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An online poll recently conducted by Unisys Corporation (NYSE: UIS) shows that enterprise users are ready to move a broad set of workloads to the cloud, although they remain wary of moving their most critical business-application workloads there. Unisys has been named Platinum Sponsor of the Seventh international Cloud Expo in Santa Clara November 1-4.

Answering the question "What parts of enterprise workloads would you choose to move to the cloud first?" 46 percent of the 120 respondents said that they would choose to lead with development/test and support workloads. Another 17 percent would move quality assurance and pre-production systems first.

A further 22 percent of respondents identified disaster recovery - a vital but not mission-critical workload - as their prime candidate for deployment in the cloud.

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By contrast, 15 percent of respondents said that they would move core production workloads, such as enterprise requirements planning, to the cloud first.

"Even though the poll respondents clearly see the value of cloud computing, the results indicate that they remain reluctant to relinquish control of complex enterprise applications using sensitive information," said Colin Lacey, vice president, Solutions and Services, Unisys. "Those results echo comments we hear in conversations with clients. While they believe that cloud computing can help them improve cost management and operational efficiency, they are skeptical that the cloud infrastructure used by commodity providers can stand up to the stringent service levels that enterprise workloads require. Plus, they are often concerned about entrusting those applications to a third party without assurance that the data could be kept secure."

The Unisys Secure Cloud Solution, a managed public cloud service and a key component of Unisys cloud computing portfolio, is designed to help clients overcome those concerns about cloud computing while safeguarding operations and lowering IT costs. Unlike commodity cloud offerings, the Unisys Secure Cloud Solution makes it easier for clients to move enterprise-class applications to the cloud without changing them. A number of innovations underpin this enterprise-readiness:

* Unisys Stealth solution, a patent-pending data protection technology, enables different departments and applications in a multi-tenant environment to share the same IT infrastructure without fear of compromising the security of their data moving across the corporate network. Eliminating the need for application modifications makes it easier to move secure workloads to the Unisys Secure Cloud much sooner, with much lower migration costs

* Enterprise-ready cloud architecture designed explicitly to address the requirements of enterprise application workloads. It can support both physical and virtual server provisioning - frequently required in complex multi-tiered applications - as well as high-performance database requirements

* Unisys extensive cloud advisory and implementation services, drawing on decades of experience operating complex enterprise data centers for clients.

A Rock Star Faculty, Top Keynotes, Sessions, and Top Delegates!
Cloud Expo 2010 West, November 1-4, Santa Clara Convention Center, Santa Clara, California will feature technical sessions from a rock star conference faculty and the leading Cloud industry players in the world.

The growth and success of Cloud Computing will be on display at the upcoming Cloud Expo conferences and exhibitions in Prague June 21-22 and Santa Clara November 1-4.

The recent Cloud Expo at the Javits Center in New York City was the largest Cloud Computing conference ever produced, more sponsors, exhibitors and delegates than all other Cloud events of the year combined!

The four-day Santa Clara event will attract more than 6,000 delegates from 48 countries and over 200 sponsors and exhibitors on a 120,000 sq ft show floor, larger than Cloud Expo 2010 East, New York City event!

All main layers of the Cloud ecosystem will be represented in the6th and 7th International Cloud Expo - the infrastructure players, the platform providers, and those offering applications, and they'll all be here to speak, sponsor, exhibit and network.

"Cloud Expo was announced on February 24, 2007, the day the term ‘cloud computing' was coined," said Fuat Kircaali, founder and chairman of SYS-CON Events, Inc. "Cloud has become synonymous with ‘computing' and ‘software' in two short years, and this event has become the new PC Expo, Comdex, and InternetWorld of our decade. By 2012, more than 50,000 delegates per year will attending Cloud Expo."

Sponsorship Opportunities 
for Cloud Expo Prague and Santa Clara
Cloud Expo 2010 Europe and Cloud Expo 2010 West "show prospectus" have shipped. Sponsorship, exhibit, and keynote opportunities can be obtained from Carmen Gonzalezby email at events (at) sys-con.com, or by phone 201 802 3021.

Early Bird Registration Options 
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Cloud Expo delegates can pre-register for the Cloud Expo Europe with €550+ savings here and for Cloud Expo West with $800+ savings here.

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