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| Adaptive Cloud Engineering - A SOA-based Approach |
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Speaker:
Tony Shan
Principal Enterprise Architect
Keane, Inc.
Track:
Cloud Security, Storage & Standards
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This session will present a comprehensive engineering approach for effective development of real-world cloud solutions. The concept of cloud engineering will be introduced and the integral components articulated in detais. The state of the art of cloud computing will be assessed, leading to the investigation of the key aspects – what, which, why, when, who, where, and how (6W+1H). A standard roadmap will be discussed, the core part of which is tooling. Both commercial and open source stacks will be critiqued. A cloud metamodel towards the cloud ecosystem will also be shared.
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| Closing Power Panel: What's Working, What's Not, and What's Next? |
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Industry Discussion Panel moderated by Jeremy Geelan, Cloud Expo Conference Chair
All the main buzzwords that have been making the rounds over past few years - ASP, SaaS, SOA, Virtualization, Grid Computing, Enterprise 2.0, etc. - have somehow been transmogrified into the single term "Cloud Computing."
We all know how Amazon took the lead in introducing AWS (Amazon Web Services) way back in 2003, then brought in Storage as a Service concept via S3 (Simple Shared Storage). It also introduced EC2 (Elastic Computing Cloud), where Infrastructure as a Service became viable. But what about the other 249 players in the fast-emerging Cloud ecosystem? What are their specialties? What are the newcomers offering? And what about older vendors like IBM? How do the “pure cloud” vendors like Google, Amazon, and SalesForce.com differ from everyone else? Who's doing what? How's it all going? What are the lingering unresolved issues - and who is working on solving them? Above all, this being the final session of an intense two-day program of content: Where's It All Headed???
Moderated by Cloud Expo Conference Chair Jeremy Geelan
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| Cloud Computing Adoption Globally: What's the Current Status? |
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Speaker:
Fergal O'Connor
Founder & CEO
CloudICT
Track:
Enterprise-Level Cloud Computing & Virtualization
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CloudICT is conducting the world's largest global cloud computing adoption survey. Our research is aimed at, and being supported by global enterprise executives who are the key decision makers at the CEO, CIO, CTO, company director and senior management level. The valubale information, which these key participants are providing, is enabling CloudICT to provide vendor independent research and analysis of the current status of cloud computing activity globally.
Some of the areas we will discuss include:
- What are organizations doing, or planning to do, with cloud computing?
- What types of cloud computing environments are being used, considered and/or ignored?
- What countries, industries are leading and lagging adoption?
- What are the major drivers and expectations?
- What suggestions, feedback and interesting observations customers are telling us?
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| Cloud Standards: Enabling Interoperability and Package Delivery |
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Speaker:
Diego Parrilla
VP of Product Management
Abiquo
Track:
Cloud Security, Storage & Standards
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A combination of interoperability and portability is the Holy Grail of Cloud computing, but is nearly impossible to achieve without standards. Adopting standards fosters competition and innovation in any market, but the Cloud computing market is held back because standards, especially hypervisor formats, are not universally used.
This session will discuss Cloud computing standards, emphasizing how interoperability and package delivery is possible using the Open Virtualization Format (OVF). OVF is an open, secure, portable, efficient and extensible format for the packaging and distribution of software to be run in virtual machines. Abiquo applies OVF to effectively manage multiple datacenters in one platform, making it possible to define and replicate deployments in different infrastructures. OVF makes vendor to vendor conversions quick and easy.
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| General Session: Maintaining Application Visibility and Control in the Clouds |
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Speaker:
Richard Stone
Sr. Solutions Manager, Cloud Computing & Mobile
Compuware
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All Tracks
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Cloud Computing is driving a fundamental shift in the way organizations build, deploy and use applications, and it’s raising expectations on how quickly and cost-effectively new IT functionality can be made available to the business. And even though the delivery chain for these “borderless applications” now crosses organizational and geographic boundaries, users will still expect the applications to perform well, and they will hold IT accountable if they don’t. For its part, IT is faced with managing an increasingly complex and diverse delivery chain, consisting of maybe dozens of service and content providers spread around the world.
The challenge for IT is to meet the business expectation of faster delivery of new functionality, while at the same time maintaining end-to-end visibility and control of application performance and availability across an inter-dependent, but independent, network of service providers.
In this session, Compuware will provide some real-world insight into how companies are successfully addressing this challenge, including details of how they can get objective, real-time data on the performance and availability of their prospective cloud service providers to assist them in their decision-making process.”
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| International Collaboration Using Cloud Computing |
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Cloud computing not only provides value to the business community but also serves as an enabler for international cooperation. This session by the Editor of Government Information Technology on Ulitzer will describe the possibilities and highlight the interoperability and portability challenges. It will also present some leading edge approaches that promise to enhance international cooperation.
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| Keeping Your Options Open, Even if the Cloud is Not |
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Speaker:
Doug Tidwell
Sr. Software Engineer & Cloud Evangelist
IBM
Track:
Cloud Security, Storage & Standards
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As you move your data and applications into the cloud, how do you avoid being locked in to a proprietary API or service? And how do you write applications that work with multiple clouds? In this session we’ll show you how to make your cloud applications as open and vendor-independent as possible. We’ll start with some design patterns, then look at a couple of open-source projects that are keeping the cloud open.
Most cloud services require application developers to think about arcane details instead of business logic. Simple Cloud and Apache libcloud simplify development for the cloud, letting programmers focus on what matters. An open-source project sponsored by Zend, GoGrid, IBM, Microsoft, Nirvanix and Rackspace, Simple Cloud lets you write one application that uses storage, database and queue services from multiple cloud vendors, despite the differences in their APIs. We'll also take a look at Apache libcloud, an open-source project that works with VM images and instances from many cloud providers. This session will show you how to write elegant, flexible, business-oriented code that insulates your application from the vendor-specific APIs and wire formats underneath.
Cloud computing is possible because of the virtualization and commoditization of IT infrastructures; to make the most of it, we’ll need the right level of standardization as well.
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| Keynote: An Open Cloud Ecosystem - the Gathering Storm |
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The last decade saw the growth of Virtualization from its humble beginnings as a developer tool to its increasing adoption in data centers worldwide. It dramatically improved resilience, scalability, portability and utilization, and became one of the key foundations of the Cloud.
But the story is only just beginning...
Join Pete Malcolm, CEO Abiquo, for this vendor-neutral keynote, where you will learn about the next chapter in the Virtualization story. What it is, what it means, why open standards are key, and most importantly, how it will revolutionize the way your organization manages IT.
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| Power Panel: Is Cloud the New Normal for Enterprise IT? |
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There seems to be little doubt that lightweight infrastructure is The Shape of Things to Come, for enterprise IT? When, though? Are we talking 2011 or more like 2020, for major enterprises anyway?
Should mid-sized firms also outsource IT to the cloud, or only larger ones? What real-world use cases come most immediately to mind, of companies that have successfully used the Cloud to accelerate speed to value?
It's not much good claiming the Cloud is all-powerful unless you can do load testing and measure performance: how do companies in the Cloud era keep track of performance? How does the Cloud alters the risk and compliance profile for companies?
Moderated by Cloud Expo Conference Chair Jeremy Geelan
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| Power Panel: Safety in the Cloud |
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It has been said that the three main barriers preventing some CIOs from moving some of their on-premise computing to the Cloud are Security, security, security. Has that changed, now that we're into the third year (at least!) of The Cloud?
Before choosing any vendor, questions certainly abound, such as: How does the vendor plan on securing your data and segregating the data from other customers? Is the data encrypted both in motion and at rest and what key management policies do they employ? What access control do they enforce for the application and physical security? What third-party groups audit their security? What compliance or other certifications do they possess? What is their disaster recovery plan and how does data security figure into those plans? What visibility do you have into the process? What is their network topology? Are they consistent with best practice tiered networking?
So...in 2010 how secure is Cloud Computing?
Moderated by Cloud Expo Conference Chair Jeremy Geelan
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| Storm Clouds: Disruptive Technologies Create “New Normal,” Dispel Myths |
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Speaker:
David Milot
Managing Partner
Unisys
Track:
All Tracks
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As much as information technology has changed in the last 10 years, the next decade promises even more significant change. And as cloud technology becomes more prevalent, IT enterprises will be driven to reconsider the status quo around just about everything we know, including Physical Infrastructure, Virtualization, Automation, Service Management, and Security.
Cloud technology and virtualization of virtually everything means rethinking the economic models around physical infrastructure, the emergence of a new class of providers as well as a greater degree of standardization around virtualized OS & Middleware configurations. There are increasing expectations from consumers of data center services - instant provisioning & de-provisioning, just for openers. And with a new generation of workers that expect anytime, anywhere access to corporate data, securing your data outside of your data center walls has become a greater business imperative albeit far more difficult.
In this session you will learn what's needed to consider to ensure your enterprise’s foray into cloud computing successfully and securely meets the needs of your enterprise. .
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| You Have a Virtualized Environment, Now What Do you Do? |
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Speaker:
Jason Noel
Vice-President, Global Customer Advisory Services
Unisys
Track:
Hot Topics
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Do you want a top down, business-driven, automated data center where efficiencies deliver agility and the ability to innovate? If yes, come to this session to listen to Jason Noel, Vice President, Cloud Advisory Services for Unisys Corporation discuss how to mindfully move from virtualization into this agile environment.
Learn how to deal with challenges such as virtual machine sprawl, additional storage requirements, increased systems management requirements, new IT management processes, and specialized technical skills. Learn how to collect empirical data and apply that to making sound business decisions which will aid in guiding the future direction of your infrastructure and IT Services delivery model. And, learn how to analyze both your infrastructure and applications to determine the appropriate steps to take advantage of the new IT Services delivery model – Cloud Computing.
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Articles & Feature Stories By Maureen O'Gara  Facebook decision makers and their bankers were reportedly closeted together shortly before the markets closed in New York Thursday trying to decide whether to price Facebook’s IPO at $38 or $39 a share, according to the Wall Street Journal, which evidently had a glass – in the way of a source – pressed to the conference room door.
Although nothing is definite yet, evidently the $39 price might break the camel’s back. They reportedly tried it on investors and got told no.
At $38 Facebook would be valued at a record $104 billion for an IPO and raise $18.4 billion. It would take $41 a share for the social networking site to best Visa’s record-setting IPO in 2008. Of course Visa had a proven business model. Facebook doesn’t. May. 17, 2012 04:10 PM EDT Reads: 482 | By Elizabeth White  Hybrid is an end state for most customers as it balances choice and the needs of the business against cost, flexibility and risk.
In his session at the 10th International Cloud Expo, Mark Clifton, Director Cloud Solutions at Dell Commercial Business Unit, will discuss Hybrid cloud adoption as well as the issues around data portability, integration and security that need to be proactively addressed. May. 17, 2012 04:00 PM EDT Reads: 463 | By Maureen O'Gara  An HP source told Business Insider that HP is going to make “massive” job cuts of 10%-15% of its workforce of 324,600 people.
Bloomberg then picked up the tambourine and said the number is more like 8%, or 25,000 people.
Factoring in attrition, early retirement and shifting jobs offshore, Business Insider reckons “HP’s total workforce numbers won’t reflect all of the cuts.” It thinks “we might also hear that HP is not going to rip the bandage off in one fell swoop, but will do one modest layoff in 2012, shift more work to offshore workers, and trim the workforce more over time.”
It’s expecting to hear that HP Services is having “another abysmal quarter” and that “HP’s outsourcing units could be particularly hit hard with whatever layoffs come and many of their jobs moved offshore. We’re hearing that people with eight-10 years of experience – or are at the top of the salary charts – ... May. 17, 2012 02:53 PM EDT Reads: 684 | By Liz McMillan  If your organization already uses virtualized infrastructure, you are well on your way to providing IT as a Service. But as businesses demand faster results in today’s competitive market, organizations look to gain more benefits from cloud computing than just virtualized infrastructure. Learn how to extend & ensure your private cloud investment with a private Platform as a Service (PaaS) and provide on-demand availability, flexibility, control, and ultimately, faster time-to-market for your development teams.
In his session at the 10th International Cloud Expo, Bart Copeland, President & CEO of ActiveState Software, will discuss how Private PaaS technology gives you control over where, when and how you leverage the cloud. May. 17, 2012 02:15 PM EDT Reads: 1,635 | By Pat Romanski  In this CTO Power Panel at the 10th International Cloud Expo, chaired by Jeremy Geelan, industry-leading CTOs & VPs of Technology will discuss such topics as:
Which do you think is the most important cloud computing standard still to tackle?
Who should and shouldn’t be using a PaaS product today, and why?
Can a public cloud ever be truly secure?
How important is open source to cloud computing and Big Data?
"Mission-critical apps are now safe in the cloud." True or false?
In your company how important a component is mobility in your cloud thinking?
If we now have "elastic IT" does that mean you view yourself as an "elastic CTO"??? May. 17, 2012 12:03 PM EDT Reads: 575 | By Pat Romanski  Nearly every enterprise is evaluating cloud computing solutions either today or in the near term. Many have already made the leap, and many more are getting close to putting that first toe in the water. But there are key considerations that should be made, questions to be asked, and designs to consider before you can feel secure with your provider.
In his session at the 10th International Cloud Expo, David Gulick, Product Manager, Hosting Product Management at Savvis, will help give you food for thought when having these conversations both internally and externally with service providers. May. 17, 2012 11:45 AM EDT Reads: 708 | By Patrick Burke  A survey of small and mid-size businesses found an interest in harnessing technology to improve business efficiency.
Midsize businesses are turning to IT investments to grow their businesses and the larger the organization, the more likely it is to cite technology as having the greatest potential to increase productivity, according to a new survey of midmarket companies by Deloitte.
The study shows cloud computing emerging as an investment priority. When asked what types of investments companies were likely to make in technology, 40 of the respondents cited cloud computing. That's close to automation of business processes (46 percent) and data analytics (41 percent), according to eWEEK.
"Interestingly, there seems to be a greater recognition of the benefits of cloud computing," the report stated. "In our September 2011 survey, it was recognized as a distant fourth as a means to incre... May. 17, 2012 11:30 AM EDT Reads: 905 | By Liz McMillan  SYS-CON Events announced today that Super Micro Computer, Inc., a global leader in high-performance, high-efficiency server technology and green computing, will exhibit at SYS-CON's 10th International Cloud Expo, which will take place on June 11–14, 2012, at the Javits Center in New York City, New York.
Supermicro (NASDAQ: SMCI), the leading innovator in high-performance, high-efficiency server technology, is a premier provider of advanced server Building Block Solutions for Embedded Systems, Enterprise IT, Data Center, HPC, and Cloud Computing worldwide. Supermicro is committed to protecting the environment through its "We Keep IT Green" initiative and provides customers with the most energy-efficient, environmentally friendly solutions available on the market. May. 17, 2012 11:15 AM EDT Reads: 632 | By Dana Gardner  New tools and services for swift software-as-a-service integration in the cloud lowers the barrier to SaaS adoption for SaaS providers and developers.
MuleSoft this week launched Mule iON SaaS Edition, providing a broad set of new tools and services for swift software-as-a-Service (SaaS) integration in the cloud, and lowering the barrier to SaaS adoption for SaaS providers and developers.
In recent commentary, Ross Mason, founder and CTO of Mulesoft, said, "The world today is moving at lightning speed to SaaS and cloud applications, and the idea of gaining competitive advantage through legacy enterprise applications is no longer relevant." May. 17, 2012 11:00 AM EDT Reads: 730 | By Elizabeth White  Come learn real-world examples where cloud and mobile are changing the way business works and the impact they're having on efficiency and productivity.
In his session at the 10th International Cloud Expo, Rodrigo Coutinho Senior Product Marketing Manager at OutSystems, will look at how mobile and the cloud are interwoven and the wave of change these two 2012 megatrends will bring to your organization. He will also provide a roadmap to assure you can navigate this sea change for business success. May. 17, 2012 11:00 AM EDT Reads: 594 |
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| Cloud Expo - Cloud Looms Large on SYS-CON.TV |
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Pete Malcolm, CEO of Abiquo Live From Silicon Valley
Join Pete Malcolm, CEO Abiquo, for this vendor-neutral keynote, where he will demonstrate that not only is balance possible, but that with it, the Enterprise Cloud actually becomes greater than the sum of its parts, truly achieving both the individual goals of each stakeholder, and the collective goal of the organization.
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Riding the Enterprise Cloud Computing Wave of Change into the Future
During his keynote, Jill Tummler Singer, Chief Information Officer of National Reconnaissance Office, will discuss key elements needed for a triumphant enterprise cloud computing migration and highlight strategies (including security advantages found in the cloud) to ensure you don't crash and get caught in the riptide of this rapidly emerging technology.
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Cloud Expo Breaking News By Elizabeth White Hybrid is an end state for most customers as it balances choice and the needs of the business against cost, flexibility and risk.
In his session at the 10th International Cloud Expo, Mark Clifton, Director Cloud Solutions at Dell Commercial Business Unit, will discuss Hybrid cloud adoption as well as the issues around data portability, integration and security that need to be proactively addressed. May. 17, 2012 04:00 PM EDT Reads: 463 | By Liz McMillan If your organization already uses virtualized infrastructure, you are well on your way to providing IT as a Service. But as businesses demand faster results in today’s competitive market, organizations look to gain more benefits from cloud computing than just virtualized infrastructure. Learn how to extend & ensure your private cloud investment with a private Platform as a Service (PaaS) and provide on-demand availability, flexibility, control, and ultimately, faster time-to-market for your deve... May. 17, 2012 02:15 PM EDT Reads: 1,635 | By Pat Romanski In this CTO Power Panel at the 10th International Cloud Expo, chaired by Jeremy Geelan, industry-leading CTOs & VPs of Technology will discuss such topics as:
Which do you think is the most important cloud computing standard still to tackle?
Who should and shouldn’t be using a PaaS product today, and why?
Can a public cloud ever be truly secure?
How important is open source to cloud computing and Big Data?
"Mission-critical apps are now safe in the cloud." True or false?
In your company ... May. 17, 2012 12:03 PM EDT Reads: 575 | By Pat Romanski Nearly every enterprise is evaluating cloud computing solutions either today or in the near term. Many have already made the leap, and many more are getting close to putting that first toe in the water. But there are key considerations that should be made, questions to be asked, and designs to consider before you can feel secure with your provider.
In his session at the 10th International Cloud Expo, David Gulick, Product Manager, Hosting Product Management at Savvis, will help give you food f... May. 17, 2012 11:45 AM EDT Reads: 708 | By Liz McMillan SYS-CON Events announced today that Super Micro Computer, Inc., a global leader in high-performance, high-efficiency server technology and green computing, will exhibit at SYS-CON's 10th International Cloud Expo, which will take place on June 11–14, 2012, at the Javits Center in New York City, New York.
Supermicro (NASDAQ: SMCI), the leading innovator in high-performance, high-efficiency server technology, is a premier provider of advanced server Building Block Solutions for Embedded Systems, E... May. 17, 2012 11:15 AM EDT Reads: 632 | By Elizabeth White Come learn real-world examples where cloud and mobile are changing the way business works and the impact they're having on efficiency and productivity.
In his session at the 10th International Cloud Expo, Rodrigo Coutinho Senior Product Marketing Manager at OutSystems, will look at how mobile and the cloud are interwoven and the wave of change these two 2012 megatrends will bring to your organization. He will also provide a roadmap to assure you can navigate this sea change for business succes... May. 17, 2012 11:00 AM EDT Reads: 594 | By Liz McMillan  As a media partner of Cloud Expo, GigaOM is offering a special 20% discount for each registration package for SYS-CON's 10th International Cloud Expo, which will take place on June 11-14, 2012, at the Javits Center in New York City. To obtain your 20% discount, here is a quick summary of all you need to do - feel free to cut and paste these instructions into any email blast you might be sending out.
Cloud Expo 2012 New York, June 11–14, 2012, at the Javits Center in New York City, New York, wil... May. 17, 2012 10:35 AM EDT Reads: 416 | By Liz McMillan  Whether you are a large enterprise, a growing business, a government organization, or a service provider, Cloud Expo New York is THE place you need to be June 11-14...so you can better understand both the provision and use of the cloud services that increasingly transforming IT and business alike.
Cloud Expo covers every aspect of Cloud Computing: performance, integration, security, availability, compliance, purchasing, budgeting, development, visibility, automation...the works! May. 17, 2012 10:00 AM EDT Reads: 924 | By Pat Romanski  Enterprise IT organizations want to deploy a virtualized data center fabric that will provide the foundation for agile private cloud computing. Getting there does not have to be difficult, but it does require a new approach to data center infrastructure design – an approach that is non-disruptive, vendor-agnostic, and very adaptable to changing business requirements.
In his session at the 10th International Cloud Expo, Bruce Fingles, Chief Information Officer and VP of Product Quality at Xsigo... May. 17, 2012 09:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,702 | By Elizabeth White  Rishidot Research LLC, the next-gen analyst firm, on Thursday announced DeployCon 2012, the first conference focused exclusively on Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) for enterprise. According to market research firm IDC, the worldwide public PaaS market is expected to grow from $2.2 billion in 2010 to $9.1 billion by 2015.
As this service-driven model of cloud computing matures and enterprises accelerate adoption, the focus shifts towards PaaS. Even though PaaS has been comfortably embraced by indiv... May. 17, 2012 08:49 AM EDT Reads: 552 |
Top Stories for Cloud Expo Europe
Kevin L Jackson launched the "Government Cloud Computing Journal" on Ulitzer.
The online magazine offers stories and articles on the effective use of cloud
computing technologies within the government domain.
Kevin L. Jackson is a senior information technologist specializing in
information technology solutions that meet critical Federal government
operational requirements. Currently, he serves as Director, Business
Development for Dataline, Inc., and editor of Government Cloud Computing
e-zine.
Kevin L. Jackson (right) with Cloud Computing Expo conference chair Jeremy
Geelan before his presentation on Government Cloud Computing.
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Best Recent Articles on Cloud Computing & Big Data Topics  By Jeremy Geelan The Arlington, Virginia-based National Science Foundation has just released its "Report on Support for Cloud Computing" - in response to the America Competes Reauthorization Act of 2010, Section 524.
It is an absolute must-read for all concerned with current and future research projects in Cloud Computing. Reads: 3,097  By Jeremy Geelan "The volume of data we're generating now from machines pales in comparison to the volume of data we'll soon generate from our own bodies," says data security expert Dave Asprey. Writing in a Trend Micro blog, Asprey - who is one of the leaders in the emerging Quantified Self movement - explains his vision of a world in which personal biometrical data is shared via the cloud. Reads: 4,536  By Wolfram Jost Cloud computing has caught the attention of business leaders around the world in every
industry because of its enormous transformative potential. Visionary companies know that
the value of the cloud is far greater than the current focus solely on technology and operating
costs: when combined with a collaborative approach to designing processes, cloud computing
will change how we do business.
Reads: 7,382  By Elizabeth White Want to make sense of the hottest new concept in Enterprise IT?
Want to understand in just hours what experts have spent many hundreds of days deciphering?
Cloud computing is a technology that has rapidly evolving peppered with a lot of hype along the way. Customers find it hard to navigate through this and make sense of what aspects of this technology will give them real business benefit.
Cloud Computing Bootcamp, led by our 2012 Bootcamp Instructor Larry Carvalho, is a great way to get a practical understanding of this technology. We offer multiple days of actionable insight into what vendor offerings are currently available and help you comprehend their strategy.
The ever-popular Bootcamp, which is now held regularly around the world, is being held in conjunction with the 10th Cloud Expo, June 11-14, 2012, at the Javits Center, New York, NY. Reads: 5,485  By Larry Bettino Did you know that ninety percent of the data in the world has been created in the last two years? Every day, we create 2.5 quintillion (or 2.518) bytes of data, according to IBM.
As corporations across all industries globally are struggling with how to retain, aggregate and analyze this mounting volume of what the industry refers to as Big Data, it also provides a unique opportunity for innovative startups that recognize the business prospects Big Data presents. Big Data is not just unlocking new information but new sources of economic and business value.
Interactivity is driving Big Data, with people and machines both consuming and creating it. Digital companies focused on becoming good at aggregating and analyzing the data created by the end users of their product, who then provide their customers with solid insights taken from that data are at a distinct competitive advantage over others in the marketplace. Reads: 2,991  By Elizabeth White SYS-CON Events announced today that SHI, a $4 billion+ global provider of information technology products and services, has been named Platinum Plus Sponsor of SYS-CON's 10th International Cloud Expo, which will take place on June 11–14, 2012, at the Javits Center in New York City, New York.
Founded in 1989, SHI International Corp. is a global provider of technology products and services. Driven by the industry's most experienced and stable sales force and backed by software volume licensing experts, hardware procurement specialists, and certified IT service professionals, SHI delivers custom IT solutions to Corporate, Enterprise, Public Sector, and Academic customers. With over 1,800 + employees worldwide, SHI is the largest Minority/Woman Owned Business Enterprise (MWBE) in the U.S. and is ranked 19th among Everything Channel's VAR 500 list of North American IT solution providers. Reads: 2,511  By Elizabeth White SYS-CON Events announced today that Rackspace Hosting, the service leader in cloud computing, has been named "Platinum Plus Sponsor" of SYS-CON's 10th International Cloud Expo, which will take place on June 11-14, 2012, at the Javits Center in New York City, New York, and the 11th International Cloud Expo, which will take place on November 5-8, 2012, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA.
SYS-CON Events announced today that Rackspace Hosting, the service leader in cloud computing, has been named "Platinum Plus Sponsor" of SYS-CON's 10th International Cloud Expo, which will take place on June 11-14, 2012, at the Javits Center in New York City, New York, and the 11th International Cloud Expo, which will take place on November 5-8, 2012, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA  By Elizabeth White 9th International Cloud Expo, held on November 7 - 10, 2011, in Santa Clara, CA, attracted more than 120 sponsors and exhibitors with over 7,500 registered delegates and four content-packed days with a rich array of sessions about the business and technical value of cloud computing led by exceptional speakers from every sector of the cloud computing ecosystem.
The Cloud Expo series is the fastest-growing Enterprise IT event in the past 10 years, devoted to every aspect of delivering massively scalable enterprise IT as a service.
We invite you to enjoy here our photo album of the show. Reads: 5,638  By Carmen Gonzalez Ulitzer.com announced "the World's 30 most influential Cloud bloggers," who collectively generated more than 24 million Ulitzer page views. Ulitzer's annual "most influential Cloud bloggers" list was announced at Cloud Expo, which drew more delegates than all other Cloud-related events put together worldwide. "The world's 50 most influential Cloud bloggers 2010" list will be announced at the Cloud Expo 2010 East, which will take place April 19-21, 2010, at the Jacob Javitz Convention Center, in New York City, with more than 5,000 expected to attend. Reads: 32,662  By Kevin Hartig Cloud computing is becoming one of the next industry buzz words. It joins the ranks of terms including: grid computing, utility computing, virtualization, clustering, etc.
Cloud computing overlaps some of the concepts of distributed, grid and utility computing, however it does have its own meaning if contextually used correctly. The conceptual overlap is partly due to technology changes, usages and implementations over the years.
Trends in usage of the terms from Google searches shows Cloud Computing is a relatively new term introduced in the past year. There has also been a decline in general interest of Grid, Utility and Distributed computing.
Likely they will be around in usage for quit a while to come. But Cloud computing has become the new buzz word driven largely by marketing and service offerings from big corporate players like Google, IBM and Amazon. Reads: 182,440  By Elizabeth White SYS-CON Events announced today that Cloud Expo 2012 New York, the 10th International Cloud Computing Conference & Expo, will take place June 11-14, 2012, at the Javits Center 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 400 corporate sponsors and 20,000 industry professionals have participated in Cloud Expo since its inception, more than all other Cloud-related events put together.
"10th Cloud Expo is trending to be both the biggest ever and the best-attended event in the international Cloud Expo series to date, so it is only natural that we should be holding it in the biggest and best conference venue anywhere on the East Coast, the Jacob K. Javits Convention Center," stated Carmen Gonzalez, CEO of Cloud Expo. "If you are not at Cloud Expo New York, June 11-14, at the Javits Center, then you risk not getting the relevant parts of your IT infrastructure into the Cloud in time." Reads: 10,419  By Pat Romanski Hadoop, MapReduce, Hive, Hbase, Lucene, Solr? The only thing growing faster than enterprise data these days is the landscape of big data tools. These tools, which are designed to help organizations turn big data into opportunities, are gaining deeper insight into massive volumes of information. A recent Gartner report predicts that enterprise data will increase by 650% over the next five years, which means that the time is now for IT decision makers to determine which big data tools are the best - and most cost-effective - for their organization. Reads: 5,059 By Roger Strukhoff Cloud Expo, Cloud Expo East, Cloud Expo West, Cloud Expo Silicon Valley, Cloud Expo Europe, Cloud Expo Tokyo, Cloud Expo Prague, Cloud Expo Hong Kong, Cloud Expo Sao Paolo are trademarks and /or registered trademarks (USPTO serial number 85009040) of Cloud Expo, Inc. Reads: 11,879 |
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The World's Most Influential Blogs By Matt McLarty  As I mentioned in my last blog post, the promise of cost reduction is compelling many enterprises to move their workloads into the Cloud but many IT leaders are reluctant to do so, for fear of compromising the security and availability of their services. These concerns are well-founded but the benef... May. 17, 2012 02:00 PM EDT Reads: 518 | By Dustin Amrhein  Rapid deployment capability is table stakes when we are talking about a PaaS solution. Every vendor touts it, and to be frank, every user simply expects it to be there. While I think it is interesting to talk about rapid deployment and perhaps compare speed of one solution to that of another, I thin... May. 17, 2012 09:58 AM EDT Reads: 424 | By Don MacVittie 
Throughout history there has been a cycle that ebbs and flows where new technology makes production more efficient and reduces the need for manpower in a particular space, thus forcing those in charge into the difficult position of deciding who stays and who goes. This is normally replaced by an u... May. 17, 2012 07:45 AM EDT Reads: 666 | By John Treadway  Okay – this is easy… or is it?
Lots of people continue to perpetuate the idea that the AWS APIs are a de facto standard, so we should just all move on about it. At the same time, everybody seems to acknowledge the fact that Amazon has never ever indicated that they want to be a true standard. Are... May. 17, 2012 07:00 AM EDT Reads: 835 | By Chris Evans  It’s been an interesting day of contrasts in the world of storage, one that shows storage is a diverse and wide ranging segment of IT.
Tape has been part of the discussion on the twitterverse and despite everyone’s best attempts, is not dead yet. Tape and backup may not be seen as cool - but data... May. 16, 2012 01:39 PM EDT Reads: 475 | By Derek Kol  It was at Netscape, in the early days of the internet, when co-founders Lou Montulli and Jeff Whitehead first worked together and began to notice how the amount of their data was constantly growing, but the process for adding storage and protecting that data wasn't improving over time.
"Zetta is a ... May. 16, 2012 11:21 AM EDT Reads: 437 | By Hovhannes Avoyan  In our previous articles, Introduction to SQL Server 2012 and Windows Azure Overview, we made references to Microsoft’s SQL Azure service. In this article we will take a closer look at its main features in more detail.
SQL Azure is a relational database solution with the capability to support both ... May. 16, 2012 09:18 AM EDT Reads: 551 | By Gilad Parann-Nissany  As part of our cloud strategy, we’ve recently released a VMware version of our cloud security offering. It allows cloud providers using VMware, as well as the cloud users themselves, to create an encrypted environment within minutes, while eliminating the complexity around encryption key management ... May. 16, 2012 08:37 AM EDT Reads: 435 | By Cloud Ventures  When it comes to building new cloud services, there is a large opportunity for new services built around Big Data.
So when you look at consulting firms that provide application development and integration services, are there opportunities for them to leverage Big Data in their service portfolio?
... May. 16, 2012 08:00 AM EDT Reads: 888 | By Lori MacVittie  It’s really easy to quantify some of the costs associated with a security breach. Number of customers impacted times the cost of a first class stamp plus the cost of a sheet of paper plus the cost of ink divided by … you get the picture. Some of the costs are easier than others to calculate. Some of... May. 16, 2012 07:41 AM EDT Reads: 542 |
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