A number of retailers, especially small businesses, are moving away from these expensive systems to cheaper, yet a lot more sophisticated cloud altern...Dec. 22, 2016 05:45 PM EST
When building large, cloud-based applications that operate at a high scale, it’s important to maintain a high availability and resilience to failures....Latest Blogs from @CloudExpo
 It doesn’t matter how often you move or where you are moving to, moving is stressful. There are so many questions to be answered, like:
What if something breaks?
How will this impact my commute?
What is it going to cost?
How safe is the new neighborhood?Dec. 22, 2016 05:00 PM EST Reads: 797 |
 Software development is a moving target. You have to keep your eye on trends in the tech space that haven’t even happened yet just to stay current. Consider what’s happened with augmented reality (AR) in this year alone. If you said you were working on an AR app in 2015, you might have...Dec. 22, 2016 05:00 PM EST Reads: 1,411 |
 Forty months is not a lot of time to design, develop and deliver something monumental. Consider that it took 182 years to build the Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris, 20 years to build the Great Pyramid of Giza and 10 years to build the Panama Canal. Executives from digital-leading compani...Dec. 22, 2016 04:45 PM EST Reads: 949 |
 WWT reached deep into its applications, data, and content to rapidly and efficiently create a powerful Google-like, pan-enterprise search capability and engender a more productive and proactive digital business culture.Dec. 22, 2016 04:00 PM EST Reads: 915 |
 Finnish national gaming company, Veikkaus, is managing a complex merger process while also bringing more of a digital advantage to both its operations and business model.
To learn how a culture of IT innovation is helping to establish a single wholly nationally-owned company to operat...Dec. 22, 2016 03:30 PM EST Reads: 576 |
 While cloud may have formally entered the enterprise in 2006, it’s now a reality for nearly every company. The Cloud Era got its start with Software as a service (SaaS) offerings that paved the way for innovations in CRM and email deployments, to create new opportunities for the likes ...Dec. 22, 2016 03:15 PM EST Reads: 372 |
 DevOps is being widely accepted (if not fully adopted) as essential in enterprise IT. But as Enterprise DevOps gains maturity, expands scope, and increases velocity, the need for data-driven decisions across teams becomes more acute. DevOps teams in any modern business must wrangle the...Dec. 22, 2016 03:00 PM EST Reads: 1,836 |
 It’s that time of year again! Finance teams are putting the finishing touches on next year’s corporate budgets and teams are likely looking back on 2016 to see what to change or improve in the year ahead.
Here at Vena, we’re making our annual predictions in finance and corporate perfo...Dec. 22, 2016 02:15 PM EST Reads: 385 |
 Hybrid IT is a catalyst of progressive organizations. In fact, two-thirds of surveyed leaders say a blend of traditional and cloud infrastructure enables a strategic competitive advantage, according to a market study by the IBM Center for Applied Insights.
That said, savvy leaders are...Dec. 22, 2016 12:00 PM EST Reads: 950 |
 I hear it often; I need to acquire more customers like my “most valuable” customers. But what makes a customer “most valuable”? What are the characteristics and/or behaviors that make a customer “most valuable”? This simple question is anything but simple. Let me explain through an exe...Dec. 22, 2016 08:30 AM EST Reads: 557 |
 Whether they’re located in a public, private, or hybrid cloud environment, cloud technologies are constantly evolving. While the innovation is exciting, the end mission of delivering business value and rapidly producing incremental product features is paramount.
In his session at @De...Dec. 22, 2016 08:00 AM EST Reads: 523 |
 When was the last time you’ve ever heard anyone say “IT Applications & Operations”? Frankly, in my 30+ year career in IT, I don’t believe I’ve ever heard anyone use this term. The typical term we hear is IT Infrastructure & Operations. These two go together like Peanut Butter and Jelly...Dec. 21, 2016 09:00 PM EST Reads: 1,403 |
 We continue with the second part of our two-part series. If you missed the first part, we are discussing what security professionals can learn from the hit series, "Mr. Robot." The series explores the world of organized hacking as well as the security measures being used to stop the ha...Dec. 21, 2016 11:00 AM EST Reads: 834 |
 Workspot VDI 2.0 is the industry’s first cloud-native, multi-tenant, infinitely scalable VDI solution, when combined with a customer’s datacenter infrastructure, can have desktops and apps up and available to their users in a day.
First, Workspot VDI 2.0 is the industry's first cloud...Dec. 21, 2016 10:00 AM EST Reads: 556 |
 My daughter called with a frantic message. She was driving my car (why she was driving my car when she has her own is the subject for another time) and a warning message appeared on the car console: “Engine overheated! Stop engine and allow to cool down” (see Figure 1).
Fortunately, m...Dec. 17, 2016 01:00 PM EST Reads: 1,355 |
 In his session at Cloud Expo, Robert Cohen, an economist and senior fellow at the Economic Strategy Institute, provideed economic scenarios that describe how the rapid adoption of software-defined everything including cloud services, SDDC and open networking will change GDP, industry g...Dec. 16, 2016 04:00 PM EST Reads: 1,472 |
 I recently recovered from ACDF surgery where they remove a herniated or degenerative disc in the neck and fuse the cervical bones above and below the disk. My body had a huge vulnerability where one good shove or fender bender could have ruptured my spinal cord. I had some items remove...Dec. 16, 2016 04:00 PM EST Reads: 1,139 |
 "We analyze the video streaming experience. We are gathering the user behavior in real time from the user devices and we analyze how users experience the video streaming," explained Eric Kim, Founder and CEO at Streamlyzer, in this SYS-CON.tv interview at 19th Cloud Expo, held November...Dec. 15, 2016 05:00 PM EST Reads: 1,386 |
 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...Dec. 11, 2016 03:00 PM EST Reads: 1,465 |
 This is a guest post from Cloudinary, a cloud-based image and video management solution. We are always looking for ways to help companies deliver digital experiences that will meet customers expectations in terms of content and performance. Tackling these 5 challenges is a good step to...Dec. 11, 2016 09:00 AM EST Reads: 1,620 |
 Nerdio is an IT-as-a-service platform with virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) technology at its core. It 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...Dec. 9, 2016 11:00 AM EST Reads: 1,320 |
 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 ...Dec. 8, 2016 03:00 PM EST Reads: 1,545 |
 CloudJumper, a Workspace as a Service (WaaS) platform innovator for agile business IT, has been recognized with the Customer Value Leadership Award for its nWorkSpace platform by Frost & Sullivan. The company was also featured in a new report(1) by the industry research firm titled, “D...Dec. 8, 2016 02:30 PM EST Reads: 1,231 |
 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 ...Dec. 8, 2016 12:00 PM EST Reads: 1,605 |
 "Coalfire is a cyber-risk, security and compliance assessment and advisory services firm. We do a lot of work with the cloud service provider community," explained Ryan McGowan, Vice President, Sales (West) at Coalfire Systems, Inc., in this SYS-CON.tv interview at 19th Cloud Expo, hel...Dec. 8, 2016 11:00 AM EST Reads: 1,311 |
 It is not often that movies and television shows give viewers the opportunity to explore the world of hacking and digital security in a realistic manner. After two seasons, "Mr. Robot" has attracted its share of IT professionals as well as average citizens. The show has offered numerou...Dec. 8, 2016 10:00 AM EST Reads: 1,385 |
 Successful digital transformation requires new organizational competencies and capabilities. Research tells us that the biggest impediment to successful transformation is human; consequently, the biggest enabler is a properly skilled and empowered workforce. In the digital age, new ind...Dec. 8, 2016 10:00 AM EST Reads: 1,286 |
 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...Dec. 7, 2016 05:00 PM EST Reads: 1,618 |
 As cloud computing becomes the information technology mainstream, data center technology is accelerating at a breakneck speed. Concepts like software define infrastructure, data center analytics and Nonvolatile Memory Express (NVMe) over Fabrics are changing the very nature of data cen...Dec. 6, 2016 01:00 PM EST Reads: 1,370 |
 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 stakeho...Dec. 5, 2016 07:45 PM EST Reads: 2,834 |
 As ridesharing competitors and enhanced services increase, notable changes are occurring in the transportation model. Despite the cost-effective means and flexibility of ridesharing, both drivers and users will need to be aware of the connected environment and how it will impact the ri...Dec. 2, 2016 10:00 AM EST Reads: 1,339 |
 The need to add more features on shorter release cycles is ubiquitous. At some point we will reach the threshold of gaining efficiencies and quality will begin to degrade. There is some evidence that we’ve reached and crossed that threshold already.
In the late 1960's the National Sch...Dec. 1, 2016 05:00 PM EST Reads: 2,551 |
 During the Cold War the armies of East and West faced off along thousands of miles of borders with tens of thousands of tanks, artillery units, defensive positions, guns and soldiers. The costs for supporting these defensive postures were enormous. Nations invested hundreds of billio...Dec. 1, 2016 05:00 PM EST Reads: 2,509 |
 As the industry matures, cloud computing will increasingly rely on interoperability in order to grow and deliver more value to industry. Assuming this is a fact, what does it mean when eighteen major OpenStack vendors come together to work through the challenges involved with achieving...Nov. 30, 2016 04:00 PM EST Reads: 1,572 |
 The ongoing digital transformation continues to generate a steady demand for workers with increasingly sophisticated digital skills. This process is multi-dimensional and workers with these highly specialized skills are very much sought after. The European Union Commissionestimates tha...Nov. 29, 2016 07:09 AM EST |
 Interoperability continues to be one of healthcare IT’s biggest trends in 2016 as the industry sees momentous forward movement.
In fact, interoperability is not a new trend. It has been an important mission (and a challenge) for healthcare administrators for decades, but the past coup...Nov. 27, 2016 12:00 PM EST Reads: 1,662 |
 Home-maintenance repair and services provider ServiceMaster develops applications with a security-minded focus as a DevOps benefit.
To learn how security technology leads to posture maturity and DevOps business benefits, we're joined by Jennifer Cole, Chief Information Security Office...Nov. 24, 2016 02:00 PM EST Reads: 1,712 |
 As software becomes more and more complex, we, as software developers, have been splitting up our code into smaller and smaller components.
This is also true for the environment in which we run our code: going from bare metal, to VMs to the modern-day Cloud Native world of containers...Nov. 24, 2016 11:00 AM EST Reads: 1,676 |
 A recent report by Praetorian, a cybersecurity company headquartered in Austin, TX, focused on threats that resulted in data compromise or access to sensitive information. Based on a review of 100 separate internal penetration test engagements the study identified the five most prevale...Nov. 23, 2016 01:00 PM EST Reads: 1,440 |
 A BriefingsDirect business innovation thought leadership discussion on how companies are exploiting advances in procurement and finance services to produce new types of productivity benefits.
We'll now hear from a leading industry analyst on how more data, process integration, and an...Nov. 20, 2016 04:00 PM EST Reads: 2,651 |
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