"We were founded in 2003 and the way we were founded was about good backup and good disaster recovery for our clients, and for the last 20 years we've been pretty consistent with that," noted Marc Malafronte, Territory Manager at StorageCraft, in this SYS-CON.tv interview at 20th Cloud Expo, held June 6-8, 2017, at the Javits Center in New York City, NY. At CloudEXPO Silicon Valley, June 24-26, 2019, Digital Transformation (DX) is a major focus with expanded DevOpsSUMMIT and FinTechEXPO programs within the DXWorldEXPO agenda. Successful transformation requires a laser focus on being data-driven and on using all the tools available that enable transformation if they plan to survive over the long term. A total of 88% of Fortune 500 companies from a generation ago are now out of business. Only 12% still survive. Similar percentages are found throughout enterprises of ... (more)

Riverbed Tightens Up Its Alliance with VMware

Riverbed Technology, the application performance outfit, has some new solutions developed in collaboration with its buddy VMware that are supposed to provide a reliable and consistent desktop virtualization end-user experience in organizations that deploy VMware's Horizon View 5.2. The experience is supposed to be seamless regardless of where the data is. The partnership between Riverbed and VMware has resulted in the support of several Riverbed performance solutions in Horizon View deployments, including certifying Riverbed's Granite widgetry for acceleration, control and management in virtualized desktop initiatives. Organizations that deploy Horizon View with Riverbed performance jumpers are supposed to be able to achieve a more automated, flexible, scalable and high-performing VDI environment. And those that want a virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) can reduce... (more)

Moving Deck Chairs on the Titanic? | @CloudExpo #IoT #DigitalTransformation

Every generation, it seems, sports its own business transformation du jour. From Business Process Reengineering (BPR) to the Quality Movement to eBusiness to name a few, organizations large and small have sought to improve their profits, lower their costs, and keep their customers happy by shaking up the way they do things. Digital transformation is unquestionably a blisteringly hot topic across enterprises today. Companies in every industry have fallen into the vast digital maelstrom, as customer demands and software innovation form the Scylla and Charybdis that threaten to sink even the largest, most venerable brands. And yet, we've been down this road before - not so much the digital part, but certainly the transformation part. After all, digital transformation is business transformation, and business transformation has been a management consulting staple sinc... (more)

Hybrid Cloud - Key Benefits and Must-Have Requirements | @CloudExpo #DX #Compliance

Gartner says by 2020, a corporate "No-Cloud" Policy will be as rare as a "No-Internet" policy is today and specifically the Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) market is projected to continue to grow more than 25 percent per year through 2019. This surge in cloud adoption also represents a huge shift in cloud spending by IT organizations, directly or indirectly affecting more than $1 trillion dollars in Cloud IT purchases by 2020, according to Gartner. Of course, not every enterprise app and data bit will move fully to the cloud. To quote yet another study - this one by North Bridge Venture Partners and GigaOM Research - many of these deployments will be hybrid in nature. For enterprises and smaller organizations alike, it's essential to build a cloud strategy that adopts public and private cloud resources, on-premise systems, containers, and more. Research confirms... (more)

Who’s Who in Cloud, June 7, 2013

Remember: Logicworks will be at next week's CloudExpo in NYC! Friday is here! And what a week it’s been, from IBM’s acquisition of Softlayer, to Microsoft’s increased presence in the public cloud fight, to AWS and the government, and much more. If we missed anything good this week, please send it our way on Twitter @CloudGathering. Also, Logicworks will be at next week’s CloudExpo in NYC. Gathering Clouds will also be present talking to some cool cloud folks about what’s most exciting at the event. Stop by the Logicworks booth and say hi! Simon Sharwood details OpenStack’s bravado in the face of shifting sands via Dell and IBM. John Humphreys asks if Microsfot is winning the public cloud wars. John Rath details how cloud storage is the new hot investment area in cloud with the recent $25 million infusion to Panzura. Barb Darrow sees mini AWS instances for government wo... (more)

SYS-CON Launches WebRTC Journal

Click here to follow ▸@WebRTCSummit SYS-CON Media has launched WebRTC Journal on Ulitzer.com featuring over 160 original articles, news stories, features, and blog entries. WebRTC (Web Real-Time Communication) is an open source project supported by Google, Mozilla and Opera that aims to enable browser-to-browser applications for voice calling, video chat, and P2P file sharing without plugins. Register FREE for WebRTC Summit here ▸ http://bit.ly/1exOL9h WebRTC Journal ▸Home Its mission is "To enable rich, high quality, RTC applications to be developed in the browser via simple Javascript APIs and HTML5." Follow WebRTC Journal on Twitter at @WebRTCSummit. Register FREE for WebRTC Summit here ▸ http://bit.ly/1exOL9h WebRTC Journal ▸Home About Ulitzer.com Ulitzer is a "new-media" platform for creating, delivering, and consuming content on the Web. Anyone can create topics,... (more)

FedCyber Summit: Community engagement is needed now more than ever

By Bob Gourley Cyber practitioners in the federal sector have always needed better ways to collaborate and coordinate and have always been on the lookout for new ways to address challenges. But this year it is especially important. Attacks are up, funds to modernize have been zeroed out, staff has been reduced and now on top of that the shutdown has made things even harder. Meanwhile critical information still needs protecting and adversaries remain as persistent as ever. This means it is more important than ever to find new ideas to better defend our infrastructure. We have crafted the agenda of the Third Annual FedCyber Summit (6 Nov 2013) to do just that. For details and to sign up visit:  http://events.fedcyber.com Here is more: This conference, orchestrated by cyber practitioners Matt Devost and Bob Gourley, is designed to advance the state of cyber defense. ... (more)

Creativity and Design Meets Real-World Mobile App Development

My colleague Peter Rogers shares how his team is developing strategies for merging creative forces with real-world projects and delivering rapid beta products. This is a big challenge as many of you know! Enjoy! In this article I will introduce the following: The concept of ‘Creativity meets Technology' A new form of resourcing which combines education with recruitment The next generation of web application development The relevance to iOS 8 development An example of service design being used to help companies harness their workforce I begin with the following question: What happens when Creativity meets Technology? Studio 13 is Cognizant's Beta Studio. Our strategy is to start with Service Design and build-up from there to offer actualisations of creative visions. We apply the following: Technology Creativity Deep understanding of people We strive to offer the next g... (more)

Big Data Is a Game Changer for GSN Games

It's a shame when the data analysis providers inside a company get the cold shoulder from the business leaders because the data keeps proving the status quo wrong, or contradicts the conventional corporate wisdom. Fortunately for GSN Games in San Francisco, there's no such culture clash there. "The real thing that's helped us get to the point we are is a culture where everybody is open to being wrong -- and open to being proven wrong by the data," says Portman Wills, Vice President of Data at GSN Games. "One of the things we use data for is to challenge all of our assumptions about our own products and our own businesses, says Wills. "It's really gotten to a point where it's almost religious in our company. The moment two people start debating what should or shouldn't happen, they say, 'Well let's just let the data decide.' That's been a core change not just for us, b... (more)

Astute Named One of "The 10 Coolest Startups of 2012" by CRN

SAN DIEGO, CA -- (Marketwire) -- 01/07/13 -- Astute Networks™, Inc., the leading provider of application acceleration appliances, today announced that it has been named one of "The 10 Coolest Startups of 2012" by CRN Magazine. The ranking article, which appeared on January 2, 2013, rated the industry's top "groundbreaking" startups. "In 2012, startups attacked the technology world, offering new ways to work more efficiently, cheaply and quickly in a world undergoing massive change due to the onset of cloud computing, big data, virtualization and analytics," writes CRN's Jack McCarthy. "Astute Networks is making waves with its Networked Flash and related technologies, which speed up cloud computing, server and desktop virtualization deployments and deliver optimized data stores using flash memory." Astute has pioneered network-attached flash appliance technology to o... (more)

AVG Technologies Honored by Business Solutions Magazine as 2013 Best Channel Vendor for Security Technology

AVG Technologies (NYSE: AVG), the provider of Internet and mobile security to 143 million active users, announced today it has been recognized as a Best Channel Vendor 2013 in the security technology category by Business Solutions Magazine (BSM). The award is based on votes by BSM’s VAR readership. AVG, which debuted its new AVG CloudCare™ small business IT management platform and services for the SMB channel to accolades in the fall of 2012, earned its highest marks in the BSM VAR readers survey for product features, reliability and innovation. AVG CloudCare provides small business resellers and managed service providers (MSPs) with a free-of-charge, easy-to-use cloud-based administrative platform that allows them to manage AVG’s award-winning antivirus and content-filtering services remotely at an affordable price for their entire customer base via a single console... (more)