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SYS-CON Events announced today that Grape Up 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.
Grape Up is a software company specializing in cloud native application
development and professional services related to Cloud Foundry PaaS.
With five expert teams that operate in various sectors of the market across
the U.S. and Europe, Grape Up works with a variety of customers from emerging
startups to Fortune 1000 companies.
For more information, visit http://grapeup.com/.
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DevOps at Cloud Expo taking place October 31 - November 2, 2017, at the
Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA, will feature technical
sessions from a rock star conference faculty and the leading industry players
in the world.
Must Watch Video: R... (more)
Top Docker Tools: 51 Useful Docker Tools for Every Stage of the Development
Pipeline
By Angela Stringfellow
Docker is sweeping across startups and enterprises alike, changing the way we
build and ship applications. It's the most prominent and widely known
software container platform, and it's particularly useful for eliminating
common challenges when collaborating on code (like the "it works on my
machine" phenomenon that most devs know all too well). With Docker, you can
run and manage apps side-by-side - in isolated containers - resulting in
better compute density. It's something that many developers don't think
about, but you can even use Docker with ASP.NET.
You probably don't need to be sold on the many appealing Docker capabilities,
but you might not be familiar with the wide range of third-party tools that
integrate seamlessly with Docker, from logging tools ... (more)
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How Do You Eat a Whale? One Byte at a Time
In his session at @DevOpsSummit at 20th Cloud Expo, Kelly Looney, director of
DevOps consulting for Skytap, showed how an incremental approach to
introducing containers into complex, distributed applications results in
modernization with less risk and more reward. He also shared the story of how
Skytap used Docker to get out of the business of managing infrastructure, and
into the business of delivering innovation and business value. Attendees
learned how up-front planning allows for a clean separation between
infrastructure, platform, and service concerns.
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Attendees also learned how to evaluate which components of their applications
are best-suited first for containers, how to experiment safely and get fast
feedback, and how to increase... (more)
How to Architect an IoT Solution
Recently, IoT seems emerging as a solution vehicle for data analytics on
real-world scenarios from setting a room temperature setting to predicting a
component failure of an aircraft. Compared with developing an application or
deploying a cloud service, is an IoT solution unique? If so, how? How does a
typical IoT solution architecture consist? And what are the essential
components and how are they relevant to each other? How does the security
play out? What are the best practices in formulating an IoT solution? These
are all the topics which this presentation will cover.
In his session at @ThingsExpo, Yung Chou, a Cloud Architect at BlueMetal, an
Insight company, will delineate a structured approach for architecting an IoT
solution. Those who assume technical leadership in developing, operating,
assessing and advising IT solutions w... (more)
I have had the opportunity to work for and around a good many start-ups
during the course of my career. Often the start-up founders would simply
define a problem, develop a solution and launch a company. The marketing
department would then do their very best to identify the individuals in each
target company that experienced the problem and had a budget to fix it. This
was always a challenging task, that has become even harder today.
Today, start-ups must not only identify a problem that needs solving, but
they must compete against "digital transformation" initiatives in both the
business and IT organizations that are trying to reduce complexity through
the elimination of applications, customized software solutions, IT systems,
multiple instances of ERPs and vendors.
The goal of many organizations today is to simplify the IT environment, and
to make business proce... (more)
As organizations abandon the waterfall method of software development for
Agile, many are stuck in what Hasan Yasar terms Water-Scrum-Fall. That is,
the organization has not effectively embraced Agile and DevOps principles and
remains in silos with no links to business goals. Enter DevOps, an extension
of Agile thinking. While Agile embraces constant change and embeds the
customer into the process, DevOps embraces constant testing and delivery and
embeds operations into the team to internalize expertise on deployment and
maintenance.
This is how Hasan started his talk, Multi Security Checkpoints on DevOps
Platform, at the All Day DevOps conference.
In his talk, Hasan lays out a plan to get organizations to DevSecOps. Really,
DevOps is a risk mitigation strategy, built on situational awareness,
automation, and repetition. But, security is where a lot of DevOps
imp... (more)
SYS-CON Events announced today that Akvelon 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.
Akvelon is a business and technology consulting firm that specializes in
applying cutting-edge technology to problems in fields as diverse as mobile
technology, sports technology, finance, and healthcare.
For more information, please visit http://akvelon.com.
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.
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SYS-CON Events announced today that Interoute, owner-operator of one of
Europe's largest networks and a global cloud services platform, has been
named "Bronze Sponsor" of SYS-CON's 20th Cloud Expo, which will take place
on June 6-8, 2017 at the Javits Center in New York, New York.
Interoute is the owner-operator of one of Europe's largest networks and a
global cloud services platform which encompasses 12 data centers, 14 virtual
data centers and 31 colocation centers, with connections to 195 additional
third-party data centers across Europe. Its full-service Unified ICT platform
serves international enterprises and many of the world's leading service
providers, as well as governments and universities.
Interoute's Unified ICT strategy provides solutions for enterprises seeking
connectivity and a scalable, secure advanced platform on which they can build
their voice,... (more)
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)
The World's Largest "Cloud Digital Transformation" Event
@CloudExpo / @ThingsExpo 2017 New York
(June 6-8, 2017, Javits Center, Manhattan)
@CloudExpo / @ThingsExpo 2017 Silicon Valley
(Oct. 31 - Nov. 2, 2017, Santa Clara Convention Center, CA)
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Sponsorship Opportunities
Sponsors of Cloud Expo [email protected] will benefit from unmatched branding,
profile building and lead generation opportunities through:
Featured on-site presentation and ongoing on-demand webcast exposure to a
captive audience of industry decision-makers Showcase exhibition during our
new extended dedicated expo hours Breakout Session Priority scheduling for
Sponsors that have been guaranteed a 35 minut... (more)
SYS-CON Events announced today that MobiDev, a client-oriented software
development company, will exhibit at SYS-CON's 20th International Cloud
Expo®, which will take place June 6-8, 2017, at the Javits Center in New
York City, NY, and the 21st International Cloud Expo®, which will take
place October 31-November 2, 2017, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in
Santa Clara, CA.
MobiDev is a software company that develops and delivers turn-key mobile
apps, websites, web services, and complex software systems for startups and
enterprises. Since 2009 it has grown from a small group of passionate
engineers and business managers to a full-scale mobile software company with
over 200 developers, designers, quality assurance engineers, project managers
in house, specializing in the world-class mobile and web development.
The company's main focus is saving the time and effor... (more)
@CloudExpo Stories By Liz McMillan  Enterprise architects are increasingly adopting multi-cloud strategies as they seek to utilize existing data center assets, leverage the advantages of cloud computing and avoid cloud vendor lock-in. This requires a globally aware traffic management strategy that can monitor infrastructure health across data centers and end-user experience globally, while responding to control changes and system specification at the speed of today’s DevOps teams. In his session at 20th Cloud Expo, Josh Gray, Chie... Aug. 19, 2017 03:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,157 | By Liz McMillan  To get the most out of their data, successful companies are not focusing on queries and data lakes, they are actively integrating analytics into their operations with a data-first application development approach. Real-time adjustments to improve revenues, reduce costs, or mitigate risk rely on applications that minimize latency on a variety of data sources. Jack Norris reviews best practices to show how companies develop, deploy, and dynamically update these applications and how this data-first... Aug. 19, 2017 02:15 AM EDT Reads: 977 | By Pat Romanski  Intelligent Automation is now one of the key business imperatives for CIOs and CISOs impacting all areas of business today. In his session at 21st Cloud Expo, Brian Boeggeman, VP Alliances & Partnerships at Ayehu, will talk about how business value is created and delivered through intelligent automation to today’s enterprises. The open ecosystem platform approach toward Intelligent Automation that Ayehu delivers to the market is core to enabling the creation of the self-driving enterprise. Aug. 19, 2017 02:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,176 | By Elizabeth White  "We're here to tell the world about our cloud-scale infrastructure that we have at Juniper combined with the world-class security that we put into the cloud," explained Lisa Guess, VP of Systems Engineering at Juniper Networks, in this SYS-CON.tv interview at 20th Cloud Expo, held June 6-8, 2017, at the Javits Center in New York City, NY. Aug. 19, 2017 01:00 AM EDT Reads: 2,226 | By Liz McMillan  "We're a cybersecurity firm that specializes in engineering security solutions both at the software and hardware level. Security cannot be an after-the-fact afterthought, which is what it's become," stated Richard Blech, Chief Executive Officer at Secure Channels, in this SYS-CON.tv interview at @ThingsExpo, held November 1-3, 2016, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA. Aug. 18, 2017 11:00 PM EDT Reads: 6,552 | By Pat Romanski  In his session at 20th Cloud Expo, Mike Johnston, an infrastructure engineer at Supergiant.io, discussed how to use Kubernetes to set up a SaaS infrastructure for your business. 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. H... Aug. 18, 2017 10:45 PM EDT Reads: 2,214 | By Elizabeth White SYS-CON Events announced today that Grape Up 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. Grape Up is a software company specializing in cloud native application development and professional services related to Cloud Foundry PaaS. With five expert teams that operate in various sectors of the market across the U.S. and Europe, Grape Up works with a variety of customers from emergi... Aug. 18, 2017 10:15 PM EDT Reads: 6,741 | By Elizabeth White  You know you need the cloud, but you’re hesitant to simply dump everything at Amazon since you know that not all workloads are suitable for cloud. You know that you want the kind of ease of use and scalability that you get with public cloud, but your applications are architected in a way that makes the public cloud a non-starter. You’re looking at private cloud solutions based on hyperconverged infrastructure, but you’re concerned with the limits inherent in those technologies. Aug. 18, 2017 10:00 PM EDT Reads: 1,111 | By Liz McMillan  SYS-CON Events announced today that Massive Networks 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. Massive Networks mission is simple. To help your business operate seamlessly with fast, reliable, and secure internet and network solutions. Improve your customer's experience with outstanding connections to your cloud. Aug. 18, 2017 09:30 PM EDT Reads: 1,606 | By Elizabeth White  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... Aug. 18, 2017 09:30 PM EDT Reads: 1,200 | By Elizabeth White  Everything run by electricity will eventually be connected to the Internet. Get ahead of the Internet of Things revolution and join Akvelon expert and IoT industry leader, Sergey Grebnov, in his session at @ThingsExpo, for an educational dive into the world of managing your home, workplace and all the devices they contain with the power of machine-based AI and intelligent Bot services for a completely streamlined experience. Aug. 18, 2017 08:15 PM EDT Reads: 1,964 | By Elizabeth White  Because IoT devices are deployed in mission-critical environments more than ever before, it’s increasingly imperative they be truly smart. IoT sensors simply stockpiling data isn’t useful. IoT must be artificially and naturally intelligent in order to provide more value
In his session at @ThingsExpo, John Crupi, Vice President and Engineering System Architect at Greenwave Systems, will discuss how IoT artificial intelligence (AI) can be carried out via edge analytics and machine learning techn... Aug. 18, 2017 08:15 PM EDT Reads: 1,236 | By Elizabeth White  FinTechs use the cloud to operate at the speed and scale of digital financial activity, but are often hindered by the complexity of managing security and compliance in the cloud. In his session at 20th Cloud Expo, Sesh Murthy, co-founder and CTO of Cloud Raxak, showed how proactive and automated cloud security enables FinTechs to leverage the cloud to achieve their business goals. Through business-driven cloud security, FinTechs can speed time-to-market, diminish risk and costs, maintain continu... Aug. 18, 2017 07:45 PM EDT Reads: 2,692 | By Elizabeth White  "Cloud computing is certainly changing how people consume storage, how they use it, and what they use it for. It's also making people rethink how they architect their environment," stated Brad Winett, Senior Technologist for DDN Storage, in this SYS-CON.tv interview at 20th Cloud Expo, held June 6-8, 2017, at the Javits Center in New York City, NY. Aug. 18, 2017 07:00 PM EDT Reads: 2,206 | By Elizabeth White  Existing Big Data solutions are mainly focused on the discovery and analysis of data. The solutions are scalable and highly available but tedious when swapping in and swapping out occurs in disarray and thrashing takes place. The resolution for thrashing through machine learning algorithms and support nomenclature is through simple techniques. Organizations that have been collecting large customer data are increasingly seeing the need to use the data for swapping in and out and thrashing occurs ... Aug. 18, 2017 07:00 PM EDT Reads: 1,583 | By Pat Romanski  As many know, the first generation of Cloud Management Platform (CMP) solutions were designed for managing virtual infrastructure (IaaS) and traditional applications. But that’s no longer enough to satisfy evolving and complex business requirements. In his session at 21st Cloud Expo, Scott Davis, Embotics CTO, will explore how next-generation CMPs ensure organizations can manage cloud-native and microservice-based application architectures, while also facilitating agile DevOps methodology. He wi... Aug. 18, 2017 06:30 PM EDT Reads: 1,519 | By Yeshim Deniz  SYS-CON Events announced today that Datera, that offers a radically new data management architecture, has been named "Exhibitor" of 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.
Datera is transforming the traditional datacenter model through modern cloud simplicity.
The technology industry is at another major inflection point. The rise of mobile, the Internet of Things, data storage and Big... Aug. 18, 2017 05:30 PM EDT Reads: 2,051 | By Elizabeth White  Blockchain is a shared, secure record of exchange that establishes trust, accountability and transparency across business networks. Supported by the Linux Foundation's open source, open-standards based Hyperledger Project, Blockchain has the potential to improve regulatory compliance, reduce cost as well as advance trade. Are you curious about how Blockchain is built for business? In her session at 21st Cloud Expo, René Bostic, Technical VP of the IBM Cloud Unit in North America, will discuss th... Aug. 18, 2017 04:30 PM EDT Reads: 1,320 | By Elizabeth White  “Why didn’t testing catch this” must become “How did this make it to testing?” Traditional quality teams are the crutch and excuse keeping organizations from making the necessary investment in people, process, and technology to accelerate test automation. Just like societies that did not build waterways because the labor to keep carrying the water was so cheap, we have created disincentives to automate.
In her session at @DevOpsSummit at 20th Cloud Expo, Anne Hungate, President of Daring System... Aug. 18, 2017 04:15 PM EDT Reads: 1,441 | By Yeshim Deniz  SYS-CON Events announced today that GrapeUp, the leading provider of rapid product development at the speed of business, will exhibit at SYS-CON's 21st International Cloud Expo®, which will take place October 31-November 2, 2017, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA. Grape Up is a software company, specialized in cloud native application development and professional services related to Cloud Foundry PaaS. With five expert teams that operate in various sectors of the market acr... Aug. 18, 2017 04:00 PM EDT Reads: 4,371 |
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Internet-of-Things discussions can end up either going down the consumer gadget rabbit hole or focused on the sort of data logging that industrial manufacturers have been doing forever. However, in fact, companies today are already using IoT data both to optimize their operational technology and to improve the experience of customer interactions in novel ways. In his session at @ThingsExpo, Gordon Haff, Red Hat Technology Evangelist, shared examples from a wide range of industries – including energy, transportation, and retail – of using IoT to create new business opportunities and improve eff...
In 2016, artificial intelligence (AI) reached its climax. Research and advisory firm Tractica predicted that the annual worldwide AI revenue will grow from $643.7 million in 2016 to $38.8 billion by 2025. The revenue for enterprise AI applications will increase from $358 million in 2016 to $31.2 billion by 2025, representing a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 64.3%. Thus, IT and business decision makers must face up to the potentials of AI already today. For each kind of organization this leads to the question, which type of technologies or infrastructure they can leverage to operate an A...
I recently had the opportunity to give a 10-minute keynote at DataWorks Summit 2017. I know what most of you are thinking: Schmarzo can barely introduce himself in 10 minutes! What sort of keynote could he give in just 10 minutes? And to be honest, I too struggled with what to say.
But after some brainstorming with my marketing experts (Jeff Abbott, Erin Banks, and Chris Hill), we came up with an idea: Pose 5 questions that every organization needs to consider as they prepare themselves for digital transformation. And while I didn’t have enough time in 10 minutes to answer those questions...
In recent years AI has grown significantly and become a substantial area of business investment. What has changed, and how does this affect you?
For a long time, artificial intelligence was pure science fiction, relegated to books, television and movies—and you don’t need us to tell you that we are well past that point today. In the last few years we have seen extremely rapid advancement in a series of technologies that have come together to unlock a wave of AI investment. According to Accenture, 85% of executives plan to invest extensively in AI in the next three years, and in the same tim...
As today's digital disruptions bounce and smash their way through conventional technologies and conventional wisdom alike, predicting their path is a multifaceted challenge. So many areas of technology advance on Moore's Law-like exponential curves that divining the future is fraught with danger. Such is the problem with artificial intelligence (AI), and its related concepts, including cognitive computing, machine learning, and deep learning.
Any significant business process that can be documented and best practices identified - will be. Any defined process that can be standardized - will be. Standardized processes that can be codified and automated (through robotic software automation), will be - if the volume justifies it. If the process is repeatable across many companies it will be offered as a shared service on a platform in a cloud.
With the wave of personal assistants, such as Siri, Cortana and Google Assistant, and new startups leveraging AI and analytics to build personal companions, it’s becoming clear we are moving toward a new voice-controlled relationship with technology. As we have already seen in the consumer market, it is all but a given that these voice-activation systems will eventually make it into the enterprise environment, as the potential benefits of these systems could be tremendous in simplifying and automating activities. Although it may be a long time before we see the full likenesses of “HAL” from “2...
SYS-CON Events announced today that DXWorldExpo has been named “Global Sponsor” of 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. Digital Transformation is the key issue driving the global enterprise IT business. Digital Transformation is most prominent among Global 2000 enterprises and government institutions.
In the blog “From Autonomous to Smart: Importance of Artificial Intelligence,” we discussed the two critical artificial intelligence (AI) challenges in creating “smart” edge devices:
Artificial Intelligence Challenge #1: How do the Artificial Intelligence algorithms handle the unexpected, such as flash flooding, terrorist attacks, earthquakes, tornadoes, police car chases, emergency vehicles, blown tires, a child chasing a ball into the street, etc.?
Increasingly, in a world of compressed times and distances, humans will be the inventors, designers and managers of digital systems and processes, rather than the operators. Operations will be measured in milliseconds, an inhumane speed where only the machines can deliver.
Professor Paul Virilio, a philosopher of speed, urbanist and cultural theorist, wrote at length about the impact of speed on society. He wrote that speed compresses both time and distance. Where once it took a letter 6 months to get to the other side of the world, an email can now arrive in seconds. Today's near real-tim...
How can an organization with decades worth of accumulated ERP customizations and configurations, IT systems and customized software applications digitally transform fast enough to keep up with the rapidly changing behaviors of digital customers? That is a hard question most organizations are wrestling with today. Often complex custom IT environments served a purpose in a past era, but today where IT speed and agility are required, they serve as anchors restraining an organization from moving forward and digitally transforming fast enough to compete.
We all probably remember the movie (“Jurassic Park”), even if we don’t remember this exact scene: Dr. Malcolm, played by Jeff Goldblum is explaining Chaos Theory to Dr. Ellie Sattler, played by Laura Dern.
Dr. Malcolm is explaining how random, seemingly negligible events can disrupt even the most carefully laid out plans.
Dr. Ian Malcolm: [after the T-Rex failed to appear for the tour group]. “You see a Tyrannosaur doesn’t follow a set pattern or park schedules, the essence of chaos.”
API Security has finally entered our security zeitgeist. OWASP Top 10 2017 - RC1 recognized API Security as a first class citizen by adding it as number 10, or A-10 on its list of web application vulnerabilities. We believe this is just the start. The attack surface area offered by API is orders or magnitude larger than any other attack surface area. Consider the fact the APIs expose cloud services, internal databases, application and even legacy mainframes over the internet. What could go wrong?
Digital technology innovations and advancements, and our adoption of them, have changed us. We are different consumers, employers and employees. Our expectations have increased. We have become mobile, impatient and demanding. We are global. We demand immediate, accurate and real-time responses. We use our technology not just for reading historic events and news, but also for predicting our future turn while navigating at 60 MPH.
Fast-paced changes in the business landscape demand enterprises to rethink their existing business models and add innovative capabilities keeping in mind the new imperatives. One among them is the focus on Digital transformation. In the retail industry, growth is measured in terms of increased sales and value addition to existing products while keeping customer expectations in mind. This is where a digital focus is important to remain competitive.
When shopping for a new data processing platform for IoT solutions, many development teams want to be able to test-drive options before making a choice. Yet when evaluating an IoT solution, it’s simply not feasible to do so at scale with physical devices. Building a sensor simulator is the next best choice; however, generating a realistic simulation at very high TPS with ease of configurability is a formidable challenge. When dealing with multiple application or transport protocols, you would be looking at some significant engineering investment.
On-demand, serverless computing enables deve...
The renowned military strategist John Boyd taught that people and institutions collect favorite philosophies, strategies, theories and ideologies over a period of time, and then try to align the future to fit them. The problem with this is the future is rarely like the past, and trying to fit new data into old paradigms often forces us to perform irrational mental gymnastics, which leaves us farther from the truth.
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