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Security in a Cloud-First World Is Cloudy
Enterprises are moving to the cloud faster than most of us in security
expected. CIOs are going from 0 to 100 in cloud adoption and leaving security
teams in the dust. Once cloud is part of an enterprise stack, it's unclear
who has responsibility for the protection of applications, services, and
data.
When cloud breaches occur, whether active compromise or a publicly accessible
database, the blame must fall on both service providers and users.
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In his session at 21st Cloud Expo, Ben Johnson, Co-Founder and CTO of
Obsidian Security, explored how both groups must do more to make cloud more
secure, from leveraging AI to improving APIs, to incorporating cloud into
current security programs.
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"There's plenty of bandwidth out there but it's never in the right place. So
what Cedexis does is uses data to work out the best pathways to get data from
the origin to the person who wants to get it," explained Simon Jones,
Evangelist and Head of Marketing at Cedexis, 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.
CloudExpo | DXWorldEXPO have announced the conference tracks for Cloud Expo
2018, introducing DXWorldEXPO.
DXWordEXPO, colocated with 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 DXWorld
Expo within the program. Successful transformation requires a laser focus on
being data-driven and on ... (more)
Bracing for the Next Big Cloud Revolution: Finding Value in "Up Stack" Cloud
The cloud revolution in enterprises has very clearly crossed the phase of
proof-of-concepts into a truly mainstream adoption. One of most popular
enterprise-wide initiatives currently going on are "cloud migration" programs
of some kind or another. Finding business value for these programs is not
hard to fathom - they include hyperelasticity in infrastructure consumption,
subscription based models, and agility derived from rapid speed of deployment
of applications. These factors will continue to drive cloud adoption into the
foreseeable future.
Beneath the surface, there is a far-reaching trend playing out with the
potential to create an impact far greater than cloud migration programs. For
want of better terminology, let's call this the "up stack" cloud revolution.
These are essentially "c... (more)
SYS-CON Events announced today that CrowdReviews.com has been named "Media
Sponsor" of SYS-CON's 22nd International Cloud Expo, which will take place on
June 5-7, 2018, at the Javits Center in New York City, NY.
CrowdReviews.com is a transparent online platform for determining which
products and services are the best based on the opinion of the crowd. The
crowd consists of Internet users that have experienced products and services
first-hand and have an interest in letting other potential buyers learn their
thoughts on their experience.
For more information, visit http://www.crowdreviews.com/.
CloudExpo | DXWorldEXPO have announced the conference tracks for Cloud Expo
2018, introducing DXWorldEXPO.
DXWordEXPO, colocated with 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, S... (more)
"We're developing a software that is based on the cloud environment and we
are providing those services to corporations and the general public,"
explained Seungmin Kim, CEO/CTO of SM Systems Inc., 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.
CloudExpo | DXWorldEXPO have announced the conference tracks for Cloud Expo
2018, introducing DXWorldEXPO.
DXWordEXPO, colocated with 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 DXWorld
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 ... (more)
Since releasing the University of San Francisco research paper on “How to
Determine the Economic Value of Your Data” (EvD), I have had numerous
conversations with senior executives about the business and technology
ramifications of EvD. Now with the release of Doug Laney’s “Infonomics”
book that builds upon Doug’s EvD work at Gartner, I expect these
conversations to intensify. In fact, I just traveled to Switzerland to
discuss the potential business and technology ramifications of EvD with the
management team of a leading European Telecommunications company.
From these conversations, I am starting to form some “theorems” to guide
organizations regarding how EvD could impact their business and technology
investments. A theorem is defined as “a general proposition not
self-evident but proved by a chain of reasoning; a truth established by means
of accepted truths.” ... (more)
Beyond Software Development: Applying Agile Approaches to Traditional
Processes
While we understand Agile as a means to accelerate innovation, manage
uncertainty and cope with ambiguity, many are inclined to think that it
conflicts with the objectives of traditional engineering projects, such as
building a highway, skyscraper or power plant. These are plan-driven and
predictive projects that seek to avoid any uncertainty. This type of
thinking, however, is short-sighted.
Agile approaches are valuable in controlling uncertainty because they
constrain the complexity that stems from it. For example, iterative cycles
place a limit on how far planning can go and how much work can be taken on at
one time. What if those same constraints could help control a different kind
of complexity -- the type that undermines classic plan-driven projects?
Followers of Lean production ... (more)
A deadlock is a situation where two or more threads are blocked while waiting
to obtain locks that some of the other threads in the deadlock are holding.
Deadlocks can occur when multiple threads need the same locks, at the same
time, but obtain them in different order. For instance, if thread 1 locks A,
and tries to lock B, and thread 2 has already locked B, and tries to lock A,
a deadlock arises. Thread 1 can never get B, and thread 2 can never get A. In
addition, neither of them will ever know. They will remain blocked on each of
their objects, A and B, forever.
Deadlock Detection
The most common way of detecting whether your application is deadlocked is by
analyzing thread dumps of the Java Virtual Machine while its in the state of
appearing hung. A thread dump is a snapshot of the virtual machine's current
state, including stack traces for each Java thread.
Th... (more)
SYS-CON Events announced today that Addteq will exhibit at
SYS-CON's @DevOpsSummit at Cloud Expo New York, which will take place on
June 6-8, 2017, at the Javits Center in New York City, NY.
Addteq is one of the top 10 Platinum Atlassian Experts that specialize in
DevOps, custom and continuous integration, automation, plugin development,
and consulting for midsize and global firms. Addteq firmly believes that
automation is essential for successful software releases. Addteq centers its
products and services around this fundamentally unique approach to delivering
complete software release management solutions. With a combination of
Addteq's services and its extensive list of partners, Addteq believes that it
can provide the best solutions to fit your business. Locations include
headquarters in Princeton, NJ with additional offices in Los Angeles, CA, and
Pune, Indi... (more)
EPractize Labs offers mock exam simulator with study guide for OCEJWCD 6
(SCWCD 6) certification and it was released during OCE Web Component
Certification beta stage itself.
The software kit, OCEJWCD 6 Certification Training Lab Kit contains 706
practice questions with brief explanations for Quiz and Mock Exams.
Exam Simulator Review
EPractize Labs offers Java Certification preparation guides in software
format named Training Labs. They are offline exam preparation tool installed
directly on any Windows machine and also can run on Mac/Linux by windows
emulators.
Few things about EPractize Labs OCEJWCD 6 Training Lab.
The product is developed with a learning methodology named Plan, Practize,
Achieve. Let’s have a look on what PPA methodology.
Plan Practize Achieve (PPA-1) methodology is designed with an intent to
charge the user with confidence level and potential to achi... (more)
SYS-CON Events announced today that Cloudistics, an on-premises cloud
computing company, has been named "Bronze Sponsor" of SYS-CON's 20th
International Cloud Expo®, which will take place on June 6-8, 2017, at the
Javits Center in New York City, NY.
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 can start with a base infrastructure
and scale to multi-site and multi-geo infrastructures with predictable
economics and performance.
With open and secure virtual networking, elastic storage, application
orchestration and SaaS management, Cloudistics is the blueprint for
application-optimized ... (more)
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@ThingsExpo Stories 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. 8, 2017 05:30 AM EST Reads: 1,352 | 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. 7, 2017 10:45 PM EST Reads: 9,585 | 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. 7, 2017 10:30 PM EST Reads: 1,372 | By Elizabeth White "There's plenty of bandwidth out there but it's never in the right place. So what Cedexis does is uses data to work out the best pathways to get data from the origin to the person who wants to get it," explained Simon Jones, Evangelist and Head of Marketing at Cedexis, 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. 7, 2017 08:15 PM EST Reads: 781 | 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. 7, 2017 08:00 PM EST Reads: 2,441 | 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. 7, 2017 06:30 PM EST Reads: 1,521 | 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. 7, 2017 03:45 PM EST Reads: 1,030 | 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. 7, 2017 02:00 PM EST Reads: 1,699 | By Pat Romanski  It is of utmost importance for the future success of WebRTC to ensure that interoperability is operational between web browsers and any WebRTC-compliant client. To be guaranteed as operational and effective, interoperability must be tested extensively by establishing WebRTC data and media connections between different web browsers running on different devices and operating systems.
In his session at WebRTC Summit at @ThingsExpo, Dr. Alex Gouaillard, CEO and Founder of CoSMo Software, presented ... Dec. 7, 2017 12:15 PM EST Reads: 653 | By Elizabeth White  SYS-CON Events announced today that Telecom Reseller has been named “Media Sponsor” of SYS-CON's 22nd International Cloud Expo, which will take place on June 5-7, 2018, at the Javits Center in New York, NY.
Telecom Reseller reports on Unified Communications, UCaaS, BPaaS for enterprise and SMBs. They report extensively on both customer premises based solutions such as IP-PBX as well as cloud based and hosted platforms. Dec. 7, 2017 12:00 PM EST Reads: 831 | By Liz McMillan SYS-CON Events announced today that CrowdReviews.com has been named “Media Sponsor” of SYS-CON's 22nd International Cloud Expo, which will take place on June 5–7, 2018, at the Javits Center in New York City, NY.
CrowdReviews.com is a transparent online platform for determining which products and services are the best based on the opinion of the crowd. The crowd consists of Internet users that have experienced products and services first-hand and have an interest in letting other potential buye... Dec. 7, 2017 07:45 AM EST Reads: 841 | 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. 7, 2017 07:00 AM EST Reads: 3,522 | By Elizabeth White  WebRTC is great technology to build your own communication tools. It will be even more exciting experience it with advanced devices, such as a 360 Camera, 360 microphone, and a depth sensor camera. In his session at @ThingsExpo, Masashi Ganeko, a manager at INFOCOM Corporation, introduced two experimental projects from his team and what they learned from them. "Shotoku Tamago" uses the robot audition software HARK to track speakers in 360 video of a remote party. "Virtual Teleport" uses a multip... Dec. 7, 2017 06:45 AM EST Reads: 772 | 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. 6, 2017 05:00 PM EST Reads: 1,138 | By Liz McMillan  Everything run by electricity will eventually be connected to the Internet. Get ahead of the Internet of Things revolution. In his session at @ThingsExpo, Akvelon expert and IoT industry leader Sergey Grebnov provided 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. Dec. 6, 2017 11:00 AM EST Reads: 1,299 | 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. 5, 2017 11:30 AM EST Reads: 2,436 | By Elizabeth White  SYS-CON Events announced today that Google Cloud has been named “Keynote 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. Companies come to Google Cloud to transform their businesses. Google Cloud’s comprehensive portfolio – from infrastructure to apps to devices – helps enterprises innovate faster, scale smarter, stay secure, and do more with data than ever before. Dec. 4, 2017 04:45 PM EST Reads: 2,749 | By Elizabeth White  "Avere Systems deals with data performance optimization in the cloud or on-premise. Even to this day many organizations struggle with what we call the problem of data gravity - 'Where should I put the data?' - because the data dictates ultimately where the jobs are going to run," explained Scott Jeschonek, Director Cloud Solutions at Avere Systems, 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 03:34 PM EST Reads: 648 | By Liz McMillan  Recently, WebRTC has a lot of eyes from market. The use cases of WebRTC are expanding - video chat, online education, online health care etc. Not only for human-to-human communication, but also IoT use cases such as machine to human use cases can be seen recently. One of the typical use-case is remote camera monitoring. With WebRTC, people can have interoperability and flexibility for deploying monitoring service.
However, the benefit of WebRTC for IoT is not only its convenience and interopera... Dec. 1, 2017 02:00 PM EST Reads: 1,455 | By Liz McMillan  Digital Transformation (DX) is not a "one-size-fits all" strategy. Each organization needs to develop its own unique, long-term DX plan. It must do so by realizing that we now live in a data-driven age, and that technologies such as Cloud Computing, Big Data, the IoT, Cognitive Computing, and Blockchain are only tools. In her general session at 21st Cloud Expo, Rebecca Wanta explained how the strategy must focus on DX and include a commitment from top management to create great IT jobs, monitor ... Dec. 1, 2017 12:00 PM EST Reads: 1,260 |
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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 operationalize the intelligence and how to implement a strategy to scale efforts. She pulled from her ex...
Many enterprise and government IT organizations are realizing the benefits of cloud computing by extending IT delivery and management processes across private and public cloud services. But they are often challenged with balancing the need for centralized cloud governance without stifling user-driven innovation.
This strategy requires an approach that fundamentally reshapes how IT is delivered today, shifting the focus from infrastructure to services aggregation, and mixing and matching the best services for meeting organizations’ current and future needs.
For over ten years, DevOps has been taking the world by storm. It has made organizations step back, evaluate their processes and implement enterprise-wide cultural and infrastructural change. Vendors have followed suite, introducing an abundance of continuous delivery tools to facilitate this step-change. L.P Hartley famously quipped, ‘The past is a foreign country: they do things differently there' - words which resound more than ever as we more further into the digital age.
From our perspective as consumers, perhaps the best thing about digital transformation is how consumerization is making technology so much easier to use. Sure, our television remote controls still have too many buttons, and I have yet to figure out the digital display in my Honda, but all in all, tech is getting easier for everybody.
Within companies – even very large ones – the consumerization of technology is gradually taking hold as well. There are now simple mobile apps for a wide range of big company tasks, ranging from changing your benefits to replacing a security badge.
As enterpri...
Digital experience monitoring plays a vital role in the ecommerce economy. The industry is booming with millions of websites selling everything imaginable. Online stores are expected to be super fast and easy to navigate; users are quick to assess website performance and if said perceived performance is below expectations, they will quickly move on to competitor’s website.
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:...
A few years ago – in the early days of Blockchain – a lot of people were taken with the idea of a multifunctional chain on which all transactions could be handled. After Ethereum was launched in 2014, its advocates were talking themselves hoarse about the transformative opportunities the platform introduced. Decentralized applications, they predicted, along with all sorts of value transfers would be executed exclusively on Ethereum from that point on, and no other networks would ever be needed.
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.
Quick quiz!
What’s the first thing that comes to mind when you hear the following phrases?
Artificial grass
Artificial sweeteners
Artificial flavors
Artificial plants
"This all sounds great. But it's just not realistic."
This is what a group of five senior IT executives told me during a workshop I held not long ago. We were working through an exercise on the organizational characteristics necessary to successfully execute a digital transformation, and the group was doing their ‘readout.'
The executives loved everything we discussed and agreed that if such an environment existed, it would make transformation much easier. They just didn't believe it was realistic.
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