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SYS-CON's Virtualization News Desk brings original breaking news on virtualization technologies, products, and market trends. Enterprise IT organizations want to deploy a virtualized data center fabric that will provide the foundation for agile private cloud computing. Getting there does not have to be difficult, but it does require a new approach to data center infrastructure design – an approach that is non...May. 16, 2012 10:30 AM EDT Reads: 1,505 |
 New tools and services for swift software-as-a-service integration in the cloud lowers the barrier to SaaS adoption for SaaS providers and developers.
MuleSoft this week launched Mule iON SaaS Edition, providing a broad set of new tools and services for swift software-as-a-Service (Sa...May. 16, 2012 10:28 AM EDT Reads: 313 |
 Whether you are a large enterprise, a growing business, a government organization, or a service provider, Cloud Expo New York is THE place you need to be June 11-14...so you can better understand both the provision and use of the cloud services that increasingly transforming IT and bus...May. 16, 2012 10:00 AM EDT Reads: 746 |
 How can businesses harness the power of APIs to reach new customers and markets?
In his session at the 10th International Cloud Expo, Alistair Farquharson, CTO at SOA Software, will walk the audience through the growth and evolution of the API, why effective API management is importa...May. 16, 2012 10:00 AM EDT Reads: 605 |
 Called “the biggest software company you haven’t heard of yet” by one of its shiny new backers, 10-year-old Qualtrics has gotten $70 million from Accel Partners and Sequoia Capital in the VCs’ largest joint investment ever. It’s also the company’s first outside investment.
Reportedly...May. 16, 2012 09:15 AM EDT Reads: 811 |
 Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) has been a hot topic in the IT community for years but delivery models have limited its use. Today there are real options for using the technology to truly replace the existing desktop infrastructure to realize tangible benefits. Today’s cloud-sourc...May. 16, 2012 06:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,313 |
 Infrastructure as a Service cloud platforms enable enterprise to experience agility. Infrastructure agility is key to deploying Big Data platforms and applications. As datasets grow in size and numbers in the enterprise, there needs to be a place to store, secure and analyze the datase...May. 16, 2012 05:30 AM EDT Reads: 2,324 |
 What do the CTO of the U.S. Dept. of Justice and the CIO of the National Reconnaissance Office have in common with the CEOs of Eucalyptus, GoGrid, ActiveState, Appcara, OpSource and Nortonworks, the CTOs of Rackspace, SoftLayer and AppZero, the Founder & General Manager of Dell Boomi, ...May. 16, 2012 02:00 AM EDT Reads: 2,571 |
 As a media partner of Cloud Expo, TMCnet is offering a special 20% discount for each registration package for SYS-CON's 10th International Cloud Expo, which will take place on June 11-14, 2012, at the Javits Center in New York City. To obtain your 20% discount, here is a quick summary ...May. 15, 2012 03:08 PM EDT Reads: 564 |
 Compuware Corporation on Tuesday announced a deep transaction management solution for dynamic cloud and Big Data applications. The Compuware APM Spring 2012 Platform Release introduces new innovations in Compuware dynaTrace Enterprise that simplify performance optimization, operation a...May. 15, 2012 01:10 PM EDT Reads: 676 |
 SYS-CON Events announced today that ScaleMP, a leading provider of virtualization solutions for high-end computing, will exhibit at 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.
ScaleMP is the leade...May. 15, 2012 11:18 AM EDT Reads: 568 |
 VMware hypervisors of the ESX family (3.x, 4.x and 5.0) are fully, out-of-the box supported by the latest versions of OpenNebula(3.0+). If you have a server farm based on any of the ESX versions, then you can make use of OpenNebula to better manage your physical (and virtual) resources...May. 15, 2012 10:00 AM EDT Reads: 747 |
 In his session at the 10th International Cloud Expo, Marvin Wheeler, Open Data Center Alliance Chairman, will discuss the success the organization has had in charting the requirements for broad-scale enterprise adoption of the cloud and how 2012 is forecast to be the tipping point for ...May. 15, 2012 10:00 AM EDT Reads: 769 |
 Do you like fast MySQL databases? How about superfast databases – like near 300 TPSs? Do you think you can’t find them in the cloud? Well, think again!
In his session at the 10th International Cloud Expo, Daniel Morris, Senior Product Manager at Rackspace Hosting, explains why databa...May. 15, 2012 09:15 AM EDT Reads: 715 |
 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? Using real world examples from Adobe, Herff Jones and Navy Federal Credit Uni...May. 15, 2012 08:45 AM EDT Reads: 826 |
 If you'd like to be able to use a PaaS offering to quickly and securely deploy your website, blog or web-based application, come see a demo and deep dive on Rackspace Cloud Sites.
In his session at the 10th International Cloud Expo, Jereme Hancock, a Rackspace Cloud Sites Linux Syste...May. 15, 2012 08:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,104 |
 Atlantis Computing, a provider of Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) storage and performance optimization solutions,has announced the release of Atlantis ILIO Diskless VDI 3.2, a solution that enables VMware View customers to deploy virtual desktops with no storage. Atlantis ILIO Dis...May. 14, 2012 12:03 PM EDT Reads: 242 |
 Red Hat claims that the enterprise isn’t using these newfangled platforms-as-a-service to develop software very much because they don’t meet its needs.
The enterprise is worried about compliance, enterprise architecture standards, IT governance, security, application lifecycle manage...May. 14, 2012 08:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,585 |
 Dell has turned up with the very first cloud-directed microservers using Xeon processors built on Intel’s teeny-weeny 22nm process with sexy TriGate transistors.
It will be amusing to see if AMD sends its recent SeaMicro microserver acquisition, which used to be tight with Intel, out...May. 14, 2012 07:15 AM EDT Reads: 1,320 |
 HP, the public cloud’s Johnnie-come-lately, made its first public cloud services available in public beta Thursday and, to make up for lost time HP is going to charge utility prices to use the beta albeit at half what it’ll cost when it goes GA.
The widgetry, which reportedly went to...May. 14, 2012 07:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,477 |
 Security concerns are the biggest thing holding back cloud adoption, but Intel says it’ll take it and its pricey $7.68 billion McAfee acquisition at least another five years to bring cloud security up to the best-in-class traditional enterprise security available now.
Not very reassu...May. 12, 2012 04:00 PM EDT Reads: 1,151 |
 SYS-CON Events announced today that Big Data Insight Group has been named “Media 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.
Big Data Insight Group aims to provide a forum for members,...May. 12, 2012 02:00 PM EDT Reads: 945 |
 SYS-CON Events announced today that EffectiveUI has been named Gold 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.
EffectiveUI is a full-service user experience agency that architects and ...May. 12, 2012 01:00 PM EDT Reads: 981 |
 For many of the same reasons that Software-as-a-Service is catching on with enterprise buyers, delivering web services on top of Infrastructure-as-a-Service architectures is appealing to the SaaS developers. Operational agility, lower CapEx, and a broad array of tools and services are ...May. 12, 2012 07:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,406 |
 The federal government saved nearly $5.5 billion a year by moving to cloud services. But it might have saved up to $12 billion if cloud strategies were more aggressive, a survey of federal IT managers found.
The study, drawn from interviews with 108 federal CIOs and IT managers, was ...May. 11, 2012 12:30 PM EDT Reads: 1,305 |
 Last year, cloud computing pundits predicted that 2012 would be the year when the clouds would open. They were right as cloud computing enthusiasts all over are embracing the open ecosystem; however, denying one vendor the right to serve as the de facto API is only the tip of the icebe...May. 11, 2012 10:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,069 |
 “We are very pleased to build the next generation of secure cloud computing with HP Cloud Services, and to be the first vendor to manage HP Cloud Security Group policies leveraging the OpenStack API,” commented Dave Meizlik, Dome9 VP of Marketing and Business Development, as Dome9 Secu...May. 11, 2012 09:15 AM EDT Reads: 888 |
 “Dell’s acquisition of Wyse is an acquisition that I thought was important as it creates a great connection from the desktop to potentially much larger virtualization/cloud play,” stated Wayne Ariola, Vice President of Strategy and Corporate Development at Parasoft, in this exclusive Q...May. 11, 2012 08:00 AM EDT Reads: 947 |
 Today, more enterprises are enabling applications to be deployed on public and private cloud infrastructure. However, to date there have been no PostgreSQL Database-as-a-Service (DBaaS) options available that have the features, functionality and support that are required for enterprise...May. 11, 2012 06:00 AM EDT Reads: 10,040 |
 SYS-CON Events announced today that The Cloud Circle has been named “Media 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.
The Cloud Circle’s mission is to provide a forum for members to e...May. 11, 2012 05:00 AM EDT Reads: 746 |
 Deploying the right technology solutions can significantly increase a company’s productivity and profitability. However, for most companies today, lowering the total cost of ownership (TCO) of their technology infrastructure is a top priority and they’re now evaluating cloud computing ...May. 11, 2012 03:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,470 |
 Whatever your course, meet Cloud complexity head on with a unified approach to handle extreme performance, reliability, availability, and simplicity.
In her session at the 10th International Cloud Expo, Ayalla Goldschmidt, Senior Director of Product Marketing at Oracle, will reveal t...May. 11, 2012 03:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,512 |
 By generating massive amounts of new data that in turn require more and more bandwidth, Big Data is stretching an already-congested enterprise WAN to the breaking point. Many companies have made sizable investments in Big Data technologies, and are now looking to emerging cloud technol...May. 11, 2012 01:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,867 |
 Open source storage solutions, such as OpenStack Swift, have several benefits such as no vendor lock-in.
In his session at the 10th International Cloud Expo, John Dickinson, a Project Technical Lead at Rackspace Hosting, will explore the ABCs of Swift, one of the largest open source ...May. 10, 2012 01:00 PM EDT Reads: 2,047 |
 While cloud-based communications include a complex web of ports and protocols, typically 85 percent of the traffic flowing in and out of an organization through the cloud is email and web, including identity services. Taking more of your business and business processes to the cloud beg...May. 10, 2012 09:45 AM EDT Reads: 1,035 |
 C12G Labs has just announced an update release of OpenNebulaPro, the enterprise edition ofOpenNebula. OpenNebula 3.4, released one month ago, features enhancements in several cloud subsystems, like support for multiple datastores, resource pools, elastic IPs in the Amazon API, improved...May. 10, 2012 08:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,057 |
 While storage area networks (SANs) have become the ubiquitous deployment model for interconnecting data storage systems via high-speed networks such as Fibre Channel or iSCSI, IT administrators are now rethinking the traditional SAN in light of new technologies and economic models enab...May. 10, 2012 07:00 AM EDT Reads: 2,232 |
 Want to save your business money? Of course you do. What if we could show you a way to use the cloud in and around your office, get your workforce mobile, make communication faster and easier, and reduce OPEX? We can.
In his session at the 10th International Cloud Expo, Jason Silverg...May. 10, 2012 05:30 AM EDT Reads: 1,619 |
 In spite of the great strides the cloud industry has made in addressing security and integration concerns, large enterprises (e.g., banks, insurance companies, health care firms) continue to be reluctant to adopt the cloud for mission-critical applications. Further, resistance to cloud...May. 10, 2012 05:15 AM EDT Reads: 2,268 |
 The rapid pace of technology adoption growth is driving application consumption. It impacts an ever-increasing spectrum of projects across IT organizations such as data center consolidation/expansion, application distribution, mobile workforce enablement, disaster recovery, backup and ...May. 10, 2012 05:15 AM EDT Reads: 1,107 |
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