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 "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 strate...Jun. 11, 2012 08:30 AM EDT Reads: 1,278 |
 I am the track chair of the CloudExpo Bootcamp this year at Jacob Javits Center in NYC from June 11-14. You can check the agenda here.
As an invitee of the track chair, you can register for free (with the bootcamp option) at www.cloudcomputingexpo.com with "robustcloud" as the promo...Jun. 8, 2012 05:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,463 |
 With Cloud Expo 2012 New York (10th Cloud Expo) now just three weeks away, what better time to introduce you in greater detail to the distinguished individuals in our incredible Speaker Faculty for the technical and strategy sessions at the conference...May. 21, 2012 10:45 AM EDT Reads: 2,142 |
 The growing use of Infrastructure as a Service to run custom applications, SaaS, and PaaS offerings is increasing the demand of management solutions to leverage the automation offered by IaaS. One of the biggest advantages of IaaS is the ability to automate tasks which were not possib...May. 10, 2012 04:45 AM EDT Reads: 996 |
 Business standards and compliance services provider SAI Global is benefiting from a strategic view of IT enabled disaster recovery.
When we started to get into DR, we handled it from an IT point of view and it was very much like an iceberg. We looked at the technology and said, "This...Apr. 27, 2012 09:45 AM EDT Reads: 1,366 |
 Are you the one to decide on implementing your next project based on public cloud platforms such as Windows Azure? Is it going to be HTML5, Flash or Silverlight for your rich end-user interface? Have you thought about the costs running on cloud services that seem cheaper than hosting o...Apr. 18, 2012 12:07 PM EDT Reads: 1,101 |
 Only ten weeks to go! Time for an alphabetical summary of the many leading-edge themes & topics to be discussed at Cloud Expo 2012 New York (10th Cloud Expo) - being held June 11-14, 2012, at the Javits Convention Center in New York City and co-located with Big Data Expo 2012 New York ...Apr. 5, 2012 07:00 AM EDT Reads: 3,279 |
 Citrix has announced that it is submitting the popular CloudStack platform to Apache Foundation. This comes as a surprise as Citrix has acquired Cloud.com only last year by investing a few hundreds of millions of dollars! With this, Citrix is also dumping it’s own distribution of OpenS...Apr. 4, 2012 06:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,311 |
 In the information technology world, perhaps no topic today is receiving more attention than cloud computing. Unlike the days of the past where cloud computing was once perceived as a cost-effective, flexible option for small to mid-sized companies, in 2012 cloud computing will dig eve...Apr. 4, 2012 05:00 AM EDT Reads: 940 |
 In the Canadian GC Community Cloud standards they articulate requirements for ‘Cloud Federation Services‘, a means of inter-connecting Identity management systems (eg. Active Directory). If you want to have your staff, who are on your LAN and logged in via AD, access remote...Apr. 1, 2012 11:30 AM EDT Reads: 1,011 |
 Although I favor Google in this litigation, I (as a layman) consider Oracle assertion that intellectual property copyright protection applies to APIs worth considering in the context of Cloud applications, SaaS, and the mobile application build-out that is reshaping the software and (a...Feb. 27, 2012 06:45 AM EST Reads: 3,334 |
 Conventional wisdom would have you believe that Public Clouds are inherently insecure, and that the only way to meet your organization’s stringent security requirements in the Cloud is to implement your own Private Cloud. Conventional wisdom, you say? Unfortunately, there is precious l...Feb. 22, 2012 10:52 AM EST Reads: 2,576 |
 Depending on how analysts define it, the market for cloud products and services is growing anywhere from 19% (Gartner) to 27% (IDC ) per year. The growth in public cloud service usage is even more robust. At Amazon EC2, the leading cloud services provider (CSP), average daily instance ...Feb. 22, 2012 09:45 AM EST Reads: 1,399 |
 Service management systems are IT’s online face to the business. Sure, enterprise apps and personal productivity tools may be how users get their jobs done, but when someone in sales or marketing has a problem or needs something, they turn to the IT service system for satisfaction.
Th...Feb. 1, 2012 10:15 AM EST Reads: 1,602 |
 For many IT professionals, cloud computing is confusing. And this article points out some of the ambiguities embedded in the NIST definition of cloud computing.
Amid the many benefits of having the NIST SP 800-145 as a tool to facilitate the understanding, the classification and some...Jan. 24, 2012 07:15 AM EST Reads: 2,686 |
 High-Frequency Trading (HFT) and secret algorithms have become the new competitive strategy in today’s global financial industry. The faster traders can turn around trades, the faster they can get in and out of quick markets and short time pockets of opportunity.
Having accurate reco...Jan. 23, 2012 12:15 PM EST Reads: 1,791 |
 The Open Group has announced this week the availability of two new industry standards to integrate fundamental elements of service oriented architecture (SOA) and cloud computing into a solution for enterprise architecture (EA).The new standards are: SOA Reference Architecture (SOA RA)...Jan. 19, 2012 10:00 AM EST Reads: 1,795 |
 Over the past year we celebrated the 40th anniversary of File Transfer Protocol (FTP) and witnessed multiple vulnerabilities exploited at the aging technology’s expense. For example, there was the incident at Yale University in which the names and Social Security numbers of approximate...Jan. 5, 2012 10:15 AM EST Reads: 1,949 |
 Here are my thoughts on what we can expect in the cloud space in 2012.
Cloud data will become more insightful for business as a whole
With companies sitting on zetabytes of data, many organizations are in possession of tremendously powerful knowledge and insight about their employee...Dec. 30, 2011 06:00 AM EST Reads: 2,735 |
 In Part 1 we discussed risk, security and cloud computing at a high level. Having been a part of design teams as a contributor as well as project manager to include security and assessment team management over the last few years, I still find the same security concerns and issues direc...Nov. 16, 2011 09:30 AM EST Reads: 2,197 |
 With Cloud Expo Silicon Valley (9th Cloud Expo) starting today Monday November 7 at the Santa Clara Convention Center, CA, let's introduce you in greater detail to the distinguished individuals in our incredible Speaker Faculty for the technical program at the conference...
We hav...Nov. 7, 2011 09:15 AM EST Reads: 4,431 |
 There is no escaping cloud computing. Every software package, service and even hardware is described as cloud-enabled. Seemingly, we are all headed into the clouds never to return. However, while the atmosphere is everywhere, the cloud decidedly is not. It is by definition remote – so ...Nov. 3, 2011 10:45 AM EDT Reads: 2,035 |
 In recent years, enterprises and government organizations have started shifting their IT infrastructures to a cloud computing and software-as-a-service model in an effort to lower costs and drive operational efficiencies. With the shift toward less IT infrastructure management, cloud s...Oct. 27, 2011 10:45 AM EDT Reads: 1,978 |
 While the whole world is embracing the new religion of IT infrastructure, Cloud Computing, there have been a few apprehensions among industries which deal with hyper-sensitive data. Health Industry, for instance, is continuously looking at innovative ways to reduce healthcare costs and...Oct. 20, 2011 07:30 AM EDT Reads: 3,647 |
 An alphabetical selection of some of the many themes & topics to be discussed at Cloud Expo Silicon Valley (9th Cloud Expo) - being held November 7-10, 2011, at the Santa Clara Convention Center, CA. The markets may still be melting, but Cloud Expo is definitely coming of age! Sep. 21, 2011 05:00 AM EDT Reads: 10,229 |
 This case study examines how NYSE built a cloud, which amounts to a Wall Street IT services destination, what it does, and how it’s different from other cloud offerings.
When we hear about cloud, especially public clouds, we often encounter one-size-fits-all services. Advanced adapter...Aug. 31, 2011 09:45 AM EDT Reads: 2,106 |
 The latest technology buzz, after the Internet, telecom, and mobile, is cloud computing. Hype or not, in various names and forms, cloud computing providers – platforms and applications alike – are counting on more than $40 billion in revenue in 2011 alone, growing to more than $241 bil...Aug. 29, 2011 12:30 PM EDT Reads: 3,236 |
 As a provider of online retail intelligence solutions for manufacturers, distributors and retailers, Channel IQ strives to give customers the real-time pricing and promotion information online so they can profitably handle channel issues and competitive situations.
Channel IQ’s mis...Aug. 18, 2011 09:45 AM EDT Reads: 2,097 |
 Question: Why did the server application cross the network? Answer: For the same reason the chicken crossed the road – to get to the other side … (in this case) of the datacenter and clouds.
Follow up question: If all a server application ‘wants’ to do is get to another server – ph...Aug. 15, 2011 08:45 AM EDT Reads: 2,510 |
 This discussion focuses on a UK-based managed service provider’s journey to provide better information and services for its network, voice, VoIP, data, and storage customers. The network management and productivity benefits have come from an alignment of many service management product...Aug. 10, 2011 09:30 AM EDT Reads: 2,065 |
 Feeling nervous about the cloud? Many CIOs understandably hesitate to send services requiring regulatory compliance to the public cloud. Though not outsourcing such services may seem like a good idea, this approach limits your flexibility in offering the best combination of services to...Jul. 21, 2011 11:30 AM EDT Reads: 3,628 |
 Deloitte-Australia's business has benefited from leveraging the software-as-a-service (SaaS) model for project and portfolio management (PPM) activities.
The SaaS model made sense to us, because we had a strategic direction in our firm that any non-core application’s strategic intent ...Jul. 17, 2011 04:00 PM EDT Reads: 2,640 |
 With the cloud, and the availability of cloud service providers, organizations no longer have to invest in additional technology infrastructure. They can leverage the infrastructure provided by the cloud service provider, or move their own applications to this infrastructure. Customers...Jul. 14, 2011 08:00 AM EDT Reads: 2,609 |
 There has been a significant amount of derision heaped on Xen after its successful integration into the Linux kernel last month.
One wouldn’t think such criticism is warranted, since the inclusion of Xen in the Linux kernel puts it on equal footing with KVM.
Yet, when Oracle's Wim Co...Jul. 10, 2011 04:00 PM EDT Reads: 8,639 |
 The push-pull among cloud vendors and buyers continues through the activities of emerging organizations, such as the Cloud Standards Customer Council (CSCC), part of OMG and based in Needham, MA.
The council recently announced that Andrew Watson, an OMG VP, will serve as the group's l...Jul. 7, 2011 03:41 AM EDT Reads: 1,654 |
 The green data center will replace the traditional data center as power and cooling costs continue to grow relative to IT hardware and support costs.
Last week I had a brief meeting with Yoram Heller of hot cloud player Morphlabs and we talked about the next wave of cloud innovations....Jun. 28, 2011 12:00 PM EDT Reads: 2,738 |
 Where is the golden mean, a proper context for real-world and likely cloud value? And, what are the roadblocks that enterprises may encounter that would prevent them from appreciating the true potential for cloud, while also avoiding the risks?Jun. 24, 2011 08:45 AM EDT Reads: 2,863 |
 The protocol touted as the way to standardize user provisioning across enterprises and eventually across the cloud is nearly dead, lacks support from major cloud providers and faces new models that could make it obsolete.
Work on the Service Provisioning Markup Language (SPML) is stil...Jun. 12, 2011 02:00 PM EDT Reads: 2,806 |
 The cloud: few topics are as frequently discussed among information technology (IT) professionals. But why? Internet hosted applications and services certainly aren’t a new concept. In fact, application service providers began delivering functionality via the Web more than a decade ago...May. 23, 2011 01:00 PM EDT Reads: 4,098 |
 Each day, your company creates hundreds or even thousands of documents. These contracts, agreements, presentations, and proposals are generated, stored, and shared en masse by your team. But with each new document comes a management challenge.
How do you ensure that the right content ...May. 13, 2011 11:00 AM EDT Reads: 3,157 |
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