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SYS-CON Events announced today that The IEEE Computer Society has been named “Association Sponsor” of SYS-CON's 11th International Cloud Expo, which will take place on November 5–8, 2012, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA. The IEEE Computer Society is the computi...
SYS-CON Events announced today that GigaOM Pro has been named “Media Sponsor” of SYS-CON's 11th International Cloud Expo, which will take place on November 5–8, 2012, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA. GigaOM Pro is your one-stop shop for great technology market ...
SYS-CON Events announced today that Cloud Sidekick, developer of the open source Cato Cloud Orchestration Platform, will exhibit at SYS-CON's 11th International Cloud Expo, which will take place on November 5–8, 2012, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA. Cato provi...
“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...
“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...
This year's Cloud Expo New York appeared to be double the size of last year. Not only were there more solution providers on the expo floor, there appeared to me quite a few additional sessions to attend. I felt even the session quality was better than last year, with more knowledge spr...
“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...
SYS-CON Events announced today that ERP.com has been named “Media Sponsor” of SYS-CON's 11th International Cloud Expo, which will take place on November 5–8, 2012, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA. ERP.com is the authority site for enterprise resource planning (...
10th International Cloud Expo, held on June 11–14, 2012 at the Javits Center in New York City, featured four content-packed days with a rich array of sessions about the business and technical value of cloud computing led by exceptional speakers from every sector of the cloud computing ...
“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...
“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...
“The productization of Big Data will be an interesting trend to track, and I think we'll start to see some significant investment in this area over the coming months,” noted Scott Sneddon, Vyatta’s Director of Cloud Solutions, in this exclusive Q&A; with Cloud Expo Conference Chair Jere...
"It was my first time at a Cloud Expo show, so I wasn’t sure what to expect. But man, what a blast it turned out to be. Great exhibits, great audience, great floor traffic, great conversations with IT leaders and folks in the channel." With those words, Tom Gaydos - Director, Marketing...
SYS-CON Events announced today that Conference Guru has been named “Media Sponsor” of SYS-CON's 11th International Cloud Expo, which will take place on November 5–8, 2012, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA. Conference Guru reviews thousands of conferences to find...
“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...
“Exponentially increasing data volume, Internet access points and speed have made Big Data more accessible and therefore more practical,” noted Mike Carpenter, VP of Business Development at CARI.net, in this exclusive Q&A; with Cloud Expo Conference Chair Jeremy Geelan. “Add social medi...
“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...
“There is a common view among media and analysts that the cloud computing market will see rapid growth in the foreseeable future,” observed Alex Mei, Executive VP and CMO of OCZ Technology Group, in this exclusive Q&A; with Cloud Expo Conference Chair Jeremy Geelan. “Companies will need...
“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...
SYS-CON Events announced today that CloudTimes has been named “Media Sponsor” of SYS-CON's 11th International Cloud Expo, which will take place on November 5–8, 2012, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA. CloudTimes is a leading technology media property, dedicated ...
A recent survey revealed user attitudes and adoption plans for cloud storage. Nearly three-quarters of cloud storage users estimated they could recover their data within 24 hours One out of every eight organizations that do not use cloud storage responded that it would take “more tha...
“The recent TOSCA initiative has made interoperability for cloud computing closer than ever,” observed Andrew Hillier, co-founder and CTO of CiRBA, in this exclusive Q&A; with Cloud Expo Conference Chair Jeremy Geelan. “However, until players like Amazon and Google join in,” Hillier con...
SYS-CON Events announced today that Cloud Spectator has been named “Media Sponsor” of SYS-CON's 11th International Cloud Expo, which will take place on November 5–8, 2012, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA. Cloud Spectator offers cloud computing education to an e...
SYS-CON Events announced today that Cloud Security Alliance has been named “Association Sponsor” of SYS-CON's 11th International Cloud Expo, which will take place on November 5–8, 2012, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA. The Cloud Security Alliance (CSA) is a not...
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SYS-CON Events announced today that ActiveState, whose software enables developers and enterprises to innovate from code to cloud, has been named “Bronze Sponsor” of SYS-CON's 11th International Cloud Expo, which will take place on November 5–8, 2012, at the Santa Clara Convention Cent...
SYS-CON Events announced today that BoogarLists has been named “Media Sponsor” of SYS-CON's 11th International Cloud Expo, which will take place on November 5–8, 2012, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA. With a qualified directory of more than 2,000 Venture Capita...
“We are embarking on a critical journey where identity information becomes the key asset of the digital age,” declared Andy Land, Vice President of Marketing at UnboundID, in this exclusive Q&A; with Cloud Expo Conference Chair Jeremy Geelan. Land noted that “Facebook and Google make tr...
SYS-CON Events announced today that ServerCentral, Chicago’s leading provider of colocation, cloud, network connectivity, and managed services, will exhibit at SYS-CON's 11th International Cloud Expo, which will take place on November 5–8, 2012, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in ...
SYS-CON Events announced today that Net Optics, Inc., the industry’s leading provider of intelligent access and monitoring architecture, will exhibit at SYS-CON's 11th International Cloud Expo, which will take place on November 5–8, 2012, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa C...
SYS-CON Events announced today that 1010data, Inc., a market leader in enabling the analysis, sharing and monetizing of Big Data, has been named “Silver Sponsor” of SYS-CON's 11th International Cloud Expo, which will take place on November 5–8, 2012, at the Santa Clara Convention Cente...
SYS-CON Events announced today that Fortress ITX, a leading provider of network infrastructure services, has been named “Bronze Sponsor” of SYS-CON's 11th International Cloud Expo, which will take place on November 5–8, 2012, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA. Fo...
Panzura on Tuesday announced that the company has closed a $15 million Series C funding round led by Opus Capital with participation from its existing investors, Matrix Ventures, Khosla Ventures and Chevron Technology Ventures, the investment arm of the world's third-largest oil conglo...
“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...
SYS-CON Events announced today that Layer 7 Technologies, a leading provider of Application Gateways for SOA integration, cloud connectivity and API management, will exhibit at SYS-CON's 11th International Cloud Expo, which will take place on November 5–8, 2012, at the Santa Clara Conv...
“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, “Obje...
Cloud computing has crossed a Rubicon of sorts, and is now being embraced by a majority of enterprise IT shops – at least according to attendees and vendors at last week's Cloud Expo in New York. I remember interviewing Hal Stern (late of Sun and Oracle) a couple of years ago at th...
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...
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 ...
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 application...