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Agile Manufacturing: How and Why Cloud Based Principles Make Sense for
Industrial Companies
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 With large multi-gigabyte projects, outdated tools have stifled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.
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In his session at 21st Cloud Expo, Jacek Materna, CTO of Assembla, discussed
how industrial manufacturing design companies want to adopt agile and keep up
with the cloud - but first, a few pillars of enterprise requirements must
be met:
Control/compliance features with ease o... (more)
Why Is the Healthcare Industry Abuzz About Blockchain?
Blockchain. A day doesn't seem to go by without seeing articles and
discussions about the technology. According to PwC executive Seamus Cushley,
approximately $1.4B has been invested in blockchain just last year. In
Gartner's recent hype cycle for emerging technologies, blockchain is
approaching the peak. It is considered by Gartner as one of the ‘Key
platform-enabling technologies to track.' While there is a lot of ‘hype vs
reality' discussions going on, there is no arguing that blockchain is being
taken very seriously across industries and cannot be ignored.
A large percentage of the discussion does seem to focus in the financial
services industry. This is not surprising given blockchain's historic legacy
(I know, a disruptive technology already has a legacy) with Bitcoin and
crypto currencies. In my article, ... (more)
Fifteen Metrics for DevOps Success
By Matt Watson
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.
Define what DevOps means to your organization
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.
I define DevOps as everything that relates to deploying and monitoring your
applications. In many ways, this bleeds over to site reliability engineering.
At Stackify, we don't even have an operations team to collaborate with. Our
developers deploy directly to the cloud and we operate... (more)
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The Five Key Elements to Build, Deploy and Operationalize Artificial
Intelligence at Scale
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.
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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
experience helping tackle HSBC's anti-laundering threats and identifying
genetic susceptibilities o... (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)
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.
An Introduction to Digital Reinvention
Back in 2013, the IBM Institute for Business Value (IBV) introduced the
concept of ‘Digital Reinvention.’ Why is that concept noteworthy? Markets
had evolved from organizational centricity, in which manufacturers and
service providers defined a predictable state, into a ra... (more)
Evolving Past Service-Oriented Architecture and Embracing Microservices
For DevOps teams, the concepts behind service-oriented architecture (SOA) are
nothing new. A style of software design initially made popular in the 1990s,
SOA was an alternative to a monolithic application; essentially a collection
of coarse-grained components that communicated with each other. Communication
would involve either simple data passing or two or more services coordinating
some activity. SOA served as a valid approach to solving many architectural
problems faced by businesses, as applications could be developed by more
teams working in parallel and more productively by reusing original code to
build new functionality.
SOA was undeniably a revolutionary idea but unfortunately, it was ahead of
its time. In the SOA heyday, hardware wasn't powerful enough, and the right
standards and tec... (more)
2017 was the year of ransomware. Ransomware has been around for years, but
the victims were typically non-technical consumers: the impact, although
serious from the victim's perspective, was limited. In 2017 we've seen huge
ransomware attacks close down hospitals and businesses, putting lives and
billions of dollars at risk.
2018 has to be the year we fight back. The organized crime groups behind
ransomware won't stop any time soon. For them, it's easy money. Attacks will
increase in sophistication and tenacity. Businesses have to be ready.
What does it mean to be ready for a ransomware attack? Any business that
follows security and disaster recovery planning best practices has an
infinitesimally small chance of being successfully targeted with ransomware.
If you're smart about it, you won't have to pay a ransom even if your network
is infected and your data encrypt... (more)
In today's digitized world, a software glitch can create chaos. For example,
in July 2017, a glitch caused the stock prices of blue-chip Nasdaq companies
such as Amazon, Apple, Alphabet, eBay and Microsoft to be misreported on
websites long after that day's closing bell.
Even though the real-world prices of the stocks were unchanged, the sites
showed some had taken a nosedive in price and others had nearly doubled.
Unsurprisingly, investors were rattled and took to social media to debate the
false listings, dragging company names into a cloud of suspicion over
something that had never happened.
Software glitches are increasingly common and equally unnerving. Recent
research revealed that software failures in the U.S. cost the economy $1.1
trillion in assets in 2016. In total, software failures at 363 companies
affected 4.4 billion customers and caused more than th... (more)
A Deep Dive into the Core Metrics of the Java Virtual Machine
By Eugen Paraschiv
Overview of JVM Metrics
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.
How JVM Memory Works
There are two important types of JVM memory to watch: heap and non-heap
memory, each of these with its own purpose.
The heap memory is where the JVM stores runtime data represented by allocated
instances. This is where memory for new objects comes from, and is released
when the Garbage Colle... (more)
@CloudExpo Stories 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. 31, 2017 12:00 PM EST Reads: 1,918 | 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. 30, 2017 11:00 AM EST Reads: 1,752 | 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. 30, 2017 11:00 AM EST Reads: 1,490 | 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. 29, 2017 12:00 PM EST Reads: 2,852 | 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. 29, 2017 11:00 AM EST Reads: 1,403 | 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. 29, 2017 11:00 AM EST Reads: 3,572 | 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. 29, 2017 08:00 AM EST Reads: 2,920 | 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. 28, 2017 02:00 PM EST Reads: 3,917 | 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: 1,685 | 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: 1,799 | 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: 1,528 | 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: 1,768 | 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: 1,832 | 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: 2,637 | 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: 2,941 | 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: 2,901 | 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: 4,787 | 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: 1,866 | 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: 1,945 | 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: 1,792 |
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As you have probably heard, the EU commission signed the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) back in April 2016. The legislation is designed to help companies handle efficiently the data challenges of the 21st century and give strict guidelines as to how to work with massive flows of digital information. It is set to protect web users (data subjects) from malicious use and loss of their personal info and, also, to give people greater control over how their records are processed.
We’re seeing an emerging trend in the cloud computing world. I’ve been referring to it as cloud fatigue, but it’s more commonly known as repatriation, or moving workloads from the cloud back to on-prem locations. According to a recent 451 Research report, over 21 percent of organizations have plans to pull back from the cloud and return to an on-prem infrastructure in 2017. Considering the vast growth of cloud adoption over the last several years, what’s behind this trend?
It’s conference season and, as you might expect, Jason and I have been on the road covering a bunch of them. It’s always great to see what the disruptive players in the market are doing — and this year did not disappoint. But there is one thing that repeatedly happens that just gets under my skin: transformation-washing.
As Jason explained in a Forbes article over a year ago, ‘washing’ is when a vendor (or pundit) applies a buzzword loosely in an overt attempt to attach themselves to its buzz. And transformation-washing is rampant.
The word polymorphism is used in various contexts and describes situations in which something occurs in several different forms. In computer science, it describes the concept that objects of different types can be accessed through the same interface. Each type can provide its own, independent implementation of this interface. It is one of the core concepts of object-oriented programming (OOP).
The hotel and hospitality industry, enabled with advanced technology and more collaboration with associated businesses, will see some important trends in 2018 as hotel brands reinvent themselves to cater to a new type of clientele. Millennial guests will dominate the landscape, and reshape the industry with demands for more automated options and conveniences and the ability to do everything from a smartphone, and hotels - eager to deliver more conveniences to this younger audience - will forge closer alliances with retailers and community destination
The cloud market is growing at a rate of 30% annually and is expected to reach $130 billion. Analysts predict that service providers are well positioned to be the leading point of distribution for cloud services in light of the scale of their operations and their capacity to offer end-to-end lifecycle management for IaaS, SaaS and PaaS over secure managed networks.
Our cities have been connected since the dawn of urbanization in the Indus Valley and on the plains of Mesopotamia nearly ten millennia ago. Cities exist to gather and connect people, bringing us together into communities and joint ventures that need complex networks of communication. But in recent years the connected city has come to mean something more. Today and in the future, the connected city will not just be about people connecting with people, but people with machines, people with people via machines, and perhaps most importantly, machines with machines.
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; prot...
Quantum Computing is becoming quite the hot topic lately. With research being done by Google, IBM, Microsoft, universities, and a number of other players, it’s looking this is really going to happen. In fact, Google may just be weeks away from announcing the Quantum Supremacy milestone. If you aren’t familiar with the concept of Quantum Supremacy yet, it’s basically the point where a quantum computer can complete a computation in a short time where a classical computer can’t complete it at all. This is a big deal. While there are some simple quantum computers out there right now (you can ...
This phrase is new and it originated at Netflix back in 2010. I was listening to Nora Jones, a Netflix engineer at the AWS re-Invent conference few weeks back, where she talked about this. The principle of Chaos goes like this, “Chaos Engineering is the discipline of experimenting on a distributed system in order to build confidence in the system’s capability to withstand turbulent conditions in production.” Distributed systems have too many moving parts and failures can occur at various levels – hard disks can fail, the network can go down, a sudden surge in customer traffic can overload a fu...
Robotic process automation (RPA), a concept that has emerged over recent years, is still in a state of rapid evolution, existing without a clearly defined end-state or direction. As such, vendors are experimenting and pushing their products into uncharted waters - successfully or otherwise. Nonetheless, we can be sure that artificial intelligence and machine learning will continue to develop and impact on automation solutions as whole, even if at the moment these capabilities do not frequently exist within the RPA space.
In a recent post, titled “10 Surprising Facts About Cloud Computing and What It Really Is”, Zac Johnson highlighted some interesting facts about cloud computing in the SMB marketplace:
Cloud Computing is up to 40 times more cost-effective for an SMB, compared to running its own IT system.
94% of SMBs have experienced security benefits in the cloud that they didn’t have with their on-premises service
While walking around the office I happened upon a relatively new employee dragging emails from his inbox into folders. I asked why and was told, “I’m just answering emails and getting stuff off my desk.” An empty inbox may be emotionally satisfying to look at, but in practice, you should never do it. Here’s why.
I recently wrote a piece arguing that from a mathematical perspective, Messy Desks Are Perfectly Optimized. While it validated the genius of my friends with messy desks, it also generated a barrage of good-natured ribbing from my super-neat friends. Emotions aside, the math is the m...
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 Microservices Reference Architecture that highlights various sub systems needed to support Microservic...
The enterprise data storage marketplace is poised to become a battlefield. No longer the quiet backwater of cloud computing services, the focus of this global transition is now going from compute to storage. An overview of recent storage market history is needed to understand why this transition is important.
Before 2007 and the birth of the cloud computing market we are witnessing today, the on-premise model hosted in large local data centers dominated enterprise storage. Key marketplace players were EMC (before the Dell acquisition), NetApp, IBM, HP (before they became HPE) and Hitachi. Co...
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