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BRIEF BIOGRAPHY: Tom Leyden is Director of Alliances and Marketing at Amplidata, a Belgian Object Storage Innovator. He joined Amplidata in 2009 to drive the company’s marketing, product management and PR strategies. 
“Security standards for moving data into and out of the cloud and for hosting it within the cloud will dramatically help accelerate adoption of the cloud as a secure computing platform,” observed Dr. William L. Bain, founder and CEO of ScaleOut Software, in this exclusive Q&A; with Cloud Expo Conference Chair Jeremy Geelan. Bain also noted that “additional standards for creating elastic clusters that are physically co-located and use high speed networking will also help in hosting applications th...Jun. 15, 2012 11:00 AM EDT Reads: 3,244
“While there is still a lot of interest in Big Data Analytics, we see an increasing focus on Big Unstructured Data,” observed Tom Leyden, Director of Alliances and Marketing at Amplidata, in this exclusive Q&A; with Cloud Expo Conference Chair Jeremy Geelan. And, Leyden continued, “Object storage is the new paradigm to store those massive amounts of Big Unstructured Data.”
Agree or disagree? – "While the IT savings aspect is compelling, the strongest benefit of cloud computing is how it enhances...
CloudStack has been the platform of choice for more than a hundred public and private production clouds.
In his general session at the 10th International Cloud Expo, Shannon Williams, VP of market development for the Cloud Platforms Group at Citrix and a co-founder of Cloud.com, will provide an insider view and discuss the company's experiences in designing the right architecture for your cloud.
Shannon Williams is vice president of market development for the Cloud Platforms Group at Citrix, ...
Very few trends in IT have generated as much buzz as cloud computing. In his session at the 10th International Cloud Expo, Citrix VP Peder Ulander will cut through the hype and quickly clarify the ontology for cloud computing. The bulk of the conversation will focus on the open source software that can be used to build compute clouds (infrastructure-as-a-service) and the complementary open source management tools that can be combined to automate the management of cloud computing environments.
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One of the most widely asked questions about Big Data today is, “How do we get valuable analytics from Big Data?” Or, how do we get the prize? As data continues to grow exponentially, so does the variety of data (structured and unstructured) coming from humans, machines and applications. In order to pull valuable information from it all, proper data gathering is critical, and the output of that data needs to be timely and accurate, with a flexible method of delivery. Unfortunately, it’s not easy...
"The State of Cloud Computing June 2012" was the topic under discussion in the traditional SYS-CON.tv Power Panel recorded in our Times Square studio yesterday - the Sunday before today's Cloud Expo New York opening, kicking off 4 days of Keynotes, General Sessions technical and strategy breakout sessions, discussion panels, interviews...and of course the huge Cloud Expo show floor with booths from every layer of the Cloud Computing ecosystem. This week also sees the introduction for the first t...
IT departments are experiencing storage capacity needs doubling every 12-18 months, 50x the amount of information and 75x the number of files. IT managers are dealing with growing constraints on space, power and costs to manage their data center infrastructure. Intel is helping businesses and users realize the benefits of cloud computing technology by working to develop open standards that operate across disparate IT infrastructures and by delivering cloud-based architectures that enable federat...
IT Cloud Management strategies enable organizations to maximize the business value of their private clouds
In his session at the 10th International Cloud Expo, Joe Fitzgerald, Chief Product Officer & Co-founder of ManageIQ, will discuss customer experiences and how these strategies increase agility, improve service delivery levels and reduce operating expenses.
Joe Fitzgerald is the Chief Product Officer & Co-founder of ManageIQ. Prior to founding ManageIQ, he was CTO and Director Product Dev...
There is no longer any question that the cloud computing model will be the prevailing style of delivery for computing over the coming decades; Forrester Research predicts that the global market for cloud computing will grow from $40.7 billion in 2011 to more than $241 billion in 2020. Greenfield application development projects can be designed from the outset to benefit from cloud computing features such as elastic scalability, automated provisioning, infrastructure level APIs, object storage se...
HP announced its first public cloud services on April 10th. And we’ve been the hottest trending topic ever since. Now it’s your turn to get a look at the HP Cloud.
In his session at the 10th International Cloud Expo, Blake Yeager, Product Manager Lead for IaaS at HP Cloud Services, will take you through our next public cloud infrastructure, platform services and cloud solutions, show you how easy it is to spin up instances of compute, storage, and CDN as well as share with you the next gen pla...
A recent post on the HTTP 2.0 War beginning garnered a very relevant question regarding WebSockets and where it fits in (what might shape up to be) an epic battle.
The answer to the question, “Why not consider WebSockets here?” could be easily answered with two words: HTTP headers. It could also be...
Data centers have undergone rapid change over the past few years. First there was the advent of virtualization, which allowed data centers to finally take advantage of their true capacity while reducing their footprint. Cloud solutions weren’t far behind as more and more business units found outside...
Maybe you’ve noticed but I’ve been on an infographic kick lately – especially when it’s something interesting.
This time it is an aggregated infographic of data primarily from Forrester, IDC and Gartner as it pertains to the cloud’s impact and adoption thru 2015.
According to Axway, the clo...
Do you know who your storage hogs are? Every organization has them, whether it’s folks who save everything or applications that just need more capacity every year. And let’s face it: The need for increased storage capacity isn’t just a result of your company pack rats – it’s often a necessity due to...
Next week I’ll be speaking at Cloud Expo in New York City, one of the premier cloud industry events in the U.S. Of the 150+ sessions that will take place over the four-day conference, a handful appears to address an essential element of the cloud: the network.
The importance of an enterprise-grade ...
Microsoft announced on June 7th that Windows Azure will be enhanced to include several infrastructure-as-a-service offerings including Windows Azure Virtual Machines, Virtual Networks, Web Sites and Media Services. These new offerings provide increased flexibility when planning your Private Cloud i...
Cloud Expo 2012 is almost here. This promises to be an incredible event, with thousands of attendees and over 100 speakers. As previously mentioned, I’m privileged to be presenting on Making Hybrid Cloud Safe & Reliable. I’m particularly excited that I’ll be introducing attendees to the new concept ...
Service Providers large and small have been delivering network-based services for decades, including infrastructure and software. These have come in the form of enterprise hosting, unified communications, managed security, and managed applications. In fact, it’s not a stretch to include traditional...
In the past year or so, we have witnessed a major shift from client-server to client-cloud. This shift is primarily fueled by two factors: mobile devices exceeding desktop computers and the thousands of different APIs available on the Internet today. What started in early 2000 on eBay and Amazon has...
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