Microservices: Choosing the Right Cloud, Services and Tools We all know that end users experience the Internet primarily with mobile devices. From an app development perspective, we know that successfully responding to the needs of mobile customers depends on rapid DevOps - failing fast, in short, until the right solution evolves in your customers' relationship to your business. Whether you're decomposing an SOA monolith, or developing a new application cloud natively, it's not a question of using microservices - not doing so will be a path to eventual business failure. In his general session at 21st Cloud Expo, Andrew Hately, an IBM Distinguished Engineer, will discuss how the real and more difficult question, in developing microservices-based applications, is this: what's the best combination of cloud services and tools to use to get the right results in the spec... (more)

[video] @Nutanix Cloud for #DevOps | @DevOpsSummit #SDN #DX #Serverless

View Keynote: ▸ Here Nutanix Enterprise Cloud for DevOps DevOps is often described as a combination of technology and culture. Without both, DevOps isn't complete. However, applying the culture to outdated technology is a recipe for disaster; as response times grow and connections between teams are delayed by technology, the culture will die. A Nutanix Enterprise Cloud has many benefits that provide the needed base for a true DevOps paradigm. In their Day 3 Keynote at 20th Cloud Expo, Chris Brown, a Solutions Marketing Manager at Nutanix, and Mark Lavi, a Nutanix DevOps Solution Architect, explored the ways that Nutanix technologies empower teams to react faster than ever before and connect teams in ways that were either too complex or simply impossible with traditional infrastructures. View Keynote: ▸ Here Speaker Bios Chris Brown is a Solutions Marketing Manage... (more)

[session] Storage-as-a-Service | @CloudExpo @NetApp #SDN #DX #DataCenter

Delivering on Cloud Storage-as-a-Service for a Major Asia Pacific Telco In his session at 21st Cloud Expo, Michael Burley, a Senior Business Development Executive in IT Services at NetApp, will describe how NetApp designed a three-year program of work to migrate 25PB of a major telco's enterprise data to a new STaaS platform, and then secured a long-term contract to manage and operate the platform. This significant program blended the best of NetApp's solutions and services capabilities to enable this telco's successful adoption of private cloud storage and launching of virtual storage services to its enterprise market. By evolving the engagement from a solution to a systems integration orientation, NetApp became a key partner with this telco in its enterprise business. A collaborative journey to engineer a "brand new, never-before" service offering enabled this tel... (more)

[session] Enterprise #Kubernetes | @DevOpsSummit #DevOps #CloudNative #DX #Serverless

Segmentation and Isolation on Kubernetes for Enterprise Teams Enterprises are adopting Kubernetes to accelerate the development and the delivery of cloud-native applications. However, sharing a Kubernetes cluster between members of the same team can be challenging. And, sharing clusters across multiple teams is even harder. Kubernetes offers several constructs to help implement segmentation and isolation. However, these primitives can be complex to understand and apply. As a result, it's becoming common for enterprises to end up with several clusters. This leads to a waste of cloud resources and increased operational overhead. In his session at @DevOpsSummit at 21st Cloud Expo, Romil Jain, a software engineer at Nirmata, will demonstrate how it's possible to fully automate the isolation of applications running on shared clusters. He will first cover the multiple l... (more)

[session] Real-Time Data Warehousing | @CloudExpo @CornerstoneInc #SaaS #Cloud #BigData

Improving Latency for Customer Data through Real-Time Data Warehousing Transforming cloud-based data into a reportable format can be a very expensive, time-intensive and complex operation. As a SaaS platform with more than 30 million global users, Cornerstone OnDemand's challenge was to create a scalable solution that would improve the time it took customers to access their user data. Our Real-Time Data Warehouse (RTDW) process vastly reduced data time-to-availability from 24 hours to just 10 minutes. In his session at 21st Cloud Expo, Mark Goldin, Chief Technology Officer for Cornerstone OnDemand, will share his team's learnings from this massive undertaking and relevant applications for other businesses. Speaker Bio Mark Goldin is the Chief Technology Officer for Cornerstone OnDemand. In this role, he is responsible for building and directing the company's global ... (more)

[session] Automated Infrastructure with Containers | @DevOpsSummit @CoreOS #DevOps #Kubernetes

Migrating to Automated Infrastructure with Containers Containers are rapidly finding their way into enterprise data centers, but change is difficult. How do enterprises transform their architecture with technologies like containers without losing the reliable components of their current solutions? In his session at @DevOpsSummit at 21st Cloud Expo, Tony Campbell, Director, Educational Services at CoreOS, will explore the challenges organizations are facing today as they move to containers and go over how Kubernetes applications can deploy with legacy components, and also go over automated capabilities provided by operators to auto-update Kubernetes with zero downtime for current and secure deployments. Speaker Bio Tony Campbell leads the Educational Services team at CoreOS and is on a mission to educate the world on Kubernetes and cloud native technology. He is th... (more)

[session] Continuous Deployment for #Docker | @DevOpsSummit #DevOps #DX

Continuous Deployment for Docker: Lessons Learned from Rolling Out our Real Live Service Today most companies are adopting or evaluating container technology - Docker in particular - to speed up application deployment, drive down cost, ease management and make application delivery more flexible overall. As with most new architectures, this dream takes significant work to become a reality. Even when you do get your application componentized enough and packaged properly, there are still challenges for DevOps teams to making the shift to continuous delivery and achieving that reduction in cost and increase in speed. Sometimes in order to reduce complexity teams compromise features or change requirements In her session at @DevOpsSummit, Stefana Muller, Vice President and Dev Evangelist at Opsani, will share the journey her engineering team took to continuously deploy ... (more)

Five Reasons to Shift Your Focus from Coding to Testing | @DevOpsSummit #DX #DevOps #ContinuousTesting

Five Reasons to Shift Your Focus from Coding to Testing Digital transformation leaders have poured tons of money and effort into coding in recent years. And with good reason. To succeed at digital, you must be able to write great code. You also have to build a strong Agile culture so your coding efforts tightly align with market signals and business outcomes. But if your investments in testing haven't kept pace with your investments in coding, you'll lose. Here's why: Reason #1: Functional testing is one of your worst DevOps bottlenecks. It doesn't matter how fast you code if you can't test that code just as quickly. And test you must - early and often - because no one can risk releasing code into production without first thoroughly determining whether it does what it's supposed to do. Continuous Testing helps you ensure that the right functional testing is performed ... (more)

Envisioning the AI-Driven Enterprise | @CloudExpo #AI #ML #DL DX #DeepLearning

As today's digital disruptions bounce and smash their way through conventional technologies and conventional wisdom alike, predicting their path is a multifaceted challenge. So many areas of technology advance on Moore's Law-like exponential curves that divining the future is fraught with danger. Such is the problem with artificial intelligence (AI) and its related concepts, including cognitive computing, machine learning, and deep learning. Today we have interesting but hardly revolutionary technologies like Apple Siri and Amazon Alexa. And tomorrow? If you listen to the doomsayers, The Terminator's Skynet or its killer robot kin will take over the world from us puny humans. While we cannot entirely disagree with the dire warnings of certain pundits, the reality is that there is quite a lot of territory to cover between Siri and Skynet. Even well before some kind... (more)

[slides] Cloud Skills with @Dicedotcom | @CloudExpo #IoT #AI #ML #DevOps

View General Session ▸ Here Download Slide Deck ▸ Here View General Session ▸ Here Download Slide Deck ▸ Here Leveraging Cloud Skills Demand and Salary Indicators Data to Advance Earning Potential In his general session at 19th Cloud Expo, Manish Dixit, VP of Product and Engineering at Dice, discussed how Dice leverages data insights and tools to help both tech professionals and recruiters better understand how skills relate to each other and which skills are in high demand using interactive visualizations and salary indicator tools to maximize earning potential. View General Session ▸ Here Download Slide Deck ▸ Here Speaker Bio Manish Dixit is VP of Product and Engineering at Dice. As the leader of the Product, Engineering and Data Sciences team at Dice, he takes a metrics-driven approach to management. His experience in building and managing high performance tea... (more)

[session] Agile Transformation | @CloudExpo #DX #Agile #DigitalTransformation

Digital Transformation Requires Enterprise-Wide Agile Transformation 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 change as a core competency in our organizations, this business-centric notion of Agile is an essential component of Agile Digital Transformation. In the years since the publication of the Agile Manifesto, the connection between building better software and business agility has been a tenuous one at best. But now that Agile is maturing and Digital Transformation is driving change across enterprises large and small, companies are realizing that their best bet for achieving business agility is to take the best of Agile an... (more)