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Five of the Best Programming Languages and Frameworks for a Small Business
Choosing a programming framework for a small business can be overwhelming-
there are so many. Here are a few of the best choices, to help you get
started.
Ask a room of ten developers which programming framework is the ‘best on
the market,' and you're liable to receive ten different answers. Each
developer will sing the praises of a different language, and each one will
very probably feel that theirs is the only logical choice. The most confusing
thing, though? Each and every one of those developers will be correct.
Wait, what?
I'll be blunt: there is no universal programming framework. The language your
organization should work with - whether it's for web development, mobile
development, or traditional development - depends entirely on your unique
situation. The perfect choice for one busine... (more)
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Accelerating Transformation Projects with Dynamic, Software-Defined Storage
Organizations planning enterprise data center consolidation and modernization
projects are faced with a challenging, costly reality. Requirements to deploy
modern, cloud-native applications simultaneously with traditional
client/server applications are almost impossible to achieve with
hardware-centric enterprise infrastructure. Compute and network
infrastructure are fast moving down a software-defined path, but storage has
been a laggard. Until now.
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In his session at 18th Cloud Expo, Mark Lewis, Chairman and CEO of Formation
Data Systems, detailed how to deploy dynamic, software-defined storage
infrastructure to transform storage from monolithic silos to an elastic pool
of petabyte-scale storage resource... (more)
22nd November 2013 - CWCS Managed Hosting (www.cwcs.co.uk) has announced that
it is offering unlimited data transfer (often referred to as bandwidth) with
all its cloud server packages. This not only brings down the cost of CWCS
cloud servers, but also means customers will no longer pay more if, for
example, their website traffic unexpectedly increases.
By choosing CWCS Managed Hosting, customers get fast, reliable and secure
hosting with high quality technical support 24/7/365. CWCS cloud servers are
now even more cost-effective because the removal of data transfer charges has
lowered the prices, while at the same time removing any worry or concern
about going over a particular limit or quota.
Karl Mendez, Managing Director at CWCS commented "Not only does unlimited
data transfer lower costs for anyone using our cloud servers, it takes away
the worry if, for exampl... (more)
In my previous post (http://thinkfirstcodelater.com/blog/?p=3540) I showed
you how to create a SQL database using the Windows Azure cross platform
command line tools. In this post I’ll show you how to use these tools to
list your SQL database.
Once again, just a reminder that I’m using the command line tools on a
MacBook Air with OSX (Mavericks) installed, and I’m using Google Chrome as
my default browser. However, the experience should be identical on Windows
and Linux as well.
Open an instance of your command line (Terminal, Bash, Command Prompt, etc.)
and type the following:
azure sql db list -h
The azure sql db list commands lists SQL databases on a specific SQL server.
In order to use the command you must provide the following parameters:
serverName – the name of the SQL server you want to list databases for
administratorLogin – the administrator login of th... (more)
Today nearly all of us have our information stored on the cloud. It's a very
easy solution that allows users to seamlessly create back-ups of photos,
contacts and other personal information, giving users access to their
accounts anywhere from any device. Perhaps its most prized feature is that it
has no storage limits, unlike mobile devices and PCs.
There is, however, a downside to cloud services. Although it is useful in
storing data, it could be the reason data is lost. Recently, the celebrity
iCloud hack went to trial. The hacker admitted he acquired the credentials by
spear phishing his victims and once he had them, all the data they stored on
the cloud, whether intentionally or not, was exposed and later posted online.
Many users are not aware of the different risks involved in using the cloud.
It's easy to forget that it syncs automatically, storing data that wa... (more)
SYS-CON Events announced today that the 8th International Cloud Expo will
take place June 6-9, 2011, in New York City.
The International Cloud Computing Conference & Expo series is the world's
leading Cloud-focused event and is held three times a year, in New York,
Silicon Valley and in Europe. Over 600 corporate sponsors and 10,000 industry
professionals have participated in Cloud Computing Expo since its inception,
more than all other Cloud-related events put together.
Cloud Computing Expo 2011 East
Call for Papers Deadline November 30, 2010 - SUBMIT YOUR SPEAKING PROPOSAL
TODAY!
The four-day event will offer a rich array of sessions led by exceptional
speakers about the business and technical value of cloud computing with more
than 150 sponsors and exhibitors and over 5,000 estimated delegates from well
over 48 different countries.
Explore Cloud Expo Sponsorship &... (more)
I have not blogged much about what I work with or do and that's on purpose.
Sometimes I am not allowed to tell and mostly I think you would not find it
interesting. However, I wanna share with you from Qt Developer Days #qtdd09
in Munich, which was an amazing event.
Not only is Qt a decent Developer tool for making desktop apps, but joining
forces with Nokia, ex-Trolltech is getting far more traction as well. As a
result of last week's devdays but also beta-release of Qt 4.6, one of my
favorite online newsletter had this article last week.
But being at DevDays Europe is an amazing experience. Third year now for me
and it keeps blowing my mind off. This year an amazing 660 delegates + the
80+ Nokians that attended/helped out.
The DevDays often comes with some new stuff. This year, the former
Trolltech cheif engineer, Matthias Ettrich, launched QML in his ... (more)
Selenium is a free Web Application Testing System. It gained lots of
popularity since it is available. It’s integration to FireFox – which
allows instant record/replay as well as the scripting option - makes it a
great tool for functional web testing.
BrowserMob on the other side leverages Selenium by providing an automated
load-testing environment for Selenium scripts all configurable online via a
Web Dashboard.
Tagging Web Requests
In my recent blog post – Get more out of functional web testing: How to
correlate test reports with server side log information? – I discussed the
problem that testing results are usually not linked to the log and
diagnostics information captured by the application under test. The blog
entry offered a way to link the two sides using HTTP Tagging via an HTTP
Proxy. Tagging individual Web Requests allows linking each individual request
... (more)
When Rick Berzle and Bill Keyworth asked me to join them to build a site on
the topic of Business Service Management, I immediately said yes.
The result is BSMReview.com, a site which seeks to analyze the best and next
practices in business service management from a third-party point of view.
The experts that Bill has brought to the site are literally a who's who of
the best and most trusted people in the field: Peter Armstrong, Tom Bishop,
Malcolm Fry, Israel Gat, Peter McGarahan, Richard Ptak, and Ken Turbitt. And
that's just for the launch. Bill is recruiting more experts even as I write
this. I'd like to get David Williams from Gartner and Jean-Pierre Garbani
from Forrester involved as well, but they're behind the iron walls of the
analyst-dom.
Bill's thinking is that business service management covers a series of
related topics. See his introduction - The Why &... (more)
Here are my slides from today’s talk at LinuxCon on “Open Source
Toolchains for Cloud Computing“. The talk focused on what open source tools
could be used to create automation for managing cloud computing. I really
enjoyed giving the talk and the discussion afterward, it seems that the
reality among attendees was that they did very little to automate management
but all had a great interest in doing so. I also enjoyed hearing from a Big 4
systems management user who said clearly that their multi-million dollar
system didn’t appear to have the same capabilities as the free software
solutions I mentioned.
Open Source Tool Chains for Cloud Computing
Technorati Tags: agile IT, automation, cloud computing, devops, Open Source
... (more)
** Hot News **
Appeon Corporation has just released an official maintenance release to
their Appeon Web product. This is version 6.5.1 build 1045 that encompasses
maintenance release #104. This MR is for all versions of Appeon (Developer,
Server and Web Component).
Appeon 6.5.1045 Download Links - Maintenance Release for Windows ...
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MR #104 addresses the following issues ...
FileWrite cannot work in StreamMode. Under DW QueryMode, the DW SQL uses the
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dynamically created Crosstab DataWindow, if the first data retrieval returns
0 (no data), then the second... (more)
@CloudExpo Stories By Pat Romanski  Regardless of what business you’re in, it’s increasingly a software-driven business. Consumers’ rising expectations for connected digital and physical experiences are driving what some are calling the "Customer Experience Challenge.” In his session at @DevOpsSummit at 20th Cloud Expo, Marco Morales, Director of Global Solutions at CollabNet, will discuss how organizations are increasingly adopting a discipline of Value Stream Mapping to ensure that the software they are producing is poised to o... Jun. 6, 2017 02:45 AM EDT Reads: 1,629 | By Elizabeth White  Cloud promises the agility required by today’s digital businesses. As organizations adopt cloud based infrastructures and services, their IT resources become increasingly dynamic and hybrid in nature. Managing these require modern IT operations and tools. In his session at 20th Cloud Expo, Raj Sundaram, Senior Principal Product Manager at CA Technologies, will discuss how to modernize your IT operations in order to proactively manage your hybrid cloud and IT environments. He will be sharing bes... Jun. 6, 2017 02:15 AM EDT Reads: 4,327 | By Yeshim Deniz  SYS-CON Events announced today that CAST Highlight has been named "Bronze Sponsor" of SYS-CON's 20th International Cloud Expo®, which will take place on June 6-8, 2017, at the Javits Center in New York City, NY. CAST Highlight is an ultra-rapid code-scanning SaaS offering that identifies potential IT risks and cost savings opportunities across distributed application portfolios. By delivering data and insights on the health of portfolios, CAST Highlight provides IT leaders with objectivity and c... Jun. 6, 2017 02:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,200 | By Elizabeth White  You know you need the cloud, but you’re hesitant to simply dump everything at Amazon since you know that not all workloads are suitable for cloud. You know that you want the kind of ease of use and scalability that you get with public cloud, but your applications are architected in a way that makes the public cloud a non-starter. You’re looking at private cloud solutions based on hyperconverged infrastructure, but you’re concerned with the limits inherent in those technologies. Jun. 6, 2017 02:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,069 | By Liz McMillan  For financial firms, the cloud is going to increasingly become a crucial part of dealing with customers over the next five years and beyond, particularly with the growing use and acceptance of virtual currencies. There are new data storage paradigms on the horizon that will deliver secure solutions for storing and moving sensitive financial data around the world without touching terrestrial networks.
In his session at 20th Cloud Expo, Cliff Beek, President of Cloud Constellation Corporation, w... Jun. 6, 2017 01:45 AM EDT Reads: 1,368 | By Liz McMillan  When shopping for a new data processing platform for IoT solutions, many development teams want to be able to test-drive options before making a choice. Yet when evaluating an IoT solution, it’s simply not feasible to do so at scale with physical devices. Building a sensor simulator is the next best choice; however, generating a realistic simulation at very high TPS with ease of configurability is a formidable challenge. When dealing with multiple application or transport protocols, you would be... Jun. 6, 2017 01:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,463 | By Nishanth Kadiyala  Join us at Cloud Expo June 6-8 to find out how to securely connect your cloud app to any cloud or on-premises data source – without complex firewall changes. More users are demanding access to on-premises data from their cloud applications. It’s no longer a “nice-to-have” but an important differentiator that drives competitive advantages. It’s the new “must have” in the hybrid era. Users want capabilities that give them a unified view of the data to get closer to customers and grow business. The... Jun. 6, 2017 01:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,190 | By Elizabeth White  SYS-CON Events announced today that Clouber will exhibit at SYS-CON's 20th International Cloud Expo®, which will take place on June 6-8, 2017, at the Javits Center in New York City, NY. Clouber offers Migration as a Service (MaaS) across Private and Public Cloud (AWS, Azure, GCP) including bare metal migration to cloud. Clouber’s innovative technology allows for migration projects to be completed in minutes instead of weeks. For more updates follow #clouberio Jun. 6, 2017 12:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,451 | By Liz McMillan  Internet of @ThingsExpo, taking place October 31 - November 2, 2017, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA, is co-located with the 21st International Cloud Expo and will feature technical sessions from a rock star conference faculty and the leading industry players in the world. @ThingsExpo Silicon Valley Call for Papers is now open. Jun. 5, 2017 09:00 PM EDT Reads: 1,857 | By Carmen Gonzalez  A strange thing is happening along the way to the Internet of Things, namely far too many devices to work with and manage. It has become clear that we'll need much higher efficiency user experiences that can allow us to more easily and scalably work with the thousands of devices that will soon be in each of our lives. Enter the conversational interface revolution, combining bots we can literally talk with, gesture to, and even direct with our thoughts, with embedded artificial intelligence, whic... Jun. 5, 2017 08:30 PM EDT Reads: 6,049 | By Pat Romanski  SYS-CON Events announced today that Progress, a global leader in application development, has been named “Bronze Sponsor” of SYS-CON's 20th International Cloud Expo®, which will take place on June 6-8, 2017, at the Javits Center in New York City, NY. Enterprises today are rapidly adopting the cloud, while continuing to retain business-critical/sensitive data inside the firewall. This is creating two separate data silos – one inside the firewall and the other outside the firewall. Cloud ISVs ofte... Jun. 5, 2017 05:45 PM EDT Reads: 4,298 | By Elizabeth White  The current age of digital transformation means that IT organizations must adapt their toolset to cover all digital experiences, beyond just the end users’. Today’s businesses can no longer focus solely on the digital interactions they manage with employees or customers; they must now contend with non-traditional factors. Whether it's the power of brand to make or break a company, the need to monitor across all locations 24/7, or the ability to proactively resolve issues, companies must adapt to... Jun. 5, 2017 05:45 PM EDT Reads: 816 | By Liz McMillan  SYS-CON Events announced today that Striim will exhibit at SYS-CON's 20th International Cloud Expo® | @ThingsExpo New York, which will take place on June 6-8, 2017, at the Javits Center in New York City, NY.
Striim™ (pronounced “stream”) is an enterprise-grade, real-time integration and intelligence platform. Striim makes it easy to ingest high volumes of streaming data – including enterprise data via log-based change data capture – for real-time log correlation, cloud integration, edge process... Jun. 5, 2017 04:30 PM EDT Reads: 878 | By Elizabeth White  SYS-CON Events announced today that Progress, a global leader in application development, has been named “Bronze Sponsor” of SYS-CON's 20th International Cloud Expo®, which will take place on June 6-8, 2017, at the Javits Center in New York City, NY.
Enterprises today are rapidly adopting the cloud, while continuing to retain business-critical/sensitive data inside the firewall. This is creating two separate data silos – one inside the firewall and the other outside the firewall. Cloud ISVs oft... Jun. 5, 2017 04:15 PM EDT Reads: 4,335 | By Liz McMillan  New competitors, disruptive technologies, and growing expectations are pushing every business to both adopt and deliver new digital services. This ‘Digital Transformation’ demands rapid delivery and continuous iteration of new competitive services via multiple channels, which in turn demands new service delivery techniques – including DevOps. In this power panel at @DevOpsSummit 20th Cloud Expo, moderated by DevOps Conference Co-Chair Andi Mann, panelists will examine how DevOps helps to meet th... Jun. 5, 2017 01:15 PM EDT Reads: 5,046 | By Liz McMillan  SYS-CON Events announced today that Outscale, a global pure play Infrastructure as a Service provider and strategic partner of Dassault Systèmes, will exhibit at SYS-CON's 20th International Cloud Expo®, which will take place on June 6-8, 2017, at the Javits Center in New York City, NY. Founded in 2010, Outscale simplifies infrastructure complexities and boosts the business agility of its customers. Outscale delivers a secure, reliable and industrial strength solution for its customers, which in... Jun. 5, 2017 01:00 PM EDT Reads: 1,608 | By Yeshim Deniz  SYS-CON Events announced today that Striim will exhibit at SYS-CON's 20th International Cloud Expo®, which will take place on June 6-8, 2017, at the Javits Center in New York City, NY. Striim is pronounced "stream", with two i's for integration and intelligence. The company was founded in 2012 as WebAction, with a mission to help companies make data useful the instant it's born. The leaders behind the Striim platform thrive on building technology companies that raise expectations for how the wor... Jun. 5, 2017 12:30 PM EDT Reads: 1,437 | By Elizabeth White  IBM helps FinTechs and financial services companies build and monetize cognitive-enabled financial services apps quickly and at scale. Hosted on IBM Bluemix, IBM’s platform builds in customer insights, regulatory compliance analytics and security to help reduce development time and testing. In his session at 20th Cloud Expo, Tom Eck, Industry Platforms CTO at IBM Cloud, will discuss how these tools simplify the time-consuming tasks of selection, mapping and data integration, allowing developers ... Jun. 5, 2017 12:15 PM EDT Reads: 1,665 | By Elizabeth White  In his opening keynote at 20th Cloud Expo, Michael Maximilien, Research Scientist, Architect, and Engineer at IBM, will motivate why realizing the full potential of the cloud and social data requires artificial intelligence. By mixing Cloud Foundry and the rich set of Watson services, IBM's Bluemix is the best cloud operating system for enterprises today, providing rapid development and deployment of applications that can take advantage of the rich catalog of Watson services to help drive insigh... Jun. 5, 2017 12:00 PM EDT Reads: 1,764 | By Yeshim Deniz  DevOps is often described as a combination of technology and culture. Without both, DevOps isn't complete. However, applying the culture to outdated technology is a recipe for disaster; as response times grow and connections between teams are delayed by technology, the culture will die. A Nutanix Enterprise Cloud has many benefits that provide the needed base for a true DevOps paradigm. Jun. 5, 2017 11:30 AM EDT Reads: 6,234 |
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The Internet of Things (IoT) promises to change everything by enabling “smart” environments (homes, cities, hospitals, schools, stores, etc.) and smart products (cars, trucks, airplanes, trains, wind turbines, lawnmowers, etc.). I recently wrote about the importance of moving beyond “connected” to “smart” in a blog titled “Internet of Things: Connected Does Not Equal Smart”. The article discusses the importance of moving beyond just collecting the data, to transitioning to leveraging this new wealth of IoT data to improve the decisions that these smart environments and products need to make: t...
The consumer IoT market is growing at an astounding rate – device ownership increased 259% from 2015 to 2016.
In her session at @ThingsExpo, Noelani McGadden, Vice President of IoT at PlumChoice, will present thought-provoking insights from a recent survey, while exploring the opportunities and challenges as the market continues to grow. The data highlights which types of devices consumers currently own and are planning to purchase, the reasons why they’re purchasing these devices and their preferred method for help (phone call, chat, etc.). She will also discuss drivers of consumer behavior...
Amazon started as an online bookseller 20 years ago. Since then, it has evolved into a technology juggernaut that has disrupted multiple markets and industries and touches many aspects of our lives. It is a relentless technology and business model innovator driving disruption throughout numerous ecosystems. Amazon’s AWS revenues alone are approaching $16B a year making it one of the largest IT companies in the world. With dominant offerings in Cloud, IoT, eCommerce, Big Data, AI, Digital Assistants, Robotics, shipping logistics and other emerging technologies, developers and competitors ignore...
SYS-CON Events announced today that delaPlex will exhibit at SYS-CON's @ThingsExpo, which will take place on June 6-8, 2017, at the Javits Center in New York City, NY. delaPlex pioneered Software Development as a Service (SDaaS), which provides scalable resources to build, test, and deploy software. It’s a fast and more reliable way to develop a new product or expand your in-house team.
In his keynote at @ThingsExpo, Chris Matthieu, Director of IoT Engineering at Citrix and co-founder and CTO of Octoblu, focused on building an IoT platform and company. He provided a behind-the-scenes look at Octoblu’s platform, business, and pivots along the way (including the Citrix acquisition of Octoblu).
In order to meet the rapidly changing demands of today’s customers, companies are continually forced to redefine their business strategies in order to meet these needs, stay relevant and continue to see profitable growth. IoT deployment and development is integral in this transformation, and today businesses are increasingly seeing the value of investing their resources into IoT deployments. These technologies are able increase ROI through projects such as connecting supply chains or enabling smart office capabilities for employees. 
SYS-CON Events announced today that SoftLayer, an IBM Company, has been named “Gold Sponsor” of SYS-CON's 18th Cloud Expo, which will take place on June 7-9, 2016, at the Javits Center in New York, New York. SoftLayer, an IBM Company, provides cloud infrastructure as a service from a growing number of data centers and network points of presence around the world. SoftLayer’s customers range from Web startups to global enterprises.
Industry after industry is under siege as companies embrace digital transformation (DX) to disrupt existing business models and disintermediate their competitor’s customer relationships. But what do we mean by “Digital Transformation”? The coupling of granular, real-time data (e.g., smartphones, connected devices, smart appliances, wearables, mobile commerce, video surveillance) with modern technologies (e.g., cloud native apps, big data architectures, hyper-converged technologies, artificial intelligence, blockchain) to enhance products, processes, and business-decision making with customer, ...
The 21st International Cloud Expo has announced that its Call for Papers is open. Cloud Expo, to be held October 31 - November 2, 2017, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA, brings together Cloud Computing, Big Data, Internet of Things, DevOps, Digital Transformation, Machine Learning and WebRTC to one location. With cloud computing driving a higher percentage of enterprise IT budgets every year, it becomes increasingly important to plant your flag in this fast-expanding business opportunity. Submit your speaking proposal today!
Multiple data types are pouring into IoT deployments. Data is coming in small packages as well as enormous files and data streams of many sizes. Widespread use of mobile devices adds to the total. In this power panel at @ThingsExpo, moderated by Conference Chair Roger Strukhoff, panelists will look at the tools and environments that are being put to use in IoT deployments, as well as the team skills a modern enterprise IT shop needs to keep things running, get a handle on all this data, and deliver the analytics that add value.
Machine learning, AI, cognitive computing, natural language understanding, image recognition, pattern matching, autonomous devices – these are just a few of 2017’s loosely defined catchall phrases. But in practice, they each refer to a significant field of study that is guaranteed to have an impact on the way people live and how business is done. So here are five things that you, as the leader of an organization that is singularly focused on creating shareholder value (however you define it), need to know
For a recent University of San Francisco MBA class, I wanted to put my students in a challenging situation where they would be forced to make difficult data science trade-offs between gathering data, preparing the data and performing the actual analysis.
The purpose of the exercise was to test their ability to “think like a data scientist” with respect to identifying and quantifying variables that might be better predictors of performance.
Apache OpenWhisk on IBM Bluemix provides a powerful and flexible environment for deploying cloud-native applications driven by data, message, and API call events. In his session at 20th Cloud Expo, Daniel Krook, Software Architect, IBM Watson and Cloud Platform, and Distinguished IT Specialist, will discuss why serverless architectures are attractive for many emerging cloud workloads and when you should consider OpenWhisk for your next project. Then get started on Bluemix with three sample applications covering how the OpenWhisk programming model enables you both to implement REST APIs and pr...
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 showcased hundreds of sponsors and exhibitors! In this blog post, I provide 7 tips on how, as part of our world-class faculty, you can deliver one of the most popular sessions at our events. But before reading these essential tips, please take a moment and watch this brief video from Sandy Carter.
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