As enterprises engage with Big Data technologies to develop applications needed to meet operational demands, new computation fabrics are continually being introduced. To leverage these new innovations, organizations are sacrificing market opportunities to gain expertise in learning new systems.
In his session at Big Data Expo, Supreet Oberoi, Vice President of Field Engineering at Concurrent, Inc., discussed how to leverage existing infrastructure and investments and future-proof them against emerging technologies with Cascading. Cascading is the widely used application development framework for building data-centric applications, allowing developers to easily build enterprise-grade applications on emerging fabrics like Tez and Spark with existing skill sets. Cascading’s community also supports an ecosystem capable of connecting existing infrastructure with new investments.
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Charting Cloud Orchestration Success | @CloudExpo [#BigData]
The emergence of cloud computing and Big Data warrants a greater role for the PMO to successfully manage enterprise transformation driven by these powerful trends. As the adoption of cloud-based services continues to grow, a governance model is needed to orchestrate enterprise cloud implementations and harness the power of Big Data analytics.
In his session at Cloud Expo, Mahesh Singh, President of BigData, Inc., discussed how the Enterprise PMO takes center stage not only in developing the appropriate governance model but also in collaborating with key stakeholders to ensure a successful transformation.
CEO Power Panel on SYS-CON.tv | @CloudExpo [#Cloud]
Things are being built upon cloud foundations to transform organizations. This CEO Power Panel at 15th Cloud Expo, moderated by Roger Strukhoff, Cloud Expo and @ThingsExpo conference chair, addressed the big issues involving these technologies and, more important, the results they will achieve. Rodney Rogers, chairman and CEO of Virtustream; Brendan O’Brien, co-founder of Aria Systems, Bart Copeland, president and CEO of ActiveState Software; Jim Cowie, chief scientist at Dyn; Dave Wagstaff, VP and chief architect at BSQUARE Corporation; Seth Proctor, CTO of NuoDB, Inc.; and Andris Gailitis, CIO of DEAC, discussed how important public, private, and hybrid cloud are to the enterprise. How does one define Big Data? And how is the IoT tying all this together?
Tech News Recap for the Week of 12/8/2014
Were you busy last week? Here’s a quick tech news recap of articles you may have missed from the week of 12/8/2014.
Tech News Recap
Microsoft released Office 365 Video and will unveil the consumer side of Windows 10 on January 21st. Pure Storage has introduced an all-flash approach to converged infrastructure they are calling FlashStack CI. A study has found that there was an increase in 2014 SMB mobility adoption spending. ZDnet released a list of the 10 best smartphones at the close of the year. After a massive data breach, Sony is fighting back. There were also good articles around the Internet of Things, strategic service providers, hybrid cloud solutions, and an interview with a CTO at Citrix, Gunnar Berger.
- Study: CFOs Fear Falling Behind From Not Having The Right Cloud Solutions
- Growing Demand for Cloud Professional Services
- Microsoft To Unveil The Consumer Side of Windows 10 On January 21
- Internet of Things will take to the cloud
- CTO Focus Interview: Gunnar Berger, Citrix
- Microsoft’s Brilliant Move to Make Money From Archrival Google
- Now you can change all your passwords automatically
- Pure Storage Introduces An All-Flash Approach to Converged Infrastructure: FlashStack CI
- Sony strike back at data thieves, tackles torrent downloaders
- More Companies Choose Hybrid Cloud Solutions
- Study: 2014 Saw Increased SMB Mobility Adoption Spending
- Best 10 smartphones at the close of 2014
- Microsoft “Office 365 Video” Release – Common Questions Answered
- The Birth Of The Strategic Service Provider
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Profitable SaaS Business Sales Presentation By @DiDataCloud | @CloudExpo [#Cloud]
The cloud is everywhere and growing, and with it SaaS has become an accepted means for software delivery. SaaS is more than just a technology, it is a thriving business model estimated to be worth around $53 billion dollars by 2015, according to IDC. The question is – how do you build and scale a profitable SaaS business model?
In his session at 15th Cloud Expo, Jason Cumberland, Vice President, SaaS Solutions at Dimension Data, discussed the common mistakes businesses make when transitioning to SaaS; how to avoid them; and how to build a profitable and scalable SaaS business.
‘Decisions on Streaming Data’ By @Databricks | @CloudExpo [#BigData]
Amazon, Google and Facebook are household names in part because of their mastery of Big Data. But what about organizations without billions of dollars to spend on Big Data tools – how can they extract value from their data?
In his session at 6th Big Data Expo®, Ali Ghodsi, Co-Founder and Head of Engineering at Databricks, discussed how the zero management cost and scalability of the cloud is addressing the challenges and pain points that data engineers face when working with Big Data. He also shared how the growing demand for cloud-based Big Data workloads and frameworks is shaping the future of Big Data analysis.
Cloud Computing Playbook By @NaviSite | @CloudExpo [#Cloud]
In this scenarios approach Joe Thykattil, Technology Architect & Sales at TimeWarner / Navisite, presented examples that will allow business-savvy professionals to make informed decisions based on a sound business model. This model covered the technology options in detail as well as a financial analysis.
The TCO (Total Cost of Ownership) and ROI (Return on Investment) demonstrated how to start, develop and formulate a business case that will allow both small and large scale projects to achieve the goal of deciding to proceed with cloud computing options. Examples included leveraging virtualization and Cloud IaaS (Infrastructure as a Service).
Women in Technology Power Panel | @CloudExpo [#Cloud]
In this Women in Technology Power Panel at 15th Cloud Expo, moderated by Anne Plese, Senior Consultant, Cloud Product Marketing at Verizon Enterprise, Esmeralda Swartz, CMO at MetraTech; Evelyn de Souza, Data Privacy and Compliance Strategy Leader at Cisco Systems; Seema Jethani, Director of Product Management at Basho Technologies; Victoria Livschitz, CEO of Qubell Inc.; Anne Hungate, Senior Director of Software Quality at DIRECTV, discussed what path they took to find their spot within the technology industry and how do they see opportunities for other women in their area of expertise.
Timely, Optimal and Efficient with @Creative_Busine | @CloudExpo [#Cloud]
«We are the top stocking distributor for HP renew products in North America. We can only sell to U.S. authorized partners and resellers for HP,» explained Miguel Diazdelcastillo Jr., Sales Executive at Creative Business Solutions, in this SYS-CON.tv interview at Cloud Expo, held Nov 4–6, 2014, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA.
DevOps Power Panel on SYS-CON.tv | @DevOpsSummit | [#DevOps]
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.