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Why Composable Infrastructure Instead of HyperConvergence?
HyperConvergence 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. This meant that up to now
the HyperConverged vendors were in charge of the requirements.
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Container and Virtual Machine: Friends or Foes
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 technically superior to the other?
What about performance and security? Does IT need either one, or both?
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In his session at @DevOpsSummit at 20th Cloud Expo, Yung Chou, a Cloud
Architect at BlueMetal, examined these topics. The learning objectives of... (more)
"We're here to tell the world about our cloud-scale infrastructure that we
have at Juniper combined with the world-class security that we put into the
cloud," explained Lisa Guess, VP of Systems Engineering at Juniper Networks,
in this SYS-CON.tv interview at 20th Cloud Expo, held June 6-8, 2017, at the
Javits Center in New York City, NY.
With major technology companies and startups seriously embracing Cloud
strategies, now is the perfect time to attend 21st Cloud Expo, October 31 -
November 2, 2017, at the Santa Clara Convention Center, CA, and June 12-14,
2018, at the Javits Center in New York City, NY, and learn what is going on,
contribute to the discussions, and ensure that your enterprise is on the
right path to Digital Transformation.
Track 1. Enterprise Cloud | Cloud-Native
Track 2. Big Data | Analytics
Track 3. Internet of Things | IIoT | Smart Cities
Trac... (more)
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How to Make Use of Serverless Compute Solutions for IoT Device Simulation
When shopping for a new data processing platform for IoT solutions, many
development teams want to be able to test-drive options before making a
choice. Yet when evaluating an IoT solution, it's simply not feasible to do
so at scale with physical devices. Building a sensor simulator is the next
best choice; however, generating a realistic simulation at very high TPS with
ease of configurability is a formidable challenge. When dealing with multiple
application or transport protocols, you would be looking at some significant
engineering investment.
On-demand, serverless computing enables developers to try out a fleet of
devices on IoT gateways with ease. With a sensor simulator built on top of
AWS Lambda, it's possible to elastically gene... (more)
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Guaranteeing Performance for Your Virtualized Apps and Private Cloud
Fact: storage performance problems have only gotten more complicated, as
applications not only have become largely virtualized, but also have moved to
cloud-based infrastructures. Storage performance in virtualized environments
isn't just about IOPS anymore. Instead, you need to guarantee performance for
individual VMs, helping applications maintain performance as the number of
VMs continues to go up in real time.
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In his session at 19th Cloud Expo, Dhiraj Sehgal, Product and Marketing at
Tintri, shared success stories from a few folks who have already started
using VM-aware storage. By managing storage operations at the VM-level,
they've been able to solve their most vexing storage problems, and create
infrastruc... (more)
What Is Function-as-a-Service? Serverless Architectures Are Here
By Matt Watson
It has never been a better time to be a developer. Thanks to cloud computing,
deploying our applications is much easier than it used to be. How we deploy
our apps continues to evolve thanks to cloud hosting, Platform-as-a-Service
(PaaS), and now Function-as-a-Service.
What Is Function-as-a-Service (FaaS)?
FaaS is the concept of serverless computing via serverless architectures.
Software developers can leverage this to deploy an individual "function",
action, or piece of business logic. They are expected to start within
milliseconds and process individual requests and then the process ends.
Principles of FaaS:
Complete abstraction of servers away from the developer Billing based on
consumption and executions, not server instance sizes Services that are
event-driven and instantaneously scala... (more)
What Is Containerization and Will It Spell the End for Virtualization?
By Ron Gidron
Containerization is popularly viewed as the ‘virtualization of
virtualization' or ‘next generation virtualization.' However, containers
have existed long before virtualization or the advent of modern container
technology like Docker and Linux Containers. Similar tech was built into
mainframe systems that pervaded the IT landscape for the preceding decades.
However, the implication, as the name suggests, is that modern software
containerization will have the same seismic impact on the IT industry as
shipping containers have had on maritime freight transport. Indeed, it is
quite common now for many major online companies to run their entire
infrastructure on containers.
The reason behind the analogy, which is even alluded to by Docker in their
logo, is that in the same way shipping con... (more)
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)
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Continuous Testing Framework for Microservices in Docker Containers
Application transformation and DevOps practices are two sides of the same
coin. Enterprises that want to capture value faster, need to deliver value
faster - time value of money principle. To do that enterprises need to build
cloud-native apps as microservices by empowering teams to build, ship, and
run in production.
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In his session at @DevOpsSummit at 19th Cloud Expo, Neil Gehani, senior
product manager at HPE, discussed what every business should plan for how to
structure their teams to deliver.
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Speaker Bio
Neil Gehani is senior product manager at HPE. He's focused on solving
problems for people building cloud-native apps as microservices packaged in
containers. He's a former softwar... (more)
How Containers Will Usher in a New Era of Cloud Computing
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In his keynote at 19th Cloud Expo, Sheng Liang, co-founder and CEO of Rancher
Labs, discussed the technological advances and new business opportunities
created by the rapid adoption of containers. With the success of Amazon Web
Services (AWS) and various open source technologies used to build private
clouds, cloud computing has become an essential component of IT strategy.
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However, users continue to face challenges in implementing clouds, as older
technologies evolve and newer ones like Docker containers gain prominence. He
explored these challenges and how to address them, while considering how
containers will influence the direction of cloud computing.
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For most organizations, the move to hybrid cloud is now a question of when,
not if. Fully 82% of enterprises plan to have a hybrid cloud strategy this
year, according to Infoholic Research. The worldwide hybrid cloud computing
market is expected to grow about 34% annually over the next five years,
reaching $241.13 billion by 2022.
Companies are embracing hybrid cloud because of the many advantages it
offers compared to relying on a single provider for all of their cloud needs.
Hybrid offers balance and flexibility. It helps companies achieve a wide
array of business goals, including availability, reliability, security and
cost-efficiency.
Still, there are a number of challenges associated with hybrid cloud. Here
are four management issues that companies need to address to enjoy a
successful hybrid cloud implementation.
Managing complexity.
More clouds can sometime... (more)
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