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In the run-up to the next Cloud Expo, 7th Cloud Expo (November 1–4, 2010) being held at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Silicon Valley, it's time to give my earlier list a complete overhaul. Here, accordingly, is an expanded list of the most active players in the Cloud Ecosystem. I have increased it from the 'mere' 150 I identified back in January of this year, to 250, testimony – as if any were needed! – to the fierce and continuing growth of the "Elastic IT" paradigm throughout the world of enterprise computing. Editorial note: The words in quotation marks used to describe the various services and solutions in this round-up are in every case taken from the Web sites of the companies themselves. Omissions to this Top 250 list should be sent to me via Twitter (twitter.com/jg21) and I will endeavor to include them in any future revision of this newly expanded rou... (more)

DataServices World: Data Access and Data Services Workshop

The workshop is a hands-on session focusing on data access and data services issues, problems and solutions. It's an opportunity for audience members to view and discuss problems with a panel of experts. The goal of the session is to engage the audience using walk throughs, examples, and a question and answer (Q&A;) session. The operative principles are interactivity and dialogue. Speaker Bios: Michael J. Carey is a Senior Engineering Director on the AquaLogic side of BEA Systems. Dr. Carey is currently the chief architect for BEA's AquaLogic Data Services Platform product. Prior to joining BEA in 2001, Dr. Carey spent a dozen years on the University of Wisconsin-Madison computer science faculty, five years as an IBM Almaden database researcher and research manager and a year and a half leading the data team at an e-commerce infrastructure software startup, Propel ... (more)

What is XML? How is it different to HTML?

XML is short for Extensible Markup Language, and exists to easily transfer data from one location to another, as well as store it. Less experienced web developers tend to get confused over XML because in plain sight, it isn’t extremely clear what XML is and just what it is used for – when it really […] The post What is XML? How is it different to HTML? appeared first on eUKhost Official Blog. ... (more)

Hoover's IPO Scorecard Reveals Slightly Higher Results From Same Quarter a Year Ago

AUSTIN, Texas, April 4 /PRNewswire/ -- Forty-four companies went public on the major U.S. stock exchanges in Q1 2006, raising $8.5 billion, as compared to the same quarter in 2005 when 40 companies went public, raising $10 billion. This represents a 10% increase over Q1 2005, as reported today by Hoover's IPO Scorecard (http://www.hoovers.com/global/ipoc/index.xhtml?pageid=4546&cm;_ven=HOL&cm;_cat= IPO&cm;_pla=Scorecard&cm;_ite=Scorecard ). Hoover's, Inc. (http://www.hoovers.com/free/?cm_ven=HOL&cm;_cat=IPO&cm;_pla=Scorecard&cm;_ite=Fr eeHP ) is a D&B; company that gives its customers a competitive edge with insightful information about industries, companies and key decision makers. With a number of high-profile initial public offerings (IPOs) still waiting in the wings to price in 2006, including MasterCard (seeking to raise $2.45 billion), J. Crew, and SAIC, Inc. (lookin... (more)

XClinical to Present End-to-End Clinical Process

XClinical, a European vendor of innovative software products for eClinical trials, is presenting CDISC based tools for an End-To-End clinical process at the 45th DIA Annual Meeting in San Diego, USA. At the Annual Meeting “Better Medicines: Improving Safety with Every Step“, taking place in San Diego on June 21st to June 25th 2009, the Drug Information Association is providing a meeting area for more than 8,900 professionals from over 800 exhibiting companies and more than 50 countries. 350 speaking sessions and three mega tracks are dealing with topics related to medical communications, clinical research and information technology. In addition to XClinical’s participation as exhibitor, Dr. Claus Lindenau, Head of Business Development, is going to be speaker at the session “CDISC SDTM Data Conversion: Reusability and Repeatability”. The presentation will review the ... (more)

Media Advisory: Astronaut Chris Hadfield Talks About His Upcoming Mission at AAAS Family Science Days in Vancouver

LONGUEUIL, QUEBEC -- (Marketwire) -- 02/16/12 -- Canadian Space Agency (CSA) Astronaut Chris Hadfield will present "Living and Working on the International Space Station" at the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) Family Science Days being hosted in Vancouver, British Columbia this weekend. The CSA will also join a number of exhibitors showcasing cool science jobs and interesting displays at the AAAS Family Science Days. CSA representatives will share information about what Canada is doing in space and do demonstrations with a JUNO rover, one of the Agency's terrestrial rover prototypes. Media representatives are invited to attend but need to register onsite at the Newsroom headquarters upon arrival. Saturday, February 18, 2012 1. Time: 11:30 a.m. (PST) What: Presentation: Living and Working on the International Space Station Who: Chris Hadf... (more)

Media Advisory/REMINDER: Canada-France Prepping for a Balloon Launch

LONGUEUIL, QUEBEC -- (Marketwire) -- 09/10/12 -- From September 10 to13, 2012, the Canadian Space Agency (CSA) and the French space agency (Centre national d'etudes spatiales, or CNES) will be at Timmins' future stratospheric balloon launch site to perform a dry run of the last steps involved in a balloon flight. They will validate the different procedures linked to the recovery of a stratospheric balloon once it lands. The first test launch is scheduled for 2013. Media are invited to witness the first steps of preparation: Time of the event may change without advance notice. If there are issues pertaining to weather, the dry run would be rescheduled at a later date. Please call the Media Relations Office for the most up to date information at (450) 926-4370. When: September 10, 2012 Time : 1:00 pm What: Media technical briefings on stratospheric balloon recovery P... (more)

Where Are RIA Technologies Headed in 2008?

I am always being told off by i-technologists for quoting Picasso as having said that computers are useless. But I still love his reasoning? "Because they can only give you answers." Picasso, like AJAXWorld Magazine, liked questions. So we thought we would share with you what some of the world's leading rich Internet application pioneers are thinking may be the next questions that we need to see answered. From that readers can themselves infer where AJAX is headed. What are the top questions to ask next about AJAX? Eric Miraglia of Yahoo! 1.  (From March'08) How do I calculate the ROI of building my RIA on the iPhone SDK vs using AJAX? 2.  How do I assess the performance of my app and decide what to do next to make it faster?  3.  When it comes to accessibility, how do I know what's required of me for my rich web apps?  Beyond what's required, what makes good business se... (more)

Cloud Expo New York Call for Papers Now Open

Early Bird Savings Cloud Expo Cloud computing is a game changer. The cloud is disrupting traditional software and hardware business models by disrupting how IT service gets delivered. Entrepreneurial opportunities abound as this classic disruptive technology begins to proliferate, so it is no surprise that SYS-CON's industry-leading International Cloud Expo is going from strength to strength. The 5th International Cloud Expo, to be held April 19-21, 2010, at the Jacob Javits Convention Center in New York, NY, announces that its Call for Papers is fast approaching. Topics on which submission are welcome include all aspects of providing or using massively scalable IT-related capabilities as a service using Internet technologies (see suggested examples below). Help plant your flag in the fast-expanding business opportunity that is The Cloud: submit your speaking propos... (more)

Cloud Expo 2011 East To Attract 10,000 Delegates and 200 Exhibitors

SYS-CON Events announced today that the 8th International Cloud Expo will take place June 6-9, 2011, in New York City. The International Cloud Computing Conference & Expo series is the world's leading Cloud-focused event and is held three times a year, in New York, Silicon Valley and in Europe. Over 600 corporate sponsors and 10,000 industry professionals have participated in Cloud Computing Expo since its inception, more than all other Cloud-related events put together. Cloud Computing Expo 2011 East Call for Papers Deadline November 30, 2010 - SUBMIT YOUR SPEAKING PROPOSAL TODAY! 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 150 sponsors and exhibitors and over 5,000 estimated delegates from well over 48 different countries. Explore Cloud Expo Sponsorship &... (more)

AJAX World RIA Conference & Expo Kicks Off in New York City

In the tight economy, front-end engineers and front-end engineering can play a conspicuous role: good user experience, as the iPhone spectacularly demonstrates, means good business. At the 7th International AJAXWorld RIA Conference & Expo which opened Monday in New York City, the speaker lineup is as usual dripping with real-world expertise. The distinguished Speaker Faculty is headlined by Oracle's Ashish Mohindroo, whose Opening Keynote on "Breaking the Collaboration Barrier with Rich Enterprise Applications" set the tone for two intense days of breakout sessions across three parallel tracks. According to Mohindroo and Oracle, Rich Enterprise Applications (REAs) promise breakthrough capabilities and services for achieving higher levels of personal and team productivity throughout your enterprise. "Consumer web and mobile technologies are setting high standards for wha... (more)

CloudEXPO Stories
Whenever a new technology hits the high points of hype, everyone starts talking about it like it will solve all their business problems. Blockchain is one of those technologies. According to Gartner's latest report on the hype cycle of emerging technologies, blockchain has just passed the peak of their hype cycle curve. If you read the news articles about it, one would think it has taken over the technology world. No disruptive technology is without its challenges and potential impediments that frequently get lost in the hype. The panel will discuss their perspective on what they see as they key challenges and/or impediments to adoption, and how they see those issues could be resolved or mitigated.
In his session at 21st Cloud Expo, Michael Burley, a Senior Business Development Executive in IT Services at NetApp, described how NetApp designed a three-year program of work to migrate 25PB of a major telco's enterprise data to a new STaaS platform, and then secured a long-term contract to manage and operate the platform. This significant program blended the best of NetApp’s solutions and services capabilities to enable this telco’s successful adoption of private cloud storage and launching of virtual storage services to its enterprise market.
In his general session at 19th Cloud Expo, Manish Dixit, VP of Product and Engineering at Dice, discussed how Dice leverages data insights and tools to help both tech professionals and recruiters better understand how skills relate to each other and which skills are in high demand using interactive visualizations and salary indicator tools to maximize earning potential. Manish Dixit is VP of Product and Engineering at Dice. As the leader of the Product, Engineering and Data Sciences team at Dice, he takes a metrics-driven approach to management. His experience in building and managing high performance teams was built throughout his experience at Oracle, Sun Microsystems and SocialEkwity.
Despite being the market leader, we recognized the need to transform and reinvent our business at Dynatrace, before someone else disrupted the market. Over the course of three years, we changed everything - our technology, our culture and our brand image. In this session we'll discuss how we navigated through our own innovator's dilemma, and share takeaways from our experience that you can apply to your own organization.
Having been in the web hosting industry since 2002, dhosting has gained a great deal of experience while working on a wide range of projects. This experience has enabled the company to develop our amazing new product, which they are now excited to present! Among dHosting's greatest achievements, they can include the development of their own hosting panel, the building of their fully redundant server system, and the creation of dhHosting's unique product, Dynamic Edge.