“It already is the year of the APIs and because it depends so much on what cloud is about and what mobile is about I think people will be driven to an API economy whether they want to or not,” stated Alistair Farquharson, CTO of SOA Software, in this SYS-CON.tv interview with Cloud Expo Conference Chair Jeremy Geelan at the 12th International Cloud Expo, held June 10–13, 2013, at the Javits Center in New York City.
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Our more interconnected planet is accelerating the adoption and convergence of next-generation architectures, in the form of cloud, mobile and instrumented physical assets. Organizations that can effectively balance optimization and innovation, will be in a position to leverage new systems of engagement, out maneuver their peers and achieve desired outcomes.
In this 12th Cloud Expo Opening Keynote, Dr. Daniel Sabbah, CTO and General Manager, Next Generation Platform, at IBM Corp, detailed the critical architectural considerations and success factors organizations must internalize to successfully implement, optimize and innovate using next generation architectures.
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Dr. Daniel Sabbah has recently been named as CTO and General Manager, Next Generation Platform, at IBM Corp. He has responsibility for aligning direction IBM is pursuing around cloud and mobility to a more coherent, next generation architecture. Involved will be Software (middleware and application services), servers/storage/networking in software defined infrastructure leading to more dynamic and scalable IBM Cloud Services. Balancing innovation with preservation and optimization of existing investments for our clients and customers in that next generation architecture is the goal.
Prior to his current role, Sabbah served as general manager of Tivoli Software, IBM Software Group. He was responsible for the strategic direction and ongoing operations for the Tivoli brand, which at the forefront of IBM's Smarter Planet strategy, manages today's dynamic infrastructures, giving customers the ability to manage resources and risks, optimize human capital and manage service levels and business processes.
He received his PhD in Computer Science from the University of Rochester in 1981, where he specialized in artificial intelligence and computer vision.
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The growth and success of Cloud Computing will be on display at the upcoming Cloud Expo conference and exhibition in Santa Clara, California, November 4-7, 2013.
The recent Cloud Expo at the Javits Center in New York City was the largest Cloud Computing conference ever produced with more sponsors, exhibitors and delegates than all other Cloud events of the year combined!

Cloud Expo Silicon Valley will attract more than 8,000 delegates from 48 countries and over 150 sponsors and exhibitors!
All main layers of the Cloud ecosystem will be represented at the 13th International Cloud Expo - the infrastructure players, the platform providers, and those offering applications, and they'll all be here to speak, sponsor, exhibit and network.
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“When it comes to cloud, C-level people want to be thinking what it can do for their business and what type of efficiencies it can bring,” stated Chris Kivlehan, VP of Account Management at INetU, in this SYS-CON.tv interview with Cloud Expo Conference Chair Jeremy Geelan at the 12th International Cloud Expo, held June 10–13, 2013, at the Javits Center in New York City.
Cloud Expo 2013 Silicon Valley, November 4–7, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA, will feature technical ...
“When you think of the opportunity that your employees and customers have in the new world most people of thinking how can a leverage the cloud, how do I get more mobile and how do I deal with the escalating threats to security,” stated Neil Cohen, VP of Global Product Marketing at Akamai, in this SYS-CON.tv interview with Cloud Expo Conference Chair Jeremy Geelan at the 12th International Cloud Expo, held June 10–13, 2013, at the Javits Center in New York City.
Cloud Expo 2013 Silicon Valley, ...
“We have been partnering with salesforce.com for over 10 years and we’ve deployed over 1,800 different projects on their platforms or in one of their clouds. We help customers not only build and design the right systems for their companies, but we stick with them right through launch,” stated Joan Rothman, VP of Marketing at CoreMatrix, in this SYS-CON.tv interview with Cloud Expo Conference Chair Jeremy Geelan at the 12th International Cloud Expo, held June 10–13, 2013, at the Javits Center in ...
“Cloud Technology Partners focuses on three key service areas: building cloud for our customers, delivering cloud native applications, and we’re migrating applications to the cloud,” explained John Treadway, SVP at Cloud Technology Partners, in this SYS-CON.tv interview with Cloud Expo Conference Chair Jeremy Geelan at the 12th International Cloud Expo, held June 10–13, 2013, at the Javits Center in New York City.
Cloud Expo 2013 Silicon Valley, November 4–7, at the Santa Clara Convention Cente...
“We’re analytic software. We’re designed to analyze all the supply and demand in an IT environment – virtual environments, clouds,” explained Andrew Hillier, Co-founder & CTO of CiRBA, in this SYS-CON.tv interview with Cloud Expo Conference Chair Jeremy Geelan at the 12th International Cloud Expo, held June 10–13, 2013, at the Javits Center in New York City.
Cloud Expo 2013 Silicon Valley, November 4–7, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA, will feature technical sessions fro...
“Our technology is all around in-memory storage and then we have built-in analytics on top of that, so you can actually analyze data in our in-memory grid while it’s changing,” stated David Brinker, COO of ScaleOut Software, in this SYS-CON.tv interview with Cloud Expo Conference Chair Jeremy Geelan at the 12th International Cloud Expo, held June 10–13, 2013, at the Javits Center in New York City.
Cloud Expo 2013 Silicon Valley, November 4–7, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara,...
“There are a lot of new things happening with Stackato and Private PaaS, and we acquired Appsecute that focused on multi-cloud management and we will be drawing those features into Stackato later on in the year,” explained Jeff Hobbs, CTO & VP, Engineering at ActiveState, in this SYS-CON.tv interview with Cloud Expo Conference Chair Jeremy Geelan at the 12th International Cloud Expo, held June 10–13, 2013, at the Javits Center in New York City.
Cloud Expo 2013 Silicon Valley, November 4–7, at t...
“The thing about cloud is that a lot of it is about designing and operating for the future, so being mindful of where your providers are going and what their strategy is, is part of the decision criteria of partners that you pick. You are providing what people want but anticipating what they will need,” stated Jonathan King, VP Cloud Strategy & Business Development at Savvis, in this SYS-CON.tv interview with Cloud Expo Conference Chair Jeremy Geelan at the 12th International Cloud Expo, held Ju...
Many organizations want to expand upon the IaaS foundation to deliver cloud services in all forms – software, mobility, infrastructure and IT. Understanding the strategy, planning process and tools for this transformation will help catalyze changes in the way the business operates and deliver real value.
In his Day 4 Keynote at 12th Cloud Expo, Sheng Liang, CTO Cloud Platforms Group, Citrix Systems, discusses the new ITaaS model and how to begin the transformation.
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