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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.
Interoute's Unified ICT strategy provides solutions for enterprises seeking
connectivity and a scalable, secure advanced platform on which they can build
their voice,... (more)
Graphical user interface (GUI) testing is a potentially problematic area
because constructing effective test cases is more difficult than the
corresponding application logic. The roadblocks to effective functional GUI
testing are:
Traditional test coverage criteria like "80% coverage of the lines of code"
may not be sufficient to trap all the user interaction scenarios. End users
often use a different user task interaction model than the one conceived by
the development team.
Functional GUI testing needs to deal with GUI events as well as the effects
of the underlying application logic that results in changes to the data and
presentation.
The common methods for functional GUI testing are the "record and execute"
script technique and writing test programs for different scenarios. In the
"record and execute," the test designer interacts with the GUI and all the
eve... (more)
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)
Click Here to Save $800 at Cloud Expo New York !
Cloud Expo, Inc. announced on Thursday that Cloud Expo 2011 New York, the 8th
International Cloud Computing Conference & Expo, will take place June 6-9,
2011, at the Javits Center in New York City.
Cloud Expo - International Cloud Computing Conference & Expo series is the
world’s leading Cloud-focused event and is held in New York, Silicon
Valley, Prague, Tokyo, and Hong-Kong.
Over 900 corporate sponsors and more than 65,000 industry professionals have
participated in Cloud Expo since its inception, tenfold more than all other
Cloud-related events put together.
Click Here to Save $800 at Cloud Expo New York !
"Cloud Expo was announced on February 24, 2007, the day the term ‘cloud
computing' was coined," said Fuat Kircaali, Chairman and Founder of Cloud
Expo, Inc. "Cloud has become synonymous with ‘computing' and ‘soft... (more)
Adam Bosworth, vice president of engineering of the Frameworks Division at
BEA, recently sat down with JP Morgenthal to talk about his role in WebLogic.
WLDJ: Tell us about your role at BEA.
Adam: Basically, I make sure that we build what's necessary for J2EE to
become usable by the rest of us - on top of WebLogic Server. Whether it's
building the user interface in the portal strategy, or building the overall
development environment, WebLogic Workshop will make it easy for every
reasonable developer to use.
WLDJ: What are your primary software development interests?
AB: I've spent my life trying to make building applications easy. Basically,
helping developers build solutions - developing products, plumbing, or
technology to help them build solutions. Whether it was Active Server Pages
and the extent of my work at Microsoft, all of which was plumbing, or Access
and wo... (more)
Intel's appeal to the Court of First Instance of the European Commission's
monopoly abuse decision against it claims that the EC didn't prove that it
hammered AMD into the ground with its discounts.
According to a summary of the otherwise sealed appeal published over the
weekend in the Official Journal of the European Union, Intel says that the EC
made an error of law in assuming that its discounts were per se abusive
simply because they were conditional. It never proved they actually
foreclosed competition.
It says the Commission didn't bother to do an analysis of foreclosure and
didn't bother to check to see if its rebates had any "immediate, substantial,
direct and foreseeable effects" in Europe.
Intel claims that the EC's evidence fails to meet the required standard of
proof in failing to address the fact that during 2002-2007, the time of
Intel's alleged offen... (more)
Managed server hosting refers to a hosting company managing servers for its
clients and providing them with the tools and resources necessary to run
their businesses. Hosting companies employ full-time administrators that
maintain the servers – something that users would have found themselves or
people they had hired doing in their stead.
While this is something that may sometimes scare people, deciding to go with
managed server hosting may in fact prove to be the most sensible decision for
some people - especially beginners that do not have a big budget to run their
server and that are not too sure of where to begin.
Here are some benefits of managed server hosting.
Easier to Manage: Going with managed server hosting give people a certain
peace of mind – and for a reason! Users do not need to worry about the
technical details of running their platform at all; everyth... (more)
Organizations deploying rich client/server WebLogic applications need to fill
the void created by the deprecation of BEA Zero Administration Client (ZAC).
The affiliated Delta Dental Plans of Michigan, Ohio and Indiana, a leading
dental plan administrator, chose Sitraka DeployDirector to deploy the
client-side portion of their claims-processing application to thier users.
Some days it seems like you can't win. You've developed a WebLogic
application that has a Swing-based "rich client" front end and were planning
to deploy it using BEA's ZAC (Zero Administration Client) deployment utility.
Then you learn that ZAC has been deprecated. What do you do? One company
solved this problem with Sitraka DeployDirector, a third-party Java
provisioning and management solution.
The affiliated Delta Dental Plans of Michigan, Ohio and Indiana (Delta
Dental) run the largest dental ... (more)
No, don't worry, it's not a a floor-wax/dessert-topping/toothpaste article
this month; it's simply a look at how multilanguage application environments
might be used together in highly distributed systems. Interested? Well, don't
worry, somebody has to beS Swallow your pride and read on, MacDuff!
Looking at the IT systems of most large organizations is often closely akin
to going on a fossil hunt. You dig through the J2EE surface to find a strata
of C++ code in the supporting layers. Dig a little deeper and you start
finding relics of a bygone age when C and Unix ruled the world. A little more
scraping and an outcrop of COBOL is likely to be revealed, or maybe a little
PL/1 and then, brushing aside the minicomputers that everyone forgot about,
you might be lucky enough to unearth some real assembler. The archaeological
metaphor starts to decay here, however. In archa... (more)
Sometimes, HTTP session states are not replicated from the primary server to
the secondary server.
Symptoms
The application using HTTP session does not function as designed and you see
a loss of session data. You might be asked to re-log into the application
even when the session has still not timed out. You see errors and warnings
related to HTTP session failures in the server's log file. The request is not
failed over to another server properly.
There are several reasons as to why session replication fails. We will look
at ways to diagnose the issue, possible reasons for it, and the ways to
address them.
Types of HTTP Session Replication
There are five different implementations of session persistence:
Memory (single-server, non-replicated): When you use memory-based storage,
all session information is stored in memory and is lost when you stop and
restart WebLogic... (more)
BEA has released the beta version of its WebLogic Server. The company's
flagship application server, the first part of BEA's next-generation WebLogic
product line, can now be downloaded free. In keeping with WebLogic tradition,
Diablo supports the latest industry standards such as J2EE 1.4 and the latest
Web services standards, helping to allow developers to more quickly create
portable and interoperable applications. BEA announced earlier this month, at
Oracle's OpenWorld conference, that a beta of its Diablo WebLogic Server
would be made available.
BEA said Diablo is designed to provide an ideal platform for the development
and deployment of service-oriented architectures (SOA). An improved service
security framework is designed to make it easier to setup application
security, to help prevent costly security holes. BEA cautions that this beta
version should not be... (more)
@CloudExpo Stories By Elizabeth White  "I focus on what we are calling CAST Highlight, which is our SaaS application portfolio analysis tool. It is an extremely lightweight tool that can integrate with pretty much any build process right now," explained Andrew Siegmund, Application Migration Specialist for CAST, in this SYS-CON.tv interview at 21st Cloud Expo, held Oct 31 – Nov 2, 2017, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA. Dec. 4, 2017 08:00 AM EST Reads: 1,425 | By Elizabeth White  "We are an integrator of carrier ethernet and bandwidth to get people to connect to the cloud, to the SaaS providers, and the IaaS providers all on ethernet," explained Paul Mako, CEO & CTO of Massive Networks, in this SYS-CON.tv interview at 21st Cloud Expo, held Oct 31 – Nov 2, 2017, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA. Dec. 4, 2017 07:45 AM EST Reads: 749 | By Pat Romanski  When talking IoT we often focus on the devices, the sensors, the hardware itself. The new smart appliances, the new smart or self-driving cars (which are amalgamations of many ‘things’). When we are looking at the world of IoT, we should take a step back, look at the big picture. What value are these devices providing? IoT is not about the devices, it’s about the data consumed and generated. The devices are tools, mechanisms, conduits.
In his session at Internet of Things at Cloud Expo | DXWor... Dec. 4, 2017 07:45 AM EST Reads: 894 | By Pat Romanski  "Since we launched LinuxONE we learned a lot from our customers. More than anything what they responded to were some very unique security capabilities that we have," explained Mark Figley, Director of LinuxONE Offerings at IBM, in this SYS-CON.tv interview at 21st Cloud Expo, held Oct 31 – Nov 2, 2017, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA. Dec. 4, 2017 07:00 AM EST Reads: 752 | By Elizabeth White  Leading companies, from the Global Fortune 500 to the smallest companies, are adopting hybrid cloud as the path to business advantage. Hybrid cloud depends on cloud services and on-premises infrastructure working in unison. Successful implementations require new levels of data mobility, enabled by an automated and seamless flow across on-premises and cloud resources. In his general session at 21st Cloud Expo, Greg Tevis, an IBM Storage Software Technical Strategist and Customer Solution Architec... Dec. 4, 2017 06:30 AM EST Reads: 714 | By Liz McMillan  SYS-CON Events announced today that Evatronix 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.
Evatronix SA offers comprehensive solutions in the design and implementation of electronic systems, in CAD / CAM deployment, and also is a designer and manufacturer of advanced 3D scanners for professional applications. Dec. 4, 2017 06:15 AM EST Reads: 3,259 | By Elizabeth White  DevOps promotes continuous improvement through a culture of collaboration. But in real terms, how do you: Integrate activities across diverse teams and services? Make objective decisions with system-wide visibility? Use feedback loops to enable learning and improvement?
With technology insights and real-world examples, in his general session at @DevOpsSummit, at 21st Cloud Expo, Andi Mann, Chief Technology Advocate at Splunk, explored how leading organizations use data-driven DevOps to close th... Dec. 4, 2017 04:30 AM EST Reads: 1,813 | By Liz McMillan  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, explored how next-generation CMPs ensure organizations can manage cloud-native and microservice-based application architectures, while also facilitating agile DevOps methodology. He expla... Dec. 4, 2017 02:00 AM EST Reads: 1,989 | By Pat Romanski  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, provided 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 oper... Dec. 4, 2017 01:15 AM EST Reads: 791 | By Elizabeth White  "IBM is really all in on blockchain. We take a look at sort of the history of blockchain ledger technologies. It started out with bitcoin, Ethereum, and IBM evaluated these particular blockchain technologies and found they were anonymous and permissionless and that many companies were looking for permissioned blockchain," stated René Bostic, Technical VP of the IBM Cloud Unit in North America, in this SYS-CON.tv interview at 21st Cloud Expo, held Oct 31 – Nov 2, 2017, at the Santa Clara Conventi... Dec. 4, 2017 01:15 AM EST Reads: 932 | By Pat Romanski  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. In his session at @BigDataExpo, Jack Norris, Senior Vice President, Data and Applications at MapR Technologies, reviewed best practices to ... Dec. 3, 2017 09:00 PM EST Reads: 1,978 | By Liz McMillan  A strange thing is happening along the way to the Internet of Things, namely far too many devices to work with and manage. It has become clear that we'll need much higher efficiency user experiences that can allow us to more easily and scalably work with the thousands of devices that will soon be in each of our lives. Enter the conversational interface revolution, combining bots we can literally talk with, gesture to, and even direct with our thoughts, with embedded artificial intelligence, whic... Dec. 3, 2017 08:15 PM EST Reads: 9,295 | By Pat Romanski  We all know that end users experience the Internet primarily with mobile devices. From an app development perspective, we know that successfully responding to the needs of mobile customers depends on rapid DevOps – failing fast, in short, until the right solution evolves in your customers' relationship to your business. Whether you’re decomposing an SOA monolith, or developing a new application cloud natively, it’s not a question of using microservices – not doing so will be a path to eventual b... Dec. 3, 2017 07:15 PM EST Reads: 809 | By Elizabeth White  In his session at 21st Cloud Expo, Carl J. Levine, Senior Technical Evangelist for NS1, will objectively discuss how DNS is used to solve Digital Transformation challenges in large SaaS applications, CDNs, AdTech platforms, and other demanding use cases. Carl J. Levine is the Senior Technical Evangelist for NS1. A veteran of the Internet Infrastructure space, he has over a decade of experience with startups, networking protocols and Internet infrastructure, combined with the unique ability to it... Dec. 3, 2017 06:15 PM EST Reads: 913 | By Yeshim Deniz  Sanjeev Sharma Joins June 5-7, 2018 @DevOpsSummit at @Cloud Expo New York Faculty. Sanjeev Sharma is an internationally known DevOps and Cloud Transformation thought leader, technology executive, and author. Sanjeev's industry experience includes tenures as CTO, Technical Sales leader, and Cloud Architect leader. As an IBM Distinguished Engineer, Sanjeev is recognized at the highest levels of IBM's core of technical leaders. Dec. 3, 2017 04:30 PM EST Reads: 5,380 | By Liz McMillan  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 gr... Dec. 3, 2017 01:00 PM EST Reads: 1,230 | By Liz McMillan  Coca-Cola’s Google powered digital signage system lays the groundwork for a more valuable connection between Coke and its customers. Digital signs pair software with high-resolution displays so that a message can be changed instantly based on what the operator wants to communicate or sell. In their Day 3 Keynote at 21st Cloud Expo, Greg Chambers, Global Group Director, Digital Innovation, Coca-Cola, and Vidya Nagarajan, a Senior Product Manager at Google, discussed how from store operations and ... Dec. 3, 2017 11:45 AM EST Reads: 1,029 | By Simon Hill  Long-term partners Fujitsu Limited and Citrix Systems Japan have announced a new virtual desktop service based in the cloud. Designed to take some of the pain out of digital transformation, the new offering makes it easier to create digital workspaces in a secure manner that’s scalable.
The Fujitsu Managed Infrastructure Service Virtual Desktop Service VCC (Virtual Client on Cloud) employs the Citrix suite of virtual desktop infrastructure products, including Citrix XenApp, Citrix XenDesktop, ... Dec. 3, 2017 11:15 AM EST Reads: 827 | By Pat Romanski  SYS-CON Events announced today that Synametrics Technologies will exhibit at SYS-CON's 22nd International Cloud Expo®, which will take place on June 5-7, 2018, at the Javits Center in New York, NY. Synametrics Technologies is a privately held company based in Plainsboro, New Jersey that has been providing solutions for the developer community since 1997. Based on the success of its initial product offerings such as WinSQL, Xeams, SynaMan and Syncrify, Synametrics continues to create and hone inn... Dec. 3, 2017 11:00 AM EST Reads: 2,136 | By Elizabeth White  As DevOps methodologies expand their reach across the enterprise, organizations face the daunting challenge of adapting related cloud strategies to ensure optimal alignment, from managing complexity to ensuring proper governance. How can culture, automation, legacy apps and even budget be reexamined to enable this ongoing shift within the modern software factory?
In her Day 2 Keynote at @DevOpsSummit at 21st Cloud Expo, Aruna Ravichandran, VP, DevOps Solutions Marketing, CA Technologies, was jo... Dec. 3, 2017 08:30 AM EST Reads: 794 |
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The Federal Communications Commission announced that it will vote on December 14 to enact the exceptionally misleadingly titled “Restoring Internet Freedom” order. If passed, it will do the opposite of restoring anything resembling freedom — it will repeal the current net neutrality rules which were enacted to ensure that Americans would have equal access to the Internet.
If you’re reading this, chances are you’re already interested in the topic. Still, some quick background:
Renamed “Open Internet” a while back, net neutrality provided a regulatory framework that specifically prohibited:...
Digital technologies have altered how people and businesses interact. The potential for dislocation from ongoing digital transformation has created unprecedented levels of C-suite discussion. The decisive market leaders have heeded the warnings and taken bold actions.
That said, if you’re one of those Chief Technology Officers (CTO) that previously responded to this scenario by making small incremental adjustments to your IT agenda, then you’re potentially at risk. Any relief from those prior tweaks tend to be short lived. The same issues will likely resurface.
This month, an AI (artificial intelligence) system passed a medical exam in China for the first time. I wonder how its bedside manner will be? In addition, Saudi Arabia granted citizenship to a robot named Sophia. With all these rapid advancements, I think it is time we explore the spiritual life of robots.
Up till recently, programmers coded and configured algorithms, AI, automation and machine learning system and took personal responsibility for all the code. Today, however, AI has escaped the confines of human oversight and has been empowered and employed to self-program, self-optimize, ...
I love it when I get feedback from a blog that I’ve written. I appreciate the different perspectives and insights that others bring to a topic of interest. And no blog that I’ve written has drawn more comments than my blog, “Isaac Asimov: The 4th Law of Robotics.”
The section of the blog that fueled the most comments stem from a scene in the movie I, Robot where Detective Spooner (played by Will Smith) is explaining to Doctor Calvin (who is responsible for giving robots human-like behaviors) why he distrusts and hates robots. He is describing an incident where his police car crashed into anot...
The human work of solving problems, facing challenges and overcoming obstacles tends to share a common goal: creating stable, secure and predictable environments. The tendency for most humans is that once we solve a challenge, we want to be done with it. That propensity, however, does not fit with today’s reality of perpetual change.
In the digital business world, organizations have no choice but to operate in an unclear, uncertain and continuously shifting environment that requires a new mindset and approach to formulating business strategies. Digital winners recognize that change is pa...
Cloud Expo | DXWorld Expo have announced the conference tracks for Cloud Expo 2018. Cloud Expo will be held June 5-7, 2018, at the Javits Center in New York City, and November 6-8, 2018, at the Santa Clara Convention Center, Santa Clara, CA. Digital Transformation (DX) is a major focus with the introduction of DX Expo within the program. Successful transformation requires a laser focus on being data-driven and on using all the tools available that enable transformation if they plan to survive over the long term. A total of 88% of Fortune 500 companies from a generation ago are now out of busin...
Digital Transformation is amplifying mainframe as mission critical to business growth more than ever before. With 70% of the world's corporate data and over half of the world's enterprise applications running on mainframe computers, they are at the core of just about every transaction. A single transaction can, in fact, drive up to 100 system interactions. The continued increase in mainframe transaction volumes, growing on average 7-8% a year for 78% of customers, has even led to a new buzzword: The Connected Mainframe.
"Evatronix provides design services to companies that need to integrate the IoT technology in their products but they don't necessarily have the expertise, knowledge and design team to do so," explained Adam Morawiec, VP of Business Development at Evatronix, in this SYS-CON.tv interview at @ThingsExpo, held Oct 31 – Nov 2, 2017, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA.
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.
For what feels like a lifetime, industry analysts and experts have predicted ‘this' will be the year the Internet of Things (IoT) finally takes off, both within industry and for consumers. But, as if by clockwork, each year of ‘guaranteed' IoT explosion has passed - the mass adoption and exploitation of the Internet of Things having failed to materialize.
The IoT vision is almost utopian in its promise: a connected intelligent home or office, offering a simpler more convenient future. Our houses will be populated by smart ‘things'; thermostats that know precisely how warm we like our rooms,...
The 22nd International Cloud Expo | 1st DXWorld Expo has announced that its Call for Papers is open. Cloud Expo | DXWorld Expo, to be held June 5-7, 2018, at the Javits Center in New York, NY, brings together Cloud Computing, Digital Transformation, Big Data, Internet of Things, DevOps, Machine Learning and WebRTC to one location. With cloud computing driving a higher percentage of enterprise IT budgets every year, it becomes increasingly important to plant your flag in this fast-expanding business opportunity. Submit your speaking proposal today!
In an attempt to put the patient first in healthcare, Congress and President Obama in 2015 approved a bipartisan bill for United States healthcare reform. The bill is known as “Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act of 2015,” or MACRA. Among the major provisions of MACRA is the Quality Payment Program. Under the Quality Payment Program, physicians and nurses receive positive, neutral or negative Medicare payment adjustments based upon a “Patient Satisfaction Score,” that is, patient satisfaction scores have a direct impact on how physicians, physician assistants, nurses, and hospital’s g...
It took Magellan's crew three years sailing ships to circumnavigate the earth. Today, at hypersonic speeds of 7,680 MPH, it takes just over three hours to circumnavigate the earth. Data on the Internet, however, travels at 670 million MPH, which means it only takes milliseconds to circumnavigate the earth. In this age of digital businesses and digital interactions, companies must digitally transform to work effectively in a world where mass information moves at these unimaginable speeds.
I recently became a bionic man. I have one good ear and one bad ear as a result of flying around while suffering colds and flus over the years, and with only one good it makes it difficult to hear a conversation in a noisy room, so I went looking for a high tech digital solution.
For the last couple of years I have been watching the start-up, Doppler Labs, as they developed their earbuds that were purported to have great sound, but also to enhance hearing. This month after reading about their latest software release, I ordered a pair to try. There were three reasons I wanted to try Doppler...
The “Internet of Things” is an exciting area of tech, one in which industry experts estimate there will be more than 30 billion connected IoT devices by 2020. IoT is the inter-networking and instrumentation of physical devices – everything from streets, cars, factories, power grids, ice caps, satellites, and clothing to phones, microwaves, milk containers, planets, human bodies, etc.
IoT creates an opportunity to measure, collect and analyze an ever-increasing variety of behavioral statistics. That being said, data, and more importantly insight into the data, is key for enhanced business val...
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