To achieve «quality @ speed», it’s essential to have unrestrained access to a trustworthy and realistic test environment. It is important to recognize that a complete test environment includes the application under test (AUT) and all of its dependent components (e.g., APIs, 3rd-party services, databases, applications, and other endpoints).
Service virtualization is an emerging technology that provides DevTest teams access to a complete test environment by simulating the dependent components that are beyond your control, still evolving, or too complex to configure in a test lab.
[slides] WebRTC Reborn | @ThingsExpo #IoT #M2M #RTC #USaaS #WebRTC
WebRTC has had a real tough three or four years, and so have those working with it. Only a few short years ago, the development world were excited about WebRTC and proclaiming how awesome it was.
You might have played with the technology a couple of years ago, only to find the extra infrastructure requirements were painful to implement and poorly documented. This probably left a bitter taste in your mouth, especially when things went wrong.
Disruption in the Storage Market: Advances in Technology and Business Models
New technologies, business models, and vendors have led to major disruption in the storage market. Watch the video below to hear Randy Weis discuss the evolution of flash storage, how new business models have driven prices down, and the vendors that are making it possible.
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IoT Manufacturing Security | @ThingsExpo #IoT #M2M #DigitalTransformation
The security needs of IoT environments require a strong, proven approach to maintain security, trust and privacy in their ecosystem. Assurance and protection of device identity, secure data encryption and authentication are the key security challenges organizations are trying to address when integrating IoT devices. This holds true for IoT applications in a wide range of industries, for example, healthcare, consumer devices, and manufacturing.
In his session at @ThingsExpo, Lancen LaChance, vice president of product management, IoT solutions at GlobalSign, taught IoT developers how to introduce strong security elements into the manufacturing process, addressing the critical IoT security concerns but also accelerating time-to-market and reducing manufacturing costs.
Parallels at GITEX Technology Week: What to Expect
GITEX Technology Week has become the gold standard for IT exhibitions in the the Middle East. For the past 36 years, GITEX has presented attendees an array of revolutionary technologies and insightful knowledge on how to best apply them. Held at the Dubai World Trade Centre October 16–20, the exhibition promises to live up to […]
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Moving Deck Chairs on the Titanic? | @CloudExpo #IoT #DigitalTransformation
Every generation, it seems, sports its own business transformation du jour. From Business Process Reengineering (BPR) to the Quality Movement to eBusiness to name a few, organizations large and small have sought to improve their profits, lower their costs, and keep their customers happy by shaking up the way they do things.
While each of these business transformation fads delivered value in its time, in the wisdom of hindsight they all ran up against the same basic challenge: inflexibility.
[slides] #IoT for Manufacturing | @ThingsExpo #BigData #IIoT #M2M #Sensors
The IoT has the potential to create a renaissance of manufacturing in the US and elsewhere. In his session at 18th Cloud Expo, Florent Solt, CTO and chief architect of Netvibes, discussed how the expected exponential increase in the amount of data that will be processed, transported, stored, and accessed means there will be a huge demand for smart technologies to deliver it.
Florent Solt is the CTO and chief architect of Netvibes. Prior to joining Netvibes in 2007, he co-founded Rift Technologies, Mandriva SA, and Sopra Group. He is an expert in both Web software and UNIX systems. He holds an engineering degree in computer science from EPITA.
Competing in #DigitalTransformation | @ThingsExpo #IoT #ML #M2M #BigData
Digital Transformation is the process of transforming a business from one state to another – from a state where businesses operate in Human time, to a state that operates in Digital time and finally to Future time. Businesses today must digitally transform in order to compete in all three of these time continuums simultaneously. Let’s first identify these different time continuums.
[slides] #IoT Business Landscape | @ThingsExpo #BigData #IoT #M2M #API
With an estimated 50 billion devices connected to the Internet by 2020, several industries will begin to expand their capabilities for retaining end point data at the edge to better utilize the range of data types and sheer volume of M2M data generated by the Internet of Things.
In his session at @ThingsExpo, Don DeLoach, CEO and President of Infobright, discussed the infrastructures businesses will need to implement to handle this explosion of data by providing specific use cases for filtering, cleansing, enriching, storing and analyzing granular data at the edge that will help businesses achieve powerful insights from the many use cases of the Internet of Things.
Nutanix, a Cloud-Based Company, Breaks Records at the Stock Exchange
Nutanix, a cloud-based business, had the strongest first-day gain for a new technology company this year. On its first day of trading on 30th September, its share price more than doubled, creating a record of sorts in a choppy market environment. In fact, its 131% bounce on the opening day is the biggest for any US listing this year.
This California-based maker of hyper converged infrastructure sold 14.87 million shares, more than its anticipated 14 million. It also priced the shares at $16, above the expected price range of $13 to $15, and through this offering, raised about $238 million. Its shares closed at a value of $37, thereby giving the company a market value of $5.08 billion.
This response from the market shows investor’s appetite for tech companies that have a high growth potential, even if its unprofitable now. During the last fiscal year that ended in July, revenue jumped by 84% to $449.9 million, and the company says it has more than 3,700 customers. Despite this growth rate, this seven-year old company has been raking losses, mainly due to its aggressive marketing efforts. It’s net loss during the last fiscal year was $168.5 million.
This IPO sure gives hope for other tech companies that are looking to tap into the public market for capital. It can also be seen as a bright light in an otherwise dismal IPO market. According to Dealogic, only 80 companies have listed in the stock exchange in the first nine months, and this is way less than 143 during the same period in 2015. This fall can be attributed to market volatility, appealing lending rates, and a strong private market – factors that can deter a company from going public.
That said, the next few months are crucial for Nutanix, as many companies that started off well, have seen a downslide after the initial euphoria ends. Of the 32 tech companies that went public since 2012, 53 percent are trading below their market price. Shares of popular tech companies like Square, Box, and HortonWorks are trading almost $5 to $8 lower than their private market valuation. Will Nutanix fall in this list? Depends on the performance of the company, as well as a host of external factors like investor confidence and market volatility.
Nutanix Company Profile
Nutanix is a maker of Hyper Converged Infrastructure (HCI), a technology that combines many computing devices such as storage and backup into a single device using advanced software on an inexpensive hardware. Founded by Dheeraj Pandey, Mohit Aron, and Ajeet Singh in 2009, this company is headquartered at San Jose, California, and sells its products to more than 70 countries worldwide.
It became a “unicorn company”- a term used to describe tech companies that have a valuation of more than $1 billion, in 2013. It is backed by some heavyweight venture capitalists such as Khosla Ventures, Lightspeed Venture Partners, and Fidelity Investments.
This company sells software on its own box, and this accounts for most of its revenue. The remaining revenue comes from companies that use Nutanix’s software to offer better features for their respective products. Server makers like Dell and Lenovo Group, and car-maker Toyota Motors, are some of the companies take advantage of Nutanix’s software.
Its stock symbol is “NTNX.”
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