With the arrival of the Big Data revolution, a data professional is expected to master a broad spectrum of complex domains including data processing, mathematics, programming languages, machine learning techniques, and business knowledge. While this mastery is undoubtedly important, this narrow focus on tool usage has divorced many from the imagination required to solve real-world problems. As the demand for analysis increases, the data science community must transform from tool experts to “data chefs,” capable of crafting creative solutions with tangible benefits.
All posts by Latest News from @CloudExpo Blog
Announcing @Emcien to Exhibit at @CloudExpo New York [#Cloud #BigData]
SYS-CON Events announced today that Emcien will exhibit at 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.
Emcien’s vision is to let anyone use data to know the future. Emcien has built an automated, predictive analysis product that improves the lives of real people. Emcien allows people to automate their data analysis so they can build a better future.
WebRTC, un standard du Web, pas un produit By @Louisnaug | @ThingsExpo [#IoT #WebRTC]
WebRTC? Si vous n’en avez pas encore entendu parlé, il est important que vous découvriez une technologie qui va profondément changer les modes de communication de tous vos collaborateurs.
Je vais m’intéresser en priorité aux potentiels à moyen terme de cette technologie ; il existe encore des limites techniques importantes, mais elles vont sauter dans les mois qui viennent.
Les entreprises peuvent et doivent, aujourd’hui, prendre en compte WebRTC dans leurs choix de solutions de communications synchrones.
Cloud: Mobility Driving Asian Startups
There are more mobile phones in the Philippines than people. And there are a lot of people.
This is one of the amazing statistics of our current era, in which the compulsion for humans to communicate is leading us into the realm of massive data flows in an increasingly interconnected world.
The Philippine phenomenon is due in part to the presence of two dominant mobile carriers–and a third that nips strongly at their heels—who charge extra fees for texts and calls outside of their networks. About 96% of this traffic is from prepaid traffic, in which users “load” up their phones from ubiquitous small stores in increments of less than one US dollar.
Similar noteworthy statistics are found elsewhere in Southeast Asia.
Indonesia, for example, was sending out 385 tweets per second in 2013, grabbing 7.5% of global Twitter traffic. Other strong social-media numbers have led to many there referring to their country as “the social media capital of the world.” With overall wired Internet access still lacking, more than 60% of Indonesia’s social traffic is mobile.
Thailand claims 97% of its population on social media, with prepaid SIM card system like the Philippines, and easy roaming throughout neighboring countries.
Malaysia has a higher average income than most of its neighbors, and Vietnam a lower one, but both also contribute to an Asian average of more than 360MB of data use per month on mobile devices.
Singapore is of course the great economic power of the region, with a per-person income level that now surpasses that of the United States. Singapore has among the fastest Internet access in the world and is moving toward being a Smart City through use of IoT technology.
The average mobile data use in Asia is more than three times that of North America, almost 20 times that of Europe, and 200 times that of Africa. As I noted above, amazing.
Heat, Noise, and Startups
The hyperkinetic nature of Southeast Asian nations—the traffic, noise, masses of people, and heat can easily overwhelm on a short-term basis and grind one down over the long term—is reflected in recent economic growth through the region. Our research at the Tau Institute shows the region to be the most dynamic in the world, even as clear infrastructure problems are apparent everywhere outside of Singapore.
This energy is also reflected in a growing culture of startups and innovation. I recently attended a startup competition in Manila, which is part of a larger event called the Top 100 program.
The Top 100 program culminates in Singapore June 23-24, where 100 companies from a field of 300 among 14 Asian nations will compeete for attention from investors. The competition goes beyond Southeast Asia, with teams from India, Bangladesh, Kazakhstan, Taiwan, Japan, and South Korea joining in the fun.
Much of the fun will be focused on mobile apps, because mobility is huge and apps are cool. Apps also seem to lack the barriers to entry of creating the next great piece of enterprise software. I would like to see more of an emphasis on frameworks and platforms, and a greater presence of all the open-source companies we see in the US.
I am also encouraging people to pursue innovation within their organizations. Even as I marvel at the energy and enthusiasm of the startup communities in Manila and elsewhere, the reality is that large governmental organizations and big companies are the primary employers throughout this massive region. Innovation need not be a stranger to them.
IT Operations Modernization By @Dana_Gardner | @CloudExpo [#Cloud]
Exelon Corporation employs technology and process improvements to optimize their IT operations, manage a merger and acquisition transition, and to bring outsourced IT operations back in-house.
To learn more about how this leading energy provider in the US, with a family of companies having $23.5 billion in annual revenue, accomplishes these goals we’re joined by Jason Thomas, Manager of Service, Asset and Release Management at Exelon. The discussion is moderated by me, Dana Gardner, Principal Analyst at Interarbor Solutions.
File Governance Policies and Features By @JimLiddle | @CloudExpo [#Cloud]
With recent high profile data breaches companies should ensure they have the five following file governance policies in place in their company to secure their file assets.
Ensure that an Identity Management policy is in-place, is clear, and if one exists that it is validated and checked regularly.
Check whether services and applications can take advantage of existing Identity Management to enable a Single-Sign-On (SSO) rather than promoting Identity Management Sprawl.
No Masters in Disasters Needed By @BDVandegrift | @CloudExpo [#Cloud]
The concept of a cloud facilitating applications is by no means new. Those of us who diagrammed network connectivity around 1993 will recall drawing a big puffy cloud symbol in between two local area networks. The cloud represented the mysterious Internet – that mash-up of routers and other items bouncing our packets back and forth through millions of ports, only to reassemble the bytes on the other end into – hopefully — the same item that was sent.
Today, we have dissipated that nebulous cloud symbol to accurately define its contents of firewalls, load-balancing devices, switches, routers and storage devices. As time passed, we even moved beyond the physical layer to embrace a virtual realm, as an obscure organization called VMware began to puncture its way out of EMC and take hold as a processing juggernaut, without the need for more heavy metal. But the cloud evolution was not completed at this time, by any means.
Painless Polyglot Persistence By @IBMCloud | @CloudExpo [#Cloud]
When it comes to building applications, one database definitely does not fit all. Traditional SQL databases are great for storing highly structured, normalized data and performing analytics and reporting. NoSQL has attracted developers with its awesome flexibility, and JSON-centric document stores like Cloudant make web developers incredibly productive by offering a JavaScript environment from end-to-end.
Recent Big Data challenges have driven the need for a distributed approach to analytics employing MapReduce techniques embodied in software like Hadoop and Spark. So it’s natural that a well-integrated hybrid environment comprised of multiple types of databases and information access paradigms is critical to meeting the business challenges of tomorrow.
In his session at 16th Cloud Expo, Raj Singh, Developer Advocate at IBM Cloud Data Services, will walk through a mobile app powered by a Cloudant NoSQL database that relies on dashDB for analytics and reporting of Twitter data from IBM’s Social Analytics service.
SafeLogic “Sponsor” of @CloudExpo New York | @SafeLogic [#Cloud #IoT]
SYS-CON Events announced today that SafeLogic has been named “Bag Sponsor” of SYS-CON’s 16th International Cloud Expo® New York, which will take place June 9-11, 2015, at the Javits Center in New York City, NY.
SafeLogic provides security products for applications in mobile and server/appliance environments. SafeLogic’s flagship product CryptoComply is a FIPS 140-2 validated cryptographic engine designed to secure data on servers, workstations, appliances, mobile devices, and in the Cloud.
Will Automated Alerting Replace the NOC? By @PagerDuty | @DevOpsSummit [#DevOps]
If you have a Network Operations Center (or NOC, as the kids call it), you have a skilled set of eyes monitoring your system and alerting your engineers when things go wrong. (If you have something like a NOC, such as a first tier team that processes tickets, we’re looking at you, too). You also probably have strict SLAs and a need for high availability at all times. You can’t waste a second when things go down. Solutions like PagerDuty that help you identify and resolve incidents faster can help you improve your Network Operations Center performance. These solutions can shave minutes off your time to detect incidents (one of our customers took 8 minutes off theirs) and can make it easier for NOC personnel to escalate to experts when needed.