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AccelOps, the three-year-old start-up that monitors data centers, networks
and clouds with software delivered either SaaS or as a virtual appliance, has
enticed Belgacom ICT, the old Belgian PTT's pan-European IT arm, into its
fold.
Belgacom means to use the stuff for its 200 hosted commercial IT services
customers.
AccelOps, which baby-sits service, performance, availability, security and
change management, reportedly won a run-off against competitors like Nimsoft
and Zenoss. Belgacom reportedly liked the idea that the widgetry was
agent-free, multi-tenant as well as multi-site and of course scaled.
AccelOps gives Belgacom, which went into production earlier this year, a
single pane of glass with operations and customer views of all network
devices, systems, applications performance and event-correlated activity as
well as mapped business services.
It should be ... (more)
Taleo, the SaaS-based talent agency that just put ex-Sun CEO Jonathan
Schwartz on its board, is buying its SaaS strategic partner Learn.com for
$125 million cash to expand its cloud offering, thinking it will be "the
world's largest vertical cloud provider."
It says it will make Taleo the only public vendor to offer software across
the four critical components of a talent-optimized organization: recruiting,
performance management, compensation management and now learning management,
a market estimated to be worth $1 billion in 2011 according to Bersin &
Associates.
Learn.com's... (more)
F5 Networks, Inc., the global leader in Application Delivery Networking
(ADN), has been named one of the world’s fastest-growing companies,
according to FORTUNE. F5 is ranked No. 64 among what FORTUNE calls “the
world’s supercharged performers” on its 2010 list of 100 Fastest-Growing
Companies. F5, the only company in its market space to make the list of 100,
ranks No. 17 among the top technology companies.
“It’s truly gratifying for F5 to be recognized by FORTUNE as one of the
world’s fastest-growing companies,” said John McAdam, President and CEO
of F5. “I believe our ability ... (more)
Verizon, which is really into this cloud business - against the day when
phones as we know them evaporate into the ether - and so means to have clouds
for everybody eventually, has added to its very high-end, mission-critical,
totally handheld public cloud of last year.
It's taken VMware's Datacenter widgetry and built a somewhat lower-end hybrid
cloud on its own far-flung global IP network that's gonna be cheaper than its
initial offering and is more for enterprise folks that are already
VMware-virtualized internally and can manage the virtual machines themselves,
folks who wan... (more)
CA is buying Arcot Systems, the privately held subscription-based on-premises
and cloud authentication and fraud prevention ISV, for $200 million cash.
Its software and 165 employees are bound for CA's Identity and Access
Management (IAM) unit to be combined with CA's SiteMinder portfolio and is
supposed to add to the company's cloud security strategy.
Arcot claims to prevent fraudulent transactions for about a million online
credit card transactions a day using a software-only approach. It co-wrote
the 3-D Secure protocol for online payment security with Visa and has 35
patents ... (more)
Cloud Expo Breaking News By Salvatore Genovese  As much as information technology has changed in the last 10 years, the next decade promises even more significant change. And as cloud technology becomes more prevalent, IT enterprises will be driven to reconsider the status quo around just about everything we know, including Physical Infrastructure, Virtualization, Automation, Service Management, and Security.
Cloud technology and virtualization of virtually everything means rethinking the economic models around physical infrastructure, the e... Sep. 3, 2010 01:30 PM EDT Reads: 320 | By Liz McMillan  Virtualization is one of the key foundations of the Cloud, but many enterprises are finding the rapid growth in the number of virtual machines extremely difficult to manage. Far from reducing provisioning times and improving utilization, many organizations have found that “virtualization sprawl” has reduced the effectiveness of their IT infrastructure teams, and failed to make anticipated cost savings. Furthermore, vendor lock-in has resulted in the artificially high expense of maintaining virtu... Sep. 3, 2010 12:47 PM EDT Reads: 335 | By Pat Romanski  You may be reluctant to move your enterprise application workloads to the cloud, fearing a lack of security, compliance issues such as data location regulations, and having to rewrite your applications.
In his keynote at Cloud Expo Prague, Sam Gross, Vice President of Global IT Outsourcing Solutions at Unisys Corporation, discussed the latest technologies and approaches that help knock down these barriers, creating the opportunity for attendees to consider cloud managed services as part of the... Sep. 3, 2010 12:28 PM EDT Reads: 387 | By Elizabeth White  The last decade saw the growth of Virtualization from its humble beginnings as a developer tool to its increasing adoption in data centers worldwide. It dramatically improved resilience, scalability, portability and utilization, and became one of the key foundations of the Cloud. But the story is only just beginning...
In his keynote at Cloud Expo Prague, Pete Malcolm, CEO of Abiquo, discussed where you will learn about the next chapter in the Virtualization story. What it is, what it means, w... Sep. 3, 2010 12:06 PM EDT Reads: 331 | By Pat Romanski  When building a utility or cloud business plan, Wall Street IT can provide important lessons.
In his session at the 7th International Cloud Expo, Mike Tardif, President of Adaptivity, will lay out a blueprint for the CIO on how to define, fund and implement a successful transition from siloed IT to a cloud utility model.
As the President of Adaptivity, Mike Tardif is responsible for overseeing corporate business and product direction and leading the company to achieve its long-term goals. In t... Sep. 3, 2010 08:15 AM EDT Reads: 523 | By Elizabeth White  SYS-CON Events announced today that Webroot, a leading provider in Web and Email Security, will exhibit at SYS-CON's 7th International Cloud Expo, which will take place on November 1–4, 2010, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA.
Webroot provides industry-leading security solutions businesses worldwide. Webroot products consistently receive top review ratings by respected third parties and have been adopted by millions globally. With a wide range of security services for busi... Sep. 3, 2010 08:00 AM EDT Reads: 629 |
Conference News & Updates  By Pat Romanski SYS-CON Events announced on Friday that Cloud Expo 2010 West, the 7th International Cloud Computing Conference & Expo, has been extended to four days from November 1-4, 2010, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, California.
Cloud Expo 2010 West total show floor space increased from 20,000 sq. ft. in 2009 to over 100,000 sq. ft. in 2010 including the expo floor.
The expo floor will be open for four full days, November 1-4, 2010, in the Grand Ballrooms A through H.
Half of the Cloud Expo 2010 West exhibit space had already sold out during the last West Coast event in November 2009.
Cloud Expo is the world's leading Cloud-focused event since 2007, and is held five times a year, in New York City, Silicon Valley, Prague, Tokyo and Hong Kong. Reads: 7,600  By Corinna Melcon By employing the most effective and powerful marketing tools in tech media for more than 15 years, SYS-CON Events, Inc. and Cloud Expo, Inc. intensively pre-publicize Cloud Expo 2010 West - Santa Clara via an unmatched number of channels.
Cloud Expo, Inc. publicity platforms include multiple news syndication channels, more than a dozen Ulitzer.com channels, multiple Twitter feeds that are amplified to hundreds of thousands of followers, as well as Cloud Expo's "Most Powerful Cloud Bloggers" platform with millions of page views at http://CloudComputingExpo.com.
The event is streamed live to more than 50,000 concurrent viewers at any given time throughout the three days. All key media outlets, technology journalists, and press are VIP-invited to Cloud Expo 2010 West - Santa Clara.
SYS-CON.TV produces and broadcasts the most viewed tech interviews with movers and shakers and simulcasts "Power Panels" right from the show floor!
Reads: 6,822  By Fuat Kircaali This year's West Coast conference attracted 2,250 delegate, more than double a year ago. As far as the expo floor goes, out of 50 sponsors and exhibitors, 46 companies confirmed during the conference that they will participate in the 2010 Cloud Computing Expo at the same or higher level.
At SYS-CON Media we see our inventories are filling up to 100% capacity for the months of November, December, and January, and we are seeing better-than-normal RFP activity for the first quarter of 2010. Reads: 15,332  By SYS-CON TV Learn about the trajectory of Cloud Computing - where it came from, where it is today, and where it's headed tomorrow - direct from four Enterprise IT industry experts: Greg O'Connor, CEO of AppZero; Tony Bishop, CEO of Adaptivity; K. Scott Morrison, CTO of Layer 7 Technologies; and Marty Gauvin, CEO of Virtual Ark. Moderated by Cloud Expo Conference Chair, Jeremy Geelan, this "Power Panel" was recorded at the Times Square studio of SYS-CON.TV in connection with 5th Cloud Expo (www.CloudComputingExpo.com), held recently in New York City...the Largest Cloud Computing Event in the World. Reads: 4,587  By Carmen Gonzalez Ulitzer.com announced "the World's 30 most influential Cloud bloggers," who collectively generated more than 24 million Ulitzer page views. Ulitzer's annual "most influential Cloud bloggers" list was announced at Cloud Expo, which drew more delegates than all other Cloud-related events put together worldwide. "The world's 50 most influential Cloud bloggers 2010" list will be announced at the Cloud Expo 2010 East, which will take place April 19-21, 2010, at the Jacob Javitz Convention Center, in New York City, with more than 5,000 expected to attend. Reads: 16,016  By Fuat Kircaali I can't comprehend that any event producer anywhere in the world today would answer this question by picking any one of the five available options presented. "A leading tool?" What do you mean by "a leading tool?" What other tools would you possibly have in this day and age? This question, the survey itself and its participants belong to the last decade.
I personally don't use email anymore; I communicate through "Twitter."
We don't do press releases unless we have to; we tweet stories to our roughly 12,000 followers in 8 channels. The news gets amplified to hundreds of thousands instantly.
Even during Cloud Expo, we reach more people by Twitter than the announcements we make through loudspeakers in the convention centers.
I would love to contact the people who are conducting this survey and ask them if any company answered their first question as "don't really consider it."
In an age where I personally hail a cab at an airport through Twitter, I can't possibly comprehend which century bubble those people might be living in. Reads: 3,851  Further cementing its position as The Largest Cloud Computing Event in the World, the organizers of the 7th Cloud Expo, being held at the Santa Clara Convention Center, Santa Clara, CA, announced today that the event will also feature – on November 2nd, 2010 – a CloudCamp unconference.
CloudCamp @ Cloud Expo is aimed at anyone working with, or interested in working with, cloud technologies.
"With the rapid change occurring in the industry, we need a place where we can meet to share our experiences, challenges and solutions," said CloudCamp co-founder Dave Nielsen, who will personally be facilitating the process on site at the Jacob Javits. "At CloudCamp," Nielsen continued, "participants will be encouraged to share their thoughts in several open discussions, as we strive for the advancement of Cloud Computing."  By Kevin Hartig Cloud computing is becoming one of the next industry buzz words. It joins the ranks of terms including: grid computing, utility computing, virtualization, clustering, etc.
Cloud computing overlaps some of the concepts of distributed, grid and utility computing, however it does have its own meaning if contextually used correctly. The conceptual overlap is partly due to technology changes, usages and implementations over the years.
Trends in usage of the terms from Google searches shows Cloud Computing is a relatively new term introduced in the past year. There has also been a decline in general interest of Grid, Utility and Distributed computing.
Likely they will be around in usage for quit a while to come. But Cloud computing has become the new buzz word driven largely by marketing and service offerings from big corporate players like Google, IBM and Amazon. Reads: 80,005  By Elizabeth White Hasan Rizvi, SVP Product Development at Oracle, will present the opening keynote on extreme performance for your cloud platform at SYS-CON's 7th International Cloud Expo, which will take place on November 1-4, 2010, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA.
Cloud Expo Silicon Valley will feature technical sessions from a rock star conference faculty and the leading Cloud industry players in the world.
The growth and success of Cloud Computing will be on display at the upcoming Cloud Expo conference and exhibition in Santa Clara November 1-4 and in New York City Spring 2011. Reads: 1,662  By Elizabeth White Leading enterprises are revolutionizing the delivery of IT today. In his keynote on Day 2 of SYS-CON's 7th International Cloud Expo, which will take place on November 1-4, 2010, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA, Tony Bishop, the CEO of Adaptivity, will showcase multiple case studies and lessons learned of Global 2000 organizations that have radically changing the delivery of IT in their organizations by employing Cloud Utility IT models.
Cloud Expo Silicon Valley will feature technical sessions from a rock star conference faculty and the leading Cloud industry players in the world.
The growth and success of Cloud Computing will be on display at the upcoming Cloud Expo conference and exhibition in Santa Clara November 1-4 and in New York City Spring 2011. Reads: 1,516  By Roger Strukhoff Cloud Expo, Cloud Expo East, Cloud Expo West, Cloud Expo Silicon Valley, Cloud Expo Europe, Cloud Expo Tokyo, Cloud Expo Prague, Cloud Expo Hong Kong, Cloud Expo Sao Paolo are trademarks and /or registered trademarks (USPTO serial number 85009040) of Cloud Expo, Inc. Reads: 5,617 |
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The traditional business intelligence ecosystem is built on the numerous strategic partnerships that exist between BI software vendors, which provide the technology, and value added resellers (VARs), which provide customized solutions based on that technology.
As in all partnerships, both sides need to have something significant to gain for their partnership to be successful. In the business intelligence industry, this has indeed been the case for a long time. The software vendors use their cha...
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Leadformix is a wonderful tool to add to the sales technology process. They provide ’superior lead ...
Expanding on the " introduction to cloud computing" article, here are some additional suggestions for choosing a cloud service model provider.
In a typical Cloud Computing data centre, an application set will generally be hosted over Virtual Machines running on a large number of Physical Machines.
Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) is a definite factor when considering a move for some enterprise services into the cloud. There are certainly arguments both for and against the merits, especially...
The last several days have been pretty interesting with tech giants Dell and HP trying to outbid each other for the data storage technology company 3Par .
After Dell made its intention to grab 3PAR ‘s virtualization goodies public, HP did not waste much time to initiate a steep counteroffer of $24 a share fuelling a spell bounding bidding war.
It has turned out that Dell could not really match up to HP's generous and unconditional $33-per-share offer which the board of 3Par found irresisti...
A heavy book!
What would you rather carry on your back — textbooks or lighter than air apps and data?
When I went to school (six miles each way in the snow and rain, LOL), every year the books got heavier. Now, students can look forward to easy trips home with courses online — brought to them by the cloud. I recently read a commentary that said textbooks met the needs of 19th and 2oth century students, but that they fall short of the needs of today’s interactive students. “They are old-sch...
Maybe I’m just a geek, but to me, in our ever growing, massively scaled enterprise computing landscape, there are few technologies that peak my interest like memory-based data grids. It is nothing short of amazing to see an increasing number of enterprises use these solutions in a myriad of ways, all to solve an old dilemma: How can one efficiently and cost-effectively scale data while preserving quality of service characteristics of the data such as performance, availability, consistency, and m...
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