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Efficient Access to a Cloud-based HPC Visualization Cluster
Data scientists must access high-performance computing resources across a
wide-area network. To achieve cloud-based HPC visualization, researchers must
transfer datasets and visualization results efficiently.
HPC clusters now compute GPU-accelerated visualization in the cloud cluster.
To efficiently display results remotely, a high-performance, low-latency
protocol transfers the display from the cluster to a remote desktop. Further,
tools to easily mount remote datasets and efficiently transfer that data into
the HPC cluster are described, including performance characterization
results.
In his session at 21st Cloud Expo, Brian Fromme, a solutions engineer at
Penguin Computing, will discuss how together, high-performance data transfer
and display technologies are finally solving the challenges of remote acce... (more)
Demystifying Kubernetes for Enterprise Developers
Kubernetes is an open source system for automating deployment, scaling, and
management of containerized applications. Kubernetes was originally built by
Google, leveraging years of experience with managing container workloads, and
is now a Cloud Native Compute Foundation (CNCF) project. Kubernetes has been
widely adopted by the community, supported on all major public and private
cloud providers, and is gaining rapid adoption in enterprises. However,
Kubernetes may seem intimidating and complex to learn. This is because
Kubernetes is more of a toolset than a ready solution. Hence it's essential
to know when and how to apply the appropriate Kubernetes constructs.
In his session at @DevOpsSummit at 21st Cloud Expo, Jim Bugwadia, founder and
CEO at Nirmata, will cover all Kubernetes concepts that are important to
devel... (more)
Why Treating Test Management and Test Environment Management Separately Is
Killing Your Efficiency
By Alon Inditzky
Imagine that you have hundreds of development, testing, and operations teams
spread across the globe that rely on each other to execute software testing.
You have 245 test environments and you release to pre-production several
times a day and deploy to production once a week. How do you manage all the
software tests, test data, and test environments?
Traditionally, the answer would be to fill out spreadsheets or siloed tools,
send emails, and hope that everything and everyone is ready at each stage of
the software testing lifecycle (STLC).
But this often doesn’t work well. Requirements change and not everyone gets
notified or reads email updates. Test environments aren’t ready or
available when they need to be. Further, a host of other challenges stand ... (more)
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
Track 4. DevOps | Digital Transformation (DX)
Track 5. APIs | Cloud Security | Mobility
Track 6. AI | ML | DL | Cognitive
Track 7. Containers | Microservices | Serverless
Track 8. FinTech | InsurTech | Token Economy
Cloud Expo | @ThingsExpo 2017 Silicon Valley
(October 31 - November 2, 2017, Santa Clara Convention Center, CA)
Cloud Expo | @ThingsExpo... (more)
Containers 101: What You Need to Know
Containers are the future of web development, in large part thanks to
Docker's explosive growth. According to DataDog, 15 percent of hosts run
Docker, which is significantly up from the 6 percent of hosts running it at
this point in 2015. LinkedIn has also seen a 160 percent increase in profile
references to Docker in just the past year alone, indicating Docker has
become a much bigger priority for IT professionals looking for work. With
this technology primed to continue its exponential growth in the coming
years, here's a Q&A; rundown of the basics: consider it Containers 101.
What are containers, exactly? And why are they so rapidly grabbing developer
market share from virtual machines?
In order to better understand containers, it's helpful to consider them in
contrast to virtual machines.
A virtual machine (VM) is an emulatio... (more)
Container Development on Azure Made Easy with Helm and Draft
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, will cover Docker Swarm and Kubernetes deployments on Azure with
some simple examples. He will look at Helm and Draft and how they can
simplify app development significantly, like app scaling, rollback, etc. Helm
is a tool that streamlines installing and managing Kubernetes applications,
like the apt/yum/homebrew for K... (more)
Hyperconvergence 2.0: HCI at Enterprise-Scale
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 experience at enterprise-scale.
Speaker Bio
Wes Talbert is a Principal Architect and results-driven enterprise sales
leader at NetApp with nearly two decades of data center standards and
information security experience in numerous verticals. Delivering technical
solutions to meet the strategic needs of an organization is his passion... (more)
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Reinventing IT Operations with Real-Time Big Data
As businesses adopt functionalities in cloud computing, it's imperative that
IT operations consistently ensure cloud systems work correctly - all of the
time, and to their best capabilities.
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In his session at @BigDataExpo, Bernd Harzog, CEO and founder of
OpsDataStore, presented an industry answer to the common question, "Are you
running IT operations as efficiently and as cost effectively as you need to?"
He then expounded on the industry issues he frequently came up against as an
analyst, and how this led him to found OpsDataStore. He also discussed how
data-driven IT operations will save money, and detect trends and patterns
that precede actual problems by allowing never-before-seen transparency into
the IT stack.
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How to Become the "Most Popular" @CloudExpo, @ThingsExpo and @DevOpsSummit
Speaker
With 10 simultaneous tracks, keynotes, general sessions and targeted breakout
classes, Cloud Expo and @ThingsExpo are two of the most important technology
events of the year. Since its launch over eight years ago, Cloud Expo and
@ThingsExpo have presented a rock star faculty as well as showcased hundreds
of sponsors and exhibitors!
In this blog post, I provide 7 tips on how, as part of our world-class
faculty, you can deliver one of the most popular sessions at our events. But
before reading these essential tips, please take a moment and watch this
brief video from Sandy Carter.
"Cloud Expo was really the event to connect with thought leaders, innovators,
business folks who are interested in what the cloud can bring to their
business. You know really how it allows them to bring the... (more)
DevOps vs SRE vs Cloud Native
DevOps is under attack because developers don't want to mess with
infrastructure. They will happily own their code into production, but want to
use platforms instead of raw automation. That's changing the landscape that
we understand as DevOps with both architecture concepts (CloudNative) and
process redefinition (SRE).
Rob Hirschfeld's recent work in Kubernetes operations has led to the
conclusion that containers and related platforms have changed the way we
should be thinking about DevOps and controlling infrastructure. The rise of
Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) is part of that redefinition of operations
vs development roles in organizations.
In his session at @DevOpsSummit at 21st Cloud Expo, Rob Hirschfeld, CEO and
co-founder of RackN, will explore this trend and discuss concrete ways to
cope with the coming changes. He'll look... (more)
Ensuring High-Availability for Hybrid Cloud-Based Apps
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 real-time decisions based
on a combination of real user monitoring, synthetic testing, APM, NGINX /
local load balancers, and other data sources, is critical.
In his session at 21st Cloud Expo, Simon Jones, Evangelist and head of
marketing for Cedexis, will show you how easy it can be to leverage these
disparate data sourc... (more)
@CloudExpo Stories By Pat Romanski  In this strange new world where more and more power is drawn from business technology, companies are effectively straddling two paths on the road to innovation and transformation into digital enterprises. The first path is the heritage trail – with “legacy” technology forming the background. Here, extant technologies are transformed by core IT teams to provide more API-driven approaches. Legacy systems can restrict companies that are transitioning into digital enterprises. To truly become a lead... Oct. 13, 2017 07:00 PM EDT Reads: 4,781 | By Elizabeth White  Companies are harnessing data in ways we once associated with science fiction. Analysts have access to a plethora of visualization and reporting tools, but considering the vast amount of data businesses collect and limitations of CPUs, end users are forced to design their structures and systems with limitations.
Until now. As the cloud toolkit to analyze data has evolved, GPUs have stepped in to massively parallel SQL, visualization and machine learning. Oct. 13, 2017 06:30 PM EDT Reads: 342 | By Elizabeth White  Enterprises have taken advantage of IoT to achieve important revenue and cost advantages. What is less apparent is how incumbent enterprises operating at scale have, following success with IoT, built analytic, operations management and software development capabilities – ranging from autonomous vehicles to manageable robotics installations. They have embraced these capabilities as if they were Silicon Valley startups.
As a result, many firms employ new business models that place enormous impor... Oct. 13, 2017 06:15 PM EDT Reads: 1,293 | 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. 13, 2017 06:15 PM EDT Reads: 2,384 | By Liz McMillan  As popularity of the smart home is growing and continues to go mainstream, technological factors play a greater role. The IoT protocol houses the interoperability battery consumption, security, and configuration of a smart home device, and it can be difficult for companies to choose the right kind for their product. For both DIY and professionally installed smart homes, developers need to consider each of these elements for their product to be successful in the market and current smart homes. Oct. 13, 2017 06:00 PM EDT Reads: 282 | 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. Oct. 13, 2017 05:45 PM EDT Reads: 3,039 | 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 th... Oct. 13, 2017 05:45 PM EDT Reads: 1,363 | 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. 13, 2017 04:45 PM EDT Reads: 1,224 | By Pat Romanski  SYS-CON Events announced today that TidalScale 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.
TidalScale is the leading provider of Software-Defined Servers that bring flexibility to modern data centers by right-sizing servers on the fly to fit any data set or workload. TidalScale’s award-winning inverse hypervisor technology combines multiple commodity servers (including their ass... Oct. 13, 2017 04:28 PM EDT Reads: 280 | By Pat Romanski  In his general session at 21st Cloud Expo, Greg Dumas, Calligo’s Vice President and G.M. of US operations, will go over the new Global Data Protection Regulation and how Calligo can help business stay compliant in digitally globalized world.
Greg Dumas is Calligo's Vice President and G.M. of US operations. Calligo is an established service provider that provides an innovative platform for trusted cloud solutions. Calligo’s customers are typically most concerned about GDPR compliance, applicatio... Oct. 13, 2017 04:15 PM EDT Reads: 302 | By Elizabeth White  SYS-CON Events announced today that MIRAI Inc. 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.
MIRAI Inc. are IT consultants from the public sector whose mission is to solve social issues by technology and innovation and to create a meaningful future for people. Oct. 13, 2017 04:15 PM EDT Reads: 1,630 | By Pat Romanski Data scientists must access high-performance computing resources across a wide-area network. To achieve cloud-based HPC visualization, researchers must transfer datasets and visualization results efficiently.
HPC clusters now compute GPU-accelerated visualization in the cloud cluster. To efficiently display results remotely, a high-performance, low-latency protocol transfers the display from the cluster to a remote desktop. Further, tools to easily mount remote datasets and efficiently transfer... Oct. 13, 2017 03:15 PM EDT Reads: 343 | By Pat Romanski  Though cloud is the future of enterprise computing, a smooth transition of legacy applications and systems is critical for seamless business operations. IT professionals are eager to start leveraging the cost, scale and other benefits of cloud, but with massive investments already in place in existing infrastructure and a number of compliance and resource hurdles, it can be challenging to move to a cloud-based infrastructure. Oct. 13, 2017 03:15 PM EDT Reads: 318 | By Pat Romanski  Widespread fragmentation is stalling the growth of the IIoT and making it difficult for partners to work together. The number of software platforms, apps, hardware and connectivity standards is creating paralysis among businesses that are afraid of being locked into a solution.
EdgeX Foundry is unifying the community around a common IoT edge framework and an ecosystem of interoperable components. Oct. 13, 2017 03:00 PM EDT Reads: 259 | By Pat Romanski  In his session at 21st Cloud Expo, Raju Shreewastava, founder of Big Data Trunk, will provide a fun and simple way to introduce Machine Leaning to anyone and everyone. Together we will solve a machine learning problem and find an easy way to be able to do machine learning without even coding.
Raju Shreewastava is the founder of Big Data Trunk (www.BigDataTrunk.com), a Big Data Training and consulting firm with offices in the United States. He previously led the data warehouse/business intellige... Oct. 13, 2017 03:00 PM EDT Reads: 230 | By Liz McMillan Kubernetes is an open source system for automating deployment, scaling, and management of containerized applications. Kubernetes was originally built by Google, leveraging years of experience with managing container workloads, and is now a Cloud Native Compute Foundation (CNCF) project. Kubernetes has been widely adopted by the community, supported on all major public and private cloud providers, and is gaining rapid adoption in enterprises. However, Kubernetes may seem intimidating and complex ... Oct. 13, 2017 03:00 PM EDT Reads: 4,178 | By Elizabeth White  As you move to the cloud, your network should be efficient, secure, and easy to manage. An enterprise adopting a hybrid or public cloud needs systems and tools that provide:
Agility: ability to deliver applications and services faster, even in complex hybrid environments
Easier manageability: enable reliable connectivity with complete oversight as the data center network evolves
Greater efficiency: eliminate wasted effort while reducing errors and optimize asset utilization
Security: imple... Oct. 13, 2017 02:45 PM EDT Reads: 558 | By Yeshim Deniz  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 tha... Oct. 13, 2017 01:30 PM EDT Reads: 1,058 | By Liz McMillan  SYS-CON Events announced today that Cedexis 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.
Cedexis is the leader in data-driven enterprise global traffic management. Whether optimizing traffic through datacenters, clouds, CDNs, or any combination, Cedexis solutions drive quality and cost-effectiveness. Oct. 13, 2017 01:15 PM EDT Reads: 1,747 | By Liz McMillan  Amazon is pursuing new markets and disrupting industries at an incredible pace. Almost every industry seems to be in its crosshairs. Companies and industries that once thought they were safe are now worried about being “Amazoned.”. The new watch word should be “Be afraid. Be very afraid.”
In his session 21st Cloud Expo, Chris Kocher, a co-founder of Grey Heron, will address questions such as: What new areas is Amazon disrupting? How are they doing this? Where are they likely to go? What are th... Oct. 13, 2017 01:15 PM EDT Reads: 428 |
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SYS-CON Events announced today that Avere Systems, a leading provider of enterprise storage for the hybrid cloud, 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.
Avere delivers a more modern architectural approach to storage that doesn't require the overprovisioning of storage capacity to achieve performance, overspending on expensive storage media for inactive data or the overbuilding of data centers to house increasing amounts of storage infrastructure.
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.
Digital transformation is changing the face of business. The IDC predicts that enterprises will commit to a massive new scale of digital transformation, to stake out leadership positions in the "digital transformation economy." Accordingly, attendees at the upcoming Cloud Expo | @ThingsExpo at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA, Oct 31-Nov 2, will find fresh new content in a new track called Enterprise Cloud & Digital Transformation.
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.
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.
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...
Most technology leaders, contemporary and from the hardware era, are reshaping their businesses to do software. They hope to capture value from emerging technologies such as IoT, SDN, and AI. Ultimately, irrespective of the vertical, it is about deriving value from independent software applications participating in an ecosystem as one comprehensive solution. In his session at @ThingsExpo, Kausik Sridhar, founder and CTO of Pulzze Systems, will discuss how given the magnitude of today's application ecosystem, tweaking existing software to stitch various components together leads to sub-optimal ...
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. 
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.
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 from the ground up of a data-driven ecosystem, as Google promotes its self-driving car project
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. 
"We provide IoT solutions. We provide the most compatible solutions for many applications. Our solutions are industry agnostic and also protocol agnostic," explained Richard Han, Head of Sales and Marketing and Engineering at Systena America, in this SYS-CON.tv interview at @ThingsExpo, held June 6-8, 2017, at the Javits Center in New York City, NY.
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? 
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...
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.
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