Oracle
Opening Keynote | An Enterprise Cloud for Business-Critical Applications
Exclusive Q&A
 “Much like the “100% paperless” or “100% wireless” enterprise, we’re not likely to see a ‘100% public cloud,’” noted Willie Tejada, Senior Vice President, Enterprise Cloud at Akamai Technologies, Inc., in this exclusive Q&A with Cloud Expo Conference Chair Jeremy Geelan. However, Tejad...Nov. 17, 2011 05:00 AM EST Reads: 2,756 |
 “At the end of the day what’s important to technology users are their applications and their data, whether this be personal pictures and music files or corporate databases,” observed Alan Dayley, Sr. Director of Product Management at i365, in this exclusive Q&A with Cloud Expo Conferen...Nov. 7, 2011 06:00 AM EST Reads: 1,818 |
 “As more and more people become comfortable with the idea, businesses will move more workloads to Public Clouds,” stated Joe Seibel, CFA, CFO & VP of Strategic Development at Hexagrid, in this exclusive Q&A with Cloud Expo Conference Chair Jeremy Geelan. “I like to compare it to the hi...Oct. 31, 2011 08:15 AM EDT Reads: 2,747 |
 “There is no doubt that the federal government’s support of cloud computing is driving additional demand,” stated Paul Carmody, SVP, Product Management & Business Development at Internap, in this exclusive Q&A with Cloud Expo Conference Chair Jeremy Geelan. However, Carmody noted, “Ent...Oct. 28, 2011 10:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,862 |
 “Adoption of new technologies by large enterprises and government agencies legitimize the technology and speed up adoption,” noted Ran Nahmias, Director of Virtualization & Cloud Solutions at Net Optics, in this exclusive Q&A with Cloud Expo Conference Chair Jeremy Geelan. “The governm...Oct. 18, 2011 06:00 AM EDT Reads: 2,342 |
 “Cloud computing is all about automation and self-service and [at CloudExpo] we'll be showing attendees how they can extend that to the application layer,” stated James Weir, CTO and co-founder of UShareSoft in this exclusive Q&A with Cloud Expo Conference Chair Jeremy Geelan. “I will ...Oct. 6, 2011 10:30 AM EDT Reads: 2,161 |
 “There is a move to build more cloud-like capabilities into virtual environments, such as standard instance sizes and software stacks,” noted Andrew Hillier, CTO and co-founder of CiRBA, Inc., in this exclusive Q&A with Cloud Expo Conference Chair Jeremy Geelan. “This is a step toward ...Oct. 6, 2011 10:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,950 |
 “We believe that ‘cloud’ as a specialized concept will rapidly give way to cloud as simply a dominant enterprise IT paradigm,” noted Lawrence Guillory, CEO of Racemi Inc., in this exclusive Q&A with Cloud Expo Conference Chair Jeremy Geelan, “where public and private cloud resources bo...Oct. 5, 2011 10:45 AM EDT Reads: 2,226 |
 “The Obama/Kundra effect of pushing more government data to the web and promoting the application of cloud scale efficiencies has been felt across all markets,” noted Bart Copeland, President & CEO of ActiveState Software, in this exclusive Q&A with Cloud Expo Conference Chair Jeremy G...Sep. 26, 2011 09:00 AM EDT Reads: 2,389 |
 The definition of business architect has matured, and it's important for this new role to flourish in today's dynamic business and IT landscapes.
We'll examine how the definition of business architect has matured, and we'll see why it’s so important for this new role to flourish in to...Sep. 1, 2011 10:15 AM EDT Reads: 1,513 |
 The RPost Cloud platform is built on RPost’s innovative and first-rate Registered Email technology standard for processing high value email messages with added characteristics that deliver a specialized message product to the recipient, returning analytics, reports and evidence records...Aug. 27, 2011 01:00 PM EDT Reads: 1,882 |
 “The cloud provides access to an endless range of services and applications,” noted Uri Mishol, co-founder and CEO, Xoreax Software, in this exclusive Q&A with Cloud Expo Conference Chair Jeremy Geelan. “Without these up-to-date applications companies run the risk of being left behind,...Jun. 24, 2011 07:00 AM EDT Reads: 3,856 |
 “Most cloud environments – public, private, or hybrid – run on virtualized infrastructure that share CPU, memory and storage between applications,” noted Bryan Semple, Chief Marketing Officer at VKernel in this exclusive Q&A with Cloud Expo Conference Chair Jeremy Geelan. “These shared...Jun. 20, 2011 10:15 AM EDT Reads: 4,460 |
 “What makes Cloud Computing more likely to be successful today are both technological and attitudinal changes in the market,” noted Tom Trainer, Director of Product Marketing at Gluster, in this exclusive Q&A with Cloud Expo Conference Chair Jeremy Geelan. “First, commodity computing a...Jun. 12, 2011 05:00 PM EDT Reads: 4,422 |
 “For many customers, the Cloud is still just an idea, and they do not know how the Cloud is built and operates,” observed Joe Bromley, Systems Consultant at Texas Memory Systems, in this exclusive Q&A with Cloud Expo Conference Chair Jeremy Geelan. “Cloud providers should continue to e...Jun. 5, 2011 07:30 AM EDT Reads: 4,101 |
 “How we communicate, how we do business, and how we get along through the day has required that we look at new and better ways of improving our businesses and our civilization. This demand is requiring organizations to be better and more efficient at bringing services to market,” state...May. 18, 2011 10:15 AM EDT Reads: 2,941 |
 “By outsourcing a big chunk of operations to the cloud, IT can shift from an operational cost center to a true partner and enabler of business success,” noted Rodrigo Coutinho, Senior Product Marketing Manager, OutSystems, Inc., in this exclusive Q&A with Cloud Expo Conference Chair Je...Apr. 19, 2011 11:30 AM EDT Reads: 3,312 |
 “Cloud Computing removes the risk and allows you to try before buying,” stated Carlos Polo, CEO & Founder of Doocuments, in this exclusive Q&A with Cloud Expo Conference Chair Jeremy Geelan. Polo continued, “Cloud Computing helps you save money and stay focused on your business and eli...Apr. 19, 2011 10:00 AM EDT Reads: 2,882 |
 “Cloud or the concept of ‘Data Center–centric’ computing is going to be around for a long time,” stated Rick German, Co-founder, CEO and Chief Technology Officer of Stoneware, in this exclusive Q&A with Cloud Expo Conference Chair Jeremy Geelan. “We might tire of the word ‘cloud,’” he ...Apr. 19, 2011 09:45 AM EDT Reads: 2,803 |
 “Cloud computing arrived at a time when the industry was being asked to do more with less,” explained Eric Olden, CEO & Founder of Symplified, in this exclusive Q&A with Cloud Expo Conference Chair Jeremy Geelan. “Cloud computing offers a solution to that problem,” Olden continues, “on...Apr. 14, 2011 05:00 PM EDT Reads: 3,293 |
 “Cloud puts control back in the hands of the consumers,” noted Andrew Hillier, CTO and co-founder of CiRBA, in this exclusive Q&A with Cloud Expo Conference Chair Jeremy Geelan. “Cloud computing creates a functioning market for capacity, it gives consumers choices," Hillier continued. ...Apr. 12, 2011 09:45 AM EDT Reads: 3,026 |
 “We’ve done some pretty deep analysis here looking at deploying on-premises or with the different cloud providers,” stated Lawrence Guillory, CEO of Racemi, in this exclusive Q&A with Cloud Expo Conference Chair Jeremy Geelan. “We’ve found the cost to deploy an application can quickly ...Feb. 4, 2011 06:00 AM EST Reads: 7,913 |
 Founder, Chairman and CEO of Adaptivity, Inc, the company that is putting "IT Blueprinting" on the map of Enterprise IT, is adamant: IT must invest in architecture and engineering, and it must do so right away, here and now in 2010, 2011 and beyond.
An innovative IT executive, with an...Oct. 9, 2010 06:00 PM EDT Reads: 5,421 |
 Aaron Passey, CTO of Clustrix, is sharing his expertise as an architect behind both the Isilon and Clustrix solutions. Isilon is now a public storage company; Clustrix launched this summer and is already solving database scalability problems in worldwide customer environments today. Ch...Oct. 7, 2010 09:12 AM EDT Reads: 1,656 |
 One of the world’s leading space technology companies, Orbital Sciences Corporation has pioneered new classes of rockets, satellites, and other technologies that help make the benefits of space more affordable, accessible, and useful to millions of people on Earth.
Watch this intervi...Oct. 4, 2010 01:47 PM EDT Reads: 2,336 |
 A demonstration of how BIG-IP Access Policy Manager and Oracle Access Manager are integrated along with steps on how to configure the BIG-IP APM. ps Technorati Tags: F5, infrastructure 2.0, integration, Pete Silva, security, business, education, technology, application delivery, ...Sep. 28, 2010 10:17 AM EDT Reads: 2,715 |
 I discuss the F5/Oracle Partnership with Oracle’s Shankar Jayaganapathy, Director Partner Strategy & Services and Mark Veatch, Director Targeted Partner Strategy. F5/Oracle deep integration is highlighted. ps Technorati Tags: F5, infrastructure 2.0, integration, Pete Silva, s...Sep. 23, 2010 09:22 AM EDT Reads: 2,399 |
 I again visit with F5's Chris Akker to discuss and whiteboard F5's solution to Accelerate and Optimize PeopleSoft with BIG-IP Web Acceleration. ps Technorati Tags: F5, infrastructure 2.0, integration, Pete Silva, security, business, education, technology, application delivery, cloud, v...Sep. 23, 2010 08:43 AM EDT Reads: 3,388 |
 I visit with one of my favorite F5 Solutions Engineer, Chris Akker as he whiteboards some of the F5 Application Ready Solutions for Oracle. ps Technorati Tags: F5, infrastructure 2.0, integration, Pete Silva, security, business, education, technology, application delivery, cloud, virtu...Sep. 20, 2010 04:45 PM EDT Reads: 2,962 |
 I interview Ron Carovano, Sr. Business Development Manager at Oracle OpenWorld 2010. Ron talks about our partnership, new announcements and how F5 competes the Oracle Red Stack. ps Technorati Tags: F5, infrastructure 2.0, integration, Pete Silva, security, business, education, technolo...Sep. 20, 2010 04:38 PM EDT Reads: 2,260 |
 The Open Virtualization Format Specification is not exactly new. The Distributed Management Task Force (DMTF) published the first version in February of 2009 and version 1.1 in January of this year. However, just because the specification has been around for a while does not prevent a ...Jul. 14, 2010 12:15 PM EDT Reads: 2,113 |
 “We’ve moved beyond the question of how long cloud computing will exert its pull on the modern day enterprise,” noted Vishal Sharma, Senior Director of Business Development at NaviSite, in this exclusive Q&A with Cloud Expo Chair Jeremy Geelan. Sharma then concluded that “Cloud computi...Jun. 14, 2010 09:30 AM EDT Reads: 4,715 Replies: 1 |
 “Cloud is an evolution,” stated Tony Bishop, Founder and CEO of Adaptivity, in the exclusive post-show Q&A with Cloud Expo Chair Jeremy Geelan.
“It coalesces grid, utility, virtualization and web standards into a delivery paradigm,” he continued. “The difference is each of these comp...Jun. 2, 2010 09:15 AM EDT Reads: 3,884 |
 The three main factors driving CIOs to the cloud are lower costs, dynamic capacity, ease-of-use/management, and offsite data protection, according to Jeff Bell, director of corporate marketing for Cloud Expo exhibitor Zetta.
In this exclusive post-show Q&A, Zetta’s Jeff Bell speaks w...May. 31, 2010 09:00 AM EDT Reads: 4,596 |
 “Business drivers have changed,” noted Mike Donaldson, VP of Marketing, at Ping Identity in this post-show Q&A with Cloud Expo Chair Jeremy Geelan. And Donaldson believes “this has created a real demand for Cloud Computing.”
A very general question first, about Cloud Computing itself:...May. 25, 2010 02:15 PM EDT Reads: 4,880 |
 “The most important factor driving CIOs towards the Cloud is that they have found a technology that helps them get close to achieving true ‘IT and Business Alignment,’” stated Ahmar Abbas, SVP at CSS Corp in this post-show Q&A with Cloud Expo Chair Jeremy Geelan. Abbas concludes: “Clou...May. 22, 2010 06:00 AM EDT Reads: 4,503 |
 “Cloud computing today is accessible not only to enterprise customers, but individual developers as well,” observed Thomas Krafft, Director of Marketing and Demand Generation at Objectivity, Inc. in this post-show Q&A with Cloud Expo Chair Jeremy Geelan.
Krafft also noted that “anyone...May. 20, 2010 08:00 AM EDT Reads: 3,906 |
 “I think that with conferences like this [Cloud Expo] vendors are coming out with real service offerings with pricing and contracts (vs. pie-in-the-sky concepts that were being thrown around a year ago),” so noted Douglas Barbin , Director at SAS 70 Solutions, in this post-show Q&A wit...May. 19, 2010 06:00 PM EDT Reads: 4,784 |
 “The fact that Cloud adoption rates are ever-increasing means that it has staying power,” stated Abiquo CEO Pete Malcolm, in this post-show Q&A with Cloud Expo Chair Jeremy Geelan.
Not only does Malcolm believe the cloud has staying power but “it is likely that Cloud will be around f...May. 18, 2010 09:15 PM EDT Reads: 4,394 |
 “Cloud is setting expectations among end users for a fast hands-on experience,” noted Kevin Epstein, VP of Marketing at CloudShare, in this exclusive post-show interview with Cloud Expo Chair Jeremy Geelan. As CloudShare is “a fan of ubiquity and democratization of IT,” he concludes th...May. 15, 2010 08:00 AM EDT Reads: 4,575 |
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