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 While on the road at CloudCamp DC, I had the opportunity to interview long time friend and cloud expert JP Morgenthal (Principal Solutions Architect from EMC).
We talked Clouds, Hybrid, Federation, SaaS and the rise of PaaS, moving toward a services based architecture/economy.Apr. 30, 2012 06:30 AM EDT Reads: 1,181 |
 “Enterprise customers often view stuff that we take for granted as very foreign,” says Floyd Strimling, Technical Evangelist & Sr. Director, Marketing & Community at Zenoss, Inc.
By “we” he's referring industry writers, analysts, and executive who live and breathe the leading edge ...Apr. 13, 2012 09:58 AM EDT Reads: 476 |
 Yesterday, I posted the first part of an interview I recently had with Matthew Prince, co-founder and CEO of CloudFlare. Here's the rest of the interview...
Cloud Computing Journal: Like it or not, you get dragged into censorship discussions, whether the topic was your customer Lulz...Feb. 6, 2012 06:15 AM EST Reads: 1,326 |
 “Give us five minutes and we'll supercharge your website.”
So goes a slogan on the website of CloudFlare, a new, dynamic company that seems to be getting a lot of traction in the security and ISP spaces. The company is headed by Matthew Prince, who co-founded it in 2009. Matthew at...Feb. 2, 2012 07:15 AM EST Reads: 1,364 |
 recently spoke again with Les Thomas, a key analyst and producer in the global gaming industry. Previously, in May, he'd told me that cloud computing was “being roundly touted as the replacement of traditonal videogame hardware.”
Here are some of his current thoughts:
“The last...Dec. 21, 2011 06:07 AM EST Reads: 1,458 |
 CloudPassage delivers a server security platform that's been “purpose-built for the cloud,” according to the company. I spoke at Cloud Expo with Joerg Rathenberg, the company's VP of Marketing. Joerg was with IBM early in his career, “helping to build a new IBM in Eastern Europe as the...Dec. 21, 2011 06:00 AM EST Reads: 1,963 |
 Santa Barbara, CA-based RigthScale resides in a blue state near a blue ocean, with blue t-shirts as the unofficial dress code all the way to CEO Michael Crandell.
The company and its employees were well in evidence at the recent Cloud Expo in Silicon Valley, where its focus on clou...Dec. 7, 2011 03:17 AM EST Reads: 1,148 |
 I found myself sitting at a table with Renato “Rene” Quizon, Executive Director of Business Development at Pointwest, during a recent business summit in Manila that featured a guest appearance by Philippine President Benigno “Noynoy” Aquino III. The President was there to congratulate ...Nov. 29, 2011 09:58 PM EST Reads: 1,357 |
 I was intrigued by NextIO, an Austin-based company exhibiting at the recent Cloud Expo that seems to be taking a “meta-cloud” approach that decouples I/O from cloud servers. Virtualizing the virtualized, or something like that.
Had a brief conversation with some of the folks during ...Nov. 29, 2011 09:18 PM EST Reads: 1,005 |
 Eucalyptus CEO Marten Mickos became well-known as CEO of MySQL, a popular open-source database company that was sold to Sun Microsystems for $1 billion in February 2008. The Finnish native then stayed on with Sun for another year.
He was named CEO of Eucalyptus Systems in 2009; I in...Nov. 25, 2011 10:00 AM EST Reads: 1,577 |
 Brett Adam, CTO and SVP/Engineering of rPath, discussed “the seven deadly sins” of cloud applications at the recent Cloud Expo in Santa Clara. The sins had much to do with lack of automation and focusing on infrastructure per se rather than the applications in your cloud.
One of the...Nov. 16, 2011 12:31 PM EST Reads: 1,395 |
 A surprisingly low success rate for private cloud deployments leads one to wonder what's really holding them back. Vanessa Alvarez provides insight on the technological and cultural obstacles facing enterprises today.
Even with all the hype surrounding Cloud Computing, a recent Forre...Nov. 16, 2011 09:00 AM EST Reads: 2,934 |
 ArcusIT is a startup company delivering cloud computing to the Philippines, with a management team that's had deep global IT experience.
The company bills itself as "the first Philippine-based Cloud infrastructure service provider to deliver world-class, enterprise-grade cloud-comp...Nov. 9, 2011 12:19 PM EST Reads: 1,556 |
 In a recent interview with CloudNOW, Lauren States, Vice President, Cloud Computing at IBM and a member of the CloudNOW advisory board, offers her insight into the top cloud-related trends and challenges facing organizations.
Very few organizations have the insight that comes from lon...Oct. 27, 2011 05:45 AM EDT Reads: 4,506 |
 I wrote earlier about OrangeScape, based in Chennai, India, a company that is taking an aggressive approach to Platform-as-a-Service that it calls Visual aPaaS. It has broken the XaaS continuum into several parts, segmented PaaS as well, and identified Force.com as its chief competitor...Sep. 20, 2011 09:01 AM EDT Reads: 2,009 |
 The Ateneo Java Wireless Competency Center (AJWCC) at the Ateneo de Manila University in the Philippines has been developing cool mobile apps for more than eight years. In an emerging era of cloud computing, its efforts are seemingly prophetic while remaining absolutely current.
In...Sep. 16, 2011 07:53 PM EDT Reads: 1,632 |
 “We see PaaS as the key to competitive advantage, while IaaS and SaaS are really commodities,” says Ashish Bhagwat, Vice President of Chennai-based OrangeScape.
Within this context, the company has outlined a strategy of “metadata” Application PaaS – the company formally calls it V...Sep. 9, 2011 03:40 AM EDT Reads: 2,238 |
 The move to cloud is far more than an IT delivery model adjustment. It really presents a unique opportunity to get IT -- and the business of IT -- right at the highest levels.
VMware Co-President Carl Eschenbach demonstrated that impact through testimonials on how cloud computing and ...Sep. 2, 2011 10:45 AM EDT Reads: 2,975 |
 This case study interview takes aim at ADP Dealer Services and details how they're benefiting from expanding use of desktop virtualization. We'll learn about how ADP Dealer Services is enjoying increased security, better management, and higher productivity benefits as they leverage des...Sep. 1, 2011 10:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,700 |
 I get F5's Sr. Solution Architect, Charlie Cano, to whiteboard the solution for Multi-Site Application Deployment with vSphere & vCloud Director. See how applications can be packaged once and delivered from any data center and how Route Domains can solve static mapping challenges.Aug. 31, 2011 07:32 PM EDT Reads: 1,635 |
 The RPost Cloud platform is built on RPost’s innovative and first-rate Registered Email technology standard for processing high value email messages with added characteristics that deliver a specialized message product to the recipient, returning analytics, reports and evidence records...Aug. 27, 2011 01:00 PM EDT Reads: 2,210 |
 A committee of 71 Cloud technologists worked with TechAmerica, a Washington, DC-based industry association, to produce “Cloud2,” a report that makes 14 specific recommendations to government IT buyers and to Members of Congress and the White House.
The committee was headed by Marc ...Aug. 9, 2011 10:41 PM EDT Reads: 1,732 |
 A case study on how Genworth Financial uses HP tools to improve application delivery, performance testing, and operational integrity.
We're going to focus on Genworth Financial, and talk about a number of different products used to improve application delivery, performance testing, an...Jun. 23, 2011 08:45 AM EDT Reads: 2,733 |
 So how do IT organizations become more open while being more protective? Are these goals mutually exclusive, or can security enhancements and governance models make risks understood and acceptable for more kinds of social, collaboration, mobile and cloud computing activities?Jun. 17, 2011 07:45 AM EDT Reads: 2,951 |
 I had the opportunity to talk to Mark Raskino, Vice President at Gartner. Mark is one of the authors of the book Mastering the Gartner Hype-Cycle. At the conference, Mark gave the keynote, and I presented a talk on Cloud Computing. This interview is about how to Master the Gartner Hype...May. 26, 2011 12:15 PM EDT Reads: 3,993 |
 With the global growth of Cloud Computing solutions and the datacenters that support them, it seemed like a good time to fire a few questions to the Uptime Institute, which leads the global conversation about datacenters through its certifications, consulting, research, and educational...May. 11, 2011 10:35 PM EDT Reads: 2,662 |
 Cloud.com CEO Sheng Liang was the lead developer on Sun Microsystems' original Java Virtual Machine (JVM) team. Today he is a co-founder and CEO of Cloud.com, based in Cupertino, CA. The company delivers an open-source platform for both Public and Private Clouds. It also has a signific...May. 2, 2011 02:38 PM EDT Reads: 3,250 |
 Cloud.com was founded in 2008 with a mission to “take the complexity and high costs out of deploying cloud services,” according to its website. It delivers an open-source software platform for public and private cloud environments, delivering components to build, deploy, and manage mul...Feb. 3, 2011 07:00 AM EST Reads: 3,992 |
 Philippine native Winston Damarillo is CEO of Morphlabs, Inc. and G2IX (Global Gateway Innovation Exchange), and has also been named a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum.
I interviewed him shortly before he left for this year's Annual Meeting of the Forum in Davos. The ...Jan. 26, 2011 06:12 AM EST Reads: 3,454 |
 The EU-funded VISION Cloud initiative, led by IBM, has been launched and is focused on creating a metadata format that will enable users' data to be interoperable among Cloud service providers. This is potentially a huge development for all business, but especially small businesses, wh...Nov. 20, 2010 08:15 AM EST Reads: 6,073 |
 The promise of Cloud Computing government is real. Recognizing this, the Washington, DC-based Business Software Alliance focused its recent CTO Forum on Cloud Computing and its challenges in becoming more integrated into government IT.
The forum has been held annually for the past s...Nov. 8, 2010 01:57 AM EST Reads: 3,358 |
 Awareness for the insider threat is high, but what most people don't realize is the vast majority of vulnerabilities and hackers leverage administrative access in some way to become a threat. For example, last year we went through Microsoft's security alerts in our annual analysis and ...Nov. 7, 2010 03:06 AM EST Reads: 2,868 |
 StorSimple Chief Scientist Joel Christner explains one major difference that customers should be considering when looking at cloud gateways: tiering versus caching. Christner says that customers may be misled to believe that all devices are the same. "Truth be told, there are a numbe...Oct. 13, 2010 06:15 AM EDT Reads: 3,379 |
 One of the world’s leading space technology companies, Orbital Sciences Corporation has pioneered new classes of rockets, satellites, and other technologies that help make the benefits of space more affordable, accessible, and useful to millions of people on Earth.
Watch this intervi...Oct. 4, 2010 01:47 PM EDT Reads: 2,529 |
 A couple days ago, I posted the F5 BIG-IP Access Policy Manager and Oracle Access Manager Integration demo video created by Chris Akker and narrated by Chris Manley – who does a great job, by the way. That was actually Part 2 of a longer video and was edited to show the actual ad...Oct. 1, 2010 06:19 PM EDT Reads: 2,768 |
 A demonstration of how BIG-IP Access Policy Manager and Oracle Access Manager are integrated along with steps on how to configure the BIG-IP APM. ps Technorati Tags: F5, infrastructure 2.0, integration, Pete Silva, security, business, education, technology, application delivery, ...Sep. 28, 2010 10:17 AM EDT Reads: 2,975 |
 I discuss the F5/Oracle Partnership with Oracle’s Shankar Jayaganapathy, Director Partner Strategy & Services and Mark Veatch, Director Targeted Partner Strategy. F5/Oracle deep integration is highlighted. ps Technorati Tags: F5, infrastructure 2.0, integration, Pete Silva, s...Sep. 23, 2010 09:22 AM EDT Reads: 2,609 |
 I again visit with F5's Chris Akker to discuss and whiteboard F5's solution to Accelerate and Optimize PeopleSoft with BIG-IP Web Acceleration. ps Technorati Tags: F5, infrastructure 2.0, integration, Pete Silva, security, business, education, technology, application delivery, cloud, v...Sep. 23, 2010 08:43 AM EDT Reads: 3,616 |
 In this SYS-CON.TV interview, recorded live in New York City at the 5th Cloud Expo, Pete Malcolm, CEO of Abiquo, speaks with conference chair Jeremy Geelan about the remarkable debut of Abiquo in the U.S. market and the origins of the company's sought-after technology.Jun. 30, 2010 01:44 PM EDT Reads: 1,887 |
 Taiwan's government is investing more than $700 million in developing Cloud Computing over the next few years. The island nation intends to leverage its traditional hardware strengths, but also become a world leader in services and Cloud-enabled devices. Jun. 15, 2010 04:57 AM EDT Reads: 2,351 |
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