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Opening Keynote | Mission-Critical Applications in the Cloud – Myth or Reality?
 Big Data and the cloud each contributed a start-up to the stock market last Friday.
Tableau Software, a profitable chart-making BI data visualization firm, IPO’d on the Big Board in New York sporting the highly desirable ticker symbol DATA and selling at the open for $31 a share. It ...May. 22, 2013 09:00 AM EDT Reads: 800 |
 SYS-CON Events announced today that Wowrack 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.
Wowrack’s core expertise lies in high-availability Private and Public Cloud IaaS Hosting Sol...May. 22, 2013 08:45 AM EDT Reads: 708 |
 As enterprises deploy private IaaS clouds into production they are reevaluating their future application delivery models. SUSE and WSO2 believe that private PaaS will leverage the automation and scalability of Private IaaS solutions, such as OpenStack-based SUSE Cloud, to deliver the s...May. 22, 2013 08:15 AM EDT Reads: 1,053 |
 Cloud computing is transforming the way businesses think about and leverage technology. As a result, the general understanding of cloud computing has come a long way in a short time. However, there are still many misconceptions about what cloud computing is and what it can do for busin...May. 22, 2013 02:00 AM EDT Reads: 2,356 |
 Looking to hang with the cool kids, Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer, swearing “not to screw it up,” is buying Tumblr for a cool $1.1 billion, a big chunk of her $5.4 billion pocketbook since it’s “substantially all” in cash.
The New York-based acquisition will remain a separate business with...May. 21, 2013 08:00 AM EDT Reads: 702 |
 In the face of rapidly increasing amounts of unstructured data, industry is investing heavily to turn machines into services and connect them to analytics engines that will extract an extraordinary amount of value and unleash a productivity revolution for both businesses and consumers....May. 21, 2013 05:00 AM EDT Reads: 3,091 |
 Compuware Corporation has announced the convergence of dynaTrace PurePath® Technology and the Gomez Performance Network, creating a powerful User Experience Management (UEM) solution. Compuware now offers a APMaaS solution that provides a complete UEM offering, including real-user, syn...May. 20, 2013 04:33 PM EDT Reads: 725 |
 Learn about the complex regulations surrounding HIPAA compliance and other considerations for running sensitive data in the Cloud.
In their session at the 12th International Cloud Expo, Frank Nydam, Director of Healthcare Solutions at VMware, and Ken Ziegler, CEO of Logicworks, will ...May. 20, 2013 02:30 AM EDT Reads: 2,407 |
 Enterprise cloud adoption revolves around pushing the BYOD movement and focusing on data security.
In his session at the 12th International Cloud Expo, Ross Brouse, COO and President of Solar VPS, will cover how cloud adoption is driven by consumerism, humanity’s need to socialize, o...May. 19, 2013 02:00 PM EDT Reads: 1,668 |
 Apptio, which knows how to gauge the total cost of IT services, has gotten a mighty $45 million E round that it means to invest in its platform and its international expansion, immediately in Western Europe.
Counting the new money the company has now seen $136 million in funding sinc...May. 19, 2013 07:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,216 |
 SYS-CON Events announced today that MetraTech Corp., the leading provider of agreements-based billing™, commerce and compensation solutions, has been named “Bronze Sponsor” of SYS-CON's 12th International Cloud Expo, which will take place on June 10–13, 2013, at the Javits Center in Ne...May. 18, 2013 04:00 PM EDT Reads: 1,842 |
 Compelling consumer applications are created every day. Are you ready for the IT implications both internally and externally? As your datacenter needs more capacity, the cloud will be critical to success. What are the key considerations to help plan for the needed capacity over time? A...May. 17, 2013 02:00 PM EDT Reads: 1,985 |
 How your organization approaches capacity management will make or break your private cloud initiative. No longer a periodic sizing exercise, capacity management is now an essential element of daily infrastructure operations that impacts costs, performance risks, and the ability to resp...May. 17, 2013 11:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,660 |
 SYS-CON Events announced today that Intrinsic-ID, a provider of top-level security 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.
Intrinsic-ID’s software application Saturn...May. 17, 2013 11:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,805 |
 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...May. 17, 2013 10:15 AM EDT Reads: 1,644 |
 SAP, the third-largest software company in the world after Microsoft and
Oracle, says it’s moving all data into main memory and all systems to the
cloud.
The company’s newly announced HANA Cloud Platform is going to be
the foundation of its whole cloud po...May. 17, 2013 06:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,072 |
 HP Software today announced four products that aim to tackle the thorny reality that traditional apps deployment is broken, and that the new requirements make automation and comprehensive management an inescapable necessity.
HP is also banking on the role it can play as a neutral part...May. 16, 2013 12:45 PM EDT Reads: 1,433 |
 @Walmart Labs, the Silicon Valley-based technology arm of Wal-Mart global e-commerce, has bought OneOps, which automates and accelerates processes related to environment management, application deployment and data center operations monitoring.
It’s supposed to have re-imagined applic...May. 16, 2013 09:15 AM EDT Reads: 1,129 |
 Dell Tuesday moved up its fiscal Q1 earnings call up five days to this Thursday May 16 at 4:45 p.m. ET. It didn’t say why it changed the schedule.
CNBC’s David Faber, who was first out with the news, said he heard Dell is going to come with earnings below consensus and that the miss ...May. 15, 2013 08:30 AM EDT Reads: 1,031 |
 IT has more opportunities than ever before with the growth in users, devices, data and secure cloud services. This creates not only a more enriching experience for users, but more opportunities for businesses. The key to capitalizing on these opportunities is to have the right tools in...May. 14, 2013 07:15 AM EDT Reads: 2,896 |
 If Carl Icahn wants to buy out Dell he’s going to have to cough up some specific plans for the board’s special committee handling the company’s attempt to go private, a strategy Icahn deems akin to “grand theft.”
Rather than take Michael Dell and Silver Lake Partners’ $13.65 a share,...May. 14, 2013 06:00 AM EDT Reads: 939 |
 It’s a standard refrain heard in enterprise IT departments around the world – “I want to move to the cloud, but what about data security, uptime and user response time across a nearly infinite number of devices to support?” Because of this, fear gets in the way and enterprises reap onl...May. 12, 2013 04:00 PM EDT Reads: 2,246 |
 Activist shareholder Carl Icahn and another of Dell’s large shareholders, Southeastern Asset Management, have come up with a new alternative proposal to Michael Dell’s $24.4 billion buy-out offer to take the company private.
The pair sent the special committee of Dell’s board another...May. 10, 2013 01:34 PM EDT Reads: 1,161 |
 SYS-CON Events announced today that the BigData-Startups, the online Big Data knowledge platform, has been named “Association Sponsor” of SYS-CON's 12th International Cloud Expo and 3rd International Big Data Expo, which will take place on June 10–13, 2013, at the Javits Center in New ...May. 10, 2013 01:24 PM EDT Reads: 1,228 |
 SYS-CON Events announced today that Logicworks, a global leader in cloud computing and managed hosting, 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.
Logicworks provides cloud comput...May. 10, 2013 11:00 AM EDT Reads: 2,699 |
 MadeiraCloud, a San Francisco cloud management and visualization start-up, has raised a $1.5 million Series A round from Sequoia Capital’s China Fund that will help get its WYSIWYG SaaS widgetry to launch, a milestone it hopes to hit by the end of the year.
Madeira, which is focused ...May. 10, 2013 09:15 AM EDT Reads: 1,631 |
 Clustrix, the start-up with the NewSQL database that’s supposed to have no size limits, has raised a $16.5 million C round to build out distribution for the scale-out cloud database and push it into real-time analytics, e-commerce and web-scale applications.
Counting the new money th...May. 9, 2013 10:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,280 |
 Fusion-io’s two co-founders, CEO David Flynn and chief marketing officer Rick White, up and quit Wednesday sending the company’s stock into a nosedive, down better than 26% to $13.29 at noon, a record low.
They are off to turn early-stage investors.
Fusion board member, Shane Robin...May. 9, 2013 10:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,549 |
 The OpenNebula project has just announced the immediate availability of OpenNebula 4.0 Eagle. The project has come a long way since the first "technology preview" of OpenNebula five years ago. During these years it has witnessed the rise and hype of the Cloud, the birth and decline of ...May. 9, 2013 09:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,151 |
 BMC Software is getting sold to a group of private equity investors led by Bain Capital and Golden Gate Capital for roughly $6.9 billion or $46.24 a share, a higher price than the $6.5 billion expected.
The buyers also include Singapore’s sovereign wealth fund GIC Special Investments...May. 8, 2013 08:30 AM EDT Reads: 1,402 |
 After conceding the first round or two to ARM and its disciples, Intel is going to take another crack at the all-important mobile market hoping to regain its unquestioned hegemony. This is supposed to be it – big guns blazing and all.
This new attempt at performance-per-watt mastery i...May. 7, 2013 03:14 PM EDT Reads: 1,172 |
 Server virtualization was just the beginning of the journey to IT-as-a-Service. Businesses today are looking for on-demand access to cloud resources by extending beyond their data centers without sacrificing performance, agility and security. They want to maximize their existing invest...May. 6, 2013 01:37 PM EDT Reads: 1,784 |
 Dell Software this week delivered Foglight for Virtualization, Enterprise Edition to extend the depth and breadth of managing and optimizing server virtualization as well as virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI).
Building on the formerly named Quest vFoglight Pro virtualization managem...May. 6, 2013 09:45 AM EDT Reads: 1,647 |
 Sometimes clouds are just ground fog.
After more than two years of promising the imminent arrival of Volly, Pitney Bowes – the Fortune 500 that back when there were such things as letters had a vise-like monopoly grip on postage meters – has failed to materialize the cloud that was su...May. 6, 2013 07:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,708 |
 The supposed talks between IBM and Lenovo over the Chinese company buying IBM’s x86 server unit have reportedly broken down over price, which should come as a surprise to no one.
Wong Wai Ming Lenovo’s CFO and chief negotiator reportedly left Armonk, got on a plane and went back to H...May. 6, 2013 06:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,579 |
 Cloud Computing is booming and so is Cloud Expo – now with Big Data and Software-Defined Networking as fully integrated themes.
Here are the nine tracks we are serving up for you June 10–13 at the Jacob Javits Convention Center and below this brief note from me is a complete A–Z of...May. 6, 2013 01:00 AM EDT Reads: 2,439 |
 Enterprises should have a clear understanding of potential security benefits and risks associated with cloud computing to set realistic expectations with their cloud provider. With this baseline knowledge, enterprises can effect changes in security and privacy that are in the best inte...May. 5, 2013 12:00 PM EDT Reads: 2,718 |
 With more than one million downloads to date, Citrix XenServer has become a leading server virtualization platform powering some of the world's largest production clouds.
In his session at the 12th International Cloud Expo, Tim Mackey, XenServer Evangelist at Citrix Systems, will off...May. 5, 2013 11:00 AM EDT Reads: 2,127 |
 Analyzing Hadoop jobs and speeding them up is often a tedious and time-consuming effort that requires experts.
In his session at the 12th International Cloud Expo, Michael Kopp, a technology strategist in the Compuware APM center of excellence, will show you how proven APM techniques...May. 4, 2013 11:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,924 |
 A growing number of organizations looking at building APIs are wondering what existing capabilities they can leverage. Many concepts are common to APIs and Services while others are not, but should be.
In his session at the 12th International Cloud Expo, Alistair Farquharson, CTO of ...May. 3, 2013 10:15 AM EDT Reads: 1,751 |
