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Architecting an Interactive Query Layer for Big Data
An increasing number of companies are creating products that combine data
with analytical capabilities.
Running interactive queries on Big Data requires complex architectures to
store and query data effectively, typically involving data streams, an
choosing efficient file format/database and multiple independent systems that
are tied together through custom-engineered pipelines.
In his session at @BigDataExpo at @ThingsExpo, Tomer Levi, a senior software
engineer at Intel's Advanced Analytics group, will cover the challenges,
architectural considerations, best practices, and frameworks available to
enable interactive analytics integrated into a Big Data platform.
Speaker Bio
Tomer Levi is a senior software engineer at Intel's Advanced Analytics group
with an extensive experience in big data platforms. Advanced Anal... (more)
Fast-paced changes in the business landscape demand enterprises to rethink
their existing business models and add innovative capabilities keeping in
mind the new imperatives. One among them is the focus on Digital
transformation. In the retail industry, growth is measured in terms of
increased sales and value addition to existing products while keeping
customer expectations in mind. This is where a digital focus is important to
remain competitive.
Surviving the Competition
Surviving in a highly competitive marketplace needs more than just the
ability to sell; it calls for the evaluation of existing business processes
for identifying bottlenecks/loopholes, the creation of more robust frameworks
for improving operational efficiency, and more importantly convergence of
evolved technologies, processes and enterprise solutions in the system for
delivering transformation... (more)
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Continuous Deployment for Docker: Lessons Learned from Rolling Out a Real
Live Service
Most companies are adopting or evaluating container technology - Docker in
particular - to speed up application deployment, drive down cost, ease
management and make application delivery more flexible overall.
As with most new architectures, this dream takes a lot of work to become a
reality. Even when you do get your application componentized enough and
packaged properly, there are still challenges for DevOps teams to making the
shift to continuous delivery and achieving that reduction in cost and
increase in speed.
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In her session at @DevOpsSummit at 20th Cloud Expo, Stefana Muller, Vice
President of Datagrid Systems, shared the journey her engineering team took
to continuously deploy their c... (more)
What's Different Now: Five Reasons Why AI Is Suddenly Accessible
By Mark Troester
In recent years AI has grown significantly and become a substantial area of
business investment. What has changed, and how does this affect you?
For a long time, artificial intelligence was pure science fiction, relegated
to books, television and movies—and you don’t need us to tell you that we
are well past that point today. In the last few years we have seen extremely
rapid advancement in a series of technologies that have come together to
unlock a wave of AI investment. According to Accenture, 85% of executives
plan to invest extensively in AI in the next three years, and in the same
time period, Forrester estimates that businesses using AI will “steal”
$1.2 trillion from companies that don’t.
Whether they have implemented AI into their business plans or not, most
organizations are n... (more)
How Memory Leaks Happen in a Java Application
By Eugen Paraschiv
Introduction to Memory Leaks In Java Apps
One of the core benefits of Java is the JVM, which is an out-of-the-box
memory management. Essentially, we can create objects and the Java Garbage
Collector will take care of allocating and freeing up memory for us.
Nevertheless, memory leaks can still occur in Java applications.
In this article, we're going to describe the most common memory leaks,
understand their causes, and look at a few techniques to detect/avoid them.
We're also going to use the Java YourKit profiler throughout the article, to
analyze the state of our memory at runtime.
1. What is a Memory Leak in Java?
The standard definition of a memory leak is a scenario that occurs when
objects are no longer being used by the application, but the Garbage
Collector is unable to remove them from working mem... (more)
The CMP 2.0: Bringing Automation, Orchestration and Governance to Cloud
Native Apps and DevOps
As many know, the first generation of Cloud Management Platform (CMP)
solutions were designed for managing virtual infrastructure (IaaS) and
traditional applications. But that's no longer enough to satisfy evolving and
complex business requirements.
In his session at 21st Cloud Expo, Scott Davis, Embotics CTO, will explore
how next-generation CMPs ensure organizations can manage cloud-native and
microservice-based application architectures, while also facilitating agile
DevOps methodology. He will explain how automation, orchestration and
governance are fundamental to managing today's hybrid cloud environments and
are critical for digital businesses to deliver services faster, with better
user experience and higher quality, all while saving money.
Speaker Bio
Embotics C... (more)
How to Use Docker
By Ron Gidron
Docker is on a roll. In the last few years, this container management service
has become immensely popular in development, especially given the great fit
with agile-based projects and continuous delivery. In this article, I want to
take a brief look at how you can use Docker to accelerate and streamline the
software development lifecycle (SDLC) process.
First however, a brief introduction. The whole concept of Docker is for
developers to easily ship applications inside ‘software containers' which
can then be deployed and run anywhere. Let's imagine you develop an
application on your laptop where it works perfectly. Then you push that into
a test or production environment; you've chosen the right stack, the right
language, and right version. But it doesn't work. Why? Because it's not the
same environment.
Maybe you used a new version ... (more)
Getting Public Cloud Benefits Without Public Cloud Drawbacks
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.
What do you do?
Private cloud infrastructure based on composable technologies result in
environments that are suitable for all your workloads while also providing
you with many of the benefits of the public cloud, and without the pitfalls.
Composable infrastructure is an emerging data center architecture that
provides you with the ... (more)
Risk Tree API: Expose Your Vulnerabilities
Vulnerability management is vital for large companies that need to secure
containers across thousands of hosts, but many struggle to understand how
exposed they are when they discover a new high security vulnerability.
In his session at 21st Cloud Expo, John Morello, CTO of Twistlock, will
address this pressing concern by introducing the concept of the
"Vulnerability Risk Tree API," which brings all the data together in a simple
REST endpoint, allowing companies to easily grasp the severity of the
vulnerability. He
will provide attendees with actionable advice related to understanding and
acting on exposure due to new high severity vulnerabilities.
Speaker Bio
John Morello is the CTO of Twistlock, leading the work with strategic
customers and partners and driving the product roadmap. Prior to Twistlock,
John was the CISO ... (more)
Web Performance 101: Monitoring APIs
By Kameerath Kareem
We have already established the importance of APIs in today’s digital world
(read about it here). With APIs playing such an important role in keeping us
connected, it’s necessary to maintain the API’s performance as well as
availability. There are multiple aspects to consider when monitoring APIs,
from integration to performance issues, therefore a general monitoring
strategy that only accounts for up-time is not ideal.
What can go wrong?
APIs power complex integrations and allow disparate applications to work
together to build a more interactive and connected digital environment. It
allows data exchange between services but such connections and integrations
can create multiple points of vulnerability in the network. There are several
things that can go wrong when using APIs:
The API endpoint may be experiencin... (more)
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DevOps at 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.
Must Watch Video: Recap of @DevOpsSummit New York Javits Center
The widespread success of cloud computing is driving the DevOps revolution in
enterprise IT. Now as never before, development teams must communicate and
collaborate in a dynamic, 24/7/365 environment. There is no time to wait for
long development cycles that produce software that is obsolete at launch.
DevOps may be disruptive, but it is essential.
Nutanix DevOps Booth at @DevOpsSummit New York Javits Center
DevOps at Cloud Expo will expand the DevOps community, enable a wide sharing
of knowledge, and educate delegates and technology pro... (more)
@CloudExpo Stories By Liz McMillan  To get the most out of their data, successful companies are not focusing on queries and data lakes, they are actively integrating analytics into their operations with a data-first application development approach. Real-time adjustments to improve revenues, reduce costs, or mitigate risk rely on applications that minimize latency on a variety of data sources. Jack Norris reviews best practices to show how companies develop, deploy, and dynamically update these applications and how this data-first... Aug. 17, 2017 01:45 AM EDT Reads: 872 | By Pat Romanski  Intelligent Automation is now one of the key business imperatives for CIOs and CISOs impacting all areas of business today. In his session at 21st Cloud Expo, Brian Boeggeman, VP Alliances & Partnerships at Ayehu, will talk about how business value is created and delivered through intelligent automation to today’s enterprises. The open ecosystem platform approach toward Intelligent Automation that Ayehu delivers to the market is core to enabling the creation of the self-driving enterprise. Aug. 17, 2017 01:30 AM EDT Reads: 1,076 | By Elizabeth White  "We're here to tell the world about our cloud-scale infrastructure that we have at Juniper combined with the world-class security that we put into the cloud," explained Lisa Guess, VP of Systems Engineering at Juniper Networks, in this SYS-CON.tv interview at 20th Cloud Expo, held June 6-8, 2017, at the Javits Center in New York City, NY. Aug. 17, 2017 12:30 AM EDT Reads: 2,153 | By Liz McMillan  Enterprise architects are increasingly adopting multi-cloud strategies as they seek to utilize existing data center assets, leverage the advantages of cloud computing and avoid cloud vendor lock-in. This requires a globally aware traffic management strategy that can monitor infrastructure health across data centers and end-user experience globally, while responding to control changes and system specification at the speed of today’s DevOps teams. In his session at 20th Cloud Expo, Josh Gray, Chie... Aug. 16, 2017 11:15 PM EDT Reads: 982 | By Liz McMillan  "We're a cybersecurity firm that specializes in engineering security solutions both at the software and hardware level. Security cannot be an after-the-fact afterthought, which is what it's become," stated Richard Blech, Chief Executive Officer at Secure Channels, in this SYS-CON.tv interview at @ThingsExpo, held November 1-3, 2016, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA. Aug. 16, 2017 10:30 PM EDT Reads: 6,410 | By Pat Romanski  In his session at 20th Cloud Expo, Mike Johnston, an infrastructure engineer at Supergiant.io, discussed how to use Kubernetes to set up a SaaS infrastructure for your business. Mike Johnston is an infrastructure engineer at Supergiant.io with over 12 years of experience designing, deploying, and maintaining server and workstation infrastructure at all scales. He has experience with brick and mortar data centers as well as cloud providers like Digital Ocean, Amazon Web Services, and Rackspace. H... Aug. 16, 2017 10:15 PM EDT Reads: 2,076 | 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. Aug. 16, 2017 09:30 PM EDT Reads: 1,029 | By Liz McMillan  SYS-CON Events announced today that Massive Networks 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. Massive Networks mission is simple. To help your business operate seamlessly with fast, reliable, and secure internet and network solutions. Improve your customer's experience with outstanding connections to your cloud. Aug. 16, 2017 09:00 PM EDT Reads: 1,520 | By Elizabeth White  DevOps is under attack because developers don’t want to mess with infrastructure. They will happily own their code into production, but want to use platforms instead of raw automation. That’s changing the landscape that we understand as DevOps with both architecture concepts (CloudNative) and process redefinition (SRE).
Rob Hirschfeld’s recent work in Kubernetes operations has led to the conclusion that containers and related platforms have changed the way we should be thinking about DevOps and... Aug. 16, 2017 08:45 PM EDT Reads: 1,055 | By Pat Romanski  SYS-CON Events announced today that SkyScale 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. SkyScale is a world-class provider of cloud-based, ultra-fast multi-GPU hardware platforms for lease to customers desiring the fastest performance available as a service anywhere in the world. SkyScale builds, configures, and manages dedicated systems strategically located in maximum-security... Aug. 16, 2017 08:45 PM EDT Reads: 1,718 | By Elizabeth White  SYS-CON Events announced today that Grape Up 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. Grape Up is a software company specializing 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 U.S. and Europe, Grape Up works with a variety of customers from emergi... Aug. 16, 2017 08:30 PM EDT Reads: 6,652 | By Elizabeth White  Everything run by electricity will eventually be connected to the Internet. Get ahead of the Internet of Things revolution and join Akvelon expert and IoT industry leader, Sergey Grebnov, in his session at @ThingsExpo, for an educational dive into the world of managing your home, workplace and all the devices they contain with the power of machine-based AI and intelligent Bot services for a completely streamlined experience. Aug. 16, 2017 07:45 PM EDT Reads: 1,841 | By Elizabeth White  Because IoT devices are deployed in mission-critical environments more than ever before, it’s increasingly imperative they be truly smart. IoT sensors simply stockpiling data isn’t useful. IoT must be artificially and naturally intelligent in order to provide more value
In his session at @ThingsExpo, John Crupi, Vice President and Engineering System Architect at Greenwave Systems, will discuss how IoT artificial intelligence (AI) can be carried out via edge analytics and machine learning techn... Aug. 16, 2017 07:45 PM EDT Reads: 1,145 | By Liz McMillan  With tough new regulations coming to Europe on data privacy in May 2018, Calligo will explain why in reality the effect is global and transforms how you consider critical data. EU GDPR fundamentally rewrites the rules for cloud, Big Data and IoT. In his session at 21st Cloud Expo, Adam Ryan, Vice President and General Manager EMEA at Calligo, will examine the regulations and provide insight on how it affects technology, challenges the established rules and will usher in new levels of diligence a... Aug. 16, 2017 07:15 PM EDT Reads: 2,564 | By Elizabeth White  FinTechs use the cloud to operate at the speed and scale of digital financial activity, but are often hindered by the complexity of managing security and compliance in the cloud. In his session at 20th Cloud Expo, Sesh Murthy, co-founder and CTO of Cloud Raxak, showed how proactive and automated cloud security enables FinTechs to leverage the cloud to achieve their business goals. Through business-driven cloud security, FinTechs can speed time-to-market, diminish risk and costs, maintain continu... Aug. 16, 2017 07:15 PM EDT Reads: 2,499 | By Pat Romanski  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... Aug. 16, 2017 07:15 PM EDT Reads: 416 | By Elizabeth White An increasing number of companies are creating products that combine data with analytical capabilities.
Running interactive queries on Big Data requires complex architectures to store and query data effectively, typically involving data streams, an choosing efficient file format/database and multiple independent systems that are tied together through custom-engineered pipelines.
In his session at @BigDataExpo at @ThingsExpo, Tomer Levi, a senior software engineer at Intel’s Advanced Analytics ... Aug. 16, 2017 06:30 PM EDT Reads: 599 | By Elizabeth White  Existing Big Data solutions are mainly focused on the discovery and analysis of data. The solutions are scalable and highly available but tedious when swapping in and swapping out occurs in disarray and thrashing takes place. The resolution for thrashing through machine learning algorithms and support nomenclature is through simple techniques. Organizations that have been collecting large customer data are increasingly seeing the need to use the data for swapping in and out and thrashing occurs ... Aug. 16, 2017 06:30 PM EDT Reads: 1,509 | By Pat Romanski As many know, the first generation of Cloud Management Platform (CMP) solutions were designed for managing virtual infrastructure (IaaS) and traditional applications. But that’s no longer enough to satisfy evolving and complex business requirements. In his session at 21st Cloud Expo, Scott Davis, Embotics CTO, will explore how next-generation CMPs ensure organizations can manage cloud-native and microservice-based application architectures, while also facilitating agile DevOps methodology. He wi... Aug. 16, 2017 06:00 PM EDT Reads: 1,414 | By Liz McMillan  Historically, some banking activities such as trading have been relying heavily on analytics and cutting edge algorithmic tools. The coming of age of powerful data analytics solutions combined with the development of intelligent algorithms have created new opportunities for financial institutions. In his session at 20th Cloud Expo, Sebastien Meunier, Head of Digital for North America at Chappuis Halder & Co., discussed how these tools can be leveraged to develop a lasting competitive advantage ... Aug. 16, 2017 05:15 PM EDT Reads: 403 |
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Internet-of-Things discussions can end up either going down the consumer gadget rabbit hole or focused on the sort of data logging that industrial manufacturers have been doing forever. However, in fact, companies today are already using IoT data both to optimize their operational technology and to improve the experience of customer interactions in novel ways. In his session at @ThingsExpo, Gordon Haff, Red Hat Technology Evangelist, shared examples from a wide range of industries – including energy, transportation, and retail – of using IoT to create new business opportunities and improve eff...
The winning trinity in competitive decision-making includes people, ideas and things according to the renowned military strategist John Boyd. Although competitive decision-making is not yet an Olympic sport, it affects us all. Leaders (people) must become trained experts at using digital technologies to make fast decisions. Leaders must use the right strategies and methodologies (ideas) to make wise decisions fast, and they must collect the needed data and analyze it fast enough using the best solutions (things). If any component of this trinity is weak, it will be hard to compete.
As today's digital disruptions bounce and smash their way through conventional technologies and conventional wisdom alike, predicting their path is a multifaceted challenge. So many areas of technology advance on Moore's Law-like exponential curves that divining the future is fraught with danger. Such is the problem with artificial intelligence (AI), and its related concepts, including cognitive computing, machine learning, and deep learning.
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.
Digital technology innovations and advancements, and our adoption of them, have changed us. We are different consumers, employers and employees. Our expectations have increased. We have become mobile, impatient and demanding. We are global. We demand immediate, accurate and real-time responses. We use our technology not just for reading historic events and news, but also for predicting our future turn while navigating at 60 MPH.
In the blog “From Autonomous to Smart: Importance of Artificial Intelligence,” we discussed the two critical artificial intelligence (AI) challenges in creating “smart” edge devices:
Artificial Intelligence Challenge #1: How do the Artificial Intelligence algorithms handle the unexpected, such as flash flooding, terrorist attacks, earthquakes, tornadoes, police car chases, emergency vehicles, blown tires, a child chasing a ball into the street, etc.?
"We provide IoT solutions. We provide the most compatible solutions for many applications. Our solutions are industry agnostic and also protocol agnostic," explained Richard Han, Head of Sales and Marketing and Engineering at Systena America, in this SYS-CON.tv interview at @ThingsExpo, held June 6-8, 2017, at the Javits Center in New York City, NY.
It’s hard to get into the world of the Internet of Things (IOT) without eventually talking about Digital Twins. I was first exposed to the concept of Digital Twins when working with GE. Great concept. But are Digital Twins only relevant to physical machines such as wind turbines, jet engines, and locomotives? What can we learn about the concept of digital twins that we can apply more broadly – to other physical entities (like contracts and agreements) and even humans?
We all probably remember the movie (“Jurassic Park”), even if we don’t remember this exact scene: Dr. Malcolm, played by Jeff Goldblum is explaining Chaos Theory to Dr. Ellie Sattler, played by Laura Dern.
Dr. Malcolm is explaining how random, seemingly negligible events can disrupt even the most carefully laid out plans.
Dr. Ian Malcolm: [after the T-Rex failed to appear for the tour group]. “You see a Tyrannosaur doesn’t follow a set pattern or park schedules, the essence of chaos.”
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.
How can an organization with decades worth of accumulated ERP customizations and configurations, IT systems and customized software applications digitally transform fast enough to keep up with the rapidly changing behaviors of digital customers? That is a hard question most organizations are wrestling with today. Often complex custom IT environments served a purpose in a past era, but today where IT speed and agility are required, they serve as anchors restraining an organization from moving forward and digitally transforming fast enough to compete.
In his session at @ThingsExpo, Sudarshan Krishnamurthi, a Senior Manager, Business Strategy, at Cisco Systems, discussed how IT and operational technology (OT) work together, as opposed to being in separate siloes as once was traditional. Attendees learned how to fully leverage the power of IoT in their organization by bringing the two sides together and bridging the communication gap. He also looked at what good leadership must entail in order to accomplish this, and how IT managers can be the drivers of change within their organizations. He also discussed the skill sets needed to ensure that...
API Security has finally entered our security zeitgeist. OWASP Top 10 2017 - RC1 recognized API Security as a first class citizen by adding it as number 10, or A-10 on its list of web application vulnerabilities. We believe this is just the start. The attack surface area offered by API is orders or magnitude larger than any other attack surface area. Consider the fact the APIs expose cloud services, internal databases, application and even legacy mainframes over the internet. What could go wrong?
I have had the opportunity to work for and around a good many start-ups during the course of my career. Often the start-up founders would simply define a problem, develop a solution and launch a company. The marketing department would then do their very best to identify the individuals in each target company that experienced the problem and had a budget to fix it. This was always a challenging task, that has become even harder today.
"DX encompasses the continuing technology revolution, and is addressing society's most important issues throughout the entire $78 trillion 21st-century global economy," said Roger Strukhoff, Conference Chair. "DX World Expo has organized these issues along 10 tracks with more than 150 of the world's top speakers coming to Istanbul to help change the world."
From manual human effort the world is slowly paving its way to a new space where most process are getting replaced with tools and systems to improve efficiency and bring down operational costs. Automation is the next big thing and low code platforms are fueling it in a significant way.
The Automation era is here. We are in the fast pace of replacing manual human efforts with machines and processes. In the world of Information Technology too, we are linking disparate systems, softwares and tools to make things self sustaining. This is called Automation.It has been helping companies overcome t...
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