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How to Make Use of Serverless Compute Solutions for IoT Device Simulation
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 looking at some significant
engineering investment.
On-demand, serverless computing enables developers to try out a fleet of
devices on IoT gateways with ease. With a sensor simulator built on top of
AWS Lambda, it's possible to elastically generate device sensors that report
their state to the cloud.... (more)
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 often get requests to connect these silos using
technologies such as VPN; however, these tend to be difficult to manage and
are not engineered for accessing business data from the cloud.
"Progress® DataDirect® offers the industry's first vendor-agnostic hybrid
data gateway that enables any cloud application to securely access
on-premises data without requiring changes to their c... (more)
The Role of DevOps in Digital Transformation
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 the demands of Digital Transformation - including accelerating
application delivery, closing feedback loops, enabling multi-channel
delivery, empowering collaborative decisions, improving user experience, and
ultimately meeting (and exceeding) business goals.
@DevOpsSummit has been named the ‘Top DevOps Influencer' by iTrend.
iTren... (more)
How to Become the "Most Popular" @CloudExpo, @ThingsExpo and @DevOpsSummit
Speaker
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.
"Cloud Expo was really the event to connect with thought leaders, innovators,
business folks who are interested in what the cloud can bring to their
business. You know really how it allows them to bring the... (more)
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Leveraging Cloud Skills Demand and Salary Indicators Data to Advance Earning
Potential
In his general session at 19th Cloud Expo, Manish Dixit, VP of Product and
Engineering at Dice, discussed how Dice leverages data insights and tools to
help both tech professionals and recruiters better understand how skills
relate to each other and which skills are in high demand using interactive
visualizations and salary indicator tools to maximize earning potential.
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Speaker Bio
Manish Dixit is VP of Product and Engineering at Dice. As the leader of the
Product, Engineering and Data Sciences team at Dice, he takes a
metrics-driven approach to management. His experience in building and
managing high performance tea... (more)
The DevOps pipeline is constantly changing. Therefore relevant security
controls must be applied contextually.
We want to be secure, but I think all of us would rather spend our time
developing and deploying software. Keeping up with server updates and all of
the other security tasks is like cleaning your home - you know it has to be
done, but you really just want to enjoy your clean home. The good news is you
can hire a "service" to keep your application security up-to-date, giving you
more time to develop.
At the recent All Day DevOps conference, Akash Mahajan (@makash), a
Founder/Director at Appsecco, discussed how to harden your system's security
with Ansible. In addition to his role at Appsecco, Akash is also involved
as a local leader with the Open Web Application Security Project (OWASP).
Misconfiguration. During his presentation, Akash mentioned the OWASP ... (more)
Cloud and Virtualization - A Case of Déjà Vu
As today's businesses increasingly turn to the cloud to run their operations,
seasoned enterprise technology professionals may recognize a familiar
pattern. Years ago, virtualization emerged as a transformational technology
with a similar pattern of business drivers; initially the promise of
significant cost savings justified deployments. Just as virtualization
evolved from a tactical cost-saving technology into a corporate strategy
enabling enterprises to be responsive to changing business demands, cloud
computing is following a similar path.
I talk frequently with IT professionals about their interest in and usage of
cloud technologies, and I'm frequently struck by a strong sense of déjà vu
from the time when virtualization was starting to take off and gain traction
within enterprises across the globe. Virtualization w... (more)
DevOps at Cloud Expo - being held October 31 - November 2, 2017, at the Santa
Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA - announces that its Call for
Papers is open.
Born out of proven success in agile development, cloud computing, and process
automation, DevOps is a macro trend you cannot afford to miss.
DevOps at @CloudExpo / @ThingsExpo 2017 New York
(June 6-8, 2017, Javits Center, Manhattan)
DevOps at @CloudExpo / @ThingsExpo 2017 Silicon Valley
(October 31 - November 2, 2017 Santa Clara Convention Center, CA)
Speaking Proposals ▸ Here
From showcase success stories from early adopters and web-scale businesses,
DevOps is expanding to organizations of all sizes, including the world's
largest enterprises - and delivering real results. Among the proven benefits,
DevOps is correlated with 20% faster time-to-market, 22% improvement in
quality, and 18% reduction in dev... (more)
SYS-CON Events announced today that Peak 10, Inc., a national IT
infrastructure and cloud services provider, 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.
Peak 10 provides reliable, tailored data center and network services, cloud
and managed services. Its solutions are designed to scale and adapt to
customers' changing business needs, enabling them to lower costs, improve
performance and focus internal resources on core competencies.
For more information, visit http://www.peak10.com.
Annual Hybrid IT Research: A Conceptual and Real-World Look at Hybrid IT
Everywhere we turn in our industry we can find strong opinions about the
direction, type and nature of cloud's impact on computing and business.
Another word that is used in every context in our industry is "hybrid."
I... (more)
Interested in leveling up on your Cloud Foundry skills? Join IBM for Cloud
Foundry Days on June 7 at Cloud Expo New York at the Javits Center in New
York City. Cloud Foundry Days is a free half day educational conference and
networking event. Come find out why Cloud Foundry is the industry's
fastest-growing and most adopted cloud application platform.
Opening Remarks/Welcome
3:30-3:40 PM
Dr. Michael Maximilien, Research Scientist, IBM
The Makers of Marvels: How Developers Are Rebuilding the Enterprise, One
Brick at a Time
3:40-4:00 PM
Chip Childers, CTO Cloud Foundry Foundation
History teaches us that astonishing feats occur not when a singular leader
envisions them, but when a mass of skilled workers collaborates to transform
that vision into something material. The Pyramids of Giza, for example, were
not built overnight by a Pharaoh, but constructed by tens of thous... (more)
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Building the Future of Monitoring with Artificial Intelligence
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 idea how to get a proper
answer.
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In his session at 19th Cloud Expo, Alois Reitbauer, Chief Technical
Strategist at Dynatrace, discussed how they have worked to build a
conversational interface on top of Artificial Intelligence to... (more)
@CloudExpo Stories By Liz McMillan  Cloud applications are seeing a deluge of requests to support the exploding advanced analytics market. “Open analytics” is the emerging strategy to deliver that data through an open data access layer, in the cloud, to be directly consumed by external analytics tools and popular programming languages. An increasing number of data engineers and data scientists use a variety of platforms and advanced analytics languages such as SAS, R, Python and Java, as well as frameworks such as Hadoop and Spark... Jun. 6, 2017 07:15 AM EDT Reads: 1,528 | 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 07:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,106 | 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. 6, 2017 06:45 AM EDT Reads: 1,462 | By Elizabeth White  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 Assista... Jun. 6, 2017 06:45 AM EDT Reads: 1,978 | 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 06:15 AM EDT Reads: 1,739 | 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 06:15 AM EDT Reads: 1,391 | 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. 6, 2017 06:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,809 | By Elizabeth White  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 sm... Jun. 6, 2017 05:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,411 | 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 04:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,478 | By Pat Romanski  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 04:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,673 | By Elizabeth White  This talk centers around how to automate best practices in a multi-/hybrid-cloud world based on our work with customers like GE, Discovery Communications and Fannie Mae. Today’s enterprises are reaping the benefits of cloud computing, but also discovering many risks and challenges. In the age of DevOps and the decentralization of IT, it’s easy to over-provision resources, forget that instances are running, or unintentionally expose vulnerabilities. Jun. 6, 2017 03:45 AM EDT Reads: 2,275 | 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. 6, 2017 03:45 AM EDT Reads: 1,685 | 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: 4,346 | 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: 1,222 | 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: 1,473 | 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: 1,203 | 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: 1,863 | 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: 6,071 | 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: 4,319 | 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: 829 |
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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).
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...
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.
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...
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.
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...
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