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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)
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Data Mobility: Embracing Hybrid Cloud with Confidence
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.
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In his general session at 21st Cloud Expo, Greg Tevis, an IBM Storage
Software Technical Strategist and Customer Solution Architect, explored how
storage and software-defined solutions from IBM have evolved for the road
ahead. Learn how you can bring new levels of speed, agility and efficiency to
the applications and workloads you choose to deploy across a hybrid cloud
model.
Speaker Bio
Gr... (more)
Nordstrom's Cloud Transformation - From Brick to Click
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,
will discuss 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'll go
over some of the best practices for structured team migration and discuss
ways to control cloud costs.
Speaker Bio
Ken Schow is VP of Engineering at Nordstrom, focused on modernizing digital
platforms through the use of open source technologies and multi-cloud elastic
infrastructure.
In his current role, Kenneth is responsible for establishing the vision,
architectural strateg... (more)
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Leveraging AI for Mobile Enterprise Applications
Mobile device usage has increased exponentially during the past several
years, as consumers rely on handhelds for everything from news and weather to
banking and purchases. What can we expect in the next few years? The way in
which we interact with our devices will fundamentally change, as businesses
leverage Artificial Intelligence. We already see this taking shape as
businesses leverage AI for cost savings and customer responsiveness. This
trend will continue, as AI is used for more sophisticated patterns, and
chatbots replace the traditional mobile apps.
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In his session at 21st Cloud Expo, Michael Meiner, an Engineering Director at
Oracle, looked at this evolution of mobile computing, along with the
underlying enterprise technolog... (more)
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Leveraging AI for Cloud Management
Businesses and business units of all sizes can benefit from cloud computing,
but many don't want the cost, performance and security concerns of public
cloud nor the complexity of building their own private clouds. Today, some
cloud vendors are using artificial intelligence (AI) to simplify cloud
deployment and management.
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In his session at 20th Cloud Expo, Ajay Gulati, Co-founder and CEO of
ZeroStack, discussed how AI can simplify cloud operations. He covered the
following topics:
Why cloud management is a barrier to adoption The role of AI in cloud
deployment The role of AI in cloud management How AI simplifies cloud
operations
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Speaker Bio
Ajay Gulati is Co-founder and CEO of ZeroStack, Inc. He leads ZeroStack's
i... (more)
Systems of Innovation for Ongoing Digital Transformation
Information technology (IT) advances are transforming the way we innovate in
business, thereby disrupting the old guard and their predictable status-quo.
It’s creating global market turbulence. Industries are converging, and new
opportunities and threats are emerging, like never before.
So, how are savvy chief information officers (CIOs) leading this transition?
Back in 2015, the IBM Institute for Business Value conducted a market study
that included the findings from over 1,800 CIO interviews from around the
globe. The resulting insights are worthy of revisiting today, as we consider
the digital business transformation outlook in 2017.
Introduction to the Torchbearer CIO
CIOs realize the barriers between formerly distinct industries are
collapsing, as organizations in one sector apply their expertise to others ... (more)
Thursday, July 29, 2010
Woodcliff Lake, New Jersey
To the President of Syria, Mr. and Mrs. Bashar al-Assad
Mr. and Mrs. President Bashar al-Assad:
At the tender age of 17 months my severely ill daughter Sofia, an American
citizen, was abducted by her mother on Monday, July 26, in Istanbul, Turkey,
and taken to Syria.
Fox News: ▸ video ▸ story
I was informed yesterday by Sofia's mother that she will not be coming back
to the United States nor will she allow Sofia to return home.
Sofia has been diagnosed with a severe medical condition that requires
immediate treatment in the United States. It was scheduled to start on July
27, 2010, in New Jersey, the day after her abduction and was supposed to last
until she reaches the age of 3.
Any delay in the urgently needed treatment will result in a life-long
disability for Sofia and make her dependent for the whole of her a... (more)
How Microsoft Is Making Big Impact with Machine Learning
During the last two years, Microsoft has upped the ante on Machine Learning
and Analytics. From hiring top notch data scientists to acquiring niche
startups, Redmond has made the all the right moves to transform Azure into
one of the best analytics platforms. These investments have started to pay
off for the company. It has been successful in articulating and demonstrating
the value of data-driven insights to governments, medical institutions, and
public sector organizations.
Emerging markets that are turning technology savvy are becoming the hotbed
for evaluating the upcoming trends such as Machine Learning and Artificial
Intelligence. With its strong presence in India, Microsoft is partnering with
the state and central government to bring the benefits of technology to the
masses. The company is making Cloud,... (more)
“Self-driving cars are the future of ride-sharing,” proclaimed an
industry expert who shall remain nameless. The comment struck me as
ridiculous. From my point of view, Uber (and all car services) already
provide self-driving cars. You don’t drive the car; the driver does. Do you
really care whether the car is controlled by a human/machine partnership or
it’s an autonomous mechanical device? Other than to acknowledge that you
are the person the car is supposed to pick up, you don’t need to speak to
the human driver any more than you would need to speak to the natural
language–understanding algorithm that would request the same confirmation
if the vehicle were autonomous. Should you decide to change your destination,
your driver will ask you to enter the new address via the app, so talking is
completely optional.
Anyway, if we already live in a world where you can p... (more)
As we get into the full swing of the new year and put another CES behind us,
it’s time to take a look at the current trends in technology and get a feel
for some of the developments we can expect in 2013. There are a lot of
interesting products just around the corner – some of them will seem
revolutionary while others will be a big update to current technology – and
many of them are well worth a look.
Touchscreen Ultrabooks
The release of Windows 8, which was optimized for touchscreens, is
encouraging a lot of companies to really innovate with their laptops. Last
year we saw the trend toward ultrabook computers – all sleek design and
impressive form factor – and now the new operating system is giving them a
chance to develop even more. Touchscreen ultrabooks are going to provide the
simple convenience of a tablet while offering the power and capabilities of a
compe... (more)
Introducing Google Cloud Mobility Solutions
As businesses evolve, they need technology that is simple to help them
succeed today and flexible enough to help them build for tomorrow. Chrome is
fit for the workplace of the future - providing a secure, consistent user
experience across a range of devices that can be used anywhere.
In her session at 21st Cloud Expo, Vidya Nagarajan, a Senior Product Manager
at Google, will take a look at various options as to how ChromeOS can be
leveraged to interact with people on the devices, and formats they already
love to use.
Speaker Bio
Vidya Nagarajan is a Senior Product Manager at Google. She leads Chrome and
Android efforts that are purpose-built solutions, including Chromebox for
meetings, Digital Signage, General Kiosks and solutions for the Internet of
Things. She started as a Product Manager on Chromebooks for Education and... (more)
@CloudExpo Stories By Liz McMillan  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, provided some practical insights on what, how and why when implementing "software-defined" in the datacent... Feb. 20, 2018 03:00 PM EST Reads: 3,988 | 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: 8,114 | 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. 20, 2018 11:00 AM EST Reads: 2,368 | 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. 20, 2018 09:00 AM EST Reads: 5,515 | 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. 20, 2018 04:00 AM EST Reads: 3,303 | 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: 2,287 | 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 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. 19, 2018 05:45 PM EST Reads: 964 | 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: 2,436 | 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. 19, 2018 04:30 PM EST Reads: 1,112 | 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. 19, 2018 04:15 PM EST Reads: 4,126 | By Elizabeth White  In his general session at 21st Cloud Expo, Greg Dumas, Calligo’s Vice President and G.M. of US operations, discussed the new Global Data Protection Regulation and how Calligo can help business stay compliant in digitally globalized world.
Greg Dumas is Calligo's Vice President and G.M. of US operations. Calligo is an established service provider that provides an innovative platform for trusted cloud solutions. Calligo’s customers are typically most concerned about GDPR compliance, application p... Feb. 19, 2018 04:00 PM EST Reads: 2,964 | 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: 1,302 | By Elizabeth White  The cloud era has reached the stage where it is no longer a question of whether a company should migrate, but when. Enterprises have embraced the outsourcing of where their various applications are stored and who manages them, saving significant investment along the way. Plus, the cloud has become a defining competitive edge. Companies that fail to successfully adapt risk failure.
The media, of course, continues to extol the virtues of the cloud, including how easy it is to get there. Migrating... Feb. 19, 2018 08:30 AM EST Reads: 7,775 | 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: 3,198 | 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: 4,183 | 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 Pat Romanski  While some developers care passionately about how data centers and clouds are architected, for most, it is only the end result that matters. To the majority of companies, technology exists to solve a business problem, and only delivers value when it is solving that problem. 2017 brings the mainstream adoption of containers for production workloads.
In his session at 21st Cloud Expo, Ben McCormack, VP of Operations at Evernote, discussed how data centers of the future will be managed, how the p... Feb. 18, 2018 11:00 AM EST Reads: 2,824 | 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. 18, 2018 08:45 AM EST Reads: 2,782 |
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Bitcoins are a digital cryptocurrency and have been around since 2009. As a substitute for legal tender, they are becoming the rage for investors and others but because there is no government agency auditing or performing regulatory oversights, you wonder if it is the perfect breeding ground for electronic nano crime. 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, Novacoin, Peercoin, and Zetacoin. Some of these cryptocurrencies are considered impro...
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.
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...
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.
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.
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. 
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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