OpenStack
Opening Keynote | Mission-Critical Applications in the Cloud – Myth or Reality?
 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: 1,555 |
 Join us for an exclusive briefing with Gartner where they will talk about how IT Executives are modernizing data centers and transforming operations to focus resources on business value.
During the session they will discuss how innovative IT solutions are needed to help IT deliver ag...May. 24, 2013 11:15 AM EDT Reads: 957 |
 Organizations across the world are increasingly starting to see the benefits of moving more and more services to the cloud. The focus on the cost-saving potential of cloud is rapidly shifting to completely transforming the business with cloud. As organizations are investing enormous su...May. 24, 2013 11:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,067 |
 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: 1,329 |
 Splunk, the software platform for real-time operational intelligence, and Hortonworks, the Hadoop Big Data distribution start-up, have allied so organizations can get operational intelligence using open source Apache Hadoop.
Their pact means that data can be moved between Splunk Ente...May. 24, 2013 10:03 AM EDT Reads: 448 |
 SYS-CON Events announced today that OpenStack will exhibit at SYS-CON's 12th International Cloud Expo, which will take place on June 10–13, 2013, at the Javits Center in New York City, New York. OpenStack software controls large pools of compute, storage, and networking resources thro...May. 24, 2013 10:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,310 |
 You're getting pitched every day from your legacy enterprise software and hardware vendors about "cloud." They're doing an amazing job of convincing your CIO and CTO about what cloud is and how you should use it. The reality is they're defending their shrinking market share and keeping...May. 24, 2013 10:00 AM EDT Reads: 710 |
 SYS-CON Events announced today that nfina Technologies, a provider of highly reliable cloud server products, will exhibit at SYS-CON's 12th International Cloud Expo, which will take place on June 10–13, 2013, at the Javits Center in New York City, New York.
nfina Technologies develops...May. 24, 2013 09:45 AM EDT Reads: 1,186 |
 It turns out cloud computing could be the most useful sales associate on the floor, and you won't have to worry about it stealing sales leads, ala “Glengarry Glen Ross.”
With the help of cloud computing, some brick-and-mortar stores are combating showrooming, a trend where consumers l...May. 24, 2013 09:45 AM EDT Reads: 862 |
 Many have heard of OAuth but are unsure of how it might apply to their business.
In his session at the 12th International Cloud Expo, Alistair Farquharson, CTO of SOA Software, will describe how OAuth can be used to facilitate certain business models and simplify the sharing of priva...May. 24, 2013 09:45 AM EDT Reads: 1,252 |
 “Cloud has everything to do with what has happened with Big Data,” explained Jason Deck, Director of Strategic Alliances at Logicworks, in this exclusive Q&A with Cloud Expo Conference Chair Jeremy Geelan. “Big Data doesn’t exist in its easily accessible way without cloud. From reduced...May. 24, 2013 09:45 AM EDT Reads: 1,361 |
 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: 592 |
 CollabNet, the enterprise cloud development concern, figures the new version of CloudForge it’s put together kicks butt, leapfrogging GitHub and BitBucket by offering the broadest, freest toolkit around, while romancing developers by taking the shackles off its use.
The multi-tenant d...May. 24, 2013 09:01 AM EDT Reads: 629 |
 VMware covered its flank Tuesday when it went into the public cloud business hoping to prevent its installed base of 500,000 strong from skipping off to the likes of Amazon or Azure – which are reaching out to the enterprise – simply because it didn’t have an Infrastructure-as-a-Servic...May. 24, 2013 08:15 AM EDT Reads: 750 |
 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: 723 |
 With Cloud Expo New York | 12th Cloud Expo [June 10-13, 2013] hurtling towards us, let's take a look at the distinguished individuals in our incredible Speaker Faculty for the technical and strategy sessions at the conference coming up June 10-13 at the Jacob Javits Center in New York ...May. 24, 2013 06:00 AM EDT Reads: 21,224 |
 Cloudscaling, the four-year old start-up that insists it’s got the most advanced OpenStack infrastructure system, has picked up a $10 million B round from Trinity Ventures and two new investors, new strategic partners Juniper Networks and Seagate.
It reportedly got a $4 million A rou...May. 23, 2013 10:00 AM EDT Reads: 937 |
 Intel’s new broom has begun to sweep, meaning its new CEO Brian Krzanich, in office four days, started reorganizing the place reportedly to make the old girl more focused and spry.
The one-time plant manager has taken direct control of the company’s chip design unit, its fabled Arch...May. 23, 2013 06:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,196 |
 Cloud computing is transforming the way businesses think about and leverage technology. As a result, the general understanding of cloud computing has come a long way in a short time. However, there are still many misconceptions about what cloud computing is and what it can do for busin...May. 23, 2013 04:00 AM EDT Reads: 2,806 |
 It could have been worse.
HP posted its Q2 results Wednesday when the market closed and came in with earnings down 32% on an adjusted bottom line that beat Wall Street’s tempered estimates.
All its geographies and all its product units punked out but the company claimed to be exe...May. 23, 2013 01:30 AM EDT Reads: 566 |
 OpenStack Cells is one of the most anticipated features in Grizzly, the seventh release of the open source software that offers more block storage options and scalability. It has been running in production at Rackspace for more than a year.
In his session at the 12th International Cl...May. 23, 2013 01:15 AM EDT Reads: 2,180 |
 SYS-CON Events announced today that BUMI (Backup My Info!), the premium provider of managed online backup and recovery solutions for small to mid-sized businesses, will exhibit at SYS-CON's 12th International Cloud Expo, which will take place on June 10–13, 2013, at the Javits Center i...May. 22, 2013 10:59 AM EDT Reads: 786 |
 Big Data and the cloud each contributed a start-up to the stock market last Friday.
Tableau Software, a profitable chart-making BI data visualization firm, IPO’d on the Big Board in New York sporting the highly desirable ticker symbol DATA and selling at the open for $31 a share. It ...May. 22, 2013 09:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,091 |
 Amazon Web Services said Tuesday that its GovCloud (US) in all US AWS regions has gotten an Agency Authority to Operate (ATO) from the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) under the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program (FedRAMP) requirements at the moderate-imp...May. 22, 2013 08:45 AM EDT Reads: 880 |
 In an ideal developer/systems administrator’s world, most applications would deploy seamlessly to multiple platforms and scale elastically with minimal effort bringing the unprecedented agility of the cloud within immediate reach of developer teams and IT organizations.
OpenStack, a ...May. 22, 2013 06:00 AM EDT Reads: 2,021 |
 NetApp, which is under pressure from activist shareholder Elliott Management to shape up and return value, said Tuesday that it’s going to can 900 people to spiff up its financials, 400 less that the 1,300 that Piper Jaffray estimated last week. May. 22, 2013 04:15 AM EDT Reads: 661 |
 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: 1,245 |
 Looking to hang with the cool kids, Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer, swearing “not to screw it up,” is buying Tumblr for a cool $1.1 billion, a big chunk of her $5.4 billion pocketbook since it’s “substantially all” in cash.
The New York-based acquisition will remain a separate business with...May. 21, 2013 08:00 AM EDT Reads: 848 |
 Cloud enables SMBs to access new, scalable resources – previously only available to enterprises – in flexible and cost-effective ways. McKinsey’s SMB Cloud Report projects the public cloud market to reach $40-$50 billion by 2015, with SMBs comprising 65% of public cloud spending in 201...May. 21, 2013 06:15 AM EDT Reads: 2,038 |
Dell’s board has again asked billionaire Carl Icahn and his buddy Southeastern Asset Management for more information about their proposal to take over the company.
Icahn asked Dell for more information after Dell posted its quarterly results last week and Dell flatly said “no.” It...May. 21, 2013 06:15 AM EDT Reads: 802 |
 In the face of rapidly increasing amounts of unstructured data, industry is investing heavily to turn machines into services and connect them to analytics engines that will extract an extraordinary amount of value and unleash a productivity revolution for both businesses and consumers....May. 21, 2013 05:00 AM EDT Reads: 3,246 |
 Compuware Corporation has announced the convergence of dynaTrace PurePath® Technology and the Gomez Performance Network, creating a powerful User Experience Management (UEM) solution. Compuware now offers a APMaaS solution that provides a complete UEM offering, including real-user, syn...May. 20, 2013 04:33 PM EDT Reads: 860 |
 Learn about the complex regulations surrounding HIPAA compliance and other considerations for running sensitive data in the Cloud.
In their session at the 12th International Cloud Expo, Frank Nydam, Director of Healthcare Solutions at VMware, and Ken Ziegler, CEO of Logicworks, will ...May. 20, 2013 02:30 AM EDT Reads: 2,515 |
 Enterprise cloud adoption revolves around pushing the BYOD movement and focusing on data security.
In his session at the 12th International Cloud Expo, Ross Brouse, COO and President of Solar VPS, will cover how cloud adoption is driven by consumerism, humanity’s need to socialize, o...May. 19, 2013 02:00 PM EDT Reads: 1,760 |
 The cloud-enabled data center sits at the center of IT transformation. It facilitates the interconnection and communities that come together, propelling growth for both buyers and sellers.
In his session at the 12th International Cloud Expo, Gerry Fassig, CoreSite’s Vice President of...May. 19, 2013 01:00 PM EDT Reads: 1,912 |
 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: 1,760 |
 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: 1,289 |
 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: 1,941 |
 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: 1,951 |
 Storage and Archive offerings are now exploding on the market. From end-user mobile devices to company tactical level, the cloud has become a black hole for every kind of data. But what are the risks, and what are the real needs?
In his session at the 12th International Cloud Expo, A...May. 18, 2013 01:00 PM EDT Reads: 1,957 |
