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Exclusive Q&As;
By Liz McMillan  “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 Clou... Jun. 15, 2012 11:00 AM EDT Reads: 3,291 | By Elizabeth White  “The ability to flexibly and quickly adjust infrastructure allows IT to respond to line-of-business requirements in a way that was impossible prior to the advent of cloud computing,” noted Henry Fastert, Chief Technologist & Managing Partner, SHI Enterprise Solutions Services Group, in... Jun. 11, 2012 05:00 AM EDT Reads: 3,395 | By Elizabeth White  “Cloud computing represents a paradigm shift for IT, transforming computing power into a utility,” observed James Weir, CTO and Co-Founder of UShareSoft, in this exclusive Q&A; with Cloud Expo Conference Chair Jeremy Geelan. “While cloud adoption remains in the early stages,” Weir conti... May. 29, 2012 02:30 PM EDT Reads: 3,511 | By Pat Romanski  “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 N... May. 28, 2012 02:00 PM EDT Reads: 1,756 | By Liz McMillan  “Big Data eliminates the data silos that formerly existed, improving the depth and quality of analysis that can take place,” observed Scott Kinka, Chief Technology Officer at Evolve IP, in this exclusive Q&A; with Cloud Expo Conference Chair Jeremy Geelan. “Without these barriers, Kinka... May. 24, 2012 06:00 AM EDT Reads: 2,203 | By Pat Romanski  “Big data represents a sea change of capabilities in IT” notes Matt McLarty, Vice President, Client Solutions at Layer 7, in this exclusive Q&A; with Cloud Expo Conference Chair Jeremy Geelan. McLarty continued: “In conjunction with mobile and cloud, I think Big Data will provide a tech... May. 21, 2012 07:45 AM EDT Reads: 5,734 Replies: 1 | By Liz McMillan  “The speed of businesses is accelerating, requiring continuous tuning and optimization of business processes and operations,” noted Bruce Fingles, CIO and VP of Product Quality at Xsigo Systems, in this exclusive Q&A; with Cloud Expo Conference Chair Jeremy Geelan. “IT organizations mus... May. 10, 2012 03:45 AM EDT Reads: 2,998 | By Elizabeth White  “One of the greatest challenges to security in the cloud is management,” noted David Meizlik, Vice President of Marketing at Dome9 Security, in this exclusive Q&A; with Cloud Expo Conference Chair Jeremy Geelan. “With cloud computing,” Meizlik explained, “the infrastructure is owned and... May. 7, 2012 11:30 AM EDT Reads: 3,778 | By Liz McMillan  “Big Data is not simply code for lots of information,” observed Victoria Kouyoumjian, Sr. Business and Technologies Strategist at Esri, in this exclusive Q&A; with Cloud Expo Conference Chair Jeremy Geelan. “Instead,” Kouyoumjian noted, “Big Data refers to information in myriad differen... May. 3, 2012 04:00 AM EDT Reads: 2,566 | By Pat Romanski  “The definition of cloud and cloud services continues to evolve,” observed Robert Crespi, VP, CIO at Cervalis, in this exclusive Q&A; with Cloud Expo Conference Chair Jeremy Geelan. “As such it is difficult to predict the growth,” Crespi continued, “we see more and more customers migrat... Apr. 25, 2012 06:00 AM EDT Reads: 2,352 | By Elizabeth White  “Much like the “100% paperless” or “100% wireless” enterprise, we’re not likely to see a ‘100% public cloud,’” noted Willie Tejada, Senior Vice President, Enterprise Cloud at Akamai Technologies, Inc., in this exclusive Q&A; with Cloud Expo Conference Chair Jeremy Geelan. However, Tejad... Nov. 17, 2011 05:00 AM EST Reads: 3,909 | By Elizabeth White  “At the end of the day what’s important to technology users are their applications and their data, whether this be personal pictures and music files or corporate databases,” observed Alan Dayley, Sr. Director of Product Management at i365, in this exclusive Q&A; with Cloud Expo Conferen... Nov. 7, 2011 06:00 AM EST Reads: 2,462 | By Elizabeth White  “As more and more people become comfortable with the idea, businesses will move more workloads to Public Clouds,” stated Joe Seibel, CFA, CFO & VP of Strategic Development at Hexagrid, in this exclusive Q&A; with Cloud Expo Conference Chair Jeremy Geelan. “I like to compare it to the hi... Oct. 31, 2011 08:15 AM EDT Reads: 3,875 | By Elizabeth White  “There is no doubt that the federal government’s support of cloud computing is driving additional demand,” stated Paul Carmody, SVP, Product Management & Business Development at Internap, in this exclusive Q&A; with Cloud Expo Conference Chair Jeremy Geelan. However, Carmody noted, “Ent... Oct. 28, 2011 10:00 AM EDT Reads: 2,440 | By Liz McMillan  “Adoption of new technologies by large enterprises and government agencies legitimize the technology and speed up adoption,” noted Ran Nahmias, Director of Virtualization & Cloud Solutions at Net Optics, in this exclusive Q&A; with Cloud Expo Conference Chair Jeremy Geelan. “The governm... Oct. 18, 2011 06:00 AM EDT Reads: 3,000 | By Pat Romanski  “Cloud computing is all about automation and self-service and [at CloudExpo] we'll be showing attendees how they can extend that to the application layer,” stated James Weir, CTO and co-founder of UShareSoft in this exclusive Q&A; with Cloud Expo Conference Chair Jeremy Geelan. “I will ... Oct. 6, 2011 10:30 AM EDT Reads: 2,713 | By Liz McMillan  “There is a move to build more cloud-like capabilities into virtual environments, such as standard instance sizes and software stacks,” noted Andrew Hillier, CTO and co-founder of CiRBA, Inc., in this exclusive Q&A; with Cloud Expo Conference Chair Jeremy Geelan. “This is a step toward ... Oct. 6, 2011 10:00 AM EDT Reads: 2,531 | By Elizabeth White  “We believe that ‘cloud’ as a specialized concept will rapidly give way to cloud as simply a dominant enterprise IT paradigm,” noted Lawrence Guillory, CEO of Racemi Inc., in this exclusive Q&A; with Cloud Expo Conference Chair Jeremy Geelan, “where public and private cloud resources bo... Oct. 5, 2011 10:45 AM EDT Reads: 2,749 | By Liz McMillan  “The Obama/Kundra effect of pushing more government data to the web and promoting the application of cloud scale efficiencies has been felt across all markets,” noted Bart Copeland, President & CEO of ActiveState Software, in this exclusive Q&A; with Cloud Expo Conference Chair Jeremy G... Sep. 26, 2011 09:00 AM EDT Reads: 3,127 | By Elizabeth White  “The cloud provides access to an endless range of services and applications,” noted Uri Mishol, co-founder and CEO, Xoreax Software, in this exclusive Q&A; with Cloud Expo Conference Chair Jeremy Geelan. “Without these up-to-date applications companies run the risk of being left behind,... Jun. 24, 2011 07:00 AM EDT Reads: 4,534 | By Elizabeth White  “Cloud computing has evolved from a point product solution that addressed a particular pain point (for example, high performance computing grids designed to analyze massive data sets) to an integrated and key component of a whole product solution designed to address a broad array of co... Jun. 24, 2011 06:15 AM EDT Reads: 6,066 | By Pat Romanski  “Most cloud environments – public, private, or hybrid – run on virtualized infrastructure that share CPU, memory and storage between applications,” noted Bryan Semple, Chief Marketing Officer at VKernel in this exclusive Q&A; with Cloud Expo Conference Chair Jeremy Geelan. “These shared... Jun. 20, 2011 10:15 AM EDT Reads: 5,036 | By Elizabeth White  “What makes Cloud Computing more likely to be successful today are both technological and attitudinal changes in the market,” noted Tom Trainer, Director of Product Marketing at Gluster, in this exclusive Q&A; with Cloud Expo Conference Chair Jeremy Geelan. “First, commodity computing a... Jun. 12, 2011 05:00 PM EDT Reads: 5,122 | By Elizabeth White  “For many customers, the Cloud is still just an idea, and they do not know how the Cloud is built and operates,” observed Joe Bromley, Systems Consultant at Texas Memory Systems, in this exclusive Q&A; with Cloud Expo Conference Chair Jeremy Geelan. “Cloud providers should continue to e... Jun. 5, 2011 07:30 AM EDT Reads: 4,751 | By Liz McMillan  “How we communicate, how we do business, and how we get along through the day has required that we look at new and better ways of improving our businesses and our civilization. This demand is requiring organizations to be better and more efficient at bringing services to market,” state... May. 18, 2011 10:15 AM EDT Reads: 3,434 | By Pat Romanski  “By outsourcing a big chunk of operations to the cloud, IT can shift from an operational cost center to a true partner and enabler of business success,” noted Rodrigo Coutinho, Senior Product Marketing Manager, OutSystems, Inc., in this exclusive Q&A; with Cloud Expo Conference Chair Je... Apr. 19, 2011 11:30 AM EDT Reads: 3,889 | By Liz McMillan  “Cloud Computing removes the risk and allows you to try before buying,” stated Carlos Polo, CEO & Founder of Doocuments, in this exclusive Q&A; with Cloud Expo Conference Chair Jeremy Geelan. Polo continued, “Cloud Computing helps you save money and stay focused on your business and eli... Apr. 19, 2011 10:00 AM EDT Reads: 3,429 | By Elizabeth White  “Cloud or the concept of ‘Data Center–centric’ computing is going to be around for a long time,” stated Rick German, Co-founder, CEO and Chief Technology Officer of Stoneware, in this exclusive Q&A; with Cloud Expo Conference Chair Jeremy Geelan. “We might tire of the word ‘cloud,’” he ... Apr. 19, 2011 09:45 AM EDT Reads: 3,324 | By Elizabeth White  “Cloud computing arrived at a time when the industry was being asked to do more with less,” explained Eric Olden, CEO & Founder of Symplified, in this exclusive Q&A; with Cloud Expo Conference Chair Jeremy Geelan. “Cloud computing offers a solution to that problem,” Olden continues, “on... Apr. 14, 2011 05:00 PM EDT Reads: 3,836 | By Liz McMillan  “Cloud puts control back in the hands of the consumers,” noted Andrew Hillier, CTO and co-founder of CiRBA, in this exclusive Q&A; with Cloud Expo Conference Chair Jeremy Geelan. “Cloud computing creates a functioning market for capacity, it gives consumers choices," Hillier continued. ... Apr. 12, 2011 09:45 AM EDT Reads: 3,548 | By Xenia von Wedel  Ajax.org just launched Cloud9 IDE, bringing web and mobile app development into the total cloud with a commercial PaaS. Cloud9 IDE provides the first cloud-based Integrated Development Environment for JavaScript incorporating HTML5, and supporting Python, Ruby and PHP. We sat down with... Feb. 28, 2011 04:11 PM EST Reads: 6,588 | By Jeremy Geelan  HP’s strategy is centered on empowering both commercial and enterprise class cloud computing. Research from HP indicates that senior business, government and technology executives believe that by 2015, 18 percent of their IT delivery will be through the public cloud and 28 percent by t... Feb. 15, 2011 06:15 AM EST Reads: 6,440 | By Jeremy Geelan  “We’ve done some pretty deep analysis here looking at deploying on-premises or with the different cloud providers,” stated Lawrence Guillory, CEO of Racemi, in this exclusive Q&A; with Cloud Expo Conference Chair Jeremy Geelan. “We’ve found the cost to deploy an application can quickly ... Feb. 4, 2011 06:00 AM EST Reads: 8,597 | By Jeremy Geelan; Blueprint4IT ...  Founder, Chairman and CEO of Adaptivity, Inc, the company that is putting "IT Blueprinting" on the map of Enterprise IT, is adamant: IT must invest in architecture and engineering, and it must do so right away, here and now in 2010, 2011 and beyond.
An innovative IT executive, with an... Oct. 9, 2010 06:00 PM EDT Reads: 6,360 | By Peter Silva  I visit with one of my favorite F5 Solutions Engineer, Chris Akker as he whiteboards some of the F5 Application Ready Solutions for Oracle. ps Technorati Tags: F5, infrastructure 2.0, integration, Pete Silva, security, business, education, technology, application delivery, cloud, virtu... Sep. 20, 2010 04:45 PM EDT Reads: 3,263 | By Roger Strukhoff  The IBM Cloud Lab in Vietnam--originally called the Cloud Computing Center at Vietnam--was opened on September 24th, 2008. IBM has partnered with other industry innovators and dedicated more than 200 full-time researchers to this effort and more than $100 million over the three-year pe... Aug. 5, 2010 09:31 AM EDT Reads: 6,982 | By Liz McMillan  “We’ve moved beyond the question of how long cloud computing will exert its pull on the modern day enterprise,” noted Vishal Sharma, Senior Director of Business Development at NaviSite, in this exclusive Q&A; with Cloud Expo Chair Jeremy Geelan. Sharma then concluded that “Cloud computi... Jun. 14, 2010 09:30 AM EDT Reads: 5,147 Replies: 1 | By Pat Romanski  “Cloud is an evolution,” stated Tony Bishop, Founder and CEO of Adaptivity, in the exclusive post-show Q&A; with Cloud Expo Chair Jeremy Geelan.
“It coalesces grid, utility, virtualization and web standards into a delivery paradigm,” he continued. “The difference is each of these comp... Jun. 2, 2010 09:15 AM EDT Reads: 4,299 | By Pat Romanski  The three main factors driving CIOs to the cloud are lower costs, dynamic capacity, ease-of-use/management, and offsite data protection, according to Jeff Bell, director of corporate marketing for Cloud Expo exhibitor Zetta.
In this exclusive post-show Q&A;, Zetta’s Jeff Bell speaks w... May. 31, 2010 09:00 AM EDT Reads: 5,074 | By Jeremy Geelan  Cloud Computing Journal recently caught up with Pete Malcolm, CEO of cloud management innovators Abiquo - a major new player in the fast-emerging Cloud ecosystem and Platinum Plus Sponsor of 6th Cloud Expo being held in Prague, the Czech Republic, 21-22 June 2010.
Malcolm is keynoti... May. 31, 2010 06:45 AM EDT Reads: 30,210 Replies: 3 |
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