Register For IoT Workshop ▸ Here (Limited to 20 Attendees) Practical IoT Development for Anyone Using Pi and Python IoT is rapidly becoming mainstream as more and more investments are made into the platforms and technology. As this movement continues to expand and gain momentum it creates a massive wall of noise that can be difficult to sift through. Unfortunately, this inevitably makes IoT less approachable for people to get started with and can hamper efforts to integrate this key technology into your own portfolio. There are so many connected products already in place today with many hundreds more on the horizon, that we already run the risk as enablers and supporters of not being able to effectively understand and develop these complex and multi-disciplined solutions on our own. That understanding, of the basics of circuits, sensors, and how those things work t... (more)

Announcing @YottabyteLLC to Exhibit at @CloudEXPO NY | #Cloud #SDN #SDS #SDDC #DevOps #DataCenter #Monitoring

Yottabyte is a software-defined data center (SDDC) company headquartered in Bloomfield Township, Oakland County, Michigan. The mission of Yottabyte is to enable any organization to easily and economically realize the benefits of the cloud in their own datacenter. The Yottabyte Cloud Software natively virtualizes compute, storage, and network resources into a resilient, automated software-defined cloud infrastructure solution. Both Enterprise IT customers and Service Providers benefit from Yottabyte solutions--efficiently improving organizational flow. Enterprise IT teams can build, deploy, and manage powerful cloud data centers; service providers are able to stand-up complete virtual data centers that can be easily deployed and provided to their customer base. CloudEXPO | DevOpsSUMMIT | DXWorldEXPO 2018 New York will be held November 12-13, 2018 in New York City. ... (more)

Cloud Control Does Not Necessarily Imply Cloud Security

Most of the commentary written about companies moving to the Cloud  focuses on  the loss of control over company data as a consequence of giving up self-hosted infrastructure. There is usually an implication that this is bad. I believe that is not necessarily a given. How may stories do you read daily about data breaches unrelated to the cloud? It’s almost cliche now. The critical question that must be asked is “Can cloud provider X protect your company’s  data better than you can?”. In many cases, the answer is yes. Basically [ in most cases] they do security better than you do. They can afford to hire more security staff  and deploy a more robust security infrastructure. Their business depends on it. In a presentation I gave some time ago on cloud computing located here, I listed the following as additional reasons why: Security measures are cheaper when implemente... (more)

What does a Persian Web Developer think of Microsoft Azure?

I find Nasser's post extremely insightful. Check it out yourself: But while I'm fairly rah-rah about the potential of cloud computing platforms in theory, I remain skeptical about their efficacy for enterprise software development in practice. By comparison, Microsoft is nothing if not gung-ho. Where Amazon and Google have tread carefully, unveiling their cloud services first as pilot programs with limited applications, Microsoft seems determined to deliver its version of the cloud to its entire ISV community on a plate. While the geek in me is itching to play around with this stuff, my instinct says "caution." Let's dispense with the "Microsoft is evil" argument for the moment: Who wants to get in bed with Microsoft for something like this? Windows developers, that's who. You Microsoft ISV partners out there all recognize that a certain amount of vendor lock-in goes ... (more)

Twitter clients could help with backup

I don't know to what extent Twitter archives my posts. For example, here's a blog post from January of this year. It links to a tweet, which is still there. Not sure if it keeps around older stuff, or how I would browse them if I wanted to see what I had written. The search command in Twitter stops at a certain point, exactly where that is -- I don't think anyone knows. Uncertainty about what's backed up is a sure sign of a problem with backups. Because I want a record of whatever I post to Twitter, I wrote an app that archives all my posts and those of people I follow. It's a very easy bit of code to write, since Twitter has an API call that returns all the recent tweets of all the people I follow, every client has to make this call regularly, so it has to be efficient, on both ends; and it is. I have shared the code, anyone can download it for free. It runs in the OPM... (more)

Microsoft boosts Virtualization stack with Opalis acquisition

Toronto-based Opalis Software which provides IT process automation tools for data centers has been acquired by Microsoft. Microsoft will be integrating the acquisition into its System Center product line. As Microsoft ventures into cloud adventures and invests more and more in gigantic mega virtualized data centers, Opalis’s scalable, computing software that includes prepackaged workflows and integration solutions will according to Opalis CEO Todd DeLaughter enable Microsoft “to have the most complete virtualization stack available from any single vendor.” The acquisition seems to be a no-brainer for Microsoft to consolidate its System offerings both for physical and virtual environments-Microsoft and Opalis already share a strong common clientele and Opalis already integrates with Microsoft's Operations Manager and Virtual Machine Manager. Microso... (more)

Windows Azure SDK And Tools February 2010 Release

This release supports VS 2008 and the upcoming VS 2010 RC. For VS 2010 Beta 2 you can use the November 2009 release. New for version 1.1: Windows Azure Drive: Enable a Windows Azure application to use existing NTFS APIs to access a durable drive. This allows the Windows Azure application to mount a page blob as a drive letter, such as X:, and enables easy migration of existing NTFS applications to the cloud. OS Version Support: Allows a Windows Azure application to choose the appropriate Guest OS to run on in the cloud. Bug Fixes StorageClient: Expose account key from storage credentials, expose continuation tokens for pagination, and reduce maximum buffer size for parallel uploads. Windows Azure Diagnostics: Fix path corruption for crash dumps, OnDemandTransfer now respects LogLevelFilter. VS 2010: Improved packaging performance. VS 2010: Support for linked files i... (more)

CPX Interactive’s EVP of Technology to Present on Sugar as a Transactional Platform at SugarCon 2010

New York, NY, April 05, 2010 --(PR.com)-- CPX Interactive’s EVP of Technology, Sid Fein, will present at this year’s SugarCon event in San Francisco, being held April 12-14. SugarCon 2010 unites CRM customers and developers with companies and projects committed to building open business applications for the Cloud. Sid will lead the discussion on using Sugar as a transactional platform. Session Details: Case Study: Using Sugar as a Transactional Platform Topic: CPX Interactive has customized and extended SugarCRM from its core Customer Relationship Management features to include Supplier Relationship Management, Proprietary Transactional Workflows, Internal Controls, Integration with Financial Systems (Epicor), Business Intelligence Systems (Pentaho) and Proprietary Systems (CPX adROIt ad server). These enhancements have made Sugar the primary operational s... (more)

AlertBoot Selects Zeus to Support Cloud Migration

Zeus Technology on Tuesday announced that AlertBoot has chosen Zeus' software-based load balancing solution, Zeus Traffic Manager, to support its migration from a hardware infrastructure to the cloud. Zeus was selected because of its superior performance, software-based architecture and price compared to its hardware-based competitors. With AlertBoot's entire business run online and revolved around its web application, the company knew the importance of maintaining constant availability while migrating to a 100 percent virtual environment. The three hardware solutions AlertBoot previously employed could not overcome this challenge, due to their lengthy installation processes and limited resource scalability. Zeus' pure-software load balancing solution gave AlertBoot the flexibility it required to keep everything up and running throughout the transition and only too... (more)

Dell Joins the Cloud Industry Forum

Dell has furthered its dedication to cloud computing, announcing that it has joined the UK Cloud Industry Forum (CIF), the body established to promote trust, security and transparency within the cloud technology marketplace. The move demonstrates growth around Dell's Cloud Computing Solutions portfolio, offering customisation to meet the needs of hyperscale data centres around the world. With cloud set to change the business IT landscape in what is becoming an increasingly Virtual Era, Dell has invested over $1bn globally to deliver solutions, services and cloud-based options to help customers capture the benefits from new compute and information delivery advances. Dell has been active in the cloud market for quite some time, offering open, capable and affordable solutions across hardware and services. Its cloud hardware solutions help business speed deployment, lo... (more)

Building GovCloud Services

One of the most powerful features of Cloud Computing is the ability to share and implement best practices, both in terms of building databases of them and also then in how these practices are actually implemented. For example our next webinar is MaaS – Municipality as a Service, which is focused on the municipal level of government, and a best practice program for these folks includes the MRM from the Canadian municipal association ‘MISA‘. This stands for Municipal Reference Model which is a program to create repeatable best practices for how to operate a town or city. These is a framework that helps you quantify how to organize your resources and departments into Programs, Services and Processes, and you can then implement these structures on one set of technology products, currently the IBM suite. The program includes a database of all the different processes and a... (more)