Cloud Computing and Virtualization both take center stage this March in New York City, as SYS-CON Events brings two of its most popular industry-leading Enterprise IT events to the Big Apple: 2nd International Cloud Computing Conference & Expo and 5th International Virtualization Conference & Expo.

SYS-CON Events, producer of the 2nd International Cloud Computing Conference & Expo, to be held March 30-April 1, 2009, in New York City, announces that its Call for Papers has been attracting a record number of submissions. Topics proposed include all aspects of providing or using massively scalable IT-related capabilities as a service using Internet technologies.

SYS-CON Events, producer of the 5th International Virtualization Conference & Expo, to be held March 30-April 1, 2009, in New York City, announces that its Call for Papers has been attracting a record number of submissions. Topics proposed include all aspects of providing or using massively scalable IT-related capabilities as a service using Internet technologies.

SYS-CON Events announced today that the Virtualization on Wall Street Conference & Expo will take place on March 30 - April 1, 2009, in New York City. The event is expected to attract over 1,000 developers, architects, IT managers, and software professionals of every stripe who will be converging in New York City to attend this comprehensive meeting on Virtualization on Wall Street.

SYS-CON Events announced today that the Cloud Computing on Wall Street Conference & Expo will take place on March 30 - April 1, 2009, in New York City. The event is expected to attract over 1,000 decision makers, developers, architects, IT managers, and software professionals of every stripe who will be converging in New York City to attend this comprehensive meeting on Cloud Computing on Wall Street.

SYS-CON's 1st International Cloud Computing Conference & Expo, held on Nov. 19-21, 2008, in San Jose, CA, attracted more than 40 sponsors with over 1,200 delegates. Cloud Computing, through which massively scalable IT-related capabilities are provided as a service using Internet technologies, has many interpreters just now - and many interpretations. The next event, 2nd International Cloud Computing Conference & Expo will take place, March 30-April 1, 2009, in New York City, with more than 60 sponsors and exhibitors and over 1,500 estimated delegeates from 27 different countries.

Overall, very exciting times, and a great event put together by the folks at SYS-CON! There was a lot of excitement and optimism throughout the event. As someone put it: cloud computing is about 700 days old. That means that there are a lot of arguments about definitions, and where things are going, and so on. And that also gives a lot of vibe and a lot of fresh community spirit.

SYS-CON Events announced today that the leading global virtualization technology provider IBM named "Gold Sponsor" of SYS-CON's 5th International Virtualization Conference & Expo, (www.virtualizationconference.com) which will take place on March 30-April 1, 2009, in New York City. The event is expected to attract over 1,200 developers, engineers, architects, IT managers, and hardware and software professionals of every stripe.

"Virtualization will help our customers be more agile and efficient," noted Mike Neil at SYS-CON’s Virtualization Conference & Expo, in San Jose, CA, "and there are three areas these companies are focused on." These areas are to drive costs down, increase efficiency, and using virtualization to provide new capabilities.

Open Source. Open Standards. Open Collaboration. For the past 15 years, Linux has served as the benchmark of a successful global open source project. The impact has been far reaching: today it powers the Internet, a significant portion of the datacenter, is the emerging market choice for the desktop, and soon will likely be on your phone. Over the last 5 years, this open community has turned its attention to virtualization. In this session from Virtualization Conference & Expo 2009 West, Brian Stevens discussed what has been achieved and what is under development, and most important why open source is critical when building integrated infrastructure solutions.

Preeti Somal of VMware discussed the challenge of bridging the interoperability gap between on- and off-premise cloud computing, as this is emerging as a key requirement for enterprise adoption. This session at the Cloud Computing Conference and Expo 2008 West revealed how VMware and others are addressing this challenge to make seamless enterprise cloud computing a reality. View technology offerings that deliver smart applications for on- and off-premise clouds. Whether you're a business building a cloud, considering cloud services, or developing for the cloud, this session revealed how applications will traverse the clouds and why it will change the game.

In this session at SOA World Conference and Expo 2008 West, Thorsten Moeller discussed how to overcome performance issues in SOA environments to help businesses maintain a competitive advantage. One of the fundamental building blocks in today's services-driven world is XML and accelerating XML processing at, for example, the user interface, data integration and exchange, and storage level. Doing so can have a substantial impact on your success. This session reviewed integration techniques for and benefits of using the Intel® XML Software Suite in such environments.

In this session from AJAXWorld Conference and Expo 2008 West, Matthew Quinlan discussed how Static HTML wireframes are no longer sufficient to prototype today's RIAs built on syndicated content, widgets, DOM manipulation, AJAX calls, and often a substantial amount of custom JavaScript.

SYS-CON Events announced the first international AjaxWorld Conference & Expo to take place on October 3-4, 2006, at the Santa Clara Convention Center, in Santa Clara, California, located in the heart of Silicon Valley. The world-beating conference program will provide developers, IT managers, and corporate decision makers with comprehensive information and insight into the biggest paradigm shift in Website design, development, and deployment since the invention of the World Wide Web a decade ago.

SYS-CON Events announced that the first international 'AJAXWorld Conference & Expo' taking place on October 3-4, 2006, at the Santa Clara Convention Center, California, will offer AJAXWorld University- Developer Bootcamp program. The AJAX Developer Bootcamp will take placeon Monday, October 2, 2006, one day before the conference opens.

Since 2000, I've had the good fortune of working with over 15,000 EV1Servers customers, including enterprise managers and small business owners, software developers and multi-player gamers, content providers and community forum operators.

Seamless Wi-Fi, Inc. announced the launch of Alpha Internet, Inc., a web hosting services provider. Alpha Internet will enable it to better facilitate its Phenom secure communication services.

EnCirca unveiled today four more .pro websites owned by Professionals at Showcase.pro (http://www.showcase.pro/). Professionals are using .pro for distinctive branding and search engine marketing, providing them a competitive edge over other professionals.

'Not very many Web hosting services can boast a presence in a Tier 1 data center,' said Gabriel Wong of WebAppCabaret.com. 'Our Tier 1 data center is part of the global Internet backbone, with privately owned multi-gigabit US and European networks. They are, in essence, the Internet. The backbone is comprised of private, redundant, optical, world-wide OC-48 with total transit capacity of 32 GIGABITS per second.'

MobilePro Corp. (BULLETIN BOARD: MOBL) , a broadband telecommunications services company, announced today that its subsidiary NeoReach Wireless has signed a wholesale contract with Arizona State University under which approximately 50,000 ASU students can subscribe for broadband wireless data access to MobilePro's WazTempe wireless network at discounted rates.

Resellerspanel.com has launched a cPanel reseller hosting program, which offers four plans, perfect for those who wish to sell hosting to their own customers. Resellerspanel.com (www.resellerspanel.com), the only company in the Linux-based web hosting business offering a free reseller hosting program, announces the launch of its cPanel program, which offers four reseller plans, perfect for those who wish to sell hosting to their own customers, the company says.

Hostway Corporation, a leading provider of Web hosting and managed services, has been chosen by HostIndex.com as the number one Web hosting provider for December 2005. Each month, HostIndex.com chooses the top 25 Web hosting companies out of the 8,500 listed in their directory. These 25 companies represent the top 1% of hosting companies in the world, and Hostway is honored to be at the top of this elite group.

SYS-CON Media today launched a new Web Hosting news and content site at webhosting.sys-con.com. The new SYS-CON portal will be the central news and information resource for global Web Hosting solution providers and their customers. WebHosting.sys-con.com will publish breaking news stories from the wires, exclusive interviews with leading hosting companies, as well as case studies and success stories from the Web Hosting industry.