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Opening Keynote | Mission-Critical Applications in the Cloud – Myth or Reality?
 Cloud computing must have been brushing up on its bedside manner.
HIPAA requirements now stipulate everyone in the health-care industry must begin migrating patient records and other data to cloud computing. By 2015, all medical professionals with access to patient records must utiliz...May. 24, 2013 01:00 PM EDT Reads: 1,212 |
 As enterprises deploy private IaaS clouds into production they are reevaluating their future application delivery models. SUSE and WSO2 believe that private PaaS will leverage the automation and scalability of Private IaaS solutions, such as OpenStack-based SUSE Cloud, to deliver the s...May. 24, 2013 12:00 PM EDT Reads: 1,596 |
 In his session at the 12th International Cloud Expo, Dave Eichorn, Global Data Center Practice Head at Zensar, will share a case study describing how a utility services company handled the migration of its Microsoft platform to the cloud. Challenged with the time-consuming task of open...May. 24, 2013 10:15 AM EDT Reads: 1,353 |
 At pennies per virtual machine-hour, the economics of cloud computing are both compelling and daunting to replicate. Whether you are building your own cloud infrastructure, building a public cloud or choosing a cloud service, there are key strategy and technology decisions that make th...May. 24, 2013 09:33 AM EDT Reads: 691 |
 Economic uncertainty surrounding the U.S. government sequester, European debt crisis and weakening GDP in China has resulted in volatile spending patterns across most segments of the market. According to the latest market study by International Data Corporation (May. 24, 2013 07:30 AM EDT Reads: 747 |
 Fancy that. Dell said Monday that its “current in-house multi-tenant public cloud IaaS will be discontinued in the US in favor of best-in-class partner offerings” that it’ll deliver as a single-source supplier.
While it’s preaching the gospel of customer choice, it’s saving badly nee...May. 21, 2013 09:30 AM EDT Reads: 1,250 |
 SYS-CON Events announced today that Zyrion Inc., the leading provider of Cloud and IT Monitoring software solutions, has been named “Entrance Carpet Sponsor” of SYS-CON's 12th International Cloud Expo, which will take place on June 10–13, 2013, at the Javits Center in New York City, Ne...May. 19, 2013 11:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,764 |
 Apptio, which knows how to gauge the total cost of IT services, has gotten a mighty $45 million E round that it means to invest in its platform and its international expansion, immediately in Western Europe.
Counting the new money the company has now seen $136 million in funding sinc...May. 19, 2013 07:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,292 |
 SYS-CON Events announced today that MetraTech Corp., the leading provider of agreements-based billing™, commerce and compensation solutions, has been named “Bronze Sponsor” of SYS-CON's 12th International Cloud Expo, which will take place on June 10–13, 2013, at the Javits Center in Ne...May. 18, 2013 04:00 PM EDT Reads: 1,947 |
 Cloud computing is more than a buzz-phrase it’s a transformative IT paradigm shift. The emphasis in the cloud is on elasticity, scalability, agility and open. Not just open standards but open APIs and open source. The delivery of software is also going through a paradigm shift. Open so...May. 18, 2013 03:15 PM EDT Reads: 1,954 |
 Companies around the world are collecting massive amounts of data everyday that’s sitting around and not being utilized. Take for example the fact that companies collect demographic and location-based data via mobile devices all the time, but have to figure out how to monetize that dat...May. 18, 2013 12:00 PM EDT Reads: 1,965 |
 A week after it confirmed the existence of the thing, Microsoft Tuesday disclosed a few more tidbits about its Windows 8 upgrade, codenamed Blue.
The widgetry’s gonna be called Windows 8.1, as suspected, and it’s gonna be free for existing Windows 8 and RT customers.
A preview wi...May. 18, 2013 09:00 AM EDT Reads: 607 |
 Twitter has bought a little four-man Palo Alto start-up called Ubalo that was started in early 2011 “to make large-scale computing easier and more accessible to a technical audience” according to its web site.
The object was to scale coding on multiple machines using the same widgetr...May. 16, 2013 10:15 AM EDT Reads: 987 |
 Google’s stock topped $900 a share Wednesday ahead of the opening of its annual I/O developers’ conference in San Francisco, raising its market value to over $304 billion, something no high-tech firm has ever done before.
There’s the inevitable talk of it hitting $1,000.
Apparently ...May. 16, 2013 08:00 AM EDT Reads: 932 |
 Boston-based Cloudant and its NoSQL distributed Database-as-a-Service (DBaaS), which have gone to the VC trough four times since the company was started in 2008, have gotten what appears to be their first real money to grow on: a $12 million B round led by Devonshire Investors, the pri...May. 15, 2013 09:45 AM EDT Reads: 1,300 |
 Dell Tuesday moved up its fiscal Q1 earnings call up five days to this Thursday May 16 at 4:45 p.m. ET. It didn’t say why it changed the schedule.
CNBC’s David Faber, who was first out with the news, said he heard Dell is going to come with earnings below consensus and that the miss ...May. 15, 2013 08:30 AM EDT Reads: 1,122 |
 MetraTech, a provider of agreements-based billing, commerce and compensation solutions, on Tuesday announced the availability of MetraNet 7.0. With this latest release, MetraTech builds upon its agreements-based billing and real-time Commerce Decision Engine with the introduction of Be...May. 14, 2013 04:30 PM EDT Reads: 986 |
 IT has more opportunities than ever before with the growth in users, devices, data and secure cloud services. This creates not only a more enriching experience for users, but more opportunities for businesses. The key to capitalizing on these opportunities is to have the right tools in...May. 14, 2013 07:15 AM EDT Reads: 2,959 |
 If Carl Icahn wants to buy out Dell he’s going to have to cough up some specific plans for the board’s special committee handling the company’s attempt to go private, a strategy Icahn deems akin to “grand theft.”
Rather than take Michael Dell and Silver Lake Partners’ $13.65 a share,...May. 14, 2013 06:00 AM EDT Reads: 996 |
 Microsoft wants to buy Nook Media LLC, the Barnes & Noble’s digital and college books joint venture, for a billion dollars according to TechCrunch, which says it’s got internal documents to prove it.
With Windows 8 in mind Microsoft bought 16.8% of the operation last year for $300 mi...May. 13, 2013 08:30 AM EDT Reads: 1,528 |
 CloudVolumes started out a couple of years ago as SnapVolumes and shed its stealth cocoon in November when it announced $2.3 million in seed financing and began beta testing its enterprise-class Instant Workload Management (IWM) solution to what IDC has dubbed the “virtualization manag...May. 13, 2013 08:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,575 |
 Roughly six months after Windows 8 came out at the end of October, Microsoft Tuesday confirmed reports that it’s been tinkering with the operating system to make it more popular.
The radical redesign is supposed to have confused the buying public and created enough of a learning curv...May. 13, 2013 07:30 AM EDT Reads: 2,144 |
 It’s a standard refrain heard in enterprise IT departments around the world – “I want to move to the cloud, but what about data security, uptime and user response time across a nearly infinite number of devices to support?” Because of this, fear gets in the way and enterprises reap onl...May. 12, 2013 04:00 PM EDT Reads: 2,325 |
 New cloud-based service leverages applications and insights within Ariba Network to streamline and enhance settlement and reconciliation of business commerce.
Ariba, an SAP Company, and Discover Financial Services has unveiled Ariba Pay. The new service, to be offered by Ariba, is exp...May. 11, 2013 01:45 PM EDT Reads: 1,492 |
 Cloud computing continues to gain momentum as enterprises of all sizes and across all industries seek to harness the business agility promised by this computing model. Despite its long-accepted benefits, the cloud has also fallen victim to performance and reliability challenges, combin...May. 10, 2013 03:45 PM EDT Reads: 2,705 |
 Activist shareholder Carl Icahn and another of Dell’s large shareholders, Southeastern Asset Management, have come up with a new alternative proposal to Michael Dell’s $24.4 billion buy-out offer to take the company private.
The pair sent the special committee of Dell’s board another...May. 10, 2013 01:34 PM EDT Reads: 1,226 |
 Clustrix, the start-up with the NewSQL database that’s supposed to have no size limits, has raised a $16.5 million C round to build out distribution for the scale-out cloud database and push it into real-time analytics, e-commerce and web-scale applications.
Counting the new money th...May. 9, 2013 10:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,327 |
 The OpenNebula project has just announced the immediate availability of OpenNebula 4.0 Eagle. The project has come a long way since the first "technology preview" of OpenNebula five years ago. During these years it has witnessed the rise and hype of the Cloud, the birth and decline of ...May. 9, 2013 09:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,203 |
 A mini Y2K event for applications stranded on those old, obsolete servers. The challenge is clear. EOL means no more patches and security vulnerabilities increase on a daily basis. For those wishing to keep their machines running, this is a situation that requires action..
There are t...May. 8, 2013 11:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,323 |
 Cloud computing is the #1 topic for most CIOs this year.
In her Lunch Keynote at the 12th International Cloud Expo, Krishna Subramanian, VP Marketing & Business Development at Citrix Systems, will walk you through how customers have transformed the way they do business using Citrix C...May. 7, 2013 12:30 PM EDT Reads: 2,417 |
 A year after opening a formal investigation into how Motorola Mobility enforces its patents, the antitrust arm of the European Commission has sent the company an SO or statement of objections saying it’s misusing the standard-essential patents (SEPs) it’s got on mobile phones.
The mis...May. 7, 2013 09:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,146 |
 Server virtualization was just the beginning of the journey to IT-as-a-Service. Businesses today are looking for on-demand access to cloud resources by extending beyond their data centers without sacrificing performance, agility and security. They want to maximize their existing invest...May. 6, 2013 01:37 PM EDT Reads: 1,864 |
 In his session at the 12th International Cloud Expo, Henrik Rosendahl, Senior Vice President, Cloud Solutions, at Quantum Corporation, will explore trends in cloud-based backup and DR, and how current approaches to cloud data protection fall short. He’ll look at in-house vs. subscripti...May. 6, 2013 08:45 AM EDT Reads: 2,476 |
 With more than one million downloads to date, Citrix XenServer has become a leading server virtualization platform powering some of the world's largest production clouds.
In his session at the 12th International Cloud Expo, Tim Mackey, XenServer Evangelist at Citrix Systems, will off...May. 5, 2013 11:00 AM EDT Reads: 2,206 |
 “Just as consumers tap into personal networks like Facebook, Twitter and Amazon.com to connect with friends and family, share and shop, companies are leveraging digital networks to more efficiently engage with their trading partners and collaborate across the entire commerce process,” ...May. 4, 2013 01:00 PM EDT Reads: 1,770 |
 Multi-tenant environments bring a new set of challenges when it comes to security.
In his session at the 12th International Cloud Expo, Omar Khawaja, Global Principal, Security Solutions, at Verizon Terremark, will provide a structured and sequenced data-centric security approach to ...May. 4, 2013 10:00 AM EDT Reads: 4,470 |
 A growing number of organizations looking at building APIs are wondering what existing capabilities they can leverage. Many concepts are common to APIs and Services while others are not, but should be.
In his session at the 12th International Cloud Expo, Alistair Farquharson, CTO of ...May. 3, 2013 10:15 AM EDT Reads: 1,786 |
 Racemi, a provider of automated server migration software that streamlines the process of migrating workloads to public clouds, has announced that it has been selected by cloud hosting provider HOSTING to expedite customer onboarding to its enterprise-class managed cloud hosting infras...May. 1, 2013 03:23 PM EDT Reads: 1,300 |
 A long time ago, before gray hairs appeared on my head, I was an IT manager. My title was B2B E-Commerce Manager for a computer manufacturer. I remember sitting in long meetings discussing how successful Dell Computer was with their just in time manufacturing and just in time supply ...May. 1, 2013 10:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,273 |
 This book is not only solid in the technical coverage it gives, it also gives a great overview of security concerns, history of how we got where we are, the types of threats and flaws that exist, who needs to be concerned, and what your role's responsibilities are in the security pictu...Apr. 29, 2013 01:00 PM EDT Reads: 998 |
