By Liz McMillan  "Security starts very simply at home when you're on your PC. At DataClear we thought 'How do we make a secure desktop for people and for corporations,'" explained Tony Teora, CEO of DataClear, in this SYS-CON.tv interview at 17th Cloud Expo, held November 3-5, 2015, at the Santa Clara ... Dec. 21, 2015 05:00 AM EST Reads: 337 |
By Elizabeth White  "We are the first enterprise class data virtualization platform. We help organizations become more resilient in the area of backup disaster recovery," explained Chak Singamsetti, Senior Solutions Architect at Actifio, in this SYS-CON.tv interview at 17th Cloud Expo, held November 3-5, ... Dec. 21, 2015 02:30 AM EST Reads: 422 |
By Harry Trott  Collaboration is a big focus area among technology start-ups. The past five years have seen a range of new products in this area that have completely transformed the way businesses work. Thanks to the likes of Trello and Slack, team members do not even have to live in the same city or ... Dec. 21, 2015 01:30 AM EST Reads: 281 |
By Liz McMillan  "We've made it easy for customers that want to build their own cloud infrastructure by delivering a fully integrated software and hardware in a rack," explained Stefaan Vervaet, Director of Strategic Alliances at HGST, in this SYS-CON.tv interview at 17th Cloud Expo, held November 3-5,... Dec. 20, 2015 07:45 PM EST Reads: 340 |
By Sematext Blog  Monitoring Node.js Applications has special challenges. The dynamic nature of the language provides many “opportunities” for developers to produce memory leaks, and a single function blocking the event queue can have a huge impact on the overall application performance. Parallel execut... Dec. 20, 2015 04:30 PM EST Reads: 420 |
By Elizabeth White  In their session at 17th Cloud Expo, Hal Schwartz, CEO of Secure Infrastructure & Services (SIAS), and Chuck Paolillo, CTO of Secure Infrastructure & Services (SIAS), provided a study of cloud adoption trends and the power and flexibility of IBM Power and Pureflex cloud solutions.
In ... Dec. 20, 2015 02:00 PM EST Reads: 218 |
By Carmen Gonzalez  With 10 simultaneous tracks, keynotes, general sessions and targeted breakout classes, Cloud Expo and @ThingsExpo are two of the most important technology events of the year. Since its launch over eight years ago, Cloud Expo and @ThingsExpo have presented a rock star faculty as well as... Dec. 20, 2015 01:45 PM EST Reads: 490 |
By Carmen Gonzalez  Internet of @ThingsExpo, taking place June 7-9, 2016 at Javits Center, New York City and Nov 1-3, 2016, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA, is co-located with the 18th International @CloudExpo and will feature technical sessions from a rock star conference faculty ... Dec. 20, 2015 01:15 PM EST Reads: 862 |
By Carmen Gonzalez  @DevOpsSummit taking place June 7-9, 2016 at Javits Center, New York City, and Nov 1-3, 2016, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA, is co-located with the 18th International @CloudExpo and will feature technical sessions from a rock star conference faculty and the le... Dec. 20, 2015 12:45 PM EST Reads: 287 |
By Bob Muglia  Last year, I made some predictions about how the cloud and data would change the technology landscape. This included the now clear rise of SQL, the consolidation of cloud application vendors, the end of the war between the public and private cloud, and the growth of analytics fueled by... Dec. 20, 2015 11:00 AM EST Reads: 221 |
By Elizabeth White  Redis is not only the fastest database, but it has become the most popular among the new wave of applications running in containers. Redis speeds up just about every data interaction between your users or operational systems.
In his session at 17th Cloud Expo, Dave Nielsen, Developer... Dec. 20, 2015 10:15 AM EST Reads: 385 |
By Shelly Palmer  Every physical object or “thing” that can be embedded with sensors will be embedded with sensors. Whether you call it the Internet of Things, the Internet of Everything, M2M, a smarter planet, the Industrial Internet or something else, the trend is clear. With so much activity and inte... Dec. 20, 2015 10:00 AM EST Reads: 343 |
By Liz McMillan  The web app is agile. The REST API is agile. The testing and planning are agile. But alas, data infrastructures certainly are not. Once an application matures, changing the shape or indexing scheme of data often forces at best a top down planning exercise and at worst includes schema c... Dec. 20, 2015 07:00 AM EST Reads: 495 |
By Pat Romanski  IntelliJ IDEA offers outstanding framework-specific coding assistance and productivity-boosting features for Java EE, Spring, GWT, Grails, Play and other frameworks, along with deployment tools for most application servers.
IntelliJ IDEA includes an amazing set of tools which work out... Dec. 20, 2015 07:00 AM EST Reads: 352 |
By Liz McMillan  This video highlights IBM's capabilities for managing and optimizing hybrid cloud environments. Learn how to balance the needs of business with the needs of corporate IT departments. Now you can maximize speed while maintaining the ability to deploy complex applications quickly in a co... Dec. 20, 2015 05:00 AM EST Reads: 371 |
By Pat Romanski  "We're seeing a lot of activity in IoT in the healthcare space - a lot of new devices coming in. We are seeing a huge demand in building smart offices, smart infrastructures, smart cloud applications," explained Shrikant Pattathil, President of Harbinger Systems, in this SYS-CON.tv int... Dec. 20, 2015 01:30 AM EST Reads: 389 |
By Automic Blog  Here's a bold claim: Cloud computing has the potential to be as transformative as the advent of the automobile. Before the age of cars and buses, everything was undertaken at a fraction of the pace it is now-transport, distribution, socializing. The automobile revolutionized all of tha... Dec. 19, 2015 09:00 AM EST Reads: 523 |
By Brian Daleiden  In today’s pharmaceutical supply chain, counterfeit activity is thriving. As pharma companies have expanded target markets and outsourced production over the last decade, the supply chain has become increasingly global, virtual, and vulnerable. Illicit activity has thrived, and patient... Dec. 19, 2015 02:00 AM EST Reads: 555 |
By Bill Szybillo  Today, organizations have so much data at their disposal. This data includes company, customer, product, employee, and more… much more. The problem is that without the proper tools, mid-market companies often struggle with turning this information into meaningful and actionable insight... Dec. 18, 2015 11:45 PM EST Reads: 560 |
By Elizabeth White  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.
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By Elizabeth White  This IBM Redbooks® Point-of-View publication discusses cloud workloads on the mainframe. A cloud built on a mainframe, such as IBM® zEnterprise® or others in the IBM System z® family, has several distinct advantages. Dec. 18, 2015 01:00 PM EST Reads: 306 |
By Pat Romanski  Never feel left alone. Get help from various support channels including a public issue tracker, community forum, and comprehensive online documentation. With a TeamCity Enterprise Server license, get priority support and direct access to the core development team for quick and quality ... Dec. 17, 2015 01:00 PM EST Reads: 295 |
By Liz McMillan  In demand-intensive mobile and web applications, an emerging pattern is to host the Systems of Engagement in the cloud (for maximum responsiveness) but keep the Systems of Record with the other important business systems in the company datacenter, often on a tightly secured mainframe. ... Dec. 16, 2015 07:00 PM EST Reads: 518 |
By Deep Bhattacharjee  You may have heard about the pets vs. cattle discussion – a reference to the way application servers are deployed in the cloud native world. If an application server goes down it can simply be dropped from the mix and a new server added in its place. The practice so far has mostly been... Dec. 14, 2015 02:15 PM EST Reads: 530 |
By AppDynamics Blog  Using any programming framework to the fullest extent possible first requires an understanding of advanced software architecture concepts. While writing a little client-side JavaScript does not necessarily require as much consideration when designing a scalable software architecture, t... Dec. 14, 2015 02:00 PM EST Reads: 542 |
By Flint Brenton  So you want to centralize your enterprise? Smart choice – but it’s important to take some factors into consideration if you want to have success.
Developers need to ensure representation from each geographic location; understand current development processes and tools; and comprehend... Dec. 14, 2015 09:15 AM EST Reads: 416 |
By Elizabeth White  The buzz continues for cloud, data analytics and the Internet of Things (IoT) and their collective impact across all industries. But a new conversation is emerging - how do companies use industry disruption and technology enablers to lead in markets undergoing change, uncertainty and a... Dec. 11, 2015 11:30 PM EST Reads: 586 |
By Tim Hinds  Here’s the thing: as sure as we’ll have another record-setting year for NFL streaming, you can also be sure that apps will fail and streaming services will go down. Whether you are dabbling in streaming or diving in whole-hog, you need to know what to do to give your users the most rel... Dec. 9, 2015 04:00 AM EST Reads: 503 |
By Pat Romanski  PubNub has announced the release of BLOCKS, a set of customizable microservices that give developers a simple way to add code and deploy features for realtime apps.PubNub BLOCKS executes business logic directly on the data streaming through PubNub’s network without splitting it off to ... Dec. 7, 2015 11:00 AM EST Reads: 536 |
By Jennifer Gill  The cloud. Like a comic book superhero, there seems to be no problem it can’t fix or cost it can’t slash. Yet making the transition is not always easy and production environments are still largely on premise. Taking some practical and sensible steps to reduce risk can also help provide... Dec. 6, 2015 09:00 PM EST Reads: 668 |
By Elizabeth White  Apps and devices shouldn't stop working when there's limited or no network connectivity. Learn how to bring data stored in a cloud database to the edge of the network (and back again) whenever an Internet connection is available.
In his session at 17th Cloud Expo, Ben Perlmutter, a S... Dec. 6, 2015 09:45 AM EST Reads: 641 |
By Betty Zakheim  Regardless of perspective, everyone agrees that ensuring high-quality software isn’t solely the job of a “QA department.” It requires the collaboration of every discipline in the software development and delivery lifecycle from the inception of business requirements to the administrati... Dec. 6, 2015 09:00 AM EST Reads: 501 |
By Pat Romanski  Discussions of cloud computing have evolved in recent years from a focus on specific types of cloud, to a world of hybrid cloud, and to a world dominated by the APIs that make today's multi-cloud environments and hybrid clouds possible.
In this Power Panel at 17th Cloud Expo, moderate... Dec. 5, 2015 06:00 PM EST Reads: 758 |
By Liz McMillan  Cloud computing delivers on-demand resources that provide businesses with flexibility and cost-savings. The challenge in moving workloads to the cloud has been the cost and complexity of ensuring the initial and ongoing security and regulatory (PCI, HIPAA, FFIEC) compliance across priv... Dec. 5, 2015 11:00 AM EST Reads: 639 |
By Elizabeth White  The Internet of Things is clearly many things: data collection and analytics, wearables, Smart Grids and Smart Cities, the Industrial Internet, and more. Cool platforms like Arduino, Raspberry Pi, Intel's Galileo and Edison, and a diverse world of sensors are making the IoT a great toy... Dec. 5, 2015 10:30 AM EST Reads: 659 |
By Pat Romanski  In today's enterprise, digital transformation represents organizational change even more so than technology change, as customer preferences and behavior drive end-to-end transformation across lines of business as well as IT. To capitalize on the ubiquitous disruption driving this trans... Dec. 5, 2015 05:30 AM EST Reads: 660 |
By Anders Wallgren  The IoT trend brings rise to a plethora of new and useful services that enrich our lives, simplify it, or save us time and money. To provide these kind of connected – and complex – services, software companies must have three different software teams (at least!) and they have to delive... Dec. 5, 2015 03:15 AM EST Reads: 577 |
By Elizabeth White  The Internet of Things (IoT) is growing rapidly by extending current technologies, products and networks. By 2020, Cisco estimates there will be 50 billion connected devices. Gartner has forecast revenues of over $300 billion, just to IoT suppliers. Now is the time to figure out how yo... Dec. 4, 2015 07:00 PM EST Reads: 672 |
By Pat Romanski  Today air travel is a minefield of delays, hassles and customer disappointment. Airlines struggle to revitalize the experience. GE and M2Mi will demonstrate practical examples of how IoT solutions are helping airlines bring back personalization, reduce trip time and improve reliability... Dec. 1, 2015 10:00 PM EST Reads: 590 |
By Elizabeth White  Too often with compelling new technologies market participants become overly enamored with that attractiveness of the technology and neglect underlying business drivers. This tendency, what some call the “newest shiny object syndrome” is understandable given that virtually all of us ar... Dec. 1, 2015 08:00 AM EST Reads: 525 |