Cloud computing is the next big change, impacting every aspect of IT. All vendors, all IT professionals will see huge changes in their environment, in their jobs. A reasonable level of Nephophobia is normal and healthy; most people react to changes impacting their professional lives with fears.
Organizations making their first move toward the cloud will ask questions about security, confidentiality, privacy...and it's very important for them to get reasonable answers to these worries before ma...Jun. 17, 2011 11:00 AM EDT Reads: 765
Developer self-service. Elastic, scalable apps. The "illusion of infinite capacity." For all the talk of the positive aspects of cloud computing, less attention is focused on the way IT operations must evolve to manage and support a dynamic, scalable, highly variable infrastructure.
In his session at the 9th International Cloud Expo, Bernard Golden, CEO of HyperStratus, will focus on how cloud computing compels IT operations to split into two roles: infrastructure provider and applications man...
SYS-CON Events announced today that Amazon Web Services, a provider of an infrastructure web services platform in the cloud, will exhibit at SYS-CON's 9th International Cloud Expo, which will take place on November 7-10 at the Santa Clara Convention Center, Santa Clara, CA.
Amazon Web Services provides highly scalable computing infrastructure that enables organizations around the world to requisition compute power, storage, and other on-demand services in the cloud. . With AWS you have the fle...
SYS-CON Events announced today that Cloud.com, a leading provider of open source cloud computing software for public and private cloud environments, has been named “Bronze Sponsor” of 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.
Cloud.com delivers an innovative open source software platform for launching either public or private cloud environments – delivering all of the essential components used t...
SYS-CON Events announced today that Rackspace Hosting, the world’s leading specialist in the hosting and cloud computing industry, has been named “Gold Sponsor” of 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.
Rackspace Hosting is the world’s leading specialist in the hosting and cloud computing industry. The San Antonio-based company provides Fanatical Support to its customers, across a portfolio o...
SYS-CON Events announced today that Quest Software, a provider of innovative solutions that simplify IT management, has been named “Silver Sponsor” of SYS-CON's 9th International Cloud Expo, which will take place on November 7-10 at the Santa Clara Convention Center, Santa Clara, CA.
Quest Software simplifies and reduces the cost of managing IT for more than 100,000 customers worldwide. Quest’s innovative solutions make solving the toughest IT management problems easier, enabling customers to s...
SYS-CON Events announced today that Abiquo, the leading Enterprise Cloud Management software provider, has been named “Platinum Plus Sponsor” of 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.
Abiquo is the Enterprise Cloud Management software company. With Abiquo, organizations can use Business Policy to manage an entire, globally deployed, computing infrastructure comprising unlimited physical and C...
“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 ...
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...
The JSON Activity Stream specification could allow the (other and oh so soon forgotten side of) consumerization of IT to make its way into the data center.
Remember when I posited that the Next-Generation Management of Data Centers Should be Modeled on Social Networking and introduced the concept o...
Blink twice and “Can we get a puppy?” becomes “Can I take the car tonight?” Cloud computing took a little longer. By my calculation, it’s taken roughly 8 Cloud Expos to move from “Cloud what?” to “Cloud how?” -- I know because I’ve been at all but the first. So, returning from New York where last...
Queplix Corp., a data integration and data management provider, is shipping its QueCloud cloud integration platform. QueCloud is powered by secure data virtualization and metadata technologies, and can integrate multiple on-premise and cloud-based apps.
Queplix is also shipping a tailored integra...
The company launched a service called QueCloud, which is a cloud application that securely integrates—you guessed it—cloud applications, such as Salesforce, NetSuite, and LinkedIn.
Before long, we'll be able to get any type of IT service through a cloud-based connection. In fact, we're virtually at...
Sure – you might save cost by moving to cloud. There are these five instances where you can achieve cost saving:
You have a compute intensive application needs to run once in a while. Size of your organization is small to medium where renting works out better for you. You are planning to revamp you...
Botnets? Old school. Spam? So yesterday. Phishing? Don’t even bother…well, on second thought. Spaghetti hacking like spaghetti marketing, toss it and see what sticks, is giving way to specific development of code (or stealing other code) to breach a particular entity. In the past few weeks, g...
What iCloud highlights is that while technologists think of Cloud Computing in terms of the underlying virtualization and other technical factors, what end users identify with is the manner in which “the Cloud” protects them from this level of detail and
One of the key realities of IT that the Clou...
Information Technology – geeks like you and I – have been responsible for an amazing transformation of business over the last thirty or forty years. The systems that have been put into place since computers became standard fare for businesses have allowed the business to scale out in almost every di...
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...
This 8th Expo was the third Cloud Expo I was invited to speak at and it definitely was the biggest so far. If CloudExpo West in November signaled the entry of the large mainstream vendors like Oracle, Dell and Microsoft - not to mention several CA divisions - as major sponsors, then this edition was...
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