22nd International Cloud Expo, taking place June 5-7, 2018, at the Javits Center in New York City, NY, and co-located with the 1st DXWorld Expo will feature technical sessions from a rock star conference faculty and the leading industry players in the world. Cloud computing is now being embraced by a majority of enterprises of all sizes. Yesterday’s debate about public vs. private has transformed into the reality of hybrid cloud: a recent survey shows that 74% of enterprises have a hybrid cloud strategy. Meanwhile, 94% of enterprises are using some form of XaaS – software, platform, and infrastructure as a service.
Announcing @Opsani_ to Exhibit at @CloudExpo | #DevOps #Serverless #Docker #Kubernetes
SYS-CON Events announced today that Opsani will exhibit at SYS-CON’s 21st International Cloud Expo®, which will take place on Oct 31 – Nov 2, 2017, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA.
Opsani is the leading provider of deployment automation systems for running and scaling traditional enterprise applications on container infrastructure.
IBM eases out Bluemix name, rebrands all as IBM Cloud
IBM has rebranded its cloud, subsuming the Bluemix brand into an overall IBM Cloud offering.
Writing in a blog post announcing the move, Michael Mendenhall, chief marketing officer for IBM’s Watson and cloud arms, said the move was logical as the two brands had grown to be synonymous. There will be no changes to products offerings as a result of the move, while communications will start referring only to IBM Cloud and product names will change.
“Our goal is to provide a cloud that is easy to use, unified across multiple deployments and the world leader in supporting mission critical workloads,” Mendenhall wrote. “As part of our ongoing work to build the cloud designed for you, we are unifying the public, private, hybrid and multi-cloud under one brand. We are the IBM Cloud…the cloud for your business.”
When the platform as a service (PaaS) Bluemix was first launched, in 2014, pundits argued the PaaS opportunity was an interesting one for IBM to explore. “The Bluemix platform is the closest we’ve seen to something that can match Microsoft’s Azure when it comes to the developer experience,” wrote Gary Barnett for Ovum at the time. “If IBM continues to enhance the platform and can bring on enough partners, Bluemix could transform the PaaS market.”
Earlier this week, IBM announced the launch of IBM Cloud Private, which aimed to help give public cloud agility to private cloud or on-premises environments. As this publication has frequently explored, not everything can sit comfortably atop the public cloud. An example IBM gave of this was in the financial space, where security and regulatory concerns with customer data are key. The knotty stuff could remain in the private cloud, while, using IBM’s new product, the financial company could leverage analytics and machine learning in the public cloud.
Read more: IBM’s latest launch aims to take cloud-native benefits to private clouds
[session] Containers for Private Cloud | @CloudExpo @TidalScale #DevOps #Docker #Kubernetes
Every few years, a disruptive force comes along that prompts us to reframe our understanding of what something means, or how it works. For years, the notion of what a computer is and how you make one went pretty much unchallenged. Then virtualization came along, followed by cloud computing, and most recently containers. Suddenly the old rules no longer seemed to apply, or at least they didn’t always apply. These disruptors made us reconsider our IT worldview.
Opsani to Exhibit at @CloudExpo | @Opsani_ #CloudNative #Serverless #DevOps
SYS-CON Events announced today that Opsani to exhibit at SYS-CON’s 21st Cloud Expo, which will take place on October 31 through November 2nd 2017 at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, California. Opsani is creating the next generation of automated continuous deployment tools designed specifically for containers. How is continuous deployment different from continuous integration and continuous delivery? CI/CD tools provide build and test. Continuous Deployment is the means by which qualified changes in software code or architecture are automatically deployed to production as soon as they are ready. Adding continuous deployment to your toolchain is the final step to providing push button deployment for your developers.
United Technologies signs up with Microsoft Azure for Pratt & Whitney, Otis, and more
United Technologies (UTC), a conglomerate which builds and services products including aerospace engines and elevators, is going to leverage Microsoft Dynamics 365 and Azure in a strategic partnership.
The company says one of its core tenets is ‘giving employees the digital tools and capabilities to work in new and different ways at market speed.’ As a result, Microsoft technologies are set to be used in a variety of UTC businesses.
Pratt & Whitney, an aerospace manufacturer under the UTC umbrella, will be using Azure and Dynamics for cloud-based field service, sales and marketing to improve the customer experience, while Otis, a manufacturer of ‘people-moving products’, as the company puts it – elevators, escalators and walkways – will use Dynamics 365 CRM for its service technicians and sales teams.
“At UTC, we build products and services that are vital to business and impact lives everywhere. Through digital transformation, we are raising the bar on our capabilities to predict, prevent and respond to our customers’ needs,” said Vince Campisi, UTC chief digital officer and CIO. “Collaborating with Microsoft, and leveraging its intelligent cloud, we are changing how we define the customer experience.”
“United Technologies is a global leader in the aerospace and building industries and has a deep commitment to innovation,” said Judson Althoff, Microsoft EVP worldwide commercial business. “The combination of UTC’s customer service expertise together with Microsoft’s intelligent cloud will provide a digital business model for UTC businesses across multiple industries.”
This is not the only major customer deal Microsoft has inked in recent times. Earlier this week, energy giant Chevron signed a seven year partnership with the Redmond company, making Azure its primary cloud provider. The company added the move will accelerate the application of technologies such as analytics and the Internet of Things to drive performance and improve efficiencies.
Why did Doppler Labs fail?
Doppler labs, the maker of Here One ear-buds, is shutting down.
This San Francisco-based company was founded in 2013 by Noah Kraft and Fritz Lanman, who continued to be the CEO and Chairman respectively. Kraft had experience in the entertainment industry while Lanman was an angel investor. Both of them came together to create a company that would manufacture an alternative to Apple’s Airpods.
To this end, it obtained many rounds of funding. The first of these was a $17 million Series B funding in July 2015 by The Chernin Group and Acequia Capital. With this capital, it began manufacturing and by the early part of 2017, it released its flagship product called Here One earbuds.
This was truly a different kind of product as the earbuds were supported with a companion app that allowed you to tune out external noise. For example, you could tune out airplane noise without tuning out the voice of the person sitting next to you. Likewise, you could amplify the bass at a concert and do other tricks to create a personalized listening space for you.
Despite these advanced features, Here One didn’t take off. According to a report, the company sold only 25,000 units as against the expected hundred thousand plus units. Due to this failure to sell, investors were not ready to invest more or back up this company in any way. Also, it couldn’t find a reasonable buyer, so Doppler labs decided to shut down its operations.
As a final good-bye, Doppler labs released an app that allowed Here One to be used as an app-based hearing assistant aid. This was one of the biggest ambitions of the company, so it fulfilled that and gracefully shut down its operations.
This shut down came as a surprise to many people simply because they weren’t expecting it at all. Internally, the company was stable with Kraft and Lanman providing the right leadership. Also, the product is a good one, though it failed to attract a large customer base. Maybe with time and more marketing, this product could have become a hit with customers. Though it’s hard to say, the exit of Doppler labs is sure to leave a small, but significant void in this industry.
However, the idea that in-ear computers are the next frontier has reached well within the industry. Let’s hope this leads to more developments on this front.
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Google Cloud launches in India with opening of Mumbai region
Google Cloud Platform has announced the opening of its newest data centre region in Mumbai, India, promising to significantly improve latency for customers and end users in the area.
The region, known as asia-south1, has three zones and becomes the fifth in Asia Pacific, alongside Tokyo, Taiwan, Singapore, and Sydney. Previously, the closest region was Singapore, with Google saying hosting applications in the new region will improve latency by up to 90% for end users in Mumbai, Chennai, Hyderabad and Bangalore.
Customers in India will also be able to buy services in Indian rupees, from compute (App Engine, Compute Engine and Container Engine), big data (Cloud Dataflow, Cloud Dataproc and Cloud Datalab), storage (Cloud Datastore, Cloud Storage, Cloud SQL, Persistent Disk) and networking.
Google rolled out four customers in the announcement, including Hungama, a Spotify-esque platform dedicated to Hindi and Bollywood songs. “GCP gave us a low latency network, better than expected SSL performance, and the ability to optimise costs further with custom machine types,” said Manish Verma, Hungama chief technology officer. “The new India region will help us bring our service even closer to Indian consumers.”
Among the updates Google has recently made in terms of its cloud operations include partnerships, product iterations, and acquisitions. In the former category is a hybrid cloud partnership with Cisco announced last week, while in the latter is the acquisition of Bitium, an identity and access management provider, in September. On the product side, Google added per-second billing to Compute Engine, Container Engine and App Engine in September, taking the fire away from AWS, who had previously announced it.
The move means Google now has 39 open zones in 13 regions across the globe, with further regions being planned for Finland, Los Angeles, Montreal, and the Netherlands.
You can read the full blog post here.
CA “Platinum Sponsor” of @CloudExpo NY & Silicon Valley | @CAinc #Serverless #DevOps #DX
SYS-CON Events announced today that CA Technologies has been named “Platinum Sponsor” of SYS-CON’s 20th International Cloud Expo®, which will take place on June 6-8, 2017, at the Javits Center in New York City, NY, and the 21st International Cloud Expo®, which will take place October 31-November 2, 2017, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA. CA Technologies helps customers succeed in a future where every business – from apparel to energy – is being rewritten by software. From planning to development to management to security, CA creates software that fuels transformation for companies in the application economy.
Nirmata to Exhibit at @CloudExpo | @NirmataCloud #CloudNative #Serverless #DevOps #Kubernetes
SYS-CON Events announced today that Nirmata to exhibit at SYS-CON’s 21st Cloud Expo, which will take place on October 31 through November 2nd 2017 at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, California. Nirmata provides comprehensive policy-based automation for deploying, operating, and optimizing containerized applications across clouds, via easy-to-use, intuitive interfaces. Nirmata empowers enterprise DevOps teams by fully automating the complex operations and management of application containers. Nirmata provides integrated tools for microservices, continuously monitors the application and infrastructure for changes, and auto-tunes the application based on defined policies.