Oracle Cloud delivers the broadest selection of enterprise-grade public cloud solutions, including software as a service (SaaS), platform as a service (PaaS), and infrastructure as a service (IaaS). In his session at the 13th International Cloud Expo®, Diby Malakar, Director of Product Management for Oracle, will provide an overview of Oracle’s strategy for public cloud PaaS and IaaS. This session includes demos and customer showcases illustrating features and benefits of utilizing Oracle Cloud platform and infrastructure services. Diby Malakar works as Director of Product Management for Oracle with a primary focus on Oracle Cloud products and solutions. He has more than 19 years of experience building products and solutions in the Cloud and Analytics space, specializing in helping companies bridge the gap between product, technology and business. Prior to Oracle, he managed the Core Data Integration Product line at Informatica and was responsible for pioneering the concept of "Self-Service Data Integration". Prior to Informatica, he ran Engineering and Product Management functions at Cloud9 Analytics, a SaaS-based startup focused on building sales performance management applications. He has also worked for companies like KPMG, Neoforma and TiVo in various engineering management and product management capacities. He is a speaker at leading conferences and has also published numerous articles in leading magazines. He has served as the President of the San Francisco DAMA Chapter for several years and has also been on the DAMA International Board of Directors.
Maximum productivity can be achieved more efficiently through event correlation, system automation and predictive analysis. Making that a reality however, requires consideration on how to manage the integration touch points from multiple toolsets and openness to the intrinsic value that this integration can provide. A focus on integration techniques, and not necessarily the monitoring technologies themselves, may be a better use of time to achieve a state of harmony within the event to incident flow. When rolling out an Application Performance Management (APM) solution, selection of your Manager of Managers (MoM) and how it will support the overall solution is critical. The assumption underpinning MoM is that the time to market and technical accuracy can be achieved more readily by allowing the Subject Matter Experts (SMEs) to select their own tools sets and not worry so much about controlling every monitoring tool on the periphery. This encourages timely configuration and ownership of the SME's individual systems making fine tuning the alerting levels into MoM much easier.
Need to scale your data tier? The foundation of every application is the database layer, and today application architects have more choices than ever. With these choices come new questions: Which database technology is best for your application? How can your application take advantage of Big Data technology? Can you run your relational database at Big Data scale? What does it take to implement a comprehensive data infrastructure, including your core database, incorporating SQL, No SQL and Big Data platforms? In his session at the 13th International Cloud Expo®, Cory Isaacson, CEO/CTO of CodeFutures Corporation, will answer these questions and more. You will learn exactly what it takes to scale your data tier, and how to keep it reliable – despite the challenges presented in cloud environments. You will also enjoy a quick review of the primary types of database platforms, enabling you to choose the best technology for your application challenges. We will close with a high volume social application/gaming case study, showing exactly what it takes to run a high-volume, multi-terabyte database infrastructure in the cloud.
Cost savings, scalability and offload are the hallmarks of cloud computing benefits. Sub-par performance, sketchy reliability, and porous security concerns rank among top concerns and have undoubtedly led to delays in growth and adoption. In his session at the 13th International Cloud Expo®, Michael Schmidt, Principal Solutions Engineer at Akamai Technologies, will show how Akamai’s Intelligent Platform can help you address these challenges without sacrificing security or control. Michael Schmidt is a Principal Solutions Engineer based out of San Mateo California. Mr. Schmidt is responsible for selling Akamai's security and cloud acceleration and enablement services to many of the Bay Area's largest high tech customers. He is works extensively with his customers in helping them shape and secure their evolving Cloud strategies. He has been with Akamai for 8 years and has over 15 years of experience in IT and web development.
Performance is one of the key non-functional needs for any application and performance requirements needs to to be captured as part of requirements & analysis phase in a way that is understandable by all application stakeholders. In this article, we will see the key aspects of performance engineering and how AWStats, a Web Log Analysis tool, can help in extracting performance requirements for any application. Performance Engineering is a discipline encompassing activities like Performance modeling, Performance testing and Performance tuning spanning across the development lifecycle of any application. This discipline can be approached in sequential phases: Planning & preparation, Execution & Reporting, Review & Closure. Performance requirements analysis using AWStats
The last few years have seen an explosion in the demand for enterprise mobile solutions. This movement has been clearly reflected in the rapid evolution of the enterprise mobile platform ecosystems. From mobile device management (MDM) to enterprise mobile middleware technologies, the industry has produced a large number of technology platforms aiming to address the different needs of the mobile enterprise. Despite of the rapid growth of the enterprise mobile space, the industry remains without good solutions for addressing what, arguably, can be seen as the most important challenge of the current generation of enterprise mobile solutions: mobilizing business data.
As users are increasingly consuming data through mobile and cloud services, enterprise must adapt to enable these new channels while maintaining security and providing a consistent user experience. Users should be able use their web credentials, but still seamlessly access data through these additional channels. In his session at the 13th International Cloud Expo®, Alistair Farquharson, CTO of SOA Software, will examine the different security and identity considerations across Web, mobile and cloud, and explore API best practices to achieve federation across these channels.
Learn how to set up Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment for node.js apps from GitHub to Nodejitsu in less than 5 minutes. We are proud to announce a new member in our Codeship deployments family: Nodejitsu! Recently we experienced increasing interest in node.js deployments on our service. Especially after our Testing Tuesday series about node.js a lot of people started creating Continuous Integration and Deployment projects on the Codeship.
When Windows Azure was first released a few years ago, it was Microsoft's PaaS offering in the public cloud space. This has matured and Microsoft recently released a preview of their IaaS offering in Windows Azure. This new offering allows an organization to host a virtual machine with various operating systems (including Linux) and different applications such as Active Directory Domain Controllers or SharePoint Server as an example. These VMs in Azure can also be connected with PaaS instances in Azure or on-premises infrastructure. In his general session at the 13th International Cloud Expo®, Matt Hester, Senior Information Technology Professional Evangelist for Microsoft, will provide an overview of this new capability and how to get started.
Client latency is driven by multiple factors, in the browser, network, and code. Dan Riti explores all those factors, including how Google... Let's face it, users are impatient. They demand a blazingly fast experience and accept no substitutes. Google performed a study in 2010 which proved that when a site responds slowly, visitors spend less time there. Speed as perceived by the end user is driven by multiple factors, including how fast results are returned and how long it takes a browser to display the content.
Businessweek reporter Sam Grobart contacted me couple of weeks back to talk about the significance of iBeacon. He is right, iBeacon's had a low profile so far. But I iBeacon's momentum is getting started and going to be exploded faster than anyone can imagine. He highlighted my quote on iBeacon's momentum in this BusinessWeek article - Apple's Location-Tracking iBeacon Is Poised for Use in Retail Sales:
Learn how to set up Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment for your node.js Application from GitHub to Heroku.
The JVM issues vary from Java OutOfMemory Error to JVM Crash. Application developers might be not completely equipped to determine the root cause of the issue, hence DevOps can play a vital role in narrowing down the issue and connecting the right people/team to rectify the problem. Application developers can deploy their applications with success in a staging or QA environment and broadcast that the application is working fine. However, the staging or QA environment is not completely identical with production at - least with respect to load. Due to huge load, the application can behave differently. In order to prevent an occurrence of these kinds of scenarios, it is a good practice to engage a DevOps team [with right JVM skills] to proactively analyze the running application. Proactive engagement of a DevOps team will be beneficial for the organization and for the development team as well.
This book is exactly what the sub-title "A Practical Guide to Agile Requirements Discovery" says it is. The book is a very detailed breakdown of the steps that should be taken by Scrum teams that want to succeed. I have listed the chapters below to give you an overview of the topics the author covers in this book. In the first chapter the author covers how the scrum teams can distinguish requirements from the solution. In other words the what from the hows. In the second chapter the author shows how to develop guardrails which are basically the artifacts and activities that will keep the project within its defined scope. The examples that the author uses are a healthy team, involvement of all stakeholders, a shared vision, a meaningful common goal, a set of high-level features, and "can-exist" assumption.
The Democratic National Committee leveraged big data analytics to better understand and predict voter behavior and alliances in the 2012 U.S. national elections. To learn more about how the DNC pulled vast amounts of data together to predict and understand voter preferences and positions on the issues, join Chris Wegrzyn, Director of Data Architecture at the DNC, based in Washington, DC. The discussion is moderated by Dana Gardner, Principal Analyst at Interarbor Solutions.
If you have a slow test suite and you are asking yourself "how can I make my tests faster?" then you are asking the wrong question. Most chances are that you have bigger problems than just slow tests. The test slowness is merely the symptom; what you should really address is the cause. Once the real cause is addressed you will find that it's easy to write new fast tests and straightforward to refactor existing tests. It's surprising how quickly a rails app's test suite can become slow. It's important to understand the reason for this slowness early on and address the real cause behind it. In most cases the reason is excessive coupling between the domain objects themselves and coupling between these objects and the framework.
SYS-CON Events announced today that Inocybe Technologies Inc., the company that aims to keep IT simple, will exhibit at SYS-CON's 13th International Cloud Expo®, which will take place on November 4–7, 2013, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA. Inocybe Technologies Inc. makes networking infrastructure simple to launch and monetize by alleviating the complexities of today’s Information Communication Technology (ICT) management of shared infrastructures. The company delivers a one-stop-shop for businesses that want to quickly find all the providers and products they need to deploy, operate, and manage a virtualized network infrastructure. Inocybe Technologies combines network element virtualization, cloud computing, Software-Defined Networking (SDN), and DevOps technologies into their single, flexible Inocybe Virtualization Platform (IVP) turnkey solution that any organization can use to create virtual infrastructures in just seconds. Inocybe Technologies is privately held and has been a pioneer in user empowered networking research since 2005.
SYS-CON Events announced today that Oracle has been named “Platinum Sponsor” of SYS-CON's 13th International Cloud Expo, which will take place on November 4–7, 2013, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA. Oracle is shifting the complexity from IT, moving it out of the enterprise by engineering hardware and software to work together – in the cloud and in the data center. By eliminating complexity and simplifying IT, Oracle enables its customers – 400,000 of them in more than 145 countries around the world – to accelerate innovation and create added value for their customers.
Consumers have higher expectations of their telephony experience than they do of a web browsing experience. They expect the phone to connect instantly with minimal disruptions. The phone is already secure and phone numbers are used to make connections. Subscribers expect their phone service to work seamless across any network, anywhere, at any time. Subscribers will expect WebRTC into the enterprise to behave in the same manner. In his session at WebRTC Summit, Douglas Tait, Global Director of Marketing for Telecommunications at Oracle, will look at the user experience and expectations of a WebRTC service and cover how a WebRTC service handles security, reliability, and interoperability within browsers and networks.
The importance of privileged identity management as a means of managing risk has long been understood. After all, it's reported 43% of security breaches involve trusted insiders, according to research group Forrester. And the most recent Verizon Data Breach report revealed some 13% of breaches result from privilege misuse or abuse, and 76% involved weak or stolen credentials (of all types). However, the widespread adoption of cloud computing has significantly increased the consequences of these risks. As was pointed out recently by Gartner Research Director Nick Nikols, “Administrators of private cloud and IaaS environments gain more concentrated power–and the risk that goes with it–than administrators for more traditional data center deployments.” The reason for this is the highly dynamic and scaleable nature of the cloud. Administrators can do much more, much faster than in traditional environments–and attacks scale up just as quickly.
Continuous Deployment is helping companies become more responsive to changing business needs without major disruptions or downtime. In his session at the 13th International Cloud Expo®, Ed Leafe, Developer Advocate at Rackspace, will cover some of the issues when moving to a Continuous Deployment model, and how different cloud architectures can make managing application changes much simpler and more reliable. Ed Leafe has been a developer for over 20 years, and is one of the original developers of OpenStack. After leaving the Microsoft world over a decade ago he has been primarily a Python developer, and has spoken at several PyCons around the globe. He also throws a mean Frisbee.
The world runs on transactional database systems. Every business depends on them, and we each interact with them many times each day. Furthermore the world needs to build thousands more applications of transactional database systems to support the next-generation web. Nothing controversial there, but there is a problem: transactional database systems have stubbornly refused to join the 21st century. The rest of the world is moving toward data center architectures predicated on thousands of commodity machines, commodity networks, and "scale-out" designs. These data centers will offer on-demand computing services that can instantly increase or decrease capacity to applications as needed. It's easy to just add more web servers, application servers, or storage servers as required. Unfortunately while that works at every other level in the computing stack it does not work at the database layer. Database systems are scale-up systems, not scale-out systems.
As you strive to achieve new levels of sophistication when creating performance baselines, it is important to consider how you will navigate the oscillating winds of application behavior as the numbers come in from all directions. The behavioral context of the user will highlight key threshold settings to consider as you build a framework for real-time alerting into your APM solution. This will take an understanding of the application and an analysis of the numbers as you begin looking at user patterns. Metrics play a key role in providing this value through different views across multiple comparisons. Absent from any behavioral learning engines which are now emerging in the APM space, you can begin a high level analysis on your own to come to a common understanding of each business application's performance.
SYS-CON Events announced today that Domo, a software-as-a-service (SaaS) venture that is redefining the business intelligence (BI) market and transforming the way business is managed, has been named “Bronze Sponsor” of SYS-CON's 13th International Cloud Expo, which will take place on November 4–7, 2013, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA. Domo is a new form of business intelligence unlike anything before—a cloud-based business management platform that transforms the way organizations are managed. Domo makes critical information directly accessible to business users, heroizes IT professionals, and delivers the user experience BI has been missing for 25 years.
Verizon is calling on the expertise of one of its recent acquisitions to offer a cloud computing service to its customers. Verizon has announced details about a new cloud computing service for business, Verizon Cloud, an IaaS offering the company claims will offer better end-user control over performance than any other cloud solution. Currently in limited beta, Verizon Cloud features an IaaS elastic computing system, Verizon Cloud Compute, and an object storage system, Verizon Cloud Storage. But where Verizon Cloud differs, according to Verizon, is that it delivers the performance you specify, not just the performance you end up with, according to an article on InfoWorld.com.