Deploying and operating cloud technology is difficult and falls outside the core competencies of most organizations.

As a result, many on-premises private cloud installations falter, casting doubt on private cloud as a solution in general.

Yet private clouds come with a unique set of benefits that continue to drive widespread interest. There must be a better way.

This session will give participants a clear roadmap of private cloud implementation challenges and offer actionable ideas for how to overcome them.

They also will learn how private cloud as a service might work in their organization and for their application workloads.

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Internet of Things (IoT) will be a hybrid ecosystem of diverse devices and sensors collaborating with operational and enterprise systems to create the next big application.
In their session at @ThingsExpo, Bramh Gupta, founder and CEO of robomq.io, and Fred Yatzeck, principal architect leading product development at robomq.io, will discuss how choosing the right middleware and integration strategy from the get-go will enable IoT solution developers to adapt and grow with the industry, while at the same time reduce Time to Market (TTM) by using plug and play capabilities offered by a robust IoT middleware platform.

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After making a doctor’s appointment via your mobile device, you receive a calendar invite. The day of your appointment, you get a reminder with the doctor’s location and contact information. As you enter the doctor’s exam room, the medical team is equipped with the latest tablet containing your medical history – he or she makes real time updates to your medical file. At the end of your visit, you receive an electronic prescription to your preferred pharmacy and can schedule your next appointment.

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As we approach the next @ThingsExpo, to be held June 9-11 at the Javits Center in New York, my thoughts naturally turn to the Internet of Things.

The IoT is a leviathan—in the best possible sense of the term—that will sweep up most everything in the ocean of data and technology being created today and tomorrow. But rather than try to grasp all of its possible uses, for today I’m looking at “just” the Industrial Internet part.

I just read a long paper co-authored by Tim Berners-Lee about the possibility of describing a “web science,” that is, discipline that combines the study involved in physical science with the engineering involved in computer science. There’s a lot of talk of the semantic web in the paper as well.

Written in 2006, the paper is entitled, “A Framework for Web Science,” and already seems dated in one aspect: it focuses on the search and retrieval that become such a powerful societal phenomenon with the creation of the Worldwide Web.

The IoT, on the other hand, is primarily a data generation engine, not a searchable repository. The searches metamorphosize into the science of data analytics, much of it done in near real-time and real-time. Furthermore, the data appear at the edges of the IoT rather than from a central web-server resource.

This is a fundamental re-thinking of what the Internet is and what it does.

Privacy issues move from concerns about invasions of personal privacy to theft of corporate information—big companies may no longer be cavalier about this issue.

The red cape of security will be waved in front of us all incessantly, even as security experts modulate the many complex layers—and degrees—of security that will be optimal along the information trail of IoT deployments.

The semantic web—once referred in handwaving fashion as Web 3.0—does not go away. It was originally envisioned as a way to get a handle on proliferating data types, and the IoT will certainly be prolific in this area. But again, searches become analytics, and there will be an Oklahoma land rush of opportunities for software companies to stake their claims, while discovering numerous data lakes along the way.

It’s a huge topic, and one that, according to a new report from the World Economic Forum, threatens enormous disruption to a major sector of the world economy.

“The Industrial Internet will afford emerging markets a unique opportunity to leapfrog developed countries in digital infrastructure,” says a guy from Chinese giant Huawei in this report.

More on this later…

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Public Cloud IaaS started it’s life in the developer and startup communities and has grown rapidly to a $20B+ industry, but it still pales in comparison to how much is spent worldwide on IT: $3.6 trillion. In fact, there are 8.6 million data centers worldwide, the reality is many small and medium sized business have server closets and colocation footprints filled with servers and storage gear. While on-premise environment virtualization may have peaked at 75%, the Public Cloud has lagged in adoption as teams delay their cloud migrations or seek alternatives like the public cloud or await SaaS alternatives for their essential apps. Today’s mass market for cloud computing IaaS is made up of non-cloud natives and the industry needs to respond to grow. In his talk, William Toll will break down the reasons for the delays and how existing IT teams can accelerate their plans to migrate to the public cloud – without expensive consultants or big cloud migration projects.

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SYS-CON Events announced today that Cisco, the worldwide leader in IT that transforms how people connect, communicate and collaborate, has been named “Gold Sponsor” of 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.
Cisco makes amazing things happen by connecting the unconnected. Cisco has shaped the future of the Internet by becoming the worldwide leader in transforming how people connect, communicate and collaborate. Cisco and our partners are building the platform for the Internet of Everything by connecting the world of many clouds into the global interconnected Intercloud.

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Digital  Business Transformation projects gained momentum in 2014, as more companies moved their legacy IT workloads to cloud computing platforms and launched a variety of new cloud-native applications. This pervasive trend will continue and accelerate for the duration of 2015.

Total cloud IT infrastructure investment (server, disk storage, and ethernet switch) is forecast to grow by 21 percent year-over-year to reach $32 billion in 2015 — accounting for about 33 percent of all IT infrastructure spending this year, which will be up from about 28 percent in 2014.

Private cloud IT infrastructure spending will grow by 16 percent year-over-year to $12 billion, while public cloud IT infrastructure spending will grow by 25 percent in 2015 to $21 billion, according to the latest worldwide market study by International Data Corporation (IDC).

For the full year 2014, cloud IT infrastructure spending totaled $26.4 billion, up 18.7 percent year over year from $22.3 billion — private cloud spending was just under $10.0 billion, up 20.7 percent year-over-year, while public cloud spending was $16.5 billion, up 17.5 percent year-over-year.

Regional and Worldwide Market Forecast

In 2015, Western Europe is expected to have the highest growth in cloud IT infrastructure spending at 32 percent, followed by Latin America (23 percent), Japan (22 percent), and the U.S. market (21 percent).

For the five-year forecast period, IDC now expects that cloud IT infrastructure spending will grow at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 14 percent — both public cloud and private cloud are expected to grow at the same CAGR.

By 2019, IDC also expects worldwide cloud IT infrastructure spending to be $52 billion, or 45 percent of total IT infrastructure spend — public cloud will represent about $32 billion of that amount, and private cloud will account for the remaining $20 billion.

Given the current market development trajectory, this trend is unstoppable. It would be unwise for a legacy CIO to continue to deny the apparent benefits of cloud computing and thereby resist the Digital Business change that their more forward-thinking peers have already embraced.

Essential Role of Shadow IT and Open Source

“The pace of adoption of cloud-based platforms will not abate for quite some time, resulting in cloud IT infrastructure expansion continuing to outpace the growth of the overall IT infrastructure market for the foreseeable future,” said Kuba Stolarski, research manager at IDC.

In many organizations, a key driver of the rapid adoption of cloud applications and DevOps practices continues to be the unstoppable “Shadow IT” phenomena — where savvy Line of Business leadership refuses to be held back by the inherent limitations of their company’s internal IT organization.

As the global market evolves into deploying more cloud-native solutions — enabled by open source software, such as OpenStack — IDC belives that organizations of all types and sizes will discover that traditional approaches to IT management will increasingly fall short of the simplicity, flexibility, and extensibility requirements that form the core of cloud computing solutions.

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SDN is a still simmering trend. It’s not boiling over like cloud did in its early years but rather it’s slowly, steadily continuing to move forward as more organizations evaluate, pilot and implement pockets of SDN within their organization.
stage of sdn deployment 2015
But it’s not all rainbows and unicorns. A mere 8% of organizations in our State of Application Delivery 2015 reported having SDN deployed in production. Another 8% were in their initial implementation, but a whopping 43% had no plans to deploy at all.

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IDG Enterprise’s 2015 Big Data and Analytics survey shows that the number of organizations with deployed/implemented data-driven projects has increased by 125% over the past year. The momentum continues to build.

Big Data as a concept is characterized by 3Vs: Volume, Velocity, and Variety. Big Data implies a huge amount of data. Due to the sheer size, Big Data tends to be clumsy. The dominating implementation solution is Hadoop, which is batch based. Not just a handful of companies in the market merely collect lots of data with noise blindly, but they don’t know how to cleanse it, let alone how to transform, store and consume it effectively. They simply set up a HDFS cluster to dump the data gathered and then label it as their “Big Data” solution. Unfortunately, the consequence of what they did actually marks the death of Big Data.

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Microsoft is releasing in the near future Azure Service Fabric as a preview beta.

Azure Service Fabric is built to run microservices – a complex application consisting of smaller, interlocked components that enables updating components without disrupting service. Microsoft has used this over the past few years internally for many of its own applications and the new release is for general use, a new product.

OSIsoft is an early adopter of this system and run with it to expand into the exploding IoT market.

OSISoft’s PI: PI is a system envisaged to bring sensor data directly to the board room minus the human middle man. This is one embodiment of IoT to not only get the data but analyze so as to provide deeper insight and provide operational intelligence.

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