Today, migrating applications to the cloud, while keeping full control of the software stack, remains a challenge for cloud providers and enterprise IT departments alike. Creating and maintaining cloud server templates and golden images is a difficult, time-consuming process that inhibits easy software migration.
In his session at the 9th International Cloud Expo, James Weir, CTO and co-founder of UShareSoft, will outline how cloud providers can build a dynamic cloud app store where software d...| By Jeremy Geelan | Article Rating: |
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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, but already the Cloud Expo organizers can share the news that the high-octane technical sessions in New York City, organized into seven parallel tracks, will include...
Is Enterprise Cloud Computing a Tidal Wave of Change? IT is faster, better, cheaper, and safer because of Enterprise Cloud Computing |
Internal, External, Cumulonimbus? Strategy Considerations for Collaboration in the Cloud |
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Lessons of Big Data How and Why Yahoo! Runs the World's Largest Hadoop Cloud |
Cloud Computing in Emerging Markets How To Capitalize on Growth Opportunities |
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What Does GovCloud Mean to the Global IT Industry? New business strategies for the new environment |
Cloud Integration: Best Practices for IT Managers How can IT managers and business users best collaborate? |
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Cloud Networking: Turning Security Upside Down The "multi-layer approach to securing Cloud service |
Monetization Strategies for Cloud Computing Services What the levers are for competitive advantage using cloud technology? |
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The Economics of Public Cloud Computing How public clouds offer order-of-magnitude improvements in economics |
Europe vs. the U.S. - Two Very Different Clouds Why we need a very different approach to cloud security and governance |
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Monetization Strategies for Cloud Computing Services What the levers are for competitive advantage using cloud technology? |
How SOA Makes Moving to the Cloud Easier Case Study on moving towards a service oriented approach |
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Running Your Java EE Applications in the Cloud A brief intro to Java EE 6 and GlassFish v3 |
Tales From Cloud 2.0 - a.k.a. The Transactional Cloud How to avoiding the mistakes of the past |
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How to create powerful and secure private clouds. |
Digital Forensics and Cloud Computing Overcoming the sense of "vastness" in terms of storage and remote processing |
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Cloud Users of the World, Unite! How to find common ground and make the cloud "lock-in free" |
Cloud Computing for CIOs What's the real change behind the change? |
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Driving Java Innovation and Application Development in the Cloud Java innovation is best enabled through portability and productivity |
Driving Autopilot: The Key to Cloud Success How applications are critical to establishing value in the cloud |
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Why Windows Will Not Be the Desktop of Cloud Computing Cloud computing needs a desktop for the 'unmanaged device' market |
Driving Autopilot: The Key to Cloud Success How applications are critical to establishing value in the cloud |
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Community Clouds - How & Why the Public Sector is Leading the Way to the Cloud Learn how the public sector is leading the way |
Architecting the Cloud: How EAs should think about Cloud Computing How can Enterprise Architects best counterbalance vendor spin? |
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The Race Towards Zero: Reducing Latency to Real Real-Time Helping reduce the time between decision and action |
The Impact of Cloud Computing on IT How to choose the right Cloud strategy for your organization |
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Hosting is easier and a more economical option than building your own cloud environment.
In his session at the 9th International Cloud Expo, Francisco Romero, Director of Corporate Analytics at SoftLayer, will explain how the cloud experts should do the leg work when building a cloud environment.
Francisco Romero is Director of Corporate Analytics at SoftLayer, which he joined in November 2010 through the merger with The Planet, where he had been since 2009. He is currently responsible for th...
The power of cloud computing truly lies in the community. It’s only by harnessing the collective intelligence and experiences of global adopters of SaaS that we can help simplify others’ paths to the cloud and accelerate adoption. Through its Boomi Suggest features, Dell Boomi has harnessed the power of the global community to help others with their cloud integrations. As users build and deploy integrations, successes become blueprints for future integrations, simplifying the next person’s path ...
As a hosting provider, what is SoftLayer doing to provide infrastructure and scalable environments for their customers?
In his session at the 9th International Cloud Expo, Marc Jones, Director of Product Innovation at SoftLayer, will discuss how SoftLayer is using these environments to provide a service for their customers
Marc Jones serves as Director of Product Innovation for SoftLayer. In this role, he is responsible for identifying, facilitating and evangelizing new product and service de...
Stoneware's technology has the ability to help enhance client devices when connecting to the cloud.
In his session at the 9th International Cloud Expo, Rick German, Co-founder, CEO and CTO of Stoneware, Inc., will demonstrate how webNetwork helps the cloud understand and adapt to the device to deliver a richer experience based on hardware context, in contrast to the "one size fits all" delivery method used today. The session will include a live product demonstration.
How are customers making business applications available as APIs to drive business growth and expose new opportunities? What are the best practices and pitfalls to avoid through each of the core API lifecycle stages?
In his session at the 9th International Cloud Expo, Alistair Farquharson, CTO of SOA Software, will explain how you should plan, build, run, promote and support your API to ensure the long-term success of your API program and your business.
Alistair Farquharson is CTO of SOA Softw...
Is the US Patriot Act causing you to hesitate on leveraging the cloud in your enterprise? Do you want to leverage the power of cloud computing but unsure what the security and privacy implications are for sensitive corporate data?
Corporations are thinking long and hard about the legal and regulatory implications of cloud computing. When it comes to actual corporate data, no matter what the efficiency gains are, legal departments are often directing IT departments to steer clear of any service ...
SYS-CON Events announced today that Appcara will exhibit at SYS-CON's 9th International Cloud Expo, which will take place on November 7–10, 2011, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA.
Appcara’s Application Integration Platform is the most advanced and flexible cloud platform for application integration, management and mobility.
Cloud Expo 2011 Silicon Valley, November 7–10, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA, will feature technical sessions from a rock s...
Taking a modular approach to building private clouds for enterprises involves segregating compute nodes, storage and network fabric and combining it with open source cloud software.
In his session at the 9th International Cloud Expo, Fred Tanzella, CEO and co-founder of Cirracore, will discuss the modular approach to private clouds and how to enable customers to select an integrated framework and software stack to scale at various layers.
SYS-CON Events announced today that Aspera, a profitable, privately held, technology development company, will exhibit at SYS-CON's 9th International Cloud Expo, which will take place on November 7–10, 2011, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA.
Aspera is the creator of next-generation transport technologies that move the world’s digital assets at maximum speed regardless of file size, transfer distance and network conditions. Based on its patented fasp™ protocol, only Aspera...
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