“What makes Cloud Computing more likely to be successful today are both technological and attitudinal changes in the market,” noted Tom Trainer, Director of Product Marketing at Gluster, in this exclusive Q&A; with Cloud Expo Conference Chair Jeremy Geelan. “First, commodity computing and storage and virtualization techniques mean that these services can be delivered at price points that make it more than economically feasible,” Trainer continued. “Second, Internet bandwidths make it possible to ...Jun. 11, 2011 05:00 PM EDT Reads: 873
The economics of the cloud, the rise of the mobile workforce and the consumerization of IT are making the transformation to the cloud a foregone conclusion within enterprise IT. But not every company, organization or government agency is necessarily keeping up. Are you? 
Holland is considered one, if not the most important data exchange point for the European continent. Unlocking the $16,228.23 billion EU economy (2010) and over half a billion people. To showcase what Holland and the Dutch Cloud Computing Industry have to offer, the Dutch government invited eight selected companies with international experience and ambition to present their software and services at the Holland Pavilion during the Cloud Expo in New York.
If you mention Dutch Clouds your first th...
“I think the next big game changer will come from how enterprises embrace public cloud,” observed Ashok Balasubramanian, Head of Syntel's Cloud Computing Center of Excellence, in this exclusive Q&A; with Cloud Expo Conference Chair Jeremy Geelan.
“Think of what Salesforce.com did to CRM. Now, imagine if the same thing were to occur in the ERP market – it would be huge,” continuued Balasubramanian. “A lot of the industry standard business functions can move to BPaaS and custom business functions...
Today, Monday June 6, 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.
“For many customers, the Cloud is still just an idea, and they do not know how the Cloud is built and operates,” observed Joe Bromley, Systems Consultant at Texas Memory Systems, in this exclusive Q&A; with Cloud Expo Conference Chair Jeremy Geelan. “Cloud providers should continue to educate customers on how easy it is to take advantage of their services,” Bromley continued, “and let customers know the hardware that is in place that is being used to serve and protect their data.”
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Hope springs eternal. That's my "insight" as we head into the final week-end before the 8th International Cloud Expo at the Javits Center in New York, June 6-9.
The major technology providers will be there in droves. Attendees will be there in bigger droves, and should make the Javits Center look as it did in the good old days of big IT shows. It may still be impossible to get a cab out of that neighborhood or find much of interest in it; this is good news, as everything one could possible n...
A recent CDW-G survey found that although many organizations are using cloud-based applications, few have a formal adoption strategy. Sometimes, just jumping into the pool forces rapid acclimation; however, the resulting effort suffers an uphill climb to succeed rendering an environment that is reactive instead of driving forward. Successful cloud computing efforts start with a solid adoption strategy that incorporates clearly defined goals, economic justifications, governance planning, definiti...
“Most cloud environments – public, private, or hybrid – run on virtualized infrastructure that share CPU, memory and storage between applications,” noted Bryan Semple, Chief Marketing Officer at VKernel in this exclusive Q&A; with Cloud Expo Conference Chair Jeremy Geelan. “These shared resource environments behave a lot like mainframes and hence require the same level of capacity planning,” concluded Semple.
A very general question first, about Cloud Computing itself: Surely we’ve heard all of ...
“Cloud computing has evolved from terminology used in connection with big data centers and large IT departments to something understood by business decision-makers at all levels,” observed Joe Corvaia, Vice President, Solutions Engineering, at Broadview Networks, in this exclusive Q&A; with Cloud Expo Conference Chair Jeremy Geelan. “Business owners are increasingly aware of how the cloud model can change the way they consume and use information technology,” Corvaia continued. “Now that it has be...
Earlier, I wrote on the use of Hadoop in the exciting, evolving field of Bioinformatics. I have since had the pleasure of speaking with Dr. Ron Taylor of Pacific Northwest National Library, the author of “An overview of the Hadoop/MapReduce/HBase framework and its current applications in bioin...
This MG Siegler TechCrunch article really clarified Apple’s strategy for me. It makes much more sense here than I was getting from the coverage of Job’s talk. For example, it let me see the connection between the new Lion auto-incremental-save feature (which sounds incredibly useful on its own — I c...
Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS) is a hosted queue for storing messages that are transmitted between computers. Developers can transmit data between distributed components of an application without requiring the availability of all the components of that application. The Stony Brook Network Securit...
Cloud Sherpas’ VP of Product Management, Mark Wood, discusses the Google Apps Marketplace and how its applications help companies fulfill their needs in the cloud, rather than through on-premise applications.
8th International Cloud Expo is in full swing in New York City. Co-located at the Jacob Javits Convention Center with 11th Virtualization Conference & Expo, the event runs June 6-9.
One of the most popular of the three Special Events at each and every Cloud Expo is "Cloud Computing Bootcamp" - c...
I am often asked about the steps to be taken and the issues to be considered for a successful migration to cloud computing. There is no magic formula to it, the specific steps will depend on your internal structure, industry and differentiation in the market. As general framework, I usually recomme...
Today, agility in both business logic and an organization’s underlying IT infrastructure is imperative to success. Yet traditional IT infrastructures and processes simply are not agile. It is no surprise, then, that CIOs routinely express frustration with the time and effort required to align IT fun...
Steven Wright has said, ‘It’s a small world, but I wouldn’t want to paint it.’ The world is getting smaller with today’s 24/7 global marketplace. Businesses have offices and employees around the world to serve the needs of the organization’s global customers. Those users, whether they are in a branc...
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 (@jg21) here goes with an expanded roster, listed as before in alphabetical order since I a...
It seems like the last several months have brought a rapid increase in the number of organizations getting serious, really serious, about private clouds in their enterprise. By this, I mean they are going beyond working on ROI documents, formulating strategies, and doing referential research. They a...
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