SYS-CON Events announced today that T-Mobile will exhibit at SYS-CON’s 20th International Cloud Expo®, which will take place on June 6-8, 2017, at the Javits Center in New York City, NY. As America’s Un-carrier, T-Mobile US, Inc., is redefining the way consumers and businesses buy wireless services through leading product and service innovation. The Company’s advanced nationwide 4G LTE network delivers outstanding wireless experiences to 67.4 million customers who are unwilling to compromise on quality and value.
Monthly Archives: April 2017
How to Sponsor @ThingsExpo | #BigData #IoT #IIoT #AI #ML #DX #SmartCities
With major technology companies and startups seriously embracing IoT strategies, now is the perfect time to attend @ThingsExpo 2016 in New York. Learn what is going on, contribute to the discussions, and ensure that your enterprise is as “IoT-Ready” as it can be! Internet of @ThingsExpo, taking place June 6-8, 2017, at the Javits Center in New York City, New York, is co-located with 20th Cloud Expo and will feature technical sessions from a rock star conference faculty and the leading industry players in the world. The Internet of Things (IoT) is the most profound change in personal and enterprise IT since the creation of the Worldwide Web more than 20 years ago. All major researchers estimate there will be tens of billions devices – computers, smartphones, tablets, and sensors – connected to the Internet by 2020. This number will continue to grow at a rapid pace for the next several decades.
The Deconstruction of Digital Transformation | @CloudExpo #Cloud #DigitalTransformation
The complex idea behind the term digital transformation is that technology has created a fundamental shift in how organizations operate. The consumerization of technology — and the customer empowerment it created — has upended the traditional operating paradigm of organizations moving it away from a capital and process-centric model to a customer-centric one.
The need to digitally transform your organization is now – or at least should be – a strategic imperative. The fact, however, that the term digital transformation is now a bona fide buzzword has obfuscated its importance.
Hitachi to Exhibit at @CloudExpo | @HDScorp #IoT #IIoT #AI #DX #SmartCities
SYS-CON Events announced today that Hitachi, the leading provider the Internet of Things and Digital Transformation, will exhibit at SYS-CON’s 20th International Cloud Expo®, which will take place on June 6-8, 2017, at the Javits Center in New York City, NY. Hitachi Data Systems, a wholly owned subsidiary of Hitachi, Ltd., offers an integrated portfolio of services and solutions that enable digital transformation through enhanced data management, governance, mobility and analytics. We help global organizations open new revenue streams, increase efficiencies, improve customer experience and ensure rapid time to market in the digital age. Only Hitachi Data Systems powers the digital enterprise by integrating the best information technology and operational technology from across the Hitachi family of companies. We combine this experience with Hitachi expertise in the internet of things to deliver the exceptional insights business and society need to transform and thrive. Visit us at HDS.com.
How to Speak at @CloudExpo | #DevOps #FinTech #IoT #AI #DX #SmartCities
The 20th International Cloud Expo has announced that its Call for Papers is open. Cloud Expo, to be held June 6-8, 2017, at the Javits Center in New York City, brings together Cloud Computing, Big Data, Internet of Things, DevOps, Containers, Microservices and WebRTC to one location.
With cloud computing driving a higher percentage of enterprise IT budgets every year, it becomes increasingly important to plant your flag in this fast-expanding business opportunity. Submit your speaking proposal today!
Cloud Automation and Orchestration Made Easy | @CloudExpo #Cloud #Automation
Step into any boardroom and the talk is all about speed and quality: How to accelerate the delivery of innovative new products and services, while improving the quality of existing ones. When this question is asked, all eyes turn to the CIO: How can IT bring business velocity to both the software lifecycle and the digital business, end-to-end from digital touchpoint to system of record?
BrightFunnel Unveils Machine Learning Powered Marketing Attribution | @CloudExpo #AI #ML #Cloud
BrightFunnel, the pioneer in Revenue Intelligence for B2B marketers, today announced the launch of its Machine Learning Attribution EngineTM. This new product is currently available in private beta.
“I’m proud to announce BrightFunnel’s machine learning powered attribution capabilities,” said Nadim Hossain, CEO and Co-Founder. “From our original founding, we have had the vision that AI can improve the daily work lives of marketers. Over the past few years, our team has been quietly building our customer base, our proprietary data access, and our deep domain expertise in marketing workflows. Today’s milestone marks a logical progression towards making our Machine Learning Attribution Engine commercially available.”
Microsoft looks to simplify IoT with SaaS for new release
Microsoft has announced the launch of Microsoft IoT Central, a software as a service (SaaS) offering which aims to reduce the complexity of Internet of Things solutions for customers.
The new launch goes hand in hand with Microsoft’s current platform as a service (PaaS), Azure IoT Suite, built on the Azure cloud, with the latter enabling deep customisation and control of implementations. IoT Central ‘has the potential to dramatically increase the speed at which manufacturers can innovate and bring new products to market, as well as lower the barriers to creating IoT solutions that generate new revenue opportunities and better experiences for customers’, the company said.
“The Internet of Things is quickly becoming a critical aspect of doing business,” Sam George, partner director at Microsoft Azure IoT wrote in a blog post. “In the same way that web, mobile and cloud technologies have powered digital transformation, IoT is the next big catalyst.
“Yet while IoT brings a new set of benefits for companies that want to keep an edge on their competition, it brings challenges too – IoT solutions can still be complex, and a shortage of skills makes it difficult for everyone to take advantage of this new innovation.”
This is not the only announcement Microsoft is making in this area. The Redmond giant will also be introducing Connected Factory, a preconfigured solution in Azure IoT Suite which aims to give those in the industrial sector an easy on-ramp to increase the performance on a factory floor, connecting and monitoring industrial equipment. Alongside this is another new service in the form of Azure Time Series Insights, which is a fully managed analytics, storage and visualisation service which gives users an interactive and instant interface to analyse billions of events from an IoT solution.
Yet the cloud is not always the answer for connectivity across a plethora of devices. For areas where connectivity is spotty, Microsoft has also launched the preview of Azure Stream Analytics for edge devices. “This approach enables organisations to use streaming analytics in scenarios where connectivity to the cloud is limited or inconsistent, but the need for quick insight and proactive actions are essential to run the business,” George added.
Huawei’s New Global Cloud Idea
Huawei, a Chinese multinational networking and telecommunications company headquartered in Shenzhen has decided to build a cloud, but a little differently than others. It will be based on its cut of OpenStack, but the difference is it will have a patchwork of clouds that will run by itself.
Sounds confusing? Well, yes. After the announcement was made a couple weeks ago by its CEO Eric Xu, it got many reporters and the cloud community wondering on what this could be and what exactly does Huawei plan to implement.
After many questions and clarifications and reports by many journalists, it’s clear that Huawei will create a cloud platform and will take the help of its partners to build public clouds that’ll run on this platform.
Surprisingly, Huawei has already started the process of implementing this idea. It has already entered into partnerships with companies such as Deutsche Telecom, Telefonica and Orange and they are expected to build their public cloud offerings on this platform. Besides, Huawei has its own public cloud too that it runs in China. It’s not clear if this cloud service that it offers in China will be a part of its platform.
On the software side too, Huawei has made some progress. It has built a cut of OpenStack called “FusionSphere” and another software called “FusionStage”, which is an enterprise platform-as-a-service that is built on Kunernetes and Docker. Though these products are not complete and ready for public deployment, they’re almost there. This is also partly why Huawei has started offering it to customers who may want it.
At this point, it is targeting telecom companies, especially those in the developing countries. Huawei wants to target the countries where it has a wide presence and then move on to other markets. In fact, it is offering good kits at affordable rates, so these tools are accessible to anyone in any part of the world.
Though this company has spelled out a road map for its products and for its emergence as a key cloud player, there are some aspects that are still hazy. Will Huawei run its own public cloud? Will it back local cloud providers, and if so, what’s the criteria for that? There are many such unanswered questions, but what’s clear is that all Huawei-powered clouds have unified APIs that will allow their customers to migrate their operations to the cloud.
This can bring up the question of what’s different. Well, the significant difference is that Huawei plans to reach out to countries that the top players such as AWS, Microsoft and Google will not touch for years. This is great news for these countries as well as the cloud industry as a whole because it simply means that more countries and businesses will get to enjoy the benefits of cloud. This way, global companies will also get to work with local companies since they have cloud as the common link that can bring their businesses together.
Overall, this strategy from Huawei will work well for itself as well for other small companies in developing countries, provided it is implemented the way it was conceived.
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The CIO’s guide to the new economics of real-time integration
CEOs’ decisions today to pursue digital-first strategies for greater revenue growth are defining their company’s competitive strengths in the future. CIOs and their teams are being challenged to drive a larger percentage of revenue growth in 2017 than ever before by providing IT-based insights daily.
- Enabling faster revenue growth, improving products and replacing obsolete technologies are the top three CEO priorities have for CIOs in 2017.
- 42% of CIOs say “digital first” is their company’s go-forward strategy for IT investments in 2017 and beyond.
- 33% of CIOs consider revenue growth as their primary metric for measuring success with their digital business strategies.
The new economics of real-time integration
IT teams are taking on the challenge by concentrating on those areas that can scale the quickest and deliver measurable revenue results. They’re finding that the integration approaches taken in the past don’t match the speed that customers, sales, suppliers and senior management need today. A key takeaway from CIOs’ initial efforts includes the finding that making small improvements in data latency can increase sales win rates in 90 days or less while improving cost controls. Improving data latency is one of the key factors driving the new economics of real-time integration, which is defined below.
- Integrations’ inflection point has arrived – Digital-first initiatives for defining new channel, selling and product strategies require more speed than batch-oriented integration can deliver. Customers now expect real-time response across all sales and support channels on a 24/7 basis. The pressure to drive greater revenue through digital channels and deliver a consistently great customer experience are forcing an inflection point of integration technologies today.
- Batch-oriented approaches to integration fit well in an era of transaction-centric IT. Asynchronous, tightly-coupled, and relying on ETL for moving data around an enterprise network, these approaches were better suited for more predictable revenue strategies. In contrast, going after new digital channels is unpredictable and requires real-time integration to deliver excellent customer experiences. Service-oriented frameworks that support synchronous data consumption and have low latency are emerging as a better choice for digital-first revenue strategies. Based on loosely-coupled integration points, these frameworks are capable of quickly adapting to new business requirements. Companies including enosiX are revolutionising services-oriented frameworks by removing the roadblocks legacy integration approaches created. The following graphic illustrates integrations’ inflection point and how past approaches to integration are giving way to more synchronous, loosely- coupled service-oriented frameworks capable of scaling faster to drive greater revenue.
- It’s also fuelling faster development cycles, reducing time-to-market and improving app and web services quality. The apps, web services, and APIs needed to launch a digital-first strategy don’t exist off-the-shelf, ready to be deployed for the majority of companies. Every company needs to create customizations to existing apps and web services, or create entirely new ones to support digital revenue strategies. Availability of real-time data through service-oriented frameworks is revolutionizing how apps, web services, and customizations get built. With real-time data designed in, it’s possible to test new apps across more use cases and ensure higher quality too.
- While also enabling IT teams to exceed stakeholder expectations and their goals for digital-first strategies. Integrations’ inflection point is the most visible in how CIOs are now considered more responsible for revenue than ever before. From the initial revenue strategy definition through project managing apps and web services to delivery and producing revenue, CIOs and their teams who see themselves as business strategists excel in their roles. IT teams and the CIOs who lead them are seeing signs of integration’s inflection point every day. They’re seeing just how urgent the inflection point is, and how it’s redefining the economics of how they orchestrate systems together to attain revenue growth. The insights and expertise CEOs, VPs of channel strategy, marketing, cloud & IT infrastructure, and other senior management team members have needed to get quickly translated into apps, web services and digital first strategies that capitalise fast on new opportunities. Only through the use of service-oriented frameworks that can scale to support new revenue processes can any company compete in 2017 and beyond.
