"Individuals and organizations could increase computing capacity or add capabilities at very minimal to no investment in additional infrastructure, personnel, or licensed software," writes Khan. Quoting the software exec, he pointed out that "adopters (can) access systems regardless of...
The past decade has seen a revolution in the way we communicate. An increasing number of services are going – or are being created – online, along with vast quantities of rich, multimedia content. The Digital Society that derived from this revolution is accompanied by a change in expec...
"It's all too easy for storage vendors to get wrapped around the axle of technological brilliance. Yet what really matters to end users is applied technology, and that's what EMC Proven Solutions approach is all about," said Mark Peters, Senior Analyst at the Enterprise Strategy Group....
"IDC forecasts a 2009-2013 CAGR of 26% for the worldwide cloud services market, which includes software-as-a-service offerings," explains Mary Johnston Turner, research director for enterprise system management software at IDC. "As more and more organizations implement public cloud an...
Nimsoft, a business unit of CA, Inc. (NASDAQ:CA), today announced availability of Nimsoft On Demand, a Software as a Service (SaaS) Unified Monitoring™ solution that delivers the robust capabilities and benefits of IT monitoring as an on-demand solution. With Nimsoft On Demand, emergin...
In his presentation, Willoughby discussed how the benefits of cloud computing can deliver new IT functionality to the business quickly and at low initial cost. Additionally, he highlighted how borderless applications present a new challenge to IT departments: managing application perfo...
“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 re...
Got back Friday after a week in the East coast attending the Cloud Expo and meeting with customers/partners.
I roamed around the exhibits and found one vendor area that was always packed - Microsoft. Folks were attracted to the huge honking collection of hardware placed right in mid...
Through a simple web interface, NetDBAs turns complex workflows into point-and-click operations that can be performed by any member of an IT organization. The initial release will manage editions of Microsoft SQL Server database; future versions will add support for databases from othe...
A year ago, most IT execs were looking into the "what" of Cloud Computing, as Cloud Expo speaker Dr. Hal Stern of Oracle noted. "But this year, people are here to talk about 'how.'" as he said during his session in New York. (Hal was so integral to Sun Microsystems for so long, it's od...
If you qualify, Appirio will work with you to put together a business-case roadmap to move entirely to the cloud. If you decide to outsource the execution of that roadmap to us, we'll manage the migration of your entire IT infrastructure to a pre-integrated suite of leading cloud appli...
Don't rule out Linux for the Cloud. For example, it's been reported that Canonical COO Matt Asay recently said, "We're now tracking 12,000 active deployments of UEC and we're adding 200 every single day. These are active installations. These aren't people who downloaded it once and kic...
“The IT industry downturn occurred first in the U.S., followed by Europe approximately three months later, in December 2008,” commented GTDC CEO Tim Curran. “Not all regions and countries are recovering at the same rate, of course, but we’re now seeing signs of greater alignment betwee...
At the 5th Cloud Expo held at the Javits Center in NYC, April 19-21, NaviSite announced the availability of cloud-based managed infrastructure, applications, and messaging services to enterprise customers in North America. NaviSite’s cloud-based services are offered with guaranteed inf...
"I had great conversations with many corporate IT personnel that were either just starting their cloud research or just wrapping it up and writing recommendations for their path forward," he wrote. "It struck me that there seems to be several categories that predict an enterprises curr...
At the 5th Cloud Expo held at the Javits Center in NYC, April 19-21, SOASTA, a provider of cloud testing, and uTest, a software testing marketplace, announced a partnership to leverage their respective on-demand offerings to help customers deliver the best possible website user experie...
At the 5th Cloud Expo, Surgient announced a preview of its new Enterprise Cloud Dashboard, which for the first time gives cloud administrators immediate, comprehensive insight into the infrastructure, services, and users active in the private cloud.
“With our new Enterprise Cloud Das...
"At the Cloud Computing Expo one can definitely sense that the IT industry is undergoing a disruptive evolutionary transformation, and that innovative and transformative energy is building up beneath the cap of standardization, governance, regulatory compliance, risk, and security."
...
As many of you are aware, Monday, April 19th, marked the first day of the Cloud Computing Expo at the Jacob Javits Center in New York City.
Prior to the opening keynote address by Richard Sarwal and Hasan Rizvi both with Oracle, I ran into Fuat Kircaali, founder and chairman of SYS...
Compuware announced that its Director of Cloud Computing, Doug Willoughby, presented a session on how deploying cloud-based, borderless applications impacts performance management at SYS-CON's 5th Cloud Expo in New York City. The session, titled: "Performance Management for Composite A...
Mellanox Technologies has announced at the 5th Cloud Expo held at the Javits Center in New York City that the company's end-to-end InfiniBand connectivity products are quickly becoming the networking products of choice for cloud computing infrastructures. The growth is due to the inher...
Enterprise storage service provider Zetta announced the opening of a new data service facility on the East Coast. The new service facility is located in the greater New York City area. This will be the first East Coast data center for Zetta, which also operates two facilities on the We...
At the 5th Cloud Expo in NYC, CSS Corp announced a suite of tools and services to help enterprises, independent software vendors (ISV) and services providers seamlessly leverage public, public and hybrid cloud infrastructure.
The CSS suite of Cloud management tools include:
CSS Clou...
"We had a very successful presence at the Cloud Expo in New York. Significant opportunities now being progressed with an extremely positive response from the market to say the least!"
This comment from an exhibitor was not uncommon as the event, the world's largest Cloud Computing e...
At first glance, cloud computing can appear to be “virtualization taken to its logical conclusion.” After all, if the main benefit of virtualization is to consolidate data center resources and increase the speed of provisioning, then cloud is the ultimate pay-off: don&rsquo...
This week I attended the Cloud Expo in New York City. It was pretty well attended and I gave my “how cloud computing improves security” talk on both Tuesday and Wednesday to a total audience of probably 150 people. Here is a top ten list of observations made and things that I learned...
Alteva, Broadcore, Callis Communications, Consolidated Technologies Inc, IPFone, SimpleSignal, Stage 2 Networks and Telesphere have formed the Cloud Communications Alliance (CCA) to drive development and adoption of the first nation-wide high-definition enterprise voice and data networ...
Now it's onto Prague for the Sixth International Cloud Expo June 21-22, and to the heart of Silicon Valley in Santa Clara for the Seventh International Cloud Expo November 1-3. As Cloud Expo Conference Chair Jeremy Geelan has said, "No one can take full advantage of cloud computing wi...
Pete Malcolm, CEO of Abiquo, is presenting what he promises to be a vendor-neutral keynote, to open the final day of the Fifth International Cloud Expo, being held at the Javits Center in New York.
Abiquo said his keynote will be a place "where you will learn about the next chapter...
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.
Cloud computing is changing the fundamentals of today’s pre-dominantly on-premise hosted data centers. An increasing number of organizations are tapping into the public cloud when internal demand for resources becomes too high or when certain projects require resources beyond what an o...
As the Fifth International Cloud Expo continues this week in New York, global developments with the cloud continue apace.
A new initiative in Thailand provides a good example, where SaaS and IaaS are part of a Cloud Computing agenda being developed by the government’s Software Park T...
he Fifth International Cloud Expo in New York has drawn more than 100 exhibitors, including Gold Sponsor Microsoft. The beehive of activity at the conference this week reflects what is going on all over the world, and Microsoft is among those keeping busy.
I mentioned in a previous ...
SYS-CON Events announced today that TwinStrata, a provider of storage solutions for the data center, will exhibit at SYS-CON's 5th International Cloud Expo (www.CloudComputingExpo.com), which will take place on April 19-21, 2010, at the Jacob Javits Convention Center in New York City.
...
Third Generation outsourcing is here! First Generation was "your mess for less"; Second Generation is strategic or selective sourcing, including hosting. Third Generation Outsourcing, as a result of the emergence of Cloud Computing, stands to materially revolutionize and challenge trad...
Scalability, availability, low power consumption and low operational costs are key properties when planning to build large-scale storage clouds. How can you build your private storage cloud with higher availability than traditional RAID and replication storage systems, while consuming ...
Cloud 2.0 is a probably the most strong technological evolution in cloud computing. In Cloud 2.0, cloud becomes more than an extra feature in your IT environment; Cloud 2.0 is capable of replacing the full IT infrastructure of your company. Cloud 2.0 renews because it is available size...
Traditional IT operations are buckling under the increased demand from business organizations. A significant change is needed. What are the game-changing strategies that IT organizations can leverage to address this increase in demand?
In his session at the 5th International Cloud Ex...
Data integrity, security, recovery, privacy and regulatory compliance are the most important attributes for enterprise cloud implementation. Enterprise customers ask for transparency in how the vendors will provide security programs. Many questions need to be asked for any cloud implem...
An online poll recently conducted by Unisys Corporation 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.
Answering the question "What parts of enterprise w...
SYS-CON's International Cloud Computing Conference & Expo, held each year in California, New York and Prague is the leading event covering the fast-emerging Cloud Computing market for Enterprise IT professionals. Co-located with the International Virtualization Conference & Expo, the combined event will surely deliver the #1 i-Technology educational and networking opportunity of the year for those seeking to establish a market lead anywhere in the multiple layers of the Cloud Computing ecosystem.
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In other words, VMware’s server density is higher. Boles suggests this means that customers should be “assessing virtualisation on a ‘cost per application’ basis. VM density has a sign
Traditionally, the way people have implemented high availability is by using a high-availability management package like Linux-HA[1], then configure it in detail for each application, file system moun
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"Individuals and organizations could increase computing capacity or add capabilities at very minimal to no investment in additional infrastructure, personnel, or licensed software," writes Khan. Quoting the software exec, he pointed out that "adopters (can) access systems regardless of...
The past decade has seen a revolution in the way we communicate. An increasing number of services are going – or are being created – online, along with vast quantities of rich, multimedia content. The Digital Society that derived from this revolution is accompanied by a change in expec...
"It's all too easy for storage vendors to get wrapped around the axle of technological brilliance. Yet what really matters to end users is applied technology, and that's what EMC Proven Solutions approach is all about," said Mark Peters, Senior Analyst at the Enterprise Strategy Group....
"IDC forecasts a 2009-2013 CAGR of 26% for the worldwide cloud services market, which includes software-as-a-service offerings," explains Mary Johnston Turner, research director for enterprise system management software at IDC. "As more and more organizations implement public cloud an...
Nimsoft, a business unit of CA, Inc. (NASDAQ:CA), today announced availability of Nimsoft On Demand, a Software as a Service (SaaS) Unified Monitoring™ solution that delivers the robust capabilities and benefits of IT monitoring as an on-demand solution. With Nimsoft On Demand, emergin...
In his presentation, Willoughby discussed how the benefits of cloud computing can deliver new IT functionality to the business quickly and at low initial cost. Additionally, he highlighted how borderless applications present a new challenge to IT departments: managing application perfo...
“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 re...
Got back Friday after a week in the East coast attending the Cloud Expo and meeting with customers/partners.
I roamed around the exhibits and found one vendor area that was always packed - Microsoft. Folks were attracted to the huge honking collection of hardware placed right in mid...
Through a simple web interface, NetDBAs turns complex workflows into point-and-click operations that can be performed by any member of an IT organization. The initial release will manage editions of Microsoft SQL Server database; future versions will add support for databases from othe...
A year ago, most IT execs were looking into the "what" of Cloud Computing, as Cloud Expo speaker Dr. Hal Stern of Oracle noted. "But this year, people are here to talk about 'how.'" as he said during his session in New York. (Hal was so integral to Sun Microsystems for so long, it's od...
If you qualify, Appirio will work with you to put together a business-case roadmap to move entirely to the cloud. If you decide to outsource the execution of that roadmap to us, we'll manage the migration of your entire IT infrastructure to a pre-integrated suite of leading cloud appli...
Don't rule out Linux for the Cloud. For example, it's been reported that Canonical COO Matt Asay recently said, "We're now tracking 12,000 active deployments of UEC and we're adding 200 every single day. These are active installations. These aren't people who downloaded it once and kic...
“The IT industry downturn occurred first in the U.S., followed by Europe approximately three months later, in December 2008,” commented GTDC CEO Tim Curran. “Not all regions and countries are recovering at the same rate, of course, but we’re now seeing signs of greater alignment betwee...
At the 5th Cloud Expo held at the Javits Center in NYC, April 19-21, NaviSite announced the availability of cloud-based managed infrastructure, applications, and messaging services to enterprise customers in North America. NaviSite’s cloud-based services are offered with guaranteed inf...
"I had great conversations with many corporate IT personnel that were either just starting their cloud research or just wrapping it up and writing recommendations for their path forward," he wrote. "It struck me that there seems to be several categories that predict an enterprises curr...
At the 5th Cloud Expo held at the Javits Center in NYC, April 19-21, SOASTA, a provider of cloud testing, and uTest, a software testing marketplace, announced a partnership to leverage their respective on-demand offerings to help customers deliver the best possible website user experie...
At the 5th Cloud Expo, Surgient announced a preview of its new Enterprise Cloud Dashboard, which for the first time gives cloud administrators immediate, comprehensive insight into the infrastructure, services, and users active in the private cloud.
“With our new Enterprise Cloud Das...
"At the Cloud Computing Expo one can definitely sense that the IT industry is undergoing a disruptive evolutionary transformation, and that innovative and transformative energy is building up beneath the cap of standardization, governance, regulatory compliance, risk, and security."
...
As many of you are aware, Monday, April 19th, marked the first day of the Cloud Computing Expo at the Jacob Javits Center in New York City.
Prior to the opening keynote address by Richard Sarwal and Hasan Rizvi both with Oracle, I ran into Fuat Kircaali, founder and chairman of SYS...
Compuware announced that its Director of Cloud Computing, Doug Willoughby, presented a session on how deploying cloud-based, borderless applications impacts performance management at SYS-CON's 5th Cloud Expo in New York City. The session, titled: "Performance Management for Composite A...
Mellanox Technologies has announced at the 5th Cloud Expo held at the Javits Center in New York City that the company's end-to-end InfiniBand connectivity products are quickly becoming the networking products of choice for cloud computing infrastructures. The growth is due to the inher...
Enterprise storage service provider Zetta announced the opening of a new data service facility on the East Coast. The new service facility is located in the greater New York City area. This will be the first East Coast data center for Zetta, which also operates two facilities on the We...
At the 5th Cloud Expo in NYC, CSS Corp announced a suite of tools and services to help enterprises, independent software vendors (ISV) and services providers seamlessly leverage public, public and hybrid cloud infrastructure.
The CSS suite of Cloud management tools include:
CSS Clou...
"We had a very successful presence at the Cloud Expo in New York. Significant opportunities now being progressed with an extremely positive response from the market to say the least!"
This comment from an exhibitor was not uncommon as the event, the world's largest Cloud Computing e...
At first glance, cloud computing can appear to be “virtualization taken to its logical conclusion.” After all, if the main benefit of virtualization is to consolidate data center resources and increase the speed of provisioning, then cloud is the ultimate pay-off: don&rsquo...
This week I attended the Cloud Expo in New York City. It was pretty well attended and I gave my “how cloud computing improves security” talk on both Tuesday and Wednesday to a total audience of probably 150 people. Here is a top ten list of observations made and things that I learned...
Alteva, Broadcore, Callis Communications, Consolidated Technologies Inc, IPFone, SimpleSignal, Stage 2 Networks and Telesphere have formed the Cloud Communications Alliance (CCA) to drive development and adoption of the first nation-wide high-definition enterprise voice and data networ...
Now it's onto Prague for the Sixth International Cloud Expo June 21-22, and to the heart of Silicon Valley in Santa Clara for the Seventh International Cloud Expo November 1-3. As Cloud Expo Conference Chair Jeremy Geelan has said, "No one can take full advantage of cloud computing wi...
Pete Malcolm, CEO of Abiquo, is presenting what he promises to be a vendor-neutral keynote, to open the final day of the Fifth International Cloud Expo, being held at the Javits Center in New York.
Abiquo said his keynote will be a place "where you will learn about the next chapter...
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. 
Cloud computing is changing the fundamentals of today’s pre-dominantly on-premise hosted data centers. An increasing number of organizations are tapping into the public cloud when internal demand for resources becomes too high or when certain projects require resources beyond what an o...
As the Fifth International Cloud Expo continues this week in New York, global developments with the cloud continue apace.
A new initiative in Thailand provides a good example, where SaaS and IaaS are part of a Cloud Computing agenda being developed by the government’s Software Park T...
he Fifth International Cloud Expo in New York has drawn more than 100 exhibitors, including Gold Sponsor Microsoft. The beehive of activity at the conference this week reflects what is going on all over the world, and Microsoft is among those keeping busy.
I mentioned in a previous ...
SYS-CON Events announced today that TwinStrata, a provider of storage solutions for the data center, will exhibit at SYS-CON's 5th International Cloud Expo (www.CloudComputingExpo.com), which will take place on April 19-21, 2010, at the Jacob Javits Convention Center in New York City.
...
Third Generation outsourcing is here! First Generation was "your mess for less"; Second Generation is strategic or selective sourcing, including hosting. Third Generation Outsourcing, as a result of the emergence of Cloud Computing, stands to materially revolutionize and challenge trad...
Scalability, availability, low power consumption and low operational costs are key properties when planning to build large-scale storage clouds. How can you build your private storage cloud with higher availability than traditional RAID and replication storage systems, while consuming ...
Cloud 2.0 is a probably the most strong technological evolution in cloud computing. In Cloud 2.0, cloud becomes more than an extra feature in your IT environment; Cloud 2.0 is capable of replacing the full IT infrastructure of your company. Cloud 2.0 renews because it is available size...
Traditional IT operations are buckling under the increased demand from business organizations. A significant change is needed. What are the game-changing strategies that IT organizations can leverage to address this increase in demand?
In his session at the 5th International Cloud Ex...
Data integrity, security, recovery, privacy and regulatory compliance are the most important attributes for enterprise cloud implementation. Enterprise customers ask for transparency in how the vendors will provide security programs. Many questions need to be asked for any cloud implem...
An online poll recently conducted by Unisys Corporation 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.
Answering the question "What parts of enterprise w...
