Today, offerings such as Amazon Web Services' Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) are providing a new model for on demand compute resources based on virtual machines. Virtual appliances are a natural deployment vehicle for this type of infrastructure, allowing a clean separation between the memory, compute, and storage resources managed by the appliance provider and the complete software stack managed by the end user. Virtual appliances also allow a simple transition from internal virtualization clusters to outsourced providers, enabling capacity spikes to be handled. This session will showcase the tremendous flexibility, scalability, and financial savings that result from leveraging virtual appliances and cloud computing. Billy Marshall, CEO and founder of rPath will present a real life case study on KnowledgeTree, a document management provider, to examine the implementa... (more)

The Top 100 Bloggers on Cloud Computing

Ever since I first published here my tentative list of Top 50 Bloggers on Cloud Computing it became clear that an expansion would be needed before too long. Thanks to community feedback via my Twitter account (http://twitter.com/jg21) here goes - just three months before Cloud Expo Silicon Valley (November 7-10) - with an expanded roster, listed as before in alphabetical order since I am making no attempt at this stage to rank the various blogs, merely to map - and celebrate - their existence. Dustin Amrhein | "A View from the Clouds" Dave Asprey | "Cloudy Words" Ian Bergin | "Clouded Issues" Randy Bias | "Cloudscaling" Rick Blaisdell | "Rickscloud" Steve Bobrowski | "The Cloud View" Rene Buest | www.CloudUser.de Larry Carvalho | "Robust Cloud" Andrew M. Chapman | "MemorableURL.com" Sam Charrington | "Cloud Pulse" Colin Clark | "Cloud Event Processing" Peter Coffee | cloudb... (more)

How Do You Qualify Something as Cloud Computing?

Melvin Lancelot's Blog Practically every one with an online business model is now referring to their service as cloud computing - starting from your average Joe hosting firm all the way to the SaaS/S+S vendors, every wants to ride the next buzzword wave, and this distorts the cloud computing term all together. Part of the reason being that historically the term "cloud" loosely referred to anything that’s available online/on the Internet. Ask a bunch of geeks and you would get a different explanation of cloud computing from each person (if you ever asked a bunch of people what Web 2.0 is you know what I mean). So how can we qualify if a service is really leveraging the cloud computing model? That’s a tough question. An easier way to answer this is by first examining the behavior of services provided by some of the well known cloud computing vendors. Lets take Amazon a... (more)

VMware's VP of Emerging Business Speaking Next Week at SYS-CON's Cloud Computing Expo November 19-21 in Silicon Valley

Dan Chu, VMware's VP of Emerging Business, intends to take an industry leader's perspective next week when he presents a breakout session at SYS-CON's 1st International Cloud Computing Conference & Expo (November 19-21, 2008) being held at The Fairmont Hotel in San Jose, CA. Chu will apply that perspective to the new disruptive trend in the market that everyone is calling cloud computing. In his session, "The Enterprise Cloud: Applications On and Off Premise," Chu will uncover among other things VMware's plan to leverage its technology leadership in virtualization to deliver reliable, mobile technology to its customers and service providers worldwide. He will explore cloud pitfalls and uncover new methods for delivering applications on or off premise. VMware's CTO Steve Herrod is also appearing at the event, as one of the distinguished participants on the SYS-CON.TV ... (more)

Google Seeks To Overcome the Browser’s Limitations

Oh, look. Google’s found another way to annoy the…to annoy Microsoft. This one’s called Native Client, a shiny new open source R&D; project aimed at running fast x86 native code in web applications. It’s another way of going for the desktop’s jugular and, paired with Google Gears and Google Chrome, potentially a giant step for browser-as-platform. According to a Google blog, it’s supposed to let web developers “access the full power of the client’s CPU while maintaining the browser neutrality, OS portability and safety that people expect from web applications.” “If web developers could use all of this power,” Google muses, “just imagine the rich, dynamic experiences they could create.” Some people think Native Client might be that Google webOS that Google groupies are forever talking about – or at least a piece of it. Others take it for a remake of Java or a JavaScript r... (more)

Cloud Expo Europe to Take Place May 18-19 2009 in Prague

Cloud Expo Europe 2009, the first event outside the USA in the industry-leading International "Cloud Expo" series produced by SYS-CON Events, is to be held May 18-19, 2009, in Prague in the Czech Republic. The conference theme is "Deploying Cloud Computing in the Enterprise" and it is the perfect event for anyone looking for a jump-start on delivering and/or using massively scalable Enterprise IT as a service using Internet technologies. The Cloud is changing not just the technology landscape but also the entire nature of the business models that underpin successful software and hardware companies. EARLY BIRD REGISTRATION: Register Now and Save ! [Click Here] Our organizing principle is that through our intensive 2-day schedule of keynotes, general and breakout sessions, attending delegates will be assured of leaving Cloud Expo Europe 2009 with abundant resources, ide... (more)

So you say you want a revolution?

  Remember when…it was sprawl or nothing? Remember when…you had to choose between security and speed? Remember when…you had to choose between agility and performance? It’s time for a change; a change that brings freedom and choice to the data center and puts IT back in control of its own architectural destiny.    Technorati Tags: F5,revolution,data center,choice,change,freedom,agility,infrastructure,infrastructure 2.0,dynamic infrastructure,web,internet,video,blog Related articles by Zemanta Unified Ontology of Cloud Computing (johnmwillis.com) Control, choice, and cost: The Conflict in the Cloud (devcentral.f5.com) The Context Aware Cloud (devcentral.f5.com) Categories: Development and General  ... (more)

Meru Networks and 802.11n selected to Build Schools for the wireless Future at New Line Learning

Meru’s virtual cell architecture proven as only one to reliably deliver full potential of 802.11n to extremely high user density without dropout or loss of performance in ground-breaking new e-learning environment London, 8th September 2009 – Wireless networking from Meru is helping two prestigious Kent academies transition into a fully shared and integrated educational model. By 2010 Maidstone’s New Line Learning Academies will be transformed into wireless “hubs” of interactive learning, with Meru Networks providing the wireless. Meru was chosen over other vendors for its distinctive virtual cell wireless LAN architecture, which makes it capable of running 802.11n at full speed in both spectrums, while simultaneously supporting an extremely high density of users without any dropouts, disconnections or other interruptions to service. Building Zones, a specialist in ... (more)

Unisys’s Scott Sanchez to Present at Cloud Expo East

Unisys Session at Cloud Expo We are constantly bombarded with articles and presentations about the security risks in cloud computing and why organizations need to be concerned about them as they consider a move. The truth is that organizations do need to be concerned about security - but they needn't be paralyzed by fear. In fact, the heightened concern we're seeing has actually become a spur to action and has begun to drive cloud security to a whole new level. In his session at the 5th International Cloud Expo, Scott C. Sanchez, CISSP, Director of the S&T; Security Portfolio at Unisys Corporation, will focus on the key areas where a successful migration to cloud computing can actually improve security and reduce risk, and address some of the major issues to account for before and during that migration. Register Today and Save $550 ! Explore Sponsorship Opportunities ... (more)

Release of RESERVOIR Cloud Stack

RESERVOIR, flagship of European projects in cloud computing technology coordinated by IBM, has just announced the release of its cloud stack featuring Claudia Service Manager (Telefonica’s tool for automatic management of service scalability), OpenNebula Cloud Toolkit and security services for cloud federation. The RESERVOIR Cloud Stack supports the delivery of services on an on-demand basis, across countries, at competitive costs and without requiring a large capital investment in infrastructure. RESERVOIR enables the migration of resources across distributed administrative domains, maximizing resource exploitation, and minimizing costs to the end-user with guaranteed quality of service.  RESERVOIR defines an open federated infrastructure cloud architecture and delivers a framework of open source components you can download from the RESERVOIR website and integrat... (more)

GiGse Announces Startup Launchpad Finalists

San Francisco, CA, April 20, 2012 --(PR.com)-- GiGse announced today the list of startups selected for the Startup Launchpad at the iGaming conference to be held in San Francisco, CA, on April 24th-26th, 2012, at the Westin San Francisco Market Street Hotel. For the first time, the event will spotlight promising and disruptive startups that blend the very best from the worlds of gambling and social gaming, and offer innovative solutions for mobile gaming and legal internet poker, in a one-day contest complemented with a stellar list of judges. “The convergence of casual gaming and online gambling represents one of the hottest emerging sectors in social media,” said Hal Bringman, chairman of the social games section of GiGse and President of NVPR. “The Startup Launchpad portion of the event brings these evolutionary forces together and delivers them to the marketplace ... (more)