The time is ripe for high speed resilient software defined storage solutions with unlimited scalability. ISS has been working with the leading open source projects and developed a commercial high performance solution that is able to grow forever without performance limitations. In his session at DevOps Summit, Alex Gorbachev, President of Intelligent Systems Services Inc., will share foundation principles of Ceph architecture, as well as the design to deliver this storage to traditional SAN storage consumers.
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 frames that were unimaginable a few years ago. The consequent move toward lean, agile, and fast development leads to the need for the development and operations sides to work very closely together. Thus, DevOps becomes essential for any ambitious enterprise today. This Lunchtime Power Panel at DevOps Summit (http://DevOpsSummit.SYS-CON.com), was moderated by Andi Mann, VP of Strategic Solutions at CA Technologies. Monish Sharma, VP of Customer Success at ElasticBox; Myles Steinhauser, Software Development Engineer at Blue Box; Victoria Livschitz, CEO of Qubell Inc.; and Mark Levy, Sr. Product Marketing Manager at Serena Software go beyond the basics in a discussion of why DevOps is not only important for transformation, but is mission-critical for enterprises that want to stay in business.
GENBAND has announced that Tech Mahindra, a global leader in digital transformation, consulting and business re-engineering solutions has joined the GENBAND Kandy Partner Ecosystem. The alliance with Kandy enables Tech Mahindra to quickly deliver innovative, real time communications capabilities for enterprises and service providers around the world. Tech Mahindra is creating a center-of-excellence dedicated to leveraging the entire Kandy communications Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS). “We teamed with GENBAND because Kandy combines the best of both a carrier-strength backbone and a leading-edge PaaS that can quickly deploy real time communications capabilities across every industry and every business process,” said Ranganath R. Iyengar, Head of Product Engineering, Tech Mahindra. “We look forward to helping our customers create new sources of value and revenue from the Kandy toolset.”
As we approach the next @ThingsExpo, to be held June 9-11 at the Javits Center in New York, my thoughts naturally turn to the Internet of Things. The IoT is a leviathan—in the best possible sense of the term—that will sweep up most everything in the ocean of data and technology being created today and tomorrow. But rather than try to grasp all of its possible uses, for today I'm looking at “just” the Industrial Internet part. I just read a long paper co-authored by Tim Berners-Lee about the possibility of describing a “web science,” that is, discipline that combines the study involved in physical science with the engineering involved in computer science. There's a lot of talk of the semantic web in the paper as well. Written in 2006, the paper is entitled, “A Framework for Web Science,” and already seems dated in one aspect: it focuses on the search and retrieval that become such a powerful societal phenomenon with the creation of the Worldwide Web. The IoT, on the other hand, is primarily a data generation engine, not a searchable repository. The searches metamorphosize into the science of data analytics, much of it done in near real-time and real-time. Furthermore, the data appear at the edges of the IoT rather than from a central web-server resource. This is a fundamental re-thinking of what the Internet is and what it does. Privacy issues move from concerns about invasions of personal privacy to theft of corporate information—big companies may no longer be cavalier about this issue. The red cape of security will be waved in front of us all incessantly, even as security experts modulate the many complex layers—and degrees—of security that will be optimal along the information trail of IoT deployments. The semantic web—once referred in handwaving fashion as Web 3.0—does not go away. It was originally envisioned as a way to get a handle on proliferating data types, and the IoT will certainly be prolific in this area. But again, searches become analytics, and there will be an Oklahoma land rush of opportunities for software companies to stake their claims, while discovering numerous data lakes along the way. It's a huge topic, and one that, according to a new report from the World Economic Forum, threatens enormous disruption to a major sector of the world economy. “The Industrial Internet will afford emerging markets a unique opportunity to leapfrog developed countries in digital infrastructure,” says a guy from Chinese giant Huawei in this report. More on this later...
Need a crash course on what DevOps is, how to foster a collaborative environment, and how to measure the effectiveness? We created a DevOps course, which presents you with a series of interactive questions to test your knowledge. Having just viewed the course myself, I have to say it’s a great introduction to DevOps and what it means for the enterprise. Plus it has a number of key use cases to how our Application Intelligence Platform can help an organization transforming into a DevOps operating model.
Search-Enabled Applications are a new breed of applications that utilize a search index as their backbone for data retrieval. These applications can easily adapt to new data sets and provide access to both structured and unstructured data. They also provide faster data retrieval, are context-aware and enable access to all different types of data, which result in an extremely productive end-user experience. In his session at 16th Cloud Expo, Sushil Prabhu is the CEO of OpenCrowd, will discuss a wide variety of use cases ranging from database offloading to enterprise search, to business applications like compliance and how 360-degree view customer dashboards can be implemented using this new architecture.
In his session at DevOps Summit, Tapabrata Pal, Director of Enterprise Architecture at Capital One, will tell a story about how Capital One has embraced Agile and DevOps Security practices across the Enterprise – driven by Enterprise Architecture; bringing in Development, Operations and Information Security organizations together. Capital Ones DevOpsSec practice is based upon three "pillars" – Shift-Left, Automate Everything, Dashboard Everything. Within about three years, from 100% waterfall, Capital One now has 500+ Agile Teams delivering quality software via Agile and DevOps practices.
ScriptRock has been included in the list of "Cool Vendors" in the "Cool Vendors in DevOps 2015" report by Gartner, Inc.* ScriptRock provides visibility into the configuration state of an organization's IT environments, enabling the continuous delivery of mission critical services. For enterprises where downtime is not an option, ScriptRock's system-wide overwatch offers the assurance that misconfigurations and anomalies are caught before they affect the business. By satisfying this fundamental need of all IT organizations, ScriptRock has attracted over 1,400 customers from financial services, ecommerce, and travel logistics.
Healthcare providers continue to assume increasing amounts of risk in care delivery. This has major implications, not just for providers and patients, but also vendors in IT, diagnostics, therapeutics and devices. If providers assume risk, why shouldn’t their vendors? We're already seeing this to some extent in emerging health IT companies. Most health IT innovation discussions revolve around driving value through population health, big data analytics and patient engagement. But many of these startups fail to any generate revenue until they prove the value of their solution through improved outcomes or reduced costs.
WSM International has launched a DevOps services division that offers assessment, consulting and implementation to large enterprises and organizations with complex infrastructures. The concept of DevOps is to blend information technology (IT) software development with operations to optimize the computing infrastructure according to the specific needs of the organization. According to a recent press release from Gartner, "By 2016, DevOps will evolve from a niche strategy employed by large cloud providers to a mainstream strategy employed by 25 percent of Global 2000 organizations."
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 ElasticBox held a Hackathon on November 6. Both events took place on the expo floor. The Bluemix Developer Playground, for developers of all levels, highlighted the ease of use of Bluemix, its services and functionality and provide short-term introductory projects that developers can complete between sessions.
SYS-CON Events announced today that MangoApps will exhibit at SYS-CON's 16th International Cloud Expo®, which will take place on June 9-11, 2015, at the Javits Center in New York City, NY., and the 17th International Cloud Expo®, which will take place on November 3–5, 2015, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA. MangoApps provides private all-in-one social intranets allowing workers to securely collaborate from anywhere in the world and from any device. Social, mobile, and easy to use. MangoApps has been named a "Market Leader" by Ovum Research and a "Cool Vendor" by Gartner. 20,000+ business customers worldwide.
SYS-CON Media announced today that Blue Box as launched a popular blog feed on Cloud Computing Journal. Cloud Computing Journal aims to help open the eyes of Enterprise IT professionals to the economics and strategies that utility/cloud computing provides. Blue Box Cloud gives you unequaled agility, without the burden of designing, deploying and managing your own infrastructure. It’s the right choice when public cloud just won’t do. Blue Box Cloud is a managed Private Cloud as a Service (PCaas) product available in both hosted and on-prem versions from Blue Box, powered by OpenStack. Blue Box Cloud gives you unequaled agility, without the burden of designing, deploying and managing your own infrastructure. It's the right choice when public cloud just won't do.
DevOps has quickly become the buzzword du jour for the software industry and promotes something that many developers and IT Administrators don’t enjoy: collaboration. According to Wikipedia, “DevOps acknowledges the interdependence of software development, quality assurance, and IT operations“. By having all three arms of a technology department collaborating, software products and services can be produced with a high quality bar and operational efficiencies. In this article, we’ll review how IT operations can engage more with a customer’s experience and assist software development in isolating problems in a production environment with no code changes needed from the development engineers. We’ll use the AppDynamics Application Intelligence Platform to help illustrate how these synergies can drive a better product for customers
Getting a second perspective based on several decades of diversified experience can only fortify your decisions on strategically applying technology to your organization. With demands on enterprise systems changing so fast, most organizations’ architectures and frameworks of Intelligent Infrastructure are in a stressful state. Many are focused on trying to maintain obsolete systems and few are willing to make a major investment in change. What was considered state-of-the-art two or three years ago can be obsolete today.
manage and govern their data environments. However, cloud computing presents new management challenges: disparate data sets; highly volatile and transient data; and pricing complexity. This often leads to day-to-day cloud management being difficult and cumbersome – at least for those not embracing a governance approach that incorporates policies. Cloud governance – the automation of IT resources, based on business policies from a security, operational, performance and financial perspective – dramatically simplifies cloud management.
Cloud Expo 2014 TV commercials will feature @ThingsExpo, which was launched in June, 2014 at New York City's Javits Center as the largest 'Internet of Things' event in the world.
Cultural, regulatory, environmental, political and economic (CREPE) conditions over the past decade are creating cross-industry solution spaces that require processes and technologies from both the Internet of Things (IoT), and Data Management and Analytics (DMA). These solution spaces are evolving into Sensor Analytics Ecosystems (SAE) that represent significant new opportunities for organizations of all types. Public Utilities throughout the world, providing electricity, natural gas and water, are pursuing SmartGrid initiatives that represent one of the more mature examples of SAE. We have spoken with, or attended presentations from, utilities in the United States, South America, Asia and Europe.
Artifactory binary repository management system. As one of the most widely used binary repositories and the only repository that offers a high availability clustered solution, the integration with Artifactory helps customers easily adopt CA Release Automation to optimize their entire software development lifecycle. “Artifactory is a standard maker at the continuous-integration domain and provides the user a powerful repository experience with the freedom to choose his own tools set and ecosystem. We are happy to promote the integration with CA Release Automation and offer CA customers High Available repository to support their deployment and continuous delivery flow," said Shlomi Ben Haim, JFrog CEO.
When you attend a DevOpsDays, it’s made clear from the beginning that you are a participant. I understood this in theory but it wasn’t until I went to my first Open Spaces session that I realized just how serious people are about this. [Scout said it better in their blog post about the Open Spaces at the event: "This is where the magic happens."] I proposed a session about DevOps and marketing and was pleasantly surprised when about a dozen people showed up to chat. The venue for the event was Fortrust, the very data center that houses our cage of servers. I’ve never actually been to a data center before so taking a tour of the facility was a highlight for me. Additionally, Fortrust turned out to be a great space, providing ample room for vendors, breakout sessions and random conversations to coexist peacefully. Full transparency: Not only are we Fortrust customers, we’re also big fans.
IoT applications will come in all shapes and sizes but no matter the size, availability is paramount to support both customers and the business. The most basic high-availability architecture is the typical three-tier design. A pair of ADCs in the DMZ terminates the connection. They in turn intelligently distribute the client request to a pool (multiple) of IoT application servers which then query the database servers for the appropriate content. Each tier has redundant servers so in the event of a server outage, the others take the load and the system stays available.
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 to the discussions, and ensure that your enterprise is as "IoT-Ready" as it can be! Internet of @ThingsExpo, taking place Nov 3-5, 2015, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA, is co-located with 17th Cloud Expo and will feature technical sessions from a rock star conference faculty and the leading industry players in the world. 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.
The 4th International Internet of @ThingsExpo, co-located with the 17th International Cloud Expo - to be held November 3-5, 2015, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA - announces that its Call for Papers is open. The Internet of Things (IoT) is the biggest idea since the creation of the Worldwide Web more than 20 years ago.
Learn how to solve the problem of keeping files in sync between multiple Docker containers. In his session at 16th Cloud Expo, Aaron Brongersma, Senior Infrastructure Engineer at Modulus, will discuss using rsync, GlusterFS, EBS and Bit Torrent Sync. He’ll break down the tools that are needed to help create a seamless user experience. In the end, can we have an environment where we can easily move Docker containers, servers, and volumes without impacting our applications? He will share his results. You can decide for yourself.
The Solr Redis Plugin is an extension for Solr that provides a query parser that uses data stored in Redis. It is open-sourced on Github by Sematext. This tool is basically a QParserPlugin that establishes a connection to Redis and takes data stored in SET, ZRANGE and other Redis data structures in order to build a query. Data fetched from Redis is used in RedisQParser and is responsible for building a query. Moreover, this plugin provides a highlighter extension which can be used to highlight parts of aliased Solr Redis queries (this will be described in a future).