Buzzword alert: Microservices and IoT at a DevOps conference? What could possibly go wrong?
In this Power Panel at DevOps Summit, moderated by Jason Bloomberg, the leading expert on architecting agility for the enterprise and president of Intellyx, panelists will peel away the buzz and discuss the important architectural principles behind implementing IoT solutions for the enterprise. As remote IoT devices and sensors become increasingly intelligent, they become part of our distributed cloud environment, and we must architect and code accordingly. At the very least, you’ll have no problem filling in your buzzword bingo cards.
Evangelist for F5 Networks

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Discussions about cloud computing are evolving into discussions about enterprise IT in general. As enterprises increasingly migrate toward their own unique clouds, new issues such as the use of containers and microservices emerge to keep things interesting.
In this Power Panel at 16th Cloud Expo, moderated by Conference Chair Roger Strukhoff, panelists will address the state of cloud computing today, and what enterprise IT professionals need to know about how the latest topics and trends affect their organization.

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There are not many times in my career that I am going to be able to quote Will Smith, but in the “Will2K” video, Will states “You Never Know Where You Are Going Until You Know Where You Have Been”. For me, this summarizes why measurements and metrics are so important. Unless you can understand where you are right now then there is no way to understand whether you have been successful in regards to an initiative, in this case, DevOps adoption. Choosing the right DevOps measurements is important to eliciting the right behavior amongst IT teams, ensuring that they know what they need to focus on and, key to making sure that you are delivering the right value to the business.

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In this 4-part blog series, I am exposing DevOps best practices using a metaphor inspired by the famous 6th century Chinese manuscript: “The Art of War.” It is worth reminding that Sun Tzu, just like me, considered war as a necessary evil, which must be avoided whenever possible. What are we fighting for here? Ultimately, we’re fighting for the absolute best services and features that we can deliver to our customers as quickly as we possibly can, and to eliminate the “War Room” scenario we are all so familiar with.

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SYS-CON Events announced today that EnterpriseDB (EDB), the leading worldwide provider of enterprise-class Postgres products and database compatibility solutions, will exhibit at SYS-CON’s 16th International Cloud Expo®, which will take place on June 9-11, 2015, at the Javits Center in New York City, NY.
EDB is the largest provider of Postgres software and services that provides enterprise-class performance and scalability and the open source freedom to divert budget from more costly traditional solutions to more strategic data-driven initiatives. EDB’s Postgres Plus Cloud Database provides the same Postgres databases that are available on-premises, giving customers the ability to easily move their databases to and from the cloud.

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GENBAND has announced that Tech Mahindra, a global leader in digital transformation, consulting and business re-engineering solutions has joined the GENBAND Kandy Partner Ecosystem. The alliance with Kandy enables Tech Mahindra to quickly deliver innovative, real time communications capabilities for enterprises and service providers around the world. Tech Mahindra is creating a center-of-excellence dedicated to leveraging the entire Kandy communications Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS).
“We teamed with GENBAND because Kandy combines the best of both a carrier-strength backbone and a leading-edge PaaS that can quickly deploy real time communications capabilities across every industry and every business process,” said Ranganath R. Iyengar, Head of Product Engineering, Tech Mahindra. “We look forward to helping our customers create new sources of value and revenue from the Kandy toolset.”

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In his session at 16th Cloud Expo, Kelly Murphy, Founder and Chief Technology Officer at Gridstore, will discuss the design and deployment of a Private Cloud-in-a-Box, with HyperConverged All-Flash Infrastructure including the following key points:
Requirements and considerations when designing and deploying Private Cloud-in-a-Box
Why HCI makes Private Cloud-in-a-Box easy and cost-efficient
Best practices and what to watch for in your deployment
Session attendees will learn how the first affordable All-Flash Hyper-Converged infrastructure that is purpose-built for Microsoft Cloud environments can reduce their infrastructure costs by 4x-8x while radically simplifying their environment and lower their management costs by up to 10x.

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While Docker continues to be the darling of startups, enterprises and IT innovators around the world, networking continues to be a real mess. Indeed, managing the interaction between Docker containers and networks has always been fraught with complications. Without automation in networking, the vision of running Docker at scale and letting IT run the same apps unchanged on the laptop and in the data center or for any cloud cannot be realized.

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DoubleDown Interactive, a provider of online free-to-play casino games, needs to process huge amounts of streaming event data from their games and make that data rapidly available to data scientists and analysts. Hear how Amazon S3 and Snowflake’s Elastic Data Warehouse have made it possible for DoubleDown to deploy a reliable, scalable data architecture for their analytics needs.
You’ll learn how Amazon S3 and Snowflake technology help address key challenges in building data pipelines and processing data and how DoubleDown combines Amazon Kinesis, S3, and Snowflake to ingest, store, and process their data faster, more easily, and less expensively.

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Blue Box has launched a new enhanced version of its Blue Box Cloud product, targeting enterprise IT buyers who have high demands with regard to performance and service levels.
Blue Box Cloud Enterprise edition complements the standard edition of Blue Box Cloud. The Enterprise Edition features Dell PowerEdge R630 servers running the Intel® Xeon® processor family E5-2600 v3 with hyper-threading. Blue Box Cloud Enterprise servers offer 96 physical cores and 96 hyper-threads, offering an effective 192 cores each. This configuration also offers double the RAM and storage for the hypervisor. Dell also provides servers for the object storage, running OpenStack Swift. Block storage, based on OpenStack Cinder, is provided by Nimble Storage with their feature rich and high performance Adaptive Flash platform.

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