BY LIZ MCMILLAN
 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...
Sep. 11, 2012 11:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,171
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BY JEREMY GEELAN
 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...
Sep. 11, 2012 07:30 AM EDT Reads: 4,695
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BY LIZ MCMILLAN
 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 ...
Sep. 11, 2012 05:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,826
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BY ELIZABETH WHITE
 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...
Sep. 7, 2012 04:45 AM EDT Reads: 1,511
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BY PAT ROMANSKI
 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,...
Sep. 11, 2012 02:00 AM EDT Reads: 2,955
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BY PAT ROMANSKI
 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...
Sep. 7, 2012 02:00 AM EDT Reads: 2,369
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BY ELIZABETH WHITE
 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...
Sep. 11, 2012 10:00 AM EDT Reads: 973
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BY JEREMY GEELAN
 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... ...
Sep. 6, 2012 07:00 AM EDT Reads: 7,711
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BY LIZ MCMILLAN
 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...
Sep. 11, 2012 06:30 AM EDT Reads: 1,613
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BY ELIZABETH WHITE
 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...
Sep. 11, 2012 06:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,780
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BY ELIZABETH WHITE
 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...
Sep. 6, 2012 02:00 AM EDT Reads: 3,678
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BY LIZ MCMILLAN
 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...
Sep. 11, 2012 08:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,618
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BY LIZ MCMILLAN
 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...
Sep. 11, 2012 05:00 AM EDT Reads: 3,056
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BY ELIZABETH WHITE
 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...
Sep. 11, 2012 04:00 AM EDT Reads: 2,768
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BY ELIZABETH WHITE
 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...
Sep. 10, 2012 03:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,725
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BY LIZ MCMILLAN
 “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...
Sep. 5, 2012 01:15 AM EDT Reads: 3,865
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BY PAT ROMANSKI
 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...
Sep. 4, 2012 02:00 PM EDT Reads: 1,877
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BY ELIZABETH WHITE
 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...
Sep.10, 2012 11:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,603
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BY ELIZABETH WHITE
 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...
Sep. 10, 2012 10:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,396
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BY ELIZABETH WHITE
 “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...
Sep. 10, 2012 06:00 AM EDT Reads: 6,683
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BY LIZ MCMILLAN
 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...
Sep. 10, 2012 06:00 AM EDT Reads: 2,204
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BY ELIZABETH WHITE
 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...
Sep. 10, 2012 10:30 AM EDT Reads: 1,631
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BY ELIZABETH WHITE
 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...
Sep. 10, 2012 08:00 AM EDT Reads: 3,416
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BY ELIZABETH WHITE
 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...
Sep. 10, 2012 03:00 AM EDT Reads: 3,069
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Cloud Expo: Transforming Cloud Infrastructure to Support Big Data
By Elizabeth White
 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...
Sep. 8, 2012 04:00 PM EDT Reads: 955
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