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Opening Keynote | Mission-Critical Applications in the Cloud – Myth or Reality?
 MetraTech Corp., a provider of Agreements-Based Billing, Commerce and Compensation solutions, on Tuesday announced that Achilles, a global software-as-a-service (SaaS) provider of supply chain management services, has selected the MetraNet billing and settlement platform to support its...Jun. 19, 2013 11:00 AM EDT Reads: 591 |
 Over the weekend Barron’s put out a piece touting AMD’s chances of taking share in the mainstream server market that belongs to Intel with its SeaMicro microserver acquisition, a development that would tickle its tiny stock price, if it ever happened. But even the thought of it, althou...Jun. 19, 2013 10:00 AM EDT Reads: 715 |
 Cloud computing is the game changer for the life sciences industry, according to an article on PharmaBiz.com.
Globally, pharma majors are deploying cloud technology because it provides data security, compliance and transparency, according to Vikram Anand, associate vice president, clo...Jun. 19, 2013 09:15 AM EDT Reads: 982 |
 Todd Bradley, the former Palm CEO who’s been running HP’s PC unit since 2005 and added printing last year when the Printing and Personal Systems (PPS) organization was formed, has apparently been pushed aside.
He is trading his job running half of HP’s revenue for a newly created pos...Jun. 19, 2013 08:00 AM EDT Reads: 563 |
 Last Friday calm seemed to be descending on Round Rock, Texas.
Reports were circulating that activist shareholder Carl Icahn was losing the stomach for scuttling the Michael Dell-Silver Lake Management plan to buy the company for $24.4 billion and take it private. Jun. 19, 2013 07:00 AM EDT Reads: 712 |
 Red Hat made its power play Wednesday. One it’s been itching to make for a couple of years. One that it hopes will ultimately jam a stick through the spokes of VMware’s front wheel. And to make sure that happens it’ll be telling everybody who’ll listen that its widgetry is a third the ...Jun. 18, 2013 10:00 AM EDT Reads: 950 |
 Metacloud plays hardball.
It has no patience with pilots or proofs-of-concept. It’ll only do production Infrastructure-as-a-Service installations, which is kind of uppity for a start-up that only hit the radar last October – even if it did come out of the closet with an unidentified ...Jun. 18, 2013 10:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,433 Replies: 1 |
 Bromium, where the old Xen team now lives, says it’s made it 105 harder for hackers to compromise a PC.
CTO Simon Crosby says that means the bad guys would have to shoot an arrow through an apple on a kid’s head at the distance of 100,000 miles to penetrate a PC endpoint and that, in...Jun. 18, 2013 08:00 AM EDT Reads: 777 |
 I have to say, this was a refreshingly easy to read book. It focuses on the business of search, and not just the technology, which is refreshing. And I say this when I am a technologist first and all other things later.
Enterprise Search provides a concise summary of the whys of impl...Jun. 17, 2013 01:08 PM EDT Reads: 287 |
 Google made its much anticipated move Tuesday and pocketed Waze, the Israeli real-time traffic map maker.
It didn’t disclose how much it’s paid to close the deal, but the Israeli paper Globes put the price at $1.3 billion. Bloomberg put it at $1.1 billion. Either way it’s reportedly ...Jun. 14, 2013 08:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,135 |
 Zyrion Inc., a provider of Cloud and IT Monitoring software solutions, on Wednesday announced at Cloud Expo New York that United Technology Group (UTG), a provider of information technology solutions headquartered in Atlanta, has selected Zyrion’s Traverse Cloud monitoring software for...Jun. 13, 2013 09:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,261 |
 WSO2 on Thursday announced that WSO2 Vice President of Technology Evangelism Chris Haddad and SUSE Business Development Manager Frank Rego will lead a joint presentation at 12 International Cloud Expo. The session, "Bridging IaaS and PaaS to Deliver the Service-Oriented Data Center," i...Jun. 13, 2013 07:00 AM EDT Reads: 2,307 |
 Quantum Corp., a proven global expert in data protection and Big Data management, has announced that Senior Vice President of Cloud Solutions Henrik Rosendahl will present a session exploring the future of cloud data protection and the impact of data reduction technologies on cloud sto...Jun. 11, 2013 12:00 PM EDT Reads: 2,001 |
 One of the cloud’s biggest draws is the capability to virtualize computing resources, allowing it to be consumed with the click of a mouse. But behind that simple click is an enormous infrastructure challenge that has recently been cited as a major cause for slower enterprise adoption....Jun. 11, 2013 09:00 AM EDT Reads: 4,199 |
 In the old world of IT, if you didn't have hardware capacity or the budget to buy more, your project was dead in the water. Budget constraints can leave some of the best, most creative and most ingenious innovations on the cutting room floor. It’s a true dilemma for developers and inno...Jun. 11, 2013 08:00 AM EDT Reads: 4,298 |
 INetU, the industry's experts in complex hosting and a global provider of business-centric managed cloud and application hosting, has announced that Cloud Architect Rich Hand will be presenting "Private Cloud, Public Cloud - Is There a Third Option?" at the 12th International Cloud Exp...Jun. 11, 2013 07:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,904 |
 Dr. Radoslav Danilak, CEO and co-founder of Skyera Inc., will present on next-generation flash memory technologies to attendees of Cloud Expo New York, June 10-13 at the Javits Center in New York City. Skyera will also show its 44-terabyte skyHawk, a complete enterprise solid-state sto...Jun. 10, 2013 11:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,780 |
 Compuware Corporation, the technology performance company delivering a new generation of APM, has announced that Michael Kopp, a Technology Strategist for Compuware's application performance management (APM) business, will present a session titled: "When APM Meets Big Data – Making You...Jun. 10, 2013 11:00 AM EDT Reads: 2,204 |
 In an interesting exercise in sharing that begs to be plumbed, Marc Benioff, founder and CEO of cloud doyen Salesforce.com, has hired himself a president-cum-vice-chairman and where else would the wannabe-Larry Ellison look but among the veterans of Oracle, his alma mater.
His pick i...Jun. 10, 2013 10:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,703 Replies: 1 |
 It is common to see providers deploy cloud instances using automation, but what happens when these same principles are applied to the provisioning of the infrastructure?
In his General Session at the 12th International Cloud Expo, Jean-Sebastien Bruneau, Cloud Architect at OVH.com, w...Jun. 10, 2013 10:00 AM EDT Reads: 2,071 |
 Coraid, a provider of scale-out Ethernet storage solutions, will be speaking at Cloud Expo on the use of software-defined storage to build large, scalable cloud architectures. Cloud Expo, now in its fifth year, is an annual conference dedicated to senior technologists that focuses on h...Jun. 10, 2013 10:00 AM EDT Reads: 2,153 |
 Cloud Expo New York is the place where the cloud and Big Data industries converge. The Expo will feature 175+ sessions from a top-notch conference faculty who represent leading industry players in the cloud computing and Big Data industries.
Presentation: Fast and Scalable Real-Time ...Jun. 10, 2013 09:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,918 |
 ScaleOut Software, a provider of in-memory data grids (IMDGs), has announced that its founder and CEO Dr. William Bain will present at the upcoming Cloud Expo conference in New York City.
In-memory data grids (IMDGs) have seen rapid adoption over the last several years, driven by the...Jun. 10, 2013 09:00 AM EDT Reads: 2,110 |
 Cloud Technology Partners, a provider of transforming businesses with cloud solutions, has announced that it will provide the first public demonstrations of PaaSLane at next week's 12 International Cloud Expo, June 10-13, at the Javits Center in New York City. Additionally, David Lint...Jun. 10, 2013 08:45 AM EDT Reads: 1,775 |
 In this fast-moving discussion at the 12th International Cloud Expo, moderated by Cloud Expo Conference Chair Jeremy Geelan, topics discussed will be at a deliberately high level and will include:
What specific Cloud implementations can we be most proud of, to date?
What are the re...Jun. 10, 2013 08:45 AM EDT Reads: 2,333 |
 Akamai Technologies, Inc., a cloud platform for helping enterprises provide secure, high-performing user experiences on any device, anywhere, is showcasing its cloud delivery and optimization expertise at Cloud Expo NY 2013 which will be held at New York's Javit's Center, June 10-13, 2...Jun. 10, 2013 08:30 AM EDT Reads: 1,878 |
 OVH.com, the leading Web hosting company with the world’s largest data center, located in North America, will showcase its dedicated cloud infrastructure offerings, at Cloud Expo NY, which will be held at New York's Javit's Center, June 10-13, 2013.
As a leading Cloud provider since ...Jun. 10, 2013 08:30 AM EDT Reads: 1,913 |
 The cloud security challenge is about more than new technologies, architectures and business models. It is about change. The organizational process of cloud adoption and migration executed by disparate IT teams and business units delivers point cloud and security solutions that create ...Jun. 10, 2013 08:30 AM EDT Reads: 1,999 |
 Nicos Vekiarides, CEO and co-founder of TwinStrata, Inc., an innovator in cloud-integrated storage solutions, will present on the roles of traditional and cloud storage in the era of Big Data to attendees of Cloud Expo New York, June 10-13 at the Javits Center in New York City. TwinStr...Jun. 10, 2013 08:15 AM EDT Reads: 1,856 |
 Appcara, an innovator in cloud application management solutions, is using next week's Cloud Expo New York to spotlight technology advances for simplified launching and managing of large, distributed Hadoop workloads into both private and service provider clouds through the use of new c...Jun. 10, 2013 08:00 AM EDT Reads: 2,048 |
 Centrify, which made its bones making Microsoft’s popular Active Directory accessible to Redmond’s enemies list, is spreading its wings and snuggling up closer to Microsoft at the same time by throwing it something of a lifeline.
See, Microsoft expects Office 365 to be one of the fas...Jun. 10, 2013 08:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,734 |
 SAP is buying hybris, a 16-year-old $85 million-a-year Swiss e-commerce company, expecting to deliver the next-generation e-commerce platform for on-premise and cloud deployment.
It claims the purchase, which many have expected for a long time, puts it at the leading edge of the cons...Jun. 10, 2013 08:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,565 |
 SYS-CON Events announced today that Panzura, a leading provider of global cloud storage solutions, will exhibit at SYS-CON's 12th International Cloud Expo, which will take place on June 10–13, 2013, at the Javits Center in New York City, New York.
Panzura optimizes enterprise data sto...Jun. 10, 2013 06:45 AM EDT Reads: 1,629 |
 The big contract manufacturer Foxconn, which is looking to diversify beyond Apple, said at a press conference Monday that it’s developing over five devices including smartphones, TVs and large display boards using Mozilla’s new Firefox mobile operating system, which would love to be an...Jun. 10, 2013 06:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,286 |
 A 2013 McKinsey survey reported that 75% of CEOs find value for their company in cloud computing. Given the well-documented perception of risk, are these established brands now coming to cloud to leverage "brand momentum" and create a "fresh start"? What are the pitfalls as these estab...Jun. 9, 2013 05:00 PM EDT Reads: 2,545 |
 Nowadays IT has the challenge to keep the core business systems running smoothly, bringing in as little disruption as possible while at the same time meeting the constantly growing LoB demands for new features and improved ways to access data. To make it harder – with the growth of mob...Jun. 9, 2013 02:30 PM EDT Reads: 2,016 |
 One of the top-selling IT authors of the past decade will be making a special appearance on June 11 at the 12th International Cloud Expo at the Javits Center in New York City. Thomas Erl, author and co-author of eight books and series editor of the Prentice Hall Service Technology Seri...Jun. 9, 2013 02:00 PM EDT Reads: 2,511 |
 SYS-CON Events announced today that SAP has been named “Exhibitor Lounge Sponsor” of SYS-CON's 12th International Cloud Expo, which will take place on June 10–13, 2013, at the Javits Center in New York City, New York.
SAP will showcase the SAP HANA Cloud partner program and how they h...Jun. 9, 2013 01:00 PM EDT Reads: 1,987 |
 Cloud computing continues to gain momentum as enterprises of all sizes and across all industries seek to harness the business agility promised by this computing model. Despite its long-accepted benefits, the cloud has also fallen victim to performance and reliability challenges, combin...Jun. 9, 2013 11:00 AM EDT Reads: 3,949 |
 Cloud computing is the #1 topic for most CIOs this year.
In her Lunch Keynote at the 12th International Cloud Expo, Krishna Subramanian, VP Marketing & Business Development at Citrix Systems, will walk you through how customers have transformed the way they do business using Citrix C...Jun. 9, 2013 10:00 AM EDT Reads: 3,871 Replies: 1 |
