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 Today most enterprises are undergoing massive shifts under the name digital transformation. Let’s say you successfully navigate this transformation. Will you be done? Of course not – change will be ongoing and even accelerating.
So, is it good enough to struggle through one transform...Mar. 17, 2016 04:45 PM EDT Reads: 441 |
 The Wall Street Journal recently reported that an estimated 10 million zombie servers worldwide burn energy equal to the output of 8 large power plants. You might be wondering what’s burning in your data center? How can you confidently identify a zombie server from infrastructure that ...Mar. 17, 2016 04:15 PM EDT Reads: 588 |
 If you’re not employing DevOps tools and methods, chances are your software delivery deployment practices look something like this:
It takes you weeks, sometimes months to deploy new software to production.
You test for bugs and try to pinpoint why your deployment only works in the d...Mar. 17, 2016 03:30 PM EDT Reads: 396 |
Using Software Abstraction and Commodity Storage Hardware in Hyper-Scale Centers | @CloudExpo #Cloud  There are many challenges involved in architecting a resilient, scalable storage infrastructure for the next generation of hyper-scale modern data centers.
In our previous blog post, we covered how to build a disaggregated storage model out of commodity hardware for lowest Total Cost...Mar. 17, 2016 03:00 PM EDT Reads: 686 |
 Webpages are fickle.
Right when I think I know where everything is a label changes, a button is moved a couple of pixels to somewhere completely different in the page. For the last year or so, I have been working full time on a project building automated checks for a user interface.
...Mar. 17, 2016 03:00 PM EDT Reads: 413 |
 DevOps Summit at Cloud Expo 2014 Silicon Valley was a terrific event for us. The Qubell booth was crowded on all three days. We ran demos every 30 minutes with folks lining up to get a seat and usually standing around. It was great to meet and talk to over 500 people! My keynote was we...Mar. 17, 2016 01:30 PM EDT Reads: 11,384 |
 In my 30-years in the high tech industry I have often heard the business maxim, “Develop a business strategy first, and then find the technology to support it.” This well-worn business doctrine, I have come to believe in this age of digital transformation, is wrong and it is time to re...Mar. 17, 2016 01:30 PM EDT Reads: 542 |
 If your website receives heavy traffic and you are hosted across multiple infrastructures across the world or you are using multiple CDNs, then you ought to use a DNS Load Balancer to reroute traffic for better performance.
While there are some large companies who create their own DNS...Mar. 17, 2016 12:45 PM EDT Reads: 715 |
 The companies that are succeeding with their use of public cloud services are sharing similar stories online and at industry conferences about what they consider to be the leading drivers of their progress. These are usually in the form of bold, strategic decisions that demonstrate dif...Mar. 17, 2016 12:45 PM EDT Reads: 621 |
 Over the last few weeks I was fortunate to meet a large number of Managed Service Providers (MSPs) at two separate industry events in Toronto. At both these events, focused on MSPs, and through all my conversations, one thing that resonated throughout was the dire state in which Manage...Mar. 17, 2016 12:45 PM EDT Reads: 920 |
 If you work in IT, you’re likely bombarded with vendor messaging about the cloud. Yes, understanding the cloud is a requirement for all technology professionals, but it may seem that the cloud is all anyone is talking about these days. And right or wrong, many IT departments are even a...Mar. 17, 2016 12:30 PM EDT Reads: 674 |
 Earlier this week, we hosted our Continuous Discussion video podcast, this time discussing ITIL and DevOps. The episode featured expert panelists Jan-Joost Bouwman (ING), Kaimar Karu (AXELOS), Jeff Sussna (DevOps writer and speaker) and Simon Morris (ServiceNow). During our discussion,...Mar. 17, 2016 12:00 PM EDT Reads: 431 |
 One of the most common early goals of implementing DevOps principles is a deep understanding of our systems in a stable state. However, this objective is not a “once and done” effort. It is important to continuously circle back in some form (a feedback loop) as changes are introduced. ...Mar. 17, 2016 11:00 AM EDT Reads: 398 |
 In December 1998 when transitioning into a job doing intelligence support to DoD computer network defense, one of my mentors reminded me of a Reagan-era publication that helped the public better understand the Soviet threat called "Soviet Military Power." This document was based on th...Mar. 17, 2016 10:15 AM EDT Reads: 519 |
 SYS-CON Events announced today that IBM Cloud Data Services has been named "Bronze Sponsor" of SYS-CON's 18th Cloud Expo, which will take place on June 7-9, 2016, at the Javits Center in New York City, NY.
IBM has announced a broad expansion of its Cloud Data Services portfolio with m...Mar. 17, 2016 10:00 AM EDT Reads: 795 |
 New Relic, Inc. has announced a set of new features across the New Relic Software Analytics Cloud that offer IT operations teams increased visibility, and the ability to diagnose and resolve performance problems quickly. The new features further IT operations teams’ ability to leverage...Mar. 17, 2016 09:30 AM EDT Reads: 542 |
 SYS-CON Events announced today that Fusion, a leading provider of cloud services, will exhibit at SYS-CON's 18th International Cloud Expo®, which will take place on June 7-9, 2016, at the Javits Center in New York City, NY.
Fusion has announced that an East Coast affiliate of a major ...Mar. 16, 2016 02:00 PM EDT Reads: 724 |
 The business dictionary defines efficiency as the comparison of what is actually produced or performed with what can be achieved with the same consumption of resources (money, time, labor, design, etc.) – Example being : The designers needed to revise the product specifications as the ...Mar. 13, 2016 11:00 AM EDT Reads: 478 |
 Back in October, my son’s robotics team said “Hey! You work for a software company, can you build us an application that will help us with scouting and competitions?” Foolishly, ego stepped in before a careful outsourced review of my existing skills could take place, so I said “Sure! N...Mar. 13, 2016 10:00 AM EDT Reads: 520 |
 In his session at @ThingsExpo, Noah Harlan, Founder of Two Bulls and President of AllSeen Alliance, will discuss the coming move from Cloud to Edge and what this means for business.
Noah Harlan is President of AllSeen Alliance and a Founder of Two Bulls, a leading mobile software deve...Mar. 11, 2016 02:30 PM EST Reads: 794 |
 A recent article on Fortune.com titled “Why Big Data Isn’t Paying Off for Companies (Yet)” highlights that the vast majority of companies are still struggling with big data. The article quotes a study from the American Institute of CPAs (AICPA) and its London counterpart, the Chartered...Mar. 9, 2016 02:00 PM EST Reads: 237 |
 SYS-CON Events announced today that Kintone has been named "Bronze Sponsor" of SYS-CON's 18th International Cloud Expo®, which will take place on June 7-9, 2016, at the Javits Center in New York City, NY.
kintone promotes cloud-based workgroup productivity, transparency and profitabil...Mar. 9, 2016 09:00 AM EST Reads: 1,477 |
 In his session at @ThingsExpo, Noah Harlan, Founder of Two Bulls and President of AllSeen Alliance, will discuss why open source frameworks are vital for the future of IoT.
Noah Harlan is President of AllSeen Alliance and a Founder of Two Bulls, a leading mobile software development c...Mar. 7, 2016 05:00 PM EST Reads: 792 |
 WebRTC has had a real tough three or four years, and so have those working with it. Only a few short years ago, the development world were excited about WebRTC and proclaiming how awesome it was.
You might have played with the technology a couple of years ago, only to find the extra i...Mar. 6, 2016 01:00 PM EST Reads: 1,477 |
 SYS-CON Events announced today that AppNeta, the leader in performance insight for business-critical web applications, will exhibit and present at SYS-CON's @DevOpsSummit at Cloud Expo New York, which will take place on June 7-9, 2016, at the Javits Center in New York City, NY.
AppNet...Mar. 6, 2016 12:00 AM EST Reads: 990 |
 When building large, cloud-based applications that operate at a high scale, it’s important to maintain a high availability and resilience to failures. In order to do that, you must be tolerant of failures, even in light of failures in other areas of your application.
“Fly two mistakes...Mar. 4, 2016 09:00 PM EST Reads: 787 |
 The State of API 2016 Report revealed some important findings about the growth, opportunities, challenges, and processes for the API industry in 2016.
Among our most revealing findings, we discovered:
Growth in the industry: 1 in 5 respondents began developing APIs in the last two ye...Mar. 4, 2016 01:45 PM EST Reads: 188 |
 Hybrid cloud is an appealing infrastructure model. With hybrid cloud, you can keep hosting applications and data on your own premises where necessary, while taking advantage of cloud economics and elasticity as appropriate.
Unfortunately, IT organizations are often unprepared to manag...Mar. 4, 2016 01:00 PM EST Reads: 343 |
 Recently, Forbes contributing writer and enterprise software, application development, and data management expert Adrian Bridgwater discussed how important it is to understand what freedom really means in the open source world. In open source, the word “free” refers to the liberty that...Mar. 2, 2016 03:15 PM EST Reads: 240 |
 Sensors and effectors of IoT are solving problems in new ways, but small businesses have been slow to join the quantified world. They’ll need information from IoT using applications as varied as the businesses themselves.
In his session at @ThingsExpo, Roger Meike, Distinguished Engi...Feb. 26, 2016 02:30 PM EST Reads: 1,020 |
 SYS-CON Events announced today that Tintri Inc., a leading producer of VM-aware storage (VAS) for virtualization and cloud environments, will exhibit at the 18th International CloudExpo®, which will take place on June 7-9, 2016, at the Javits Center in New York City, New York, and the ...Feb. 25, 2016 12:43 PM EST Reads: 192 |
| In a recent Big Data Vision Workshop services engagement, our data science team explored a concept that I find very interesting and immensely actionable – uncovering and exploiting customer time period or cyclical purchase and engagement behaviors. Let’s call this “Customer Cyclical Be... Feb. 25, 2016 07:00 AM EST Reads: 286 |
 Verismic has launched a sleek, more focused user interface for its award-winning Cloud Management Suite (CMS) and two new features: multisite vRep and patch grouping. Hailed by MSPmentor.net as “the first and only endpoint device management software that requires no software agent on e...Feb. 23, 2016 05:00 PM EST Reads: 232 |
 Non-profit New York Genome Center manages and analyzes up to 12 terabytes of data each day with a swift, cost efficient, and accessible big-data analytics platform.
To hear how genome analysis pioneers exploit vast data outputs to speedily correlate for time-sensitive research, please...Feb. 21, 2016 04:00 PM EST Reads: 354 |
 Push Intelligence helps you move beyond dashboards and reports and deliver on the promise of Business Intelligence (BI). It weeds out redundant and irrelevant information to deliver timely, relevant insights when and where you need them. Push intelligence enables you to focus on what’s...Feb. 21, 2016 04:00 PM EST Reads: 134 |
 I decide to write this blog after reading this post of a frustrated developer (he goes by the nick pistacchio) who couldn’t create a simple single-page application (SPA) in JavaScript in several days. Typically frustration is a result of unmet expectations and this is the case here as ...Feb. 19, 2016 12:30 PM EST Reads: 195 |
| Many of my blogs promote the business benefits of the data lake, both from a “save me more money” as well as the “make me more money” perspectives. But I fear that I’m making this thing called the data lake sound like a “silver bullet[1]” – just drop the data into the data lake and eve... Feb. 19, 2016 12:00 PM EST Reads: 395 |
 Teams that have embraced DevOps and begun using the practice of test driven development are familiar with the headaches that accompany testing legacy code.
This is particularly true for companies that have applications out in production that have been working for years, but have no fo...Feb. 18, 2016 01:00 PM EST Reads: 388 |
 What is the easiest way to parse, ship and analyze my web server logs? You should know that I’m a Node.js fan boy and not very thrilled with the idea of running a heavy process like Logstash on my low memory server, hosting my private Ghost Blog. I looked into Filebeat, a very light-we...Feb. 15, 2016 08:08 AM EST |
 I attended a HIVE-sponsored Meetup yesterday evening titled, “Rocking the database world with RocksDB”. Since I had never heard of RocksDB, I was curious to learn how it is rocking the database world.
Facebook built this key value store storage layer originally to use for MySQL (ins...Feb. 14, 2016 05:00 PM EST Reads: 205 |
