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Latest Articles from Liz McMillan
By Liz McMillan  Implementation of Container Storage Interface (CSI) for Kubernetes delivers persistent storage for compute running in Kubernetes-managed containers. This future-proofs Kubernetes+Storage deployments. Unlike the Kubernetes Flexvol-based volume plugin, storage is no longer tightly couple... Feb. 21, 2019 09:30 AM EST | By Liz McMillan  When you're operating multiple services in production, building out forensics tools such as monitoring and observability becomes essential. Unfortunately, it is a real challenge balancing priorities between building new features and tools to help pinpoint root causes. Linkerd provides ... Feb. 17, 2019 01:00 PM EST | By Liz McMillan  Kubernetes, Docker and containers are changing the world, and how companies are deploying their software and running their infrastructure. With the shift in how applications are built and deployed, new challenges must be solved.
In his session at @DevOpsSummit at19th Cloud Expo, Seba... Jan. 28, 2019 08:45 AM EST Reads: 5,827 | By Liz McMillan  According to Forrester Research, every business will become either a digital predator or digital prey by 2020. To avoid demise, organizations must rapidly create new sources of value in their end-to-end customer experiences. True digital predators also must break down information and p... Aug. 21, 2018 03:45 PM EDT Reads: 7,106 | By Liz McMillan  Cloud computing delivers on-demand resources that provide businesses with flexibility and cost-savings. The challenge in moving workloads to the cloud has been the cost and complexity of ensuring the initial and ongoing security and regulatory (PCI, HIPAA, FFIEC) compliance across priv... May. 30, 2018 10:45 PM EDT Reads: 9,180 | By Liz McMillan  An edge gateway is an essential piece of infrastructure for large scale cloud-based services.
In his session at 17th Cloud Expo, Mikey Cohen, Manager, Edge Gateway at Netflix, detailed the purpose, benefits and use cases for an edge gateway to provide security, traffic management and... May. 23, 2018 12:30 AM EDT Reads: 5,406 | By Liz McMillan  All clouds are not equal. To succeed in a DevOps context, organizations should plan to develop/deploy apps across a choice of on-premise and public clouds simultaneously depending on the business needs. This is where the concept of the Lean Cloud comes in - resting on the idea that you... May. 21, 2018 11:00 PM EDT Reads: 7,974 | By Liz McMillan  "We focus on SAP workloads because they are among the most powerful but somewhat challenging workloads out there to take into public cloud," explained Swen Conrad, CEO of Ocean9, Inc., in this SYS-CON.tv interview at 20th Cloud Expo, held June 6-8, 2017, at the Javits Center in New Yor... May. 21, 2018 08:00 PM EDT Reads: 4,621 | By Liz McMillan  "With Digital Experience Monitoring what used to be a simple visit to a web page has exploded into app on phones, data from social media feeds, competitive benchmarking - these are all components that are only available because of some type of digital asset," explained Leo Vasiliou, Di... May. 20, 2018 11:30 AM EDT Reads: 5,720 | By Liz McMillan  As DevOps methodologies expand their reach across the enterprise, organizations face the daunting challenge of adapting related cloud strategies to ensure optimal alignment, from managing complexity to ensuring proper governance. How can culture, automation, legacy apps and even budget... May. 12, 2018 10:15 AM EDT Reads: 5,747 | By Liz McMillan  The essence of cloud computing is that all consumable IT resources are delivered as services. In his session at 15th Cloud Expo, Yung Chou, Technology Evangelist at Microsoft, demonstrated the concepts and implementations of two important cloud computing deliveries: Infrastructure as a... May. 10, 2018 04:45 AM EDT Reads: 13,894 | By Liz McMillan  "We want to show that our solution is far less expensive with a much better total cost of ownership so we announced several key features. One is called geo-distributed erasure coding, another is support for KVM and we introduced a new capability called Multi-Part," explained Tim Desai,... May. 8, 2018 12:15 PM EDT Reads: 4,970 | By Liz McMillan  Historically, some banking activities such as trading have been relying heavily on analytics and cutting edge algorithmic tools. The coming of age of powerful data analytics solutions combined with the development of intelligent algorithms have created new opportunities for financial i... May. 8, 2018 08:30 AM EDT Reads: 4,715 | By Liz McMillan  Traditional IT, great for stable systems of record, is struggling to cope with newer, agile systems of engagement requirements coming straight from the business.
In his session at 18th Cloud Expo, William Morrish, General Manager of Product Sales at Interoute, outlined ways of exploi... May. 8, 2018 02:00 AM EDT Reads: 7,542 | By Liz McMillan  Providing secure, mobile access to sensitive data sets is a critical element in realizing the full potential of cloud computing. However, large data caches remain inaccessible to edge devices for reasons of security, size, format or limited viewing capabilities. Medical imaging, comput... May. 6, 2018 02:30 PM EDT Reads: 10,218 | By Liz McMillan  Choosing the right cloud for your workloads is a balancing act that can cost your organization time, money and aggravation - unless you get it right the first time. Economics, speed, performance, accessibility, administrative needs and security all play a vital role in dictating your a... May. 5, 2018 12:45 PM EDT Reads: 9,509 | By Liz McMillan  "ZeroStack is a startup in Silicon Valley. We're solving a very interesting problem around bringing public cloud convenience with private cloud control for enterprises and mid-size companies," explained Kamesh Pemmaraju, VP of Product Management at ZeroStack, in this SYS-CON.tv intervi... May. 5, 2018 01:00 AM EDT Reads: 4,598 | By Liz McMillan  The taxi industry never saw Uber coming. Startups are a threat to incumbents like never before, and a major enabler for startups is that they are instantly “cloud ready.” If innovation moves at the pace of IT, then your company is in trouble. Why? Because your data center will not keep... May. 4, 2018 03:15 PM EDT Reads: 6,525 | By Liz McMillan  "Evatronix provides design services to companies that need to integrate the IoT technology in their products but they don't necessarily have the expertise, knowledge and design team to do so," explained Adam Morawiec, VP of Business Development at Evatronix, in this SYS-CON.tv intervie... May. 2, 2018 12:00 AM EDT Reads: 5,956 | By Liz McMillan  IoT solutions exploit operational data generated by Internet-connected smart “things” for the purpose of gaining operational insight and producing “better outcomes” (for example, create new business models, eliminate unscheduled maintenance, etc.). The explosive proliferation of IoT so... May. 1, 2018 10:15 PM EDT Reads: 6,629 | By Liz McMillan  "We work around really protecting the confidentiality of information, and by doing so we've developed implementations of encryption through a patented process that is known as superencipherment," explained Richard Blech, CEO of Secure Channels Inc., in this SYS-CON.tv interview at 21st... Apr. 30, 2018 11:00 PM EDT Reads: 4,077 Replies: 1 | By Liz McMillan  New competitors, disruptive technologies, and growing expectations are pushing every business to both adopt and deliver new digital services. This ‘Digital Transformation’ demands rapid delivery and continuous iteration of new competitive services via multiple channels, which in turn d... Apr. 30, 2018 12:30 PM EDT Reads: 6,719 | By Liz McMillan  A look across the tech landscape at the disruptive technologies that are increasing in prominence and speculate as to which will be most impactful for communications – namely, AI and Cloud Computing. In his session at 20th Cloud Expo, Curtis Peterson, VP of Operations at RingCentral, h... Apr. 30, 2018 11:00 AM EDT Reads: 6,820 | By Liz McMillan  In his session at 21st Cloud Expo, James Henry, Co-CEO/CTO of Calgary Scientific Inc., introduced you to the challenges, solutions and benefits of training AI systems to solve visual problems with an emphasis on improving AIs with continuous training in the field. He explored applicati... Apr. 30, 2018 07:00 AM EDT Reads: 5,472 | By Liz McMillan  Your homes and cars can be automated and self-serviced. Why can't your storage? From simply asking questions to analyze and troubleshoot your infrastructure, to provisioning storage with snapshots, recovery and replication, your wildest sci-fi dream has come true.
In his session at @... Apr. 30, 2018 04:30 AM EDT Reads: 6,644 | By Liz McMillan  Recently, WebRTC has a lot of eyes from market. The use cases of WebRTC are expanding - video chat, online education, online health care etc. Not only for human-to-human communication, but also IoT use cases such as machine to human use cases can be seen recently. One of the typical us... Apr. 30, 2018 03:00 AM EDT Reads: 4,394 | By Liz McMillan  In his Opening Keynote at 21st Cloud Expo, John Considine, General Manager of IBM Cloud Infrastructure, led attendees through the exciting evolution of the cloud. He looked at this major disruption from the perspective of technology, business models, and what this means for enterprises... Apr. 28, 2018 08:00 AM EDT Reads: 5,737 | By Liz McMillan  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... Apr. 27, 2018 08:00 PM EDT Reads: 18,091 | By Liz McMillan  Major trends and emerging technologies – from virtual reality and IoT, to Big Data and algorithms – are helping organizations innovate in the digital era. However, to create real business value, IT must think beyond the ‘what’ of digital transformation to the ‘how’ to harness emerging ... Apr. 26, 2018 11:00 AM EDT Reads: 10,291 | By Liz McMillan  Agile has finally jumped the technology shark, expanding outside the software world. Enterprises are now increasingly adopting Agile practices across their organizations in order to successfully navigate the disruptive waters that threaten to drown them. In our quest for establishing c... Apr. 24, 2018 11:30 PM EDT Reads: 4,015 Replies: 1 | 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 t... Apr. 24, 2018 10:45 PM EDT Reads: 7,431 | By Liz McMillan  CIOs and those charged with running IT Operations are challenged to deliver secure, audited, and reliable compute environments for the applications and data for the business. Behind the scenes these tasks are often accomplished by following onerous time-consuming processes and often th... Apr. 24, 2018 08:00 PM EDT Reads: 7,601 | By Liz McMillan  "We're focused on how to get some of the attributes that you would expect from an Amazon, Azure, Google, and doing that on-prem. We believe today that you can actually get those types of things done with certain architectures available in the market today," explained Steve Conner, VP o... Apr. 22, 2018 09:30 PM EDT Reads: 4,270 | By Liz McMillan  "Coalfire is a cyber-risk, security and compliance assessment and advisory services firm. We do a lot of work with the cloud service provider community," explained Ryan McGowan, Vice President, Sales (West) at Coalfire Systems, Inc., in this SYS-CON.tv interview at 19th Cloud Expo, hel... Apr. 16, 2018 06:45 AM EDT Reads: 6,353 Replies: 1 | By Liz McMillan  Cloud applications are seeing a deluge of requests to support the exploding advanced analytics market. “Open analytics” is the emerging strategy to deliver that data through an open data access layer, in the cloud, to be directly consumed by external analytics tools and popular program... Apr. 15, 2018 11:00 PM EDT Reads: 6,536 | By Liz McMillan  "Digital transformation - what we knew about it in the past has been redefined. Automation is going to play such a huge role in that because the culture, the technology, and the business operations are being shifted now," stated Brian Boeggeman, VP of Alliances & Partnerships at Ayehu,... Apr. 13, 2018 12:45 AM EDT Reads: 4,336 | By Liz McMillan  "The reason Tier 1 companies are coming to us is we're able to narrow the gap where custom applications need to be built. They provide a lot of services, like IBM has Watson, and they provide a lot of hardware but how do you bring it all together? Bringing it all together they have to ... Apr. 8, 2018 08:45 PM EDT Reads: 4,925 | By Liz McMillan  An increasing number of companies are creating products that combine data with analytical capabilities. Running interactive queries on Big Data requires complex architectures to store and query data effectively, typically involving data streams, an choosing efficient file format/databa... Apr. 1, 2018 10:30 AM EDT Reads: 5,606 | By Liz McMillan  In their session at @ThingsExpo, Shyam Varan Nath, Principal Architect at GE, and Ibrahim Gokcen, who leads GE's advanced IoT analytics, focused on the Internet of Things / Industrial Internet and how to make it operational for business end-users. Learn about the challenges posed by ma... Mar. 12, 2018 06:15 AM EDT Reads: 5,831 | By Liz McMillan  "Cloud Academy is an enterprise training platform for the cloud, specifically public clouds. We offer guided learning experiences on AWS, Azure, Google Cloud and all the surrounding methodologies and technologies that you need to know and your teams need to know in order to leverage th... Mar. 9, 2018 10:00 PM EST Reads: 5,098 |
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