Virtualization and private cloud are good for server consolidation, creating flexible environments, and saving IT budget dollars. A recent survey of 1200 companies with 500+ employees showed that 59% had server virtualization in production or pilot. But that doesn’t tell the whole story.
In his session at the 10th International Cloud Expo, Dave Asprey, VP of Cloud Security at Trend Micro, will explain the types of situations when you should consider not virtualizing some of your applications. ...May. 8, 2012 07:00 AM EDT Reads: 3,444
When it comes to measuring applications’ performance across our local enterprise network, we think we know what network latency is and how to calculate it. But when it comes to the cloud there are a lot of subtleties that can impact latency in ways that we don't immediately realize.
In his session at the 10th International Cloud Expo, Jelle Frank van der Zwet, Manager of Cloud Segment at Interxion, will more closely examine what latency means for deploying cloud applications, how you can keep ...
There is a data deluge coming and most enterprises are preparing to integrate or introduce technologies for handling the big data in the existing IT setup. There are several challenges that enterprises face in integrating the Big Data technologies with existing IT setups.
In his session at the 10th International Cloud Expo, Vineet Tyagi, Head of Impetus Labs at Impetus Technologies, will share strategies for de-risking integration of Big Data technologies in your IT portfolio and exemplify seve...
In the early years of cloud computing, the idea was just to get there – to start achieving some of the promised efficiencies. But now, as cloud initiatives mature, the focus has turned to ensuring data security and privacy – no small feat, given the range of threats and global regulations organizations encounter.
In their session at the 10th International Cloud Expo, George Gerchow, Director of VMware’s Center for Policy & Compliance, and Tom McAndrew, Executive Vice President of Professional ...
As datacenters expand and cloud computing becomes a reality, there are challenges to implementing a one-size-fits-all strategy. While purchasing hundreds of the exact same server – even with minor variations – is simpler from the buyer’s perspective, different applications include a wide range of requirements.
In his session at the 10th International Cloud Expo, Shai Fultheim, founder and CEO of ScaleMP, will explore the decisions every IT manager needs to consider when acquiring the right com...
There's a new currency being traded by individuals for information and services, and traded among companies that use it to increase the value of their offerings. This new currency is identity information – all of the digital data about an individual – and it's the currency of the Identity Economy.
Cloud Service Providers and many of the companies that use their services are well suited to prosper in the emerging Identity Economy – if they start planning now to implement solutions beyond tradit...
In this CEO Power Panel at the 10th International Cloud Expo, moderated by Cloud Expo Conference Chair Jeremy Geelan, leading executives in the Cloud Computing and Big Data space will be discussing such topics as:
Is it just wishful thinking to depict the Cloud as more than just a technology solution? If not, then what concrete examples best demonstrate cloud computing as an engine of business value?
Big Data has existed since the early days of computing; why, then, do you think there is such...
While storage area networks (SANs) have become the ubiquitous deployment model for interconnecting data storage systems via high-speed networks such as Fibre Channel or iSCSI, IT administrators are now rethinking the traditional SAN in light of new technologies and economic models enabled by the cloud.
Cloud storage and enterprise-class cloud storage gateways have recently begun to overcome these limitations using a pay-as-you-go cost model, unlimited capacity, multi-site scalability and even ...
What do the CTO of the U.S. Dept. of Justice and the CIO of the National Reconnaissance Office have in common with the CEOs of Eucalyptus, GoGrid, ActiveState, Appcara, OpSource and Nortonworks, the CTOs of Rackspace, SoftLayer and AppZero, the Founder & General Manager of Dell Boomi, the VP of Big Data & Streams at IBM and the Chief Strategy Officer at Pacific Controls? Answer: all are shortly to present breakout sessions as members of the distinguished Speaker Faculty of Cloud Expo New York, ...
The benefits of cloud computing are well documented: faster time to value, lower total cost of ownership, and greater scalability. So, what's holding up adoption? Concerns include data security, data privacy, loss of governance, regulatory compliance, and data sovereignty. How should organizations address these challenges to leverage the proven benefits of cloud computing?
In his session at the 10th International Cloud Expo, Varun Badhwar, VP, Product Strategy at CipherCloud, will shed some li...
For the past several years, companies have been making use of cloud computing solutions. Cloud solutions offer agility and scalability that are often hard to duplicate in-house, and they offer a way for companies to meet specific business functions without large capital investments. Cloud-based stor...
When designing applications for the cloud, or extending on-premise applications into the cloud, it should go without saying that you can't just deploy and expect good results.
The idea behind the Canada Cloud Network has been to identify, review and then utilize a number of Innovation Best Practices to design how (and why) this forum works.
In particular one key goal is to implement a ‘Next Generation Cluster‘, a thought leadership piece from Cisco on how the original ...
It’s April in Vancouver, which got me thinking about clouds. Although the IT buzz in 2012 has been dominated by mobile and big data, Cloud computing is still a hot topic, especially since it is an enabler for both. In the public Cloud space, Google just launched Drive.
I recently read a TechCrunch article titled: The Rise of Big Data Apps and the Fall of SaaS written by Raj De Datta.
I do agree with the prefix. As far as the suffix is concerned, I can only explain why Raj De Datta's opinion is wrong.
I usually tend not to agree with statements about prematur...
It is great to see more conversations and coverage around storage metrics that matter beyond simply focusing on cost per GByte or TByte (e.g. space capacity). Likewise, it is also good to see conversations expanding beyond data footprint reduction (DFR) from a space capacity savings or reduction rat...
Over the past decade, we’ve become much more robust in our approach to information security. We recognize that our company’s largest vulnerabilities have to do with its computer systems, and that data security is at the core of loss prevention, disaster recovery, and even normal operations.
Virtual...
I’m a huge fan of context-aware networking. You know, the ability to interpret requests in the context they were made – examining user identity, location, client device along with network condition and server/application status. It’s what imbues the application delivery tier with the agility necessa...
Using Amazon web services for elasticity and scale to build cloud applications.
Traditional IT environments that are built using physical servers can only scale and grow by buying new hardware and software and taking time to install and rack the hardware, configure the software and the application....
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