” with Will Smith is actually more relevant to me today. The movie does a nice job of discussing the ethical and moral challenges associated with a society where robots play such a dominant and crucial role in everyday life.
I recently had the opportunity to give a 10-minute keynote at DataWorks Summit 2017. I know what most of you are thinking: Schmarzo can barely introduce himself in 10 minutes! What sort of keynote could he give in just 10 minutes? And to be honest, I too struggled with what to say.
But after some brainstorming with my marketing experts (Jeff Abbott, Erin Banks, and Chris Hill), we came up with an idea: Pose 5 questions that every organization needs to consider as they prepare themselves for digital transformation. And while I didn’t have enough time in 10 minutes to answer those questions...
“You can’t stop the incessant march of economics” – Bill Schmarzo
Okay, so it’s probably not cool to quote oneself, but hey, this is my blog and I get to do what I want. And for anyone who follows me knows, I love to “riff” on the game-changing power of economics. The “economics of big data” – where the cost to store, manage and analyze data is 20x to 100x cheaper than traditional analytics – started this big data and data science craze. But ultimately it is the economics of value, or to be specific, “value in use” where the economics really become a game changer....
With 2017 crossing the half way point, let’s look at some technology trends thus far.
Breaches: Many personal records are half empty due to the continued rash of intrusions while the crooks are half full of our personal information along with some ransom payments. According to the Identity Theft Resource Center (ITRC), there have been 7,689 breaches since 2005 (when they started tracking) compromising – get this – 900,315,392 records. Almost 3 times the U.S. population. In 2016, 56% of all Data Breaches began with a user clicking on a phishing email. The big story for 2017 I think, is the ris...
The concept of speed as an advantage is not new. Over the course of 700 years, the Romans built and maintained a system of roads extending over 55,000 miles to enable speedy communications and the quick movement of troops across the vast expanse of the empire.
What’s different today is that digital technologies have warped our perception of time. As an example, a person might say they live five minutes from town, but that can have widely different meanings based on whether they were referring to walking or driving a car. Digital technologies compress our perception of time and space while ex...
With the wave of personal assistants, such as Siri, Cortana and Google Assistant, and new startups leveraging AI and analytics to build personal companions, it’s becoming clear we are moving toward a new voice-controlled relationship with technology. As we have already seen in the consumer market, it is all but a given that these voice-activation systems will eventually make it into the enterprise environment, as the potential benefits of these systems could be tremendous in simplifying and automating activities. Although it may be a long time before we see the full likenesses of “HAL” from “2...
SYS-CON Events announced today that JETRO will showcase Japan Digital Transformation Pavilion 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. The Japan External Trade Organization (JETRO) is a non-profit organization that provides business support services to companies expanding to Japan. With the support of JETRO's dedicated staff, clients can incorporate their business; receive visa, immigration, and HR support; find dedicated office space; identify local government subsidies; get tailored ma...
Throughout history military leaders have suffered through the "fog of war," where they desperately sought answers to six key questions:
Where are my enemies?
Where are my friends?
Where are my forces?
Where are my materials and supplies?
What capabilities are available now and at what location?
What are the environmental conditions?
The human work of solving problems, facing challenges and overcoming obstacles tends to share a common goal: creating stable, secure and predictable environments. The tendency for most humans is that once we solve a challenge, we want to be done with it. That propensity, however, does not fit with today’s reality of perpetual change.
In the digital business world, organizations have no choice but to operate in an unclear, uncertain and continuously shifting environment that requires a new mindset and approach to formulating business strategies. Digital winners recognize that change is pa...
Water stress is not an arcane term just used by hydrologists. It is defined as the inability to meet the ‘human and ecological demand for water.’ The effective use of water resources has been well documented as a leading indicator of economic progress and the converse, damages to water resources can significantly impact economic growth.
Here in the US, recent high-profile stories about poisoned water in Flint, Mich. and polluted water in Toledo, Ohio, have raised this issue for many who likely hadn’t thought much about our national water supplies before. Alarmingly, as many as 3.5 million ...
SYS-CON Events announced today that JETRO will showcase Japan Digital Transformation Pavilion 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. The Japan External Trade Organization (JETRO) is a non-profit organization that provides business support services to companies expanding to Japan. With the support of JETRO's dedicated staff, clients can incorporate their business; receive visa, immigration, and HR support; find dedicated office space; identify local government subsidies; get tailored ma...
How do cars talk to each other today? One driver can honk at another. It's pretty crude. That is quickly changing though - and, for the most part, that's a good thing. Cars are becoming complex computers, expected to drive autonomously, download software updates regularly, and impress riders with the sound quality and entertainment value of a home theater. Soon, cars will be communicating with each other to do everything from switching lanes to balancing traffic congestion. When you combine machine-learning, complex data, and growing automotive networks, you get a dramatically different indust...
API Security has finally entered our security zeitgeist. OWASP Top 10 2017 - RC1 recognized API Security as a first class citizen by adding it as number 10, or A-10 on its list of web application vulnerabilities. We believe this is just the start. The attack surface area offered by API is orders or magnitude larger than any other attack surface area. Consider the fact the APIs expose cloud services, internal databases, application and even legacy mainframes over the internet. What could go wrong?
Internet-of-Things discussions can end up either going down the consumer gadget rabbit hole or focused on the sort of data logging that industrial manufacturers have been doing forever. However, in fact, companies today are already using IoT data both to optimize their operational technology and to improve the experience of customer interactions in novel ways. In his session at @ThingsExpo, Gordon Haff, Red Hat Technology Evangelist, shared examples from a wide range of industries – including energy, transportation, and retail – of using IoT to create new business opportunities and improve eff...
Subscribe to Cognitive Computing Journal Email News Alerts
Subscribe via RSS
