I like this word re-imagination from Mary Meeker’s Internet Trends presentation. We are seeing so many aspects of our life being transformed by the internet. Take for example, ordering a cab to go somewhere. Either we phone for a yellow cab here in California or if you are in New York city, then you stand and wave for an incoming yellow cab to stop. The new game-changer is Uber. All you do is touch your smartphone screen for UberX or Black car and you get an instant message about the car coming in less than 5 minutes time with the driver and car info. It is cheaper and you pay by card (pre-registered in your Uber account). This is re-imagining the transport sector. Uber, a San Francisco company is worth about $17B and is operating in 70 cities around the world. Quite a disruptive force! The following list shows several new alternatives using the internet technolog... (more)

Seagate Named "Exhibitor" of Cloud Expo Silicon Valley

SYS-CON Events announced today that Seagate will exhibit at SYS-CON's 15th International Cloud Expo®, which will take place on November 4-6, 2014, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA. Founded in 1979, Seagate is the leading provider of hard drives and storage solutions. From the videos, music and documents we share with friends and family on social networks, to servers that form the backbone of enterprise data centers and cloud-based computing, to desktop and notebook computers that fuel our personal productivity, Seagate products help more people store, share and protect their valuable digital content. According to Seagate market research, more than 60 percent of storage will be shipped to cloud applications in 2020, up from 25 percent in 2011. Seagate’s storage products for the cloud reduce energy and cooling costs, and consume nearly a thir... (more)

Pizza Hut: #WebRTC Intersects With The 'Internet of Things' [#IoT]

Can call centers hang up the phones for good? Intuitive Solutions did. WebRTC enabled this contact center provider to eliminate antiquated telephony and desktop phone infrastructure with a pure web-based solution, allowing them to expand beyond brick-and-mortar confines to a home-based agent model. It also ensured scalability and better service for customers, including MUY! Companies, one of the country's largest franchise restaurant companies with 232 Pizza Hut locations. This is one example of WebRTC adoption today, but the potential is limitless when powered by IoT. Attendees will learn real-world benefits of WebRTC and explore future possibilities, as WebRTC and IoT intersect to improve customer service. Since the initial buzz of WebRTC, the ability to enable browser-to-browser applications for voice calling, video chat and P2P file sharing without plugins has bee... (more)

SmartGrid: An Example Sensor Analytics Ecosystem | @ThingsExpo [#IoT]

SmartGrid: An Example Sensor Analytics Ecosystem Cultural, regulatory, environmental, political and economic (CREPE) conditions over the past decade are creating cross-industry solution spaces that require processes and technologies from both the Internet of Things (IoT), and Data Management and Analytics (DMA). These solution spaces are evolving into Sensor Analytics Ecosystems (SAE) that represent significant new opportunities for organizations of all types. Public Utilities throughout the world, providing electricity, natural gas and water, are pursuing SmartGrid initiatives that represent one of the more mature examples of SAE. Register for @ThingsExpo "FREE" (before Friday) ▸ Here We have spoken with, or attended presentations from, utilities in the United States, South America, Asia and Europe. This session will provide a look at the CREPE drivers for SmartGrids... (more)

GlassFish, Open MQ, and the Ear-Eye Problem By @YFain

GlassFish, Open MQ, and the Ear-Eye Problem Yesterday I’ve been updating code examples for the messaging chapter for the 2nd edition of my Java book. While doing this, I ran into an issue, then fixed it, but the cause and the solution illustrate the situation that we call “Ear-Eye”, which comes from and old joke popular in the USSR, where TV propaganda was stating that everything is great while people had hard time finding food in store. Here’s the joke: An old lady comes to a medical center saying that she needs to see an Ear-Eye specialist. The receptionist replied, “There is no such specialization in medicine. Why would you need such a doctor?” The old lady answered, “What I hear on the radio, I don’t see in the real life.” In programming, we have similar situations quite often – you look at the code everything looks perfect, but it doesn’t work no matter how long... (more)

The Edison Moment for the Internet of Me By @AbeGong | @ThingsExpo [#IoT]

Trick question: What did Thomas Edison do for the lightbulb? He didn't invent it - working light bulbs existed in laboratories for 80 years before Edison arrived. Instead, Edison's team made electric light scalable. They turned a theoretical possibility into a daily, lived reality - for billions of people. Today, we are at the same point for behavior change. Psychologists, economists, and other behavioral researchers have shown that it's possible to nudge habits, but almost no one has been able to deliver sustainable, reliable behavior change at scale. Register for @ThingsExpo "FREE" (before Friday) ▸ Here That's about to change, as the Internet of Things and Big Data make it possible to bring the scientific method to bear on our own habits. The data is there, the commercial incentives are right, and there's enough existing behavioral theory to prime the pump. In h... (more)

P2P Real-Time Communication By @Hookflash | @ThingsExpo [#WebRTC #IoT]

P2P RTC will impact the landscape of communications, shifting from traditional telephony style communications models to OTT (Over-The-Top) cloud assisted & PaaS (Platform as a Service) communication services. The P2P shift will impact many areas of our lives, from mobile communication, human interactive web services, RTC and telephony infrastructure, user federation, security and privacy implications, business costs, and scalability. In his session at Internet of @ThingsExpo, Robin Raymond, Chief Architect at Hookflash, will walk through the shifting landscape of traditional telephone and voice services to the modern P2P RTC era of OTT cloud assisted services. Speaker Bio: Robin Raymond is Chief Architect at Hookflash Inc. He is the author of Open Peer, a Peer-to-Peer protocol for Real-Time Communications. An expert software architect, technical leader and develop... (more)

Apps for the 'Internet of Things' with AppMethod | @ThingsExpo [#IoT]

Apps for the 'Internet of Things' with AppMethod IoT has to be 'Universal'. Therefore, it has to be multi-platform, multi-device, device-size agnostic and more. This is why you hear more and more 'cross-platform' development. This app works on iPhone but not on Android etc. will not do. AppMethod is one such program from the veteran, Embarcadero. Sign up here to get software that you can use to build apps in record short time. http://www.appmethod.com/sign-up?cid=701G0000000vHaD Registration is needed, but easy with few elements. Note that the downlaoded program (file size: 3GB) is free for only one year. Read the information on the download page above. See overview here taken from a video on the site Features overview One-stop mulitdevice app development platform Supports Internet of Things Enterprisemobility Devices with FireDAC support FireUI Multi-device designer ... (more)

Manage Cloud Performance with @Dyn | @CloudExpo [#Cloud]

Download Slide Deck: ▸ Here To manage complex web services with lots of calls to the cloud, many businesses have invested in Application Performance Management (APM) and Network Performance Management (NPM) tools. Together APM and NPM tools are essential aids in improving a business's infrastructure required to support an effective web experience... but they are missing a critical component - Internet visibility. Internet connectivity has always played a role in customer access to web presence, but in the past few years use of the Internet in the web experience has dramatically increased. The broadening use of Cloud Services sources means that web content is coming to the customer from all over the Internet in a multitude of paths. Relying solely on Network and Internet Service Providers will get you connected but at what cost to performance and cost. Gaining the... (more)

WebRTC and the 'Internet of Things' Explosion’ By @TeleStax | @ThingsExpo [#IoT #WebRTC]

Download Slide Deck: ▸ Here From telemedicine to smart cars, digital homes and industrial monitoring, the explosive growth of IoT has created exciting new business opportunities for real time calls and messaging. In his session at @ThingsExpo, Ivelin Ivanov, CEO and Co-Founder of Telestax, shared some of the new revenue sources that IoT created for Restcomm - the open source telephony platform from Telestax. Speaker Bio: Ivelin Ivanov is a technology entrepreneur who founded Mobicents, an Open Source VoIP Platform, to help create, deploy, and manage applications integrating voice, video and data. He is the co-founder of TeleStax, an Open Source Cloud Communications company that helps the shift from legacy IN/SS7 telco networks to IP-based cloud comms. An early investor in multiple start-ups, he still finds time to code for his companies and contribute to open s... (more)

Analytics for the New Millennium with @AppDynamics | @DevOpsSummit [#DevOps]

AppDynamics: Application Analytics for the New Millennium What’s old is new again. That maxim is no truer than in the white hot Application Performance Management (APM) market. A decade ago APM was a dusty corner of enterprise IT, focusing on keeping creaky enterprise apps up and running. Today, the world has changed. Applications have changed. Enterprise IT is undergoing rapid reinvention. As a result, APM is now at the crux of the digital transformation trend. And squarely in the center of this firestorm is San Francisco-based AppDynamics. Ask any teenager about applications and they’ll look at you funny and say, “you mean, apps?” and hold up their smartphone. Today, mobile apps lead the reinvention of the application, filtering down from the consumer space into all corners of the enterprise. The democratization of IT has upended the notion of an enterprise applic... (more)