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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
Senior Telecom Solution Manager
Compuware
Track:
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 Cloud Ventures  Founded in 2004, Esotera has developed and launched a solution that builds upon the Cloud to produce a superior storage function.
Esotera Secure Storage Solutions, St. John’s, NL, Canada has released its Esotera suite of distributed storage products. Founded in 2004, Esotera has developed and launched a solution that builds upon the Cloud to produce a superior storage function. Jul. 29, 2010 11:46 AM EDT | By Liz McMillan  Traditionally, the cost of deployment has not been considered an important parameter of architectural tradeoffs. Since the main driver of cloud computing is its promise of cost savings through "pay for what you use," there is a strong incentive to build applications that consume fewer resources.
In his session at the 7th International Cloud Expo, Udayan Banerjee, CTO at NIIT Technologies Ltd., will Establish the need: 10% less resource required = 10% cost saving; identify what we need to unlearn: Parallel and distributed world is a different world; provide pointers: How to approach the problem of cost optimization; and review platform-specific variance: impact of the difference between main providers. Jul. 29, 2010 11:04 AM EDT Reads: 1,211 | By Pat Romanski  Nuxeo, the Open Source Enterprise Content Management (ECM) company, on Thursday announced an update to its Nuxeo Digital Asset Management product with the release of Nuxeo DAM 1.1, as well launching the hosted version, Nuxeo DAM - Cloud Edition. This new release of Nuxeo DAM incorporates feature enhancements driven directly by early adopter customers and the Nuxeo developer community.
Nuxeo DAM - Cloud Edition runs on the Nuxeo secure cloud services infrastructure, backed by the resilient and high-performing Amazon web services. Nuxeo DAM - Cloud Edition offers a media management solution ideally suited to small- to medium-sized organizations with fixed budgets and limited IT infrastructure and resources. It is also ideal for businesses that need to collaborate with geographically dispersed customers, helping marketers and brand managers quickly catalog, process, store, retrieve and dis... Jul. 29, 2010 11:00 AM EDT Reads: 150 |  Matrix-Online is a Software as a Service (SaaS) offering that runs on the Windows Azure and SQL Azure Platform as a Service (Paas). The solution provides a cloud-based contract management repository where companies can track, search and set alerts for all of your active contracts. No IT staff is needed, no additional licenses, access to all future upgrades and releases with minimal configuration.
As Microsoft signs up additional customers on the Azure platform, CLM Matrix intends to broaden their customer reach by having the Matrix-Online service fully enabled within the cloud environment. Jul. 29, 2010 10:19 AM EDT Reads: 175 | By Elizabeth White  IBM Poland and the Wroclaw University of Technology on Thursday announced an agreement to establish the first university cloud computing center in Poland. As part of the partnership, the Wroclaw University of Technology will create a new academic curriculum, making cloud-focused courses available to more than 1500 students.
"The new cloud center will provide a common platform for students and professors, industry partners and government agencies to work on real solutions based on cloud computing that will align people and technology effectively, and will generate value for both services providers and clients," said Professor Czeslaw Smutnicki, director of the Institute of Computer Engineering, Control and Robotics, Wroclaw University of Technology. "We plan to start immediately with a cloud computing practice for over 500 students later this summer. The cooperation will continue in the ... Jul. 29, 2010 09:42 AM EDT Reads: 188 | By Liz McMillan  The Cloud Security Alliance on Wednesday unveiled the industry’s first user certification program for secure cloud computing. The Certificate of Cloud Security Knowledge (CCSK) is designed to ensure that a broad range of professionals with a responsibility related to cloud computing have a demonstrated awareness of the security threats and best practices for securing the cloud.
Cloud computing is being aggressively adopted on a global basis as businesses seek to reduce costs and improve their agility. Among the critical needs of the industry is to provide training and certification of professionals to assure that cloud computing is implemented responsibly with the appropriate security controls. The Cloud Security Alliance has developed a widely adopted catalogue of security best practices, the Security Guidance for Critical Areas of Focus in Cloud Computing, V2.1. In addition, the Eu... Jul. 29, 2010 09:30 AM EDT Reads: 530 |
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| Cloud Expo - Cloud Looms Large on SYS-CON.TV |
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Cloud Expo 2010 East Opening Keynote by Oracle
View this Keynote, recorded live at the Jacob Javits Center, featuring Richard Sarwal, CSVP of Development and Hasan Rizvi, Senior Vice President of Oracle Fusion Middleware Products.
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The Science of Doing Business in the Clouds
During this Cloud Expo Day Two Keynote, Tony Bishop will describe Adaptivity’s systematic and prescriptive approach that combines Fit-for-Purpose infrastructure technologies and management capabilities in order to create the optimal economics, environment and autonomics needed for the business to leverage cloud services.
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Pete Malcolm, CEO of Abiquo Live From New York City
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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The Time is Right for Enterprise Cloud Computing
During his keynote, Rich Marcello, Senior Vice President of Unisys, will discuss the latest technologies and approaches that help knock down these barriers, creating the opportunity for attendees to now consider cloud managed services as part of their data center journey to secure "IT as a Service".
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Accelerating Innovation with Cloud Computing
Join Shelton Shugar, Senior Vice President of Cloud Computing at Yahoo! for a keynote elaborating on how Yahoo! and consumers benefit from Yahoo! Cloud Services and will describe Yahoo! Cloud Services and technologies. |
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Cloud Expo Breaking News By Liz McMillan Traditionally, the cost of deployment has not been considered an important parameter of architectural tradeoffs. Since the main driver of cloud computing is its promise of cost savings through "pay for what you use," there is a strong incentive to build applications that consume fewer resources.
In his session at the 7th International Cloud Expo, Udayan Banerjee, CTO at NIIT Technologies Ltd., will Establish the need: 10% less resource required = 10% cost saving; identify what we need to unlea... Jul. 29, 2010 11:04 AM EDT Reads: 1,211 | By Elizabeth White  SYS-CON Events announced today that Stoneware, a leader in private cloud computing, has been named “Bronze Sponsor” of SYS-CON's 7th International Cloud Expo, which will take place on November 1–4, 2010, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA.
Headquartered in Indianapolis and founded in 2000, Stoneware is a privately held corporation providing innovative software that enables organizations to build their own 'private' cloud with a virtual web desktop to access all of their app... Jul. 29, 2010 09:00 AM EDT Reads: 458 | By Liz McMillan  SYS-CON Events announced today that NComputing, the global leader in desktop virtualization will exhibit at SYS-CON's 7th International Cloud Expo, which will take place on November 1–4, 2010, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA.
NComputing, Inc. is the fastest growing desktop virtualization company in the world with over 20 million users in 140 countries. The company's combination of software, protocol and SoC innovation, lowers desktop computing costs, improves manageabil... Jul. 29, 2010 07:45 AM EDT Reads: 537 Replies: 1 | By Liz McMillan  SYS-CON Events announced today that Impetus, leaders in Technology R&D and Software Product Engineering, has been named “Bronze Sponsor” of SYS-CON's 7th International Cloud Expo, which will take place on November 1–4, 2010, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA.
Impetus Technologies offers Product Engineering and Technology R&D services for software product development. With ongoing investments in research and application of emerging technology areas, innovative business mode... Jul. 29, 2010 07:30 AM EDT Reads: 543 | By Salvatore Genovese  SYS-CON Events announced today that Zetta, a provider of enterprise storage on demand, will exhibit at SYS-CON's 7th International Cloud Expo, which will take place on November 1–4, 2010, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA.
Award-winning Zetta Enterprise Storage Service allows IT users to replace traditional data backups with Zetta sync technology, continuous data validation, and default 7 year version history. With native file-system access, Zetta users can quickly adopt s... Jul. 28, 2010 09:15 AM EDT Reads: 614 Replies: 1 | By Elizabeth White  Companies today are looking to do more with less, while finding new ways to meet growing business demand. Cloud computing is being touted as the cure-all but means many things to many people.
In his general session at the 7th International Cloud Expo, Neela Jacques, Group Manager, Product Marketing at VMware, will be exploring how companies are evolving their virtualized infrastructures to deliver many of the benefits of proprietary public clouds, without many of the downsides – by building fo... Jul. 28, 2010 08:45 AM EDT Reads: 640 Replies: 1 |
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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Conference News & Updates  By Pat Romanski SYS-CON Events announced on Friday that Cloud Expo 2010 West, the 7th International Cloud Computing Conference & Expo, has been extended to four days from November 1-4, 2010, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, California.
Cloud Expo 2010 West total show floor space increased from 20,000 sq. ft. in 2009 to over 100,000 sq. ft. in 2010 including the expo floor.
The expo floor will be open for four full days, November 1-4, 2010, in the Grand Ballrooms A through H.
Half of the Cloud Expo 2010 West exhibit space had already sold out during the last West Coast event in November 2009.
Cloud Expo is the world's leading Cloud-focused event since 2007, and is held five times a year, in New York City, Silicon Valley, Prague, Tokyo and Hong Kong. Reads: 5,681  By Corinna Melcon By employing the most effective and powerful marketing tools in tech media for more than 15 years, SYS-CON Events, Inc. and Cloud Expo, Inc. intensively pre-publicize Cloud Expo 2010 West - Santa Clara via an unmatched number of channels.
Cloud Expo, Inc. publicity platforms include multiple news syndication channels, more than a dozen Ulitzer.com channels, multiple Twitter feeds that are amplified to hundreds of thousands of followers, as well as Cloud Expo's "Most Powerful Cloud Bloggers" platform with millions of page views at http://CloudComputingExpo.com.
The event is streamed live to more than 50,000 concurrent viewers at any given time throughout the three days. All key media outlets, technology journalists, and press are VIP-invited to Cloud Expo 2010 West - Santa Clara.
SYS-CON.TV produces and broadcasts the most viewed tech interviews with movers and shakers and simulcasts "Power Panels" right from the show floor!
Reads: 5,137  By Fuat Kircaali This year's West Coast conference attracted 2,250 delegate, more than double a year ago. As far as the expo floor goes, out of 50 sponsors and exhibitors, 46 companies confirmed during the conference that they will participate in the 2010 Cloud Computing Expo at the same or higher level.
At SYS-CON Media we see our inventories are filling up to 100% capacity for the months of November, December, and January, and we are seeing better-than-normal RFP activity for the first quarter of 2010. Reads: 14,709  By SYS-CON TV Learn about the trajectory of Cloud Computing - where it came from, where it is today, and where it's headed tomorrow - direct from four Enterprise IT industry experts: Greg O'Connor, CEO of AppZero; Tony Bishop, CEO of Adaptivity; K. Scott Morrison, CTO of Layer 7 Technologies; and Marty Gauvin, CEO of Virtual Ark. Moderated by Cloud Expo Conference Chair, Jeremy Geelan, this "Power Panel" was recorded at the Times Square studio of SYS-CON.TV in connection with 5th Cloud Expo (www.CloudComputingExpo.com), held recently in New York City...the Largest Cloud Computing Event in the World. Reads: 3,957  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: 15,174  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: 5,209  By Fuat Kircaali I can't comprehend that any event producer anywhere in the world today would answer this question by picking any one of the five available options presented. "A leading tool?" What do you mean by "a leading tool?" What other tools would you possibly have in this day and age? This question, the survey itself and its participants belong to the last decade.
I personally don't use email anymore; I communicate through "Twitter."
We don't do press releases unless we have to; we tweet stories to our roughly 12,000 followers in 8 channels. The news gets amplified to hundreds of thousands instantly.
Even during Cloud Expo, we reach more people by Twitter than the announcements we make through loudspeakers in the convention centers.
I would love to contact the people who are conducting this survey and ask them if any company answered their first question as "don't really consider it."
In an age where I personally hail a cab at an airport through Twitter, I can't possibly comprehend which century bubble those people might be living in. Reads: 3,223  Further cementing its position as The Largest Cloud Computing Event in the World, the organizers of the 7th Cloud Expo, being held at the Santa Clara Convention Center, Santa Clara, CA, announced today that the event will also feature – on November 2nd, 2010 – a CloudCamp unconference.
CloudCamp @ Cloud Expo is aimed at anyone working with, or interested in working with, cloud technologies.
"With the rapid change occurring in the industry, we need a place where we can meet to share our experiences, challenges and solutions," said CloudCamp co-founder Dave Nielsen, who will personally be facilitating the process on site at the Jacob Javits. "At CloudCamp," Nielsen continued, "participants will be encouraged to share their thoughts in several open discussions, as we strive for the advancement of Cloud Computing."  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: 74,954 |
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The World's Most Influential Blogs By Dustin Amrhein  Generally, I believe standards are a good thing for both technology consumers and providers. For consumers, they act as a focusing lens for the kinds of capabilities they should be looking for from a particular implementation (regardless of the technology we are talking about). From a technology provider standpoint, you may often hear the rallying cry that standards impede innovation. By and large, this is a bogus argument. When formed at the right time, standards encourage innovation by normali... Jul. 29, 2010 11:00 AM EDT Reads: 379 | By Dana Gardner  History has many examples of invaders wielding steel swords, repeating rifles, or whatever the latest weapon may be, driving out people who are less well-equipped. Corporate IT departments are starting to go the same way, at the hands of people equipped with cloud computing.
The Open Group Cloud Computing Work Group has been focused on the business reasons why companies should use cloud computing. Jul. 28, 2010 04:26 PM EDT Reads: 400 | By Don MacVittie  The last couple of years have been painful, to say the least. Some call them unprecedented, financially, but I do believe that is pushing the descriptor a bit far, since there have been plenty of instances where business pretty much en-masse questioned the amount that IT returns for their investment and cut budgets, so the feel of this recession is not much different than what we’ve felt before, it’s just by necessity. The funny bit of this is that everyone seems to agree that IT spending still ... Jul. 28, 2010 03:48 PM EDT Reads: 157 | By Peter Silva  Not that it was ever down and out, but the whole cloud computing concept has gotten off to a grand but challenging start. It was all the rage when first ‘conceived’ as the new way of hosting applications with the promise of cost savings, automation, flexible/dynamic architectures, fast and repeatable deployment and a pay-as-you-go model. [...] Jul. 28, 2010 03:08 PM EDT Reads: 126 | By Ellen Rubin  As IT organizations move forward with their virtualization initiatives, consolidating operations and shrinking provisioning times, the cloud has come along as an even more compelling option. In the cloud, companies can build capacity on-demand without having to own or manage the computing infrastructure. As companies review their application portfolios, they’ve started to realize that many of their not-yet-virtualized apps could easily be run in the cloud. In particular, applications that are ch... Jul. 28, 2010 01:00 PM EDT Reads: 453 | By Lori MacVittie  I heard it said the other day, regarding the OpenStack announcement, that “the world does not care about APIs.”
Unpossible! How could the world not care about APIs? After all, it is APIs that make the Web (2.0) go around. It is APIs that drive the automation of infrastructure from static toward dynamic. It is APIs that drive self-service and thin-provisioning of compute and storage in the cloud. It is APIs that make cross-environment integration of SaaS possible. In general, without APIs we’d b... Jul. 28, 2010 11:30 AM EDT Reads: 454 |
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