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 The move in recent years to cloud computing services and architectures has added significant pace to the application development and deployment environment. When enterprise IT can spin up large computing instances in just minutes, developers can also design and deploy in small time fra...Jan. 28, 2015 04:00 AM EST Reads: 2,605 |
 The Internet of Things is tied together with a thin strand that is known as time. Coincidentally, at the core of nearly all data analytics is a timestamp.
When working with time series data there are a few core principles that everyone should consider, especially across datasets where...Jan. 28, 2015 02:45 AM EST Reads: 2,947 |
 15th Cloud Expo, which took place Nov. 4-6, 2014, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA, expanded the conference content of @ThingsExpo, Big Data Expo, and DevOps Summit to include two developer events.
IBM held a Bluemix Developer Playground on November 5 and Elast...Jan. 28, 2015 02:30 AM EST Reads: 2,584 |
 Code Halos - aka "digital fingerprints" - are the key organizing principle to understand a) how dumb things become smart and b) how to monetize this dynamic.
In his session at @ThingsExpo, Robert Brown, AVP, Center for the Future of Work at Cognizant Technology Solutions, outlined res...Jan. 28, 2015 02:00 AM EST Reads: 2,885 |
 In their session at @ThingsExpo, Shyam Varan Nath, Principal Architect at GE, and Ibrahim Gokcen, who leads GE's advanced IoT analytics, focused on the Internet of Things / Industrial Internet and how to make it operational for business end-users. Learn about the challenges posed by ma...Jan. 28, 2015 01:00 AM EST Reads: 2,731 |
 How do APIs and IoT relate? The answer is not as simple as merely adding an API on top of a dumb device, but rather about understanding the architectural patterns for implementing an IoT fabric. There are typically two or three trends:
Exposing the device to a management framework
Ex...Jan. 28, 2015 12:30 AM EST Reads: 2,896 |
 Almost everyone sees the potential of Internet of Things but how can businesses truly unlock that potential. The key will be in the ability to discover business insight in the midst of an ocean of Big Data generated from billions of embedded devices via Systems of Discover. Businesses ...Jan. 28, 2015 12:00 AM EST Reads: 3,957 |
 BMC Software plans to acquire assets of CDB Software, Inc., a mainframe data management company that has developed utilities for managing IBM DB2 databases with virtually no outage. Focusing on the availability of mission-critical applications is strategic for BMC as it continues to he...Jan. 27, 2015 09:00 PM EST Reads: 819 |
 The Internet of Things (IoT) promises to evolve the way the world does business; however, understanding how to apply it to your company can be a mystery. Most people struggle with understanding the potential business uses or tend to get caught up in the technology, resulting in solutio...Jan. 27, 2015 06:15 PM EST Reads: 3,185 |
 IoT is still a vague buzzword for many people. In his session at @ThingsExpo, Mike Kavis, Vice President & Principal Cloud Architect at Cloud Technology Partners, discussed the business value of IoT that goes far beyond the general public's perception that IoT is all about wearables an...Jan. 27, 2015 06:15 PM EST Reads: 3,956 |
 Dale Kim is the Director of Industry Solutions at MapR. His background includes a variety of technical and management roles at information technology companies. While his experience includes work with relational databases, much of his career pertains to non-relational data in the areas...Jan. 27, 2015 06:00 PM EST Reads: 3,154 |
 The Internet of Things (IoT) is rapidly in the process of breaking from its heretofore relatively obscure enterprise applications (such as plant floor control and supply chain management) and going mainstream into the consumer space. More and more creative folks are interconnecting eve...Jan. 27, 2015 06:00 PM EST Reads: 2,901 |
 Software AG and Wipro Ltd. have announced a joint solution platform for streaming analytics that provides real-time actionable intelligence for the Internet of Things (IoT) market.
“The key to successfully addressing the IoT market is the ability to rapidly build and evolve apps that...Jan. 27, 2015 06:00 PM EST Reads: 833 |
 "People are a lot more knowledgeable about APIs now. There are two types of people who work with APIs - IT people who want to use APIs for something internal and the product managers who want to do something outside APIs for people to connect to them," explained Roberto Medrano, Execut...Jan. 27, 2015 02:30 PM EST Reads: 2,484 |
 Performance is the intersection of power, agility, control, and choice. If you value performance, and more specifically consistent performance, you need to look beyond simple virtualized compute. Many factors need to be considered to create a truly performant environment.
In his Gener...Jan. 27, 2015 02:15 PM EST Reads: 3,048 |
 Puppet Labs on Wednesday released the DevOps Salary Report, based on salary data gathered from Puppet Labs' industry-recognized State of DevOps Report. The data confirms that market demand for DevOps skills is growing, and that DevOps engineers are among the highest paid IT practitione...Jan. 27, 2015 02:00 PM EST Reads: 1,319 |
 Hardware will never be more valuable than on the day it hits your loading dock. Each day new servers are not deployed to production the business is losing money. While Moore's Law is typically cited to explain the exponential density growth of chips, a critical consequence of this is r...Jan. 27, 2015 02:00 PM EST Reads: 3,046 |
 In this scenarios approach Joe Thykattil, Technology Architect & Sales at TimeWarner / Navisite, presented examples that will allow business-savvy professionals to make informed decisions based on a sound business model. This model covered the technology options in detail as well as a ...Jan. 27, 2015 01:00 PM EST Reads: 1,898 |
 The term culture has had a polarizing effect among DevOps supporters. Some propose that culture change is critical for success with DevOps, but are remiss to define culture. Some talk about a DevOps culture but then reference activities that could lead to culture change and there are t...Jan. 27, 2015 12:45 PM EST Reads: 2,324 |
 The 3rd International Internet of @ThingsExpo, co-located with the 16th International Cloud Expo - to be held June 9-11, 2015, at the Javits Center in New York City, NY - announces that its Call for Papers is now open.
The Internet of Things (IoT) is the biggest idea since the creatio...Jan. 27, 2015 12:15 PM EST Reads: 2,881 |
 The 4th International DevOps Summit, co-located with16th International Cloud Expo – being held June 9-11, 2015, at the Javits Center in New York City, NY – announces that its Call for Papers is now open.
Born out of proven success in agile development, cloud computing, and process aut...Jan. 27, 2015 12:15 PM EST Reads: 3,516 |
 DevOps is all about agility. However, you don't want to be on a high-speed bus to nowhere. The right DevOps approach controls velocity with a tight feedback loop that not only consists of operational data but also incorporates business context. With a business context in the decision m...Jan. 27, 2015 12:00 PM EST Reads: 2,595 |
| The 3rd International Internet of @ThingsExpo, co-located with the 16th International Cloud Expo - to be held June 9-11, 2015, at the Javits Center in New York City, NY - announces that its Call for Papers is now open.
The Internet of Things (IoT) is the biggest idea since the creatio... Jan. 27, 2015 12:00 PM EST Reads: 7,772 Replies: 1 |
 "There is a natural synchronization between the business models, the IoT is there to support ,” explained Brendan O'Brien, Co-founder and Chief Architect of Aria Systems, in this SYS-CON.tv interview at the 15th International Cloud Expo®, held Nov 4–6, 2014, at the Santa Clara Conventi...Jan. 27, 2015 11:45 AM EST Reads: 3,458 |
 "Our premise is Docker is not enough. That's not a bad thing - we actually love Docker. At ActiveState all our products are based on open source technology and Docker is an up-and-coming piece of open source technology," explained Bart Copeland, President & CEO of ActiveState Software,...Jan. 27, 2015 11:45 AM EST Reads: 2,739 |
 The Internet of Things will put IT to its ultimate test by creating infinite new opportunities to digitize products and services, generate and analyze new data to improve customer satisfaction, and discover new ways to gain a competitive advantage across nearly every industry. In order...Jan. 27, 2015 11:45 AM EST Reads: 2,610 |
 Cloud and Big Data present unique dilemmas: embracing the benefits of these new technologies while maintaining the security of your organization's assets. When an outside party owns, controls and manages your infrastructure and computational resources, how can you be assured that sensi...Jan. 27, 2015 11:45 AM EST Reads: 2,533 |
 The BPM world is going through some evolution or changes where traditional business process management solutions really have nowhere to go in terms of development of the road map. In this demo at 15th Cloud Expo, Kyle Hansen, Director of Professional Services at AgilePoint, shows Agile...Jan. 27, 2015 11:30 AM EST Reads: 2,043 |
 “The age of the Internet of Things is upon us,” stated Thomas Svensson, senior vice-president and general manager EMEA, ThingWorx, “and working with forward-thinking companies, such as Elisa, enables us to deploy our leading technology so that customers can profit from complete, end-to...Jan. 27, 2015 11:00 AM EST Reads: 1,646 |
 The Internet of Things is not new. Historically, smart businesses have used its basic concept of leveraging data to drive better decision making and have capitalized on those insights to realize additional revenue opportunities. So, what has changed to make the Internet of Things one o...Jan. 27, 2015 10:45 AM EST Reads: 2,971 |
 From telemedicine to smart cars, digital homes and industrial monitoring, the explosive growth of IoT has created exciting new business opportunities for real time calls and messaging.
In his session at @ThingsExpo, Ivelin Ivanov, CEO and Co-Founder of Telestax, shared some of the new...Jan. 27, 2015 10:45 AM EST Reads: 3,097 |
 We certainly live in interesting technological times. And no more interesting than the current competing IoT standards for connectivity. Various standards bodies, approaches, and ecosystems are vying for mindshare and positioning for a competitive edge. It is clear that when the dust s...Jan. 27, 2015 10:30 AM EST Reads: 2,423 |
 More and more file-based and machine generated data is being created every day causing exponential data and content growth, and creating a management nightmare for IT managers.
What data centers really need to cope with this growth is a purpose-built tiered archive appliance that enab...Jan. 27, 2015 09:00 AM EST Reads: 2,433 |
 The consumption economy is here and so are cloud applications and solutions that offer more than subscription and flat fee models and at the same time are available on a pure consumption model, which not only reduces IT spend but also lowers infrastructure costs, and offers ease of use...Jan. 27, 2015 09:00 AM EST Reads: 2,055 |
 Recurring revenue models are great for driving new business in every market sector, but they are complex and need to be effectively managed to maximize profits. How you handle the range of options for pricing, co-terming and proration will ultimately determine the fate of your bottom l...Jan. 27, 2015 09:00 AM EST Reads: 2,558 |
 "Appcore has been around since January 2008. We exclusively built clouds for service providers. We've been working with CloudStack since about that same time and our software sits on top of CloudStack," stated Jeff Tegethoff, CEO of Appcore, in this SYS-CON.tv interview at 15th Cloud E...Jan. 27, 2015 09:00 AM EST Reads: 2,325 |
 IBM has announced a new strategic technology services agreement with Anthem, Inc., a health benefits company in the U.S. IBM has been selected to provide operational services for Anthem's mainframe and data center server and storage infrastructure for the next five years. Among the ben...Jan. 27, 2015 12:00 AM EST Reads: 1,385 |
 SYS-CON Media announced today that PagerDuty has launched a popular blog feed on DevOps Journal.
DevOps Journal is focused on this critical enterprise IT topic in the world of cloud computing. DevOps Journal brings valuable information to DevOps professionals who are transforming the ...Jan. 26, 2015 11:45 PM EST Reads: 1,482 |
 In this Women in Technology Power Panel at 15th Cloud Expo, moderated by Anne Plese, Senior Consultant, Cloud Product Marketing at Verizon Enterprise, Esmeralda Swartz, CMO at MetraTech; Evelyn de Souza, Data Privacy and Compliance Strategy Leader at Cisco Systems; Seema Jethani, Direc...Jan. 26, 2015 01:45 PM EST Reads: 2,144 |
 CodeFutures has announced Dan Lynn as its new CEO. Lynn assumes the role from Founder Cory Isaacson, who has joined RMS and will now serve as chairman of CodeFutures. Lynn brings more than 14 years of advanced technology and business success experience, and will help CodeFutures build ...Jan. 26, 2015 01:00 PM EST Reads: 1,483 |
