Those investing in DevOps models specifically can expect to improve their security, compliance, and risk-mitigation outcomes. This next BriefingsDirect DevOps thought leadership discussion explores the impact of improved development on security and how those investing in DevOps models specifically can expect to improve their security, compliance, and risk-mitigation outcomes.
In his session at @ThingsExpo, Ivan R. Judson, Senior Engineer at Microsoft, will explore AllJoyn, an application level protocol for the Internet of Things supported by Microsoft and other members of the AllSeen Alliance. He will present the Cordova plugin that enables Cordova-based applications to talk to AllJoyn-enabled devices and present open source clients for the Lifx light bulb, LG television, and a mobile chat application.
I am not a data scientist or an expert in knowing how to build candlestick charts from historical stock prices. I am however a data enthusiast and it fascinates me when I hear people talk about Big Data, like they invented it. Sorry, no offense meant, but really how did we just jump to Big Data without even creating an understanding about any kind of data? Information in any shape, form or face is a brilliant resource. We work with information every day and, if you look at it, nothing runs without information. Every business of every size across the world works on information – even the smallest corner store to the corporations working in large glass towers. This information is of many types: accounting information, sales data, marketing stats, customer information, and purchase order information, patient information, hosting information and so on. Everything we know has some kind of information associated with it. Do we agree so far? Yes we do.
You can find Preview of Azure PowerShell in PowerShell gallery now. Later on an MSI or WebPI installer version of the preview will be added. The present 0.9.8 version will become 1.0 in due course and the preview is only for testing, not really for production.
The phrase that whoever “Fails to Plan” actually “Plans to Fail” also applies to cloud computing. Many organisations are therefor putting together a cloud strategy. The question is whether the establishment of a company-wide cloud strategy is the right way. After all, the use of Cloud is not an end but a means, or as the IT manager of a large Dutch retail organisation recently succinctly put it: “For us cloud is not a strategy, but a useful set of tactics”.
SYS-CON Events announced today that O'Reilly Media has been named “Media Sponsor” of SYS-CON's 17th International Cloud Expo®, which will take place on November 3–5, 2015, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA. O'Reilly spreads the knowledge of innovators through its technology books, online services, research, and tech conferences. An active participant in the technology community, O'Reilly has a long history of advocacy, meme-making, and evangelism.
Many would argue that our critical infrastructure energy projects are only as reliable and secure as the technology serving them. Security will ultimately be the limiting factor on how much IoT is deployed. The traditional trade off of is either “easy to use” or “secure”, but not both is still relevant.
There's no doubt that the Internet of Things is driving the next wave of innovation. Google has spent billions over the past few months vacuuming up companies that specialize in smart appliances and machine learning. Already, Philips light bulbs, Audi automobiles, and Samsung washers and dryers can communicate with and be controlled from mobile devices. To take advantage of the opportunities the Internet of Things brings to your business, you'll want to start preparing now.
Some time ago, I wrote an article entitled, "What is the Internet of Things?" It sought to help put the Internet of Things (IoT) into perspective and helped describe a dream about what the IoT could eventually become. Technologies always mature and people's feelings toward them change. In addition, the reality of the Internet of Things begins to set in. The vaporware and promises of yesterday fade in the face of what the technology can actually do and how people actually expect to use it. Many people are saying that the IoT is losing steam, but that's not really the case. The IoT is maturing and becoming a more useful technology space that developers can actually employ to create some really compelling digital experiences. This article looks at the IoT through the lens of reality to state what the IoT isn't, which means that you discover what it really is all about.
The age of mobile applications, pervasive use of social media and growing demand for accurate consumer data are converging to drive significant changes in how organizations connect with and market to their respective customer bases — as well as the technologies they use to do so. It’s becoming increasingly clear that legacy technologies that weren’t purpose-built for consumer-facing use cases will no longer suffice. Take, for instance, identity and access management (IAM) systems. Historically used to manage a business’s internal employee records, many brands leverage modified IAM systems to manage their customer identity records as well. These brands are finding, however, that there are significant differences between managing corporate data resources and managing exabytes of consumer-generated data, and these differences simply can’t be addressed effectively with IAM systems.
Harbinger Systems, a global company providing software technology services, today announced that it is participating as a Speaker and an Exhibitor at Cloud Expo Silicon Valley from November 3-5, 2015, at the Santa Clara Convention Center, CA. Managed by SYS-CON Events, the 17th International Cloud Expo brings the world of Cloud Computing, Big Data/analytics, Internet of Things and DevOps on one platform. “Participating as a speaker and an exhibitor for the third consecutive year makes this event special for us. This is an excellent platform to meet with industry veterans and exchange views on Cloud, Data Science and IoT. We are making investments in R&D and incubation initiatives in this realm; helping our customers stay ahead of the industry. We are thrilled to be taking part in Cloud Expo event,” said Suhas Joshi, Vice President - Technology, Harbinger Systems.
Forward-thinking CEOs ensure that their organization has access to the latest digital business technologies. But in today’s global networked economy, that’s not enough. If you believe that digital transformation knowledge is power, then fully mastering the ability to apply your IT capabilities into actionable wisdom is infinitely more potent. The Harvard Business Review (HBR) market research team recently completed a global study of the path that several organizations have taken to develop and deliver the digital learning support resources that their key internal stakeholders both need and want.
The iteration of constraints and initial conditions that drive and influence self-organization within the enterprise is the actual role of an architect who is architecting emergent behavior – in particular, business agility. You may call such activities something else – management practice or some such – and to be sure, we must reinvent management practice along the same lines as EA. But whatever we call it, there needs to be an understanding that creating the conditions that lead to effective self-organizing teams is itself an architectural activity, an activity separate from the architectural activities such teams undertake when their goal is to implement a software system.
In his session at @ThingsExpo, Ivan R. Judson, Senior Engineer at Microsoft, will explore AllJoyn, an application level protocol for the Internet of Things supported by Microsoft and other members of the AllSeen Alliance. He will present the Cordova plugin that enables Cordova-based applications to talk to AllJoyn-enabled devices and present open source clients for the Lifx light bulb, LG television, and a mobile chat application.
The Internet of Things has dramatically changed the way we analyze behavior and is now in the process of boosting the way we use energy. Smart technologies are bursting into the retail space with solutions speaking to brands on improved marketing efforts, customer engagement, and optimization of floor plans. But one question has risen out of the chatter: How can the Internet of Things (IoT) improve energy efficiency? Not simply for retailers, but for commercial environments and homes (smart or not) as well?
Many would argue that our critical infrastructure energy projects are only as reliable and secure as the technology serving them. Security will ultimately be the limiting factor on how much IoT is deployed. The traditional trade off of is either “easy to use” or “secure”, but not both is still relevant.
Agema Systems, a provider of high performance Next-Gen Open Networking platform, invites network and virtualization professionals to attend Agema portfolio of 1G/10G/25G/40G and 100G product introduction at Cloud Expo® 2015, November 3-5 at the Santa Clara Convention Center. Agema will introduce high-speed, high-performance open networking white box switching platforms that enable networking professionals to transform legacy packet networks, reducing CAPEX and OPEX. While at Agema exhibit booth #317, attendees can obtain Agema product portfolio information for network virtualization and SDN implementation, learn about Agema's extensible modular NOS (Network Operating System), "Agema OS" and participate in a raffle drawing for Apple® iPad. The Agema OS integrates traditional L2/L3 protocol suites and restful APIs/flow agent in hybrid box providing seamless arbitration for controller base network flow and protocol base flow control.
SYS-CON Events announced today that Sensorberg will exhibit at 17th Cloud Expo, which will take place on November 3–5, 2015, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA. Since 2013, Sensorberg GmbH, based in Berlin, has provided a beacon-based, platform-independent, all-in-one proximity campaign solution. The Sensorberg cloud-based management platform is the company’s core and enables proximity campaigns to be planned, designed and managed. Sensorberg provides open source SDKs (software-development kits) that can be incorporated into any app, rendering it beacon-compatible, and supports all beacon standards: Apple’s iBeacon, Google’s Eddystone and the Microsoft 10 standard.
Harbinger Systems, a global company providing software technology services, today announced that it is participating as a Speaker and an Exhibitor at Cloud Expo Silicon Valley from November 3-5, 2015, at the Santa Clara Convention Center, CA. Managed by SYS-CON Events, the 17th International Cloud Expo brings the world of Cloud Computing, Big Data/analytics, Internet of Things and DevOps on one platform. “Participating as a speaker and an exhibitor for the third consecutive year makes this event special for us. This is an excellent platform to meet with industry veterans and exchange views on Cloud, Data Science and IoT. We are making investments in R&D and incubation initiatives in this realm; helping our customers stay ahead of the industry. We are thrilled to be taking part in Cloud Expo event,” said Suhas Joshi, Vice President - Technology, Harbinger Systems.
Logz.io, the Predictive ELK (Elasticsearch, Logstash and Kibana) log analytics cloud service company, announced today that it was chosen to speak at DevOps Summit, which will take place on November 3-5 in Santa Clara, California. Logz.io will explore the entire process that we have undergone – through research, benchmarking, implementation, optimization, and customer success – in developing a processing engine that can handle petabytes of data. We will also discuss the requirements of such an engine in terms of scalability, resilience, security, and availability along with how the architecture accomplishes these requirements. Lastly, we will review the gory details of the technologies we have chosen, which are based mostly on open-source platforms including Kafka, Elasticsearch, and Docker as well as other proprietary technologies.
WebRTC services have already permeated corporate communications in the form of videoconferencing solutions. However, WebRTC has the potential of going beyond and catalyzing a new class of services providing more than calls with capabilities such as mass-scale real-time media broadcasting, enriched and augmented video, person-to-machine and machine-to-machine communications. In his session at @ThingsExpo, Luis Lopez, CEO of Kurento, will introduce the technologies required for implementing these ideas and some early experiments performed in the Kurento open source software community in areas such as entertainment, video surveillance, interactive media broadcasting, gaming or advertising. He will conclude with a discussion of their potential business applications beyond plain call models.
The handling of "data" has been limited to text chat and file download - all other data sharing seems to end with screensharing. What is holding back a more intensive use of peer-to-peer data? In her session at @ThingsExpo, Dr Silvia Pfeiffer, WebRTC Applications Team Lead at National ICT Australia, will look at different existing uses of peer-to-peer data sharing and how it can become useful in a live session to enable richer collaboration using WebRTC and HTML5.
SYS-CON Events announced today that Chris Matthieu, Director of IoT Engineering at Citrix and co-founder and CTO of Octoblu, will keynote at the 17th International Cloud Expo®, which will take place on November 3-5, 2015, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA. His keynote "How We Built and Scaled an IoT Platform and Business" will focus on building an IoT platform and company. He will provide a behind-the-scenes look at Octoblu’s platform, business, and pivots along the way (including the Citrix acquisition of Octoblu).
I can’t say I was entirely surprised when I saw a direct correlation between people who played Magic: The Gathering growing up and people in the DevOps space now. I loved Magic: The Gathering growing up and so did most of my co-workers. Building out decks, trading cards, and finding the perfect combinations to destroy my opponents were all what made the game worth while to us. If you are anything like me, you still flip through your old deck every now and again reminiscing on the good ol’ days of mountain dew and pizza bagels. But alas, we are adults, we work in IT and Magic: The Gathering has for many of us (not all) become a nostalgic memory fondly remembered.
The IoT's basic concept of collecting data from as many sources possible to drive better decision making, create process innovation and realize additional revenue has been in use at large enterprises with deep pockets for decades. So what has changed? In his session at @ThingsExpo, Prasanna Sivaramakrishnan, Solutions Architect at Red Hat, will discuss the impact commodity hardware, ubiquitous connectivity, and innovations in open source software are having on the connected universe of people, things and information in the IoT.