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Cloud Expo New York: Industry-Leading CxOs to Present June 11-14

Wed, 16 May 2012 18:00:00 EDT

What do the CTO of the U.S. Dept. of Justice and the CIO of the National Reconnaissance Office have in common with the CEOs of Eucalyptus, GoGrid, ActiveState, Appcara, OpSource and Nortonworks, the CTOs of Rackspace, SoftLayer and AppZero, the Founder & General Manager of Dell Boomi, the VP of Big Data & Streams at IBM and the Chief Strategy Officer at Pacific Controls? Answer: all are shortly to present breakout sessions as members of the distinguished Speaker Faculty of Cloud Expo New York, taking place June 11-14, 2012, at the Jacob Javits Convention Center in New York City.

Leveraging the Cloud for Better User Experience at Cloud Expo New York

Wed, 16 May 2012 17:45:00 EDT

The cloud has many benefits, but when it comes to application development, how does the cloud help enterprises and development teams create custom software and applications that end users actually care about? Using real world examples from Adobe, Herff Jones and Navy Federal Credit Union, this session will highlight the advantages cloud computing provides for quickly developing custom software and applications with compelling user experiences. In their general session at the 10th International Cloud Expo, Anthony Franco, president of EffectiveUI, and Ken Guiberson, CTO of EffectiveUI, will explore: Using the flexible nature of cloud computing to rapidly design and deploy integrated enterprise applications Leveraging the cloud for a highly visible and transparent development process Using a service-oriented architecture (SOA) to create a hybrid cloud

Who Is Using OpenStack?

Wed, 16 May 2012 16:10:00 EDT

Two years ago, Rackspace joined a global collaboration of developers and cloud computing technologists to create an open source cloud computing platform that can be used with both private and public cloud formats. Now the code for the program, OpenStack, is freely available and is being used by a number of corporations, service providers, researchers, data centers, and others. Based on the growing numbers of companies turning to OpenStack, the original developers were obviously onto an idea proven popular. But why have companies turned to it? “We chose OpenStack because we want to help enterprise IT deploy and manage applications on OpenStack clouds. Scalr builds enterprise open source Cloud Management software designed to allow IT administrators to set quotas, budget alerts, and access control to their users, and introduce automation and agility tooling,” said Sebastian Stadil, CEO of Scalr, a cloud management company. “We have customers building massive hybrid clouds that want to be able to extend into OpenStack data centers.”

Smarter Computing and IT Consolidation with IBM's Enterprise Linux Server

Wed, 16 May 2012 16:00:00 EDT

Data centers today are stretched to the limits with fast-paced business demands. On top of that, integrating and managing IT infrastructures can pose major challenges. Organizations need a new solution that consolidates servers and workloads without breaking the bank—and Linux, together with IBM Enterprise Linux Server offers exactly that. In this informative webcast you’ll gain Jean's perspective on how you can overcome your IT challenges by optimizing workloads and lowering costs with an enterprise-wide Linux strategy, and gain “the flexibility of many and the efficiency of one.”

Beyond BYOD: Mobility Without Compromise

Wed, 16 May 2012 15:45:00 EDT

The BYOD trend requires sweeping changes to the way devices are used in the workplace. Find out how to confront and manage those changes, provide a better user experience, and ensure security. Gartner Hosted BYOD VIDEO: Mobility and the Social Enterprise Technical Design Workshop VIDEO: Bring Your Own Device Without Compromise Design Guide: BYOD – Device Freedom Without Compromising the IT Network

Cloud Expo New York: How Secure Are You?

Wed, 16 May 2012 15:06:00 EDT

Nearly every enterprise is evaluating cloud computing solutions either today or in the near term. Many have already made the leap, and many more are getting close to putting that first toe in the water. But there are key considerations that should be made, questions to be asked, and designs to consider before you can feel secure with your provider. In his session at the 10th International Cloud Expo, David Gulick, Product Manager, Hosting Product Management at Savvis, will help give you food for thought when having these conversations both internally and externally with service providers.

Cloud Computing Growing on the Businesses Priority Front

Wed, 16 May 2012 14:37:00 EDT

A survey of small and mid-size businesses found an interest in harnessing technology to improve business efficiency. Midsize businesses are turning to IT investments to grow their businesses and the larger the organization, the more likely it is to cite technology as having the greatest potential to increase productivity, according to a new survey of midmarket companies by Deloitte. The study shows cloud computing emerging as an investment priority. When asked what types of investments companies were likely to make in technology, 40 of the respondents cited cloud computing. That's close to automation of business processes (46 percent) and data analytics (41 percent), according to eWEEK. "Interestingly, there seems to be a greater recognition of the benefits of cloud computing," the report stated. "In our September 2011 survey, it was recognized as a distant fourth as a means to increase productivity. In this survey, it nearly equaled data analytics and business intelligence in terms of likely investments."

Cloud Expo New York Speaker Profile: Bart Copeland – ActiveState

Wed, 16 May 2012 14:30:00 EDT

With Cloud Expo 2012 New York (10th Cloud Expo) now under four weeks away, what better time to introduce you in greater detail to the distinguished individuals in our incredible Speaker Faculty for the technical and strategy sessions at the conference... We have technical and strategy sessions for you dealing with every nook and cranny of Cloud Computing, but what of those who are presenting? Who are they, where do they work, what else have they written and/or said about the Cloud that is transforming the world of Enterprise IT?

Supermicro to Exhibit at Cloud Expo 2012 New York

Wed, 16 May 2012 14:15:00 EDT

SYS-CON Events announced today that Super Micro Computer, Inc., a global leader in high-performance, high-efficiency server technology and green computing, will exhibit at SYS-CON's 10th International Cloud Expo, which will take place on June 11–14, 2012, at the Javits Center in New York City, New York. Supermicro (NASDAQ: SMCI), the leading innovator in high-performance, high-efficiency server technology, is a premier provider of advanced server Building Block Solutions for Embedded Systems, Enterprise IT, Data Center, HPC, and Cloud Computing worldwide. Supermicro is committed to protecting the environment through its "We Keep IT Green" initiative and provides customers with the most energy-efficient, environmentally friendly solutions available on the market.

Mind the Gap - Three Gaps to High Velocity Pipeline and How to Cross Them

Wed, 16 May 2012 13:28:00 EDT

When I used to go to London often and ride the Underground, the constant refrain seen was "Mind The Gap". Mind the Gap or you could suffer some unmentionable and clearly gruesome fate. As Online software service providers of all flavors try to create high velocity sales and marketing businesses, they would do well to mind these three gaps: The "It's Not Your Time" gap The "It's Not My Job" gap The "Window Shopping" gap 1) The "It's Not Your Time" gap 2) The "It's Not My Job" gap 3) The "Window Shopping" gap

ScaleMP to Exhibit at Cloud Expo 2012 New York

Wed, 16 May 2012 12:00:00 EDT

SYS-CON Events announced today that ScaleMP, a leading provider of virtualization solutions for high-end computing, will exhibit at SYS-CON's 10th International Cloud Expo, which will take place on June 11–14, 2012, at the Javits Center in New York City, New York. ScaleMP is the leader in virtualization for high-end computing, providing maximum performance and lower total cost of ownership (TCO). The innovative Versatile SMP (vSMP) architecture aggregates multiple independent systems into a single virtual system, delivering an industry-standard, high-end symmetric multiprocessing (SMP) computer. Using software to replace custom hardware and components, ScaleMP offers a new, revolutionary computing paradigm.

Cloud Expo New York: How the Cloud and Mobile Are Improving Business

Wed, 16 May 2012 11:58:00 EDT

Come learn real-world examples where cloud and mobile are changing the way business works and the impact they're having on efficiency and productivity. In his session at the 10th International Cloud Expo, Rodrigo Coutinho Senior Product Marketing Manager at OutSystems, will look at how mobile and the cloud are interwoven and the wave of change these two 2012 megatrends will bring to your organization. He will also provide a roadmap to assure you can navigate this sea change for business success.

The Zetta Founders’ Story: From Netscape to Cloud Storage

Wed, 16 May 2012 11:21:18 EDT

It was at Netscape, in the early days of the internet, when co-founders Lou Montulli and Jeff Whitehead first worked together and began to notice how the amount of their data was constantly growing, but the process for adding storage and protecting that data wasn't improving over time. "Zetta is a company that's trying to revolutionize storage," is what Lou says at the beginning of the video above - but what does a revolution in storage look like? Data that's backed up to Zetta is ready to be restored at a moment's notice because it's identical to the data on your company's network and individual endpoints. Your data is never converted to a proprietary backup format (like with appliance-based solutions) or just dumped into buckets (like with that South American river storage).

Cloud Leadership to the Next Level

Wed, 16 May 2012 10:46:47 EDT

Some Cloud leaders have declared victory by leveraging the Cloud for infrastructure or software services and using the utility based, on demand capabilities. However, leaders can explore and realize higher levels of reuse and sharing by identifying specific processes that can be transitioned to the Cloud. Moving entire processes into the Cloud is a higher level of abstraction and will have a tremendous impact on the management and utilization of technology services. Planning and execution for the Cloud should assess and transition such processes to realize the benefits of rapid provisioning and deployment. Dynamic shared processes for the Cloud have to be designed at a higher level by the vendors and they have to be customizable so that multiple consumers can leverage them. Such processes in the cloud are a conglomeration of building blocks that consist of specific services that can be sequenced. The consumer does not have to provision systems or servers and hence the ability to deploy full processes; not just software, infrastructure or platforms can lead to significant cost savings and reduce long term total cost of ownership. Specialized processes that need to be transitioned to the Cloud are good candidates for this transition, examples are back end processes, reporting, authentication etc. Due to the utility based aspect of the Cloud, these processes can be adjusted as needed based on on-going monitoring and can support rapid deployments.

Mule ION iPaaS Connects Cloud to On-Premise Apps

Wed, 16 May 2012 10:28:00 EDT

New tools and services for swift software-as-a-service integration in the cloud lowers the barrier to SaaS adoption for SaaS providers and developers. MuleSoft this week launched Mule iON SaaS Edition, providing a broad set of new tools and services for swift software-as-a-Service (SaaS) integration in the cloud, and lowering the barrier to SaaS adoption for SaaS providers and developers. In recent commentary, Ross Mason, founder and CTO of Mulesoft, said, "The world today is moving at lightning speed to SaaS and cloud applications, and the idea of gaining competitive advantage through legacy enterprise applications is no longer relevant."

Cloud Expo New York Speaker Profile: Paul Lipton – CA Technologies

Wed, 16 May 2012 10:15:00 EDT

IBM’s Patterns and Its Impact on IT Services Purchasing

Wed, 16 May 2012 10:14:44 EDT

Cloud computing is fundamentally changing the IT ecosystem in many ways, forcing related changes in business models. Other than customers (who are always “king” and make buying decisions), the IT ecosystem players being affected by cloud includes technology providers, independent software vendors (ISVs) and systems integrators (SIs). One of the battles being fought right now by technology providers is to develop end-to-end cloud platform stacks attractive to ISVs. IBM announced additions to their recently launched PureSystems family at Impact 2012 with more than 125 ISVs supporting this family with patterns. Although the primary focus of this cloud platform stack is on ISVs, there is also a need for SIs to adapt to these changes, especially as it relates to custom software development and maintenance capabilities.

A Funny Thing Happened on Java’s Way to the Cloud

Wed, 16 May 2012 10:00:00 EDT

On the surface, everything seems fine. If you do a search, you’ll see lots of people offering support for cloud-centric application frameworks. But, when I speak with companies actually moving Java applications into the Cloud or trying to create new Cloud services based on Java, I get a different story. It’s not the application in many cases that’s in the way, it’s the JVM. An example that highlights these issues comes from one of our partners, Intalio. Intalio offers Cloud solutions based mostly on open source. They and their customers are frustrated by the fact that Java can’t take advantage of Cloud elasticity – the JVM strictly limits the amount of memory and cores an individual instance can use. To make matters worse, operators have to deploy multiple small instances (around 2-4 GBs of memory each) to keep garbage collection pauses short enough so users wouldn’t really notice the delay. Plus, managing it all is painful. Developers have to create distributed networks within individual machines, and the IT staff has to create and launch lots of new instances and tune carefully to avoid long response times delays. (Their CEO, Ismael Chang Ghalimi, describes the problem in detail in a paper called “Cloud Computing is Memory Bound – located here: http://www.intalio.com/cloud-computing-is-memory-bound.)

Cloud Expo New York: Using APIs to Extend Your Business Reach

Wed, 16 May 2012 10:00:00 EDT

How can businesses harness the power of APIs to reach new customers and markets? In his session at the 10th International Cloud Expo, Alistair Farquharson, CTO at SOA Software, will walk the audience through the growth and evolution of the API, why effective API management is important, and how the game changes when companies expose business applications to the outside world. He will also discuss: A brief history of the API How to use APIs to make money, save money, build brand "Appification" and the innovation model of the open API API management nuts and bolts, and best practices Why Enterprise APIs are important Some great examples of companies doing it right

The Most Immediate Way of Getting to the Cloud: Cloud Expo New York

Wed, 16 May 2012 10:00:00 EDT

Whether you are a large enterprise, a growing business, a government organization, or a service provider, Cloud Expo New York is THE place you need to be June 11-14...so you can better understand both the provision and use of the cloud services that increasingly transforming IT and business alike. Cloud Expo covers every aspect of Cloud Computing: performance, integration, security, availability, compliance, purchasing, budgeting, development, visibility, automation...the works!

Cloud Expo New York Speaker Profile: George Gerchow – VMware

Wed, 16 May 2012 10:00:00 EDT

With Cloud Expo 2012 New York (10th Cloud Expo) now under four weeks away, what better time to introduce you in greater detail to the distinguished individuals in our incredible Speaker Faculty for the technical and strategy sessions at the conference... We have technical and strategy sessions for you every day from June 11 through June 14 dealing with every nook and cranny of Cloud Computing and Big Data, but what of those who are presenting? Who are they, where do they work, what else have they written and/or said about the Cloud that is transforming the world of Enterprise IT, side by side with the exploding use of enterprise Big Data – processed in the Cloud – to drive value for businesses...?

Cloud Expo New York Speaker Profile: Rick Nucci – Dell Boomi

Wed, 16 May 2012 10:00:00 EDT

Cloud Expo New York Speaker Profile: Nicos Vekiarides – TwinStrata

Wed, 16 May 2012 09:45:00 EDT

With Cloud Expo 2012 New York (10th Cloud Expo) now under four weeks away, what better time to introduce you in greater detail to the distinguished individuals in our incredible Speaker Faculty for the technical and strategy sessions at the conference... We have technical and strategy sessions for you every day from June 11 through June 14 dealing with every nook and cranny of Cloud Computing and Big Data, but what of those who are presenting? Who are they, where do they work, what else have they written and/or said about the Cloud that is transforming the world of Enterprise IT, side by side with the exploding use of enterprise Big Data – processed in the Cloud – to drive value for businesses...?

Cloud API Standardization – It’s Time to Get Serious

Wed, 16 May 2012 09:15:00 EDT

Okay – this is easy… or is it? Lots of people continue to perpetuate the idea that the AWS APIs are a de facto standard, so we should just all move on about it. At the same time, everybody seems to acknowledge the fact that Amazon has never ever indicated that they want to be a true standard. Are we reallyIn fact, they have played quite the coy game and kept silent luring potential competitors into a false sense of complacency. Amazon has licensed their APIs to Eucalyptus under what I and others broadly assume to be a a hard and fast restriction to the enterprise private cloud market. I would not be surprised to learn that the restrictions went further – perhaps prohibiting Eucalyptus from offering any other API or claiming compatibility with other clouds.

Qualtrics Raises $70 Million

Wed, 16 May 2012 09:15:00 EDT

Called “the biggest software company you haven’t heard of yet” by one of its shiny new backers, 10-year-old Qualtrics has gotten $70 million from Accel Partners and Sequoia Capital in the VCs’ largest joint investment ever. It’s also the company’s first outside investment. Reportedly profitable since it started, it’s supposed to use the money to expand its SaaS products beyond market research and accelerate its global growth, expecting to hire another 250 employees to add to the existing 200 in the next year. Qualtrics is used for online data collection and analysis claiming to make it “easy for anyone in a company to conduct PhD-level research.” It figures outsourced research and data collection is too expensive – it’s shooting at data generated from customers, sales reps, channel partners and employees – and competitive tools are either too basic or too complicated.

Cloud Expo New York Speaker Profile: Dave Roberts – ServiceMesh

Wed, 16 May 2012 09:00:00 EDT

With Cloud Expo 2012 New York (10th Cloud Expo) now under four weeks away, what better time to introduce you in greater detail to the distinguished individuals in our incredible Speaker Faculty for the technical and strategy sessions at the conference... We have technical and strategy sessions for you every day from June 11 through June 14 dealing with every nook and cranny of Cloud Computing and Big Data, but what of those who are presenting? Who are they, where do they work, what else have they written and/or said about the Cloud that is transforming the world of Enterprise IT, side by side with the exploding use of enterprise Big Data – processed in the Cloud – to drive value for businesses...?

Big Data Hosting

Wed, 16 May 2012 08:00:00 EDT

When it comes to building new cloud services, there is a large opportunity for new services built around Big Data. So when you look at consulting firms that provide application development and integration services, are there opportunities for them to leverage Big Data in their service portfolio? For enterprise consultancy, cloud platforms and tools such as enterprise integration framework and development software can be used to provide line-of-business, e-commerce and system integration services. And the nice thing about Big Data is that it helps provide opportunities to build financially sustainable services. While there is a large market for cloud computing and mobility solutions, one of the services that consultants are seeing traction with is through offering Big Data analytics, especially in the Healthcare and Automotive verticals. The nice thing is that these engagements are usually lengthy and comprehensive, which is important for consulting firms who survive on stable, long-term projects to help raise cash flow and utilization rates to help lower overall cost of sales.

Cloud Expo New York Speaker Profile: Kristin Lovejoy – IBM

Wed, 16 May 2012 08:00:00 EDT

With Cloud Expo 2012 New York (10th Cloud Expo) now under four weeks away, what better time to introduce you in greater detail to the distinguished individuals in our incredible Speaker Faculty for the technical and strategy sessions at the conference... We have technical and strategy sessions for you every day from June 11 through June 14 dealing with every nook and cranny of Cloud Computing and Big Data, but what of those who are presenting? Who are they, where do they work, what else have they written and/or said about the Cloud that is transforming the world of Enterprise IT, side by side with the exploding use of enterprise Big Data – processed in the Cloud – to drive value for businesses...?

Silicon Valley Should Matter More

Wed, 16 May 2012 07:45:00 EDT

There was a time during the height of the dot-com boom when executives in Silicon Valley believed that Washington, DC was irrelevant. As two generations of entrepreneurs strived to build The New Economy, it was laughable to think that the ancient dunderheads back in our nation's capital had any notion about – or right to tamper with – what was going on in the tech world. This was the era of the Clinton Administration, a time when the President himself had declared that “the era of big government is over.” Defend the shores, deliver the mail, and otherwise stay the hell out of the way – this was the thinking in the tech world during the bubble. Clinton's years were peaceful from the perspective of people living in the US. A few targeted attacks here and there, with even the major, US-backed military action by NATO in Serbia having little effect in day-to-day American lives. The Black Hawk Down episode in Somalia convinced most Americans that we wanted little or nothing to do with foreign military misadventure. The idea of nation building was not popular, and indeed was rejected by both Al Gore and George W. Bush during the 2000 Presidential campaign. Keep Out Domestically, the mindset was also to keep the government from meddling. We were running federal surpluses for the first time in most people's memory, the economy was booming, and we were all discovering the personal liberation of being able to hang out on the Worldwide Web. With 9/11 the US entered a different reality, one in which the federal government became more important, and dominant, than ever. The whole dot-com castles-in-the-sand economy had washed away by then; that dreadful day assured that it wouldn't come back. But the federal government has proven in the past decade to be a poor driver of the innovation found in Silicon Valley, despite having invented the Internet a generation ago. We are now in a new innovative era, characterized by massive social media, massively Big Data, and emerging back-end behemoths that keep everything running through increasing amounts of virtualization and cloud computing. The US government has committed itself to a Cloud First strategy, perhaps, but what true technology leadership and vision can we expect from Washington? A Nuanced Reading George W. Bush reads lots of books. He mentioned to author Robert Draper, for the book Dead Certain, that he was on his 87th book midway through one of his years in the White House. He reads nonfiction about U.S. Presidents and other historical political leaders. But yet in Dead Certain, which is neither hagiography nor an anti-Bush polemic, he seems strangely unaffected by all that he reads, other than his rock-ribbed belief that he must be strong and unflinching in his decisions. He doesn't do nuance, it's said. Nuance quickly becomes casuistry and sophistry, or endless parsing – think Bill Clinton. It can be the biggest obstacle to decisiveness and direction. But a little nuance here and there is not necessarily a bad thing. Diplomatic success is based on it. More to the point of our industry, a nuanced understanding of other nations – and how the people in them conduct their lives and business – is essential if American technology is expected to succeed globally. It was horrifying to read in Dead Certain how uncertain – or perhaps obtuse – our federal government was, at its highest levels, when it came to understanding the world and the consequences that US actions bring. There was nary a word of how the spread of technology might improve the state of the world. Dead Certain also recounts how a top Bush aid got a job as an Undersecretary of State, in which she traveled internationally with the goal of improving the perception of the United States. The passages in Dead Certain about this escapade are painful to read. They describe a high-level government official with neither an iota self-awareness nor a scintilla of knowledge about how people think in the countries she visits. And Today? Other than reading about the Cloud First strategy, I have no idea of how well the current administration understands the power of global IT and its ability to improve economies and the lives of people. My guess is that glib talk of the Twitter Revolution may be as deep a dive as these folks can make. The sad irony is that Washington doesn't get technology but does matter. All this brings me to the upcoming Cloud Expo in New York, where a substantially international crowd will gather to discuss the latest developments, successes, advances, and well, nuances of cloud computing. I hope that during the millions of individual discussions that will happen in New York, some people will discuss the idea that Silicon Valley needs to do more than the two things it does well politically: oppose onerous legislation (like SOPA, PIPA, and CISPA) after it's introduced act as an ATM for favored presidential candidates after they're well established. Somehow, Silicon Valley must learn to matter as much in Washington as Washington matters to Silicon Valley.

Cloud Expo New York Speaker Profile: Arun Gupta – Oracle

Wed, 16 May 2012 07:15:00 EDT

With Cloud Expo 2012 New York (10th Cloud Expo) now just seven weeks away, what better time to introduce you in greater detail to the distinguished individuals in our incredible Speaker Faculty for the technical and strategy sessions at the conference... We have technical and strategy sessions for you every day from June 11 through June 14 dealing with every nook and cranny of Cloud Computing and Big Data, but what of those who are presenting? Who are they, where do they work, what else have they written and/or said about the Cloud that is transforming the world of Enterprise IT, side by side with the exploding use of enterprise Big Data – processed in the Cloud – to drive value for businesses...?

HP Cloud Now Available In Beta – A First Look

Wed, 16 May 2012 07:00:00 EDT

HP have joined the Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) market and released their HP Cloud service in public beta. Here’s the announcement press release. The services on offer are: Available Now as Public Beta

BigDataExpo New York Speaker Profile: Tom Leyden – Amplidata

Wed, 16 May 2012 07:00:00 EDT

With BigDataExpo 2012 New York (www.BigDataExpo.net), co-located with 10th Cloud Expo, now just four weeks away, what better time to introduce you in greater detail to the distinguished individuals in our incredible Speaker Faculty for the technical and strategy sessions at the conference... We have technical and strategy sessions for you every day from June 11 through June 14 dealing with every nook and cranny of Cloud Computing and Big Data, but what of those who are presenting? Who are they, where do they work, what else have they written and/or said about the Cloud that is transforming the world of Enterprise IT, side by side with the exploding use of enterprise Big Data – processed in the Cloud – to drive value for businesses...?

Cloud Expo New York Speaker Profile: Bernard Golden – HyperStratus

Wed, 16 May 2012 07:00:00 EDT

With Cloud Expo 2012 New York (10th Cloud Expo) now just four weeks away, what better time to introduce you in greater detail to the distinguished individuals in our incredible Speaker Faculty for the technical and strategy sessions at the conference... We have technical and strategy sessions for you every day from June 11 through June 14 dealing with every nook and cranny of Cloud Computing and Big Data, but what of those who are presenting? Who are they, where do they work, what else have they written and/or said about the Cloud that is transforming the world of Enterprise IT, side by side with the exploding use of enterprise Big Data – processed in the Cloud – to drive value for businesses...?

Cloud Expo New York Speaker Profile: Joe Weinman – Telx

Wed, 16 May 2012 06:45:00 EDT

Is OpenStack a New Door to Cloud Adoption?

Wed, 16 May 2012 06:30:00 EDT

All the buzz surrounding OpenStack over the past few months may beg the question of whether Openstack can repeat for Cloud what Linux has done for server operating systems over the past several years. With an enthusiastic following and a compelling, if not industry-leading set of functionality, the possibilities may be boundless. This week’s announcement of the HP Cloud public beta, an OpenStack-based cloud that includes compute, object storage and a content delivery network, provides even further momentum to this open source effort. With well-known vendors such as HP, Rackspace and hundreds of others backing them, we can expect OpenStack adoption to increase.

Chief Executives and the Cloud - Leadership for the New Frontier

Wed, 16 May 2012 06:30:00 EDT

Cloud facilitates a new generation of technology and related impacts that have never been seen before. With utility computing and on demand capabilities, many organizations want to jump on the bandwagon as soon as possible. As the Chief Executive, there are some tough decisions to be made. There will be people in your organization who say that Cloud is the best thing that happened since the emergence of the internet. Others will paint a picture of gloom and doom by citing issues such as security, privacy, control over data etc. Cloud can enhance productivity by providing the infrastructure or application platforms and related tools to respond to customer needs quickly, giving organizations an edge over others that have not assessed such mechanisms, and the on-demand capabilities can lead to efficient utilization of resources. Cloud also facilitates mobility services since such services are available at a cheaper cost to the enterprise.

Cloud Expo New York Speaker Profile: James Weir – UShareSoft

Wed, 16 May 2012 06:30:00 EDT

With Cloud Expo 2012 New York (10th Cloud Expo) now only four weeks away, what better time to introduce you in greater detail to the distinguished individuals in our incredible Speaker Faculty for the technical and strategy sessions at the conference... We have technical and strategy sessions for you every day from June 11 through June 14 dealing with every nook and cranny of Cloud Computing and Big Data, but what of those who are presenting? Who are they, where do they work, what else have they written and/or said about the Cloud that is transforming the world of Enterprise IT, side by side with the exploding use of enterprise Big Data – processed in the Cloud – to drive value for businesses...?

Cloud Expo New York Speaker Profile: Chris MacGown – Piston Cloud Computing

Wed, 16 May 2012 06:00:00 EDT

With Cloud Expo 2012 New York (10th Cloud Expo) now just four weeks away, what better time to start introducing you in greater detail to the distinguished individuals in our incredible Speaker Faculty for the technical and strategy sessions at the conference... We have technical and strategy sessions for you every day from June 11 through June 14 dealing with every nook and cranny of Cloud Computing and Big Data, but what of those who are presenting? Who are they, where do they work, what else have they written and/or said about the Cloud that is transforming the world of Enterprise IT, side by side with the exploding use of enterprise Big Data – processed in the Cloud – to drive value for businesses...?

BigDataExpo New York Speaker Profile: Andreas Sundquist – DNAnexus

Wed, 16 May 2012 06:00:00 EDT

With BigDataExpo 2012 New York (www.BigDataExpo.net), co-located with 10th Cloud Expo, now under four weeks away, what better time to introduce you in greater detail to the distinguished individuals in our incredible Speaker Faculty for the technical and strategy sessions at the conference...

Cisco Helps Iceland’s Farice Play a Key Role in Green Cloud Computing

Wed, 16 May 2012 05:45:00 EDT

One of the topics we covered this week at the Cisco Packet Optical Networking Conference was cloud computing. A benefit of cloud computing is that the physical infrastructure – the storage and compute resources – can be located almost anywhere as long as there is reliable network access. Several countries are leveraging their low cost green power to grow their economies with new data center facilities. A publicly announced example of this is Facebook which has built an enormous facility in northern Sweden.height="1" width="1"/>

Running Big Data Applications on Eucalyptus IaaS Cloud at Cloud Expo NY

Wed, 16 May 2012 05:30:00 EDT

Infrastructure as a Service cloud platforms enable enterprise to experience agility. Infrastructure agility is key to deploying Big Data platforms and applications. As datasets grow in size and numbers in the enterprise, there needs to be a place to store, secure and analyze the datasets. IaaS clouds like Eucalyptus, with the industry's de facto standard IaaS API implementation, can be “the place” to enable enterprises to deploy Big Data analytics and applications. Because all data is now in a centralized secure system, it becomes easier to enforce precise and well-documented security policies on sensitive data. The combination of flexibility, rapid automation, speed with which you can dynamically programmatically control infrastructure using Eucalyptus IaaS API, enable enterprises to develop, test and deploy new Big Data applications at a fraction of the cost that's never been possible before.

Cloud Expo New York Speaker Profile: Paul Rubell – Meltzer Lippe

Wed, 16 May 2012 04:00:00 EDT

With Cloud Expo 2012 New York (10th Cloud Expo) now just under four weeks away, what better time to introduce you in greater detail to the distinguished individuals in our incredible Speaker Faculty for the technical and strategy sessions at the conference... We have technical and strategy sessions for you every day from June 11 through June 14 dealing with every nook and cranny of Cloud Computing and Big Data, but what of those who are presenting? Who are they, where do they work, what else have they written and/or said about the Cloud that is transforming the world of Enterprise IT, side by side with the exploding use of enterprise Big Data – processed in the Cloud – to drive value for businesses...?

Cloud Expo New York Speaker Profile: Mårten Mickos – Eucalyptus Systems

Wed, 16 May 2012 02:00:00 EDT

With Cloud Expo 2012 New York (10th Cloud Expo) now under four weeks away, what better time to introduce you in greater detail to the distinguished individuals in our incredible Speaker Faculty for the technical and strategy sessions at the conference... We have technical and strategy sessions for you every day from June 11 through June 14 dealing with every nook and cranny of Cloud Computing and Big Data, but what of those who are presenting? Who are they, where do they work, what else have they written and/or said about the Cloud that is transforming the world of Enterprise IT, side by side with the exploding use of enterprise Big Data – processed in the Cloud – to drive value for businesses...?

Cloud Expo New York Speaker Profile: Sinclair Schuller – Apprenda

Tue, 15 May 2012 16:15:00 EDT

With Cloud Expo 2012 New York (10th Cloud Expo) now five weeks away, what better time to introduce you in greater detail to the distinguished individuals in our incredible Speaker Faculty for the technical and strategy sessions at the conference... We have technical and strategy sessions for you every day from June 11 through June 14 dealing with every nook and cranny of Cloud Computing and Big Data, but what of those who are presenting? Who are they, where do they work, what else have they written and/or said about the Cloud that is transforming the world of Enterprise IT, side by side with the exploding use of enterprise Big Data – processed in the Cloud – to drive value for businesses...?

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Tue, 15 May 2012 15:08:00 EDT

As a media partner of Cloud Expo, TMCnet is offering a special 20% discount for each registration package for SYS-CON's 10th International Cloud Expo, which will take place on June 11-14, 2012, at the Javits Center in New York City. To obtain your 20% discount, here is a quick summary of all you need to do - feel free to cut and paste these instructions into any email blast you might be sending out: TMCnet is the world's leading communications and technology Web site. TMCnet is one of the most flexible, useful and fastest growing b-to-b technology sites. Covering IP communications, CRM, contact center and information technology topics, TMCnet is read by two million monthly unique visitors. Source: Webtrends. Please visit www.tmcnet.com

Compuware Brings Enterprise APM to Cloud and Big Data Applications

Tue, 15 May 2012 13:10:00 EDT

Compuware Corporation on Tuesday announced a deep transaction management solution for dynamic cloud and Big Data applications. The Compuware APM Spring 2012 Platform Release introduces new innovations in Compuware dynaTrace Enterprise that simplify performance optimization, operation and management of modern, dynamic applications. These transformational application environments require a new approach to application performance management (APM) to support massively scalable architectures and dynamic, elastic resource allocation. With dynaTrace Enterprise and its patented PurePath(R) technology, EC2 and Azure cloud applications as well as Cassandra and Hadoop Big Data applications can be easily optimized and managed for greater performance and availability.

API-Aware Traffic Management

Tue, 15 May 2012 13:00:00 EDT

As I mentioned in my last blog post, the promise of cost reduction is compelling many enterprises to move their workloads into the Cloud but many IT leaders are reluctant to do so, for fear of compromising the security and availability of their services. These concerns are well-founded but the benefits of Cloud are too great to ignore. To obtain these benefits, companies must adopt techniques that protect against the attendant risks, without compromise. Many people are familiar with Layer 7’s industry-leading security functionality, so it’s no surprise that I’d recommend using our Gateway technology to protect connections from on-premise infrastructure to off-premise Cloud services. The flexibility of deployment options we offer makes it possible to create a network of secure on- and off-premise endpoints to meet the most stringent requirements. This covers security but what about availability?

Charting the Adoption of Cloud at Cloud Expo New York

Tue, 15 May 2012 10:00:00 EDT

In his session at the 10th International Cloud Expo, Marvin Wheeler, Open Data Center Alliance Chairman, will discuss the success the organization has had in charting the requirements for broad-scale enterprise adoption of the cloud and how 2012 is forecast to be the tipping point for adoption of cloud resources based on ODCA requirements. He will highlight the progress of usage model publication, discuss the prioritization of member requirements and provide insight into Alliance tools to drive POC solution testing and RFP adoption. Delegates will walk away with insight into the organization’s value and real world knowledge that will help shape organizational cloud planning.

Can’t Find Enough Storage Admins to Run Your Business? Automate

Tue, 15 May 2012 10:00:00 EDT

Everyone in IT knows Moore’s Law, which states that the number of transistors that can be placed inexpensively on an integrated circuit doubles approximately every two years (sometimes 18 months). Named after Intel co-founder Gordon Moore, who first noted the trend in 1965, Moore’s Law is testament to the tremendous increase in processing power and the consequent changes in business and society we have seen over the last 47 (and counting) years. While Moore predicted the continuation of this trend “for at least 10 years,” current estimates are that this rate of progress will continue to at least 2020. Until, of course, we have the first operational quantum computers, but that’s another story.

Why Use OpenNebula on Your Existing VMware Infrastructure?

Tue, 15 May 2012 10:00:00 EDT

VMware hypervisors of the ESX family (3.x, 4.x and 5.0) are fully, out-of-the box supported by the latest versions of OpenNebula(3.0+). If you have a server farm based on any of the ESX versions, then you can make use of OpenNebula to better manage your physical (and virtual) resources in order to build a private cloud and provide virtualized environments. OpenNebula is the most powerful open-source alternative to VMware datacenter and cloud suite, delivering enterprise-class functionality, stability and scalability with broader platform support and integration capabilities.