Today virtualization is creating new demands for another tech disruption.
Perhaps the first shots in this revolution were fired last week at an all day
working session of networking legends and “Young Turks” at the SRI
Infrastructure 2.0 meeting. Time will tell, but the level of interest and
discussion was exhilarating and timely. Vint Cerf, [...]
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Cloud Expo on Ulitzer
SYS-CON Events (http://events.sys-con.com) announced today that the "show
prospectus" for the 5th International Cloud Computing Conference & Expo
(www.CloudComputingExpo.com) is now shipping.
5th International Cloud Expo will take place April 19-21, 2010, at the Jacob
Javits Convention Center in New York City with more than 5,000 delegates and
over 100 sponsors and exhibitors participating in the conference.
Cloud Expo is the world's leading Cloud-focused event and is held five times
a year, in New York, Silicon Valley, Europe, Japan, and Brazil.
Over 200 corporate sponsors and 10,000 industry professionals became part of
Cloud Expo since its inception, more than all other Cloud-related events put
together worldwide.
"Cloud Expo was announced on February 24, 2007, the day the term ‘cloud
computing' was coined," said Fuat Kircaali, founder and C... (more)
I could be here all day discussing vendors, but I won't go down that rabbit
hole, I'll just say brush up on your VMware skills and all the extra moving
parts that go with it. For every dollar of VMware sold their is $15 dollars
worth of auxiliary needs and wants. I personally favor VMware because it
rocks!
Top Ten Green IT Solutions:
Virtualization Data Center Optimization Power Management Data De-Duplication
Electronic Waste Management Cloud Computing Carbon Accounting & Management
Teleconference Telecommute/Telework Paperless Solutions, Document Management
Bonus Green IT Solutions:
11. Green Printing (http://www.reducetoner.com)
12. Software Cholesterol
Green IT is a marketing fad: yes and no!
Back in 2009, when I started the Green IT Practice for EcomNets, I was
optimistic that every company would adopt the top 10 strategies for Green IT
immediately. After gain... (more)
DevOps: Unify Your Tests - Or Fail
While testing is often ignored when it comes to DevOps - it could be the most
important aspect of achieving true DevOps success. Without rethinking
automated testing from the ground-up, the entire DevOps productivity gain
cannot be realized.
Large tech companies build their own rapid test automation that runs in
minutes across functional, performance, security and other tests.
In his session at DevOps Summit, Kevin Surace, CEO of Appvance, will discuss
how we learn from these real-world successes and achieve a 95% time reduction
in creating and running automated unified tests. Otherwise enterprises must
make a tradeoff between velocity and quality. Learning from the leaders, that
tradeoff does not need to be made.
Speaker Bio
Kevin Surace is a well-known Silicon Valley innovator and CEO of Appvance. He
has been featured in Busines... (more)
Achieving Continuous Performance Validation with Synthetic Users
In most modern development groups, there's a big focus on creating code that
works. The idea goes that in more traditional, waterfall approaches, errors
in code that aren't fixed until late in the cycle are much more expensive to
resolve due to unintended consequences. Today, some groups
practice test-driven development as a way to ensure that code is always
functional while others work with short agile sprints where all code produced
must be usable in the field by the end of each sprint.
There's a common understanding about what it means for a coding task to be
"done." Yet, often this "doneness" is only a measure of functionality - not
necessarily usability.
Today, user experience is crucial to an application's success, and that goes
well beyond what color your button is or how prominently a call-to-ac... (more)
The Storm Cloud of Innovation is where user demands and vendor dynamics are
played out, where the interactions between suppliers and architects are
precipitated around the need to overcome challenges and roadblocks on the
journey to adoption. In this session, 451 Research Director for
Infrastructure Management, Rachel Chalmers examines a range of technologies
and companies in this cloud, including virtualization management,
orchestration, provisioning and datacenter automation.
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Speaker Bio: Rachel Chalmers is the Research Director for Infrastructure
Management at The 451 Group. She has led the infrastructure software practice
since its debut in April 2000. She pioneered coverage on SOA, distributed
application management, utility computing and open source software. Today she ... (more)
Finally, my new virtualization book is out... in more ways than one. Yes,
VMware ESX Essentials was published and finally shipped to book stores last
Read more at VMblog.com.
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Moderro Technologies www.moderro.com will debut its Xpack Internet Computer
– an integrated (hardware, operating system and web management) solution
for the Web 2.0 desktop SYS-CON's Cloud Computing Conference & Expo, November
19-21, in San Jose, CA.
The Xpack features a clean and friendly user interface and operating system
that was written by Moderro specifically for interacting with Web 2.0
applications. This functionality, combined with simplicity, security, a small
footprint, energy efficiency, and backward compatibility make the Moderro
Xpack a perfect choice for Web 2.0 office.
“Web applications are an afterthought with operating systems confining them
to a single-window browser, virtually pushing them into the background,”
said Dan Itkis Moderro Vice President. “We decided to develop our own
operating system, which makes web applications easier to use while ... (more)
Firstservis and 3Tera have announced that 3Tera has chosen Firstservis as the
first reseller and distributor of 3Tera's AppLogic cloud computing platform
for Australia and New Zealand. Beginning immediately, Firstservis will
resell, support and offer cloud computing solutions and services using
3Tera's AppLogic
"Cloud Computing is the next big shift in technology and it will have as big
an impact on Australian enterprise IT organizations as the Internet,"
confirmed Bob Hayward, Director IT Advisory Services, KPMG Australia.
"Enabling massively scalable IT infrastructure on a 'pay-as-you-go' model to
a wide variety of online services, offers enormous opportunities for agility,
innovation, responsiveness and cost optimization. Cloud computing is already
transforming the datacenter, providing Australian companies with a solution
for responsible energy consumption and ... (more)
VMware CEO Paul Maritz and former SGI senior VP Beau Vrolyk are angel
investors in the San Mateo, California start-up Apture, where Vrolyk is
executive chairman.
They were part of Apture's first venture round worth $4.1 million led by
Clearstone Venture Partners.
Apture, which is a way of adding multimedia to web sites, counts the
Washington Post, New York Times, BBC and Reuters among its clients.
We asked Beau to explain it. He says, "Apture provides information and media
in context. This means that a person who is reading anything from a Twitter
tweet to a Washington Post article can see media of all sorts without leaving
the page they are reading. The reader enjoys keeping the context of what
they're reading, the publisher retains the reader as a customer, the
advertiser gets additional opportunities to provide impressions that are
in-context and not just random... (more)
Verizon Business introduced an on-demand, cloud-based Computing as a Service
(CaaS) solution -- designed to meet the stringent security and performance
requirements of their enterprise customers.
This new offering helps businesses take advantage of cloud (IP-based)
computing to more efficiently and securely manage IT computing resources --
server, network and storage -- to meet day-to-day business demands.
This CaaS solution, which leverages Verizon's global IP infrastructure and
data centers, enables companies to use a Web-based portal to employ computing
resources in the quantities and duration dictated by their own business
needs.
As a result, businesses pay for the resources used and avoid having to build
out for peak capacity requirements by buying new equipment and adding IT or
networking staff.
Designed for mid-to-large-sized businesses, CaaS is ideal for new dev... (more)