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Opening Keynote | Mission-Critical Applications in the Cloud – Myth or Reality?
 While having successfully grown their business using a popular cloud provider’s shared platform, as this client’s company continued to grow, their system became insufficient to support the demands for higher performance and I/O at a reasonable price. After a discussion with their partn...Oct. 18, 2012 07:30 AM EDT Reads: 807 |
 Cloud computing is one of the most strategic initiatives that enterprises will adopt over the next several years. Only an open hybrid cloud can help you unlock the full benefits of cloud economics and gain agility across your entire infrastructure – physical, virtual and public cloud r...Oct. 18, 2012 07:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,142 |
 Who is speaking about what next month at the largest cloud computing and big data event in the world? Here's a quick reference guide for those working out which sessions they most want to attend November 5-8 at the Santa Clara Convention Center, Santa Clara, CA...once the doors open in...Oct. 18, 2012 07:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,110 |
 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. 18, 2012 05:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,432 |
 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. 18, 2012 01:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,458 |
 With Cloud Expo 2012 Silicon Valley (11th Cloud Expo) due to open in just under three weeks' time at the Santa Clara Convention Center, CA - co-located with 2nd International BigDataExpo - let's introduce you in greater detail to the distinguished individuals in our incredible Speaker ...Oct. 18, 2012 01:00 AM EDT Reads: 962 |
 There is a vast new movement developing at a breathtaking pace that is changing the way the world utilizes cloud computing. Specifically, open source cloud computing. Rackspace is helping lead the global discussion about the benefits of building a business on an open cloud.
In his Da...Oct. 17, 2012 10:00 PM EDT Reads: 3,136 |
 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. 17, 2012 05:00 PM EDT Reads: 1,743 |
 Ever get the feeling that soon there’ll be so many clouds we’ll never see the sun again? Well, here’s another one.
It’s called Metacloud.
After quietly starting early last year it’s just hit the radar, turning up with an undisclosed investment from Storm Ventures and – according to...Oct. 17, 2012 02:44 PM EDT Reads: 857 |
 Intel, which warned of declining sales last month, didn’t do quite as badly in
Q3 as expected given its guidance, which was below Wall Street estimates,
despite the popularity of iPads and smartphones, which IDC and Gartner say
have created an 8%-9% contraction in the PC market.Oct. 17, 2012 01:30 PM EDT Reads: 534 |
 What are the technical benefits of building a business on the cloud? If that cloud is open, are the benefits fewer or are they more plentiful? What security issues remain in the clouds being stood up in 2012, compared to cloud computing's earlier days? How are multi-national cloud init...Oct. 17, 2012 12:43 PM EDT Reads: 857 |
 Today we present ten imperatives for constructing next generation applications that we have defined based on research findings from a community of 1,500 application building companies. Emerging applications will not just be cloud-enabled, but also mobile, connected to social media netw...Oct. 17, 2012 12:00 PM EDT Reads: 1,129 |
 Do you want SQL access to your SaaS application?
In their session at the 11th International Cloud Expo, Sumit Sarkar, Sr. Solutions Consultant at Progress Software, and Paul Griffin, Sr. Manager, Sales Enablement, at Progress Software, will discuss how to achieve this with real-time ...Oct. 17, 2012 10:34 AM EDT Reads: 677 |
 New Relic, Inc., on Wednesday announced the availability of key transaction performance management, enabling organizations large and small to take advantage of enterprise business transaction performance tracking. Until now, business transaction performance management has only been ava...Oct. 17, 2012 10:09 AM EDT Reads: 840 |
 How can we regain control of our data and get a complete view of critical information, while still reaping the many benefits that SaaS has to offer? The explosion in Software as a Service has changed the world of data access dramatically. Business critical information that was once wit...Oct. 17, 2012 10:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,104 |
 Compuware Corporation has announced pricing for a deep transaction management solution for optimizing performance of Apache Hadoop applications. Compuware APM's dynaTrace Enterprise for Hadoop will be offered starting at just $1,000 per Hadoop Java Virtual Machine (JVM).
Applications ...Oct. 17, 2012 09:46 AM EDT Reads: 814 |
 This fast-moving "CEO Power Panel" at the 11th International Cloud Expo, moderated by Conference Chair Jeremy Geelan features industry thought leaders and will discuss the business-related issues that are currently front of mind with chief executives of today's foremost Cloud and Big D...Oct. 17, 2012 09:15 AM EDT Reads: 788 |
 Fresh back from maternity leave – she had a boy – Yahoo’s latest CEO Marissa Mayer raided her former company to bring Google’s VP of partner business solutions Henrique de Castro in as COO.
He’s supposed to worry about Yahoo’s sales, operations, media and business development.
The ...Oct. 17, 2012 07:00 AM EDT Reads: 525 |
 Cisco's "Kickstart-to-Cloud" Workshop at Cloud Expo Silicon Valley, Nov 5-8, 2012, is a free half-day event on Monday, November 5, that will offer Cloud Expo attendees a perspective on all the new technologies out there and how to not be distracted by the bright shiny objects.
Join Wa...Oct. 17, 2012 06:45 AM EDT Reads: 1,951 |
 Four companies moving to SaaS, four different challenges, four different markets and four different solutions.
In his session at the 11th International Cloud Expo, Jan Aleman, CEO of Servoy, will provide four separate, real case studies detailing how these SaaS companies met the chal...Oct. 17, 2012 06:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,792 |
 The cloud is changing the way enterprises consume IT infrastructure and applications. Networks and application deployment strategies are being re-architected to manage an increasingly hybrid network where storage, utility compute and applications are being designed to move seamlessly a...Oct. 17, 2012 05:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,861 |
 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. 17, 2012 02:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,677 |
 With Cloud Expo 2012 Silicon Valley (11th Cloud Expo) due to open in just under three weeks' time at the Santa Clara Convention Center, CA - co-located with 2nd International BigDataExpo - let's introduce you in greater detail to the distinguished individuals in our incredible Speaker ...Oct. 17, 2012 01:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,901 |
 QLogic continues to deliver on its Adaptive Convergence strategy with its next-generation FlexSuite2600 Series adapters, available now through authorized QLogic channel partners. FlexSuite "dual-personality" adapters fit seamlessly into current installations as a 16Gb Fibre Channel ada...Oct. 16, 2012 01:57 PM EDT Reads: 450 |
 Nimbula on Monday announced it has joined the OpenStack community. As an active member of the community, Nimbula will collaborate on a range of improvements to the OpenStack codebase, and will incorporate OpenStack services in future Nimbula Director releases. Nimbula customers such as...Oct. 16, 2012 09:00 AM EDT Reads: 839 |
 Amazon is negotiating to acquire Texas Instruments’ abandoned ARM business, according to Calcalist, the Israeli business daily written in Hebrew. It says the companies are in advanced talks.
According to the story Amazon wants to be a merchant chip house competing with Qualcomm, Sams...Oct. 16, 2012 09:00 AM EDT Reads: 989 |
 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. 16, 2012 07:00 AM EDT Reads: 2,161 |
 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. 16, 2012 06:00 AM EDT Reads: 2,840 |
 The move to cloud-based applications has undeniably delivered tremendous benefits. However, the associated distribution creates various challenges from the quality perspective:
End-to-end tests need to pass through multiple dependent systems, which are commonly unavailable, evolving,...Oct. 16, 2012 06:00 AM EDT Reads: 4,321 |
 AMD is going to make “significant” layoffs, possibly amounting to 10%-20% of the company’s workforce, according to what the Wall Street Journal called “a person familiar with the situation.”
All Things Digital puts the number closer to 30%.
The Journal suspects that the company, whi...Oct. 15, 2012 01:36 PM EDT Reads: 688 |
 Alteryx thinks it’s managed to humanize cloud-borne Big Data, a good thing too since its analytics is directed at normal business folk as well as data analysts.
In the fashion of the times it’s combined its sophisticated analytics – its stuff is used by such as Wal-Mart, MacDonald’s,...Oct. 15, 2012 08:15 AM EDT Reads: 1,457 |
 AMD is going to squeeze into what it calls the performance tablet market with a new low-power 40nm Z-60 APU for Windows 8 platforms that has a two-core CPU running at 1GHz. The chip, codenamed Hondo and really meant for notebooks or netbooks, has a thermal design envelop of 4.5W.
It r...Oct. 15, 2012 08:00 AM EDT Reads: 2,251 |
 OK, so Apple can’t find Paris on its maps. At least its maps aren’t under imminent threat of an injunction for patent infringement, which could happen to Google in Germany unless it authorizes its Motorola Mobility subsidiary to pay Microsoft the royalties it wants for its claims again...Oct. 15, 2012 07:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,277 |
 After the market closed in New York Thursday AMD warned that its Q3 wasn’t going to cut the mustard.
Hoping against hope for better results AMD waited until the last minute to take down its guidance. Intel saw the handwriting on the wall in September and figured things weren’t going ...Oct. 15, 2012 07:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,251 |
 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. 14, 2012 09:45 AM EDT Reads: 1,315 |
 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. 14, 2012 08:30 AM EDT Reads: 1,422 |
 Zenith Infotech’s TigerCloud is changing the private cloud market by offering an enterprise-class solution via TruHAAS – a rent-to-own pricing structure. TruHAAS allows companies to customize their technology spending to better meet their cash flow in this tight economy. By eliminating...Oct. 13, 2012 06:00 PM EDT Reads: 1,374 |
 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. 13, 2012 04:00 PM EDT Reads: 1,577 |
 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. 13, 2012 12:00 PM EDT Reads: 1,169 |
 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. 13, 2012 09:30 AM EDT Reads: 1,329 |
