SYS-CON Events announced today that LSI Corporation will exhibit at SYS-CON’s 13th International Cloud Expo, which will take place on November 4–7, 2013, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA.
LSI Corporation (NASDAQ: LSI) designs semiconductors and software that accelerate storage and networking in datacenters, mobile networks and client computing. Our technology is the intelligence critical to enhanced application performance, and is applied in solutions created in collaboration with our partners.

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The Open Group asks the pertinent question: How prepared are you for the coming together of such growing technical phenomena as cloud, mobile, social computing, and big data?
The convergence of technical phenomena such as cloud, mobile and social computing, big data analysis, and the Internet of things that is being addressed by The Open Group’s Open Platform 3.0 Forum will transform the way that you use information technology. Are you ready?
Mobile and social computing are leading the way. Recently, the launch of new iPhone models and the announcement of the Twitter stock flotation were headline news, reflecting the importance that these technologies now have for business. For example, banks use mobile text messaging to alert customers to security issues. Retailers use social media to understand their markets and communicate with potential customers.

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SYS-CON Events announced today that GridGain Systems, a real time Big Data software company, has been named “Bronze Sponsor” of SYS-CON’s 13th International Cloud Expo, which will take place on November 4–7, 2013, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA.
GridGain develops scalable, distributed, in-memory data platform technology for real time data processing. The company’s Java-based middleware products enable development of applications and services that can instantly access terabytes to petabytes of information from any data source or file system, distribute computational tasks across any number of machines, and produce results orders of magnitude faster than traditionally architected systems. GridGain’s customers include innovative web and mobile businesses, leading Fortune 500 companies, and top government agencies.

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The database wars are about to kick off in spectacular style. Not just Oracle vs SAP – as Big Red announced its new in-memory database at the start of this week – but relational vs NoSQL.

Oracle and SAP have been making plenty of noise about their in-memory capability; SAP co-CEO Bill McDermott once claimed that its HANA technology was “the fastest growing software product in the history of the world”, whilst in his recent event keynote, Larry Ellison claimed that data would move at “ungodly speeds” in the Oracle 12c database.

But that’s all relational, SQL database technology – and the NoSQL brigade is coming up fast.

It doesn’t take a genius to work out which side Bob Wiederhold, CEO and president of NoSQL database provider Couchbase, sits on. And his company’s ready for the battle ahead, with the release earlier this month of Couchbase Lite, claimed as the …

IBM Smart Cloud Enterprise is offered as a service called IaaS to deliver the best infrastructure for any business. The user then gets access to IBM’s virtual server and all the resources that go with it. The services are flexible and the security is unmatched. It also provides a cloud for private and open cloud architecture, while giving software business solutions at the same time.
One would be mistaken if one thinks that all clouds have the same things to offer. That is simply not true and the IBM cloud is far superior in every way to the other clouds in the market.

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It was at my very first job as a developer that I learned about code reviews (and that I intuitively hated them, a characteristic I share with many developers I’ve then since learned). We wrote and maintained software that automated tax preparation (yes, you may in fact be using services that contain code I touched long ago – caveat emptor ;-)) and going over code was an important part of the process. In addition to making sure we were following coding standards with respect to source formatting there was also the opportunity for improvements and to find potential mistakes that might be disastrous given the nature of the software we developed.
Fast forward a number of years (right, like I was going to tell you how many) and code reviews are still a part of the development process. The thing is that the reasons for reviewing source code have expanded, primarily thanks to the success of open source.

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The Cloud Security Alliance (CSA) Thursday announced the release of the CSA Cloud Control Matrix (CCM) Version 3.0, the most comprehensive update to the industry’s gold standard for assessing cloud centric information security risks. The CCM Version 3.0 expands its control domains to address changes in cloud security risks since the release of the CSA’s seminal guidance domain, «Security Guidance for Critical Areas of Focus in Cloud Computing version 3.0» while making strides towards closer harmonization of the two.

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It appears that the siege at Westgate Mall in Nairobi, Kenya is over. So it seems safe to write about it and what it means.

As I wrote a couple of weeks ago, “wretched violence has once again intruded in a big way into all the world’s efforts to improve economies and the lives of people. It’s horrible, disgusting, and will ultimately achieve the direct opposite of what it’s backers seek.”

My context then was a proposed war policy instead of an actual terrorism incident, but the concept remains the same. Violence only teaches that violence is wrong.

I was saddened to hear Kenya’s president Uhuru Kenyatta say early on that the criminals in this slaughter would be punished swiftly “and painfully.” Certainly everyone understands the anger felt against the perpetrators of a horrific act such as this, an anger that would be white-hot if friends and relatives were among the dead and wounded.

Today Mr. Kenyatta (a son of modern Kenya’s Founding Father, Jomo Kenyatta), stated that the criminals had been “shamed” as well as defeated, again demonstrating righteous anger.

Achieving Nothing
But blood lust achieves nothing. Although I’m reasonably sure I’m not a hard enough person to lead any nation, including a developing one such as Kenya, I always counsel strength through pressure, not violence. I would love to see the perpetrators of the Westgate violence dragged into a local court, sentenced to life in prison, then dragged into an international court, sentenced again to life in prison, then be able to contemplate living out their lives in a small, drab cell somewhere.

The cruel irony of many extremists – and not just religious extremists – is they want to die for their cause, they want to become martyrs. This is quite different from the heroism of the common soldier who is willing to die for his or her country. The latter is a case of selflessly offering the ultimate sacrifice in defense of one’s country; the former is an aggressive narcissism that focuses only on the self.

So I urge Mr. Kenyatta, the Kenyan government, and all others who will be involved in this case to go easy on the violence as they go long on justice served. This malignant violence sidetracks all of the good that so many people are doing to improve global economies and people’s lives.

Progress, Anyway
I grew up around guns and sometimes violent ways of settling disputes. I’m familiar with the statistics oin violence and real-world environments of most places in the US, and many other places throughout the world. I’ve seen my share of young soldiers with machine guns guarding street corners, stores, and airports in all regions of the world. I spent three years living in Southeast Asia, with separatist violence in the air and one incident occurring just blocks from my apartment.

I get righteously angry as well when I learn of the latest incident of innocent people killed. But I won’t be deterred from doing what I want to do. I’d visit Kenya tomorrow if my work required it. Our research at the Tau Institute has shown that Kenya ranks among the Top 10 African countries when it comes to its use of Information Technology.

We are sticking with this ranking. We do factor several socio-economic factors into our research, but our heaviest emphasis is on how much technological infrastructure is deployed in the face of these local conditions. I applaud all those who continue to work to improve the lot of people there in the face of everyday difficulties and of this recent massacre.

We also show Uganda emerging as the continent’s leader – a nation where the government is threatened by an ongoing, extremely ugly guerrilla resistance that operates in neighboring countries as well. I’d go there tomorrow, too.

Hope Beyond Hope
All of us in the technology world must maintain our hope – quixotic as it may seem some days – that our industry’s innovation and inventions can continue to improve the lives of people in all corners of the world.

I don’t advocate that any particular person throws caution to the wind and travels and works in a place where he or she feels threatened. But I do advocate that no one advocates violence as the way to end the endemic violence that plagues so much of the world and impedes the progress of humanity.

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Fast-growing healthcare claims company Navicure is gaining better control and optimization across its IT infrastructure by deploying a comprehensive monitoring and operational management approach and taming IT complexity.

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