By Rostyslav Demush  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... Feb. 17, 2018 12:30 PM EST Reads: 2,947 |
By Liz McMillan  Blockchain is a shared, secure record of exchange that establishes trust, accountability and transparency across business networks. Supported by the Linux Foundation's open source, open-standards based Hyperledger Project, Blockchain has the potential to improve regulatory compliance, ... Feb. 17, 2018 12:15 PM EST Reads: 3,770 |
By Tim Hinds  The cloud provides two major advantages to load and performance procedures that help testing teams better model realistic behavior: instant infrastructure and geographic location. Cloud-based load testing also lowers the total cost of ownership, increases flexibility and allows testers... Feb. 17, 2018 12:00 PM EST Reads: 5,793 |
By Ed Featherston  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 a... Feb. 17, 2018 11:30 AM EST Reads: 4,963 |
By James Carlini  Bitcoins are a digital cryptocurrency and have been around since 2009. As a substitute for legal tender, they are becoming the 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 ... Feb. 17, 2018 10:15 AM EST Reads: 3,476 |
By Karthick Viswanathan  From manual human effort the world is slowly paving its way to a new space where most process are getting replaced with tools and systems to improve efficiency and bring down operational costs. Automation is the next big thing and low code platforms are fueling it in a significant way.... Feb. 17, 2018 04:15 AM EST Reads: 3,836 |
By Destiny Bertucci  Making informed network investment decisions about emerging technologies such as network function virtualization (NFV) and software-defined networking (SDN) can help evolve the network to keep pace with the innovations of the devices and people it’s connecting. As you work with busines... Feb. 17, 2018 04:00 AM EST Reads: 2,459 |
By Pat Romanski  You know you need the cloud, but you’re hesitant to simply dump everything at Amazon since you know that not all workloads are suitable for cloud. You know that you want the kind of ease of use and scalability that you get with public cloud, but your applications are architected in a w... Feb. 17, 2018 04:00 AM EST Reads: 3,065 |
By Pat Romanski  "Since we launched LinuxONE we learned a lot from our customers. More than anything what they responded to were some very unique security capabilities that we have," explained Mark Figley, Director of LinuxONE Offerings at IBM, in this SYS-CON.tv interview at 21st Cloud Expo, held Oct ... Feb. 17, 2018 02:15 AM EST Reads: 2,569 |
By Liz McMillan  Is advanced scheduling in Kubernetes achievable?Yes, however, how do you properly accommodate every real-life scenario that a Kubernetes user might encounter? How do you leverage advanced scheduling techniques to shape and describe each scenario in easy-to-use rules and configurations?... Feb. 17, 2018 01:15 AM EST Reads: 2,831 |
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 w... Feb. 16, 2018 11:30 PM EST Reads: 11,946 |
By Yeshim Deniz  Sanjeev Sharma Joins June 5-7, 2018 @DevOpsSummit at @Cloud Expo New York Faculty. Sanjeev Sharma is an internationally known DevOps and Cloud Transformation thought leader, technology executive, and author. Sanjeev's industry experience includes tenures as CTO, Technical Sales leader,... Feb. 16, 2018 10:15 PM EST Reads: 7,305 |
By Elizabeth White  Product connectivity goes hand and hand these days with increased use of personal data. New IoT devices are becoming more personalized than ever before.
In his session at 22nd Cloud Expo | DXWorld Expo, Nicolas Fierro, CEO of MIMIR Blockchain Solutions, will discuss how in order to p... Feb. 16, 2018 08:00 PM EST Reads: 2,232 |
By Jason Bloomberg  There is a fundamental flaw in how many people think about digital transformation. First, as we’ve written about extensively at Intellyx, people tend to think about it as a finite corporate project, rather than as a process of continual transformation. There is a deeper flaw in thinkin... Feb. 16, 2018 07:00 PM EST Reads: 2,709 |
By Stackify Blog  It has never been a better time to be a developer! Thanks to cloud computing, deploying our applications is much easier than it used to be. How we deploy our apps continues to evolve thanks to cloud hosting, Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS), and now Function-as-a-Service.
FaaS is the conc... Feb. 16, 2018 03:15 PM EST Reads: 5,858 |
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... Feb. 16, 2018 01:00 PM EST Reads: 1,998 |
By Pat Romanski  While some developers care passionately about how data centers and clouds are architected, for most, it is only the end result that matters. To the majority of companies, technology exists to solve a business problem, and only delivers value when it is solving that problem. 2017 brings... Feb. 16, 2018 10:00 AM EST Reads: 2,607 |
By Elizabeth White  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... Feb. 16, 2018 08:00 AM EST Reads: 2,494 |
By John Katrick  As a enterprise you need to quantify whether you achieved better productivity and reduced cost with cloud deployments. How does your organization’s leadership team correlate and compare which cloud vendor is more cost effective for you? Or which region is proving to be more expensive t... Feb. 16, 2018 01:30 AM EST Reads: 678 |
By Kevin Benedict  Fingerspitzengefühl: A German word used to describe the ability to maintain attention to detail in an ever-changing operational and tactical environment by maintaining real-time situational awareness. The term is synonymous with the English expression of "keeping one's finger on the pu... Feb. 16, 2018 01:00 AM EST Reads: 2,590 |
By Karthick Viswanathan  These days, APIs have become an integral part of the digital transformation journey for all enterprises. Every digital innovation story is connected to APIs . But have you ever pondered over to know what are the source of these APIs? Let me explain - APIs sources can be varied, interna... Feb. 15, 2018 10:00 PM EST Reads: 3,827 |
By Liz McMillan  "As we've gone out into the public cloud we've seen that over time we may have lost a few things - we've lost control, we've given up cost to a certain extent, and then security, flexibility," explained Steve Conner, VP of Sales at Cloudistics,in this SYS-CON.tv interview at 20th Cloud... Feb. 15, 2018 03:15 PM EST Reads: 4,897 |
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 (CloudNati... Feb. 15, 2018 02:00 PM EST Reads: 2,607 |
By Douglas Lyon  We are given a desktop platform with Java 8 or Java 9 installed and seek to find a way to deploy high-performance Java applications that use Java 3D and/or Jogl without having to run an installer. We are subject to the constraint that the applications be signed and deployed so that the... Feb. 15, 2018 01:00 PM EST Reads: 540 |
By William Schmarzo  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 Feb. 15, 2018 12:15 PM EST Reads: 4,110 |
By Elizabeth White  "I focus on what we are calling CAST Highlight, which is our SaaS application portfolio analysis tool. It is an extremely lightweight tool that can integrate with pretty much any build process right now," explained Andrew Siegmund, Application Migration Specialist for CAST, in this SYS... Feb. 15, 2018 12:15 PM EST Reads: 3,259 |
By Pat Romanski  "Cloud4U builds software services that help people build DevOps platforms for cloud-based software and using our platform people can draw a picture of the system, network, software," explained Kihyeon Kim, CEO and Head of R&D; at Cloud4U, in this SYS-CON.tv interview at 21st Cloud Expo,... Feb. 15, 2018 11:45 AM EST Reads: 2,553 |
By Jason Bloomberg  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 un... Feb. 15, 2018 11:00 AM EST Reads: 4,483 |
By Pat Romanski  DevOps is often described as a combination of technology and culture. Without both, DevOps isn't complete. However, applying the culture to outdated technology is a recipe for disaster; as response times grow and connections between teams are delayed by technology, the culture will die... Feb. 14, 2018 12:30 PM EST Reads: 5,809 |
By Valentine Ferrari  AI technology is ever evolving and some believe it could be the next digital frontier. Today, the artificial intelligence revolution seems to be transforming every business in just about every industry from auto to banking to retail and beyond. The gaming industry is no exception. Feb. 14, 2018 12:00 PM EST Reads: 492 |
By Yeshim Deniz  All clouds are not equal. To succeed in a DevOps context, organizations should plan to develop/deploy apps across a choice of on-premise and public clouds simultaneously depending on the business needs. This is where the concept of the Lean Cloud comes in - resting on the idea that you... Feb. 13, 2018 09:00 AM EST Reads: 3,670 |
By Rene Buest  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 today’s digital lifestyle we find a lot of truth. There is a reason why Google provides most... Feb. 12, 2018 09:45 AM EST Reads: 8,604 |
By Dean Madison  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. ... Feb. 12, 2018 09:30 AM EST Reads: 5,070 |
By Liz McMillan  Widespread fragmentation is stalling the growth of the IIoT and making it difficult for partners to work together. The number of software platforms, apps, hardware and connectivity standards is creating paralysis among businesses that are afraid of being locked into a solution.
EdgeX... Feb. 8, 2018 07:45 AM EST Reads: 3,118 |
By Yeshim Deniz  DX World EXPO, LLC, a Lighthouse Point, Florida-based startup trade show producer and the creator of "DXWorldEXPO® - Digital Transformation Conference & Expo" has announced its executive management team. The team is headed by Levent Selamoglu, who has been named CEO. "Now is the time f... Feb. 8, 2018 05:15 AM EST Reads: 2,269 |
By Pat Romanski  In this strange new world where more and more power is drawn from business technology, companies are effectively straddling two paths on the road to innovation and transformation into digital enterprises. The first path is the heritage trail – with “legacy” technology forming the backg... Feb. 8, 2018 12:00 AM EST Reads: 9,556 |
By Otto Berkes  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 ... Feb. 7, 2018 07:30 PM EST Reads: 2,699 |
By Elizabeth White  Data scientists must access high-performance computing resources across a wide-area network. To achieve cloud-based HPC visualization, researchers must transfer datasets and visualization results efficiently.
HPC clusters now compute GPU-accelerated visualization in the cloud cluster.... Feb. 7, 2018 05:00 AM EST Reads: 2,733 |
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 Computi... Feb. 6, 2018 03:00 PM EST Reads: 2,483 |
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 th... Feb. 6, 2018 01:45 PM EST Reads: 3,009 |