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Platform as a Service(PaaS) is a growing area of interest in cloud computing.
The inclusion of infrastructure with industry leading middleware capabilities
reduces the barrier to create and deliver innovative applications and
business processes to customers. PaaS can be a game changing direction taken
by start-ups, independent software vendors, systems integrators and hosting
companies who are all involved in putting their solutions to end customers.
Start-ups have the potential to build and deliver applications leveraging
their domain knowledge with flexibility and agility never possible before.
This can help them build solutions without a great deal of investment and a
value proposition that customers would be hard pressed to ignore.
Independent Software Vendors (ISV’s) can migrate their existing on-premise
solutions to platforms that can be supported at much lower... (more)
While the nearest other never-as-successful commercial Linux operation
contemplates getting sold or some other fate, Red Hat Wednesday turned in
revenues of $219.8 million, up 20% year-over-year, for the summer quarter
ended August 31 although currency took a toll.
Not quite the $212 million the market hoped for but apparently good enough
since the Hat's stock rose slightly after-hours after a dip during business
hours.
The company raised its guidance for the full year to revenues of $877
million-$885 million, up from $835 million-$850 million, earning 76 cents-77
cents non-GAA... (more)
Cloud storage newcomer Cirtas Systems said Monday that it got $10 million in
A funding from NEA, Lightspeed Venture Partners and Amazon.
The company is selling an interoperable Bluejet Cloud Storage Controller
solution to medium to large enterprise data centers that's supposed to make
cloud storage work like onsite enterprise storage arrays.
The 2U 3.5TB appliance, based on DRAM, solid-state drives and 7,200-rpm hard
disk drives, combines WAN optimization techniques and encryption with storage
array virtualization capabilities. It caches high-priority data locally and
stores seco... (more)
Oracle Exalogic Elastic Cloud, an integrated middleware machine, was
announced on Monday at Oracle OpenWorld 2010 by Oracle CEO Larry Ellison.
Oracle Exalogic Elastic Cloud is an integrated hardware and software system
engineered, tested, and tuned by Oracle to run Java and non-Java applications
with extreme performance. It provides a complete cloud application
infrastructure, consolidating the widest possible range of Java and non-Java
application types and workloads and meeting demanding service-level
requirements. The software has been tuned to exploit the I/O fabric in the
... (more)
The IT world is locked in an ongoing debate over the usefulness of Cloud
Computing; those who believe it directly affects ROI, and those who waver in
its importance and believe there is no sure way to keep data safe within the
Cloud. To help fuel and resolve the debate, the European Financial industry
is assembling in the Netherlands for the FST Summit Europe between the 21 -
24 September.
This committee of CIO's, CISO's, Heads of Architecture and Compliance have
highlighted cloud computing as a major talking point and are specifically
interested in the pitfalls as well as the b... (more)
Cloud Expo Breaking News By Liz McMillan  The recent switch to cloud-based platforms is an unmistakable trend in the IT industry. Every IT department in the Fortune 1000 is either evaluating or in the process of adopting the cloud-based model of computing. For regulatory, cost and business reasons, many IT departments are planning or are in the process of building their own private cloud. The most logical first step in creating a private cloud is setting up a self-service portal, typically for the use of test and dev environment.
In h... Sep. 24, 2010 03:15 PM EDT Reads: 770 | By Pat Romanski  Can you protect enterprise data with cloud-based services? Data protection, particularly the aspects related to recovery and restoration, can consume inordinate time and budget.
In his session at the 7th International Cloud Expo, Chris Schin, Vice President, Products at Zetta, will look at urgent data protection issues and define the requirements of a potential cloud-based solution to address the issues. He will then compare the requirements against several current market offerings. Sep. 24, 2010 02:15 PM EDT Reads: 686 | By Liz McMillan  One of the least covered cloud computing topics has been its impact on traditional IT services and the outsourcing business. While there are many opportunities to provide IT consulting services to help organizations leverage cloud computing, there is a compelling argument for services companies to utilize the cloud to optimize the delivery of their entire portfolio of services.
In his session at the 7th International Cloud Expo, Ahmar Abbas, Sr. VP of Infrastructure Management at CSS Corp, wil... Sep. 24, 2010 12:15 PM EDT Reads: 724 | By Elizabeth White  The most fundamental features in any "cloud platform" are storage and databases. Today, in addition to scalability and performance (latency and throughput) requirements, the need is for more flexibility and adaptiveness for these features.
In his session at the 7th International Cloud Expo, Ikuo Nakagawa, PhD, Director at Intec Systems Institute, will describe the technical architecture of a cloud storage implementation capable of supporting scalable and high-performance "random access i/o".... Sep. 24, 2010 10:15 AM EDT Reads: 676 | By Pat Romanski  Despite the compelling business benefits of cloud computing, companies are becoming increasingly concerned about application performance in the cloud, and the dramatic impact that this can have in terms of lost revenue and lack of user adoption.
In his session at the 7th International Cloud Expo, Mark Hillman, Vice President, Strategy and Product Line Management at Compuware, will outline the key issues that need to be addressed in managing the performance of these “borderless” applications, a... Sep. 23, 2010 03:45 PM EDT Reads: 827 | By Pat Romanski  The CloudSleuth community is a great place for enterprises to learn about performance in the cloud. As a cloud service provider, CloudSleuth also provides some great opportunities to promote your services and content to an interested and engaged audience.
In his session at the 7th International Cloud Expo, Doug Willoughby, currently the Director of Cloud Computing for Compuware, will discuss the various opportunities available and how to get the most from CloudSleuth as a service provider. Sep. 23, 2010 02:15 PM EDT Reads: 688 |
Conference News & Updates  By Pat Romanski SYS-CON Events announced on Friday that Cloud Expo 2010 West, the 7th International Cloud Computing Conference & Expo, has been extended to four days from November 1-4, 2010, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, California.
Cloud Expo 2010 West total show floor space increased from 20,000 sq. ft. in 2009 to over 100,000 sq. ft. in 2010 including the expo floor.
The expo floor will be open for four full days, November 1-4, 2010, in the Grand Ballrooms A through H.
Half of the Cloud Expo 2010 West exhibit space had already sold out during the last West Coast event in November 2009.
Cloud Expo is the world's leading Cloud-focused event since 2007, and is held five times a year, in New York City, Silicon Valley, Prague, Tokyo and Hong Kong. Reads: 8,252  By Corinna Melcon By employing the most effective and powerful marketing tools in tech media for more than 15 years, SYS-CON Events, Inc. and Cloud Expo, Inc. intensively pre-publicize Cloud Expo 2010 West - Santa Clara via an unmatched number of channels.
Cloud Expo, Inc. publicity platforms include multiple news syndication channels, more than a dozen Ulitzer.com channels, multiple Twitter feeds that are amplified to hundreds of thousands of followers, as well as Cloud Expo's "Most Powerful Cloud Bloggers" platform with millions of page views at http://CloudComputingExpo.com.
The event is streamed live to more than 50,000 concurrent viewers at any given time throughout the three days. All key media outlets, technology journalists, and press are VIP-invited to Cloud Expo 2010 West - Santa Clara.
SYS-CON.TV produces and broadcasts the most viewed tech interviews with movers and shakers and simulcasts "Power Panels" right from the show floor!
Reads: 7,362  By Fuat Kircaali This year's West Coast conference attracted 2,250 delegate, more than double a year ago. As far as the expo floor goes, out of 50 sponsors and exhibitors, 46 companies confirmed during the conference that they will participate in the 2010 Cloud Computing Expo at the same or higher level.
At SYS-CON Media we see our inventories are filling up to 100% capacity for the months of November, December, and January, and we are seeing better-than-normal RFP activity for the first quarter of 2010. Reads: 15,960  By SYS-CON TV Learn about the trajectory of Cloud Computing - where it came from, where it is today, and where it's headed tomorrow - direct from four Enterprise IT industry experts: Greg O'Connor, CEO of AppZero; Tony Bishop, CEO of Adaptivity; K. Scott Morrison, CTO of Layer 7 Technologies; and Marty Gauvin, CEO of Virtual Ark. Moderated by Cloud Expo Conference Chair, Jeremy Geelan, this "Power Panel" was recorded at the Times Square studio of SYS-CON.TV in connection with 5th Cloud Expo (www.CloudComputingExpo.com), held recently in New York City...the Largest Cloud Computing Event in the World. Reads: 5,005  By Carmen Gonzalez Ulitzer.com announced "the World's 30 most influential Cloud bloggers," who collectively generated more than 24 million Ulitzer page views. Ulitzer's annual "most influential Cloud bloggers" list was announced at Cloud Expo, which drew more delegates than all other Cloud-related events put together worldwide. "The world's 50 most influential Cloud bloggers 2010" list will be announced at the Cloud Expo 2010 East, which will take place April 19-21, 2010, at the Jacob Javitz Convention Center, in New York City, with more than 5,000 expected to attend. Reads: 16,780  By Fuat Kircaali I can't comprehend that any event producer anywhere in the world today would answer this question by picking any one of the five available options presented. "A leading tool?" What do you mean by "a leading tool?" What other tools would you possibly have in this day and age? This question, the survey itself and its participants belong to the last decade.
I personally don't use email anymore; I communicate through "Twitter."
We don't do press releases unless we have to; we tweet stories to our roughly 12,000 followers in 8 channels. The news gets amplified to hundreds of thousands instantly.
Even during Cloud Expo, we reach more people by Twitter than the announcements we make through loudspeakers in the convention centers.
I would love to contact the people who are conducting this survey and ask them if any company answered their first question as "don't really consider it."
In an age where I personally hail a cab at an airport through Twitter, I can't possibly comprehend which century bubble those people might be living in. Reads: 4,451  Further cementing its position as The Largest Cloud Computing Event in the World, the organizers of the 7th Cloud Expo, being held at the Santa Clara Convention Center, Santa Clara, CA, announced today that the event will also feature – on November 2nd, 2010 – a CloudCamp unconference.
CloudCamp @ Cloud Expo is aimed at anyone working with, or interested in working with, cloud technologies.
"With the rapid change occurring in the industry, we need a place where we can meet to share our experiences, challenges and solutions," said CloudCamp co-founder Dave Nielsen, who will personally be facilitating the process on site at the Jacob Javits. "At CloudCamp," Nielsen continued, "participants will be encouraged to share their thoughts in several open discussions, as we strive for the advancement of Cloud Computing."  By Kevin Hartig Cloud computing is becoming one of the next industry buzz words. It joins the ranks of terms including: grid computing, utility computing, virtualization, clustering, etc.
Cloud computing overlaps some of the concepts of distributed, grid and utility computing, however it does have its own meaning if contextually used correctly. The conceptual overlap is partly due to technology changes, usages and implementations over the years.
Trends in usage of the terms from Google searches shows Cloud Computing is a relatively new term introduced in the past year. There has also been a decline in general interest of Grid, Utility and Distributed computing.
Likely they will be around in usage for quit a while to come. But Cloud computing has become the new buzz word driven largely by marketing and service offerings from big corporate players like Google, IBM and Amazon. Reads: 84,019  By Elizabeth White Hasan Rizvi, SVP Product Development at Oracle, will present the opening keynote on extreme performance for your cloud platform at SYS-CON's 7th International Cloud Expo, which will take place on November 1-4, 2010, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA.
Cloud Expo Silicon Valley will feature technical sessions from a rock star conference faculty and the leading Cloud industry players in the world.
The growth and success of Cloud Computing will be on display at the upcoming Cloud Expo conference and exhibition in Santa Clara November 1-4 and in New York City Spring 2011. Reads: 2,062  By Elizabeth White Leading enterprises are revolutionizing the delivery of IT today. In his keynote on Day 2 of SYS-CON's 7th International Cloud Expo, which will take place on November 1-4, 2010, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA, Tony Bishop, the CEO of Adaptivity, will showcase multiple case studies and lessons learned of Global 2000 organizations that have radically changing the delivery of IT in their organizations by employing Cloud Utility IT models.
Cloud Expo Silicon Valley will feature technical sessions from a rock star conference faculty and the leading Cloud industry players in the world.
The growth and success of Cloud Computing will be on display at the upcoming Cloud Expo conference and exhibition in Santa Clara November 1-4 and in New York City Spring 2011. Reads: 1,830  By Roger Strukhoff Cloud Expo, Cloud Expo East, Cloud Expo West, Cloud Expo Silicon Valley, Cloud Expo Europe, Cloud Expo Tokyo, Cloud Expo Prague, Cloud Expo Hong Kong, Cloud Expo Sao Paolo are trademarks and /or registered trademarks (USPTO serial number 85009040) of Cloud Expo, Inc. Reads: 5,906 |
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As the debate rages on regarding whether to cloud or not to cloud across enterprise IT, it is important for IT executives and strategists to keep in mind some of the following:
What other IT delivery fulfillment strategy is available today that when applied in a proper manner can enable IT to build agility and flexibility into the delivery paradigm while affording greater trust and control? The answer – a private cloud.
Trust and Control come when you have effective mechanisms, procedures, pol...
Yesterday, I joined some colleagues on a webcast where we had a chance to talk to some of our users about the technical concepts behind WebSphere solutions for building, consuming, and integrating clouds. We discussed ways to enable autonomic, policy-driven runtimes, construct elastic, in-memory data grids, and integrate on-premise and off-premise applications. It was all fun stuff to talk about, and hopefully the webcast participants got a good look at how cloud computing is taking hold in WebS...
The umbrella of cloud computing is a big one. Like any technology in the early stages of adoption, there are competing models, each claiming to be the optimal configuration and each, more than likely, suited to specific kinds of businesses and specific kinds of business needs. Indeed, the number of cloud permutations is nearly as diverse as the number of companies using them.
Windows Azure is Microsoft’s Cloud Operating System. Just like DOS started with Disk (disk operating system), Windows Azure starts with Azure Storage.
Storage is the foundation of every OS. Wouldn’t it be cool that you can move your local folders and files into Windows Azure, and later you can use it for your Azure based applications?
The journey starts at the Microsoft Online Service customer portal, where you will authorize Microsoft to charge you based on your monthly Azure consumption, in...
As Oracle OpenWorld 2010 winds down, F5′s Peter Silva wraps up the week. Special thanks to F5′s Chris Akker, Ron Carovano, Calvin Rowland, Pat Chang, Cecile de Leon, Heidi Schreifels and the rest of the F5 booth staff along with Oracle’s Shankar Jayaganapathy, and Mark Veatch. ps Oracle OpenWorld Videos: Oracle OpenWorld 2010 – F5 [...]
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