While some vendors scramble to create and sell you a fancy solution for monitoring your spanking new Amazon Lambdas, hear how you can do it on the cheap using just built-in Java APIs yourself. By exploiting a little-known fact that Lambdas aren’t exactly single-threaded, you can effectively identify hot spots in your serverless code. In his session at @DevOpsSummit at 21st Cloud Expo, Dave Martin, Product owner at CA Technologies, will give a live demonstration and code walkthrough, showing how to overcome the challenges of monitoring S3 and RDS. This presentation will provide an overview of necessary Amazon Lambda concepts and discus how to integrate the monitoring data with other tools.
Monthly Archives: August 2017
[session] #DevOps for Enterprise Teams | @DevOpsSummit @CAinc #Agile #ContinuousTesting
Did you know that you can develop for mainframes in Java? Or that the testing and deployment can be automated across mobile to mainframe?
In his session and demo at @DevOpsSummit at 21st Cloud Expo, Dana Boudreau, a Senior Director at CA Technologies, will discuss how increasingly teams are developing with agile methodologies, using modern development environments, and automating testing and deployments, mobile to mainframe.
CA Named “Platinum Sponsor” of @CloudExpo | @CAinc #CloudNative #Serverless #DevOps #AI #DX
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.
Google announces price cuts on cloud SSD storage
Google has announced a price cut on its local SSD (solid state disk) storage attached to on-demand Google Compute Engine virtual machines – to the tune of up to 63%.
The latest move from Google will see costs drop by $0.080 per gigabyte per month in the majority of US regions for on-demand VMs, while the company also announced prices were being lowered on preemptible VMs.
Local SSD is a high performance, physically attached block storage offering, and can be the most viable option for workloads such as caching layers and NoSQL databases, while preemptible VMs only run for 24 hours and can be taken off by the provider – hence the name – if the capacity needs to be used for other purposes.
“At Google we’re always looking to reduce total cost of ownership for our customers, pass along price reductions achieved through technology advancements and adjust our pricing so you can take advantage of technology that will help you innovate, in a manner that’s simple for our users,” wrote product managers Chris Kleban and Michael Basilyan in a blog post.
Slashing cloud prices is not as common a practice as it once was. AWS’ most recent price cuts – the 62nd – was last month, focusing on Microsoft SQL Server Standard Edition for EC2. Given the service has been going since 2006, and the 40th price cut appeared over the horizon at the start of 2014, it gives you some idea as to the slowdown.
According to a paper from 451 Research back in April, object storage, rather than VMs, will become the focus of the new cloud price wars. “This is the first time there has been a big price war outside compute, and it reflects object storage’s move into the mainstream,” said Jean Atelsek, 451 digital economics unit analyst at the time.
Why Do You Need Cloud for Back Office?
Back office tasks are often seen as routine ones, but have you ever realized how much more streamlined these operations will be when you move them to the cloud?
Let’s look at some reasons why cloud is critical for your back office operations.
Embracing change
What we did 10 years ago is hardly relevant today. Many enterprises continue to have legacy systems that put tremendous load on the infrastructure and consume way more resources than they should.
We had to use legacy systems then because that was all that was available. But today, cloud and other technologies have outdated these systems, so it’s only right that we are in tune with these changes.
Today, cloud is seen as the best bet for back office operations because a lot of it can be automated and you can save time and money on it.
Cost
You’re sure to have heard this before, but there’s no harm in saying it again considering that your business can really save tons of money.
Yes, with cloud, you no longer have to spend on infrastructure or updating your hardware components. You can simply hire whatever specifications you want, move your data to the cloud and enjoy all the benefits that come with it. The annual subscription fee that companies charge for using their infrastructure will be only a fraction of what it will cost you to setup your own.
Hassle-free Management
With cloud, you no longer have to allocate time and resources for management. No more security updates and patch installations, as all that is taken care of by the cloud service provider. This means, you get to focus more on your core business without having to worry about the surrounding infrastructural challenges.
Analytics
Another huge reason to move your back office operations to the cloud is the additional value you can glean from your data.
Technologies like big data make it easy to identify different data patterns from varied sources, so you can get a better understanding of who your customers are, what they think of your product, what do they expect out of it and more. Armed with such information, you can make the necessary changes to your product and operations to satisfy them better. Such proactive measures is sure to help you get a wider customer base and you can actually be more connected to your customers.
Such analytics require heavy infrastructure as you’ll have to collect data from different sources, store and analyze them to identify patterns. This is where cloud makes it easy for you.
In fact, back office is where the bulk of data is handled, so cloud is more relevant here than in other aspects of your operations.
Overall, cloud can give a big boost to your back office operations, so make the move today if you haven’t do so already.
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[session] Data First Approach to Real Time Applications | @BigDataExpo @MapR #BigData #Analytics
To get the most out of their data, successful companies are not focusing on queries and data lakes, they are actively integrating analytics into their operations with a data-first application development approach. Real-time adjustments to improve revenues, reduce costs, or mitigate risk rely on applications that minimize latency on a variety of data sources. Jack Norris reviews best practices to show how companies develop, deploy, and dynamically update these applications and how this data-first approach is fundamentally different from traditional applications.
[session] Using Websocket Protocol | @CloudExpo #DX #CloudNative #GrapeUp #CloudFoundry
With Cloud Foundry you can easily deploy and use apps utilizing websocket technology, but not everybody realizes that scaling them out is not that trivial. In his session at 21st Cloud Expo, Roman Swoszowski, CTO and VP, Cloud Foundry Services, at Grape Up, will show you an example of how to deal with this issue. He will demonstrate a cloud-native Spring Boot app running in Cloud Foundry and communicating with clients over websocket protocol that can be easily scaled horizontally and coordinate communication between multiple instances by using an additional message broker.
[video] #IoT Security with @SecureChannels | @ThingsExpo #BigData #AI #M2M
“We’re a cybersecurity firm that specializes in engineering security solutions both at the software and hardware level. Security cannot be an after-the-fact afterthought, which is what it’s become,” stated Richard Blech, Chief Executive Officer at Secure Channels, in this SYS-CON.tv interview at @ThingsExpo, held November 1-3, 2016, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA.
[video] #IoT Security with @SecureChannels | @ThingsExpo #BigData #AI #M2M
“We’re a cybersecurity firm that specializes in engineering security solutions both at the software and hardware level. Security cannot be an after-the-fact afterthought, which is what it’s become,” stated Richard Blech, Chief Executive Officer at Secure Channels, in this SYS-CON.tv interview at @ThingsExpo, held November 1-3, 2016, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA.
[slides] Divergent Patterns for #DevOps | @DevOpsSummit @GHaff #Serverless #CloudNative
In IT, we sometimes coin terms for things before we know exactly what they are and how they’ll be used. The resulting terms may capture a common set of aspirations and goals – as “cloud” did broadly for on-demand, self-service, and flexible computing. But such a term can also lump together diverse and even competing practices, technologies, and priorities to the point where important distinctions are glossed over and lost.