The 4th International DevOps Summit, co-located with16th International Cloud Expo – being held June 9-11, 2015, at the Javits Center in New York City, NY – announces that its Call for Papers is now open.
Born out of proven success in agile development, cloud computing, and process automation, DevOps is a macro trend you cannot afford to miss. From showcase success stories from early adopters and web-scale businesses, DevOps is expanding to organizations of all sizes, including the world’s largest enterprises – and delivering real results. Among the proven benefits, DevOps is correlated with 20% faster time-to-market, 22% improvement in quality, and 18% reduction in dev and ops costs, according to research firm Vanson-Bourne. It is changing the way IT works, how businesses interact with customers, and how organizations are buying, building, and delivering software.
Monthly Archives: December 2014
Creating Value with DevOps By @AppDynamics | @DevOpsSummit [#DevOps]
DevOps is all about agility. However, you don’t want to be on a high-speed bus to nowhere. The right DevOps approach controls velocity with a tight feedback loop that not only consists of operational data but also incorporates business context. With a business context in the decision making, the right business priorities are incorporated, which results in a higher value creation.
In his session at DevOps Summit, Todd Rader, Solutions Architect at AppDynamics, discussed key monitoring techniques that facilitate higher value creation for your enterprise.
Internet of Things Key Elements By @GreenwaveSys | @ThingsExpo [#IoT]
Connected devices and the Internet of Things are getting significant momentum in 2014.
In his session at Internet of @ThingsExpo, Jim Hunter, Chief Scientist & Technology Evangelist at Greenwave Systems, examined three key elements that together will drive mass adoption of the IoT before the end of 2015. The first element is the recent advent of robust open source protocols (like AllJoyn and WebRTC) that facilitate M2M communication. The second is broad availability of flexible, cost-effective storage designed to handle the massive surge in back-end data in a world where timely analytics is essential to maintaining competitive advantage. Third is the emergence of application-specific software providers whose solutions can unlock IoT’s full potential across all embedded devices.
Internet of Things – @ThingsExpo Named World’s Most Influential Media Brand [#IoT]
@ThingsExpo has been named the Top 5 Most Influential M2M Brand by Onalytica in the ‘Machine to Machine: Top 100 Influencers and Brands.’ Onalytica analyzed the online debate on M2M by looking at over 85,000 tweets to provide the most influential individuals and brands that drive the discussion. According to Onalytica the “analysis showed a very engaged community with a lot of interactive tweets. The M2M discussion seems to be more fragmented and driven by some of the major brands present in the M2M space. This really allows some room for influential individuals to create more high value interactions amongst community members.”
Announcing @CloudianStorage to Exhibit at @CloudExpo New York [#Cloud]
SYS-CON Events announced today that Cloudian, Inc., the leading provider of hybrid cloud storage 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.
Cloudian, Inc., is a Foster City, California – based software company specializing in cloud storage software. The main product is Cloudian, an Amazon S3-compliant cloud object storage platform, the bedrock of cloud computing systems, that enables cloud service providers and enterprises to build reliable, affordable and scalable cloud storage solutions. In addition, Cloudian is actively partnering with the leading cloud computing environments including Citrix Cloud Platform and OpenStack, cloud on-ramp providers, and the vast ecosystem of tools and applications that is afforded through true S3 compatibility. Cloudian’s customers include Alcatel-Lucent, Vodafone, Nextel, Docomo, NTT, SoftBank, Telecom Italia, Nifty, LunaCloud, Constant Hosting, and Clara Online. The company has additional offices in China and Japan.
Skytap Complements Puppet and Chef | @DevOpsSummit [#DevOps]
Skytap is occasionally asked how our service overlaps with provisioning and deployment tools like Puppet and Chef. While those tools do have some conceptual overlap both with each other and with Skytap, their roles are fairly distinct in practice.
Skytap’s service provides environments on demand for complex enterprise applications. We give our customers the ability to easily create, clone, share, and collaborate with these environments while maintaining tight IT visibility and control for security, compliance, and budgetary purposes. What is a “complex application”? Usually it is some type of N-tier client/server app designed to run on traditional infrastructure—perhaps a line-of-business or customer facing application. They’re not often designed to run in an IaaS or PaaS cloud platform. Check out the video below to get a better sense.
Puppet Labs Enables DevOps in Windows | @DevOpsSummit [#DevOps]
This builds on Puppet Labs’ first class Windows support, including native .MSI packages for x32 and x64 operating systems, modules to extend common Windows server management tools, including Powershell, and integrations with Microsoft Azure and Visual Studio. By automating common Windows administration tasks, Puppet Labs is enabling users to adopt DevOps practices, thereby reducing the time needed to deploy applications from weeks to hours.
A Practical Guide for ‘Recurring Revenue’ By @AriaSystemsInc | @CloudExpo [#Cloud]
As a marketing executive, I’ve seen my fair share of collateral: overviews, PPTs, ebooks, whitepapers, surveys, Slideshares and product documents. Admittedly, we marketers are often guilty of producing stuff that is heavy on the sell and light on insight and instruction. And while this is great for the occasional comparison shopper, it’s not so hot for many of you who are just getting your feet wet in the recurring revenue waters.
Today, we look to change that. For those that want a deeper dive than the usual marketing document provides, we published the No BS Guide to Recurring Revenue Success. The guide looks to help IT and financial executives better plan for their recurring revenue initiatives.
DevOps Summit Was a Terrific Event! By @QubellInc | @DevOpsSummit [#DevOps]
DevOps Summit at Cloud Expo 2014 Silicon Valley was a terrific event for us. The Qubell booth was crowded on all three days. We ran demos every 30 minutes with folks lining up to get a seat and usually standing around. It was great to meet and talk to over 500 people! My keynote was well received and so was Stan’s joint presentation with RingCentral on Devops for BigData. I also participated in two Power Panels – ‘Women in Technology’ and ‘Why DevOps Is Even More Important than You Think,’ both featuring brilliant colleagues and moderators and it was a blast to be a part of.
The Amazon versus VMware Cloud War Reader | @CloudExpo [#Cloud]
A series of articles written about the new cloud war between Amazon and VMware has attracted plenty of interest, despite being spread across a few media sites andArchimedius. So I thought I would put them together in a single location for easy reference with other blogs that put the conflict within a broader perspective: