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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 ...
Many articles describe cloud security as a problem. But do you know how security affects you and your application in the cloud? In his session at the 11th International Cloud Expo, Bryan D. Payne, Director of Security Research at Nebula, will open your eyes to the various security co...
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...
In his session at the 11th International Cloud Expo, Vlad Seliverstov, Chief of Advertising Services Operation at Yandex.ru, will explain how Yandex uses Nimbula Director to run a private cloud for development and testing. With Nimbula’s APIs for elastic setup and teardown of instances...
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...
From the command line to web APIs to dashboards, how you interact with your cloud shapes the potential it holds for you. Current industry trends favor arcane CLI tools, resource-oriented dashboards, and orchestration driven by hand-written recipes. How do average users accomplish anyth...
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 leadin...
C12G Labs has just updated its public and private training sessions offering, to adjust to customers and users demands. Public training sessions will be offered on a regular basis. A schedule for public classes at C12G Labs Headquarters in Madrid has just been published. The first sch...
Some apps are in the cloud. Some are not. Some components of an app are in the cloud, some components are not. Some code is in Java, some is in Ruby, and some is in Python. Some data is relational. Some is not. You used the best language, best framework, best database, and best deplo...
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...
Cloud computing continues to hold a great deal of promise for a variety of business and personal implementations. A lot of buzz has been generated this year with regards to the potential of cloud-based applications and web services as well as a few recent developments that highlight th...
With Cloud Expo 2012 Silicon Valley (11th Cloud Expo) due to open in two 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 Faculty for t...
Platfora, a start-up with an ace or two in the hole, came out of stealth mode this week with the intention of taking the finicky, balky, ornery Hadoop mainstream and disrupting the $35 billion business analytics market. The company’s aces include Andreessen Horowitz, the young VC wit...
Microsoft’s got previews of its Apache Hadoop-based solutions for Azure and Windows Server, Azure HDInsight Service and HDInsight Server for Windows. They’re supposed to deliver Apache Hadoop compatibility for the enterprise and simplify the deployment of Hadoop-based solutions. It s...
Cordys helps Cloud Service Provider customers deliver differentiated products, services and experiences in an agile and flexible framework. In their session at the 11th International Cloud Expo, Tom Katayama, Sr. Solutions Architect at Cordys, and Glenn Donovan, Regional Director at C...
PayPal is the faster, safer way to pay and get paid online, via mobile devices and in store. The service allows people to send money without sharing financial information, with the flexibility to pay using their account balances, bank accounts, credit cards or promotional financing. Wi...
SYS-CON Events announced today that ComputeNext 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. ComputeNext is building the next generation of compute power through the launc...
Quirrel is designed to allow anyone to perform complex analysis of large, multi-structured data sets without the need to write code. In his session at the 11th International Cloud Expo, John A. De Goes, CEO & CTO of Precog, will walk Cloud Expo delegates through the basics of Quirrel...
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. A...
Companies of all sizes are dealing with exponential growth of digital data and looking for cost-effective ways to secure, provide access, store and manage this data. Many are turning to the cloud to minimize their infrastructure and footprint. But is the cloud really solving our data m...
Clouds have what you need: reliable and highly resilient compute, networks and storage. But achieving true scale and efficiency requires designing and building your cloud from the ground up. In their session at the 11th International Cloud Expo, Kedar Poduri, Director of Product Mana...
Recently FireScope Inc. introduced the general availability of its Stratis product. Stratis brings all of the FireScope Unify capabilities to the cloud, with the added advantage of a new architecture that delivers near infinite scalability. Moreover, the new Stratis architecture provid...
MapR Technologies worked for months to make the elephantine curmudgeon known as Hadoop less snappy and irascible. It dragged it out of the elephant house, scrubbed its hands and face, gave it some manners, told it which fork to use, slicked down its hair, polished its shoes and sent ...
Rackspace has cut a strategic agreement with Hortonworks, the open source Apache Hadoop start-up, to resell its platform. The two are also going to try to eliminate the complexities and time-consuming manual processes in Hadoop required to implement a Big Data solution. The announc...
I've been using WaveMaker since I started working at the startup in 2008 and it has been a great IDE for quickly creating robust enterprise AJAX Web applications integrating SQL databases, and SOAP/REST Web Services. Along came Cloud Foundry and deploying those applications on a scalab...
Both small startups and large organizations have the same choice to make: focus on what is important or spend time toiling with the ancillary details. No matter the size of your team, you still have to solve the same problems: code, testing, infrastructure, monitoring, availability and...
After 50 years of adolescence, the IT industry is entering its Industrial Age and this will have a huge impact on all sectors of the industry. Most organizations will see huge gains from this industrialization; most legacy vendors will suffer a lot. In his session at the 11th Interna...
Yottabyte, a two-year-old Michigan start-up with awfully big shoes to fill given its very big name, claims to have what every boy wants these days, a cloud operating system. It says the widgetry lets it create cloud-based data centers that incorporate storage, compute and network usi...
Heartland Payment Systems moved rapidly from a security breach to an overall improved security stance largely thanks to embedding a security-as-culture position across their operations and into their business strategy. Right now, we’re number six in the US, and with consolidation and ...
With Cloud Expo 2012 Silicon Valley (11th Cloud Expo) due to open in two 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 conference...
With Cloud Expo 2012 Silicon Valley (11th Cloud Expo) - co-located with 2nd International Big Data Expo - due to open in two 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 fo...
Rivals are gonna have to stop sniping at OpenStack for only having object storage. Rackspace, which originally put the open source cloud platform in play, filled the gaping hole Tuesday with its new Cloud Block Storage solution. The rest of the OpenStack community will catch up even...
“Cloud solutions are great for lots of workloads but the cloud is not perfect for everything,” noted Robert Miggins, senior vice president of business development for PEER 1 Hosting, in this exclusive Q&A; with Cloud Expo Conference Chair Jeremy Geelan. And Miggins continued, “We have m...
It all started with the notion of creating a Japanese version of Amazon Web Services. Well, you know how those things go. When you start developing it can lead anywhere and it led Midokura – sort of a Japanese contraction meaning Green Cloud – to drop the whole Amazon cloning bit and...
At the OpenStack Design Summit & Conference this week in California, Nimbula, the cloud operating system company, signed up to be part of the OpenStack community to improve the OpenStack code base. It will also incorporate OpenStack services in future Nimbula Director releases. Nim...
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, w...
With Cloud Expo 2012 Silicon Valley (11th Cloud Expo) due to open in two 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 Faculty for t...
SYS-CON Events announced today that nCircle, the leader in information risk and security performance management solutions, 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. nCi...
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 li...
SYS-CON Events announced today that Trinity Solar, the leading solar company on the East Coast, 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. Trinity Solar is the leading d...