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Want to make sense of the hottest new concept in Enterprise IT?
Want to understand in just hours what experts have spent many hundreds of days deciphering?
Cloud computing is a technology that has rapidly evolving peppered with a lot of hype along the way. Customers find it hard to navigate through this and make sense of what aspects of this technology will give them real business benefit..
Cloud Expo's ever-popular Cloud Computing Bootcamp is a great way to get a practical understanding of this technology. We offer multiple days of actionable insight into what vendor offerings are currently available and help you comprehend their strategy.
Allow the experts who keep a tab on the hype to help you differentiate between "cloudwashed" and real cloud solutions.
The ever-popular Bootcamp, which is now held regularly around the world, is being held this time round in conjunction the 10th Cloud Expo in New York, NY (June 11-14, 2012). It is led by our 2012 Bootcamp Instructor Larry Carvalho.
BOOTCAMP SUMMARY: A compelling deep-dive into just what it takes to take full advantage of cloud computing. Get a fuller understanding of the capabilities of different vendors and how they address rapidly changing market demands.
7th Cloud Expo in Silicon Valley- the Expo Floor attracted more than
4,500 delegates in four days!
A Rock Star Faculty, Top Keynotes, High-Energy Sessions, and Cloud-savvy Delegates!
Cloud Expo New York will feature 150+ technical sessions from a rock star conference faculty and the leading Cloud industry players in the world.
All the main layers of the Cloud ecosystem will be represented in the 8th International Cloud Computing Conference & Expo - the infrastructure players, the platform providers, and those offering applications. And they'll all be back to speak, sponsor, exhibit and network this November, too, in Santa Clara!
The high-energy New York event is a must-attend for senior technologists including CIOs, CTOs, directors of infrastructure, VPs of technology, IT directors and managers, network and storage managers, network engineers, enterprise architects, and communications and networking specialists.
Themes & Topics to Be Discussed in 200+ Technical Sessions
• Cloud Enablement
• Bringing Chargeback to x the Cloud
• Consumption-Based xBilling
• Java in the Cloud
• Cloud-Based xCompliance
• Cloud Federation and xIntercloud
• Virtual Private SaaS x (VPS)
• Hardware as a Service
• SaaS, PaaS, and IaaS
• Green IT
• Application Portability
• Virtual Private xInter-Cloud
• Automation
• High-Performance xComputing
• Cloudsourcing
• Grid Software
• Cloud-Delivered Testing
• Cloud Lock-in vs. x Cloud Interoperability
• Web-scale Computing
• In-Cloud Data x Encryption
• Cloud Delivered Security
• Cloud Reliability
• Cloud Serviceability x & Architecture
• Elastic Computing
• Secure Cloud x Computing
• Cloud Management
• Cloud Databases
• Private vs. Public Clouds
• Cloud Computing & SOA
• Enterprise Cloud
• Scalability g
• Internal Clouds
• Cloud Analytics
• Cloud Computing & xSMBs
• Cloud Applications
• Enterprise Cloud x Orchestration
• Multi-Cloud World
• Fabric Computing
• Cloud Internetworking
• Eclipse & Cloud xComputing
• HPC in the Cloud
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SYS-CON Events Expo Floor at New York City’s Jacob Javits Convention Center
Benefits of Visiting the Cloud Expo Floor
VISIT our 100+ booths, demo theaters and exhibits and ask questions face-to-face with vendors that might save your company millions of dollars.
ENJOY special events & giveaways, happening throughout the largest Cloud conference in the world.
WIN software and services offered by sponsors & exhibitors in various drawings
VIEW industry movers and shakers being interviewed live at our on-site SYS-CON.TV studio.
RELAX in our Beanbag Lounge and take advantage of our free wireless broadband.
SOA in the Cloud
The convergence of SOA and Cloud Computing is now so clear as an industry-wide trend, SOA in the Cloud track will cover rich content focus at the Cloud Expo In New York.
RIAs in the Cloud
The rise of RIAs and cloud computing are spawning the need for contextual apps that take advantage of specific functionality offered by operating systems and devices. RIAs in the Cloud track is designed to examine all aspects of RIAs and the cloud.
Vivek Kundra, the former CIO of the US federal government, an early evangelist of cloud computing, has been hired by cloud pioneer salesforce.com as EVP of emerging markets.
Salesforce snaring him is considered something of a coup. The company didn’t explain what the job entails and Forbes assumes he’s there as a rainmaker to make government contracts happen despite the pressure on budgets.
The New Delhi-born Kundra and his Rolodex left government service and the Obama administration last August for a fellowship at Harvard conducting research at both the Berkman Center for Internet & Society and the Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy. Academic life generally isn’t very profitable.
Flexiant, one of only three independent public cloud providers in Europe, is refocusing for aggressive growth by bringing in new management.
It has hired George Knox as CEO, replacing the Scottish start-up’s co-founder and original CEO Alex Bligh, and tapped John Pocock as chairman.
It is also advertising the fact that it’s gotten $1.5 million in funding. Apparently that’s the $1.5 million it got in November reportedly from some 20 angel investors as well as its own management.
The money was earmarked for working capital as the start-up builds out its Amazon-like FlexiScale public cloud, Europe’s first cloud platform launched in 2007. The company’s flagship Extility software, launched in March 2010, lets service providers build their own clouds and automate provisioning.
Now that SSL has been compromised, fake certificates abound, and very sophisticated attacks are targeting private and public sector alike, enterprise adoption of cloud computing is coming under more scrutiny than ever. Nobody wants to be the next high-profile name in the news.
In his general session at the 9th International Cloud Expo, Terry Woloszyn, Founder/CTO of PerspecSys Inc., introduced some of the key privacy, residency, and security areas to consider when adopting public cloud applications, and best practices for securing cloud to be enterprise-ready.
Salesforce.com on Monday announced that Vivek Kundra has joined the company as executive vice president of emerging markets. Kundra is an accomplished technology leader with a demonstrated track record of driving innovation.
As the first Chief Information Officer of the United States, Kundra managed more than $80 billion in technology investments at one of the world's largest information technology organizations. He was an early evangelist of the benefits of cloud computing in the public sector. Kundra authored the groundbreaking Cloud-First policy, which now serves as a model for government IT organizations around the world seeking to increase efficiencies with less resources.
Security is moving to Trust Management and the Cloud is going to make it happen. In a connected world security is morphing quickly and we are no longer focused on disconnected servers, objects and things.
In his general session at the 9th International Cloud Expo, Scott Chasin, CTO McAfee Content & Cloud Security, discussed how it's a relationship-driven world where security is now largely about the identity of everything and how we manage security is going to come down to identifying trusted relationships.
Scott Chasin is CTO McAfee Content & Cloud Security. He is widely recognized as a pioneer and leading visionary in the cloud security industry, having pioneered the development and marketing of several SaaS-based messaging, collaboration and security-focused technologies. He is credited with the launch of the first Web-based email consumer service, and delivered the first IP-based...
The world is getting smarter – more instrumented, interconnected and intelligent. At the same time, IT leaders are faced with the challenge to do more and support aggressive business growth, while reducing costs. Business leaders feel pressure to initiate new revenue streams, drive faster time-to-market for new services and meet changing customer expectations. With cloud computing, business and IT can create and deliver value in fundamentally new ways by removing IT boundaries, improving speed-to-market, and empowering users to drive innovation like never before. Next-generation cloud platforms and new “as-a-service” industry solutions are emerging to help shape this innovation.
In his general session at the 9th International Cloud Expo, Rich Lechner, Vice President Energy & Environment at IBM, discussed the latest in these cloud technologies and how they enable companies to truly re-t...
CiRBA on Monday announced the appointment of Max Staines to the position of vice president of sales. Staines comes from Compass Management Group, a global provider of consulting services focused on IT performance, where he was president of the company's North American division. In his role at CiRBA, Staines is charged with expanding CiRBA's Fortune 1000 customer base.
"Max possesses a wealth of experience in helping Fortune 1000 organizations improve efficiency in their IT operations," says Gerry Smith, president and CEO, CiRBA. "I'm confident Max's understanding of the needs of large IT departments will be of significant value to customers as we work to improve their control over data center infrastructure."
Prior to Compass, Staines was a vice president at Compuware Corp., as well as a VP at the Professional Services Automation software startup Changepoint Corp., where he was instrum...
AT&T; has joined OpenStack.
It’s the first US telecom service provider to sign up for the free Rackspace-NASA-spawned open source cloud initiative.
AT&T; CTO John Donovan said AT&T; has been participating in OpenStack for more than a year and has contributed a blueprint for a potential new function in OpenStack focused on transactional task management.
Donovan said the OpenStack IaaS is housed on dedicated infrastructure in AT&T; data centers in Dallas, San Diego and Secaucus, New Jersey, to start. The company means to more than double the number of centers with open source capabilities this year.
Evidently AT&T; is using OpenStack – or elements of it – underneath a new commodity-style cloud for developers called Cloud Architect that’s presumably intended to compete with Amazon Web Services et al.
Callidus Software announced on Monday the findings of a new research brief conducted by the Aberdeen Group, the leading provider of fact-based research helping organizations and individuals make better business decisions. The study, "Sales Performance Management 2012: CallidusCloud™ Customers Drive Best-in-Class Practices and Results," December 2011, is based on a survey conducted in September and October 2011 to learn about the sales performance management practices at leading sales organizations.
Authored by Peter Ostrow, Vice President and Group Director, Sales Effectiveness, Aberdeen Group, the study finds that CallidusCloud customers outperformed all other firms in overall team attainment of quota, percentage of sales reps attaining quota, and percentage of first-year reps attaining quota -- three of the most critical quota-related performance metrics.
Amazon Web Services on Monday announced that customers can now run their Microsoft Windows Server applications within the AWS Free Usage Tier – a program designed to help new AWS customers get started in the cloud. Developers and businesses with Windows Server applications can take advantage of 750 hours of Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) Micro Instance usage per month, at no charge for a one year period. With the expansion of the AWS Free Usage Tier, Windows developers now have access to the same free resources on AWS as Linux developers -- providing the ability to launch new applications, test existing applications in the cloud, or gain hands-on experience with AWS. For more details and information on getting started with Windows on AWS, visit http://aws.amazon.com/windows/.
“Our customers want the flexibility to choose how they build their applications without being locke...
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Cloud Expo 2010 East Opening Keynote by Oracle
View this Keynote, recorded live at the Jacob Javits Center, featuring Richard Sarwal, CSVP of Development and Hasan Rizvi, Senior Vice President of Oracle Fusion Middleware Products.
The Science of Doing Business in the Clouds
During this Cloud Expo Day Two Keynote, Tony Bishop will describe Adaptivity’s systematic and prescriptive approach that combines Fit-for-Purpose infrastructure technologies and management capabilities in order to create the optimal economics, environment and autonomics needed for the business to leverage cloud services.
Pete Malcolm, CEO of Abiquo Live From New York City
Join Pete Malcolm, CEO Abiquo, for this vendor-neutral keynote, where you will learn about the next chapter in the Virtualization story. What it is, what it means, why open standards are key, and most importantly, how it will revolutionize the way your organization manages IT.
Keynote: Cloud Computing: Separating Hype from Reality
Rex Wang, VP of Product Marketing at Oracle will explore how enterprises are likely to adopt public and private cloud computing, building on a foundation of virtualization infrastructure and management systems.
The Time is Right for Enterprise Cloud Computing
During his keynote, Rich Marcello, Senior Vice President of Unisys, will discuss the latest technologies and approaches that help knock down these barriers, creating the opportunity for attendees to now consider cloud managed services as part of their data center journey to secure "IT as a Service".
Accelerating Innovation with Cloud Computing
Join Shelton Shugar, Senior Vice President of Cloud Computing at Yahoo! for a keynote elaborating on how Yahoo! and consumers benefit from Yahoo! Cloud Services and will describe Yahoo! Cloud Services and technologies.
Now that SSL has been compromised, fake certificates abound, and very sophisticated attacks are targeting private and public sector alike, enterprise adoption of cloud computing is coming under more scrutiny than ever. Nobody wants to be the next high-profile name in the news.
In his general session at the 9th International Cloud Expo, Terry Woloszyn, Founder/CTO of PerspecSys Inc., introduced some of the key privacy, residency, and security areas to consider when adopting public cloud applica...
Security is moving to Trust Management and the Cloud is going to make it happen. In a connected world security is morphing quickly and we are no longer focused on disconnected servers, objects and things.
In his general session at the 9th International Cloud Expo, Scott Chasin, CTO McAfee Content & Cloud Security, discussed how it's a relationship-driven world where security is now largely about the identity of everything and how we manage security is going to come down to identifying trusted ...
The world is getting smarter – more instrumented, interconnected and intelligent. At the same time, IT leaders are faced with the challenge to do more and support aggressive business growth, while reducing costs. Business leaders feel pressure to initiate new revenue streams, drive faster time-to-market for new services and meet changing customer expectations. With cloud computing, business and IT can create and deliver value in fundamentally new ways by removing IT boundaries, improving speed-t...
2011 was a year of rapid adoption for public and private cloud services. Instant and on-demand server provisioning was the driving force behind the massive growth. On top, cloud server templates and script automation simplified application installation for simple and pre-defined application stacks, but have not targeted more complex enterprise application environments.
In his session at the 10th International Cloud Expo, John Yung, CEO of Appcara, will discuss how 2012 will be the year for app...
SYS-CON Events announced today that MomentumSI, a leading boutique IT consultancy, will exhibit at 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.
MomentumSI is a leading boutique IT consultancy that helps large enterprises transform IT processes and infrastructures into strategic advantage. MomentumSI helps clients align business needs with IT processes so they can more rapidly deploy new business innovations....
How do organizations maximize the investment in their existing IT infrastructure while simultaneously evolving to the cloud? To get maximum benefits of agility and re-use of all resources, organizations must pool their resources, and allow automated provisioning and decommissioning of template-based service profiles that cover computing, networking, and storage resources, both physical and virtual.
In her general session at the 9th International Cloud Expo, Garima Thockchom, VP Marketing at Gal...
Building a cloud computing environment with on-demand access to compute, network, and storage resources requires an elastic infrastructure at multiple levels. Virtualization combined with x86 servers has transformed the way we scale out compute resources. Unfortunately, legacy Fibre Channel and iSCSI storage architectures are rooted in rigid mainframe-era designs, and are fundamentally mismatched with the dynamic, shared modern data center.
In his session at the 10th International Cloud Expo, ...
Cloud computing is instant computing. In the past it took weeks, months to provision new computing but cloud provisioning happens instantly. In his general session at the 9th International Cloud Expo, John Engates, CTO of Rackspace, discussed the power of the cloud, and how it's here to help you.
John Engates is CTO of Rackspace. He joined the company in August of 2000 and has worked in several areas of Rackspace including Operations, Professional Services and Customer Care. Most recently, Enga...
SYS-CON Events announced today that UnboundID, a leading provider of identity data solutions for cloud, telco and mobile computing, will exhibit at 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.
UnboundID is a leading platform provider for identity services enabling companies to dynamically manage customer lifecycles while sharing and protecting real-time intelligence across cloud, mobile and social applicatio...
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...
Featured on Cloud Commons Gartner report: The Cloud is Less Important than
the Cloud Operating Model
Do cloud service providers have a new and better approach to IT operations
figured out – and can enterprises learn from them? In this report by
Cameron Haight of Gartner (available free of charge on Cloud Commons),
Cameron details new approaches to application and infrastructure architecture
that some large public cloud firms are using to improve service delivery.
Read the full report.
Feature article On Cloud Computing Standards and Definitions
When I go to the gas station these days, I am never certain how much I am
going to be charged per gallon; however, I am always certain that I won't be
cheated on the volume. If the pump reads four gallons, I never question
whether I actually got four gallons. While I never have actually gone to the
office in any high rise I h... (more)
In this fast-moving high-level CEO 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 Michael Crandell, CEO and a founder of RightScale; Treb Ryan, CEO of OpSource; Cory Isaacson, CEO/CTO of CodeFutures Corporation; Brad Hokamp, President of Layered Technologies; Lawrence Guillory, CEO of Racemi; Andy Burton, CEO of Rise; and Paulo Rosado, Founder & CEO of OutSystems. Some of the main topics discussed include the big issues facing companies in cloud computing, the critical tools and infrastructure required, and the shift in the way IT infrastructure is being deployed and consumed.
In this brand new SYS-CON.TV Power Panel, recorded in Times Square on the eve of Cloud Expo Silicon Valley, which was held in Santa Clara, CA, November 1 -4, 2010, Cloud Expo Conference Chair Jeremy Geelan discusses the State of the Nation with regard to Enterprise Cloud Computing with Unisys' Sam Gross & Jill T. Singer, CIO of the National Reconnaissance Office. Also on the panel is Internet security expert Patrick Hynds, Founder & President of DTS.
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 Cloud resources including private, public and hybrid Clouds through a “single pane of glass”. As a result, Abiquo customers are able to significantly decrease the cost and complexity of managing their virtual IT environments, while maintaining control of the physical infrastructure and increasing agility to change hypervisors as needed.
Want to make sense of the hottest new concept in Enterprise IT?
Want to understand in just hours what experts have spent many hundreds of days deciphering?
Cloud computing is a technology that has rapidly evolving peppered with a lot of hype along the way. Customers find it hard to navigate through this and make sense of what aspects of this technology will give them real business benefit.
Cloud Computing Bootcamp, led by our 2011 Bootcamp Instructor Larry Carvalho, is a great way to get a practical understanding of this technology. We offer multiple days of actionable insight into what vendor offerings are currently available and help you comprehend their strategy.
The ever-popular Bootcamp, which is now held regularly around the world, is being held in conjunction with the 9th Cloud Expo, November 7-10, 2011, at the Santa Clara Convention Center, Santa Clara, CA.
I can't comprehend that any event producer anywhere in the world today would answer this question by picking any one of the five available options presented. "A leading tool?" What do you mean by "a leading tool?" What other tools would you possibly have in this day and age? This question, the survey itself and its participants belong to the last decade.
I personally don't use email anymore; I communicate through "Twitter."
We don't do press releases unless we have to; we tweet stories to our roughly 12,000 followers in 8 channels. The news gets amplified to hundreds of thousands instantly.
Even during Cloud Expo, we reach more people by Twitter than the announcements we make through loudspeakers in the convention centers.
I would love to contact the people who are conducting this survey and ask them if any company answered their first question as "don't really consider it."
In an age where I personally hail a cab at an airport through Twitter, I can't possibly comprehend which century bubble those people might be living in.
Is there still a distinction between public, private and hybrid cloud?
In this fast-moving high-level CTO 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 discusses this and other topics such as cloud security and innovation in the cloud with Rich Wolski, CTO and Co-founder of Eucalyptus Systems; Vineet Tyagi, Head of Impetus Labs at Impetus Technologies; Bill Zack, Architect Evangelist with Microsoft; Scott Chasin, CTO at McAfee Content & Cloud; Mark Hinkle, Vice President of Community at Cloud.com; Logan McLeod, Director of Cloud Strategy at Dell; and Zach Smith, COO at Voxel.
A selection of some of the many themes & topics to be discussed at Cloud Expo Silicon Valley (9th Cloud Expo) - being held November 7-10, 2011, at the Santa Clara Convention Center, CA. The markets may still be melting, but Cloud Expo is definitely coming of age!
In his Cloud Expo session, The Basics of Automating a Cloud Storage Service, Abiquo's Azmir Mohamed will be discussiong how the complexity of combining server virtualization with storage virtualization, automation, self-service catalogs and other enabling technologies has become a huge barrier for the IT teams who have to deliver the cloud services. The good news, he will be telling Cloud Expo delegates, is that some cloud vendors have recognized this issue and have partnered to deliver integrated solutions offering the flexibility and cost benefits of cloud on top of familiar infrastructure products.
At the 8th International Cloud Computing Expo in New York City in June 2011, Jill Tummler Singer - CIO of the National Reconnaissance Office - answered the question: "Is Enterprise Cloud Computing for real?" In a follow-on session at Cloud Expo Silicon Valley (9th Cloud Expo), called Riding the Enterprise Cloud Computing Wave of Change into the Future, she will be discussing key elements needed for a triumphant enterprise cloud computing migration and highlight strategies (including security advantages found in the cloud) to ensure that no one crashes and gets caught in the riptide of this rapidly emerging technology.
There is one constant in data centers: Application groups always need more. Until recently, apps have been at the mercy of IT operations to feed their need.
In his Keynote at the 9th International Cloud Expo, Pete Malcolm will discuss how with the advent of public cloud offerings, apps can bypass ops entirely and get the resources they need with just a few clicks and a credit card. What does this mean for the future of IT ops?
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", Malcolm 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 Orchestria, Benchmark Capital's first European Entrepreneur-in-Residence, and a Senior Vice President with CA, Inc.
Ulitzer.com announced "the World's 30 most influential Cloud bloggers," who collectively generated more than 24 million Ulitzer page views. Ulitzer's annual "most influential Cloud bloggers" list was announced at Cloud Expo, which drew more delegates than all other Cloud-related events put together worldwide. "The world's 50 most influential Cloud bloggers 2010" list will be announced at the Cloud Expo 2010 East, which will take place April 19-21, 2010, at the Jacob Javitz Convention Center, in New York City, with more than 5,000 expected to attend.
Cloud computing is becoming one of the next industry buzz words. It joins the ranks of terms including: grid computing, utility computing, virtualization, clustering, etc.
Cloud computing overlaps some of the concepts of distributed, grid and utility computing, however it does have its own meaning if contextually used correctly. The conceptual overlap is partly due to technology changes, usages and implementations over the years.
Trends in usage of the terms from Google searches shows Cloud Computing is a relatively new term introduced in the past year. There has also been a decline in general interest of Grid, Utility and Distributed computing.
Likely they will be around in usage for quit a while to come. But Cloud computing has become the new buzz word driven largely by marketing and service offerings from big corporate players like Google, IBM and Amazon.
SYS-CON Events announced today that Cloud Expo 2012 New York, the 10th International Cloud Computing Conference & Expo, will take place June 11-14, 2012, at the Javits Center in New York City.
The International Cloud Computing Conference & Expo series is the world's leading Cloud-focused event and is held three times a year, in New York, Silicon Valley and in Europe. Over 400 corporate sponsors and 20,000 industry professionals have participated in Cloud Expo since its inception, more than all other Cloud-related events put together.
"10th Cloud Expo is trending to be both the biggest ever and the best-attended event in the international Cloud Expo series to date, so it is only natural that we should be holding it in the biggest and best conference venue anywhere on the East Coast, the Jacob K. Javits Convention Center," stated Carmen Gonzalez, CEO of Cloud Expo. "If you are not at Cloud Expo New York, June 11-14, at the Javits Center, then you risk not getting the relevant parts of your IT infrastructure into the Cloud in time."
"New infrastructure and operations technologies such as cloud services and virtualization ... were selected by CIOs the most often and are the top-two technologies for 2011," said Mark McDonald, group vice president and head of research for Gartner Executive Programs, as the results were announced of the 2011 CIO Agenda survey by Gartner Executive Programs (EXP).
The worldwide CIO survey was conducted by Gartner EXP from September to December 2010 and represents CIO budget plans reported at that time. According to the results, CIOs expect to adopt new cloud services much faster than originally expected. Currently, 3% of CIOs have the majority of IT running in the cloud or on SaaS technologies, but over the next four years CIOs expect this number to increase to 43%.
Cloud Expo, Cloud Expo East, Cloud Expo West, Cloud Expo Silicon Valley, Cloud Expo Europe, Cloud Expo Tokyo, Cloud Expo Prague, Cloud Expo Hong Kong, Cloud Expo Sao Paolo are trademarks and /or registered trademarks (USPTO serial number 85009040) of Cloud Expo, Inc.
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Big Data is Big, but it also causes a lot of confusion. Big Data is used for anything related storage these days, so people don’t know anymore what it exactly is. Is it Hadoop? Is it analytics? It doesn’t need to be that complicated though. There are two kinds of Big Data: Big Data (for analytics) a...
While large enterprises have a many barriers to cloud adoption, small businesses have a lower barrier. Small businesses run on the trust factor without involving an army of lawyers that they cannot afford. This is one of the leading reasons why the rate of cloud computing adoption is high among sm...
There is a series of advertisements for Capital One aired in the US featuring Vikings talking about “more points” from their credit cards that asks “What’s in your wallet?” While they’re entertaining, I never understood what Vikings had to do with a credit card, other than perhaps both like to plund...
When I was first entering IT I had the good (or bad, depending on how you look at it) fortune to be involved in some of the first Internet-facing projects at a global transportation organization. We made mistakes and learned lessons and eventually got down to the business of architecting a framework...
This week, a CloudArray user sent us this email, and he gave me permission to share it. CloudArray has been installed in lots of countries, but I think this is the first airborne installation! We love getting product feedback (good and bad) to help us improve the CloudArray user experience. Thanks t...
Everyone, I’m sure, has had the experience of calling customer service. First you get the automated system, which often asks for your account number. You know, to direct you to the right place and “serve you better.” Everyone has also likely been exasperated when the first question asked by a custom...
The core purpose of the Cloud Best Practices Network is to identify the various specifications that define what the best practices are for implementing Cloud Computing, and then organize support activities for customers to implement them.
It’s possible to consider them the ‘official’ best practic...
Sometime ago, we covered how an admin can create a team folder for the team members to share and collaborate. The concept there was more like a file server kind of sharing, where everyone on the team sees the same folder.
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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...
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Vivek Kundra, the former CIO of the US federal government, an early evangelist of cloud computing, has been hired by cloud pioneer salesforce.com as EVP of emerging markets.
Salesforce snaring him is considered something of a coup. The company didn’t explain what the job entails and Forbes assumes he’s there as a rainmaker to make government contracts happen despite the pressure on budgets.
The New Delhi-born Kundra and his Rolodex left government service and the Obama administration last August for a fellowship at Harvard conducting research at both the Berkman Center for Internet & Society and the Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy. Academic life generally isn’t very profitable.
Flexiant, one of only three independent public cloud providers in Europe, is refocusing for aggressive growth by bringing in new management.
It has hired George Knox as CEO, replacing the Scottish start-up’s co-founder and original CEO Alex Bligh, and tapped John Pocock as chairman.
It is also advertising the fact that it’s gotten $1.5 million in funding. Apparently that’s the $1.5 million it got in November reportedly from some 20 angel investors as well as its own management.
The money was earmarked for working capital as the start-up builds out its Amazon-like FlexiScale public cloud, Europe’s first cloud platform launched in 2007. The company’s flagship Extility software, launched in March 2010, lets service providers build their own clouds and automate provisioning. 
Now that SSL has been compromised, fake certificates abound, and very sophisticated attacks are targeting private and public sector alike, enterprise adoption of cloud computing is coming under more scrutiny than ever. Nobody wants to be the next high-profile name in the news.
In his general session at the 9th International Cloud Expo, Terry Woloszyn, Founder/CTO of PerspecSys Inc., introduced some of the key privacy, residency, and security areas to consider when adopting public cloud applications, and best practices for securing cloud to be enterprise-ready.
Salesforce.com on Monday announced that Vivek Kundra has joined the company as executive vice president of emerging markets. Kundra is an accomplished technology leader with a demonstrated track record of driving innovation.
As the first Chief Information Officer of the United States, Kundra managed more than $80 billion in technology investments at one of the world's largest information technology organizations. He was an early evangelist of the benefits of cloud computing in the public sector. Kundra authored the groundbreaking Cloud-First policy, which now serves as a model for government IT organizations around the world seeking to increase efficiencies with less resources.
Security is moving to Trust Management and the Cloud is going to make it happen. In a connected world security is morphing quickly and we are no longer focused on disconnected servers, objects and things.
In his general session at the 9th International Cloud Expo, Scott Chasin, CTO McAfee Content & Cloud Security, discussed how it's a relationship-driven world where security is now largely about the identity of everything and how we manage security is going to come down to identifying trusted relationships.
Scott Chasin is CTO McAfee Content & Cloud Security. He is widely recognized as a pioneer and leading visionary in the cloud security industry, having pioneered the development and marketing of several SaaS-based messaging, collaboration and security-focused technologies. He is credited with the launch of the first Web-based email consumer service, and delivered the first IP-based...
The world is getting smarter – more instrumented, interconnected and intelligent. At the same time, IT leaders are faced with the challenge to do more and support aggressive business growth, while reducing costs. Business leaders feel pressure to initiate new revenue streams, drive faster time-to-market for new services and meet changing customer expectations. With cloud computing, business and IT can create and deliver value in fundamentally new ways by removing IT boundaries, improving speed-to-market, and empowering users to drive innovation like never before. Next-generation cloud platforms and new “as-a-service” industry solutions are emerging to help shape this innovation.
In his general session at the 9th International Cloud Expo, Rich Lechner, Vice President Energy & Environment at IBM, discussed the latest in these cloud technologies and how they enable companies to truly re-t...
CiRBA on Monday announced the appointment of Max Staines to the position of vice president of sales. Staines comes from Compass Management Group, a global provider of consulting services focused on IT performance, where he was president of the company's North American division. In his role at CiRBA, Staines is charged with expanding CiRBA's Fortune 1000 customer base.
"Max possesses a wealth of experience in helping Fortune 1000 organizations improve efficiency in their IT operations," says Gerry Smith, president and CEO, CiRBA. "I'm confident Max's understanding of the needs of large IT departments will be of significant value to customers as we work to improve their control over data center infrastructure."
Prior to Compass, Staines was a vice president at Compuware Corp., as well as a VP at the Professional Services Automation software startup Changepoint Corp., where he was instrum...
AT&T; has joined OpenStack.
It’s the first US telecom service provider to sign up for the free Rackspace-NASA-spawned open source cloud initiative.
AT&T; CTO John Donovan said AT&T; has been participating in OpenStack for more than a year and has contributed a blueprint for a potential new function in OpenStack focused on transactional task management.
Donovan said the OpenStack IaaS is housed on dedicated infrastructure in AT&T; data centers in Dallas, San Diego and Secaucus, New Jersey, to start. The company means to more than double the number of centers with open source capabilities this year.
Evidently AT&T; is using OpenStack – or elements of it – underneath a new commodity-style cloud for developers called Cloud Architect that’s presumably intended to compete with Amazon Web Services et al. 
Callidus Software announced on Monday the findings of a new research brief conducted by the Aberdeen Group, the leading provider of fact-based research helping organizations and individuals make better business decisions. The study, "Sales Performance Management 2012: CallidusCloud™ Customers Drive Best-in-Class Practices and Results," December 2011, is based on a survey conducted in September and October 2011 to learn about the sales performance management practices at leading sales organizations.
Authored by Peter Ostrow, Vice President and Group Director, Sales Effectiveness, Aberdeen Group, the study finds that CallidusCloud customers outperformed all other firms in overall team attainment of quota, percentage of sales reps attaining quota, and percentage of first-year reps attaining quota -- three of the most critical quota-related performance metrics. 
Amazon Web Services on Monday announced that customers can now run their Microsoft Windows Server applications within the AWS Free Usage Tier – a program designed to help new AWS customers get started in the cloud. Developers and businesses with Windows Server applications can take advantage of 750 hours of Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) Micro Instance usage per month, at no charge for a one year period. With the expansion of the AWS Free Usage Tier, Windows developers now have access to the same free resources on AWS as Linux developers -- providing the ability to launch new applications, test existing applications in the cloud, or gain hands-on experience with AWS. For more details and information on getting started with Windows on AWS, visit http://aws.amazon.com/windows/.
“Our customers want the flexibility to choose how they build their applications without being locke...
2011 was a year of rapid adoption for public and private cloud services. Instant and on-demand server provisioning was the driving force behind the massive growth. On top, cloud server templates and script automation simplified application installation for simple and pre-defined application stacks, but have not targeted more complex enterprise application environments.
In his session at the 10th International Cloud Expo, John Yung, CEO of Appcara, will discuss how 2012 will be the year for app...
SYS-CON Events announced today that MomentumSI, a leading boutique IT consultancy, will exhibit at 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.
MomentumSI is a leading boutique IT consultancy that helps large enterprises transform IT processes and infrastructures into strategic advantage. MomentumSI helps clients align business needs with IT processes so they can more rapidly deploy new business innovations....
How do organizations maximize the investment in their existing IT infrastructure while simultaneously evolving to the cloud? To get maximum benefits of agility and re-use of all resources, organizations must pool their resources, and allow automated provisioning and decommissioning of template-based service profiles that cover computing, networking, and storage resources, both physical and virtual.
In her general session at the 9th International Cloud Expo, Garima Thockchom, VP Marketing at Gal...
Building a cloud computing environment with on-demand access to compute, network, and storage resources requires an elastic infrastructure at multiple levels. Virtualization combined with x86 servers has transformed the way we scale out compute resources. Unfortunately, legacy Fibre Channel and iSCSI storage architectures are rooted in rigid mainframe-era designs, and are fundamentally mismatched with the dynamic, shared modern data center.
In his session at the 10th International Cloud Expo, ...
Cloud computing is instant computing. In the past it took weeks, months to provision new computing but cloud provisioning happens instantly. In his general session at the 9th International Cloud Expo, John Engates, CTO of Rackspace, discussed the power of the cloud, and how it's here to help you.
John Engates is CTO of Rackspace. He joined the company in August of 2000 and has worked in several areas of Rackspace including Operations, Professional Services and Customer Care. Most recently, Enga...
SYS-CON Events announced today that UnboundID, a leading provider of identity data solutions for cloud, telco and mobile computing, will exhibit at 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.
UnboundID is a leading platform provider for identity services enabling companies to dynamically manage customer lifecycles while sharing and protecting real-time intelligence across cloud, mobile and social applicatio...
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...
Big Data is Big, but it also causes a lot of confusion. Big Data is used for anything related storage these days, so people don’t know anymore what it exactly is. Is it Hadoop? Is it analytics? It doesn’t need to be that complicated though. There are two kinds of Big Data: Big Data (for analytics) a...
While large enterprises have a many barriers to cloud adoption, small businesses have a lower barrier. Small businesses run on the trust factor without involving an army of lawyers that they cannot afford. This is one of the leading reasons why the rate of cloud computing adoption is high among sm...
There is a series of advertisements for Capital One aired in the US featuring Vikings talking about “more points” from their credit cards that asks “What’s in your wallet?” While they’re entertaining, I never understood what Vikings had to do with a credit card, other than perhaps both like to plund...
When I was first entering IT I had the good (or bad, depending on how you look at it) fortune to be involved in some of the first Internet-facing projects at a global transportation organization. We made mistakes and learned lessons and eventually got down to the business of architecting a framework...
This week, a CloudArray user sent us this email, and he gave me permission to share it. CloudArray has been installed in lots of countries, but I think this is the first airborne installation! We love getting product feedback (good and bad) to help us improve the CloudArray user experience. Thanks t...
Everyone, I’m sure, has had the experience of calling customer service. First you get the automated system, which often asks for your account number. You know, to direct you to the right place and “serve you better.” Everyone has also likely been exasperated when the first question asked by a custom...
The core purpose of the Cloud Best Practices Network is to identify the various specifications that define what the best practices are for implementing Cloud Computing, and then organize support activities for customers to implement them.
It’s possible to consider them the ‘official’ best practic...
As part of the new features for the new year series, here is a 5 min HD video documenting the Gladinet share folder and share file features. 
Sometime ago, we covered how an admin can create a team folder for the team members to share and collaborate. The concept there was more like a file server kind of sharing, where everyone on the team sees the same folder.
In the new features for the new year article, we mentioned there is new shari...
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...
