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Building Open Source IoT Ecosystems
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 Foundry is unifying the community around a common IoT edge framework
and an ecosystem of interoperable components.
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In his session at @ThingsExpo, Jim White, Distinguished Engineer at Dell EMC,
discussed best practices for bringing traditional competitors together and
provide examples of how the framework fits with existing connectivity
standards with interoperable components to simplify development and
deployment of IoT solutions across a wide variety of use cases.
... (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)
MongoDB, an open-source document store and most popular NoSQL database on the
market today, offers a variety of advanced features to administer security
over your MongoDB deployments. In this tutorial post, we're going to show
you how to set up role-based access control (RBAC) to manage user access
across your MongoDB systems for reIndex, mongodump and mongorestore.
If you're the administrator of your MongoDB databases, you've likely received
requests to provide an individual user with the capabilities to perform
a certain action(s). MongoDB's security features are fairly mature now,
and allow you to create and assign very granular role-based access
control.
We're going to walk through an example of granting a user the specific
privilege of performing the reIndex action in a step-by-step approach through
its resolution. Before we demonstrate how to perform this comm... (more)
While personally, I believe the Sidekick disaster was just a stumbling block
in the embracing of cloud computing for many organizations, today’s news
that the newly formed alliance of SUN and Oracle was possibly to blame adds a
whole new dimension to the issue.
According to some reports the Sidekick service crash involved an Oracle RAC
database and Solaris and Linux servers. Currently unlike EMC who were quick
to retract the finger pointers, Oracle and Sun declined to respond to the
accusations.
To put a picture on the background of this scenario one needs to firstly look
at the Oracle RAC database, a single database set up which runs across a
cluster of servers for fault tolerance, performance and scalability reasons.
If reports are to be believed the outage mainly stemmed from the Sun servers
which led to the user data being inaccessible in the Oracle database and i... (more)
Finally Getting the Most out of the Java Thread Pool
By Eugen Paraschiv
First, let's outline a frame of reference for multithreading and why we may
need to use a thread pool.
A thread is an execution context that can run a set of instructions within a
process - aka a running program. Multithreaded programming refers to using
threads to execute multiple tasks concurrently. Of course, this paradigm is
well supported on the JVM.
Although this brings several advantages, primarily regarding the performance
of a program, multithreaded programming can also have disadvantages - such as
increased complexity of the code, concurrency issues, unexpected results and
adding the overhead of thread creation.
In this article, we're going to take a closer look at how the latter issue
can be mitigated by using thread pools in Java.
Why Use a Thread Pool?
Creating and starting a thread ... (more)
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BIRT 2.5.2 provides a variety of tools to construct reports to analyze data.
These include charts, aggregation elements, drill to detail capabilities,
nested tables, data cubes and crosstabs. These features are presented very
well in the AJAX based viewer when deployed to the web, supporting
pagination, table of contents, and exporting of data and contents to other
formats. Out of the box, BIRT supports exporting to HTML, paginated HTML,
WORD, PDF, PostScript, PPT, and Excel. BIRT also provides an extension point
to implement your own emitters. For an example of implementing an XML emitter
see Developing an Eclipse BIRT XML Report Rendering Extension or BIRT:
Writing an Emitter.
As stated earlier BIRT supports exporting to Excel. The BIRT Excel emitter
creates a Microsoft Office XML XLS document that can be opened in Microsoft
Office 2003 or greater. To use this fea... (more)
In recent months, we’ve ‘tested the limits’ with QA notables like
James Whittaker, Rosie Sherry and Andrew Muns. This month, we’re jumping
over to the dev side of the aisle by sitting down with Jack Margo, SVP of
Internet Operations at Developer Shed .
Developer Shed is owned by Ziff-Davis and manages a bunch of tech sites —
many devoted to open source technologies and communities. They serve
millions of visitors per month, for every breed of developer. Topics range
from troubleshooting an Apache web server to programming a complicated Java
application to successfully marketing a website. Their tagline says it all:
“Tools for Geeks!”
Today, we talk about what developers really think about testers, Jack’s
take on Microsoft vs. open source, the reason he’s mad at Java, why net
books are a fad, and which programming language has the biggest upside.
Check back to... (more)
The 22nd International Cloud Expo | 1st DXWorld Expo has announced that its
Call for Papers is open.
Cloud Expo | DXWorld Expo, to be held June 5-7, 2018, at the Javits Center in
New York, NY, brings together Cloud Computing, Digital Transformation, Big
Data, Internet of Things, DevOps, Machine Learning and WebRTC to one
location.
@CloudExpo | DXWorld Expo 2018 New York
(June 5-7, 2018, Javits Center, Manhattan)
@CloudExpo / DXWorld Expo 2018 Silicon Valley
(November 6-8, 2018, Santa Clara Convention Center, CA)
Cloud Expo Speaking Proposals ▸ Here
DXWorld Expo Speaking Proposals ▸ Here
Cloud Topics will include:
Machine Learning
Consumption-Based Billing Cognitive Computing
Cloud-Based Compliance Cloud Federation and Intercloud Virtual Private SaaS
(VPS) Hardware as a Service SaaS, PaaS, and IaaS Green IT Application
Portability Automation Mobility High-Performance ... (more)
Dell EMC Announce Azure Stack Hybrid Cloud Solution
Dell EMC have announced their Microsoft Azure Stack hybrid cloud platform
solutions. This announcement builds upon earlier statements of support and
intention by Dell EMC to be part of the Microsoft Azure Stack community. For
those of you who are not familiar, Azure Stack is an on premise extension of
Microsoft Azure public cloud.
What this means is that essentially you can have the Microsoft Azure
experience (or a subset of it) in your own data center or data
infrastructure, enabling cloud experiences and abilities at your own pace,
your own way with control. Learn more about Microsoft Azure Stack including
my experiences with and installing Technique Preview 3 (TP3) here.
What Is Azure Stack
Microsoft Azure Stack is an on-premise (e.g., in your own data center)
private (or hybrid when connected to Azure) cloud pl... (more)
Build It, Buy It, or Open Source: The Software Dilemma
By Matt Watson
One problem that all developers and companies struggle with is trying to
decide if they should "build it" or "buy it". Software developers love to
build things. That is what we do! Their natural reaction tends to lean
towards building things. We are also always up for a new challenge.
How do you know when you should build software or buy it?
There are very good reasons for building or buying software. There are also
good reasons to use open source projects, which is a third option!
Some things you never want to build
I started my last company in 2003. In the early days of that company, I
decided that it was easy enough to store customer credit card numbers in a
database table and process them via Authorize.net. Simple stuff, right?
Billing systems always seem simple. Until you have to figure out how to... (more)
@ThingsExpo Stories 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 protect your data and privacy, IoT applications need to embrace Blockchain technology for a new level of product security never before seen - or needed. Feb. 12, 2018 06:30 PM EST Reads: 1,932 | By Jason Bloomberg  Imagine if you will, a retail floor so densely packed with sensors that they can pick up the movements of insects scurrying across a store aisle. Or a component of a piece of factory equipment so well-instrumented that its digital twin provides resolution down to the micrometer. Feb. 12, 2018 02:30 PM EST Reads: 506 | 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 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... Feb. 12, 2018 07:15 AM EST Reads: 2,348 | 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 Foundry is unifying the community around a common IoT edge framework and an ecosystem of interoperable components. Feb. 8, 2018 07:45 AM EST Reads: 2,990 | 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. 8, 2018 05:15 AM EST Reads: 2,189 | 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. 8, 2018 12:00 AM EST Reads: 9,474 | 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: 2,428 | 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: 2,912 | By Ram Sonagara  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 ... Feb. 1, 2018 06:00 AM EST Reads: 1,114 | 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: 2,735 | 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: 2,530 | By Pat Romanski  The Internet of Things will challenge the status quo of how IT and development organizations operate. Or will it? Certainly the fog layer of IoT requires special insights about data ontology, security and transactional integrity. But the developmental challenges are the same: People, Process and Platform. In his session at @ThingsExpo, Craig Sproule, CEO of Metavine, demonstrated how to move beyond today's coding paradigm and shared the must-have mindsets for removing complexity from the develop... Dec. 30, 2017 08:30 AM EST Reads: 15,493 | 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: 3,585 | 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: 3,809 | 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: 4,905 | 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: 2,687 | By Elizabeth White  "Akvelon is a software development company and we also provide consultancy services to folks who are looking to scale or accelerate their engineering roadmaps," explained Jeremiah Mothersell, Marketing Manager at Akvelon, 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. 22, 2017 11:00 AM EST Reads: 2,206 | 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: 3,836 | 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: 3,849 | 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: 5,670 |
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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.
The Automation era is here. We are in the fast pace of replacing manual human efforts with machines and processes. In the world of Information Technology too, we are linking disparate systems, softwares and tool...
"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 a recent survey, Sumo Logic surveyed 1,500 customers who employ cloud services such as Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud Platform (GCP). According to the survey, a quarter of the respondents have already deployed Docker containers and nearly as many (23 percent) are employing the AWS Lambda serverless computing framework.
It’s clear: serverless is here to stay. The adoption does come with some needed changes, within both application development and operations. Tha...
Kubernetes is an open source system for automating deployment, scaling, and management of containerized applications. Kubernetes was originally built by Google, leveraging years of experience with managing container workloads, and is now a Cloud Native Compute Foundation (CNCF) project. Kubernetes has been widely adopted by the community, supported on all major public and private cloud providers, and is gaining rapid adoption in enterprises. However, Kubernetes may seem intimidating and complex ...
With continuous delivery (CD) almost always in the spotlight, continuous integration (CI) is often left out in the cold. Indeed, it's been in use for so long and so widely, we often take the model for granted. So what is CI and how can you make the most of it? This blog is intended to answer those questions.
Before we step into examining CI, we need to look back. Software developers often work in small teams and modularity, and need to integrate their changes with the rest of the project code b...
The need in agility and scalibility neccecisited the evolution on software development from monolithic to microservices to serverless architecture.
We've all read the dystopian fiction, watched those apocalyptic movies and heard a myriad of prophetic warnings heralding our obsolescence. Surely now we're just a couple of years from flipping the switch on a Skynet of our own making and condemning mankind to the annals of history.
Actually, we're not entirely sure what the future holds, but it's probably not fire and brimstone. For detractors and naysayers of technology, could there be a more fitting image than Terminator 2's opening shot? A ...
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...
The use of containers by developers -- and now increasingly IT operators -- has grown from infatuation to deep and abiding love. But as with any long-term affair, the honeymoon soon leads to needing to live well together ... and maybe even getting some relationship help along the way. And so it goes with container orchestration and automation solutions, which are rapidly emerging as the means to maintain the bliss between rapid container adoption and broad container use among multiple cloud host...
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...
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