By Steve Weisfeldt  Assuming you haven’t spent the last couple of years living under a rock, you’re bound to have been bombarded with all sorts of propaganda about “The Cloud.” “The Cloud,” according to the marketing types, is the greatest thing since the invention of bread, surely able to solve all of ou... May. 21, 2012 12:01 PM EDT Reads: 124 |
By Elizabeth White  According to a 2011 survey by the Independent Oracle User Group, over 50% of Oracle’s customers have deployed or are considering deploying private clouds. Most private clouds today support non-production workloads because enterprises are unable to deploy mission-critical applications i... May. 21, 2012 11:30 AM EDT Reads: 1,626 |
By Pat Romanski  The impact of Big Data is extremely broad for business, information management and technology. Being able to analyze your growing mountain of data can give you a distinct competitive advantage, but Big Data can be more than traditional tools can handle.
In his session at the 10th Int... May. 21, 2012 11:28 AM EDT Reads: 242 |
By Jeremy Geelan  With BigDataExpo 2012 New York (www.BigDataExpo.net), co-located with 10th Cloud Expo, now just three 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 confer... May. 21, 2012 11:15 AM EDT Reads: 3,083 |
By Jeremy Geelan  With Cloud Expo 2012 New York (10th Cloud Expo) now just three 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... May. 21, 2012 10:45 AM EDT Reads: 1,543 |
By Liz McMillan  Whether your company is large or small, you are probably exploring Big Data solutions and using cloud services and will need to integrate with other enterprise workloads.
In his session at the 10th International Cloud Expo, Gwyn Clay, CEO of Stonebranch, will share detailed informati... May. 21, 2012 10:24 AM EDT Reads: 285 |
By Jeremy Geelan  What do the CTOs of the CIA and 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, SOA Software and AppZero, the Founder & Gene... May. 21, 2012 10:00 AM EDT Reads: 2,975 |
By Marilyn Moux  As a Platinum Plus Sponsor of Cloud Expo New York, Rackspace Hosting is offering special passes to 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.
Rackspace Hosting is the service leader in cloud comp... May. 21, 2012 09:49 AM EDT Reads: 343 |
By Elizabeth White  The move to cloud-based applications has undeniably delivered tremendous benefits. However, the associated distribution creates various challenges from the quality perspective:
End-to-end tests need to pass through multiple dependent systems, which are commonly unavailable, evolving,... May. 21, 2012 09:45 AM EDT Reads: 1,277 |
By Pat Romanski  In this CTO Power Panel at the 10th International Cloud Expo, moderated by Cloud Expo Conference Chair Jeremy Geelan, industry-leading CTOs & VPs of Technology will discuss such topics as:
Which do you think is the most important cloud computing standard still to tackle?
Who should... May. 21, 2012 09:15 AM EDT Reads: 1,264 |
By Liz McMillan  For many of the same reasons that Software-as-a-Service is catching on with enterprise buyers, delivering web services on top of Infrastructure-as-a-Service architectures is appealing to the SaaS developers. Operational agility, lower CapEx, and a broad array of tools and services are ... May. 21, 2012 09:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,478 |
By Jeremy Geelan  With Cloud Expo 2012 New York (10th Cloud Expo) now just three 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... May. 21, 2012 08:45 AM EDT Reads: 2,631 |
By Liz McMillan  In this CEO Power Panel at the 10th International Cloud Expo, moderated by Cloud Expo Conference Chair Jeremy Geelan, leading executives in the Cloud Computing and Big Data space will be discussing such topics as:
Is it just wishful thinking to depict the Cloud as more than just a te... May. 21, 2012 08:30 AM EDT Reads: 1,357 |
By Maureen O'Gara  China’s antitrust regulators gave Google’s $12.5 billion acquisition of Motorola Mobility the nod Saturday provided Google’s Android operating system remains open and free-of-charge for the next five years.
The “free” stipulation apparently doesn’t apply to applications or services... May. 21, 2012 08:15 AM EDT Reads: 608 |
By Maureen O'Gara  Citrix has acquired Virtual Computer, a little Massachusetts outfit with enterprise-scale management solutions for client-side virtualization.
It means to combine the acquisition’s NxTop widgetry with its XenClient hypervisor to create a new Citrix XenClient Enterprise edition that c... May. 21, 2012 08:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,123 |
By Maureen O'Gara  In the wake of the Facebook IPO fiasco, Nasdaq CEO Robert Greifeld beat his breast and told the Wall Street Journal along with other press Sunday that Nasdaq’s “acknowledged design problems” bungled the social network’s landmark lPO Friday.
Reporters were told on a conference call ... May. 21, 2012 08:00 AM EDT Reads: 538 |
By Liz McMillan  If your organization already uses virtualized infrastructure, you are well on your way to providing IT as a Service. But as businesses demand faster results in today’s competitive market, organizations look to gain more benefits from cloud computing than just virtualized infrastructure... May. 21, 2012 08:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,729 |
By Carmen Gonzalez  The only place to be June 11-14th is the NY Javits Center at Cloud Expo 2012 East. Join us there as delegates from all over the world come to listen to and engage with speakers and sponsors from the leading Cloud Computing, Big Data and Virtualization companies such as Dell, SHI, Intel... May. 21, 2012 07:45 AM EDT Reads: 1,624 |
By Jeremy Geelan  With Cloud Expo 2012 New York (10th Cloud Expo) now just three 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... May. 21, 2012 07:45 AM EDT Reads: 2,335 |
By Jeremy Geelan  With Cloud Expo 2012 New York (10th Cloud Expo) now just three 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... May. 21, 2012 07:30 AM EDT Reads: 5,066 |
By Maureen O'Gara  Nvidia Tuesday unveiled a VGX platform – reportedly the result of five years of effort – that it called the world’s first virtualized GPU meant to accelerate graphics from cloud computing centers.
IT departments are supposed to use it to deliver virtualized desktops with the graphics... May. 21, 2012 07:15 AM EDT Reads: 1,292 |
By Jeremy Geelan  With Cloud Expo 2012 New York (10th Cloud Expo) now just three 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 stra... May. 21, 2012 07:15 AM EDT Reads: 4,919 |
By Patrick Burke  The federal government saved nearly $5.5 billion a year by moving to cloud services. But it might have saved up to $12 billion if cloud strategies were more aggressive, a survey of federal IT managers found.
The study, drawn from interviews with 108 federal CIOs and IT managers, was ... May. 21, 2012 07:15 AM EDT Reads: 1,618 |
By Maureen O'Gara  BMC Software Monday adopted a defensive poison pill to ward off Elliott Associates and its sister firm Elliott International, which have acquired 5.5% of its stock and want BMC to form a special committee to chase a sale of the company.
Elliott, you will remember, is the activist hed... May. 21, 2012 07:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,205 |
By Jeremy Geelan  With Cloud Expo 2012 New York (10th Cloud Expo) now just three 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 strate... May. 21, 2012 07:00 AM EDT Reads: 8,038 |
By Maureen O'Gara  SilkRoad Technology, the aptly named competitor of, say, the up-and-coming Workday that peddles cloud-based social talent management solutions, has topped up its funding with another reportedly oversubscribed $35 million round.
That makes an incredible $162 million since 2003.
The l... May. 21, 2012 06:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,037 |
By Elizabeth White  Sigma Systems on Monday unveiled the Sigma Cloud Service Broker, an integrated SaaS service fulfillment solution for the selection, provisioning and management of SaaS services and applications.
The Sigma Cloud Service Broker platform reduces costs, removes operational silos and red... May. 21, 2012 03:00 AM EDT Reads: 409 |
By Jeremy Geelan  With Cloud Expo 2012 New York (10th Cloud Expo) just over three 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 strat... May. 20, 2012 10:00 AM EDT Reads: 8,314 |
By Elizabeth White  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 Uni... May. 20, 2012 05:45 AM EDT Reads: 1,309 |
By Elizabeth White  Businesses today generate billions of events or 100s of TBs of data in a month. These data contain valuable insights into customer behavior, key trends, buying patterns, etc. If these are successfully mined, they can lead to successful decision-making to maximize revenue and traffic fo... May. 19, 2012 04:00 PM EDT Reads: 918 |
By Pat Romanski  We are a part of a dynamically connected world where consumers are rapidly adopting new technology and dismantling business models in their wake. Disruption, unpredictability and variability happen without warning. The challenge for any organization is to evolve, to adopt new architect... May. 19, 2012 02:00 PM EDT Reads: 902 |
By Maureen O'Gara  Facebook closed up a mere 23 cents its first day of trading as a public company after 421 million shares were sold to investors.
The stock, which had jaundiced New Yorkers congregating in Times Square to see what would happen, opened a half-hour late Friday at around 11:30am at $42.05... May. 18, 2012 04:24 PM EDT Reads: 794 |
By Jeremy Geelan  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 strate... May. 18, 2012 11:00 AM EDT Reads: 6,359 |
By Marilyn Moux  As the Diamond Sponsor of Cloud Expo New York, SHI International is offering special passes to 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.
Founded in 1989, SHI International Corp. is a global prov... May. 18, 2012 10:29 AM EDT Reads: 815 |
By Liz McMillan  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 bus... May. 18, 2012 10:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,151 |
By Elizabeth White  Hybrid is an end state for most customers as it balances choice and the needs of the business against cost, flexibility and risk.
In his session at the 10th International Cloud Expo, Mark Clifton, Director Cloud Solutions at Dell Commercial Business Unit, will discuss Hybrid cloud ad... May. 18, 2012 09:45 AM EDT Reads: 894 |
By David Deans  Like it or not, some enterprises have already entered a post-PC world -- where their business communication network must accommodate new user-driven choices. These include traditional applications, mobile apps, social apps and operating systems; various server architectures; and an arr... May. 18, 2012 08:15 AM EDT Reads: 921 |
By Elizabeth White  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 datase... May. 18, 2012 08:00 AM EDT Reads: 2,460 |
By Pat Romanski  Enterprise IT organizations want to deploy a virtualized data center fabric that will provide the foundation for agile private cloud computing. Getting there does not have to be difficult, but it does require a new approach to data center infrastructure design – an approach that is non... May. 18, 2012 08:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,867 |
By Jeremy Geelan  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 ses... May. 18, 2012 07:00 AM EDT Reads: 3,331 |