The mobile space is constantly evolving, and a recent survey published by Red Hat found that back-end integration and security were the two most rapidly changing areas of the mobile landscape.
With Docker Multi-Host networking, you can create virtual networks and add containers. Bridge networks can cater to single host, while overlay networks are for multiple hosts. Learn about Docker bridge and overlay networks, and see what happens when a bridge or overlay already exists.
Smart farming is a concept quickly catching on in the agricultural business. Offering high-precision crop control, useful data collection, and automated farming techniques, there are clearly many advantages a networked farm has to offer.
If there have been wide array of successful consumer apps like Angry Bird or WhatsApp or DropBox. After years of reign in the publicity focus finally these consumer apps giants understood the importance of offering enterprise grade features. In last few years suddenly the focus shifted to enterprise mobile apps. Rapid development, tracking or monitoring apps, wearable apps, Internet of Things Apps, Geo-location technologies like iBeacon and Geofencing in business apps, the list of emerging app niches and technologies seem to be too long. Let us have a quick look at some of the most definitive app niches and technologies in recent times. Enterprise apps While smartphones and mobile devices continue to move off the shelves and millions of apps continue to make the app stores brimming with energy, activity and competition, most consumer app still fail to make a earning to survive beyond the year of their launch. This has been the sordid storyline for consumer apps for years. So, for some time the focus of developers is shifting towards enterprise apps. Moreover, now businesses are bent on going mobile and they are keen to develop apps that make their business process more productive. Although enterprise mobile apps have just started to take off this new and broad app niche already shown huge promise to take over consumer apps in just more than a year down the line. Rapid development As enterprises now focusing all out to embrace mobile apps in their business process, the new demand of enterprise grade apps made rapid development cycle obvious. When winning competition for businesses is boiling down to a fast and user focused mobile presence, fast paced development will naturally be the rule. This overwhelming demand of business apps and enterprise grade software made rapid development a criterion in the present scenario. Shortening the development lifecycle has now become the major focus for most mobile app development companies around the world. Mobile monitoring apps Wide adaptation of mobile devices and apps among all age groups and people in recent years gave rise to certain concerns. Child security concern, parental concern for negative influence on children, employer’s concern on employee productivity and information security, etc. are some of the major concerns centered on the mobile devices. IOS or Android monitoring software, child phone tracker apps, mobile spy software, text message tracking apps, are few of the app types getting increasingly popular these days to address the aforementioned concerns in family or workplace environments. Internet of Things (IOT) apps The world around us is becoming connected with the mobile devices and gadgets and devices around us are increasingly finding themselves equipped with mobile control interface. This new horizon of interconnected devices is referred as Internet of Things or IOT. Now an electric toaster can be controlled from its respective app on the mobile device. Similarly, the music system with the respective mobile app can be turned on and off, tuned in and given other commands. This new breed of apps is being called IOT apps. Wearable apps The smartphones or smart mobile devices are now playing the central role in connecting all types of wearable smart devices. Most smartwatch apps are still now in character only the extension of their mobile counterparts. But as smartwatch is slowly picking up to be the next big device platform as commonest wearable, a new breed of apps are being developed targeting smartwatch and wearable users besides offering their respective mobile apps as well. From smart jewelries to health trackers and fitness bands to optically mounted computers like Google Glass, these new wearable devices will be the target development platform for a vast majority of mobile app developers in the time to come. More user-optimized mobile UI design UI design is presently the most focus driven area for mobile app development around the world. Experiments and analysis on making UIs better and user optimized is continuing and a wide variety of new techniques and design approaches are giving birth to unprecedented level of excellence in user experience. From motivational design to flat design to and playful interfaces, we have come across quite a few dominating design trends and techniques. Geo-location technologies Contextual and user specific push notification is the new maneuver to engage users with a mobile app and to garner revenue from the process. This cannot be better done than by knowing the user location. When you know the location of a user close to your retail shop you can notify him with an offer to grab his attention and push him for a visit to your store. Thus knowing the user location translates to far better contextual and business driven messaging and notifications. Several mobile friendly Geo-location technologies like iBeacon, Geofencing, Geomagnetics, etc. are there to let you integrate location based user engagement features in your app.
Double the throughput and lower latency than the leading global cloud providers between the US and Europe in independent comparison research London & New York, 1 July, 2015. Interoute has today announced that its global cloud platform Interoute Virtual Data Centre (VDC), has been proven to deliver nearly double the throughput across the Atlantic than the next best cloud provider in comparison research conducted by Cloud Spectator. The research from March 2015 compared Interoute VDC with three leading cloud providers (Amazon AWS, Rackspace and Microsoft Azure), testing network throughput and latency between Europe and USA and between providers' European data centres. In all of the comparisons, Interoute VDC demonstrated the highest throughputs and lowest latencies. Cloud Spectator's full research report, and more information about Interoute VDC's performance and features, can be viewed here: http://bit.ly/1GHyzwJ Network performance is a significant factor in cloud computing for business services requiring the highest network capacity (throughput) and the shortest possible time from the server to the client (latency), to meet the needs of the businesses and their users. Innovating new applications and business services in the cloud needs network performance to match and this report shows the advantages of building the cloud into a huge global high performance network. Key research findings: Transatlantic: Interoute VDC delivered 1.1 Gbit/s throughput, which was 96% better than Amazon AWS, 141% better than Rackspace, and 195% better than Microsoft Azure. Interoute VDC had the lowest latency, between its London and New York data centres. Interoute was the only provider in the comparison with both of its transatlantic data centres located in key business cities, meaning that VDC users can access compute and storage resources, and deliver data to their customers, from two centres of European and US business activity. Within Europe: Interoute VDC achieved 1.3 Gbit/s throughput between its London and Amsterdam data centres. This was 52% better than Amazon AWS (Dublin - Frankfurt) and 73% better than Microsoft Azure (Dublin - Amsterdam) Interoute VDC achieved a latency of 6 milliseconds between London and Amsterdam, over three times better than the inter-data centre latency of the comparison providers. Matthew Finnie, CTO of Interoute, commented: "This independent report confirms and validates our networked cloud strategy. Building cloud into a world class network provides our customers with significantly better performance when compared with the traditional cloud models. Businesses looking to grow between Europe and US should definitely be looking at the importance of these network characteristics for their ability to shift workloads into the cloud. Interoute's fourteen global zones are all built into high performance network with over 300 interconnects in Europe alone. So wherever you choose to put your data and connect to us, your services are typically going to perform faster on Interoute than on many other global providers." Danny Gee, Senior Analyst, Cloud Spectator: "Users want to transfer large amounts of data between data centres quickly. Our study revealed that for a trans-Atlantic connection between cloud data centers, Interoute provided the highest throughput and lowest latency out of AWS, Rackspace and Azure. Interoute also had the higher network throughput and lowest latency in European testing compared to Azure and AWS (Rackspace was excluded, having only one location in Europe), making it a good option for users operating servers within this region. Interoute also provided the best latency, ideal for real-time communications. Users running geographically dispersed environments for such things as geo-redundancy would benefit from Interoute's high performance cloud connectivity."
Value-Driven SON® provides the right mobile network experience for the right customers at the right time Cellwize, the innovative Self-Organizing Networks provider, has revealed how its Value-Driven SON® solution can provide mobile operators with the means to ensure better customer experience for selected audiences, thereby driving new business for operators. Cellwize’ Value-Driven SON shifts the value generated by the network to the end customer – moving from a Network-Centric SON to a Customer-Centric activity. The latest whitepaper from Cellwize “Value-Driven SON – Putting the Customer at the Network’s Center” is a must read for forward thinking operators who are introducing customer-focused metrics. As operators globally look to maximize user satisfaction, several are using metrics to measure quality of experience (QoE), net promoter scores (NPS) and data service revenues. In fact some are starting to use the term Key Quality Indicator (KQI) to describe these metrics and distinguish them from the more operational KPIs. And, unlike KPIs, KQI’s are generally at a customer level – either for selected customers or a segment of customers. “We believe that SON should be driven by the business objectives of the operator and not by the immediate need to reduce complexity and costs in the network itself,” said Ofir Zemer, CEO of Cellwize. “And since operator’s business objectives aim to deliver superior value to various groups of end-users; Value-Driven SON allows mobile operators to turn this value to enhanced revenue. Value-Driven SON connects customer insight generated in and around the network with network optimization technology, and is driven by the operators’ business goals. Ultimately, the network is there to serve a purpose and the shift to the user will enable a quicker path for operators to deliver better performance and better user experience.” The Whitepaper illustrates the benefits of a customer-centric approach with Value-Driven SON through two types of use cases: commuters and enterprise customers. The first depicts Value-Driven SON for Space & Time use cases - prioritizing network resources to meet the demand of commuters along a specific route experiencing poor service quality, such as dropped calls, session termination, latency and data throughput. The second, explains how Value-Driven SON can prioritize and maximize network performance for a defined group of customers e.g. enterprise customers. Download the whitepaper to find out more about “Value-Driven SON®: Putting the Customer at the Network’s Center”. Additional information Cellwize elastic-SON® and Value Driven-SON®
Alpnames becomes the second largest registrar for new domain endings Wednesday 24th June 2015, Gibraltar: Alpnames smashed through the half million mark last night in terms of domain under management. As an ICANN accredited registrar specialising in new generic Top Level Domains, Alpnames manages nearly 8% of all new gTLD names registered to date making it the second most popular new gTLD registrar after the industry giant GoDaddy and recently overtaking the first and longest standing registrar Network Solutions (part of web.com). “We are delighted with the extraordinary growth of Alpnames” said Damon Barnard, Chief Operations Officer at Alpnames. “Our decision to focus on bringing competitively priced new domain extensions to the attention of Internet users, who might be frustrated at the lack of affordable domain names under .COM, is clearly the right one” There is currently a massive change happening in the Internet Name space meaning that domain names can now end in almost any series of letters such as .science, .party or .club. ICANN, the body that regulates names on the internet, relaxed the rules on internet domain extensions in 2013 in order to promote competition, innovation and consumer choice. Currently, over 5.75 million domain names have been registered in nearly 640 new domain extensions. These so called new generic Top Level Domains (gTLDs) will form the backbone of the next generation of the Internet, opening up the web to a whole host of new possibilities. “Alpnames is proud to be a leading player in the new era of domain names” continued Barnard. “We intend to continue bringing new domain names to Internet users at affordable prices; names that help define communities of interest online and assist Internet users in navigating to websites that provide the content or interaction that they are looking for.” With more than 500,000 web addresses under management, Alpnames is one of the fastest growing domain name registrars in history.
Business leaders today are becoming more aware of the many ways social knowledge networks can bring value to an organization. Communication is enhanced, knowledge is organized and accessible, products and customer service are improved, and business culture is strengthened through team collaboration. However, what many business leaders are failing to remember is that finding the right technology is only the first step in implementing a successful social knowledge network. The technology must be paired with smart planning and a well-thought-out structure. Elizabeth Lupfer, social collaboration and HR expert, claims, “A social knowledge network is one part technology and two parts process. The technology is only an enabler, and may only be worth 20 percent of the total value of the intranet.” The other 80 percent of value is created through effective structure and long-lasting employee engagement. We have researched and created a 10-step social knowledge network success plan that if implemented properly can maximize the value of any social knowledge network. Have a plan. Taking the time to create a social knowledge network implementation plan for your organization ensures managers and employees are motivated and committed to maximizing the value of the network. The network will only become as valuable as managers and employees plan to make it. Setting expectations for productivity and engagement ahead of time is important. Give employees a detailed explanation of how the social knowledge network connects to the organizational purpose. Communicate the value and purpose of the social knowledge network. Employees must clearly understand how the social knowledge network will contribute to the organizational purpose, long term and short term goals of the organization, and their individual role. Set up the organization and structure of the intranet at the beginning. Understand the priorities of each department, region, and team within your organization and how they connect. Who communicates with whom the most? What knowledge is of most value to each team? Your social knowledge network structure should enhance easy collaboration between individuals who value the information being shared. Thinking about the structure of your social knowledge network in advance will allow for easier search capabilities in the network and less time wasted sifting through information that is not relevant. Define roles and expectations around engagement for employees. Collaboration can be encouraged by asking employees to share projects and knowledge on the social knowledge network so that all team members are on the same page and no question is asked twice. Create and announce objectives with time-specific deadlines. It is important to create quantitative and time-specific objectives for your social knowledge network, such as “60 percent of users will have contributed some knowledge to our social knowledge network by June 30th.” Creating measurable engagement expectations will encourage employees to actively work towards the objective and increase network participation toward a common goal. Assign key social knowledge network ambassadors to start and maintain collaboration. Have people in your organization serve as the “ambassadors” of the social knowledge network. The ambassadors will be the network’s support, taking care of employee questions and concerns about the social knowledge network and asking the correct individuals for answers when they don’t know the answer themselves. Get the CEO and top level management involved. CEO and top-level involvement in a social knowledge network is very valuable, as employees pay special attention to what leaders have to share. Top level management should post openly about company activities to keep employees inspired about the broader picture of the organization. Management contributions should push brand, company culture, and core values. Industry and competitor news, trends, and expectations should be shared by management as well. Determine and reward achievement of Key Performance Indicators. Financial and non-financial benefits are important ways to encourage employee engagement in your social knowledge network. Gift cards, time off, or simple acknowledgment given to active users are good ways to inspire employees to participate more. Rewards given to the most active team or department will encourage group involvement and can be a great way to spark participation. Upload company documents and shared files. Ensure that your social knowledge network is the main place to access information, forms, presentations, and documents of all kinds. Keep all documents updated and organized so that they are accurate and searchable within the platform. Onboarding information, required customer forms, sales presentations, marketing tools, company calendars, and price lists should all be easily accessible on your social knowledge network. This will immediately spark network participation because these documents are needed by many people in your organization who will now access them through your social knowledge network. Be social! Although your social knowledge network should be a valuable business tool, there are many benefits of adding social, non-business related activity. Social activity on your network will create increased openness, allowing employees to get to know each other better and become more comfortable with sharing thoughts and opinions. Adding personal employee profile contributions, weekly peer-to-peer shout-outs for special accomplishments, employee group activities outside of work, or even posting something humorous once a week can help your social knowledge network become more open and fun, drawing employees back to check and use the network more often. Finding the right social knowledge network software for your organization is only the start. Research from the 2014 Social Business Global Executive Study shows only 17 percent of respondents see their organization as having mature social business practices. Following these steps will help you successfully integrate your social knowledge network into the flow of work. Once your organization becomes a true social business, you’ll see measurable value in improved innovation, talent management, and operations. If you are interested in learning more about how a knowledge base can break down silos within your organization, check out our white paper, Proving the Value: Getting Internal Buy-In for a Knowledge Base. Like this post? Click here to subscribe to our blog and receive the latest content on social learning, customer support, sales enablement, or all three.
COLOGNE, Germany – June 22, 2015 – ParStream, the IoT analytics company, today announced its participation at the TDWI Munich Conference 2015, one of the largest gatherings of expert Business Intelligence, Big Data and data warehousing leaders and educators in Europe. The conference will take place June 22-24, 2015 at the MOC Order and Event Center in Munich, Germany. Albert Aschauer, Sales Director DACH at ParStream, will present on requirements for an analytics platform for the Internet of Things (IoT) based on real-world use cases from the renewable energy and telecommunications industries. Big Data, fast data, edge analytics and real-time insights are driving new technology innovation to meet the demand for getting more value from IoT data. Additional details on the speaking session are below. What: “Requirements of an Analytics Platform for the Internet of Things” When: Monday, June 22, 2015 at 11:35 a.m. CEST Who: Albert Aschauer, Sales Director DACH at ParStream Where: MOC Munich, Germany – Room F112 To schedule a one-on-one meeting with Albert Aschauer and ParStream at TDWI Munich Conference 2015, send an email to events(at)parstream(dot)com.
The common scenario for the mobile IoT Gateways is to cache collected data locally on the device storage and synchronizing the data with the data center.
At Red Hat's Virtual Event, Building Data-driven Solutions for the Internet of Things, Kenneth Peeples spoke about connecting to the IoT with the MQTT protocol.
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