SYS-CON Events announced today that the 8th International Cloud Expo will take place June 6-9, 2011, in New York City. The International Cloud Computing Conference & Expo series is the world's leading Cloud-focused event and is held three times a year, in New York, Silicon Valley and in Europe. Over 600 corporate sponsors and 10,000 industry professionals have participated in Cloud Computing Expo since its inception, more than all other Cloud-related events put together. Cloud Computing Expo 2011 East Call for Papers Deadline November 30, 2010 - SUBMIT YOUR SPEAKING PROPOSAL TODAY! The four-day event will offer a rich array of sessions led by exceptional speakers about the business and technical value of cloud computing with more than 150 sponsors and exhibitors and over 5,000 estimated delegates from well over 48 different countries. Explore Cloud Expo Sponsorship &... (more)

Cloud People: A Who's Who of Cloud Computing

Behind every cloud service or cloud-based solution, there are real people... A robust ecosystem of solutions providers has emerged around cloud computing. But who are the CEOs & CTOs behind those providers, who are the internal and external entrepreneurs driving companies involved in the Cloud, who are the leading engineers, developers, analysts, researchers, marketing professionals, authors...who, in short, are the people behind the cloud? This list will be updated weekly between now and November 4-7, 2013, when 13th Cloud Expo | Cloud Expo Silicon Valley opens its doors in the Santa Clara Convention Center, in the heart of California's Silicon Valley. Here are some highly prominent "Cloud People" to kick off with... RANDY BIAS | @randybias "Randy Bias is visionary. He sees things others don't." [Emphasis added.] That is how Mårten Mickos puts it, as succinctly as ever.... (more)

Hybrid Cloud Study | @CloudExpo @IBMCAI #Cloud #BigData #IoT #API

"We live in a world where companies must take advantage of all of their resources to succeed and deliver services and apps in an as a service model regardless of whether they reside in a public or private cloud or on their existing infrastructure," said IBM Global Technology Services General Manager for Systems Services Laura Sanders." Two-thirds of organizations implementing hybrid cloud report they're already gaining competitive advantage from their hybrid environments and are nearly three times as likely to use it to assemble data assets or monetize data, according to findings released by IBM (NYSE: IBM). With a hybrid cloud approach, organizations can be selective about when to use cloud and when to use traditional IT infrastructure - delivering the best functionality while meeting speed and flexibility needs, as well as resiliency, security and regulatory requi... (more)

Quo vadis? Cross-Platform App development - Part 1

There are lots and lots of Apps. In fact there are over a couple of million Apps including all of the major brands, Apple, Google, Blackberry, Microsoft with Apple at the top and Microsoft in the bottom. But this is a growing market. The variety is truly bewildering, different size devices; different operating systems(OS); different programming languages;  and different orientations. This post is not very recent but you can see how the various mobile operating systems compare: http://www.ibtimes.com/android-vs-ios-whats-most-popular-mobile-operating-system-your-country-1464892 The interactive image in the article really shows the popularity of a given OS/device among different geographical regions. Windows Phone Apps is for example based on Microsoft's Window 7, 8, 8.1 OSs using .NET. With Windows OS and Visual Studio one can build Apps for all of Microsoft devices cove... (more)

Java 1.6 on a 32-bit Core Duo Mac

I have a first generation Macbook Pro (Core Duo 2.0 GHz, 2.0G, etc) with Mac OS X 10.5.X. It's a really nice machine and has held up well for the past couple of years. It works beautifully. Everything works well, except Apple doesn't support Java 1.6 on 32-bit Intel Macs, which applies to the Core Duo. My primary skillset, (other than UNIX/Linux), revolves around Java. I admit, I was about to sell my laptop and head to the Apple Store, when I found a few links that can ease the pain. I found a link on Tomas Varaneckas', (Paranoid Engineering), blog about SoyLatte , a Java 6 release for Mac OS X based on a FreeBSD patchset. I am going to assume you have basic UNIX command knowledge. I opened a Terminal, and changed to the JavaVM.framework/Versions directory. cd /System/Library/Frameworks/JavaVM.framework/Versions/I uncompressed and extracted the files from the intel 32-bit... (more)

Windows Azure Virtual Machine Test Drive Kit

The public preview of hosted Virtual Machines in Windows Azure is now available to the general public. This platform preview enables you to evaluate our new IaaS and Enterprise Networking capabilities. Once you have registered for the 90 Day Free Trial and created a new account, you can access the preview directly at this link: https://account.windowsazure.com/PreviewFeatures If you’ve been to any of my presentations lately, you’ll know that I’m fired up about these new offerings. As I’ve worked through some scenarios for myself and with my customers, I’ve been collecting the resources that helped me to ramp up. Here’s a collection of links to the items I’ve found most useful: Core Resources Digital Chalk Talk Videos – detailed technical overviews of the new Windows Azure services and supporting technologies as announced June 7, including Virtual Machines (IaaS Win... (more)

Monitoring Your Network with PRTG - Custom Sensors Part 1

Articles in this series: Monitoring Your Network with PRTG - Overview, Installation, and Configuration In my first article in this series, I talked about the PRTG Network Monitor from Paessler and how we decided to use it for our DevCentral migration from our IT datacenter into a cloud provider.  In this article, I’m going to talk about the core of PRTG’s monitoring: it’s sensors. What is a Sensor? As the PRTG folks state: A sensor is the “heart” of the PRTG installation.  In it’s essence, a sensor is the term PRTG uses for a monitor.  When you think of how you would monitor a device or service, that is a sensor.  The list of available sensor types is extensive covering everything from simple ping and port checks to HTTP, Web Service, SNMP, Windows/WMI, Linux/Unix/OS X, Virtual Server, Mail Servers, SQL, File, VoIP, QoS, and Hardwar... (more)

Large Format All-Rounder: The IGEL UD10 All-In-One Thin Client with a 24" LED Display

IGEL's new all-in-one model shines with an integrated 60 cm LED backlight display and a fast dual-core processor. An infrared touchscreen and WLAN support are also available, making the UD10 the perfect all-rounder. Reading, UK. 24 September 2013 - IGEL Technology has added a new all-in-one thin client to its Universal Desktop range designed for retail Point of Sale, limited desk space environments such as healthcare and financial sectors, as well as digital signage and kiosk terminals in public institutions and libraries. The UD10 is a high-performance, high-end thin client with a large 23.6 inch (60 cm) widescreen display and a powerful 1 GHz dual-core processor. It comes with numerous interfaces, including USB 3.0 and optional extras such as a touchscreen and WLAN. Thanks to the VIA Eden X2 dual-core processor with the VIA VX900 chip set, the UD10 guarantees high... (more)

Azure CLI Day 56 – sql server delete

In my previous post (http://thinkfirstcodelater.com/blog/?p=3570) I showed you how to use the Windows Azure cross platform command line tools to delete a SQL database. In this post I’ll show you how to use the tools to delete a SQL server. Once again, just a reminder that I’m using the command line tools on a MacBook Air with OSX (Mavericks) installed, and I’m using Google Chrome as my default browser. However, the experience should be identical on Windows and Linux as well. Open an instance of your command line (Terminal, Bash, Command Prompt, etc.) and type the following: azure sql server delete -h The azure sql server delete command is the command to use to delete a SQL server. The only parameter you need to specify is serverName, which, as you can probably guess is simply the name of the SQL server you want to delete. You can specify the -q, —quiet option if... (more)

Meet @ActiveState Nov 4-6 @DevOpsSummit Silicon Valley [#DevOps]

SYS-CON Events announced today that ActiveState, a global leader providing software application development and management solutions, has been named "Silver Sponsor" of DevOps Summit Silicon Valley, which will take place on November 4-6, 2014, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA. Founded in 1997, ActiveState is a global leader providing software application development and management solutions. The Company's products include: Stackato, a commercially supported Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) that harnesses open source technologies such as Cloud Foundry and Docker; dynamic language distributions ActivePerl, ActivePython and ActiveTcl; and developer tools such as the popular Komodo Edit and Komodo IDE. Headquartered in Vancouver, Canada, ActiveState is trusted by customers and partners worldwide, across many industries including telecommunications, aer... (more)

Secure Container Delivery Pipelines with Docker @DevOpsSummit #DevOps #Microservices

Building Effective, Secure Container Delivery Pipelines with Docker, rkt et al. Opinions on how best to package and deliver applications are legion and, like many other aspects of the software world, are subject to recurring trend cycles. On the server-side, the current favorite is container delivery: a “full stack” approach in which your application and everything it needs to run are specified in a container definition. That definition is then “compiled” down to a container image and deployed by retrieving the image and passing it to a container runtime to create a running instance. Here, I’d like to talk about how we can apply lessons from experience of shipping code using many different formats in order to build effective, secure Container Delivery pipelines. The way it’s described above, container delivery does not sound much different from most other packagin... (more)