DXWorldEXPO LLC, the producer of the world's most influential technology conferences and trade shows has announced the "Call for Papers" for @DevOpsSummit at CloudEXPO | DXWorldEXPO 2018 New York. Speaking Opportunities ▸ Here Sponsorship Opportunities ▸ Here Secrets of Our Most Popular Faculty Members ▸ Here From showcase success stories from early adopters and web-scale businesses, DevOps is expanding to organizations of all sizes, including the world's largest enterprises - and delivering real results. Among the proven benefits, DevOps is correlated with 20% faster time-to-market, 22% improvement in quality, and 18% reduction in dev and ops costs, according to research firm Vanson-Bourne. It is changing the way IT works, how businesses interact with customers, and how organizations are buying, building, and delivering software. With a growing number of both ad... (more)

Leveraging AI for Mobile Enterprise Apps | @ExpoDX #Chatbots #AI #ArtificialIntelligence

Download Slide Deck: ▸ Here Download Slide Deck: ▸ Here Leveraging AI for Mobile Enterprise Applications Mobile device usage has increased exponentially during the past several years, as consumers rely on handhelds for everything from news and weather to banking and purchases. What can we expect in the next few years? The way in which we interact with our devices will fundamentally change, as businesses leverage Artificial Intelligence. We already see this taking shape as businesses leverage AI for cost savings and customer responsiveness. This trend will continue, as AI is used for more sophisticated patterns, and chatbots replace the traditional mobile apps. Download Slide Deck: ▸ Here In his session at 21st Cloud Expo, Michael Meiner, an Engineering Director at Oracle, looked at this evolution of mobile computing, along with the underlying enterprise technolog... (more)

Cloud Readiness Assessment with @CASTHighlight | @CloudExpo #DevOps

"I focus on what we are calling CAST Highlight, which is our SaaS application portfolio analysis tool. It is an extremely lightweight tool that can integrate with pretty much any build process right now," explained Andrew Siegmund, Application Migration Specialist for CAST, in this SYS-CON.tv interview at 21st Cloud Expo, held Oct 31 - Nov 2, 2017, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA. DXWorldEXPO LLC, the producer of the world's most influential technology conferences and trade shows has announced the conference tracks for CloudEXPO | DXWorldEXPO 2018 New York. DXWordEXPO New York 2018, colocated with CloudEXPO New York 2018 will be held November 11-13, 2018, in New York City. Digital Transformation (DX) is a major focus with the introduction of DXWorldEXPO within the program. Successful transformation requires a laser focus on being data-drive... (more)

What GDPR Is and How to Comply with It | @ExpoDX #AI #GDPR #Security

What GDPR Is and How to Comply with It: A Brief Guide As you have probably heard, the EU commission signed the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) back in April 2016. The legislation is designed to help companies handle efficiently the data challenges of the 21st century and give strict guidelines as to how to work with massive flows of digital information. It is set to protect web users (data subjects) from malicious use and loss of their personal info and, also, to give people greater control over how their records are processed. GDPR is to take effect on May 25, 2018. Company runners still have time enough to modify organizational processes to comply fully with new security rules, and today we will explain how they should start. What Exactly Is GDPR About? First off, it outlines how companies that work with EU personal data should obtain client’s consent. ... (more)

[session] Reinventing the Edge Tier | @CloudExpo #CloudNative #DevOps #DX

The Reactive Edge: Reinventing the Edge Tier Using a Reactive Communication Protocol There is a huge demand for responsive, real-time mobile and web experiences, but current architectural patterns do not easily accommodate applications that respond to events in real time. Common solutions using message queues or HTTP long-polling quickly lead to resiliency, scalability and development velocity challenges. In his session at 21st Cloud Expo, Ryland Degnan, a Senior Software Engineer on the Netflix Edge Platform team, will discuss how by leveraging a reactive stream-based protocol, we have been able to solve many of these problems at the communication layer. This makes it possible to create rich application experiences and support use-cases such as mobile-to-mobile communication and large file transfers that would be difficult or cost-prohibitive with traditional ne... (more)

So You Have a Great App Idea By @DigDevScott | @ThingsExpo [#IoT]

So You Have a Great App Idea…Now What? It seems like the fast-paced world of mobile technology would make it difficult to “stop and look around once in a while” but several recent milestones are worthy of our attention. The growth of the mobile application industry over the last 36 months has been startling to say the least. The proliferation of app building templates marches in lockstep with that growth and in many ways has been a catalyst for that growth. Because of this a new “appconomy” has evolved and fueled small business marketing expansion. In fact, more has happened in the last ten years to help businesses both large and small market their products and services than happened in the hundred years before. With the advent of the internet, YouTube, Instagram and so many other sites, businesses could bring their products to the public directly selling and p... (more)

[session] @Nordstrom’s #DigitalTransformation | @CloudExpo #DevOps #DX

Nordstrom's Cloud Transformation - From Brick to Click Nordstrom is transforming the way that they do business and the cloud is the key to enabling speed and hyper personalized customer experiences. In his session at 21st Cloud Expo, Ken Schow, VP of Engineering at Nordstrom, will discuss some of the key learnings and common pitfalls of large enterprises moving to the cloud. This includes strategies around choosing a cloud provider(s), architecture, and lessons learned. In addition, he'll go over some of the best practices for structured team migration and discuss ways to control cloud costs. Speaker Bio Ken Schow is VP of Engineering at Nordstrom, focused on modernizing digital platforms through the use of open source technologies and multi-cloud elastic infrastructure. In his current role, Kenneth is responsible for establishing the vision, architectural strateg... (more)

My Two-Year-Old Daughter Sofia Facing Life-Long Disability in Syria

The day after my last tweet regarding the lack of any new information about my abducted daughter Sofia since March 4, I received an updated letter on Thursday, April 7, 2011, from the State Department on Sofia's welfare in Syria. Fox News: ▸ video ▸ story Sofia was abducted by her mother from the United States to Syria last July, following her diagnosis of GDD with possible autism. She had 13 remaining medical appointments left at the time of her abduction, none of which she was able to keep. Last week's welfare report prepared by our Embassy in Damascus, Syria, after their second welfare visit to the home in Syria where Sofia remains with her mother and grandmother, showed a bleaker outcome for my daughter than the previous report dated November 2010. At two years and two months of age, Sofia still doesn't speak a single word, make or follow simple hand gestures... (more)

10th International Cloud Expo | Cloud Expo New York – Photo Album

10th International Cloud Expo, held on June 11-14, 2012 at the Javits Center in New York City, featured four content-packed days with a rich array of sessions about the business and technical value of cloud computing led by exceptional speakers from every sector of the cloud computing ecosystem. The Cloud Expo series is the fastest-growing Enterprise IT event in the past 10 years, devoted to every aspect of delivering massively scalable enterprise IT as a service. We invite you to enjoy our photo album of the show - we'll be adding new images all week. ... (more)

Ten Predictions for Cyber Security

Well … they are not my predictions. These predictions have been made by Graeme Newman of CFC Underwriting in the Advisen’s third Cyber Liability Journal (CLj). These predictions are from the view point of an insurer … but I find the first and the last prediction (mentioned in the beginning) to be  most interesting. The first billion dollar loss…from hacking As per the article, the largest loss so far was suffered in the Sony PlayStation hack which cost the company an estimated $170 million after hackers stole 77 million users’ private information. This is the payout made by the insurer. This is what the author predicts: As insurers get bolder, and newer less experienced carriers enter the market, it is inevitable that there will be at least one major billion dollar insured loss. Worryingly, this loss could hit one single carrier where they have failed to adequately pro... (more)

[slides] Leveraging #AI for Cloud Management | @CloudExpo @ZeroStackInc #CloudNative

Download Slide Deck: ▸ Here Download Slide Deck: ▸ Here 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. Download Slide Deck: ▸ Here 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 Download Slide Deck: ▸ Here Speaker Bio Ajay Gulati is Co-founder and CEO of ZeroStack, Inc. He leads ZeroStack's i... (more)