It cannot be overseen or regulated by any one administrator, like a government or bank. Currently, there is no government regulation on them which also means there is no government safeguards over them. Although many are looking at Bitcoin to put money into, it would be wise to proceed with caution. Regular central banks are watching it and deciding whether or not to make them illegal (Criminalize them) and therefore make them worthless and eliminate them as competition. ICOs (Initial Coin Offerings) are something most have no idea as to what it means and how you utilize it. Where is the “Stamp of Approval” or “Stamp of Legitimacy” on some of these Bitcoin websites (how do you know you are not dealing with a scammer?)

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DevOpsSUMMIT Plus

In addition to 22 Keynotes and General Sessions, pick 20 “technical education sessions” from 40 in two tracks: (1) DevOpsSUMMIT (2) Cloud-Native & Serverless. EXPIRES AUGUST 31, 2018. Ticket prices: ($295-Aug 31) ($395-Oct 31) ($495-Nov 12) ($595-Walk-in) Does NOT include lunch. DevOps Institue Certification DevOps Institute Two-Day DevOps Certification Program EXPIRES AUGUST 31, 2018. Ticket prices: ($995-Aug 31) ($1,095-Oct 31) ($1,195-Nov 12) ($1,395-Walk-in)

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Early Bird Registration Discount Expires on August 31, 2018 Conference Registration Link ▸ HERE. Pick from all 200 sessions in all 10 tracks, plus 22 Keynotes & General Sessions! Lunch is served two days. EXPIRES AUGUST 31, 2018. Ticket prices: ($1,295-Aug 31) ($1,495-Oct 31) ($1,995-Nov 12) ($2,500-Walk-in)

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Despite being the market leader, we recognized the need to transform and reinvent our business at Dynatrace, before someone else disrupted the market. Over the course of three years, we changed everything – our technology, our culture and our brand image. In this session we’ll discuss how we navigated through our own innovator’s dilemma, and share takeaways from our experience that you can apply to your own organization.

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Yottabyte is a software-defined data center (SDDC) company headquartered in Bloomfield Township, Oakland County, Michigan. The mission of Yottabyte is to enable any organization to easily and economically realize the benefits of the cloud in their own datacenter. The Yottabyte Cloud Software natively virtualizes compute, storage, and network resources into a resilient, automated software-defined cloud infrastructure solution. Both Enterprise IT customers and Service Providers benefit from Yottabyte solutions–efficiently improving organizational flow. Enterprise IT teams can build, deploy, and manage powerful cloud data centers; service providers are able to stand-up complete virtual data centers that can be easily deployed and provided to their customer base.

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As the fourth industrial revolution continues to march forward, key questions remain related to the protection of software, cloud, AI, and automation intellectual property.

Recent developments in Supreme Court and lower court case law will be reviewed to explain the intricacies of what inventions are eligible for patent protection, how copyright law may be used to protect application programming interfaces (APIs), and the extent to which trademark and trade secret law may have expanded relevance to the cloud.

Best practices for intellectual property protection, licensing, and other topics will be presented, including checklists for engineers, product managers, sales/marketing, and other constituencies.

Drawing upon his pre-lawyer life as a product manager for cloud based products, the presenter will emphasize those topics believed to be most practically relevant.

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Since the birth of corporate computing, the data centre has been a mainstay. Like filing cabinets, notepads and the occasional wonky chair, the data centre forged its place at the heart of a profitable, effective organisation. Long had it been the de facto vehicle for all application deployment and, whether that organisation worked in retail, finance or IT, the relationship has served both the users and business well.

However, like many relationships, sometimes a head can be turned by something shiny and new.

The first glance occurred on the business’ side when Salesforce.com successfully provided applications “off premise” in the early 2000s. This successfully removed a significant hurdle for their key target, the VP of Sales, by offering them the ability to authorise purchases autonomously. After all, sales typically have a poor relationship with their IT department. This new solution gave them a hosted option which meant they didn’t have to go through any additional hoops from their own technology gatekeepers.

Fast forward to today and nearly all functions, from finance to HR and even ERP are offered ‘as a service,’ adding a nail in the coffin of the corporate data centre.

A recent report from Gartner estimates that as of today, as much as 60 percent of workloads are held on-premise. But, it looks like that will drop by an expected 33 percent by 2021 with an additional 20 percent drop expected by 2024. The landscape has shifted so much that all major software companies, from Oracle to Microsoft are focussed on their Software as a Service and, tellingly, report on this growth as a key metric in their financials.

In fact, Microsoft noted that by FY19 they will have two-thirds of commercial Office in Office 365 (the cloud offering). Not only that but Exchange will be more like 70 percent.

This shows an unmistakable trend. These have for so long been the largest applications that enterprises have relied on, but now, they live off site and out of mind.

However, it is not as if the enterprise data centre has seen its day, far from it. There are a plethora of reasons why data centres will still be required: location, security, financial and regulation to name but a few. A number of organisations will also continue to use them as strategic and differentiating assets even though it has become an almost industry standard to work with a hybrid model – both on-premise and cloud. But, with the growing pressure of taking activities further into the cloud, there comes a point of inflection – a moment where IT managers must ask themselves, “Is taking my activities deeper into the cloud the best option?”

The first of these considerations looks at management by SLA. Availability has always been the highest priority. But, when working with a third party, an enterprise must rely on SLAs and escalation procedures of that provider, outside of their control, and off their own network. This is often the biggest leap in the journey to working with a third party and often one that can require the most work and strategising to get right.

Application placement is another important consideration. With more options to run applications– on-premise, colo or the cloud – which one is best for the way in which enterprises need that application? And how best to assess which is best now and in the future?

Through cost? Location? Pros? Cons? Security? Availability? This is a difficult area which many organisations struggle with, but not one that should be underestimated.

Third and finally, DevOps undergoes considerable change working with a third party. Internally, detailed DevOps procedures are in place working on builds, but when a third party is brought in these procedures must be reworked and tailored for the new way of working.

Like a puzzle, every piece is integral. An enterprise is no different. Existing data centres have valuable roles in the hybrid model alongside third party vendors and providers – the key is just how all the pieces are assembled.

Enterprises need to decide what is most important for them by considering availability, cost and security, location, transparency and consistency as well as the other factors close to their operation. Once weight has been placed with the most important factors, enterprises and more specifically IT managers can decide which pieces are most important and how the intricate puzzle that is their enterprise will be put together.

Hoping is not an option – but planning is.

SAP is the world leader in enterprise applications in terms of software and software-related service revenue. Based on market capitalization, we are the world’s third largest independent software manufacturer. Harness the power of your data and accelerate trusted outcome-driven innovation by developing intelligent and live solutions for real-time decisions and actions on a single data copy. Support next-generation transactional and analytical processing with a broad set of advanced analytics – run securely across hybrid and multicloud environments.

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SUSE is a German-based, multinational, open-source software company that develops and sells Linux products to business customers. Founded in 1992, it was the first company to market Linux for the enterprise. Founded in 1992, SUSE is the world’s first provider of an Enterprise Linux distribution. Today, thousands of businesses worldwide rely on SUSE for their mission-critical computing and IT management needs.

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IBM has had another solid cloud quarter – and now the company is extending its collaboration with telecoms provider CenturyLink to beef up enterprise connectivity in new markets.

The move is part of a wider initiative, the IBM Cloud Direct Link Service Provider Program, which enables IBM customers to select their preferred provider for direct connectivity to IBM’s cloud. The initiative is available in the Americas, Europe and Asia Pacific with 21 partners on board including Digital Realty and Colt, with the CenturyLink rollout being available in European, North and Latin American markets.

The reasoning behind the initiative will be familiar to industry watchers; the increasing complexity of workloads, whether through multi-cloud initiatives or more intensive data crunching through the Internet of Things and machine learning. More clouds being utilised need more connectivity options, with IBM citing an IDC study which found companies with a defined hybrid cloud strategy achieve 2.5x higher gross profits.

There are two options for organisations to consider; Direct Link Connect, which favours multi-cloud with private access to IBM cloud infrastructure through a CenturyLink IP VPN connection, and Direct Link Dedicated, utilising CenturyLink’s dedicated broadband service for fast and reliable data transfer.

“The goal in CenturyLink’s integration with IBM Cloud Direct Link was to bring a network experience that simplifies and enhances the cloud experience,” wrote Paul Hertzfeldt, IBM Cloud Direct Link manager in a blog post. “Both [Direct Link Connect and Dedicated] are offered on a global basis and optimise network architecture for low latency and high performance.

“They’re designed to satisfy even the most demanding enterprise workloads and compliment your hybrid cloud strategy,” Hertzfeldt added.

Last month IBM posted a third consecutive quarter of growth, with cloud revenues going up 20% year on year and representing almost a quarter of the company’s total revenue. Jim Kavanaugh, SVP and chief financial officer, said IBM was “becoming the destination for mission-critical workloads in hybrid environments” – although it’s worth noting that all of the hyperscalers are continuing to grow and increase their market share at the expense of the competition.

CenturyLink at one point held lofty cloud ambitions of its own; indeed, this publication asked in May 2014 ‘can CenturyLink take on cloud’s big three?’ Yet with telco cloud initiatives going sideways as the Amazons, Microsofts et al just kept on growing, while the company continues to offer cloud computing and managed services, helping connectivity with the bigger cloud providers has seemed a more likely route to market.