There are many potential applications for WebRTC and for many interoperability is not a requirement. However, this does not mean that there is not a need for interoperability, particularly at the signaling level, for other applications.
Many people have dismissed interoperability as a consideration when using WebRTC – often due to the fact that their favored use cases do not require it (and in some cases are even hampered by it).
In his session at WebRTC Summit, Peter Dunkley, Technical Director at Crocodile RCS, will look at the other side and discuss the case for interoperability and explain how WebRTC can be used to enhance and extend existing services in a way provides benefits to service providers and their customers. He will conclude with a look at some of the open-source options available today for building interoperable WebRTC applications.
Roll With the Times and Grow Your Business
If you are in your 40’s you were born into a world which is now long gone. Your first date was set up via a landline phone – maybe even a rotary dial! The first music you listened to was from a tape cassette or a vinyl record; flying was not like taking a bus; e-mails were unknown and… well, you get the picture.
Then along came mobile telephony and the internet and they changed the world forever. Today our lifestyle, information and hobbies, as well as work, can be found in one single device which is permanently connected to the internet – and of course it is also in our pocket most of the time.
Cloud Expo | Platform Gravity: New Paradigm for Cloud-Based Enterprises
With the explosion of SaaS and reduced costs of changing applications, organizations have more freedom to choose between products and are no longer bound by the platform stickiness of traditional enterprise software. A new analogy – «platform gravity» – better describes today’s enterprise application market.
As apps vie for customers in the face of diminishing client lock-in, pricing, features, and ecosystems exclusively govern application traction – forcing vendors to innovate faster, listen better, and refocus efforts on users.
In his session at the 13th International Cloud Expo®, Patrick White, CEO at Synata, will discuss best practices for selecting and deploying applications in this world of endless choice and explore how developers can thrive in this new environment.
The search for hybrid cloud: The journey continues
Hybrid cloud is an awesome concept for the world of enterprise IT and beyond. But a question remains as to whether hybrid clouds are truly being created in the current state of business IT infrastructure deployments.
One true definition?
Most businesses have their own data center and then they have cloud. Very few have really created a true hybrid yet that achieves the promised functionality.
So if businesses aren’t currently completely achieving hybrid deployments, what is it? The truest definition of a hybrid cloud entails having the ability to easily move and put back workloads between dedicated and outsourced/cloud environments – seamlessly.
So what’s the hold up?
Broadly, true hybrid cloud faces a few major challenges.
First, depending on the cloud provider you use, your business will experience more or less ability to integrate outside platforms and tools. For instance, you can’t really hybridize cloud at AWS …
Enterprise Mobility and Network Centric Management Strategies
Some of the most technologically advanced organizations in the world today are utilizing strategies based on the concept of the Network Centric Organization. These strategies, methodologies and concepts are important for just about any organization that is geographically dispersed and requires the organization and management of remote and mobile workforces and assets.
The concept of the «network centric» organization relates to the fact that people, objects, events, activities, assets, inventories, locations, fleets, equipment, tools, etc, are all connected to the Internet (aka network), monitored, and most often visible on a map. All of these connected components are providing data in real-time that can be used to manage operations. This collected data is wirelessly sent to a central server where it forms a real time and unified view of operations that can be used for analysis, forecasting, resource allocation, planning and real time decision-making.
The concept of the «network centric» organization relates to the fact that people, objects, events, activities, assets, inventories, locations, fleets, equipment, tools, etc, are all connected to the Internet (aka network), monitored, and most often visible on a map. All of these connected components are providing data in real-time that can be used to manage operations. This collected data is wirelessly sent to a central server where it forms a real time and unified view of operations that can be used for analysis, forecasting, resource allocation, planning and real time decision-making.
Cloud Expo: Delivering Database as a Service with Oracle Database 12c
IT leaders are turning to the cloud to increase agility and reduce costs. During this session, learn how Oracle offers a complete Database as a Service (DBaaS) solution that delivers on a broad range of requirements including simplified database consolidation, mission-critical deployments and extreme scalability.
In his session at the 13th International Cloud Expo®, Willie Hardie, VP Database Product Management at Oracle, will discuss how the new multitenant architecture in Oracle Database 12c lends itself to providing DBaaS, and you’ll gain exposure to a number of customer case studies that demonstrate how delivering DBaaS is providing a superior service while lowering CapEx and OpEx costs.
Time To Join The DevOps Movement
CA Technologies says, “For DevOps to work correctly, it must be treated as a movement, not a market for a specific vendor’s products.” As Arlo Guthrie once sang, with three people it is an organization. But if we can find … Continue reading 
Cloud Expo Silicon Valley: New Cloud. New Rules
Your IT organization needs to support creativity and enable disruption through developing new products more quickly, and cutting free of old rules and rethinking business models. Cloud should be the answer… but in many cases it’s only the answer for certain types of workloads and applications due to performance, dependency, management and security challenges.
The cloud needs be so much more than it currently is for the next great wave of innovation to take off – we need a fundamentally better cloud.
In his General Session at the 13th International Cloud Expo®, Jim Anthony, VP of Sales Engineering at Verizon Terremark, will discuss the current challenges in cloud computing, the features needed in future cloud services, and Verizon’s next-generation platform that will deliver a new level of simplicity and performance with a new approach designed to make the cloud fast, predictable and cost-effective.
Is IDaaS a Trustworthy and Feasible Option?
Despite accusations against the gov’t of data harvesting and privacy invasion, IDaaS is a feasible and trustworthy option to maintain identity protection.
Conspiracy theorists and other concerned citizens will insist the government is watching every keystroke, keeping a record of every website, transaction, text and email. Shades of 1984’s Big Brother, right? These last few weeks, the news has been brimming with revelations of data surveillance and monitoring by the government (not to mention data harvesting corporations like Google, Yahoo, Facebook etc…). Everyone, including the security buffs at CloudAccess, is sensitive as to what is being looked at, stored, and analyzed for hazily defined purposes. Privacy is no longer as private as you think; and hasn’t been for many years.
Cloud Expo | Federated Cloud: Why Service Providers Can’t Live Without It
As public cloud providers face a mounting challenge to their business from AWS, more and more are turning to the federated cloud model to deliver the scale, reach and capability they need to compete.
In his session at the 13th International Cloud Expo®, Ditlev Bredahl, CEO & Co-Founder of OnApp, will explore how a cloud federation works, and the opportunities and challenges for providers who adopt this model. Using case studies, it will show how federated cloud is not just the savior of the traditional hosting industry, but also a way for stakeholders to benefit from better, faster and cheaper services, and a way for them to finally realize the promise of the cloud.