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Opening Keynote | An Enterprise Cloud for Business-Critical Applications
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 Two years ago, Rackspace joined a global collaboration of developers and cloud computing technologists to create an open source cloud computing platform that can be used with both private and public cloud formats. Now the code for the program, OpenStack, is freely available and is bein...May. 16, 2012 04:10 PM EDT Reads: 408 |
 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...May. 16, 2012 10:30 AM EDT Reads: 1,594 |
 Here we are less than three days before Facebook’s historic $100 billion IPO and General Motors or “people familiar with the matter” let slip to the Wall Street Journal that GM’s going to stop advertising on the social networking site because the paid ads are ineffective.
The big Ame...May. 16, 2012 06:45 AM EDT Reads: 774 |
 Most technology companies - especially Software companies do marketing all wrong. They make marketing all about "them". I call it "me-me-me" marketing.
Marketing for technology should be about "the customer" - and how to make the customer successful.
There are a few examples of so...May. 14, 2012 09:48 AM EDT Reads: 812 |
 Dell has turned up with the very first cloud-directed microservers using Xeon processors built on Intel’s teeny-weeny 22nm process with sexy TriGate transistors.
It will be amusing to see if AMD sends its recent SeaMicro microserver acquisition, which used to be tight with Intel, out...May. 14, 2012 07:15 AM EDT Reads: 1,325 |
 In spite of the great strides the cloud industry has made in addressing security and integration concerns, large enterprises (e.g., banks, insurance companies, health care firms) continue to be reluctant to adopt the cloud for mission-critical applications. Further, resistance to cloud...May. 10, 2012 05:15 AM EDT Reads: 2,271 |
 The application release lifecycle is unnecessarily complex, manual and time-consuming and its cumbersome nature is putting businesses in a position of weakness. This one very critical process determines how fast a business can deliver products to market and yet is complex, error-prone ...May. 8, 2012 09:45 AM EDT Reads: 2,449 |
 We are living in a world of unprecedented growth in the digital universe. In just over a decade, the Internet and the creation and utilization of digital data has gone from nascent to a vital part of everyday life. This is why electronic data is growing at rates that make Moore’s Law a...May. 7, 2012 11:15 AM EDT Reads: 1,958 |
 As much as the trial judge in the case between HP and Oracle over Itanium would like them to settle, Reuters reported an Oracle lawyer saying it wouldn’t happen. No surprise there.
The judge the other day refused to settle the matter himself by finding for one side or another. Probab...May. 7, 2012 08:15 AM EDT Reads: 1,729 |
 VMTurbo has added application delivery visibility to its intelligent workload management software for cloud and virtualized environments.
The new Operations Manager 3.1 basically assures companies that it’s okay to virtualize business-critical applications because it can ensure servic...May. 7, 2012 07:45 AM EDT Reads: 1,438 |
 The business must specify its requirements in a fundamentally different way. Instead of thinking about what it wants the software to do, the business should specify how agile it expects the software to be. In other words, don’t ask for software that does A, B, C or whatever. Instead, t...May. 5, 2012 02:00 PM EDT Reads: 1,036 |
 Organizations in every industry, regardless of size or geography are embracing cloud computing as a way to reduce the complexity and costs associated with traditional IT approaches. This reality is driven by three related shifts:
Customer, employee and partner expectations are changi...May. 5, 2012 12:00 PM EDT Reads: 2,311 |
 Business processes manage the operational flow of business and when optimized achieve cost containment and flexibility as they need to be efficient and able to adapt to changing business conditions. The art of planning and implementing process management requires all the best cross-fun...May. 5, 2012 10:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,344 |
 The first wave of cloud computing enabled data center consolidation. In his session at the 10th International Cloud Expo, Cary Landis, senior cloud architect at NJVC, will discuss how the next wave, Platform as a Service (PaaS), will enable application consolidation. It will be more co...May. 5, 2012 02:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,942 |
 There will always be a threat from malware - malicious software that is designed to steal or corrupt data on computers. Malware affects everyone from security services to silver surfers, and when it isn’t checked it can wreak havoc.
Ultimately, it doesn’t matter what size your busines...May. 4, 2012 11:00 AM EDT Reads: 670 |
 Cloud technologies are moving at a rapid pace. The compelling drivers are the need for on-demand business solutions, lower cost for IT and the ability to deliver the rich experience that users need and expect. Enterprises are wrestling with private vs. public vs. hybrid cloud solutions...May. 3, 2012 06:15 AM EDT Reads: 1,673 |
 A transition from a traditional infrastructure-focused deployment model into a cloud-friendly, cloud-ready, cloud-enabled and service-centric delivery vehicle in enterprise IT is imminent, if not already happening. IT is no longer about servers, networks, and storage; instead IT is abo...May. 3, 2012 05:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,630 |
 As utilities shift to smart meters and more customer-oriented systems under new government-mandated Smart Grid initiatives, they will quickly face the need to handle billions of real-time energy utilization transactions. In this new energy arena, the high volume, low-cost model of M2M ...Apr. 30, 2012 03:50 PM EDT Reads: 494 |
 The mantra of "reusing" existing application assets as services has become established as part of the lingua franca, or common language, associated with Cloud-based infrastructure sharing. The key to exposing application functionality is through APIs and this is well understood by deve...Apr. 29, 2012 01:00 PM EDT Reads: 1,245 |
 Independent industry security expert Gunnar Peterson provides the analysis and decision support that will enable you make an informed choice when evaluating Security Gateways.
Guide describes security architecture capabilities, common business use cases, and deployment considerations....Apr. 29, 2012 12:00 PM EDT Reads: 1,032 |
 Managed Services Providers face a variety of challenges. They struggle trying to sell an intangible and invisible service. Quoting Harry Beckwith, author of the book “Selling the Invisible”: ‘You can’t see them – so how do you sell them? That’s the problem with services.’ However some...Apr. 26, 2012 08:30 AM EDT Reads: 812 |
 Xoreax’s acceleration solution distributes an application’s computational-intensive processes by harnessing idle CPU resources in the local network and/or public cloud. Xoreax uses unique process-level virtualization technology with a very low footprint to create a robust and fault-tol...Apr. 26, 2012 04:30 AM EDT Reads: 1,974 |
 The sky is full of clouds. Some are perfect for companies needing outsourced IT, but others are built specifically for scalable Internet-enabled apps and solutions.
In his session at the 10th International Cloud Expo, Duke Skarda, CTO of SoftLayer, will explore the difference between...Apr. 24, 2012 09:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,010 |
 Advanced malicious content and attacks are starting to threaten conventional network filtering technologies that are not able to keep up with the increased volume and complexity of network traffic. Currently, one in every 14 downloads contains malicious content that may create operatio...Apr. 24, 2012 08:00 AM EDT Reads: 753 |
 Interactive Voice Response (IVR) has come a long way over the years. What started out as simple systems for banks and airlines to provide after-hours touchtone access to routine requests is expected to grow into a nearly $3 billion market by 2017, handling billions of calls across vari...Apr. 24, 2012 06:00 AM EDT Reads: 951 |
 Microsoft – for reasons that haven’t been plumbed enough to satisfy skeptics – has set up a wholly owned open source subsidiary. Given history that’s an unusual step.
It’s called Microsoft Open Technologies and it’ll be run by Jean Paoli, an XML standards expert whose interoperabilit...Apr. 22, 2012 08:30 AM EDT Reads: 1,684 |
 The scenario is fairly typical. You launch your SaaS application for $14.99 per month. A few months later, a competitor launches a competing service for $10 per month. How do you respond with a competitive offer without cannibalizing your existing customers? We asked three software exe...Apr. 21, 2012 01:30 PM EDT Reads: 1,383 |
 Software works the way it was designed because of a group of downtrodden, undervalued and unsung heroes.
Often dismissively described as testers, these champions of precision can be more accurately termed Quality Assurance. They set the bar high and work hard to ensure that the softw...Apr. 20, 2012 07:15 AM EDT Reads: 1,335 |
 Millions or even billions have been spent caring for tens of thousands of pregnant men in the U.K.
For UK’s chronically underfunded National Health System, a few hundred million or a few billion is a very big deal.
Especially given how easily this problem could have been prevented wi...Apr. 20, 2012 06:30 AM EDT Reads: 2,710 |
 Zetta.net, a provider of enterprise-grade online backup and disaster recovery solutions, has announced the results of a Storage Switzerland lab review that validates Zetta DataProtect as the next generation enterprise-grade server backup solution for small and medium sized enterprises ...Apr. 19, 2012 01:33 PM EDT Reads: 537 |
 Gridstore, a provider of scale-out NAS storage solutions, has announced that Storage Switzerland has identified Gridstore as an affordable fault tolerant storage solution that can stand up to almost any failure. In a recent Storage Switzerland article and lab-based “stress test,” the l...Apr. 17, 2012 12:33 PM EDT Reads: 509 |
 In his book The Art of Action (2011), Stephen Bungay identifies three gaps that frustrate the ability of organizations to translate plans into actions that lead to desired outcomes. He calls them the knowledge, alignment and effects gaps. Here, I wish to reflect on Bungay’s perspective...Apr. 16, 2012 11:30 AM EDT Reads: 1,056 |
 The concept of cloud computing is about the ability for organizations to stop solving all IT problems by themselves. It’s certainly about sharing resources, such as storage and compute services, but it really should be more about sharing solutions and pushing risk out of the business. ...Apr. 14, 2012 06:00 PM EDT Reads: 2,314 |
 In his session at the 10th International Cloud Expo, Schahram Dustdar, Advisory Board member at Pacific Controls, will discuss how smart systems and machine-to-machine communications will evolve in the era of cloud computing and the critical role analytics will play in value creation. ...Apr. 14, 2012 03:15 PM EDT Reads: 1,179 |
 Come listen to a distinguished panel of customers share their insights into the “realized value” of cloud solutions. In his session at the 10th International Cloud Expo, Jeff Gibson, Lead Partner, Advanced Technology, at SHI Enterprise Solution Services, will lead a discussion on such ...Apr. 13, 2012 08:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,106 |
 "As more companies realize the benefits of cloud-based services, the demand for data centers that provide enhanced offerings and greater security has skyrocketed," noted Kip Turco, Windstream Hosted Solutions' senior vice president of data center operations. Windstream Hosted Solutions...Apr. 13, 2012 08:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,144 |
 SYS-CON Events announced today that Compuware Corporation, the technology performance company, has been named “Bronze 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.
Compuware Corporation,...Apr. 13, 2012 07:45 AM EDT Reads: 993 |
 In his session at the 10th International Cloud Expo, Terry Casey, Chief Strategy Officer at Pacific Controls, will address the opportunities and implications of cloud computing in the connected cities and connected governments sectors including the implications for systems governance a...Apr. 13, 2012 06:45 AM EDT Reads: 1,078 |
 IT departments are experiencing storage capacity needs doubling every 12-18 months, 50x the amount of information and 75x the number of files.** IT managers are dealing with growing constraints on space, power and costs to manage their data center infrastructure. Intel is helping busin...Apr. 4, 2012 07:45 AM EDT Reads: 1,127 |
 Facebook has countered Yahoo’s patent infringement claims with some patent infringement claims of its own.
It’s countersuing the stricken old Internet queen in federal court in Silicon Valley, charging it with infringing 10 of its patents.
According to the New York Times it’s enoug...Apr. 4, 2012 07:10 AM EDT Reads: 1,056 |
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