«Venafi has a platform that allows you to manage, centralize and automate the complete life cycle of keys and certificates within the organization,» explained Gina Osmond, Sr. Field Marketing Manager at Venafi, in this SYS-CON.tv interview at DevOps at 19th Cloud Expo, held November 1-3, 2016, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA.
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[video] @CollabNet’s #DevOps to Containers | @DevOpsSummit #Docker
Without lifecycle traceability and visibility across the tool chain, stakeholders from Planning-to-Ops have limited insight and answers to who, what, when, why and how across the DevOps lifecycle. This impacts the ability to deliver high quality software at the needed velocity to drive positive business outcomes.
In his general session at @DevOpsSummit at 19th Cloud Expo, Phil Hombledal, Solution Architect at CollabNet, discussed how customers are able to achieve a level of transparency that enables everyone from Planning-to-Ops to make informed decisions based on business priority and leverage automation to accelerate identifying issues and fast fix to drive continuous feedback and KPI insight.
[video] Smart #IoT Devices with @PulzzeInc | @ThingsExpo #M2M #Sensors
«We build IoT infrastructure products – when you have to integrate different devices, different systems and cloud you have to build an application to do that but we eliminate the need to build an application. Our products can integrate any device, any system, any cloud regardless of protocol,» explained Peter Jung, Chief Product Officer at Pulzze Systems, in this SYS-CON.tv interview at @ThingsExpo, held November 1-3, 2016, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA.
Tech News Recap Week of 11/28/2016
Were you busy this week? Here’s a tech news recap of articles you may have missed for the week of 11/28/2016!
Mirai botnet attack hits thousands of home routers, throwing users offline. Eight tech startup trends to watch in 2017. AWS drives deeper partner ecosystem engagement with VMware. Blockchain and IoT devices could revolutionize the supply chain. San Francisco transport system hit by ransomware attack and more tops news this week you may have missed!
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Tech News Recap
- Microsoft tells developers: Whatever you’re doing in Linux, Windows 10 will soon do it too
- AWS launches Aurora service for postgreSQL at re:Invent
- Mirai botnet attack hits thousands of home routers, throwing users offline
- Cisco: Utilities can predict the future using IoT
- 8 tech startup trends to watch in 2017
- AWS drives deeper partner ecosystem engagement with VMware
- New features, changed and additions to vSphere 6.5
- Amazon Web Services strong push towards financial services
- Amazon will literally truck your data into its cloud
- Blockchain and IoT devices could revolutionize the supply chain
- Most notable products to come from AWS re:Invent
- US Navy suffers data breach
- IBM triples UK data center
- Google acquires AWS dedicated cloud learning platform
- San Francisco transport system hit by ransomware attack
- Google security expert says antivirus apps don’t work
- Malware attacking Facebook, LinkedIn users via malicious images
- Android ‘Gooligan’ hackers just scored the biggest ever theft of Google accounts
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[video] Accelerating Development Cycles with @Tintri | @CloudExpo #Cloud #DevOps #Storage
«We are an all-flash array storage provider but our focus has been on VM-aware storage specifically for virtualized applications,» stated Dhiraj Sehgal of Tintri in this SYS-CON.tv interview at 19th Cloud Expo, held November 1-3, 2016, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA.
Google Cloud Platform | @CloudExpo #AI #ML #DL #MachineLearning
The developments in Google’s Cloud Computing segment, especially the Cloud Machine Learning service, have been so rapid that Google calls it one of its fastest growing product areas. Google has been ramping up their Cloud Platform quite aggressively in recent months. Just a few weeks ago, the Google Cloud Platform opened its newest zone in Tokyo, increasing the total number of regions they are present in to six – three in the US and one each in Belgium and Taiwan and Tokyo.
Not long ago, the company announced its acquisition of Orbitera, a cloud commerce company. for more than a hundred million dollars. The developments in Google’s Cloud Computing segment, especially the Cloud Machine Learning service, have been so rapid that Google calls it one of its fastest growing product areas.
[video] Leveraging Cloud Skills Demand | @CloudExpo @Dicedotcom #IoT #Cloud #BigData #DevOps
In his general session at 19th Cloud Expo, Manish Dixit, VP of Product and Engineering at Dice, discussed how Dice leverages data insights and tools to help both tech professionals and recruiters better understand how skills relate to each other and which skills are in high demand using interactive visualizations and salary indicator tools to maximize earning potential.
Manish Dixit is VP of Product and Engineering at Dice. As the leader of the Product, Engineering and Data Sciences team at Dice, he takes a metrics-driven approach to management. His experience in building and managing high performance teams was built throughout his experience at Oracle, Sun Microsystems and SocialEkwity.
Top Five Content Management Challenges | @CloudExpo #Cloud #DevOps #DigitalTransformation
This is a guest post from Cloudinary, a cloud-based image and video management solution. We are always looking for ways to help companies deliver digital experiences that will meet customers expectations in terms of content and performance. Tackling these 5 challenges is a good step towards delivering a top-notch digital experience.
We are in the midst of a great evolution when it comes to website design. Formerly text-heavy sites now rely on eye-catching images and video to draw in visitors, improve engagement rates and drive readership. These results are proven. Articles with relevant images get 94 percent more total views, according to digital marketing expert Jeff Bullas. And images are vital to websites influencing page views and user engagement for news articles, press material, local search, eCommerce, and social media.
Juniper Networks Acquires AppFormix
Juniper Networks has announced that it will acquire a startup company called AppFormix at an undisclosed price. This acquisition is likely to give a big boost to Juniper’s cloud operations.
AppFormix is a cloud operations management and optimization company that was started in 2013 by Sumeet Singh, a former employee of Microsoft and Cisco. In fact, Singh started the Windows Azure team at Microsoft, and later quit the company, to pursue his own entrepreneurial interest. AppFormix works with any OpenStack or Kubernetes infrastructure to provide real-time insights into the health and operations of customers’ respective clouds. Built on big data analytics and machine learning, AppFormix is redefining telemetry and cloud management with its features that include historic monitoring, visibility, and dynamic performance optimization for private, public, and hybrid cloud environments. As a result, this software has the power to create a self-driving infrastructure for every cloud.
Juniper Networks, headquartered in Sunnyvale California, was founded almost 20 years ago by Pradeep Sindhu. Today, it is a leader in routers, switches, security, and software, and is looking to establish a strong foothold in the cloud market as well. It already has a cloud product called Contrail that gives customers the platform to create, scale, and join together seamlessly different OpenStack clouds using the most secure and intelligent networks. The obvious advantage of these federated clouds is the reliability and flexibility that comes with combining different clouds, not to mention the benefits of speed, agility, and operational excellence to the organization.
Such a federated platform has helped Juniper to carve a niche for itself, and this is all set to get a boost with the acquisition of AppFormix. Specifically, the combination of Contrail and AppFormix will improve cloud security, accounting, planning, and implementation of cloud projects. As a result, customers will stand to gain a more secure, intelligent, and automatic operational excellence at a lot lesser cost. As for the company, such benefits are sure to translate to more happy customers.
Under the terms of the deal, AppFormix team will report directly to the CTO of Juniper Networks, Pradeep Sindhu. Also, AppFormix will continue to exist as a standalone brand, and will have the freedom to develop its own platform. No layoffs or changes are expected at this time, and both the companies believe that the formalities for closing the deal would be completed by the end of 2016.
This deal is another significant one not just for both the companies, but also for the cloud and networking industry at large, as analytics and machine learning can help companies to stay on top of their ever-growing networks. These tools are essential to keep pace with the unprecedented growth of networks. In this sense, the coming together of AppFormix and Contrail can give a lot to cheer.
Though current users may not see any changes right away, this acquisition is sure to augur well for Juniper’s customers in the future, as they can get the benefit of having an orchestrated monitoring system while connecting across different cloud environments.
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Latest survey data warns SMBs are not using automation for cloud backups
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Almost 70% of small businesses in a survey from B2B analyst and reviews firm Clutch say they rely on their cloud storage provider for backups, with only 15% opting for automated services and 12% not bothering at all.
The findings appear as the second of two reports on SMBs and cloud strategy, with the first in November advising that many small firms are risking their security by choosing free storage products.
This time, the warning is around using their providers for backing up data in the cloud. As this publication has examined on various occasions, while the need for backup is rare, it’s always better to prepare for an unlikely event than be caught unawares. If the company was not utilising an automated service and forgot to back it up, then they have no other options.
Clutch recommends Mozy and Carbonite as providers who help with the automation side of backup. “If I put a file in Dropbox, it’s going to be there,” said Mark Estes, regional director of sales at big data firm Qubole. “If I don’t back it up, then Dropbox can’t help me with that.”
The warning comes amidst additional figures from Clutch which show more small businesses are taking the plunge and moving to cloud storage.
More than a quarter of survey respondents said they began using their storage services over the past year. According to the research, the majority (42%) of businesses polled, who have a maximum of 500 employees, said they spend between $51 and $250 each month on cloud storage, with 26% opting for between $251-$1000 and 9% more than $1000.
“It’s…just a natural maturing of the product,” said Jacob Ackerman, chief executive of SkyLink Data and Horizon Businesses Services.
“Once technology starts invading the personal lives of non-IT people in business, the technology is more accepted. It takes a level of acceptance and a level of comfort – people are comfortable with it now.”
The survey polled 293 small to medium businesses in total.