@DevOpsSummit at Cloud Expo taking place Oct 31 – Nov 2, 2017, at the Santa Clara Convention Center, Santa Clara, CA, is co-located with the 21st International Cloud Expo and will feature technical sessions from a rock star conference faculty and the leading industry players in the world. The widespread success of cloud computing is driving the DevOps revolution in enterprise IT. Now as never before, development teams must communicate and collaborate in a dynamic, 24/7/365 environment. There is no time to wait for long development cycles that produce software that is obsolete at launch. DevOps may be disruptive, but it is essential.
Monthly Archives: June 2017
IBM Named “Diamond Sponsor” of @CloudExpo | @IBMcloud #AI #ML #DX #DigitalTransformation
SYS-CON Events announced today that IBM has been named “Diamond Sponsor” of SYS-CON’s 21st Cloud Expo, which will take place on October 31 through November 2nd 2017 at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, California.
CA Named “Platinum Sponsor” of @CloudExpo | @CAinc #AI #DX #API #DevOps #Serverless #Monitoring
SYS-CON Events announced today that CA Technologies has been named “Platinum Sponsor” of SYS-CON’s 21st International Cloud Expo®, which will take place October 31-November 2, 2017, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA. CA Technologies helps customers succeed in a future where every business – from apparel to energy – is being rewritten by software. From planning to development to management to security, CA creates software that fuels transformation for companies in the application economy. With CA software at the center of their IT strategy, organizations can leverage the technology that changes the way we live – from the data center to the mobile device. CA’s software and solutions help customers thrive in the new application economy by delivering the means to deploy, monitor and secure their applications and infrastructure.
[video] Is Your Cloud Getting Smarter? ‘Power Panel’ | @CloudExpo #AI #ML #Cloud
Automation is enabling enterprises to design, deploy, and manage more complex, hybrid cloud environments. Yet the people who manage these environments must be trained in and understanding these environments better than ever before. A new era of analytics and cognitive computing is adding intelligence, but also more complexity, to these cloud environments. How smart is your cloud? How smart should it be?
In this power panel at 20th Cloud Expo, moderated by Conference Chair Roger Strukhoff, panelists looked at the evolving nature of hybrid cloud, how it affects enterprise IT staffing requirements, and what skills are needed to be successful.
Can Cisco Catch up with the Big Cloud Players?
Cisco, the world’s largest maker of networking equipment, is gearing up for the changing tech landscape.
First off, as more companies move to the cloud, their need for networking equipment falls greatly. They no longer need so many routers and switches and in turn, this is affecting the sales of Cisco’s core business. Even those companies that invest in infrastructure don’t seem to need an end-to-end networking gear, like in the past. All that they need now is precise equipment that fits well with their requirements.
All this means, Cisco’s existing operations and business structure is taking a beating. During the 2000s, technology and networking was expanding rapidly and Cisco simply rode that boom with its advanced networking equipment. it even became one of the most valuable company during that time.
But the picture is a lot different today. It’s now more about creating a niche and finding specialized equipment for that niche instead of building a complete networking solution from scratch.
To keep pace with the changing trends, Cisco moved into the cloud market to manufacture its equipment for cloud service providers like Amazon and Microsoft. It seemed like a good move then because Cisco simply decided to do what it knows best.
Unfortunately for Cisco, it didn’t work simply because cloud providers too wanted specialized equipment and not the general networking gear the Cisco specializes in. As a result, specialized network vendors like Artista looked more attractive than Cisco.
To top all these woes, software is becoming more central to cloud and even possibly IoT and machine learning because hardware is saturated and growing in an altogether different dimension. The focus is slowly moving towards sensors and other finer equipment rather than general networking.
So where does all this leave Cisco now?
Chuck Robbins, the new CEO of Cisco, is taking all out efforts to bring more relevance to Cisco. Robbins took helm in July 2015 and since then, has been entering into agreements to make custom products for different companies.
In addition to it, Cisco is also strengthening its software and service businesses, so it can generate a more stable and steady income from it. To this end, it has even made some acquisitions. It bought a company called AppDynamics that makes software to monitor the performance of corporate applications. It bought his company for a whopping $3.7 billion. Likewise, it bought a company called Viptela for $610 million, to tap into its expertise of making programs to manage different networks.
It has also taken the route of subscriptions, so many of its products are available under this pricing model. This is to keep pace with the new model of selling products to its customers.
All these changes have helped Cisco to some extent, as it continues to be a key hardware manufacturer for the new age tech industry.
Let’s hope it continues to build on these initiatives, so it can use its vast experience and expertise to fuel the growth of cloud and other new technologies that are likely to transform our society in a big way.
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NRPE en Ubuntu 16.04: Ignora dont_blame_nrpe
En el Debian Bug report logs – #756479 podremos ver como se han deshabilitado los comandos desde el servidor (compilando el nrpe sin –enable-command-args con argumentos tan sólidos como “hay gente que los usa mal“. Vamos a ver cómo usar un PPA alternativo para saltarnos la restricción de Debian
Podemos usar el PPA dontblamenrpe:
add-apt-repository ppa:dontblamenrpe/ppa
Configuramos preferencia del PPA sobre el paquete de la distribución:
cat <<EOF > /etc/apt/preferences.d/nrpe_dontblamenrpe Package: * Pin: release o=LP-PPA-dontblamenrpe Pin-Priority: 700 EOF
Podemos ver las prioridades mediante apt-cache policy:
root@ubuntu16:~# apt-cache policy nagios-nrpe-server
nagios-nrpe-server:
Installed: (none)
Candidate: 2.15-1ubuntu10
Version table:
2.15-1ubuntu10 700
700 http://ppa.launchpad.net/dontblamenrpe/ppa/ubuntu xenial/main amd64 Packages
100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
2.15-1ubuntu1 500
500 http://ad.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial/main amd64 Packages
Actualizamos e instalamos:
apt-get update apt-get install nagios-nrpe-server
Una vez instalados ya dispondremos del binarion de nrpe con la opción enable-command-args habilitada
Oracle posts $1.36bn cloud quarter with PaaS and IaaS aiming to go into ‘hyper growth’
Oracle’s cloud revenues continue to go in the right direction – with Larry Ellison predicting its PaaS and IaaS business will outperform SaaS in time.
Total cloud revenues for the company’s most recent quarter hit $1.36 billion (£1.06bn), or 13% of overall revenue, compared to $859 million and 8% this time last year. SaaS contributed 70% of the overall total with $964m, compared to PaaS and IaaS with $397m.
Speaking to analysts after the announcement, Ellison, Oracle’s CTO, said that in addition to the company’s ‘demonstrated strength’ in SaaS – again calling out Salesforce – the company had turned a corner in IaaS and PaaS. “During this new fiscal year, we expect both our PaaS and IaaS businesses to accelerate into hyper growth, the same kind of growth we are seeing with SaaS,” he said, as transcribed by Seeking Alpha.
An example of this was last month, when AT&T agreed to move thousands of its large scale databases to Oracle’s IaaS and PaaS. Ellison promised the deal was ‘just the beginning’, while CEO Mark Hurd added that even if the deal provided no revenue Q4, it was a “very strategic win as a reference to all of our customers about the modernisation of databases and the movement of them to the cloud.”
While cloud revenues go up, on-premise has fallen year on year. Total quarterly on-premise revenue was $7.52bn, down from $7.58bn this time in 2016, making total revenues at $10.89bn, up 2.7% from $10.59bn this time last year.
The rhetoric echoes what was said at the previous quarter’s results in March. At the time, Hurd said that if trends continued, it would be ‘just a matter of when we catch and pass Salesforce in total cloud revenue’. Ellison said this time around: “The reason we are confident that we will pass Salesforce is because we have a three-fold SaaS application suites for ERP, for HCM and for CRM including financials, procurement, supply chain, manufacturing, human resources, payroll, marketing, sales and service. Salesforce in contrast only competes in three of these nine market areas.”
Yet the figures don’t lie. Earnings Forecast Focus, writing in Seeking Alpha, said this quarter represented a ‘turnaround’ for Oracle. “I expect annual revenues to grow by double digits as soon as next year,” the blogger wrote. “Given that this growth will be attributable to cloud, this will also result in margin expansion and thus higher profits.”
You can read the full Oracle earnings report here.
Some things should not go public: The risks of a single-cloud strategy
Both Amazon and Microsoft cloud users experienced majorly disrupted services earlier this year due to unforeseen outages on both the AWS and Azure platforms. Customers faced disrupted services with no access to vital apps or data and some companies were left without access to crucial SaaS-based technologies that inhibited business operations across the globe. This outage was met with the swift realisation that the public cloud may not always be the most appropriate solution for every workload. Keeping all your critical data in one location, and relying solely on one cloud provider, isn’t always wise.
However, downtime is not the only reason to avoid putting all your workloads in one cloud. Other factors around cost and performance are key and can play a factor in the day to day running of businesses operations.
The price of public cloud
Initially, it may appear that public cloud offers considerable cost savings in comparison to private or on-premises based alternatives. However, as many will find, migrating applications to a public cloud platform can result in significant hidden costs. Auto-scaling features, though with good intentions, can mean that costs soar in line with demand for resources, making predicting costs difficult and budgeting even harder. Private cloud environments are far better suited to forecasting precise needs and financial allocations due to the integration of analytics that can anticipate needs for additional capacity and performance to avoid over-provisioning.
Like going on a spending spree, resource-intensive workloads and applications that reside in the public cloud can amount up to hefty credit card bills. Horror stories of surprise monthly charges for network bandwidth usage are no modern-day myth – these services come free when a workload sits in a company’s own data centre.
It’s all about performance
IT teams have to adhere to high performance standards: 99.999% availability is considered the bar for modern enterprises. To put that into perspective, it will take Amazon 30 years to achieve such numbers again after a near four-hour outage.
Organisations that rely on data for mission-critical operations should be aware that the public cloud generally works to a consistent level of three of four nines, and applications have to provide their own availability and resiliency in the public cloud, rather than depend on the infrastructure to provide them, which makes it difficult to maintain uptime.
Ultimately, when deciding which workload is right for the public cloud, a company may find itself asking how much downtime can be afforded before it impacts the bottom line, or causes customers to complain.
Workloads which are in fact more business critical are more suited to private and on-premises environments as they allow for the elimination of resource conflicts and performance through the implementation of quality of service controls.
Find the right basket for each egg
It’s likely that many organisations have a high level of variability when it comes to the needs of its applications. Yes, some may be considered right for the public cloud, but there are certainly some more suited to a company’s own data centre due to factors like cost and performance. As organisations work to deliver a cloud strategy, it is vital to remember that not all workloads – or eggs – fit in the same basket.
[slides] Amazon’s Cloud Billowing into #AI and #IoT | @ThingsExpo @Xopher5 #AWS #IIoT #DX
Amazon started as an online bookseller 20 years ago. Since then, it has evolved into a technology juggernaut that has disrupted multiple markets and industries and touches many aspects of our lives. It is a relentless technology and business model innovator driving disruption throughout numerous ecosystems. Amazon’s AWS revenues alone are approaching $16B a year making it one of the largest IT companies in the world. With dominant offerings in Cloud, IoT, eCommerce, Big Data, AI, Digital Assistants, Robotics, shipping logistics and other emerging technologies, developers and competitors ignore Amazon at their peril.
[slides] Enterprise Agile Transformation | @DevOpsSummit @Scrumdotorg #Scrum #AI #DevOps
It is ironic, but perhaps not unexpected, that many organizations who want the benefits of using an Agile approach to deliver software use a waterfall approach to adopting Agile practices: they form plans, they set milestones, and they measure progress by how many teams they have engaged. Old habits die hard, but like most waterfall software projects, most waterfall-style Agile adoption efforts fail to produce the results desired. The problem is that to get the results they want, they have to change their culture and cultures are very hard to change. To paraphrase Peter Drucker, “culture eats Agile for breakfast.” Successful approaches are opportunistic and leverage the power of self-organization to achieve lasting change.