Web-scale companies like Facebook and Google are popularizing a new title within IT operations teams: the Site Reliability Engineer (SRE). For some, this role is referred to as a Production Engineer, while others have even more obscure titles, like Airbnb’s “Developer Happiness Engineer.” No matter the title though, the common thread for all SREs is this: ensuring that an organization’s online presence is up and available at all times, and performing efficiently. And as they march down this path, SREs relentlessly look for answers to these questions: Does it work? Does it work well? Could it work better?

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«We are a ‘build your own business application’ platform, kind of a Platform as a Service in the cloud,» explained Dave Landa, chief operating officer of Cybozu Corp (kintone US), in this SYS-CON.tv interview at 16th Cloud Expo, held June 9-11, 2015, at the Javits Center in New York City.

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«Search-based application is a new breed of application architecture. The top two requests we get from our clients is how do I bring new information in and how do I improve the performance of existing applications,» explained Sushil Prabhu, CEO of OpenCrowd, in this SYS-CON.tv interview at 16th Cloud Expo, held June 9-11, 2015, at the Javits Center in New York City.

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Sysdig has announced two significant milestones in its mission to bring infrastructure and application monitoring to the world of containers and microservices: a $10.7 million Series A funding led by Accel and Bain Capital Ventures (BCV); and the general availability of Sysdig Cloud, the first monitoring, alerting, and troubleshooting platform specializing in container visibility, which is already used by more than 30 enterprise customers. The funding will be used to drive adoption of Sysdig Cloud in the container market.

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The cloud isn’t a fad. Businesses that don’t make the move are falling behind the competition. According to a recent ComputerWorld study, more than 40% of IT executives said that their organizations will spend more on Software as a Service (SaaS) and a mix of public, private hybrid and community clouds in 2015.
Companies of all sizes are increasing spending and transitioning to the cloud due to the slew of bottom-line and competitive benefits including efficiency, cost and, in some cases, security.

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As organizations realize the scope of the Internet of Things, gaining key insights from Big Data, through the use of advanced analytics, becomes more crucial. Storage solutions that seamlessly integrate with robust data analytics platforms and act as “smart systems” provide in-place analytics that speed discovery and enable businesses to quickly derive meaningful and actionable insights.
In his session at @ThingsExpo, Paul Turner, Chief Marketing Officer at Cloudian, will use specific use cases to address how and where we’ll see smart data first make an impact, and present the many benefits that many vertical markets, including media and entertainment and finance, can expect.

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Cloud data governance was previously an avoided function when cloud deployments were relatively small. With the rapid adoption in public cloud – both rogue and sanctioned, it’s not uncommon to find regulated data dumped into public cloud and unprotected. This is why enterprises and cloud providers alike need to embrace a cloud data governance function and map policies, processes and technology controls accordingly.

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«The federal government is the nation’s largest consumer of information technology and this year alone the government is spending $2.1 billion on cloud technology. We help do the compliance assessments for companies to meet the federal security requirements,» explained Abel Sussman, Director for Coalfire Public Sector practice, in this SYS-CON.tv interview at 16th Cloud Expo, held June 9-11, 2015, at the Javits Center in New York City.

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JavaScript is primarily a client-based dynamic scripting language most commonly used within web browsers as client-side scripts to interact with the user, browser, and communicate asynchronously to servers.

If you have been part of any web-based development, odds are you have worked with JavaScript in one form or another. In this article, I’ll focus on the aspects of JavaScript that are relevant within the Node.js environment.

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We think we’re doing the whole DevOps thing right — new hires can deploy on day one, Travis CI is humming along, and we own the code we ship. But then something breaks, something doesn’t go according to plan, tempers flare up, and all that warm, fuzzy collaboration seems to evaporate. What’s going on? What happened to #HugOps?

A large part of software engineering doesn’t involve code at all— it’s talking and collaborating with our teammates. Soft skills are harder to measure and quantify than performance or reliability, but they’re just as important— and while we’ll readily spend hundreds to thousands of dollars on books, courses, and training to improve our software skills, companies rarely invest in creating the culture of empathy and compassion that was behind DevOps in the first place.

Empathy works great…until it doesn’t. It’s easy to be compassionate and collaborative when stuff is going great and everyone’s having an easy time, but it’s stressful, high-stakes situations that show you whether you’ve actually built a culture of empathy.

Let’s look at some specific strategies and tactics teams can use to improve organizational empathy.

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