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Opening Keynote | Mission-Critical Applications in the Cloud – Myth or Reality?
 Learn about the complex regulations surrounding HIPAA compliance and other considerations for running sensitive data in the Cloud.
In their session at the 12th International Cloud Expo, Ken Ziegler, CEO of Logicworks, and Frank Nydam, Director of Healthcare Solutions at VMware, will ...May. 18, 2013 06:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,864 |
 Compelling consumer applications are created every day. Are you ready for the IT implications both internally and externally? As your datacenter needs more capacity, the cloud will be critical to success. What are the key considerations to help plan for the needed capacity over time? A...May. 17, 2013 02:00 PM EDT Reads: 1,380 |
 Cloud computing is more than a buzz-phrase it’s a transformative IT paradigm shift. The emphasis in the cloud is on elasticity, scalability, agility and open. Not just open standards but open APIs and open source. The delivery of software is also going through a paradigm shift. Open so...May. 17, 2013 01:15 PM EDT Reads: 1,218 |
 SYS-CON Events announced today that MetraTech Corp., the leading provider of agreements-based billing™, commerce and compensation solutions, has been named “Bronze Sponsor” of SYS-CON's 12th International Cloud Expo, which will take place on June 10–13, 2013, at the Javits Center in Ne...May. 17, 2013 12:00 PM EDT Reads: 1,171 |
 Storage and Archive offerings are now exploding on the market. From end-user mobile devices to company tactical level, the cloud has become a black hole for every kind of data. But what are the risks, and what are the real needs?
In his session at the 12th International Cloud Expo, A...May. 17, 2013 11:30 AM EDT Reads: 1,133 |
 Enterprise cloud adoption revolves around pushing the BYOD movement and focusing on data security.
In his session at the 12th International Cloud Expo, Ross Brouse, COO and President of Solar VPS, will cover how cloud adoption is driven by consumerism, humanity’s need to socialize, o...May. 17, 2013 11:30 AM EDT Reads: 956 |
 How your organization approaches capacity management will make or break your private cloud initiative. No longer a periodic sizing exercise, capacity management is now an essential element of daily infrastructure operations that impacts costs, performance risks, and the ability to resp...May. 17, 2013 11:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,146 |
 SYS-CON Events announced today that Intrinsic-ID, a provider of top-level security solutions, will exhibit at SYS-CON's 12th International Cloud Expo, which will take place on June 10–13, 2013, at the Javits Center in New York City, New York.
Intrinsic-ID’s software application Saturn...May. 17, 2013 11:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,330 |
 In an ideal developer/systems administrator’s world, most applications would deploy seamlessly to multiple platforms and scale elastically with minimal effort bringing the unprecedented agility of the cloud within immediate reach of developer teams and IT organizations.
OpenStack, a ...May. 17, 2013 11:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,115 |
 Companies around the world are collecting massive amounts of data everyday that’s sitting around and not being utilized. Take for example the fact that companies collect demographic and location-based data via mobile devices all the time, but have to figure out how to monetize that dat...May. 17, 2013 10:45 AM EDT Reads: 1,100 |
 One of the top-selling IT authors of the past decade will be making a special appearance on June 11 at the 12th International Cloud Expo at the Javits Center in New York City. Thomas Erl, author and co-author of eight books and series editor of the Prentice Hall Service Technology Seri...May. 17, 2013 10:15 AM EDT Reads: 1,430 |
 SYS-CON Events announced today that Zyrion Inc., the leading provider of Cloud and IT Monitoring software solutions, has been named “Entrance Carpet Sponsor” of SYS-CON's 12th International Cloud Expo, which will take place on June 10–13, 2013, at the Javits Center in New York City, Ne...May. 17, 2013 10:00 AM EDT Reads: 978 |
 The cloud-enabled data center sits at the center of IT transformation. It facilitates the interconnection and communities that come together, propelling growth for both buyers and sellers.
In his session at the 12th International Cloud Expo, Gerry Fassig, CoreSite’s Vice President of...May. 17, 2013 09:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,071 |
 With the right tools, file storage today can be in the cloud or on-premise, with seamless and secure access and publishing regardless of location. Novel, high-speed transport technologies that alleviate the bottlenecks and limitations of traditional data movement protocols are now intr...May. 17, 2013 08:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,140 |
 SAP, the third-largest software company in the world after Microsoft and
Oracle, says it’s moving all data into main memory and all systems to the
cloud.
The company’s newly announced HANA Cloud Platform is going to be
the foundation of its whole cloud po...May. 17, 2013 06:00 AM EDT Reads: 836 |
 HP Software today announced four products that aim to tackle the thorny reality that traditional apps deployment is broken, and that the new requirements make automation and comprehensive management an inescapable necessity.
HP is also banking on the role it can play as a neutral part...May. 16, 2013 12:45 PM EDT Reads: 1,228 |
 Twitter has bought a little four-man Palo Alto start-up called Ubalo that was started in early 2011 “to make large-scale computing easier and more accessible to a technical audience” according to its web site.
The object was to scale coding on multiple machines using the same widgetr...May. 16, 2013 10:15 AM EDT Reads: 731 |
 Apptio, which knows how to gauge the total cost of IT services, has gotten a mighty $45 million E round that it means to invest in its platform and its international expansion, immediately in Western Europe.
Counting the new money the company has now seen $136 million in funding sinc...May. 16, 2013 09:45 AM EDT Reads: 926 |
 @Walmart Labs, the Silicon Valley-based technology arm of Wal-Mart global e-commerce, has bought OneOps, which automates and accelerates processes related to environment management, application deployment and data center operations monitoring.
It’s supposed to have re-imagined applic...May. 16, 2013 09:15 AM EDT Reads: 942 |
 Google’s stock topped $900 a share Wednesday ahead of the opening of its annual I/O developers’ conference in San Francisco, raising its market value to over $304 billion, something no high-tech firm has ever done before.
There’s the inevitable talk of it hitting $1,000.
Apparently ...May. 16, 2013 08:00 AM EDT Reads: 683 |
 In the old world of IT, if you didn't have hardware capacity or the budget to buy more, your project was dead in the water. Budget constraints can leave some of the best, most creative and most ingenious innovations on the cutting room floor. It’s a true dilemma for developers and inno...May. 15, 2013 12:00 PM EDT Reads: 2,597 |
 Dell Tuesday moved up its fiscal Q1 earnings call up five days to this Thursday May 16 at 4:45 p.m. ET. It didn’t say why it changed the schedule.
CNBC’s David Faber, who was first out with the news, said he heard Dell is going to come with earnings below consensus and that the miss ...May. 15, 2013 08:30 AM EDT Reads: 858 |
 MetraTech, a provider of agreements-based billing, commerce and compensation solutions, on Tuesday announced the availability of MetraNet 7.0. With this latest release, MetraTech builds upon its agreements-based billing and real-time Commerce Decision Engine with the introduction of Be...May. 14, 2013 04:30 PM EDT Reads: 757 |
 Box, the cloud storage start-up getting close to going public, has acquired Crocodoc and its HTML5 document rendering and viewing solution.
The widgetry works on PDF, Word and other files without Flash or plug-ins. The transformed files can’t be edited.
Box said Crocodoc’s technolo...May. 14, 2013 08:45 AM EDT Reads: 1,071 |
 IT has more opportunities than ever before with the growth in users, devices, data and secure cloud services. This creates not only a more enriching experience for users, but more opportunities for businesses. The key to capitalizing on these opportunities is to have the right tools in...May. 14, 2013 07:15 AM EDT Reads: 2,802 |
 If Carl Icahn wants to buy out Dell he’s going to have to cough up some specific plans for the board’s special committee handling the company’s attempt to go private, a strategy Icahn deems akin to “grand theft.”
Rather than take Michael Dell and Silver Lake Partners’ $13.65 a share,...May. 14, 2013 06:00 AM EDT Reads: 815 |
 OpenStack Cells is one of the most anticipated features in Grizzly, the seventh release of the open source software that offers more block storage options and scalability. It has been running in production at Rackspace for more than a year.
In his session at the 12th International Cl...May. 13, 2013 12:45 PM EDT Reads: 1,862 |
 Cloud computing is transforming the way businesses think about and leverage technology. As a result, the general understanding of cloud computing has come a long way in a short time. However, there are still many misconceptions about what cloud computing is and what it can do for busin...May. 13, 2013 12:00 PM EDT Reads: 1,764 |
 Cloud enables SMBs to access new, scalable resources – previously only available to enterprises – in flexible and cost-effective ways. McKinsey’s SMB Cloud Report projects the public cloud market to reach $40-$50 billion by 2015, with SMBs comprising 65% of public cloud spending in 201...May. 13, 2013 10:30 AM EDT Reads: 1,709 |
 Microsoft wants to buy Nook Media LLC, the Barnes & Noble’s digital and college books joint venture, for a billion dollars according to TechCrunch, which says it’s got internal documents to prove it.
With Windows 8 in mind Microsoft bought 16.8% of the operation last year for $300 mi...May. 13, 2013 08:30 AM EDT Reads: 1,346 |
 CloudVolumes started out a couple of years ago as SnapVolumes and shed its stealth cocoon in November when it announced $2.3 million in seed financing and began beta testing its enterprise-class Instant Workload Management (IWM) solution to what IDC has dubbed the “virtualization manag...May. 13, 2013 08:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,303 |
 Roughly six months after Windows 8 came out at the end of October, Microsoft Tuesday confirmed reports that it’s been tinkering with the operating system to make it more popular.
The radical redesign is supposed to have confused the buying public and created enough of a learning curv...May. 13, 2013 07:30 AM EDT Reads: 1,946 |
 The massive computing and storage resources that are needed to support Big Data applications make cloud environments an ideal fit.
In his session at the 12th International Cloud Expo, Nati Shalom, CTO and Founder of GigaSpaces, will show how to build your Big Data "database on-demand...May. 13, 2013 07:00 AM EDT Reads: 3,085 |
 Speed-to-market and improving ROI for new cloud services are an important element for adopting cloud computing. Open source technology translates into savings for clients in terms of flexibility and interoperability. OpenStack is leading the way in open source for IaaS, capturing the a...May. 13, 2013 06:00 AM EDT Reads: 2,362 |
 It’s a standard refrain heard in enterprise IT departments around the world – “I want to move to the cloud, but what about data security, uptime and user response time across a nearly infinite number of devices to support?” Because of this, fear gets in the way and enterprises reap onl...May. 12, 2013 04:00 PM EDT Reads: 2,135 |
 New cloud-based service leverages applications and insights within Ariba Network to streamline and enhance settlement and reconciliation of business commerce.
Ariba, an SAP Company, and Discover Financial Services has unveiled Ariba Pay. The new service, to be offered by Ariba, is exp...May. 11, 2013 01:45 PM EDT Reads: 1,355 |
 Cloud computing continues to gain momentum as enterprises of all sizes and across all industries seek to harness the business agility promised by this computing model. Despite its long-accepted benefits, the cloud has also fallen victim to performance and reliability challenges, combin...May. 10, 2013 03:45 PM EDT Reads: 2,237 |
 Activist shareholder Carl Icahn and another of Dell’s large shareholders, Southeastern Asset Management, have come up with a new alternative proposal to Michael Dell’s $24.4 billion buy-out offer to take the company private.
The pair sent the special committee of Dell’s board another...May. 10, 2013 01:34 PM EDT Reads: 1,041 |
 SYS-CON Events announced today that the BigData-Startups, the online Big Data knowledge platform, has been named “Association Sponsor” of SYS-CON's 12th International Cloud Expo and 3rd International Big Data Expo, which will take place on June 10–13, 2013, at the Javits Center in New ...May. 10, 2013 01:24 PM EDT Reads: 1,147 |
 SYS-CON Events announced today that Logicworks, a global leader in cloud computing and managed hosting, will exhibit at SYS-CON's 12th International Cloud Expo, which will take place on June 10–13, 2013, at the Javits Center in New York City, New York.
Logicworks provides cloud comput...May. 10, 2013 11:00 AM EDT Reads: 2,471 |
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