While there are many ways to define DevOps, the goal of the concept is to be able to deliver IT solutions faster, leveraging several technology tools to add value for business. Cloud companies have demonstrated how they can manage massive pools of IT infrastructure, giving the developer a very flexible resource pool that they can leverage and IT is eager to do the same.
In this Power Panel at 2nd DevOps Summit moderated by Cloud Expo Tech Chair Larry Carvalho, Bernard Golden, VP, Strategy at ActiveState; Andi Mann, VP of Strategic Solutions at CA Technologies; John Willis, VP of Customer Enablement at Stateless Networks; Randy Bias, Co-Founder and CTO of Cloudscaling; and Vasu Sankhavaram, Chief Strategist of DevOps and Cross Portfolio Architecture Alignment within HP Software, will discuss this movement that is delivering frictionless IT to the enterprise.
An API Strategy Is a Business Strategy
It used to be that only application developers knew what APIs were, but things have changed to the point where there are entire conferences dedicated to APIs, websites track them, and people can make a living from doing API reviews. CEOs tout their own APIs in keynote speeches, and CMOs allocate budget to API development. The fact is, however, that what an API is and does hasn’t changed. Functionally, APIs were created to expose data to, and across, applications. Originally based on SOAP/XML endpoints, they evolved into Web-based services that enabled ecommerce, data and communication transactions. Before long, it became clear that there isn’t much one can do online unless it involved an API.
Distrix to Showcase Newest Version of Its Network-Virtualization Solution
Distrix (formerly Spark Integration Technologies) on Friday announced it will demonstrate the latest version of its flagship software platform at the Internet of @ThingsExpo in New York, June 10-12, 2014 at the Javits Center in New York City. Version 4.1 of the Distrix Gateway Router extends the manageability of remote networks while also improving the programmability of software-defined networking (SDN) environments, resulting in unprecedented network agility. Also at the conference, Jay Friedman, Distrix president, will deliver a presentation titled IoT Meets SDN for WANs – Keeping Networks Secure and Manageable as part of the Software Defined Data Center and Enterprise Cloud Stories track.
Five Questions Every CEO Should Ask Their CIO / CISO
We’ve distilled lessons learned from Snowden scandal and created 5 questions every CEO should be asking their CIO / CISO in order to avoid a catastrophic rogue insider event in the private sector both in using cloud as a vector of exfiltration as well as protecting their data stored in the cloud.
Today is the one-year anniversary of the historic Snowden disclosure. In the year since the first stories about Edward Snowden appeared, one of the lasting affects of the scandal is a heightened awareness of the risk posed by rogue insiders. This increased focus on rogue insiders has spread beyond the government to the private sector, and from security circles to corporate executives.
Using Tools to Create Mobile Apps Quickly
Perfecto Mobile is using a variety of cloud-based testing tools to help its developers rapidly create the best mobile apps for both enterprises and commercial deployment.
We have surely entered a golden age of mobile apps development, not just for app stores wares, but across all kinds of enterprise and productivity applications. The notion of mobile-first has altered the development landscape so much that the very notion of software development writ large will never be the same.
CodeFutures’ Cory Isaacson to Preview His Newest Book at Cloud Expo
Isaacson will give a brief preview of his upcoming book and answer questions regarding why we have been looking at databases all wrong.
Cory Isaacson is the CEO and CTO of CodeFutures, a provider of agile Big Data technologies. He has been actively involved in leading information technologies for more than 20 years. He has focused on efficiently addressing development and deployment challenges of emerging technologies such as SOA, virtualization and commoditization of resources to support real-world business applications. Cory’s expertise with high performance transactional applications has helped leading IT organizations respond to business needs for higher volumes while still managing cost pressures. Most recently, Cory has been an active evangelist on the need for using concurrent processing and scalable database techniques in order to improve application performance on multi-core architectures. Cory is responsible for the corporate strategy at CodeFutures.
Getting Started with OpenStack
OpenStack continues to grow exponentially as the de facto standard for open source cloud platforms. But how can someone quickly get started with learning this exciting new technology?
In his session at 14th Cloud Expo, Kenneth Hui, a Technology Evangelist with Rackspace, will walk participants through an overview of the OpenStack components and offer practical suggestions and resources for learning OpenStack.
Kenneth Hui is a Technology Evangelist with Rackspace. Prior to Rackspace, Ken was a vArchitect at VCE, focused on virtualized converged infrastructure. His passion is to help IT deliver value to their customers through collaboration, automation, and cloud computing. Ken’s responsibilities at Rackspace include helping to drive the adoption of OpenStack and the hybrid cloud.
OpenStack and the Industry Shift with Open Cloud
As open technologies continue to make a bigger splash in the industry, the growth with OpenStack is showing the shift toward a new way to manage and consume IT resources. In the public and private cloud ecosystems, OpenStack has an opportunity to bring existing organizations into a standardized platform, plus many new customers are making moves to embrace OpenStack and open platforms in their IT portfolio. What does OpenStack mean to today’s companies, systems integrators, and to administrators?
In his session at 14th Cloud Expo, Eric Wright, Systems Architect at Pluralsight, to discuss how making the move toward OpenStack and increasing knowledge and feature usage in OpenStack is going to be a key factor in the success in adopting this exciting platform.
Unlocking Business Value with Cloud Hosted Desktops
As businesses look to unlock greater value out of their existing IT investments, they are increasingly re-evaluating their overall desktop strategy. A greater mobile workforce shifting usage models like BYOD and legacy infrastructure refresh cycles are all acting as catalysts in fueling a shift to a hosted, cloud-based model across the entire IT infrastructure, including the end-user computing side. Increasingly, IT leaders everywhere are seeking high performing, secure, and cost-effective alternatives to traditional desktops – one that minimizes large capital investments and allows them to shift scarce resources into supporting the needs of the business.
The groundswell of Windows 7 migration plans, expanding virtual workforce, growing popularity of mobile devices, and tighter IT budgets all point to the need to reevaluate desktop strategies. By moving virtual desktops to the cloud, instead of an internally deployed and managed data center, companies can realize all the promised benefits of virtual desktops – centralized management, improved data security and simplified deployment – without the exorbitant cost, limitations or hassles of VDI.
Why You Need to Enable Transparent Security in the Cloud
The promise of easy, rapid, and low-cost deployment is luring increasing numbers to the cloud. Is security the only remaining obstacle to total domination by the cloud?
In his session at 14th Cloud Expo, John Gunn, VP of Corporate Communications for VASCO Data Security, will examine how the evolving threat landscape will present new security challenges for the cloud. You will also learn how to use transparent authentication to find the right balance between keeping the promise of user convenience while still maintaining essential security practices.