DevOps tasked with driving success in the cloud need a solution to efficiently leverage multiple clouds while avoiding cloud lock-in. Flexiant today announces the commercial availability of Flexiant Concerto. With Flexiant Concerto, DevOps have cloud freedom to automate the build, deployment and operations of applications consistently across multiple clouds. Concerto is available through four disruptive pricing models aimed to deliver multi-cloud at a price point everyone can afford.

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ChatOps has been one of the more intriguing subtopics of the DevOps movement for me. Since first learning of the term, I’ve had subsequent conversations with teams heavily invested in ways to automate and share as much as possible. ChatOps continues to fascinate me as I watch it catch on with teams large, small, distributed, and not.

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The evolution of JavaScript and HTML 5 to support a genuine component based framework (Web Components) with the necessary tools to deliver something close to a native experience including genuine realtime networking (UDP using WebRTC). HTML5 is evolving to offer built in templating support, the ability to watch objects (which will speed up Angular) and Web Components (which offer Angular Directives). The native level support will offer a massive performance boost to frameworks having to fake all these features like Polymer and Angular. It will also encourage people who are not familiar with these next generational frameworks to get in on the action. As I am from a gaming background then I always complain that TCP (Web Sockets) is not genuinely real-time, so I look forward to seeing UDP (WebRTC) solutions being delivered like Desktop Sharing in Chrome 34.

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Even though Apple and Microsoft haven’t commented on the new open source technology which delivers high quality audio and video capabilities to desktop and mobile browsers, major carriers such as AT&T and Telefónica, leading infrastructure providers like Alcatel-Lucent and Ericsson and new WebRTC application providers in likes of Teledini and NetDev are driving the technology forward.
Research analyst, Sabir Rafiq comments, “WebRTC brings many opportunities; ABI Research believes major trends will start to form within the enterprise market with WebRTC. Companies will be willing to implement the new technology to aid productivity and reduce communication barriers within the workplace.”
ABI Research recognizes that there are significant barriers in the way of WebRTC technology becoming widely adopted. Firstly, Apple is not showing any interest in WebRTC, similar to its approach to Adobe Flash. As it is a brand leader in the mobile space, this could impact short term opportunity. Microsoft’s alternative to WebRTC, the CU-RTC, could deter users away from WebRTC and should essentially be considered a competitor. In the end, we believe Apple and Microsoft will not ignore the market opportunity for WebRTC.

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Financial services organizations were among the earliest enterprise adopters of cloud computing. The ability to leverage massive compute, storage and networking resources via RESTful APIs and automated tools like Chef and Puppet made it possible for their high-horsepower IT users to develop a whole new array of applications. Companies like Wells Fargo, Fidelity and BBVA are visible, vocal and engaged supporters of the OpenStack community, running production clouds for applications ranging from dev/test and backup/DR to customer-facing applications that give them a competitive edge by rolling out new and improved software products faster than their peers.

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As I travel around the country and meet folks who are interested in what VictorOps is all about, I’m often pressed with the question of “How are you different than some other alerting service?”. The responses are varied but more or less echo the sentiment that the initial alert is just step one in the incident management lifecycle.

The responsibility of being on-call is a much larger role than simply “ACK’ing” an alert pushed to your mobile device. Now that you’ve received the page, it’s time to get busy.

Would you prefer to have a ton of valuable context delivered to you automatically with the alert, or would you rather go look for that stuff on your own? If you’ve ever been woken up in the middle of the night and responsible for diagnosing and resolving a huge problem, I think you know the answer to that.

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The primary objective of a platform should be to provide a high-level of automation. This provides easy management of applications and services, while delivering consistent and error-free deployment of applications. While this high level automation provides a critical foundation, additional specialized services can be added to increase manageability of the applications deployed on the platform. To assist operators in this pursuit the Pivotal Cloud Foundry platform provides a number of integrated services out-of-the-box, including AppDynamics, New Relic, and CloudBees Jenkins. This blog will focus on the “out-of-the-box” integration between Pivotal Cloud Foundry and AppDynamics.

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Developers working with WebRTC can now build native applications for Android, archive and playback live video communications within their application, and take advantage of a range of enterprise-grade quality-enhancing features, all thanks to four new developments from TokBox which launched today.
OpenTok Archiving & Playback, released today into beta, allows developers to simply add video stream recording for their live video chat applications, save the conversation into a single H.264/AAC MP4 file, and download or stream it through the player of their choice.
The Android SDK for WebRTC for the first time allows developers to build WebRTC video chat functionality into native Android apps using the OpenTok Platform.

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The IoT Bootcamp is coming to Cloud Expo | @ThingsExpo on June 9-10 at the Javits Center in New York. Instructor. Registration is now available at http://iotbootcamp.sys-con.com/

Instructor Janakiram MSV previously taught the famously successful Multi-Cloud Bootcamp at Cloud Expo | @ThingsExpo in November in Santa Clara. Now he is expanding the focus to

Janakiram is the founder and CTO of Get Cloud Ready Consulting, a niche Cloud Migration and Cloud Operations firm that recently got acquired by Aditi Technologies. He is a Microsoft Regional Director for Hyderabad, India, and one of the first few Microsoft Certified Azure Professionals in India.

Janakiram is also one of the first few professionals with Amazon Certified Solution Architect, Amazon Certified Developer and Amazon Certified SysOps Administrator credentials, and is also recognized by Google as the Google Developer Expert (GDE) for his contribution to the Cloud community.

Janakiram is a Guest Faculty at the International Institute of Information Technology (IIIT-H) where he teaches Cloud Computing, Containers, Big Data, DevOps to the students enrolled for the Masters course.

I recently interviewed him about the upcoming IoT Bootcamp, and this is what he had to say:

Please describe the outlines of the upcoming IoT Bootcamp.

The IoT Bootcamp is first of its kind that covers the fundamentals of devices, cloud and analytics.

During the first part, attendees will get to see Arduino, Raspberry Pi and, Intel Edison in action.

The second part is all about connecting the devices to the cloud. I show how to use Azure, Amazon and Google Cloud to stream and store sensor data.

The third and the final part is about logic and analytics. We will use advanced querying and visualization to make sense of the data. The bonus session is designing a smart home with all the above. We will show how to connect the dots in designing a real world home automation platform.

How does this build on the Cloud Bootcamp that you’ve previously taught at Cloud Expo?

Cloud Bootcamp focused on the infrastructure aspects of AWS, Azure and Google Cloud. It was meant for IT professionals and DevOps teams. IoT Bootcamp is all about utilising the cloud to design solutions.

The IoT Bootcamp will start with IoT 101 and goes all the way to up to the advanced concepts of steaming and analytics. One common factor between both the bootcamps is the multi-cloud aspect. We show how to perform common tasks on top cloud platforms.

Who should attend?

The Bootcamp is meant for both technology and business decision makers. Similar to the Cloud Bootcamp, it has the right balance between technology and the application of it. Developers and IT Pros can learn how to get started with the development and deployment while business professionals will be able to demystify the concepts involved with Internet of Things.

How is it different from other bootcamps and workshops?

The methodology we follow to deliver the Bootcamp is quite different from others. The emphasis is more on application of technology than using PowerPoint slides.

There will be no sessions without a demo! Each session is designed to cover the key aspect of IoT delivered through a real world demonstration. For many attendees, this would be their first workshop with exposure to a wide range of devices, sensors, tools and technologies.

What specific technologies do you cover?

The IoT Bootcamp has a comprehensive coverage of devices, cloud and analytics. We cover the following technologies:
Devices
Arduino, Raspberry Pi, BeagleBone, Spark, Intel Galileo and Edison  
Development Tools
Arduino, Cloud9, and Node-Red
Streaming
Cloud based streaming tools like Azure Event Hubs
Storage
NoSQL storage such as Amazon DynamoDB
Querying & Analytics
Real time analytics through Google BigQuery and other tools
What will attendees take away from the IoT Bootcamp?

Attendees will walk away with the big picture of IoT. They will be able to demystify the concepts of sensors, protocols, streaming, storage and analytics.

The goal of the Bootcamp is to provide 360 degree view of the IoT landscape. This is an ideal forum to explore what IoT means to their organization and  how to apply the concepts in their business.

How will attendees be able to apply this knowledge?

The attendees can jumpstart their IoT development right after the Bootcamp. They will be able to choose the right development board, tools, and cloud the cloud platform to develop their IoT solution.

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Operationalizing the network continues to be a driving force behind DevOps and SDN. The ability to solve real problems using programmability to automate and orchestrate infrastructure provisioning and configuration across the application release process remains the hope for many interested in one or the other – and often times both.

A recent Avaya sponsored, Dynamic Markets survey (reg required) dove deep into the demesne of SDN and found that many of the problems companies have – and expect to be solved by SDN – are directly related to provisioning, configuration and downtime concerns around services and applications across the network.

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