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Ulitzer Names the World's 30 Most Influential Cloud Computing Bloggers

Cloud Expo on Ulitzer Ulitzer.com announced today "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 2009 West, which took place at the Santa Clara Convention Center, California. Cloud Expo 2009 West 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. Detailed information on how to become a Ulitzer blogger can be obtained  here. Ulitzer New Media Power Panel at the Santa Clara Convention Center, CA, during Cloud Expo 2009 West. "Ulitzer New Media ... (more)

Oracle Named Exclusive Diamond Sponsor of Cloud Expo 2010

Oracle Keynote at Cloud Expo SYS-CON Events announced today that Oracle was named exclusive "Diamond Sponsor" of Cloud Expo 2010. Cloud Expo was announced on February 24, 2007, the day the term "cloud computing" was coined. That same year, the first Cloud Expo took place in New York City with 450 delegates. Next April, Cloud Expo is returning to New York City with more than 5,000 delegates and over 100 sponsors and exhibitors. An Exclusive Interview with Oracle's Richard Sarwal "Cloud" has become synonymous with "computing" and "software" in two short years. Cloud Expo is the new PC Expo, Comdex, and InternetWorld of our decade. By 2012, more than 50,000 delegates per year will participate in Cloud Expo worldwide. Oracle Maps Its Cloud Computing Strategy The cloud is certainly a compelling alternative to running all applications within a traditional corporate data... (more)

Fujitsu Offers Free Three-Month Ride on its Cloud

Fujitsu is rolling its multi-tenant Infrastructure-as-a-Service cloud out over North America and, as a come-on, offering the enterprise a three-month free beta trial from May 31 till August 31, when the widgetry goes into general release. It calls the thing its Global Cloud Platform, a dead giveaway that it’s shooting for the multinationals, particularly the Japanese multinationals, expecting them to appreciate being able to standardize worldwide yet keep the data in-country. The Global Cloud Platform is already up and running in Japan, Australia, Singapore and the UK. Fujitsu is also particularly looking forward to pitching accounts on its cloud strategy consulting and transition services. It’s got hybrid clouds in the back of its mind. Fujitsu figures companies might use the free trial for application testing and development as well as high-performance processin... (more)

Working with One of the Top Ten Women in the Cloud

Our colleague, Lori MacVittie, has been honored with the CloudNOWTop Ten Women in Cloud Award for her contributions, accomplishments, and thought leadership.  Now you might think it would be cool working with such a cloud know-it-all: she writes the best blogs/articles, she corrects you when you’re mistaken, she knows network/infrastructure/security/applications inside out, she’s not too fond of Mondays, she’s gluten-free, has a wicked sense of humor and she’s fairly feisty.  Yeah, it’s fun. I first met Lori a few years back when she started at F5 and joined the Technical Marketing Team.  Prior to F5, Lori was an award-winning Senior Technology Editor at Network Computing Magazine.  She conducted product research and evaluations focusing on the integration between application and network architectures.  She has extensive programming experience as an application arch... (more)

What Cloud Storage Standards Could Mean For You

The notion of standardizing access to object-based cloud storage across vendors and cloud providers is not new but promises to have a positive impact on cloud storage users and overall adoption. In his recent article, A Call for More Cloud Storage Standards Support, Mike Vizard calls for IT organizations to help hasten vendors toward compliance with the CDMI standards currently in draft. The benefits of standards compliance are tangible, alleviating vendor lock-in due to proprietary cloud storage interfaces and enabling tighter integration of cloud storage with applications and operating systems, all while maintaining a choice of cloud vendors. What this translates to is customer “freedom of mobility” between different public and private cloud providers and investment protection for infrastructure or solutions that depend on cloud storage. With standards still in ... (more)

IBM Eyes Amazon, Salesforce Cloud Turf

Amazon and Salesforce are getting so popular they’ve started infiltrating top accounts that have historically belonged to IBM. Amazon’s new partnership with the Nasdaq announced the other day is a good for instance. So IBM has decided to fight fire with fire by going after the mid-sized businesses – concerns with less than a 1,000 employees – where Amazon and Salesforce are quite at home and peddle these companies Big Blue clouds they probably never knew IBM had or thought they could afford given IBM’s penchant for carriage trade pricing. Reportedly IBM is going to adjust its pricing and trust its reputation and techno-smarts to make up any difference. Big Blue is apparently hoping little sales – little by its lights – will add up to something substantial. IBM's Cloud VP Rich Lechner gave a General Session at 9th Cloud Expo Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff claims IBM has l... (more)

VMware's Virtual Data Center OS pitch not credible?

My quick analysis: When you want to encapsulate everything in your data center in one box and call it "VDC-OS", it is wither a great ambition or a fool's dream. Why a great ambition? xxxxx xxxxx xxxxx xxxxx Why a fool's dream? xxxxx xxxxx xxxxx xxxxx Maritz passed us both by, though, by declaring not only that VMware would continue as the high-end virtualization vendor of choice, but that the entire IT ecosystem was evolving past its dependence on the operating system into a kind of mesh world in which applications, data, servers and security are all handled behind the scenes and IT departments would have godlike powers of integration and management based on cloud computing, virtualization and a firm reliance on VMware management technology. That's a bold claim no matter how often it's been made (by Novell, IBM, Microsoft, HP and others, under various buzzwords and in va... (more)

Microsoft PDC kicks off with Azure skies of cloud computing

At the PDC keynote this morning, Microsoft's Ray Ozzie introduced Windows Azure, the company's very-beta cloud OS. Will it rain supreme? ... (more)

Data Center Pedictions 2009- Part 2: Cloud Computing, MNSPs and Mobility will have long term impact

Today we have some great use cases (possible input for eventual practices) and amazing (Amazoning?) models coming out of the cloud. Clearly we see that the years of crunching experience that firms like Google (search, which I have often called a Query 1.0 Framework), and Amazon (which has moved, or should I say, had foundations laid in the Query 2.0 model), have adopted will be putting them in pioneers role. So these crunch gods are today leading the show, we do have many players such as Microsoft, IBM, HP etc go after this model , and many may seem to make a quick and an early tie with Google and Amazon, but is it enough for them to succeed as Cloud gods? We know one thing for sure, Amazon, due to its accidental choice of Query 2.0 platform , may have an edge above the rest of the parties. For now. But what does the future hold for data crunching at minimal cost? O... (more)

Cordys' Jonathan Pyke to Present at Cloud Computing Conference in NYC

Jonathan Pyke, Chief Strategy Officer for Cordys and Chairman of The Workflow Management Coalition, will be presenting at SYS-CON's 2nd International Cloud Computing Conference & Expo in New York City this coming March 30-April 1, 2009. Cloud computing enables extensive computing power while saving money - but NOT innovation. The cloud needs a process technology to orchestrate the interaction and integration of services in an easy, cost-effective and flexible way. Further, process technology will bring business users and developers together to create "Situational Applications" - ad-hoc applications for small groups of users with specific needs that are made from scratch or mashup services but that are also compliant, auditable, recorded and strategically governed. In this session, Pyke will discuss how this vision for orchestration services in the cloud could, if r... (more)