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OpenStack is powering production clouds. In this General Session at the 11th International Cloud Expo, Nebula CEO Chris C. Kemp will outline the open source cloud platform's path to maturity, leading to production use in some of today's most popular companies. He will moderate a panel discussion among featured OpenStack users PayPal, Cisco WebEx and eBay, asking the questions that are top of mind as your organization considers implementing OpenStack. The group will discuss how they’re using Open...Nov. 2, 2012 03:00 PM EDT Reads: 1,549
Citrix has announced a bold new project aimed at enabling enterprises and service providers to deliver Windows desktops and apps as a true cloud service: Project Avalon.
Project Avalon promises to revolutionize the delivery of IT services by enabling enterprise customers to build and leverage private, public and hybrid clouds to deliver access to desktops, apps and data anywhere.
In his session at the 11th International Cloud Expo, Thomas DeMeo, Sr. Director Product Management, Desktop Virtu...
How are companies making money on OpenStack today, and where are the best opportunities for new companies to get engaged and serve the growing user base?
The OpenStack community and commercial ecosystem are not mutually exclusive. To build a successful OpenStack company or product line, you need to invest in the community and to build influence organically. In return, a strong commercial ecosystem means more paid developers and better software, and a competitive market that keeps users seeking...
A founding member of the OpenStack Community, Dell has driven significant interest in and adoption of OpenStack-powered cloud solutions among cloud service providers.
In his session at the 11th International Cloud Expo, Mike Fountaine, National Director, Cloud Solutions, at Dell, to discuss why DreamHost, a pioneer in OpenStack use, made this choice, what products and services they’re creating with it, and the upcoming Grizzly release with the new Horizon and Keystone components.
Mike Fountai...
Organizations have become accustomed to accepting the inherent risk associated with point-in-time security assessments. With the emergence of new compliance regulations and the increasing ability to easily change environments through virtualization, we are shifting to a standardized approach to security assessment, authorization, and continuous monitoring. As we move to embrace a security model that requires us to detect and mitigate real-time persistent vulnerabilities and security incidents, i...
SYS-CON Events announced today that Cloudscaling, the leading elastic cloud infrastructure company, 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.
Cloudscaling is the leading elastic cloud infrastructure company. Its Open Cloud System is the most reliable, scalable and production-grade solution available for building elastic clouds powered by OpenStack technology. Open Cloud System de...
Stratogent Corporation, an IT managed services company, announced it will exhibit again this year at the International Cloud Expo at the Santa Clara Convention Center from November 5-8.
“Stratogent is excited to return to Cloud Expo this year where Big Data and Cloud Computing are together giving Silicon Valley a rare look at these parallel trends.” said Chetan Patwardhan, CEO of Stratogent.
“We are the only service provider that installs and manages systems 24x7 in all 3 layers – in-office,...
Another perfect storm is brewing in cloud computing fueled by the explosive growth of Internet-based mobile apps, network virtualization, and APIs for programmatic control of infrastructure. In addition, community-driven open source projects such as OpenStack make it possible for anyone to deploy and directly contribute to what promises to be a widely deployed, open cloud platform. Many companies and individual developers are contributing ideas and code for new cloud services, which bring capabi...
Progress Software Corporation, a global software company that simplifies and enables the development and deployment of business applications, on Friday announced that the company will be giving a keynote speech on cloud applications as well as a general session on data connectivity at this year's Cloud Expo, held November 5-8, 2012 in Santa Clara, California.
The Keynote session, "Cloud Applications: Some Assembly Required," will be given by Dr. John Bates, CTO of Progress Software, on Wednesd...
As a result of many years of experience, innovation and acquisitions, HP has firmly established itself as the leading Big Data solutions and services provider - and a thought leader, helping enterprises solve the trickiest of Big Data challenges by building an end to end analytics framework.
In his session at the 11th International Cloud Expo, Sanjai Marimadaiah leads Strategic Business Development, Big Data at Hewlett-Packard, will discuss how HP is empowering CEOs, CIOs and CMOs alike to ext...
When you’re a kid at the beach, you spend a lot of time and effort building a sand castle. It’s cool, a lot of fun, and doomed to destruction. When high tide, or random kids, or hot sun come along, the castle is going to fall apart. It doesn’t matter, kids build them every year by the thousands, pro...
This is an industry trends and perspective piece about big data and little data, industry adoption and customer deployment.
If you are in any way associated with information technology (IT), business, scientific, media and entertainment computing or related areas, you may have heard big data mentio...
At the end of last month the EU released its plans for "Unleashing the Potential of Cloud Computing in Europe". But although the document (s) - just like EU commissioner Kroes in this video - do a good job describing in non-technical terms what cloud is and why Europe should care about having a comp...
IT spends untold millions of dollars, thousands of man hours for technology designed to solve solutions, but because of complexity, budget shortfalls, lack of expertise or a myriad of other gremlins, too many initiatives never realize their potential. That was before cloud computing and more specifi...
Congratulations to NJVC Cloudcuity partner Virtustream for being positioned as a visionary in the Gartner 2012 IaaS Magic Quadrant!
Magic Quadrants provide a graphical competitive positioning of four types of technology providers, where market growth is high and provider differentiation is distinct...
As mentioned in Part I of this series, cloud technology has introduced a viable alternative to the practice of creating secondary sites for disaster recovery (DR), promising to save IT organizations hundreds of thousands or even millions of dollars in infrastructure and maintenance. While the cost r...
Big Data takes center stage today at the Strata Conference & Hadoop World in New York, the world’s largest gathering of the Apache Hadoop™ community. A key conversation topic will be how organizations can improve data security for Hadoop and the applications that run on the platform. As you know, Ha...
On Monday, Amazon Web Services — the leading provider of cloud services — suffered an outage, and as a result, a long list of well-known and popular websites went dark. According to Amazon’s Service Health Dashboard, the outage started out as degraded performance of a small number ...
In the second annual Cisco Global Cloud Index (2011-2016), Cisco forecasts global data center traffic to grow fourfold and reach a total of 6.6 zettabytes annually by 2016. The company also predicts global cloud traffic, the fastest-growing component of data center traffic, to grow sixfold - a 44 pe...
The UK Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) recently published a useful and informative report on cloud computing that provides key guidance for companies using or considering cloud services in the UK. The guidelines intend to help organizations comply with the 1998 Data Protection Act (DPA), and...
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