According to CRN Microsoft has added 300-500 direct sales people to pitch its cloud strategy to both end users and partners starting July 1, the beginning of the company's new fiscal year. Microsoft general manager, partner strategy for the US Public Sector Vince Menzione said at a conference Monday, "All of our salespeople will be leading with cloud." Microsoft will have new partner and pricing models around cloud services next month. "We are breaking glass within Microsoft," Menzione reportedly said. The cloud "is changing our business models, processes and product portfolio." The stops-out effort is supposed to be akin to the fight it waged against Netscape.
What are the ways to develop and implement successful Private and Community Cloud Services in large enterprises?
In his session at the 7th International Cloud Expo, Dan Murphy, a thought leader in the development of Clo...Jun. 20, 2010 03:15 PM EDT Reads: 692
The IT industry is on the cusp of a new cloud computing era. The ’90s were focused on e-business, the late 2000s on IT as a Service, and we are now entering the era of "everything as a service." IT has become business se...
GlassFish v3, the Reference Implementation of Java EE 6, can easily run on multiple cloud infrastructures. This session will provide a brief introduction to Java EE 6 and GlassFish v3.
In his session at the 7th Intern...
How can you efficiently design and deploy a private cloud? What are the distinctions between private, hybrid and public clouds, and what applications are best suited for each?
In his session at the 7th International Cl...
SYS-CON Events announced today that JetBrains, the creators of intelligent, productivity-enhancing development tools for developers, will exhibit at SYS-CON’s 6th International Cloud Expo, which will take place on June 2...
Many enterprises out there are at a point in time when they are making a very important decision regarding their enterprise applications: To move or not to move. Of course, I’m talking about the decision of moving applications to a cloud computing environment or continuing to deploy in more traditio...
A lot of vendors are announcing “cloud washed” solutions that is just adding to the hype in this nascent technology. It also adds to customer cynicism on what really makes is a cloud solution? I see an increasing number of ISV’s say we have a cloud enabled solution. Sometimes it is just press releas...
Reduced Redundancy Storage (RRS) enables users to store data in S3 at a 33% discount to our standard pricing return for a reduced level of durability. Amazon S3 stores objects according to their storage class, which is assigned when an object is written. Since we added RSS support to CloudBerry Expl...
On June 14th I attended the Israeli Wikipedia Academy 2010 conference in Tel-Aviv University.
The interesting conference focused on Wikipedia and Wiki technology usage in Academic context and schools.
Most of the presentations focused on Wiki or Wikipedia research, usage and projects.
The main th...
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