CloudEXPO Silicon Valley Exhibitor Directory was published on May 1, 2019. Here's the link to the page which is being updates daily. Ten Tips on How to Maximize Your @CloudExpo and @ThingsExpo Sponsorship Benefits @CloudEXPO and @ExpoDX, two of the most influential technology events in the world, have hosted hundreds of sponsors and exhibitors since our launch 10 years ago. In this blog post, I provide 10 tips on how our sponsors and exhibitors can maximize their participation at our events. But before reading my top 10 tips for our sponsors and exhibitors, please take a moment and watch this brief Sandy Carter video. "Cloud Expo was really the event to connect with thought leaders, innovators, business folks who are interested in what the cloud can bring to their business. You know really how it allows them to bring the transformation of the business process."... (more)

Opinion: Who Made Amazon the Judge of What's Legal on the Web?

[This post originally appeared on Joseph Galarneau's blog and is republished here in Cloud Computing Journal (www.CloudComputingJournal.com) by kind permission of the author.] When you visit Newsweek.com, the words you read started their journey milliseconds earlier from an Amazon.com datacenter somewhere in northern Virginia. And if you visited Wikileaks.org earlier this week, the bytes comprising leaked U.S. embassy cables would have traveled a similar path from Amazon servers based in northern California or Ireland. While WikiLeaks and Newsweek are very different organizations, we both relied on the 21st century equivalent of the printing press – cloud computing – to distribute our information. Amazon shut off WikiLeaks servers Wednesday, citing the company’s violation of Amazon rules, coincidentally at the same time government officials called for similar action... (more)

Top Two Technology Priorities for CIOs in 2011: Cloud & Virtualization

"New infrastructure and operations technologies such as cloud services and virtualization ... were selected by CIOs the most often and are the top-two technologies for 2011," said Mark McDonald, group vice president and head of research for Gartner Executive Programs, as the results were announced of the 2011 CIO Agenda survey by Gartner Executive Programs (EXP). "CIOs and IT have been boxed in between modest budget growth and growing legacy requirements," McDonald continued, noting that "Cloud services and virtualization are well-suited for this budget reality, as they offer similar service levels at lower budget costs." The worldwide CIO survey was conducted by Gartner EXP from September to December 2010 and represents CIO budget plans reported at that time. According to the results, CIOs expect to adopt new cloud services much faster than originally expected. Cur... (more)

Cloud Computing: The Next Generation of Computing & Sustainable IT

I have been asked to moderate a cloud computing discussion at Green Gov 2012. The title of the session is “Cloud Computing: The Next Generation of Computing and Sustainable IT”. It is a great honor to be selected to participate as moderator. I believe this is my second go around. As National Director of Cloud Services with Core BTS, Inc. it is my job to articulate the value of cloud computing. I have been pondering the title a bit and for me to actually discuss the next generation of Cloud, we have to identify the current situation. The cloud has gone way beyond Google Mail and SalesForce (CRM), into other areas like Cloud Security, Cloud Storage, and Cloud Back Up. Furthermore, we actually must define our idea of cloud computing and sustainable IT. Not everyone is on the same page. What Is Cloud Computing? NIST defines cloud computing as a model for enabling ubiquit... (more)

SCO to Detail its Case against Linux to IBM by Monday

At press time, the SCO Group expected that by Monday, January 12, it would turn over to IBM all the evidence it had of Linux' alleged infringement on SCO-owned Unix IP that IBM asked for in its motion to compel discovery last month, thereby meeting its court-imposed 30-day deadline, according to SCO spokesman Blake Stowell. Provided IBM is satisfied with what SCO turns over, SCO expects to be back in court on Friday January 23 pursuing its own motion to compel IBM to turn over its AIX Unix source code to SCO. IBM previously turned over to SCO the Dynix UNIX source code that it acquired when it bought Sequent. SCO claims Linux got many of its high-end skills like SMP from the Sequent code. SCO, which has a $3 billion breach-of-contract suit lodged against IBM, continues to maintain that having to spell out its case against Linux is an idle exercise because IBM knows d... (more)

SGI Says It's Got the Next Big Thing in Hand

SGI says it's inventing the Next Big Thing. SGI has invented the Next Big Thing before like its SMP and NUMA work. Anyway, it's not enough that the next-generation supercomputer be bigger and faster, according to Greg Estes, the head of SGI's corporate marketing, and Dave Parry, the general manager of its server/HPC business unit. The hardware and software has simply got to be more useable. SGI calls its vision Project Ultraviolet because purple is its favorite color and it seems to make some kind of futuristic sense because ultraviolet is just beyond the violet hue in the visible spectrum. SGI says it's going to give the world multi-paradigm computing, a model that it predicts will ultimately be copied by rivals like IBM. It makes no sense, SGI says, to make users commit to an architecture they may have to live with for 10 years that isn't the optimal solution for all... (more)

Umm, About That $100m Microsoft Funneled to SCO

A piece of juicy compromising e-mail written by a SCO consultant to SCOsource VP Chris Sontag and SCO CFO Bob Bench last October suggesting that Microsoft had quietly funneled $86 million to SCO and that it was good for at least $106 million before tapping all possibilities happened to turn up on open source philosopher Eric Raymond's web site Thursday. Eric made it part of his Microsoft-embarrassing internal documents collection and dubbed it Halloween X. (See www.opensource.org.) He says he got it from an "anonymous whistleblower inside SCO," which is odd because, given the timing and other little niceties, one would be tempted to think that it was a bit of SCO discovery that somehow got loose from IBM. Oh, yeah, Eric is a sometime consultant for IBM and his anti-SCO credentials are impeccable. Right at the top of the kinda disjointed e-mail the consultant, one Mik... (more)

Can Sun Really Open Source Solaris?

Jonathan Schwartz, Sun's new president and latest loose cannon, a volume kind of guy, said at a press conference in Shanghai the other day at a SunNetwork Conference, that Sun was going to open source Solaris. "I don't want to say when that will happen," Sun acknowledges he said, "but make no mistake, we will open source Solaris." According to the clip morgue here, Sun has been kicking the idea around since late 1998, but that doesn't mean the notion had reached any kind of, um, maturity before Jonathan opened his mouth. Being president, however, evidently makes any whim one may have turn into an instance corporate initiative and Sun, while recovering its composure, now says that it is open source-bound. Other than that, Sun wasn't prepared to answer any other questions. See, none of the key issues have been resolved. Little things like, um, whether Solaris can legal... (more)

CA Trims its Prospects for the Next Nine Months

Computer Associates claimed it's not one of those ISVs that limped out of calendar Q2 like Siebel, whose earnings fell 16% because sales suddenly dropped at the end of quarter, clipping revenues almost 10%. Still CA had cut its June revenue projections by $35 million a couple of weeks ago and yesterday it pulled in its prospects for the next nine months less, it said, because of the "conservative spending environment" that demands a quick ROI than its disappointing services operation and the renewal level in its subscription mix. It said it would do $3.4 billion-$3.5 billion in fiscal '05 ending in March rather than $3.5 billion-$3.7 billion and realize only 25 cents-30 cents, not 28 cents-33 cents. It called the original estimates "too optimistic." CA posted its June first quarter on Thursday and said revenues were up 9% year-over-year to $860 million, beating its r... (more)

Sun Reveals Open Source Plans for Niagara Chip

While it was busy launching its new Niagara-based servers in New York Tuesday, Sun Microsystems said it would open source the UltraSparc T1 processor that was code named Niagara. It's calling the project OpenSparc. At this point it's more a statement of intent than a fait accompli. The program isn't supposed to kick off until late in the first quarter after Sun addresses key issues such as implementation and governance. Back in 1999 Sun released its complete MicroSparc IIep design for free under the Community Source License, also used for Java to try to make its chip designs more popular. Companies that used and sold the embedded chip were supposed to pay Sun 3% of the average selling price by way of royalty but would have saved hundreds of thousands in licensing fees. Again Sun it apparently hopeful of triggering a few derivatives. It claims the idea behind OpenSparc i... (more)

Open-Xchange Unveils Open Source Collaboration Virtual Appliance

Open-Xchange announced a Virtual "appliance" for its open source project Open-Xchange Server 0.8 - giving developers and the open source community the popular collaboration platform to run in a VMware Virtual Appliance. Virtual Open-Xchange for Debian is available free for testing and evaluation  and will enable users to quickly and easily install the leading open source collaboration suite on VMware virtual machines - essentially creating a virtual collaboration appliance. Open-Xchange plans to produce these customized images for enterprise Linux distributions including Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Novell SUSE Linux Enterprise Server - enabling advanced functionality with little or no end user complexity. Open-Xchange  is the  provider of open source collaboration software. Its flagship product, Open-Xchange Server 5, provides key messaging functions like email, cale... (more)