10th International Cloud Expo, held on June 11-14, 2012 at the Javits Center in New York City, featured 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 our photo album of the show - we'll be adding new images all week. ... (more)

The i-Technology Right Stuff

Related Links: Wanted: 19 More of the Top Software People in the World Sung and Unsung i-Technology Heroes Who's Missing from SYS-CON's i-Technology Top Twenty?" Our search for the Twenty Top Software People in the World is nearing completion. In the SYS-CON tradition of empowering readers, we are leaving the final "cut" to you, so here are the top 40 nominations in alphabetical order. Our aim this time round is to whittle this 40 down to our final twenty, not (yet) to arrange those twenty in any order of preference. All you need to do to vote is to go to the Further Details page of any nominee you'd like to see end up in the top half of the poll when we close voting on Christmas Eve, December 24, and cast your vote or votes. To access the Further Details of each nominee just click on their name. Happy voting!   In alphabetical order the nominees are:   Tim Berner... (more)

i-Technology Predictions for 2007: Where's It All Headed?

At the end of each year, when SYS-CON informally polls its globe-girdling network of software developers, industry executives, commentators, investors, writers, and editors, our question is always the same: where's the industry going next year? Every time, the answers are surprisingly different from the year before, and of course throw light not just on where the industry is going but also how it's going to get there, why, because of who, within what kind of time-scale - all that good stuff. Enjoy! Ruby on Rails . JRuby . AJAX . Rules-Based Programming JASON BELL Enterprise Developer, Editorial Board Member, Java Developer's Journal My predictions for 2007.... 1.  Incremental mainstream adoption of Ruby on Rails It's going to happen, isn't it? Keep an eye out for Sun's offering of JRuby. Whether this is the death of other open source scripting languages like Groovy rem... (more)

Cloud CEOs, CTOs & SVPs to Speak at 4th International Cloud Computing Expo

What do the following industry executives have in common: the CTOs of Citrix, EMC and Sybase, the Founders of ParaScale and CloudSwitch, the CEOs of Zetta and Kaavo, the Chief Security Architect at Sun, the President of Hubspan and the Chairman of NComputing? The answer is that, along with another 100 or so experienced and industry-savvy speakers, they are all members of the distinguished Speaker Faculty at the upcoming 4th International Cloud Computing Conference & Expo, which is co-located with the 7th International Virtualization Conference & Expo at the Santa Clara Convention Center, November 2-4, 2009. The lineup includes plenty of other CEOs too, such as the CEO of Bycast, and of Grid Dynamics, newScale, JRapid, Adaptivity, and RocketLawyer.com. As for CTOs, the Santa Clara Convention Center will be playing host to breakout sessions from not just those already ... (more)

Useful Feeds

How many blog posts start with the words "Sorry I've not been blogging much recently, but I resolve to post more often from now". Such a post may be followed by some actual substance, before the silence re-starts. This is not one of those posts. Getahead used to be the only place I blogged, but I've infected a few other feeds. I generally don't spend ages linking from one blog to another - I figure you can subscribe to the others if you want that content, however you can't do that if you don't know they exist. I'm not closing this blog down, however I expect to blog less here. The good news, however, is that I hope that means that the subject-to-noise ratio will go up and not down. Stay tuned. Both of these blogs are multi-author, 'professional' blogs. By professional, I mean peer-reviewed posts and no cat pictures - you can get those elsewhere. CometDaily is written... (more)

Cloud Computing Journal Continues To Publish World's Best Cloud Analysts

Only one publication in the world has been tracking Cloud Computing 24x7 since December 6, 2006, when we first mentioned the concept in an article speculating on the possibility of a Web phone being a possible candidate for something that could be run in the Cloud. That publication is SYS-CON's Cloud Computing Journal (www.CloudComputingJournal.com). Since then worldwide interest in the Cloud paradigm of massively scalable IT resources and capabilities delivered as a service using Internet technologies has been mushrooming at a breakneck pace. Here's a - very brief - glimpse at some of the articles published and blogs syndicated in just in the past couple of days... ARTICLES The Economics of Cloud Computing Analyzed By Gwen Morton & Ted Alford The President’s budget for fiscal year 2010 (FY10) includes $75.8B in information technology (IT) spending, which is a 7-percen... (more)

Java in the Cloud

Cloud Computing on Ulitzer This Wednesday I gave a presentation on 'Java in the Cloud' at Phoenix Java User Group and lot of people attended it. I was thrilled with the interest in cloud and great to see cloud enthusiasts here in Phoenix. Lot of people asked for the presentation slides and here it is below - embedded: ... (more)

Oracle’s Arun Gupta to Present at Cloud Expo Silicon Valley

Cloud Expo Silicon Valley $800 Savings here! GlassFish v3, the Reference Implementation of Java EE 6, can easily run on multiple cloud infrastructures. This session will provide a brief introduction to Java EE 6 and GlassFish v3. In his session at the 7th International Cloud Expo, Arun Gupta, Java EE and GlassFish evangelist working at Oracle, will explain how to create a simple Java EE 6 sample application and deploy it on GlassFish v3 running locally and then deploy it using Amazon, RightScale, Joyent, and Elastra cloud infrastructures. Explore Cloud Expo Sponsorship & Exhibit Opportunities ! Speaker Bio: Arun Gupta is a Java EE and GlassFish evangelist working at Oracle. He has over 14 years of experience in the software industry working in the Java platform and several web-related technologies. In his current role, he works to create and foster the community ar... (more)

ESPRE Solutions, Inc. Rolls Out New Java-based Video Initiative to Allow Users to Video Enable Their Web-based Communications - Mobile Collaboration, Video Messaging, Video Conferencing and Streaming Video

PLANO, Texas, June 23 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- ESPRE Solutions, Inc., a Dallas-based media solutions and video technology company with a revolutionary and patented video compression technology, today announced that it has launched a formal initiative to deploy Java-based video communication tools for web programmers and communications providers to video enable their web communication solutions. Since launching the latest version of eViewMail with a new Java-based encoder and player in February of this year, ESPRE's management team has been architecting a long-term strategy for delivering each of its existing video communication solutions via Java-based environments. According to Sun Microsystems, developers of the Java programming language, over 650 million PCs and 579 million mobile phones or other handheld devices are Java-enabled. That translates to over 90% of... (more)

PEAK Launches New Enterprise Printing Solution (EPS) for SAP Users

COLUMBIA, MD -- (Marketwire) -- 10/06/09 -- PEAK Technologies, a Platinum Equity company, today announced it has launched a new Enterprise Printing Solution (EPS) for SAP users that simplifies mission-critical/production printing and management. EPS for SAP allows users to monitor, test, troubleshoot, and reset label printers from a central cockpit, and minimize downtime by having all necessary WYSIWYG generated label formats and images stored within the EPS for SAP environment. EPS for SAP also informs users and supervisors of any printing errors, validates production line processes, identifies which printers are statistically unavailable and shows total utilization information. "The EPS for SAP solution combined with PEAK's SAP printer integration services allows users to seamlessly deploy label formats and printers into their existing SAP application infrastruct... (more)

Ambient Smart Grid Communications Platform Helps Reduce Cost of Utility Outages

NEWTON, Mass., Feb. 7, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Ambient Corporation (NASDAQ: AMBT), a leading provider of flexible and scalable smart grid communications platforms and technologies, announced today that it has successfully extended the integration of its communications Network Management System, AmbientNMS® into an industry standard Distribution and Outage Management System (DOMS).  The result is the delivery of faster and more accurate critical information to outage notification and restoration systems – improving service to utility customers.    (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20090311/AMBIENTLOGO ) "We customize AmbientNMS to provide utilities with the tools necessary to tailor their monitoring and processing and to act upon vast amounts of information on a real-time basis," said John J. Joyce, President and CEO of Ambient. "Alerts can be configured in... (more)