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DevOps vs SRE vs Cloud Native
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).
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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 controlling infrastructure. The rise of
Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) is part of that redefinition of operations
vs development roles in organizations.
In his session at @DevOpsSummit at 21st Cloud Expo, Rob Hirschfeld, CEO and
co-founder of RackN, explor... (more)
Deployment Methodology
1. Problem Statement
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 they can be
run in a trusted environment (i.e., outside of the sandbox). Further, we seek
to do this in a way that does not depend on bundling a JRE with our
applications, as this makes downloads and installations rather long.
The novel javapackager command (included in the JDK versions 8 and 9),
produces the program installation packages in the range of sizes from 57 to
202 Megabytes approximately.
2. Motivation
We have a long history of making use of Java 3D applications in the software
engineering community. Since the introduction of Java 3D i... (more)
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 to
understand the impact of third-party components. So you're sold on using the
cloud; here's what you should look for in a cloud-based load testing
solution.
One of the most dangerous moves software developers and testers can make is
being lulled into a false sense of security. For example, when application
features and performance levels meet expectations during pre-production, only
to crash and burn when presented to real users in production.
In that same vein, if your organization has any kind of performance testing
strategy, chances are you're conducting load testing. However, yo... (more)
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 pulse". The problem
with fingerspitzengefühl traditionally, in addition to pronouncing it, has
been it is hard for an individual to scale up. Today that is changing. In a
world of sensors, AI and mobile devices, having real-time situational
awareness is far easier than ever before. In fact, today the challenge is
not how to do it, but what to do with the massive volume of data that can be
provided.
Data comes from many different sources, especially considering field services
where work is often mobile, remote and dynamic. If more data can be
captured and added to a typical GPS coordi... (more)
SYS-CON Events announced today that Synametrics Technologies will exhibit at
SYS-CON's 22nd International Cloud Expo®, which will take place on June 5-7,
2018, at the Javits Center in New York, NY.
Synametrics Technologies is a privately held company based in Plainsboro, New
Jersey that has been providing solutions for the developer community since
1997. Based on the success of its initial product offerings such as WinSQL,
Xeams, SynaMan and Syncrify, Synametrics continues to create and hone
innovative products that help customers get more from their computer
applications, databases and infrastructure. To date, over one million users
around the world have chosen Synametrics solutions to help power their
accelerated business and personal computing needs.
For more information, please visit http://web.synametrics.com.
CloudExpo | DXWorldEXPO have announced the conferen... (more)
SYS-CON Events announced today that N3N will exhibit at SYS-CON's
@ThingsExpo, which will take place on Oct 31 - Nov 2, 2017, at the Santa
Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA.
N3N's solutions increase the effectiveness of operations and control centers,
increase the value of IoT investments, and facilitate real-time operational
decision making. N3N enables operations teams with a four dimensional digital
"big board" that consolidates real-time live video feeds alongside IoT sensor
data and analytics insights onto a single, holistic, display, focusing
attention on what matters, when it matters.
For more information, please visit http://www.n3n.io/.
Internet of @ThingsExpo, taking place October 31 - November 2, 2017, at the
Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA, is co-located with 21st
Cloud Expo and will feature technical sessions from a rock star ... (more)
OOP Concepts for Beginners: What Is Polymorphism
By Thorben Janssen
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).
If you're wondering if an object is polymorphic, you can perform a simple
test. If the object successfully passes multiple is-a or instanceof tests,
it's polymorphic. As I've described in my post about inheritance, all Java
classes extend the class Object. Due to this, all objects in Java are
polymorphic because they pass at least two instanceof checks.
Different types of polymorphism
Java supports two types of... (more)
SYS-CON Events announced today that Vivint to exhibit at SYS-CON's 21st Cloud
Expo, which will take place on October 31 through November 2nd 2017 at the
Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, California.
As a leading smart home technology provider, Vivint offers home security,
energy management, home automation, local cloud storage, and high-speed
Internet solutions to more than one million customers throughout the United
States and Canada. The end result is a smart home solution that saves you
time and money and ultimately simplifies your life.
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 (... (more)
SYS-CON Events announced today that mruby Forum will exhibit at the Japan
External Trade Organization (JETRO) Pavilion 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.
mruby is the lightweight implementation of the Ruby language. We introduce
mruby and the mruby IoT framework that enhances development productivity. For
more information, visit http://forum.mruby.org/.
JETRO and prefectures of Japan (Nagano, Shizuoka, Okayama, Hiroshima,
Fukuoka, Oita) will present more than twenty cutting-edge technology
companies for partnership opportunity with U.S. businesses. For more
information, visit https://www.jetro.go.jp/en.
21st International Cloud Expo, taking place October 31 - November 2, 2017, at
the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA, will feature technica... (more)
22nd International Cloud Expo, taking place June 5-7, 2018, at the Javits
Center in New York City, NY, is co-located with the 1st DXWorld Expo and 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 strategy. Meanwhile, 94% of enterprises are using some form of XaaS -
software, platform, and infrastructure as a service.
Digital transformation is changing the face of business. The IDC predicts
that enterprises will commit to a massive new scale of digital
transformation, to stake out leadership positions in the "digital
transformation economy."
Cloud Expo | DXWorldEX... (more)
SYS-CON Events announced today that Google Cloud has been named "Keynote
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.
Companies come to Google Cloud to transform their businesses. Google Cloud's
comprehensive portfolio - from infrastructure to apps to devices - helps
enterprises innovate faster, scale smarter, stay secure, and do more with
data than ever before.
For more information, please visit https://enterprise.google.com/chrome/.
Why Connected Companies Win: Your Roadmap to Cloud Success
Coca-Cola's Google powered digital signage system lays the groundwork for a
more valuable connection between Coke and its customers. Digital signs pair
software with high-resolution displays so that a message can be changed
instantly based on what the operator want... (more)
@CloudExpo Stories 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 will soon be in each of our lives. Enter the conversational interface revolution, combining bots we can literally talk with, gesture to, and even direct with our thoughts, with embedded artificial intelligence, whic... Feb. 15, 2018 04:45 PM EST Reads: 11,767 | By Elizabeth White  When it comes to cloud computing, the ability to turn massive amounts of compute cores on and off on demand sounds attractive to IT staff, who need to manage peaks and valleys in user activity. With cloud bursting, the majority of the data can stay on premises while tapping into compute from public cloud providers, reducing risk and minimizing need to move large files. In his session at 18th Cloud Expo, Scott Jeschonek, Director of Product Management at Avere Systems, discussed the IT and busine... Feb. 15, 2018 04:45 PM EST Reads: 10,431 | 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 Expo, held June 6-8, 2017, at the Javits Center in New York City, NY. Feb. 15, 2018 03:15 PM EST Reads: 4,806 | 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... Feb. 15, 2018 02:00 PM EST Reads: 2,517 | By Liz McMillan  Coca-Cola’s Google powered digital signage system lays the groundwork for a more valuable connection between Coke and its customers. Digital signs pair software with high-resolution displays so that a message can be changed instantly based on what the operator wants to communicate or sell. In their Day 3 Keynote at 21st Cloud Expo, Greg Chambers, Global Group Director, Digital Innovation, Coca-Cola, and Vidya Nagarajan, a Senior Product Manager at Google, discussed how from store operations and ... Feb. 15, 2018 01:00 PM EST Reads: 3,564 | 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 31 – Nov 2, 2017, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA. Feb. 15, 2018 12:30 PM EST Reads: 2,489 | 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-CON.tv interview at 21st Cloud Expo, held Oct 31 – Nov 2, 2017, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA. Feb. 15, 2018 12:15 PM EST Reads: 3,203 | 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: 4,081 | 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, held Oct 31 – Nov 2, 2017, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA. Feb. 15, 2018 11:45 AM EST Reads: 2,511 | 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, enabled by an automated and seamless flow across on-premises and cloud resources. In his general session at 21st Cloud Expo, Greg Tevis, an IBM Storage Software Technical Strategist and Customer Solution Architec... Feb. 15, 2018 11:15 AM EST Reads: 1,911 | 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 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. ... Feb. 15, 2018 11:00 AM EST Reads: 4,453 | 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? In his session at @DevOpsSummit at 21st Cloud Expo, Oleg Chunikhin, CTO at Kublr, answered these questions and demonstrated techniques for implementing advanced scheduling. For example, using spot instances and co... Feb. 15, 2018 11:00 AM EST Reads: 2,737 | By Elizabeth White  As DevOps methodologies expand their reach across the enterprise, organizations face the daunting challenge of adapting related cloud strategies to ensure optimal alignment, from managing complexity to ensuring proper governance. How can culture, automation, legacy apps and even budget be reexamined to enable this ongoing shift within the modern software factory?
In her Day 2 Keynote at @DevOpsSummit at 21st Cloud Expo, Aruna Ravichandran, VP, DevOps Solutions Marketing, CA Technologies, was jo... Feb. 15, 2018 10:45 AM EST Reads: 2,092 | By Liz McMillan  In his session at 21st Cloud Expo, Michael Burley, a Senior Business Development Executive in IT Services at NetApp, described how NetApp designed a three-year program of work to migrate 25PB of a major telco's enterprise data to a new STaaS platform, and then secured a long-term contract to manage and operate the platform.
This significant program blended the best of NetApp’s solutions and services capabilities to enable this telco’s successful adoption of private cloud storage and launching ... Feb. 15, 2018 09:00 AM EST Reads: 3,187 | 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. 15, 2018 08:45 AM EST Reads: 885 | 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, reduce cost as well as advance trade. Are you curious about how Blockchain is built for business? In her session at 21st Cloud Expo, René Bostic, Technical VP of the IBM Cloud Unit in North America, discussed the b... Feb. 15, 2018 08:15 AM EST Reads: 3,638 | 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... Feb. 15, 2018 07:45 AM EST Reads: 3,620 | By Dana Gardner  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... Feb. 15, 2018 07:30 AM EST Reads: 702 | 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 way that makes the public cloud a non-starter. You’re looking at private cloud solutions based on hyperconverged infrastructure, but you’re concerned with the limits inherent in those technologies. Feb. 15, 2018 04:00 AM EST Reads: 2,993 | By Jignesh Solanki  The need for greater agility and scalability necessitated the digital transformation in the form of following equation: monolithic to microservices to serverless architecture (FaaS). To keep up with the cut-throat competition, the organisations need to update their technology stack to make software development their differentiating factor.
Thus microservices architecture emerged as a potential method to provide development teams with greater flexibility and other advantages, such as the abili... Feb. 14, 2018 10:45 PM EST Reads: 625 |
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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 thinking, however, that leads to this type of project mentality. Enterprise leaders commonly think of transformation as something done at a corporate level — something the organization does to itself. But that mindset creates a separation between the act of transformation at an organizational level and the transformatio...
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 tools to make things self sustaining. This is called Automation.It has been helping companies overcome t...
There is a story emerging about the role the Internet of Things (IoT) has played in disaster preparedness. Indeed this technology has matured to the point that it is making a real and measurable impact in helping communities prepare for, respond to, and recover from disaster. 
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. 
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 looking at some significant engineering investment.
On-demand, serverless computing enables deve...
Bert Loomis was a visionary. This general session will highlight how Bert Loomis and people like him inspire us to build great things with small inventions. In their general session at 19th Cloud Expo, Harold Hannon, Architect at IBM Bluemix, and Michael O'Neill, Strategic Business Development at Nvidia, discussed the accelerating pace of AI development and how IBM Cloud and NVIDIA are partnering to bring AI capabilities to "every day," on-demand. They also reviewed two "free infrastructure" programs available to startups and innovators. 
There is a war a-brewin’, but this war will be fought with wits and not brute strength. Ever since Russian President Vladimir Putin’s declaration that “the nation that leads in AI (Artificial Intelligence) will be the ruler of the world,” the press and analysts have created hysteria regarding the ramifications of artificial intelligence on everything from public education to unemployment to healthcare to Skynet.
Note: artificial intelligence (AI) endows applications with the ability to automatically learn and adapt from experience via interacting with the surroundings / environment. See the b...
A strong declaration from a historically antagonist foe should put chills in the hearts of Americans preparing themselves for the world ahead: Russian President Vladimir Putin says the nation that leads in AI will be the ruler of the world [1]” … The ruler of the world!
From the article (with some modification to avoid political landmines), we get the following:
“The development of artificial intelligence has increasingly become a national security concern in recent years. It is China and the US (not Russia), which are seen as the two frontrunners, with China recently announcing its ambi...
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.
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...
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 trip to a crowded megastore necessary. Marriott® deployed virtual reality for customers to see its hot...
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.
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,...
This is the time of year when everyone makes his or her predictions for 2018. I have my predictions as well, but wanted to do something a bit more fun. So I thought I’d look backwards to the state of technology 50 years ago to gain some insights that we can use to make projections about 2018. That is, what “predictions” made in the 1950’s might tell us about 2018.
However, it’s really hard to find predictions about the future made in the 1950’s. There was no Internet or Social Media or Reality TV, so I found the next best proxy…sci-fi movies! I decided to review the most popular sci-fi mo...
The time of year when crystal balls get a viewing and many pundits put out their annual predictions for the coming year. Copying off since 2012, rather than thinking up my own, I figured I’d regurgitate what many others expect to happen.
Top 10 Cyber Security Predictions for 2018 – Infosec Institute kicks off this year’s Top 10, Top 10 list with a look back at their 2017 predictions (AI, IoT, etc.) and dives head first into 2018 noting that Ransomware will be the most dangerous threat to organizations worldwide; cryptocurrency will attract fraudsters looking to mine; cloud security will (ag...
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