With IT facing pressures on cost, a need to focus more on strategic innovation and significant growth in the range of devices IT must support, cloud computing holds the promise of enabling IT to be more agile and responsive. The future of cloud computing will require secure federation among clouds, breakthroughs in efficiency, and delivery of great user experiences to the myriad of devices people use. Key to unlocking cloud’s potential will be the development of open, industry standards that ena...Jan. 11, 2012 11:10 AM EST Reads: 306
SYS-CON Events announced today that Dell Boomi, the world’s largest integration cloud, has been named “Bronze 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.
Dell Boomi is the market-leading provider of on-demand integration technology and the creator of AtomSphere, the industry's #1 Integration Cloud. AtomSphere connects providers and customers of SaaS, cloud and on-premise applications via a pure ...
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.
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 ...
As enterprise adoption of cloud computing accelerates, organizations must have a strategy and plan for moving to the cloud. What should you put into public clouds? Should you create a private cloud? Should you use cloud applications, platform or infrastructure? How should organizations get started on the road to cloud computing?
In his general session at the 9th International Cloud Expo, Rex Wang, Vice President of Product Marketing at Oracle, explored best practices for how organizations can ...
“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 Je...
“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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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...
“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...
“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 ...
After a couple of weeks of vacation, some minor oral surgery, a birthday, and my five year anniversary at F5 Networks (has it really been that long?), I’m back to annoy or please you some more. Our holidays were acceptable, and here’s hoping all of you had an enjoyable time also.
One thing I notice...
Want to provide Cloud services to the federal government? Then you’ll have to adhere to almost 170 security controls under the recently announced Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program. The program, set to go live in June, is designed to analyze/audit cloud computing providers for feder...
Yes, yes I did say that. There's a reason for that, and after more than a decade of watching the markets that tangentially revolve around making applications faster I'm here to tell you it's a failure of monumental proportions.
The very term WAN Optimization has always stuck in my craw (whatever an...
One Place to download everything you need to build out a test Private Cloud using Microsoft Private Cloud software.
I get asked all of the time, hey where is that or that software. We are always coming out with new software you want to try, yes "most" (not all) everything we have you can try for up...
IBM's intended acquisition of Green Hat (announced 4 January 2012) shows commitment to the importance of the lifecycle virtualization category by IBM. As application complexity continues to expand lifecycle virtualization technology is absolutely critical to delivering a faster time-to-market and re...
In 2011, we had some really great technology advances – many were mobile-centric, but did not end there. The mobile world continued to explode in 2011 – with exponential smartphone, app and tablet growth. However, this world continues to fracture as every provider tries to carve out their piece of t...
“What are the use cases you want to pursue with your enterprise cloud project?” The question seems innocuous enough, but I can tell you from first-hand experience that it is anything but. If you asked five people from different teams within the same company to each give you three use cases, you woul...
Do you have a funny feeling that you seem to be doing the same work over and over in your office? Grand projects are initiated with a flurry of meetings and earth shaking intentions, but amnesia sets in as soon as everyone steps out of the conference room. Or responsibilities are handed from person ...
We’ve recently heard a few big announcements for mobile computing in the military, which has long been blocked by security issues. First, the US Defense Information Systems Agency approved Dell Android 2.2 for use on Department of Defense networks with a few notable limitations. DoD users won’t be a...
As we usher into the new year, one thought keeps haunting me – how many hours are we spending in front of a screen, be it our smart-phone, tablets, laptop, desktop or TV? Gone are the simple joys of life – reading a book quietly, talking a walk without any distractions, or just being quiet.
The ave...
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