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BRIEF BIOGRAPHY: Joe Weinman is Sr. VP of Cloud Services & Strategy at Telx. He responsible for leading Telx’s fast-growing cloud services business development and strategy. He joined Telx with over 30 years of experience in executive leadership positions at AT&T, Hewlett-Packard, and Bell Laboratories, in areas such as corporate strategy, business development, product management, operations, and R&D. 
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, November 5-8, 2012.
The OpenStack Foundation promotes the development, distribution and adoption of the OpenStack cloud operating system. As the independent home for OpenStack, the Foundation has already attracted mor...Oct. 20, 2012 11:30 AM EDT Reads: 2,952
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 Day 2 Keynote at the 11th International Cloud Expo, John Engates, CTO of Rackspace, will provide insight on the difference between an open cloud and a closed, proprietary cloud. He will also explain the hidden danger...
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 initiatives faring, technically and from a compliance perspective? How *green* is cloud computing? Why does big data analytics need clouds, and where will the two-step between Big Data and the Cloud lead to next?
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In his Day 3 Keynote at the 11th International Cloud Expo, Dr. John Bates, Executive Vice President and Chief Technology Officer at Progress Software, will illustrate what has to go into a platform and model to deliver the 10 imperatives of next-generation applications. As part of this, he will present how existing applications and services can be wrapped and exposed as cloud APIs. 
SYS-CON Events announced today that HotLava Systems, a provider of high performance Ethernet network adapters, 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.
HotLava Systems designs and manufactures innovative, server class multi-port 1Gb, 10Gb, and 40Gb Ethernet adapters to maximize port density and bandwidth for robust, flexible, and reliable network connections in the most demandin...
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 Data based companies.
Topics include what are the commercial and fiscal benefits of building a business on the cloud? What's the business potential of real-time Big Data analytics? What Cloud companies will have d...
Cloud, Cloud Cloud, it’s everywhere. But does it solve real-world problems? Undoubtedly. Hear how HP Cloud Services and Panzura have delivered to customers a global file system that addresses collaboration, archiving, universal access and performance in one fell swoop. The ROI may surprise you and the ability to free local on-premise resources is an added bonus. See how enterprises are utilizing this combination of the HP Cloud and Panzura to fulfill real world needs
In their session at the 11...
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, Kamesh Pemmaraju, OpenStack Solutions Product Manager at Dell, will talk with DreamHost, a pioneer in OpenStack use, to hear why they made this choice, what products and services they’re creating with it and the upcoming Grizzly release with the new Horizon and Keystone compone...
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 SQL-92 access using ODBC and JDBC directly against your SaaS application database. See how this unique data connectivity is now possible and how other organizations use SQL access to get even more out of the cloud ...
The last decade saw an explosion of web applications and mobile devices resulting in overwhelming volumes of data. Traditional database designs from 30 years ago have not kept pace and cannot scale to handle these large data sets and concurrent workloads. This has tempted some developers to throw away the relational database and build on one of the NoSQL data stores that seem easier to code with and promise to scale. But for most business applications the data is relational! Transactions and con...
Bring Your Own Device has moved from trend to an permanent fixture in today’s corporate IT infrastructure. It is not strictly an IT issue however. Many groups within an organization need to be involved as they grapple with the risk of mixing personal devices with sensitive information. In my opinio...
Too many IT departments take the stance of "I'll worry about it when I have to worry about it." Problem with security issues is, by then it's too late. Often times maintaining the status quo is as dangerous as doing nothing at all.
In my experience there are two types of enterprise IT departments -...
Last week, I covered some of the reasons data breaches happen. Let's shift gears now and look at what can be done to reduce their impact. To be perfectly clear, there’s no magic bullet for security. There are, however, a few small things that can make a big difference in every organization.
This ma...
It is a topic of fascination for me that the high-tech world just plain will not stand still. The changes in automotive technology over the last century, for example, do not match the changes in high tech over the last decade. In addition to the expected on-upsmanship that market leaders tend to spu...
Whether bees or Martians, science or science-fiction, the notion of a hive mind is one that pops up frequently within the realm of psychology, philosophy, theology, science and, last but not least, technology. A hive mind is one that has a collective memory, sharing information from the past and pre...
BYOD or Bring Your Own Device has moved from trend to an permanent fixture in today’s corporate IT infrastructure. It is not strictly an IT issue however. Many groups within an organization need to be involved as they grapple with the risk of mixing personal devices with sensitive information. In m...
There has been an increasing amount of commentary about the growing shortage of Information Security folks. While the reasons for this shortage are manifold and easily explained, that doesn’t change the fact that it exists. Nor the fact that natural sources may well be causing it to worsen.
Informa...
The Austin City Limits Music Festival kicks off this afternoon, featuring great bands like The Red Hot Chili Peppers, Neil Young, The Roots and Black Keys. Our offices are only a few blocks north of the festival, so I'm heading down to the park as soon as I wrap up for the day.
While most of the ba...
There is a growing momentum in the industry that is buzzing about the ‘Open Cloud’.
Typically this refers to the open source software aspect of Cloud software, like OpenStack, or other options like OpenNebula.
There is also the other dimension of open standards. This will become critically importa...
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