There’s no substitute for experience. If you could learn from the successes and failures of an early enterprise cloud pioneer, your own cloud journey could avoid similar pitfalls and perhaps reap faster rewards. Years ago, the Commonwealth Bank of Australia made the strategic decision to migrate to an agile IT operating model, adopting “as-a-service” IT delivery wherever possible. Now, the bank is enjoying the benefits of its early commitment. However, the journey was not always smooth. Implemen...May. 26, 2012 01:00 AM EDT Reads: 2,545
As an exhibitor at Cloud Expo New York, Dome9 Security is offering special passes to SYS-CON's 10th International Cloud Expo, which will take place on June 11–14, 2012, at the Javits Center in New York City, New York.
Dome9 Security, the leader in cloud security management, automates and centralizes cloud firewall management across all servers and clouds. Available for both enterprises and hosting providers, Dome9 supports clouds, VPS, dedicated servers, and Amazon’s EC2 Security Groups, across...
The convergence of cloud and mobile trends has created demanding new challenges for IT departments to support global users accessing applications from many different devices. In addition, as more mission-critical applications are deployed to the cloud, sensitive data must be protected while still providing the best experience for global end users. As the pace of application development and deployment increases, organizations increasingly need immediate ways to provide global scale and optimal pe...
“Big Data analytics will shape the form of nearly every process going forward in time, from the color of the latest fashions, what the candidates say in one town versus another to the chemical composition of the latest super drug,” noted Steve Knodl, Director of Product Management at NextIO, in this exclusive Q&A; with Cloud Expo Conference Chair Jeremy Geelan. “Whether these are considered “new” products,” Knodl continued, “or continuous improvement on previous processes is largely in the eyes o...
Navigating the complex web of regulatory and compliance requirements related to the processing and storage of sensitive enterprise data in the cloud is a huge challenge for business. The cloud is borderless – so how do you cover your business risk and security requirements when your SaaS application requires your data to move out of your control and into the cloud?
In his session at the 10th International Cloud Expo, David Canellos, President and CEO of PerspecSys, will highlight some of the d...
As a Silver Sponsor of Cloud Expo New York, VMware is offering special passes to SYS-CON's 10th International Cloud Expo, which will take place on June 11–14, 2012, at the Javits Center in New York City, New York.
VMware is the leader in virtualization and cloud infrastructure solutions that enable businesses to thrive in the Cloud Era. Customers rely on VMware to help them transform the way they build, deliver and consume Information Technology resources in a manner that is evolutionary and ba...
With cloud computing strategies taking shape, IT is now facing the practical challenges of efficiently and safely delivering services from public clouds. Requirements include overcoming network incompatibilities, meeting security and compliance requirements and adhering to tight performance SLAs for cloud-delivered workloads.
In his session at the 10th International Cloud Expo, Craig Currim, Global Architect at Citrix Cloud Networking Group, will demonstrate an architecture to make your networ...
Enterprises and business are leveraging the public cloud and Internet now more than ever. The explosion of Software as a Service and cloud computing has presented today's enterprises with a new challenge: controlling and optimizing the Internet.
In his general session at the 10th International Cloud Expo, Michael Cucchi, Director of Product Marketing for Akamai’s Enterprise Cloud division, will discuss their globally distributed and massively scalable Intelligent Platform and how Akamai's Terr...
With Cloud Expo 2012 New York (10th Cloud Expo) now under three weeks away, what better time to introduce you in greater detail to the distinguished individuals in our incredible Speaker Faculty for the technical and strategy sessions at the conference...
ServerCentral, Chicago’s leading provider of colocation, cloud, network connectivity, and managed services, announced on Tuesday that its high performance cloud will debut on June 11 at the 10th International Cloud Expo, held June 11-14 at the Javits Center in New York City.
“ServerCentral customers have voiced their frustrations with cloud offerings which may require thousands of VMs to run large workloads,” explained Jordan Lowe, ServerCentral President and CEO. “Our cloud services support re...
There are two levels of reliability for an application. There’s local and there’s global. We might want to consider it more simply as “inside” and “outside” reliability.
Virtualization enables local reliability – the inside kind of reliability. Whether you’re relying upon clustering or load balanc...
Healthcare data security has been around for a long time, but as cloud computing gains more and more traction, healthcare providers as well as healthcare software vendors, would like to use the cloud advantages and migrate healthcare data, or run healthcare software from a cloud infrastructure. In t...
A few weeks ago we were called by a frantic young business owner. His problem? His business – a 3 month old roofing company – was winning more deals than the founders and crew could manage. They were hiring sales reps and managers fast, but needed a system for, well, everything. 
Many see the terms risk and threat as interchangeable. However in the simplest of terms, risk the probability or frequency of doing harm while threat is the actual or attempted infliction of that harm. Tomato, tomahto? It’s all about keeping your IT assets protected, right?
I was chatting with an I...
Gladinet has been supporting OpenStack since there was OpenStack. You can connect to an OpenStack swift (Object Storage) instance from Gladinet Cloud Desktop, Gladinet Cloud Server and also Gladinet Cloud Team Edition.
OpenStack KeyStone is an identity service (or user login service). The benefit...
In Part 1 of this series, we highlighted Enterprise Strategy Group’s 2012 Spending Intentions Survey, showing that organizations plan to spend 60-72% of IT budget maintaining existing infrastructure in 2012. This second installment takes a deeper look at the maintenance cost of data storage infrastr...
Intel Cloud SSO is a pure cloud-based identity solution from three of the most trusted names in the industry—Intel, McAfee and Salesforce.com—that simplifies the cumbersome process of providing users with access to hundreds of SaaS apps.
A single point of management, control, access & authenticatio...
It is an interesting point/counterpoint to read up about Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) deployment or lack thereof. The industry definitely seems to be split on whether VDI is the wave of the future or not, what its level of deployment is, and whether VDI is more secure than traditional deskto...
I will be showing how to build HTML5, jQuery Mobile apps connected to REST APIs with Tiggzi at the SF East Bay jQuery meetup on Tuesday, May 29, 2012. Anyone who attends the meeting will also get free Pro plan. Definitely stop by.
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