Systems of Innovation for Ongoing Digital Transformation Information technology (IT) advances are transforming the way we innovate in business, thereby disrupting the old guard and their predictable status-quo. It’s creating global market turbulence. Industries are converging, and new opportunities and threats are emerging, like never before. So, how are savvy chief information officers (CIOs) leading this transition? Back in 2015, the IBM Institute for Business Value conducted a market study that included the findings from over 1,800 CIO interviews from around the globe. The resulting insights are worthy of revisiting today, as we consider the digital business transformation outlook in 2017. Introduction to the Torchbearer CIO CIOs realize the barriers between formerly distinct industries are collapsing, as organizations in one sector apply their expertise to others ... (more)

Microsoft's #MachineLearning | @CloudExpo #BigData #AI #ML #DL #DX

How Microsoft Is Making Big Impact with Machine Learning During the last two years, Microsoft has upped the ante on Machine Learning and Analytics. From hiring top notch data scientists to acquiring niche startups, Redmond has made the all the right moves to transform Azure into one of the best analytics platforms. These investments have started to pay off for the company. It has been successful in articulating and demonstrating the value of data-driven insights to governments, medical institutions, and public sector organizations. Emerging markets that are turning technology savvy are becoming the hotbed for evaluating the upcoming trends such as Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence. With its strong presence in India, Microsoft is partnering with the state and central government to bring the benefits of technology to the masses. The company is making Cloud,... (more)

Brand New Robert Strauss Deepwater Estate Listed by Carmen N. D’Angelo Jr

Unveiling 2801 NE 36th Street, Lighthouse Point, FL 4051 North Federal LLC announced today that new Robert Strauss estate in Lighthouse Point, FL is listed by Carmen N. D’Angelo Jr. Brand new "pre-construction" chic modern deepwater estate sited on 90+/- feet of waterfrontage on the wide T South Grand Canal by prestigious Strauss Construction and noted architect Randall Stofft. Awe-inspiring views down the waterway from every major room including a gourmet chef's kitchen and luxurious master suite with his/hers spa-baths. Resort-style infinity-edge pool with spa and lanai with fireplace for entertaining. Enjoy yacht dockage off the ICWW and minutes to the Hillsboro Inlet. Completion Early 2019. AMERICA'S TOP REAL ESTATE PROFESSIONAL For the seventh consecutive year, Carmen N. D’Angelo Jr has been ranked as one of America's top real estate professionals by the Wall St... (more)

Cloud People: A Who's Who of Cloud Computing

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

10th International Cloud Expo | Cloud Expo New York – Photo Album

10th International Cloud Expo, held on June 11-14, 2012 at the Javits Center in New York City, featured four content-packed days with a rich array of sessions about the business and technical value of cloud computing led by exceptional speakers from every sector of the cloud computing ecosystem. The Cloud Expo series is the fastest-growing Enterprise IT event in the past 10 years, devoted to every aspect of delivering massively scalable enterprise IT as a service. We invite you to enjoy our photo album of the show - we'll be adding new images all week. ... (more)

Cloudistics “Bronze Sponsor” of @CloudExpo | @Cloudistics #AI #DX #DevOps

SYS-CON Events announced today that Cloudistics, an on-premises cloud computing company, has been named "Bronze 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. 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 ap... (more)

The Web – Changing the Way We Work

Click Here to Register for Google Atmosphere on Tour! The web is fundamentally changing the way we work - is your company ready? Intrigued by how more than 4 million businesses are using Google's cloud to work in the future? Join us as we bring Google's highly anticipated annual gathering of business leaders together to hear: Industry experts shed light on emerging business models Customers share stories of business transformation Our product experts unveil new products Our executives answer your questions Work in the future, today, with Google Apps. Click Here to Register for Google Atmosphere on Tour! Seattle - May 15th San Francisco - May 17th New York - May 31st  Chicago - June 5th Dallas - June 7th Click Here to Register for Google Atmosphere on Tour! AGENDA: 12:30PM - 2:00PM: Registration and Networking 2:00PM - 2:30PM: Work in the Future (Google Executive Vis... (more)

Cloud Expo 2011 East To Attract 10,000 Delegates and 200 Exhibitors

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)

Apple Shows Jury the Smoking Gun

From the outside looking in on the so-called "trial of the century" - and bearing in mind that it's only maybe halfway through - but Samsung looks royally screwed. It should have paid more attention when Google told it in 2010 that its tablets looked too much like iPads and should be made "noticeably different." Apple's got the Samsung e-mail saying so. It's also got top designers' formal evaluations telling Samsung the same thing about its phones. And better yet it's got a seemingly damning 132-page "Relative Evaluation Report" - that Apple got admitted into evidence Tuesday over Samsung's strenuous objections - showing the Korean company's product engineering team dissecting every element of the iPhone in 2010 from packaging design to physical appearance to user interface to operating system architecture to browser, home screen and built-in apps and comparing i... (more)

Azure Resource Manager | @CloudExpo #IaaS #Azure #ASM #ARM #AWS

Azure Resource Manager: The Shift from Services to Resources In the first part of this series, we discussed the evolution of Azure IaaS and role of Azure Resource Manager. The next installment of the series explains the key differences between Azure Service Management (ASM) and Azure Resource Management (ARM) models. We will also take a look at key concepts and terminology related to ARM. ASM or ARM? One of the key tenets of cloud, especially infrastructure services, is programmability. Almost every cloud provider exposes a set of APIs to manipulate the virtual infrastructure programmatically. Even before the Cloud Computing term became a buzzword, Amazon exposed APIs for storage and compute, which eventually became the core of AWS. When Microsoft built Azure, developers could interact with the control plane through the Azure Service Management (ASM) API. Before off... (more)

Opinion: Why C# Is Not a "Better" Language Than VB.NET

When the speakers on the .NET track of SYS-CON's Web Services Edge 2005 East conference got together, Carl Franklin and I were talking about why people think that C# is the "official language" for .NET. I told Carl that, even though most of my consulting is in C#, I think that attitude is wrong. I believe it is important to elaborate why I feel this way. People who feel that VB.NET is an inferior language to C#, or that somehow C# is a "better language", or the "official language" for accessing the .NET Framework Class Library are just plain wrong. My personal opinion is that I prefer C# to VB.NET because I like the compact syntax among other things, but that is a personal judgement. People who talk that way about VB.NET are confusing three issues. First, suitability to access the Framework Class Library (FCL). Every example in my book Application Development Using C... (more)