By Elizabeth White  "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 O... Mar. 10, 2018 06:00 AM EST Reads: 2,938 |
By Tim Hinds  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... Mar. 10, 2018 06:00 AM EST Reads: 6,699 |
By Jason Bloomberg  I believe that this may finally be the year that the CIO role ‘crosses the Rubicon,' leaving behind its traditional, IT-focused orientation. But I don't believe that either of the previous predictions of this outcome — fading into oblivion or rising to a business executive level — is c... Mar. 10, 2018 12:45 AM EST Reads: 1,372 |
By Elizabeth White  "Calligo is a cloud service provider with data privacy at the heart of what we do. We are a typical Infrastructure as a Service cloud provider but it's been designed around data privacy," explained Julian Box, CEO and co-founder of Calligo, in this SYS-CON.tv interview at 21st Cloud Ex... Mar. 9, 2018 11:15 PM EST Reads: 3,146 |
By Elizabeth White  "NetApp is known as a data management leader but we do a lot more than just data management on-prem with the data centers of our customers. We're also big in the hybrid cloud," explained Wes Talbert, Principal Architect at NetApp, in this SYS-CON.tv interview at 21st Cloud Expo, held O... Mar. 9, 2018 11:00 PM EST Reads: 2,669 |
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 Te... Mar. 9, 2018 11:00 PM EST Reads: 4,406 |
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 th... Mar. 9, 2018 10:00 PM EST Reads: 3,700 |
By William Schmarzo  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 art... Mar. 9, 2018 09:00 PM EST Reads: 2,891 |
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 Bran... Mar. 9, 2018 06:15 PM EST Reads: 3,566 |
By Valeriia Timokhina  Fintech is a lucrative, yet quite saturated market. In order to stay competitive, businesses should keep track of the emerging trends and be able to capitalize on them before their competitors do. Artificial Intelligence is currently among the most promising fintech trends. Leading fin... Mar. 9, 2018 02:00 PM EST Reads: 4,758 |
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, P... Mar. 9, 2018 09:45 AM EST Reads: 16,368 |
By Elizabeth White  delaPlex is a global technology and software development solutions and consulting provider, deeply committed to helping companies drive growth, revenue and marketplace value. Since 2008, delaPlex's objective has been to be a trusted advisor to its clients. By redefining the outsourcing... Mar. 9, 2018 07:15 AM EST Reads: 17,314 |
By Pat Romanski  "Infoblox does DNS, DHCP and IP address management for not only enterprise networks but cloud networks as well. Customers are looking for a single platform that can extend not only in their private enterprise environment but private cloud, public cloud, tracking all the IP space and ev... Mar. 9, 2018 06:30 AM EST Reads: 3,164 |
By Rene Buest  In 1977, the Eagles released “Hotel California”, a song about drugs and the effects an addiction has on people. Putting "We are all just prisoners here, of our own device" in the context of our today’s digital lifestyle we find a lot of truth. There is a reason why Google provides most... Mar. 9, 2018 04:00 AM EST Reads: 9,155 |
By Liz McMillan  An increasing number of companies are creating products that combine data with analytical capabilities. Running interactive queries on Big Data requires complex architectures to store and query data effectively, typically involving data streams, an choosing efficient file format/databa... Mar. 9, 2018 12:00 AM EST Reads: 3,761 |
By Jason Bloomberg  The rise of the market for No-Code platforms and tools has given rise to a burgeoning population of ‘citizen developers’ – non-technical business personnel who can use these platforms to build an increasingly powerful set of business applications without writing a line of code.
As t... Mar. 8, 2018 10:00 PM EST Reads: 1,499 |
By Greg Pierce  We’re seeing an emerging trend in the cloud computing world. I’ve been referring to it as cloud fatigue, but it’s more commonly known as repatriation, or moving workloads from the cloud back to on-prem locations. According to a recent 451 Research report, over 21 percent of organizatio... Mar. 8, 2018 09:00 PM EST Reads: 4,233 |
By Stackify Blog  The word polymorphism is used in various contexts and describes situations in which something occurs in several different forms. In computer science, it describes the concept that objects of different types can be accessed through the same interface. Each type can provide its own, inde... Mar. 8, 2018 11:45 AM EST Reads: 2,718 |
By John Katrick  The cloud market is growing at a rate of 30% annually and is expected to reach $130 billion. Analysts predict that service providers are well positioned to be the leading point of distribution for cloud services in light of the scale of their operations and their capacity to offer en... Mar. 8, 2018 06:00 AM EST Reads: 3,024 |
By Elizabeth White  Data scientists must access high-performance computing resources across a wide-area network. To achieve cloud-based HPC visualization, researchers must transfer datasets and visualization results efficiently.
HPC clusters now compute GPU-accelerated visualization in the cloud cluster.... Mar. 8, 2018 06:00 AM EST Reads: 3,376 |
By Rostyslav Demush  As you have probably heard, the EU commission signed the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) back in April 2016. The legislation is designed to help companies handle efficiently the data challenges of the 21st century and give strict guidelines as to how to work with massive flow... Mar. 8, 2018 02:00 AM EST Reads: 3,408 |
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... Mar. 7, 2018 07:00 PM EST Reads: 4,057 |
By Jason Bloomberg  Look beneath the covers, and you'll find organizations that appear remarkably like they did before the supposed transformation occurred. There is not a lot of real action beneath those words. The reason is as simple as it is devastating. Executing real digital transformation requires f... Mar. 7, 2018 04:00 PM EST Reads: 1,335 |
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 Computi... Mar. 7, 2018 12:45 PM EST Reads: 2,931 |
By Stackify Blog  Let's do a visualization exercise. Imagine it's December 31, 2018, and you're ringing in the New Year with your friends and family. You think back on everything that you accomplished in the last year: your company's revenue is through the roof thanks to the success of your product, and... Mar. 7, 2018 08:30 AM EST Reads: 3,326 |
By Kevin Jackson  The enterprise data storage marketplace is poised to become a battlefield. No longer the quiet backwater of cloud computing services, the focus of this global transition is now going from compute to storage. An overview of recent storage market history is needed to understand why this ... Mar. 7, 2018 08:00 AM EST Reads: 3,025 |
By Stackify Blog  We live in a world where nobody is willing to wait for anything. We have become accustomed to websites and mobile apps working instantly. If I click on a search result from Google and it doesn't load within a couple seconds, I will no doubt just click on a different result. We have all... Mar. 7, 2018 05:00 AM EST Reads: 973 |
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 backg... Mar. 6, 2018 02:00 PM EST Reads: 10,539 |
By Simon Hill  Cavirin Systems has just announced C2, a SaaS offering designed to bring continuous security assessment and remediation to hybrid environments, containers, and data centers. Cavirin C2 is deployed within Amazon Web Services (AWS) and features a flexible licensing model for easy scalabi... Mar. 6, 2018 01:00 PM EST Reads: 3,006 |
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?... Mar. 5, 2018 02:00 PM EST Reads: 3,607 |
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 Mar. 5, 2018 01:00 PM EST Reads: 4,763 |
By Pat Romanski  DevOps is often described as a combination of technology and culture. Without both, DevOps isn't complete. However, applying the culture to outdated technology is a recipe for disaster; as response times grow and connections between teams are delayed by technology, the culture will die... Mar. 5, 2018 01:00 PM EST Reads: 6,241 |
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, ... Mar. 5, 2018 10:15 AM EST Reads: 5,379 |
By Kevin Benedict  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 pu... Mar. 5, 2018 10:00 AM EST Reads: 3,000 |
By Elizabeth White  Enterprises are adopting Kubernetes to accelerate the development and the delivery of cloud-native applications. However, sharing a Kubernetes cluster between members of the same team can be challenging. And, sharing clusters across multiple teams is even harder.
Kubernetes offers sev... Mar. 5, 2018 09:15 AM EST Reads: 3,406 |
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,... Mar. 5, 2018 05:30 AM EST Reads: 3,275 |
By Destiny Bertucci  Making informed network investment decisions about emerging technologies such as network function virtualization (NFV) and software-defined networking (SDN) can help evolve the network to keep pace with the innovations of the devices and people it’s connecting. As you work with busines... Mar. 5, 2018 03:45 AM EST Reads: 3,251 |
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 w... Mar. 5, 2018 12:45 AM EST Reads: 4,197 |
By Karthick Viswanathan  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, interna... Mar. 4, 2018 05:45 PM EST Reads: 4,354 |
By Bob Gourley  Historically due diligence assessments before Mergers & Acquisition (M&A;) transactions have focused on traditional risk areas that could pose a significant financial risk, like issues of tax, employment, compliance with regulatory environments, intellectual property protection, and of ... Mar. 4, 2018 05:26 PM EST Reads: 132 |