Richard Davies wrote: The UK has a good crop of technology pioneers in cloud computing - for example ElasticHosts, FlexiScale, Flexiant, OnApp - and also some strong government initiatives such as G-Cloud.
We will have to see whether this kind of technical leadership converts into swift mass-market adoption or not.
Cloud Computing and its ability to process the needs of multiple users with shared resources in a dynamic and transparent fashion doesn't happen by chance.
The underlying technologies and their ability to provide elasticity, scalability, and automation, while protecting data in motion, data at rest and data in process are critical to a successful Cloud Computing implementation.
Join EMC, Intel and Unisys in this power panel discussion with Jeremy Geelan, taped live at the Times Square Studio, where they focused on the infrastructure that supports a secure cloud solution and discussed why the underlying technologies and partnerships are crucial in making the right decisions for your cloud computing strategy.
Daniel Weiss is a Director in the IT Management Advisory Support team at Unisys - a group of former IT executives from global companies with extensive experience in managing and transforming large scale IT operations. He joined Unisys in February 2008 from Dow Jones and Company, Inc. where he was Director of Shared Storage Services. In 1999, he was part of the original team of Factiva - a highly successful business information startup that was eventually solely acquired by Dow Jones and Company, Inc. in 2007. His role at Factiva was to direct the infrastructure strategy and operational implementation supporting both the product (revenue generating) business, as well as the corporate infrastructure. This included server, storage, and network infrastructures supporting the development, integration, production, and business continuity environments.
Dave Cohen, Chief Architect, is responsible for the overall architectural design direction for EMC's Cloud Infrastructure Division. With 2008 revenues of $14.9 billion and approximately 40,000 employees, EMC is the world's leading developer and provider of information infrastructure technology and solutions that enable organizations of all sizes to transform the way they compete and create value from their information.
With a career spanning over 25 years, Dave joined EMC's Cloud Infrastructure Group earlier this year. Prior to joining EMC, Dave worked in the Financial Services industry designing/building on large scale distributed systems. He was most recently a Senior Storage Strategist with Goldman Sachs, and Merrill Lynch, where his focus was in the areas of low-latency and utility computing issues.
Dave has a BBA from the University of Texas at Austin in Accounting. He currently resides in the South Shore area, outside of Boston, MA.
Jeff Casazza is Director of Data Center Security Technologies for the Xeon processor at Intel. He joined Intel in 1988 and has contributed to various projects including MCS 96, programmable logic devices, and the i860 and Itanium processor families. The current focus is using hardware features to improve encryption performance and make platforms more resistant to low level software attacks. He holds a BSEE degree from Arizona State University and is based in Santa Clara, California.
Cloud Expo was announced on February 24, 2007, the day the term "cloud computing" was coined. That same year, the first Cloud Expo took place in New York City with 450 delegates. Next April, Cloud Expo is returning to New York City with more than 5,000 delegates and over 100 sponsors and exhibitors.
"Cloud" has become synonymous with "computing" and "software" in two short years. Cloud Expo is the new PC Expo, Comdex, and InternetWorld of our decade. By 2012, more than 50,000 delegates per year will participate in Cloud Expo worldwide.
Cloud Expo is the world's leading cloud-focused event and is held annually in New York, Silicon Valley, Prague, Tokyo, Hong Kong. and São Paulo.
Over 200 corporate sponsors and 10,000 industry professionals have participated in Cloud Computing Expo since its inception, more than all other Cloud-related events put together.
The three-day event offers a rich array of sessions led by exceptional speakers about the business and technical value of cloud computing with more than 120 sponsors and exhibitors on the 70,000 sq. ft. show floor and over 5,000 estimated delegates from well over 48 different countries.
A Rock Star Faculty, Top Keynotes, Sessions, and Top Delegates! Cloud Expo New York will feature 200+ technical sessions from a rock star conference faculty and the leading Cloud industry players in the world.
All main layers of the Cloud ecosystem will be represented in the 5th International Cloud Computing Conference & Expo - the infrastructure players, the platform providers, and those offering applications. And they'll all be here to speak, sponsor, exhibit and network this April in New York!
The high-energy event is a must-attend for senior technologists including CIOs, CTOs, directors of infrastructure, VPs of technology, IT directors and managers, network and storage managers, network engineers, enterprise architects, and communications and networking specialists.
Delegates will leave Cloud Expo with a dramatically increased understanding of the complete scope of the entire cloud computing spectrum from storage to security.
Sponsorship Opportunities Cloud Expo 2010 East New York City "show prospectus" shipped last month. Sponsorship, exhibit, and keynote opportunities can be obtained from Carmen Gonzalez by email at events (at) sys-con.com, or by phone 201 802 3021.
Delegate Registration Options Cloud Computing Expo (www.CloudComputingExpo.com) delegates can pre-register for the conference online with $800+ savings here.
Call for Papers Call for papers for Cloud Expo New York is open.
About Yeshim Deniz Yeshim Deniz is a Ulitzer blogger who writes about cloud computing, breaking news from Cloud Expo, and emerging technologies. She first started blogging in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. She broke the news on her blog about Condoleeza Rice's visit to Spamalot on Broadway as Katrina hit New Orleans. Yeshim was the first journalist to call for the resignation of the FEMA director, the day before Katrina hit New Orleans. She later helped to organize a "Change the Administration" march in Washington DC. Email Yeshim at editorial (at) sys-con.com.
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