How is unified communications transforming the way businesses operate?
In his session at WebRTC Summit, Arvind Rangarajan, Director of Product Marketing at BroadSoft, will discuss how to extend unified communications experience outside the enterprise through WebRTC. He will also review use cases across different industry verticals.
Arvind Rangarajan is Director, Product Marketing at BroadSoft. He has over 19 years of experience in the telecommunications industry in various roles such as Software Development, Product Management and Product Marketing, applied across Wireless, Unified Communications and in cloud-based communications.
Monthly Archives: April 2015
Deployment Management with @Plutora | @CloudExpo [#DevOps #APM]
Despite the prevalence of public and private clouds in the enterprise, most IT departments still adhere to operational models designed for physical infrastructure and servers that involve complex environment setup processes. As a result, organizations miss opportunities to take advantage of dynamic cloud-based deployments for non-production environments.
There are a number of reasons why it is often too difficult for enterprises to stand up a non-production environment for testing or staging. Databases have to be provisioned, application servers need to be configured, and a testing environment for a complex system can take weeks or months to properly certify as ready for use. This involves a lot of coordination and effort to setup environments. Organizations typically simplify setup by treating environments as permanent because they lack a tool like Plutora to help them keep track of environment management efforts.
SageNet to Leverage @GENBAND Nuvia | @ThingsExpo [#IoT #WebRTC]
GENBAND has announced that SageNet is leveraging the Nuvia platform to deliver Unified Communications as a Service (UCaaS) to its large base of retail and enterprise customers. Nuvia’s cloud-based solution provides SageNet’s customers with a full suite of business communications and collaboration tools.
Two large national SageNet retail customers have recently signed up to deploy the Nuvia platform and the company will continue to sell the service to new and existing customers. Nuvia’s capabilities include HD voice, video, multimedia messaging, mobility, conferencing, Web collaboration, desktop unified communications (UC) clients and fixed-mobile convergence.
Announcing @SohaSystems to Exhibit at @DevOpsSummit New York [#DevOps]
SYS-CON Events announced today that Soha will exhibit at SYS-CON’s DevOps Summit New York, which will take place on June 9-11, 2015, at the Javits Center in New York City, NY.
Soha delivers enterprise-grade application security, on any device, as agile as the cloud. This turnkey, cloud-based service enables customers to solve secure application access and delivery challenges that traditional or virtualized network solutions cannot solve because they are too expensive, inflexible and operationally complex. Organizations can now take full advantage of the cloud without sacrificing security or agility.
WebRTC’s Impact on Testing By @SmartBear | @ThingsExpo [#IoT #WebRTC]
Web Real Time Communications (WebRTC) is changing the way we have traditionally communicated and collaborated. To be specific, the technology allows developers to embed voice, data, instant messaging, and video into web browsers, thereby providing easier and far efficient ways to communicate than Voice Over Internet Protocol (VOIP) services such as Skype, WhatsApp, and WebEx.
WebRTC has come a long way since its inception in May 2011. Right from achieving interoperability between Chrome and Firefox browsers in 2013 to rolling out support for Android mobile, WebRTC has continued to garner more attention every year. And the market momentum is expected to continue growing. Infact, a recent Analysts Mason report predicts that with Apple and Microsoft incorporating WebRTC in their browsers, there might be 7 billion devices supporting WebRTC by 2020. With that strong growth rate, it is imperative for testers to have a strategy in place in order to test WebRTC applications efficiently. But before we venture down that path, it is critical to understand what’s driving this growth and how testing a WebRTC is different from any other web applications.
WebRTC and CloudRTC Platforms | @ThingsExpo [#IoT #WebRTC]
Disruption in the communications ecosystem is creating a market opportunity for Cloud Real-Time Communications (RTC) platforms. We expect this market to represent a $4.5 billion opportunity by 2018. Cloud RTC Platforms are cloud services that enable mobile and web developers to integrate communications into their applications with just a few lines of code. Via REST APIs and SDKs Cloud RTC Platforms enable developers to easily integrate voice, messaging and video calling into mobile and web applications supporting more contextual conversations. These tools have the potential to change in how we interact with each other in the future.
Amazon at the top of the Cloud Market
On Thursday, Amazon released their financial performance numbers, and they proved that Amazon is at the top of the cloud market compared to their competitors. Though they are known as an online marketplace, most of their stock market returns and revenue has come from renting processing power to start ups and enterprises.
Amazon was the leader in popularizing the cloud-computing field, and for a while they were the only ones to offer such services. This allowed for them to gain an advantage when others began to offer cloud-computing services. Others saw this field as an opportunity to tap into hundreds of billions of dollars. Microsoft has been especially committed to advancing in the field.
Though Amazon is the leader by a long shot, its resources are much lower than its competitors who have billions of dollars stashed away. Cloud computing demands heavy investments to set up data centers around the world as well as research and development if the field is to continue to grow and advance.
In their first quarter reports, Amazon Web Services reported earnings of $1.57 billion and their operating income was $265 million. These statistics are strange coming from a company who often reports losses. This drove Amazon shares up by more than 6% in after-hours trading, and stock is at an all time high.
Microsoft, who ranks in at number 2 for cloud computing, reported that its annual revenue from its commercial cloud business would be $6.3 billion based on recent performance. Amazon predicted a similar figure of $5.16 billion. However, included in Microsoft’s number is revenue from different online applications. Azure, the Microsoft equivalent of Amazon’s cloud services, was estimated to be one-tenth of AWS.
AWS got its start about a decade ago as a way to provide computing power to different divisions of Amazon. It has such a positive impact that it then was being offered to start-ups struggling to scale. After this, Amazon focused on expanding market share like it usually does, and it worked.
AWS was expected to rival the other businesses within Amazon. The cloud business has been growing by roughly 40% per year, which is twice the rate of the company overall.
Recently though, Google’s cloud service has been competing with AWS on pricing, which has been hurting profitability. Amazon has tried cutting prices many times at the expense of revenue growth. Their solution has been to provide other services such as database software and analytics. Amazon has also increased the number of resellers.
The big battle is going to be getting to the large companies that have the largest cloud computing needs. Many companies just floated through the first years of the cloud, they were not ones to adopt the latest technology. They had compliance and contracting processes to follow. Now, cloud computing is commonplace at these companies.
Microsoft’s cloud business has doubled in the last year. This is great considering how they have been suffering from low PC sales. Analysts believe that Microsoft has the edge in obtaining larger companies for clients. This is because they might be able to convince them to use their cloud services in addiction to the Microsoft products they already use. For start-ups though, cloud computing and AWS are synonymous.
The cloud computing market is going to continue to grow, and no single company can cover all aspects of it. It will be exciting to see where things go from here.
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Announcing @VicomComputer to Exhibit at @CloudExpo New York [#Cloud]
SYS-CON Events announced today that Vicom Computer Services, Inc., a provider of technology and service 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. They are located at booth #427.
Vicom Computer Services, Inc. is a progressive leader in the technology industry for over 30 years. Headquartered in the NY Metropolitan area. Vicom provides products and services based on today’s requirements around Unified Networks, Cloud Computing strategies, Virtualization around Software defined Data Centers including, Servers, Storage, IT Management, Data Protection/Availability, Security, Infrastructure Services and IT Consulting Services.
Node.js From @ProfitbricksUSA | @DevOpsSummit [#DevOps #Microservices]
ProfitBricks, the provider of painless cloud infrastructure for IaaS, today announced the release of a Node.js SDK written against its recently launched REST API. This new JavaScript based library provides coverage for all existing ProfitBricks REST API functions. With additional libraries set to release this month, ProfitBricks continues to prove its dedication to the DevOps community and commitment to making cloud migrations and cloud management painless.
Node.js is an open source, cross-platform runtime environment. It offers an asynchronous event-driven framework designed to build scalable network applications. Written in JavaScript, Node.js applications can be run within the Node.js runtime on OSX, Microsoft Windows, Linux and more.
Learn about Jython API By @XebiaLabs | @DevOpsSummit [#DevOps]
There is no quick way to learn Jython API but to experiment with it. The easiest way is to start with Jytutor extension for XL Deploy.
Now you can also use the code snippet for exposing jython/python context in XL Deploy environment by running it directly in Jytutor
Here’s how you can go ahead with that
Download the Jytutor extension referring to the Jytutor Blog or from the following link https://github.com/xebialabs-community/xld-jytutor-plugin/releases
Shutdown your XL Deploy server and drop the extension jar file under XLD_HOME/plugins folder
Restart the server and log back in
You should be able to see Jytutor as the last option in top menu. Click to open that
Now refer to the code snippet in XL Deploy Variables Demystified : Part 2
Once you copy the snippet in Commands section and submit it, this is how it looks.