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Cloud Computing Expo 2009 East
 Delivering Massively Scalable Enterprise IT as a Service
Now is the Time
for Enterprise IT to Take the CloudVery Seriously Indeed!
4th International Cloud Computing Conference & Expo
Santa Clara, CA | 2 - 4 November, 2009


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OPENING KEYNOTER: Richard Marcello, President, Systems & Technology, Unisys DAY 2 KEYNOTER: Shelton Shugar, SVP Cloud Computing, Yahoo! DAY 3 KEYNOTER: Richard Sarwal, Sr. VP Oracle Enterprise Manager, Oracle

Cloud computing is a game changer. The cloud is disrupting traditional software and hardware business models by disrupting how IT service gets delivered.

Entrepreneurial opportunities abound as this classic disruptive technology begins to proliferate, so it is no surprise that SYS-CON's industry-leading International Cloud Computing Conference & Expo series is going from strength to strength.

Now held three times a year, in New York, Prague, and Silicon Valley, the event unfailingly attracts unprecedented numbers of developers, engineers, architects, IT managers, and hardware and software professionals of every stripe. With an ever-increasing number of companies now buying computing, storage, and networking power as they need it from the cloud, there has never been a greater need for a one-stop event that brings together players from the main layers of the Cloud ecosystem - the infrastructure players, the platform providers, and those offering applications.

Join us at the 4th International Cloud Computing Conference & Expo, being held November 2-4, 2009, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA.

The Conference theme is “"Bringing the Economics of the Web to Enterprise IT Through Cloud Computing."

Our organizing principle is that through our intensive 3-day schedule of keynotes, general and breakout sessions, attending delegates will be assured of leaving the Conference with abundant resources, ideas and examples they can apply immediately to leveraging the Cloud, helping them to maximize performance, minimize cost and improve the scale of their endeavors.

We carefully select only inspiring, accomplished speakers who have real world examples and principles to share that can be applied to any business.



Top Keynotes, Sessions, Top Delegates
The East Coast version of this event featured 100+ technical sessions from the leading industry players including Amazon, Sun, IBM, HP, Yahoo!, Salesforce, 3tera, Egenera, RightScale, Elastra, CohesiveFT, Cisco, Trend Micro, and many, many more. All the main layers of the Cloud ecosystem were represented - the infrastructure players, the platform providers, and those offering applications. And they'll all be back to speak, exhibit and network in Santa Clara, CA! The high-energy event is a must-attend for senior technologists including CIOs, CTOs, directors of infrastructure, VPs of technology, IT directors and managers, network and storage managers, network engineers, enterprise architects, and communications and networking specialists.

Over the next five years, IDC expects spending on IT cloud-based services to grow almost threefold, reaching $42 billion by 2012 and accounting for 9% of revenues in five key market segments. More importantly, spending on cloud computing will accelerate throughout the forecast period, capturing 25% of IT spending growth in 2012 and nearly a third of growth the following year.

Please join us at the 4th International Cloud Computing Conference & Expo. There is no time like the present to Catch Up with The Cloud !

SOA in the Cloud
The convergence of SOA and Cloud Computing is now so clear a trend industry-wide that a new "SOA in the Cloud" track will make its first - but definitely not its last! - appearance as a new content focus within our fast-growing International Cloud Computing Conference & Expo series, now held three times a year, in New York, Santa Clara, and Prague. Cloud computing is accelerating the adoption of SOA by providing aspects of SOA on-demand.

In a recent article published at SOA World Magazine, SOA and Cloud expert David Linthicum wrote: "Clearly, SOA and cloud computing go hand-in-hand. Cloud computing is just the ability to leverage new platforms and resources that you don't happen to own. Nothing really changes outside of that, including the need to do SOA right."

RIAs in the Cloud
Today we are witnessing a change in the way the industry thinks about software applications. The increase in SaaS application development and consumption is driving up demand for RIAs and a new set of platform technologies built specifically to develop and deliver them. Software vendors, both large and small, are now considering how best to adapt to the new paradigms of the RIA and SaaS markets, while a large number of developers are moving to RIA and SaaS application development.

Santa Clara Keynote - 4th International Cloud Computing Conference & Expo
 
   
The Time is Right for Enterprise Cloud Computing

Up to now you may have been reluctant to move your Enterprise application workloads to the cloud, fearing a lack of security in the cloud, compliance issues such as data location regulations and having to rewrite your applications. During his keynote, Rich Marcello will discuss the latest technologies and approaches that help knock down these barriers, creating the opportunity for attendees to now consider cloud managed services as part of their data center journey to secure "IT as a Service".

Rich Marcello is a senior vice president of Unisys and serves as President of Systems & Technology.



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Accelerating Innovation with Cloud Computing

Yahoo! is developing and utilizing Internet-scale cloud computing services to improve Yahoo! consumer experience, speed innovation, simplify operating environments, and reduce costs. Yahoo! Cloud Services are in production today supporting web-serving properties and data processing environments. Yahoo! Cloud Services store and deliver web content, personalize content for consumers, optimize Ad selection and placement, improve search results, provide scalable virtual computing environments, and process and store enormous amounts of data to improve consumer experiences and drive innovation. This presentation will elaborate on how Yahoo! and consumers benefit from Yahoo! Cloud Services and will describe Yahoo! Cloud Services and technologies.

Shelton Shugar is SVP Cloud Computing at Yahoo!



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Cloud Computing: Separating Hype from RealityA World of Many Clouds

Enterprises large and small are drawn by the advantages of cloud computing - pay-for-use, self-service, elastic scalability and the elimination of hardware management – resulting in very low barriers to entry and exit and high agility. However enterprises are also concerned about security, quality of service, integration, compliance, lock-in, and long term costs of public clouds. Private clouds for the exclusive use of one enterprise can mitigate these concerns by giving the enterprise greater control. This keynote will explore how enterprises are likely to adopt public and private cloud computing, building on a foundation of virtualization infrastructure and management systems.

Richard Sarwal is SVP of Development for Oracle Enterprise Manager.



How the Delivery of Virtualization is Being Transformed
Simon Crosby - CTO, Citrix Systems
– This session will provide IT organizations with a short- and long-term roadmap by focusing on the new delivery models for virtualization.

Developing Successful Cloud Strategies By Evaluating Data Infrastructure Demands
Ifran Khan - CTO, Sybase
– This session will asses the various classes of applications (transactional, analytical, mobile) within your infrastructure, and how IaaS impacts business-critical information delivery.

My Cloud, Your Cloud, Our Cloud
Thorsten Von Eicken - Co-Founder & CTO, RightScale
– This session will provide guidance on when and how to use public, private and hybrid clouds, using real-world examples.

Shifting Clouds: How the Cloud Landscape is Evolving
Krishna Subramanian - Sr. Director Cloud Strategy, Sun Microsystems
– This session will provide a framework to classify the various cloud offerings, and will explore how solutions are evolving.

Hadoop @ Yahoo - Internet Scale Data Processing
Eric Baldeschwieler - VP Hadoop Software Development, Yahoo!
– This session will explain what the Yahoo! distribution of Hadoop is and how it benefits the larger cloud ecosystem, including major use-cases for Hadoop @ Yahoo!

Working with Big Data and Hadoop
Christophe Bisciglia - Co-Founder at Cloudera
– This session will highlight the technical and business issues that make Hadoop so powerful for large scale data processing.

Accelerating Innovation with Yahoo! Cloud Serving
Surenda Reddy - VP of Yahoo's Integrated Cloud and Virtualization group
– This session will will elaborate on Yahoo! Cloud Serving Platform architecture and how it leverages virtualization technologies to simplify and automate our service delivery.

How the CIO Becomes a Hero Again
Ric Telford - Vice President IBM Cloud Services
– This session will provide a perspective on Cloud Computing's future and illustrates how the CIO can appropriately leverage Cloud to become the hero again.

Bridging the Gap Between Public Clouds and Private Clouds
Agatha Poon - Sr. Analyst, Yankee Group
– This session will identify key operational imperatives including location, regulatory support, security, and interoperability that help shaping a scalable, global cloud infrastructure.

Moving HPC Apps to the Cloud: The Practitioner's Perspective
Victoria Livschitz - Founder & CEO, Grid Dynamics Consulting Services
– This session will examine several types of HPC applications deployed on various clouds, and discuss the challenged and opportunities typical of grid deployments on the cloud.

Application Infrastructure and Middleware on Demand
Sudhir Kulkarni - CTO, SellPoint
– Using a customer case study this session will discuss how the configuration of middleware and deployment and run-time management of custom application can be fully automated.

A New Role in the Cloud for a Tried and Tested Schemaless Database
K S Bhaskar - VP, Fidelity National Information Services
– This session will discuss how schemaless database technologies are now emerging as important and highly functional engines on which to build Cloud services.

Application Delivery Networks & Cloud Computing
Willie M. Tejada - Vice President, Application and Site Acceleration, Akamai Technologies
– How providers of on-demand computing resources and applications can leverage ADN technologies to keep data-center build-out to a minimum while simultaneously addressing Internet delivery issues.

Hosting Primary Data in the Cloud
Jeff Treuhaft - CEO & Co-Founder, Zetta
– This session will explore the features that enterprises rely on to deliver required data performance and how, when and if those features can be delivered cost-effectively in cloud service offerings.

Leveraging Cloud-Based Integration To Increase Customer Loyalty, Retention and Revenues
Trisha Gross - President and CEO, Hubspan
– This session will provide real world examples of how companies use cloud-based integration to achieve business process automation with customer-related processes.

The Rich Services Cloud
Charlton Barreto - Principal Architect, Intel
– This session will discuss how companies can develop and deploy Rich Services Cloud applications on premise or in the Cloud, enhancing the user experience like never before.

Top Cloud Computing Security Risks
Jeremiah Grossman - Founder & CTO, WhiteHat Security
– In this session Jeremiah Grossman will draw from the latest WhiteHat Security Website Security Statistics Report to introduce the most prevalent software flaws putting data at risk in the cloud.

Building Scalable and Extensible RIAs on Windows Azure
Ranjith Ramakrishnan - Co-Founder & CTO,Cumulux
– In this session delegates will learn how to build scalable and extensible RIAs on the Windows Azure Cloud. The session will cover enabling rich and complete User Experience customizations andaddressing multi-tenant requirements.

Virtual Infrastructure: What is Required for the Cloud?
Chris Barclay - Director of Product Management, Oracle
– This session will examine virtualization considerations such as workload availability, performance, and integration with enterprise systems.

The Enterprise Private Cloud: From Infrastructure to Applications
Sudip Datta - Senior Director of Product Management, Oracle
– This session will discuss how to extend cloud computing beyond infrastructure to enterprise applications.

Understanding the Relationship between Workloads and the Cloud
Tony Bishop - CEO, Adaptivity
– This session will answer the question: How does business successfully operate IT as a service?

Rich Internet Applications in the Cloud - A Match Made in Heaven
Mark Piller - Founder & Chief Architect , Midnight Coders
– In this session attendees will learn about the specifics of RIA deployments into a Cloud infrastructure to enable connectivity with Flex, Flash, Silverlight and AJAX types of clients.

Application Infrastructure and Middleware on Demand
Jamal Mazhar - Founder & CEO, Kaavo
– Using a customer case study this session will discuss how the configuration of middleware and deployment and run-time management of custom application can be fully automated.

A New Role in the Cloud for a Tried and Tested Schemaless Database
K S Bhaskar - Fidelity National Information Services
– This session will discuss how schemaless database technologies are now emerging as important and highly functional engines on which to build Cloud services.

User Virtualization for Dynamic VDI and Personalized Virtual Desktops
Amy Hodler - Director of Product Management, Tranxition
– This session will discuss how to use best practices for bringing your users' personalized environments along to a VDI environment so you can achieve the cost benefits of VDI without imposing major disruption and lost productivity on your user base.

Migrating Collaborative Applications to the Cloud
Jeff Miller - Director of Professional Services, Cloud Sherpas
– This highly informative and interactive session will both explore and provide answers to the key questions that your organization should consider before moving to the Cloud.

Orchestration in the Cloud
Brian E. Boruff - VP of Cloud Computing & Software Services, CSC
– This session looks at how organizations with data and computing in the public and private cloud need to orchestrate processing, and recover the processing visibility necessary for the creation of digital trust.

Cloud Security - It's Nothing New; It Changes Everything!
Glenn Brunette - Chief Security Architect, Sun
–This session cuts through the hype and sharpens our focus on what security means for cloud computing and other elastic, hyper-scale architectures.

Developing Advantage: Platform Leverage in the Cloud
Peter Coffee - Director of Platforms, Salesforce
– This session will discuss alternative development experiences in various enterprise clouds and will highlight opportunities to combine their strengths in distinctive applications.

Cloud Management: What You Don't Know Can Hurt You
Stephen Elliott - Vice President of Strategy, CA
– This session will discuss what customers should consider when buying services from a cloud computing partner including the most important management processes and capabilities that matter to SLAs.

Security in the Cloud: Protecting Your Cloud Apps
Lars Ewe - CTO & VP of Engineering, Cenzic
–This session will address the Top 5 things you can do to protect your data and applications that run on the web and in the cloud and prevent security breaches.

Tactical Cloud Computing
Kevin Jackson - Vice President, Dataline
– This session will discuss the use of cloud computing technology and techniques for the support of localized and short-lived information access and processing requirements, including Cloudbursting.

The Profit Model for Cloud Computing
Steve Lesem - President & CEO, Mezeo Software
–This session will examine why the concept of 'trust' is so essential and why it's the Cloud providers who have trusting relationships with customers that will triumph in the end.

Delivering Desktop Virtualization
Martin Ingram - Vice President of Product Strategy, AppSense
– This session will explore how by virtualizing hardware, applications and the user personality you can deliver a familiar working environment for users while simplifying management of the desktop estate.

Y! Scalable Storage and Delivery Services
Chuck Neerdaels - VP Content Storage, Delivery and Edge, Yahoo!
–This session will talk about Yahoo!'s Cloud Storage and Delivery stack and how it is purpose-built to solve the business and technical challenges of Internet-scale computing.

Cloud & SaaS Proponents: Know Your Enemies!
Louis Naugès - President, Revevoltr
–This session will discuss why so many CIOs and IT professionals think Cloud Comptuing and SaS is a threat to their careers and their power.

Negotiating the Virtual/Grid/Cloud Legal Minefield
David Snead - Attorney-at-Law, W. David Snead, P.C.
–This session will address the legal, business and marketing issues of involved in moving into Cloud services, and what anyone entering into a new contract, or marketing to end users needs to know.

Technologies for Virtualization-Based Desktop Management
Dr Monica Lam - Professor, Stanford University
–This session will describe a new approach to complete desktop management, allowing corporate IT to completely control the desktop including the operating system.

Exploring Policy-enabled Clouds for the Enterprise
Ed Beauvais - Sr. Product Manager, Cloud Infrastructure Group, EMC
–In this session delegates will view EMC Atmos APIs and investigate design considerations such as availability, data storage mechanisms, multi-tenancy, object policy and scalability.

Virtualizing Resources in Production Database Systems
Peter Thawley - Senior Director/Architect, Sybase
–This session will cover technical details behind virtualization techniques utilized in Enterprise database systems which go beyond server virtualization.

Trusted Computing for Virtualization Security
Steve Hanna - Co-Chair, Trusted Computing Group
–This session will address the Trusted Platform Module (TPM) which is included in virtually all enterprise PCs and many servers and how it can be used for virtualized security.

Policy Enforcement in the Virtualized Data Center
Hezi Moore - Sr. Founder & CTO, Reflex Systems
–This session will identify the top three challenges enterprises face when it comes to enforcing policies and outline best practices to control and audit change in policy rules across both the virtual and physical infrastructure.

Managing Sprawl and Self-Service for Virtual Machines
Scott Hammond - President & CEO, newScale
–This session will explain how to use a Service Catalog of standard options to enable self-service requests while enforcing pre-approved VM images, stop dates, and policy controls.

Cloud Computing as a Strategy: Enabling IT's Evolutionary Change
Tim Crawford - CIO & Vice President of Strategy, Vivo
– This session will deconstruct cloud computing into the true value proposition: enhanced flexibility and ultimate alignment with the business.

Cloud Computing Bootcamp
Alan Williamson - Editor-in-Chief, Cloud Computing Journal
– Williamson will be repeating (on November 3, 2009) his ever-popular all-day Cloud Computing Bootcamp, to which Golden Pass delegates receive free admission.

A New Role in the Cloud for a Tried and Tested Schemaless Database
Rob Tweed - Co-Founder & MD, M/Gateway
– This session will discuss how schemaless database technologies are now emerging as important and highly functional engines on which to build Cloud services.

Securing the Cloud and Establishing a Level of Trust
Tim Brown - VP & Security Architect, CA
– This session will address security needs for cloud computing, including all aspects of the cloud paradigm ¬ Internal, Private, Public and Hybrid cloud environments.

Moving Your RIA Apps into the Cloud: 7 Challenges
Matias Bagini - CEO of JRapid Corp
– This session will discuss the many challenges you will face if you want to move your RIA apps into the SaaS model including multitenancy, clustering, robustness, mashups, security, productivity and multi-browser programming.

Cannibalizing Google App Engine
Kevin Noonan - Software Developer , Push2Cloud
– This session will show delegates how to use Google App Engine by dismembering its computing resources and consuming each of them them in isolation.

Yahoo! Query Language - YQL: select * from internet [including Live Demo]
Jonathan Trevor - Technical Yahoo! at Yahoo!
– This session will feature a Live Demo of YQL and discuss how it helps developers to move their data focused business logic to the cloud.

Revolutionizing Security Through Virtualization
Kevin Piper - Director of Technical Operations, Altor Networks
– This session will present case study examples shared of defense and civilian agencies that have virtualized their production environment with enterprise-call virtualization servers.

Bringing Cloud Computing Down to Earth with Ultra Low-Cost Endpoints
Stephen Dukker - Chairman & CEO, NComputing
– This session will examine how new-generation virtualization technologies have evolved and how companies are utilizing it to create new kinds of computing and services.

Top Infrastructure Headaches When Managing Applications in the Cloud
Javier Soltero - CTO of Management Products, SpringSource
– This session will address some of the biggest challenges in creating and launching successful web applications with little to no down time.

Cloud Computing Drives Real World Enterprise IT Value
Watson Wat - VP of Technology/CTO Oracle On Demand
– This session will assess current and future cloud capabilities relative to mainstream enterprise IT requirements and help real world enterprises better understand how best they can leverage cloud computing.

Building Scalable and Extensible RIAs on Windows Azure
Bhushan Nene - Principal Architect, Platform Evangelism, Microsoft
– In this session delegates will learn how to build scalable and extensible RIAs on the Windows Azure Cloud. The session will cover enabling rich and complete User Experience customizations and addressing multi-tenant requirements.

Does Enterprise-Class Cloud Storage Really Exist?
Moe Kermani - CEO and President, Bycast
– This session will discuss the required infrastructure components to deliver an enterprise-class Cloud storage service that is fully supported by service level agreements.

Law in the Cloud - How Lawyers and Clients Both Benefit
Charley Moore - Founder & CEO, RocketLawyer.com
– This session will examine how cloud computing is enabling lawyers to practice law online, while making it easier and more affordable for consumers and small business owners to get legal things done.

Cloud Storage - Cutting Through the Hype
Cameron Bahar - Founder & CTO, ParaScale
– This session will detail cloud storage customer examples and the benefits using real-world use cases complete with lessons learned and best practices.

Case Study: Disaster Recovery in the Storage Cloud
Tony Langenstein - Director of Infrastructure, Iowa Health System
– This session will share lessons learned from delivering private cloud storage services to its state-wide constituents including 11 hospitals and 130+ clinics.

Conference Faculty - A Who's Who of Cloud Computing Technology Rock Stars!
International Cloud Computing Conference & Expo faculty alumni include such notable speakers as: Roman Stanek, CEO of Good Data Corporation; David Hanacek, Sr. Systems Engineer at VMware; Arseniy Kuznetsov, Director of Sun Cloud Computing Core Engineering, Sun Microsystems; Pavel Georgiev, AppLogic Systems Engineer, EMEA, 3Tera; Dr Guy Bunker, Chief Scientist & Distinguished Engineer, Symantec; Doug Tidwell, Cloud Computing Evangelist at IBM; Uri Budnik, Director of Business Development at RightScale; Raimund Genes, CTO of Anti-Malware at Trend Micro; Jérôme Bernard, Director of EMEA Operations, Elastic Grid; Jakub Nesetril, Senior Director of User Experience at Good Data Corporation; Stephen Foskett, Director of Consulting at Nirvanix; Subra Kumaraswamy, Sr. Security Manager, Sun Microsystems; Alan Williamson, Founder of aw20.co.uk & Editor-in-Chief of Cloud Computing Journal; Jim Reavis, Executive Director of Cloud Security Alliance; Zdenek Svoboda, VP Products at Good Data Corporation; Sam Morcos, VP Global Field Operations, Third Brigade; Paul Parsons, Founder & CTO of The Server Labs; Christoph Reich, Head of IT at Hochschule Furtwangen University; Harald Kornmayer, Senior Researcher, NEC Laboratories Europe; Lluis Font, CEO of NTRglobal; Sam Johnston, Founder of Australian Online Solutions; Pau Garcia-Mila, Founder of eyeOS; Louis Naugès, Founder & President, of Revevol; Owen Garrett, Product Manager & Technologist, Zeus Technology; David Snead, US Attorney at Law; Todd Kuczaj, Manager at Accenture; Roger Baskerville, VP for EMEA, Vizioncore; Derek McAuley, CTO at Netronome Systems; Petri Lillberg, EVP of R&D;, SSH Communications Security; Richard Croucher, Associate Partner at Citihub; Nuno Duro, CTO at Evolvespace Solutions; Juergen Frick, Sr. Solutions Architect at Adaptec; Shahar Raz, Owner of Shahar Raz Consulting; Richard Cassidy, Manager of Global Systems Engineering, Virtual Computer; David Bernstein, VP/GM Office of CTO Cloud Computing of Cisco; Stuart Charlton, Chief Software Architect of Elastra; Vik Chaudhary, VP Product Management of Keynote Systems; Peter Coffee, Director of Platform Research of Salesforce.com; Patrick Kerpan, CTO of CohesiveFT; Sajai Krishnan, CEO of Parascale; Bill McColl, Founder & CEO of Cloudscale; Ken Oestreich, VP Product Marketing of Egenera; Bob Quinn, Founder, Chairman, & CEO of 3Leaf Systems; Raghavan Srinivas, Technology Evangelist of Intuit; Omer Trajman, Director of Field Engineering of Vertica Systems; Thorsten von Eicken, CTO of RightScale; Rich Wolski, Professor of Computer Science of UCSB; Brian Zhangi, President & CEO of Kadient; Alex Bakman, Founder & CEO of VKernel; Ken Berryman, SVP Strategy & Emerging Businesses of Symantec; Etay Bogner, CTO of Neocleus; Shawn Cooney, Co-Founder and Director of Research of Certeon; Martin Ingram, VP Strategy of AppSense; and Jay Litkey, Founder, President & CEO of Embotics.



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View this Keynote, recorded live at the Santa Clara Convention Center, featuring Tyler Jewell, VP of Cloud.

Pete Malcolm, CEO of Abiquo Live From Silicon Valley
Join Pete Malcolm, CEO Abiquo, for this vendor-neutral keynote, where he will demonstrate that not only is balance possible, but that with it, the Enterprise Cloud actually becomes greater than the sum of its parts, truly achieving both the individual goals of each stakeholder, and the collective goal of the organization.

Keynote: The Next Generation of Application Delivery – Making the Cloud Safe for Cloud Computing
Willie M. Tejada, Sr. VP & General Manager, Enterprise Cloud Division at Akamai Technologies will explore what Akamai is doing to solve the challenges you face in the cloud, and how Akamai’s Intelligent platform can help you leverage both public and hybrid cloud infrastructures without sacrificing security or control.

Riding the Enterprise Cloud Computing Wave of Change into the Future
During his keynote, Jill Tummler Singer, Chief Information Officer of National Reconnaissance Office, will discuss key elements needed for a triumphant enterprise cloud computing migration and highlight strategies (including security advantages found in the cloud) to ensure you don't crash and get caught in the riptide of this rapidly emerging technology.


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Cloud Computing Bootcamp

Cloud Computing Expo 2009 West announces the welcome return to the West Coast of its full one-day, immersive "Cloud Computing Bootcamp" - led by developer-entrepreneur Alan Williamson. Founder of Blog-City.com and creator of the OpenBlueDragon CFML runtime engine, Williamson also led the inaugural Cloud Computing Bootcamp at this event last year, to rave reviews.


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Cloud Computing Journal aims to help open the eyes of Enterprise IT professionals to the economics and strategies that utility/cloud computing provides. Cloud computing - the provision of scalable IT resources as a service, using Internet technologies - potentially impacts every aspect of how IT deploys and operates software.

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Cloud Computing Expo Alumni Delegates Represents...

• AccuRev
• Adea Solutions
• Adobe Systems, Inc [3 delegates]
• ADP
• Aeropostale, Inc
• Aetna
• Akbank Training Center
• American Family Insurance
• American International College
• American Modern Insurance
• Amphion Innovations
• Amplify LLC, Clipmarks [2 delegates]
• Anderson Consulting
• Arrow Electronics [3 delegates]
• Ashcroft Inc
• Athabasca University
• ATS
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• Avanade, Inc.
• Avaya Inc. [5 delegates]
• Azul [2 delegates]
• Backbase [2 delegates]
• Bank of America
• Bank of NY
• Barnes and Noble
• Barnex Investment International Limited
• BEA
• Bear Stearns [2 delegates]
• Bendel Newspaper Company Limited
• BizInnovative
• Bloomberg [2 delegates]
• BlueBrick Inc.
• BMC Software
• Boeing
• Bottomline Technologies [2 delegates]
• BP
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Articles & Feature Stories
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 more than 5,600 individual members from 87 countries and 850 different organizations, secured more than $10 million in funding and is ready to fulfill the OpenStack mission of becoming the ubiquitous cloud computing platform.
Massive data growth. An aging and inefficient data center infrastructure. A proliferation of new software and a host of costly legacy applications. These are the challenges that business and IT organizations face every day – and cloud computing is often touted as the “magic bullet” that can help businesses cuts costs, generate revenue and create new value. But if cloud is the path to business utopia, what’s stopping more organizations from making the move? At Dell, we see the tremendous potential of the cloud – but we also know that it doesn’t mean anything if you can’t get there easily and with the least disruption to your organization. We start from one simple question: What is the business problem you’re trying to solve? From there, we help you create simple path to cloud that’s based on your strategy and goals – and that leverages your existing technology investments. ...
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 deployment platform for the job. Great. Now what? In his session at the 11th International Cloud Expo, Bill Hodak, Director of Product Marketing at New Relic, will explain how you have to manage it, monitor it, and scale it. Sounds fun right? Let's talk!
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 dangers of vendor lock in and where the open cloud is headed into the future.
In his Day 3 Keynote at the upcoming 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.
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 concerns in the cloud. Then he'll go a step further and understand how to translate these concerns into a plan of action for using the cloud to meet your needs, safely. Along the way he'll explore many of the cloud options that are available today, and how these should fit into your security thinking.
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 across private and public cloud infrastructures. In his Lunchtime Focus Keynote at the 11th International Cloud Expo, Todd Paoletti, Vice President of Product Management at Akamai, will discuss the trends, new products and roadmap to help increase cloud adoption and business agility.
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 the technical program at the West Coast conference... We have technical and strategy sessions for you dealing with every nook and cranny of Cloud Computing & Big Data, but what of those who are presenting? Who are they, where do they work, what else have they written and/or said about the Cloud and/or Big Data solutions that are transforming the world of Enterprise IT?
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 with the seemingly Midas touch, and In-Q-Tel, the CIA’s venture capital arm, which together put $7.18 million into the new venture. Both, shall we say, have some pretty interesting contacts. Platfora describes its user-friendly widgetry as the first scale-out in-memory business intelligence platform for Hadoop. That’s the fancy geek description. Its founder Ben Werther, a former Apache Cassandra and Greenplum product strategy guy, describes the solution more trenchantly. Hadoop, he says, is like a big cardboard box carelessly filled with Big Data. His widgetry can figure out what the data is and what i...
Citrix CloudPlatform, powered by Apache CloudStack, has been the platform of choice for more than 100 public and private production clouds. In his Lunchtime Focus Keynote at the 11th International Cloud Expo, Shannon Williams, VP Cloud Market Development at Citrix, will provide an insider view as one of the co-founders of Cloud.com and will talk about his deployment experiences and provide tips for designing an open, scalable and highly efficient cloud that can support both traditional and purpose-built cloud workloads from a single solution.
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“In some segments, the price of cloud computing will go up as providers offer higher-end solutions designed to cater to complex enterprise requirements,” observed John A. De Goes, CEO & Founder of Precog, in this exclusive Q&A; with Cloud Expo Conference Chair Jeremy Geelan. “However,” De Goes continued, “in most segments, and for any fixed set of features, the price of computing, bandwidth, storage will go down in inflation-adjusted dollars, concurrent with advances in hardware, software, and ef...
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...
Massive data growth. An aging and inefficient data center infrastructure. A proliferation of new software and a host of costly legacy applications. These are the challenges that business and IT organizations face every day – and cloud computing is often touted as the “magic bullet” that can help businesses cuts costs, generate revenue and create new value. But if cloud is the path to business utopia, what’s stopping more organizations from making the move? At Dell, we see the tremendous potent...
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 deployment platform for the job. Great. Now what? In his session at the 11th International Cloud Expo, Bill Hodak, Director of Product Marketing at New Relic, will explain how you have to manage it, monitor it, and sc...
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...
In his Day 3 Keynote at the upcoming 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.
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 concerns in the cloud. Then he'll go a step further and understand how to translate these concerns into a plan of action for using the cloud to meet your needs, safely. Along the way he'll explore many of the cloud o...
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 across private and public cloud infrastructures. In his Lunchtime Focus Keynote at the 11th International Cloud Expo, Todd Paoletti, Vice President of Product Management at Akamai, will discuss the trends, new pro...
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 the technical program at the West Coast conference... We have technical and strategy sessions for you dealing with every nook and cranny of Cloud Computing & Big Data, but what of those who are presenting? Who ar...
Citrix CloudPlatform, powered by Apache CloudStack, has been the platform of choice for more than 100 public and private production clouds. In his Lunchtime Focus Keynote at the 11th International Cloud Expo, Shannon Williams, VP Cloud Market Development at Citrix, will provide an insider view as one of the co-founders of Cloud.com and will talk about his deployment experiences and provide tips for designing an open, scalable and highly efficient cloud that can support both traditional and pur...
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