APIs are the foundational element of a mobile app strategy, and are necessary to truly get an enterprise’s massive amounts of data into a usable framework on a mobile device. However, what makes a great API that developers will be successful building against? What’s the best architecture? How do you build clients that use APIs?
In his General Session at the 13th International Cloud Expo®, Alistair Farquharson, CTO of SOA Software, will discuss the best practices and latest thinking about building mobile apps against APIs, and how to design APIs that are intuitive and optimized for building engaging mobile apps.
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Speeding Up Service Delivery at Higher Quality
Healthcare provider Sentara Healthcare has improved its IT operations and services delivery at higher quality and higher speed, making IT an internal business-service provider, and deploying better monitoring of app services.
To learn more about how Sentara Healthcare excelled at application and data delivery and has progressed toward an automated lifecycle approach for high-performance applications management, join Jason Siegrist, Manager of Enterprise Management Technologies at Sentara.
Cloud Expo Silicon Valley: Demystifying Hybrid Cloud
There has been a ton of buzz in the industry lately around hybrid cloud. From enterprises developing multi-vendor cloud strategies to hosting providers offering products that take advantage of different infrastructure types, there has been a definite shift toward hybrid clouds as the preferred IT hosting model.
But what is hybrid cloud? Is it using a public cloud with a private cloud? Or is it using dedicated hosting with a public cloud? Or could it be using an on-premise private cloud combined with an off-premise dedicated hosting provider? The answer is yes! Hybrid cloud could be any combination of using a public cloud, private cloud or dedicated hosting. With a hybrid cloud, you can spread your workloads across each of these different environments to run them where they’re the best fit for your application.
WebRTC Summit Power Panel: The Future of WebRTC
WebRTC is the latest superhot topic emerging from Cloud Expo, and emerging from the worlds of open-source development and cloud computing worldwide. The WebRTC mission is deceptively simple: to enable rich, high-quality RTC applications delivered to browsers through JavaScript APIs and HTML5. It is already the result of a few years of dedicated effort by an enthusiastic developer community.
In this WebRTC Power Panel on November 6 at 7:10 pm at the 1st WebRTC Summit, the distinguished lineup of expert speakers will focus on such topics as:
WebRTC for telcos – is there a real business opportunity?
Is Skype a WebRTC Killer, or is WebRTC a Skype killer?
Peer-to-peer use of WebRTC
RTCPeerConnection
Integrating WebRTC with Web Audio
The Voice-Enabled Web
P2P communication in the browser
The monetization of WebRTC
Cloud Expo Silicon Valley: Moving Enterprise Applications to the Cloud
Everyone is talking about the benefits of “the Cloud,” but are you ready to pick up and move your business applications? With Windows Server 2003 end of life approaching, companies are faced with moving large numbers of enterprise applications. Learn how you can modernize your applications (OS up level) and transform them (move to the cloud) at the same time.
If you’re faced with migrating applications from Windows Server 2003 to Windows 2008 or 2012 when moving to the cloud, there is a solution.
In his session at the 13th International Cloud Expo®, Greg O’Connor, CEO of AppZero, will discuss and demonstrate new “up-level OS” migration capabilities, which allow users to effortlessly move server applications from old operating systems to new ones as part of a cloud migration.
WebRTC Summit Power Panel: The Future of WebRTC
WebRTC is the latest superhot topic emerging from Cloud Expo, and emerging from the worlds of open-source development and cloud computing worldwide. The WebRTC mission is deceptively simple: to enable rich, high-quality RTC applications delivered to browsers through JavaScript APIs and HTML5. It is already the result of a few years of dedicated effort by an enthusiastic developer community.
In this WebRTC Power Panel on November 6 at 7:10 pm at the 1st WebRTC Summit, the distinguished lineup of expert speakers will focus on such topics as:
WebRTC for telcos – is there a real business opportunity?
Is Skype a WebRTC Killer, or is WebRTC a Skype killer?
Peer-to-peer use of WebRTC
RTCPeerConnection
Integrating WebRTC with Web Audio
The Voice-Enabled Web
P2P communication in the browser
The monetization of WebRTC
Cloud Expo Silicon Valley: Moving to a Zero IT Infrastructure Footprint
A myriad of new methodologies and technologies from Cloud Computing to BYOD have changed the IT landscape demonstrably. In parallel, higher-value functions around data, customer engagement and revenue growth are pushing CIOs to consider alternative approaches. The nexus is moving IT to a zero footprint infrastructure model. Organizations including Healthcare, Financial Services, Insurance and Airlines are moving in this direction. Unfortunately, traditional IT paradigms present a challenge to adopting these new methodologies.
In his session at the 13th International Cloud Expo®, Tim Crawford, an internationally renowned thought leader, will outline the issues, opportunities and steps required for the move. Not moving is no longer an option, but Moving to a Zero IT Infrastructure Footprint is not a panacea without challenges. He will also discuss the challenges and how to address them and cover the higher-value opportunities that CIOs are striving for that lead to significant changes in the IT constructs. Moving to Zero IT Infrastructure is one of the first strategies in the journey.
While moving to a Zero IT Infrastructure Footprint is not a panacea, attendees will understand the challenges that moving brings and how to address those changes. In the end, attendees should understand the value for moving and the next steps they can take within their own organizations to get started.
Why Small Business Needs Cloud Computing
They may be small in terms of the number of employees, but small businesses stand to reap big benefits when it comes to cloud computing.
Cloud is uniquely suited to meet the needs of a small business trying to grow quickly. If you are an entrepreneur or own a small business, here are some reasons compiled by SmartDataCollective.com, why cloud computing would be a good fit.
Many potential entrepreneurs are inhibited by the huge upfront costs required in order to get a business up and running. Investing in technology can be particularly consuming, but with the cloud, it doesn’t have to be. A cloud database can provide everything from the basic infrastructure to ready-to-use applications, so business owners only have to plug in and go.
SDN: Uncovering Amazon’s Secret Sauce
Announcements over the past several months including VMware’s NSX, HP’s SDN SDK, and others show that Software Defined Networking (SDN) is hitting the mainstream in a large way. Conventional wisdom is that SDN is still early in the «hype cycle», but a closer looks reveals that SDN may be a very core part of how Amazon’s AWS has managed to achieve the scale it has. Could commercially viable SDN solutions be a way to bridge the gap for competing public and private cloud vendors?
One of the advantages that Amazon’s AWS has held is the ability to massively scale its elastic compute cloud (EC2) with nearly hands-free automation. Amazon, of course, has always been very private about how it does this, but it seems clear that one of the keys has been their substantially customized version of the Xen hypervisor which (among other things) likely has implemented a form of software defined networking (SDN) for a pretty long while. Capabilities such as AWS CloudFormation, security zones, Elastic Load Balancer, and others have clearly shown that much of what used to be network hardware is implemented in their software stack. With VPC, AWS has been a leader in SDN, with strong network isolation (including overlapping IP ranges) that are obviously embedded in the hypervisor and supported by a custom hardware stack. There’s little argument that this has been a huge differentiator for AWS, not just enabling massive scale, but a steady stream of price cuts along the way.
Establish and Manage a Recurring Revenue Model
Microsoft has recently made large business bets on recurring revenue models. That’s because offering goods and services on a recurring basis doesn’t just create incremental, new revenue; it is fast becoming the primary driver of revenue growth for many enterprises.
However, for companies to offer products or services that their customers want and will buy on a recurring basis, it’s critical that they’re able to employ the features, benefits, and capabilities necessary to support the recurring revenue model of their choosing. At the same time they must continue to insure or improve customer satisfaction and retention. This all requires a new breed of billing, without stressing IT or finance.