WebRTC Summit has announced today that Peter Dunkley has been named summit chair of WebRTC Summit 2015 New York.

The 4th International WebRTC Summit will take place on June 9-11, 2015, at the Javits Center in Manhattan, New York.

@ThingsExpo anticipates 90% of WebRTC companies & developers will monetize their products & services through IoT by 2016.

Peter Dunkley is Technical Director at Acision. He graduated from The University of Edinburgh in 2000 with a BSc (Hons) in Computer Science. After graduation Peter worked on a PSTN switch developing signalling stacks for SS7, ISDN and similar protocols and creating advanced routing and service applications. Since 2005 he has worked mainly with SIP first leading a team developing a PSTN gateway and then managing the development of a SIP Application Server. Peter joined Crocodile RCS in September 2010 and has made numerous contributions to the Kamailio open source SIP Router project (particularly in the areas of presence, WebSocket, MSRP, and SIP Outbound) since then. Peter is one of the authors of the MSRP over WebSocket draft (draft-pd-dispatch-msrp-websocket) and is a contributor to several open-source projects.

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SYS-CON Events announced today that Alert Logic, the leading provider of Security-as-a-Service solutions for the cloud, has been named “Bronze Sponsor” of SYS-CON’s 16th International Cloud Expo® and DevOps Summit 2015 New York, which will take place June 9-11, 2015, at the Javits Center in New York City, NY, and the 17th International Cloud Expo® and DevOps Summit 2015 Silicon Valley, which will take place November 3–5, 2015, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA.

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SYS-CON Events announced today that Plutora, Inc., the leading global provider of enterprise release management and test environment management SaaS solutions, will exhibit at SYS-CON’s DevOps Summit 2015 New York, which will take place on June 9-11, 2015, at the Javits Center in New York City, NY.
Headquartered in Mountain View, California, Plutora provides enterprise release management and test environment SaaS solutions to clients in North America, Europe and Asia Pacific. Leading companies across a variety of industries, including financial services, telecommunications, retail, pharmaceutical and media, rely on Plutora’s SaaS solutions to orchestrate releases and environments faster and with integrity. Please visit www.plutora.com to learn more about Plutora’s enterprise Release and Test Environment SaaS Solutions.

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SYS-CON Events announced today that WSM International (WSM), the world’s leading cloud and server migration services provider, 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.
WSM is a solutions integrator with a core focus on cloud and server migration, transformation and DevOps services.

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The cloud infrastructure services market continues to grow at a rapid rate with Amazon Web Services (AWS) at the summit, and latest Q1 data from Synergy Research reveals AWS remains bigger than its four nearest competitors.

The data reveals how the trend of the cloud infrastructure market has been similarly plotted for the past year. AWS was not the fastest growing company during Q115, with only 49% growth, yet retains a larger slice of the market than Salesforce, Microsoft, IBM and Google combined. Microsoft keeps its second placed position in the market, with 96% growth in Q1 – the greatest out of all the vendors analysed.

The graph below shows the full extent of AWS’ dominance, and how the map looks similar to the Q114 figures:

Despite AWS’ dominance in the market, it is clear that the company hasn’t rested on its laurels in recent quarters. IBM, and particularly Microsoft, had upped their game in 2014, with Q214 figures detailing how the four challengers had an overall market share greater than Amazon’s.

In January Amazon revealed it was finally siloing its AWS figures from the rest of its financial results. Even though Amazon’s overall financial results saw a $57 million net loss from its first quarter, AWS revenue went up by 50%.

Synergy estimates overall quarterly cloud infrastructure service revenues, including IaaS, PaaS, private and hybrid cloud, have now topped the $5 billion mark. John Dinsdale, Synergy chief analyst and research director, noted how while across the cloud spectrum there were six companies capable of market leadership – Cisco was not included in the graphs – in this field AWS remains king.

“On a strict like-for-like basis AWS remains streets ahead of the competition in cloud infrastructure services,” he said, adding: “Furthermore, this part of the cloud market is growing much more rapidly than SaaS or cloud infrastructure hardware and software.”

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I woke up this morning to the devastating news about the earthquake in Nepal.

Sitting here in California that destruction is literally on the other side of the world but my mind immediately went to thinking about my good friend Jeremy Geelan.

See Jeremy and his family have been living in Kathmandu for a while now. His wife, in fact, is the Danish Ambassador to Nepal!

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@ThingsExpo has been named the Top 5 Most Influential Internet of Things Brand by Onalytica in the ‘The Internet of Things Landscape 2015: Top 100 Individuals and Brands.’ Onalytica analyzed Twitter conversations around the #IoT debate to uncover the most influential brands and individuals driving the conversation.
Onalytica captured data from 56,224 users. The PageRank based methodology they use to extract influencers on a particular topic (tweets mentioning #InternetofThings or #IoT in this case) takes into account the number and quality of contextual references that a user receives.

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