By Pat Romanski  A valuable conference experience generates new contacts, sales leads, potential strategic partners and potential investors; helps gather competitive intelligence and even provides inspiration for new products and services. Conference Guru works with conference organizers to pass great ... Mar. 6, 2018 11:45 PM EST Reads: 3,199 |
By Liz McMillan  In a recent survey, Sumo Logic surveyed 1,500 customers who employ cloud services such as Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud Platform (GCP). According to the survey, a quarter of the respondents have already deployed Docker containers and nearly as many (23 pe... Mar. 6, 2018 08:00 PM EST Reads: 3,460 |
By Pat Romanski  SYS-CON Events announced today that Silicon India has been named “Media 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.
Published in Silicon Valley, Silicon India magazine is t... Mar. 6, 2018 04:45 AM EST Reads: 4,252 |
By Yeshim Deniz  Nicolas Fierro is CEO of MIMIR Blockchain Solutions. He is a programmer, technologist, and operations dev who has worked with Ethereum and blockchain since 2014. His knowledge in blockchain dates to when he performed dev ops services to the Ethereum Foundation as one the privileged few... Mar. 6, 2018 03:15 AM EST Reads: 1,082 |
By Elizabeth White  DXWorldEXPO LLC announced today that Telecom Reseller has been named "Media Sponsor" of CloudEXPO | DXWorldEXPO 2018 New York, which will take place on November 11-13, 2018 in New York City, NY. Telecom Reseller reports on Unified Communications, UCaaS, BPaaS for enterprise and SMBs. T... Mar. 6, 2018 12:45 AM EST Reads: 3,197 |
By Yeshim Deniz  René Bostic is the Technical VP of the IBM Cloud Unit in North America. Enjoying her career with IBM during the modern millennial technological era, she is an expert in cloud computing, DevOps and emerging cloud technologies such as Blockchain. Her strengths and core competencies inclu... Mar. 6, 2018 12:00 AM EST Reads: 1,043 |
By Liz McMillan  SYS-CON Events announced today that CrowdReviews.com has been named “Media Sponsor” of SYS-CON's 22nd International Cloud Expo, which will take place on June 5–7, 2018, at the Javits Center in New York City, NY.
CrowdReviews.com is a transparent online platform for determining which ... Mar. 5, 2018 09:00 PM EST Reads: 3,279 |
By Elizabeth White  Kubernetes is an open source system for automating deployment, scaling, and management of containerized applications. Kubernetes was originally built by Google, leveraging years of experience with managing container workloads, and is now a Cloud Native Compute Foundation (CNCF) project... Mar. 5, 2018 08:00 PM EST Reads: 3,715 |
By Elizabeth White  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 06:00 PM EST Reads: 2,787 |
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 comput... Mar. 5, 2018 05:00 AM EST Reads: 10,863 |
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... Mar. 4, 2018 05:00 PM EST Reads: 2,849 |
By Liz McMillan  As many know, the first generation of Cloud Management Platform (CMP) solutions were designed for managing virtual infrastructure (IaaS) and traditional applications. But that's no longer enough to satisfy evolving and complex business requirements.
In his session at 21st Cloud Expo, ... Mar. 4, 2018 01:15 PM EST Reads: 4,507 |
By Scott Davis  For DevOps teams, the concepts behind service-oriented architecture (SOA) are nothing new. A style of software design initially made popular in the 1990s, SOA was an alternative to a monolithic application; essentially a collection of coarse-grained components that communicated with ea... Mar. 3, 2018 08:30 PM EST Reads: 3,142 |
By Pat Romanski  We all know that end users experience the Internet primarily with mobile devices. From an app development perspective, we know that successfully responding to the needs of mobile customers depends on rapid DevOps – failing fast, in short, until the right solution evolves in your custom... Mar. 3, 2018 08:00 AM EST Reads: 2,832 |
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 contr... Mar. 3, 2018 05:00 AM EST Reads: 3,834 |
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 b... Mar. 2, 2018 07:45 PM EST Reads: 4,618 |
By Kevin Benedict  Most of us understand that artificial intelligence (AI) offers opportunities for productivity improvements in the form of speed, automation, standardized actions and responses, plus the opportunity for continuous improvements via machine learning. These opportunities are enabled by dat... Mar. 2, 2018 06:00 PM EST Reads: 3,043 |
By Kevin Jackson  Is there more than bitcoin to blockchain?
Absolutely, because today's blockchain is opening up a pathtowards the delivery of trusted online services.
To understand this statement, you need to see blockchain as more that it's more famous bitcoin use case. As a fundamental digital tool... Mar. 2, 2018 05:00 PM EST Reads: 5,066 |
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. ... Mar. 1, 2018 08:00 PM EST Reads: 1,531 |
By Pat Romanski  ChatOps is an emerging topic that has led to the wide availability of integrations between group chat and various other tools/platforms. Currently, HipChat is an extremely powerful collaboration platform due to the various ChatOps integrations that are available. However, DevOps automa... Mar. 1, 2018 06:00 PM EST Reads: 7,107 |
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 ... Mar. 1, 2018 05:15 PM EST Reads: 1,374 |
By Nate Vickery  Blockchain offers impeccable security with its cryptography-based decentralized system as well as the plethora of possible uses retailers could exploit in the near future.
In a world of increasing cyberattacks, internet fraud and online hacking, blockchain comes as a breath of fresh ... Mar. 1, 2018 12:30 PM EST Reads: 3,196 |
By Progress Blog  Are machines really intelligent? Learn the answer and how it can affect your business. It's machine-learning 101 for curious business leaders out there. Autonomous cars taking us on our favorite and most efficient routes, virtual assistants serving up the exact data a doctor needs to d... Feb. 27, 2018 11:45 PM EST Reads: 1,665 |
By Elizabeth White  "Storpool does only block-level storage so we do one thing extremely well. The growth in data is what drives the move to software-defined technologies in general and software-defined storage," explained Boyan Ivanov, CEO and co-founder at StorPool, in this SYS-CON.tv interview at 16th ... Feb. 27, 2018 11:00 PM EST Reads: 1,836 Replies: 1 |
By Peter Silva Welcome to 2018! If the kids in the back seat have been chanting, ‘Are we there yet?, Are we there yet?’ you can tell them, ‘Yes! Now, Get out the car!’ If, like me, you’ve taken a couple weeks off to enjoy the holidays and New Year, you might be wondering where to start again […... Jan. 10, 2018 08:00 AM EST Reads: 118 |
By Peter Silva In this Lightboard Post of the Week, I answer a question about 2FA and SSO with AD/RSA on BIG-IP by creating a SSO Credential Mapping policy agent in the Visual Policy Editor, that takes the username and password from the logon page, and maps them to variables to be used for SSO servic... Jan. 26, 2018 08:00 AM EST Reads: 166 |
By Peter Silva If you missed our initial issue of the DC Chronicles, check it out here. The Chronicles are intended to keep you updated on DevCentral happenings and highlight some of the cool articles you may have missed over the last month. Welcome. First up, 2018 will be the year that we publicly o... Feb. 6, 2018 08:00 AM EST Reads: 102 |
By Peter Silva Today, let’s take a look at Application Connector. Application Connector connects public clouds to your application service infrastructure within cloud interconnects or data centers. This enables the use of public cloud resources as part of your compute infrastructure while also perfor... Feb. 13, 2018 08:00 AM EST |
By Peter Silva Last week we covered the basic overview of Application Connector and this week we’ll look at how to set it up. [The link to the setup guide] Settle in, this is detailed. F5 Application Connector is made up of two components: The Proxy and the Service Center. Step One is to set up the S... Feb. 20, 2018 07:23 PM EST |
By Kevin Jackson byKevin L. Jackson & Dez BlanchfieldToday’s real business innovation is happening at the seams of industries. Moreover, after listening to this podcast between Sanjay Rishi, GM Global Cloud Consulting Services at IBM Global Business Services, and Dez Blanchfield, you will understan... Feb. 18, 2018 11:20 PM EST Reads: 167 |
By Kevin Jackson Graeme Thompson, SVP/CIO InformaticaThe Big Pivot Podcast explores Digital transformation and its effect on every business in every industry. In exploring the business benefits of data-driven transformation, it is for CIOs who want to have a real impact on serving customers, empowerin... Feb. 20, 2018 07:08 PM EST |
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. 20, 2018 05:45 PM EST Reads: 1,807 |
By Kevin Jackson Credit: Shutterstockby Kevin Jackson & Dez BlanchfieldIBM recently launched an exciting new project in the form of a podcast series produced and hosted Dez Blanchfield, appropriately titled the “Pioneers Of Possible. This new podcast series sets out to connect listeners from a... Jan. 5, 2018 01:59 PM EST Reads: 198 |
By Kevin Jackson Over the past few years, the data storage market has changed radically. The traditional hierarchy of directories, sub-directories, and files referred to as file storage has given way to object storage, individual storage objects. While file storage was designed to help humans interact ... Jan. 23, 2018 01:20 AM EST Reads: 188 |
By Kevin Jackson By Kevin Jackson & Dez BlanchfieldDigital Transformation often needs Intelligent Automation. This type of change is the focus of a recent “Pioneers of Possible” podcast. In discussion with Elli Hurst - Vice President, Global Automation - IBM Global Business Services (GBS), De... Jan. 30, 2018 08:09 PM EST Reads: 124 |
By Rostyslav Demush  A few years ago – in the early days of Blockchain – a lot of people were taken with the idea of a multifunctional chain on which all transactions could be handled. After Ethereum was launched in 2014, its advocates were talking themselves hoarse about the transformative opportunities t... Feb. 5, 2018 11:00 AM EST Reads: 3,200 |
By Jamie Madison  2017 was the year of ransomware. Ransomware has been around for years, but the victims were typically non-technical consumers: the impact, although serious from the victim's perspective, was limited. In 2017 we've seen huge ransomware attacks close down hospitals and businesses, puttin... Jan. 11, 2018 02:00 PM EST Reads: 2,499 |
By Peter Silva It’s that time of year when we gift and re-gift, just like this text from last year. And the perfect opportunity to re-post, re-purpose and re-use all my 2017 entries. If you missed any of the 64 attempts including 16 videos, here they are wrapped in one simple entry. I read somewhere ... Dec. 29, 2017 08:00 AM EST Reads: 171 |
By Automic Blog  Robotic process automation (RPA), a concept that has emerged over recent years, is still in a state of rapid evolution, existing without a clearly defined end-state or direction. As such, vendors are experimenting and pushing their products into uncharted waters - successfully or other... Dec. 30, 2017 12:30 PM EST Reads: 2,503 |
By Shelly Palmer  While walking around the office I happened upon a relatively new employee dragging emails from his inbox into folders. I asked why and was told, “I’m just answering emails and getting stuff off my desk.” An empty inbox may be emotionally satisfying to look at, but in practice, you shou... Dec. 29, 2017 12:00 PM EST Reads: 2,324 |