Director- Product Marketing – Enterprise

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We’re disrupting IT infrastructure and rewriting the rules of cloud for enterprises, developers, and service providers, and we want your help. As a Product Marketing leader for the enterprise market segment, you’ll play a critical role in successfully driving our product value proposition through our online, direct, and indirect channels owing to your understanding of the current ecosystem, developing a suite of tools and communications vehicles to help customer and influencer awareness of the payoff of adopting and scaling out with Mirantis OpenStack. You will help define the story, both in terms of crisp narrative and comprehensive, accurate supporting details for the enterprise market segment. You will work with marketing, sales and product BUs to help evangelize that story in the marketplace and community through vehicles like blogging, analyst meetings, industry events, annotated slide presentations, short videos, data sheets, white papers and customer case studies. You’ll also work directly with our commercial and technical sales teams worldwide to make them successful telling the Mirantis story and using it to build and grow our lead in the market. Key Responsibilities:Own product marketing for Mirantis OpenStack for the enterprise market segment; you will also be the “horizontal” product marketing owner responsible for product marketing activities that don’t fit into any specific market segment.Perform primary and secondary market research (end-users, go-to-market partners, resellers) to understand market problems, current solutions, key metrics, and buying processesDevelop a detailed go-to-market strategy; define personas and buyer’s journey for your market segmentProvide key market segment use-cases,  requirements, and competitive analysisEnsure messaging is clearly defined and consistently communicated to the marketDevelop and deliver tools and training to support the full sales cycleHelp direct product launchesServe as product evangelist in customer meetings, conferences and other forums.What We’re Looking For:5+ years experience in product marketing for software technology products,    preferably cloud and/ or open-source. Prior OpenStack experience is a plus.Deep understanding of the enterprise space. Intimate understanding of key business problems in the space, top IT initiatives, budgeting, industry forums, standard groups, and buying process. Experience with the financial services industry is a plus.Technical competence – ability to translate complex technical concepts into clear and compelling languageTrack record in launching high-technology productsExperience marketing through a variety of routes – direct, indirect, inboundExcellent written and verbal communication skills, including public speakingStrong interpersonal and team skills and the ability to interact with customers, partners and foster cross-functional teamwork among sales, marketing, and product teamsBachelor’s degree is required. MBA a plusThe post Director- Product Marketing – Enterprise appeared first on Mirantis | Pure Play Open Cloud.
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Container Network Segmentation in OpenShift with Aporeto Trireme

Aporeto is proud to partner with Red Hat OpenShift on an implementation of network segmentation enforcement of the Kubernetes network policy via Trireme. Trireme is an open-source network enforcer that reads the network policy defined in OpenShift and Kubernetes and defends your application at the source – at the initial TCP 3-way handshake.
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How IBM Cloud Product Insights fuels transformation

The New York Yankees didn’t build a baseball empire overnight.
I remind myself of that constantly as I prepare my team of 7-to-8 year-old aspiring major leaguers to battle for baseball royalty in the smallish hamlet of Wendell, N.C.
Some kids arrived at our inaugural practice with sound fundamentals and an unexpected mastery of baseball lingo. Others, ten practices in, still struggle with differentiating left field from right.
As such, it’s been necessary to teach the game in layers and not overwhelm the attention-challenged youngsters, many of whom would just as soon build sand forts in the infield as fielding a firmly-struck ground ball.
Clearly, I have trouble relating.
When I think about digital transformation, there are some undeniable parallels. Like building a winning baseball club, transformation also doesn’t occur overnight. And there are clear steps to be taken for a successful shift.
The first step towards digital transformation begins with understanding your existing IT environment. You need to know how well you are utilizing the middleware and infrastructure that supports your critical applications. For years, companies have invested heavily in these mostly on-premises assets, but IT staffs often lack visibility into how well they are being leveraged.
How can you plan for the future if you don’t have a good baseline for the present?
To aid with this challenge, we recently released IBM Cloud Product Insights. A new software as a service (SaaS) offering available on IBM Bluemix, IBM Cloud Product Insights provides IT staff with visibility into IBM enterprise software usage as well as cross-product inventory tracking—all from a single dashboard.
This solves a significant challenge for IT administrators and capacity planners at large companies. After years of investing in and deploying enterprise software, administrators are still using spreadsheets as the mechanism to track software instances and version levels. It can be even more difficult to keep pace with nimble, born on digital competitors when you’re stuck in a spreadsheet.
The reason: without fully understanding what you have within your environment and how well existing investments are being utilized, it’s difficult to make astute decisions on future investment on innovative cloud capabilities.
IBM Cloud Product Insights more than fills this gap. Not only does it provide visibility into your connected software instances, versions, and insights into usage, it also provides intelligent recommendations on available cloud services.  This is step two in your journey towards digital transformation.
Recommendations are tailored to your connected environment and are intended to provide insight into what is available to optimize your existing IT investments. In other words, IBM Cloud Product Insights recommends new opportunities to make what you already have running even better, helping you squeeze the most value out of your hybrid environment.
To put it another way: we recognize that our clients’ journeys into digital transformation aren’t a sudden lift-and-shift into the public cloud. The fastest path to better business outcomes is to embrace existing investments and add new cloud capabilities on top, fueling innovation.
Simply stated, we embrace hybrid cloud around here.
Today, IBM Cloud Product Insights supports most IBM middleware products, including IBM WebSphere, IBM MQ, IBM Integration Bus and IBM Operational Decision Manager. Support for additional IBM products will be added soon.
IBM Product Insights is available to you at no cost and is available from IBM Bluemix. Get connected and accelerate your team’s home-run digital transformation journey today.
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The breadth and reach of the OpenShift marketplace

In 2017, at a time when we are often drowning in data, we can still struggle to understand the dynamics of any given market. Sometimes this is because accounting guidelines prevent or discourage private or public companies from disclosing information. Other times the data is overly transparent, but it can also be meaningless without the […]
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WatchOver’s app and GPS tracker watch help ensure child safety

Many parents use apps to keep tabs on their children starting the day those children get their first smartphones.
Working parents can see that their children got on the bus in the morning and check on them after school, without needing to call or text. Parents of new drivers can have peace of mind knowing their children arrived safely where they said they would go.
But what about younger children who don’t have a smartphone?
That’s where WatchOver comes in. It’s like a guardian angel for children between the ages of two and 10.
Safety insight
WatchOver is a GPS tracker in a watch that enables parents to locate children through a smartphone app. For example, if a child were to get lost at a zoo or amusement park, a parent would be able to find out quickly where that child is.
What sets WatchOver apart is its safety insight. It incorporates current, local news so parents know  what is going on in the vicinity of their children.
Software Productivity Strategists (SPS) developed WatchOver using IBM Bluemix, incorporating the Watson Alchemy Data News API. The back end is a node.js app hosted on the Bluemix cloud, using the IBM Bluemix Internet of Things (IoT) Foundation and the Geo-Spatial Analytics service.
When a boundary is crossed
The app shows the current location of the children on a Google Map, but it does not require constant monitoring. Parents create a boundary using geo-fences and receive a push notification when a child crosses a boundary.
WatchOver filters news from sources all over the world and notifies parents in real time if something occurs that might have an impact on their children.
Keeping parents informed
Every parent’s worst nightmare is a security incident at their child’s school. For example, imagine a bomb threat at an elementary school. Many parents wouldn’t even know something is amiss. The parent tracking their child’s whereabouts with a regular smartphone would see that the child left the school in the middle of the day, but have no idea why. It wouldn’t be long before panic set in. Phone lines could be tied up. If they’re lucky, parents would receive an automated message dispatched before everyone evacuated.
The parent whose child was wearing a WatchOver device would see that their child crossed the geofence boundary and have access to data parsed and identified by Watson explaining what is going on.
Furthermore, the GPS tracker watch has both call receiving and dialing capabilities, as well as an SOS feature. In case of emergency, when the child presses the SOS button, it launches a call and message to three primary numbers registered as emergency contacts.
Peace of mind
Parents using WatchOver’s GPS tracker watch can speak to their children and learn that they are being moved to a reunification site, which the parent can see on the map in their WatchOver app.
SPS originally created WatchOver as an entry in a global, Avnet-sponsored virtual hackathon. SPS sought a platform that would enable it to quickly build a system that includes an IoT device, a back-end app using cognitive algorithms to analyze unstructured data and a mobile app.
The essential foundation
It would not have been possible to build the GPS tracker watch over the 19-day hackathon without Bluemix. The Watson cognitive algorithms used are not available on any other platform, and the ability to analyze the local news and alert parents is one of WatchOver’s key differentiators.
SPS won the hackathon, beating 100 other contestants.
Learn more about WatchOver.
Both Paul Lebar and Sadia Ashraf, WatchOver’s lead developer, were named IBM Cloud Champions for 2017. The IBM Champion program recognizes innovative thought leaders in the technical community who influence and mentor others to help them make best use of IBM software, solutions, and services
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ASP.NET on OpenShift part 5: Models in the MVC

PART 5 – Models: As we’ve been seeing in this series so far, MVC stands for Model-View-Controller. In the first two parts, I talked about the Controller. In the last two parts, we went over Views and putting your project on OpenShift. In this fifth and final part of the MVC series, I’m going to write about Models.
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[Video Tour] Openshift Monitoring Tools with Sysdig

In previous blog posts we dove into the specifics of how to monitor OpenShift – so now it’s time to sit back and enjoy the show. We wanted to show you what a state-of-the art OpenShift monitoring tool looks like, using Sysdig OpenShift Monitoring as an example. In this short video, we’re going to answer a few key questions by demonstrating using this tool for monitoring of a container application platform built on OpenShift.
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Kubernetes deep dive: API Server – part 1

Welcome to the Kubernetes deep dive blog post series. We, that is, Stefan Schimanski (Engineering) and Michael Hausenblas (Advocacy), will dive into specific aspects of Kubernetes and how they’re utilized within OpenShift. If you’re interested in the inner workings of Kubernetes and how to debug it, this blog post series is for you. Also, if you want to extend Kubernetes or start contributing to the project, you might benefit from it. Familiarity with Go is an advantage but not a hard requirement to follow along.

In this installment we start with a general introduction of the Kubernetes API Server, provide some terminology and explain the API request flow. Future posts will cover storage-related topics and extensibility points of the API Server.
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What PureApplication solves for hybrid cloud management

Digital disruption can damage businesses that don’t adapt to new technology quickly enough. So how can any company speed deployments of critical software to ensure they’re not missing opportunities?
First you need to design the infrastructure to your own specifications, allowing for plenty of flexibility when selecting the best hardware for managing your unique application environments. You also need to accelerate and simplify your deployments of these environments.
With the hybrid cloud solution IBM PureApplication, you can do all of the above. Its flexible compute and storage characteristics help you define the infrastructure to meet the needs of your unique use cases.
This flexibility is attractive to companies that have already made significant investments in their architectures. For example, consider a company that has installed a large VMware environment and wants to add platform as a service capabilities. They can enhance their existing VMware software management tools with IBM patterns of expertise on PureApplication across all their unique application environments.
IBM PureApplication also comes with access to PureApplication Software, which allows you to bring your own hardware when an application needs a special kind of input/output performance. Or, for example, if you want to optimize storage technology for your provisioned middleware: by mapping various storage technologies to your VMware datastores, you can select which type of disk technology work best with your middleware.
As you map the disk technology of your choice to block storage devices, such as VMware RDS or  raw managed datastores, you can use PureApplication Software to integrate and manage across your storage. Cloud administrators get full flexibility to choose what storage hardware to map to IBM PureApplication Software.
Furthermore, IBM and Cisco offer a combined, design-validated VersaStack product line. VersaStack meets all the prerequisites of VMware and PureApplication Software, and it’s a great converged hardware platform for use with PureApplication Software. To learn more about the VersaStack combo, visit here.
Being able to use current investments in IT is top-of-mind for organizations. With PureApplication Software, you can bring your own licenses for OS, hypervisor and middleware. This includes existing license agreements for VMware, RedHat Enterprise Server or Microsoft Windows Server.
Pre-sales specialists, IT managers, and decision makers will recognize the business value of PureApplication Software on bring-your-own infrastructure. It provides significant deployment and lifecycle automation for workloads across Linux, IBM platforms, as well as open source tools like Docker, Chef or Puppet. Using PureApp patterns ensures rapid, consistent, error-free deployment of many IBM and non-IBM products across multiple environments, including development, test and production.
There are now many options available for enterprise grade patterns using PureApplication Software on bring your own hardware. Learn how your business can benefit from these combined capabilities. Watch this animation to see how and where PureApplication can fit into your digital journey. Ready to get hands-on to try it with your unique use cases? Trial PureApplication Software today at no cost.
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Lanka Bell and IBM team up to accelerate cloud in Sri Lanka

It just got easier for businesses, developers and government organizations in Sri Lanka to access all the benefits of cloud.
Telecommunications provider Lanka Bell and IBM announced a new agreement to offer public, private and hybrid IBM Cloud services in Sri Lanka, including workload migrations, disaster recovery and capacity expansion solutions. Services available will include infrastructure as a service (IaaS), platform as a service (PaaS), storage and virtual machines.
The offerings can be integrated using IBM Network Access Service solutions.
Lanka Bell hopes to &;help enterprise customers in the country to embrace cloud offerings quickly and easily,&; said Prasad Samarasinghe, the company&;s managing director. Samarasinghe noted that the agreement extends a 20-year partnership between IBM and Lanka Bell.
Learn more about the Lanka Bell and IBM partnership in Lanka Business Online&;s full article.
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