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 Navigating the complex web of regulatory and compliance requirements related to the processing and storage of sensitive enterprise data in the cloud is a huge challenge for business. The cloud is borderless – so how do you cover your business risk and security requirements when your Sa...May. 24, 2012 03:16 PM EDT Reads: 495 |
 As a Bronze Sponsor of Cloud Expo New York, HP is offering special passes to 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.
HP is a technology company that operates in more than 170 countries around ...May. 24, 2012 02:38 PM EDT Reads: 465 |
 The latest generation of cloud computing is now capable of addressing the needs of the enterprise mission-critical applications. These applications require computing infrastructure that is secure, optimizes performance, and is highly resilient.
In his Opening Keynote at the 10th Inte...May. 24, 2012 01:30 PM EDT Reads: 2,227 |
 The convergence of cloud and mobile trends has created demanding new challenges for IT departments to support global users accessing applications from many different devices. In addition, as more mission-critical applications are deployed to the cloud, sensitive data must be protected ...May. 24, 2012 12:58 PM EDT Reads: 433 |
 The importance of an enterprise-grade network at the center of cloud services cannot be overstated. Without it, private clouds are closed systems and public clouds are vulnerable to security breaches. The optimum cloud is one that is network-based, where cloud services are actually emb...May. 24, 2012 12:30 PM EDT Reads: 2,168 |
 As an exhibitor at Cloud Expo New York, AT&T is offering special passes to 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.
AT&T Inc. is a premier communications holding company and one of the most hon...May. 24, 2012 12:30 PM EDT Reads: 423 |
 As an exhibitor at Cloud Expo New York, EMC Corporation is offering special passes to 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.
EMC Corporation is a global leader in enabling businesses and serv...May. 24, 2012 11:11 AM EDT Reads: 433 |
 With cloud computing strategies taking shape, IT is now facing the practical challenges of efficiently and safely delivering services from public clouds. Requirements include overcoming network incompatibilities, meeting security and compliance requirements and adhering to tight perfor...May. 24, 2012 10:45 AM EDT Reads: 482 |
 SYS-CON Events announced today that PerspecSys Inc., the leader in cloud data protection solutions for the enterprise, has been named “Silver 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....May. 24, 2012 10:45 AM EDT Reads: 674 |
 ServerCentral, Chicago’s leading provider of colocation, cloud, network connectivity, and managed services, announced on Tuesday that its high performance cloud will debut on June 11 at the 10th International Cloud Expo, held June 11-14 at the Javits Center in New York City.
“ServerCe...May. 24, 2012 10:00 AM EDT Reads: 713 |
 How do we connect clouds? Since the Internet has no SLA, many organizations are concerned about being exposed to the vagaries of the Internet. There are only a few options for concrete quality of service (QoS) when accessing public clouds.
In his session at the 10th International Clo...May. 24, 2012 10:00 AM EDT Reads: 565 |
 ITpreneurs, the leading provider of competence development solutions for IT best practices, will be delivering its Cloud Essentials course at the upcoming Cloud Expo New York, taking place June 11-14, 2012 at the Javits Center in New York City. The two-day course covers core concepts a...May. 24, 2012 09:00 AM EDT Reads: 661 |
 Businesses today generate billions of events or 100s of TBs of data in a month. These data contain valuable insights into customer behavior, key trends, buying patterns, etc. If these are successfully mined, they can lead to successful decision-making to maximize revenue and traffic fo...May. 24, 2012 08:45 AM EDT Reads: 1,171 |
 Whatever your course, meet Cloud complexity head on with a unified approach to handle extreme performance, reliability, availability, and simplicity.
In her session at the 10th International Cloud Expo, Ayalla Goldschmidt, Senior Director of Product Marketing at Oracle, will reveal t...May. 24, 2012 08:30 AM EDT Reads: 1,816 |
 There’s no substitute for experience. If you could learn from the successes and failures of an early enterprise cloud pioneer, your own cloud journey could avoid similar pitfalls and perhaps reap faster rewards. Years ago, the Commonwealth Bank of Australia made the strategic decision ...May. 24, 2012 08:30 AM EDT Reads: 2,435 |
 Complaining of a "significant decline in core licensing revenue" at its wildly over-priced $10.2 billion British acquisition, HP will be parting with Autonomy's ex-CEO Mike Lynch.
He will be replaced by HP's chief strategic officer and software head Bill Veghte, the Microsoft émigré...May. 24, 2012 08:15 AM EDT Reads: 832 |
 Oracle Wednesday said it’s buying privately held Vitrue for some unsung amount of money.
Vitrue operates a cloud-based social marketing and engagement platform that lets marketers centrally create, publish, moderate, manage, measure and report on their social marketing campaigns and ...May. 24, 2012 08:15 AM EDT Reads: 814 |
 SAP on Tuesday announced its intention to buy Ariba for $4.3 billion, a 19 percent premium on Ariba's market capitalization.
The move comes soon after SAP's SuccessFactors February buy and shows that SAP is quickly and aggressively acquiring its way to a full cloud business services c...May. 24, 2012 08:00 AM EDT Reads: 747 |
 In his session at the 10th International Cloud Expo, Marvin Wheeler, Open Data Center Alliance Chairman, will discuss the success the organization has had in charting the requirements for broad-scale enterprise adoption of the cloud and how 2012 is forecast to be the tipping point for ...May. 24, 2012 06:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,140 |
 The move to cloud-based applications has undeniably delivered tremendous benefits. However, the associated distribution creates various challenges from the quality perspective:
End-to-end tests need to pass through multiple dependent systems, which are commonly unavailable, evolving,...May. 24, 2012 05:30 AM EDT Reads: 1,455 |
 For many of the same reasons that Software-as-a-Service is catching on with enterprise buyers, delivering web services on top of Infrastructure-as-a-Service architectures is appealing to the SaaS developers. Operational agility, lower CapEx, and a broad array of tools and services are ...May. 24, 2012 05:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,637 |
 “We are embarking on a critical journey where identity information becomes the key asset of the digital age,” declared Andy Land, Vice President of Marketing at UnboundID, in this exclusive Q&A with Cloud Expo Conference Chair Jeremy Geelan. Land noted that “Facebook and Google make tr...May. 24, 2012 04:00 AM EDT Reads: 2,748 |
 According to a 2011 survey by the Independent Oracle User Group, over 50% of Oracle’s customers have deployed or are considering deploying private clouds. Most private clouds today support non-production workloads because enterprises are unable to deploy mission-critical applications i...May. 24, 2012 01:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,877 |
 What do the CTOs of the CIA and the U.S. Dept. of Justice and the CIO of the National Reconnaissance Office have in common with the CEOs of Eucalyptus, GoGrid, ActiveState, Appcara, OpSource and Nortonworks, the CTOs of Rackspace, SoftLayer, SOA Software and AppZero, the Founder & Gene...May. 24, 2012 01:00 AM EDT Reads: 3,222 |
 HP said Wednesday that it would lay off 8% of workforce, 27,000 people,
by October or 2014.
It figures the move will save it $3 billion-$3.5 billion and expects to re-
invest the money in cloud, security and Big Data.May. 23, 2012 06:15 PM EDT Reads: 748 |
 Grid Dynamics, an eCommerce technology solutions company, and GridGain Systems, makers of an open source in-memory platform for Big Data processing, on Wednesday announced the expansion of their partnership which began in 2008.
Grid Dynamics provides personalization and big data solut...May. 23, 2012 03:03 PM EDT Reads: 612 |
 Cloud computing is becoming an integral part of every enterprise IT environment. With multiple cloud deployment models to choose from, understanding the essential components to any cloud solution will help ensure your success.
In his session at the 10th International Cloud Expo, Ores...May. 23, 2012 02:00 PM EDT Reads: 819 |
 Private clouds solve many problems for enterprises and bring unique operational challenges along with them. There are dozens of companies of all sizes that will build you a private cloud and turn over the keys – then what? Trying to convert a traditional enterprise IT operations team t...May. 23, 2012 12:15 PM EDT Reads: 833 |
 Like a moving company for the cloud, Racemi provides the ability to easily migrate Windows server images to public clouds. The company is a sponsor at the upcoming Cloud Expo where visitors can see Racemi demonstrate server migrations.
Racemi announced on Wednesday its DynaCenter soft...May. 23, 2012 11:41 AM EDT Reads: 600 |
 As a Platinum Plus Sponsor of Cloud Expo New York, Oracle is offering special passes to 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.
With more than 380,000 customers – including 100 of the Fortune ...May. 23, 2012 11:19 AM EDT Reads: 497 |
 Google said first thing Tuesday morning that it’s closed on its $12.5 billion acquisition of Motorola Mobility Holdings Inc.
It’s been waiting nine months to clinch the deal and get its hands on Motorola’s patent portfolio. It finally got Chinese approval over the weekend albeit with...May. 23, 2012 10:00 AM EDT Reads: 811 |
 Facebook sold off again Tuesday scrapping the bottom at $30.98 after Reuters reported that Scott Devitt, a research analyst at the IPO’s lead underwriter Morgan Stanley, unexpectedly cut his revenue estimates on the company during the roadshow leading up to it going public last Friday....May. 23, 2012 07:00 AM EDT Reads: 636 |
 If your organization already uses virtualized infrastructure, you are well on your way to providing IT as a Service. But as businesses demand faster results in today’s competitive market, organizations look to gain more benefits from cloud computing than just virtualized infrastructure...May. 23, 2012 07:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,865 |
 JadeLiquid is pleased to announce the long-awaited release of the WebRenderer Swing Edition 6.0 supporting 64-bit systems. WebRenderer 6.0 includes support for both 32 and 64-bit systems on Windows, OS X and Linux. SPARC Solaris is also a supported platform. The WebRenderer Swing Editi...May. 23, 2012 05:24 AM EDT Reads: 521 |
 Cloud collaboration and content management: the great myth over security Millions of users, who place documents into the Dropbox storage servers or other Cloud based collaboration solutions such as Huddle each day, are potentially putting their data at risk, despite ... May. 23, 2012 04:47 AM EDT Reads: 385 |
 In this CTO Power Panel at the 10th International Cloud Expo, moderated by Cloud Expo Conference Chair Jeremy Geelan, industry-leading CTOs & VPs of Technology will discuss such topics as:
Which do you think is the most important cloud computing standard still to tackle?
Who should...May. 23, 2012 02:15 AM EDT Reads: 1,534 |
 In this CEO Power Panel at the 10th International Cloud Expo, moderated by Cloud Expo Conference Chair Jeremy Geelan, leading executives in the Cloud Computing and Big Data space will be discussing such topics as:
Is it just wishful thinking to depict the Cloud as more than just a te...May. 23, 2012 02:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,524 |
 As a Silver Sponsor of Cloud Expo New York, CloudPassage is offering special passes to 10th International Cloud Expo, which will take place on June 11–14, 2012, at the Javits Center in New York City, New York.
CloudPassage is the leading cloud server security provider, and creator of ...May. 22, 2012 04:04 PM EDT Reads: 736 |
 The International Trade Commission’s six-member board of commissioners has issued an import ban against Motorola Mobility’s Android gear that the agency’s administrative law judge found in December infringes Microsoft’s patent on “generating meeting requests and group scheduling from a...May. 22, 2012 11:41 AM EDT Reads: 710 |
 As a Platinum Sponsor of Cloud Expo New York, Intel is offering special passes to 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.
Intel is a world leader in computing innovation. The company designs a...May. 22, 2012 11:05 AM EDT Reads: 708 |
