Keeping Users and Your Bottom Line Happy: Setting up a Multi-Million Dollar
SaaS Service with Kubernetes
In his session at 20th Cloud Expo, Mike Johnston, an infrastructure
engineer at Supergiant.io, will discuss how to use Kubernetes to setup a SaaS
infrastructure for your business.
Speaker Bio
Mike Johnston is an infrastructure engineer at Supergiant.io with over 12
years of experience designing, deploying, and maintaining server and
workstation infrastructure at all scales. He has experience with brick and
mortar data centers as well as cloud providers like Digital Ocean, Amazon Web
Services, and Rackspace. His expertise is in automating deployment,
management, and problem resolution in these environments, allowing his teams
to run large transactional applications with high availability and the speed
the consumer demands.
As you know, enterprise IT conversation... (more)
"Big data represents a sea change of capabilities in IT" notes Matt McLarty,
Vice President, Client Solutions at Layer 7 Technologies, in this exclusive
Q&A; with Cloud Expo Conference Chair Jeremy Geelan. McLarty continued: "In
conjunction with mobile and cloud, I think Big Data will provide a
technological makeover to the typical enterprise infrastructure, drawing a
hard API border in front of core business services while blurring the line
between logic and data services."
Cloud Computing Journal: Agree or disagree? - "While the IT savings aspect is
compelling, the strongest benefit of cloud computing is how it enhances
business agility."
Matt McLarty: Agree. We have a number of customers who are able to use Layer
7 Gateways to protect their cloud deployments, and leverage the elastic
scaling model of the cloud to handle seasonal or sporadic bursts of traffic
dyn... (more)
DALLAS, Aug. 21, 2014 /PRNewswire-iReach/ -- Amid the proliferation of real
time data from sources such as mobile devices, web, social media, sensors,
log files and transactional applications, Big Data has found a host of
vertical market applications, ranging from fraud detection to R&D.;
Photo - http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20140821/138541
"Big Data Market: 2014 – 2020 – Opportunities, Challenges, Strategies,
Industry Verticals & Forecasts"
Key Findings:
In 2014 Big Data vendors will pocket nearly $30 Billion from hardware,
software and professional services revenues Big Data investments are further
expected to grow at a CAGR of nearly 17% over the next 6 years, eventually
accounting for $76 Billion by the end of 2020 The market is ripe for
acquisitions of pure-play Big Data startups, as competition heats up between
IT incumbents Nearly every large scale IT ven... (more)
Moderro Technologies www.moderro.com will debut its Xpack Internet Computer
– an integrated (hardware, operating system and web management) solution
for the Web 2.0 desktop SYS-CON's Cloud Computing Conference & Expo, November
19-21, in San Jose, CA.
The Xpack features a clean and friendly user interface and operating system
that was written by Moderro specifically for interacting with Web 2.0
applications. This functionality, combined with simplicity, security, a small
footprint, energy efficiency, and backward compatibility make the Moderro
Xpack a perfect choice for Web 2.0 office.
“Web applications are an afterthought with operating systems confining them
to a single-window browser, virtually pushing them into the background,”
said Dan Itkis Moderro Vice President. “We decided to develop our own
operating system, which makes web applications easier to use while ... (more)
Windows 7 is compatible with SAP Business One 2007 and SAP Business One 8.8
Now that windows 7 has been released and all signs are pointing towards a
migration away from windows XP and Vista, a number of questions arise for
business users.
Do all my other applications I depend on work on Windows 7?
Will the performance of my applications be affected?
For everyone running SAP Business One, we can answer both of these critical
questions.
Does SAP Business One run in Windows 7? YES
Does SAP Business One performance improve with Windows 7? YES
There are also many new features of Windows 7 that will make using business
applications, such as SAP Business One and Crystal Reports, more user
friendly.
One of the cool little aspects of Windows 7 that will make using SAP Business
One even easier to use:
For those of you who frequently have multiple windows of SBO open, Window... (more)
After OpenStack was announced at OSCON in the summer of 2010, the degree of
momentum behind this new open source platform has been nothing short of
spectacular. Startups and enterprises alike have placed their strategic bets
to monetize the OpenStack wave in various ways. As an ecosystem insider and
one of the founding sponsors of the OpenStack Foundation, I wanted to offer
my views on how various organizations are looking to skin this cat.
I'd like to focus on three of the many efforts currently underway. These
three, in particular, happen to be the most vocal about their position and
represent three distinct strategy camps. They are Nebula with its OpenStack
appliance; Piston with its PentOS cloud operating system; and Dell's Crowbar,
an OpenStack installer.
While all these approaches appear radically different on the surface, all
three ultimately offer the same e... (more)
SYS-CON's 2nd International Cloud Expo, held on March 30 -April1, 2009, in
New York City, attracted more than 40 sponsors with over 1,300 delegates, a
record attendance, up from the 1st Cloud Expo in San Jose, CA.
Cloud Computing, through which massively scalable IT-related capabilities are
provided as a service using Internet technologies, has many interpreters just
now - and many interpretations. The next event, Cloud Expo Europe will take
place, May 18-19, 2009, in Prague, Czech Republic.
The three content-packed days emphasized value with a rich array of sessions
led by exceptional speakers about the business and technical value of cloud
computing. Enjoy the photo album of the show, which is updated daily.
Record Attendance For Cloud Computing Expo with More Than 1,200 Delegates
1st International Cloud Computing Conference & Expo, last November in San
Jose attra... (more)
On the day when the Dow Jones Industrial Average topped 12,000 for the first
time since June 2008, it was impossible not to correlate the eloquence and
optimism of President Obama's "State of the Union" speech on Tuesday night
with the restoration of a sense of perspective and hope in the USA about the
future.
Obama grasped the nettle full-on. "We are poised for progress," he declared,
adding:
"Two years after the worst recession most of us have ever known, the stock
market has come roaring back. Corporate profits are up. The economy is
growing."
As one blogger expressed it, though - and he is a former Goldman Sachs trader
called Tyler Durden, so he ought to know wheref he speaks:
"There was a massive pink elephant in the room called reality though."
Durden's gripe is with what he deems to be the unreality of Obama's praising
Google and Facebook so highly in an Ameri... (more)
In my last Cortex newsletter I explained that the trimodal pattern from Value
Chain Mapping wouldn't fix the well-known issues with bimodal IT. I've also
gone on the record taking issue with Gartner's questionable advice to let
slow go slow. Instead, my advice for getting out of the bimodal IT trap is to
fix slow.
Fix slow, you say? Easier said than done! After all, enterprises have been
struggling with legacy modernization and migration initiatives for decades,
with woefully limited success. Why should we expect any better luck this time
around?
Even if we did have some magic wand that would resolve all our legacy
technology issues, we still have all the people in slow IT, following all of
those slow processes they've been following in one form or another for years.
The good news: we're not necessarily doomed to repeat history. Modernization
ain't what it used to ... (more)
ARMONK, NY -- (MARKET WIRE) -- 02/06/07 -- IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced
expanded scalability enhancements to the industry's most powerful
virtualization technology z/VM. With this new release, z/VM version 5.3 can
now host the industry's largest number of virtual images on a single
hypervisor -- virtualization technology that makes one computer look like
multiple computers -- allowing customers to further optimize and consolidate
their infrastructures.
Internal testing conducted by IBM reveals that the new virtualization product
release can host more than 1,000 virtual images on a single copy of z/VM. The
new software, which can be used to replace many physical servers with
"virtual" ones running in a single mainframe, helps customers lower energy
consumption and other costs associated with data centers that have large
numbers of single-application servers.
The... (more)
Readers of Virtualization Journal know that virtualization provides enormous
benefits to makers and users of computing platforms ranging from desktops, to
servers, and even supercomputers. The reasons for this are now obvious; cost
savings through server consolidation, reduced administrative costs, and
greater flexibility. Less obvious may be the degree to which virtualization
can benefit deeply embedded applications such as cell phones, networking
equipment, and point of sales terminals. While there are similarities
in some of the value propositions involved, there are also substantial
differences due to the more challenging timing and resource budgets of
embedded devices. Real-time processing in embedded applications puts a
premium on low latency, highly deterministic approaches to hypervisor design,
while the available volatile and non-volatile memory is small... (more)
Cloud, containers, and their second cousin, DevOps, are disrupting the data center. Not just because applications are leaving, but because of the demands and expectations of dev and ops on IT. Modernization - not just migration - is critical for the data center to add value to the business. This session will explore these demands and expectations and provide both architectural and operational guidance to making the changes necessary to maintain relevance in a cloudy, containerized, and DevOps-driven world. If you're good with that, let's run with it.
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.
At CloudEXPO Silicon Valley, June 24-26, 2019, Digital Transformation (DX) is a major focus with expanded DevOpsSUMMIT and FinTechEXPO programs within the DXWorldEXPO agenda. Successful transformation requires a laser focus on being data-driven and on using all the tools available that enable transformation if they plan to survive over the long term. A total of 88% of Fortune 500 companies from a generation ago are now out of business. Only 12% still survive. Similar percentages are found throughout enterprises of all sizes.
Modern software design has fundamentally changed how we manage applications, causing many to turn to containers as the new virtual machine for resource management. As container adoption grows beyond stateless applications to stateful workloads, the need for persistent storage is foundational - something customers routinely cite as a top pain point. In his session at @DevOpsSummit at 21st Cloud Expo, Bill Borsari, Head of Systems Engineering at Datera, explored how organizations can reap the benefits of the cloud without losing performance as containers become the new paradigm.
When you're operating multiple services in production, building out forensics tools such as monitoring and observability becomes essential. Unfortunately, it is a real challenge balancing priorities between building new features and tools to help pinpoint root causes. Linkerd provides many of the tools you need to tame the chaos of operating microservices in a cloud native world.
Because Linkerd is a transparent proxy that runs alongside your application, there are no code changes required. It even comes with Prometheus to store the metrics for you and pre-built Grafana dashboards to show exactly what is important for your services - success rate, latency, and throughput.
Kubernetes as a Container Platform is becoming a de facto for every enterprise. In my interactions with enterprises adopting container platform, I come across common questions: - How does application security work on this platform? What all do I need to secure? - How do I implement security in pipelines? - What about vulnerabilities discovered at a later point in time? - What are newer technologies like Istio Service Mesh bring to table?In this session, I will be addressing these commonly asked questions that every enterprise trying to adopt an Enterprise Kubernetes Platform needs to know so t...
Special thanks for the help on this blog to the coolest, most hip group of industry experts that I have ever met: the Pathfinders. The Pathfinders is an elite forces group of master system engineers inside of Dell EMC who tackle our customers’ most difficult and inspiring challenges. I am honored to be part of that club! Suppose an autonomous vehicle learns of a more efficient route and wants sell this knowledge to other autonomous cars for a fee (using blockchain to handle machine to machine transaction). Suppose the autonomous vehicle could start to monetize itself; to self-fund its own op...
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