On June 6-9, when the doors to Cloud Expo New York open at the Jacob Javits Center, IT infrastructure and operations professionals from around the world will be able to see with their own eyes that the "Summer of Cloud Computing" has well and truly begun.May. 25, 2011 06:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,055
Today's cloud network infrastructure is complex to build, manage and automate. Complexities add to multiple other constraints, which in turn reduce efficiency and increase the total cost of operation. Advancements in virtualization technologies have been successful in addressing similar challenges in the space of server and storage resource management. In comparison, the network, a critical part of cloud infrastructure, has lagged behind in implementing any virtualization strategies.
Can we al...
For many enterprises, adopting cloud computing and agile IT operating models is fraught with challenge and risk. Once you convince the organization of the agility and economic benefits, you still have to overcome a broad range of security, operational, and governance hurdles for a successful implementation. Take heart! You aren't the first to embark on this journey; others have gone before you and helped to map the territory.
In his session at the 8th International Cloud Expo, Anthony Skipper,...
SYS-CON Events announced today that ServiceMesh, a provider of enterprise software and services that enable Agile IT operating models for Global 2000 clients, has been named “Gold 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 City, New York.
ServiceMesh delivers enterprise-grade solutions to enable Agile IT operating models for Global 2000 clients. ServiceMesh solutions consist of advisory services, market-ready IT ...
Nearly everybody mentions automation and provisioning of servers, storage and applications when talking about the cloud, but how about the underlying network infrastructure?
In his session at the 8th International Cloud Expo, Eric Yspeert, Founder & CTO of NetYce, will explain what it takes to automate network change and enable provisioning of network services. He will discuss the traditional approach to configuration and change management, its pitfalls and how to overcome this by adopting a t...
Many enterprises are struggling to develop a cloud computing strategy. Cloud computing seems like it ought to be a game-changing technology, but so often when the initial proof of concept is finished, it appears to have simply rearranged the deckchairs within a titanic IT department. The problem is we have been trained through decades of IT implementation to focus on certain metrics. Unfortunately, those are the wrong ones. Consequently, when it comes to cloud computing, most of us are playing "...
Many organizations are a little shy when it comes to adopting the cloud, for several reasons. Most are slowly adopting the cloud by using a hybrid architecture strategy. Couple this strategy with the need to increase scale and speed on your web application, without taking the big cloud jump.
In his session at the 8th International Cloud Expo, Brian Prince, Architect Evangelist at Microsoft, will look at how to achieve this with a low-cost and low-risk strategy of keeping your app where it is, ...
Too often, we see applications that get pushed into the Cloud that simply belong on big iron. The promise of perfect efficiency and optimal usage has created a delusionary effect, with users not realizing that the cloud isn’t creating those efficiencies, merely offering the potential for greater efficiencies – but also the potential for substantial inefficiencies.
In his session at the 8th International Cloud Expo, Sam Machiz, VP of Sales Engineering at Voxel, will discuss what the characterist...
With substantial growth in cloud services, over 2.5 billion connected users, more than 1000 exabytes of Internet traffic and 15 billion devices accessing cloud services by 2015, transforming datacenters to support this growth can be complex. To address the challenges facing IT and realize the significant benefits of cloud computing, it’s essential that cloud solutions are open, interoperable and built on standards.
In his general session at the 8th International Cloud Expo, Jason Waxman, Gene...
I/O is among the biggest barriers to consolidating virtual environments. As the number of virtual machine workloads increase, RAM requirements quickly exceed the amount of RAM that servers can hold. In addition, in-server storage capacity constraints force applications to traverse storage networks for data, drastically limiting the efficacy of even high-performance SANs.
Server-deployed NAND flash makes terabytes of high-performance, non-volatile memory available within each server to eliminat...
According to a study released recently, nearly two thirds of all servers installed in 2010 were virtualized servers. Organizations are recognizing the immediate and significant benefits to virtualization, and virtualization management tools are making the technology more accessible to all sorts of o...
Mobile and tablet platforms are hyping HTML5, but many applications are bound to a traditional client-server model, making API performance a top concern for organizations.
I recently received an e-mail from Strangeloop Networks with a subject of: “The quest for the holy grail of Web speed: 2-second...
Although Cloud Computing represents a shift from fixed cost, on-premise software model to a utility, online pricing alternative, it’s also the nature of software engineering itself and how that is delivered that is changing, and it’s this combination that offers the biggest value to IT consumers.
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All roads lead to New York in 13 days' time for the 8th International Cloud Expo June 6-9, 2011, co-located at the Jacob Javits Convention Center with 11th Virtualization Conference & Expo. One of the most popular of the three - our Special Events at each and every Cloud Expo is "Cloud Computing Ex...
Salesforce.com is one option that can be used to implement Open Government.
A very good example for this is “Open Civic Engagement, as a Service”, described in this presentation.
The slide show talks through how Plone, the open source CMS (Content Management System) can be used in conjunction wi...
Designing and creating secure software is absolutely critical. It requires training, experience, education and process. In the modern world software gets very complex, and doing it securely requires a scientific approach. A discipline has arose to meet this need. In this discipline a handful of hero...
Cloud security remains a top concern for enterprise cloud deployments. Unresolved policy and control issues make it difficult to meet the requirements of corporate security and networking teams. As a result, we frequently hear from our customers that they assume they can only put the lowest-risk dat...
When pundits talk about the consumerization of IT they’re mostly referring to the ability of IT consumers, i.e. application developers and business stakeholders, to provision and manage, on demand, certain IT resources, most usually that of applications. There’s no doubt that the task of provisionin...
3SO is a perfect example of a use case for the NIST Community Cloud Deployment Model, because they are a “shared services organization” for a number of Healthcare units.
A shared services organization is an example of the same community effect at the people and process level.
It exists when a numb...
Last week, Nuance released OmniPage 18, with a new Nuance Cloud Connector feature that allows OmniPage documents to be saved to a wide list of cloud storage services such as Amazon S3, Windows Azure, Rackspace Cloud Files, Google Docs, Box.net and etc.
Powered by the Gladinet Cloud Desktop, the Nua...
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