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Zurich, Switzerland - November 9, 2012 - CloudSigma, an international,
customer-centric, pure-cloud Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) provider,
today announced that it has joined The Linux Foundation, a nonprofit
organization dedicated to accelerating the growth of Linux. CloudSigma's
membership to The Linux Foundation not only confirms the company's commitment
to maintaining a flexible and user-centric cloud offering, but also as an
open source technology supporter and Linux cloud IaaS provider.
With its open software layer, CloudSigma allows customers to easily install
and run whatever software or operating system they want, including all
variants of Linux, thereby setting the company apart from other IaaS
providers that impose deployment restrictions. Furthermore, the membership
puts CloudSigma at the forefront of the next generation of IaaS providers,
making a... (more)
Meeting user expectations of fast and available applications becomes more
difficult as you relinquish more and more control…
User expectations with respect to performance are always a concern for IT.
Whether it's monitoring performance or responding to a fire drill because an
application is "slow", IT is ultimately responsible for maintaining the
consistent levels of performance expected by end-users – whether internal
or external.
Virtualization and cloud computing introduce a variety of challenges for
operations whose primary focus is performance. From lack of visibility to
l... (more)
This morning, Chaucer, our relatively new Sheltie puppy, took off with my
slippers. I found one lying in his favorite spot almost immediately, but the
other had gone missing. I wandered about the house with one slipper in hand
while he hid in his kennel, knowing I was angry but not quite understanding
why. It made me ponder the state of computing today, and where we’re
headed, because it made me ponder years ago with our last dog, doing exactly
the same thing. One was a Shih Tzu, the other is a Sheltie, but puppies chew
on slippers with rawhide ties, doesn’t matter the breed or h... (more)
"There are back-office batch processes written in COBOL that work fine. And,
there are apps written for client/server that will continue running great in
a virtualized environment," stated Troy Angrignon, Vice President, Sales &
Partnering at Cloudscaling, in this exclusive Q&A; with Cloud Expo Conference
Chair Jeremy Geelan. Angrignon concluded, "Re-engineering them for cloud
won't happen for the foreseeable future."
Cloud Computing Journal: Just having the enterprise data is good. Extracting
meaningful information out of this data is priceless. Agree or disagree?
Troy Angrignon:... (more)
This post explains how to sign up for HP Cloud, create a container, find
credentials and use them to connect CloudBerry Backup with your HP Cloud
account.
Create an HP Cloud Account All new customers get a $20 credit per month for
the first three billing months, so you can try HP Cloud storage service for
free. To create an account, go to https://www.hpcloud.com/ and find "Get
Started Now" button.
Fill in the registration form and click "Create Account". You will receive an
email with a link to verify your account. Follow the link and you will get to
HP Cloud console.
To login to... (more)
Cloud Expo Breaking News By Liz McMillan “There are back-office batch processes written in COBOL that work fine. And, there are apps written for client/server that will continue running great in a virtualized environment,” stated Troy Angrignon, Vice President, Sales & Partnering at Cloudscaling, in this exclusive Q&A; with Cloud Expo Conference Chair Jeremy Geelan. Angrignon concluded, “Re-engineering them for cloud won't happen for the foreseeable future.”
Cloud Computing Journal: Just having the enterprise data is good. Extracting m... Nov. 10, 2012 02:45 PM EST Reads: 2,260 | By Liz McMillan  “I’m not expecting consolidation in the infrastructure space, except for acquisitions that have to hire strong engineering teams,” noted Renat Khasanshyn, CEO of Altoros Systems and Venture Partner at Runa Capital, in this exclusive Q&A; with Cloud Expo Conference Chair Jeremy Geelan.
Cloud Computing: Just having the enterprise data is good. Extracting meaningful information out of this data is priceless. Agree or disagree?
Renat Khasanshyn: I agree that extracting meaningful information out of... Nov. 10, 2012 02:00 PM EST Reads: 2,173 | By Liz McMillan  In his Day 4 Keynote today November 8 at the 11th International Cloud Expo, Cisco's Cloud CTO Lew Tucker will discuss the way to think about platforms, abstractions, and infrastructure as we enter this next phase of cloud computing. Nov. 8, 2012 10:40 AM EST Reads: 2,378 | By Pat Romanski  In his Day 3 Keynote today 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. Nov. 7, 2012 11:05 AM EST Reads: 3,429 | By Jeremy Geelan  These days Cloud is about more than efficiency - it transforms entire industries. That's why thousands of enterprise IT professionals of every stripe have converged in Santa Clara, CA, starting today, at 11th Cloud Expo | Cloud Expo Silicon Valley - co-located with 2nd International BigDataExpo.
Nov. 6, 2012 01:00 PM EST Reads: 3,051 | By Liz McMillan  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 on November 6th, John Engates, CTO of Rackspace, will provide insight on the difference between an open cloud and a closed, proprietary cloud. He will also explain t... Nov. 6, 2012 12:05 PM EST Reads: 7,340 | By Liz McMillan  To showcase what Holland and the Dutch Cloud Computing Industry have to offer, the Dutch government invited 10 selected companies with international experience and ambition to present their software and services at the Holland Pavilion during Cloud Expo Silicon Valley in Santa Clara, November 5-8. The ten exhibiting companies at the Holland Pavilion are: IS Channels, Interxion, Cameramanager.com , Servoy, Stealth Software, Workvoices, Pangaea, 2020 Vision, Silver Solutions and TBlox. Nov. 6, 2012 09:15 AM EST Reads: 1,015 | By Elizabeth White  Want to understand in just hours what experts have spent many hundreds of days deciphering?
The "super-sized" four-day Cloud Computing Bootcamp that continues today at Cloud Expo Silicon Valley is a brief introduction to Enterprise-level cloud computing carefully created and devised to help you keep up with evolving trends like Big Data, PaaS, APIs, Mobile, Social and Data Analytics. Solutions built around these topics require a sound cloud computing infrastructure to be successful while helpin... Nov. 6, 2012 08:45 AM EST Reads: 4,142 | By Liz McMillan  Both OpenStack.org and the OpenStack ecosystem intend to go into orbit at Cloud Expo Silicon Valley today, November 5th. 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... Nov. 5, 2012 02:15 PM EST Reads: 5,403 | By Liz McMillan  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... Nov. 5, 2012 02:00 PM EST Reads: 1,959 |
Best Recent Articles on Cloud Computing & Big Data Topics  By Jeremy Geelan The Arlington, Virginia-based National Science Foundation has just released its "Report on Support for Cloud Computing" - in response to the America Competes Reauthorization Act of 2010, Section 524.
It is an absolute must-read for all concerned with current and future research projects in Cloud Computing. Reads: 5,707  By Jeremy Geelan "The volume of data we're generating now from machines pales in comparison to the volume of data we'll soon generate from our own bodies," says data security expert Dave Asprey. Writing in a Trend Micro blog, Asprey - who is one of the leaders in the emerging Quantified Self movement - explains his vision of a world in which personal biometrical data is shared via the cloud. Reads: 9,037  By Wolfram Jost Cloud computing has caught the attention of business leaders around the world in every
industry because of its enormous transformative potential. Visionary companies know that
the value of the cloud is far greater than the current focus solely on technology and operating
costs: when combined with a collaborative approach to designing processes, cloud computing
will change how we do business.
Reads: 13,157  By Elizabeth White Want to make sense of the hottest new concept in Enterprise IT?
Want to understand in just hours what experts have spent many hundreds of days deciphering?
Cloud computing is a technology that has rapidly evolving peppered with a lot of hype along the way. Customers find it hard to navigate through this and make sense of what aspects of this technology will give them real business benefit.
Cloud Computing Bootcamp, led by our 2012 Bootcamp Instructor Larry Carvalho, is a great way to get a practical understanding of this technology. We offer multiple days of actionable insight into what vendor offerings are currently available and help you comprehend their strategy.
The ever-popular Bootcamp, which is now held regularly around the world, is being held in conjunction with the 10th Cloud Expo, June 11-14, 2012, at the Javits Center, New York, NY. Reads: 7,569  By Larry Bettino Did you know that ninety percent of the data in the world has been created in the last two years? Every day, we create 2.5 quintillion (or 2.518) bytes of data, according to IBM.
As corporations across all industries globally are struggling with how to retain, aggregate and analyze this mounting volume of what the industry refers to as Big Data, it also provides a unique opportunity for innovative startups that recognize the business prospects Big Data presents. Big Data is not just unlocking new information but new sources of economic and business value.
Interactivity is driving Big Data, with people and machines both consuming and creating it. Digital companies focused on becoming good at aggregating and analyzing the data created by the end users of their product, who then provide their customers with solid insights taken from that data are at a distinct competitive advantage over others in the marketplace. Reads: 5,690  By Elizabeth White SYS-CON Events announced today that SHI, a $4 billion+ global provider of information technology products and services, has been named Platinum Plus Sponsor of SYS-CON's 10th International Cloud Expo, which will take place on June 11–14, 2012, at the Javits Center in New York City, New York.
Founded in 1989, SHI International Corp. is a global provider of technology products and services. Driven by the industry's most experienced and stable sales force and backed by software volume licensing experts, hardware procurement specialists, and certified IT service professionals, SHI delivers custom IT solutions to Corporate, Enterprise, Public Sector, and Academic customers. With over 1,800 + employees worldwide, SHI is the largest Minority/Woman Owned Business Enterprise (MWBE) in the U.S. and is ranked 19th among Everything Channel's VAR 500 list of North American IT solution providers. Reads: 4,155  By Elizabeth White SYS-CON Events announced today that Rackspace Hosting, the service leader in cloud computing, has been named "Platinum Plus Sponsor" of SYS-CON's 10th International Cloud Expo, which will take place on June 11-14, 2012, at the Javits Center in New York City, New York, and the 11th International Cloud Expo, which will take place on November 5-8, 2012, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA.
SYS-CON Events announced today that Rackspace Hosting, the service leader in cloud computing, has been named "Platinum Plus Sponsor" of SYS-CON's 10th International Cloud Expo, which will take place on June 11-14, 2012, at the Javits Center in New York City, New York, and the 11th International Cloud Expo, which will take place on November 5-8, 2012, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA  By Elizabeth White 9th International Cloud Expo, held on November 7 - 10, 2011, in Santa Clara, CA, attracted more than 120 sponsors and exhibitors with over 7,500 registered delegates and four content-packed days with a rich array of sessions about the business and technical value of cloud computing led by exceptional speakers from every sector of the cloud computing ecosystem.
The Cloud Expo series is the fastest-growing Enterprise IT event in the past 10 years, devoted to every aspect of delivering massively scalable enterprise IT as a service.
We invite you to enjoy here our photo album of the show. Reads: 9,562  By Carmen Gonzalez Ulitzer.com announced "the World's 30 most influential Cloud bloggers," who collectively generated more than 24 million Ulitzer page views. Ulitzer's annual "most influential Cloud bloggers" list was announced at Cloud Expo, which drew more delegates than all other Cloud-related events put together worldwide. "The world's 50 most influential Cloud bloggers 2010" list will be announced at the Cloud Expo 2010 East, which will take place April 19-21, 2010, at the Jacob Javitz Convention Center, in New York City, with more than 5,000 expected to attend. Reads: 38,650  By Kevin Hartig Cloud computing is becoming one of the next industry buzz words. It joins the ranks of terms including: grid computing, utility computing, virtualization, clustering, etc.
Cloud computing overlaps some of the concepts of distributed, grid and utility computing, however it does have its own meaning if contextually used correctly. The conceptual overlap is partly due to technology changes, usages and implementations over the years.
Trends in usage of the terms from Google searches shows Cloud Computing is a relatively new term introduced in the past year. There has also been a decline in general interest of Grid, Utility and Distributed computing.
Likely they will be around in usage for quit a while to come. But Cloud computing has become the new buzz word driven largely by marketing and service offerings from big corporate players like Google, IBM and Amazon. Reads: 192,305  By Elizabeth White SYS-CON Events announced today that Cloud Expo 2012 New York, the 10th International Cloud Computing Conference & Expo, will take place June 11-14, 2012, at the Javits Center in New York City.
The International Cloud Computing Conference & Expo series is the world's leading Cloud-focused event and is held three times a year, in New York, Silicon Valley and in Europe. Over 400 corporate sponsors and 20,000 industry professionals have participated in Cloud Expo since its inception, more than all other Cloud-related events put together.
"10th Cloud Expo is trending to be both the biggest ever and the best-attended event in the international Cloud Expo series to date, so it is only natural that we should be holding it in the biggest and best conference venue anywhere on the East Coast, the Jacob K. Javits Convention Center," stated Carmen Gonzalez, CEO of Cloud Expo. "If you are not at Cloud Expo New York, June 11-14, at the Javits Center, then you risk not getting the relevant parts of your IT infrastructure into the Cloud in time." Reads: 13,798  By Pat Romanski Hadoop, MapReduce, Hive, Hbase, Lucene, Solr? The only thing growing faster than enterprise data these days is the landscape of big data tools. These tools, which are designed to help organizations turn big data into opportunities, are gaining deeper insight into massive volumes of information. A recent Gartner report predicts that enterprise data will increase by 650% over the next five years, which means that the time is now for IT decision makers to determine which big data tools are the best - and most cost-effective - for their organization. Reads: 9,202 By Roger Strukhoff Cloud Expo, Cloud Expo East, Cloud Expo West, Cloud Expo Silicon Valley, Cloud Expo Europe, Cloud Expo Tokyo, Cloud Expo Prague, Cloud Expo Hong Kong, Cloud Expo Sao Paolo are trademarks and /or registered trademarks (USPTO serial number 85009040) of Cloud Expo, Inc. Reads: 13,706 |
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