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“You can’t stop the incessant march of economics” – Bill Schmarzo
Okay, so it’s probably not cool to quote oneself, but hey, this is my blog
and I get to do what I want. And for anyone who follows me knows, I love to
“riff” on the game-changing power of economics. The “economics of big
data” – where the cost to store, manage and analyze data is 20x to 100x
cheaper than traditional analytics – started this big data and data science
craze. But ultimately it is the economics of value, or to be specific,
“value in use” where the economics really become a game changer.
I recent article titled “The Simple Economics of Machine Intelligence”
from the Harvard Business Review highlights very well the role that economics
(maybe even more than data science) is going to play in separating the
winners from the losers in digital transformation. To quote the article:
Machine int... (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
View Keynote ▸ Here
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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)
SYS-CON Events announced today that Calligo 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.
Calligo is an innovative cloud service provider offering mid-sized companies
the highest levels of data privacy. Calligo offers unparalleled application
performance guarantees, commercial flexibility and a personalized support
service from its globally located cloud platforms. Through its four pillars
of focus, Calligo delivers a platform that businesses can trust to deliver
the high level of service and protection they expect and is lacking in many
cloud offerings.
For more information, please visit https://calligo.cloud/.
21st International Cloud Expo, taking place October 31 - November 2, 2017, at
the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Cl... (more)
Technology integration is complex and an evergreen business challenge for IT
teams. Enterprises setup manual & point to point connections to exchange data
from business partners. However, data disruptions emerge when the business IT
systems expand and prevents organizations from sharing data with partners.
Information exchange with this approach requires more resources and manpower
is required. For such scenarios, information solution experts recommend to
use the B2B data exchange tool to support the Electronic Data Interchange.
However, enterprises are struck in a dilemma to go for an in house or a b2b
solution. This blog will help you in deciding whether to develop an in-house
solution or a dedicated information solution
What the Information Solutions Experts Recommend
Organizations generally opt for a B2B data exchange tool considering a
request from partners, rat... (more)
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.
For more informati... (more)
Open Source Tool Chains for Continuous Testing
The goal of Continuous Testing is to shift testing left to find defects
earlier and release software faster. This can be achieved by integrating a
set of open source functional and performance testing tools in the early
stages of your software delivery lifecycle.
There is one process that binds all application delivery stages together into
one well-orchestrated machine: Continuous Testing. Continuous Testing is the
conveyer belt between the Software Factory and production stages. Artifacts
are moved from one stage to the next only after they have been tested and
approved to continue. New code submitted to the repository is tested upon
commit. When tests fail, the code is rejected. Subsystems are approved as
part of periodic builds on their way to the delivery stage, where the system
is being tested as production ready.... (more)
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)
As organizations abandon the waterfall method of software development for
Agile, many are stuck in what Hasan Yasar terms Water-Scrum-Fall. That is,
the organization has not effectively embraced Agile and DevOps principles and
remains in silos with no links to business goals. Enter DevOps, an extension
of Agile thinking. While Agile embraces constant change and embeds the
customer into the process, DevOps embraces constant testing and delivery and
embeds operations into the team to internalize expertise on deployment and
maintenance.
This is how Hasan started his talk, Multi Security Checkpoints on DevOps
Platform, at the All Day DevOps conference.
In his talk, Hasan lays out a plan to get organizations to DevSecOps. Really,
DevOps is a risk mitigation strategy, built on situational awareness,
automation, and repetition. But, security is where a lot of DevOps
imp... (more)
View Opening Keynote: ▸ Here
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.
View Opening Keynote: ▸ Here
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)
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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.
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Dell EMC Announce Azure Stack Hybrid Cloud Solution
Dell EMC have announced their Microsoft Azure Stack hybrid cloud platform
solutions. This announcement builds upon earlier statements of support and
intention by Dell EMC to be part of the Microsoft Azure Stack community. For
those of you who are not familiar, Azure Stack is an on premise extension of
Microsoft Azure public cloud.
What this means is that essentially you can have the Microsoft Azure
experience (or a subset of it) in your own data center or data
infrastructure, enabling cloud experiences and abilities at your own pace,
your own way with control. Learn more about Microsoft Azure Stack including
my experiences with and installing Technique Preview 3 (TP3) here.
What Is Azure Stack
Microsoft Azure Stack is an on-premise (e.g., in your own data center)
private (or hybrid when connected to Azure) cloud pl... (more)
@ThingsExpo Stories 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. 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 r... Aug. 25, 2017 11:00 AM EDT Reads: 515 | By Liz McMillan  SYS-CON Events announced today that Secure Channels, a cybersecurity firm, 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. Secure Channels, Inc. offers several products and solutions to its many clients, helping them protect critical data from being compromised and access to computer networks from the unauthorized. The company develops comprehensive data encryption security strategie... Aug. 25, 2017 10:30 AM EDT Reads: 1,581 | By Yeshim Deniz  SYS-CON Events announced today that CAST Software 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. CAST was founded more than 25 years ago to make the invisible visible. Built around the idea that even the best analytics on the market still leave blind spots for technical teams looking to deliver better software and prevent outages, CAST provides the software intelligence that matter ... Aug. 25, 2017 10:30 AM EDT Reads: 720 | By Liz McMillan  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... Aug. 25, 2017 10:15 AM EDT Reads: 727 | By Pat Romanski  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 en... Aug. 25, 2017 09:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,542 | By Liz McMillan  SYS-CON Events announced today that Pulzze Systems 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.
Pulzze Systems Inc, provides the software product "The Interactor" that uniquely simplifies building IoT, Web and Smart Enterprise Solutions. It is a Silicon Valley startup funded by US government agencies, NSF and DHS to bring innovative solutions to market. Aug. 25, 2017 08:15 AM EDT Reads: 645 | By Elizabeth White  Detecting internal user threats in the Big Data eco-system is challenging and cumbersome. Many organizations monitor internal usage of the Big Data eco-system using a set of alerts. This is not a scalable process given the increase in the number of alerts with the accelerating growth in data volume and user base. Organizations are increasingly leveraging machine learning to monitor only those data elements that are sensitive and critical, autonomously establish monitoring policies, and to detect... Aug. 25, 2017 08:15 AM EDT Reads: 1,806 | By Pat Romanski  SYS-CON Events announced today that Calligo 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. Calligo is an innovative cloud service provider offering mid-sized companies the highest levels of data privacy. Calligo offers unparalleled application performance guarantees, commercial flexibility and a personalized support service from its globally located cloud platform... Aug. 25, 2017 07:45 AM EDT Reads: 623 | 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. 25, 2017 05:45 AM EDT Reads: 6,877 | 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. 25, 2017 03:45 AM EDT Reads: 1,251 | 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. 25, 2017 03:30 AM EDT Reads: 1,495 | By Elizabeth White  In his session at @ThingsExpo, Dr. Robert Cohen, an economist and senior fellow at the Economic Strategy Institute, presented the findings of a series of six detailed case studies of how large corporations are implementing IoT. The session explored how IoT has improved their economic performance, had major impacts on business models and resulted in impressive ROIs. The companies covered span manufacturing and services firms. He also explored servicification, how manufacturing firms shift from se... Aug. 25, 2017 12:15 AM EDT Reads: 623 | By Yeshim Deniz  SYS-CON Events announced today that JETRO will showcase Japan Digital Transformation Pavilion 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. The Japan External Trade Organization (JETRO) is a non-profit organization that provides business support services to companies expanding to Japan. With the support of JETRO's dedicated staff, clients can incorporate their business; receive visa, immigratio... Aug. 24, 2017 11:30 PM EDT Reads: 664 | 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. 24, 2017 11:00 PM EDT Reads: 1,881 | By Liz McMillan  The question before companies today is not whether to become intelligent, it’s a question of how and how fast. The key is to adopt and deploy an intelligent application strategy while simultaneously preparing to scale that intelligence. In her session at 21st Cloud Expo, Sangeeta Chakraborty, Chief Customer Officer at Ayasdi, will provide a tactical framework to become a truly intelligent enterprise, including how to identify the right applications for AI, how to build a Center of Excellence to ... Aug. 24, 2017 11:00 PM EDT Reads: 1,227 | By Liz McMillan  In his session at @ThingsExpo, Arvind Radhakrishnen discussed how IoT offers new business models in banking and financial services organizations with the capability to revolutionize products, payments, channels, business processes and asset management built on strong architectural foundation. The following topics were covered: How IoT stands to impact various business parameters including customer experience, cost and risk management within BFS organizations. Aug. 24, 2017 10:00 PM EDT Reads: 1,733 | 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. 24, 2017 09:45 PM EDT Reads: 2,661 | 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. 24, 2017 09:45 PM EDT Reads: 1,464 | 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... Aug. 24, 2017 09:30 PM EDT Reads: 1,412 | By Pat Romanski  From 2013, NTT Communications has been providing cPaaS service, SkyWay. Its customer’s expectations for leveraging WebRTC technology are not only typical real-time communication use cases such as Web conference, remote education, but also IoT use cases such as remote camera monitoring, smart-glass, and robotic. Because of this, NTT Communications has numerous IoT business use-cases that its customers are developing on top of PaaS. WebRTC will lead IoT businesses to be more innovative and address... Aug. 24, 2017 06:45 PM EDT Reads: 1,432 |
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