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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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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Serverless computing is a cloud-computing execution model in which the cloud provider dynamically manages the allocation of machine resources. Pricing is based on the actual amount of resources consumed by an application, rather than on pre-purchased units of capacity. It is a form of utility computing. Nate has been working in the enterprise and mobile software industry for 17 years in various capacities between development, architecture and product management. In recent years his technology passions have focused around areas of mobile computer vision leveraging, the rise of the consumerization of IT Operations and how blockchains and distributed ledgers will change the world. Nate is a PMC member of Apache Bigtop, co-creator of the dtk.io open source project and overall open source software, enthusiast.

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​Blockchain, also known as Distributed Ledger Technology (DLT), can be used for more than just crypto currencies. This presentation discusses how blockchain and the Internet of Things (IOT) can be used for several supply chain management and logistics use cases. Real world examples that utilize the open source project Hyperledger will be discussed.

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