Liz McMillan

DevOps Summit Early Bird Savings here! Maintaining lower development environments can become an unbearable headache. Changes to an application, service or API are seldom completely testable, leaving us to discover broken code when it's too late. This lack of visibility into application dependencies severely limits early code validation, which has a direct impact on delivery cycles. While traditional methods of Change Management, Test Data Management and Test Scheduling have failed, there's now an opportunity to finally deliver on the vision of always available, always configured and always verifiable. In his session at 2nd DevOps Summit, Ian Kelly, Senior Director of Product Management at CA Technologies, to discuss how the "software defined enterprise" through proper virtual services and API management now provides the building blocks to realize automated change va... (more)

Making Big Data Cost Effective in a Bare Metal Cloud

Big Data Expo Early Bird Savings here! The cloud provides an easy onramp to building and deploying Big Data solutions, particularly the latest technologies that favor scale-out architectures. In his session at 5th Big Data Expo, Harold Hannon, Sr. Software Architect at SoftLayer Technologies, will discuss how transitioning from initial deployment to a large-scale, highly performant operation without breaking the bank may not be easy. Explore Big Data Expo Sponsorship & Exhibit Opportunities ! Speaker Bio: Harold Hannon has been working in the field of software development as bot... (more)

Social Cloud: Revolutionizing Sharing, Starting from the Infrastructure

Cloud Expo® New York Early Bird Savings here! The social media expansion has shown just how people are eager to share their experiences with the rest of the world. Cloud technology is the perfect platform to satisfy this need given its great flexibility and readiness. At Cynny, we aim to revolutionize how people share and organize their digital life through a brand new cloud service, starting from infrastructure to the users' interface. A revolution that began from inventing and designing our very own infrastructure: we have created the first server network powered solely by AR... (more)

Security, Compliance, Performance: We Are Talking About Web Conferencing

Cloud Expo® New York Early Bird Savings here! Web conferencing in a public cloud has the same risks as any other cloud service. If you have ever had concerns over the types of data being shared in your employees' web conferences, such as IP, financials or customer data, then it's time to look at web conferencing in a private cloud. In her session at 14th Cloud Expo, Courtney Behrens, Senior Marketing Manager at Brother International, will discuss how issues that had previously been out of your control, like performance, advanced administration and compliance, can now be put back ... (more)

Dell & Red Hat Deliver Enterprise-Grade, OpenStack Private Cloud Solution

Dell and Red Hat Inc. have announced the availability of co-engineered, enterprise-grade, private cloud solutions based on OpenStack, the Dell Red Hat Cloud Solution, powered by Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform. The companies also have extended their collaboration to enable the compatibility, portability and reliability for Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) offerings that enterprise customers need as they build public, private and hybrid cloud environments. Through the new private cloud solutions and extended alliance, Dell and Red Hat aim to provide enterprise customers a... (more)