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 "#CloudExpo looks super interesting (almost sexy)," tweeted Xochi Adamé (@xochiadame) recently, referring to the Cloud Expo due to be held Nov 5-8 in Silicon Valley. "Who's going?" Adamé continued. She is just one of dozens of IT professionals who are using Twitter right now to connec...Sep. 29, 2012 09:00 PM EDT Reads: 4,273 |
 With business application traffic over the Web expected to double in less than five years, the need for a solution that can meet and exceed this demand grows increasingly urgent.
In his General Session at the 11th International Cloud Expo, Gary Ballabio, a Product Line Director for A...Sep. 27, 2012 06:00 AM EDT Reads: 3,274 |
 Bob Gourley, editor of CTOvision as well as founder and CTO of Crucial Point, LLC, was recently interviewed by WashingtonExec, where he shared his views on emerging information technology, government needs, and Big Data. The interview is reproduced below: How does Bob Gourle... Sep. 24, 2012 04:15 AM EDT Reads: 4,895 |
 Technology companies need to target the enterprise to get big benefits for themselves as well as this customer segment. While there are a number of obstacles, proper messaging will help overcome these hurdles.Sep. 21, 2012 10:00 AM EDT Reads: 2,321 |
 There has been a push for Shared services adoption across organizations for a while since such services reduce duplication and can result in cost savings. However there have been challenges to proposing and implementing shared services. Cloud is enhancing the pace to shared services mi...Sep. 14, 2012 08:00 AM EDT Reads: 4,026 |
 There is great excitement about the cloud; however, it is important to conduct a full assessment as part of the Cloud Transition. It is very important to decide which applications will be moving to the cloud based on factors such as alignment with business requirements, cost savings, l...Sep. 14, 2012 06:00 AM EDT Reads: 4,815 |
 With the government promising delivery of the long-awaited Digital Economy strategy by the year end, this prompts a review of what role the Cloud industry can play in this strategy. This then further encourages us to identify what particular segments of the Cloud Computing industry we ...Sep. 12, 2012 06:00 AM EDT Reads: 3,991 |
 I worked extensively in the telecommunications area to lead large nationwide mobile application and portal rollouts that included mobile platforms, applications, services and integration mechanisms. With the proliferation of smart phone and tablets, mobile devices are accessing new an...Sep. 10, 2012 05:00 AM EDT Reads: 4,127 |
 Here is an article published in MSPNews about Cloud Confusion. I think we have a long way to go educating people what Cloud is all about. The challenge is that there are many aspects of cloud computing such as backup and disaster recovery, saas. data storage to name a few. The driving ...Sep. 8, 2012 06:30 AM EDT Reads: 1,887 |
 The highly empowered mobile user is a disruptive trend most enterprises have yet to come to grips with. This is causing huge changes in enterprises. Friends at Wikibon, the awesome open research and collaboration site, have produced an infographic that helps capture some key dimensi... Sep. 8, 2012 04:00 AM EDT Reads: 2,853 |
 Change management is important for any Technology initiative and since many Cloud services focus on rapid deployments, this area is sometimes forgotten. The move to Cloud has not only technology implications but also business implications. Business processes and operations can be encap...Sep. 6, 2012 04:00 AM EDT Reads: 3,755 |
 Scale-out networking using fast, fat and flat network topologies deliver the best ROI when building private or public cloud computing networks. A key ingredient of such high performance and highly efficient network designs is the Ethernet switch system that connects server, virtual mac...Sep. 5, 2012 04:00 AM EDT Reads: 5,767 |
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 “Because it simply works” is the most frequent answer to the question “Why would you recommend OpenNebula to a colleague?” that OpenNebula makes to its users in a short survey that tells them how they are doing. Other frequent answers are “Because it is easy to install, maintain and up...Sep. 4, 2012 06:00 AM EDT Reads: 3,408 |
 Which have been the five most-read articles in Cloud Computing Journal so far in 2012? Here is the definitive list! (Read counts are as of September 3, 2012.)Sep. 4, 2012 02:00 AM EDT Reads: 2,449 |
 Some consider cloud computing to be a cure-all for virtually any type of IT infrastructure. And while the cloud certainly delivers on many of its promises, it will never truly provide all that it's capable of unless it's optimized for integration with other applications and evolution f...Sep. 3, 2012 06:00 AM EDT Reads: 5,254 |
 There is an increasing demand for rendering rich content quickly on mobile devices due to the massive growth of such devices. In the past there have been silo applications that supported mobile devices, but a lot of that is being transitioned to the Cloud. The big advantage is that Clo...Sep. 3, 2012 05:45 AM EDT Reads: 3,744 |
 NIST defines cloud computing as a model for enabling ubiquitous, convenient, on-demand network access to a shared pool of configurable computing resources (e.g., networks, servers, storage, applications, and services) that can be rapidly provisioned and released with minimal management...Sep. 2, 2012 12:00 PM EDT Reads: 4,369 |
 We are now in process of launching our flagship best practices publication, the Cloud CIO guide @ CloudCIO.info. While the technology aspects of Cloud Computing are important, what is actually most noteworthy about the trend is the transformation of the role of the CIO, to become a boa...Aug. 31, 2012 05:15 AM EDT Reads: 3,927 |
 Some Cloud leaders have declared victory by leveraging the Cloud for infrastructure or software services and using the utility based, on demand capabilities. However, leaders can explore and realize higher levels of reuse and sharing by identifying specific processes that can be transi...Aug. 27, 2012 06:00 AM EDT Reads: 5,111 |
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 Cloud facilitates a new generation of technology and related impacts that have never been seen before. With utility computing and on demand capabilities, many organizations want to jump on the bandwagon as soon as possible. As the Chief Executive, there are some tough decisions to be m...Aug. 24, 2012 08:45 AM EDT Reads: 4,806 |
Amazon launched a low-cost storage service called Amazon Glacier, according to this TechCrunch article. The latest of Amazon’s cloud services, Amazon Glacier provides “secure and durable storage for data archiving and backup,” according to this Amazon Glacier overview.
Massachus...Aug. 24, 2012 04:15 AM EDT Reads: 2,799 |
 VMware CEO Steve Herrod has championed this vision of the software-defined datacenter and how the next generation of foundational IT innovation is largely being implemented above the hardware.Aug. 24, 2012 02:00 AM EDT Reads: 3,680 |
 Late last week the Texas Department of Information Resources (DIR) released an important whitepaper that reviewed it's multi-year Pilot Texas Cloud Offering (PTCO). This project was desig...Aug. 20, 2012 12:00 PM EDT Reads: 2,445 |
 In the competitive world of cloud-based computing infrastructure, Amazon remains top dog. It’s highly visible, its footprint is almost global, it incrementally adds features or cuts prices to keep competitors on their toes, and it generally manages to meet most people’s nee...Aug. 19, 2012 08:30 PM EDT Reads: 3,343 |
 All around the world, governments at national, state, and local levels are facing huge pressures to do more with less. As cloud computing gains traction and momentum, many public sector organizations are exploring its usage to achieve large-scale efficiency savings while simultaneousl...Aug. 19, 2012 06:00 AM EDT Reads: 2,876 |
 The Department of Defense needs to accomplish its critical global missions despite a decreasing budget and rising cybersecurity threat. To that end, the Chief Information Officer of the DoD, Teri Takai, released its Cloud Computing Strategy, which outlines its goals to accelerate th... Jul. 25, 2012 02:00 AM EDT Reads: 3,691 |
 The DoD recently released the department's formal cloud computing strategy.
In the forward, DoD CIO Teresa Takai said that:
"The DoD Cloud Computing Strategy has been expanded to address use of commercial cloud services in the Department's multi-provider enterprise cloud environment....Jul. 16, 2012 08:30 AM EDT Reads: 3,195 |
 The million dollar question has been "Can an organization move all its applications to a public cloud?". Instead of moving all applications to the public cloud, many organizations are choosing a hybrid approach where on-premise resources can be leveraged and can interact with external ...Jul. 9, 2012 08:00 AM EDT Reads: 4,425 |
 10th International Cloud Expo, held on June 11–14, 2012 at the Javits Center in New York City, featured four content-packed days with a rich array of sessions about the business and technical value of cloud computing led by exceptional speakers from every sector of the cloud computing ...Jul. 9, 2012 06:00 AM EDT Reads: 8,918 |
 This year's Cloud Expo New York appeared to be double the size of last year. Not only were there more solution providers on the expo floor, there appeared to me quite a few additional sessions to attend. I felt even the session quality was better than last year, with more knowledge spr...Jul. 5, 2012 05:45 AM EDT Reads: 5,949 |
 In view of the the quick-moving push to modernize many national security and emergency preparedness (NS/EP) capabilities to be cloud based capabilities, the White House tasked the President's National Security Telecommunications Advisory Committee (NSTAC) to produce a report aimed at a...Jul. 5, 2012 01:15 AM EDT Reads: 3,037 |
 "It was my first time at a Cloud Expo show, so I wasn’t sure what to expect. But man, what a blast it turned out to be. Great exhibits, great audience, great floor traffic, great conversations with IT leaders and folks in the channel." With those words, Tom Gaydos - Director, Marketing...Jul. 3, 2012 11:00 AM EDT Reads: 5,064 |
 PerspecSys is a privately held company based in Toronto, Canada that specializes in eliminating the security barriers that inhibit enterprise companies from embracing cloud computing. Many companies want to move to the cloud for operational business purposes but are concerned about how...Jul. 1, 2012 09:00 AM EDT Reads: 4,245 |
 Cloud computing has crossed a Rubicon of sorts, and is now being embraced by a majority of enterprise IT shops – at least according to attendees and vendors at last week's Cloud Expo in New York.
I remember interviewing Hal Stern (late of Sun and Oracle) a couple of years ago at th...Jun. 18, 2012 05:15 AM EDT Reads: 2,996 |
 TORONTO – June 12, 2012 – PerspecSys Inc., the leader in cloud data protection solutions for the enterprise, today announced it has become a Corporate Member of the Cloud Security Alliance (CSA). The CSA is a not-for-profit organization with a mission to promote the us...Jun. 12, 2012 08:35 AM EDT Reads: 1,564 |
 "The State of Cloud Computing June 2012" was the topic under discussion in the traditional SYS-CON.tv Power Panel recorded in our Times Square studio yesterday - the Sunday before today's Cloud Expo New York opening, kicking off 4 days of Keynotes, General Sessions technical and strate...Jun. 11, 2012 08:30 AM EDT Reads: 3,019 |
 With Cloud Expo 2012 New York (10th Cloud Expo) due to kick off this coming Monday for 4 days of high-energy networking and discussions, what better time to remind you in greater detail of the distinguished individuals in our incredible Speaker Faculty for the technical and strategy se...Jun. 10, 2012 09:30 AM EDT Reads: 9,125 |
 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...Jun. 10, 2012 07:00 AM EDT Reads: 8,980 |
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