Cloud Expo Early Bird Savings
A robust ecosystem of solutions providers is emerging around cloud computing.
Here, SYS-CON's Cloud Computing Journal expands its list of most active
players in the fast-emerging Cloud Ecosystem, from the 'mere' 100 we
identified back in January of this year, to half as many again - testimony,
if any further 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 cited. As ever we encourage software engineers, developers, IT
operations managers, and new/growing companies in every case to "suck it and
see" by downloading or otherwise sampling the offering in question for
themselves.
(Omissions to this Top 150 list sh... (more)
The overall conference theme of Cloud Expo Europe [3rd International Cloud
Expo] which will take place, May 18-19, 2009, in Prague, Czech Republic is
"Deploying Cloud Computing in the Enterprise." Here we present a round-up of
Themes & Topics that will be covered in the rich array of breakout sessions,
General Sessions, and Power Panel dicussions at the 2-day event.
Our organizing principle for the Prague event is that through our intensive
schedule of keynotes, general and breakout sessions, attending delegates will
be assured of leaving with abundant resources, ideas and examples they can
apply immediately to leveraging the Cloud, helping them to maximize
performance, minimize cost and improve the scalability of their Enterprise IT
endeavors.
The event is co-located with SYS-CON's Virtualization Conference Europe 2009.
Register Today for a Golden Pass and Attend Both... (more)
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
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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)
New-Media on Ulitzer
This year we have seen almost every company, every blogger and his duck,
feverishly posting their "annual predictions" before the December 31
deadline, as if there is such a deadline, and as if anyone cares about what
they think in most cases.
This is followed by a dozen or so 'paid' predictions news
releases every day by companies who are pushing their "wish lists from
2010" as "predictions" and hoping that they come true.
If you do a quick Google search on "2010 predictions" you will land on a
predictions potpourri of more than 5,000 stories (the last time I looked).
I especially enjoyed Fly Fishing Predictions for 2010, Identity Theft 2010
Predictions, The 2010 NFL Mock Draft Predictions, and Plastic Surgery
Predictions for 2010.
You even have the predictions of the "magazine industry" here. What magazine
industry? I didn't know dinosaurs ma... (more)
Cloud Computing on Ulitzer
There is little doubt that cloud computing is big news, but who is gaining
your mind share? Amazon, NetSuite, and Salesforce.com, have been in the
news recently with a number of announcements.
So many that I've been attempting to track them by creating specific journals
for each.
Our experiences are likely to be different, and barring actual surveys and
research, is subjective and based largely on our own impressions and
perceptions of which companies are in the news or making news in this
segment.
There are several lists that are excellent points of reference - The Top 150
Players in Cloud Computing, 85 Cloud Computing Vendors Shaping the Emerging
Cloud, and The VAR Guy's SaaS 20 Index.
Large technology companies like AT&T;, EMC / VMware, HP, IBM, Microsoft,
Unisys, and others that come to mind have not been included below in the top
20... (more)
Azure Cloud on Ulitzer
With deep pockets Microsoft is able to fight it out on multiple fronts. With
Azure, in the coming months, it will take on Salesforce.com as a formidable
cloud platform provider. It's no longer just software as service; it will be
framework as a service at the finishing line. Read up this article to get a
picture of what is brewing.
Here is Microsoft market place positioned to start any time soon:
Here is the opponent with a big repertoire:
... (more)
For its next trick, the unquenchable, super-ambitious Google is gonna try
taking over the US government.
On Tuesday, after the first federal CIO Vivek Kundra unveiled Apps.gov, a
thinly populated, GSA-managed, almost completely salesforce.com- and
Google-dominated web store where federal agencies are supposed to go to get
GSA-sanctioned cloud applications and “coming soon” infrastructure
services as well as free software like YouTube, Facebook and MySpace, Google
said that by next year it would have a government-specific version of Google
Apps that meet security requirements and complies with the Federal
Information security Management Act (FISMA) and such.
It’s also working on a government cloud, set for debut in 2010, that
promises to keep the data inside the United States of America operated by
people with security clearances.
Then there’s Google for the Public ... (more)
SiSense, a provider of Big Data Analytics Software, recently announced Prism
3.0, the latest version of its end-to-end Business Intelligence (BI)
solution.
With over 100 new features, Prism 3.0 introduces breakthrough in data access.
Prism 3.0 enables customers to work with more data faster, regardless the
number of datasources, no matter how big their data is or how fast it grows.
A fully featured trial of Prism 3.0 can be downloaded for free here.
More Data, No Code
Traditional Business Intelligence tools require users to learn proprietary
scripting languages to access and combine data. This process prevents
non-technical users from working with data and building analytics quickly. In
contrast, SiSense makes working with data a breeze. The solution lets
business users combine data from Cloud and On-premises sources without any
coding or scripting.
“It's fantastic... (more)
Appirio Tuesday launched a cloud-based professional service automation (PSA)
solution on Salesforce.com’s Force.com platform.
Called simply Professional Services Enterprise, it’s supposed to be
designed for the most sophisticated professional service organizations,
delivering end-to-end support for managing people, projects, customers and
transactions.
Appirio claims that the widgetry is different from other solutions in
supporting a services business end-to-end, bridging the gap between how
projects are sold and how they are delivered. And then of course there are
the cloud’s TCO advantages.
It says it can help you make your numbers: As the quarter closes in, services
executives can identify a project that has been booked but not scheduled, and
assign resources to accelerate the project’s delivery to meet the
quarter’s sales goals.
It also says it can help put th... (more)
Dr. Guy Bunker, Distinguished Engineer for Symantec UK, will be presenting at
SYS-CON's Cloud Computing Expo Europe 2009 (www.cloudexpo-europe.com) in
Prague, The Czech Republic, this coming May 18-19, 2009.
Cloud computing offers a fantastic opportunity to businesses of all sizes.
However, there are pitfalls that no-one wants to talk about. In this session,
Bunker will talk to some of the darker sides to cloud computing - those
around security and availability. Understanding where the issues lie will
help service providers to create better services and enable customers to ask
the right questions of their providers.
Speaker Bio
Dr. Guy Bunker is a Distinguished Engineer at Symantec Corporation. He works
in the office of the CTO, responsible for various pieces of technical
strategy across the company. He is currently an active member of the
Enterprise Privacy Group a... (more)
Adobe AIR on Ulitzer
CIO and CTO salaries will see a spike of 12.5% in 2010, according to research
conducted by Bluewolf on salaries in the Tri-state region (New York, Conn.
and New Jersey). Bluewolf is a global technology consulting firm and the
preeminent source of salary data and statistics for IT professionals. Every
year, Bluewolf issues its Bluewolf IT Salary Guide for Tri-state job seekers
and employers, revealing its proprietary salary research.
In 2010, CIO salaries will range from $175-200,000 in 2010, up from
$149,000-175,000 in 2009. CTO salaries are predicted to range from
$140,000-$175,000 in 2010 up from $120,000-$150,000 in 2009, according to
Bluewolf's salary research. In addition to CIOs and CTOs, 2010 starting
salaries for VPs of Information Technology are expected to increase from
$110,000 to $125,000.
"The increase in C-level salaries shows a ... (more)
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