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Cloud Expo: Cloud Acceleration Techniques for Mission-Critical Apps

Cloud Expo® Silicon Valley $500 Savings here! The journey to the cloud has created demanding new challenges for IT departments who are tasked to support global users accessing applications from a multitude of devices. As the pace of application development and deployment increases, organizations need ways to provide global scale and optimal performance without sacrificing security. In his session at the 13th International Cloud Expo®, Tim Bishop, Strategic Engagement Manager at Akamai Technologies, will provide technical details for how dynamic content can be accelerated with a globally distributed platform and how applications can be instantly supported with minimal effort. Explore Cloud Expo® Sponsorship & Exhibit Opportunities ! Speaker Bio Tim Bishop is a Strategic Engagement Manager in Akamai's High-Tech division, responsible for assisting Akamai's largest High-... (more)

The New Era for Service Providers

In their March 2013 report "Business Technology Innovation," Ventana Research found that 40 percent of companies attributed cloud usage to reduced costs, followed by improved efficiency of business processes (39 percent).[1] Though the benefits of the cloud, like business and social collaboration, are clear, many organizations are having trouble seeing past the potentially overwhelming transition to the cloud. Most enterprises do not want a one-size fits all solution, which requires them to manage multiple relationships, negotiate multiple contracts, maintain multiple payments, r... (more)

Domo Named “Bronze Sponsor” of Cloud Expo Silicon Valley

Cloud Expo® Silicon Valley $500 Savings here! SYS-CON Events announced today that Domo, a software-as-a-service (SaaS) venture that is redefining the business intelligence (BI) market and transforming the way business is managed, has been named "Bronze Sponsor" of SYS-CON's 13th International Cloud Expo®, which will take place on November 4-7, 2013, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA. Explore Cloud Expo® Sponsorship & Exhibit Opportunities ! Domo is a new form of business intelligence unlike anything before-a cloud-based business management platform that tran... (more)

Verizon Named “Gold Sponsor” of Cloud Expo Silicon Valley

Cloud Expo® Silicon Valley $500 Savings here! SYS-CON Events announced today that Verizon has been named "Gold Sponsor" of SYS-CON's 13th International Cloud Expo, which will take place on November 4-7, 2013, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA. Explore Cloud Expo® Sponsorship & Exhibit Opportunities ! Verizon Enterprise Solutions creates global connections that generate growth, drive business innovation and move society forward. With industry-specific solutions and a full range of global wholesale offerings provided over the company's secure mobility, cloud, ... (more)

Cloud ERP for Manufacturers: Two Sides of the Coin

Cloud computing has been an important trend for several years now and that trend is continuing to gather weight with new and improved ERP software offerings for manufacturers. Like any ERP selection choice, the decision to move to the cloud has pros and cons compared to traditional on-premise ERP systems. One of the biggest advantages, regardless of the vendor selected, is low cost of ownership. There is little up-front cost for cloud ERP software and often no additional hardware cost. One low subscription gets the software now and includes all aspects of ERP support. You don't ... (more)

Cloud Expo Breaking News
By Liz McMillan
SYS-CON Events announced today that Verizon has been named “Gold Sponsor” of SYS-CON's 13th International Cloud Expo, which will take place on November 4–7, 2013, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA. Verizon Enterprise Solutions creates global connections that generate growth, drive business innovation and move society forward. With industry-specific solutions and a full range of global wholesale offerings provided over the company’s secure mobility, cloud, strategic network...
Oct. 14, 2013 12:55 PM EDT  Reads: 398
By Liz McMillan
The journey to the cloud has created demanding new challenges for IT departments who are tasked to support global users accessing applications from a multitude of devices. As the pace of application development and deployment increases, organizations need ways to provide global scale and optimal performance without sacrificing security. In his session at the 13th International Cloud Expo®, Tim Bishop, Strategic Engagement Manager at Akamai Technologies, will provide technical details for how d...
Oct. 14, 2013 10:58 AM EDT  Reads: 513
By Liz McMillan
Cloud computing continues to gain momentum as enterprises of all sizes and across all industries seek to harness the business agility promised by this computing model. Despite its long-accepted benefits, the cloud has also fallen victim to performance and reliability challenges, combined with a perceived lack of security. As a result this has led to slower predicted growth and adoption of this still promising infrastructure methodology. In his Lunch Keynote at the 13th International Cloud Expo...
Oct. 14, 2013 10:00 AM EDT  Reads: 1,569
By Elizabeth White
What should you pack in your suitcase to be prepared for the Journey? According to a recent marketing survey - 91% of IT decision makers have a positive opinion of cloud computing. So how do they get the corporations they manage to leverage the cloud for growth and keep the same standards or improve the business processes, legal, compliance, finance and operations? A 2013 McKinsey survey reported that 75% of CEOs find value for their company in Cloud Computing. So what are corporations waiti...
Oct. 14, 2013 09:45 AM EDT  Reads: 1,485
By Elizabeth White
SOASTA’s five-year journey began at the very first Cloud Expo back in 2008 when they launched an enterprise cloud service called CloudTest. CloudTest quickly became one of Cloud Computing's "Killer Apps" by helping the world’s largest consumer brands to test and deliver quality online experiences. SOASTA is a story of the evolution of cloud computing through the eyes of one of its largest consumers. What SOASTA learned along the way may help you with some challenges and pitfalls of cloud computi...
Oct. 14, 2013 09:30 AM EDT  Reads: 1,403
By Liz McMillan
Overlay networks (virtual networks built on top of existing networks) introduce exciting new potential for a highly inclusive Hybrid Cloud. In his session at the 13th International Cloud Expo®, Matt Shover, Manager of RackConnect Operations at Rackspace, will talk about the practical application of overlay networks and how it may be able to help you solve scalability, security, and availability challenges. He will cover: A primer on overlay networks Practical applications for layer 2 adjacen...
Oct. 14, 2013 09:00 AM EDT  Reads: 1,297
By Pat Romanski
As the storage landscape continues to change, the industry must differentiate and mature its business beyond a standardized market by designing new platforms, features and products for specific customers and application workloads. New products and services in the cloud are fueling the growth for faster storage solutions and improvement in throughput and I/O performance with no latency. Economical and operational pressures in the data center to do more with less are driving the need for reduced t...
Oct. 14, 2013 09:00 AM EDT  Reads: 1,443
By Elizabeth White
SYS-CON Events announced today that Domo, a software-as-a-service (SaaS) venture that is redefining the business intelligence (BI) market and transforming the way business is managed, has been named “Bronze Sponsor” of SYS-CON's 13th International Cloud Expo, which will take place on November 4–7, 2013, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA. Domo is a new form of business intelligence unlike anything before—a cloud-based business management platform that transforms the way org...
Oct. 14, 2013 09:00 AM EDT  Reads: 491
By Elizabeth White
SYS-CON Events announced today that SOA Software, an API Management and SOA Governance leader that powers the API economy by helping businesses to fast-track API deployment, drive developer adoption, and reach more customers, has been named “Gold Sponsor” of SYS-CON's 13th International Cloud Expo, which will take place on November 4–7, 2013, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA. SOA Software is a leading provider of API Management and SOA Governance products that enable orga...
Oct. 14, 2013 08:45 AM EDT  Reads: 1,229
By Liz McMillan
How can one effectively Sync and Move large volumes of content from existing on-site storage platforms like SharePoint, Network File-Shares and ECM systems with Business Cloud services? In his session at the 13th International Cloud Expo®, Jonas Sostakas, a Senior Systems Engineer at Portal Architects, will illustrate how to overcome the challenges of syncing large-volumes of content across on-site and cloud-based storage platforms, followed by live demonstration. Tightly integrate and bridge ...
Oct. 14, 2013 08:30 AM EDT  Reads: 1,176
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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: 12,634
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: 13,228
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.
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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: 10,795
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: 13,423
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: 55,368
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: 205,608
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: 6,053
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: 6,421
By Roger Strukhoff
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