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The Road to a Cloud Adoption and Digital Transformation
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
background. Here, extant technologies are transformed by core IT teams to
provide more API-driven approaches. Legacy systems can restrict companies
that are transitioning into digital enterprises. To truly become a leader in
the space, it's necessary to accommodate, incorporate, and exploit the new
breed of enterprise technologies - cloud, Big Data, and APIs.
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The second path is the road of the future and is much more agile, where teams
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"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 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 introduction of DXWorld ... (more)
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Efficient Access to a Cloud-based HPC Visualization Cluster
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.
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HPC clusters now compute GPU-accelerated visualization in the cloud cluster.
To efficiently display results remotely, a high-performance, low-latency
protocol transfers the display from the cluster to a remote desktop. Further,
tools to easily mount remote datasets and efficiently transfer that data into
the HPC cluster are described, including performance characterization
results.
In his session at 21st Cloud Expo, Brian Fromme, a solutions engineer at
Penguin Computing, discussed how together, high-performance data ... (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)
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Digital Transformation and the Modern Enterprise
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 Computing, and
Blockchain are only tools.
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In her general session at 21st Cloud Expo, Rebecca Wanta explained how the
strategy must focus on DX and include a commitment from top management to
create great IT jobs, monitor progress, and never forget that their
enterprise is in a day-to-day battle for survival.
Speaker Bio
Rebecca Wanta sits on the Board of Directors of Calgary Scientific. She has
served as CIO and CTO for PepsiCo (where she won the Chairman's Award), Wells
Fargo, Best B... (more)
DX World EXPO, LLC, (https://DXWorldEXPO.com) a Lighthouse Point,
Florida-based startup trade show producer and the creator of DXWorldEXPO® -
Digital Transformation Conference & Expo has announced today that it has
acquired the Cloud Expo® trademark and its associated brand names from CLOUD
EXPO, INC., a Woodcliff Lake, New Jersey-based company that will discontinue
its operation.
DX World EXPO, LLC was founded by Fuat Kircaali on May 27, 2017. "Now is the
time for a truly global DX event, to bring together the leading minds from
the technology world in a conversation about Digital Transformation,"
said Kircaali in making the announcement.
Davos of Technology
DXWorldEXPO® will be the world's most influential tech event which is
projected grow to 1,000+ exhibitors in its second year and 2,000+ exhibitors
in its third year, as it guides Global 2000 companies through t... (more)
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The CMP 2.0: Bringing Automation, Orchestration and Governance to Cloud
Native Apps and DevOps
As many know, the first generation of Cloud Management Platform (CMP)
solutions were designed for managing virtual infrastructure (IaaS) and
traditional applications. But that's no longer enough to satisfy evolving and
complex business requirements.
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In his session at 21st Cloud Expo, Scott Davis, Embotics CTO, explored how
next-generation CMPs ensure organizations can manage cloud-native and
microservice-based application architectures, while also facilitating agile
DevOps methodology. He explained how automation, orchestration and governance
are fundamental to managing today's hybrid cloud environments and are
critical for digital businesses to deliver services faster, with better user ... (more)
Another day, another breach. No wonder security is tied for the top barrier
to cloud adoption, according to 2017 research from RightScale, with 25
percent of survey respondents naming it, alongside expertise and expense, as
their greatest challenge.
In the face of security concerns, IT executives have mistakenly found comfort
in private clouds over public clouds. The RightScale survey found that
enterprises run about 75 percent of workloads in the cloud, with 43 percent
done in a private cloud and 32 percent handled in a public cloud.
No doubt, some of the enterprises using a private cloud have serious security
protocols. But while private clouds can be protected with all the same tools
as their public counterparts, they often aren't. It's probably why Alert
Logic discovered that companies using pure public cloud environments averaged
405 security incidents, while h... (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)
Continuous Monitoring for Your Hybrid Cloud Systems Now Available on AWS
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 drawing on a comprehensive library of curated
industry guidelines, control frameworks, and best practices, Cavirin promises
to keep a wary eye on your hybrid cloud security and help you harden it
against real and potential threats.
Cloud chaos
Most enterprises have embraced the cloud trend and hybrid cloud e... (more)
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Making Data-Driven Decisions for Better DevOps Outcomes
DevOps promotes continuous improvement through a culture of collaboration.
But in real terms, how do you:
Integrate activities across diverse teams and services? Make objective
decisions with system-wide visibility? Use feedback loops to enable learning
and improvement?
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With technology insights and real-world examples, in his general session at
@DevOpsSummit, at 21st Cloud Expo, Andi Mann, Chief Technology Advocate at
Splunk, explored how leading organizations use data-driven DevOps to close
their feedback loops to drive continuous improvement.
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You will learn:
What are ‘known good prac... (more)
@CloudExpo Stories 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 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 ... Feb. 7, 2018 07:30 PM EST Reads: 2,475 | 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 background. Here, extant technologies are transformed by core IT teams to provide more API-driven approaches. Legacy systems can restrict companies that are transitioning into digital enterprises. To truly become a lead... Feb. 7, 2018 01:15 PM EST Reads: 9,175 | 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 for a truly global DX event, to bring together the leading minds from the technology world in a conversation about Digital Transformation," he said in making the announcement. Feb. 7, 2018 01:00 PM EST Reads: 2,028 | 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. To efficiently display results remotely, a high-performance, low-latency protocol transfers the display from the cluster to a remote desktop. Further, tools to easily mount remote datasets and efficiently transfer... Feb. 7, 2018 05:00 AM EST Reads: 2,526 | 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 Computing, and Blockchain are only tools. In her general session at 21st Cloud Expo, Rebecca Wanta explained how the strategy must focus on DX and include a commitment from top management to create great IT jobs, monitor ... Feb. 6, 2018 03:00 PM EST Reads: 2,281 | 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... Feb. 6, 2018 01:45 PM EST Reads: 2,768 | By Stackify Blog  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). Feb. 6, 2018 12:00 PM EST Reads: 2,044 | 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... Feb. 6, 2018 06:30 AM EST Reads: 2,429 | By Stackify Blog  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... Feb. 5, 2018 11:15 PM EST Reads: 2,470 | By Pat Romanski  We all know that end users experience the Internet primarily with mobile devices. From an app development perspective, we know that successfully responding to the needs of mobile customers depends on rapid DevOps – failing fast, in short, until the right solution evolves in your customers' relationship to your business. Whether you’re decomposing an SOA monolith, or developing a new application cloud natively, it’s not a question of using microservices – not doing so will be a path to eventual b... Feb. 5, 2018 08:00 PM EST Reads: 2,432 | 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. 5, 2018 07:00 PM EST Reads: 3,925 | 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 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 b... Feb. 5, 2018 12:30 PM EST Reads: 4,732 | By Rostyslav Demush  A few years ago – in the early days of Blockchain – a lot of people were taken with the idea of a multifunctional chain on which all transactions could be handled. After Ethereum was launched in 2014, its advocates were talking themselves hoarse about the transformative opportunities the platform introduced. Decentralized applications, they predicted, along with all sorts of value transfers would be executed exclusively on Ethereum from that point on, and no other networks would ever be needed.... Feb. 5, 2018 11:00 AM EST Reads: 2,788 | By Elizabeth White DevOps promotes continuous improvement through a culture of collaboration. But in real terms, how do you: Integrate activities across diverse teams and services? Make objective decisions with system-wide visibility? Use feedback loops to enable learning and improvement?
With technology insights and real-world examples, in his general session at @DevOpsSummit, at 21st Cloud Expo, Andi Mann, Chief Technology Advocate at Splunk, explored how leading organizations use data-driven DevOps to close th... Feb. 4, 2018 05:00 PM EST Reads: 3,753 | By Destiny Bertucci  Augmented reality (AR) and virtual reality (VR) have been the subject of much discourse in the last several years. They were widely anticipated in the gaming and entertainment industries, but in marketing and corporate settings, the benefits were murky at best. Today, these technologies are becoming more of a reality in all areas of business.
For example, the new IKEA® shopping app leverages augmented reality to help shoppers determine how certain popular items will look in their homes – no tr... Feb. 4, 2018 01:00 PM EST Reads: 2,086 | By Stackify Blog  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. Feb. 4, 2018 12:30 AM EST Reads: 2,889 | By Brad Thies Another day, another breach. No wonder security is tied for the top barrier to cloud adoption, according to 2017 research from RightScale, with 25 percent of survey respondents naming it, alongside expertise and expense, as their greatest challenge.
In the face of security concerns, IT executives have mistakenly found comfort in private clouds over public clouds. The RightScale survey found that enterprises run about 75 percent of workloads in the cloud, with 43 percent done in a private clou... Feb. 3, 2018 12:00 PM EST Reads: 844 | By Liz McMillan As many know, the first generation of Cloud Management Platform (CMP) solutions were designed for managing virtual infrastructure (IaaS) and traditional applications. But that's no longer enough to satisfy evolving and complex business requirements.
In his session at 21st Cloud Expo, Scott Davis, Embotics CTO, explored how next-generation CMPs ensure organizations can manage cloud-native and microservice-based application architectures, while also facilitating agile DevOps methodology. He expla... Feb. 2, 2018 03:45 PM EST Reads: 3,737 | By Jason Bloomberg  The rise of the market for No-Code platforms and tools has given rise to a burgeoning population of ‘citizen developers’ – non-technical business personnel who can use these platforms to build an increasingly powerful set of business applications without writing a line of code.
As this market matures, different platforms focus on different challenges. As a result, a wider range of ‘citizen’ roles also evolve, such as citizen process creators and citizen data analysts.
High on this list: th... Feb. 2, 2018 03:30 PM EST Reads: 837 | By Elizabeth White  "Calligo is a cloud service provider with data privacy at the heart of what we do. We are a typical Infrastructure as a Service cloud provider but it's been designed around data privacy," explained Julian Box, CEO and co-founder of Calligo, 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. Feb. 2, 2018 01:00 PM EST Reads: 2,298 |
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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.
Fintech is a lucrative, yet quite saturated market. In order to stay competitive, businesses should keep track of the emerging trends and be able to capitalize on them before their competitors do. Artificial Intelligence is currently among the most promising fintech trends. Leading financial brands such as Capital One, MasterCard, as well as hundreds of startups have set the pace for the adoption of virtual financial advisors. If you want to stay ahead of your competition or simply explore the opportunities for AI in fintech, this article is for you. 
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.
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...
What's disruptive innovation, and why does it matter to leaders in the C-suite? It's how the savvy non-conformist will target market opportunities. How does this happen, when established companies seem to have the advantage? Creative software developers can quickly apply new technologies and digital business models to capture untapped demand.
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.
So data warehousing may not be cool anymore, you say? It’s yesterday’s technology (or 1990’s technology if you’re as old as me) that served yesterday’s business needs. And while it’s true that recent big data and data science technologies, architectures and methodologies seems to have rendered data warehousing to the back burner, it is entirely false that there is not a critical role for the data warehouse and Business Intelligence in digitally transformed organizations.
The IoT Will Grow: In what might be the most obvious prediction of the decade, the IoT will continue to expand next year, with more and more devices coming online every single day. What isn’t so obvious about this prediction: where that growth will occur. The retail, healthcare, and industrial/supply chain industries will likely see the greatest growth. Forrester Research has predicted the IoT will become “the backbone” of customer value as it continues to grow. It is no surprise that retail is jumping aboard, hoping to harness the power of the IoT to connect with customers, grow their brands,...
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