“We analyze the video streaming experience. We are gathering the user behavior in real time from the user devices and we analyze how users experience the video streaming,” explained Eric Kim, Founder and CEO at Streamlyzer, in this SYS-CON.tv interview at 19th Cloud Expo, held November 1-3, 2016, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA.
Strukhoff @CloudExpo Chair | @IoT2040 #IoT #DevOps #AI #ML #DL #FinTech
SYS-CON Events has announced today that Roger Strukhoff has been named conference chair of Cloud Expo and @ThingsExpo 2017 New York.
The 20th Cloud Expo and 7th @ThingsExpo will take place on June 6-8, 2017, at the Javits Center in New York City, NY.
“The Internet of Things brings trillions of dollars of opportunity to developers and enterprise IT, no matter how you measure it,” stated Roger Strukhoff. “More importantly, it leverages the power of devices and the Internet to enable us all to improve the state of the world and lives of people.”
[video] #BigData-Driven #DevOps | @DevOpsSummit #IoT #SDN #AI #ML #CD
DevOps is being widely accepted (if not fully adopted) as essential in enterprise IT. But as Enterprise DevOps gains maturity, expands scope, and increases velocity, the need for data-driven decisions across teams becomes more acute. DevOps teams in any modern business must wrangle the ‘digital exhaust’ from the delivery toolchain, “pervasive” and “cognitive” computing, APIs and services, mobile devices and applications, the Internet of Things, and now even blockchain.
In this power panel at @DevOpsSummit 19th Cloud Expo, moderated by DevOps Conference Chair Andi Mann, panelists will explore this emerging use of Big Data generated by the digital business to complete the DevOps feedback loop, and inform operational and application decisions.
Should Data Centers Think? | @CloudExpo #Cloud #Agile #Analytics #DataCenter
As cloud computing becomes the information technology mainstream, data center technology is accelerating at a breakneck speed. Concepts like software define infrastructure, data center analytics and Nonvolatile Memory Express (NVMe) over Fabrics are changing the very nature of data center management. According to industry research firm IDC, organizations will spend an additional $142.8 billion oninfrastructure for both public and private cloud environments in the next three years (2016-2018) to boost efficiency and business agility.
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By Chris Williams, Enterprise Consultant
How software asset management needs to adapt to changing cloud conditions
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A new report issued today by Flexera Software argues that software asset management (SAM) needs to evolve to keep up with software as a service (SaaS) and virtualisation moving into the mainstream.
The study, which polled almost 500 respondents answering questions on enterprise and application production, found that for 20% of respondents, more than a quarter of their software is SaaS-based, while 39% say more than a quarter is virtualised. Interestingly, while three quarters say 80% or more of their desktop apps run on Microsoft Windows, that number is expected to go down to 64% within two years.
This shift causes problems for the relatively long-standing SAM solutions in place, the report argues. “Organisations wrongly believe that if they move to the cloud, their SAM challenges disappear,” it explains. “In reality, the opposite is true – they become more complicated.”
“The definition of enterprise software has changed drastically – from an IT asset running on a local physical device to an asset that is exposed to the risks inherent in the Internet, and is often virtualised or running remotely from a cloud, leveraging cloud infrastructures that carry their own costs and risks,” said R ‘Ray’ Wang, principal analyst and founder at Constellation Research. “The old definitions of SAM are too limited and must expand to allow businesses to manage costs and risk in this new IT framework.”
Only 29% of organisations polled say they continually monitor their systems to identify unlicensed and unauthorised software – and the report argues that next generation SAM tools need to integrate with security initiatives such as software vulnerability management.
“SAM has moved from the fringes to the mainstream,” the report concludes. “Enterprises have experienced the pain and risk that occurs when their software assets are not managed properly, and SAM people, processes and technology are being implemented across organisations of all sizes to address the problem.
“But the software landscape is constantly evolving,” it adds. “SAM must evolve to redefine how software is managed in these new environments. And as software becomes the primary attack vector by which hackers invade corporate networks and threaten corporate security – SAM must also evolve to play its important role in corporate security.”
Some organisations are expanding their portfolio in line with this; Snow Software, traditionally a SAM player, is moving further into enterprise mobility management (EMM), as exemplified by its placing in the most recent Gartner Magic Quadrant on the topic. Alan Giles, business unit manager of Snow’s mobility arm, told this reporter that he was happy the company was in a “niche space populated by one.”
You can find out more about the Flexera report here (registration required).
The Resurgence of #AI, #ML, and #DL | @CloudExpo #IoT #DigitalTransformation
We have been seeing a sudden rise in the deployment of Artificial Intelligence (AI), Machine Learning (ML), and Deep Learning (DL). It looks like the long “AI winter” is finally over. It is interesting to note that AI was mentioned by Alan Turing in a paper he wrote back in 1950 to suggest that there is possibility to build machines with true intelligence. Then in 1956, John McCarthy organized a conference at Dartmounth and coined the phrase Artificial Intelligence. Much of the next three decades did not see much activity and hence the phrase “AI Winter” was coined. Around 1997, IBM’s Deep Blue won the chess match against Kasparov. During the last few years, we saw deployments such as Apple’s Siri, Microsoft’s Cortana, and IBM’s Watson (beating Jeopardy game show champions in 2011). In 2014, DeepMind team used a deep learning algorithm to create a program to win Atari games.
CapitalOne Teams With AWS for its Tech Transition
Technology is already ubiquitous, and is only going to get more integral in the future. Almost every company foresees these trends, and this is why many are taking major steps to embrace it. One such company that wants to infuse technology in a big way into its operations, with an aim to meet the growing demands of its digital customers, is CapitalOne. This financial services provider believes cloud is an important technology that needs to be adapted to move forward, grow, and to continue to reach out to more customers. To achieve this long-term goal, it has partnered with the leader in cloud, Amazon Web Services (AWS).
Under the terms of the agreement, AWS will be the major cloud partner for CapitalOne. Though the company already uses the services of companies like Google and Salesforce for its small applications, it has announced that AWS will handle all of its legacy migrations.
Some researchers believe that this would be a disadvantage for CapitalOne because it will not have the flexibility to switch between providers to tap into their pricing or features. Maybe CapitalOne already thought about this disadvantage, and this is why it has announced that AWS will be its major partner, and not an exclusive one! Still, much of its migration to the cloud is going to be handled by AWS.
This decision to move to the cloud comes as a surprise because financial companies, in general, are slower to embrace technology partly because of the security concerns that arise with it. CapitalOne, though, wants to change this trend. It wants to cater to its growing tech-savvy customers, and to bring out new tech-based products and services that are sure to impress them.
CapitalOne’s move to the cloud began in 2013 when it hired people to develop and test cloud-based applications in its innovation lab. The many experiments necessitated the use of cloud, and this led the company to tap into the services of providers at a small scale. By 2015, it became clear that the company has to make a big foray into the cloud to continue with the rapidly developing projects in its lab. In addition, the company understood that cloud offers many benefits in terms of scalability, flexibility, and better user experience for its customers. Due to these factors, the company has taken the big step to partner with AWS to move all its applications to the cloud. CapitalOne has many mainframe applications too, and all these are also likely to be moved to the public cloud soon. Though no timeframe has been mentioned by either companies, this transition is expected to begin at the earliest.
Besides migrating its existing applications, CapitalOne also plans to develop new products, especially for the mobile platform. Currently, its mobile app is one of the most used customer-facing applications, and this was transitioned to AWS cloud last month, on a trial basis. The success of this transition has prompted the company to move all its applications to the cloud.
Overall, this is a strategic move by CapitalOne, and it plans to use technology to score over its competitors. Also, it is expected to fulfill its customers’ expectations.
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SimpliVity and Huawei team up in hyperconverged play
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Hyperconverged: it’s a word which elicits knowing nods from those in the industry, and looks of panic from those few who haven’t heard of it. Yet hyperconverged infrastructure, bundling in compute, storage, networking and virtualisation in a software-centric architecture, is here to stay, and Massachusetts-based SimpliVity has today announced a deal to put its OmniStack technology on Huawei FusionServer in a new collaboration.
The offering is available on SimpliVity’s all-flash hyperconverged models.
SimpliVity was named as a leader in Gartner’s most recent Magic Quadrant for integrated systems, which covers hyperconvergence, as well as being cited by Computer Weekly as a challenger in the market earlier this year.
Alongside Huawei, the company has forged technology alliances with Cisco, Lenovo and Dell. The latter, which bought EMC for $67 billion in October last year, to also include VCE and VMware, refreshed its hyperconverged lineup earlier this year, with a ZDNet article at the time noting that “every enterprise hardware vendor is rushing to this fast-growing space.”
This time round, the press materials note that Huawei and SimpliVity are two of the fastest growing IT companies addressing the fastest growing markets with this announcement.
“By combining SimpliVity’s revolutionary hyperconverged technology with Huawei’s servers and strong global footprint, more customers will be able to realise the unique benefits that only SimpliVity delivers,” said Doron Kempel, SimpliVity CEO in a statement. “By providing the most complete hyperconverged solution on the industry’s leading server platforms, SimplIVity is putting customer needs front and centre.”
Writing for this publication back in October, Geoff Smith, senior manager at GreenPages Technology Solutions, mused on the issue of day two for hyperconverged – not the implementation, but when the platform is spinning away in the data centre.
“Adopting hyperconverged as your next-generation technology play is certainly something to consider carefully, and has the potential to positively impact your overall operational maturity,” he wrote. “You can reduce the number of vendor technologies and management interfaces, get more proactive, and make decisions based on real data analytics.
“Hyperconverged platforms can certainly enhance and help mature your IT organisations, but they do provide only part of the story,” Smith added.
You can read more about SimpliVity and Huawei’s collaboration here.
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