The IoT industry is now at a crossroads, between the fast-paced innovation of technologies and the pending mass adoption by global enterprises. The complexity of combining rapidly evolving technologies and the need to establish practices for market acceleration pose a strong challenge to global enterprises as well as IoT vendors.
In his session at @ThingsExpo, Clark Smith, senior product manager for Numerex, will discuss how Numerex, as an experienced, established IoT provider, has embraced a new model to address this challenge – IoT as a Service
[session] #LowCode Platforms | @CloudExpo #BigData #NoCode #ML #SaaS
You have great SaaS business app ideas. You want to turn your idea quickly into a functional and engaging proof of concept. You need to be able to modify it to meet customers’ needs, and you need to deliver a complete and secure SaaS application. How could you achieve all the above and yet avoid unforeseen IT requirements that add unnecessary cost and complexity? You also want your app to be responsive in any device at any time.
In his session at 19th Cloud Expo, Mark Allen, General Manager of the Progress Corticon and Rollbase businesses, will discuss and provide a deep understanding of the low-code application platforms that address these concerns.
Announcing @EmboticsCorp to Exhibit at @CloudExpo Silicon Valley | #IoT #M2M #Cloud
SYS-CON Events announced today that Embotics, the cloud automation company, will exhibit at the 19th International Cloud Expo, which will take place on November 1–3, 2016, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA.
Embotics is the cloud automation company for IT organizations and service providers that need to improve provisioning or enable self-service capabilities. With a relentless focus on delivering a premier user experience and unmatched customer support, Embotics is the fastest and easiest way to automate provisioning across private/public/hybrid cloud infrastructures. Its flagship product, Embotics vCommander, is used by organizations including Nordstrom, NASA, Fanatics, Informatica and Charter Communications.
How to upgrade Parallels Desktop 9 or earlier versions to Parallels Desktop 12
Guest support blog post by: Ivan Latyshev How to upgrade Parallels Desktop 9 to Parallels Desktop 12 It’s hard to keep up with technology nowadays. New software is released seemingly every day, making it difficult to keep up with upgrades on all your devices. And what if you skipped a version or two of the software […]
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How does Cloud Impact the Job Market?
Gone are the days when people used to work in an office from 9 AM to 5 PM before heading back home. Today, it’s a connected world where you can work at anytime and from any place of your choice. Much of this job convenience can be attributed to rapid advancements in the world of connectivity, and the emergence of cloud as a platform to bring workers together.
In general, if you need a computer to do your work, then you can do it from anywhere. Obviously, more people are taking to this idea of remote working because it gives them the choice to balance different aspects of their life. It also reduces the need for people to take breaks from work. For example, a young mom can continue working from home while caring for her infant, and this means, she can continue to focus on her career without having to give up her priorities at home. Such conveniences go a long way in bringing more people into the economic world, thereby generating greater wealth for individuals, companies, and economies at large. In addition, they are also not restricted to any specific geographical area to find their dream job. Rather, the entire world is their option.
For companies too, this is a convenient option, as they can cut back on overheads. They no longer need huge plush offices with air-conditioning all through the day and night. This is sure to bring down their operating expenses substantially. Further, they are also not restricted when it comes to hiring talented people. They can choose to hire anyone located in any part of the world, so in this sense, they can always have the best of talent.
Due to such conveniences for both employers and employees, more people are looking at this option. In fact, it is estimated that more than three million Americans already work on cloud-based platforms like Upwork, CrowdFlower, and Amazon Mechanical Turk. It’s not going to be long before more people take this route. A report by London Business School shows that more than one-third of the workforce would be working remotely by 2020!
Much of this idea of remote working has been possible because of the cloud. Since this technology allows users to store and access their files on virtual servers, rather than on a particular computer’s hard drive, they can access it on any device and from any location of their choice. Further, many of the applications they use are located in cloud servers, and this also gives them flexibility to access these apps from anywhere. Many cloud tools like SugarSync allow real-time collaboration, and this means, workers from different parts of the world can work on a document at the same time.
As cloud becomes more sophisticated, more jobs are likely to be remotely doable. If you’re already working in the fields of data entry, programming, content creation, design, and customer service, you’re likely to be working remote. Soon, teachers, lawyers, psychologists, counselors, researchers, nurses, paralegals and others too will join the bandwagon.
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Containers, NFV and SDN most interesting technology for OpenStack users
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With the OpenStack jamboree in Barcelona only a week away, it’s a good time to note the technologies driving its users forward – and according to the latest survey data, containers lead the way, with NFV (network function virtualisation) and bare metal also seeing an uptick.
The user study from OpenStack, which has been running semi-annually since 2013 and polled almost 400 respondents, found that container technologies continue to lead the way, cited by 78% of respondents and topping the rankings for the third year in a row. SDN and NFV (61%) and bare metal (56%) were a little further behind, ahead of hybrid cloud (46%) and platform as a service (42%). Internet of Things polled 32% of the vote.
In terms of specific container and PaaS technologies, Kubernetes came out on top. Almost half of respondents (47%) are using it in some capacity, with 31% in production compared to 10% in dev/QA and 6% at the proof of concept stage. 17% of respondents are using CloudFoundry in production, compared to 13% for OpenShift and Mesos. Over the past year, the research noted that Kubernetes usage went up 20 percentage points, while CloudFoundry fell 16 percentage points.
The survey also examined reasons why organisations choose OpenStack. For 72%, saving money is the primary business driver, while increased operational efficiency and accelerating an organisation’s ability to compete by deploying applications faster were also cited.
Similarly, the spread was pretty even when it came to OpenStack usage by organisation size; 18% of those polled who logged deployments had between 10 and 99 employees, while 12% had 100,000 employees or more.
Given the survey’s provenance, the results are understandably on the positive side – yet the technological innovations are certainly of interest. Back in March, cloud software firm Talligent noted that while OpenStack adoption was maturing and increasingly being seen as a viable alternative to public clouds, complexity in deployments remains an issue. Writing for this publication in July last year, David Auslander noted that the downside to an open source model is that “lots of developers with lots of ideas breeds complexity”, but argued that with the right planning, OpenStack was “ready for prime time.”
You can read the full OpenStack report here.
SAP aims to succeed in the cloud – but can it be the next IoT giant?
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Opinion Industry leaders in each sector are carving out their share of the IoT market. The latest to stake a claim is SAP, the world’s largest inter-enterprise software company and the world’s fourth-largest independent software supplier, overall.
When the company was founded by five former IBM employees in 1972, the original premise was to provide customers with a way of interacting with common corporate databases. Now, the most common application of SAP software is to run internal business operations; both IBM and Microsoft use SAP applications to run their enterprises.
With an established claim on business-level software, it is easy to see why SAP would be working feverishly to ensure that they do not lose ground as demand for IoT business solutions increases. SAP recently acquired PLAT.ONE, an IoT platform/solutions provider and Fedem Technology, an analytics software company. Both companies are being integrated into SAP HANA in support of their launch of SAP IoT, set to focus on “applying machine learning/advanced analytics to the vast amount of data that IoT devices collect.”
SAP IoT in action
The company is already testing the waters in a few applications. A mining company in Russia uses SAP IoT to monitor the health of mine workers in an effort to reduce safety and health risks on the jobsite. Employees undergo a health screening, performed by a robotic device, prior to each shift. The results of the screening are fed to mining leaders and used to calculate potential health and safety hazards and the long-term impacts of environmental working conditions on employees.
In Japan, a public transit company is using a connected sensor in combination with weather monitoring, traffic monitoring and other data to increase the safety of their commuters. Information on driver behavior and biofeedback is delivered to a monitoring center where alerts are created when a potentially unsafe condition arises. This information allows the monitoring facility to respond with plans that promote the safety and well-being of the passengers and drivers.
SAP is even working in the energy sector in Norway where IoT devices are connected to wind turbines in the field to feed data back to engineers. The teams use the data to power scale-models of wind turbines and analyze the potential impact of weather conditions and changes to the design using real-world data. Meanwhile other industry giants are staking an IoT claim.
General Electric supports industry
In the industrial space, GE has become a clear frontrunner. The company’s initiative, dubbed “Power of the 1%” is predicted to save billions of dollars over the next fifteen years; GE claims that a 1% increase in efficiency will save the oil and gas industry $90 billion; aviation $66 billion, healthcare $63 billion and rail $27 billion. These efficiencies are driven primarily by GE’s Predix platform, a PaaS solution that is billed as laying “the foundation for the world’s first and largest marketplace for industrial applications.” In its mature state, Predix will bring together industrial data from multiple companies and applications to drive better understanding of field data, improve designs and decrease the financial burden associated with maintenance.
Google covers the home
Google has already been incorporated into the daily lives of many users. We use it communicate in real-time with friends and family via Hangouts, Google’s Calendar integrates with nearly every other calendar platform making it easy to plan family events and keep tabs on schedules; and through the purchase of Nest, Google is building a connected home experience that will be driven from our Android phones.
IBM is building the backend
Supporting much of the connected technology is IBM’s Bluemix portfolio; a service that gives developers the tools they need to “quickly and easily extend Internet-connected devices to the cloud to not only leverage data from, but also to build an IoT application in just a few minutes.”
This capability is giving companies the power they need to adapt existing technologies to compete in a cloud-based world.
While SAP may be the current front-runner in connected business solutions, history has shown us that it does not take much to lose footing in this competitive space. The major players in each sector primarily gain ground through the acquisition of companies that have perfected specific solutions in their niche and then incorporating the intellectual property into their own products. Maintaining leadership status requires a combination of development activities and intelligent acquisition of best-in-class solutions.
GreenPages in Barcelona for VMworld EU – vBrownBag TechTalks schedule
Our own GreenPages enterprise consultant, Chris Williams, is over in Barcelona right now helping to host the VMworld TechTalks for vBrownBag. He’ll also be doing the Tech Talks for the OpenStack Summit next week. Tons of great technical content will getting posted over the course of the next 2 weeks.
If you are up (very) early, the live feed can be found here: https://goo.gl/WZYHAP .
Otherwise the content will be recorded and posted on http://vbrownbag.com
Here is the schedule for this week (please note times are in CEST):
| Tuesday 18th | Wednesday 19th | |
| 11:00 | vExpert Daily with Mike Letschin | vExpert Daily with Mike Letschin |
| 11:30 | Michael White – Veeam – Use the cloud to protect your baby pictures and so much more | |
| 11:45 | Mike Resseler – Veeam – Why a cloud architects capabilities differ from a data center architect | Alan Renouf – Everything changes with PowerCLI from now |
| 12:00 | Steve Flanders – Fun with Log Insight APIs | |
| 12:15 | Amit Panchal – Career Disruption 101 – Brand is King | Steve Flanders – Let’s Talk about Log Insight Webhooks |
| 12:30 | Ather Beg – Work/Life Balance for the “Elderly” IT Professional | Matt Gillard – So you want to migrate your legacy workloads to the Cloud? |
| 12:45 | Faizan Yousaf – VCP6 | |
| 1:00 | Luc Dekens – The “Community” part in the vSphereDSC resource module | |
| 1:15 | Kyle Grossmiller – Pure Storage – Cisco CVD: Large scale virtual desktops with Horizon 7 | Chris Bradshaw – The Amazing World of IT in Higher Education |
| 1:30 | Dean lewis – Documentation doesn’t have to be daunting | |
| 1:45 | ||
| 2:00 | Keith Norbie – an overview of the EUClaunchpad.com | Juan Lage – Cisco – ACI Micro Segmentation |
| 2:15 | Cody Hosterman – Pure Storage – Storage as a service using vRealize Automation and Orchestration | Continued |
| 2:30 | David Klee – Performance Perspectives | Joerg Lew – Scaling vRealize Orchestrator (vRO) |
| 2:45 | Tim Hynes – PowerCLI – where to start? | |
| 3:00 | Mark Brookfield – Automating SRM with PowerCLI | In Tech We Trust Podcast |
| 3:15 | Continued | |
| 3:30 | Ron Fuller – Understanding DVS Port Mirror Options | |
| 3:45 | ||
| 4:00 | VMUG IT hosted by Andrea Mauro in Italian | |
| 4:15 | Continued | |
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| 4:45 |
[whitepaper] New Vistas Of Revenue | @CloudExpo @CalsoftInc #DataCenter
Cloud based infrastructure deployment is becoming more and more appealing to customers, from Fortune 500 companies to SMEs due to its pay-as-you-go model. Enterprise storage vendors are able to reach out to these customers by integrating in cloud based deployments; this needs adaptability and interoperability of the products confirming to cloud standards such as OpenStack, CloudStack, or Azure. As compared to off the shelf commodity storage, enterprise storages by its reliability, high-availability, efficient and greener solutions can offer much reduced operational expenses (OPEX) to the cloud service providers. Further considering the reduced OPEX, voluminous deployment in cloud environment, lesser form factors (i.e. reduced real estate investment) and intrinsic design solutions, capital expenses (CAPEX) becomes much equitable and compelling proposition. This white paper also discusses how Calsoft can resolve the technical challenges of integrating storage in the cloud with various approaches, backed by understanding of both cloud requirements and the capabilities of large class of enterprise storage products.
Announcing Cemware to Exhibit at @CloudExpo Silicon Valley | #PaaS #Cloud #APM #Monitoring
SYS-CON Events announced today that Cemware will exhibit at the 19th International Cloud Expo, which will take place on November 1–3, 2016, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA.
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