Pat Romanski

Cloud Expo New York $500 Savings here! What are the shifts in today's cloud plans, teams, processes, and technologies to effectively drive ROI in enterprise clouds? In his general session at the 9th International Cloud Expo, Pete Malcolm, CEO of Abiquo, and other industry experts discussed the changing roles, behaviors, and trends that can drive enterprise cloud success Click Here to View This General Session Now! Speaker Bio: Pete Malcolm is CEO of Abiquo, a leading vendor of Cloud infrastructure management solutions. Described by SYS-CON's Jeremy Geelan as "a beacon of light amid the murky fog surrounding Cloud Computing", he is the inventor of the term "Resource Cloud", a concept which provides complete separation between physical infrastructure providers and virtual enterprise consumers, with substantial benefits to both. Malcolm was previously founder and CTO of... (more)

The Private Cloud Environment

"There will always be people deploying private cloud infrastructures even if they're then serving the product of those infrastructures to other people in the public sense. Boston targets private cloud and is offering a platform that is currently suitable for enterprises, ISVs, and service providers that want to offer clouds, usually in a private cloud environment," states Phil Wainewright, Cloud Strategy Consultant, Boston Limited, 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 Cla... (more)

Day Two in the Cloud

"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." A Rock Star Faculty, Top Keynotes, Sessions, and Top Delegates! Cloud Expo New York, June 11... (more)

Performance Management in the Cloud

"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 International Cloud Expo, held Nov 7-10, 2011, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa C... (more)

Big Data and Cloud Computing

"One part of the connection between big data and cloud computing is the scale - big data implies large scale and the problem of managing large scale is similar in both. The difference is in the emphasis on the types of workloads - in big data the emphasis is on trying to keep the data local and in cloud you are looking to optimize resources," explains Rohit Valia, Director of Enterprise Marketing at Platform Computing, 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... (more)