Container frameworks, such as Docker, provide a variety of benefits, including density of deployment across infrastructure, convenience for application developers to push updates with low operational hand-holding, and a fairly well-defined deployment workflow that can be orchestrated. Container frameworks also enable a DevOps approach to application development by cleanly separating concerns between operations and development teams. But running multi-container, multi-server apps with containers is very hard. You have to learn five new and different technologies and best practices (libswarm, systemd, etcd, ambassadord, fleet, etc.) just to get started. In order to reduce the learning curve, CenturyLink introduced Panamax, a UX that incorporates all the Docker best practices and makes deploying complex applications much easier.
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Gartner Names @ScriptRock ‘Cool Vendor’ in #DevOps | @DevOpsSummit
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.
Internet Of @ThingsExpo Sponsorship Opportunities Announced [#IoT #M2M]
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.
Amazon Web Services Announces AWS Educate
Amazon Web Services announced the launch of AWS Educate, whose goal is to help students and teachers use real-world technology in classrooms. It is designed to help teachers seeking cloud-related course content, to teach them how to use the technology and to provide students with cloud-technology experience. This all comes with AWS credits.
In a press release, AWS said that their educational grants have been able to give teachers and students cloud technology that they have then used to put big ideas into motion. The primary goal of AWS Educate is to help more students learn cloud technology and how to use it to do this.
Upon approval, the program will be free for institutions, students or educators to join. There will also be some benefits to using the program. Educators and students can apply for and redeem AWS credits for eligible services, including Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud, Amazon Simple Storage Service, Amazon Relational Database Service, Amazon CloudFront, Amazon DynamoDB, Amazon Elastic MapReduce, Amazon Redshift, and Amazon Glacier.
Educators and students will gain hands on experience through web-based training and self-paced labs. They will also have access to collaboration forums, AWS resources and other education contents including videos, case studies of customers, assignments, and webinars related to courses and practices.
This step for online education combined with more affordable education services can not only benefit the industry but also innovation.
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Seize The Biggest #Cloud, #BigData & #IoT Opportunity in 2015 | @CloudExpo
The only place to be Nov 3-5 is Cloud Expo | @ThingsExpo | DevOps Summit 2015 West at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA. Join us there as delegates from all over the world come to listen to and engage with speakers & sponsors from the leading Cloud Computing, IoT, Big Data and DevOps companies.
Cloud Expo & @ThingsExpo are the leading events covering the booming market of Cloud Computing, IoT & Big Data for the enterprise. Speakers from all over the world will be hand-picked for their ability to explore the economic strategies that utility/cloud computing provides. Whether public, private, or in a hybrid form, cloud computing, Internet of Things & Big Data are rapidly becoming an integral part of the enterprise IT environment. By shifting some of their applications out of the enterprise data center and into the cloud, IT managers can eliminate a whole litany of costs and headaches; in capital equipment, in power and cooling, in administration and maintenance.
Protecting Business Critical Apps By @DaveBerm | @CloudExpo [#Cloud]
Gartner predicts that the bulk of new IT spending by 2016 will be for cloud platforms and applications and that nearly half of large enterprises will have cloud deployments by the end of 2017. The benefits of the cloud may be clear for applications that can tolerate brief periods of downtime, but for critical applications like SQL Server, Oracle and SAP, companies need a strategy for HA and DR protection. While traditional SAN-based clusters are not possible in these environments, SANless clusters can provide an easy, cost-efficient alternative.
Packing My Bags for Prague By @Kevin_Jackson | @CloudExpo [#Cloud]
Prague is a beautiful city! My last time was in June 2010 when Jeremy Geelan invited me to speak at Cloud Expo Europe (see my blog post and video from that trip at «CloudExpo Europe 2010: Not Your Father’s Prague»). And yes, that is the same Jeremy Geelan that is currently enduring the terrible earthquakes in Nepal (see my recent post on that in «Tweeps Are People Too!!»)
Internet of @ThingsExpo Silicon Valley ‘Call for Papers’ Now Open [#IoT]
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.
The Future of Cloud Collaboration | @CloudExpo [#Cloud]
It is critical to let the usage of cloud collaboration grow over time instead of migration in a swoop. This will give your employees sufficient time to evolve while ensuring your company is on the right path forward.
A recent study published by Markets and Markets predicts the collaboration tools market to more than double between now and 2018. In 2014, the market for collaboration software tools was valued at around $10.5 billion. By 2018, this market is expected to reach a size of more than $21 billion. That is a staggering compounded annual growth rate (CAGR) of 15%.
Improve Your Website Performance | @DevOpsSummit [#DevOps]
In this age of instant updates, same-day delivery, and otherwise high customer service expectations, site visitors simply are not going to wait very long for your website to download. Web performance and download speeds are a growing science and research shows that milliseconds can make a real difference in customer behavior and getting those sales conversions.
Most website owners automatically assume they need all the “bells and whistles” on their site to get the most customers. But those extra features, such as parallax web scrolling and the trendy moving background are only fine as long as customers don’t have to wait 10 seconds for the site to load.