Maintaining uptime...Jun. 28, 2016 12:00 PM EDT Reads: 549[slides] Offline-First Apps with PouchDB | @CloudExpo @IBMCloudant #CloudBy Pat RomanskiIt's easy to assume that your app will run on a fast and reliable network. The reality for your app's users, though, is often a slow, unreliable network with spotty coverage. What happens when the network doesn't work, or when the device is in airplane mode? You get unhappy, frustrated users. An offline-first app is an app that works, without error, when there is no network connection. In his session at 18th Cloud Expo, Bradley Holt, a Developer Advocate with IBM Cloud Data Services, discussed...Jun. 28, 2016 12:00 PM EDT Reads: 900[slides] Best Practices in Operating Hybrid Infrastructure | @CloudExpo @RackNgo #CloudBy Elizabeth WhiteThe pace of innovation, vendor lock-in, production sustainability, cost-effectiveness, and managing risk… In his session at 18th Cloud Expo, Dan Choquette, Founder of RackN, discussed how CIOs are challenged finding the balance of finding the right tools, technology and operational model that serves the business the best. He also discussed how clouds, open source software and infrastructure solutions have benefits but also drawbacks and how workload and operational portability between vendors ...Jun. 28, 2016 12:00 PM EDT Reads: 991[video] Cloud Is Now Mainstream ‘Power Panel’ | @CloudExpo #CloudBy Liz McMillanThe initial debate is over: Any enterprise with a serious commitment to IT is migrating to the cloud. But things are not so simple. There is a complex mix of on-premises, colocated, and public-cloud deployments. In this power panel at 18th Cloud Expo, moderated by Conference Chair Roger Strukhoff, Randy De Meno, Chief Technologist - Windows Products and Microsoft Partnerships at Commvault; Dave Landa, Chief Operating Officer at kintone; William Morrish, General Manager Product Sales at Interou...Jun. 28, 2016 11:30 AM EDT Reads: 948[slides] Storage Analytics Engines | @CloudExpo @FalconStor #Cloud #BigData #StorageBy Pat RomanskiPredictive analytics tools monitor, report, and troubleshoot in order to make proactive decisions about the health, performance, and utilization of storage. Most enterprises combine cloud and on-premise storage, resulting in blended environments of physical, virtual, cloud, and other platforms, which justifies more sophisticated storage analytics. In his session at 18th Cloud Expo, Peter McCallum, Vice President of Datacenter Solutions at FalconStor, discussed using predictive analytics to mon...Jun. 28, 2016 10:39 AM EDT Reads: 324[video] IBM's Hybrid Approach to Hybrid Cloud | @CloudExpo @IBM @SoftLayer #Cloud #DevOpsBy Liz McMillanWhat does it look like when you have access to cloud infrastructure and platform under the same roof? Let’s talk about the different layers of Technology as a Service: who cares, what runs where, and how does it all fit together. In his session at 18th Cloud Expo, Phil Jackson, Lead Technology Evangelist at SoftLayer, an IBM company, spoke about the picture being painted by IBM Cloud and how the tools being crafted can help fill the gaps in your IT infrastructure.Jun. 28, 2016 10:00 AM EDT Reads: 864Apixio Closes $19.3 Million in Series D Funding | @CloudExpo @Apixio #Cloud #CognitiveComputingBy Elizabeth WhiteApixio Inc. has raised $19.3 million in Series D venture capital funding led by SSM Partners with participation from First Analysis, Bain Capital Ventures and Apixio’s largest angel investor. Apixio will dedicate the proceeds toward advancing and scaling products powered by its cognitive computing platform, further enabling insights for optimal patient care. The Series D funding comes as Apixio experiences strong momentum and increasing demand for its HCC Profiler solution, which mines unstruc...Jun. 28, 2016 10:00 AM EDT Reads: 328[video] Protect Your Organization with BMC BladeLogic | @CloudExpo @BMCSoftware #CloudBy Elizabeth WhiteDigital Initiatives create new ways of conducting business, which drive the need for increasingly advanced security and regulatory compliance challenges with exponentially more damaging consequences. In the BMC and Forbes Insights Survey in 2016, 97% of executives said they expect a rise in data breach attempts in the next 12 months. Sixty percent said operations and security teams have only a general understanding of each other’s requirements, resulting in a “SecOps gap” leaving organizations u...Jun. 28, 2016 09:45 AM EDT Reads: 1,141[session] The Factory of the Future, Today By @Cisco | @ThingsExpo #IoT #BigData #DigitalTransformationBy Liz McMillanIoT 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 ...Jun. 28, 2016 09:45 AM EDT Reads: 426[video] Bringing IoT from Industry to Society | @ThingsExpo @Ericsson #IoTBy Elizabeth WhiteIt 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 motivation to succeed. In his Day 2 Keynote at @ThingsExpo, Henrik Kenani Dahlgren, Portfolio Marketing Manager at Ericsson, discussed how to plan to cooperate, partner, and form lasting all-star teams to change t...Jun. 28, 2016 09:30 AM EDT Reads: 1,288[video] Cloud Transformation | @EnzuInc @CloudExpo #Cloud #BigDataBy 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 June 7-9, 2016, at the Javits Center in New York City, NY.Jun. 28, 2016 09:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,148[video] Static vs Dynamic Cloud By @NewRelic | @CloudExpo #CloudBy Liz McMillanIn his general session at 18th Cloud Expo, Lee Atchison, Principal Cloud Architect and Advocate at New Relic, discussed cloud as a ‘better data center’ and how it adds new capacity (faster) and improves application availability (redundancy).