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In my previous posts I showed you how to use the Windows Azure cross platform
command line tools to do the following:
Create a new Windows Azure mobile service with a new SQL database.
(http://thinkfirstcodelater.com/blog/?p=3200) Create a new Windows Azure
mobile service that uses an existing SQL database.
(http://thinkfirstcodelater.com/blog/?p=3209).
In this post I’ll show you how to use the cross platform command line tools
to list all of your mobile services.
Once again, just a reminder that I’m using the command line tools on a
MacBook Air with OSX (Mountain Lion) installed, and I’m using Google Chrome
as my default browser. However, the experience should be identical on Windows
and Linux as well.
Open an instance of your command line (Terminal, Bash, Command Prompt, etc.)
and type the following:
azure mobile list -h
As you can see, this is a simple command... (more)
Ten Things You Should Know About Microsoft's .NET Core 1.0
By Edward Ferron
On June 27, Microsoft announced the release of a project several years in the
making - .NET Core. The solution resulted from the need for a nonproprietary
version of Microsoft's .NET Framework - one that runs on Mac and several
versions of Linux, as well as on Windows. This cross-platform .NET product
offers programmers new opportunities with its open-source design, flexible
deployment, and command-line tools. These features are just part of what
makes .NET Core an important evolution in software development. The following
are ten key facts you should be aware of when it comes to Microsoft's .NET
Core 1.0 and its impact on software.
1. The .NET Core Platform Is Open-Source
.NET Core is part of the .NET Foundation, which exists to build a community
around and innovate within the .NET developmen... (more)
SYS-CON Events announced today that the 8th International Cloud Expo will
take place June 6-9, 2011, in New York City.
The International Cloud Computing Conference & Expo series is the world's
leading Cloud-focused event and is held three times a year, in New York,
Silicon Valley and in Europe. Over 600 corporate sponsors and 10,000 industry
professionals have participated in Cloud Computing Expo since its inception,
more than all other Cloud-related events put together.
Cloud Computing Expo 2011 East
Call for Papers Deadline November 30, 2010 - SUBMIT YOUR SPEAKING PROPOSAL
TODAY!
The four-day event will offer a rich array of sessions led by exceptional
speakers about the business and technical value of cloud computing with more
than 150 sponsors and exhibitors and over 5,000 estimated delegates from well
over 48 different countries.
Explore Cloud Expo Sponsorship &... (more)
This book is a really great beginners guide for core SQL Server 2012, and it
also does a great job of introducing new features introduced in SQL Server
2012. What I mean by core is that topics like Master Data Services and Data
Quality Services are not introduced. That is not a bad thing. By limiting the
scope of the book, the author was able to better the topics that are
included.
I wanted this book because I like having a book about the basics close by. I
am not in SQL Server everyday and when I find myself needing to go back to
it, I not only want books on the advanced features nearby, I want the basics
also.
The book covers all the basics you need to know to get up and running
quickly. After a really nice introduction where the author covers the new
2012 features and where they are covered in the book, they have a nice
overview of relational databases and detail... (more)
Web hosting provider SiteGround has announced the launch of a free hosting
program that will reward existing customers with free hosting for new
customer referrals.
The promotion leverages the key vehicle for the company’s growth over
the last year. “We saw that many of our clients refer new customers
without expecting anything in return, just because they like our hosting. We
thought we may start rewarding them and stimulate them further to recommend
our services. That's how we came up with the Free Hosting program,”
said SiteGround’s Marketing Manager, Ms Yakimova.
SiteGround has designed a number of banners and text links customers can
choose to place on their site. Customers get unique referral links that
enable SiteGround to track if referrals acquired through a site actually lead
to sales. The company’s statistics indicate that 20% ... (more)
Microsoft released Windows 7 Build 7600 to manufacturing Wednesday afternoon,
a day ahead of its numbers.
Windows Server 2008 RC2 also RTM’d.
Microsoft said the gold code will start going out to OEMs in a couple of
days. It’s sticking with October 22 as the date for general availability
although it would seem Microsoft could bring it in earlier than that now.
However, it says volume licensees with existing Software Assurance licenses
will be able to start downloading the code in English on August 7 via the
Volume License Service Center (VLSC). It’s a little vague on when they can
get other languages.
Volume licensees without a SA license can start buying it through volume
licensing September 1, as previously announced.
IT Professionals with TechNet subscription can get it in English on August 6.
Ditto developers with MSDN subscriptions.
ISVs and IHVs will be able to ... (more)
Azure Session at Cloud Expo
I continue to be impressed with the quality of .NET Developers in Israel.. we
had a full house last night for a 2+ hour presentation on building business
applications with Silverlight and RIA Services.
The audience was very engaged and had lots of good, relevant questions which
created a really good conversation.
Check out the slides and demo.
I started off by demoing the Right-to-Left text support for Hebrew that is
baked in as part of Silverlight 4.
Then I started from scratch, with File\New Project and built out a simple
data-oriented application.. basically I walked though most of this series.
You can find the completed demo, including the files and code snippets you
would need to repeat the demo yourself, which i would be high flattered if
you did at your own user’s group or for your development team. You an
find the demo steps in ... (more)
Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V Role introduces a new capability, Hyper-V
Replica, as a built-in replication mechanism at a virtual machine (VM) level.
Hyper-V Replica can asynchronously replicate a selected VM running at a
primary site to a designated replica site across LAN/WAN. Here both a primary
site and a replica site are Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V hosts where a primary
site runs production or the so-called primary VMs, while a replica site is
standing by with replicated VMs off and to be brought online, should the
primary site experiences a planned or unplanned VM outage. Hyper-V Replica
requires neither shared storage, nor a specific storage hardware. Once an
initial copy is replicated to a replica site and replication is ongoing,
Hyper-V Replica will replicate only the changes of a configured primary VM,
i.e. the deltas, asynchronously. The following schematic... (more)
Windows Server 2012 can provide key advantages in one of the areas that is
near-and-dear to every VMware administrator's budget: Storage! In this
article, we'll explore the storage enhancements that Windows Server 2012
offers, and along the way, we'll see how it can help to "right-size" your
VMware storage costs so that you have more budget for strategic IT
investments ...
Do I need to migrate to Hyper-V to benefit from Windows Server 2012?
Not necessarily. Sure, lots of IT Pros have migrated to Hyper-V in Windows
Server 2012 - or Hyper-V Server 2012, our FREE bare-metal enterprise-grade
hypervisor – AND, they’ve experienced the benefits that I mentioned
above. BUT, Windows Server 2012 also includes end-to-end improvements in
other important areas, such as Storage, Networking, Security and Management.
Windows Server 2012 Enhancements – Much more than just Hyper-V!
... (more)
Back for Part 3 of the “Building a Hybrid Cloud” series, Keith Mayer and
myself chat about and demo the latest networking enhancements made in Windows
Server 2012 R2.
Keith really shows you how Windows Server 2012 R2 offers networks for your
virtualization hosts but also your virtual guests. One of the things that
amazed me, is that the configuration steps for the host and guests are nearly
identical.
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Experience Microsoft's latest products with these FREE downloads! Build Your
Lab! Download Windows Server 2012 R2, System Center 2012 R2 and Hyper-V
Server 2012 R2 and get the best virtualization platform and private cloud
management solution on the market. Try it FREE now!
Don't Have a Lab? Build Your Lab in the Cloud with Windows Azure Virtual
Machines. Try Windows Azure for free with no cost or obligations, and use any
OS, language,... (more)
Matt Hester and Keith Mayer kick off a special 6 part series on “
Modernizing Your Infrastructure with Hybrid Cloud.” Tune in for Part 1
where they discuss the importance of planning for your organization’s move
to Windows Server 2012 R2 and Microsoft Azure. [ 1:18 ] Why should I start
planning now? [ 2:41 ] Why Migrate to Windows Server 2012 R2? [ 5:45 ] Why
consider Azure as part of your migration strategy? [ 12:38 ] What tools are
available to help in the migration process? [ 17:40 ] DEMO MAP...(read more )
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@ThingsExpo Stories By Liz McMillan  SYS-CON Events announced today that Secure Channels, a cybersecurity firm, will exhibit at SYS-CON's 21st International Cloud Expo®, which will take place on Oct 31 – Nov 2, 2017, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA. Secure Channels, Inc. offers several products and solutions to its many clients, helping them protect critical data from being compromised and access to computer networks from the unauthorized. The company develops comprehensive data encryption security strategie... Aug. 21, 2017 09:30 AM EDT Reads: 1,411 | By Pat Romanski  SYS-CON Events announced today that App2Cloud will exhibit at SYS-CON's 21st International Cloud Expo®, which will take place on Oct. 31 – Nov 2, 2017, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA.
App2Cloud is an online Platform, specializing in migrating legacy applications to any Cloud Providers (AWS, Azure, Google Cloud). Aug. 21, 2017 08:45 AM EDT Reads: 1,767 | By Yeshim Deniz  WebRTC is the future of browser-to-browser communications, and continues to make inroads into the traditional, difficult, plug-in web communications world. The 6th WebRTC Summit continues our tradition of delivering the latest and greatest presentations within the world of WebRTC. Topics include voice calling, video chat, P2P file sharing, and use cases that have already leveraged the power and convenience of WebRTC. Aug. 21, 2017 08:15 AM EDT Reads: 454 | By Pat Romanski  Internet-of-Things discussions can end up either going down the consumer gadget rabbit hole or focused on the sort of data logging that industrial manufacturers have been doing forever. However, in fact, companies today are already using IoT data both to optimize their operational technology and to improve the experience of customer interactions in novel ways. In his session at @ThingsExpo, Gordon Haff, Red Hat Technology Evangelist, shared examples from a wide range of industries – including en... Aug. 21, 2017 05:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,271 | By Elizabeth White  Detecting internal user threats in the Big Data eco-system is challenging and cumbersome. Many organizations monitor internal usage of the Big Data eco-system using a set of alerts. This is not a scalable process given the increase in the number of alerts with the accelerating growth in data volume and user base. Organizations are increasingly leveraging machine learning to monitor only those data elements that are sensitive and critical, autonomously establish monitoring policies, and to detect... Aug. 21, 2017 04:15 AM EDT Reads: 1,639 | By Liz McMillan  To get the most out of their data, successful companies are not focusing on queries and data lakes, they are actively integrating analytics into their operations with a data-first application development approach. Real-time adjustments to improve revenues, reduce costs, or mitigate risk rely on applications that minimize latency on a variety of data sources. Jack Norris reviews best practices to show how companies develop, deploy, and dynamically update these applications and how this data-first... Aug. 21, 2017 02:45 AM EDT Reads: 1,058 | By Pat Romanski  Intelligent Automation is now one of the key business imperatives for CIOs and CISOs impacting all areas of business today. In his session at 21st Cloud Expo, Brian Boeggeman, VP Alliances & Partnerships at Ayehu, will talk about how business value is created and delivered through intelligent automation to today’s enterprises. The open ecosystem platform approach toward Intelligent Automation that Ayehu delivers to the market is core to enabling the creation of the self-driving enterprise. Aug. 21, 2017 02:30 AM EDT Reads: 1,275 | By Liz McMillan  "We're a cybersecurity firm that specializes in engineering security solutions both at the software and hardware level. Security cannot be an after-the-fact afterthought, which is what it's become," stated Richard Blech, Chief Executive Officer at Secure Channels, in this SYS-CON.tv interview at @ThingsExpo, held November 1-3, 2016, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA. Aug. 20, 2017 11:30 PM EDT Reads: 6,632 | By Pat Romanski  Consumers increasingly expect their electronic "things" to be connected to smart phones, tablets and the Internet. When that thing happens to be a medical device, the risks and benefits of connectivity must be carefully weighed. Once the decision is made that connecting the device is beneficial, medical device manufacturers must design their products to maintain patient safety and prevent compromised personal health information in the face of cybersecurity threats.
In his session at @ThingsExpo... Aug. 20, 2017 10:00 PM EDT Reads: 1,559 | By Liz McMillan  SYS-CON Events announced today that Massive Networks will exhibit at SYS-CON's 21st International Cloud Expo®, which will take place on Oct 31 – Nov 2, 2017, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA. Massive Networks mission is simple. To help your business operate seamlessly with fast, reliable, and secure internet and network solutions. Improve your customer's experience with outstanding connections to your cloud. Aug. 20, 2017 10:00 PM EDT Reads: 1,705 | By Liz McMillan  The question before companies today is not whether to become intelligent, it’s a question of how and how fast. The key is to adopt and deploy an intelligent application strategy while simultaneously preparing to scale that intelligence. In her session at 21st Cloud Expo, Sangeeta Chakraborty, Chief Customer Officer at Ayasdi, will provide a tactical framework to become a truly intelligent enterprise, including how to identify the right applications for AI, how to build a Center of Excellence to ... Aug. 20, 2017 10:00 PM EDT Reads: 918 | By Pat Romanski  From 2013, NTT Communications has been providing cPaaS service, SkyWay. Its customer’s expectations for leveraging WebRTC technology are not only typical real-time communication use cases such as Web conference, remote education, but also IoT use cases such as remote camera monitoring, smart-glass, and robotic. Because of this, NTT Communications has numerous IoT business use-cases that its customers are developing on top of PaaS. WebRTC will lead IoT businesses to be more innovative and address... Aug. 20, 2017 09:30 PM EDT Reads: 1,019 | By Elizabeth White  Because IoT devices are deployed in mission-critical environments more than ever before, it’s increasingly imperative they be truly smart. IoT sensors simply stockpiling data isn’t useful. IoT must be artificially and naturally intelligent in order to provide more value
In his session at @ThingsExpo, John Crupi, Vice President and Engineering System Architect at Greenwave Systems, will discuss how IoT artificial intelligence (AI) can be carried out via edge analytics and machine learning techn... Aug. 20, 2017 08:45 PM EDT Reads: 1,320 | By Elizabeth White  Everything run by electricity will eventually be connected to the Internet. Get ahead of the Internet of Things revolution and join Akvelon expert and IoT industry leader, Sergey Grebnov, in his session at @ThingsExpo, for an educational dive into the world of managing your home, workplace and all the devices they contain with the power of machine-based AI and intelligent Bot services for a completely streamlined experience. Aug. 20, 2017 08:45 PM EDT Reads: 2,148 | By Yeshim Deniz  SYS-CON Events announced today that GrapeUp, the leading provider of rapid product development at the speed of business, will exhibit at SYS-CON's 21st International Cloud Expo®, which will take place October 31-November 2, 2017, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA. Grape Up is a software company, specialized in cloud native application development and professional services related to Cloud Foundry PaaS. With five expert teams that operate in various sectors of the market acr... Aug. 20, 2017 08:00 PM EDT Reads: 4,477 | By Yeshim Deniz  SYS-CON Events announced today that Datera, that offers a radically new data management architecture, has been named "Exhibitor" of SYS-CON's 21st International Cloud Expo ®, which will take place on Oct 31 - Nov 2, 2017, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA.
Datera is transforming the traditional datacenter model through modern cloud simplicity.
The technology industry is at another major inflection point. The rise of mobile, the Internet of Things, data storage and Big... Aug. 20, 2017 07:15 PM EDT Reads: 2,109 | By Elizabeth White  In his opening keynote at 20th Cloud Expo, Michael Maximilien, Research Scientist, Architect, and Engineer at IBM, discussed the full potential of the cloud and social data requires artificial intelligence. By mixing Cloud Foundry and the rich set of Watson services, IBM's Bluemix is the best cloud operating system for enterprises today, providing rapid development and deployment of applications that can take advantage of the rich catalog of Watson services to help drive insights from the vast t... Aug. 20, 2017 06:45 PM EDT Reads: 3,272 | By Yeshim Deniz  SYS-CON Events announced today that CA Technologies has been named "Platinum Sponsor" of SYS-CON's 21st International Cloud Expo®, which will take place October 31-November 2, 2017, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA. CA Technologies helps customers succeed in a future where every business - from apparel to energy - is being rewritten by software. From planning to development to management to security, CA creates software that fuels transformation for companies in the applic... Aug. 20, 2017 05:30 PM EDT Reads: 1,245 | By Liz McMillan  Recently, IoT seems emerging as a solution vehicle for data analytics on real-world scenarios from setting a room temperature setting to predicting a component failure of an aircraft. Compared with developing an application or deploying a cloud service, is an IoT solution unique? If so, how? How does a typical IoT solution architecture consist? And what are the essential components and how are they relevant to each other? How does the security play out? What are the best practices in formulating... Aug. 20, 2017 03:45 PM EDT Reads: 1,480 | By Liz McMillan  In his session at @ThingsExpo, Arvind Radhakrishnen discussed how IoT offers new business models in banking and financial services organizations with the capability to revolutionize products, payments, channels, business processes and asset management built on strong architectural foundation. The following topics were covered: How IoT stands to impact various business parameters including customer experience, cost and risk management within BFS organizations. Aug. 20, 2017 03:00 PM EDT Reads: 1,450 |
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I have had the opportunity to work for and around a good many start-ups during the course of my career. Often the start-up founders would simply define a problem, develop a solution and launch a company. The marketing department would then do their very best to identify the individuals in each target company that experienced the problem and had a budget to fix it. This was always a challenging task, that has become even harder today.
In the cloud era, you as an IT professional are being forced to adopt new roles and take on new responsibilities you may not feel equipped to handle. Businesses are becoming increasingly hybrid, leaving you to manage, secure, monitor, and remediate technology on-premises and in the cloud. Of course, this comes with risks because it means you must manage mission-critical layers of application services across networks, systems, and services you neither own nor control. In fact, in many cases, you may not even have visibility into all the environments you’re responsible to ensure the performance ...
Increasingly, in a world of compressed times and distances, humans will be the inventors, designers and managers of digital systems and processes, rather than the operators. Operations will be measured in milliseconds, an inhumane speed where only the machines can deliver.
Professor Paul Virilio, a philosopher of speed, urbanist and cultural theorist, wrote at length about the impact of speed on society. He wrote that speed compresses both time and distance. Where once it took a letter 6 months to get to the other side of the world, an email can now arrive in seconds. Today's near real-tim...
In 2016, artificial intelligence (AI) reached its climax. Research and advisory firm Tractica predicted that the annual worldwide AI revenue will grow from $643.7 million in 2016 to $38.8 billion by 2025. The revenue for enterprise AI applications will increase from $358 million in 2016 to $31.2 billion by 2025, representing a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 64.3%. Thus, IT and business decision makers must face up to the potentials of AI already today. For each kind of organization this leads to the question, which type of technologies or infrastructure they can leverage to operate an A...
Any significant business process that can be documented and best practices identified - will be. Any defined process that can be standardized - will be. Standardized processes that can be codified and automated (through robotic software automation), will be - if the volume justifies it. If the process is repeatable across many companies it will be offered as a shared service on a platform in a cloud.
I recently had the opportunity to give a 10-minute keynote at DataWorks Summit 2017. I know what most of you are thinking: Schmarzo can barely introduce himself in 10 minutes! What sort of keynote could he give in just 10 minutes? And to be honest, I too struggled with what to say.
But after some brainstorming with my marketing experts (Jeff Abbott, Erin Banks, and Chris Hill), we came up with an idea: Pose 5 questions that every organization needs to consider as they prepare themselves for digital transformation. And while I didn’t have enough time in 10 minutes to answer those questions...
In preparation for General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) compliance, a global 100 financial services organization embarked on a journey to assess its core information processing environments with the objective of identifying opportunities to strengthen its data privacy protection programs. This article focuses on the technology challenges, approach, and lessons learned for the centralized testing environment.
Existing Big Data solutions are mainly focused on the discovery and analysis of data. The solutions are scalable and highly available but tedious when swapping in and swapping out occurs in disarray and thrashing takes place. The resolution for thrashing through machine learning algorithms and support nomenclature is through simple techniques. Organizations that have been collecting large customer data are increasingly seeing the need to use the data for swapping in and out and thrashing occurs in both transaction processing and online analytical processing. Therefore, there is a growing need ...
Having a well-rounded brand strategy helps you identify the marketing channels you must focus on, and defines every aspect of how your business is viewed by your customers.
Marketing and advertising is an integral component of every business. The US Small Business Administration recommends that businesses with do under $5 million in gross sales and whose net profit margin is in the 10-12% should spend at least 7-8% of their gross revenue in marketing and advertising. In other words, if you are doing $100,000 in annual revenue, you should be spending around $8,000 a year in advertising your b...
SYS-CON Events announced today that DXWorldExpo has been named “Global Sponsor” of SYS-CON's 21st International Cloud Expo, which will take place on Oct 31 – Nov 2, 2017, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA. Digital Transformation is the key issue driving the global enterprise IT business. Digital Transformation is most prominent among Global 2000 enterprises and government institutions.
There are several reasons why businesses migrate their operations to the cloud. Scalability and price are among the most important factors determining this transition. Unlike legacy systems, cloud based businesses can scale on demand. The database and applications in the cloud are not rendered simply from one server located in your headquarters, but is instead distributed across several servers across the world. Such CDNs also bring about greater control in times of uncertainty. A database hack can be easily averted by shutting down the breached server and only rendering from servers that are ...
When shopping for a new data processing platform for IoT solutions, many development teams want to be able to test-drive options before making a choice. Yet when evaluating an IoT solution, it’s simply not feasible to do so at scale with physical devices. Building a sensor simulator is the next best choice; however, generating a realistic simulation at very high TPS with ease of configurability is a formidable challenge. When dealing with multiple application or transport protocols, you would be looking at some significant engineering investment.
On-demand, serverless computing enables deve...
We all probably remember the movie (“Jurassic Park”), even if we don’t remember this exact scene: Dr. Malcolm, played by Jeff Goldblum is explaining Chaos Theory to Dr. Ellie Sattler, played by Laura Dern.
Dr. Malcolm is explaining how random, seemingly negligible events can disrupt even the most carefully laid out plans.
Dr. Ian Malcolm: [after the T-Rex failed to appear for the tour group]. “You see a Tyrannosaur doesn’t follow a set pattern or park schedules, the essence of chaos.”
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, presented an industry answer to the common question, “Are you running IT operations as efficiently and as cost effectively as you need to?” He then expounded on the industry issues he frequently came up against as an analyst, and how this led him to found OpsDataStore. He also discussed how data-driven IT operations will save mo...
In the blog “From Autonomous to Smart: Importance of Artificial Intelligence,” we discussed the two critical artificial intelligence (AI) challenges in creating “smart” edge devices:
Artificial Intelligence Challenge #1: How do the Artificial Intelligence algorithms handle the unexpected, such as flash flooding, terrorist attacks, earthquakes, tornadoes, police car chases, emergency vehicles, blown tires, a child chasing a ball into the street, etc.?
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