By Pat Romanski  "Cloud4U builds software services that help people build DevOps platforms for cloud-based software and using our platform people can draw a picture of the system, network, software," explained Kihyeon Kim, CEO and Head of R&D at Cloud4U, in this SYS-CON.tv interview at 21st Cloud Expo,... Mar. 5, 2018 05:30 AM EST Reads: 4,304 |
By Destiny Bertucci  Making informed network investment decisions about emerging technologies such as network function virtualization (NFV) and software-defined networking (SDN) can help evolve the network to keep pace with the innovations of the devices and people it’s connecting. As you work with busines... Mar. 5, 2018 03:45 AM EST Reads: 4,076 Replies: 1 |
By Karthick Viswanathan  These days, APIs have become an integral part of the digital transformation journey for all enterprises. Every digital innovation story is connected to APIs . But have you ever pondered over to know what are the source of these APIs? Let me explain - APIs sources can be varied, interna... Mar. 4, 2018 05:45 PM EST Reads: 5,111 |
By Rostyslav Demush  Decentralization of everything, the great new idea of which the web can’t stop babbling, might still seem a bit utopian if you inspect it closely.
Yes, blockchains are likely to reshape our economy, or a huge part of it, and benefit considerably those who are currently unbanked.
They... Mar. 4, 2018 09:30 AM EST Reads: 4,756 |
By Dalibor Siroky  The nature of test environments is inherently temporary—you set up an environment, run through an automated test suite, and then tear down the environment. If you can reduce the cycle time for this process down to hours or minutes, then you may be able to cut your test environment budg... Mar. 4, 2018 09:00 AM EST Reads: 3,849 |
By Yeshim Deniz  Bert Loomis was a visionary. This general session will highlight how Bert Loomis and people like him inspire us to build great things with small inventions. In their general session at 19th Cloud Expo, Harold Hannon, Architect at IBM Bluemix, and Michael O'Neill, Strategic Business De... Mar. 4, 2018 01:15 AM EST Reads: 4,351 |
By Kelly Burford  Some journey to cloud on a mission, others, a deadline. Change management is useful when migrating to public, private or hybrid cloud environments in either case. For most, stakeholder engagement peaks during the planning and post migration phases of a project. Legacy engagements are f... Mar. 3, 2018 09:15 PM EST Reads: 4,062 |
By Elizabeth White  Product connectivity goes hand and hand these days with increased use of personal data. New IoT devices are becoming more personalized than ever before.
In his session at 22nd Cloud Expo | DXWorld Expo, Nicolas Fierro, CEO of MIMIR Blockchain Solutions, will discuss how in order to p... Mar. 3, 2018 09:00 PM EST Reads: 3,982 |
By Scott Davis  For DevOps teams, the concepts behind service-oriented architecture (SOA) are nothing new. A style of software design initially made popular in the 1990s, SOA was an alternative to a monolithic application; essentially a collection of coarse-grained components that communicated with ea... Mar. 3, 2018 08:30 PM EST Reads: 3,920 |
By Liz McMillan  "As we've gone out into the public cloud we've seen that over time we may have lost a few things - we've lost control, we've given up cost to a certain extent, and then security, flexibility," explained Steve Conner, VP of Sales at Cloudistics,in this SYS-CON.tv interview at 20th Cloud... Mar. 3, 2018 08:00 PM EST Reads: 6,542 |
By Yeshim Deniz  In his keynote at 18th Cloud Expo, Andrew Keys, Co-Founder of ConsenSys Enterprise, provided an overview of the evolution of the Internet and the Database and the future of their combination – the Blockchain. Andrew Keys is Co-Founder of ConsenSys Enterprise. He comes to ConsenSys Ente... Mar. 3, 2018 02:45 PM EST Reads: 10,023 |
By Stackify Blog  It has never been a better time to be a developer! Thanks to cloud computing, deploying our applications is much easier than it used to be. How we deploy our apps continues to evolve thanks to cloud hosting, Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS), and now Function-as-a-Service.
FaaS is the conc... Mar. 3, 2018 08:15 AM EST Reads: 7,304 |
By Liz McMillan  Coca-Cola’s Google powered digital signage system lays the groundwork for a more valuable connection between Coke and its customers. Digital signs pair software with high-resolution displays so that a message can be changed instantly based on what the operator wants to communicate or s... Mar. 3, 2018 08:00 AM EST Reads: 5,491 |
By Charles Araujo  There is a fundamental flaw in how many people think about digital transformation. First, as we’ve written about extensively at Intellyx, people tend to think about it as a finite corporate project, rather than as a process of continual transformation. There is a deeper flaw in thinkin... Mar. 3, 2018 02:15 AM EST Reads: 4,188 |
By Jason Bloomberg  It’s conference season and, as you might expect, Jason and I have been on the road covering a bunch of them. It’s always great to see what the disruptive players in the market are doing — and this year did not disappoint. But there is one thing that repeatedly happens that just gets un... Mar. 3, 2018 02:00 AM EST Reads: 5,769 |
By Ed Featherston  Blockchain. A day doesn’t seem to go by without seeing articles and discussions about the technology. According to PwC executive Seamus Cushley, approximately $1.4B has been invested in blockchain just last year. In Gartner’s recent hype cycle for emerging technologies, blockchain is a... Mar. 3, 2018 02:00 AM EST Reads: 7,426 |
By James Carlini  Bitcoins are a digital cryptocurrency and have been around since 2009. As a substitute for legal tender, they are becoming the rage for investors and others but because there is no government agency auditing or performing regulatory oversights, you wonder if it is the perfect breeding ... Mar. 2, 2018 10:00 PM EST Reads: 6,640 |
By Liz McMillan  As Marc Andreessen says software is eating the world. Everything is rapidly moving toward being software-defined – from our phones and cars through our washing machines to the datacenter. However, there are larger challenges when implementing software defined on a larger scale - when b... Mar. 2, 2018 07:45 PM EST Reads: 5,489 |
By Kevin Benedict  Most of us understand that artificial intelligence (AI) offers opportunities for productivity improvements in the form of speed, automation, standardized actions and responses, plus the opportunity for continuous improvements via machine learning. These opportunities are enabled by dat... Mar. 2, 2018 06:00 PM EST Reads: 3,745 |
By Kevin Jackson  Is there more than bitcoin to blockchain?
Absolutely, because today's blockchain is opening up a pathtowards the delivery of trusted online services.
To understand this statement, you need to see blockchain as more that it's more famous bitcoin use case. As a fundamental digital tool... Mar. 2, 2018 05:00 PM EST Reads: 6,058 |
By XebiaLabs Blog  DevOps is good for organizations. According to the soon to be released State of DevOps Report high-performing IT organizations are 2X more likely to exceed profitability, market share, and productivity goals. But how do they do it? How do they use DevOps to drive value and differentiat... Mar. 2, 2018 07:00 AM EST Reads: 4,382 |
By Karthick Viswanathan  From manual human effort the world is slowly paving its way to a new space where most process are getting replaced with tools and systems to improve efficiency and bring down operational costs. Automation is the next big thing and low code platforms are fueling it in a significant way.... Mar. 2, 2018 06:30 AM EST Reads: 5,192 |
By Elizabeth White  Leading companies, from the Global Fortune 500 to the smallest companies, are adopting hybrid cloud as the path to business advantage. Hybrid cloud depends on cloud services and on-premises infrastructure working in unison. Successful implementations require new levels of data mobility... Mar. 1, 2018 09:00 PM EST Reads: 3,694 |
By Pat Romanski  ChatOps is an emerging topic that has led to the wide availability of integrations between group chat and various other tools/platforms. Currently, HipChat is an extremely powerful collaboration platform due to the various ChatOps integrations that are available. However, DevOps automa... Mar. 1, 2018 06:00 PM EST Reads: 7,892 |
By Jignesh Solanki  The need for greater agility and scalability necessitated the digital transformation in the form of following equation: monolithic to microservices to serverless architecture (FaaS). To keep up with the cut-throat competition, the organisations need to update their technology stack to ... Mar. 1, 2018 05:15 PM EST Reads: 2,255 |
By Kevin Benedict  Digital transformation is a revenue growth engine according to fifty futurists we surveyed. Many companies are already experiencing significant benefits and gaining competitive advantages. The futurists predicted the top five impacts of digital transformation on businesses by the year... Mar. 1, 2018 03:00 PM EST Reads: 12,164 |
By Nate Vickery  Blockchain offers impeccable security with its cryptography-based decentralized system as well as the plethora of possible uses retailers could exploit in the near future.
In a world of increasing cyberattacks, internet fraud and online hacking, blockchain comes as a breath of fresh ... Mar. 1, 2018 12:30 PM EST Reads: 4,190 |
By James Warner  Artificial Intelligence, the strife to make machines intelligent and the art of giving them the power of decision-making, is supposedly set to get some real traction and application this year. While the adoption of the technology has been vast, most of the enterprises are in their infa... Mar. 1, 2018 08:00 AM EST Reads: 676 |
By Charles Araujo  The complex idea behind the term digital transformation is that technology has created a fundamental shift in how organizations operate. The consumerization of technology — and the customer empowerment it created — has upended the traditional operating paradigm of organizations moving ... Mar. 1, 2018 07:15 AM EST Reads: 5,788 |
By Shelly Palmer  Machine learning, AI, cognitive computing, natural language understanding, image recognition, pattern matching, autonomous devices – these are just a few of 2017’s loosely defined catchall phrases. But in practice, they each refer to a significant field of study that is guaranteed to h... Feb. 28, 2018 01:00 PM EST Reads: 8,437 |
By Elizabeth White  "Storpool does only block-level storage so we do one thing extremely well. The growth in data is what drives the move to software-defined technologies in general and software-defined storage," explained Boyan Ivanov, CEO and co-founder at StorPool, in this SYS-CON.tv interview at 16th ... Feb. 27, 2018 11:00 PM EST Reads: 2,649 Replies: 1 |
By Liz McMillan  A strange thing is happening along the way to the Internet of Things, namely far too many devices to work with and manage. It has become clear that we'll need much higher efficiency user experiences that can allow us to more easily and scalably work with the thousands of devices that w... Feb. 27, 2018 01:45 PM EST Reads: 14,337 |
By Xenia von Wedel  BnkToTheFuture.com is the largest online investment platform for investing in FinTech, Bitcoin and Blockchain companies. We believe the future of finance looks very different from the past and we aim to invest and provide trading opportunities for qualifying investors that want to buil... Feb. 25, 2018 11:15 AM EST Reads: 4,978 |
By Pat Romanski  The question before companies today is not whether to become intelligent, it’s a question of how and how fast. The key is to adopt and deploy an intelligent application strategy while simultaneously preparing to scale that intelligence. In her session at 21st Cloud Expo, Sangeeta Chakr... Feb. 24, 2018 01:00 PM EST Reads: 5,414 |
By Jason Bloomberg  Imagine if you will, a retail floor so densely packed with sensors that they can pick up the movements of insects scurrying across a store aisle. Or a component of a piece of factory equipment so well-instrumented that its digital twin provides resolution down to the micrometer. Feb. 20, 2018 05:45 PM EST Reads: 2,577 |
By Liz McMillan  Nordstrom is transforming the way that they do business and the cloud is the key to enabling speed and hyper personalized customer experiences. In his session at 21st Cloud Expo, Ken Schow, VP of Engineering at Nordstrom, discussed some of the key learnings and common pitfalls of large... Feb. 19, 2018 05:45 PM EST Reads: 4,425 |
By Rostyslav Demush  A few years ago – in the early days of Blockchain – a lot of people were taken with the idea of a multifunctional chain on which all transactions could be handled. After Ethereum was launched in 2014, its advocates were talking themselves hoarse about the transformative opportunities t... Feb. 5, 2018 11:00 AM EST Reads: 4,204 |
By Aruna Ravichandran  For many of us laboring in the fields of digital transformation, 2017 was a year of high-intensity work and high-reward achievement. So we’re looking forward to a little breather over the end-of-year holiday season.
But we’re going to have to get right back on the Continuous Delivery ... Jan. 31, 2018 07:30 PM EST Reads: 3,400 |
By Jamie Madison  2017 was the year of ransomware. Ransomware has been around for years, but the victims were typically non-technical consumers: the impact, although serious from the victim's perspective, was limited. In 2017 we've seen huge ransomware attacks close down hospitals and businesses, puttin... Jan. 11, 2018 02:00 PM EST Reads: 3,228 |
By Dan Blacharski  The hotel and hospitality industry, enabled with advanced technology and more collaboration with associated businesses, will see some important trends in 2018 as hotel brands reinvent themselves to cater to a new type of clientele. Millennial guests will dominate the landscape, and res... Jan. 11, 2018 11:00 AM EST Reads: 3,254 |