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Cloud Computing Expo 2009 East
Delivering Massively Scalable Enterprise IT as a Service
Now is the Time for Enterprise IT to Take the CloudVery Seriously Indeed!
4th International Cloud Computing Conference & Expo Santa Clara, CA | 2 - 4 November, 2009
Cloud Computing Conference & Expo 2009 West
Call for Papers - Closed
Cloud computing is a game changer. The cloud is disrupting traditional software and hardware business models by disrupting how IT service gets delivered.
Entrepreneurial opportunities abound as this classic disruptive technology begins to proliferate, so it is no surprise that SYS-CON's industry-leading International Cloud Computing Conference & Expo series is going from strength to strength.
Now held three times a year, in New York, Prague, and Silicon Valley, the event unfailingly attracts unprecedented numbers of developers, engineers, architects, IT managers, and hardware and software professionals of every stripe. With an ever-increasing number of companies now buying computing, storage, and networking power as they need it from the cloud, there has never been a greater need for a one-stop event that brings together players from the main layers of the Cloud ecosystem - the infrastructure players, the platform providers, and those offering applications.
Join us at the 4th International Cloud Computing Conference & Expo, being held November 2-4, 2009, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA.
The Conference theme is “"Bringing the Economics of the Web to Enterprise IT Through Cloud Computing."
Our organizing principle is that through our intensive 3-day schedule of keynotes, general and breakout sessions, attending delegates will be assured of leaving the Conference with abundant resources, ideas and examples they can apply immediately to leveraging the Cloud, helping them to maximize performance, minimize cost and improve the scale of their endeavors.
We carefully select only inspiring, accomplished speakers who have real world examples and principles to share that can be applied to any business.
Top Keynotes, Sessions, Top Delegates The East Coast version of this event featured 100+ technical sessions from the leading industry players including Amazon, Sun, IBM, HP, Yahoo!, Salesforce, 3tera, Egenera, RightScale, Elastra, CohesiveFT, Cisco, Trend Micro, and many, many more. All the main layers of the Cloud ecosystem were represented - the infrastructure players, the platform providers, and those offering applications. And they'll all be back to speak, exhibit and network in Santa Clara, CA! The high-energy event is a must-attend for senior technologists including CIOs, CTOs, directors of infrastructure, VPs of technology, IT directors and managers, network and storage managers, network engineers, enterprise architects, and communications and networking specialists.
Over the next five years, IDC expects spending on IT cloud-based services to grow almost threefold, reaching $42 billion by 2012 and accounting for 9% of revenues in five key market segments. More importantly, spending on cloud computing will accelerate throughout the forecast period, capturing 25% of IT spending growth in 2012 and nearly a third of growth the following year.
Please join us at the 4th International Cloud Computing Conference & Expo. There is no time like the present to Catch Up with The Cloud !
SOA in the Cloud
The convergence of SOA and Cloud Computing is now so clear a trend industry-wide that a new "SOA in the Cloud" track will make its first - but definitely not its last! - appearance as a new content focus within our fast-growing International Cloud Computing Conference & Expo series, now held three times a year, in New York, Santa Clara, and Prague. Cloud computing is accelerating the adoption of SOA by providing aspects of SOA on-demand.
In a recent article published at SOA World Magazine, SOA and Cloud expert David Linthicum wrote:
"Clearly, SOA and cloud computing go hand-in-hand. Cloud computing is just the ability to leverage new platforms and resources that you don't happen to own. Nothing really changes outside of that, including the need to do SOA right."
RIAs in the Cloud
Today we are witnessing a change in the way the industry thinks about software applications. The increase in SaaS application development and consumption is driving up demand for RIAs and a new set of platform technologies built specifically to develop and deliver them. Software vendors, both large and small, are now considering how best to adapt to the new paradigms of the RIA and SaaS markets, while a large number of developers are moving to RIA and SaaS application development.
Santa Clara Keynote - 4th International Cloud Computing Conference & Expo
The Time is Right for Enterprise Cloud Computing
Up to now you may have been reluctant to move your Enterprise application workloads to the cloud, fearing a lack of security in the cloud, compliance issues such as data location regulations and having to rewrite your applications. During his keynote, Rich Marcello will discuss the latest technologies and approaches that help knock down these barriers, creating the opportunity for attendees to now consider cloud managed services as part of their data center journey to secure "IT as a Service".
Rich Marcello is a senior vice president of Unisys and serves as President of Systems & Technology.
Santa Clara Keynote - 4th International Cloud Computing Conference & Expo
Accelerating Innovation with Cloud Computing
Yahoo! is developing and utilizing Internet-scale cloud computing services to improve Yahoo! consumer experience, speed innovation, simplify operating environments, and reduce costs. Yahoo! Cloud Services are in production today supporting web-serving properties and data processing environments. Yahoo! Cloud Services store and deliver web content, personalize content for consumers, optimize Ad selection and placement, improve search results, provide scalable virtual computing environments, and process and store enormous amounts of data to improve consumer experiences and drive innovation. This presentation will elaborate on how Yahoo! and consumers benefit from Yahoo! Cloud Services and will describe Yahoo! Cloud Services and technologies.
Shelton Shugar is SVP Cloud Computing at Yahoo!
Santa Clara Keynote - 4th International Cloud Computing Conference & Expo
Cloud Computing: Separating Hype from RealityA World of Many Clouds
Enterprises large and small are drawn by the advantages of cloud computing - pay-for-use, self-service, elastic scalability and the elimination of hardware management – resulting in very low barriers to entry and exit and high agility. However enterprises are also concerned about security, quality of service, integration, compliance, lock-in, and long term costs of public clouds. Private clouds for the exclusive use of one enterprise can mitigate these concerns by giving the enterprise greater control. This keynote will explore how enterprises are likely to adopt public and private cloud computing, building on a foundation of virtualization infrastructure and management systems.
Richard Sarwal is SVP of Development for Oracle Enterprise Manager.
How the Delivery of Virtualization is Being Transformed Simon Crosby - CTO, Citrix Systems – This session will provide IT organizations with a short- and long-term roadmap by focusing on the new delivery models for virtualization.
My Cloud, Your Cloud, Our Cloud Thorsten Von Eicken - Co-Founder & CTO, RightScale – This session will provide guidance on when and how to use public, private and hybrid clouds, using real-world examples.
Shifting Clouds: How the Cloud Landscape is Evolving Krishna Subramanian - Sr. Director Cloud Strategy, Sun Microsystems – This session will provide a framework to classify the various cloud offerings, and will explore how solutions are evolving.
Hadoop @ Yahoo - Internet Scale Data Processing Eric Baldeschwieler - VP Hadoop Software Development, Yahoo! – This session will explain what the Yahoo! distribution of Hadoop is and how it benefits the larger cloud ecosystem, including major use-cases for Hadoop @ Yahoo!
Working with Big Data and Hadoop Christophe Bisciglia - Co-Founder at Cloudera – This session will highlight the technical and business issues that make Hadoop so powerful for large scale data processing.
Accelerating Innovation with Yahoo! Cloud Serving Surenda Reddy - VP of Yahoo's Integrated Cloud and Virtualization group – This session will will elaborate on Yahoo! Cloud Serving Platform architecture and how it leverages virtualization technologies to simplify and automate our service delivery.
How the CIO Becomes a Hero Again Ric Telford - Vice President IBM Cloud Services – This session will provide a perspective on Cloud Computing's future and illustrates how the CIO can appropriately leverage Cloud to become the hero again.
Bridging the Gap Between Public Clouds and Private Clouds Agatha Poon - Sr. Analyst, Yankee Group – This session will identify key operational imperatives including location, regulatory support, security, and interoperability that help shaping a scalable, global cloud infrastructure.
Moving HPC Apps to the Cloud: The Practitioner's Perspective Victoria Livschitz - Founder & CEO, Grid Dynamics Consulting Services – This session will examine several types of HPC applications deployed on various clouds, and discuss the challenged and opportunities typical of grid deployments on the cloud.
Application Infrastructure and Middleware on Demand Sudhir Kulkarni - CTO, SellPoint – Using a customer case study this session will discuss how the configuration of middleware and deployment and run-time management of custom application can be fully automated.
A New Role in the Cloud for a Tried and Tested Schemaless Database K S Bhaskar - VP, Fidelity National Information Services – This session will discuss how schemaless database technologies are now emerging as important and highly functional engines on which to build Cloud services.
Application Delivery Networks & Cloud Computing Willie M. Tejada - Vice President, Application and Site Acceleration, Akamai Technologies – How providers of on-demand computing resources and applications can leverage ADN technologies to keep data-center build-out to a minimum while simultaneously addressing Internet delivery issues.
Hosting Primary Data in the Cloud Jeff Treuhaft - CEO & Co-Founder, Zetta – This session will explore the features that enterprises rely on to deliver required data performance and how, when and if those features can be delivered cost-effectively in cloud service offerings.
The Rich Services Cloud Charlton Barreto - Principal Architect, Intel – This session will discuss how companies can develop and deploy Rich Services Cloud applications on premise or in the Cloud, enhancing the user experience like never before.
Top Cloud Computing Security Risks Jeremiah Grossman - Founder & CTO, WhiteHat Security – In this session Jeremiah Grossman will draw from the latest WhiteHat Security Website Security Statistics Report to introduce the most prevalent software flaws putting data at risk in the cloud.
Building Scalable and Extensible RIAs on Windows Azure Ranjith Ramakrishnan - Co-Founder & CTO,Cumulux – In this session delegates will learn how to build scalable and extensible RIAs on the Windows Azure Cloud. The session will cover enabling rich and complete User Experience customizations andaddressing multi-tenant requirements.
Virtual Infrastructure: What is Required for the Cloud? Chris Barclay - Director of Product Management, Oracle – This session will examine virtualization considerations such as workload availability, performance, and integration with enterprise systems.
Rich Internet Applications in the Cloud - A Match Made in Heaven Mark Piller - Founder & Chief Architect , Midnight Coders – In this session attendees will learn about the specifics of RIA deployments into a Cloud infrastructure to enable connectivity with Flex, Flash, Silverlight and AJAX types of clients.
Application Infrastructure and Middleware on Demand Jamal Mazhar - Founder & CEO, Kaavo – Using a customer case study this session will discuss how the configuration of middleware and deployment and run-time management of custom application can be fully automated.
A New Role in the Cloud for a Tried and Tested Schemaless Database K S Bhaskar - Fidelity National Information Services – This session will discuss how schemaless database technologies are now emerging as important and highly functional engines on which to build Cloud services.
User Virtualization for Dynamic VDI and Personalized Virtual Desktops Amy Hodler - Director of Product Management, Tranxition – This session will discuss how to use best practices for bringing your users' personalized environments along to a VDI environment so you can achieve the cost benefits of VDI without imposing major disruption and lost productivity on your user base.
Migrating Collaborative Applications to the Cloud Jeff Miller - Director of Professional Services, Cloud Sherpas – This highly informative and interactive session will both explore and provide answers to the key questions that your organization should consider before moving to the Cloud.
Orchestration in the Cloud Brian E. Boruff - VP of Cloud Computing & Software Services, CSC – This session looks at how organizations with data and computing in the public and private cloud need to orchestrate processing, and recover the processing visibility necessary for the creation of digital trust.
Cloud Security - It's Nothing New; It Changes Everything! Glenn Brunette - Chief Security Architect, Sun –This session cuts through the hype and sharpens our focus on what security means for cloud computing and other elastic, hyper-scale architectures.
Developing Advantage: Platform Leverage in the Cloud Peter Coffee - Director of Platforms, Salesforce – This session will discuss alternative development experiences in various enterprise clouds and will highlight opportunities to combine their strengths in distinctive applications.
Cloud Management: What You Don't Know Can Hurt You Stephen Elliott - Vice President of Strategy, CA – This session will discuss what customers should consider when buying services from a cloud computing partner including the most important management processes and capabilities that matter to SLAs.
Security in the Cloud: Protecting Your Cloud Apps Lars Ewe - CTO & VP of Engineering, Cenzic –This session will address the Top 5 things you can do to protect your data and applications that run on the web and in the cloud and prevent security breaches.
Tactical Cloud Computing Kevin Jackson - Vice President, Dataline – This session will discuss the use of cloud computing technology and techniques for the support of localized and short-lived information access and processing requirements, including Cloudbursting.
The Profit Model for Cloud Computing Steve Lesem - President & CEO, Mezeo Software –This session will examine why the concept of 'trust' is so essential and why it's the Cloud providers who have trusting relationships with customers that will triumph in the end.
Delivering Desktop Virtualization Martin Ingram - Vice President of Product Strategy, AppSense – This session will explore how by virtualizing hardware, applications and the user personality you can deliver a familiar working environment for users while simplifying management of the desktop estate.
Y! Scalable Storage and Delivery Services Chuck Neerdaels - VP Content Storage, Delivery and Edge, Yahoo! –This session will talk about Yahoo!'s Cloud Storage and Delivery stack and how it is purpose-built to solve the business and technical challenges of Internet-scale computing.
Cloud & SaaS Proponents: Know Your Enemies! Louis Naugès - President, Revevoltr –This session will discuss why so many CIOs and IT professionals think Cloud Comptuing and SaS is a threat to their careers and their power.
Negotiating the Virtual/Grid/Cloud Legal Minefield David Snead - Attorney-at-Law, W. David Snead, P.C. –This session will address the legal, business and marketing issues of involved in moving into Cloud services, and what anyone entering into a new contract, or marketing to end users needs to know.
Technologies for Virtualization-Based Desktop Management Dr Monica Lam - Professor, Stanford University –This session will describe a new approach to complete desktop management, allowing corporate IT to completely control the desktop including the operating system.
Exploring Policy-enabled Clouds for the Enterprise Ed Beauvais - Sr. Product Manager, Cloud Infrastructure Group, EMC –In this session delegates will view EMC Atmos APIs and investigate design considerations such as availability, data storage mechanisms, multi-tenancy, object policy and scalability.
Virtualizing Resources in Production Database Systems Peter Thawley - Senior Director/Architect, Sybase –This session will cover technical details behind virtualization techniques utilized in Enterprise database systems which go beyond server virtualization.
Trusted Computing for Virtualization Security Steve Hanna - Co-Chair, Trusted Computing Group –This session will address the Trusted Platform Module (TPM) which is included in virtually all enterprise PCs and many servers and how it can be used for virtualized security.
Policy Enforcement in the Virtualized Data Center Hezi Moore - Sr. Founder & CTO, Reflex Systems –This session will identify the top three challenges enterprises face when it comes to enforcing policies and outline best practices to control and audit change in policy rules across both the virtual and physical infrastructure.
Managing Sprawl and Self-Service for Virtual Machines Scott Hammond - President & CEO, newScale –This session will explain how to use a Service Catalog of standard options to enable self-service requests while enforcing pre-approved VM images, stop dates, and policy controls.
Cloud Computing as a Strategy: Enabling IT's Evolutionary Change Tim Crawford - CIO & Vice President of Strategy, Vivo – This session will deconstruct cloud computing into the true value proposition: enhanced flexibility and ultimate alignment with the business.
Cloud Computing Bootcamp Alan Williamson - Editor-in-Chief, Cloud Computing Journal – Williamson will be repeating (on November 3, 2009) his ever-popular all-day Cloud Computing Bootcamp, to which Golden Pass delegates receive free admission.
A New Role in the Cloud for a Tried and Tested Schemaless Database Rob Tweed - Co-Founder & MD, M/Gateway – This session will discuss how schemaless database technologies are now emerging as important and highly functional engines on which to build Cloud services.
Securing the Cloud and Establishing a Level of Trust Tim Brown - VP & Security Architect, CA – This session will address security needs for cloud computing, including all aspects of the cloud paradigm ¬ Internal, Private, Public and Hybrid cloud environments.
Moving Your RIA Apps into the Cloud: 7 Challenges Matias Bagini - CEO of JRapid Corp – This session will discuss the many challenges you will face if you want to move your RIA apps into the SaaS model including multitenancy, clustering, robustness, mashups, security, productivity and multi-browser programming.
Cannibalizing Google App Engine Kevin Noonan - Software Developer , Push2Cloud – This session will show delegates how to use Google App Engine by dismembering its computing resources and consuming each of them them in isolation.
Revolutionizing Security Through Virtualization Kevin Piper - Director of Technical Operations, Altor Networks – This session will present case study examples shared of defense and civilian agencies that have virtualized their production environment with enterprise-call virtualization servers.
Bringing Cloud Computing Down to Earth with Ultra Low-Cost Endpoints Stephen Dukker - Chairman & CEO, NComputing – This session will examine how new-generation virtualization technologies have evolved and how companies are utilizing it to create new kinds of computing and services.
Cloud Computing Drives Real World Enterprise IT Value Watson Wat - VP of Technology/CTO Oracle On Demand – This session will assess current and future cloud capabilities relative to mainstream enterprise IT requirements and help real world enterprises better understand how best they can leverage cloud computing.
Building Scalable and Extensible RIAs on Windows Azure Bhushan Nene - Principal Architect, Platform Evangelism, Microsoft – In this session delegates will learn how to build scalable and extensible RIAs on the Windows Azure Cloud. The session will cover enabling rich and complete User Experience customizations and addressing multi-tenant requirements.
Does Enterprise-Class Cloud Storage Really Exist? Moe Kermani - CEO and President, Bycast – This session will discuss the required infrastructure components to deliver an enterprise-class Cloud storage service that is fully supported by service level agreements.
Law in the Cloud - How Lawyers and Clients Both Benefit Charley Moore - Founder & CEO, RocketLawyer.com – This session will examine how cloud computing is enabling lawyers to practice law online, while making it easier and more affordable for consumers and small business owners to get legal things done.
Cloud Storage - Cutting Through the Hype Cameron Bahar - Founder & CTO, ParaScale – This session will detail cloud storage customer examples and the benefits using real-world use cases complete with lessons learned and best practices.
Case Study: Disaster Recovery in the Storage Cloud Tony Langenstein - Director of Infrastructure, Iowa Health System – This session will share lessons learned from delivering private cloud storage services to its state-wide constituents including 11 hospitals and 130+ clinics.
Conference Faculty - A Who's Who of Cloud Computing Technology Rock Stars! International Cloud Computing Conference & Expo faculty alumni include such notable speakers as: Roman Stanek, CEO of Good Data Corporation; David Hanacek, Sr. Systems Engineer at VMware; Arseniy Kuznetsov, Director of Sun Cloud Computing Core Engineering, Sun Microsystems; Pavel Georgiev, AppLogic Systems Engineer, EMEA, 3Tera; Dr Guy Bunker, Chief Scientist & Distinguished Engineer, Symantec; Doug Tidwell, Cloud Computing Evangelist at IBM; Uri Budnik, Director of Business Development at RightScale; Raimund Genes, CTO of Anti-Malware at Trend Micro; Jérôme Bernard, Director of EMEA Operations, Elastic Grid; Jakub Nesetril, Senior Director of User Experience at Good Data Corporation; Stephen Foskett, Director of Consulting at Nirvanix; Subra Kumaraswamy, Sr. Security Manager, Sun Microsystems; Alan Williamson, Founder of aw20.co.uk & Editor-in-Chief of Cloud Computing Journal; Jim Reavis, Executive Director of Cloud Security Alliance; Zdenek Svoboda, VP Products at Good Data Corporation; Sam Morcos, VP Global Field Operations, Third Brigade; Paul Parsons, Founder & CTO of The Server Labs; Christoph Reich, Head of IT at Hochschule Furtwangen University; Harald Kornmayer, Senior Researcher, NEC Laboratories Europe; Lluis Font, CEO of NTRglobal; Sam Johnston, Founder of Australian Online Solutions; Pau Garcia-Mila, Founder of eyeOS; Louis Naugès, Founder & President, of Revevol; Owen Garrett, Product Manager & Technologist, Zeus Technology; David Snead, US Attorney at Law; Todd Kuczaj, Manager at Accenture; Roger Baskerville, VP for EMEA, Vizioncore; Derek McAuley, CTO at Netronome Systems; Petri Lillberg, EVP of R&D, SSH Communications Security; Richard Croucher, Associate Partner at Citihub; Nuno Duro, CTO at Evolvespace Solutions; Juergen Frick, Sr. Solutions Architect at Adaptec; Shahar Raz, Owner of Shahar Raz Consulting; Richard Cassidy, Manager of Global Systems Engineering, Virtual Computer; David Bernstein, VP/GM Office of CTO Cloud Computing of Cisco; Stuart Charlton, Chief Software Architect of Elastra; Vik Chaudhary, VP Product Management of Keynote Systems; Peter Coffee, Director of Platform Research of Salesforce.com; Patrick Kerpan, CTO of CohesiveFT; Sajai Krishnan, CEO of Parascale; Bill McColl, Founder & CEO of Cloudscale; Ken Oestreich, VP Product Marketing of Egenera; Bob Quinn, Founder, Chairman, & CEO of 3Leaf Systems; Raghavan Srinivas, Technology Evangelist of Intuit; Omer Trajman, Director of Field Engineering of Vertica Systems; Thorsten von Eicken, CTO of RightScale; Rich Wolski, Professor of Computer Science of UCSB; Brian Zhangi, President & CEO of Kadient; Alex Bakman, Founder & CEO of VKernel; Ken Berryman, SVP Strategy & Emerging Businesses of Symantec; Etay Bogner, CTO of Neocleus; Shawn Cooney, Co-Founder and Director of Research of Certeon; Martin Ingram, VP Strategy of AppSense; and Jay Litkey, Founder, President & CEO of Embotics.
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Cloud Expo 2010 East Opening Keynote by Oracle
View this Keynote, recorded live at the Jacob Javits Center, featuring Richard Sarwal, CSVP of Development and Hasan Rizvi, Senior Vice President of Oracle Fusion Middleware Products.
The Science of Doing Business in the Clouds
During this Cloud Expo Day Two Keynote, Tony Bishop will describe Adaptivity’s systematic and prescriptive approach that combines Fit-for-Purpose infrastructure technologies and management capabilities in order to create the optimal economics, environment and autonomics needed for the business to leverage cloud services.
Pete Malcolm, CEO of Abiquo Live From New York City
Join Pete Malcolm, CEO Abiquo, for this vendor-neutral keynote, where you will learn about the next chapter in the Virtualization story. What it is, what it means, why open standards are key, and most importantly, how it will revolutionize the way your organization manages IT.
Keynote: Cloud Computing: Separating Hype from Reality
Rex Wang, VP of Product Marketing at Oracle will explore how enterprises are likely to adopt public and private cloud computing, building on a foundation of virtualization infrastructure and management systems.
The Time is Right for Enterprise Cloud Computing
During his keynote, Rich Marcello, Senior Vice President of Unisys, will discuss the latest technologies and approaches that help knock down these barriers, creating the opportunity for attendees to now consider cloud managed services as part of their data center journey to secure "IT as a Service".
Accelerating Innovation with Cloud Computing
Join Shelton Shugar, Senior Vice President of Cloud Computing at Yahoo! for a keynote elaborating on how Yahoo! and consumers benefit from Yahoo! Cloud Services and will describe Yahoo! Cloud Services and technologies.
SYS-CON's International Cloud Computing Conference & Expo, held each year in California, New York and Prague is the leading event covering the fast-emerging Cloud Computing market for Enterprise IT professionals. Co-located with the International Virtualization Conference & Expo, the combined event will surely deliver the #1 i-Technology educational and networking opportunity of the year for those seeking to establish a market lead anywhere in the multiple layers of the Cloud Computing ecosystem.
Senior Technologists including CIOs, CTOs, VPs of technology, IT directors and managers, network and storage managers, network engineers, enterprise architects, communications and networking specialists, directors of infrastructure Business Executives including CEOs, CMOs, CIOs, presidents, VPs, directors, business development; product and purchasing managers.
Cloud Computing Bootcamp
Cloud Computing Expo 2009 West announces the welcome return to the West Coast of its full one-day, immersive "Cloud Computing Bootcamp" - led by developer-entrepreneur Alan Williamson. Founder of Blog-City.com and creator of the OpenBlueDragon CFML runtime engine, Williamson also led the inaugural Cloud Computing Bootcamp at this event last year, to rave reviews.
Cloud Computing Journal aims to help open the eyes of Enterprise IT professionals to the economics and strategies that utility/cloud computing provides. Cloud computing - the provision of scalable IT resources as a service, using Internet technologies - potentially impacts every aspect of how IT deploys and operates software.
Cloud Computing Conference & Expo 2009 West Allstar Conference Faculty Lineup Will Include...
SYS-CON Events announced today that OpSource, Inc., Dimension Data’s wholly owned enterprise cloud and managed hosting business, has been named “Bronze Sponsor” of 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.
OpSource provides cloud and managed hosting solutions that enable businesses to accelerate growth and scale operations while controlling costs and reducing IT infrastructure support risks. Headquartered in Santa Clara, with operations in California, Virginia, the UK, Ireland, and India, more than 600 enterprises, service providers and Software-as-a-Service ISVs rely on OpSource's expertise, experience and cloud automation technology to operate high-availability, business-critical hosting environments. OpSource is a Dimension Data company.
A new report says there's little stopping Europe catching up to the US in cloud computing. The study, carried out by the London School of Economics and Political Science and commissioned by Microsoft, looked at the projected economic impact of cloud computing on the aerospace and smartphone services industries in the UK, USA, Germany and Italy from 2010-2014.
Joyent’s SmartDataCenter IaaS platform is going to be sold to Italian VARs and service providers by ICOS, an Italian value-added distributor, for private cloud infrastructure or value-added private cloud services.
SmartDataCenter’s local storage is supposed to reduce the TCO of cloud data centers.
It’s designed to manage tens of thousands of virtual machines, a k a SmartMachines, and supports a multi-tenant PaaS.
ICOS means to develop its own cloud infrastructure for channel partners too so they don’t have to build their own cloud data center.
JoyentCloud.com delivers public cloud services to LinkedIn, Gilt Groupe and Kabam and licenses its cloud software to service providers that include Dell, FirstServer, XYBase, ClusterTech and Uniserve. Its offerings include a Platform-as-a-Service based on Node.js, the open source server-side JavaScript development environment that’s been em...
As more enterprises are adopting clouds, the nature of cloud computing is changing. Previously, clouds were used to test applications or for non-mission critical applications. Today, enterprises are using clouds for cost-saving advantages and launching more mission critical applications that have defined performance needs.
In his session at the 10th International Cloud Expo, Eric Shepcaro, CEO and Chairman of the Board of Telx, will discuss how distributed computing has many advantages. It would allow organizations to have a cloud at various data centers instead of one cloud at one datacenter. Costs are reduced significantly since one big Internet pipe is not needed.
SYS-CON Events announced today that CodeFutures Corporation, the company behind dbShards, 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.
CodeFutures Corporation, the company behind dbShards, is a leading supplier of database performance and reliability tools that reduce the time and effort required to dramatically increase database scalability and performance. With dbShards, production environments gain scalability, high-availability and easy management of multi-terabyte databases through its Continuous Replication technology, providing an ideal foundation for fast-growing, 24X7 applications.
EMC CEO Joe Tucci is gonna keep his eventual replacement waiting a while longer.
When the company posted pretty Q4 results the other day Tucci said he won’t be stepping down this year as planned.
He said the board asked him to stay into 2013 and that “after much soul-searching” he agreed.
“As I’ve said in the past, the board and I fully expect that my successor will come from within the existing, talented and experienced ranks of the EMC management team” – who reportedly all asked him to reconsider his transition plans.
Amazon’s cloud, which, let’s face it, is still pretty much developer turf, broadened its push into the enterprise Wednesday with the introduction of AWS Storage Gateway, a beta virtual appliance nominally meant to automate enterprise data backup to S3 while creating a comfort level with the cloud among the leery.
It’s the first time Amazon has proposed putting its own software on the ground inside a corporate data center. And the stuff’s targeted at large corporations. Amazon says some customers asked for such a solution. It also expects resellers to offer the service.
It is of course proprietary and a competitive problem for other cloud storage and gateway suppliers. Come to think of it, Amazon as repository of corporate data is a problem for a lot of people.
Last week we have we have renamed our cloud-based mobile app builder to Tiggzi (from Tiggr). Tiggzi is the most powerful and easy to use cloud-based mobile app builder. Free Plan! But, even more interesting news (for you) is that now we have a Free plan. No credit card nothing, just sign up and start [...]
Facebook will put in its papers to IPO next week, according to the Wall Street Journal Friday, maybe by Wednesday February 1. Apparently the timing is still a bit up in the air but it’s in the works.
The offering, looking to raise $10 billion, is supposed to value the company at somewhere between $75 billion and $100 billion.
Britain’s Telegraph said PrivCo claimed Thursday night that Facebook was targeting an IPO price of $38–$40 for its shares, with a target value for the company of $90 billion–$95 billion because Facebook was “reluctant to aim for the full $100 billion valuation in the hope of leaving some value for investors following the listing.”
Morgan Stanley is tipped to take the company out with Goldman Sachs, which orchestrated a sloppy $1.5 billion private placement of Facebook shares a year ago, getting a piece of the action.
The Platform as a Service (PaaS) market grew out of the fact that no other cloud solution addressed the ever-increasing complexity of managing and writing modern applications: no frameworks, libraries or APIs alone could tackle the sticky application engineering challenges. Unfortunately, PaaS 1.0 is what people are now seeing as strictly a “tool” to easily deploy apps to the infrastructure in a self-service way with little or no differentiation among offerings. However, in order for PaaS to reach its full potential and become the modern day abstraction layer for software delivery, we must enter the PaaS 2.0 phase.
In his session at the 10th International Cloud Expo, Sinclair Schuller, Co-Founder & CEO of Apprenda, will explain how organizations are currently using PaaS, where PaaS is evolving to, and highlight best practices to maximize the value of existing investments when adopting ...
SYS-CON Events announced today that OpSource, Inc., Dimension Data’s wholly owned enterprise cloud and managed hosting business, has been named “Bronze Sponsor” of 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.
OpSource provides cloud and managed hosting solutions that enable businesses to accelerate growth and scale operations while controlling costs and reducing IT infrastructure support risks. Headquartered...
As more enterprises are adopting clouds, the nature of cloud computing is changing. Previously, clouds were used to test applications or for non-mission critical applications. Today, enterprises are using clouds for cost-saving advantages and launching more mission critical applications that have defined performance needs.
In his session at the 10th International Cloud Expo, Eric Shepcaro, CEO and Chairman of the Board of Telx, will discuss how distributed computing has many advantages. It wou...
SYS-CON Events announced today that CodeFutures Corporation, the company behind dbShards, 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.
CodeFutures Corporation, the company behind dbShards, is a leading supplier of database performance and reliability tools that reduce the time and effort required to dramatically increase database scalability and performance. With dbShards, production environm...
The Platform as a Service (PaaS) market grew out of the fact that no other cloud solution addressed the ever-increasing complexity of managing and writing modern applications: no frameworks, libraries or APIs alone could tackle the sticky application engineering challenges. Unfortunately, PaaS 1.0 is what people are now seeing as strictly a “tool” to easily deploy apps to the infrastructure in a self-service way with little or no differentiation among offerings. However, in order for PaaS to rea...
Virtualization and private cloud are good for server consolidation, creating flexible environments, and saving IT budget dollars. A recent survey of 1200 companies with 500+ employees showed that 59% had server virtualization in production or pilot. But that doesn’t tell the whole story.
In his session at the 10th International Cloud Expo, Dave Asprey, VP of Cloud Security at Trend Micro, will explain the types of situations when you should consider not virtualizing some of your applications. ...
The focus of Java EE 7 is on the cloud, and specifically it aims to bring Platform-as-a-Service providers and application developers together so that portable applications can be deployed on any cloud infrastructure and reap all its benefits in terms of scalability, elasticity, multitenancy, etc. The existing specifications in the platform such as JPA, Servlets, EJB, and others will be updated to meet these requirements.
Java EE 7 continues the ease of development push that characterized prior ...
Big Data has become very popular as what can probably best be described as “loosely structured large scale data”, i.e., data sets of relatively small files.
In his session at the 10th International Cloud Expo, Tom Leyden, Director of Alliances and Marketing at Amplidata, will explain what Big Unstructured Data is (lots of large, unstructured files) and how you build scalable storage infrastructures that can handle such volumes of data. The focus will be on Object Storage, which is the future s...
Hadoop, MapReduce, Hive, Hbase, Lucene, Solr? The only thing growing faster than enterprise data these days is the landscape of big data tools. These tools, which are designed to help organizations turn big data into opportunities, are gaining deeper insight into massive volumes of information. A recent Gartner report predicts that enterprise data will increase by 650% over the next five years, which means that the time is now for IT decision makers to determine which big data tools are the best...
Endless discussion about the "right" cloud delivery model has not produced a consensus. Instead, the cacophony of discussion resembles a Fox News Show – all talking points and no enlightenment. The reality is that every IT organization will face a mixed deployment model going forward. The key issue is how that mixed environment will be implemented and managed as well as how to decide which environment is right for a given application.
In his session at the 10th International Cloud Expo, Bernar...
Cloud computing has gained momentum and is increasingly being embraced by enterprises of all sizes for application delivery. But the cloud itself is often its own worst enemy as performance, reliability, and the lack of enterprise level capabilities have led to obstacles in growth and adoption of this still promising infrastructure methodology. This is only exacerbated by an increasingly mobile and global world, one that is plagued with security concerns.
In his Day 3 Keynote at the 9th Interna...
When I talk on the phone, I've always used my left ear to listen. Listening in the right ear just doesn't sound right. This might be due to being right handed, doing the shoulder hold to take notes when needed. As corded turned to cordless and mobile along with the hands-free ear-plugs, that plug we...
Big Data has caught the fancy of each and everyone. Consumer and enterprise world is looking to adopt the Big Data. Analysts are talking about it, proclaiming it to the next big thing!
We will start seeing SaaS vendors that will start offering data analytics as a service (e.g., 1010data). These ve...
Some have tried to distinguish between “mobile cloud” and “cloud” by claiming the former is the use of the web browser on a mobile device to access services while the latter uses device-native applications. Like all things cloud, the marketing fluff is purposefully obfuscating and sweeping under the...
"It is what is on the inside that counts." How many times have we all been told that? Personally, I can't even remember. However, just because it is perhaps overused and undoubtedly cliché, does not make it any less true. In fact, I rank it right up there with the golden rule as mantras that one sho...
The previous blog talked about Municipalities beginning to move into a mode where they not only buy in Cloud services, but they also become a seller of them too. Research analyst IDC calls these ‘Cloud Hubs’ in new insights they are revealing about how this effect is already occuring in ...
It has been out for quite some time. If you have not tried, perhaps you should. If you already know SQL Server you are already knowing a lot. It is time to pick up and move.
Microsoft has come out with this 'How to use SQL Azure' which will put you on the right track. Well after getting on the trac...
The FBI seized popular upload site Megaupload.com yesterday. They took the site down and now own the servers.
I am not an attorney, and I have no opinion on whether or not the MegaUpload guys were breaking laws or encouraging users to violate copyrights through illegal uploading and streaming of m...
I’ve been looking at the PaaS space for some time now. I spent some time with the good folks at CloudBees (naturally), and have had many conversations on CloudFoundry, Azure, and more with vendors, customers and other cloudy folks.
Krishnan posted a very good article over on CloudAve, and at one l...
The past year brought us many stories focusing on successful attacks on organizations for a wide variety of reasons. Why an organization was targeted was not nearly as important as the result: failure to prevent an outage. While the volume of traffic often seen by these organizations was in itself i...
A couple weeks ago there was an interesting discussion on Twitter amongst the #clouderati about ways to manage risk in a public cloud environment. I believe it was a fragment off the discussion that James Urquhart (@jamesurquhart) started about how "Cloud is complex" and one from Alistair Croll (@ac...
SYS-CON Events announced today that OpSource, Inc., Dimension Data’s wholly owned enterprise cloud and managed hosting business, has been named “Bronze Sponsor” of 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.
OpSource provides cloud and managed hosting solutions that enable businesses to accelerate growth and scale operations while controlling costs and reducing IT infrastructure support risks. Headquartered in Santa Clara, with operations in California, Virginia, the UK, Ireland, and India, more than 600 enterprises, service providers and Software-as-a-Service ISVs rely on OpSource's expertise, experience and cloud automation technology to operate high-availability, business-critical hosting environments. OpSource is a Dimension Data company. 
A new report says there's little stopping Europe catching up to the US in cloud computing. The study, carried out by the London School of Economics and Political Science and commissioned by Microsoft, looked at the projected economic impact of cloud computing on the aerospace and smartphone services industries in the UK, USA, Germany and Italy from 2010-2014.
Joyent’s SmartDataCenter IaaS platform is going to be sold to Italian VARs and service providers by ICOS, an Italian value-added distributor, for private cloud infrastructure or value-added private cloud services.
SmartDataCenter’s local storage is supposed to reduce the TCO of cloud data centers.
It’s designed to manage tens of thousands of virtual machines, a k a SmartMachines, and supports a multi-tenant PaaS.
ICOS means to develop its own cloud infrastructure for channel partners too so they don’t have to build their own cloud data center.
JoyentCloud.com delivers public cloud services to LinkedIn, Gilt Groupe and Kabam and licenses its cloud software to service providers that include Dell, FirstServer, XYBase, ClusterTech and Uniserve. Its offerings include a Platform-as-a-Service based on Node.js, the open source server-side JavaScript development environment that’s been em...
As more enterprises are adopting clouds, the nature of cloud computing is changing. Previously, clouds were used to test applications or for non-mission critical applications. Today, enterprises are using clouds for cost-saving advantages and launching more mission critical applications that have defined performance needs.
In his session at the 10th International Cloud Expo, Eric Shepcaro, CEO and Chairman of the Board of Telx, will discuss how distributed computing has many advantages. It would allow organizations to have a cloud at various data centers instead of one cloud at one datacenter. Costs are reduced significantly since one big Internet pipe is not needed. 
SYS-CON Events announced today that CodeFutures Corporation, the company behind dbShards, 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.
CodeFutures Corporation, the company behind dbShards, is a leading supplier of database performance and reliability tools that reduce the time and effort required to dramatically increase database scalability and performance. With dbShards, production environments gain scalability, high-availability and easy management of multi-terabyte databases through its Continuous Replication technology, providing an ideal foundation for fast-growing, 24X7 applications.
EMC CEO Joe Tucci is gonna keep his eventual replacement waiting a while longer.
When the company posted pretty Q4 results the other day Tucci said he won’t be stepping down this year as planned.
He said the board asked him to stay into 2013 and that “after much soul-searching” he agreed.
“As I’ve said in the past, the board and I fully expect that my successor will come from within the existing, talented and experienced ranks of the EMC management team” – who reportedly all asked him to reconsider his transition plans. 
Amazon’s cloud, which, let’s face it, is still pretty much developer turf, broadened its push into the enterprise Wednesday with the introduction of AWS Storage Gateway, a beta virtual appliance nominally meant to automate enterprise data backup to S3 while creating a comfort level with the cloud among the leery.
It’s the first time Amazon has proposed putting its own software on the ground inside a corporate data center. And the stuff’s targeted at large corporations. Amazon says some customers asked for such a solution. It also expects resellers to offer the service.
It is of course proprietary and a competitive problem for other cloud storage and gateway suppliers. Come to think of it, Amazon as repository of corporate data is a problem for a lot of people.
Last week we have we have renamed our cloud-based mobile app builder to Tiggzi (from Tiggr). Tiggzi is the most powerful and easy to use cloud-based mobile app builder. Free Plan! But, even more interesting news (for you) is that now we have a Free plan. No credit card nothing, just sign up and start [...]
Facebook will put in its papers to IPO next week, according to the Wall Street Journal Friday, maybe by Wednesday February 1. Apparently the timing is still a bit up in the air but it’s in the works.
The offering, looking to raise $10 billion, is supposed to value the company at somewhere between $75 billion and $100 billion.
Britain’s Telegraph said PrivCo claimed Thursday night that Facebook was targeting an IPO price of $38–$40 for its shares, with a target value for the company of $90 billion–$95 billion because Facebook was “reluctant to aim for the full $100 billion valuation in the hope of leaving some value for investors following the listing.”
Morgan Stanley is tipped to take the company out with Goldman Sachs, which orchestrated a sloppy $1.5 billion private placement of Facebook shares a year ago, getting a piece of the action. 
The Platform as a Service (PaaS) market grew out of the fact that no other cloud solution addressed the ever-increasing complexity of managing and writing modern applications: no frameworks, libraries or APIs alone could tackle the sticky application engineering challenges. Unfortunately, PaaS 1.0 is what people are now seeing as strictly a “tool” to easily deploy apps to the infrastructure in a self-service way with little or no differentiation among offerings. However, in order for PaaS to reach its full potential and become the modern day abstraction layer for software delivery, we must enter the PaaS 2.0 phase.
In his session at the 10th International Cloud Expo, Sinclair Schuller, Co-Founder & CEO of Apprenda, will explain how organizations are currently using PaaS, where PaaS is evolving to, and highlight best practices to maximize the value of existing investments when adopting ...
Virtualization and private cloud are good for server consolidation, creating flexible environments, and saving IT budget dollars. A recent survey of 1200 companies with 500+ employees showed that 59% had server virtualization in production or pilot. But that doesn’t tell the whole story.
In his session at the 10th International Cloud Expo, Dave Asprey, VP of Cloud Security at Trend Micro, will explain the types of situations when you should consider not virtualizing some of your applications. ...
The focus of Java EE 7 is on the cloud, and specifically it aims to bring Platform-as-a-Service providers and application developers together so that portable applications can be deployed on any cloud infrastructure and reap all its benefits in terms of scalability, elasticity, multitenancy, etc. The existing specifications in the platform such as JPA, Servlets, EJB, and others will be updated to meet these requirements.
Java EE 7 continues the ease of development push that characterized prior ...
Big Data has become very popular as what can probably best be described as “loosely structured large scale data”, i.e., data sets of relatively small files.
In his session at the 10th International Cloud Expo, Tom Leyden, Director of Alliances and Marketing at Amplidata, will explain what Big Unstructured Data is (lots of large, unstructured files) and how you build scalable storage infrastructures that can handle such volumes of data. The focus will be on Object Storage, which is the future s...
Hadoop, MapReduce, Hive, Hbase, Lucene, Solr? The only thing growing faster than enterprise data these days is the landscape of big data tools. These tools, which are designed to help organizations turn big data into opportunities, are gaining deeper insight into massive volumes of information. A recent Gartner report predicts that enterprise data will increase by 650% over the next five years, which means that the time is now for IT decision makers to determine which big data tools are the best...
Endless discussion about the "right" cloud delivery model has not produced a consensus. Instead, the cacophony of discussion resembles a Fox News Show – all talking points and no enlightenment. The reality is that every IT organization will face a mixed deployment model going forward. The key issue is how that mixed environment will be implemented and managed as well as how to decide which environment is right for a given application.
In his session at the 10th International Cloud Expo, Bernar...
Cloud computing has gained momentum and is increasingly being embraced by enterprises of all sizes for application delivery. But the cloud itself is often its own worst enemy as performance, reliability, and the lack of enterprise level capabilities have led to obstacles in growth and adoption of this still promising infrastructure methodology. This is only exacerbated by an increasingly mobile and global world, one that is plagued with security concerns.
In his Day 3 Keynote at the 9th Interna...
When I talk on the phone, I've always used my left ear to listen. Listening in the right ear just doesn't sound right. This might be due to being right handed, doing the shoulder hold to take notes when needed. As corded turned to cordless and mobile along with the hands-free ear-plugs, that plug we...
Big Data has caught the fancy of each and everyone. Consumer and enterprise world is looking to adopt the Big Data. Analysts are talking about it, proclaiming it to the next big thing!
We will start seeing SaaS vendors that will start offering data analytics as a service (e.g., 1010data). These ve...
Some have tried to distinguish between “mobile cloud” and “cloud” by claiming the former is the use of the web browser on a mobile device to access services while the latter uses device-native applications. Like all things cloud, the marketing fluff is purposefully obfuscating and sweeping under the...
"It is what is on the inside that counts." How many times have we all been told that? Personally, I can't even remember. However, just because it is perhaps overused and undoubtedly cliché, does not make it any less true. In fact, I rank it right up there with the golden rule as mantras that one sho...
The previous blog talked about Municipalities beginning to move into a mode where they not only buy in Cloud services, but they also become a seller of them too. Research analyst IDC calls these ‘Cloud Hubs’ in new insights they are revealing about how this effect is already occuring in ...
It has been out for quite some time. If you have not tried, perhaps you should. If you already know SQL Server you are already knowing a lot. It is time to pick up and move.
Microsoft has come out with this 'How to use SQL Azure' which will put you on the right track. Well after getting on the trac...
The FBI seized popular upload site Megaupload.com yesterday. They took the site down and now own the servers.
I am not an attorney, and I have no opinion on whether or not the MegaUpload guys were breaking laws or encouraging users to violate copyrights through illegal uploading and streaming of m...
I’ve been looking at the PaaS space for some time now. I spent some time with the good folks at CloudBees (naturally), and have had many conversations on CloudFoundry, Azure, and more with vendors, customers and other cloudy folks.
Krishnan posted a very good article over on CloudAve, and at one l...
The past year brought us many stories focusing on successful attacks on organizations for a wide variety of reasons. Why an organization was targeted was not nearly as important as the result: failure to prevent an outage. While the volume of traffic often seen by these organizations was in itself i...
A couple weeks ago there was an interesting discussion on Twitter amongst the #clouderati about ways to manage risk in a public cloud environment. I believe it was a fragment off the discussion that James Urquhart (@jamesurquhart) started about how "Cloud is complex" and one from Alistair Croll (@ac...
