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AI Security Risks and the Push Beyond Vendor Lock-In
Join Techstrong Gang as they break down AI security risks and the changing landscape of enterprise technology. Mike Vizard hosts Jon Swartz, Teri Robinson and JP Morgenthal for three connected discussions. The panel explores alleged AI espionage, model replication across connected devices and the potential decline of vendor lock-in.
Web3 and Smart Contracts Enable a Scalable API Economy
Many businesses are looking to drive new revenue streams by extending their existing business into a digital platform and offering subscription and consumption-based services. But moving from providing physical goods to digital services is a complex transformation that can contain unexpected hurdles and failures. Web3 may offer a solution to many of these issues while completely removing the need to manage large swaths of complexity.
Career Roadmap: Chief Technology Officer
The chief technology officer (CTO), also known as the chief technical officer, is the executive who focuses on the technological needs, challenges, and opportunities within an organization. CTOs are similar to CIOs. But they are responsible for the overarching technology strategy and infrastructure to help meet the organization's goals, while CIOs oversee the IT departments and staff to manage everyday operations and in many cases work with business leaders on aligning IT with business goals.
DevOps: Ten Years Later and Ten Years More
By JP Morgenthal & James Moscariello This year marks ten years since the initial DevOps Days event in Ghent. Interest and popularity of this movement have grown significantly over the past four years, due heavily in part to the results of Puppet’s “State of DevOps” reports and subsequent research provided by “Accelerate”, written by Forsgren, Humble, and Kim. While skepticism for any new approach, method, etc.
Hybrid Cloud, IoT, Blockchain, AI/ML, Containers, and DevOps… Oh My!
When it rains it pours. It seems regarding Enterprise IT technology innovation, it is common for multiple game-changing innovations to hit the street simultaneously. Yet, if ever the analogy of painting the car while its traveling down the highway is suitable, it’s this time. Certainly, you can take a wait and see approach with regard to adoption, but given the association of these innovations toward greater business agility, you’d run the risk of falling behind your competitors.
The Basics Behind Making Your Apps Agile and User Friendly
Upstart companies that have created business models based on software and the Internet are causing massive disruptions in traditional businesses and industries.Established businesses that were once dominant must compete in new ways and are racing to catch up. They must contend with very large IT installations that they built at great expense to get to where they are today.
What Will You Do with IoT? | @ThingsExpo #BigData #IoT #IIoT #M2M #API
Building & Securing the Workplace of the Future For any business to be successful, it must enable talent to focus on the innovation that will drive new value. As digital literacy and dexterity grows, people are increasingly agnostic about devices – they want to be able to access their personalized workspace and services anywhere, at any time, on any device that happens to be at hand. The concept of digital transformation is gathering pace.
Software Design with #Microservices | @DevOpsSummit #DevOps #APM #DX
Cloud promises the agility required by today’s digital businesses. As organizations adopt cloud based infrastructures and services, their IT resources become increasingly dynamic and hybrid in nature. Managing these require modern IT operations and tools. In his session at 20th Cloud Expo, Raj Sundaram, Senior Principal Product Manager at CA Technologies, will discuss how to modernize your IT operations in order to proactively manage your hybrid cloud and IT environments.
Cloud Operating Model | @CloudExpo @JPMorgenthal #IoT #PaaS #AWS #Azure #OpenShift
When was the last time you’ve ever heard anyone say “IT Applications & Operations”? Frankly, in my 30+ year career in IT, I don’t believe I’ve ever heard anyone use this term. The typical term we hear is IT Infrastructure & Operations. These two go together like Peanut Butter and Jelly, which tells us a lot about how we view the field of IT.
Cloud Operating Model | @CloudExpo @JPMorgenthal #IoT #PaaS #AWS #Azure #OpenShift
Five Things Every CEO Should Know About AI 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 have an impact on the way people live and how business is done.
Software Design with #Microservices | @DevOpsSummit #DevOps #APM #DX
The Internet of Things (IoT) is starting to become very popular in the lives of people, and in enterprises globally. While it began as a novelty, more innovative and mission-critical use cases have been popping up lately. With the sheer variety of IoT devices available, the large amount of data that’s generated, and the various security vulnerabilities, companies that make IoT devices face a host of challenges that an incident resolution platform can help with.
Software Design with #Microservices | @DevOpsSummit #DevOps #APM #DX
[Opening Scene]: Billy Dean is pacing the office. He’s struggling to keep his delivery trucks at full capacity and on the road. Random breakdowns, unexpected employee absences, and unscheduled truck maintenance are impacting bookings, revenues and ultimately customer satisfaction. He keeps hearing from his business customers how they are leveraging data science to improve their business operations. Billy Dean starts to wonder if data science can help him.
Software Design with #Microservices | @DevOpsSummit #DevOps #APM #DX
[slides] How to Monetize Your Data Data is an unusual currency; it is not restricted by the same transactional limitations as money or people. In fact, the more that you leverage your data across multiple business use cases, the more valuable it becomes to the organization. And the same can be said about the organization’s analytics.
Software Design with #Microservices | @DevOpsSummit #DevOps #APM #DX
The Disruptor That Needs Disrupting Many people mistakenly believe that Al Gore invented the Internet, but in reality it was Tim Berners-Lee. He created URIs, HTTP, HTML, and the first web browser - all critical building blocks that paved the way for the Internet to operate as the ubiquitous, decentralized network for sharing information that we take for granted today.
Microservices and the Revival of Software Design | @DevOpsSummit #DevOps #Microservices
The visual model to declarative metadata representation to immutable deployment vision is in essence what SD is all about. The secret to making this approach practical, and thus the key to understanding why SD approaches have become so prevalent, is the word immutable. Once we get an SD approach right, we no longer have to touch the deployed technology whatsoever. Instead, to make a change, update the model and redeploy.
Microservices and the Revival of Software Design | @DevOpsSummit #DevOps #Microservices
Where and How to Start the Big Data Journey The recent deluge of rains in Northern California have flooded streets, brought down trees and plugged storm sewers. As I was trying to make my way around the neighborhood, I thought of a classroom exercise to help my MBA students to identify the use cases upon which they could focus data and analytics. In this exercise, I’m going to ask my students to pretend that they have been hired by the city to “Optimize Street Maintenance” after these rainstorms.
Microservices and the Revival of Software Design | @DevOpsSummit #DevOps #Microservices
Where and How to Start the Big Data Journey The recent deluge of rains in Northern California have flooded streets, brought down trees and plugged storm sewers. As I was trying to make my way around the neighborhood, I thought of a classroom exercise to help my MBA students to identify the use cases upon which they could focus data and analytics. In this exercise, I’m going to ask my students to pretend that they have been hired by the city to “Optimize Street Maintenance” after these rainstorms.
Microservices and the Revival of Software Design | @DevOpsSummit #DevOps #Microservices
[video] An Era of Docker and Kubernetes Keynote 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.
Can Telcos Succeed As #Cloud Providers? By @JPMorgenthal | @CloudExpo
Many times, sports have been at the leading edge of data analytics. The book “Moneyball” was one of the first popular books to bring the basic concepts behind data analytics and data science to the general audience. Fantasy leagues, sabermetrics and even games like “Strat-O-Matic” baseball and basketball provided an introduction into basic statistical concepts.
The Busy Executive’s SOA Reference Guide
Based on feedback from my last blog entry, "The Busy Executive's Quick Cloud Computing Reference Guide" the consensus was that people found it very helpful as a means of gaining quick understanding of what Cloud Computing is without getting mired in heaps of technology jargon and hype. So, I decided that SOA needed something very similar. After all, there's so much confusion and misunderstanding of SOA in the market right now. Let's start with a basic understanding of a service.
The Two Faces of #Microservices | @CloudExpo @JPMorgenthal #AI #DevOps
Microservices (?Services) are a fascinating evolution of the Distributed Object Computing (DOC) paradigm. Initial design of DOC attempted to solve the problem of simplifying developing complex distributed applications by applying object-oriented design principles to disparate components operating across networked infrastructure.
Technology of the Year for 2016 | @CloudExpo #IoT #AI #FinTech #Blockchain
Select rating Give it 1/5 Give it 2/5 Give it 3/5 Give it 4/5 Give it 5/5 Technology of the Year for 2016 - The Web Platform We’re starting to see predictions about what’s going to be hot in enterprise technology in 2017. Cloud (yet again), Blockchain, Big Data / Analytics, Internet of Things (IoT) are all among the top of the list.
The New Microsoft | @CloudExpo @Microsoft #AI #Cloud #MachineLearning
Clearly Satya Nadella has made a huge difference at Microsoft since taking office in 2014. The stock in 2016 hit an all time high since 1999. So investors are happy. Here are the key changes he has made since taking the role as CEO: Skipped Windows 9 and went straight from Windows 8 to Windows 10, a great release. However revenues from Window is declining with the reduction of PC sales. Clearly Satya Nadella has made a huge difference at Microsoft since taking office in 2014.
Topaz for Program Analysis
In his General Session at DevOps Summit, Asaf Yigal, Co-Founder & VP of Product at Logz.io, explored the value of Kibana 4 for log analysis and provided a hands-on tutorial on how to set up Kibana 4 and get the most out of Apache log files. He examined three use cases: IT operations, business intelligence, and security and compliance. Asaf Yigal is co-founder and VP of Product at log analytics so...
The Anonymous Neighbor Problem | @CloudExpo #IoT #DigitalTransformation
Closing the IT Gap for Third-Party Logistics The modern supply chain manager faces a broad range of challenges that shift from day to day. They may be tasked with outsourcing or selling off part of the supply chain to reduce cost structure, or have to dig into regulatory requirements surrounding issues like conflict minerals. They may have to open up new channels of distribution in other countries, or face an unexpected challenge from non-tr...
Microsoft announces SAP's choice of Azure to help enterprises transform HR
The Anonymous Neighbor Problem in IT COMED, my power company, sends out a monthly report that shows me my energy consumption relative to my neighbors. Every month I’m considerably higher than all my neighbors. This report also has a list of things I could do to reduce my energy consumption. The problem with this report is that it doesn’t take into account my house size relative to the other houses in my neighborhood. My house is the ...
What Will You Do with IoT? | @ThingsExpo #BigData #IoT #IIoT #M2M #API
What Will You Do with What You Learn from IoT? When the Internet of Things (IoT) started to emerge as a popular topic, I had to stop and ask myself if I was once again going to provide commentary on this emerging field. I enjoy exploring new technology shifts and illustrating how they can benefit various industries and businesses. It’s what I’ve done for the past 20 years through Java, XML, Web Services, SOA, Cloud and DevOps.
Tully's Coffee Selects Revel Systems iPad Point of Sale to Modernize Customer Experience
What Will You Do with What You Learn from IoT? When the Internet of Things (IoT) started to emerge as a popular topic, I had to stop and ask myself if I was once again going to provide commentary on this emerging field. I enjoy exploring new technology shifts and illustrating how they can benefit various industries and businesses. It’s what I’ve done for the past 20 years through Java, XML, Web Services, SOA, Cloud and DevOps. However, every t...
Revel Systems and Zapper Partner to Dish Up Fully Integrated Mobile Payment Solution for Restaurants
What Will You Do with What You Learn from IoT? When the Internet of Things (IoT) started to emerge as a popular topic, I had to stop and ask myself if I was once again going to provide commentary on this emerging field. I enjoy exploring new technology shifts and illustrating how they can benefit various industries and businesses. It’s what I’ve done for the past 20 years through Java, XML, Web Services, SOA, Cloud and DevOps. However, every t...
A Reality Check on “Everyone’s Moving Everything To The Cloud”
A recent CIO editorial by Bernard Golden regarding the future of private cloud spurred some interesting commentary in my network. The pushback seemed to focus around the viability of the term “private cloud”. These individuals are well-respected thought-leaders in cloud with significant experience guiding senior IT executives transition to modern architectures, so I decided I’d engage them in a discussion regarding the future of self-managed infrastructure as a whole.
Maximize #SaaS Revenue | @CloudExpo @_Anexia #DataCenter #BigData
"There's a growing demand from users for things to be faster. When you think about all the transactions or interactions users will have with your product and everything that is between those transactions and interactions - what drives us at Catchpoint Systems is the idea to measure that and to analyze it," explained Leo Vasiliou, Director of Web Performance Engineering at Catchpoint Systems, in th... "There's a growing demand from users for things to be faster.
[session] IoT in Emerging Markets | @ThingsExpo #IoT #IIoT #M2M #BigData
The need to add more features on shorter release cycles is ubiquitous. At some point we will reach the threshold of gaining efficiencies and quality will begin to degrade. There is some evidence that we’ve reached and crossed that threshold already. In the late 1960's the National School Lunch Program was struggling to keep up with the growing number of children needing assistance. To combat the ... The need to add more features on shorter release cycles is ubiquitous.
The Big Data Intellectual Capital Rubik’s Cube | @BigDataExpo #IoT #Cloud #BigData
This is another topic that has taken me a long time to write, but several conversations with Peter Burris(@plburris) from Wikibon finally helped me to pull this together. Thanks Peter! I’ve struggled to understand and define the Intellectual Capital (IC) components – or dimensions – of the new, Big Data organization; that is, what are the new Big Data assets that an organization needs to collect, enrich and apply to drive business differentiation and competitive advantage?
WordPress Docker Container | @DevOpsSummit #DevOps #Docker #Microservices
I have an article in the recently released “DZone Guide to Building and Deploying Applications on the Cloud” entitled “Fullstack Engineering in the Age of Hybrid Cloud”. In this article I discuss the need and skills of a Fullstack Engineer with relation to troubleshooting and repairing complex, distributed hybrid cloud applications. My recent experiences with troubleshooting issues with my Docker WordPress container only reinforce the details I wrote about in this piece.
Building and Deploying Applications on the Cloud
The DZone 2014 Guide to Continuous Delivery provides data, ideas, and solutions that your organization can use to drastically improve its software production process. The DZone 2014 Guide to Mobile Development gives readers a full picture of the various approaches to mobile development, enabling them to overcome its biggest obstacles.
PaaS Is The Word
Nov 29, 2012 8 min read Write for InfoQ Join a community of experts. Increase your visibility. Grow your career.Learn more As cloud computing continues to pervade all aspects of information technology, from the data center through application offerings, the function and capabilities of various cloud offerings are beginning to blur. Anecdotally, it seems that most enterprises are still strongly focused on delivering Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) to their constituency in some form.
Inside the Complexity of Delivering Cloud Computing
Oct 03, 2012 8 min read Write for InfoQ Join a community of experts. Increase your visibility. Grow your career.Learn more Computing is still more of an art form than science even in this early part of the 21st century. However, the reasoning behind this seems to elude even the most knowledgeable of practitioners. The most likely cause for this is that IT looks at the final product, the application and the data, through many lenses.
Cloud Computing Described Through The Analogy of (US) Thanksgiving Dinner
Ask a technical person what cloud computing is and you will most likely get a boilerplate answer that somewhere in it includes the terms “elastic”, “agility”, “broad network access”, “dynamic”, and “measurable”. However, for most individuals seeking an understanding of the role cloud computing will play in their IT environment, these definitions really don’t answer the mail. That is why I have developed an analogy based on US Thanksgiving dinner to help introduce the concepts of cloud computing.
DevOps:Evolving to Handle Disruption
Jun 13, 2012 9 min read Write for InfoQ Join a community of experts. Increase your visibility. Grow your career.Learn more Disruptive changes occur much more frequently in the information technology sector than in most other industries. The velocities of these changes often illustrate the flaws in current IT organizational structures, skills and processes, which then yield unintended consequences.
An Implementer’s View of Cloud Computing Readiness Assessments
May 21, 2012 8 min read Write for InfoQ Join a community of experts. Increase your visibility. Grow your career.Learn more Perhaps you have recently been tasked with the goal of determining your organization’s "readiness" with regard to adopting a particular technology, for example cloud computing. In general, it can be assumed that this task is being invoked because there is a question regarding the impact for adopting a new technology.
Lessons For IT From The Early Days of the FBI
I love taking concepts that I found in one area and applying them to distinctly different problem domains. Right now I’m reading “Enemies: A History of the FBI” by Tim Weiner. I read Mr. Weiner’s history of the CIA and thought it was phenomenal and his history of the FBI has far exceeded my expectations. If you’re into the inner workings of intelligence organizations and their impact on world governance, these books are for you.
Evolution in Data Integration From EII to Big Data
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Cloud Computing Realigns Role of Service Oriented Architecture
Jul 27, 2011 13 min read Write for InfoQ Join a community of experts. Increase your visibility. Grow your career.Learn more From its inception Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) has been a lightning rod for dissention among enterprise architects, solution architects and application architects. Enterprise architects view SOA as a business initiative that should be guiding what information technology assets receive investment and how they relate to the business’ goals and mission.
Using ITIL V3 as a Foundation for SOA Governance
Feb 05, 2010 8 min read Write for InfoQ Join a community of experts. Increase your visibility. Grow your career.Learn more One of the more poignant points established in 2008 & 2009 regarding Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) is that success is heavily predicated on the establishment of a solid governance strategy.
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