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Cisco reveals new tools and networking products for IoT


Clare Hopping

30 Jan, 2019

Cisco has confirmed its commitment to the IoT, with the announcement of new developer tools, networking products and partnerships to establish its position in the IoT world.

The first major facilitator is the launch of its Catalyst industrial switches and integrated services routers that have been specifically built for IoT environments. Both tools are managed by Cisco DNA Center that allows businesses to manage their infrastructure in a single area, even if they’re being used across environments.

“In IoT, the conversation is about business outcomes. It starts with secure connectivity as the foundation of every IoT deployment. By providing scale, flexibility and security, we’re turning the network into a secret weapon for our IoT customers,” said Liz Centoni, senior vice president and general manager, IoT at Cisco.

An extension of Cisco’s IoT developer tools within its DevBet IoT developer centre will make it easier for creators to integrate Cisco’s IoT networking solutions into their apps and services.

“With a new DevNet IoT developer center, we’re empowering thousands of partners and developers around the world to build upon our IoT platform,” Centoni said.

Cisco also said it wants to work closer with resellers, ISVs, manufacturers and service providers to spread the reach of its IoT programme. By providing the hardware and software tools businesses need to embrace the IoT world, Cisco believes it can make a difference to a whole host of industries, particularly manufacturing, utilities and remote and mobile assets. It has recently unveiled validated designs for those industries to get them up and running faster.

“We closely collaborated with Cisco on Cisco’s new compact, low-power industrial router to meet the stringent environmental and safety standards used in the utilities industry,” said Didier Hinguant, telecom director at Cisco partner Enedis.“We operate and deploy our connected grid with thousands of Cisco routers via Field Network Director zero touch provisioning, with an agile, highly secure and future proof network using IPv6 to address our scalability constraints.”

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SAP reveals impressive Q4 results, but still considers restructure


Clare Hopping

30 Jan, 2019

SAP has unveiled its fourth quarter financials, presenting year-on-year revenue growth of 9%. The company said it met or exceeded all expectations, although has made the decision to restructure its business to take advantage of new opportunities on the horizon.

Operating profit increased by 22% over the entire year, with new cloud bookings up a quarter during the final period of 2018 and cloud subscriptions and revenues rising by 41%.

“In 2018, SAP hit or exceeded all guidance metrics even after multiple raises. With Qualtrics joining SAP, we are now poised to revolutionize the business software industry with Experience Management,” said Bill McDermott, CEO at SAP.

“With a consistent track record of unprecedented growth behind us, we are leading our stakeholders forward to bridge the experience gap. Our strategy is innovative, complete and alone at the forefront of the experience economy.”

Although cloud revenues were a big winner for the company, with S/4HANA contributing nicely to its overall performance, the company’s software revenues fell by 5% year-on-year and it’s increasingly relying on its cloud services to keep its growth in an upwards direction.

“It will be interesting to see whether SAP will announce a continuation of the Q3 trend of cloud eclipsing software,” said George Lawrie, Forrester VP and principal analyst.

“The company’s operating profit demonstrated a marked improvement in Q3 and I expect that as cloud deployments accelerate this will improve even further.”

Although these results were pretty impressive, the company explained it wants to innovate to keep up with its competitors and to lessen the impact of retiring employees.

It may let go up to 3,000 of its current employees to boost profitability and reach its goals of reaching €35 billion in revenues.

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Kubernetes Orchestration | @KubeSUMMIT #CloudNative #Serverless #DataCenter #DevOps #Kubernetes #Microservices

Skeuomorphism usually means retaining existing design cues in something new that doesn’t actually need them. However, the concept of skeuomorphism can be thought of as relating more broadly to applying existing patterns to new technologies that, in fact, cry out for new approaches.
In his session at DevOps Summit, Gordon Haff, Senior Cloud Strategy Marketing and Evangelism Manager at Red Hat, will discuss why containers should be paired with new architectural practices such as microservices rather than mimicking legacy server virtualization workflows and architectures.

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Serverless Keynote at @KubeSUMMIT | @DavidLinthicum @Deloitte @DeloitteUS @DeloitteOnTech #CloudNative #Serverless #DevOps #Kubernetes

In a recent survey, Sumo Logic surveyed 1,500 customers who employ cloud services such as Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud Platform (GCP). According to the survey, a quarter of the respondents have already deployed Docker containers and nearly as many (23 percent) are employing the AWS Lambda serverless computing framework.

It’s clear: serverless is here to stay. The adoption does come with some needed changes, within both application development and operations. That means serverless is also changing the way we leverage public clouds. Truth-be-told, many enterprise IT shops were so happy to get out of the management of physical servers within a data center that many limitations of the existing public IaaS clouds were forgiven. However, now that we’ve lived a few years with public IaaS clouds, developers and CloudOps pros are giving a huge thumbs down to the constant monitoring of servers, provisioned or not, that’s required to support the workloads.

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DevOps in a Mainframe World at @DevOpsSUMMIT | @IBMcloud @IBMDevOps @HaleyFung #CloudNative #Serverless #DevOps #DataCenter

DevOps with IBMz? You heard right. Maybe you’re wondering what a developer can do to speed up the entire development cycle–coding, testing, source code management, and deployment-? In this session you will learn about how to integrate z application assets into a DevOps pipeline using familiar tools like Jenkins and UrbanCode Deploy, plus z/OSMF workflows, all of which can increase deployment speeds while simultaneously improving reliability. You will also learn how to provision mainframe system as cloud-like service.

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Book Your 10×10 @DevOpsSUMMIT Booth for $2,000 By January 31 | #DevOps #APM #DataCenter #Serverless #Monitoring

Cloud-Native thinking and Serverless Computing are now the norm in financial services, manufacturing, telco, healthcare, transportation, energy, media, entertainment, retail and other consumer industries, as well as the public sector.

The widespread success of cloud computing is driving the DevOps revolution in enterprise IT. Now as never before, development teams must communicate and collaborate in a dynamic, 24/7/365 environment. There is no time to wait for long development cycles that produce software that is obsolete at launch. DevOps may be disruptive, but it is essential.

DevOpsSUMMIT at CloudEXPO expands the DevOps community, enable a wide sharing of knowledge, and educate delegates and technology providers alike.

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Blockchain and Smart Contracts | @CloudEXPO @SignixPlatform #FinTech #Blockchain #SmartCities #DigitalTransformation

Gartner projected that by the year 2022, smart contracts will be in use by more than 25% of global organizations despite speculative risks. Smart contracts allow blockchain applications to perform secure, immutable and valid transactions and contractual conditions without third parties. The EVP of SIGNiX, a PKI e-signature provider launching SmarTract (smart contracts to automate legal contracts and more), Pem Guerry would like to share how blockchain’s smart contracts enable enterprise organizations to provide more value for its customers and stakeholders. Pem would also like to explore current smart contract application trends that major enterprises such as IBM are implementing for its products and services and use cases from enterprise segment across the energy, healthcare, financial and public sectors.

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A Successful DevOps Initiative at #DevOpsSUMMIT | @AnneHungate #CloudNative #Serverless #DevOps #APM #DataCenter #Monitoring

IT organizations that don’t know their risk factors and exposure are likely to make investments in DevOps that don’t matter. After working with several teams that lost their DevOps funding after making automation investments in areas that were not business constraints, Anne Hungate’s «Know Your Numbers» model emerged. Join Anne to learn how to prioritize your DevOps improvements and demonstrate the impact and value you are delivering. After all, DevOps gets traction and funding when teams can show the business impact of doing it, so if you want your DevOps initiative to take off, be prepared to provide some metrics! You’ll discover the five key questions you need to be able to answer to show that your DevOps matters, and leave with seven actions you can start taking as soon as you get back to your desk in order to improve the results of your DevOps efforts.

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Kubernetes with Ansible | @KubeSUMMIT @HPE #CloudNative #DevOps #Serverless #Kubernetes #Ansible #Containers

Kubernetes is a new and revolutionary open-sourced system for managing containers across multiple hosts in a cluster. Ansible is a simple IT automation tool for just about any requirement for reproducible environments.
In his session at @DevOpsSummit at 18th Cloud Expo, Patrick Galbraith, a principal engineer at HPE, will discuss how to build a fully functional Kubernetes cluster on a number of virtual machines or bare-metal hosts. Also included will be a brief demonstration of running a Galera MySQL cluster as a Kubernetes application.

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