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SYS-CON Events announced today that Cloud Academy named "Bronze Sponsor" of
21st International Cloud Expo which will take place October 31 - November 2,
2017 at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA.
Cloud Academy is the industry's most innovative, vendor-neutral cloud
technology training platform.
Cloud Academy provides continuous learning solutions for individuals and
enterprise teams for Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud
Platform, and the most popular cloud computing technologies. Get certified,
manage the full lifecycle of your cloud-based resources, and build your
knowledge based using Cloud Academy's expert-created content, comprehensive
Learning Paths, and innovative Hands-on Labs.
For more information, please visit https://cloudacademy.com/.
With major technology companies and startups seriously embracing Cloud
strategies, ... (more)
With major technology companies and startups seriously embracing Cloud
strategies, now is the perfect time to attend 21st Cloud Expo, October 31 -
November 2, 2017, at the Santa Clara Convention Center, CA, and June 12-14,
2018, at the Javits Center in New York City, NY, and learn what is going on,
contribute to the discussions, and ensure that your enterprise is on the
right path to Digital Transformation.
Track 1. Enterprise Cloud | Cloud-Native
Track 2. Big Data | Analytics
Track 3. Internet of Things | IIoT | Smart Cities
Track 4. DevOps | Digital Transformation (DX)
Track 5. APIs | Cloud Security | Mobility
Track 6. AI | ML | DL | Cognitive
Track 7. Containers | Microservices | Serverless
Track 8. FinTech | InsurTech | Token Economy
Cloud Expo | @ThingsExpo 2017 Silicon Valley
(October 31 - November 2, 2017, Santa Clara Convention Center, CA)
Cloud Expo | @ThingsExpo... (more)
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CloudFoundry + Watson Services = Bluemix = The Perfect Cloud Operating System
for the Enterprise
In his opening keynote at 20th Cloud Expo, Michael Maximilien, Research
Scientist, Architect, and Engineer at IBM, discussed 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.
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Speaker Bio
Michael Maximilien, better known as max or Dr. Max, is a computer scientist
with IBM. At IBM Research Triangle Park, he was a principal e... (more)
SYS-CON Events announced today that DXWorldExpo has been named "Global
Sponsor" of SYS-CON's 21st International Cloud Expo, which will take place on
Oct 31 - Nov 2, 2017, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara,
CA.
The Key to IT Business
Digital Transformation is the key issue driving the global enterprise IT
business. Digital Transformation is most prominent among Global 2000
enterprises and government institutions.
Global 2000
Global 2000 companies have more than US$40 trillion in annual revenue - more
than 50% of the world's entire GDP. The Global 2000 spends a total of US$2.4
trillion annually on enterprise IT. The average Global 2000 company has US$11
billion in annual revenue. The average Global 2000 company spends more than
$600 million annually on enterprise IT.
Governments throughout the world spend another US$500 billion on IT - much of
it ... (more)
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IoT: How to Handle All This Data ‘Power Panel
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.
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In this power panel at @ThingsExpo, moderated by Conference Chair Roger
Strukhoff, panelists Gordon Haff, Senior Cloud Strategy Marketing and
Evangelism Manager at Red Hat, Chris Kocher, Founder & Managing Director of
Grey Heron, Ed Featherston, VP, Principal Architect of Cloud Technology
Partners, and Doug Vanderweide, Instructor at Linux Academy, looked 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 ad... (more)
The Benefits of Hybrid IT: Expectations vs. Reality
Hybrid IT is today's reality, and while its implementation may seem daunting
at times, more and more organizations are migrating to the cloud. In fact,
according to SolarWinds 2017 IT Trends Index: Portrait of a Hybrid IT
Organization 95 percent of organizations have migrated crucial applications
to the cloud in the past year. As such, it's in every IT professional's best
interest to know what to expect.
Certainly, every business has a varying expectation of what they'd like to
gain by migrating applications or infrastructure to the cloud, but the most
compelling incentives are by far the opportunity to achieve a simplified
management process, faster deployment, or a cost efficiency that benefits
their bottom line.
Unfortunately, for many organizations, achieving these benefits isn't always
easy-or even the reali... (more)
Many organizations are associating data monetization with selling their data.
But selling data is not a trivial task, especially for organizations whose
primary business relies on its data. Organizations new to selling data need
to be concerned with privacy and Personally Identifiable Information (PII),
data quality and accuracy, data transmission reliability, pricing, packaging,
marketing, sales, support, etc. Companies such as Nielsen, Experian and
Acxiom are experts at selling data because that’s their business; they have
built a business around gathering, aggregating, cleansing, aligning,
packaging, selling and supporting data.
So instead of focusing on trying to sell your data, you should focus on
monetizing the customer, product and operational insights that are gleaned
from the data; insights that can be used to optimize key business and
operational processe... (more)
Cloud Expo, Inc. has announced today that Andi Mann and Aruna Ravichandran
have been named Co-Chairs of @DevOpsSummit at Cloud Expo 2017.
[email protected] at Cloud Expo New York will took place on June 6-8, 2017,
at the Javits Center in New York City, New York, [email protected] at Cloud
Expo Silicon Valley will take place Oct. 31-Nov. 2, 2017, at the Santa Clara
Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA.
"DevOps is a key part of the culture of any successful enterprise today, and
of any enterprise that wants to be successful," said Roger Strukhoff,
Conference Chair of Cloud Expo. "We're now clearly in an era of lean, agile,
and flexible development and operations."
"DevOps is set to be one of the most profound disruptions to hit IT in
decades," said Andi Mann. "It is a natural extension of cloud computing, and
I have seen both firsthand and in independent research the... (more)
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Nutanix Enterprise Cloud for DevOps
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.
In their Day 3 Keynote at 20th Cloud Expo, Chris Brown, a Solutions Marketing
Manager at Nutanix, and Mark Lavi, a Nutanix DevOps Solution Architect,
explored the ways that Nutanix technologies empower teams to react faster
than ever before and connect teams in ways that were either too complex or
simply impossible with traditional infrastructures.
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Speaker Bios
Chris Brown is a Solutions Marketing Manage... (more)
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What's the role of an IT self-service portal when you get to continuous
delivery and Infrastructure as Code?
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In his general session at 20th Cloud Expo, Don Demcsak, a DevOps and Cloud
Native Modernization Principal for Dell EMC, showed how to create the
continuous delivery culture and eight accelerators for leading the change.
Speaker Bio:
Don Demcsak is a DevOps and Cloud Native Modernization Principal for Dell EMC
based out of New Jersey. He is a former, long time, Microsoft Most Valuable
Professional, specializing in building and architecting Application Delivery
Pipelines for hybrid legacy, and cloud native applications.
With major technology companies and startups seriously embracing Cloud
str... (more)
What Type of File System Are You Really Getting?
The cloud's massive success and the growing desire for Big Data analytics are
just two of the factors that are making traditional storage architectures
obsolete. Organizations cannot afford to scale bygone storage appliances.
Even if they could, the time it would take is unacceptable in the digital
world. Adding multiple servers could not accommodate storage demands, either.
Vertical storage architecture contains bottlenecks that slow performance to a
crawl.
Along with cloud and analytics, another technological advancement has emerged
in the data center: software-defined storage (SDS). Because SDS decouples the
programming that controls storage-related tasks from the physical storage
hardware, it dramatically reduces costs associated with hardware. Fewer,
less-expensive servers can be used to improve both capacity an... (more)
@CloudExpo Stories By Pat Romanski  "MobiDev is a Ukraine-based software development company. We do mobile development, and we're specialists in that. But we do full stack software development for entrepreneurs, for emerging companies, and for enterprise ventures," explained Alan Winters, U.S. Head of Business Development at MobiDev, in this SYS-CON.tv interview at 20th Cloud Expo, held June 6-8, 2017, at the Javits Center in New York City, NY. Jul. 4, 2017 05:15 PM EDT Reads: 994 | By Liz McMillan  Artificial intelligence, machine learning, neural networks. We’re in the midst of a wave of excitement around AI such as hasn’t been seen for a few decades. But those previous periods of inflated expectations led to troughs of disappointment. Will this time be different?
Most likely. Applications of AI such as predictive analytics are already decreasing costs and improving reliability of industrial machinery. Furthermore, the funding and research going into AI now comes from a wide range of com... Jul. 4, 2017 04:30 PM EDT Reads: 2,095 | 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 massive ... Jul. 4, 2017 03:45 PM EDT Reads: 1,864 | By Pat Romanski  "Our strategy is to focus on the hyperscale providers - AWS, Azure, and Google. Over the last year we saw that a lot of developers need to learn how to do their job in the cloud and we see this DevOps movement that we are catering to with our content," stated Alessandro Fasan, Head of Global Sales at Cloud Academy, in this SYS-CON.tv interview at 20th Cloud Expo, held June 6-8, 2017, at the Javits Center in New York City, NY. Jul. 4, 2017 03:30 PM EDT Reads: 1,027 | By Pat Romanski 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 looked 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... Jul. 4, 2017 03:15 PM EDT Reads: 1,784 | By Liz McMillan  SYS-CON Events announced today that SourceForge has been named “Media Sponsor” of SYS-CON's 21st International Cloud Expo, which will take place on Oct 31 – Nov 2, 2017, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA. SourceForge is the largest, most trusted destination for Open Source Software development, collaboration, discovery and download on the web serving over 32 million viewers, 150 million downloads and over 460,000 active development projects each and every month. Jul. 4, 2017 03:00 PM EDT Reads: 1,010 | By Liz McMillan  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... Jul. 4, 2017 02:45 PM EDT Reads: 1,288 | By Elizabeth White  Managing mission-critical SAP systems and landscapes has never been easy. Add public cloud with its myriad of powerful cloud native services and this may not change any time soon.
Public cloud offers exciting new possibilities for enterprise workloads. But to make use of these possibilities and capabilities, IT teams need to re-think everything they have done before. Otherwise, they will just end up using public cloud as a hosting platform for their workloads, aka known as “lift and shift.” Jul. 4, 2017 02:45 PM EDT Reads: 1,051 | By Pat Romanski What's the role of an IT self-service portal when you get to continuous delivery and Infrastructure as Code? This general session showed how to create the continuous delivery culture and eight accelerators for leading the change. Don Demcsak is a DevOps and Cloud Native Modernization Principal for Dell EMC based out of New Jersey. He is a former, long time, Microsoft Most Valuable Professional, specializing in building and architecting Application Delivery Pipelines for hybrid legacy, and cloud ... Jul. 4, 2017 02:30 PM EDT Reads: 2,239 | By Yeshim Deniz  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... Jul. 4, 2017 02:30 PM EDT Reads: 1,129 | By Liz McMillan  With major technology companies and startups seriously embracing Cloud strategies, now is the perfect time to attend 21st Cloud Expo October 31 - November 2, 2017, at the Santa Clara Convention Center, CA, and June 12-14, 2018, at the Javits Center in New York City, NY, and learn what is going on, contribute to the discussions, and ensure that your enterprise is on the right path to Digital Transformation. Jul. 4, 2017 02:15 PM EDT Reads: 2,070 | By Elizabeth White 21st International Cloud Expo, taking place October 31 - November 2, 2017, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA, will feature technical sessions from a rock star conference faculty and the leading industry players in the world. Cloud computing is now being embraced by a majority of enterprises of all sizes. Yesterday's debate about public vs. private has transformed into the reality of hybrid cloud: a recent survey shows that 74% of enterprises have a hybrid cloud strategy. Me... Jul. 4, 2017 02:00 PM EDT Reads: 2,389 | 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... Jul. 4, 2017 01:45 PM EDT Reads: 1,301 | 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. Jul. 4, 2017 01:15 PM EDT Reads: 2,327 | By Yeshim Deniz Cloud Expo, Inc. has announced today that Andi Mann and Aruna Ravichandran have been named Co-Chairs of @DevOpsSummit at Cloud Expo Silicon Valley which will take place Oct. 31-Nov. 2, 2017, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA. "DevOps is at the intersection of technology and business-optimizing tools, organizations and processes to bring measurable improvements in productivity and profitability," said Aruna Ravichandran, vice president, DevOps product and solutions marketing... Jul. 4, 2017 12:00 PM EDT Reads: 2,296 | By Yeshim Deniz SYS-CON Events announced today that Cloud Academy named "Bronze Sponsor" of 21st International Cloud Expo which will take place October 31 - November 2, 2017 at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA. Cloud Academy is the industry’s most innovative, vendor-neutral cloud technology training platform. Cloud Academy provides continuous learning solutions for individuals and enterprise teams for Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform, and the most popular cloud com... Jul. 4, 2017 11:45 AM EDT Reads: 2,005 | By Elizabeth White  SYS-CON Events announced today that CHEETAH Training & Innovation will exhibit at SYS-CON's 21st International Cloud Expo®, which will take place on Oct. 31 – Nov 2, 2017, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA. CHEETAH Training & Innovation is a cloud consulting and IT training firm specializing in improving clients cloud strategies and infrastructures for medium to large companies. Jul. 4, 2017 11:30 AM EDT Reads: 1,021 | By Liz McMillan SYS-CON Events announced today that DXWorldExpo has been named “Global Sponsor” of SYS-CON's 21st International Cloud Expo, which will take place on Oct 31 – Nov 2, 2017, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA. Digital Transformation is the key issue driving the global enterprise IT business. Digital Transformation is most prominent among Global 2000 enterprises and government institutions. Jul. 4, 2017 11:30 AM EDT Reads: 1,010 | 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. Jul. 4, 2017 11:15 AM EDT Reads: 1,699 | 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 ch... Jul. 4, 2017 11:00 AM EDT Reads: 2,214 |
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In its 2017 State of Malware Report, Malwarebytes Labs recorded a 267 percent increase in ransomware between January 2016 and November 2016, with over 400 different variants in total. The report noted that while malware authors mostly relied on ransomware to make the bulk of their revenues, there was an increase in ad fraud as well. Botnets and mobile malware also continue to expand and evolve. The report predicts that until IoT devices become secure out of the box, botnets will get even bigger and pose an even greater threat to the internet – and any company connected to it.
Human body is the most complex machine ever created! With a complex network of interconnected organs, millions of cells and the most advanced processor, human body is the most automated system in this planet. In this article, we will draw comparisons between working of a human body to that of a data center. We will draw parallels between human body automation to data center automation and explain different levels of automation we need to drive in data centers. This article is divided into 4 parts covering each of body main functions and drawing parallels on automation. This is 3rd article in ...
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.
The purpose of enterprise architecture is to be able to consciously design an enterprise rather than allowing it to happen randomly and unconsciously. It is worth noting that it implies knowledge of a certain intended outcome or desired state in mind. Enterprise architecture (EA) is a discipline that enables designing the enterprise consciously and deliberately, rather than letting it happen randomly. EA design is informed by business vision, strategic intent, and insights on the functioning of the enterprise. So the purpose of enterprise architecture is to be able to consciously design an ent...
A look across the tech landscape at the disruptive technologies that are increasing in prominence and speculate as to which will be most impactful for communications – namely, AI and Cloud Computing. In his session at 20th Cloud Expo, Curtis Peterson, VP of Operations at RingCentral, highlighted the current challenges of these transformative technologies and shared strategies for preparing your organization for these changes. This “view from the top” outlined the latest trends and developments in AI and Cloud Computing technology innovation for enterprise communications to help you shape your ...
Cloud computing is more than servers and storage. In a crisis situation it can actually be a lifesaver. BlackBerry, in fact, has just become the first cloud-based crisis communication service to receive a Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program (FedRAMP) authorization from the United States Government for its AtHoc Alert and AtHoc Connect services. If you’re not familiar with FedRAMP, it is a US government-wide program that provides a standardized approach to security assessment, authorization, and continuous monitoring for cloud products and services. The Blackberry certification wa...
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 that makes In-Memory Computing possible. This means that large databases can now reside entirely in...
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 examined how DevOps helps to meet the demands of Digital Transformation – including accelerating application delivery, closing feedback loop...
SYS-CON Events announced today that Cloudistics, an on-premises cloud computing company, has been named “Bronze Sponsor” of SYS-CON's 21st International Cloud Expo, which will take place on Oct 31 - Nov 2, 2017, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA. Cloudistics delivers a complete public cloud experience with composable on-premises infrastructures to medium and large enterprises. Its software-defined technology natively converges network, storage, compute, virtualization, and management into a single platform to drive unprecedented simplicity in the data center. Customers ca...
The margins of cloud products like virtual machines are still in the 50% range. In essence, price drops are going to be a regular feature for the foreseeable future. This begets the question - are hosted solutions becoming irrelevant today? Boston-based market research firm, 451 Research, has been publishing their ‘Cloud Price Index' for a few years now. The quarterly study looks into the pricing of various offerings in the cloud market to understand the shifting dynamics in the public, private and hybrid cloud market. According to Dr. Owen Rogers from 451 Research, the approach here is simila...
In the decade following his article, cloud computing further cemented Carr’s perspective. Compute, storage, and network resources have become simple utilities, available at the proverbial turn of the faucet. The value they provide is immense, but the cloud playing field is amazingly level. Carr’s quote above presaged the cloud to a T.
Today, however, we’re in the digital era. Mark Andreesen’s ‘software is eating the world’ prognostication is coming to pass, as enterprises realize they must become software companies to remain competitive.
The value IT brings to such companies is unquestiona...
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.”
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