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Ever since I first published here my tentative list of Top 50 Bloggers on
Cloud Computing it became clear that an expansion would be needed before too
long. Thanks to community feedback via my Twitter account
(http://twitter.com/jg21) here goes with an expanded roster, listed as
before in alphabetical order since I am making no attempt at this stage to
rank the various blogs, merely to map - and celebrate - their existence.
Dustin Amrhein | "A View from the Clouds"
Randy Bias | "Cloudscaling"
Tony Bishop | blueprint4IT.ulitzer.com
Rick Blaisdell | "Rickscloud"
Rene Buest | www.CloudUser.org
Larry Carvalho | "Robust Cloud"
Sam Charrington | "Cloud Pulse"
Colin Clark | "Cloud Event Processing"
Peter Coffee | cloudblog.salesforce.com
Reuven Cohen | "Elastic Vapor"
Adrian Cole | jclouds.tumblr.com
Tim Crawford | "Cloud Computing & IT Optimization"
Ray DePena | innovation.ulitzer.co... (more)
Mainframe system or cloud computing? IT organizations don't necessarily have
to choose. Many mainframe advocates would argue that developing a private
cloud would be redundant, as the mainframe provides the flexible, agile and
always available environment promised with cloud computing. And those looking
to bring cloud computing into their environments shouldn't assume the
mainframe won't be a factor.
"We are inventing the new mainframe in a sense. The internal private cloud is
taking the application hosting and delivery infrastructure and managing it as
a service. It has all the... (more)
A lot of Republican politicians in the US have become instant policy experts
on the situation in Libya. They seem united that, one way or another,
President Obama is simply not doing the right thing.
The latest is former New York City mayor and failed presidential candidate
Rudy Giuliani. Not to single him out, but he provides a very good example of
someone who was found wanting, early in the process, in his attempt to become
the nation's Commander-in-Chief and head of state and government.
Why would his opinion on this issue matter anymore than any other
individual's opinion?
T... (more)
Apperian, which is in the business of getting companies to build, deploy and
manage their own enterprise mobile apps using its cloud-based Enterprise App
Services Environment (EASE), has gotten $9.5 million in VC money from North
Bridge Venture Partners, Bessemer Venture Partners, Kleiner Perkins' iFund,
CommonAngels and LaunchCapital.
EASE currently works for iPad and iPhone, with Android support on the way.
Two-year-old Apperian creates an online store as the distribution point and
handles security.
Total investment is now $11.4 million.
Customers include Estée Lauder, Cisco, ... (more)
Cloud Expo 2011 New York $800 Savings here!
One of the biggest concerns for enterprises considering public cloud services
is the notion that they are inherently unsecure. Many cloud implementations
treat security as an afterthought - layering it on top of the virtualization
server. A more secure solution is a "multi-layer approach," a series of
security layers that begin at the base of the network and protect an
organization's assets to the service layer.
In their session at the 8th International Cloud Expo, Eric Chiu, president
and co-founder of HyTrust, John Rowell, CTO and SVP... (more)
Cloud Expo Breaking News By Elizabeth White One of the biggest concerns for enterprises considering public cloud services is the notion that they are inherently unsecure. Many cloud implementations treat security as an afterthought - layering it on top of the virtualization server. A more secure solution is a "multi-layer approach," a series of security layers that begin at the base of the network and protect an organization’s assets to the service layer.
In their session at the 8th International Cloud Expo, Eric Chiu, president and co-... Apr. 2, 2011 03:00 PM EDT Reads: 582 | By Liz McMillan  Developers and architects looking to build new applications in the cloud can simply design the components, processes and workflow for their solution, employ the APIs of the cloud of their choice, and leverage the latest cloud-based best practices for design, development, testing and deployment. In choosing to deploy their solutions in a cloud, they can take immediate advantage of instant scalability and elasticity, isolated processes, reduced operational effort, on-demand provisioning and automa... Apr. 2, 2011 01:00 PM EDT Reads: 483 | By Elizabeth White  The demand for IT infrastructure and services from your consumers is ever-growing and expanding. Today consumers of IT infrastructure want the ability to serve themselves, allowing them to bypass intermediaries or waiting days or weeks for a response. These changing dynamics create a necessity for IT to think about the economics of IT service delivery.
In his session at the 8th International Cloud Expo, Thomas Bryant, Director of Advanced Technology & Products at Quest Software, will outline t... Apr. 2, 2011 11:00 AM EDT Reads: 542 | By Elizabeth White  How do you use open source cloud computing technologies in the data center and what are the five steps to take to initiate the development of an enterprise private cloud? In particular, what are the operational and IT processes in the enterprise and how can organizations build private clouds to bring about greater efficiencies within the enterprise data center, while enabling cross-cloud compatibility.
In his session at the 8th International Cloud Expo, Dr. Rich Wolski, CTO and Co-founder of E... Apr. 1, 2011 06:00 PM EDT Reads: 745 | By Liz McMillan  As you plan for and implement cloud services for portions of your enterprise IT needs, what should you be asking potential cloud service providers?
In his session at the 8th International Cloud Expo, Chris Schin, Vice President, Products at Zetta, will offer a series of specific questions and suggest what answers you should be looking for, based on common use case scenarios.
Chris Schin is Vice President, Products at Zetta. He is responsible for coordinating all product-related initiatives, i... Apr. 1, 2011 04:15 PM EDT Reads: 702 | By Liz McMillan  Spoon brings your desktop apps to the cloud. With Spoon, existing apps can be converted into virtual apps that run directly from the web with no installs.
In his session at the 8th International Cloud Expo, Lee Murphy, a Partner Engineering Consultant at Spoon, will explain the fundamentals of Spoon app virtualization technology; walk through the creation of a centralized desktop app portal using Spoon Server; and demonstrate how to virtualize your existing desktop applications with Spoon Stud... Apr. 1, 2011 02:45 PM EDT Reads: 629 |
Conference News & Updates  By Jeremy Geelan What does the CIO of the National Reconnaissance Office have in common with the CEOs of GoGrid and OpSource, the Co-Founder & CTO of Dell Boomi, the Chief Technology & Strategy Officer at Novell and the Director of HP Software's Global Cloud Practice? Answer: all are members of the distinguished Speaker Faculty of Cloud Expo New York, due to take place June 6-9, 2011, at the Jacob Javits Convention Center in New York City.
New speakers will continue to be announced every day from now for the next few weeks, and the Cloud Expo organizers can share the news that the high-octane technical sessions in New York City have been organized into seven parallel tracks, including Enterprise Cloud Computing, Telcos in the Cloud | The Cloud on Devices, and Cloud Security & Performance.
Reads: 3,272  By Jeremy Geelan In this brand new SYS-CON.TV Power Panel, recorded in Times Square on the eve of Cloud Expo Silicon Valley, which was held in Santa Clara, CA, November 1 -4, 2010, Cloud Expo Conference Chair Jeremy Geelan discusses the State of the Nation with regard to Enterprise Cloud Computing with Unisys' Sam Gross & Jill T. Singer, CIO of the National Reconnaissance Office. Also on the panel is Internet security expert Patrick Hynds, Founder & President of DTS. Reads: 2,880  By Liz McMillan SYS-CON Events announced today that Dell has been named "Diamond Sponsor" of SYS-CON's 8th International Cloud Expo, which will take place on June 6-9, 2011, at the Javits Center in New York, N.Y.
Dell Inc. listens to customers and delivers worldwide innovative technology and business solutions they trust and value. Dell Services develops and delivers a comprehensive suite of services and solutions in applications, business process, consulting, infrastructure and support to help customers succeed. Reads: 1,334  By Elizabeth White Want to make sense of the hottest new concept in Enterprise IT?
Want to understand in just hours what experts have spent many hundreds of days deciphering?
Cloud computing is a technology that has rapidly evolving peppered with a lot of hype along the way. Customers find it hard to navigate through this and make sense of what aspects of this technology will give them real business benefit.
Cloud Computing Bootcamp, led by our 2011 Bootcamp Instructor Larry Carvalho, is a great way to get a practical understanding of this technology. We offer multiple days of actionable insight into what vendor offerings are currently available and help you comprehend their strategy.
The ever-popular Bootcamp, which is now held regularly around the world, is being held in conjunction with the 8th Cloud Expo, June 6-9, 2011, at the Javits Center in New York City, NY. Reads: 923  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: 22,469  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: 8,040  By Liz McMillan With the rapid change occurring in the industry, we need a place where we can meet to share our experiences, challenges and solutions. At CloudCamp, you are encouraged to share your thoughts in several open discussions, as we strive for the advancement of Cloud Computing. End users, IT professionals and vendors are all encouraged to participate.
CloudCamp, an unconference where early adopters of Cloud Computing technologies exchange ideas, is being held on Tuesday, June 07, from 5:40 p.m. - 8:40 p.m. at the 8th Cloud Expo, June 6-9, 2011, at the Javits Center in New York City, NY. CloudCamp will be led by Dave Nielsen of CloudCamp and Larry Carvalho of RobustCloud. Reads: 980  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: 117,434  By Elizabeth White Cloud Expo, Inc. announced on Thursday that Cloud Expo 2011 New York, the 8th International Cloud Computing Conference & Expo, will take place June 6-9, 2011, at the Javits Center in New York City.
Cloud Expo - International Cloud Computing Conference & Expo series is the world’s leading Cloud-focused event and is held in New York, Silicon Valley, Prague, Tokyo, and Hong-Kong.
Over 900 corporate sponsors and more than 65,000 industry professionals have participated in Cloud Expo since its inception, tenfold more than all other Cloud-related events put together. Reads: 5,763  By Jeremy Geelan "New infrastructure and operations technologies such as cloud services and virtualization ... were selected by CIOs the most often and are the top-two technologies for 2011," said Mark McDonald, group vice president and head of research for Gartner Executive Programs, as the results were announced of the 2011 CIO Agenda survey by Gartner Executive Programs (EXP).
The worldwide CIO survey was conducted by Gartner EXP from September to December 2010 and represents CIO budget plans reported at that time. According to the results, CIOs expect to adopt new cloud services much faster than originally expected. Currently, 3% of CIOs have the majority of IT running in the cloud or on SaaS technologies, but over the next four years CIOs expect this number to increase to 43%. Reads: 5,570  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: 7,902 |
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As we’ve seen with some of the recent high profile internet attacks, like HBGary, RSA, Google, Comodo and others, no one is immune from being a target and the perpetrators are exceedingly organized, exceptionally skilled and extremely well-funded. Often, the culprits might be better trained than the...
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OpenRFP.net uses social media to match people and companies to the needs of Government contracts.
Every new venture needs a quick and easy-to-understand "elevator pitch", so what is it for OpenRFP.net.
Well as the title suggests, in a nutshell the idea behind OpenRFP.net is that it's "Linkedin fo...
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