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, Pr...
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 course...
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 ...
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 I...
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 devel...
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 incorporat...
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 ha...
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 Indiana...
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 gro...
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.
Imp...
Symplified, the Cloud security company, on Wednesday announced a new provisioning fabric for its SinglePoint identity and access management (IAM) solution. These new capabilities – Symplified Sync, Symplified Identity Vault and the SinglePoint Virtual Directory – provide centralized, o...
CA Technologies on Wednesday announced new product, customer and partner proof points of how its identity and access management (IAM) technology supports use of cloud applications by enhancing security, helping to ease compliance efforts, and automating processes for improved operation...
In the run-up to the next Cloud Expo, 7th Cloud Expo (November 1-4, 2010) at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Silicon Valley, it's time to give my earlier list a complete overhaul. Here, accordingly, is an expanded list of the most active players in the Cloud Ecosystem.
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SolidFire, a next-generation cloud computing storage platform, has closed its first round of venture capital funding, led by Valhalla Partners and Novak Biddle Venture Partners.
Named to SolidFire's Board of Directors are Valhalla General Partner Charles Curran, and Novak Biddle Gener...
Lockheed Martin on Wednesday announced it has joined the Cloud Security Alliance (CSA) as a corporate member and the first systems integrator to promote the use of best practices for providing security assurance within cloud computing. Lockheed Martin will support the Cloud Security Al...
The OpenNebula team has just announced the release the first beta version of what is to become OpenNebula 2.0 next September. OpenNebula 2.0 Beta 1 is targeted at testers and users that would like to peep at what’s coming to their clouds!. OpenNebula 2.0 beta includes a significant am...
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 S...
SYS-CON Events announced today that Rackspace Hosting, the world’s leader in hosting and cloud computing, has been named “Gold 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.
Rack...
VMware, a provider of virtualization solutions from the desktop through the datacenter and to the cloud, on Tuesday announced a new VMware Volume Purchasing Program (VPP). VMware VPP is designed to provide customers worldwide with consistent, accumulative software license discounting t...
NaviSite, Inc., a provider of complex hosting, application management and managed cloud services for the enterprise market, is using a combination of Oracle's Sun servers and Oracle software to run its mission-critical systems.
With more than 1,500 customers in 10 datacenters across t...
Geminare Incorporated on Tuesday announced the launch of the Cloud Storage Assurance 2.0 (CSA 2.0) platform, its next-generation cloud storage and archiving engine. With version 2.0, Geminare is delivering the industry's first auditable backup and archiving solution that can be integra...
Nimsoft, a business unit of CA Technologies, on Tuesday announced new "see as you go--pay as you go" capabilities of its industry-leading, unified monitoring solutions that enable service providers to bring elastic IT offerings to market.
Available as part of the Nimsoft Monitoring So...
IBM on Tuesday announced that its private test and development cloud was the top choice of developers in Evans Data Corporation's Cloud Development Survey 2010.
Evans Data Corporation's Cloud Development Survey Report examines the concerns, intentions and current adoption of developer...
InfiniteGraph, a new, distributed graph database product that enables large-scale graph processing, data analytics and discovery, is being made available through GoGrid, a Cloud Infrastructure Hosting provider. The InfiniteGraph business unit of Objectivity, Inc. is working with GoGrid...
SYS-CON Events announced today that Oxygen Cloud, an enterprise cloud storage broker and collaboration player, 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...
Hasan Rizvi, SVP Product Development at Oracle, will present the opening keynote on extreme performance for your cloud platform 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.
Hasan Rizvi ...
Leading enterprises are revolutionizing the delivery of IT today. In his keynote 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, Tony Bishop, the CEO of Adaptivity, will showcase multiple c...
The Planet, a global hosting provider, on Monday announced that one of its largest reseller partners – SiteGround – has selected the company’s Server Cloud as the new standard for its cloud offering. According to SiteGround, The Planet Server Cloud uses the best virtualization technolo...
Verizon Business during the second quarter continued to roll out high-performance global solutions that enable multinational enterprises, medium businesses and governments to take advantage of cloud-based delivery of key IT resources and applications. These include new cloud-based comp...
Savvis, Inc., a global provider of cloud infrastructure and hosted IT solutions for enterprises, on Monday reported its second quarter 2010 financial results, with revenue of US$221.8 million, compared to US$219.9 million in the second quarter of 2009. Adjusted EBITDA* was US$54.7 mill...
CSC on Monday announced that, after an extensive evaluation, AMP, an Australian wealth management company, has selected one of CSC's growing number of Cloud computing services.
Under the agreement, CSC will provide AMP with Collaborative Online Services (COS), CSC's private Cloud-bas...
Telx, a interconnection and colocation provider in strategic North American markets, on Monday announced that it has been selected as a colocation provider by DediPower, a UK-based managed hosting and on-demand data center company. Telx's secure, connection-rich colocation facility at ...
SlimWare Utilities, Inc., a new software company, on Monday announced the public beta launch of its suite of products that clean, repair, update and optimize personal computers. Essential for running a clean, fully functioning computer, SlimWare Utilities products are available for a l...
NTT America, Inc., a wholly owned U.S. subsidiary of NTT Communications Corporation, on Monday announced the availability of Cloud Files, a cloud storage solution offering enterprise-class security, high-availability and control to enhance the company’s local public cloud suite announc...
SoftLayer Technologies, an on-demand data center services provider, on Monday announced solid financial and operational growth through the first half of 2010. SoftLayer provides highly automated, on-demand data center and IT services that allow businesses to more efficiently utilize th...
CDC Global Services, a business unit of CDC Corporation (NASDAQ: CHINA) and a provider of consulting, IT and IT-enabled services, announced today it has entered into an agreement to provide design, implementation and operations services for the Foshan Municipal Cloud Computing Center....
Distributed Management Task Force, Inc. (DMTF), the organization bringing the IT industry together to collaborate on systems management standards development, validation, promotion and adoption, today announced the availability of two new documents produced by its Open Cloud Standards ...
CSC (NYSE:CSC) today announced that, after an extensive evaluation, AMP — one of Australia’s leading wealth management companies — has selected one of CSC’s growing number of Cloud computing services. Under the agreement, CSC will provide AMP with Collaborative Online Services (COS), ...
Novell and Tencent, reportedly China’s biggest Internet service portal, have set up a research lab in Shenzhen, China, to jointly develop an Internet Data Center (IDC) cloud computing platform.
Tencent, which is supposed to have 480 million active users and 568.6 million IM accounts,...
In what is believed to be a cloud first, Unisys is going to offer its upscale enterprise-class ClearPath users a fixed-priced PaaS cloud, a model that flies in the face of the nickel and dime’ing that goes on in commodity cloud land.
Unisys already has x86-based commodity clouds on o...
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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Government IT Conference & Expo 2009 Allstar Conference Faculty Lineup Will Include...
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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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, Pr...
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 course...
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 ...
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 I...
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 devel...
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 incorporat...
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 ha...
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 Indiana...
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 gro...
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.
Imp...
Symplified, the Cloud security company, on Wednesday announced a new provisioning fabric for its SinglePoint identity and access management (IAM) solution. These new capabilities – Symplified Sync, Symplified Identity Vault and the SinglePoint Virtual Directory – provide centralized, o...
CA Technologies on Wednesday announced new product, customer and partner proof points of how its identity and access management (IAM) technology supports use of cloud applications by enhancing security, helping to ease compliance efforts, and automating processes for improved operation...
In the run-up to the next Cloud Expo, 7th Cloud Expo (November 1-4, 2010) at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Silicon Valley, it's time to give my earlier list a complete overhaul. Here, accordingly, is an expanded list of the most active players in the Cloud Ecosystem.
SolidFire, a next-generation cloud computing storage platform, has closed its first round of venture capital funding, led by Valhalla Partners and Novak Biddle Venture Partners.
Named to SolidFire's Board of Directors are Valhalla General Partner Charles Curran, and Novak Biddle Gener...
Lockheed Martin on Wednesday announced it has joined the Cloud Security Alliance (CSA) as a corporate member and the first systems integrator to promote the use of best practices for providing security assurance within cloud computing. Lockheed Martin will support the Cloud Security Al...
The OpenNebula team has just announced the release the first beta version of what is to become OpenNebula 2.0 next September. OpenNebula 2.0 Beta 1 is targeted at testers and users that would like to peep at what’s coming to their clouds!. OpenNebula 2.0 beta includes a significant am...
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 S...
SYS-CON Events announced today that Rackspace Hosting, the world’s leader in hosting and cloud computing, has been named “Gold 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.
Rack...
VMware, a provider of virtualization solutions from the desktop through the datacenter and to the cloud, on Tuesday announced a new VMware Volume Purchasing Program (VPP). VMware VPP is designed to provide customers worldwide with consistent, accumulative software license discounting t...
NaviSite, Inc., a provider of complex hosting, application management and managed cloud services for the enterprise market, is using a combination of Oracle's Sun servers and Oracle software to run its mission-critical systems.
With more than 1,500 customers in 10 datacenters across t...
Geminare Incorporated on Tuesday announced the launch of the Cloud Storage Assurance 2.0 (CSA 2.0) platform, its next-generation cloud storage and archiving engine. With version 2.0, Geminare is delivering the industry's first auditable backup and archiving solution that can be integra...
Nimsoft, a business unit of CA Technologies, on Tuesday announced new "see as you go--pay as you go" capabilities of its industry-leading, unified monitoring solutions that enable service providers to bring elastic IT offerings to market.
Available as part of the Nimsoft Monitoring So...
IBM on Tuesday announced that its private test and development cloud was the top choice of developers in Evans Data Corporation's Cloud Development Survey 2010.
Evans Data Corporation's Cloud Development Survey Report examines the concerns, intentions and current adoption of developer...
InfiniteGraph, a new, distributed graph database product that enables large-scale graph processing, data analytics and discovery, is being made available through GoGrid, a Cloud Infrastructure Hosting provider. The InfiniteGraph business unit of Objectivity, Inc. is working with GoGrid...
SYS-CON Events announced today that Oxygen Cloud, an enterprise cloud storage broker and collaboration player, 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...
Hasan Rizvi, SVP Product Development at Oracle, will present the opening keynote on extreme performance for your cloud platform 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.
Hasan Rizvi ...
Leading enterprises are revolutionizing the delivery of IT today. In his keynote 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, Tony Bishop, the CEO of Adaptivity, will showcase multiple c...
The Planet, a global hosting provider, on Monday announced that one of its largest reseller partners – SiteGround – has selected the company’s Server Cloud as the new standard for its cloud offering. According to SiteGround, The Planet Server Cloud uses the best virtualization technolo...
Verizon Business during the second quarter continued to roll out high-performance global solutions that enable multinational enterprises, medium businesses and governments to take advantage of cloud-based delivery of key IT resources and applications. These include new cloud-based comp...
Savvis, Inc., a global provider of cloud infrastructure and hosted IT solutions for enterprises, on Monday reported its second quarter 2010 financial results, with revenue of US$221.8 million, compared to US$219.9 million in the second quarter of 2009. Adjusted EBITDA* was US$54.7 mill...
CSC on Monday announced that, after an extensive evaluation, AMP, an Australian wealth management company, has selected one of CSC's growing number of Cloud computing services.
Under the agreement, CSC will provide AMP with Collaborative Online Services (COS), CSC's private Cloud-bas...
Telx, a interconnection and colocation provider in strategic North American markets, on Monday announced that it has been selected as a colocation provider by DediPower, a UK-based managed hosting and on-demand data center company. Telx's secure, connection-rich colocation facility at ...
SlimWare Utilities, Inc., a new software company, on Monday announced the public beta launch of its suite of products that clean, repair, update and optimize personal computers. Essential for running a clean, fully functioning computer, SlimWare Utilities products are available for a l...
NTT America, Inc., a wholly owned U.S. subsidiary of NTT Communications Corporation, on Monday announced the availability of Cloud Files, a cloud storage solution offering enterprise-class security, high-availability and control to enhance the company’s local public cloud suite announc...
SoftLayer Technologies, an on-demand data center services provider, on Monday announced solid financial and operational growth through the first half of 2010. SoftLayer provides highly automated, on-demand data center and IT services that allow businesses to more efficiently utilize th...
CDC Global Services, a business unit of CDC Corporation (NASDAQ: CHINA) and a provider of consulting, IT and IT-enabled services, announced today it has entered into an agreement to provide design, implementation and operations services for the Foshan Municipal Cloud Computing Center....
Distributed Management Task Force, Inc. (DMTF), the organization bringing the IT industry together to collaborate on systems management standards development, validation, promotion and adoption, today announced the availability of two new documents produced by its Open Cloud Standards ...
CSC (NYSE:CSC) today announced that, after an extensive evaluation, AMP — one of Australia’s leading wealth management companies — has selected one of CSC’s growing number of Cloud computing services. Under the agreement, CSC will provide AMP with Collaborative Online Services (COS), ...
Novell and Tencent, reportedly China’s biggest Internet service portal, have set up a research lab in Shenzhen, China, to jointly develop an Internet Data Center (IDC) cloud computing platform.
Tencent, which is supposed to have 480 million active users and 568.6 million IM accounts,...
In what is believed to be a cloud first, Unisys is going to offer its upscale enterprise-class ClearPath users a fixed-priced PaaS cloud, a model that flies in the face of the nickel and dime’ing that goes on in commodity cloud land.
Unisys already has x86-based commodity clouds on o...
