Recently, WebRTC has a lot of eyes from market. The use cases of WebRTC are expanding – video chat, online education, online health care etc. Not only for human-to-human communication, but also IoT use cases such as machine to human use cases can be seen recently. One of the typical use-case is remote camera monitoring. With WebRTC, people can have interoperability and flexibility for deploying monitoring service.
However, the benefit of WebRTC for IoT is not only its convenience and interoperability. It has lots of potential to address current issues around IoT – security, connectivity and so on – based on P2P technology. It will become a key-component especially in edge computing use cases, in his view.
[session] DNS, #DevOps and #DigitalTransformation | @CloudExpo #DX #SaaS
In his session at 21st Cloud Expo, Carl J. Levine, Senior Technical Evangelist for NS1, will objectively discuss how DNS is used to solve Digital Transformation challenges in large SaaS applications, CDNs, AdTech platforms, and other demanding use cases. Carl J. Levine is the Senior Technical Evangelist for NS1. A veteran of the Internet Infrastructure space, he has over a decade of experience with startups, networking protocols and Internet infrastructure, combined with the unique ability to iterate use cases, bring understanding to those seeking to explore complicated technical concepts and increase revenue across diverse sales channels.
[session] Dovetailing #DevOps and the Cloud | @DevOpsSummit @CAinc @Aruna13 #CloudNative
As DevOps methodologies expand their reach across the enterprise, organizations face the daunting challenge of adapting related cloud strategies to ensure optimal alignment, from managing complexity to ensuring proper governance. How can culture, automation, legacy apps and even budget be reexamined to enable this ongoing shift within the modern software factory?
[session] #DevOps vs SRE vs Cloud Native | @DevOpsSummit @RackNgo #Serverless #CloudNative
DevOps is under attack because developers don’t want to mess with infrastructure. They will happily own their code into production, but want to use platforms instead of raw automation. That’s changing the landscape that we understand as DevOps with both architecture concepts (CloudNative) and process redefinition (SRE).
Rob Hirschfeld’s recent work in Kubernetes operations has led to the conclusion that containers and related platforms have changed the way we should be thinking about DevOps and controlling infrastructure. The rise of Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) is part of that redefinition of operations vs development roles in organizations.
[session] #Serverless Computing for #IoT Device Simulation | @ThingsExpo #AI #DX #SmartCities
When shopping for a new data processing platform for IoT solutions, many development teams want to be able to test-drive options before making a choice. Yet when evaluating an IoT solution, it’s simply not feasible to do so at scale with physical devices. Building a sensor simulator is the next best choice; however, generating a realistic simulation at very high TPS with ease of configurability is a formidable challenge. When dealing with multiple application or transport protocols, you would be looking at some significant engineering investment.
On-demand, serverless computing enables developers to try out a fleet of devices on IoT gateways with ease. With a sensor simulator built on top of AWS Lambda, it’s possible to elastically generate device sensors that report their state to the cloud.
[session] #Serverless the Amazon #Lambda Way? | @DevOpsSummit @CAinc #AWS #DevOps
While some vendors scramble to create and sell you a fancy solution for monitoring your spanking new Amazon Lambdas, hear how you can do it on the cheap using just built-in Java APIs yourself. By exploiting a little-known fact that Lambdas aren’t exactly single-threaded, you can effectively identify hot spots in your serverless code. In his session at @DevOpsSummit at 21st Cloud Expo, Dave Martin, Product owner at CA Technologies, will give a live demonstration and code walkthrough, showing how to overcome the challenges of monitoring S3 and RDS. This presentation will provide an overview of necessary Amazon Lambda concepts and discus how to integrate the monitoring data with other tools.
[session] #DevOps for Enterprise Teams | @DevOpsSummit @CAinc #Agile #ContinuousTesting
Did you know that you can develop for mainframes in Java? Or that the testing and deployment can be automated across mobile to mainframe?
In his session and demo at @DevOpsSummit at 21st Cloud Expo, Dana Boudreau, a Senior Director at CA Technologies, will discuss how increasingly teams are developing with agile methodologies, using modern development environments, and automating testing and deployments, mobile to mainframe.
CA Named “Platinum Sponsor” of @CloudExpo | @CAinc #CloudNative #Serverless #DevOps #AI #DX
SYS-CON Events announced today that CA Technologies has been named «Platinum Sponsor» of SYS-CON’s 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. With CA software at the center of their IT strategy, organizations can leverage the technology that changes the way we live – from the data center to the mobile device. CA’s software and solutions help customers thrive in the new application economy by delivering the means to deploy, monitor and secure their applications and infrastructure.
Google announces price cuts on cloud SSD storage
Google has announced a price cut on its local SSD (solid state disk) storage attached to on-demand Google Compute Engine virtual machines – to the tune of up to 63%.
The latest move from Google will see costs drop by $0.080 per gigabyte per month in the majority of US regions for on-demand VMs, while the company also announced prices were being lowered on preemptible VMs.
Local SSD is a high performance, physically attached block storage offering, and can be the most viable option for workloads such as caching layers and NoSQL databases, while preemptible VMs only run for 24 hours and can be taken off by the provider – hence the name – if the capacity needs to be used for other purposes.
“At Google we’re always looking to reduce total cost of ownership for our customers, pass along price reductions achieved through technology advancements and adjust our pricing so you can take advantage of technology that will help you innovate, in a manner that’s simple for our users,” wrote product managers Chris Kleban and Michael Basilyan in a blog post.
Slashing cloud prices is not as common a practice as it once was. AWS’ most recent price cuts – the 62nd – was last month, focusing on Microsoft SQL Server Standard Edition for EC2. Given the service has been going since 2006, and the 40th price cut appeared over the horizon at the start of 2014, it gives you some idea as to the slowdown.
According to a paper from 451 Research back in April, object storage, rather than VMs, will become the focus of the new cloud price wars. “This is the first time there has been a big price war outside compute, and it reflects object storage’s move into the mainstream,” said Jean Atelsek, 451 digital economics unit analyst at the time.
Why Do You Need Cloud for Back Office?
Back office tasks are often seen as routine ones, but have you ever realized how much more streamlined these operations will be when you move them to the cloud?
Let’s look at some reasons why cloud is critical for your back office operations.
Embracing change
What we did 10 years ago is hardly relevant today. Many enterprises continue to have legacy systems that put tremendous load on the infrastructure and consume way more resources than they should.
We had to use legacy systems then because that was all that was available. But today, cloud and other technologies have outdated these systems, so it’s only right that we are in tune with these changes.
Today, cloud is seen as the best bet for back office operations because a lot of it can be automated and you can save time and money on it.
Cost
You’re sure to have heard this before, but there’s no harm in saying it again considering that your business can really save tons of money.
Yes, with cloud, you no longer have to spend on infrastructure or updating your hardware components. You can simply hire whatever specifications you want, move your data to the cloud and enjoy all the benefits that come with it. The annual subscription fee that companies charge for using their infrastructure will be only a fraction of what it will cost you to setup your own.
Hassle-free Management
With cloud, you no longer have to allocate time and resources for management. No more security updates and patch installations, as all that is taken care of by the cloud service provider. This means, you get to focus more on your core business without having to worry about the surrounding infrastructural challenges.
Analytics
Another huge reason to move your back office operations to the cloud is the additional value you can glean from your data.
Technologies like big data make it easy to identify different data patterns from varied sources, so you can get a better understanding of who your customers are, what they think of your product, what do they expect out of it and more. Armed with such information, you can make the necessary changes to your product and operations to satisfy them better. Such proactive measures is sure to help you get a wider customer base and you can actually be more connected to your customers.
Such analytics require heavy infrastructure as you’ll have to collect data from different sources, store and analyze them to identify patterns. This is where cloud makes it easy for you.
In fact, back office is where the bulk of data is handled, so cloud is more relevant here than in other aspects of your operations.
Overall, cloud can give a big boost to your back office operations, so make the move today if you haven’t do so already.
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