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Google and Nutanix Enter Into an Agreement

Google and Nutanix have entered into an agreement to further application development.

With this agreement, it’s clear that Google understands that it needs help from smaller companies to share its workload on the cloud. Currently, Google has a big presence in the public cloud, but runs behind competitors like Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Microsoft. In fact, all these three companies fight intensely for the same public cloud space, though AWS is the clear leader among the three.

Nutanix, on the other hand, is a successful startup that went public last year. It’s data hardware and software gives a hybrid approach to the cloud and bridges the gap that exists between on-premise servers and data servers in the cloud.

Google obviously stands to gain much from this partnership as it can expand its market offering to also include hybrid cloud, apart from its plethora of offerings in the public cloud. This is also more in tune with the market expectations as many companies want to adopt a hybrid approach.

Though security concerns on the cloud have been bridged to some extent, there are still some inhibitions surrounding it, especially when it comes to critical data. This is why companies prefer to keep their mission critical data and applications close to them and run their other applications on the cloud. Such a hybrid approach is what is becoming a preferred mode and this explains why Google has struck an important partnership with Nutanix.

In the past, Google has been a little hesitant in supporting cloud architectures that are based on a  hybrid approach where a part of the company’s data is stored on its own infrastructure. With this partnership, Google has clearly come out of those inhibitions and even wants to use this to its favor.

This agreement is a part of Google’s larger plan to diversify its cloud offering and score over that of its competitors. In fact, Google has been embarking on a multitude of strategies to grow its cloud business and much of it has been successful so far.

From Nutanix’s point of view too, this is a big milestone as it gives a worldwide customer base and access to resources that can probably take years for Nutanix to create for itself.

It’s good news for cloud customers as well because they can have more choices and a better level of service when the products of both these companies are combined.

The first integration that comes from this partnership will be available to the public from the first quarter of 2018 onwards. These products are expected to make it easy for customers to seamlessly move their data between their on-premise and cloud architectures.

Overall, this is good news for customers and the cloud market at large.

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Silicon India “Media Sponsor” of @CloudExpo | @SINewsUpdates #IoT #AI #DX #DigitalTransformation

SYS-CON Events announced today that Silicon India has been named “Media Sponsor” of 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.
Published in Silicon Valley, Silicon India magazine is the premiere platform for CIOs to discuss their innovative enterprise solutions and allows IT vendors to learn about new solutions that can help grow their business.

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Thoughts on the IT-Cloud Services Provider Relationship | @CloudExpo #API #CloudNative #Analytics

Trust is a fickle thing, and making the leap to fully trust someone or something isn’t always easy, especially in new or unfamiliar circumstances. Take for example hybrid IT, where new cloud-based IT infrastructure has introduced a level of uncertainty, or at least less-proven technologies and processes, for IT professionals.
In fact, the SolarWinds IT Trends Report 2017: Portrait of a Hybrid IT Organization explored this notion of trust in the hybrid IT era, particularly as it pertains to the IT professional and cloud services provider (CSP) relationship. The survey found that on the spectrum of trust, the majority of IT professionals (62 percent) say they only somewhat trust CSPs. To contextualize this, SolarWinds also polled its THWACK® online community of IT professionals and found where exactly CSPs fall in the trust spectrum:

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[video] Welcome to the Era of Open Analytics | @CloudExpo @ProgressSW #AI #ML #DX #BigData #Analytics

Cloud applications are seeing a deluge of requests to support the exploding advanced analytics market. “Open analytics” is the emerging strategy to deliver that data through an open data access layer, in the cloud, to be directly consumed by external analytics tools and popular programming languages. An increasing number of data engineers and data scientists use a variety of platforms and advanced analytics languages such as SAS, R, Python and Java, as well as frameworks such as Hadoop and Spark. Cloud APIs are commonly designed to support application integration representing a disconnect with the analytics ecosystem. These combined trends create significant demand for a “bring-your-own-analytics” (BYOA) capability for cloud applications.

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[session] Combating Cyberattacks in Real-Time By @StriimTeam | @CloudExpo #Cloud #Analytics

In this presentation, Striim CTO and founder Steve Wilkes will discuss practical strategies for counteracting fraud and cyberattacks by leveraging real-time streaming analytics. In his session at @ThingsExpo, Steve Wilkes, Founder and Chief Technology Officer at Striim, will provide a detailed look into leveraging streaming data management to correlate events in real time, and identify potential breaches across IoT and non-IoT systems throughout the enterprise. Strategies for processing massive amounts of data and performing complex analysis – including anomaly detection and pattern matching – at lightning speed will be shared.

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[video] Custom Software Development with @MobiDev_ | @CloudExpo #AI #ML #Cloud #Analytics

«MobiDev is a Ukraine-based software development company. We do mobile development, and we’re specialists in that. But we do full stack software development for entrepreneurs, for emerging companies, and for enterprise ventures,» explained Alan Winters, U.S. Head of Business Development at MobiDev, in this SYS-CON.tv interview at 20th Cloud Expo, held June 6-8, 2017, at the Javits Center in New York City, NY.

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Brazil’s Neoway Raises $45 Million

Neoway, a Brazilian company that provides analytics services to local companies announced that it has raised $45 million in funding. This round was led by QMS Capital and existing investors such as Accel, Monashees and Endeavor Capital joined in. Two notable new investors in this round were PointBreak and Pollux.

The main aim for this round of funding is that Neoway wants to expand its business outside of Brazil. In fact, it wants to bring its expertise to the U.S market as it believes there’s a lot of potential for its services here.

This company currently based in Florianopolis in Brazil specializes in collecting massive amounts of data and analyzing them to get meaningful insights that can help its customers to improve their businesses. It typically collects data from 6,000 different databases from more than 300 sources, collates them together and provides the analytics.

On the face of it, this process may seem simple, but in reality, it’s anything but simple. These 300 sources will have data stored in many different formats, so Neoway has to bring them to a common format first before any analysis can be run on it.

To give you a perspective, let’s say you’re a company that sells tour packages. To get an in-depth analysis of your customers and business operations, you need to collect data from social media sites like Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Pinterest and more. Each of this information can be in the form of a comment, like, text, image, video, audio or more. You’ll have to glean all the relevant information from these different data formats and put them together to get what you want.

Neoway uses bots to crawl the web and find any information that mentions your company or is relevant to you in some way. It identifies this relevance using advanced algorithms and machine learning technologies.

Based on this data, you can better understand the preferences of your customers and create packages that’ll appeal better to them. It can even help you to create and sell custom packages to customers based on their needs. In turn, this will increase your overall revenue and profitability.

Neoway has already help many Brazilian companies such as Raizen and Shell to tap into the power of analytics. As a part of its expansion plans, it has opened an office in New York City. To top it, it has partnered with a prominent data provider called InfoGroup and so far, has collected data from 50 million companies.

In addition, it’s also running a test pilot program with a prominent financial institution and a consumer goods company.

To gain a strong foothold in the U.S market, Neoway has hired Andrew Prozes, the former CEO of LexisNexis, another company that’s known for its work in the data warehouse industry. In fact, Prozes was also a part investor in this round of funding.

Let’s join together and wish this company a lot of success in its new stint in the U.S.

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Key to Data Monetization | @CloudExpo #IoT #BigData #Analytics #AI #DX #DigitalTransformation

Many organizations are associating data monetization with selling their data. But selling data is not a trivial task, especially for organizations whose primary business relies on its data. Organizations new to selling data need to be concerned with privacy and Personally Identifiable Information (PII), data quality and accuracy, data transmission reliability, pricing, packaging, marketing, sales, support, etc. Companies such as Nielsen, Experian and Acxiom are experts at selling data because that’s their business; they have built a business around gathering, aggregating, cleansing, aligning, packaging, selling and supporting data.

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Announcing @TechTarget Named “Media Sponsor” of @CloudExpo | #Cloud #Storage #Serverless

SYS-CON Events announced today that TechTarget has been named “Media Sponsor” of 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.
TechTarget storage websites are the best online information resource for news, tips and expert advice for the storage, backup and disaster recovery markets.

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American Airlines moves consumer facing apps to the cloud – with IBM’s help

American Airlines is moving critical applications, including its customer-facing mobile app and check-in kiosks, to IBM’s cloud, the latter has announced.

The move builds upon the two companies’ partnership, first announced last year, with the airline also moving workloads and tools such as its Cargo customer website to the IBM cloud.

The two companies have agreed to rewrite applications to IBM’s cloud platform as a service (PaaS), as well as establishing a cloud-native architecture. American Airlines will work with IBM Global Services to help create applications through a micro-services architecture, DevOps, agile methodology, and lean development.

“In selecting the right cloud partner for American, we wanted to ensure the provider would be a champion of Cloud Foundry and open source technologies so we don’t get locked down by proprietary solutions,” said Daniel Hendry, VP customer technology and enterprise architecture at American. “We also wanted a partner that would offer us the agility to innovate at the organisational and process levels and have deep industry expertise with security at its core.

“We feel confident that IBM is the right long-term partner to not only provide the public cloud platform, but also enable our delivery transformation,” Henry added.

IBM has helped several companies – in particular airlines – with their digital transformations of late. Earlier this month it was revealed that Singapore Airlines was using various apps to help increase productivity and customer experience, while United Airlines and Finnair are also using IBM to provide iOS apps to devices and employees.

“American Airlines is embracing IBM Cloud as a true business enabler to lead the way in innovative customer experiences,” said David Kenny, SVP IBM Watson and Cloud Platform. “It is the foundation of American’s digital transformation and enables the airline to take its delivery speed to the next level with increased scalability, performance and agility to improve business processes and customer experiences at the same time.”