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Spamhaus facing unprecedented cyber-attack There is the very real prospect of a doomsday scenario for many internet users following the alleged row between Spamhaus and a hosting firm in which retaliation attacks affecting the internet have slowed down service for users. This is according to Simon Bain, CTO of search specialists, Simplexo. Simon states: "I am not a great lover of multi-device synchronisation, I mean all those versions kicking around your systems! However if done well, it could be one of the technologies that help save 'Cloud Stores' from the idiosyncrasies of the Internet and a connected life." "It's been widely reported that we are currently witnessing a massive cyber attack happening against one of the Internets spam filters - Spamhaus - which also happens to manage some of the DNS traffic. This attack seems to be happening because Spamhaus blackli... (more)

HHS launches internal innovation incubator, Owens rewrites USPTO’s IT future and more

By Ryan Kamauff Here are the top cyber news and stories of the day. Four simple steps to protect the US from hackers – Gartner is forecasting an additional 8% cyber spend by firms in 2013, already. As well, the barrier to entry for hacking has been lowered (as Matt and I discussed in yesterday’s podcast, here). Geoff Collins of 1E states that here are the four steps necessary; “First is “Application white-listing,” which allows only authorized software to run on a computer or network. Second and third are very rapid patching of Operating Systems and software. The fourth is minim... (more)

OptoSweden is now an ABBYY Europe FlexiCapture Certified Partner

Document Solutions Experts Have Demonstrated Success at Incorporating Enterprise Capture into Business Solutions Munich, Germany (27 March, 2013) - ABBYY Europe, a leading provider of document recognition, data capture, and linguistic technologies, today announced OptoSweden, based in Täby, Sweden has joined the ABBYY European Solution Partner Programme. The certification is granted to organisations that attend and pass a full ABBYY FlexiCapture training course. OptoSweden now gains full access to ABBYY's Data and Document Capture solutions which provide a wide range of features... (more)

Symphony EYC Appoints New Account Manager to Drive Global Opportunities

March 26 2013, Symphony EYC, a global leader in customer driven retailing software and services, today announces the appointment of David Wright as Global Account Manager. Wright is tasked with using his extensive CPG experience to help manage relationships with existing global, multi-site blue chip clients headquartered out of the UK & Nordics. He will also help drive new business opportunities in the Merchandising and Category Management space across Northern Europe. Wright joins after almost seven years at The Nielsen Company, where he was International Account Manager, respo... (more)

Compuware Signs New APM Partnership

Compuware has entered into an agreement with Amdocs, a provider of customer experience systems and services, to be a supplier of application performance management (APM) for its production environments. Compuware APM - dynaTrace - will be one of Amdocs' preferred production monitoring and support solutions, facilitating solution development and testing and helping to drive faster delivery and better solution performance and stability. "Traditional" APM tools do not provide the flexibility, agility and visibility required to handle the increasing complexity of applications and ... (more)

Cloud Expo Breaking News
By Pat Romanski
“The myriad of compliance requirements nowadays present a complex matrix of challenges for cloud adoptees,” said Greg Rusu, General Manager of Public Cloud at PEER 1 Hosting, in this exclusive Q&A; with Cloud Expo Conference Chair Jeremy Geelan. “Clients should look for recognized certifications from their cloud provider,” Rusu continued, “as well as to longevity in serving clients in the industry for which the certifications are required.” Cloud Computing Journal: The move to cloud isn't about ...
Mar. 27, 2013 02:00 PM EDT  Reads: 1,752
By Liz McMillan
A lot of companies are checking the NoSQL conversation box these days but end up getting confused by the sheer amount of information that is available on the Internet. In his session at the 12th International Cloud Expo, Sam Bisbee, Director of Technical Business Development at Cloudant, will look at how NoSQL impacts your application building decisions. He will discuss some of the insider baseball in the NoSQL community, cover a few tons of misconceptions, and discuss Cloudant's views on what...
Mar. 27, 2013 01:30 PM EDT  Reads: 1,773
By Elizabeth White
SYS-CON Events announced today that Dell Inc. has been named “Silver Sponsor” of SYS-CON's 12th International Cloud Expo, which will take place on June 10–13, 2013, at the Javits Center in New York City, New York. For more than 28 years, Dell has empowered countries, communities, customers and people everywhere to use technology to realize their dreams. Customers trust Dell to deliver technology solutions that help them do and achieve more, whether they're at home, work, school or anywhere in t...
Mar. 27, 2013 12:00 PM EDT  Reads: 1,002
By Elizabeth White
The world’s first vendor neutral marketplace for IaaS (Infrastructure as a Service) cloud computing is being built. This marketplace fills the current gap in the value chain by offering standardized products and by addressing the needs of providers and consumers of cloud computing resources. Zimory is the technical partner for the settlement process of this project. In his session at the 12th International Cloud Expo, Ruediger Baumann, CEO of Zimory, will introduce the marketplace from the tec...
Mar. 27, 2013 11:00 AM EDT  Reads: 2,817
By Elizabeth White
“The industry has already achieved significant headway on lowering costs for cloud-based services in 2012,” said Dale Wang, Senior Product Manager at XO Communications, in this exclusive Q&A; with Cloud Expo Conference Chair Jeremy Geelan. “However,” Wang noted, “trust is probably an area that will require further work as we continue to hear in the news about outages and data breaches.” Cloud Computing Journal: The move to cloud isn't about saving money, it is about saving time. – Agree or disag...
Mar. 27, 2013 11:00 AM EDT  Reads: 1,621
By Liz McMillan
SYS-CON Events announced today that Obsidian Strategics, the pioneer of “InfiniBand over the WAN,” will exhibit at SYS-CON's 12th International Cloud Expo, which will take place on June 10–13, 2013, at the Javits Center in New York City, New York. The Obsidian Longbow™ family of products extend InfiniBand clusters over Campus, Metro, Regional or Global Area optical networks enabling unparalleled DR applications over long-distance, high-bandwidth video transmission and efficient movement of Big ...
Mar. 27, 2013 09:45 AM EDT  Reads: 822
By Pat Romanski
Stagnant budgets, overwhelming data growth, and new user and application demands are just a few of the many challenges that are putting IT organizations under more pressure today than ever before. As a result, a new approach is required. In his session at the 12th International Cloud Expo, Jeff Lundberg, senior product marketing manager for file, content and cloud at HDS, will discuss why object storage-based private cloud is necessary for evolving into a next-generation of IT that supports a ...
Mar. 27, 2013 09:30 AM EDT  Reads: 777
By Elizabeth White
SYS-CON Events announced today that Cloudant, the distributed database-as-a-service, will exhibit at SYS-CON's 12th International Cloud Expo & 3rd International Big Data Expo, which will take place on June 10–13, 2013, at the Javits Center in New York City, New York. Cloudant provides the world’s first globally distributed database-as-a-service (DBaaS) for loading, storing, analyzing, and distributing operational application data for developers of large and/or fast-growing Web and mobile applic...
Mar. 26, 2013 06:00 AM EDT  Reads: 3,584
By Jeremy Geelan
Stagnant budgets, overwhelming data growth, and new user and application demands, are just a few of the many challenges that are putting IT organizations under more pressure today than ever before. As a result, a new approach is required. This session by Hitcahi Data Systems' Jeff Lundberg at 12th Cloud Expo | Cloud Expo New York [June 10-13, 2013] will discuss why object storage based private cloud is necessary for evolving into a next-generation of IT that supports a new world of applications ...
Mar. 26, 2013 06:00 AM EDT  Reads: 611
By Jeremy Geelan
In-memory data grids (IMDGs) have seen rapid adoption over the last several years driven by the need to help applications scale their performance as workloads grow. Because IMDGs host fast-changing (“operational”) data in memory across a cluster of servers, they also offer the ability to perform real-time analytics on this data as it flows through the grid. Recent advances in IMDG technology now enable Hadoop MapReduce-style analytics to be integrated into the IMDG’s architecture, performing par...
Mar. 25, 2013 09:15 AM EDT  Reads: 1,279
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Best Recent Articles on Cloud Computing & Big Data Topics
By Jeremy Geelan
The Arlington, Virginia-based National Science Foundation has just released its "Report on Support for Cloud Computing" - in response to the America Competes Reauthorization Act of 2010, Section 524. It is an absolute must-read for all concerned with current and future research projects in Cloud Computing.
Reads: 7,419
By Jeremy Geelan
"The volume of data we're generating now from machines pales in comparison to the volume of data we'll soon generate from our own bodies," says data security expert Dave Asprey. Writing in a Trend Micro blog, Asprey - who is one of the leaders in the emerging Quantified Self movement - explains his vision of a world in which personal biometrical data is shared via the cloud.
Reads: 12,763
By Wolfram Jost
Cloud computing has caught the attention of business leaders around the world in every industry because of its enormous transformative potential. Visionary companies know that the value of the cloud is far greater than the current focus solely on technology and operating costs: when combined with a collaborative approach to designing processes, cloud computing will change how we do business.
Reads: 17,449
By Elizabeth White
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 2012 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 10th Cloud Expo, June 11-14, 2012, at the Javits Center, New York, NY.
Reads: 8,918
By Larry Bettino
Did you know that ninety percent of the data in the world has been created in the last two years? Every day, we create 2.5 quintillion (or 2.518) bytes of data, according to IBM. As corporations across all industries globally are struggling with how to retain, aggregate and analyze this mounting volume of what the industry refers to as Big Data, it also provides a unique opportunity for innovative startups that recognize the business prospects Big Data presents. Big Data is not just unlocking new information but new sources of economic and business value. Interactivity is driving Big Data, with people and machines both consuming and creating it. Digital companies focused on becoming good at aggregating and analyzing the data created by the end users of their product, who then provide their customers with solid insights taken from that data are at a distinct competitive advantage over others in the marketplace.
Reads: 7,404
By Elizabeth White
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 experts, hardware procurement specialists, and certified IT service professionals, SHI delivers custom IT solutions to Corporate, Enterprise, Public Sector, and Academic customers. With over 1,800 + employees worldwide, SHI is the largest Minority/Woman Owned Business Enterprise (MWBE) in the U.S. and is ranked 19th among Everything Channel's VAR 500 list of North American IT solution providers.
Reads: 5,192
By Elizabeth White
SYS-CON Events announced today that Rackspace Hosting, the service leader in cloud computing, 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, and the 11th International Cloud Expo, which will take place on November 5-8, 2012, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA. SYS-CON Events announced today that Rackspace Hosting, the service leader in cloud computing, 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, and the 11th International Cloud Expo, which will take place on November 5-8, 2012, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA
By Elizabeth White
9th International Cloud Expo, held on November 7 - 10, 2011, in Santa Clara, CA, attracted more than 120 sponsors and exhibitors with over 7,500 registered delegates and four content-packed days with a rich array of sessions about the business and technical value of cloud computing led by exceptional speakers from every sector of the cloud computing ecosystem. The Cloud Expo series is the fastest-growing Enterprise IT event in the past 10 years, devoted to every aspect of delivering massively scalable enterprise IT as a service. We invite you to enjoy here our photo album of the show.
Reads: 12,581
By Carmen Gonzalez
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.
Reads: 42,926
By Kevin Hartig
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.
Reads: 197,583
By Elizabeth White
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."
Reads: 16,096
By Pat Romanski
Hadoop, MapReduce, Hive, Hbase, Lucene, Solr? The only thing growing faster than enterprise data these days is the landscape of big data tools. These tools, which are designed to help organizations turn big data into opportunities, are gaining deeper insight into massive volumes of information. A recent Gartner report predicts that enterprise data will increase by 650% over the next five years, which means that the time is now for IT decision makers to determine which big data tools are the best - and most cost-effective - for their organization.
Reads: 12,046
By Roger Strukhoff
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