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Business Model Transformation and What it Means to the Data Industry
I recently read an MIT Sloan Management Review article by Clayton
Christensen’s recent book titled “The Hard Truth About Business Model
Innovations.” While the article is full of great observations about
business model transformation, the most important motivation for business
model transformation is found at the end:
“..our understanding of the business model journey allows us to see that,
over the long term, the greatest innovation risk a company can take is to
decide not to create new businesses that decouple the company’s future from
that of its current business units.”
We use the Big Data Business Model Maturity Index as a vehicle for engaging
with our clients about how they can leverage data and analytics to transform
their business models (see Figure 1).
Figure 1: Big Data Business Model Ma... (more)
Can Wire Data Be APM?
I recently read something – a blog, a tweet, a LinkedIn article perhaps –
describing the use of wire data to analyze application performance. I
remember that the author’s use of the term “APM” in this context caused
one reader to comment, complaining that “you can’t call wire data APM.”
This was around the same time I referred casually to Dynatrace’s wire data
offering (Data Center Real User Monitoring, or DC RUM) as both “APM for IT
Operations” and “probe-based APM.” So that complaint has stuck with me,
prompting me to ask – and offer an answer to – the question.
It depends, of course, on answers to related questions. How do you define
APM? What role does APM play in your organization? What APM insights can wire
data provide? Let’s take a brief look at each of these.
What is APM to you?
In very general terms (Wikipedia is great for this), APM i... (more)
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Don't Forget the Ops: Build Operations into Your Cloud
Many private cloud projects were built to deliver self-service access to
development and test resources. While those clouds delivered faster access to
resources, they lacked visibility, control and security needed for production
deployments.
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In their session at 18th Cloud Expo, Steve Anderson, Product Manager at BMC
Software, and Rick Lefort, Principal Technical Marketing Consultant at BMC
Software, discussed how a cloud designed for production operations not only
helps accelerate developer innovation, it also delivers the control that IT
Operations needs to run a production cloud without getting in the way.
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Speaker Bios:
Steve Anderson is a Product Manager for BMC's Cloud Lifecycle Management
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DevOps is being widely accepted (if not fully adopted) as essential in
enterprise IT. But as Enterprise DevOps gains maturity, expands scope, and
increases velocity, the need for data-driven decisions across teams becomes
more acute. DevOps teams in any modern business must wrangle the ‘digital
exhaust' from the delivery toolchain, "pervasive" and "cognitive" computing,
APIs and services, mobile devices and applications, the Internet of Things,
and now even blockchain.
In this power panel at @DevOpsSummit 19th Cloud Expo, moderated by DevOps
Conference Chair Andi Mann, Gordon Haff, senior cloud strategy marketing and
evangelism manager at Red Hat; Dave Bilbrough, product evangelist for the
Adobe Marketing Cloud; and Paul Peissner, Customer Success Specialist at
CollabNet, explored this emerging use of Big Data generated by the digital
business to complete the DevO... (more)
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Personalization in the Age of IoT
More and more brands have jumped on the IoT bandwagon. We have an excess of
wearables - activity trackers, smartwatches, smart glasses and sneakers, and
more that track seemingly endless datapoints. However, most consumers have no
idea what "IoT" means. Creating more wearables that track data shouldn't be
the aim of brands; delivering meaningful, tangible relevance to their users
should be.
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We're in a period in which the IoT pendulum is still swinging. Initially, it
swung toward "smart for smart's sake," and many brands remain in that corner.
But many brands are also gradually opting for more strategic approaches.
They're taking a breath and stepping back to examine bo... (more)
SYS-CON Events announced today that delaPlex will exhibit at
SYS-CON's @ThingsExpo, which will take place on June 6-8, 2017 at the Javits
Center in New York City, NY.
delaPlex pioneered Software Development as a Service (SDaaS), which provides
scalable resources to build, test, and deploy software. It's a fast and more
reliable way to develop a new product or expand your in-house team.
Since 2008, delaPlex has built a solid reputation developing and managing
cloud, mobile, and commercial application software for "software-centric"
companies that depend on continuous software development to drive revenue and
growth. Their clients range from small startups to global enterprises.
Headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia with ISO 9001:2008 certified and HiPAA
compliant facilities in Nagpur, India, delaPlex provides a globally blended,
service-based approach to innovative softwa... (more)
The State of DevOps at the Start of 2017
By Reanna Miranda
The word—or rather, the contraction—is simple: DevOps. But DevOps, which
refers to the increased communication and collaboration between development
and IT operations, is an ever-changing, sometimes complicated term. While
“dev” and “ops” used to be siloed into separate philosophies,
practices, tools, and work flows, they’re merging into one. The result? A
more efficient, reliable process and product.
Though the basics aren’t exactly new, the DevOps world is still trying to
figure out how it will evolve and integrate into already established
infrastructures. Whether you head a company that relies heavily on DevOps or
you’re just now dipping your toes into the DevOps pond, there’s plenty to
learn—because this movement and culture are anything but set in stone. To
get a better feel for what’s in store for DevO... (more)
2016 has been an amazing year for Docker and the container industry. We had
3 major releases of Docker engine this year , and tremendous increase in
usage. The community has been following along and contributing amazing Docker
resources to help you learn and get hands-on experience. Here's some of the
top read and viewed content for the year:
Releases
Of course releases are always really popular, particularly when they fit
requests we had from the community. In particular, we had:
Docker for Mac & Docker for Windows Beta and GA release blog posts, and the
video
Docker 1.12 Built-in Orchestration release, and the DockerCon keynote where
we announced it
And the release of the Docker for AWS and Azure beta
Windows Containers
When Microsoft made Windows 2016 generally available, people rushed to
Our release blog to read the news Tutorials to find out how to use Windows
c... (more)
SYS-CON Events announced today that CA Technologies has been named "Platinum
Sponsor" of SYS-CON's 20th International Cloud Expo®, which will take place
on June 6-8, 2017, at the Javits Center in New York City, New York, and 21st
International Cloud Expo, which will take place in November in Silicon
Valley, California.
CA Technologies booth at Cloud Expo New York
According to NASDAQ description of the company, CA, Inc. (CA) is engaged in
providing software solutions enabling customers to plan, develop, manage and
secure applications and enterprise environments across distributed, cloud,
mobile and mainframe platforms.
CA Technologies booth at Cloud Expo New York
The Company operates through three business segments: Mainframe Solutions,
Enterprise Solutions and Services. Its Mainframe Solutions and Enterprise
Solutions segments comprise the Company's software busin... (more)
@DevOpsSummit at Cloud Expo taking place June 6-8, 2017, at Javits Center,
New York City, and is co-located with the 20th International Cloud Expo and
will feature technical sessions from a rock star conference faculty and the
leading industry players in the world.
DevOps at Cloud Expo / @ThingsExpo 2017 New York
(June 6-8, 2017, Javits Center, Manhattan)
DevOps at Cloud Expo / @ThingsExpo 2017 Silicon Valley
(October 31 - November 2, 2017, Santa Clara Convention Center, CA)
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The widespread success of cloud computing is driving the DevOps revolution in
enterprise IT. Now as never before, development teams must communicate and
collaborate in a dynamic, 24/7/365 environment. There is no time to wait for
long development cycles that produce software that is obsolete at launch.
DevOps may be disruptive, but it is essential.
@DevOpsSummit wi... (more)
This post is based on my recent presentation at DevOps Summit Silicon Valley
in November 2016. You can see the entire presentation here.
We call it DevOps but much of the time there's a lot more discussion about
the needs and concerns of developers than there is about other groups.
There's a focus on improved and less isolated developer workflows. There are
many discussions around collaboration, continuous integration and delivery,
issue tracking, source code control, code review, IDEs, and xPaaS - and all
the tools that enable those things. Changes in developer practices may come
up - such as developers taking ownership of code and pulling pager duty.
We also talk about culture a great deal in the context of developers and
DevOps. About touchy-feely topics like empathy, trust, learning, cooperation,
and responsibility. It can all be a bit kumbaya.
What about the O... (more)
@CloudExpo Stories By Yeshim Deniz  20th Cloud Expo, taking place June 6-8, 2017, at the Javits Center in New York City, NY, will feature technical sessions from a rock star conference faculty and the leading industry players in the world. Cloud computing is now being embraced by a majority of enterprises of all sizes. Yesterday's debate about public vs. private has transformed into the reality of hybrid cloud: a recent survey shows that 74% of enterprises have a hybrid cloud strategy. Feb. 12, 2017 05:00 AM EST Reads: 4,061 | By Yeshim Deniz  SYS-CON Events announced today that LeaseWeb USA, a cloud Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) provider, will exhibit at the 19th International Cloud Expo, which will take place on November 1–3, 2016, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA. LeaseWeb is one of the world's largest hosting brands. The company helps customers define, develop and deploy IT infrastructure tailored to their exact business needs, by combining various kinds cloud solutions. Feb. 12, 2017 04:30 AM EST Reads: 1,226 | By Elizabeth White  To manage complex web services with lots of calls to the cloud, many businesses have invested in Application Performance Management (APM) and Network Performance Management (NPM) tools. Together APM and NPM tools are essential aids in improving a business's infrastructure required to support an effective web experience... but they are missing a critical component - Internet visibility. Feb. 12, 2017 03:45 AM EST Reads: 1,168 | By Yeshim Deniz  SYS-CON Events announced today that DatacenterDynamics has been named “Media Sponsor” of SYS-CON's 18th International Cloud Expo, which will take place on June 7–9, 2016, at the Javits Center in New York City, NY. DatacenterDynamics is a brand of DCD Group, a global B2B media and publishing company that develops products to help senior professionals in the world's most ICT dependent organizations make risk-based infrastructure and capacity decisions. Feb. 12, 2017 03:00 AM EST Reads: 1,452 | By Elizabeth White  We all know that data growth is exploding and storage budgets are shrinking.
Instead of showing you charts on about how much data there is, in his General Session at 17th Cloud Expo, Scott Cleland, Senior Director of Product Marketing at HGST, showed how to capture all of your data in one place. After you have your data under control, you can then analyze it in one place, saving time and resources. Feb. 12, 2017 03:00 AM EST Reads: 3,603 | By Liz McMillan  Growth hacking is common for startups to make unheard-of progress in building their business. Career Hacks can help Geek Girls and those who support them (yes, that's you too, Dad!) to excel in this typically male-dominated world. Get ready to learn the facts: Is there a bias against women in the tech / developer communities? Why are women 50% of the workforce, but hold only 24% of the STEM or IT positions? Some beginnings of what to do about it! In her Day 2 Keynote at 17th Cloud Expo, Sandy Ca... Feb. 12, 2017 01:15 AM EST Reads: 8,637 | By Elizabeth White  With major technology companies and startups seriously embracing Cloud strategies, now is the perfect time to attend @CloudExpo | @ThingsExpo, June 6-8, 2017, at the Javits Center in New York City, NY and October 31 - November 2, 2017, Santa Clara Convention Center, CA. Learn what is going on, contribute to the discussions, and ensure that your enterprise is on the right path to Digital Transformation. Feb. 12, 2017 12:00 AM EST Reads: 1,036 | By Liz McMillan  "We got started as search consultants. On the services side of the business we have help organizations save time and save money when they hit issues that everyone more or less hits when their data grows," noted Otis Gospodnetić, Founder of Sematext, in this SYS-CON.tv interview at @DevOpsSummit, held June 9-11, 2015, at the Javits Center in New York City. Feb. 11, 2017 11:45 PM EST Reads: 5,273 | By Liz McMillan  WebRTC has had a real tough three or four years, and so have those working with it. Only a few short years ago, the development world were excited about WebRTC and proclaiming how awesome it was.
You might have played with the technology a couple of years ago, only to find the extra infrastructure requirements were painful to implement and poorly documented. This probably left a bitter taste in your mouth, especially when things went wrong. Feb. 11, 2017 11:15 PM EST Reads: 8,503 | By Yeshim Deniz Many private cloud projects were built to deliver self-service access to development and test resources. While those clouds delivered faster access to resources, they lacked visibility, control and security needed for production deployments. In their session at 18th Cloud Expo, Steve Anderson, Product Manager at BMC Software, and Rick Lefort, Principal Technical Marketing Consultant at BMC Software, discussed how a cloud designed for production operations not only helps accelerate developer inno... Feb. 11, 2017 11:00 PM EST Reads: 1,295 | 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, will highlight the current challenges of these transformative technologies and share strategies for preparing your organization for these changes. This “view from the top” will outline the latest trends and developm... Feb. 11, 2017 10:45 PM EST Reads: 1,684 | By Liz McMillan  IoT offers a value of almost $4 trillion to the manufacturing industry through platforms that can improve margins, optimize operations & drive high performance work teams. By using IoT technologies as a foundation, manufacturing customers are integrating worker safety with manufacturing systems, driving deep collaboration and utilizing analytics to exponentially increased per-unit margins. However, as Benoit Lheureux, the VP for Research at Gartner points out, “IoT project implementers often un... Feb. 11, 2017 07:45 PM EST Reads: 2,243 | By Liz McMillan  "Peak 10 is a national cloud data center solutions managed services provider, and part of that is disaster recovery. We see a growing trend in the industry where companies are coming to us looking for assistance in their DR strategy," stated Andrew Cole, Director of Solutions Engineering at Peak 10, in this SYS-CON.tv interview at 18th Cloud Expo, held June 7-9, 2016, at the Javits Center in New York City, NY. Feb. 11, 2017 07:45 PM EST Reads: 4,665 | By Elizabeth White  WebRTC sits at the intersection between VoIP and the Web. As such, it poses some interesting challenges for those developing services on top of it, but also for those who need to test and monitor these services. In his session at WebRTC Summit, Tsahi Levent-Levi, co-founder of testRTC, reviewed the various challenges posed by WebRTC when it comes to testing and monitoring and on ways to overcome them. Feb. 11, 2017 07:15 PM EST Reads: 6,847 | By Elizabeth White  As businesses adopt functionalities in cloud computing, it’s imperative that IT operations consistently ensure cloud systems work correctly – all of the time, and to their best capabilities. In his session at @BigDataExpo, Bernd Harzog, CEO and founder of OpsDataStore, will present an industry answer to the common question, “Are you running IT operations as efficiently and as cost effectively as you need to?” He will expound on the industry issues he frequently came up against as an analyst, and... Feb. 11, 2017 06:00 PM EST Reads: 617 | By Pat Romanski  FinTech is the sum of financial and technology, and it’s one of the fastest growing tech industries. Total global investments in FinTech almost reached $50 billion last year, but there is still a great deal of confusion over what it is and what it means – especially as it applies to retirement.
Building financial startups is not simple, but with the right team, technology and an innovative approach it can be an extremely interesting domain to disrupt. FinTech heralds a financial revolution that... Feb. 11, 2017 05:45 PM EST Reads: 1,398 | By Liz McMillan  SYS-CON Events announced today that WineSOFT will exhibit at SYS-CON's 20th International Cloud Expo®, which will take place on June 6-8, 2017, at the Javits Center in New York City, NY. Based in Seoul and Irvine, WineSOFT is an innovative software house focusing on internet infrastructure solutions. The venture started as a bootstrap start-up in 2010 by focusing on making the internet faster and more powerful. WineSOFT’s knowledge is based on the expertise of TCP/IP, VPN, SSL, peer-to-peer, mob... Feb. 11, 2017 05:00 PM EST Reads: 769 | By Yeshim Deniz  Every successful software product evolves from an idea to an enterprise system. Notably, the same way is passed by the product owner's company. In his session at 20th Cloud Expo, Oleg Lola, CEO of MobiDev, will provide a generalized overview of the evolution of a software product, the product owner, the needs that arise at various stages of this process, and the value brought by a software development partner to the product owner as a response to these needs. Feb. 11, 2017 04:30 PM EST Reads: 1,127 | By Yeshim Deniz  SYS-CON Events announced today that Dataloop.IO, an innovator in cloud IT-monitoring whose products help organizations save time and money, has been named “Bronze Sponsor” of SYS-CON's 20th International Cloud Expo®, which will take place on June 6-8, 2017, at the Javits Center in New York City, NY. Dataloop.IO is an emerging software company on the cutting edge of major IT-infrastructure trends including cloud computing and microservices. The company, founded in the UK but now based in San Fran... Feb. 11, 2017 03:15 PM EST Reads: 1,676 | By Liz McMillan  Tricky charts and visually deceptive graphs often make a case for the impact IT performance has on business. The debate isn't around the obvious; of course, IT performance metrics like website load time influence business metrics such as conversions and revenue. Rather, this presentation will explore various data analysis concepts to understand how, and how not to, assert such correlations.
In his session at 20th Cloud Expo, Leo Vasiliou, Director of Web Performance Engineering at Catchpoint S... Feb. 11, 2017 02:15 PM EST Reads: 700 |
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The insurance industry is well aware that digital transformation is coming, even if some CIOs can’t really say what their individual companies will look like at the end of it all. In a survey of thousands of C-level execs around the world, insurance came in among the top five industries that are most likely to see “moderate to massive” digital disruption within the next 12 months. Only 20 percent of business leaders felt that they had the talent they needed to transform the enterprise, though. Here’s a closer look at what’s coming next in the exciting new era of software-defined insurance comp...
Make room for IoT. It’s a necessary step to moving any business forward. What can the world expect from IoT technology in the upcoming year? IoT implementations that bring in new revenue streams and deliver real-time business insights. We’ll see a rising trend in the intersect of virtualization and IoT. As the number of connected things continues to rise, it has been projected to reach 50.1 billion things in 2020, and there is estimated to be 44 trillion gigabytes of data from all those connected things—that’s equal to the number of stars in the universe. It’s incredible!
As the number of con...
Thanks to the Internet of Things (IoT), our world is more automated and connected than ever before. Just about everything, from cars to refrigerators, to coffee machines, has the ability to connect to the Internet, allowing us to micromanage each individual device. This type of automation is an exciting direction for the world to be moving in and the benefits it brings to businesses are huge.
Once again, we find ourselves at the dawn of a new year. And many would say, not a moment too soon. With a series of tumultuous elections around the world and an unusual number of celebrity passings, it's been a rough year. But there is at least one bright spot from 2016: Intellyx's digital transformation prognostications were close to spot on! As is our tradition, each year we review last year's predictions and make all new fresh ones! This year, it is my turn to review Jason's 2016 predictions and let you know what I see happening in the coming year.
Whenever you connect anything to the internet, there is risk involved. Just ask the millions of IoT zombies infected with Mirai. Sure, there have been various stories over the years about hacking thermostats, refrigerators, cameras, pacemakers, insulin pumps and other medical devices along with cars, homes and hotel rooms…but Mirai took it to a new level.
Software-defined infrastructure (SDI) is one of the most popular and ongoing trends within datacenters and cloud environments leading to better infrastructure flexibility by developing the infrastructure based on scripts respectively source code. However, SDIs are more and more becoming just a means to an end since automation, sophisticated algorithms and thus intelligent systems are leading to an Artificial Intelligence defined Infrastructure (AI-defined Infrastructure – AiDI).
My son Max is home from college and that always leads to some interesting conversations. Max is in graduate school at Iowa State University where he is studying kinesiology and strength training. As part of his research project, he is applying physics to athletic training in order to understand how certain types of exercises can lead to improvements in athletic speed, strength, agility, and recovery.
JavaScript redefined web applications ushering in a new era of dynamic websites with fluid responsive designs. It has gained a strong following among developers, popular libraries and frameworks like JQuery and Angular JS are all built with JavaScript. The endless design possibilities that JavaScript provides coupled with the numerous libraries available today makes it an indispensable part of web application development.
SYS-CON Media announced today that @WebRTCSummit Blog, the largest WebRTC resource in the world, has been launched.
@WebRTCSummit Blog offers top articles, news stories, and blog posts from the world's well-known experts and guarantees better exposure for its authors than any other publication. @WebRTCSummit Blog can be bookmarked ▸ Here
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Presidents are powerful people facing and dealing with complex nation, market and economy sized problems. Making good decisions and managing these deeply complex systems and organizations requires massive amounts of data, analysis, experience and understanding. They must process and analyze millions of data inputs, and have a clear understanding of what the data in aggregate means, and then have an understanding of how they can influence the outcomes by pulling the right levers of power and influence to achieve their goals.
@ThingsExpo has been named the Top 5 Most Influential Internet of Things Brand by Onalytica in the ‘The Internet of Things Landscape 2015: Top 100 Individuals and Brands.' Onalytica analyzed Twitter conversations around the #IoT debate to uncover the most influential brands and individuals driving the conversation. Onalytica captured data from 56,224 users. The PageRank based methodology they use to extract influencers on a particular topic (tweets mentioning #InternetofThings or #IoT in this case) takes into account the number and quality of contextual references that a user receives.
The Internet of Things is clearly many things: data collection and analytics, wearables, Smart Grids and Smart Cities, the Industrial Internet, and more. Cool platforms like Arduino, Raspberry Pi, Intel's Galileo and Edison, and a diverse world of sensors are making the IoT a great toy box for developers in all these areas. In this Power Panel at @ThingsExpo, moderated by Conference Chair Roger Strukhoff, panelists discussed what things are the most important, which will have the most profound effect on the world, and what should we expect to see over the next couple of years.
Why do your mobile transformations need to happen today? Mobile is the strategy that enterprise transformation centers on to drive customer engagement. In his general session at @ThingsExpo, Roger Woods, Director, Mobile Product & Strategy – Adobe Marketing Cloud, covered key IoT and mobile trends that are forcing mobile transformation, key components of a solid mobile strategy and explored how brands are effectively driving mobile change throughout the enterprise.
One of the unfortunate effects of the continued evolution of the load balancer into today’s application delivery controller (ADC) is that it is often too easy to forget the basic problem for which load balancers were originally created—producing highly available, scalable, and predictable application services. We get too lost in the realm of intelligent application routing, virtualized application services, and shared infrastructure deployments to remember that none of these things are possible without a firm basis in basic load balancing technology. So how important is load balancing, and how...
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. However, it was Krish Subrumanian’s humorous tweet that started me thinking about what will be the single most important contribution from the enterprise technology community in 2016. While all the aforementioned technologies will certainly see a lot of interest and growth, they’re all enabled by a Web platform.
Digital transformation requires participants to have a vision for and understanding of what they are trying to achieve and why. In fact, the lack of a clear digital strategy is the second biggest mistake companies make in digital transformation, right behind moving too slowly, according to the middle managers we surveyed. Digital strategies, however, should evolve out of a documented, enterprise-focused digital transformation “doctrine.”
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