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BRIEF BIOGRAPHY: James Weir is CTO and co-founder of UShareSoft, responsible for the company's technology vision, strategy and activities. Weir is actively engaged with the business development and growth of UShareSoft, working hand-in-hand with strategic and technology partners. He has over 13 years experience in operating systems and middleware, specializing in SaaS platforms, cloud computing and virtualization. 
“Cloud solutions are great for lots of workloads but the cloud is not perfect for everything,” noted Robert Miggins, senior vice president of business development for PEER 1 Hosting, in this exclusive Q&A; with Cloud Expo Conference Chair Jeremy Geelan. And Miggins continued, “We have many examples of highly skilled clients that are staying with traditional hosting or pursuing hybrid solutions for various reasons.
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In his session at the 11th International Cloud Expo, Ronald Bradford, Founder & CEO of Effective MySQL, will discuss the issues of managing a large number of MySQL instances supporting one billion+ requests statements per day (and 50+ billion SQL statements). Topics include:
Monitoring and instrumentation are essential
How to automate installations, upgrades and deployments
MySQL replication issues with 300+ slaves per master
Traffic minimization techniques
Creating HA with regions and zon...
“We do network encryption for data in motion. We have figured out a way to do network encryption without creating point-to-point tunnels and that has profound implications for the performance of the network,” noted Jim Doherty, CMO and SVP of Marketing at Certes Networks, in this SYS-CON.tv interview with Cloud Expo Conference Chair Jeremy Geelan at the 10th International Cloud Expo, held June 11–14, 2012, at the Javits Center in New York City.
Cloud Expo 2012 Silicon Valley, November 5–8, at ...
Cloud computing is bringing massive computing power once reserved for government and research institutions to every organization in the world. Problems that involve intensive calculations or simulations can benefit from the computing capabilities that the cloud provides. Whether through scale out architectures like Grid / Cluster / Hadoop or completely new approaches like GPU there are a variety of emerging high performance computing options coming to the cloud.
In his session at the 11th Inter...
APIs are no longer a technical nice-to-have. Now APIs are a necessary business tool for startups to scale, much as Twitter and Facebook used theirs to reach more users.
In his session at the 11th International Cloud Expo, Adam DuVander is Executive Editor of ProgrammableWeb, will show that this is doubly true in the cloud. APIs are the wiring that connects the cloud to apps on tablets, smartphones or TVs. APIs can also speed up business development, even between startups and larger companies. W...
"We released our new high performance cloud platform at Cloud Expo and we've had terrific uptake of that release," observed Peter Berg, VP Sales & Marketing at ServerCentral in this SYS-CON.tv interview with Cloud Expo Conference Chair Jeremy Geelan at the 10th International Cloud Expo, held June 11-14, 2012, at the Javits Center in New York City.
Cloud Expo 2012 Silicon Valley, November 5-8, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA, will feature technical sessions from a rock st...
“Panzura is essentially a global file system, which spans across multiple geos, so it’s a geographically dispersed file system,” explained Ranajit Nevatia, VP of Marketing at Panzura, in this SYS-CON.tv interview with Cloud Expo Conference Chair Jeremy Geelan at the 10th International Cloud Expo, held June 11–14, 2012, at the Javits Center in New York City.
Cloud Expo 2012 Silicon Valley, November 5–8, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA, will feature technical sessions fro...
"We're helping store all the wonderful identity and personal data about you for cloud providers," said Andy Land, VP of Marketing at UnboundID, in this SYS-CON.tv interview with Cloud Expo Conference Chair Jeremy Geelan at the 10th International Cloud Expo, held June 11-14, 2012, at the Javits Center in New York City.
Cloud Expo 2012 Silicon Valley, November 5-8, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA, will feature technical sessions from a rock star conference faculty and the ...
"What comes first is the excitement around a new technology bursts, and what comes in next - the testing and the quality," noted Wayne Ariola, VP of Strategy and Corporate Development at Parasoft, in this SYS-CON.tv interview with Cloud Expo Conference Chair Jeremy Geelan at the 10th International Cloud Expo, held June 11-14, 2012, at the Javits Center in New York City.
Cloud Expo 2012 Silicon Valley, November 5-8, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA, will feature technical ...
“UShareSoft has been progressing significantly since last year. We are providing a multi-cloud app store platform,” said Alban Richard, CEO of UShareSoft, in this SYS-CON.tv interview with Cloud Expo Conference Chair Jeremy Geelan at the 10th International Cloud Expo, held June 11–14, 2012, at the Javits Center in New York City.
Cloud Expo 2012 Silicon Valley, November 5–8, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA, will feature technical sessions from a rock star conference facu...
In a lot of ways, changes in enterprise technology have mirrored consumer technology trends over the last few years. Just look at mobility, social apps, and cloud computing as examples. And whether you view the crossover as advantageous, overly risky, or merely inevitable, it’s certain that enterpri...
GSX Monitor and Analyzer keeps businesses up-and-running through its unique approach to identifying issues from an end-user perspective, empowering IT administrators to proactively resolve emerging issues.
For the help desk staff member, the key measure is server uptime. For the end users what's cr...
Some idioms are cross-cultural and cross-temporal. They transcend cultures and time, remaining relevant no matter where or when they are spoken. These idioms are often referred to as proverbs, which carries with it a sense of enduring wisdom. One such idiom, “practice makes perfect”, can be found in...
In case you missed it, VMware recently announced spending $1.05 billion USD acquiring startup Nicira for their virtualization and software technology that enables software defined networks (SDN). Also last week Oracle was in the news getting its hands slapped by for making misleading advertisement p...
Amazon Cloud Player just got a major content and feature update, the company announced today, while unveiling new music licensing agreements with Sony Music Entertainment, EMI Music, Universal Music Group, Warner Music Group, and 150 other partners. As you may know, Cloud Player is a freemium platfo...
Did you ever notice that sometimes, “high efficiency” furnaces aren’t? That some things the furnace just doesn’t cover – like the quality of your ductwork, for example?
The same is true of a “high performance” race car. Yes, it is VERY fast, assuming a nice long flat surface for it to drive on. Put...
Have you modernized your data protection strategy and environment?
If not, are you thinking about updating your strategy and environment?
Why modernize your data protection including backup restore, business continuance (BC), high availability (HA) and disaster recovery (DR) strategy and environme...
Few days ago I blogged about how GridGain easily supports starting many GridGain nodes in the single JVM – which is a huge productivity boost during the development. I’ve got a lot of requests to…
SDN and devops share some common themes. Both focus heavily on the notion of programmability in network devices as a means to achieve specific goals. For SDN it’s flexibility and rapid adaptation to changes in the network. For devops, it’s more a focus on the ability to treat “infrastructure as code...
Security of every kind of device from hand-held to Cloud was discussed at this one day conference in Honolulu hosted by Data Connectors. There were 8, approximately one-hour sessions from 8:15 to 16:15.
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