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Four Questions to Ask Before Adopting the Internet of Things
By Saba Anees
Stop me if you've heard this one before: there's another side to the Internet
that isn't just about connecting people. The Internet of Things (IoT) is
about connecting virtually any "thing" or machine. They could range from
personal wearables to smart homes, smart cities' infrastructure, utilities,
transportation, and manufacturing. You've probably heard by now; the IoT is
far bigger than the Internet of people, and it's growing fast. Gartner says
the IoT will grow 30 percent in 2016, reaching 6.4 billion devices, with more
than five million new devices connected daily. It's expected to continue
growing to 20.8 billion devices by 2020.
It's more than likely any business today sees the potential of adopting an
Internet of Things model into their enterprise, but are you doing it in the
best way... (more)
Image credit: The Mack Institue
In the rush to compete in the digital age, a successful digital
transformation is essential, but many organizations are setting themselves up
for failure. There's a common misconception that the process is just about
technology, but it's not. It's about your business. It shouldn't be treated
as an isolated IT project; it should be driven by business needs with the
committed involvement of a range of stakeholders.
The benefits are clear
Companies that have embraced digital transformation and reached digital
maturity are reaping the rewards already. ... (more)
Mellanox Technologies has announced a new line of InfiniBand router systems.
The new EDR 100Gb/s InfiniBand Routers enable a new level of scalability
critical for the next generation of mega data-center deployments as well as
expanded capabilities for data center isolations between different users and
applications. The network router delivers a consistent, high-performance and
low latency router solution that is mission critical for high performance
computing (HPC), cloud, Web 2.0, machine learning and enterprise
applications.
Mellanox's SB7780 InfiniBand Router family is based ... (more)
Building a Kubernetes Cluster with Ansible
Kubernetes is a new and revolutionary open-sourced system for managing
containers across multiple hosts in a cluster. Ansible is a simple IT
automation tool for just about any requirement for reproducible environments.
In his session at @DevOpsSummit at 18th Cloud Expo, Patrick Galbraith, a
principal engineer at HPE, will discuss how to build a fully functional
Kubernetes cluster on a number of virtual machines or bare-metal hosts. Also
included will be a brief demonstration of building a Kubernetes cluster and
then running on it a Gale... (more)
Virtustream and Vodafone have announced a partnership to offer a portfolio of
world-class cloud services to corporate customers in the German market.
Virtustream has selected Vodafone as its first and the preferred data center
partner for connected cloud-based services in Germany.
"Vodafone is proud that Virtustream has selected our cloud and hosting
offering for its German operations for mission-critical cloud solutions,"
said Greg Hyttenrauch, Managing Director, VCHS. "Virtustream xStream and VCE
converged infrastructure, coupled with Vodafone datacenters, services and
network... (more)
Architecting for the Cloud with Cloud Foundry and Docker on Bluemix
As the world moves towards more DevOps and Microservices, application
deployment to the cloud ought to become a lot simpler. The Microservices
architecture, which is the basis of many new age distributed systems such as
OpenStack and NetFlix, is at the heart of Cloud Foundry - a complete
developer-oriented Platform as a Service (PaaS) that is IaaS agnostic and
supports vCloud, OpenStack and AWS.
In his session at 18th Cloud Expo, Raghavan "Rags" Srinivas, an
Architect/Developer Evangelist at IBM, will discuss th... (more)
@ThingsExpo Stories By Pat Romanski  The IoT is changing the way enterprises conduct business.
In his session at @ThingsExpo, Eric Hoffman, Vice President at EastBanc Technologies, will discuss the significant expected growth of connected devices, what that means for businesses, and how to optimize IoT-enabled commerce that will soon disrupt industries.
He will provide several examples; one including a Washington, D.C.-based sports club, and how it leveraged IoT and the cloud to develop a comprehensive booking and automated sys... Apr. 15, 2016 01:30 AM EDT Reads: 1,577 | By Elizabeth White  SYS-CON Events announced today TMCnet has been named “Media 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, and the 19th International Cloud Expo, which will take place on November 1–3, 2016, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA.
Technology Marketing Corporation (TMC) is the world's leading business-to-business and integrated marketing media company, servicing niche markets within the com... Apr. 15, 2016 01:15 AM EDT Reads: 1,572 | By Elizabeth White  Luxoft Holding has launched a solution integrating financial services software, a peer-to-peer payment technology, into the connected car.
Luxoft has used this innovative payment technology, originally built for the financial services segment, and brought it into the autonomous vehicle enabling a monetization platform for IoT use cases. The underlying peer-to-peer payment solution, which has been seamlessly integrated into the vehicle’s infotainment system allows drivers to make purchases and ... Apr. 15, 2016 12:45 AM EDT Reads: 1,126 | By Liz McMillan  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 19th International Cloud Expo, which will take place on November 1–3, 2016, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA. Apr. 14, 2016 11:45 PM EDT Reads: 774 | By Liz McMillan  Managed IT services wasn't even a phrase until the early 2000s and, today, there are over 75,000 IT service providers in North America alone. By 2020, there are going to be 50 billion connected devices, and managed IT services might cease to be a phrase again. Unless the MPSs adapt to the new, connected world, we are going to see diminishing returns in that space.
In his session at @ThingsExpo, Kirill Bensonoff, CEO of Unigma, will discuss the different opportunities IoT will create for MSPs a... Apr. 14, 2016 11:45 PM EDT Reads: 913 | By Elizabeth White  SYS-CON Events has announced today that Roger Strukhoff has been named conference chair of Cloud Expo and @ThingsExpo 2016 New York.
The 18th Cloud Expo and 5th @ThingsExpo will take place on June 7-9, 2016, at the Javits Center in New York City, NY.
"The Internet of Things brings trillions of dollars of opportunity to developers and enterprise IT, no matter how you measure it," stated Roger Strukhoff. "More importantly, it leverages the power of devices and the Internet to enable us all to im... Apr. 14, 2016 11:00 PM EDT Reads: 1,706 | By Elizabeth White  Low-code platforms are an important strategy to create all sorts of applications extremely quickly and at a drastically reduced cost.
Additionally, they enable building applications that would never have been created in the first place due to cost, time constraints, or lack of expertise.
In his session at 18th Cloud Expo, Thierry Ciot, Software Architect at Progress, will talk about why low code platforms are emerging, what opportunities they create and why they help build responsive and adapt... Apr. 14, 2016 10:45 PM EDT Reads: 733 | By Pat Romanski  SYS-CON Events announced today that Pythian, a global IT services company specializing in helping companies adopt disruptive technologies to optimize revenue-generating systems, has been named “Bronze Sponsor” of SYS-CON's 18th Cloud Expo, which will take place on June 7-9, 2015 at the Javits Center in New York, New York.
Founded in 1997, Pythian is a global IT services company that helps companies compete by adopting disruptive technologies such as cloud, Big Data, advanced analytics, and DevO... Apr. 14, 2016 10:45 PM EDT Reads: 1,321 | By Carmen Gonzalez  NHK, Japan Broadcasting, will feature the upcoming @ThingsExpo Silicon Valley in a special 'Internet of Things' and smart technology documentary that will be filmed on the expo floor between November 3 to 5, 2015, in Santa Clara. NHK is the sole public TV network in Japan equivalent to the BBC in the UK and the largest in Asia with many award-winning science and technology programs. Japanese TV is producing a documentary about IoT and Smart technology and will be covering @ThingsExpo Silicon Val... Apr. 14, 2016 09:30 PM EDT Reads: 2,235 | By Liz McMillan  SYS-CON Events announced today that Anexia 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.
Anexia offers high-quality customized managed hosting solutions for SaaS and IaaS companies. The company was founded in 2006 in Klagenfurt, Austria. Today, it has additional offices in Vienna, Graz, Munich, Cologne and New York City to serve numerous international customers. Apr. 14, 2016 06:45 PM EDT Reads: 782 | By Pat Romanski  IoT generates lots of temporal data. But how do you unlock its value? You need to discover patterns that are repeatable in vast quantities of data, understand their meaning, and implement scalable monitoring across multiple data streams in order to monetize the discoveries and insights. Motif discovery and deep learning platforms are emerging to visualize sensor data, to search for patterns and to build application that can monitor real time streams efficiently.
In his session at @ThingsExpo, ... Apr. 14, 2016 06:15 PM EDT Reads: 984 | By Elizabeth White  SYS-CON Events announced today that iDevices®, the preeminent brand in the connected home industry, 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.
iDevices, the preeminent brand in the connected home industry, has a growing line of HomeKit-enabled products available at the largest retailers worldwide. Through the “Designed with iDevices” co-development program and its custom-built IoT Cloud Infrastruc... Apr. 14, 2016 06:15 PM EDT Reads: 1,115 | By Elizabeth White  Everbridge has announced Safety Connection™, a new solution that enables organizations to locate and communicate with staff during critical events and help determine if they are safe or need assistance. Whether individuals are traveling, in a specific office building or operating in the field, the solution can aggregate near real-time location data from multiple sources, including building access controls, travel management systems and mobile app check-ins, to enable organizations to send and re... Apr. 14, 2016 05:45 PM EDT Reads: 701 | By Pat Romanski  Using new techniques of information modeling, indexing, and processing, new cloud-based systems can support cloud-based workloads previously not possible for high-throughput insurance, banking, and case-based applications.
In his session at 18th Cloud Expo, John Newton, CTO, Founder and Chairman of Alfresco, will describe how to scale cloud-based content management repositories to store, manage, and retrieve billions of documents and related information with fast and linear scalability.
He wi... Apr. 14, 2016 05:15 PM EDT Reads: 2,765 | By Carmen Gonzalez  With major technology companies and startups seriously embracing IoT strategies, now is the perfect time to attend @ThingsExpo 2016 in New York and Silicon Valley. Learn what is going on, contribute to the discussions, and ensure that your enterprise is as "IoT-Ready" as it can be! Internet of @ThingsExpo, taking place Nov 3-5, 2015, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA, is co-located with 17th Cloud Expo and will feature technical sessions from a rock star conference faculty ... Apr. 14, 2016 05:00 PM EDT Reads: 2,818 | By Elizabeth White  SYS-CON Events announced today that (ISC)²® (“ISC-squared”) 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.
Two leading non-profits focused on cloud and information security, (ISC)² and Cloud Security Alliance (CSA), developed the Certified Cloud Security Professional (CCSP) certification to address the increased demand for cloud security expertise due to rapid growth in cloud. Recently named “The Next... Apr. 14, 2016 04:00 PM EDT Reads: 1,447 | By Elizabeth White  SYS-CON Events announced today that Chetu Inc., a worldwide leader in custom software solutions for niche businesses, software-defined storage and data services platform, will exhibit at SYS-CON's @ThingsExpo, which will take place on June 7-9, 2016, at the Javits Center in New York City, NY.
Founded in 2000, Chetu Inc. is a global provider of customized software development solutions and IT staff augmentation services for software technology providers. By providing clients with unparalleled ni... Apr. 14, 2016 04:00 PM EDT Reads: 1,974 | By Pat Romanski  SYS-CON Events announced today that VAI, a leading ERP software provider, 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. VAI (Vormittag Associates, Inc.) is a leading independent mid-market ERP software developer renowned for its flexible solutions and ability to automate critical business functions for the distribution, manufacturing, specialty retail and service sectors. An IBM Premier Business Partn... Apr. 14, 2016 03:45 PM EDT Reads: 2,082 | By Elizabeth White  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 supports critical services?
In her session at 18th Cloud Expo, Michelle Kerby, the Sr. Director for BMC Software Solutions Marketing, will discuss how automated asset discovery and dependency mapping can give IT a... Apr. 14, 2016 03:00 PM EDT Reads: 1,938 | By Elizabeth White  SYS-CON Events announced today that LeaseWeb USA Inc., one of the world's largest hosting brands, 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.
LeaseWeb USA Inc. was established in 2011, a separate and distinct operating entity providing services in the USA. LeaseWeb is a trusted partner to mid-market companies, helping them find the right solution to their critical cloud-hosted needs from our global... Apr. 14, 2016 02:45 PM EDT Reads: 2,147 |
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