Explosive growth in connected devices. Enormous amounts of data for collection and analysis. Critical use of data for split-second decision making and actionable information. All three are factors in making the Internet of Things a reality. Yet, any one factor would have an IT organization pondering its infrastructure strategy.
How should your organization enhance its IT framework to enable an Internet of Things implementation? In his session at Internet of @ThingsExpo, James Kirkland, Chief Architect for the Internet of Things and Intelligent Systems at Red Hat, described how to revolutioniz...| By Elizabeth White | Article Rating: |
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Cloud Expo, Inc. announced on Thursday that Cloud Expo 2011 New York, the 8th International Cloud Computing Conference & Expo, will take place June 6-9, 2011, at the Javits Center in New York City.
Cloud Expo - International Cloud Computing Conference & Expo series is the world’s leading Cloud-focused event and is held in New York, Silicon Valley, Prague, Tokyo, and Hong-Kong.
Over 900 corporate sponsors and more than 65,000 industry professionals have participated in Cloud Expo since its inception, tenfold more than all other Cloud-related events put together.

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"Cloud Expo was announced on February 24, 2007, the day the term ‘cloud computing' was coined," said Fuat Kircaali, Chairman and Founder of Cloud Expo, Inc. "Cloud has become synonymous with ‘computing' and ‘software' in two short years, and this event has become the new PC Expo, Comdex, and InternetWorld of our decade. Next year, more than 50,000 delegates will be attending Cloud Expo."
"8th 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, Javits Center," stated Carmen Gonzalez, CEO of Cloud Expo, Inc. "If you are not at Cloud Expo New York, June 6-9, at the Javits Center, then you risk not getting the relevant parts of your IT infrastructure into the Cloud in time."

"As we approach the eighth successive Cloud Expo, it has been gratifying to receive the largest number of speaking submissions we have ever had, in excess of eleven hundred, and to see from the subject matter of those speaking proposals how the scope and reach of Cloud Computing is so clearly widening and deepening. Its impact is being felt not only throughout Enterprise IT but also worldwide," noted Jeremy Geelan, President and COO of Cloud Expo. "As a result, the lineup of speakers and sessions at Cloud Expo New York this coming June includes more CEOs, CTOs, and CIOs of top Cloud players than any previous Cloud Expo, and - as every time - we also have our high-energy Special Events program for attending delegates too, with Cloud Computing Bootcamp, CloudCamp @ Cloud Expo, and the RightScale User Conference all tightly integrated with the main conference program."
The four-day event will offer a rich array of sessions led by exceptional speakers about the business and technical value of cloud computing with more than 200 sponsors and exhibitors on the 120,000 sq. ft. show floor and 10,000 estimated delegates from well over 48 different countries.

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Cloud Expo 2011 New York, June 6-9, 2011, at the Javits Center in New York City, New York, will feature technical sessions from a rock star conference faculty and the leading Cloud industry players in the world.
The growth and success of Cloud Computing will be on display at the upcoming Cloud Expo conferences and exhibitions in New York, June 6-9, and in Santa Clara, November 7-10, 2011.
The recent Cloud Expo at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA, was the largest Cloud Computing conference ever produced with more sponsors, exhibitors and delegates than all other Cloud events of the year combined!

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