Cloud Foundry open Platform as a Service makes it easy to operate, scale and deploy application for your dedicated cloud environments. It enables developers and operators to be significantly more agile, writing great applications and deliver them in days instead of months. Cloud Foundry takes care of the all the infrastructure and network plumbing that you need to build, run and operate your applications and can do this while patching and updating systems and services without any downtime. This session will provide an overview of Cloud Foundry concepts and vast partner ecosystem. We will introduce Pivotal CF – the leading commercial distribution of Cloud Foundry for enterprise private clouds, including a live demo and customer adoption stories.
Cloud and ‘Internet of Things’ Opportunity of 2015 | @CloudExpo [#Cloud #IoT]
The only place to be June 9-11 is Cloud Expo & @ThingsExpo 2015 East at the Javits Center in New York City. Join us there as delegates from all over the world come to listen to and engage with speakers & sponsors from the leading Cloud Computing, IoT & Big Data companies.
Cloud Expo & @ThingsExpo are the leading events covering the booming market of Cloud Computing, IoT & Big Data for the enterprise. Speakers from all over the world will be hand-picked for their ability to explore the economic strategies that utility/cloud computing provides. Whether public, private, or in a hybrid form, cloud computing, Internet of Things & Big Data are rapidly becoming an integral part of the enterprise IT environment. By shifting some of their applications out of the enterprise data center and into the cloud, IT managers can eliminate a whole litany of costs and headaches; in capital equipment, in power and cooling, in administration and maintenance.
Software-Defined Security By @CatbirdSecurity | @CloudExpo [#Cloud]
Compute virtualization has been transformational, yet security policy implementation and enforcement has lagged behind in agility and automation.
There are a number of key considerations when implementing policy in private and hybrid clouds. In his session at 15th Cloud Expo, Holland Barry, VP of Technology at Catbird, will discuss the impact of this new paradigm and what organizations can do today to safely move to software-defined network and compute architectures, including:
How normal operations and security models cope with compute virtualization and current limitations
Which issues can be addressed by deploying security through applications and tying relationships of the apps to hypervisors and the network
Holland Barry is the Vice President of Technology at Catbird. He is an expert in networking, security, virtualization and cloud architecture with 20 years of experience in solution architecture and IT roles. He came to Catbird from Dell, where he was a converged infrastructure technologist within their Enterprise Solutions Organization. Holland now leads Catbird’s team of solution architects and works closely with engineering to implement customer-centric product enhancements.
Announcing @SOASoftwareInc to Exhibit at @CloudExpo [#Cloud #API]
SYS-CON Events announced today that SOA Software, an API management leader, will exhibit at SYS-CON’s 15th International Cloud Expo®, which will take place on November 4–6, 2014, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA.
SOA Software is a leading provider of API Management and SOA Governance products that equip business to deliver APIs and SOA together to drive their company to meet its business strategy quickly and effectively. SOA Software’s technology helps businesses to accelerate their digital channels with APIs, drive partner adoption, monetize their assets, and achieve agility and operational excellence across their applications and datacenters. Some of the world’s largest companies including Bank of America, Pfizer, and Verizon use SOA Software products. SOA Software is also recognized as a “Leader” by Gartner in Application Services Governance MQ and as a leader by other analyst firms.
Why Wearables Need More Heart | @ThingsExpo [#IoT]
The hype around the wearable tech industry has steered many consumers straight to Amazon in search of a fitness gadget that will tell them how healthy or unhealthy they act on a regular basis. Some feel they can’t become healthier unless they are tracking their progress every step of the way. But as we begin to see through the hype, the wearable tech industry seems to be way behind in one important area – actually making us healthier.
The one thing that all fitness trackers have in common is statistics. Tracking steps, calories, sleep patterns, and everything in between, wearable tech devices claim to paint a better picture of a consumer’s health by zoning in on a few key metrics. While these statistics do provide helpful information about how much a person moves and how many calories are burned, they provide little information regarding actual physical health improvement.
Enterprise Cloud Migration By @Verizon | @CloudExpo [#Cloud #BigData]
Once the decision has been made to move part or all of a workload to the cloud, a methodology for selecting that workload needs to be established. How do you move to the cloud? What does the discovery, assessment and planning look like? What workloads make sense? Which cloud model makes sense for each workload? What are the considerations for how to select the right cloud model? And how does that fit in with the overall IT tranformation?
In his session at 15th Cloud Expo, John Hatem, head of Verizon’s Cloud Strategy Professional Services group, will explore five ways to move to the cloud.
AppZero Partners with SerenITaaS
AppZero, provider of the automated tool to «up-level» server applications to a new operating system or the cloud, has announced that Ontario-based SerenITaaS has joined the AppZero Partner Program as a Gold Partner. A cloud integration leader with offices in Sydney, Australia, as well as Markham, Ontario, SerenITaaS specializes in integrating cloud technology into existing IT infrastructure. The company is a cloud partner with Microsoft focusing on Office 365 implementations and migrations.
With Windows Server 2003 end of life is approaching, AppZero and SerenITaaS are working together to help customers address the technical challenges of migrating applications to a newer operating system (2008, 2012 or 2012 /R2) or to the cloud. AppZero makes the move to and from the cloud fast and flexible, extracting and moving server applications in minutes so they can run natively on any version of the operating system, machine or cloud, including managed clouds.
Announcing @IBM and Tencent Cloud Partner [#Cloud]
IBM and Tencent Cloud signed a business cooperation memorandum to collaborate on providing public cloud with Software-as-a-Service solutions for industries. Both parties agreed to focus on emerging small and medium enterprises in the smarter cities and smarter healthcare industries as well as other fields. This will enable these industries to utilize mobile, cloud computing and big data tools to transform internal processes and operations, thus achieving cloud transformation in the era of mobility. As part of this milestone collaboration, Tencent Cloud and IBM will jointly promote industry innovation and gain from each company’s resources and global capacity to benefit enterprise customers.
Tencent Holdings Limited is a provider of comprehensive Internet services in China. Tencent Cloud is a strategic platform of Tencent with profound acumen in cloud computing based on its powerful infrastructure as well as many years’ experience in the massive Internet services business. Tencent cloud provides enterprises and developers access to a complete cloud solution with cloud service, cloud data and cloud operations.
Meet @SimpleECM November 4-6 at @CloudExpo [#Cloud]
SimpleECM is the only platform to offer a powerful combination of enterprise content management (ECM) services, capture solutions, and third-party business services providing simplified integrations and workflow development for solution providers. SimpleECM is opening the market to businesses of all sizes by reinventing the delivery of ECM services. Our APIs make the development of ECM services simple with the use of familiar technologies for a frictionless integration directly into web applications. The simple integration framework lets customers select and easily customize only the services they need, to deliver solutions quickly and easily. Our flexible usage-based pricing model means that you only pay for the services that you use.
Announcing @CloudExpo «Power Panel» By @GigaomResearch [#Cloud #IoT]
The major cloud platforms defy a simple, side-by-side analysis. Each of the major IaaS public-cloud platforms offers their own unique strengths and functionality. Options for on-site private cloud are diverse as well, and must be designed and deployed while taking existing legacy architecture and infrastructure into account. Then the reality is that most enterprises are embarking on a hybrid cloud strategy and programs.
In this Power Panel at 15th Cloud Expo, moderated by Ashar Baig, Research Director, Cloud, at Gigaom Research, panelists will discuss how enterprises should develop their processes for choosing the cloud option that truly fits what they need.