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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
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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 2012 East Opening Keynote by SHI
In this Cloud Expo Keynote, Henry Fastert, SHI's Chief Technologist and Managing Partner, will share insight on how the latest generation of cloud computing is now capable of addressing the needs of the enterprise mission critical applications. These mission-critical applications require computing infrastructure that is secure, optimizes performance, and is highly resilient. The purpose of the keynote is to highlight how the latest cloud computing designs have evolved in terms of security, availability, and overall service quality to meet the needs of mission critical applications.
John Engates, CTO of Rackspace Hosting Live From New York City
Last year, cloud computing pundits predicted that 2012 would be the year when the clouds would open. They were right as cloud computing enthusiasts all over are embracing the open ecosystem; however, denying one vendor the right to serve as the de facto API is only the tip of the iceberg of this computing climate change. Join Rackspace Chief Technology Officer John Engates as he discusses the open ecosystem and how ultimately, winning cloud technologies will be based on the ecosystem they represent.
Keynote: Step up to a Higher Cloud
Cloud is a transformational shift in computing that can have a powerful effect on enterprise IT when designed correctly and used to its full potential. Join Citrix in a discussion that centers on building, connecting and empowering users with cloud services and hear examples of how enterprises are solving real-world business challenges with an architecture and solution purpose-built for the cloud.
A Pragmatic Journey to the Cloud
As enterprise adoption of cloud computing accelerates, organizations must have a strategy and roadmap for moving to the cloud. Faced with different options including building a private cloud, subscribing to public clouds, or leveraging a hybrid cloud, organizations need a rational and pragmatic approach. This session explores the emerging trends in cloud computing and offers best practices for how organizations can successfully navigate a journey to the cloud.
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...
“The cloud opportunity is helping C-suite leaders reshape customer experience," said Paul Papas, Global Leader Smarter Commerce, IBM Global Business Services. “As part of IBM's digital front office strategy, we see these 100 cloud applications as a way for business leaders to improve customer experience, reach new customers, generate new revenue streams and become more competitive in their industry.”
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.
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, although the possibility is a ways off, tickled the shares Monday.
“SeaMicro’s technology looks good; its management team, astute; and the market opportunities, promising,” the story said.
It was the opening salvo for myriad articles sketching out AMD’s already tipped plans to make its first ARM chip, a 64-bit processor that it expects to have sampling in the first quarter of 2014 with production following sometime in the second half.
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 position as executive vice-president, strategic growth initiatives, where he’s supposed to increase HP’s business in China, extend its channel partner relationships worldwide and identify potential partners among early-stage start-ups.
He will work directly with CEO Meg Whitman, who said in the Tuesday morning announcement that “There’s nothing more important to HP than our channel partners and the future of our business in China. I’ve asked Todd to use his expertise to focus on these areas. I’ve also asked him to study the landscape of small companies and start-ups that could partner with HP to spur growth....
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 global business growth.
Achilles manages the supply chains of 800 of the world's largest companies to reduce the risk, time and cost associated with procurement activity. The company verifies and keeps up-to-date data of around 80,000 suppliers across 23 countries to ensure they are operating to the highest possible standards. Achilles recently invested GBP 12 million in the development of new global platforms, which will offer a true SaaS solution to customers looking to manage their data anytime, anywhere – with no downtime for maintenance.
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 Fortune 100 reportedly under contract.
It didn’t even have a name for its OpenStack distribution until now. It’s calling the private cloud it’s built on the latest Grizzly version of OpenStack Carbon|OS.
See, Metacloud's founders are pretty sure of themselves because they figure they've done this kind of thing before. When President Steve Curry was at Yahoo for over a decade he managed its global storage operations that handled hundreds of petabytes of content and user data. And when CEO Sean Lynch was at Ticketmaster, the third-largest e-commerce system in the world, he ran its technical operations. ...
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, cloud-based technology & product delivery services, ArisGlobal.
“Cloud is changing the way we deploy technology. Eli Lily uses cloud services for research and development efforts. GSK has chosen to replace its existing Lotus Notes, Domino, and Postini services for its 96,500 employees worldwide, with everything being hosted on the cloud. Roche uses pre-clinical SaaS solution to consolidate several key application areas and harmonize all its sites worldwide,” he said.
The benefits of moving to the cloud computing is the on-demand delivery of IT resources via the Internet with "pay-as-you-go" pricing. It allow...
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 price of VMware’s vCloud.
This is where Red Hat gets to play a card that only Microsoft can match – its operating system, commonly known as RHEL – and create a tightly integrated cloud platform by fusing RHEL with OpenStack, the open source cloud computing software.
The move came as a one-two punch consisting of a kit called the Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform and another called Red Hat Cloud Infrastructure that deliver the company’s essential vision of an Open Hybrid Cloud.
The personal cloud will be the main catalyst in bringing services otherwise unavailable to developing nations.
While businesses have been deploying cloud technology for some time, it's only recently that personal cloud services have emerged. The rise of the personal cloud means content, applications and computing power can move off the device.
While iPhones and iPads are unlikely to fade in popularity, the personal cloud will create opportunity, according to an article on NetworkWorld.com. Opportunity for users who have not been able to afford services historically tethered to an expensive device; opportunity for manufacturers to design lower-cost hardware to reach a new demographic in developing countries; and huge opportunity for businesses to bring a new wave of services to this previously untapped audience.
Despite the great interest in SaaS and cloud, many large enterprises are still grappling with the right mixture of on-premises, hosted and various cloud deployment models for their applications, infrastructure and data. And the formula for picking which apps and assets should run where will be a changing one, as business goals, economic pressures and technology advances all conspire to make last year's IT model obsolete. Ongoing.applications, infrastructure and data. And the formula for picking which apps and assets should run where will be a changing one, as business goals, economic pressures and technology advances all conspire to make last year's IT model obsolete. Ongoing.
“I believe it is incumbent on the Cloud Service Providers (CSPs) and/or System Integrators (SIs) to understand the regulatory and compliance-related issues that their customers face,” noted Manjula Talreja, VP of Global Cloud Business Development at Cisco, in this exclusive Q&A with Cloud Expo Conference Chair Jeremy Geelan. “Of course these issues are different in each industry and in each country.”
Cloud Computing Journal: The move to cloud isn't about saving money, it is about saving time - ...
“Regulations and compliance are key trust topics with regards to cloud solutions and technology,” noted Sven Denecken, Vice President, Strategy and Co-Innovation Cloud Solutions, SAP AG, in this exclusive Q&A with Cloud Expo Conference Chair Jeremy Geelan. “But it is also more than security of access – it is portability of data and a clear definition of where the data resides.”
Cloud Computing Journal: The move to cloud isn't about saving money, it is about saving time – agree or disagree?
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Many organizations want to expand upon the IaaS foundation to deliver cloud services in all forms – software, mobility, infrastructure and IT. Understanding the strategy, planning process and tools for this transformation will help catalyze changes in the way the business operates and deliver real value.
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," is part of the event's Enterprise Cloud Computing Track on Thursday, June 13, 2013. The Cloud Expo conference is being held June 10-13, 2013 at the Javits Center in New York City.
Bridging IaaS and PaaS to Deliver ...
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 place to help scale operations. In his Day 3 Keynote at 12th Cloud Expo | Cloud Expo New York [June 10-13, 2013], Intel's Rob Crooke will describe the range of products that Intel provides to support different usa...
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 storage at the 12th International Cloud Expo. The conference takes place June 10-13 at the Javits Center in New York City.
Rosendahl will explore trends in cloud-based backup and disaster recovery (DR) and how curre...
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. Enterprises can better prepare for this shift and take full advantage of future computing benefits. Between architecture design and migration planning, the road can be long, so what do you do with your talent?
I...
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 innovators – why spend the time creating, when a project could be abandoned in a blink? That was the old world. In the new world of IT, developers rule. They have access to resources they can spin up instantly.
A hyb...
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 Expo taking place June 10-13, 2013 in New York City.
As more enterprise IT departments move into the cloud, many executives are evaluating whether to adopt a Public or Private cloud. The cost benefits of the Public ...
“I’m careful when using terms like Big Data, because it can mean so many things to different people,” explained Eric Hanselman, Chief Analyst at 451 Research, in this exclusive Q&A with Cloud Expo Conference Chair Jeremy Geelan. “There is huge value in analytics that companies can use to pull intelligence from a collection of data sources that are available in their businesses. The inexpensive storage that cloud services can offer make a great environment to pull together siloed data.”
Cloud Co...
Interview with CEO Brad Bostic - hc1.com is committed to improving the quality of healthcare while reducing costs. We believe a critical ingredient to averting the current healthcare crisis faced by the US can only occur by improving the way healthcare professionals across the continuum of care man...
n the cloud doesn't matter whether you are running on an Open Source platform or not - it is NOT free because you pay for the service. And for long Open Source project have been funded through the services premiums that you pay. I would argue that Open Source vendors have mastered the way they can t...
Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) solutions allow IT organizations to deploy and manage virtual user desktops in the data center, eliminating the tedious management of numerous physical desktops. At the same time, virtual desktops allow end users to maintain their own personal desktops with acces...
The notion that PaaS exists solely "in the cloud" as a discrete environment of developer services is hampering the maturation of enterprise PaaS.
The three most common answers to "give me an example of PaaS" are: Force.com, Azure, Google. I didn't even need to do an unscientific Internet survey to ...
In this article, we’ll provide an overview of the Hyper-V enhancements in Windows Server 2012 R2. After you review these new capabilities, I’m sure you’ll see why the R2 release is a MAJOR RELEASE – so MUCH MORE than “just another” Service Pack release!
This month, we’ll be releasing a new article ...
Software defined networking (SDN) has been in the spotlight since its conception in recent years because of the revolutionary potential that this emergent technology has for the future of IT networking. SDN is like a testament to the changing times. It is a confluence of several of the most signific...
For more than half a century, cloud computing has changed names more often than a Hollywood starlet.
Utility computing. Time share. Thin client. SaaS. PaaS. IaaS. While concepts have been added and capabilities grown, cloud computing was no more invented by Amazon or other modern vendors in the las...
As with everything else, the best way to get a view of a new technology area is by asking for independent opinions. The old adage of the 6 blind men and the elephant comes to mind. Coincidentally, there were six "blind men" on the panel, including our very engaging host, Mr. Geelan. And there were v...
Cloud Expo 2013 New York is all about the technlogies that enable cloud computing. The multiple tracks,, boot camp, keynotes and general sessions all focus on how to enable cloud computing through hosting, storage, data, APIs and services and application - grouped under IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS models. ...
Legacy apps are surely the albatross of the modern cloud-enabled IT department – you put them there, and now you have to live with them.
Short of scrapping millions of dollars of worth of investments, something needs to be done with these apps, especially when cloud adoption is altering the effic...
“The cloud opportunity is helping C-suite leaders reshape customer experience," said Paul Papas, Global Leader Smarter Commerce, IBM Global Business Services. “As part of IBM's digital front office strategy, we see these 100 cloud applications as a way for business leaders to improve customer experience, reach new customers, generate new revenue streams and become more competitive in their industry.” 
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. 
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, although the possibility is a ways off, tickled the shares Monday.
“SeaMicro’s technology looks good; its management team, astute; and the market opportunities, promising,” the story said.
It was the opening salvo for myriad articles sketching out AMD’s already tipped plans to make its first ARM chip, a 64-bit processor that it expects to have sampling in the first quarter of 2014 with production following sometime in the second half. 
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 position as executive vice-president, strategic growth initiatives, where he’s supposed to increase HP’s business in China, extend its channel partner relationships worldwide and identify potential partners among early-stage start-ups.
He will work directly with CEO Meg Whitman, who said in the Tuesday morning announcement that “There’s nothing more important to HP than our channel partners and the future of our business in China. I’ve asked Todd to use his expertise to focus on these areas. I’ve also asked him to study the landscape of small companies and start-ups that could partner with HP to spur growth....
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 global business growth.
Achilles manages the supply chains of 800 of the world's largest companies to reduce the risk, time and cost associated with procurement activity. The company verifies and keeps up-to-date data of around 80,000 suppliers across 23 countries to ensure they are operating to the highest possible standards. Achilles recently invested GBP 12 million in the development of new global platforms, which will offer a true SaaS solution to customers looking to manage their data anytime, anywhere – with no downtime for maintenance. 
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 Fortune 100 reportedly under contract.
It didn’t even have a name for its OpenStack distribution until now. It’s calling the private cloud it’s built on the latest Grizzly version of OpenStack Carbon|OS.
See, Metacloud's founders are pretty sure of themselves because they figure they've done this kind of thing before. When President Steve Curry was at Yahoo for over a decade he managed its global storage operations that handled hundreds of petabytes of content and user data. And when CEO Sean Lynch was at Ticketmaster, the third-largest e-commerce system in the world, he ran its technical operations. ...
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, cloud-based technology & product delivery services, ArisGlobal.
“Cloud is changing the way we deploy technology. Eli Lily uses cloud services for research and development efforts. GSK has chosen to replace its existing Lotus Notes, Domino, and Postini services for its 96,500 employees worldwide, with everything being hosted on the cloud. Roche uses pre-clinical SaaS solution to consolidate several key application areas and harmonize all its sites worldwide,” he said.
The benefits of moving to the cloud computing is the on-demand delivery of IT resources via the Internet with "pay-as-you-go" pricing. It allow...
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 price of VMware’s vCloud.
This is where Red Hat gets to play a card that only Microsoft can match – its operating system, commonly known as RHEL – and create a tightly integrated cloud platform by fusing RHEL with OpenStack, the open source cloud computing software.
The move came as a one-two punch consisting of a kit called the Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform and another called Red Hat Cloud Infrastructure that deliver the company’s essential vision of an Open Hybrid Cloud. 
The personal cloud will be the main catalyst in bringing services otherwise unavailable to developing nations.
While businesses have been deploying cloud technology for some time, it's only recently that personal cloud services have emerged. The rise of the personal cloud means content, applications and computing power can move off the device.
While iPhones and iPads are unlikely to fade in popularity, the personal cloud will create opportunity, according to an article on NetworkWorld.com. Opportunity for users who have not been able to afford services historically tethered to an expensive device; opportunity for manufacturers to design lower-cost hardware to reach a new demographic in developing countries; and huge opportunity for businesses to bring a new wave of services to this previously untapped audience. 
Despite the great interest in SaaS and cloud, many large enterprises are still grappling with the right mixture of on-premises, hosted and various cloud deployment models for their applications, infrastructure and data. And the formula for picking which apps and assets should run where will be a changing one, as business goals, economic pressures and technology advances all conspire to make last year's IT model obsolete. Ongoing.applications, infrastructure and data. And the formula for picking which apps and assets should run where will be a changing one, as business goals, economic pressures and technology advances all conspire to make last year's IT model obsolete. Ongoing.
“I believe it is incumbent on the Cloud Service Providers (CSPs) and/or System Integrators (SIs) to understand the regulatory and compliance-related issues that their customers face,” noted Manjula Talreja, VP of Global Cloud Business Development at Cisco, in this exclusive Q&A with Cloud Expo Conference Chair Jeremy Geelan. “Of course these issues are different in each industry and in each country.”
Cloud Computing Journal: The move to cloud isn't about saving money, it is about saving time - ...
“Regulations and compliance are key trust topics with regards to cloud solutions and technology,” noted Sven Denecken, Vice President, Strategy and Co-Innovation Cloud Solutions, SAP AG, in this exclusive Q&A with Cloud Expo Conference Chair Jeremy Geelan. “But it is also more than security of access – it is portability of data and a clear definition of where the data resides.”
Cloud Computing Journal: The move to cloud isn't about saving money, it is about saving time – agree or disagree?
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Many organizations want to expand upon the IaaS foundation to deliver cloud services in all forms – software, mobility, infrastructure and IT. Understanding the strategy, planning process and tools for this transformation will help catalyze changes in the way the business operates and deliver real value. 
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," is part of the event's Enterprise Cloud Computing Track on Thursday, June 13, 2013. The Cloud Expo conference is being held June 10-13, 2013 at the Javits Center in New York City.
Bridging IaaS and PaaS to Deliver ...
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 place to help scale operations. In his Day 3 Keynote at 12th Cloud Expo | Cloud Expo New York [June 10-13, 2013], Intel's Rob Crooke will describe the range of products that Intel provides to support different usa...
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 storage at the 12th International Cloud Expo. The conference takes place June 10-13 at the Javits Center in New York City.
Rosendahl will explore trends in cloud-based backup and disaster recovery (DR) and how curre...
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. Enterprises can better prepare for this shift and take full advantage of future computing benefits. Between architecture design and migration planning, the road can be long, so what do you do with your talent?
I...
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 innovators – why spend the time creating, when a project could be abandoned in a blink? That was the old world. In the new world of IT, developers rule. They have access to resources they can spin up instantly.
A hyb...
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 Expo taking place June 10-13, 2013 in New York City.
As more enterprise IT departments move into the cloud, many executives are evaluating whether to adopt a Public or Private cloud. The cost benefits of the Public ...
“I’m careful when using terms like Big Data, because it can mean so many things to different people,” explained Eric Hanselman, Chief Analyst at 451 Research, in this exclusive Q&A with Cloud Expo Conference Chair Jeremy Geelan. “There is huge value in analytics that companies can use to pull intelligence from a collection of data sources that are available in their businesses. The inexpensive storage that cloud services can offer make a great environment to pull together siloed data.”
Cloud Co...
Interview with CEO Brad Bostic - hc1.com is committed to improving the quality of healthcare while reducing costs. We believe a critical ingredient to averting the current healthcare crisis faced by the US can only occur by improving the way healthcare professionals across the continuum of care man...
n the cloud doesn't matter whether you are running on an Open Source platform or not - it is NOT free because you pay for the service. And for long Open Source project have been funded through the services premiums that you pay. I would argue that Open Source vendors have mastered the way they can t...
Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) solutions allow IT organizations to deploy and manage virtual user desktops in the data center, eliminating the tedious management of numerous physical desktops. At the same time, virtual desktops allow end users to maintain their own personal desktops with acces...
The notion that PaaS exists solely "in the cloud" as a discrete environment of developer services is hampering the maturation of enterprise PaaS.
The three most common answers to "give me an example of PaaS" are: Force.com, Azure, Google. I didn't even need to do an unscientific Internet survey to ...
In this article, we’ll provide an overview of the Hyper-V enhancements in Windows Server 2012 R2. After you review these new capabilities, I’m sure you’ll see why the R2 release is a MAJOR RELEASE – so MUCH MORE than “just another” Service Pack release!
This month, we’ll be releasing a new article ...
Software defined networking (SDN) has been in the spotlight since its conception in recent years because of the revolutionary potential that this emergent technology has for the future of IT networking. SDN is like a testament to the changing times. It is a confluence of several of the most signific...
For more than half a century, cloud computing has changed names more often than a Hollywood starlet.
Utility computing. Time share. Thin client. SaaS. PaaS. IaaS. While concepts have been added and capabilities grown, cloud computing was no more invented by Amazon or other modern vendors in the las...
As with everything else, the best way to get a view of a new technology area is by asking for independent opinions. The old adage of the 6 blind men and the elephant comes to mind. Coincidentally, there were six "blind men" on the panel, including our very engaging host, Mr. Geelan. And there were v...
Cloud Expo 2013 New York is all about the technlogies that enable cloud computing. The multiple tracks,, boot camp, keynotes and general sessions all focus on how to enable cloud computing through hosting, storage, data, APIs and services and application - grouped under IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS models. ...
Legacy apps are surely the albatross of the modern cloud-enabled IT department – you put them there, and now you have to live with them.
Short of scrapping millions of dollars of worth of investments, something needs to be done with these apps, especially when cloud adoption is altering the effic...
