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.
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“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...
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? 
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...
“For most companies, cloud computing isn't just about reducing costs,” observed James Weir, CTO and Co-founder of UShareSoft, in this exclusive Q&A; with Cloud Expo Conference Chair Jeremy Geelan. Weir noted that according to a Harvard Business Review survey of almost 1,500 business and technology leaders worldwide "the most valued benefits of cloud computing were increased business agility, flexible capacity, and faster adoption of new technology."
A number of factors have come together in the ...
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...
All roads lead to New York in just one day's 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 Comput...
Lori's and my youngest daughter graduated from High School this year, and her class chose one of the many good Vince Lombardi quotes for the theme of their graduation – “The measure of who we are is what we do with what we have.” Those who know me well know that I’m not a huge football fan (don’t te...
There’s been a lot said about the Amazon outage and most of it had to do with cloud and, as details came to light, about EBS (Elastic Block Storage). But very little mention was made of what should be obvious: most customers didn’t – and still don’t - know how Availability Zones really work and, mor...
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Applying BI best practices, using pre-built data models, and developing ongoing reference metrics on business processes to the IT systems that increasingly reflect the business operations themselves portends great productivity and agility benefits.
Some 20 years into enterprise resource planning (E...
Hybrid clouds are achieving almost universal buy-in as the way enterprises use the cloud. As we’ve described previously, the hybrid model federates internal and external resources so customers can choose the most appropriate match for workload requirements. The approach is already transforming enter...
Two weeks ago I spent a few days at RailsConf in Baltimore re-connecting with my developer roots, and it gave me a fresh perspective on what developers really think about cloud. Background Although I’ve spent much of my time focused on the application layer in the past decade, it has been at t...
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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