Recently, Forbes contributing writer and enterprise software, application development, and data management expert Adrian Bridgwater discussed how important it is to understand what freedom really means in the open source world. In open source, the word “free” refers to the liberty that users have in running, distributing, changing and improving the software, rather than its price.
In fact, while “free” is an appealing word to many C-suite executives, it’s of prime importance that those who are just now considering implementing open source software in their organization understand that it’s the liberty that open source allows that benefits the enterprise, not necessarily the price tag. Open source allows for great freedom for how software is modified, used and shared within an organization, which can lead to greater creativity, innovation, and productivity free from licensing or functionality concerns.
DevOps Five Years Later at @DevOpsSummit | #DevOps #APM #Microservices
After more than five years of DevOps, definitions are evolving, boundaries are expanding, ‘unicorns’ are no longer rare, enterprises are on board, and pundits are moving on. Can we now look at an evolution of DevOps? Should we? Is the foundation of DevOps ‘done’, or is there still too much left to do? What is mature, and what is still missing? What does the next 5 years of DevOps look like?
In this Power Panel at DevOps Summit, moderated by DevOps Summit Conference Chair Andi Mann, panelists looked back at what DevOps has become, and forward at what it might create next.
12 Tools Every Student Needs
Whether you’re in high school, college, or getting your Masters, you need these student tools if you’re hitting the books on the regular. From apps that help you write like Hemingway to a way to run Windows on your Mac, we’ve got you covered—just check out our list of top twelve tools every student needs […]
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Orchestration Is the Ultimate Order | @DevOpsSummit #DevOps #Microservices
Remember when you were in school, learning math, and you learned about the importance of the order of operations? You do? Okay, good. Pop quiz:
1 + 1 * 8 = ?
The answer is 9, not 16. Why? Because multiplication has precedence. If you want to get to 16 with those numbers, we’ll need to add some parentheses:
(1+1) * 8 = 16
Because parentheses have precedence over everything else.
Sponsorship Opportunities at @ThingsExpo | #IoT #M2M #ML #InternetOfThings
With major technology companies and startups seriously embracing IoT strategies, now is the perfect time to attend @ThingsExpo 2016 in New York and Silicon Valley. Learn what is going on, contribute to the discussions, and ensure that your enterprise is as «IoT-Ready» as it can be! Internet of @ThingsExpo, taking place Nov 3-5, 2015, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA, is co-located with 17th Cloud Expo and will feature technical sessions from a rock star conference faculty and the leading industry players in the world. The Internet of Things (IoT) is the most profound change in personal and enterprise IT since the creation of the Worldwide Web more than 20 years ago. All major researchers estimate there will be tens of billions devices – computers, smartphones, tablets, and sensors – connected to the Internet by 2020. This number will continue to grow at a rapid pace for the next several decades.
Testing with Streaming Analytics | @CloudExpo #Cloud #DevOps #Analytics
Getting adequate test coverage in a pre-production environment and catching issues before the changes go live has always been a challenge in cloud-based environments. There are different practices to performing testing in production.
In her session at 18th Cloud Expo, Bhuvaneshwari Krishnamurthi, Software Engineer at Microsoft, will focus on how streaming analytics can be used to achieve TiP by doing a live replay of the real time traffic from production against a pre-production environment.
Mobile Performance Testing | @CloudExpo #DevOps #IoT #M2M #ML #BigData
If you read the title and assumed this post would be filled with baseball analogies, you’d be right! It’s game day and all those fans who fill up major league stadiums, those are your application users. They are invested in the game and have shown up to watch the players (i.e., your application) perform.
Depending on how the game plays out, your audience will either head home elated or full of disappointment. The great thing is that in your case, unlike in the case of traditional baseball games, there doesn’t have to be a loser. You can consistently ensure happy mobile users by setting yourself up for home runs and the crème de la crème, grand slams.
Parallels Mac Management and Microsoft SCCM Release Cadence
Parallels Mac Management and Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager (SCCM) Release Cadence By Yury Averkiev, Program Manager, Parallels, Inc. In Q3’15 Microsoft announced the release of a faster update and upgrade cadence for System Center Configuration Manager (SCCM). The more frequent release cadence is meant to align SCCM’s core PC management functionality with the accelerated […]
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Verismic’s Cloud Management Suite Includes New User Interface | @CloudExpo @Verismic #Cloud
Verismic has launched a sleek, more focused user interface for its award-winning Cloud Management Suite (CMS) and two new features: multisite vRep and patch grouping. Hailed by MSPmentor.net as “the first and only endpoint device management software that requires no software agent on end-user devices” and defined by Network Computing Magazine as “a refreshing new approach to endpoint management which does away with the excess baggage associated with traditional solutions,” the award-winning all-in-one cloud-based software simplifies endpoint management, reduces costs and boosts productivity.
WebRTC Beyond Audio and Video | @ThingsExpo #IoT #RTC #WebRTC
WebRTC is about the data channel as much as about video and audio conferencing. However, basically all commercial WebRTC applications have been built with a focus on audio and video. The handling of “data” has been limited to text chat and file download – all other data sharing seems to end with screensharing. What is holding back a more intensive use of peer-to-peer data?
In her session at @ThingsExpo, Dr Silvia Pfeiffer, WebRTC Applications Team Lead at National ICT Australia, looked at different existing uses of peer-to-peer data sharing and how it can become useful in a live session to enable richer collaboration using WebRTC and HTML5.