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With major technology companies and startups seriously embracing Cloud
strategies, now is the perfect time to attend 21st Cloud Expo, October 31 -
November 2, 2017, at the Santa Clara Convention Center, CA, and June 12-14,
2018, at the Javits Center in New York City, NY, and learn what is going on,
contribute to the discussions, and ensure that your enterprise is on the
right path to Digital Transformation.
Track 1. Enterprise Cloud | Cloud-Native
Track 2. Big Data | Analytics
Track 3. Internet of Things | IIoT | Smart Cities
Track 4. DevOps | Digital Transformation (DX)
Track 5. APIs | Cloud Security | Mobility
Track 6. AI | ML | DL | Cognitive
Track 7. Containers | Microservices | Serverless
Track 8. FinTech | InsurTech | Token Economy
Cloud Expo | @ThingsExpo 2017 Silicon Valley
(October 31 - November 2, 2017, Santa Clara Convention Center, CA)
Cloud Expo | @ThingsExpo... (more)
In his keynote [email protected], Chris Matthieu, Director of IoT Engineering
at Citrix and co-founder and CTO of Octoblu, focused on building an IoT
platform and company. He provided a behind-the-scenes look at Octoblu's
platform, business, and pivots along the way (including the Citrix
acquisition of Octoblu).
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Speaker Bio:
Chris Matthieu is the co-founder and CTO of Octoblu, a revolutionary
real-time IoT platform recently acquired by Citrix. Octoblu connects things,
systems, people and clouds to a global mesh network allowing users to
automate and control design flows, processes and sensor data, and
analyze/react to real-time events and messages as well as big data trends and
anomalies.
Prior to co-founding Octoblu, Chris was the founder of Nodester, an
open-source Node.JS PaaS which was acquired by AppFog and the founder of
Teleku, ... (more)
SYS-CON Events announced today that MobiDev, a client-oriented software
development company, will exhibit at SYS-CON's 21st International Cloud
Expo®, which will take place October 31-November 2, 2017, at the Santa Clara
Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA.
MobiDev is a software company that develops and delivers turn-key mobile
apps, websites, web services, and complex software systems for startups and
enterprises. Since 2009 it has grown from a small group of passionate
engineers and business managers to a full-scale mobile software company with
over 200 developers, designers, quality assurance engineers, project managers
in house, specializing in the world-class mobile and web development.
The company's main focus is saving the time and efforts of clients by
providing full-cycle product development, offering dedicated project teams
for long-term collaborations... (more)
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Using Architectural Analysis to Design and Deliver Microservices
For organizations that have amassed large sums of software complexity, taking
a microservices approach is the first step toward DevOps and continuous
improvement / development. Integrating system-level analysis with
microservices makes it easier to change and add functionality to applications
at any time without the increase of risk.
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Before you start big transformation projects or a cloud migration, make sure
these changes won't take down your entire organization.
In his session at @DevOpsSummit at 20th Cloud Expo, Pavel Rabinovich, Sr.
Program Manager at CAST, discussed how microservices + system-level analysis
= the perfect combination in creating a nimble organization that can flex
with new technologies and demand... (more)
"We are a monitoring company. We work with Salesforce, BBC, and quite a few
other big logos. We basically provide monitoring for them, structure for
their cloud services and we fit into the DevOps world" explained David
Gildeh, Co-founder and CEO of Outlyer, in this SYS-CON.tv interview at DevOps
Summit at 20th Cloud Expo, held June 6-8, 2017, at the Javits Center in New
York City, NY.
DevOps at Cloud Expo taking place October 31 - November 2, 2017, at the
Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA, will feature technical
sessions from a rock star conference faculty and the leading industry players
in the world.
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The widespread success of cloud computing is driving the DevOps revolution in
enterprise IT. Now as never before, development teams must communicate and
collaborate in a dynamic, 24/7/365 environment. There is no time... (more)
Internet of @ThingsExpo, taking place October 31 - November 2, 2017, at the
Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA, is co-located with 21st
Cloud Expo and will feature technical sessions from a rock star conference
faculty and the leading industry players in the world.
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The Internet of Things (IoT) is the most profound change in personal and
enterprise IT since the creation of the Worldwide Web more than 20 years ago.
All major researchers estimate there will be tens of billions devices -
computers, smartphones, tablets, and sensors - connected to the Internet by
2020. This number will continue to grow at a rapid pace for the next several
decades.
With major technology companies and startups seriously embracing IoT
strategies, now is the perfect time to attend @ThingsExpo in Silicon Valley.
Learn what is going on, contribute... (more)
Conversational Things - How Ambient Devices and Frictionless Engagement Are
Transforming Our Lives
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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.
View Keynote ▸ Here
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Enter the conversational interface revolution, combining bots we can
literally talk with, gesture to, and even direct with our thoughts, with
embedded artificial intelligence, which can process our conversational
commands and orchestrate the outcomes we request across our personal and
professional realm of co... (more)
SYS-CON Events announced today that Pulzze Systems will exhibit at 21st
International Cloud Expo which will take place October 31 - November 2, 2017
at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA. For more
information, visit http://www.interactor.com.
Pulzze Systems, Inc. is a technology company headquartered in Silicon Valley
creating new ways to build smart solutions using any device and service.
"We build IoT infrastructure products - when you have to integrate different
devices, different systems and cloud you have to build an application to do
that but we eliminate the need to build an application. Our products can
integrate any device, any system, any cloud regardless of protocol,"
explained Peter Jung, Chief Product Officer at Pulzze Systems, in this
SYS-CON.tv interview [email protected], held November 1-3, 2016, at the Santa
Clara Convention Center... (more)
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The Need for the Public Cloud Alternative
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.
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Private cloud infrastructure based on composable technologies result in
environments that are suitable for all your workloads while also providing
you with many of the benefits of the public cloud, and without the pitfalls.
Composable infrastructure is an emerging ... (more)
For a phrase that’s being thrown around a lot recently, what does
“Digital Transformation” really mean? When someone says that they want to
digitally transform their business, what does one really mean, why do they
want to do it, and should they approach this “digital transformation”
process?
First off, let’s start with a definition. If we don’t know what we are
trying to achieve, then how do we know how to get there? Or to quote the
famous Greek philosopher Yogi Berra: “If you don’t know where you are
going, you’ll end up someplace else.”
In a recent blog “How To Achieve Digital Transformation,” I stated with
the following definition of Digital Transformation:
“The coupling of granular, real-time data (e.g., smartphones, connected
devices, smart appliances, wearables, mobile commerce, video surveillance)
with modern technologies (e.g., cloud native apps, big data ... (more)
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Context, Wearables, and WebRTC: Communications Next
Big Data, cloud, analytics, contextual information, wearable tech, sensors,
mobility, and WebRTC: together, these advances have created a perfect storm
of technologies that are disrupting and transforming classic communications
models and ecosystems.
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In his session at @ThingsExpo, Erik Perotti, Senior Manager of New Ventures
on Plantronics' Innovation team, provided an overview of this technological
shift, including associated business and consumer communications impacts, and
opportunities it may enable, complement or entirely transform.
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Speaker Bio
Erik Perotti is Senior Manager of New Ventures on Plantronics' Innovation
team. His core mission is the ongoing analysis and evolution of online user
eng... (more)
@CloudExpo Stories By Pat Romanski  Both SaaS vendors and SaaS buyers are going “all-in” to hyperscale IaaS platforms such as AWS, which is disrupting the SaaS value proposition. Why should the enterprise SaaS consumer pay for the SaaS service if their data is resident in adjacent AWS S3 buckets? If both SaaS sellers and buyers are using the same cloud tools, automation and pay-per-transaction model offered by IaaS platforms, then why not host the “shrink-wrapped” software in the customers’ cloud? Further, serverless computing, cl... Jun. 26, 2017 05:30 AM EDT Reads: 1,656 | By Liz McMillan 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. Jun. 26, 2017 05:30 AM EDT Reads: 1,716 | By Elizabeth White  In his session at @ThingsExpo, Eric Lachapelle, CEO of the Professional Evaluation and Certification Board (PECB), provided an overview of various initiatives to certify the security of connected devices and future trends in ensuring public trust of IoT. Eric Lachapelle is the Chief Executive Officer of the Professional Evaluation and Certification Board (PECB), an international certification body. His role is to help companies and individuals to achieve professional, accredited and worldwide re... Jun. 26, 2017 05:30 AM EDT Reads: 1,598 | By Nishanth Kadiyala  Join us at Cloud Expo June 6-8 to find out how to securely connect your cloud app to any cloud or on-premises data source – without complex firewall changes. More users are demanding access to on-premises data from their cloud applications. It’s no longer a “nice-to-have” but an important differentiator that drives competitive advantages. It’s the new “must have” in the hybrid era. Users want capabilities that give them a unified view of the data to get closer to customers and grow business. The... Jun. 26, 2017 04:00 AM EDT Reads: 2,349 | By Elizabeth White  The current age of digital transformation means that IT organizations must adapt their toolset to cover all digital experiences, beyond just the end users’. Today’s businesses can no longer focus solely on the digital interactions they manage with employees or customers; they must now contend with non-traditional factors. Whether it's the power of brand to make or break a company, the need to monitor across all locations 24/7, or the ability to proactively resolve issues, companies must adapt to... Jun. 26, 2017 03:45 AM EDT Reads: 1,737 | By Elizabeth White  It is ironic, but perhaps not unexpected, that many organizations who want the benefits of using an Agile approach to deliver software use a waterfall approach to adopting Agile practices: they form plans, they set milestones, and they measure progress by how many teams they have engaged. Old habits die hard, but like most waterfall software projects, most waterfall-style Agile adoption efforts fail to produce the results desired. The problem is that to get the results they want, they have to ch... Jun. 26, 2017 03:30 AM EDT Reads: 1,485 | By Liz McMillan  Wooed by the promise of faster innovation, lower TCO, and greater agility, businesses of every shape and size have embraced the cloud at every layer of the IT stack – from apps to file sharing to infrastructure. The typical organization currently uses more than a dozen sanctioned cloud apps and will shift more than half of all workloads to the cloud by 2018. Such cloud investments have delivered measurable benefits. But they’ve also resulted in some unintended side-effects: complexity and risk. ... Jun. 26, 2017 03:15 AM EDT Reads: 1,520 | By Liz McMillan  The taxi industry never saw Uber coming. Startups are a threat to incumbents like never before, and a major enabler for startups is that they are instantly “cloud ready.” If innovation moves at the pace of IT, then your company is in trouble. Why? Because your data center will not keep up with frenetic pace AWS, Microsoft and Google are rolling out new capabilities. In his session at 20th Cloud Expo, Don Browning, VP of Cloud Architecture at Turner, posited that disruption is inevitable for comp... Jun. 26, 2017 03:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,485 | By Elizabeth White  In 2014, Amazon announced a new form of compute called Lambda. We didn't know it at the time, but this represented a fundamental shift in what we expect from cloud computing. Now, all of the major cloud computing vendors want to take part in this disruptive technology.
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He will be sharing bes... Jun. 25, 2017 11:15 PM EDT Reads: 440 | By Liz McMillan  "Loom is applying artificial intelligence and machine learning into the entire log analysis process, from start to finish and at the end you will get a human touch,” explained Sabo Taylor Diab, Vice President, Marketing at Loom Systems, in this SYS-CON.tv interview at 20th Cloud Expo, held June 6-8, 2017, at the Javits Center in New York City, NY. Jun. 25, 2017 09:15 PM EDT Reads: 1,716 |
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In the decade following his article, cloud computing further cemented Carr’s perspective. Compute, storage, and network resources have become simple utilities, available at the proverbial turn of the faucet. The value they provide is immense, but the cloud playing field is amazingly level. Carr’s quote above presaged the cloud to a T.
Today, however, we’re in the digital era. Mark Andreesen’s ‘software is eating the world’ prognostication is coming to pass, as enterprises realize they must become software companies to remain competitive.
The value IT brings to such companies is unquestiona...
As more technologies become software-defined, their adoption demands a significant shift in thinking about how a business organizes its value stream. This shift may be difficult, but it enables you to anticipate changes and position your business to react when software-defined technologies emerge. Recently a new set of tools and practices has emerged to create and manage environments. Known as Infrastructure as Code (IaC), it enables infrastructure management through a software-defined layer.
IoT solutions exploit operational data generated by Internet-connected smart “things” for the purpose of gaining operational insight and producing “better outcomes” (for example, create new business models, eliminate unscheduled maintenance, etc.). The explosive proliferation of IoT solutions will result in an exponential growth in the volume of IoT data, precipitating significant Information Governance issues: who owns the IoT data, what are the rights/duties of IoT solutions adopters towards this data, how to deal with Data Residency and Data Privacy issues, how to manage the lifecycle of Io...
Companies have always been concerned that traditional enterprise software is slow and complex to install, often disrupting critical and time-sensitive operations during roll-out. With the growing need to integrate new digital technologies into the enterprise to transform business processes, this concern has become even more pressing. A 2016 Panorama Consulting Solutions study revealed that enterprise resource planning (ERP) projects took an average of 21 months to install, with 57 percent of these projects experiencing timeline overruns. A span of almost two years can be a long time when disr...
The size of competitors and the longevity of their brands, are less predictive of future success than the quality and speed of their information logistics systems, and their ability to use it as a competitive advantage. More data is being generated today than ever before, and successful companies are investing in business analytics and big data solutions to mine competitive advantages. There is a new sense of urgency today as businesses realize data has a shelf life, and the value of it diminishes rapidly over time. In an always-connected world where consumers and their needs are transient, ...
A look across the tech landscape at the disruptive technologies that are increasing in prominence and speculate as to which will be most impactful for communications – namely, AI and Cloud Computing. In his session at 20th Cloud Expo, Curtis Peterson, VP of Operations at RingCentral, highlighted the current challenges of these transformative technologies and shared strategies for preparing your organization for these changes. This “view from the top” outlined the latest trends and developments in AI and Cloud Computing technology innovation for enterprise communications to help you shape your ...
The Internet of Things (IoT) has evolved quite rapidly, especially if you consider how long it took for little packet-switching networks like ARPANET to morph into today’s nearly ubiquitous internet. Our nascent IoT ecosystem is already populated by billions of sensors and connected devices, hundreds of millions of servers, and thousands of hybrid clouds serving billions of people… all of them perpetually producing and/or consuming data in an explosion of information.
What's disruptive innovation, and why does it matter to leaders in the C-suite? It's how the savvy non-conformist will target market opportunities. How does this happen, when established companies seem to have the advantage? Creative software developers can quickly apply new technologies and digital business models to capture untapped demand.
With major technology companies and startups seriously embracing Cloud strategies, now is the perfect time to attend 21st Cloud Expo October 31 - November 2, 2017, at the Santa Clara Convention Center, CA, and June 12-14, 2018, at the Javits Center in New York City, NY, and learn what is going on, contribute to the discussions, and ensure that your enterprise is on the right path to Digital Transformation.
Many organizations are associating data monetization with selling their data. But selling data is not a trivial task, especially for organizations whose primary business relies on its data. Organizations new to selling data need to be concerned with privacy and Personally Identifiable Information (PII), data quality and accuracy, data transmission reliability, pricing, packaging, marketing, sales, support, etc. Companies such as Nielsen, Experian and Acxiom are experts at selling data because that’s their business; they have built a business around gathering, aggregating, cleansing, aligning, ...
In his session at Cloud Expo, Alan Winters, an entertainment executive/TV producer turned serial entrepreneur, presented a success story of an entrepreneur who has both suffered through and benefited from offshore development across multiple businesses:
The smart choice, or how to select the right offshore development partner
Warning signs, or how to minimize chances of making the wrong choice
Collaboration, or how to establish the most effective work processes
Budget control, or how to maximize project results within possible constraints 
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