“We focus on solving a very specific problem in the cloud, which is the ability to guarantee performance to the high performance applications in a really large environment. The concert of performance management, inline efficiencies, and system automation – when you combine these three things together you get a powerful play in the cloud provider space,” states Jay Prassl, VP of Marketing at SolidFire, in this SYS-CON.TV interview with Cloud Expo Conference Chair Jeremy Geelan at the 9th Internat...| By Pat Romanski | Article Rating: |
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"How can we make best use of the cloud? The biggest thing is driving initiative and enablement of business units to go do what they do best. It's all about the business units using IT to build something better for the firm. The opportunity for the cloud is to - as much as possible - put IT into the hands of the business people," states Dave Roberts, VP, Strategy & Marketing at ServiceMesh, in this SYS-CON.TV interview with Cloud Expo Conference Chair Jeremy Geelan at the 9th International Cloud Expo, held Nov 7-10, 2011, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA.
A Rock Star Faculty, Top Keynotes, Sessions, and Top Delegates!
Cloud Expo New York, June 11-14, 2012, at the Javits Center in New York City, New York, and Cloud Expo Silicon Valley, November 5-8, 2012, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA, will feature technical sessions from a rock star conference faculty and the leading Cloud industry players in the world.
The growth and success of Cloud Computing will be on display at the upcoming Cloud Expo conferences and exhibitions in New York City, June 11-14, 2012, and in Santa Clara, CA, November 5-8, 2012.
The recent Cloud Expo at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA, was the largest Cloud Computing conference ever produced with more sponsors, exhibitors and delegates than all other Cloud events of the year combined!

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“The cloud adoption rate in 2012 will accelerate as people are moving real applications to the cloud. For Terremark for years the core customer has been enterprise IT organizations – we’ve always wanted to be the solution for these organizations that want to move to the cloud,” states Bill Lowry, Vice President, Cloud Services at Terremark, in this SYS-CON.TV interview with Cloud Expo Conference Chair Jeremy Geelan at the 9th International Cloud Expo, held Nov 7-10, 2011, at the Santa Clara Conv...
“How can we make best use of the cloud? The biggest thing is driving initiative and enablement of business units to go do what they do best. It’s all about the business units using IT to build something better for the firm. The opportunity for the cloud is to – as much as possible – put IT into the hands of the business people,” states Dave Roberts, VP, Strategy & Marketing at ServiceMesh, in this SYS-CON.TV interview with Cloud Expo Conference Chair Jeremy Geelan at the 9th International Cloud ...
SYS-CON Events announced today that SHI, a $4 billion+ global provider of information technology products and services, has been named Platinum Plus Sponsor of SYS-CON's 10th International Cloud Expo, which will take place on June 11–14, 2012, at the Javits Center in New York City, New York.
Founded in 1989, SHI International Corp. is a global provider of technology products and services. Driven by the industry's most experienced and stable sales force and backed by software volume licensing ex...
“Cloud connected storage services is what we offer to small and medium businesses and the remote and branch offices of enterprises, and that means disaster recovery and back-up recovery delivered as a hybrid, on-premise, and/or cloud solution,” explains Valerie Fawzi, Worldwide Marketing at i365, in this SYS-CON.TV interview with Cloud Expo Conference Chair Jeremy Geelan at the 9th International Cloud Expo, held Nov 7-10, 2011, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA.
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“What happens on day two when you’ve got your cloud going? Day two is when the IT department says ‘I have to run this?’,” notes Kent Erickson, Vice President Product Management at Zenoss, in this SYS-CON.TV interview with Cloud Expo Conference Chair Jeremy Geelan at the 9th International Cloud Expo, held Nov 7-10, 2011, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA. “When you’re running a cloud infrastructure you have to be worried about the tenants, the customers in the cloud.”
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“We just came to market a few months ago with iON, which is our cloud platform – it’s a cloud platform as a service that provides integration platform services. There are several different flavors of PaaS and iON is an integration platform, and iPaaS,” notes Greg Schott, President and CEO of MuleSoft, in this SYS-CON.TV interview with Cloud Expo Conference Chair Jeremy Geelan at the 9th International Cloud Expo, held Nov 7-10, 2011, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA.
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“We provide cloud hosting and managed hosting solutions; we focus on helping clients with enterprise production applications. We also focus on being a partner to our customers,” states Chris Kivlehan, Vice President of Account Management at INetU, in this SYS-CON.TV interview with Cloud Expo Conference Chair Jeremy Geelan at the 9th International Cloud Expo, held Nov 7-10, 2011, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA.
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