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SYS-CON Events announced today that IBM has been named “Diamond
Sponsor” of SYS-CON's 21st Cloud Expo, which will take place on October 31
through November 2nd 2017 at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa
Clara, California.
Hybrid Cloud Transformation: New Platforms, Technologies and Solutions
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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.
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In their Day 2 Keynote at 19th Cloud Expo, Mercer Rowe, IBM Vice President
of Strategic Alliances, and Raejeanne Skillern, Intel Vice President of D... (more)
What's disruptive innovation, and why does it matter to leaders in the
C-suite? It's how the savvy non-conformist will target market opportunities.
How does this happen, when established companies seem to have the advantage?
Creative software developers can quickly apply new technologies and digital
business models to capture untapped demand.
Moreover, the most disruptive new companies will eventually reshape entire
industries, swiftly pushing aside the legacy incumbent players -- it's a form
of Digital Darwinism. The global networked economy will blossom, thanks to
the pervasive Internet, while the adaptive entities will survive and prosper.
Over the next five years, global digital transformation will continue to have
a significant impact on the demands and requirements of Internet Protocol
(IP) networks, according to key findings from the latest Cisco Visual
Netwo... (more)
The size of competitors and the longevity of their brands, are less
predictive of future success than the quality and speed of their information
logistics systems, and their ability to use it as a competitive advantage.
More data is being generated today than ever before, and successful companies
are investing in business analytics and big data solutions to mine
competitive advantages. There is a new sense of urgency today as businesses
realize data has a shelf life, and the value of it diminishes rapidly over
time. In an always-connected world where consumers and their needs are
transient, timing is everything and a special type of data is needed -
real-time data. In order to capture competitive advantages and contextual
relevance before data expires, enterprises must deploy optimized information
logistics systems (OILS) that deliver on the potential fast enough t... (more)
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Security of Smart Things
With the introduction of IoT and Smart Living in every aspect of our lives,
one question has become relevant: What are the security implications? To
answer this, first we have to look and explore the security models of the
technologies that IoT is founded upon.
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In his session at @ThingsExpo, Nevi Kaja, a Research Engineer at Ford Motor
Company, discussed some of the security challenges of the IoT infrastructure
and related how these aspects impact Smart Living. The material was delivered
interactively to engage with the audience and consisted of the following
three parts:
Smart Things, benefits and risks Security of things Data and privacy
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Speaker Bio
Nevi Kaja works as a Research Engineer at Ford Motor Company and he is a PhD
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How to Manage the Explosion of IoT Data
The Internet of Things (IoT) has evolved quite rapidly, especially if you
consider how long it took for little packet-switching networks like ARPANET
to morph into today's nearly ubiquitous internet. Our nascent IoT ecosystem
is already populated by billions of sensors and connected devices, hundreds
of millions of servers, and thousands of hybrid clouds serving billions of
people... all of them perpetually producing and/or consuming data in an
explosion of information.
This evolution has given rise to entirely new user interfaces influenced by
models geared to augment reality and create frictionless human experiences
with devices and applications. We now have an expectation of interactive
immediacy with technology that is rapidly becoming second nature and
represents a big, generational paradigm shift. What we think of as a c... (more)
SYS-CON Events announced today that MobiDev, a client-oriented software
development company, will exhibit at SYS-CON's 21st International Cloud
Expo®, which will take place October 31-November 2, 2017, at the Santa Clara
Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA.
MobiDev is a software company that develops and delivers turn-key mobile
apps, websites, web services, and complex software systems for startups and
enterprises. Since 2009 it has grown from a small group of passionate
engineers and business managers to a full-scale mobile software company with
over 200 developers, designers, quality assurance engineers, project managers
in house, specializing in the world-class mobile and web development.
The company's main focus is saving the time and efforts of clients by
providing full-cycle product development, offering dedicated project teams
for long-term collaborations... (more)
SYS-CON Events announced today that Ayehu will exhibit at SYS-CON's 21st
International Cloud Expo®, which will take place on October 31 - November
2, 2017 at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara California.
Ayehu provides IT Process Automation & Orchestration solutions for IT and
Security professionals to identify and resolve critical incidents and enable
rapid containment, eradication, and recovery from cyber security breaches.
Ayehu provides customers greater control over IT infrastructure through
automation.
Ayehu solutions have been deployed by major enterprises worldwide, and
currently, support thousands of IT processes across the globe. The company
has offices in New York, California, and Israel.
@DevOpsSummit at Cloud Expo taking place June 6-8, 2017, at Javits Center,
New York City, and is co-located with the 20th International Cloud Expo and ... (more)
For a phrase that’s being thrown around a lot recently, what does
“Digital Transformation” really mean? When someone says that they want to
digitally transform their business, what does one really mean, why do they
want to do it, and should they approach this “digital transformation”
process?
First off, let’s start with a definition. If we don’t know what we are
trying to achieve, then how do we know how to get there? Or to quote the
famous Greek philosopher Yogi Berra: “If you don’t know where you are
going, you’ll end up someplace else.”
In a recent blog “How To Achieve Digital Transformation,” I stated with
the following definition of 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 ... (more)
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Your Data Center Is Doomed
The taxi industry never saw Uber coming. Startups are a threat to incumbents
like never before, and a major enabler for startups is that they are
instantly "cloud ready." If innovation moves at the pace of IT, then your
company is in trouble. Why? Because your data center will not keep up with
frenetic pace AWS, Microsoft and Google are rolling out new capabilities.
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In his session at 20th Cloud Expo, Don Browning, VP of Cloud Architecture at
Turner, posited that disruption is inevitable for companies that refuse to
embrace the cloud and the culture shift that comes along with it.
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Speaker Bio
Don Browning, VP of Cloud Architecture at Turner, is responsible for the
global entertainment and news company's transformation into a clo... (more)
Keeping your enterprise data safe and secure is more important now than it
ever has been. IT has always been an ever-changing industry, but in recent
years, it has been changing more and more quickly. Now, thanks to the cloud,
big data, and mobile devices all expanding at once, it may seem like the
entire IT field is completely different every other day. This means your
company is going to almost always be re-evaluating and upgrading your network
security tools and methods. It's hard to deal with the current threats to
your data, never mind prepare for new ones.
Fortunately, while it is stressful to keep up with this changing world, it's
not impossible. If your team is up to the challenge and is dedicated to
protecting your network and the big data you collect, it is possible. Here
are five techniques you can use to eliminate a large number of threats and
secure yo... (more)
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IoT Security Certifications
In his session at @ThingsExpo, Eric Lachapelle, CEO of the Professional
Evaluation and Certification Board (PECB), provided an overview of various
initiatives to certify the security of connected devices and future trends in
ensuring public trust of IoT.
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Speaker Bio
Eric Lachapelle is the Chief Executive Officer of the Professional Evaluation
and Certification Board (PECB), an international certification body. His role
is to help companies and individuals to achieve professional, accredited and
worldwide recognized certification against various international standards.
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He also has extensive experience as a trainer and an educator in the fields
of Information Security, Risk Management and IT. Throughout his career, he
has wor... (more)
@BigDataExpo Stories By Liz McMillan  IoT solutions exploit operational data generated by Internet-connected smart “things” for the purpose of gaining operational insight and producing “better outcomes” (for example, create new business models, eliminate unscheduled maintenance, etc.). The explosive proliferation of IoT solutions will result in an exponential growth in the volume of IoT data, precipitating significant Information Governance issues: who owns the IoT data, what are the rights/duties of IoT solutions adopters towards t... Jun. 19, 2017 01:30 PM EDT Reads: 806 | By Elizabeth White With the introduction of IoT and Smart Living in every aspect of our lives, one question has become relevant: What are the security implications? To answer this, first we have to look and explore the security models of the technologies that IoT is founded upon.
In his session at @ThingsExpo, Nevi Kaja, a Research Engineer at Ford Motor Company, discussed some of the security challenges of the IoT infrastructure and related how these aspects impact Smart Living. The material was delivered inter... Jun. 19, 2017 12:00 PM EDT Reads: 799 | By Yeshim Deniz SYS-CON Events announced today that IBM has been named “Diamond Sponsor” of SYS-CON's 21st Cloud Expo, which will take place on October 31 through November 2nd 2017 at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, California. Jun. 19, 2017 10:00 AM EDT Reads: 2,152 | By Elizabeth White  When growing capacity and power in the data center, the architectural trade-offs between server scale-up vs. scale-out continue to be debated. Both approaches are valid: scale-out adds multiple, smaller servers running in a distributed computing model, while scale-up adds fewer, more powerful servers that are capable of running larger workloads. It’s worth noting that there are additional, unique advantages that scale-up architectures offer. One big advantage is large memory and compute capacity... Jun. 19, 2017 09:45 AM EDT Reads: 823 | By Liz McMillan The taxi industry never saw Uber coming. Startups are a threat to incumbents like never before, and a major enabler for startups is that they are instantly “cloud ready.” If innovation moves at the pace of IT, then your company is in trouble. Why? Because your data center will not keep up with frenetic pace AWS, Microsoft and Google are rolling out new capabilities.
In his session at 20th Cloud Expo, Don Browning, VP of Cloud Architecture at Turner, posited that disruption is inevitable for com... Jun. 19, 2017 09:30 AM EDT Reads: 1,054 | By Elizabeth White In his session at @ThingsExpo, Eric Lachapelle, CEO of the Professional Evaluation and Certification Board (PECB), provided an overview of various initiatives to certify the security of connected devices and future trends in ensuring public trust of IoT. Eric Lachapelle is the Chief Executive Officer of the Professional Evaluation and Certification Board (PECB), an international certification body. His role is to help companies and individuals to achieve professional, accredited and worldwide re... Jun. 19, 2017 08:45 AM EDT Reads: 755 | By Yeshim Deniz SYS-CON Events announced today that MobiDev, a client-oriented software development company, will exhibit at SYS-CON's 21st International Cloud Expo®, which will take place October 31-November 2, 2017, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA. MobiDev is a software company that develops and delivers turn-key mobile apps, websites, web services, and complex software systems for startups and enterprises. Since 2009 it has grown from a small group of passionate engineers and business... Jun. 19, 2017 06:45 AM EDT Reads: 1,310 | By Yeshim Deniz  SYS-CON Events announced today that GrapeUp, the leading provider of rapid product development at the speed of business, will exhibit at SYS-CON's 21st International Cloud Expo®, which will take place October 31-November 2, 2017, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA. Grape Up is a software company, specialized in cloud native application development and professional services related to Cloud Foundry PaaS. With five expert teams that operate in various sectors of the market acr... Jun. 19, 2017 06:30 AM EDT Reads: 1,237 | By Yeshim Deniz SYS-CON Events announced today that Ayehu will exhibit at SYS-CON's 21st International Cloud Expo®, which will take place on October 31 - November 2, 2017 at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara California. Ayehu provides IT Process Automation & Orchestration solutions for IT and Security professionals to identify and resolve critical incidents and enable rapid containment, eradication, and recovery from cyber security breaches. Ayehu provides customers greater control over IT infras... Jun. 19, 2017 06:15 AM EDT Reads: 1,355 | By Elizabeth White  In his session at Cloud Expo, Alan Winters, an entertainment executive/TV producer turned serial entrepreneur, presented a success story of an entrepreneur who has both suffered through and benefited from offshore development across multiple businesses:
The smart choice, or how to select the right offshore development partner
Warning signs, or how to minimize chances of making the wrong choice
Collaboration, or how to establish the most effective work processes
Budget control, or how to ma... Jun. 19, 2017 03:45 AM EDT Reads: 1,235 | By Yeshim Deniz  SYS-CON Events announced today that Enzu will exhibit at SYS-CON's 21st Int\ernational Cloud Expo®, which will take place October 31-November 2, 2017, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA. Enzu’s mission is to be the leading provider of enterprise cloud solutions worldwide. Enzu enables online businesses to use its IT infrastructure to their competitive advantage. By offering a suite of proven hosting and management services, Enzu wants companies to focus on the core of their ... Jun. 18, 2017 04:45 PM EDT Reads: 1,201 | By Yeshim Deniz  SYS-CON Events announced today that CA Technologies has been named "Platinum Sponsor" of SYS-CON's 21st International Cloud Expo®, which will take place October 31-November 2, 2017, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA. CA Technologies helps customers succeed in a future where every business - from apparel to energy - is being rewritten by software. From planning to development to management to security, CA creates software that fuels transformation for companies in the applic... Jun. 18, 2017 03:45 PM EDT Reads: 1,928 | By Liz McMillan  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. 18, 2017 09:30 AM EDT Reads: 1,172 | By Pat Romanski  "When we talk about cloud without compromise what we're talking about is that when people think about 'I need the flexibility of the cloud' - it's the ability to create applications and run them in a cloud environment that's far more flexible,” explained Matthew Finnie, CTO of Interoute, in this SYS-CON.tv interview at 20th Cloud Expo, held June 6-8, 2017, at the Javits Center in New York City, NY. Jun. 18, 2017 07:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,134 | By Pat Romanski  IBM and Hortonworks have announced an expansion to their relationship focused on extending data science and machine learning to more developers and across the Apache Hadoop ecosystem. The companies are combining Hortonworks Data Platform (HDP®) with IBM Data Science Experience and IBM Big SQL into new integrated solutions designed to help everyone from data scientists to business leaders better analyze and manage their mounting data volumes and accelerate data-driven decision-making. Jun. 13, 2017 01:00 PM EDT Reads: 687 | By Liz McMillan  In this presentation, Striim CTO and founder Steve Wilkes will discuss practical strategies for counteracting fraud and cyberattacks by leveraging real-time streaming analytics.
In his session at @ThingsExpo, Steve Wilkes, Founder and Chief Technology Officer at Striim, will provide a detailed look into leveraging streaming data management to correlate events in real time, and identify potential breaches across IoT and non-IoT systems throughout the enterprise. Strategies for processing massiv... Jun. 11, 2017 04:00 PM EDT Reads: 1,347 | By Elizabeth White  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 pr... Jun. 8, 2017 12:00 PM EDT Reads: 1,511 | 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. 8, 2017 09:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,511 | 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. 8, 2017 06:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,989 | By Yeshim Deniz  SYS-CON Events announced today that Interoute, owner-operator of one of Europe's largest networks and a global cloud services platform, has been named “Bronze Sponsor” of SYS-CON's 20th Cloud Expo, which will take place on June 6-8, 2017 at the Javits Center in New York, New York. Interoute is the owner-operator of one of Europe's largest networks and a global cloud services platform which encompasses 12 data centers, 14 virtual data centers and 31 colocation centers, with connections to 195 add... Jun. 8, 2017 12:00 AM EDT Reads: 5,970 |
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Is there more than bitcoin to blockchain?
Absolutely, because today's blockchain is opening up a pathtowards the delivery of trusted online services.
To understand this statement, you need to see blockchain as more that it's more famous bitcoin use case. As a fundamental digital tool, blockchain is a shared, immutable ledger for recording the history of transactions. If used in this fashion, it can enable transactional applications that can have embedded trust, accountability and transparency attributes. Instead of having a Bitcoin blockchain that is reliant on the exchange of cryptocurrenci...
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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...
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