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It’s all over for us humans. It may not have been “The Matrix”[1], but
the machines look like they are finally poised to take our jobs. Machines
powered by artificial intelligence and machine learning process data faster,
aren’t hindered by stupid human biases, don’t waste time with gossip on
social media and don’t demand raises or more days off.
While there is a high probability that machine learning and artificial
intelligence will play an important role in whatever job you hold in the
future, there is one way to "future-proof" your career...embrace the power of
design thinking.
Figure 1: Is Artificial Intelligence Putting Humans Out of Work?
I have written about design thinking before (see the blog “Can Design
Thinking Unleash Organizational Innovation?”), but I want to use this blog
to provide more specifics about what it is about design thinking that can
hel... (more)
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Welcome to the Era of Open Analytics
Cloud applications are seeing a deluge of requests to support the exploding
advanced analytics market. "Open analytics" is the emerging strategy to
deliver that data through an open data access layer, in the cloud, to be
directly consumed by external analytics tools and popular programming
languages. An increasing number of data engineers and data scientists use a
variety of platforms and advanced analytics languages such as SAS, R, Python
and Java, as well as frameworks such as Hadoop and Spark. Cloud APIs are
commonly designed to support application integration representing a
disconnect with the analytics ecosystem. These combined trends create
significant demand for a "bring-your-own-analytics" (BYOA) ca... (more)
Powering Smart Cities with IoT, Real-Time and an Agile Data Platform
Smart cities have the potential to change our lives at so many levels for
citizens: less pollution, reduced parking obstacles, better health, education
and more energy savings. Real-time data streaming and the Internet of Things
(IoT) possess the power to turn this vision into a reality. However, most
organizations today are building their data infrastructure to focus solely on
addressing immediate business needs vs. a platform capable of quickly
adapting emerging technologies to address future business challenges.
In his session at @ThingsExpo, Nick Piette, Chief Evangelist at Talend, will
include how Johnson Controls utilize sensors, Big Data integration and
cloud-based data lake solutions.
Speaker Bio
Nick Piette joined Talend in 2017 as Chief Evangelist. He has spent the last
eight years helping... (more)
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Leveraging AI for Cloud Management
Businesses and business units of all sizes can benefit from cloud computing,
but many don't want the cost, performance and security concerns of public
cloud nor the complexity of building their own private clouds. Today, some
cloud vendors are using artificial intelligence (AI) to simplify cloud
deployment and management.
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In his session at 20th Cloud Expo, Ajay Gulati, Co-founder and CEO of
ZeroStack, discussed how AI can simplify cloud operations. He covered the
following topics:
Why cloud management is a barrier to adoption The role of AI in cloud
deployment The role of AI in cloud management How AI simplifies cloud
operations
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Machine learning, AI, cognitive computing, natural language understanding,
image recognition, pattern matching, autonomous devices - these are just a
few of 2017's loosely defined catchall phrases. But in practice, they each
refer to a significant field of study that is guaranteed to have an impact on
the way people live and how business is done. So here are five things that
you, as the leader of an organization that is singularly focused on creating
shareholder value (however you define it), need to know:
1. Your Various Units Are Working on Data-Driven Systems in a Vacuum
If you do not have strict, well-enforced data governance policies, your
various units are busy making a data mess that you will eventually have to
clean up. Each unit has any number of projects in the works. They must! Their
competitors are making apps and creating systems designed to reduce frictio... (more)
Speed, Quality, Impact - Building Success on the Three Foundations of DevOps
Many organizations adopt DevOps to reduce cycle times and deliver software
faster; some take on DevOps to drive higher quality and better end-user
experience; others look to DevOps for a clearer line-of-sight to customers to
drive better business impacts. In truth, these three foundations go together.
In this power panel at @DevOpsSummit 21st Cloud Expo, moderated by DevOps
Conference Co-Chair Andi Mann, industry experts will discuss how leading
organizations build application success from all three of these foundations
of DevOps - speed, quality, and impact.
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DevOps at 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 leadi... (more)
Machine Learning for Cloud-Based DevOps
Many companies start their journey to the cloud in the DevOps environment,
where software engineers want self-service access to the custom tools and
frameworks they need. Machine learning technology can help IT departments
keep up with these demands.
In his session at 21st Cloud Expo, Ajay Gulati, Co-Founder, CTO and Board
Member at ZeroStack, will discuss the use of machine learning for automating
provisioning of DevOps resources, taking the burden off IT teams.
Speaker Bio
Ajay Gulati is Co-Founder, CTO and Board Member at ZeroStack. He shares
responsibility for driving ZeroStack's product innovation, bringing to life
his thought leadership in systems infrastructures and virtualization. He was
a senior architect and R&D; lead at VMware where he designed flagship products
including Storage I/O control, Storage DRS and DRS. He ... (more)
Why Is the Healthcare Industry Abuzz About Blockchain?
Blockchain. A day doesn't seem to go by without seeing articles and
discussions about the technology. According to PwC executive Seamus Cushley,
approximately $1.4B has been invested in blockchain just last year. In
Gartner's recent hype cycle for emerging technologies, blockchain is
approaching the peak. It is considered by Gartner as one of the ‘Key
platform-enabling technologies to track.' While there is a lot of ‘hype vs
reality' discussions going on, there is no arguing that blockchain is being
taken very seriously across industries and cannot be ignored.
A large percentage of the discussion does seem to focus in the financial
services industry. This is not surprising given blockchain's historic legacy
(I know, a disruptive technology already has a legacy) with Bitcoin and
crypto currencies. In my article, ... (more)
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.
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Cloud computing is now being embraced by a majority of enterprises of all
sizes. Yesterday's debate about public vs. private has transformed into the
reality of hybrid cloud: a recent survey shows that 74% of enterprises have a
hybrid cloud strategy. Meanwhile, 94% of enterprises are using some form of
XaaS - software, platform, and infrastructure as a service.
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 ... (more)
Internet of @ThingsExpo, 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.
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The Internet of Things (IoT) is the most profound change in personal and
enterprise IT since the creation of the Worldwide Web more than 20 years ago.
All major researchers estimate there will be tens of billions devices -
computers, smartphones, tablets, and sensors - connected to the Internet by
2020. This number will continue to grow at a rapid pace for the next several
decades.
With major technology companies and startups seriously embracing IoT
strategies, now is the perfect time to attend @ThingsExpo in Silicon Valley.
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True Democratization of Analytics with Meta-Learning
By Mark Troester
There are many solutions that claim to democratize analytics, but they are
really constrained. A meta-learning approach democratizes without limits.
The democratization of analytics has become a popular term, and a quick
Google search will generate results that explore the necessity of empowering
more people with analytics and the rise of citizen data scientists. The
ability to easily make better use of your (constantly growing) pool of data
is a critical driver of business success, but many of the existing solutions
that claim to democratize analytics only do so within severe limits. If you
have a complex business scenario and are looking to get revolutionary
insights using them, it’s easy to come away disappointed.
However, the democratization of analytics isn’t just a buzzword that refers
to a n... (more)
@CloudExpo Stories By Elizabeth White  In his session at 21st Cloud Expo, Michael Burley, a Senior Business Development Executive in IT Services at NetApp, will describe how NetApp designed a three-year program of work to migrate 25PB of a major telco's enterprise data to a new STaaS platform, and then secured a long-term contract to manage and operate the platform.
This significant program blended the best of NetApp’s solutions and services capabilities to enable this telco’s successful adoption of private cloud storage and launchi... Oct. 2, 2017 04:15 PM EDT Reads: 310 | By Elizabeth White  Is advanced scheduling in Kubernetes achievable?
Yes, however, how do you properly accommodate every real-life scenario that a Kubernetes user might encounter?
How do you leverage advanced scheduling techniques to shape and describe each scenario in easy-to-use rules and configurations?
In his session at @DevOpsSummit at 21st Cloud Expo, Oleg Chunikhin, CTO at Kublr, will answer these questions and demonstrate techniques for implementing advanced scheduling. For example, using spot instances ... Oct. 2, 2017 04:00 PM EDT Reads: 946 | By Pat Romanski  SYS-CON Events announced today that Taica will exhibit at the Japan External Trade Organization (JETRO) 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.
ANSeeN are the measurement electronics maker for X-ray and Gamma-ray and Neutron measurement equipment such as spectrometers, pulse shape analyzer, and CdTe-FPD. For more information, visit http://anseen.com/. Oct. 2, 2017 03:45 PM EDT Reads: 851 | By Elizabeth White  SYS-CON Events announced today that SIGMA Corporation will exhibit at the Japan External Trade Organization (JETRO) 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.
uLaser flow inspection device from the Japanese top share to Global Standard! Then, make the best use of data to flip to next page. For more information, visit http://www.sigma-k.co.jp/en/. Oct. 2, 2017 02:45 PM EDT Reads: 1,362 | By Liz McMillan  SYS-CON Events announced today that Japan External Trade Organization & Six Prefectures of Japan have been named “Pavilion 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.
Meet the leading Japanese cloud computing companies from six prefectures of Japan. The Japan External Trade Organization (JETRO) is a non-profit organization that provides business support services to foreign companies... Oct. 2, 2017 01:45 PM EDT Reads: 851 | By Pat Romanski  SYS-CON Events announced today that B2Cloud 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.
B2Cloud specializes in IoT devices for preventive and predictive maintenance in any kind of equipment retrieving data like Energy consumption, working time, temperature, humidity, pressure, etc. Oct. 2, 2017 01:30 PM EDT Reads: 1,324 | By Pat Romanski  The dynamic nature of the cloud means that change is a constant when it comes to modern cloud-based infrastructure. Delivering modern applications to end users, therefore, is a constantly shifting challenge. Delivery automation helps IT Ops teams ensure that apps are providing an optimal end user experience over hybrid-cloud and multi-cloud environments, no matter what the current state of the infrastructure is. To employ a delivery automation strategy that reflects your business rules, making r... Oct. 2, 2017 01:13 PM EDT Reads: 277 | By Pat Romanski  SYS-CON Events announced today that NetApp 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.
NetApp is the data authority for hybrid cloud. NetApp provides a full range of hybrid cloud data services that simplify management of applications and data across cloud and on-premises environments to accelerate digital transformation. Together with their partners, NetApp em... Oct. 2, 2017 12:30 PM EDT Reads: 1,365 | By Liz McMillan  First generation hyperconverged solutions have taken the data center by storm, rapidly proliferating in pockets everywhere to provide further consolidation of floor space and workloads. These first generation solutions are not without challenges, however.
In his session at 21st Cloud Expo, Wes Talbert, a Principal Architect and results-driven enterprise sales leader at NetApp, will discuss how the HCI solution of tomorrow will integrate with the public cloud to deliver a quality hybrid cloud e... Oct. 2, 2017 12:10 PM EDT Reads: 297 | By Elizabeth White  Microsoft Azure Container Services can be used for container deployment in a variety of ways including support for Orchestrators like Kubernetes, Docker Swarm and Mesos. However, the abstraction for app development that support application self-healing, scaling and so on may not be at the right level. Helm and Draft makes this a lot easier.
In this primarily demo-driven session at @DevOpsSummit at 21st Cloud Expo, Raghavan "Rags" Srinivas, a Cloud Solutions Architect/Evangelist at Microsoft, wi... Oct. 2, 2017 12:00 PM EDT Reads: 785 | By Liz McMillan  Join IBM November 1 at 21st Cloud Expo at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA, and learn how IBM Watson can bring cognitive services and AI to intelligent, unmanned systems.
Cognitive analysis impacts today’s systems with unparalleled ability that were previously available only to manned, back-end operations. Thanks to cloud processing, IBM Watson can bring cognitive services and AI to intelligent, unmanned systems. Imagine a robot vacuum that becomes your personal assistant th... Oct. 2, 2017 11:15 AM EDT Reads: 1,380 | By Liz McMillan  As businesses evolve, they need technology that is simple to help them succeed today and flexible enough to help them build for tomorrow. Chrome is fit for the workplace of the future — providing a secure, consistent user experience across a range of devices that can be used anywhere.
In her session at 21st Cloud Expo, Vidya Nagarajan, a Senior Product Manager at Google, will take a look at various options as to how ChromeOS can be leveraged to interact with people on the devices, and formats ... Oct. 2, 2017 09:30 AM EDT Reads: 949 | By Pat Romanski  SYS-CON Events announced today that Taica will exhibit at the Japan External Trade Organization (JETRO) 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.
Taica manufacturers Alpha-GEL brand silicone components and materials, which maintain outstanding performance over a wide temperature range -40C to +200C. For more information, visit http://www.taica.co.jp/english/. Oct. 2, 2017 09:15 AM EDT Reads: 990 | By Elizabeth White Many organizations adopt DevOps to reduce cycle times and deliver software faster; some take on DevOps to drive higher quality and better end-user experience; others look to DevOps for a clearer line-of-sight to customers to drive better business impacts. In truth, these three foundations go together.
In this power panel at @DevOpsSummit 21st Cloud Expo, moderated by DevOps Conference Co-Chair Andi Mann, industry experts will discuss how leading organizations build application success from all... Oct. 2, 2017 09:15 AM EDT Reads: 1,434 | By Pat Romanski  The last two years has seen discussions about cloud computing evolve from the public / private / hybrid split to the reality that most enterprises will be creating a complex, multi-cloud strategy. Companies are wary of committing all of their resources to a single cloud, and instead are choosing to spread the risk – and the benefits – of cloud computing across multiple providers and internal infrastructures, as they follow their business needs. Will this approach be successful? How large is the ... Oct. 2, 2017 09:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,517 | By Elizabeth White  SYS-CON Events announced today that Yuasa System will exhibit at the Japan External Trade Organization (JETRO) 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.
Yuasa System is introducing a multi-purpose endurance testing system for flexible displays, OLED devices, flexible substrates, flat cables, and films in smartphones, wearables, automobiles, and healthcare. Oct. 2, 2017 08:30 AM EDT Reads: 1,018 | By Elizabeth White  SYS-CON Events announced today that Taica will exhibit at the Japan External Trade Organization (JETRO) 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.
TAZMO technology and development capabilities in the semiconductor and LCD-related manufacturing fields are among the best worldwide. For more information, visit https://www.tazmo.co.jp/en/. Oct. 2, 2017 08:00 AM EDT Reads: 842 | By Liz McMillan Many companies start their journey to the cloud in the DevOps environment, where software engineers want self-service access to the custom tools and frameworks they need. Machine learning technology can help IT departments keep up with these demands.
In his session at 21st Cloud Expo, Ajay Gulati, Co-Founder, CTO and Board Member at ZeroStack, will discuss the use of machine learning for automating provisioning of DevOps resources, taking the burden off IT teams. Oct. 2, 2017 05:30 AM EDT Reads: 1,200 | By Elizabeth White  Today 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 significant 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 reducti... Oct. 2, 2017 12:30 AM EDT Reads: 1,390 | By Elizabeth White  Digital innovation is the next big wave of business transformation based on digital technologies of which IoT and Big Data are key components, For example:
Business boundary innovation is a challenge to excavate third-party business value using IoT and BigData, like Nest
Business structure innovation may propose re-building business structure from scratch, as Uber does in the taxicab industry
The social model innovation is also a big challenge to the new social architecture with the design fr... Oct. 2, 2017 12:00 AM EDT Reads: 4,592 |
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Okay, so my vacations don’t necessary seem like other folks’ vacations. Yes, we relax. Yes, we spend too much money. Yes, we eat too much food. But for some reason, unusual learning opportunities pop up during our vacations, and this year’s vacation was no different. This year’s vacation theme was… logistics.
Our logistics foray started by watching the artsy-fartsy movie “The Lunchbox.” I hate artsy-fartsy movies, but my wife insists on watching them on vacation. The movie was excellent. However, I was totally mesmerized by the lunchbox delivery system that was a featured part of the movie. T...
Enron changed how U.S. public companies audit and report their financial data. There is also an opportunity to use the Equifax data breach to create a framework for better protection of our data in future.
The credit reporting agency reported one of the largest data breaches in the history. Hackers were able to steal sensitive information from its internal servers. The stolen data include name, Social Security Number (SSN), date of birth, and also credit card numbers and driver license numbers in some cases. A massive breach like this can haunt the victims for years to come. 
Web-scale networking, also known as hyperscale, is a concept that has been popularized by companies like Google, Netflix and Facebook, who adopted this model for its proven cost economics, resiliency, scalability, and in some cases, better performance for large companies.
In recent months, the web-scale strategy has begun to gain the attention of enterprises in response to the changing data center landscape and growth of compute-heavy, complex technologies like AI, machine learning, and big data analytics initiatives. What should IT pros know about web-scale? 
Digital transformation is a revenue growth engine according to fifty futurists we surveyed. Many companies are already experiencing significant benefits and gaining competitive advantages. The futurists predicted the top five impacts of digital transformation on businesses by the year 2020 will be: Speed to market, Competitive positioning, Revenue growth, Productivity, and New distribution channels.
Every time there’s a notable cybersecurity breach, someone (even me) writes a comprehensive primer on the proper way to create “secure” passwords. Lather, rinse, repeat. Until a few years ago, everyone (including me) based their password advice on a 2003 paper from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), with the catchy title “NIST Special Publication 800-63.” The paper recommended that passwords be cryptic, contain special characters, and be as close to nonsense as possible.
These days, APIs have become an integral part of the digital transformation journey for all enterprises. Every digital innovation story is connected to APIs . But have you ever pondered over to know what are the source of these APIs? Let me explain - APIs sources can be varied, internal or external, solving different purposes, but mostly categorized into the following two categories. Data lakes is a term used to represent disconnected but relevant data that are used by various business units within an enterprise. APIs are created as the easy access points for these siloed data lakes.
Our cities have been connected since the dawn of urbanization in the Indus Valley and on the plains of Mesopotamia nearly ten millennia ago. Cities exist to gather and connect people, bringing us together into communities and joint ventures that need complex networks of communication. But in recent years the connected city has come to mean something more. Today and in the future, the connected city will not just be about people connecting with people, but people with machines, people with people via machines, and perhaps most importantly, machines with machines.
“Self-driving cars are the future of ride-sharing,” proclaimed an industry expert who shall remain nameless. The comment struck me as ridiculous. From my point of view, Uber (and all car services) already provide self-driving cars. You don’t drive the car; the driver does. Do you really care whether the car is controlled by a human/machine partnership or it’s an autonomous mechanical device? Other than to acknowledge that you are the person the car is supposed to pick up, you don’t need to speak to the human driver any more than you would need to speak to the natural language–understanding alg...
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. Cloud computing is now being embraced by a majority of enterprises of all sizes. Yesterday's debate about public vs. private has transformed into the reality of hybrid cloud: a recent survey shows that 74% of enterprises have a hybrid cloud strategy. Meanwhile, 94% of enterprises are using some form of XaaS – software, platform, and infrastructure as ...
It takes years – sometimes a lifetime – to perfect certain skills in life: hitting a jump shot off the dribble, nailing that double high C on the trumpet, parallel parking a Ford Expedition. Malcolm Gladwell wrote a book, “Outliers,” discussing the amount of work – 10,000 hours – required to perfect a skill (while the exactness of 10,000 hours has come under debate, it is still a useful point that people need to invest considerable time and effort to master a skill). But once we get comfortable with something that we feel that we have mastered, we become reluctant to change. We are reluctant t...
I’ve always felt that bringing an economics perspective to our big data and digital transformation discussions is more important than a traditional accounting or even information technology (IT) perspective. Heck, I believe that a Chief Data Officer’s background should be more along the lines of economics than IT. Economics brings a forward-looking perspective on creating value (wealth). In fact, economics is defined as “the branch of knowledge concerned with the production, consumption, and transfer (capture) of wealth.”
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