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Cloud technologies are moving at a rapid pace. The compelling drivers are the need for on-demand business solutions, lower cost for IT and the ability to deliver the rich experience that users need and expect. Enterprises are wrestling with private vs. public vs. hybrid cloud solutions...
With 2nd International Big Data Expo (www.BigDataExpo.net), co-located with Cloud Expo Silicon Valley (11th Cloud Expo), due to open in under nine weeks' time at the Santa Clara Convention Center, CA, let's introduce you in greater detail to the distinguished individuals in our incredi...
Next-generation cloud service management software will offer service brokering capabilities. A broker allows the federation of resources across heterogeneous Cloud Service Providers and thus plays an important role in avoiding vendor lock-in. In his session at the 11th International ...
We are in the midst of an API revolution. Countless major enterprises are opening up access to their core information systems, allowing innovative third-party developers to build new business opportunities through collaboration and community. However, this remarkable movement puts pres...
The move to cloud-based applications has undeniably delivered tremendous benefits. However, the associated distribution creates various challenges from the quality perspective: End-to-end tests need to pass through multiple dependent systems, which are commonly unavailable, evolving,...
Analyst research shows that the change, cost, and complexity associated with cloud migrations continue to be key challenges for cloud computing adoption. In his session at the 11th International Cloud Expo, Adiascar Cisneros is Director of Operations at Racemi, will help attendees un...
Are you aware of the new reality that cloud computing is bringing? Cloud is not as global as you might think. Even heaven needs a place on earth and for the cloud to touch base it needs to find the right data center. In his General Session, Jelle Frank van der Zwet, Manager Cloud Seg...
With Cloud Expo 2012 Silicon Valley (11th Cloud Expo) due to open in just nine 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 conference... ...
A dedicated SaaS and PaaS deployment model can support more sophisticated and multi-tiered business apps with highly customizable components. Enterprises are poised to run their key business apps in the cloud but today’s solutions are designed for simple and fixed stacks. Enterprise ap...
The goal of cloud infrastructure provisioning is to ensure infrastructure elasticity and business agility to cloud users. The expected ROI comes as a result of lower infrastructure costs but also as time savings and better productivity. However, ensuring true application fluidity and h...
Cloud computing is bringing massive computing power once reserved for government and research institutions to every organization in the world. Problems that involve intensive calculations or simulations can benefit from the computing capabilities that the cloud provides. Whether throug...
The sky is full of clouds. Some are perfect for companies needing outsourced IT, but others are built specifically for scalable Internet-enabled apps and solutions. In his General Session at Cloud Expo 2012 New York, Duke Skarda, CTO of SoftLayer, explores the difference between ente...
In his session at the 11th International Cloud Expo, Ronald Bradford, Founder & CEO of Effective MySQL, will discuss the issues of managing a large number of MySQL instances supporting one billion+ requests statements per day (and 50+ billion SQL statements). Topics include: Monitori...
Scale-out networking using fast, fat and flat network topologies deliver the best ROI when building private or public cloud computing networks. A key ingredient of such high performance and highly efficient network designs is the Ethernet switch system that connects server, virtual mac...
The API Economy is here. Enterprises are making business applications available through APIs to drive business growth and expose new opportunities. The business landscape is being reshaped as dramatically as it was during the rush to create an Internet presence with a web site in the l...
“We have seen excellent strength in social networking and gaming apps, the growth has been phenomenal,” observed Cory Isaacson, CEO of CodeFutures Corporation, in this exclusive Q&A with Cloud Expo Conference Chair Jeremy Geelan. “Most consumers have no idea they are ‘playing in the cl...
CloudStack has been the platform of choice for more than a hundred public and private production clouds. In his General Session at Cloud Expo 2012 New York, Citrix VP Shannon Williams provides an insider view as one of the co-founders of Cloud.com talks about experiences in designing t...
Navigating the complex web of regulatory and compliance requirements related to the processing and storage of sensitive enterprise data in the cloud is a huge challenge for business. The cloud is borderless – so how do you cover your business risk and security requirements when your Sa...
Understanding the impact of factors such as security/compliance, application architecture, integration, the pattern of demand and operational maturity is crucial when performing a cloud feasibility assessment. Additionally, many organizations perceive cost-reduction as one of the prima...
“Cloud computing represents a paradigm shift for IT, transforming computing power into a utility,” observed James Weir, CTO and Co-Founder of UShareSoft, in this exclusive Q&A with Cloud Expo Conference Chair Jeremy Geelan. “While cloud adoption remains in the early stages,” Weir conti...
Convincing your clients to add cloud-based backups to their business continuity plan is often thwarted by a fear of losing control over offsite data. With an army of StorageCraft solutions empowering you to quickly access your data in multiple ways, you can easily convince your clients...
We are a part of a dynamically connected world where consumers are rapidly adopting new technology and dismantling business models in their wake. Disruption, unpredictability and variability happen without warning. The challenge for any organization is to evolve, to adopt new architect...
Hear about findings from hundreds of one-on-one interviews with IT decision makers from Global 2000 companies and how the IT Infrastructure is evolving toward the use of internal and external cloud architectures. The findings will span TheInfoPro's research of the storage, servers, net...
Reaching customers and employees with cloud applications when they are located in emerging markets (such as Russia, Indonesia, Brazil and China) poses a major challenge. This is especially true for China, which has not only the largest Internet user base (twice that of the US and growi...



Cloud Expo: Transforming Cloud Infrastructure to Support Big Data
As companies turn to the cloud to store, manage and access Big Data, it’s clear that its benefits are tempered by technical bottlenecks: transfer performance over WANs, HTTP throughput within remote infrastructures, and size limitations of cloud object stores. In her session at the 11th International Cloud Expo, Michelle Munson, President, CEO & Co-Founder of Aspera, will discuss principles of cloud object stores, using examples of Amazon S3, Microsoft Azure, and OpenStack Swift, and performan...
Cloud computing is disrupting the world of IT as we know it. Unlike previous platform shifts, this one enables users to bypass central IT. Whether you call it "Rogue IT" or "Getting My Job Done," end users taking IT into their own hands is happening today. The democratization of IT has profound implications for IT organizations and forces them to become service providers. In his session at the 11th International Cloud Expo, Vice President of Enterprise Solutions at enStratus, will talk about h...
With Cloud Expo 2012 Silicon Valley (11th Cloud Expo) - co-located with 2nd International Big Data Expo - due to open in two months' 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 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, w...
With Cloud Expo 2012 Silicon Valley (11th Cloud Expo) due to open in two months' time at the Santa Clara Convention Center, CA - co-located with 2nd International Big Data Expo - 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...
Enterprises and business are leveraging the public cloud and Internet now more than ever. The explosion of Software as a Service and cloud computing have presented today's enterprises with a new challenge, controlling and optimizing the Internet. In his General Session, Michael Cucchi, Director of Products at Akamai, discusses their globally distributed and massively scalable Intelligent Platform and how Akamai's Terra Enterprise Solutions enables businesses to leverage the cloud and control the...
For enterprise class cloud services, companies need a broad, comprehensive and flexible platform for their applications. The Oracle Cloud, which offers a broad set of best-in-class, integrated services that are secure, elastic, and 100% open standards-based, offering organizations choice in development and deployment of business critical applications. In his General Session at Cloud Expo New York, Sandeep Banerjie, Senior Director of Product Management for Oracle Public Cloud, discusses how thes...
The cloud has many benefits, but when it comes to application development, how does the cloud help enterprises and development teams create custom software and applications that end users actually care about? In his General Session at Cloud Expo New York, EffectiveUI President Anthony Franco highlights the advantages cloud computing provides for quickly developing custom software and applications with compelling user experiences using real world examples from Adobe, Herff Jones and Navy Federal ...
Building e-commerce solutions for retail and preparing for transactions spikes on big shopping days was never easy. Preparing for the frequent and sporadic transaction spikes – launching a new game, e-book, or an online video release – in the digital world is even more difficult. There are great benefits to an “Own the Core” strategy to maintain control and efficiencies since commerce systems are so central and connect with so many internal systems. In his session at the 11th International C...
IT departments are experiencing storage capacity needs doubling every 12-18 months, 50x the amount of information and 75x the number of files. IT managers are dealing with growing constraints on space, power and costs to manage their data center infrastructure. Intel is helping businesses and users realize the benefits of cloud computing technology by working to develop open standards that operate across disparate IT infrastructures and by delivering cloud-based architectures that enable federat...
Which cloud model is right for your business? What are the factors that should influence your decision? In his session at the 11th International Cloud Expo, Josh Butikofer, Chief Solutions Architect at Adaptive Computing, will discuss how to evaluate public, private, and hybrid clouds along several dimensions. He will use real-world case studies to show Cloud Expo delegates the pros and cons of each of these cloud models. Armed with this information, you can then decide what is best for your ...

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