Cloud Evolution In his Opening Keynote at 21st Cloud Expo, John Considine, General Manager of IBM Cloud Infrastructure, led attendees through the exciting evolution of the cloud. He looked at this major disruption from the perspective of technology, business models, and what this means for enterprises of all sizes. Speaker Bio John Considine is General Manager of Cloud Infrastructure Services at IBM. In that role he is responsible for leading IBM's public cloud infrastructure including strategy, development, and offering management. To date, IBM has launched more than 50 cloud data centers that span the globe. He has been building advanced technology, delivering "as a service" solutions, and managing infrastructure services for the past 20 years. John joined IBM in 2015 as the Vice President of the IBM Cloud Innovation Lab where he was responsible for the architect... (more)

Thoughts on the Post-Quantum Computing Era | @ExpoDX #ArtificialIntelligence #DeepLearning #Quantum

With IBM, Google, and Microsoft pouring funding into the research of quantum computing, it's really starting to look like we are going to see the benefits in the next 5 - 10 years. Google may be just weeks from announcing they reached the quantum supremacy milestone and IBM may not be far behind either.  Today, I wanted to share my thoughts on how quantum computing may affect cryptography as we know it. Effects on cryptography When we talk about the basic cryptography used for things like TLS when you access your bank's website, the premise behind securing your data is surprisingly simple. The certificate uses a public key which is really just a large number that's the result of multiplying two prime numbers together.  This key has a size typically between 256 bits and 2048 bits. It's quite a large number.  To find the two factors via brute force, in today's classica... (more)

Blockchain as a Service | @ExpoDX #FinTech #Blockchain #IoT #IIoT #Bitcoin #Ethereum #SmartCities

The cloud wars rage on. The room is full of 800lb gorillas that have been battling over market share and supremacy for several years now. You know who the key players are - Amazon, Microsoft, Google and IBM - all still standing.  Three year ago, Gartner described the market as ‘still evolving and maturing'.  However, last year, they described the market as ‘in a state of upheaval' with many providers shifting their strategies as they struggle to obtain market share. Pricing battles have always been ongoing in the cloud wars. Surprisingly, in one sense, the pricing battles have made pricing a smaller consideration in the decision-making process. While there will be no abatement in that battle, vendors are searching for other ways to impact the decision-making process, such as by adding new features and capabilities. These include a variety of platform and software a... (more)

Seven Criteria for Evaluating a Blockchain Business | @ExpoDX #FinTech #Blockchain #DigitalTransformation

Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE Seven Criteria for Evaluating a Blockchain Business The insane world of cryptocurrency may be chock full of schemers, scammers, and sharks, but there is more to the world of blockchain than crypto. In fact, the blockchain story is bifurcating, with crypto and all its craziness on one side, and enterprise blockchain on the other. While it may be fun to poke our stick at the former, Intellyx’s focus is on enterprise digital transformation – which means that bona fide blockchain-based business models are a key part of this ongoing story of disruption. Regardless, we receive numerous pitches every day from all manner of blockchain-based companies, from the most serious to the silliest. When we set up a briefing with one of them, we need to quickly determine which camp it belongs in: serious enterprise play or crazy crypto? W... (more)

GoogleCloud #DigitalMarketing Keynote | @ExpoDX @VidyaNagarajan #AI #IoT #IIoT #DigitalTransformation

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 wants to communicate or sell. In their Day 3 Keynote at 21st Cloud Expo, Vidya Nagarajan, a Senior Product Manager at Google, and Greg Chambers, Global Group Director, Digital Innovation, Coca-Cola, discussed how from store operations and optimization to employee training and insights, all ultimately create the best customer experience both online and in-store. Speaker Bios 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, G... (more)

Data Performance Optimization | @CloudExpo @AvereSystems #AI #WebPerf

"Avere Systems deals with data performance optimization in the cloud or on-premise. Even to this day many organizations struggle with what we call the problem of data gravity - 'Where should I put the data?' - because the data dictates ultimately where the jobs are going to run," explained Scott Jeschonek, Director Cloud Solutions at Avere Systems, 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. DXWorldEXPO LLC, the producer of the world's most influential technology conferences and trade shows has announced the conference tracks for CloudEXPO | DXWorldEXPO 2018 New York. DXWordEXPO New York 2018, colocated with CloudEXPO New York 2018 will be held November 11-13, 2018, in New York City. Digital Transformation (DX) is a major focus with the introduction of DXWorldEXPO within the p... (more)

Reference Architecture for #Microservices | @CloudExpo #Serverless #DevOps

The goal of Microservices is to improve software delivery speed and increase system safety as scale increases. Microservices being modular these are faster to change and enables an evolutionary architecture where systems can change, as the business needs change. Microservices can scale elastically and by being service oriented can enable APIs natively. Microservices also reduce implementation and release cycle time and enables continuous delivery. This paper provides a logical overview of the Microservices Reference Architecture that highlights various sub systems needed to support Microservices deployment and execution. Introduction Switch over to Microservices is an hour of need in web application development and delivery and is crucial for the success of Enterprises today. Of late, enterprises are adopting technologies like analytics, mobility, social media, IoT... (more)

delaPlex to Exhibit at @CloudEXPO NY | #CloudNative #Serverless #AI #DevOps

DXWorldEXPO LLC announced today that delaPlex Software will exhibit at CloudEXPO | DXWorldEXPO 2018 New York, which will take place on November 11-13, 2018 in New York City, NY. 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 industry's business model, the innovative delaPlex Agile Business Framework brings an unmatched alliance of industry experts, across industries and functional skillsets, to clients anywhere around the world. Clients include firms across an array of industries including healthcare, hospitality, broadcast television, entertainment, manufacturing, energy and software technology. They have all come to recogniz... (more)

Customer Experience and #DigitalTransformation | @ExpoDX #AI #SmartCities

We have been traveling a lot lately. Why? Here at Regalix, we help large global companies with their customer success and sales enablement initiatives, which include things like digital marketing, knowledge management, customer experiences, sales operations, customer service and support, rewards and loyalty programs, etc., all of which are critical to the business and are today being digitally transformed. While helping businesses transform themselves in these areas we have seen and learned a great deal. Let me share some of the lessons we have learned.Org Charts, Centralization and Customer Experience ManagementWe have learned that businesses need a companywide customer experience (CX) leader with a centralized view and strategy. Too often companies have different people managing different segments of the customer journey in different ways and they don't communicat... (more)

Data Warehouse and Data Lake | @ExpoDX @Schmarzo #BigData #DataLake

This blog was written with the thoughtful assistance of David Leibowitz, Dell EMC Director of Business Intelligence, Analytics & Big Data 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. Maybe the best way to understand today’s role of the data warehouse is with a bit of history. And please excuse us if we take a bit of liberty with history (since we were there for most of this!). Phase 1: The Data Warehouse Era Phase 1: In the beginning, Gods (Ral... (more)

The Right Microservices | @CloudExpo @IBMcloud @IBMDevOps @JRMcGee #DevOps #Serverless #Microservices

Microservices: Choosing the Right Cloud Services and Tools 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 customers' relationship to your business. Whether you're decomposing an SOA monolith, or developing a new application cloud natively, it's not a question of using microservices - not doing so will be a path to eventual business failure. The real and more difficult question, in developing microservices-based applications, is this: What's the best combination of cloud services and tools to use to get the right results in the specific business situation in which you need to deliver what your end users' want. Considering that new stream... (more)