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St Helens & Knowsley Health Informatics Service launches new service to digitise Lloyd George patient records for NHS general practitioners

Clinical Commissioning Groups, Halton, Knowsley and St Helens, adopt the new service for 85 constituent GP surgeries Runcorn GP, Grove House Practice, the first to use e-LGS in the UK April 4, 2013 - St Helens & Knowsley Health Informatics Service (StHK HIS) today announces the launch of e-LGS (Electronic Lloyd George Records Service), a new fully managed service to digitise, archive and host Lloyd George patient records held by all general practitioners (GPs) in their surgeries. Designed to free up space, improve practice efficiency, make patient information instantly available when required, remove risk, and save GPs money on administration, e-LGS offers substantial benefits and is the first computerised service of its kind in the NHS. The fully managed end-to-end e-LGS solution comprises project management, Lloyd George records collection by NHS employed drivers,... (more)

Cloud Migration Tips #3: Plan to Fail

Planning to deploy or migrate an application to a cloud environment is a big deal. In my last post we discussed the value of using real business and IT requirements to drive the justification of using a cloud architecture. We also explored the importance of using monitoring information to understand your before and after pictureof application performance and overall success. In this post I am going to dive deeper into the planning phase. You can't expect to throw a half assed plan in place and just deal with problems as they pop up during an application migration. That will almost... (more)

Cloud Expo NY | IaaS & Shadow-IT: Make Sure Security Isn't an Afterthought

Cloud Expo New York $500 Savings here! Let's face it, business units are bypassing IT and are using the likes of EC2 and Rackspace. Developers are driving this trend for the sake of agility and hindrance-free innovation. Security is not their top priority and is usually an afterthought, and this makes IT cringe. In his session at the 12th International Cloud Expo, Swaroop Sayeram, Group Product Manager at McAfee, to discuss how McAfee enables IT to say yes to their business unit's cloud computing needs. Explore Cloud Expo Sponsorship & Exhibit Opportunities ! Speaker Bio: Swaroo... (more)

Toshibas Strategie für das Speichergeschäft

Toshiba (TOKYO:6502): Da davon ausgegangen wird, dass die Weltbevölkerung bis Mitte des Jahrhunderts neun Milliarden übersteigen wird, steht in der globalen Agenda ganz oben die Frage, wie man aus den begrenzten Energieressourcen das meiste herausholen kann. Die Idee, dass die intelligente Community eine effektive Möglichkeit ist, dieses drängende Problem anzugehen, findet immer mehr Akzeptanz. Intelligente Communities sind umweltfreundlich und wirtschaftlich und erreichen Stabilität bei der Energieversorgung, indem sie ein Gleichgewicht zwischen dem je nach Jahres- und Tageszei... (more)

Well Engineered use of AWS by Recovery and Transparency Board (RATB)

By Bob Gourley After speaking with Shawn Kingsberry in preparations for our 4 April Government Big Data Forum I realized their use of Amazon Web Services (AWS) may be of very high interest to our readers and went about looking for more info online to see what was publicly available. I was ecstatic to see a well written use case for much of it is on the AWS website. That write-up includes a nice graphic that is helpful to understanding how things were done. Since this is provided by AWS as a way of articulating their special contributions it does not go into the many other service... (more)

Cloud Expo Breaking News
By Pat Romanski
Let's face it, business units are bypassing IT and are using the likes of EC2 and Rackspace. Developers are driving this trend for the sake of agility and hindrance-free innovation. Security is not their top priority and is usually an afterthought, and this makes IT cringe. In his session at the 12th International Cloud Expo, Swaroop Sayeram, Group Product Manager at McAfee, to discuss how McAfee enables IT to say yes to their business unit's cloud computing needs. Swaroop Sayeram is a Group ...
Apr. 4, 2013 11:09 AM EDT  Reads: 725
By Elizabeth White
The cloud provides an easy on-ramp to building and deploying Big Data solutions, particularly the latest technologies that favor scale-out architectures. Transitioning from initial deployment to a large-scale, highly performant operation may not be as easy. Understanding the benefits, weaknesses, and performance characteristics of public cloud and bare metal cloud deployments can help you make the right decisions. In his session at the 12th International Cloud Expo, Marc Jones, VP of Product...
Apr. 4, 2013 10:15 AM EDT  Reads: 993
By Elizabeth White
As more of your enterprise IT moves into the Cloud you may find yourself asking that very question – Is there a third option? The cost benefits of the Public Cloud may be appealing, but is this the appropriate environment for your critical data? The performance and security of a Private Cloud infrastructure will make you a hero, but the costs may be prohibitive. There is a third option, however – the Hybrid Cloud. The Hybrid Cloud will give you the benefit of having a right-sized, right-provisio...
Apr. 4, 2013 10:00 AM EDT  Reads: 1,183
By Liz McMillan
Planning scalable environments isn't terribly difficult, but it does require a change of perspective. In his session at the 12th International Cloud Expo, Phil Jackson, Development Community Advocate for SoftLayer, will broaden your views to think on an Internet Scale by dissecting a video publishing application built with The SoftLayer Platform, Message Queuing, Object Storage, and Drupal. By examining a scalable modular application build that can handle unpredictable traffic, you'll be able ...
Apr. 4, 2013 10:00 AM EDT  Reads: 899
By Elizabeth White
Private clouds are a great way to provide real-time service delivery of IT resources with a single-tenant, customized, secure environment. However, the challenge of scaling and managing physical resources still exists. The solution may be to leverage an Infrastructure-as-a-Service provider to build an off-premise Private Cloud to add scalability to your current private cloud. In his general session at the 12th International Cloud Expo, Duke Skarda, CTO of SoftLayer, will discuss: How to achi...
Apr. 4, 2013 10:00 AM EDT  Reads: 860
By Liz McMillan
These days, it seems that every cloud provider claims that cloud is safer than your traditional datacenter. Is it though? In his general session at the 12th International Cloud Expo, Rishi Bhargava, VP of Product Management for Datacenter and Server Security group at McAfee, will help you explore and address the security challenges and considerations for public cloud (IaaS, PaaS and SaaS). Rishi Bhargava is Vice President of Product Management for Datacenter and Server Security group at McAf...
Apr. 4, 2013 09:45 AM EDT  Reads: 899
By Elizabeth White
The rise of cloud computing has exposed hard drive-based storage as the new data center bottleneck. Combating this, data center managers have deployed SSDs to gain the performance needed to provide real-time access to data. However, due to budget constraints, many have turned to consumer-grade SSDs without understanding that they wear out quickly when processing enterprise workloads In her session at the 12th International Cloud Expo, Esther Spanjer, Director of SSD Technical Marketing at SMAR...
Apr. 4, 2013 06:00 AM EDT  Reads: 2,213
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 ...
Apr. 4, 2013 04:30 AM EDT  Reads: 1,770
By Jeremy Geelan
Need to scale your data tier? The foundation of every application is the database layer, and today application architects have more choices than ever. With these choices come new questions: Which database technology is best for your application? How can your application take advantage of Big Data technology? Can you run your relational database at Big Data scale? What does it take to implement a comprehensive data infrastructure, including your core database, incorporating SQL, No SQL and Big Da...
Apr. 4, 2013 04:00 AM EDT  Reads: 496
By Elizabeth White
“Cloud made Big Data what it is today,” stated Scott Morrison, CTO at Layer 7 Technologies, in this exclusive Q&A; with Cloud Expo Conference Chair Jeremy Geelan. “Cloud gave us the massively scalable infrastructure necessary to practically do Big Data,” Morrison continued, “as well as the engineering mindset that made it a front-of-mind solution for organizations that may not have considered it before.” Cloud Computing Journal: The move to cloud isn't about saving money, it is about saving time...
Apr. 4, 2013 03:45 AM EDT  Reads: 3,305
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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 2013 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 12th Cloud Expo, June 10-13, 2013, at the Javits Center, New York, NY.
Reads: 9,377
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: 7,529
By Elizabeth White
Industry-specific clouds are those PaaS, IaaS, and PaaS services that are tailored for a specific vertical, such as transportation, retail, finance, and health care. IDC sees a $65 billion market in these industry solutions for 2013, rising to $100 billion in 2016. The value of industry-specific clouds is that businesses within a vertical can connect to applications, processes, and databases that are pre-defined for that vertical within a public or private cloud. They can extend processes and databases into the business domain, versus defining the data and processes within a generic cloud-based platform. So, are industry specific clouds right for your business? What options are out there? How do you figure out the ROI?
Reads: 4,757
By Pat Romanski
SYS-CON Events announced today that Rackspace Hosting, the open cloud company, has been named "Platinum Plus 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. Rackspace® Hosting (NYSE: RAX) is the open cloud company, delivering open technologies and powering more than 205,000 customers worldwide. Rackspace provides its renowned Fanatical Support® across a broad portfolio of IT products, including Public Cloud, Private Cloud, Hybrid Hosting and Dedicated Hosting. Rackspace has been recognized by Bloomberg BusinessWeek as a Top 100 Performing Technology Company, is featured on Fortune's list of 100 Best Companies to Work For and is included on the Dow Jones Sustainability Index. Rackspace was positioned in the Leaders Quadrant by Gartner Inc. in the "2011 Magic Quadrant for Managed Hosting." Rackspace is headquartered in San Antonio with offices and data centers around the world.
By Liz McMillan
10th International Cloud Expo, held on June 11-14, 2012 at the Javits Center in New York City, featured 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 our photo album of the show - we'll be adding new images all week.
Reads: 8,013
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: 43,159
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: 197,882
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 their world. Learn more about Dell's story, purpose and people behind its customer-centric approach.
Reads: 1,638
By Liz McMillan
One of the most compelling promises of the cloud is that you can pull out a credit card and be working in minutes. No purchase orders to fill out, no equipment to wait for on the loading dock. Just instant access to the resources you need, when you need them. But accessibility comes at a price, and an unintentional consequence may be that you create yet another orphaned identity silo. Enterprise IT has spent years consolidating its mishmash of directories, only to discover that cloud now threatens to turn back their hard-won victories. In his session at the 12th International Cloud Expo, Scott Morrison, CTO and Chief Architect at Layer 7 Technologies, will look at strategies to incorporate identity into cloud applications. Enterprise identity or social login can both be a part of your go-to-cloud strategy, but you must plan for this upfront, rather than try to retrofit identity and access control at a later date.
Reads: 1,987
By Roger Strukhoff
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