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Containers are things for your things. That is true in the development world
too - containers are things for your software, and, like containers for your
things, software containers can help you be organized, efficient, and secure.
Chris Morgan (@cmorgan_cloud), the Technical Director, OpenShift Partner
Ecosystem at Red Hat, delivered a keynote at the 2016 All Day DevOps
conference. Chris lives and breathes containers and recently discussed how
they are transforming DevOps pipelines.
Chris started with an encouraging figure -- DevOps has a 74% adoption rate
(at least on a path towards full adoption) at the enterprise level. The
reason is that DevOps helps solve issues around:
Slow service delivery Poor service quality Frequent down times
However, the needs of development and the desires of IT can often hamper full
DevOps adoption, which is where containers can help. ... (more)
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 Are Microservices?
By Angela Stringfellow
Microservices are increasingly used in the development world as developers
work to create larger, more complex applications that are better developed
and managed as a combination of smaller services that work cohesively
together for larger, application-wide functionality. Tools such as Service
Fabric are rising to meet the need to think about and build apps using a
piece-by-piece methodology that is, frankly, less mind-boggling than
considering the whole of the application at once. Today, we'll take a look at
microservices, the benefits of using this capability, and a few code
examples.
What Are Microservices?
Microservices is a form of service-oriented architecture style (one of the
most important skills for Java developers) wherein applications are built as
a collection of different smaller services rather than one wh... (more)
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Freeze the Pond vs Take the Hill: Two Metaphors for Enterprise Agile
Transformation
It is ironic, but perhaps not unexpected, that many organizations who want
the benefits of using an Agile approach to deliver software use a waterfall
approach to adopting Agile practices: they form plans, they set milestones,
and they measure progress by how many teams they have engaged. Old habits die
hard, but like most waterfall software projects, most waterfall-style Agile
adoption efforts fail to produce the results desired. The problem is that to
get the results they want, they have to change their culture and cultures are
very hard to change. To paraphrase Peter Drucker, "culture eats Agile for
breakfast." Successful approaches are opportunistic and leverage the power of
self-organization to achieve lasting change.
D... (more)
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Using Architectural Analysis to Design and Deliver Microservices
For organizations that have amassed large sums of software complexity, taking
a microservices approach is the first step toward DevOps and continuous
improvement / development. Integrating system-level analysis with
microservices makes it easier to change and add functionality to applications
at any time without the increase of risk.
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Before you start big transformation projects or a cloud migration, make sure
these changes won't take down your entire organization.
In his session at @DevOpsSummit at 20th Cloud Expo, Pavel Rabinovich, Sr.
Program Manager at CAST, discussed how microservices + system-level analysis
= the perfect combination in creating a nimble organization that can flex
with new technologies and demands... (more)
Reboot Your Leadership for DevOps Success: Why Culture Trumps Tech in the
DevOps Stakes
Culture is the most important ingredient of DevOps. The challenge for most
organizations is defining and communicating a vision of beneficial DevOps
culture for their organizations, and then facilitating the changes needed to
achieve that. Often this comes down to an ability to provide true leadership.
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As a CIO, are your direct reports IT managers or are they IT leaders? The
hard truth is that many IT managers have risen through the ranks based on
their technical skills, not their leadership ability. Many are unable to
effectively engage and inspire, creating forward momentum in the direction of
desired change. Renowned for its approach to leadership and emphasis on their
people, organizations increasingly look to our military for insight into
these... (more)
Being experienced startup folks we are not scared of bleeding edge tech.
For instance, in 2005 we made the jump to virtual machines when most
companies hadn't even heard of virtualization, in order to create our cloud
platform, AppLogic. This time around we were already very familiar with
containers, including many of the limitations, and believed they offered a
lot of advantages in speed and cost so we decided to go with Docker running
on AWS.
Our engineers have written a lot of apps including both interactive user apps
and infrastructure level services and we're pretty adept at creating
stateless systems where that's possible. Unfortunately, some of the third
party software we needed to use, especially open source, wasn't written with
stateless in mind.
For us combining Dev and Ops wasn't a choice, but a necessity. We couldn't
afford another hire to run ops. N... (more)
"We are a monitoring company. We work with Salesforce, BBC, and quite a few
other big logos. We basically provide monitoring for them, structure for
their cloud services and we fit into the DevOps world" explained David
Gildeh, Co-founder and CEO of Outlyer, in this SYS-CON.tv interview at DevOps
Summit at 20th Cloud Expo, held June 6-8, 2017, at the Javits Center in New
York City, NY.
The World's Largest "Cloud Digital Transformation" Event
@CloudExpo / @ThingsExpo 2017 Silicon Valley
(Oct. 31 - Nov. 2, 2017, Santa Clara Convention Center, CA)
@CloudExpo / @ThingsExpo 2018 New York
(June 12-14, 2018, Javits Center, Manhattan)
Sponsorship Opportunities
Sponsors of Cloud Expo / @ThingsExpo will benefit from unmatched branding,
profile building and lead generation opportunities through:
Featured on-site presentation and ongoing on-demand webcast exposure to a
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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)
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)
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Is SaaS Dead?
Both SaaS vendors and SaaS buyers are going "all-in" to hyperscale IaaS
platforms such as AWS, which is disrupting the SaaS value proposition. Why
should the enterprise SaaS consumer pay for the SaaS service if their data is
resident in adjacent AWS S3 buckets? If both SaaS sellers and buyers are
using the same cloud tools, automation and pay-per-transaction model offered
by IaaS platforms, then why not host the "shrink-wrapped" software in the
customers' cloud? Further, serverless computing, cloud marketplaces and
DevOps are changing the economics of hosting and delivering software.
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Will we see Application Server Providers (ASP2) that focus on delivering
great software hosted within "dedicated" cloud environments or within the
clients' cloud environment? Will the Sa... (more)
@DevOpsSummit Stories By Elizabeth White  "We are a monitoring company. We work with Salesforce, BBC, and quite a few other big logos. We basically provide monitoring for them, structure for their cloud services and we fit into the DevOps world" explained David Gildeh, Co-founder and CEO of Outlyer, in this SYS-CON.tv interview at DevOps Summit at 20th Cloud Expo, held June 6-8, 2017, at the Javits Center in New York City, NY. Jun. 19, 2017 01:30 PM EDT Reads: 1,079 | By Pat Romanski  For organizations that have amassed large sums of software complexity, taking a microservices approach is the first step toward DevOps and continuous improvement / development. Integrating system-level analysis with microservices makes it easier to change and add functionality to applications at any time without the increase of risk. Before you start big transformation projects or a cloud migration, make sure these changes won’t take down your entire organization. Jun. 19, 2017 11:45 AM EDT Reads: 770 | By Pat Romanski  Both SaaS vendors and SaaS buyers are going “all-in” to hyperscale IaaS platforms such as AWS, which is disrupting the SaaS value proposition. Why should the enterprise SaaS consumer pay for the SaaS service if their data is resident in adjacent AWS S3 buckets? If both SaaS sellers and buyers are using the same cloud tools, automation and pay-per-transaction model offered by IaaS platforms, then why not host the “shrink-wrapped” software in the customers’ cloud? Further, serverless computing, cloud marketplaces and DevOps are changing the economics of hosting and delivering software. Jun. 19, 2017 11:15 AM EDT Reads: 827 | 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: 2,156 | By Liz McMillan  Wooed by the promise of faster innovation, lower TCO, and greater agility, businesses of every shape and size have embraced the cloud at every layer of the IT stack – from apps to file sharing to infrastructure. The typical organization currently uses more than a dozen sanctioned cloud apps and will shift more than half of all workloads to the cloud by 2018. Such cloud investments have delivered measurable benefits. But they’ve also resulted in some unintended side-effects: complexity and risk. End users now struggle to navigate multiple environments with varying degrees of performance. Companies are unclear on the security of their data and network access. And IT squads are overwhelmed trying to monitor and manage it all. Jun. 19, 2017 07:15 AM EDT Reads: 1,050 | 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 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. Jun. 19, 2017 06:45 AM EDT Reads: 1,313 | 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 across the USA and Europe, we work with a variety of customers from emerging startups to Fortune 1000 companies. Jun. 19, 2017 06:30 AM EDT Reads: 1,241 | 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 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. Jun. 19, 2017 06:15 AM EDT Reads: 1,357 | 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 online business and let Enzu manage their IT hosting infrastructure. Jun. 18, 2017 04:45 PM EDT Reads: 1,205 | 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 application economy. With CA software at the center of their IT strategy, organizations can leverage the technology that changes the way we live - from the data center to the mobile device. CA's software and solutions help customers thrive in the new application economy by delivering the means to deploy, monitor and secure their applications and infrastructure. Jun. 18, 2017 03:45 PM EDT Reads: 1,931 | By Elizabeth White  It is ironic, but perhaps not unexpected, that many organizations who want the benefits of using an Agile approach to deliver software use a waterfall approach to adopting Agile practices: they form plans, they set milestones, and they measure progress by how many teams they have engaged. Old habits die hard, but like most waterfall software projects, most waterfall-style Agile adoption efforts fail to produce the results desired. The problem is that to get the results they want, they have to change their culture and cultures are very hard to change. To paraphrase Peter Drucker, "culture eats Agile for breakfast." Successful approaches are opportunistic and leverage the power of self-organization to achieve lasting change. Jun. 18, 2017 07:45 AM EDT Reads: 741 | 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 the new world. Jun. 11, 2017 04:00 PM EDT Reads: 1,489 | 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 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. Jun. 8, 2017 07:00 AM EDT Reads: 2,353 | 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 additional third-party data centers across Europe. Its full-service Unified ICT platform serves international enterprises and many of the world’s leading service providers, as well as governments and universities. Jun. 8, 2017 12:00 AM EDT Reads: 5,972 | 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. 7, 2017 12:00 PM EDT Reads: 2,116 | 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 world does business. The team include core executives from GoldenGate Software (acquired by Oracle in 2009), Informatica, Oracle, SnapLogic, Embarcadero Technologies, PubNub and WebLogic. It is led by Ali Kutay who was an angel investor, president and CEO of WebLogic, as well as Chairman and CEO of GoldenGate Software. Jun. 7, 2017 05:15 AM EDT Reads: 2,118 | 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 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. Jun. 6, 2017 03:45 PM EDT Reads: 5,508 | By Yeshim Deniz  SYS-CON Events announced today that Outscale 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. Outscale's technology makes an automated and adaptable Cloud available to businesses, supporting them in the most complex IT projects while controlling their operational aspects. You boost your IT infrastructure's reactivity, with request responses that only take a few seconds. Jun. 6, 2017 11:45 AM EDT Reads: 2,225 | 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 clarity to make more informed business decisions, prevent risk, and reduce complexity and cost.
Jun. 6, 2017 08:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,737 | 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 offer continuous improvements to customers’ experience of products and services. Jun. 6, 2017 06:15 AM EDT Reads: 2,147 | 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 insights from the vast trove of private and public data available to enterprises. Jun. 6, 2017 06:00 AM EDT Reads: 2,343 | 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: 2,656 | 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 best practices around collaboration, monitoring, configuration and analytics that will help you boost experience and optimize utilization of your modern IT Infrastructures. Jun. 6, 2017 02:15 AM EDT Reads: 4,623 | 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 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. Jun. 5, 2017 05:45 PM EDT Reads: 4,689 | 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 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. Jun. 5, 2017 04:15 PM EDT Reads: 4,642 |
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