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 innovative products that help customers get more from their computer applications, databases and infrastructure. To date, over one million users around the world have chosen Synametrics solutions to help power their accelerated business and personal computing needs. For more information, please visit http://web.synametrics.com. CloudExpo | DXWorldEXPO have announced the conferen... (more)

Solving the XML Problem with Jackson | @CloudExpo #API #Java #JSON #Cloud

Solving the XML Problem with Jackson By Eugen Paraschiv Jackson is a popular library for handling JSON in Java applications, quickly becoming the de-facto standard in the ecosystem. Starting with version 2, it has also introduced a mature XML implementation alongside its established JSON support. Adding Jackson XML to the Project Adding the Jackson XML module to the project only needs a single dependency - the Jackson XML module itself: com.fasterxml.jackson.dataformat jackson-dataformat-xml 2.9.0 And in Gradle: compile "com.fasterxml.jackson.dataformat:jackson-dataformat-xml:2.9.0" This will automatically pull in all of the other Jackson dependencies that are needed: Jackson Core Jackson Annotations Jackson Databind Jackson Module JAXB Annotations Woodstox StAX Implementation Not... (more)

Windows Azure Recipe: Consumer Portal

Nearly every company on the internet has a web presence. Many are merely using theirs for informational purposes. More sophisticated portals allow customers to register their contact information and provide some level of interaction or customer support. But as our understanding of how consumers use the web increases, the more progressive companies are taking advantage of social web and rich media delivery to connect at a deeper level with the consumers of their goods and services. Drivers Cost reduction Scalability Global distribution Time to market Solution Here’s a sketch of how a Windows Azure Consumer Portal might be built out: Ingredients Web Role – this will host the core of the solution. Each web role is a virtual machine hosting an application written in ASP.NET (or optionally php, or node.js). The number of web roles can be scaled up or down as needed to h... (more)

Sponsorship Opportunities @ThingsExpo | #IoT #M2M #ML #InternetOfThings

Internet of @ThingsExpo, taking place June 7-9, 2016 at Javits Center, New York City and Nov 1-3, 2016, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA, is co-located with 18th International @CloudExpo and will feature technical sessions from a rock star conference faculty and the leading industry players in the world. @CloudExpo / @ThingsExpo 2016 New York (June 7-9, 2016, Javits Center, Manhattan) @CloudExpo / @ThingsExpo 2016 Silicon Valley (November 1-3, 2016, Santa Clara Convention Center, CA) Download Show Prospectus ▸ Here Speaking Proposals ▸ Here The Internet of Things (IoT) is the most profound change in personal and enterprise IT since the creation of the Worldwide Web more than 20 years ago. All major researchers estimate there will be tens of billions devices - computers, smartphones, tablets, and sensors - connected to the Internet by 2020. Thi... (more)

DevOps @ElectricCloud Hits Record Sales | @DevOpsSummit [#DevOps]

Electric Cloud (http://electric-cloud.com/), the leader for enterprise Continuous Delivery, announced record quarterly sales for Q3 2014, demonstrating increasing momentum and demand for its products. The company nearly doubled sales from the previous quarter, and has enjoyed strong double-digit, year-over-year growth in 2014. Robust demand for the company's solutions that support DevOps and Continuous Delivery initiatives came from customers within the embedded systems, enterprise IT and financial services sectors. "As the rapid and reliable release of software becomes increasingly critical, more enterprise IT organizations are turning to DevOps and Continuous Delivery to accelerate the software delivery process," said Steve Brodie, CEO of Electric Cloud. "Our record sales this quarter demonstrate our leadership in the industry and how we help organizations making... (more)

Surviving a Datacenter Outage By @PagerDuty | @DevOpsSummit [#DevOps]

Surviving a Datacenter Outage By Amanda Folson PagerDuty was built around one simple idea: waking up the right people when things break. When an event is triggered, PagerDuty makes magic to notify the right person or team that something is wrong. However, ensuring that the message makes it out of our pipeline to you isn’t so simple. Because we’re providing notifications when your systems are down, there’s a pretty big constraint on us to be up. If you can’t trust us, who can you trust? We rely on a few distributed technologies in our alerting pipeline because they offer us the redundancy we need to ensure alerts make it to users. We’ve spent a lot of time architecting our infrastructure to be as fault-tolerant as possible in order to provide durable and consistent read/write operations in our critical alerting pipeline. This pipeline starts with an event endpoint ... (more)

Announcing @Plutora to Exhibit at @DevOpsSummit New York [#DevOps]

SYS-CON Events announced today that Plutora, Inc., the leading global provider of enterprise release management and test environment management SaaS solutions, will exhibit at SYS-CON's DevOps Summit 2015 New York, which will take place on June 9-11, 2015, at the Javits Center in New York City, NY. Headquartered in Mountain View, California, Plutora provides enterprise release management and test environment SaaS solutions to clients in North America, Europe and Asia Pacific. Leading companies across a variety of industries, including financial services, telecommunications, retail, pharmaceutical and media, rely on Plutora's SaaS solutions to orchestrate releases and environments faster and with integrity. Please visit www.plutora.com to learn more about Plutora's enterprise Release and Test Environment SaaS Solutions. For more information, please visit http://www... (more)

Will PR Firms Survive The New Media Avalanche?

http://twitter.com/fuatkircaali Last week I received an email from Lindsey Miller at Ragan Communications. I answered her questions for a story she was working on here. The following is the full text of my reply to her on this subject. What kinds of PR firm will survive the "fast-approaching new media avalanche"? What steps will firms have to take to ensure that they make it through? I know a lot of PR firms that are chasing new accounts among publicly traded companies, which are seen as cash cows in the business. I also know a lot of firms whose sales teams are larger than their senior account staff which will actually get the job done. These firms have armies of new college-grad telemarketers spitting out press releases to the media. For a while you can get away with both approaches. Once the laws, rules and regulations change, the first group of PR firms will disapp... (more)

The Top 250 Players in the Cloud Computing Ecosystem

In the run-up to the next Cloud Expo, 7th Cloud Expo (November 1–4, 2010) being held at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Silicon Valley, it's time to give my earlier list a complete overhaul. Here, accordingly, is an expanded list of the most active players in the Cloud Ecosystem. I have increased it from the 'mere' 150 I identified back in January of this year, to 250, testimony – as if any were needed! – to the fierce and continuing growth of the "Elastic IT" paradigm throughout the world of enterprise computing. Editorial note: The words in quotation marks used to describe the various services and solutions in this round-up are in every case taken from the Web sites of the companies themselves. Omissions to this Top 250 list should be sent to me via Twitter (twitter.com/jg21) and I will endeavor to include them in any future revision of this newly expanded rou... (more)

Everything Azure | @CloudExpo @HanuSoftware #IoT #DigitalTransformation

Empowering the Enterprise to Take Full Advantage of Everything Azure The cloud era has reached the stage where it is no longer a question of whether a company should migrate, but when. Enterprises have embraced the outsourcing of where their various applications are stored and who manages them, saving significant investment along the way. Plus, the cloud has become a defining competitive edge. Companies that fail to successfully adapt risk failure. The media, of course, continues to extol the virtues of the cloud, including how easy it is to get there. Migrating to the cloud is a simple affair - just call up a cloud provider and your wishes come true. The reality is quite different, however, as enterprises struggle with a wide variety of migration issues, from security to overtaxed IT teams and everything in-between. In his session at 18th Cloud Expo, Collin Steele, ... (more)

Big Data to Smart Data | @ThingsExpo @CloudianStorage #IoT #M2M #BigData

Evolution from Big Data to Smart Data Download Slide Deck: ▸ Here As organizations realize the scope of the Internet of Things, gaining key insights from Big Data, through the use of advanced analytics, becomes crucial. However, IoT also creates the need for petabyte scale storage of data from millions of devices. A new type of Storage is required which seamlessly integrates robust data analytics with massive scale. These storage systems will act as "smart systems" provide in-place analytics that speed discovery and enable businesses to quickly derive meaningful and actionable insights. In his session at @ThingsExpo, Paul Turner, Chief Marketing Officer at Cloudian, addressed how and where we'll see smart data first make an impact. Speaker Bio Paul Turner is Chief Product and Marketing Officer at Cloudian. He is responsible for product strategy, planning, branding... (more)