With Cloud Expo 2012 Silicon Valley (11th Cloud Expo) due to open in five weeks' time at the Santa Clara Convention Center, CA - co-located with 2nd International Big Data Expo - let's introduce you in greater detail to the distinguished individuals in our incredible Speaker Faculty for the technical program at the West Coast conference...
We have technical and strategy sessions for you dealing with every nook and cranny of Cloud Computing & Big Data, but what of those who are presenting? Who...Oct. 4, 2012 07:00 AM EDT Reads: 2,568
Are you aware of the new reality that cloud computing is bringing to bear? Cloud is not as global as you might think.
The global acceptance of cloud computing has caused a spike in demand for multi-national cloud capability. As a result, cloud companies are facing an intimidating next step – expanding to new international markets. The Netherlands is the leading cloud hub in Europe that can address this process specific to transatlantic cloud expansion and how to intelligently establish the hig...
Information and identities are the lifeblood of your enterprise, yet the use of public cloud services challenge many legacy approaches to protecting what’s important. The move to the cloud requires a new control point that provides visibility and protection of your critical information and identity assets.
In his session at the 11th International Cloud Expo, Nico Popp, Vice President of Product Management and Development for Symantec O3, learn how Symantec O3 can help you realize the vision of...
Choosing how to build a cloud is perhaps the biggest strategic decision IT leaders will make this decade. It will determine their organizational competitiveness, flexibility, and IT economics.
In his General Session at the 11th International Cloud Expo, Gordon Haff, Cloud Evangelist at Red Hat, will discuss the evolution of cloud computing and the options you have to build a cloud. He will also detail an open source approach to cloud computing that includes open standards, choice of infrastruc...
No one disputes cloud computing as a viable resource delivery model. Now the challenge? Deliver the best solution in a world where processor power follows Moore’s Law, storage is bound by the physics of spinning media, and cloud providers need to deliver optimized system level performance at a reasonable cost. Solid State Storage combined with dynamic, intelligent caching software to “learn” data “hot spots” and move them transparently onto flash memory fills the gap.
In his session at the 11th...
Will cloud surveillance be the next big cloud revolution or is it just the inevitable evolution of the way 'the cloud' evolves?
In his session at the 11th International Cloud Expo, Rishi Lodhia, CEO & Founder of CameraManager.com, will elaborate on the enormous business potential behind cloud surveillance. The session will train delegates on the potential business architectures that cloud surveillance encompasses and how these business architectures could be translated into real business oppor...
As data continues to grow at unprecedented rates, businesses are struggling to keep up with storage needs and requirements. A new type of cloud has emerged that helps manage information – Cloud 2.0, which puts the control of cloud hosting environments into the hands of business professionals. Now, companies can focus on their core business instead of on their IT delivery model – while still achieving control, flexibility, reliability and cost efficiency.
In his session at the 11th Internationa...
Dealing with the influx of massive amounts of unstructured data is becoming a major challenge for enterprises. Object Storage is what brings Big Data and Cloud Computing together.
In his session at the 11th International Cloud Expo, Tom Leyden, Director of Alliances and Marketing at Amplidata, will run through the recent evolution of those paradigms, explain how they are related, affected each other and he will show you how your business can benefit from these recent innovations. Big Data at t...
When the advent of Infrastructure-as-a-Service first took hold a few years back, virtualization of the network was nothing but a pie in the sky idea. Fast-forward a few years and the race to achieve network virtualization is reaching the finish line.
In his session at the 11th International Cloud Expo, James Meredith, a product manager for the Rackspace Open Cloud, will discuss how software-defined networking (SDN) will break down another barrier to entry for cloud, pros and cons and everythin...
In a little over two years, OpenStack has shattered adoption benchmarks set by previous open source projects and gained acceptance as the future of the data center, but has your career kept up with its blistering pace?
In her session at the 11th International Cloud Expo, Niki Acosta, Product Evangelist for Rackspace Private Cloud, will explain how they have already made a career out of the OpenStack movement and how you can make the transition into making OpenStack your full-time job, from bec...
As the name suggests our Government SaaS Entrepreneur program tailors their venture accelerator for apps for the public sector.
Examples of apps that have already gone through this process include Huddle IL3, referring to it being suitable for the UK’s information security classification IL3. This ...
A coworker and I put a couple pieces of open source software (OSSEC and Snort) together to respond to certain types of automated attacks we were seeing in our IDS (we use Snort in this case). Prior to this, an engineer would manually respond to alerts by logging into our firewall and blocking the IP...
While many new technologies claim to revolutionize the practice of disaster recovery (DR) for IT environments, few have significantly altered the economics and logistics of building and maintaining a secondary IT site. For most organizations, a secondary site housing server and storage infrastructur...
Why active-active is not best practice in the data center, and shouldn't be in the cloud either.
Last time we dove into a "Load Balancing 101" discussion we looked at the difference between architected for scale and architected for fail. The question that usually pops up after such a discussion i...
Making the most of your virtualized environment means monitoring performance and making changes to optimize performance. The fact is that there are a number of things that can hamper performance in a virtualized environment, and if you’re not looking at all of them you can find yourself with an unex...
You may think that the worldwide economic downturn has negatively impacted most CIO's budgets, but so far that hasn't been the case. According to the latest market study by IDC, worldwide IT spending remains on course to grow by 6 percent this year in constant currency, that's only slightly down on ...
Recently, I’ve been working closely with a number of large enterprise clients who have already gone or will soon go live with Layer 7 solutions at the core of mission-critical infrastructure. I’ve observed that, in the API Management space, proof of concept and initial projects often focus on functi...
About a decade ago, researchers began to study the performance of e-government portals in order to identify best practices. Studies have also focused on identifying the factors that influence the information quality these portals offer to the public. Most of these studies consider only portal output...
The issue of Big Data seems very prevalent these days. How to store it. How to manage it. And, how to best secure it. But Big Data is much more complex than a voluminous amount of information. It requires a new paradigm in application, process, and security...all from the cloud.
There’s data. And t...
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