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What Is the Future of Multi-Cloud Computing?
By Stephanie Rowan
Like so many other IT solutions, cloud computing services have long been
promoted from a standpoint of administrative efficiency. As the rationale
goes, if you get your cloud services from a single provider, you'll enjoy the
reduced hassle of consolidating third party business relationships, receive
IT services at bargain prices, and have an easier time coordinating those
services.
It's true that using fewer service providers can offer some nice perks, but
cloud computing is moving in the opposite direction at many companies.
Instead of reaping the benefits of placing cloud services under one umbrella,
businesses are mining the advantages of the antithetical approach: receiving
cloud services from multiple providers - a discipline known as "multi-cloud
computing."
According to a mid-2016 report from Bu... (more)
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Big Data and IoT: The Economic Benefits
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.
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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
investing in IoT will affect your firm.
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Robert Cohen is an economist and senior fellow at the Economic Strategy
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Two apparently distinct movements are in the process of disrupting the world
of enterprise application development: DevOps and Low-Code.
DevOps is a cultural and organizational shift that empowers enterprise
software teams to deliver better software quicker - in particular, hand-coded
software.
Low-Code platforms, in contrast, provide a technology platform and visual
tooling that empower enterprise software teams to deliver better software
quicker - with little or no hand-coding required.
Two disruptive approaches with remarkably similar value propositions. Except
that one emphasizes hand-coding while the other replaces it.
The obvious question: are we in for some kind of appdev battle to the death,
as the two disparate approaches fight for supremacy?
Or are we somehow setting ourselves up for a delightful Kumbaya moment, where
DevOps and Low-Code live together, hap... (more)
Data Mobility: Embracing Hybrid Cloud with Confidence
Leading companies, from the Global Fortune 500 to the smallest companies, are
adopting hybrid cloud as the path to business advantage. Hybrid cloud depends
on cloud services and on-premises infrastructure working in unison.
Successful implementations require new levels of data mobility, enabled by an
automated and seamless flow across on-premises and cloud resources.
In his general session at 21st Cloud Expo, Greg Tevis, an IBM Storage
Software Technical Strategist and Customer Solution Architect, will explore
how storage and software-defined solutions from IBM have evolved for the road
ahead. Walk-away knowing how you can bring new levels of speed, agility and
efficiency to the applications and workloads you choose to deploy across a
hybrid cloud model.
Speaker Bio
Greg Tevis is an IBM Storage Software Technical... (more)
DevOps Evolution: Architecting the Modern Software Factory
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.
In his session at @DevOpsSummit at 21st Cloud Expo, Anand Akela, Senior
Director, DevOps Solutions, at CA Technologies, will discuss how existing
adopters are employing unified agile and DevOps techniques to engage
functional processes and toolchains that deliver increased software quality,
faster time to market and measurably improved customer experience. Specific
topics to be highligh... (more)
Optimize TCP to Speed Through the Digital Freeway
By Dhanush Suhas
TCP (Transmission Control Protocol) is a common and reliable transmission
protocol on the Internet. TCP was introduced in the 70s by Stanford
University for US Defense to establish connectivity between distributed
systems to maintain a backup of defense information. At the time, TCP was
introduced to communicate amongst a selected set of devices for a smaller
dataset over shorter distances.
As the Internet evolved, however, the number of applications and users, and
the types of data accessed and stored also evolved. The original intent of
TCP was to communicate data in the form of text across computers; today’s
data transfer is more complex including high pixel images, audio files, and
video delivery.
The aim of the modern web is to provide consumers with an excellent user
experience by loading web ... (more)
Build or Buy Is Passe - The Low Code Revolution Is Here to Stay
The year 2017 so far has been the year of digital transformation with cloud,
IoT, APIs and low-code application development gaining focus. Companies that
build Low Code Platforms and help organizations build business applications
are beginning to see these technologies scale up. The low-code platform
market is expected to scale up to $20B by the end of the decade, says
Forrester. So since a lot of business enterprises across the globe have
been talking about this low code revolution we will delve deep into the
realms of this application development methodology and its role in digital
transformation.
Let’s look at some of the common queries that surround low-code platforms
and their usability.
How are low-code platforms solving enterprise IT challenges and help in
ushering digital transformation? Wha... (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)
APIs Need to Be Released Too!
By Ron Gidron
Since joining CA, we have been diligently weaving automation into the very
core of the modern software factory. The modern software factory is what
every company needs to become in order to succeed in the digital world and in
this blog, I want to discuss API management and continuous delivery.
Digital transformation is sweeping the IT world, across all industry sectors.
As all vendors, old and new, big and small, incumbent and disruptor, fight it
out in the digital battlefield, a new set of priorities is being created for
the business and IT. These priorities revolve around four key capabilities:
Accelerating mobile and IoT development Unlocking the value of data Creating
new revenue streams through innovation and integration Using hybrid and cloud
technologies to return savings to the business
Would it come as a surprise to ... (more)
"We're no longer an airline. We're a software company with wings," claims
Veresh Sita, CIO, Alaska Airlines. The success of today's businesses rests on
software. It is an integral part of infrastructure, so we need to always ask,
"How can it be better? More reliable? More secure?"
Nathen Harvey (@nathenharvey) is the VP of Community Development at Chef and
the co-host of the Food Fight podcast. He is also an evangelist of automating
software operations, which is what he presented on at the 2016 All Day DevOps
conference.
Nathen started his talk by stating that "automation at scale is required for
high velocity IT," making the point that in today's environment, you can't
wait months between deployments. Enterprises are moving to Continuous
Integration/Continuous Deployment, and he advocates for Continuous
Automation.
To implement automation at scale, you have to st... (more)
Integration Is the Key to Gain More Value from NetSuite and Salesforce
Enterprises often face challenges when integrating Salesforce and NetSuite.
But, despite the fact that NetSuite offers an out-of-the-box solution to
integrate with Salesforce, companies' data flow requirements are far too
complex even for a simple integration.
NetSuite is highly popular among enterprise customers for its accounting,
financial and ERP toolkit. Even though it has fully functional CRM module,
Salesforce is considered to be perfect blend in cloud-based CRM solution.
Alternatively, some Salesforce users feel like it lacks the ERP, Accounting,
Financial solution capabilities which NetSuite delivers.
Salesforce and NetSuite both are industry's leading SaaS providers serving
various types of customers including enterprise segment and SMBs. Salesforce
has its sophistication in handling lea... (more)
@MicroservicesExpo Stories By Jason Bloomberg Two apparently distinct movements are in the process of disrupting the world of enterprise application development: DevOps and Low-Code.
DevOps is a cultural and organizational shift that empowers enterprise software teams to deliver better software quicker – in particular, hand-coded software.
Low-Code platforms, in contrast, provide a technology platform and visual tooling that empower enterprise software teams to deliver better software quicker -- with little or no hand-coding required.
... Sep. 3, 2017 02:30 AM EDT Reads: 894 | By Derek Weeks "We're no longer an airline. We're a software company with wings," claims Veresh Sita, CIO, Alaska Airlines. The success of today's businesses rests on software. It is an integral part of infrastructure, so we need to always ask, "How can it be better? More reliable? More secure?"
Nathen Harvey (@nathenharvey) is the VP of Community Development at Chef and the co-host of the Food Fight podcast. He is also an evangelist of automating software operations, which is what he presented on at the 2016... Sep. 2, 2017 07:30 PM EDT Reads: 585 | 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: 1,577 | By Karthick Viswanathan The year 2017 so far has been the year of digital transformation with cloud , IoT , APIs and Low code application development gaining focus . Companies that build Low Code Platforms and help organisations build business applications are beginning to see these technologies scale up. Low code platforms market is expected to scale up to $20B by the end of the decade, says Forrester. So ,when a lot of business enterprises across the globe have been talking about this low code revolution we delve d... Sep. 2, 2017 06:30 PM EDT Reads: 1,531 | By Mehdi Daoudi TCP (Transmission Control Protocol) is a common and reliable transmission protocol on the Internet. TCP was introduced in the 70s by Stanford University for US Defense to establish connectivity between distributed systems to maintain a backup of defense information. At the time, TCP was introduced to communicate amongst a selected set of devices for a smaller dataset over shorter distances.
As the Internet evolved, however, the number of applications and users, and the types of data accessed an... Sep. 2, 2017 06:30 PM EDT Reads: 680 | By Automic Blog Since joining CA, we have been diligently weaving automation into the very core of the modern software factory. The modern software factory is what every company needs to become in order to succeed in the digital world and in this blog, I want to discuss API management and continuous delivery.
Digital transformation is sweeping the IT world, across all industry sectors. As all vendors, old and new, big and small, incumbent and disruptor, fight it out in the digital battlefield, a new set of pri... Sep. 2, 2017 06:30 PM EDT Reads: 849 | By Elizabeth White Leading companies, from the Global Fortune 500 to the smallest companies, are adopting hybrid cloud as the path to business advantage. Hybrid cloud depends on cloud services and on-premises infrastructure working in unison. Successful implementations require new levels of data mobility, enabled by an automated and seamless flow across on-premises and cloud resources.
In his general session at 21st Cloud Expo, Greg Tevis, an IBM Storage Software Technical Strategist and Customer Solution Archit... Sep. 2, 2017 05:00 PM EDT Reads: 683 | By Rajeev Gupta Enterprises often face challenges when integrating Salesforce and NetSuite. But, despite the fact that NetSuite offers an out-of-the-box solution to integrate with Salesforce, companies’ data flow requirements are far too complex even for a simple integration.
NetSuite is highly popular among enterprise customers for its accounting, financial and ERP toolkit. Even though it has fully functional CRM module, Salesforce is considered to be perfect blend in cloud-based CRM solution. Alternatively, ... Sep. 2, 2017 04:00 PM EDT Reads: 1,321 | By Automic Blog  As consumers in the age of digital innovation, we benefit from an abundance of technologies, each seeking to simplify our daily lives. Be it Apple, Amazon or Google, our digital service providers are only too happy for us to take advantage of their latest cool apps or funky new tools. With so much free stuff and low cost pay as you go options, we've never had it so good. It's a no brainer, win-win for both consumer and producer. Or is it? Sep. 2, 2017 04:00 PM EDT Reads: 1,153 | By Derek Weeks 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 immut... Sep. 2, 2017 03:00 PM EDT Reads: 776 | By SmartBear Blog  User experience is the key to adoption. If no one understands how to use your product, they won't buy it. This is equally true in the world of APIs. Developers are more likely to adopt and stick with a platform or service that they enjoy using. The key to the success of your API, then, is the Developer Experience.
Much like for products that target traditional consumers, the usability of your API is key. Thus, the Developer Experience is the aggregate of all experiences a developer has while in... Sep. 2, 2017 01:00 PM EDT Reads: 1,022 | By PagerDuty Blog  Is your organization’s IT system operationally mature, and is it application-centric? In today’s digital landscape, achieving both of these are crucial for the success of any serious IT operation — both at the enterprise level and in the context of smaller organizations.
What is operational maturity? It is a general measure of the overall consistency, reliability, resilience, coherence, and sophistication of an IT system at the levels of management, design, and operation. Sep. 2, 2017 12:00 PM EDT Reads: 911 | By Stackify Blog Like so many other IT solutions, cloud computing services have long been promoted from a standpoint of administrative efficiency. As the rationale goes, if you get your cloud services from a single provider, you'll enjoy the reduced hassle of consolidating third party business relationships, receive IT services at bargain prices, and have an easier time coordinating those services.
It's true that using fewer service providers can offer some nice perks, but cloud computing is moving in the oppos... Sep. 2, 2017 12:00 PM EDT Reads: 803 | By Liz McMillan  SYS-CON Events announced today that Cloud Academy 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. Cloud Academy is the leading technology training platform for enterprise multi-cloud infrastructure. Cloud Academy is trusted by leading companies to deliver continuous learning solutions across Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform, and the most... Sep. 2, 2017 11:30 AM EDT Reads: 935 | By Automic Blog  Since its inception, cloud computing has come a long way, yet people still possess misgivings and misunderstandings about what it can do, particularly when it comes to workloads.
The history of cloud computing, if only conceptually, stretches back further than you may imagine. The cloud genesis, so to speak, dates right back to the 1960s when J.C.R. Lickider dreamed of an ‘intergalactic computer network'. Lickider imagined a time when everyone on the planet would be interconnected and able to a... Sep. 2, 2017 09:30 AM EDT Reads: 508 | By Liz McMillan  Most companies are adopting or evaluating container technology - Docker in particular - to speed up application deployment, drive down cost, ease management and make application delivery more flexible overall. As with most new architectures, this dream takes a lot of work to become a reality. Even when you do get your application componentized enough and packaged properly, there are still challenges for DevOps teams to making the shift to continuous delivery and achieving that reduction in cost ... Sep. 2, 2017 08:15 AM EDT Reads: 1,716 | By OnPage Blog  IT teams define success as solving problems quickly. To enable ITSM modernization we have to think of adopting the tools and methods that will enable resolution of ITSM issues more quickly. To be clear, modernization does not mean stepping away from SLAs or DevOps. Instead, modernization means bringing on automation of key IT processes and capturing information that can be used to improve future customer interactions or product launches or methodologies. Sep. 2, 2017 07:45 AM EDT Reads: 1,395 | By Mamoon Yunus  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... Aug. 31, 2017 11:30 AM EDT Reads: 2,765 | By Mamoon Yunus  API Security is complex! Vendors like Forum Systems, IBM, CA and Axway have invested almost 2 decades of engineering effort and significant capital in building API Security stacks to lockdown APIs. The API Security stack diagram shown below is a building block for rapidly locking down APIs. The four fundamental pillars of API Security - SSL, Identity, Content Validation and deployment architecture - are discussed in detail below. Aug. 31, 2017 10:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,496 | By Liz McMillan  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... Aug. 30, 2017 08:45 PM EDT Reads: 2,794 |
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