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"We are a modern development application platform and we have a suite of
products that allow you to do application release automation, we do version
control, and we do application life cycle management," explained Flint
Brenton, CEO of CollabNet, in this SYS-CON.tv interview at DevOps at 19th
Cloud Expo, held November 1-3, 2016, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in
Santa Clara, CA.
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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The Lean Cloud: The Need for Multi-Cloud DevOps
All clouds are not equal. To succeed in a DevOps context, organizations
should plan to develop/deploy apps across a choice of on-premise and public
clouds simultaneously depending on the business needs. This is where the
concept of the Lean Cloud comes in - resting on the idea that you often need
to relocate your app modules over their life cycles for both innovation and
operational efficiency in the cloud.
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In his session at @DevOpsSummit at19th Cloud Expo, Valentin (Val) Bercovici,
CTO of SolidFire, discussed how to leverage this concept to seize on the
creativity and business agility to make it real.
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Speaker Bio
Valentin (Val) Bercovici, a longtime NetApp executive and member of the
Office of the CTO, ... (more)
Why Self-Service Analytics Is Replacing Traditional Business Intelligence
By Pritika Ramani, Product Analyst, ManageEngine
Modern organizations typically use several IT tools to monitor their
applications, networks and other IT components in real time. Unfortunately,
this leads to independent data islands, which creates a one-dimensional view
of IT. In order to make strategic decisions, organizations need an IT
operational analytics tool to analyze data from multiple sources, spot trends
and make better decisions.
While there are several analytics tools in the market, most tend to be either
complicated or expensive to use. Self-service analytical tools, on the other
hand, offer a rare combination of simplicity and affordability, making them
popular among users. With the emergence of these comprehensive tools, every
IT user can access data from various silos, get unifi... (more)
A Pair of Virtual Technologies to Create True Scale-out Storage
Almost three years ago, VMware introduced the world to its virtual SAN. This
new solution enabled customers to use storage within ESXi servers without the
need for external storage - an exciting promise for organizations that wanted
to quickly scale their virtual storage. Now, it's time to check in on this
technology and see if it's living up to its promise.
VMware became a player in the storage array and software market when it
launched vSAN. Server admins were looking forward to using vSAN because it
gave them a symmetrical architecture that did not require external storage,
thus being able to use storage within existing servers. It also doesn't
require specialized storage skills. However, no one solution can be all
things to all enterprises, and as enterprises began to deploy vSAN across
their enviro... (more)
Thanks for taking the time to answer my questions. Please tell us, what is
Nerdio all about. What do you do?
Vadim Vladimirskiy: Nerdio is a proven IT-as-a-service platform with virtual
desktop infrastructure (VDI) technology at its core. Nerdio is designed for
IT departments that need a way to easily manage their ever-increasing
workloads. Nerdio allows users to efficiently manage their complete IT
environments by giving them full visibility and control of users' desktops.
In addition to virtual desktops, the Nerdio platform includes unlimited
virtual servers, Microsoft Office 365 security, and disaster recovery - plus
24/7/365 support.
Who is your target audience and how do you reach them?
Vladimirskiy: We have a two-pronged approach to market: direct and channel
(managed service providers, or MSPs). On the direct side of things, we target
internal IT professiona... (more)
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Guaranteeing Performance for Your Virtualized Apps and Private Cloud
Fact: storage performance problems have only gotten more complicated, as
applications not only have become largely virtualized, but also have moved to
cloud-based infrastructures. Storage performance in virtualized environments
isn't just about IOPS anymore. Instead, you need to guarantee performance for
individual VMs, helping applications maintain performance as the number of
VMs continues to go up in real time.
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In his session at 19th Cloud Expo, Dhiraj Sehgal, Product and Marketing at
Tintri, shared success stories from a few folks who have already started
using VM-aware storage. By managing storage operations at the VM-level,
they've been able to solve their most vexing storage problems, and create
infrastruc... (more)
Container Monitoring: Top Docker Metrics to Watch
By Stefan Thies
Monitoring of Docker environments is challenging. Why? Because each container
typically runs a single process, has its own environment, utilizes virtual
networks, or has various methods of managing storage. Traditional monitoring
solutions take metrics from each server and applications they run. These
servers and applications running on them are typically very static, with very
long uptimes. Docker deployments are different: a set of containers may run
many applications, all sharing the resources of one or more underlying hosts.
It's not uncommon for Docker servers to run thousands of short-term
containers (e.g., for batch jobs) while a set of permanent services runs in
parallel. Traditional monitoring tools not used to such dynamic environments
are not suited for such deployments. On the other hand, s... (more)
Top 5 Reasons Why Security Teams Love Intelligent Deception
Cyberattacks are relentless. The pace of attacks shows no sign of slowing,
and organizations understand that 100 percent prevention of attacks is not
possible. Traditional prevention and detection techniques are falling short,
and security professionals are scrambling for new paradigms that can more
effectively detect attacks and mitigate the growing levels of damage.
In this climate of confusion, deception-based solutions offer a viable and
proven way to stop attackers in their tracks. Why? Because instead of sitting
back and waiting to be the victim, detection technologies let organizations
be proactive and take the attack to the attacker. We've compiled a list of
top five reasons why more security teams are opting for deception:
1. Malware Agnostic
Today's cyber defenses are centered around prevention. Yet ... (more)
@GonzalezCarmen has been ranked the Number One Influencer and @ThingsExpo has
been named the Number One Brand in the "M2M 2016: Top 100 Influencers and
Brands" by Onalytica.
Onalytica analyzed tweets over the last 6 months mentioning the keywords M2M
OR "Machine to Machine." They then identified the top 100 most influential
brands and individuals leading the discussion on Twitter.
Machine to Machine (M2M) refers to direct communication between devices using
any communications channel, including wired and wireless. The M2M market is
undergoing a fast transformation as enterprises are increasingly realizing
the value of connecting geographically dispersed people, devices, sensors and
machines to corporate networks. Today, industries such as healthcare,
automotive, oil and gas, precision agriculture, military, government, smart
cities/municipalities, manufacturing, a... (more)
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Big Things That Seem Small... Bert Loomis and AI in the Cloud
Bert Loomis was a visionary. This general session will highlight how Bert
Loomis and people like him inspire us to build great things with small
inventions.
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In their general session at 19th Cloud Expo, Harold Hannon, Architect at IBM
Bluemix, and Michael O'Neill, Strategic Business Development at Nvidia, will
discuss the accelerating pace of AI development and how IBM Cloud and NVIDIA
are partnering to bring AI capabilities to "every day," on-demand. They will
also review two "free infrastructure" programs available to startups and
innovators.
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Speaker Bios
Harold Hannon has worked in the... (more)
"Dice has been around for the last 20 years. We have been helping tech
professionals find new jobs and career opportunities," explained Manish
Dixit, VP of Product and Engineering at Dice, in this SYS-CON.tv interview at
19th Cloud Expo, held November 1-3, 2016, at the Santa Clara Convention
Center in Santa Clara, CA.
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)
Full Conference Registration Gold Pass and Exhibit Hall ▸ Here
Register For @CloudExpo ▸ Here via EventBrite
Register For @ThingsExpo ▸ Here via EventBrite
Register For @DevOpsSummit ▸ Here via EventBrite
Sponsorship Opportunities
Sponsors of Cloud Expo / @ThingsExpo will benefit from unmatched branding,
profile ... (more)
@CloudExpo Stories By Pat Romanski  IoT is rapidly changing the way enterprises are using data to improve business decision-making. In order to derive business value, organizations must unlock insights from the data gathered and then act on these. In their session at @ThingsExpo, Eric Hoffman, Vice President at EastBanc Technologies, and Peter Shashkin, Head of Development Department at EastBanc Technologies, discussed how one organization leveraged IoT, cloud technology and data analysis to improve customer experiences and effici... Dec. 2, 2016 08:30 PM EST Reads: 4,963 | By Liz McMillan  "We are an all-flash array storage provider but our focus has been on VM-aware storage specifically for virtualized applications," stated Dhiraj Sehgal of Tintri in this SYS-CON.tv interview at 19th Cloud Expo, held November 1-3, 2016, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA. Dec. 2, 2016 08:30 PM EST Reads: 312 | By Elizabeth White  The cloud competition for database hosts is fierce. How do you evaluate a cloud provider for your database platform?
In his session at 18th Cloud Expo, Chris Presley, a Solutions Architect at Pythian, gave users a checklist of considerations when choosing a provider.
Chris Presley is a Solutions Architect at Pythian. He loves order – making him a premier Microsoft SQL Server expert. Not only has he programmed and administered SQL Server, but he has also shared his expertise and passion with b... Dec. 2, 2016 07:00 PM EST Reads: 3,901 | By Pat Romanski  "IoT is going to be a huge industry with a lot of value for end users, for industries, for consumers, for manufacturers. How can we use cloud to effectively manage IoT applications," stated Ian Khan, Innovation & Marketing Manager at Solgeniakhela, in this SYS-CON.tv interview at @ThingsExpo, held November 3-5, 2015, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA. Dec. 2, 2016 06:45 PM EST Reads: 3,971 | By Elizabeth White  As data explodes in quantity, importance and from new sources, the need for managing and protecting data residing across physical, virtual, and cloud environments grow with it. Managing data includes protecting it, indexing and classifying it for true, long-term management, compliance and E-Discovery. Commvault can ensure this with a single pane of glass solution – whether in a private cloud, a Service Provider delivered public cloud or a hybrid cloud environment – across the heterogeneous enter... Dec. 2, 2016 06:30 PM EST Reads: 1,467 | By Elizabeth White  Without a clear strategy for cost control and an architecture designed with cloud services in mind, costs and operational performance can quickly get out of control. To avoid multiple architectural redesigns requires extensive thought and planning. Boundary (now part of BMC) launched a new public-facing multi-tenant high resolution monitoring service on Amazon AWS two years ago, facing challenges and learning best practices in the early days of the new service.
In his session at 19th Cloud Exp... Dec. 2, 2016 05:15 PM EST Reads: 351 | By Liz McMillan  The cloud promises new levels of agility and cost-savings for Big Data, data warehousing and analytics. But it’s challenging to understand all the options – from IaaS and PaaS to newer services like HaaS (Hadoop as a Service) and BDaaS (Big Data as a Service). In her session at @BigDataExpo at @ThingsExpo, Hannah Smalltree, a director at Cazena, provided an educational overview of emerging “as-a-service” options for Big Data in the cloud. This is critical background for IT and data professionals... Dec. 2, 2016 05:00 PM EST Reads: 4,070 | By Liz McMillan  Today we can collect lots and lots of performance data. We build beautiful dashboards and even have fancy query languages to access and transform the data. Still performance data is a secret language only a couple of people understand. The more business becomes digital the more stakeholders are interested in this data including how it relates to business. Some of these people have never used a monitoring tool before. They have a question on their mind like “How is my application doing” but no id... Dec. 2, 2016 04:45 PM EST Reads: 2,097 | By Elizabeth White @GonzalezCarmen has been ranked the Number One Influencer and @ThingsExpo has been named the Number One Brand in the “M2M 2016: Top 100 Influencers and Brands” by Onalytica.
Onalytica analyzed tweets over the last 6 months mentioning the keywords M2M OR “Machine to Machine.” They then identified the top 100 most influential brands and individuals leading the discussion on Twitter. Dec. 2, 2016 04:45 PM EST Reads: 1,967 | By Elizabeth White  What happens when the different parts of a vehicle become smarter than the vehicle itself? As we move toward the era of smart everything, hundreds of entities in a vehicle that communicate with each other, the vehicle and external systems create a need for identity orchestration so that all entities work as a conglomerate. Much like an orchestra without a conductor, without the ability to secure, control, and connect the link between a vehicle’s head unit, devices, and systems and to manage the ... Dec. 2, 2016 04:15 PM EST Reads: 346 | By Pat Romanski  More and more brands have jumped on the IoT bandwagon. We have an excess of wearables – activity trackers, smartwatches, smart glasses and sneakers, and more that track seemingly endless datapoints. However, most consumers have no idea what “IoT” means. Creating more wearables that track data shouldn't be the aim of brands; delivering meaningful, tangible relevance to their users should be.
We're in a period in which the IoT pendulum is still swinging. Initially, it swung toward "smart for smar... Dec. 2, 2016 04:15 PM EST Reads: 321 | By Elizabeth White  In an era of historic innovation fueled by unprecedented access to data and technology, the low cost and risk of entering new markets has leveled the playing field for business. Today, any ambitious innovator can easily introduce a new application or product that can reinvent business models and transform the client experience. In their Day 2 Keynote at 19th Cloud Expo, Mercer Rowe, IBM Vice President of Strategic Alliances, and Raejeanne Skillern, Intel Vice President of Data Center Group and G... Dec. 2, 2016 04:00 PM EST Reads: 1,860 | By Liz McMillan "We are a modern development application platform and we have a suite of products that allow you to application release automation, we do version control, and we do application life cycle management," explained Flint Brenton, CEO of CollabNet, in this SYS-CON.tv interview at DevOps at 19th Cloud Expo, held November 1-3, 2016, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA. Dec. 2, 2016 03:45 PM EST Reads: 643 | By Liz McMillan  Information technology is an industry that has always experienced change, and the dramatic change sweeping across the industry today could not be truthfully described as the first time we've seen such widespread change impacting customer investments. However, the rate of the change, and the potential outcomes from today's digital transformation has the distinct potential to separate the industry into two camps: Organizations that see the change coming, embrace it, and successful leverage it; and... Dec. 2, 2016 03:30 PM EST Reads: 3,189 | By Liz McMillan  In IT, we sometimes coin terms for things before we know exactly what they are and how they’ll be used. The resulting terms may capture a common set of aspirations and goals – as “cloud” did broadly for on-demand, self-service, and flexible computing. But such a term can also lump together diverse and even competing practices, technologies, and priorities to the point where important distinctions are glossed over and lost. Dec. 2, 2016 03:15 PM EST Reads: 1,445 | By Liz McMillan All clouds are not equal. To succeed in a DevOps context, organizations should plan to develop/deploy apps across a choice of on-premise and public clouds simultaneously depending on the business needs. This is where the concept of the Lean Cloud comes in - resting on the idea that you often need to relocate your app modules over their life cycles for both innovation and operational efficiency in the cloud.
In his session at @DevOpsSummit at19th Cloud Expo, Valentin (Val) Bercovici, CTO of Soli... Dec. 2, 2016 02:15 PM EST Reads: 1,527 | By Pat Romanski  Predictive analytics tools monitor, report, and troubleshoot in order to make proactive decisions about the health, performance, and utilization of storage. Most enterprises combine cloud and on-premise storage, resulting in blended environments of physical, virtual, cloud, and other platforms, which justifies more sophisticated storage analytics.
In his session at 18th Cloud Expo, Peter McCallum, Vice President of Datacenter Solutions at FalconStor, discussed using predictive analytics to mon... Dec. 2, 2016 02:00 PM EST Reads: 4,823 | By Pat Romanski  Keeping pace with advancements in software delivery processes and tooling is taxing even for the most proficient organizations. Point tools, platforms, open source and the increasing adoption of private and public cloud services requires strong engineering rigor – all in the face of developer demands to use the tools of choice. As Agile has settled in as a mainstream practice, now DevOps has emerged as the next wave to improve software delivery speed and output. To make DevOps work, organization... Dec. 2, 2016 01:30 PM EST Reads: 5,696 | 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. 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 June 6-8, 2017, at the Javits Center in New York City, New York, is co-located with 20th Cloud Expo and will feature technical sessions from a rock star conference faculty and the leading industry p... Dec. 2, 2016 01:30 PM EST Reads: 1,806 | By Carmen Gonzalez  20th Cloud Expo, taking place June 6-8, 2017, at the Javits Center in New York City, NY, will feature technical sessions from a rock star conference faculty and the leading industry players in the world.
Cloud computing is now being embraced by a majority of enterprises of all sizes. Yesterday's debate about public vs. private has transformed into the reality of hybrid cloud: a recent survey shows that 74% of enterprises have a hybrid cloud strategy. Dec. 2, 2016 01:15 PM EST Reads: 2,076 |
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Way back in 1969, as a kid, I watched a very interesting movie – “2001: A Space Odyssey”. It was a science fiction where a super intelligent computer program HAL is in-charge of a mission to Jupiter which also carries several astronauts. The program becomes rogue and tries to kill all the astronauts. The hero survives and manages to disable the program. There is a lot more to the plot, but the fight between human and computer is still vivid in my memory.
In 1969, such a scenario looked possible. After all 32 years is a lot of time given the rate of our progress. We are now in 2016, and it app...
As cloud computing simultaneously transforms multiple industries many have wondered about how this trend will affect manufacturing. Often characterized as “staid”, this vertical is not often cited when leading edge technological change is the topic. This view, however, fails to address the revolutionary nexus of cloud computing and the manufacturing industry. Referred to as Digital Thread and Digital Twin; these cloud driven concepts are now driving this vertical’s future.
Almost a year ago, I wrote these words, "Technology has reached the tipping point for me, it moved from a help to a hindrance." The plethora of adrenaline- and endorphin-inducing mobile apps, 24x7 news, notifications, alerts and updates, drip fed my brain and hindered my "deep work and deep thoughts." In Cal Newport's new book titled, Deep Work he posits that most knowledge workers need concentration and substantial time, dedicated and uninterrupted, to produce their best work. He argues that a lot of technologies and open office layouts today inhibit creativity, "deep work" and "deep thoughts...
Internet of @ThingsExpo, taking place June 6-8, 2017 at the Javits Center in New York City, New York, is co-located with the 20th International Cloud Expo and will feature technical sessions from a rock star conference faculty and the leading industry players in the world. @ThingsExpo New York Call for Papers is now open.
There’s a funny thing about digital transformation: we are simultaneously over-hyping it and understating it. On the one hand, every tech company in the world is talking about it. It doesn’t matter how mundane the technology; every company is somehow relating their products to digital transformation.
On the other, many people are failing to grasp the import and impact of what digital transformation really means. In far too many cases, business and IT leaders are dismissing it as nothing more than a marketing ploy. The unfortunate result is that the over-hypedness of digital transformation i...
Hewlett Packard Enterprise advanced across several fronts at HPE Discover 2016 in London, making inroads into hybrid IT, Internet of Things, and on to the latest advances in memory-based computer architecture.
A leaner, more streamlined Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) advanced across several fronts at HPE Discover 2016 in London, making inroads into hybrid IT, Internet of Things (IoT), and on to the latest advances in memory-based computer architecture. All the innovations are designed to help customers address the age of digital disruption with speed, agility, and efficiency.
For large enterprise organizations, it can be next-to-impossible to identify attacks and act to mitigate them in good time. That’s one of the reasons executives often discover security breaches when an external researcher — or worse, a journalist — gets in touch to ask why hundreds of millions of logins for their company’s services are freely available on hacker forums.
The huge volume of incoming connections, the heterogeneity of services, and the desire to avoid false positives leave enterprise security teams in a difficult spot. Finding potential security breaches is like finding a tiny ne...
2016 brought about more cyberattacks than we thought possible, especially involving ransomware, and we definitely won't see that trend breaking stride in 2017. By next year, we expect every single adult in the US will know a blood relative that has had their identity stolen - the Internal Revenue Service reported that 2.7 million people had their identities stolen in 2014 and according to TransUnion, 19 people fall victim to identity theft every minute.
There was a time, in the 1990s, when Silicon Valley and Redmond thought Washington DC didn’t matter. Top executives would occasionally appear in front of Congress to inveigh mostly against one another, then quickly return home to resume making money. The notion that clueless DC regulators and legislators mattered was ridiculed when it wasn’t ignored.
The IoT continued its toddler-like growth and stumbles in 2016. Here are five trends to look for in 2017 as the IoT enters its adolescence and how to benefit from them.
1. Ecosystems begin to determine winners and losers
Previously these were nice in-the-future concerns; now they will really count. Filling out a whole product value proposition through partnerships has repeatedly proven its importance across B2B and enterprise software sectors. In the IoT, they will be even more critical.
In his keynote at 18th Cloud Expo, Andrew Keys, Co-Founder of ConsenSys Enterprise, provided an overview of the evolution of the Internet and the Database and the future of their combination – the Blockchain.
Andrew Keys is Co-Founder of ConsenSys Enterprise. He comes to ConsenSys Enterprise with capital markets, technology and entrepreneurial experience. Previously, he worked for UBS investment bank in equities analysis. Later, he was responsible for the creation and distribution of life settlement products to hedge funds and investment banks. After, he co-founded a revenue cycle management...
Unless your company can spend a lot of money on new technology, re-engineering your environment and hiring a comprehensive cybersecurity team, you will most likely move to the cloud or seek external service partnerships. In his session at 18th Cloud Expo, Darren Guccione, CEO of Keeper Security, revealed what you need to know when it comes to encryption in the cloud.
As we enter the final week before the 19th International Cloud Expo | @ThingsExpo in Santa Clara, CA, it's time for me to reflect on six big topics that will be important during the show.
Hybrid Cloud
This general-purpose term seems to provide a comfort zone for many enterprise IT managers. It sounds reassuring to be able to work with one of the major public-cloud providers like AWS or Microsoft Azure while still maintaining an on-site presence.
The 2017 procurement landscape has its own impressive retinue of decision bots, automated processes, and data-driven insights.
The next BriefingsDirect technology innovation thought leadership discussion explores how rapid advances in artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning are poised to reshape procurement -- like a fast-forwarding to a once-fanciful vision of the future.
IT leaders face a monumental challenge. They must figure out how to sort through the cacophony of new technologies, buzzwords, and industry hype to find the right digital path forward for their organizations. And they simply cannot afford to fail. Those organizations that are fastest to the right digital path will be the ones that win. The path forward, however, is strewn with the legacy of decisions made long ago — often before any of the current leadership team assumed their roles. While it’s fun to think about the future with a green-field mindset, that’s not reality for IT leaders sitting ...
Walk through an airport or a shopping mall and you may notice little pieces of information popping up: “Flight delayed at gate G5”; “Stop into our shop right now and receive up to 20 percent off your order”; etc. Did you sign up for those notifications? Most likely not, but don’t worry, your phone hasn’t been hacked. The notifications are a result of beacon technology.
The Jevons Paradox suggests that when technological advances increase efficiency of a resource, it results in an overall increase in consumption. Writing on the increased use of coal as a result of technological improvements, 19th-century economist William Stanley Jevons found that these improvements led to the development of new ways to utilize coal. In his session at 19th Cloud Expo, Mark Thiele, Chief Strategy Officer for Apcera, compared the Jevons Paradox to modern-day enterprise IT, examining how the Internet and the cloud has allowed for the democratization of IT, resulting in an increa...
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