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 Back in 2009 I posted about the “Great Cloud Shakeout” and the coming market consolidation into a few very large clouds. Nearly 5 1/2 years later and it’s about (long past?) time I took another look to see how I did. Back then I predicted that the market would be dominated by “mega CSP...Apr. 9, 2015 11:45 PM EDT Reads: 801 |
 New in the CTOvision Research Library: We have just posted an overview of an architectural assessment we produced laying out best practices and design patterns for the use of SAS and Apache Hadoop, with a focus on the government sector.
Enterprises in government are awash in more data...Apr. 9, 2015 04:15 PM EDT Reads: 703 |
 In my previous post, I discussed the importance of APM. The APM market has evolved substantially over the years, mostly in an attempt to adapt to changing application technologies and deployments. When we had very simple applications that directly accessed a database then APM was not m...Apr. 9, 2015 03:00 PM EDT Reads: 555 |
 It has always interested me to see how different development teams treat code reviews. Some teams see code reviews as crucial to their success while others see them as a barrier to getting things done. Over time, I've come to the conclusion that the culture around code reviews is an im...Apr. 9, 2015 02:00 PM EDT Reads: 875 |
 The primary objective of a platform should be to provide a high-level of automation. This provides easy management of applications and services, while delivering consistent and error-free deployment of applications. While this high level automation provides a critical foundation, addit...Apr. 9, 2015 12:30 PM EDT Reads: 660 |
 Recently I wrote a blog showing how to use the WebSocket protocol to push the data from a Java server to a JavaScript client. This time I’ll keep the same code on the server, but the client will be written in Dart. For this example I was using GlassFish 4.1 server, and IntelliJ IDEA 14...Apr. 9, 2015 12:00 PM EDT Reads: 452 |
 IoT sensors extend our physical senses beyond our physical reach and communicate the results from afar. They also allow us to share experiences remotely, not just mentally, but also tactilely. That is the first time I have ever used the word “tactilely.” It means to tangibly or physica...Apr. 9, 2015 09:00 AM EDT Reads: 888 |
 Hosted PaaS providers have given independent developers and startups huge advantages in efficiency and reduced time-to-market over their more process-bound counterparts in enterprises. Software frameworks are now available that allow enterprise IT departments to provide these same adva...Apr. 8, 2015 12:00 PM EDT Reads: 1,877 |
 Incorporating the Cloud as part of an IT operations environment can help organizations control costs and gain competitive advantage. However, there are significant challenges when integrating and automating business application workload that spans on-premises and Cloud environments. Im...Apr. 8, 2015 05:00 AM EDT Reads: 261 |
 We’ve all heard about the rapid adoption of JavaScript in recent years. To summarize, JavaScript is the #1 most-used language on GitHub and it looks like this trend will continue. In fact, as one article put it, “JavaScript is the number one language in the world; it’s the language of ...Apr. 6, 2015 03:22 AM EDT Reads: 914 |
 The adoption of Internet of Things (IoT) appears to be unquestioned. Advances in wearables and sensors are strategic to tech companies, telecoms and manufacturers across multiple domains. Everyone from millennials to boomers is incorporating IoT technologies into the daily flow of life...Apr. 4, 2015 11:45 AM EDT Reads: 999 |
 SYS-CON Events announced today that WHOA.com, an ISO 27001 Certified secure cloud computing company, has been named “Bronze Sponsor” of SYS-CON's 16th International Cloud Expo® New York, which will take place June 9-11, 2015, at the Javits Center in New York City, NY.
WHOA.com is a le...Apr. 3, 2015 04:00 PM EDT Reads: 1,616 |
 You hear the terms “subscription economy” and “subscription commerce” all the time. And with good reason. Subscription-based monetization is transforming business as we know it. But what about usage? Where’s the “consumption economy”? Turns out, it’s all around us.
When most people ...Apr. 3, 2015 01:15 PM EDT Reads: 1,222 |
 JavaScript has emerged in the past couple years as the de facto expression of next generation web technologies, and a critical component of HTML5 technologies – along with CSS and JQuery. JavaScript is really ubiquitous – it’s literally showing up everywhere! There are many other reaso...Apr. 2, 2015 04:33 AM EDT Reads: 481 |
 While recently attending a Dynatrace User Group in Hartford, I had the opportunity to sit in on a great presentation from a leading US insurance company as they explained their three-year APM journey. I see a lot of these success stories, but this one was especially impressive. To see ...Apr. 1, 2015 12:00 PM EDT Reads: 1,310 |
 Recent announcements from Google about the future of Glass naturally ignited an explosion of commentary in the tech media. For those of us in the Glass at Work world, the news that Glass has “graduated” from Google[x] into a true business unit headed by Tony Fadell is very promising. Y...Apr. 1, 2015 11:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,240 |
 If you have a Network Operations Center (or NOC, as the kids call it), you have a skilled set of eyes monitoring your system and alerting your engineers when things go wrong. (If you have something like a NOC, such as a first tier team that processes tickets, we’re looking at you, too)...Mar. 31, 2015 01:45 PM EDT Reads: 1,081 |
 In part one of this series, our COO tackles the history and purpose of the NOC. A NOC, for those who don’t know, stands for Network Operations Center and, quite simply, is how large organizations with complex systems monitor them. Early versions of the NOC came about in the early 1960’...Mar. 30, 2015 02:30 AM EDT Reads: 1,328 |
 In my last blog post, I made a case for the powerful combo of APM and Analytics that you shouldn’t miss out on. Today, I’m going to explain what I mean by that with an example on how you can build better apps and write better code leveraging this powerful combination.
There is a com...Mar. 29, 2015 07:00 PM EDT Reads: 1,660 |
 Countless business models have spawned from the IaaS industry. Resell Web hosting, blogs, public cloud, and on and on. With the overwhelming amount of tools available to us, it's sometimes easy to overlook that many of them are just new skins of resources we've had for a long time.
I...Mar. 29, 2015 01:15 PM EDT Reads: 1,591 |
 SYS-CON Events announced today that Aria Systems, the leading innovator in recurring revenue, has been named “Bronze Sponsor” of SYS-CON's @ThingsExpo, which will take place on June 9–11, 2015, at the Javits Center in New York, NY.
Proven by the world’s most demanding enterprises, inc...Mar. 27, 2015 04:00 PM EDT Reads: 1,644 |
 There are two types of kids in this world: the ones who spend hours meticulously building towers out of Legos, and the ones who delight in seeing how quickly they can make it all come crashing down. Which one were you? If you answered the latter, you’d probably make a good performance ...Mar. 24, 2015 05:00 PM EDT Reads: 1,099 |
 Log data provides the most granular view into what is happening across your systems, applications, and end users. Logs can show you where the issues are in real-time, and provide a historical trending view over time. Logs give you the whole picture. Mar. 24, 2015 08:00 AM EDT Reads: 970 |
 Rockwell Automation (Ticker Symbol:rok) has taken the connected experience concept to reality and beyond. This could not have been possible without the convergence of IT, OT and the IoT. Of course Azure IoT Services must have played a major part.
This video from YouTube shows the co...Mar. 23, 2015 02:00 PM EDT Reads: 1,029 |
 Science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) professionals are drivers of innovation,creativity and invention. STEM disciplines are significant drivers of economies worldwide, and STEM careers are rewarding and fulfilling. The promise of STEM is therefore important for econo...Mar. 23, 2015 12:30 PM EDT Reads: 736 |
 Implementing a recurring revenue business model guarantees stable, predictable income and a high customer lifetime value (CLV). It’s no surprise, then, that nearly half of U.S. businesses have either adopted or are planning to adopt recurring revenue models.
Recurring revenue is a dis...Mar. 23, 2015 11:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,131 |
 SYS-CON Events announced today that Cloudian, Inc., the leading provider of hybrid cloud storage solutions, will exhibit at SYS-CON's 16th International Cloud Expo®, which will take place on June 9-11, 2015, at the Javits Center in New York City, NY., and the 17th International Cloud E...Mar. 22, 2015 07:00 PM EDT Reads: 2,963 |
 Starbuck's is expanding the roll-out of their mobile ordering, loyalty and payment app. This is one of the most interesting mobile apps from a major retailer that I have seen. Before I summarize the key features and benefits, let me share the purpose of Starbuck's latest roll-out ac...Mar. 21, 2015 06:00 PM EDT Reads: 1,074 |
 SYS-CON Events announced today that SoftLayer, an IBM company, has been named “Gold Sponsor” of SYS-CON's 16th International Cloud Expo®, which will take place June 9-11, 2015 at the Javits Center in New York City, NY, and the 17th International Cloud Expo®, which will take place Novem...Mar. 21, 2015 12:00 PM EDT Reads: 2,193 |
 With Levi’s Stadium as a backdrop, I share a bit about the Internet of Things and the strain it will place on the Domain Name System (DNS) along with a preview of his DNS of Things session at CloudExpo/ThingsExpo at the Santa Clara Convention Center. Reporting from Silicon Valley. Mar. 20, 2015 12:00 AM EDT Reads: 3,653 |
 SYS-CON Events announced today that GENBAND, a leading developer of real time communications software solutions, has been named “Silver Sponsor” of SYS-CON's WebRTC Summit, which will take place on June 9-11, 2015, at the Javits Center in New York City, NY.
The GENBAND team will be on...Mar. 19, 2015 02:00 PM EDT Reads: 2,013 |
 Then I’ve received an LinkedIn email from this woman stating that she had a business proposition for me, and if I was interested, she was ready to explain. She also provided her email that ended in outlook.com. I checked her LinkedIn profile again. Looked legit. She even had a Twitter ...Mar. 19, 2015 02:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,719 |
 Here at VictorOps, we are going through the process of overhauling the serialization framework that we use for inter and intra process communication. We evaluated several great options including Kryo (and its Scala companion Chill), Protobuffers, and Thrift.
In the process, we put t...Mar. 19, 2015 12:45 AM EDT Reads: 1,605 |
 Many of the well-known examples of DevOps success we read in blogs on the Internet paint an idyllic picture of DevOps productivity. A team was facing a stodgy, slow-moving operations department, teams weren’t delivering software on time. Those teams moved to DevOps, became proactive ab...Mar. 18, 2015 12:00 PM EDT Reads: 1,631 |
 We saw the infographic below titled "Surprising Things You Don't Know About Big Data" from Adeptia and wanted to share it with you.Mar. 17, 2015 03:30 PM EDT Reads: 927 |
 So exactly how do you kick start a DevOps strategy? For example, say your organization is tied down to a very sequential, but cumbersome Waterfall approach to software development that is wasting precious dollars and hindering productivity? In the following we’ve outlined some strategy...Mar. 17, 2015 12:15 PM EDT Reads: 6,649 |
 Recently I listened to a discussion on Big Data Visualization hosted by Bill McKnight of the McKnight Consulting group. The panelists agreed that Big Data is shifting from the hype state to an “imperative” state. For start-up companies, there are more Big Data projects whereas true big...Mar. 17, 2015 10:15 AM EDT Reads: 1,375 |
 Recurring revenue business models provide a compelling business proposition: predictable revenue streams, deeper customer engagements, higher customer lifetime value (CLV). What’s not to like? And when you bring the Internet of Things into the mix, there’s even more to like – if you go...Mar. 16, 2015 04:00 PM EDT Reads: 1,032 |
 Smart mobile teams know that delivering a 5-star app is more than just finding a good business use-case and designing an app with wow experience; it’s also about ensuring amazing app performance. Apps that perform well will engage the customer – poor app performance is a sure fire way ...Mar. 15, 2015 05:00 PM EDT Reads: 1,603 |
 Instant API is a true API-as-a-Service which makes it easy and cost-effective to build an API. Instant API has simplified all of the key areas of an API’s lifecycle, covering API creation, hosting, management, discovery, monetization, and documentation.
For example, let’s say you have...Mar. 15, 2015 11:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,729 |
