Pat Romanski

Cloud Expo Silicon Valley $800 Savings here! 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 "small-ball." To graduate to the big leagues, we need to step back and re-evaluate both the goals and the technologies themselves to find the big win. In his general session at Cloud Expo New York, Dave Roberts, VP of Strategy and Marketing at ServiceMesh, provided some perspective on how leading enterprise cloud adopters are swingi... (more)

Driving the Transformation to Next-Generation Cloud Data Centers

Cloud Expo Silicon Valley $800 Savings here! 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 significant benefits of cloud computing, it's essential that cloud solutions are open, interoperable and built on standards. In his general session at Cloud Expo New York, Jason Waxman, Intel Data Center Group GM, High Density Computing, describe a mu... (more)

Mentor Graphics Announces Embedded Linux Platform Support for Freescale

Mentor Graphics Corporation on Tuesday announced its support for Freescale Semiconductor’s Advanced Multi-Processing (AMP) Series of QorIQ multicore processors by providing its comprehensive Mentor Embedded Linux platform, open source tools and services, to deliver a unified workflow for Freescale customers. The QorIQ AMP Series provides 28-nanometer process technology, an efficient 64-bit core and highly advanced acceleration engines for optimal performance and power efficiency in processing for networking, industrial and aerospace/military markets. Freescale customers who are ... (more)

Can the Cloud Tsunami Continue Forever?

Selling the Cloud has never been easier...or has it? In this fast-moving high-level CMO Power Panel held at the 8th International Cloud Expo at the Javits Center in New York City, June 6-9, 2011, Cloud Expo Conference Chair Jeremy Geelan is joined by Peder Ulander, CMO at Cloud.com; Jeff Samuels, CMO at GoGrid; Josh Fraser, VP of Business Development at RightScale; Julia Mak, Marketing Manager at Oxygen Cloud; and Bill Roth, CMO at LogLogic. Together they discuss some of the key cloud topics such as how much of a role does branding play as well what role the blogosphere plays; wh... (more)

Maximizing Enterprise Virtualization at Cloud Expo 2011 New York

Cloud Expo 2011 New York $800 Savings here! 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 eliminate I/O bottlenecks. As a memory extension or ... (more)