By William Schmarzo  Many of my blogs promote the business benefits of the data lake, both from a “save me more money” as well as the “make me more money” perspectives. But I fear that I’m making this thing called the data lake sound like a “silver bullet[1]” – just drop the data into the data lake and eve... Mar. 26, 2017 06:00 AM EDT Reads: 6,883 |
By Tyron Stading  The United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) recently announced an expansion of PatentsView, its visualization tool for US patents. First launched a few years ago, the intent behind the tool was to make 40 years of patent filing data available for free to those interested in e... Mar. 23, 2017 03:00 PM EDT Reads: 4,066 |
By Yeshim Deniz  There are 66 million network cameras capturing terabytes of data. How did factories in Japan improve physical security at the facilities and improve employee productivity? Edge Computing reduces possible kilobytes of data collected per second to only a few kilobytes of data transmitted... Mar. 21, 2017 07:45 PM EDT Reads: 6,115 |
By Carmen Gonzalez  In his keynote at @ThingsExpo, Chris Matthieu, Director of IoT Engineering at Citrix and co-founder and CTO of Octoblu, focused on building an IoT platform and company. He provided a behind-the-scenes look at Octoblu’s platform, business, and pivots along the way (including the Citrix ... Mar. 20, 2017 08:45 AM EDT Reads: 9,268 |
By Liz McMillan  IoT is at the core or many Digital Transformation initiatives with the goal of re-inventing a company's business model. We all agree that collecting relevant IoT data will result in massive amounts of data needing to be stored. However, with the rapid development of IoT devices and ong... Mar. 20, 2017 02:00 AM EDT Reads: 6,789 |
By Liz McMillan  Almost two-thirds of companies either have or soon will have IoT as the backbone of their business. Though, IoT is far more complex than most firms expected with a majority of IoT projects having failed. How can you not get trapped in the pitfalls? In his session at @ThingsExpo, Tony S... Mar. 17, 2017 12:30 PM EDT Reads: 7,483 |
By Chris Kocher  The IoT continued its toddler-like growth and stumbles in 2016. Here are five trends to look for in 2017 as the IoT enters its adolescence and how to benefit from them. 1. Ecosystems begin to determine winners and losers Previously these were nice in-the-future concerns; now they will... Mar. 16, 2017 08:45 PM EDT Reads: 7,279 |
By Carmen Gonzalez  The best way to leverage your Cloud Expo presence as a sponsor and exhibitor is to plan your news announcements around our events. The press covering Cloud Expo and @ThingsExpo will have access to these releases and will amplify your news announcements. More than two dozen Cloud compan... Mar. 13, 2017 01:30 PM EDT Reads: 8,784 |
By William Schmarzo  One of the best parts of my job is talking to a wide variety of customers across a wide variety of industries at a wide variety of different points on their big data journey. I’ve recently had several customer engagements where the client’s top business initiative is creating a Custome... Mar. 12, 2017 01:00 PM EDT Reads: 4,929 |
By Elizabeth White  SYS-CON Events announced today that IoT Global Network has been named “Media Sponsor” of SYS-CON's @ThingsExpo, which will take place on June 6–8, 2017, at the Javits Center in New York City, NY. The IoT Global Network is a platform where you can connect with industry experts and netw... Mar. 11, 2017 11:00 AM EST Reads: 4,829 |
By Liz McMillan  There are so many tools and techniques for data analytics that even for a data scientist the choices, possible systems, and even the types of data can be daunting.
In his session at @ThingsExpo, Chris Harrold, Global CTO for Big Data Solutions for EMC Corporation, showed how to perfo... Mar. 10, 2017 10:30 PM EST Reads: 15,869 |
By Elizabeth White  In his session at @ThingsExpo, Dr. Robert Cohen, an economist and senior fellow at the Economic Strategy Institute, will present the findings of a series of six detailed case studies of how large corporations are implementing IoT. The session will explore how IoT has improved their eco... Mar. 10, 2017 05:00 PM EST Reads: 4,660 |
By AppNeta Blog  We've come across a lot of talk about "cloud-native" apps lately. (They even have their own foundation!) Developers build these apps specifically to run on a cloud-based infrastructure, with the kind of user interface we all expect from our apps now. Cloud-native applications are scala... Mar. 10, 2017 12:30 PM EST Reads: 4,829 |
By Scott Allen  Recent research estimates that the Smart Grid will be a $120 Billion industry by 2020. As Industrial IoT (IIoT) drives digital transformation for utilities, there are a fair share of challenges and opportunities facing the Smart Grid industry today. Mar. 8, 2017 04:52 PM EST |
By Yeshim Deniz  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... Mar. 8, 2017 04:45 AM EST Reads: 6,793 |
By Scott Allen  Round-up of recent wireless and Ethernet News Mar. 7, 2017 03:53 PM EST |
By Elizabeth White  Businesses and business units of all sizes can benefit from cloud computing, but many don't want the cost, performance and security concerns of public cloud nor the complexity of building their own private clouds. Today, some cloud vendors are using artificial intelligence (AI) to simp... Mar. 7, 2017 02:00 PM EST Reads: 6,556 |
By Yeshim Deniz  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, NY, and the 21st International Cloud Expo®, which will take place October 3... Mar. 7, 2017 12:45 PM EST Reads: 5,552 |
By Christopher Harrold  About 6 months ago I had this "brilliant" idea that I would like to monitor the water level of my plants living on my balcony. The goal was to keep them healthy and happy (and producing vegetables for me in my urban garden). After looking for a commercial solution to aid me in this pro... Mar. 6, 2017 09:45 PM EST Reads: 6,552 |
By Ian Khan  Just over a week ago I received a long and loud sustained applause for a presentation I delivered at this year’s Cloud Expo in Santa Clara. I was extremely pleased with the turnout and had some very good conversations with many of the attendees. Over the next few days I had many more m... Mar. 6, 2017 09:30 PM EST Reads: 3,931 |
By Yeshim Deniz  The Internet of Things can drive efficiency for airlines and airports. In their session at @ThingsExpo, Shyam Varan Nath, Principal Architect with GE, and Sudip Majumder, senior director of development at Oracle, discussed the technical details of the connected airline baggage and rela... Mar. 5, 2017 08:30 PM EST Reads: 8,885 |
By Carmen Gonzalez  With major technology companies and startups seriously embracing IoT strategies, now is the perfect time to attend @ThingsExpo 2016 in New York. Learn what is going on, contribute to the discussions, and ensure that your enterprise is as "IoT-Ready" as it can be! Internet of @ThingsExp... Mar. 4, 2017 06:15 PM EST Reads: 6,274 |
By Elizabeth White  In his session at 20th Cloud Expo, Chris Carter, CEO of Approyo, will discuss the basic set up and solution for an SAP solution in the cloud and what it means to the viability of your company. Chris Carter is CEO of Approyo. He works with business around the globe, to assist them in th... Mar. 4, 2017 11:00 AM EST Reads: 5,109 |
By Mark Ross-Smith  Every organization collects, stores and retains portions of dark data. It's the digital equivalent of emotional baggage which hangs around after every user interaction, transaction, and customer engagement. In fact, not using data effectively is costing United Airlines almost $1 Billio... Mar. 4, 2017 02:00 AM EST Reads: 5,490 |
By Elizabeth White  In his session at @ThingsExpo, Steve Wilkes, CTO and founder of Striim, will delve into four enterprise-scale, business-critical case studies where streaming analytics serves as the key to enabling real-time data integration and right-time insights in hybrid cloud, IoT, and fog computi... Mar. 3, 2017 10:00 AM EST Reads: 4,833 |
By Pat Romanski  When building large, cloud-based applications that operate at a high scale, it’s important to maintain a high availability and resilience to failures. In order to do that, you must be tolerant of failures, even in light of failures in other areas of your application. “Fly two mistakes ... Mar. 2, 2017 07:00 AM EST Reads: 15,196 |
By Liz McMillan  Due of the rise of Hadoop, many enterprises are now deploying their first small clusters of 10 to 20 servers. At this small scale, the complexity of operating the cluster looks and feels like general data center servers. It is not until the clusters scale, as they inevitably do, when t... Feb. 28, 2017 09:15 PM EST Reads: 14,950 |
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, w... Feb. 28, 2017 04:00 PM EST Reads: 5,957 |
By Carmen Gonzalez  @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 individ... Feb. 28, 2017 01:30 PM EST Reads: 20,465 |
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 w... Feb. 28, 2017 10:00 AM EST Reads: 18,418 |
By Elizabeth White  Unsecured IoT devices were used to launch crippling DDOS attacks in October 2016, targeting services such as Twitter, Spotify, and GitHub. Subsequent testimony to Congress about potential attacks on office buildings, schools, and hospitals raised the possibility for the IoT to harm and... Feb. 28, 2017 09:15 AM EST Reads: 6,224 |
By Liz McMillan  Data is the fuel that drives the machine learning algorithmic engines and ultimately provides the business value.
In his session at 20th Cloud Expo, Ed Featherston, director/senior enterprise architect at Collaborative Consulting, will discuss the key considerations around quality, vo... Feb. 28, 2017 04:45 AM EST Reads: 7,873 |
By Liz McMillan  "A lot of times people will come to us and have a very diverse set of requirements or very customized need and we'll help them to implement it in a fashion that you can't just buy off of the shelf," explained Nick Rose, CTO of Enzu, in this SYS-CON.tv interview at 18th Cloud Expo, held... Feb. 28, 2017 02:15 AM EST Reads: 14,966 |
By Elizabeth White  You think you know what’s in your data. But do you? Most organizations are now aware of the business intelligence represented by their data. Data science stands to take this to a level you never thought of – literally. The techniques of data science, when used with the capabilities of ... Feb. 27, 2017 11:00 PM EST Reads: 20,298 |
By Elizabeth White  The Internet of Things will challenge the status quo of how IT and development organizations operate. Or will it? Certainly the fog layer of IoT requires special insights about data ontology, security and transactional integrity. But the developmental challenges are the same: People, P... Feb. 27, 2017 09:15 PM EST Reads: 12,371 |
By Scott Allen  With cybersecurity on the everyone's mind, 2017 will be see the emergence of True Fog Computing and Programmable / Intelligent Edge Devices with the strongest security measures to-date. As 2017 kicks into full gear and a particularly interesting 2016 fades into the rearview mirror, we ... Feb. 27, 2017 02:00 PM EST Reads: 5,018 |
By Liz McMillan  The emerging Internet of Everything creates tremendous new opportunities for customer engagement and business model innovation. However, enterprises must overcome a number of critical challenges to bring these new solutions to market. In his session at @ThingsExpo, Michael Martin, CTO/... Feb. 27, 2017 10:00 AM EST Reads: 16,769 |
By Elizabeth White  It is one thing to build single industrial IoT applications, but what will it take to build the Smart Cities and truly society changing applications of the future? The technology won’t be the problem, it will be the number of parties that need to work together and be aligned in their m... Feb. 27, 2017 09:30 AM EST Reads: 8,964 |
By Elizabeth White  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 ... Feb. 27, 2017 02:00 AM EST Reads: 13,022 |
By Pat Romanski  "Storage is growing. All of IDC's estimates say that unstructured data is now 80% of the world's data. We provide storage systems that can actually deal with that scale of data - software-defined storage systems," stated Paul Turner, Chief Product and Marketing Officer at Cloudian, in ... Feb. 26, 2017 02:30 PM EST Reads: 14,359 |