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 Jonathan Bryce, the Executive Director of the newly-formed OpenStack Foundation, and who has spent his entire career building the cloud, is to give the opening keynote at 11th Cloud Expo | Cloud Expo Silicon Valley, being held at the Santa Clara Convention Center, Santa Clara, CA, Nove...Oct. 12, 2012 01:00 AM EDT Reads: 2,188 |
 As data as a service providers are emerging to aggregate and manage large data set sources from multiple sources to make this information more easily available and usable to businesses, it is increasingly imperative to enable an easy-to-use service for data connectivity. As customers p...Oct. 11, 2012 03:29 PM EDT Reads: 676 |
 C12G Labs, the company behind the widely-used OpenNebula cloud management platform, today announced the results of a survey to determine the main building blocks that constitute the existing OpenNebula clouds. The full results can be seen at http://www.c12g.com/survey
The results of t...Oct. 11, 2012 03:00 PM EDT Reads: 908 |
 Many have focused on the cost reduction possibilities of the cloud, some have focused on business agility. However, the cloud can play a strategic role, as well.
In his session at the 11th International Cloud Expo, Joe Weinman, Sr. VP of Cloud Services & Strategy at Telx, will discus...Oct. 11, 2012 01:45 PM EDT Reads: 1,136 |
 Big Data. Social. Mobile. These worldwide trends are sparking new cloud-based applications and driving innovation around the next generation of open, web-based services development. This tectonic shift is fueling the need for new cloud platforms that provide open services in a secure e...Oct. 11, 2012 01:00 PM EDT Reads: 800 |
 Which cloud model is right for your business? What are the factors that should influence your decision?
In his session at the 11th International Cloud Expo, Chad Harrington, Vice President of Marketing at Adaptive Computing, will discuss how to evaluate public, private, and hybrid cl...Oct. 11, 2012 12:30 PM EDT Reads: 934 |
 Cloud-based enterprise backup solutions offer a plethora of benefits. Yet many companies face an uphill battle when it comes to using cloud-based solutions to back up critical business information. Whether due to data security concerns or strict compliance requirements, a standard clou...Oct. 11, 2012 12:19 PM EDT Reads: 568 |
 SYS-CON Events announced today that Stealth Software 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.
Stealth Software is uniquely positioned to enable Clou...Oct. 11, 2012 12:15 PM EDT Reads: 791 |
 SYS-CON Events announced today that IS-Channels 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.
IS-Channels offers a wide range of wholesale white labeled ...Oct. 11, 2012 12:00 PM EDT Reads: 1,383 |
 SYS-CON Events announced today that the legendary group The Temptations will perform at Cloud Expo Silicon Valley, upcoming at the Santa Clara Convention Center in the first week of November (Nov 5-8).
While the Cloud has been doing well for just six or seven years, The Temptations ha...Oct. 11, 2012 11:45 AM EDT Reads: 791 |
 SYS-CON Events announced today that Symform, a revolutionary, distributed cloud backup service, 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.
Symform is a revolutionary and...Oct. 11, 2012 11:33 AM EDT Reads: 556 |
 SYS-CON Events announced today that TBlox 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.
TBlox is the new standard in cloud business software with embedde...Oct. 11, 2012 10:45 AM EDT Reads: 959 |
 Wal-Mart, which practically invented Big Data analysis to unseemly good advantage, is reportedly consolidating its disparate data analytics systems into one global system and bringing in OpenStack and its mentor Rackspace Hosting to help develop the platform.
At least that’s what inv...Oct. 11, 2012 10:30 AM EDT Reads: 1,019 |
 Fast and easy remote data access is essential for SaaS-based ERP systems today.
In his session at the 11th International Cloud Expo, David Shugars, Sr. Software Engineer, Research & Development at Plex Systems, Inc., will describe how Plex Online uses superior connectivity to provide...Oct. 11, 2012 10:17 AM EDT Reads: 622 |
 Private clouds are a great way to provide real-time service delivery of IT resources with a single-tenant, customized, secure environment. However, the challenge of scaling and managing physical resources still exists. The solution may be to leverage an Infrastructure-as-a-Service prov...Oct. 11, 2012 10:00 AM EDT Reads: 796 |
 Compuware Corporation on Wednesday announced a new generation performance analytics solution that raises the intelligence of software-as-a-service (SaaS) application performance management (APM). Outage Analyzer provides real-time visualizations and alerts of outages in third-party web...Oct. 11, 2012 10:00 AM EDT Reads: 740 |
 The OpenNebula Project has just announced a new release, OpenNebula 3.8 Beta (Twin Jet), of its fully open-source, widely-used cloud platform for managing a data center's virtual infrastructure. As in previous releases, the software brings countless valuable contributions from many ind...Oct. 11, 2012 10:00 AM EDT Reads: 558 |
 Traditionally, IT departments have organized their processes, employees, and business relationships around owning and operating the core IT assets. The introduction of cloud services can offer significant cost savings and operational efficiencies but to recognize these benefits, IT dep...Oct. 11, 2012 10:00 AM EDT Reads: 577 |
 Some people have some BIG ideas about what Big Data is, but let's take a minute to look at the BIG picture. Let's take a BIG step back and talk about where Big Data really makes sense. Where do Big Data solutions fit vs traditional RDBMS solutions? What are the best deployment strategi...Oct. 11, 2012 09:45 AM EDT Reads: 789 |
 SYS-CON Events announced today that Interxion 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.
Interxion is a leading provider of cloud- and carrier-neutral...Oct. 11, 2012 09:45 AM EDT Reads: 1,214 |
 SYS-CON Events announced today that Servoy 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.
Servoy is the fastest and coolest way to develop and deploy clou...Oct. 11, 2012 09:45 AM EDT Reads: 882 |
 SYS-CON Events announced today that Cameramanager.com 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.
Cameramanager.com is a dedicated surveillance operato...Oct. 11, 2012 09:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,130 |
 Savvis on Wednesday announced the availability of Savvis Symphony Database, a cloud-based database platform, in Europe.
Symphony Database, which Savvis unveiled in October 2011 in North America, brings the advantages of cloud computing to Oracle and Microsoft SQL Server environments w...Oct. 11, 2012 09:00 AM EDT Reads: 865 |
 Europe's Commissioner for the Digital Agenda has released a communication called "Unleashing the Potential of Cloud Computing in Europe" mapping how the cloud fits into Europe's future.
The paper outlines a series of actions designed to drive European businesses and the public sector ...Oct. 11, 2012 08:45 AM EDT Reads: 1,101 |
 Zenoss, which develops management software for unified physical, virtual and cloud-based IT infrastructures, has closed a $25 million C funding round led by growth equity investor Summit Partners.
That makes $45 million altogether although Zenoss has reportedly been at cash flow brea...Oct. 11, 2012 07:45 AM EDT Reads: 876 |
 IT departments are experiencing storage capacity needs doubling every 12-18 months, 50x the amount of information and 75x the number of files. IT managers are dealing with growing constraints on space, power and costs to manage their data center infrastructure. Intel is helping busines...Oct. 11, 2012 06:30 AM EDT Reads: 1,770 |
 OpenStack delivers powerful capabilities for deploying an Infrastructure-as-a-Service cloud, but getting up and running can take time and effort you can't afford. SUSE Cloud delivers an enterprise ready OpenStack-based solution that eases your cloud deployment.
In their session at th...Oct. 11, 2012 05:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,597 |
 With Cloud Expo 2012 Silicon Valley (11th Cloud Expo) due to open in four weeks' time 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 ha...Oct. 11, 2012 02:00 AM EDT Reads: 10,056 |
 To entice the Fortune 1000 to use more clouds, IBM and AT&T; have cut a deal to combine resources and deliver a highly secure, supposedly first-of-its-kind “network-enabled” cloud service that uses private networks rather than the public Internet.
The widgetry combines AT&T;’s virtual ...Oct. 10, 2012 10:15 AM EDT Reads: 1,173 |
 Calxeda, the Texas start-up pioneering the use of ARM cellphone chips in scalable low-power servers, has closed a $55 million round, bringing total investment to around $100 million.
It calls the investment, led by Austin Ventures and Vulcan Capital, the VC arm of Microsoft co-founde...Oct. 10, 2012 10:00 AM EDT Reads: 586 |
 Workday, the cloud-based human capital and payroll management house expected to IPO this week, has boosted the price of its shares from $21-$24 to $24-$26 apiece, suggesting that there’s investor appetite for the stock although the company isn’t making money yet.
It means to float 22...Oct. 10, 2012 10:00 AM EDT Reads: 907 |
 Scott Houston, chief executive officer for GreenButton, and Stephen Spector, cloud evangelist for Dell, Inc., will be co-presenting "Game Changer - High Perfomance Computing in the Cloud for Everyone," at the 11th International Cloud Expo. Scott and Stephen will discuss how companies o...Oct. 10, 2012 09:00 AM EDT Reads: 811 |
 Cisco has terminated its long-standing and strategic reseller and licensing arrangement with Chinese telecommunication equipment maker ZTE because an internal investigation found ZTE has been passing banned Cisco networking gear to Iran, according to a Reuter’s exclusive Monday morning...Oct. 10, 2012 08:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,045 |
 With Cloud Expo 2012 Silicon Valley (11th Cloud Expo) due to open in four weeks' time 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 West Coast conferenc...Oct. 10, 2012 07:00 AM EDT Reads: 10,608 |
 As your datacenter needs more capacity, you're thinking about going to the cloud. What are the key considerations to help plan for the needed capacity over time? And how can the cloud best work with your existing applications?
In his session at the 11th International Cloud Expo, Bria...Oct. 10, 2012 06:45 AM EDT Reads: 1,554 |
 The open B2B transaction cloud integrates social media, business intelligence and open system-to-system connectivity. Social media becomes a common part of day-to-day business transactions. Buyers and suppliers are influenced by each other, learn best practices and save money by being ...Oct. 10, 2012 06:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,770 |
| It is no secret that one of the main challenges for applications in the cloud is storage performance. The storage performance problem in the cloud has multiple facets. It is not just low vs. high performance, but also the fact that performance varies over time and one customer can impa... Oct. 10, 2012 05:30 AM EDT Reads: 1,590 |
 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...Oct. 10, 2012 05:15 AM EDT Reads: 4,260 |
 The importance of an enterprise-grade network at the center of cloud services cannot be overstated. Without it, private clouds are closed systems and public clouds are vulnerable to security breaches. The optimum cloud is one that is network-based, where cloud services are actually emb...Oct. 10, 2012 05:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,818 |
 With 2nd International Big Data Expo (www.BigDataExpo.net), co-located with Cloud Expo Silicon Valley (11th Cloud Expo), due to open in four weeks' time at the Santa Clara Convention Center, CA, let's introduce you in greater detail to the distinguished individuals in our incredible Sp...Oct. 10, 2012 05:00 AM EDT Reads: 6,390 |
