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Embracing Software Defined: From Theory to Practice
As Marc Andreessen says software is eating the world. Everything is rapidly
moving toward being software-defined - from our phones and cars through our
washing machines to the datacenter. However, there are larger challenges when
implementing software defined on a larger scale - when building software
defined infrastructure.
In his session at 16th Cloud Expo, Boyan Ivanov, CEO of StorPool, will
provide some practical insights on what, how and why when implementing
"software-defined" in the datacenter.
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Speaker Bio
Boyan Ivanov is CEO and co-founder of StorPool. He started programming at the
age of 10. At the same age, he started his first venture and the latter
stuck. Boyan has versatile experience in the enterprise and SMB worlds and
has also been part of several startups in the IT spa... (more)
Of course, AI in gaming is far from a recent innovation. The concept of a one
player chess game involving a human player versus a computer, was first born
from the ponderings of mathematician and cryptographer Claude Shannon, way
back in the mid-20th century.
Indeed, gaming has always been a key driving force behind AI. Some would even
say that video game AI is changing the world. Presently, this technology is
the foundation of virtual experiences. That being said, more specifically,
the following are 3 ingenious ways in which artificial intelligence is
currently being utilized in the gaming industry:
1. Game Development – Beyond Human Imagination
Today’s AI technology is evolving beyond the typical game-generating
algorithms that are generally focused on creating terrain and other simple
game art. Now, in order for game developers to be cutting edge, they ne... (more)
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Machine Learning Intro for Anyone and Everyone
In his session at 21st Cloud Expo, Raju Shreewastava, founder of Big Data
Trunk, provided a fun and simple way to introduce Machine Leaning to anyone
and everyone.
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He solved a machine learning problem and demonstrated an easy way to be able
to do machine learning without even coding.
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Speaker Bio
Raju Shreewastava is the founder of Big Data Trunk (www.BigDataTrunk.com), a
Big Data Training and consulting firm with offices in the United States. He
previously led the data warehouse/business intelligence and Big Data teams at
Autodesk. He is a contributing author of book on Azure and Big Data published
by SAMS.
CloudExpo | DXWorldEXPO have announced the conference tracks for Cloud Expo
2018, introducing DXWo... (more)
What is your company about, what's your mission?
Simon Dixon, CEO of BnkToTheFuture: BnkToTheFuture.com is the largest online
investment platform for investing in FinTech, Bitcoin and Blockchain
companies. We believe the future of finance looks very different from the
past and we aim to invest and provide trading opportunities for qualifying
investors that want to build a portfolio in the sector in compliance with
international financial regulations. We are here to support the growth and
disruption being built around Bitcoin and Blockchain as it takes more and
more market share from traditional finance and banks.
Security: How secure is the blockchain and/or smart contract?
Dixon: The next phase of our business is to take our traditional equity
investments and put them on the Blockchain for added transparency and
liquidity in compliance with international securities... (more)
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As the old Danish proverb says, it is difficult to make predictions,
especially about the future. Add the exponential pattern of change familiar
from Moore’s Law to the mix, multiply over a combination of dynamic trends,
and such augury is fraught with peril.
Take, for example, the Internet of Things (IoT). Simply looking at the
devices (sensors and actuators) themselves, we may extrapolate a number of
such trends, many of which follow exponential curves.
Such devices are rapidly getting smaller. They’re consuming less and less
power, so little that many such devices never require a battery replacement,
if they have a battery at all. Simultaneously, the amount of processing power
we can place on such tiny devices is also exploding.
Then there’s the somewhat discontinuous improvements in connectivity, as we
move ever c... (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)
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Introduction to Blockchain
In his keynote at 18th Cloud Expo, Andrew Keys, Co-Founder of ConsenSys
Enterprise, provided an overview of the evolution of the Internet and the
Database and the future of their combination - the Blockchain.
Speaker Bio
Andrew Keys is Co-Founder of ConsenSys Enterprise. He comes to ConsenSys
Enterprise with capital markets, technology and entrepreneurial experience.
Previously, he worked for UBS investment bank in equities analysis. Later, he
was responsible for the creation and distribution of life settlement products
to hedge funds and investment banks. After, he co-founded a revenue cycle
management company where he learned about Bitcoin and eventually Ethereum.
Andrew's role at ConsenSys Enterprise is a multi-faceted approach of strategy
an... (more)
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Technical Strategy for Industrial IoT, with Real-World Use Cases
No hype cycles or predictions of a gazillion things here. IoT is here. You
get it. You know your business and have great ideas for a business
transformation strategy. What comes next? Time to make it happen.
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In his session at @ThingsExpo, Jay Mason, an Associate Partner of Analytics,
IoT & Cybersecurity at M&S; Consulting, presented a step-by-step plan to
develop your technology implementation strategy. He also discussed the
evaluation of communication standards and IoT messaging protocols, data
analytics considerations, edge-to-cloud technical architecture, IoT platform
selection, end-to-end security, enterprise systems integration and
monetization techniques. Seize market opportunities by following this
methodology ... (more)
The 12 Step Plan for Digital Transformation Speed
It took Magellan's crew three years sailing ships to circumnavigate the
earth. Today, at hypersonic speeds of 7,680 MPH, it takes just over three
hours to circumnavigate the earth. Data on the Internet, however, travels
at 670 million MPH, which means it only takes milliseconds to circumnavigate
the earth. In this age of digital businesses and digital interactions,
companies must digitally transform to work effectively in a world where mass
information moves at these unimaginable speeds.
It's not just IT systems that are impacted by the volume and speed of
information. The creators of business processes that were designed and
developed in an analog area, simply never envisioned a business environment
that would require these operational tempos. Analog business processes were
designed to have humans involved. These d... (more)
Companies, today, are finding that costs can be significantly reduced by
moving test environments to the cloud and implementing automated testing and
infrastructure. The temporary nature of test environments creates
opportunities to reduce the time it takes to cycle through individual tests.
If hours can be shaved down to minutes in the process of setting up an
environment, running a test and tearing down the environment, then budgets
for test environments can be cut considerably.
The impact of cloud adoption on test environments is a valuable advancement
in both cost savings and agility. The on-demand model takes advantage of
public cloud APIs requiring only payment for the time needed to run automated
tests. In this framework, success depends on two things: automated
infrastructure and automated acceptance tests. If these two goals can be
achieved, the cost savi... (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)
@ThingsExpo Stories By Yeshim Deniz In his keynote at 18th Cloud Expo, Andrew Keys, Co-Founder of ConsenSys Enterprise, provided an overview of the evolution of the Internet and the Database and the future of their combination – the Blockchain. Andrew Keys is Co-Founder of ConsenSys Enterprise. He comes to ConsenSys Enterprise with capital markets, technology and entrepreneurial experience. Previously, he worked for UBS investment bank in equities analysis. Later, he was responsible for the creation and distribution of life settle... Feb. 20, 2018 12:30 PM EST Reads: 8,116 | By Xenia von Wedel BnkToTheFuture.com is the largest online investment platform for investing in FinTech, Bitcoin and Blockchain companies. We believe the future of finance looks very different from the past and we aim to invest and provide trading opportunities for qualifying investors that want to build a portfolio in the sector in compliance with international financial regulations. Feb. 20, 2018 11:15 AM EST Reads: 3,110 | 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. 19, 2018 06:00 PM EST Reads: 2,288 | By Liz McMillan  Nordstrom is transforming the way that they do business and the cloud is the key to enabling speed and hyper personalized customer experiences. In his session at 21st Cloud Expo, Ken Schow, VP of Engineering at Nordstrom, discussed some of the key learnings and common pitfalls of large enterprises moving to the cloud. This includes strategies around choosing a cloud provider(s), architecture, and lessons learned. In addition, he covered some of the best practices for structured team migration an... Feb. 19, 2018 05:45 PM EST Reads: 3,077 | 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. 19, 2018 05:00 PM EST Reads: 2,437 | 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. 19, 2018 03:45 PM EST Reads: 1,303 | By Liz McMillan No hype cycles or predictions of a gazillion things here. IoT is here. You get it. You know your business and have great ideas for a business transformation strategy. What comes next? Time to make it happen. In his session at @ThingsExpo, Jay Mason, an Associate Partner of Analytics, IoT & Cybersecurity at M&S; Consulting, presented a step-by-step plan to develop your technology implementation strategy. He also discussed the evaluation of communication standards and IoT messaging protocols, data... Feb. 19, 2018 06:15 AM EST Reads: 2,898 | 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. 19, 2018 01:45 AM EST Reads: 3,892 | By Elizabeth White In his session at 21st Cloud Expo, Raju Shreewastava, founder of Big Data Trunk, provided a fun and simple way to introduce Machine Leaning to anyone and everyone. He solved a machine learning problem and demonstrated an easy way to be able to do machine learning without even coding.
Raju Shreewastava is the founder of Big Data Trunk (www.BigDataTrunk.com), a Big Data Training and consulting firm with offices in the United States. He previously led the data warehouse/business intelligence and B... Feb. 19, 2018 01:00 AM EST Reads: 3,200 | 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... Feb. 18, 2018 10:45 PM EST Reads: 4,186 | 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. 18, 2018 10:15 PM EST Reads: 12,150 | 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. 18, 2018 08:00 AM EST Reads: 2,814 | By Pat Romanski  Smart cities have the potential to change our lives at so many levels for citizens: less pollution, reduced parking obstacles, better health, education and more energy savings. Real-time data streaming and the Internet of Things (IoT) possess the power to turn this vision into a reality. However, most organizations today are building their data infrastructure to focus solely on addressing immediate business needs vs. a platform capable of quickly adapting emerging technologies to address future ... Feb. 18, 2018 05:00 AM EST Reads: 2,940 | 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 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 rat... Feb. 15, 2018 01:00 PM EST Reads: 693 | 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: 3,245 | 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: 2,410 | 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: 9,712 | 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: 2,551 | 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: 3,104 | 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: 1,274 |
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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 basics of Blockchain, previewed the Blockchain Reference Architecture, and introduced the mechanics o...
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...
By 2020, 90 percent of all new cars will have some sort of built-in connectivity platform, and by 2022, there will be 1.8 billion automotive M2M connections. As cars join the Internet of Things, cars will stop being independent entities and will become part of a larger, connected ecosystem. Cars as part of the IoT isn’t just a look into the future – it’s already happening.
“Everything that moves will become autonomic, it’s just a matter of time,” says Vishnu Andhare, Consulting Manager at ISG. Andhare notes that all of the big automotive players are already moving towards a future of shared m...
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...
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...
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, internal or external, solving different purposes, but mostly categorized into the following two categories. Data lakes is a term used to represent disconnected but relevant data that are used by various business units within an enterprise. APIs are created as the easy access points for these siloed data lakes.
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. 
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...
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