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By Bob Gourley
Splunk and Cloudera are both firms I like and have worked with and hope to
work with long into the future. I try to track their capabilities and enjoy
that because both are consistently innovating. Now I’m embarrassed to say I
totally missed something going on between those two firms. My friend the
highly regarded enterprise thinker Chris Hill of Splunk pointed me to a 9 May
2013 press release that outlines a strategic alliance between Splunk and
Cloudera that I should have highlighted here long ago.
Sorry for the delay, but please check this out and ponder on how virtuous it
is when great firms like these work together.
The following is from: http://ctolink.us/18GpGTF
Splunk and Cloudera Ink Strategic Alliance to Bring Together Big Data
Expertise Market Leaders in Operational Intelligence and Hadoop Join Forces
to Provide Answers to Big Data Challeng... (more)
Tuesday 25 March, 2014
Flexible, scalable, Open Source Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) used by
organizations such as Zynga, Datapipe, and ISWest, among others, for
creating, managing, and deploying public, private, and hybrid Cloud Computing
environments
Forest Hill, MD --25 March 2014-- The Apache Software Foundation (ASF), the
all-volunteer developers, stewards, and incubators of more than 170 Open
Source projects and initiatives, today announced Apache CloudStack v4.3, the
latest feature release of the CloudStack cloud orchestration platform.
Apache CloudStack is an integrated Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS)
software platform that allows users to build feature-rich public, private,
and hybrid cloud environments. CloudStack includes an intuitive user
interface and rich APIs for managing the compute, networking, software, and
storage infrastructure resources. C... (more)
Revolution Analytics is proud to announce the latest update to our enhanced,
production-grade distribution of R, Revolution R Enterprise. This
update expands the range of supported computation platforms, adds new Big
Data predictive models, and updates to the latest stable release of open
source R (2.14.2), which improves performance of the R interpreter by about
30%. This release expands the range of big-data statistical analysis with
support for Generalized Linear Models (GLM). Logistic (Binomial) Poisson,
Gamma and Tweedie models are all supported with a high-performance C++
implementation, and you can also model any distribution in the GLM family
with a custom link function written in R. Big Data GLM has been a common
request from many of our customers, and beta testers have been blown away by
the speed of the implementation. For example here's an example of a T... (more)
Dropbox-like Collaboration Software Ensures 100% Uptime and Enhanced Security
for HIPAA Compliance Software Vendor
San Diego, California and Hamburg, Germany - February 26, 2013 - Enterprise
cloud synchronization provider TeamDrive today announced Touchstone
Compliance LLC has deployed the TeamDrive platform to provide its staff with
secure and collaborative access to critical files with version control and
complete audit trails. TeamDrive delivers a simple, secure file sharing and
storage service that works the way users work -- from anywhere on any device
- to meet user requirements without sacrificing IT control.
Touchstone's cloud-based solutions help health providers across the globe
meet evolving statutory obligations of the Health Insurance Portability and
Accountability Act (HIPAA). With staff often based out of the US, uptime,
security and local regulatory ... (more)
Bracknell, UK 6th March, 2014: Google Software-as-a-Service specialist,
Appogee, has announced the launch of its global Appogee Partner Program to
coincide with Google Global Partner Summit in Mountain View.
The Appogee Partner Program will help existing Google Apps resellers build
sustainable and profitable business through the sales of Appogee products.
Appogee currently offers three application subscription services which
integrate with Google Apps for Business:
Appogee Leave is the number 1 absence management solution for Google Apps,
and helps your employees, managers and HR professionals keep track of and
manage personal time off, holiday and sickness requests and approvals from
any device at any time.
Appogee Signatures is a centralised Gmail signature management tool that
gives you the ability to stay in control of your domain wide signatures and
ensure your... (more)
SYS-CON Events announced today that ActiveState, a global leader providing
software application development and management solutions, has been named
"Silver Sponsor" of DevOps Summit Silicon Valley, which will take place on
November 4-6, 2014, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA.
Founded in 1997, ActiveState is a global leader providing software
application development and management solutions. The Company's products
include: Stackato, a commercially supported Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) that
harnesses open source technologies such as Cloud Foundry and Docker; dynamic
language distributions ActivePerl, ActivePython and ActiveTcl; and developer
tools such as the popular Komodo Edit and Komodo IDE. Headquartered in
Vancouver, Canada, ActiveState is trusted by customers and partners
worldwide, across many industries including telecommunications, aer... (more)
Click Here to Save $800 at Cloud Expo New York !
Cloud Expo, Inc. announced on Thursday that Cloud Expo 2011 New York, the 8th
International Cloud Computing Conference & Expo, will take place June 6-9,
2011, at the Javits Center in New York City.
Cloud Expo - International Cloud Computing Conference & Expo series is the
world’s leading Cloud-focused event and is held in New York, Silicon
Valley, Prague, Tokyo, and Hong-Kong.
Over 900 corporate sponsors and more than 65,000 industry professionals have
participated in Cloud Expo since its inception, tenfold more than all other
Cloud-related events put together.
Click Here to Save $800 at Cloud Expo New York !
"Cloud Expo was announced on February 24, 2007, the day the term ‘cloud
computing' was coined," said Fuat Kircaali, Chairman and Founder of Cloud
Expo, Inc. "Cloud has become synonymous with ‘computing' and ‘soft... (more)
I attended the MongoDB World in NY city earlier this week on June 24th. and
25th. There were 2000 attendees for this first-time event. I met many people
who flew in from all over the world. It was quite a phenomenon for a six-year
old company. The momentum of MongoDB is truly amazing.
For those who do not know MongoDB, it’s a new generation open source NoSQL
database for building highly interactive modern applications. Enterprises
have built “systems of record” over last 3 decades using traditional
RDBMS such as DB2, Oracle, MySQL and SQL Server. These systems are like the
interstate highways built during the 1930s across the USA. They serve the
business in handling basic functions, but are inadequate in meeting several
new needs. Hence the need for building “systems of engagement” has
arrived. These systems connect customers, employees, and partners into the
busi... (more)
By BryanHalfpap
Many new programmers struggle when it comes to selecting their first language
to learn. Which is easiest, the most professionally useful, the most
newbie-friendly? Lets find out by showing you a range of options, their
strengths and weaknesses, and some information about the most common
programming languages in demand today. At the end, we’ll make some
recommendations and you’ll understand a bit more about why they were
chosen.
The Task At Hand
Every job requires the right kind of tool, and each programming language can
be thought of as a separate tool. Just like some tools are good for
hammering nails, driving screws, and leveling screws, some programming
languages are innately more suitable than others for tasks like designing a
website, interpreting text, or reacting to user input.
Lets go through a few common use cases:
Language
Typical Us... (more)
This is part of the ever-expanding "Microservices and PaaS" blog series
covering the rapidly evolving use of microservices in modern cloud software
projects. Parts I and II introduced microservices concepts and discussed
patterns and practices being spearheaded by microservices pioneers, notably
Netflix, who were represented at a recent microservices meetup that was the
genesis of this series.
Part III presented a list of challenges and pitfalls that adopters of
microservices face. This list is formidable and somewhat daunting; pointing
out the significant changes in mindset, organizational structure, and overall
development practices needing to take place prior to plunging into
microservices.
Fortunately, tooling and other supporting technologies are evolving almost as
fast as the microservices practices are themselves. Platform-as-a-Service
(PaaS) is at the fore... (more)
Seven Ways to Improve Your Python Performance
Python is really a language which has swept the scene in recent years in
terms of popularity, elegance, and functionality. Research shows that 8 out
10 computer science departments in the U.S. now teach their introductory
courses with Python, surpassing Java. Top-ranked CS departments at MIT and UC
Berkeley have switched their introductory courses to Python. And the top
three MOOC providers (edX, Coursera, and Udacity) all offer introductory
programming courses in Python. Not to mention, Python is known to have an
easy syntax that makes learning much more tolerable, and it scales up easily
– especially in cloud-based environments.
As powerful as Python is, there’s always room for improvement. If you want
to make your Python code even faster and more efficient, then stay tuned.
Below we’ve listed 7 ways to improve the p... (more)
@CloudExpo Stories By Pat Romanski  "This week we're really focusing on scalability, asset preservation and how do you back up to the cloud and in the cloud with object storage, which is really a new way of attacking dealing with your file, your blocked data, where you put it and how you access it," stated Jeff Greenwald, Senior Director of Market Development at HGST, in this SYS-CON.tv interview at 18th Cloud Expo, held June 7-9, 2016, at the Javits Center in New York City, NY. Apr. 24, 2018 01:15 AM EDT Reads: 16,149 | By SmartBear Blog  In a world where the internet rules all, where 94% of business buyers conduct online research, and where e-commerce sales are poised to fall between $427 billion and $443 billion by the end of this year, we think it's safe to say that your website is a vital part of your business strategy. Whether you're a B2B company, a local business, or an e-commerce site, digital presence is key to maintain in your drive towards success. Digital Performance will take priority in 2018 for the following reason... Apr. 24, 2018 01:00 AM EDT Reads: 2,000 | By Yeshim Deniz  Rodrigo Coutinho is part of OutSystems' founders' team and currently the Head of Product Design. He provides a cross-functional role where he supports Product Management in defining the positioning and direction of the Agile Platform, while at the same time promoting model-based development and new techniques to deliver applications in the cloud. Apr. 24, 2018 01:00 AM EDT Reads: 2,433 | By Pat Romanski  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, enabled by an automated and seamless flow across on-premises and cloud resources. In his general session at 21st Cloud Expo, Greg Tevis, an IBM Storage Software Technical Strategist and Customer Solution Architec... Apr. 23, 2018 11:30 PM EDT Reads: 1,977 | By Pat Romanski  Business professionals no longer wonder if they'll migrate to the cloud; it's now a matter of when. The cloud environment has proved to be a major force in transitioning to an agile business model that enables quick decisions and fast implementation that solidify customer relationships. And when the cloud is combined with the power of cognitive computing, it drives innovation and transformation that achieves astounding competitive advantage. Apr. 23, 2018 11:15 PM EDT Reads: 2,812 | By Elizabeth White  In his session at Cloud Expo, Alan Winters, U.S. Head of Business Development at MobiDev, presented a success story of an entrepreneur who has both suffered through and benefited from offshore development across multiple businesses:
The smart choice, or how to select the right offshore development partner
Warning signs, or how to minimize chances of making the wrong choice
Collaboration, or how to establish the most effective work processes
Budget control, or how to maximize project result... Apr. 23, 2018 11:00 PM EDT Reads: 6,431 | By Liz McMillan  "Software-defined storage is a big problem in this industry because so many people have different definitions as they see fit to use it," stated Peter McCallum, VP of Datacenter Solutions at FalconStor Software, in this SYS-CON.tv interview at 18th Cloud Expo, held June 7-9, 2016, at the Javits Center in New York City, NY. Apr. 23, 2018 10:45 PM EDT Reads: 6,998 | By Pat Romanski  "Our strategy is to focus on the hyperscale providers - AWS, Azure, and Google. Over the last year we saw that a lot of developers need to learn how to do their job in the cloud and we see this DevOps movement that we are catering to with our content," stated Alessandro Fasan, Head of Global Sales at Cloud Academy, in this SYS-CON.tv interview at 20th Cloud Expo, held June 6-8, 2017, at the Javits Center in New York City, NY. Apr. 23, 2018 10:45 PM EDT Reads: 7,179 | By Liz McMillan  Data is the fuel that drives the machine learning algorithmic engines and ultimately provides the business value.
In his session at Cloud Expo, Ed Featherston, a director and senior enterprise architect at Collaborative Consulting, discussed the key considerations around quality, volume, timeliness, and pedigree that must be dealt with in order to properly fuel that engine. Apr. 23, 2018 09:45 PM EDT Reads: 22,655 | By Yeshim Deniz  In his keynote at 19th Cloud Expo, Sheng Liang, co-founder and CEO of Rancher Labs, discussed the technological advances and new business opportunities created by the rapid adoption of containers. With the success of Amazon Web Services (AWS) and various open source technologies used to build private clouds, cloud computing has become an essential component of IT strategy. However, users continue to face challenges in implementing clouds, as older technologies evolve and newer ones like Docker c... Apr. 23, 2018 09:45 PM EDT Reads: 6,864 | By Elizabeth White  As organizations shift towards IT-as-a-service models, the need for managing and protecting data residing across physical, virtual, and now cloud environments grows with it. Commvault can ensure protection, access and E-Discovery of your data – whether in a private cloud, a Service Provider delivered public cloud, or a hybrid cloud environment – across the heterogeneous enterprise.
In his general session at 18th Cloud Expo, Randy De Meno, Chief Technologist - Windows Products and Microsoft Part... Apr. 23, 2018 08:45 PM EDT Reads: 9,236 | By Yeshim Deniz  Andi Mann, Chief Technology Advocate at Splunk, is an accomplished digital business executive with extensive global expertise as a strategist, technologist, innovator, marketer, and communicator. For over 30 years across five continents, he has built success with Fortune 500 corporations, vendors, governments, and as a leading research analyst and consultant. Apr. 23, 2018 08:00 PM EDT Reads: 2,746 | By Elizabeth White  "Cloud computing is certainly changing how people consume storage, how they use it, and what they use it for. It's also making people rethink how they architect their environment," stated Brad Winett, Senior Technologist for DDN Storage, in this SYS-CON.tv interview at 20th Cloud Expo, held June 6-8, 2017, at the Javits Center in New York City, NY. Apr. 23, 2018 07:45 PM EDT Reads: 5,304 | By Pat Romanski  In his session at 20th Cloud Expo, Brad Winett, Senior Technologist for DDN Storage, will present several current, end-user environments that are using object storage at scale for cloud deployments including private cloud and cloud providers. Details on the top considerations of features and functions for selecting object storage will be included. Brad will also touch on recent developments in tiering technologies that deliver single solution and an end-user view of data across files and objects... Apr. 23, 2018 07:45 PM EDT Reads: 3,583 | By Liz McMillan  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 Enterprise with capital markets, technology and entrepreneurial experience. Previously, he worked for UBS investment bank in equities analysis. Later, he was responsible for the creation and distribution of life settl... Apr. 23, 2018 07:00 PM EDT Reads: 13,655 | By Elizabeth White  No hype cycles or predictions of zillions of things here. IoT is big. You get it. You know your business and have great ideas for a business transformation strategy. What comes next? Time to make it happen. In his session at @ThingsExpo, Jay Mason, Associate Partner at M&S Consulting, presented a step-by-step plan to develop your technology implementation strategy. He discussed the evaluation of communication standards and IoT messaging protocols, data analytics considerations, edge-to-cloud tec... Apr. 23, 2018 07:00 PM EDT Reads: 6,033 | By Pat Romanski  For organizations that have amassed large sums of software complexity, taking a microservices approach is the first step toward DevOps and continuous improvement / development. Integrating system-level analysis with microservices makes it easier to change and add functionality to applications at any time without the increase of risk. Before you start big transformation projects or a cloud migration, make sure these changes won’t take down your entire organization. Apr. 23, 2018 05:15 PM EDT Reads: 6,103 | By Elizabeth White  It is ironic, but perhaps not unexpected, that many organizations who want the benefits of using an Agile approach to deliver software use a waterfall approach to adopting Agile practices: they form plans, they set milestones, and they measure progress by how many teams they have engaged. Old habits die hard, but like most waterfall software projects, most waterfall-style Agile adoption efforts fail to produce the results desired. The problem is that to get the results they want, they have to ch... Apr. 23, 2018 05:00 PM EDT Reads: 5,947 | By Pat Romanski  Organizations planning enterprise data center consolidation and modernization projects are faced with a challenging, costly reality. Requirements to deploy modern, cloud-native applications simultaneously with traditional client/server applications are almost impossible to achieve with hardware-centric enterprise infrastructure. Compute and network infrastructure are fast moving down a software-defined path, but storage has been a laggard. Until now. Apr. 23, 2018 04:15 PM EDT Reads: 7,051 | By Yeshim Deniz  Without a clear strategy for cost control and an architecture designed with cloud services in mind, costs and operational performance can quickly get out of control. To avoid multiple architectural redesigns requires extensive thought and planning. Boundary (now part of BMC) launched a new public-facing multi-tenant high resolution monitoring service on Amazon AWS two years ago, facing challenges and learning best practices in the early days of the new service.
Apr. 23, 2018 03:00 PM EDT Reads: 6,616 | By Pat Romanski  Digital Transformation is much more than a buzzword. The radical shift to digital mechanisms for almost every process is evident across all industries and verticals. This is often especially true in financial services, where the legacy environment is many times unable to keep up with the rapidly shifting demands of the consumer. The constant pressure to provide complete, omnichannel delivery of customer-facing solutions to meet both regulatory and customer demands is putting enormous pressure on... Apr. 23, 2018 02:45 PM EDT Reads: 1,474 |
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IoT is rapidly becoming mainstream as more and more investments are made into the platforms and technology. As this movement continues to expand and gain momentum it creates a massive wall of noise that can be difficult to sift through. Unfortunately, this inevitably makes IoT less approachable for people to get started with and can hamper efforts to integrate this key technology into your own portfolio. There are so many connected products already in place today with many hundreds more on the horizon, that we already run the risk as enablers and supporters of not being able to effectively und...
Personalization has long been the holy grail of marketing. Simply stated, communicate the most relevant offer to the right person and you will increase sales. To achieve this, you must understand the individual. Consequently, digital marketers developed many ways to gather and leverage customer information to deliver targeted experiences. In his session at @ThingsExpo, Lou Casal, Founder and Principal Consultant at Practicala, discussed how the Internet of Things (IoT) has accelerated our ability to monitor behavior, gather even more customer data and potentially deliver outstanding experience...
Artificial intelligence and machine learning systems are made up of code and algorithms, and as such, they work as fast as computers can process them. Often this means massive amounts of learning can be accomplished every second without stop 24x7x365. Code doesn't need to take weekends off, holidays, or sick time. Code doesn't get tired. It can recognize complex patterns, areas of potential improvement and problems in real-time (aka digital-time). Given these available computing capabilities and speeds, what are executives to do with AI and machine learning, when we live and operate in rela...
In his session at @ThingsExpo, Dr. Robert Cohen, an economist and senior fellow at the Economic Strategy Institute, presented the findings of a series of six detailed case studies of how large corporations are implementing IoT. The session explored how IoT has improved their economic performance, had major impacts on business models and resulted in impressive ROIs. The companies covered span manufacturing and services firms. He also explored servicification, how manufacturing firms shift from selling a product to offering it as a service and discussed methods you can employ to estimate how inv...
IoT is at the core or many Digital Transformation initiatives with the goal of re-inventing a company's business model. We all agree that collecting relevant IoT data will result in massive amounts of data needing to be stored. However, with the rapid development of IoT devices and ongoing business model transformation, we are not able to predict the volume and growth of IoT data. And with the lack of IoT history, traditional methods of IT and infrastructure planning based on the past do not apply either.
DXWorldEXPO LLC announced today that All in Mobile, a mobile app development company from Poland, will exhibit at the 22nd International CloudEXPO | DXWorldEXPO. All In Mobile is a mobile app development company from Poland. Since 2014, they maintain passion for developing mobile applications for enterprises and startups worldwide.
"We do one of the best file systems in the world. We learned how to deal with Big Data many years ago and we implemented this knowledge into our software," explained Jakub Ratajczak, Business Development Manager at MooseFS, in this SYS-CON.tv interview at 20th Cloud Expo, held June 6-8 in New York City, NY.
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