Sep 5, 2013

Getting Started with OpenStack By Blue Box Blog Founded in 2010, OpenStack is an open source Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) platform used to manage large quantities of compute storage and networking resources contained in a data center. It’s one of the fastest growing open source communities in the world, with over 400 companies and 18,000 contributors utilizing it. Projections published in the OpenStack Pulse 2014 report from 451... Jun. 3, 2015 05:45 PM EDT  Reads: 427 Top Six Reasons to Attend Cloud Expo By Roger Strukhoff There are several hundred good reasons to attend Cloud Expo | @ThingsExpo and the DevOps Summit next week (June 9-11) at the Javits Center in New York. Hundreds of great presentations and exhibits, the world's largest audience at an independent Cloud and IoT event, and the inspiration that one always gets when hearing peers discuss what they are doing in the cloud.I've winnowed the list down ... Jun. 3, 2015 05:45 PM EDT  Reads: 391 WebRTC Summit Call for Papers Now Open By Pat Romanski The WebRTC Summit 2015 Silicon Valley, to be held November 3-5, 2015, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA, announces that its Call for Papers is now open.Topics include all aspects of improving IT delivery by eliminating waste through automated business models leveraging cloud technologies. WebRTC Summit is co-located with 17th International Cloud Expo, @ThingsExpo, Big Data ... Jun. 3, 2015 05:30 PM EDT  Reads: 1,800 Containers & Microservices Conference By Carmen Gonzalez SYS-CON Events announced today that the "First Containers & Microservices Conference" will take place June 9-11, 2015, at the Javits Center in New York City. The “Second Containers & Microservices Conference” will take place November 3-5, 2015, at Santa Clara Convention Center, Santa Clara, CA.Containers and microservices have become topics of intense interest throughout the cloud developer and... Jun. 3, 2015 04:00 PM EDT  Reads: 2,231 Intellectual Property Law in Cloud: Part 2 By Linda Thayer; Ming-Tao Yang The growing cloud computing industry brings many new opportunities, but with success comes litigation, both from competitors seeking to gain an edge in a crowded market and opportunists seeking to make a quick buck. Valid patents and good innovations deserve due respect and consideration, but the vast majority of infringement actions are started by non-practicing entities (aka “patent trolls”) tha... Jun. 3, 2015 03:57 PM EDT  Reads: 350 DevOps Interview: Matt Stratton By VictorOps Blog Matt and I first met in the Summer of 2014 at DevOpsDays Minneapolis. My first introduction came when he (and several other DoD alums) participated in an impressive round of DevOps Karaoke. Matt gave an IGNITE talk on day two of the event titled “How to Hire Your First DevOp” as well. I learned during that event that he co-hosted a DevOps specific podcast that was gaining in popularity. It made pe... Jun. 3, 2015 03:15 PM EDT  Reads: 909 Improve API Quality: Don’t Forget the GUI By SmartBear Blog Behind every mobile application, smart device, or The Internet of Things (IoT) there is at least one application programming interface (API). These API's and the graphical user interface (GUI) are often interdependent on each other to collect information. For instance, let's take an example of Yelp application. Here google maps API determines which nearby restaurants need to be shown on the mobile... Jun. 3, 2015 02:45 PM EDT  Reads: 465 Internet of Things & SAP HANA Cloud Platform By Jayaram Krishnaswamy It almost looks like Internet of Things really came into existence because of the Cloud. It is the most reasonable way (probably the only cost effective way) to operate the IOT.SAP Hana Cloud Platform also offers the IOT Services a la Cloud. SAP Hana in-memory IOT Platform helps you to quickly develop, deploy and manage your IOT Projects and machine-to-machine applications. Jun. 3, 2015 02:30 PM EDT  Reads: 417 DevOps Summit Chair Andi Mann Outlines Vision By Roger Strukhoff Andi Mann has been serving as Conference Chair of the DevOps Summit since its inception. He is one of the world's recognized leaders in DevOps, and continues to be one of its most articulate advocates. Here are some recent thoughts of his in an interview we conducted in the run-up to the DevOps Summit to be held June 9-11 at the Javits Center in New York City.When did you first start thinking ab... Jun. 3, 2015 02:00 PM EDT  Reads: 1,204 Why Security Needs DevOps By ScriptRock Blog On March 18, 2015, system administrators and developers received ominous news: two high severity vulnerabilities in OpenSSL would be announced the next day. Since Heartbleed, OpenSSL had been on a bad streak, and it looked like things were only going to get worse. Operations, development, and security teams braced for impact and then– it wasn't really that bad.One issue was about the downgrade... Jun. 3, 2015 02:00 PM EDT  Reads: 688 Cloud Expo Silicon Valley 'Call for Papers' By Elizabeth White The 17th International Cloud Expo has announced that its Call for Papers is open. 17th International Cloud Expo, to be held November 3-5, 2015, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA, brings together Cloud Computing, APM, APIs, Microservices, Security, Big Data, Internet of Things, DevOps and WebRTC to one location.With cloud computing driving a higher percentage of enterprise I... Jun. 3, 2015 01:15 PM EDT  Reads: 4,484 Science and Art of Business Leadership By Kevin Jackson Business leadership is both science and art. The scientific aspects revolve around finance, organization, products and service. Artistic aspects include relationships, market trajectories and business strategies. While many focus on the science through books and training, the art of business is best learned from real practitioners. That is why I jumped at the chance to meet Dimension Data's Steve ... Jun. 3, 2015 01:00 PM EDT  Reads: 619 Production Deployments By Plutora Blog It's 3 am in California, and you are still awake trying to sort through a release process that has been delayed by several hours. The deployment to the main application cluster took several extra hours due to an unanticipated problem with the servers, and now everyone is waiting on the lead database administrator to call into a conference bridge so you can all move on to Step 53.5b of the deployme... Jun. 3, 2015 01:00 PM EDT  Reads: 864 DevOps Journey: Bernard Golden and Andi Mann By Michael Kanasoot Many people recognize DevOps as an enormous benefit – faster application deployment, automated toolchains, support of more granular updates, better cooperation across groups. However, less appreciated is the journey enterprise IT groups need to make to achieve this outcome. The plain fact is that established IT processes reflect a very different set of goals: stability, infrequent change, hands-on... Jun. 3, 2015 01:00 PM EDT  Reads: 1,501 DevOps Summit Sponsorship Opportunities By Carmen Gonzalez DevOps Summit, taking place Nov 3-5, 2015, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA, is co-located with 17th Cloud Expo and will feature technical sessions from a rock star conference faculty and the leading industry players in the world.The widespread success of cloud computing is driving the DevOps revolution in enterprise IT. Now as never before, development teams must communic... Jun. 3, 2015 12:30 PM EDT  Reads: 2,443 DevOps Top Bottlenecks & Best Practices By Elizabeth White The most often asked question post-DevOps introduction is: “How do I get started?” There’s plenty of information on why DevOps is valid and important, but many managers still struggle with simple basics for how to initiate a DevOps program in their business. They struggle with issues related to current organizational inertia, the lack of experience on Continuous Integration/Delivery, understanding... Jun. 3, 2015 10:45 AM EDT  Reads: 1,135 Big Data Connectivity Is Hard Work By Adrian Bridgwater There’s a story that needs to be written, in fact it’s not a story it’s a piece of technical analysis. We need to know why Big Data connectivity is not as simple as connecting Lego building blocks.Vendors in the ‘cloud ERP financials’ space are fond of using terms like multi-channel to talk about the need to bring together previously disconnected elements of data (including Big Data) for the new... Jun. 3, 2015 10:30 AM EDT  Reads: 1,206 “What Is DevOps” – Can You Define It? By XebiaLabs Blog Whether you are deeply entrenched in the DevOps community or not, you have most likely seen the barrage of What is DevOps articles floating around.We decided it would be best to put them all together and give our readers a variety of What is DevOps articles to choose from.Whether you are looking for the high level “What is DevOps” or the more comfortable “What is DevOps”, our selection is ... Jun. 3, 2015 10:00 AM EDT  Reads: 1,660 API Security in REST vs SOAP By SmartBear Blog There are standards for making sure the information is safe in transit (SSL) and when stored (PCI, SOC, ISO), but where are the standards around the surface area that APIs represent? We want to expose our data, but not the wrong data and never to the wrong people. APIs are now part of our front-line defense layer and we need to treat it with the same concern and specificity as we do any other secu... Jun. 3, 2015 10:00 AM EDT  Reads: 925 Insights into the DIY DevOps Dilemma By Rex Morrow, Datical I read an insightful article this morning from Bernard Golden on DZone discussing the DevOps conundrum facing many enterprises today – is it better to build your own DevOps tools or go commercial? For Golden, the question arose from his observations at a number of DevOps Days events he has attended, where typically the audience is composed of startup professionals:“I have to say, though, that a... Jun. 3, 2015 10:00 AM EDT  Reads: 1,291 Top Stories