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IceWEB Acquires Strategic Interest in Social Sourcing Company VOIS.com

VOIS, Inc., http://www.vois.com (pronounced "Voice") (OTCBB:VOIS) (OTCBB:VOISW) today announced IceWEB, Inc.™, www.IceWEB.com, a leading provider of purpose built appliances and building blocks for cloud storage networks, has acquired a strategic interest in VOIS, Inc. In exchange for a strategic interest in the publicly traded stock of VOIS, VOIS will receive cash, and access to distribute IceMAIL, IcePORTAL and IceSECURE to their existing and prospective new user base, and IceWEB’s cloud storage network. “This agreement provides significant benefit for both companies,” said Mark B. Lucky, CFO for IceWEB, who has taken a Board position on VOIS and will chair the Audit Committee. It will allow VOIS.COM to leverage and benefit from the sizeable investment IceWEB has made ... (more)

BT Summit, Bangalore – 2009

When I drove into the Tata Auditorium at IISc, Bangalore for the Business Technology Summit – my first reaction was “Oh! So many cars!”. Yes, it was a very well attended conference. I have found that taking a statistics of the topics give a good way of gauging which way the technology wind is blowing. Here is my quick analysis. There were 6 tracks – SOA, Security, ECM BI, Cloud and Virtual... (more)

Savvis to Participate in Cloud Computing Panel Discussion at Goldman Sachs Data Center Techtonics Conference 2009

ST. LOUIS, Nov. 6 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Savvis, Inc. (Nasdaq: SVVS), a global leader in outsourced internet IT infrastructure services for enterprises, announced today that Bryan Doerr, chief technology officer, will be participating in a panel discussion at the Goldman Sachs Data Center Techtonics Conference 2009 at 10:15 a.m. ET on November 11. The panel discussion will focus on ... (more)

Savvis to Participate in Cloud Computing Panel Discussion at Goldman Sachs Data Center Techtonics Conference 2009

ST. LOUIS, November 6 /PRNewswire/ -- Savvis, Inc. (Nasdaq: SVVS), a global leader in outsourced internet IT infrastructure services for enterprises, announced today that Bryan Doerr, chief technology officer, will be participating in a panel discussion at the Goldman Sachs Data Center Techtonics Conference 2009 at 10:15 a.m. ET on November 11. The panel discussion will focus on cloud co... (more)

Infosys Collaborates with Oracle to Launch the Infosys Business Platform for HR

BANGALORE, India, Nov. 6 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Infosys Technologies (Infosys), a world leader in Consulting and Information Technology Services, today announced that it has teamed up with Oracle through the 'BPO Powered by Oracle program,' and is launching a comprehensive managed services platform for multi-function HR through its Infosys Business Platforms offering. With this lau... (more)

Conference News & Updates
By Carmen Gonzalez
5th International Cloud Computing Conference & Expo will take place April 19 - 21, 2010, at the Jacob Javits Convention Center in New York City. The three-day event will offer a rich array of sessions led by exceptional speakers about the business and technical value of cloud computing with more than 80 sponsors and exhibitors on the 70,000 sq. ft. show floor and over 5,000 estimated delegates from well over 48 different countries.
By Cloud News Desk
A round-up of the wide range of important issues and timely topics due to be discussed by over 100 industry experts at SYS-CON's 4th International Cloud Computing Conference & Expo, being held at the Santa Clara Convention Center, November 2-4, 2009. From Building Scalable and Extensible RIAs in the Cloud to Yahoo! Cloud @ Internet Scale.
By Cloud News Desk
As a pioneer in large-scale computing, Unisys has tackled some of the toughest security challenges in the world for both public and private sector clients. The company brings a holistic approach to security that spans digital and physical environments, securing a client’s people, places, assets and data.
By Cloud News Desk
Enterprises large and small are drawn by the advantages of cloud computing - pay-for-use, self-service, elastic scalability and the elimination of hardware management – resulting in very low barriers to entry and exit and high agility. However, enterprises are also concerned about security, quality of service, integration, compliance, lock-in, and the long-term costs of public clouds.
By Cloud News Desk
SYS-CON Events announced that Unisys, the leader in high-value technology and business solutions to global enterprises, was named "Platinum Sponsor" of SYS-CON's 4th International Cloud Computing Conference & Expo, which will take place on November 2 - 4, 2009, Santa Clara Convention Center, in Santa Clara, California. The event is expected to attract over 1,500 developers, engineers, architects, IT managers, and hardware and software professionals of every stripe.
By Cloud News Desk
SYS-CON Events announced today that Eric Baldeschwieler, VP Hadoop Software Development at Yahoo!, will be presenting at SYS-CON’s 4th International Cloud Computing Conference & Expo in Santa Clara, CA, this coming November 2 – 4, 2009. His session is entitled “Hadoop @ Yahoo - Internet Scale Data Processing.” Yahoo! is running the largest Hadoop clusters in the world – 25K+ servers, analyzing billions of Web pages, multiple petabytes of storage and billions of records per day.
By Liz McMillan
As the pressure mounts to meet more stringent budgets, CIOs need to find the proper balance between transforming IT and reducing costs. IT operational costs continue to increase as a percentage of overall IT dollars. At the same time, IT is being pressured to provide an innovative, competitive advantage for the business. Will the Enterprise Cloud support both? Can the Enterprise Cloud make infrastructure operations faster, easier, cheaper, and safer while also unleashing the transformative creativity of the workforce? Will the Cloud be both a strong efficiency play as well as the Infrastructure’s Ultimate Revenge by positioning IT to be the accelerator of corporate strategy instead of its bottleneck? All these questions, plus many more will be answered for you by Jill Tummler Singer during her session.
By Cloud News Desk
SYS-CON Events announced today that Yahoo!, a leading global Internet brand and one of the most trafficked Internet destinations worldwide, was named "Platinum Sponsor" of SYS-CON's 4th International Cloud Computing Conference & Expo (www.CloudComputingExpo.com), which will take place on November 2 - 4, 2009, Santa Clara Convention Center, in Santa Clara, California.
By Krisandra Russo
Many in the industry have heard of Hadoop, and in his session at Cloud Computing Conference & Expo, Christophe Bisciglia, Co-Founder of Cloudera, gets a little deeper. Hadoop is based on the same methods Google uses to store and process petabytes of data, but thanks to contributions from many in the open source community you can leverage these same methods to make sense of every increasing volumes of enterprise data. Bisciglia will highlight the technical and business issues that make Hadoop so powerful for large scale data processing.
By Elizabeth Scipione
Cloud Computing Expo sponsorship and exhibit opportunities brochure was mailed today to reach more than 10,000 industry marketing and senior management contacts. The brochure will reach Cloud Computing technology provider companies on Monday, July 13, 2009. A copy of the sponsorship opportunities brochure can be downloaded here.
Yahoo! is investing significantly in Cloud Computing to support the company's global applications and audience of more than 500 million users. Yahoo!'s cloud confronts technical challenges at an almost unprecedented scale - requiring tens of petabytes of storage, tens of thousands of machines, and synchronization across multiple data centers around the globe.