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Three Ruling Technology Trends to Watch Out for in 2018
As we head into a new year, IT improvements and management should be top of
mind for any business looking to amp up their customer experience, delivery
and service in 2018. Recently, at CA World ‘17, I talked about how every
business strategy is now an IT strategy. With that in mind, I have a few
predictions for 2018 that I encourage companies to have on their to-do list
as they look to find greater success in the new year.
#1 It's all about DevSecOps
Security will remain top of mind for customers, but the software development
lifecycle will now need to integrate security from start to finish in a
seamless way. The need for speed and velocity with quality in development has
created a "shift-left" movement that integrates security from the start,
which needs to be easy and accessible for developers as they write c... (more)
A strong declaration from a historically antagonist foe should put chills in
the hearts of Americans preparing themselves for the world ahead: Russian
President Vladimir Putin says the nation that leads in AI will be the ruler
of the world [1]” … The ruler of the world!
From the article (with some modification to avoid political landmines), we
get the following:
“The development of artificial intelligence has increasingly become a
national security concern in recent years. It is China and the US (not
Russia), which are seen as the two frontrunners, with China recently
announcing its ambition to become the global leader in AI research by 2030.
Many analysts warn that America is in danger of falling behind, especially as
the [current US] administration prepares to cut funding for basic science and
technology research.”
Elon Musk, one of America’s foremost technology... (more)
Privacy and Security on Blockchains: What Protection Measures the Networks
Are Adopting to Secure Their Users
Decentralization of everything, the great new idea of which the web can’t
stop babbling, might still seem a bit utopian if you inspect it closely.
Yes, blockchains are likely to reshape our economy, or a huge part of it, and
benefit considerably those who are currently unbanked.
They might also facilitate the creation of rating/reputation systems that are
not controlled by any single entity and thus allow people (say Uber drivers
who’d like to work for Lyft) to switch employers without having to
establish their credibility anew.
They might give users complete control over their assets; protect them, to a
degree, from being robbed and provide tools to sustain privacy even when a
state-level actor – a bank or a government – is after their identity.
But before t... (more)
In 1977, the Eagles released "Hotel California", a song about drugs and the
effects an addiction has on people. Putting "We are all just prisoners here,
of our own device" in the context of our digital lifestyle today we find a
lot of truth. There is a reason why Google provides most of its services for
free or why Amazon wants us to have an Echo in every home or why Facebook has
become our directory of "friends." What looks pretty convenient is a threat.
It is a threat to the end consumers but also a threat to the established
economy. And even if we have the choice to check out any time - we will never
leave.
The Feast of the Beasts
After already two decades, the Internet giants - speaking of Amazon, Google,
Facebook, Alibaba and Baidu - are still collecting tons of data, filling
their databases with information of everyone's knowledge, opinions,
recommendations,... (more)
Every year about this time, we gaze into crystal balls to divine the future
of our industry - or at least where it's headed over the next 365 days. The
result is often a triumph of incrementalism: we predict that we will get more
of what we already have. The truth is, technology isn't as revolutionary as
we often think - and commenting on incremental changes alone may not help us
understand what lies ahead.
Along with a few near-term predictions - so hard to resist - I'd also like to
make some predictions not just about technology per se, but about related
changes to organizations, processes, and the cultures around them. Here's my
main prediction: By 2030 what we've come to know as "IT" today will be
virtually unrecognizable.
No-code software will drive truly distributed technology
By 2030, the "de-codification of coding" - meaning the use of no-code or
low-code pl... (more)
22nd International Cloud Expo, taking place June 5-7, 2018, at the Javits
Center in New York City, NY, is co-located with the 1st DXWorld Expo and will
feature technical sessions from a rock star conference faculty and the
leading industry players in the world. Cloud computing is now being embraced
by a majority of enterprises of all sizes.
Yesterday's debate about public vs. private has transformed into the reality
of hybrid cloud: a recent survey shows that 74% of enterprises have a hybrid
cloud strategy. Meanwhile, 94% of enterprises are using some form of XaaS -
software, platform, and infrastructure as a service.
Digital transformation is changing the face of business. The IDC predicts
that enterprises will commit to a massive new scale of digital
transformation, to stake out leadership positions in the "digital
transformation economy."
Cloud Expo | DXWorldEX... (more)
Avoiding Compliance Risk with Better Access Management
Networks have become large, complex entities that are increasingly difficult
to manage and control. Security, audit, risk and compliance professionals
know that their organizations rely on them for effective risk management,
control and governance processes that are essential to the safety of their
network environment. Yet compliance and security are more challenging than
ever before as additional layers are added to this environment.
One of the challenges lies in the fact that there is an ongoing, huge access
gap in network security and compliance - and it has been residing within the
environment for more than 20 years. This tool, known as the Secure Shell
(SSH) protocol, grants privileged access to all types of production
environments.
A Problem Gaining Attention
The problem is propagated by a lack of awareness... (more)
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.
For more information, please visit http://evatronix.com.
"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.
21... (more)
Bitcoins are a digital cryptocurrency and have been around since 2009. As a
substitute for legal tender, they are becoming a rage for investors and
others but because there is no government agency auditing or performing
regulatory oversights, you wonder if it is the perfect breeding ground for
electronic nanocrime?
Since the introduction of the Bitcoin, some competitors have emerged and the
whole segment of cryptocurrencies are defined as Altcoins. Altcoins include:
Dogecoin, Ethereum, Feathercoin, Litecoin, Monero, Novacoin, Peercoin, and
Zetacoin. Some of these cryptocurrencies are considered improvements on the
original Bitcoin algorithm structure, and they are gaining some traction as
well.
Some financial experts and analysts, including Warren Buffett and Ben Stein,
are leery of the overall cryptocurrency market. Is it because it doesn't fit
into their more tr... (more)
"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 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... (more)
SYS-CON Events announced today that Conference Guru has been named "Media
Sponsor" of the 22nd International Cloud Expo, which will take place on June
5-7, 2018, at the Javits Center in New York, NY.
A valuable conference experience generates new contacts, sales leads,
potential strategic partners and potential investors; helps gather
competitive intelligence and even provides inspiration for new products and
services. Conference Guru works with conference organizers to pass great
deals to great conferences, helping you discover new conferences and increase
your return on investment.
For more information, visit http://conferenceguru.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,... (more)
@CloudExpo Stories By Liz McMillan  In his Opening Keynote at 21st Cloud Expo, John Considine, General Manager of IBM Cloud Infrastructure, led attendees through the exciting evolution of the cloud. He looked at this major disruption from the perspective of technology, business models, and what this means for enterprises of all sizes. John Considine is General Manager of Cloud Infrastructure Services at IBM. In that role he is responsible for leading IBM’s public cloud infrastructure including strategy, development, and offering m... Dec. 25, 2017 06:15 PM EST Reads: 2,212 | By Elizabeth White  The next XaaS is CICDaaS. Why? Because CICD saves developers a huge amount of time. CD is an especially great option for projects that require multiple and frequent contributions to be integrated. But… securing CICD best practices is an emerging, essential, yet little understood practice for DevOps teams and their Cloud Service Providers. The only way to get CICD to work in a highly secure environment takes collaboration, patience and persistence. Building CICD in the cloud requires rigorous ar... Dec. 25, 2017 05:30 PM EST Reads: 705 | By Liz McMillan  "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. Dec. 25, 2017 04:30 PM EST Reads: 2,111 | 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. 25, 2017 12:30 PM EST Reads: 3,080 | By Liz McMillan  DevOps is under attack because developers don’t want to mess with infrastructure. They will happily own their code into production, but want to use platforms instead of raw automation. That’s changing the landscape that we understand as DevOps with both architecture concepts (CloudNative) and process redefinition (SRE).
Rob Hirschfeld’s recent work in Kubernetes operations has led to the conclusion that containers and related platforms have changed the way we should be thinking about DevOps and... Dec. 25, 2017 09:00 AM EST Reads: 733 | By Elizabeth White  Companies are harnessing data in ways we once associated with science fiction. Analysts have access to a plethora of visualization and reporting tools, but considering the vast amount of data businesses collect and limitations of CPUs, end users are forced to design their structures and systems with limitations. Until now. As the cloud toolkit to analyze data has evolved, GPUs have stepped in to massively parallel SQL, visualization and machine learning. Dec. 25, 2017 08:45 AM EST Reads: 2,687 | By Pat Romanski SYS-CON Events announced today that Conference Guru has been named “Media Sponsor” of the 22nd International Cloud Expo, which will take place on June 5-7, 2018, at the Javits Center in New York, NY.
A valuable conference experience generates new contacts, sales leads, potential strategic partners and potential investors; helps gather competitive intelligence and even provides inspiration for new products and services. Conference Guru works with conference organizers to pass great deals to gre... Dec. 25, 2017 07:30 AM EST Reads: 798 | By Liz McMillan  "ZeroStack is a startup in Silicon Valley. We're solving a very interesting problem around bringing public cloud convenience with private cloud control for enterprises and mid-size companies," explained Kamesh Pemmaraju, VP of Product Management at ZeroStack, 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. 23, 2017 05:00 PM EST Reads: 1,072 | By Elizabeth White  Large industrial manufacturing organizations are adopting the agile principles of cloud software companies.
The industrial manufacturing development process has not scaled over time. Now that design CAD teams are geographically distributed, centralizing their work is key. With large multi-gigabyte projects, outdated tools have stifled industrial team agility, time-to-market milestones, and impacted P&L; stakeholders. Dec. 23, 2017 10:00 AM EST Reads: 1,163 | By Elizabeth White  "Space Monkey by Vivent Smart Home is a product that is a distributed cloud-based edge storage network. Vivent Smart Home, our parent company, is a smart home provider that places a lot of hard drives across homes in North America," explained JT Olds, Director of Engineering, and Brandon Crowfeather, Product Manager, at Vivint Smart Home, in this SYS-CON.tv interview at @ThingsExpo, held Oct 31 – Nov 2, 2017, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA. Dec. 21, 2017 06:00 PM EST Reads: 1,194 | By Elizabeth White  Enterprises are adopting Kubernetes to accelerate the development and the delivery of cloud-native applications. However, sharing a Kubernetes cluster between members of the same team can be challenging. And, sharing clusters across multiple teams is even harder.
Kubernetes offers several constructs to help implement segmentation and isolation. However, these primitives can be complex to understand and apply. As a result, it’s becoming common for enterprises to end up with several clusters. Thi... Dec. 21, 2017 12:00 PM EST Reads: 1,050 | By Pat Romanski  "Infoblox does DNS, DHCP and IP address management for not only enterprise networks but cloud networks as well. Customers are looking for a single platform that can extend not only in their private enterprise environment but private cloud, public cloud, tracking all the IP space and everything that is going on in that environment," explained Steve Salo, Principal Systems Engineer at Infoblox, in this SYS-CON.tv interview at 21st Cloud Expo, held Oct 31 – Nov 2, 2017, at the Santa Clara Conventio... Dec. 20, 2017 04:00 PM EST Reads: 1,280 | By Liz McMillan  In his session at 21st Cloud Expo, James Henry, Co-CEO/CTO of Calgary Scientific Inc., introduced you to the challenges, solutions and benefits of training AI systems to solve visual problems with an emphasis on improving AIs with continuous training in the field. He explored applications in several industries and discussed technologies that allow the deployment of advanced visualization solutions to the cloud. Dec. 20, 2017 12:00 PM EST Reads: 1,289 | 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. 19, 2017 04:15 PM EST Reads: 2,067 | 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. 18, 2017 03:45 PM EST Reads: 2,320 | 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. 18, 2017 01:30 PM EST Reads: 2,337 | By Elizabeth White 22nd International Cloud Expo, taking place June 5-7, 2018, at the Javits Center in New York City, NY, and co-located with the 1st DXWorld Expo will feature technical sessions from a rock star conference faculty and the leading industry players in the world. Cloud computing is now being embraced by a majority of enterprises of all sizes. Yesterday's debate about public vs. private has transformed into the reality of hybrid cloud: a recent survey shows that 74% of enterprises have a hybrid cloud ... Dec. 18, 2017 01:00 PM EST Reads: 4,127 | By Liz McMillan  "Cloud Academy is an enterprise training platform for the cloud, specifically public clouds. We offer guided learning experiences on AWS, Azure, Google Cloud and all the surrounding methodologies and technologies that you need to know and your teams need to know in order to leverage the full benefits of the cloud," explained Alex Brower, VP of Marketing at Cloud Academy, in this SYS-CON.tv interview at 21st Cloud Expo, held Oct 31 – Nov 2, 2017, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clar... Dec. 17, 2017 04:00 PM EST Reads: 1,296 | By Pat Romanski  Gemini is Yahoo’s native and search advertising platform. To ensure the quality of a complex distributed system that spans multiple products and components and across various desktop websites and mobile app and web experiences – both Yahoo owned and operated and third-party syndication (supply), with complex interaction with more than a billion users and numerous advertisers globally (demand) – it becomes imperative to automate a set of end-to-end tests 24x7 to detect bugs and regression.
In th... Dec. 17, 2017 02:00 PM EST Reads: 1,377 | By Liz McMillan  Agile has finally jumped the technology shark, expanding outside the software world. Enterprises are now increasingly adopting Agile practices across their organizations in order to successfully navigate the disruptive waters that threaten to drown them. In our quest for establishing change as a core competency in our organizations, this business-centric notion of Agile is an essential component of Agile Digital Transformation.
In the years since the publication of the Agile Manifesto, the conn... Dec. 17, 2017 11:00 AM EST Reads: 1,280 |
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Defining the term ‘monitoring’ is a difficult task considering the performance space has evolved significantly over the years. Lately, there has been a shift in the monitoring world, sparking a healthy debate regarding the definition and purpose of monitoring, through which a new term has emerged: observability. Some of that debate can be found in blogs by Charity Majors and Cindy Sridharan. 
We seem to run this cycle with every new technology that comes along. A good idea with practical applications is born, then both marketers and over-excited users start to declare it is the solution for all or our problems. Compliments of Gartner, we know it generally as “The Hype Cycle”, but each iteration is a little different.
2018’s flavor will be serverless computing, and by 2018, I mean starting now, but going most of next year, you’ll be sick of it. We are already seeing people write such...
The Toyota Production System, a world-renowned production system is based on the "complete elimination of all waste". The "Toyota Way", grounded on continuous improvement dates to the 1860s. The methodology is widely proven to be successful yet there are still industries within and tangential to manufacturing struggling to adopt its core principles:
Jidoka: a process should stop when an issue is identified prevents releasing defective products
How is DevOps going within your organization? If you need some help measuring just how well it is going, we have prepared a list of some key DevOps metrics to track. These metrics can help you understand how your team is doing over time.
The word DevOps means different things to different people. Some say it a culture and every vendor in the industry claims that their tools help with DevOps. Depending on how you define DevOps, some of these metrics may matter more or less to you and your team.
"Grape Up leverages Cloud Native technologies and helps companies build software using microservices, and work the DevOps agile way. We've been doing digital innovation for the last 12 years," explained Daniel Heckman, of Grape Up 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.
In this article, we'll cover how you can monitor an application that runs on the Java Virtual Machine by going over some of the critical metrics you need to track. And, as a monitoring tool, we'll use Stackify Retrace, a full APM solution.
The application we'll monitor to exemplify these metrics is a real-world Java web application built using the Spring framework. Users can register, login, connect their Reddit account and schedule their posts to Reddit.
The goal of Microservices is to improve software delivery speed and increase system safety as scale increases. Microservices being modular these are faster to change and enables an evolutionary architecture where systems can change, as the business needs change. Microservices can scale elastically and by being service oriented can enable APIs natively. Microservices also reduce implementation and release cycle time and enables continuous delivery. This paper provides a logical overview of the Mi...
For many of us laboring in the fields of digital transformation, 2017 was a year of high-intensity work and high-reward achievement. So we’re looking forward to a little breather over the end-of-year holiday season.
But we’re going to have to get right back on the Continuous Delivery bullet train in 2018. Markets move too fast and customer expectations elevate too precipitously for businesses to rest on their laurels.
Here’s a DevOps “to-do list” for 2018 that should be priorities for anyone w...
DevOps failure is a touchy subject with some, because DevOps is typically perceived as a way to avoid failure. As a result, when you fail in a DevOps practice, the situation can seem almost hopeless. However, just as a fail-fast business approach, or the “fail and adjust sooner” methodology of Agile often proves, DevOps failures are actually a step in the right direction. They’re the first step toward learning from failures and turning your DevOps practice into one that will lead you toward even...
When shopping for a new data processing platform for IoT solutions, many development teams want to be able to test-drive options before making a choice. Yet when evaluating an IoT solution, it’s simply not feasible to do so at scale with physical devices. Building a sensor simulator is the next best choice; however, generating a realistic simulation at very high TPS with ease of configurability is a formidable challenge. When dealing with multiple application or transport protocols, you would be...
It’s “time to move on from DevOps and continuous delivery.”
This was the provocative title of a recent article in ZDNet, in which Kelsey Hightower, staff developer advocate at Google Cloud Platform, suggested that “software shops should have put these concepts into action years ago.”
Reading articles like this or listening to talks at most DevOps conferences might make you think that we’re entering a post-DevOps world. But vast numbers of organizations still struggle to start and drive transfo...
The end of the year is a time for reflection. It’s when most of us are looking back at the choices, accomplishments, and mistakes of the year prior and setting goals to improve the following year. It’s also when businesses analyze the year’s trends and behaviors to determine necessary strategic changes to be made; however, if you aren’t analyzing the right metrics, such reflection is a useless effort.
Below is an excerpt from an article provided by Elad Rave, founder and CTO of Teridion, explai...
Some people are directors, managers, and administrators. Others are disrupters. Eddie Webb (@edwardawebb) is an IT Disrupter for Software Development Platforms at Liberty Mutual and was a presenter at the 2016 All Day DevOps conference. His talk, Organically DevOps: Building Quality and Security into the Software Supply Chain at Liberty Mutual, looked at Liberty Mutual's transformation to Continuous Integration, Continuous Delivery, and DevOps. For a large, heavily regulated industry, this task ...
Let's do a visualization exercise. Imagine it's December 31, 2018, and you're ringing in the New Year with your friends and family. You think back on everything that you accomplished in the last year: your company's revenue is through the roof thanks to the success of your product, and you were promoted to Lead Developer. 2019 is poised to be an even bigger year for your company because you have the tools and insight to scale as quickly as demand requires. You're a happy human, and it's not just...
"Opsani helps the enterprise adopt containers, help them move their infrastructure into this modern world of DevOps, accelerate the delivery of new features into production, and really get them going on the container path," explained Ross Schibler, CEO of Opsani, and Peter Nickolov, CTO of Opsani, in this SYS-CON.tv interview at DevOps Summit at 21st Cloud Expo, held Oct 31 – Nov 2, 2017, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA.
Cavirin Systems has just announced C2, a SaaS offering designed to bring continuous security assessment and remediation to hybrid environments, containers, and data centers. Cavirin C2 is deployed within Amazon Web Services (AWS) and features a flexible licensing model for easy scalability and clear pay-as-you-go pricing.
Although native to AWS, it also supports assessment and remediation of virtual or container instances within Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform (GCP), or on-premise. By dr...
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