By Liz McMillan  SYS-CON Events announced today that OpenStack will exhibit at SYS-CON's 12th International Cloud Expo, which will take place on June 10–13, 2013, at the Javits Center in New York City, New York. OpenStack software controls large pools of compute, storage, and networking resources thro... May. 23, 2013 02:00 PM EDT Reads: 1,123 |
By Elizabeth White  SYS-CON Events announced today that Wowrack will exhibit at SYS-CON's 12th International Cloud Expo, which will take place on June 10–13, 2013, at the Javits Center in New York City, New York.
Wowrack’s core expertise lies in high-availability Private and Public Cloud IaaS Hosting Sol... May. 23, 2013 12:15 PM EDT Reads: 1,111 |
By Liz McMillan  Many have heard of OAuth but are unsure of how it might apply to their business.
In his session at the 12th International Cloud Expo, Alistair Farquharson, CTO of SOA Software, will describe how OAuth can be used to facilitate certain business models and simplify the sharing of priva... May. 23, 2013 11:14 AM EDT Reads: 805 |
By Elizabeth White  “Cloud has everything to do with what has happened with Big Data,” explained Jason Deck, Director of Strategic Alliances at Logicworks, in this exclusive Q&A with Cloud Expo Conference Chair Jeremy Geelan. “Big Data doesn’t exist in its easily accessible way without cloud. From reduced... May. 23, 2013 11:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,220 |
By Pat Romanski  SYS-CON Events announced today that nfina Technologies, a provider of highly reliable cloud server products, will exhibit at SYS-CON's 12th International Cloud Expo, which will take place on June 10–13, 2013, at the Javits Center in New York City, New York.
nfina Technologies develops... May. 23, 2013 11:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,052 |
By Patrick Burke  It turns out cloud computing could be the most useful sales associate on the floor, and you won't have to worry about it stealing sales leads, ala “Glengarry Glen Ross.”
With the help of cloud computing, some brick-and-mortar stores are combating showrooming, a trend where consumers l... May. 23, 2013 10:25 AM EDT Reads: 680 |
By Pat Romanski  In his session at the 12th International Cloud Expo, Dave Eichorn, Global Data Center Practice Head at Zensar, will share a case study describing how a utility services company handled the migration of its Microsoft platform to the cloud. Challenged with the time-consuming task of open... May. 23, 2013 10:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,098 |
By Maureen O'Gara  Cloudscaling, the four-year old start-up that insists it’s got the most advanced OpenStack infrastructure system, has picked up a $10 million B round from Trinity Ventures and two new investors, new strategic partners Juniper Networks and Seagate.
It reportedly got a $4 million A rou... May. 23, 2013 10:00 AM EDT Reads: 857 |
By Patrick Burke  Cloud computing must have been brushing up on its bedside manner.
HIPAA requirements now stipulate everyone in the health-care industry must begin migrating patient records and other data to cloud computing. By 2015, all medical professionals with access to patient records must utiliz... May. 23, 2013 10:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,100 |
By Liz McMillan  Organizations across the world are increasingly starting to see the benefits of moving more and more services to the cloud. The focus on the cost-saving potential of cloud is rapidly shifting to completely transforming the business with cloud. As organizations are investing enormous su... May. 23, 2013 09:45 AM EDT Reads: 943 |
By Elizabeth White  You're getting pitched every day from your legacy enterprise software and hardware vendors about "cloud." They're doing an amazing job of convincing your CIO and CTO about what cloud is and how you should use it. The reality is they're defending their shrinking market share and keeping... May. 23, 2013 09:38 AM EDT Reads: 548 |
By Elizabeth White  As enterprises deploy private IaaS clouds into production they are reevaluating their future application delivery models. SUSE and WSO2 believe that private PaaS will leverage the automation and scalability of Private IaaS solutions, such as OpenStack-based SUSE Cloud, to deliver the s... May. 23, 2013 09:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,364 |
By Jeremy Geelan  Everyone is virtualizing, but are they realizing any of the promised savings? This overview of IBM's new virtualization optimization solutions will show you how integrated Cloud Solutions like SmartCloud Provisioning and SmartCloud Monitoring can deliver the savings virtualization prom... May. 23, 2013 06:15 AM EDT Reads: 2,349 |
By Pat Romanski  Cloud computing is transforming the way businesses think about and leverage technology. As a result, the general understanding of cloud computing has come a long way in a short time. However, there are still many misconceptions about what cloud computing is and what it can do for busin... May. 23, 2013 04:00 AM EDT Reads: 2,621 |
By Maureen O'Gara  It could have been worse.
HP posted its Q2 results Wednesday when the market closed and came in with earnings down 32% on an adjusted bottom line that beat Wall Street’s tempered estimates.
All its geographies and all its product units punked out but the company claimed to be exe... May. 23, 2013 01:30 AM EDT Reads: 512 |
By Liz McMillan  OpenStack Cells is one of the most anticipated features in Grizzly, the seventh release of the open source software that offers more block storage options and scalability. It has been running in production at Rackspace for more than a year.
In his session at the 12th International Cl... May. 23, 2013 01:15 AM EDT Reads: 2,141 |
By Elizabeth White  Join us for an exclusive briefing with Gartner where they will talk about how IT Executives are modernizing data centers and transforming operations to focus resources on business value.
During the session they will discuss how innovative IT solutions are needed to help IT deliver ag... May. 22, 2013 02:33 PM EDT Reads: 767 |
By Elizabeth White  SYS-CON Events announced today that BUMI (Backup My Info!), the premium provider of managed online backup and recovery solutions for small to mid-sized businesses, will exhibit at SYS-CON's 12th International Cloud Expo, which will take place on June 10–13, 2013, at the Javits Center i... May. 22, 2013 10:59 AM EDT Reads: 718 |
By Maureen O'Gara  Big Data and the cloud each contributed a start-up to the stock market last Friday.
Tableau Software, a profitable chart-making BI data visualization firm, IPO’d on the Big Board in New York sporting the highly desirable ticker symbol DATA and selling at the open for $31 a share. It ... May. 22, 2013 09:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,043 |
By Maureen O'Gara  Amazon Web Services said Tuesday that its GovCloud (US) in all US AWS regions has gotten an Agency Authority to Operate (ATO) from the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) under the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program (FedRAMP) requirements at the moderate-imp... May. 22, 2013 08:45 AM EDT Reads: 823 |
By Elizabeth White  In an ideal developer/systems administrator’s world, most applications would deploy seamlessly to multiple platforms and scale elastically with minimal effort bringing the unprecedented agility of the cloud within immediate reach of developer teams and IT organizations.
OpenStack, a ... May. 22, 2013 06:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,983 |
By Maureen O'Gara  NetApp, which is under pressure from activist shareholder Elliott Management to shape up and return value, said Tuesday that it’s going to can 900 people to spiff up its financials, 400 less that the 1,300 that Piper Jaffray estimated last week. May. 22, 2013 04:15 AM EDT Reads: 631 |
By Maureen O'Gara  Fancy that. Dell said Monday that its “current in-house multi-tenant public cloud IaaS will be discontinued in the US in favor of best-in-class partner offerings” that it’ll deliver as a single-source supplier.
While it’s preaching the gospel of customer choice, it’s saving badly nee... May. 21, 2013 09:30 AM EDT Reads: 1,213 |
By Maureen O'Gara 
Dell’s board has again asked billionaire Carl Icahn and his buddy Southeastern Asset Management for more information about their proposal to take over the company.
Icahn asked Dell for more information after Dell posted its quarterly results last week and Dell flatly said “no.” It... May. 21, 2013 06:15 AM EDT Reads: 772 |
By Elizabeth White  Cloud enables SMBs to access new, scalable resources – previously only available to enterprises – in flexible and cost-effective ways. McKinsey’s SMB Cloud Report projects the public cloud market to reach $40-$50 billion by 2015, with SMBs comprising 65% of public cloud spending in 201... May. 21, 2013 06:15 AM EDT Reads: 2,008 |
By Pat Romanski  In the face of rapidly increasing amounts of unstructured data, industry is investing heavily to turn machines into services and connect them to analytics engines that will extract an extraordinary amount of value and unleash a productivity revolution for both businesses and consumers.... May. 21, 2013 05:00 AM EDT Reads: 3,213 |
By Liz McMillan  Learn about the complex regulations surrounding HIPAA compliance and other considerations for running sensitive data in the Cloud.
In their session at the 12th International Cloud Expo, Frank Nydam, Director of Healthcare Solutions at VMware, and Ken Ziegler, CEO of Logicworks, will ... May. 20, 2013 02:30 AM EDT Reads: 2,481 |
By Liz McMillan  Enterprise cloud adoption revolves around pushing the BYOD movement and focusing on data security.
In his session at the 12th International Cloud Expo, Ross Brouse, COO and President of Solar VPS, will cover how cloud adoption is driven by consumerism, humanity’s need to socialize, o... May. 19, 2013 02:00 PM EDT Reads: 1,728 |
By Pat Romanski  The cloud-enabled data center sits at the center of IT transformation. It facilitates the interconnection and communities that come together, propelling growth for both buyers and sellers.
In his session at the 12th International Cloud Expo, Gerry Fassig, CoreSite’s Vice President of... May. 19, 2013 01:00 PM EDT Reads: 1,882 |
By Elizabeth White  SYS-CON Events announced today that Zyrion Inc., the leading provider of Cloud and IT Monitoring software solutions, has been named “Entrance Carpet Sponsor” of SYS-CON's 12th International Cloud Expo, which will take place on June 10–13, 2013, at the Javits Center in New York City, Ne... May. 19, 2013 11:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,730 |
By Maureen O'Gara  Apptio, which knows how to gauge the total cost of IT services, has gotten a mighty $45 million E round that it means to invest in its platform and its international expansion, immediately in Western Europe.
Counting the new money the company has now seen $136 million in funding sinc... May. 19, 2013 07:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,268 |
By Pat Romanski  SYS-CON Events announced today that MetraTech Corp., the leading provider of agreements-based billing™, commerce and compensation solutions, has been named “Bronze Sponsor” of SYS-CON's 12th International Cloud Expo, which will take place on June 10–13, 2013, at the Javits Center in Ne... May. 18, 2013 04:00 PM EDT Reads: 1,907 |
By Liz McMillan  Cloud computing is more than a buzz-phrase it’s a transformative IT paradigm shift. The emphasis in the cloud is on elasticity, scalability, agility and open. Not just open standards but open APIs and open source. The delivery of software is also going through a paradigm shift. Open so... May. 18, 2013 03:15 PM EDT Reads: 1,915 |
By Elizabeth White  Storage and Archive offerings are now exploding on the market. From end-user mobile devices to company tactical level, the cloud has become a black hole for every kind of data. But what are the risks, and what are the real needs?
In his session at the 12th International Cloud Expo, A... May. 18, 2013 01:00 PM EDT Reads: 1,916 |
By Pat Romanski  Companies around the world are collecting massive amounts of data everyday that’s sitting around and not being utilized. Take for example the fact that companies collect demographic and location-based data via mobile devices all the time, but have to figure out how to monetize that dat... May. 18, 2013 12:00 PM EDT Reads: 1,932 |
By Liz McMillan  With the right tools, file storage today can be in the cloud or on-premise, with seamless and secure access and publishing regardless of location. Novel, high-speed transport technologies that alleviate the bottlenecks and limitations of traditional data movement protocols are now intr... May. 18, 2013 10:45 AM EDT Reads: 1,717 |
By Pat Romanski  Compelling consumer applications are created every day. Are you ready for the IT implications both internally and externally? As your datacenter needs more capacity, the cloud will be critical to success. What are the key considerations to help plan for the needed capacity over time? A... May. 17, 2013 02:00 PM EDT Reads: 2,047 |
By Elizabeth White  How your organization approaches capacity management will make or break your private cloud initiative. No longer a periodic sizing exercise, capacity management is now an essential element of daily infrastructure operations that impacts costs, performance risks, and the ability to resp... May. 17, 2013 11:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,714 |
By Liz McMillan  SYS-CON Events announced today that Intrinsic-ID, a provider of top-level security solutions, will exhibit at SYS-CON's 12th International Cloud Expo, which will take place on June 10–13, 2013, at the Javits Center in New York City, New York.
Intrinsic-ID’s software application Saturn... May. 17, 2013 11:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,853 |
By Elizabeth White  One of the top-selling IT authors of the past decade will be making a special appearance on June 11 at the 12th International Cloud Expo at the Javits Center in New York City. Thomas Erl, author and co-author of eight books and series editor of the Prentice Hall Service Technology Seri... May. 17, 2013 10:15 AM EDT Reads: 1,707 |