Cloud Computing News Desk brings the latest industry news related to the Cloud paradigm of massively scalable IT resources and capabilities delivered as a service using Internet technologies. For up to date news on the International Cloud Computing Conference & Expo series, the easiest way is to 
As high schools, colleges and universities continue to provide an expanding array of technology services, the demand for the most applicable, affordable solutions is also on the rise. Consequently, IT department heads are increasingly looking to cloud storage as the most efficient, ine...Sep. 16, 2009 12:30 PM EDT Reads: 674
The unique ability of Asankya's RAPIDnet to securely accelerate encrypted traffic of applications over the Internet makes it an ideal solution for government entities. By partnering with Carahsoft, Asankya RAPIDnet will be available for purchase by public sector customers through the C...
Today's enterprise environment is rapidly changing. The disparate mix of operating systems, applications and databases for business and organizations is part of a rapidly evolving technological dynamic - made even more complicated by the emergence of cloud computing. As Enterprise Soft...
SYS-CON Media announced today that nominations are now open for its first annual Government IT Readers' Choice Awards. SYS-CON's Readers' Choice Awards, also known as the "Oscars of the Software Industry," has been one of the most prestigious industry award programs for more than a dec...
SYS-CON Events announced today that Stoneware, a leader in the area of private cloud computing, was named "Silver Sponsor" of SYS-CON's 4th International Cloud Computing Conference & Expo, which will take place on November 2 - 4, 2009, Santa Clara Convention Center, in Santa Clara, Cal...
“Cloud Computing technology is quickly transforming computing into a utility, making Telcos logical providers for cloud services,” said Barry X Lynn, Chairman and CEO, 3Tera, Inc., as it was announced today that KDDI, Japan’s second largest telecommunications carrier, is using the 3Ter...
Distributed Management Task Force (DMTF) has announced the release of its Common Information Model Simplified Policy Language (CIM-SPL) standard. CIM-SPL provides a standard language for writing system management policies based on CIM profiles, enabling IT personnel to more effectively...
While cloud computing offers tremendous promise, it takes significant effort to deploy, run, and manage custom applications in the clouds (public or private). To achieve the full benefits of cloud computing - according to Jamal Mazhar, Founder & CEO of Kaavo - what's needed is on-deman...
As you navigate the cloud, you may be asking about: Securing your data outside your firewall, unauthorized visibility to your data in a shared computing environment, unintentional cloud administration errors, and potential cloud providers' security expertise. If you are, Unisys can pro...
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Christophe Bisciglia, former Googler and now Co-Founder at Cloudera, will be giving a session at SYS-CON's 4th International Cloud Computing Conference & Expo on "Working with Big Data and Hadoop." The session will highlight the technical and business issues that make Hadoop so powerfu...
Offering IT as a service requires a paradigm shift in technology, operational processes and thinking about how business demand – manifested by applications – affects the use of all data center resources. Enterprise Cloud Computing enables IT as a service and is the next phase in data c...
Salesforce.com has announced the next chapter in the customer service revolution with Service Cloud 2. The Service Cloud, announced in January of this year, is the next generation solution for customer service - it exponentially increases the quality of service, while lowering the cost...
The Cloud storage segment of the Cloud Computing ecosystem can provide a roadmap for how to create a viable, profitable cloud computing industry. That is the contention of the President & CEO of Mezeo Software, Steve Lesem, who will be giving a breakout session at SYS-CON's upcoming 4t...
According to Cameron Bahar, Founder and CTO of ParaScale, hundreds of definitions from swarms of providers "have created confusion and devalued the cloud storage landscape." At his breakout session at SYS-CON's upcoming 4th International Cloud Computing Conference & Expo, being held No...
SugarCRM, a provider of commercial open source customer relationship management (CRM) software, has announced the availability of Sugar Community Edition on Amazon EC2 to provide CRM developers with an easy-to-deploy development environment in the cloud. Sugar Community Edition is avai...
Eucalyptus Cloud Journal Launched on Ulitzer. Eucalyptus is an open-source system for implementing on-premise private and hybrid clouds using the hardware and software infrastructure that is in place, without modification. Eucalyptus adds capabilities such as end-user customization, se...
To date, cloud computing has by and large been in the realm of public clouds such as Amazon EC2, but there has been a lot of talk about other kinds of clouds, including "private" and "hybrid" clouds. However, with these new choices comes added complexity and Thorsten von Eicken, Co-Fou...
Cast Iron Systems, a provider of SaaS and Cloud Integration company, has announced that Cast Iron is leveraging Amazon Web Services (AWS) to offer customers a faster way to move enterprise applications to the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2). The Cast Iron Cloud, now also on A...
SYS-CON's Cloud Computing Journal announced today that nominations will close on September 4 for its first annual Cloud Computing Readers' Choice Awards. Voting will begin on September 7 and end October 23, 2009. Winners will be announced the week of November 2-4, 2009. To nominate you...
Intalio, The Enterprise Cloud Company, has announced the acquisition of Webtide, the team behind the Jetty open source Java application server. Jetty is currently used on millions of web servers, and powers products such as Cisco SESM, Google AppEngine, Google GWT, HP OpenView, IBM Tiv...
Catbird, a provider of security and compliance solutions for virtual and cloud data centers, has announced the immediate availability of vCompliance, a comprehensive automated monitoring and enforcement solution that ensures security and regulatory compliance for virtualized and cloud-...
Infinite Group has announced the launch of Cloud-Cast, a new division focused on the growing market for cloud computing and virtualization services. In addition, the company named virtualization and cloud computing expert Jason Langone to the position of division President. Targeting o...
Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/bdda0f/worldwide_cloud_co)
has announced the addition of WinterGreen Research, Inc.'s new report "Worldwide
Cloud Computing Market Opportunities and Segment Forecasts 2009 to 2015"
to their...
Queplix Corp. has unveiled its QueCloud platform, designed to accelerate migration of enterprise applications to private and public cloud infrastructures. The company also announced that it has closed a $1.5 million Series A investment from Javelin Venture Partners to expand its cloud ...
Queplix Corp., today announced that it has added three experienced executives to its team. Mark Cashman has been named as CEO of the company, and Kevin Brown and Carl Wright have joined the company's Board of Directors and Advisory Board, respectively. Additionally, the company announc...
SYS-CON Events announced today that Lars Ewe, CTO and VP of Engineering at Cenzic, will be presenting at SYS-CON’s 4th International Cloud Computing Conference & Expo in Santa Clara, CA, this coming November 2 – 4, 2009. His session is entitled “Security in the Cloud: Protecting Your C...
SYS-CON's Cloud Computing Journal announced today that nominations are now open for its first annual Cloud Computing Readers' Choice Awards. SYS-CON's Readers' Choice Awards, also known as the "Oscars of the Software Industry," has been one of the most prestigious industry award progra...
“We built Amazon VPC for this purpose - to allow any company to seamlessly connect their existing resources to the AWS cloud as if it were a part of their own datacenter,” said Andy Jassy, Senior Vice President of Amazon Web Services, as Amazon Web Services LLC - an Amazon.com company ...
Autonomy
Corporation plc (LSE: AU. or AU.L), a global leader in infrastructure
software for the enterprise, today announced a new approach for managing law
firm content, radically reducing their dependency on information technology
resources and strengthening firms' ability to serv...
Enterprises large and small are drawn by the advantages of cloud computing - pay-for-use, self-service, elastic scalability and the elimination of hardware management – resulting in very low barriers to entry and exit and high agility. However, enterprises are also concerned about secu...
The cloud computing services market should be worth $45.5 billion in revenues by 2015, according to Telecom Trends International.
It says “Cloud computing will have a significant but not extraordinary growth over the next seven years. The growth will be tempered by the current hesi...
No one can properly understand anything related to enterprise-level Cloud Computing without having first gained a reasonable understanding of the very basics. SYS-CON's pioneering Cloud Computing Bootcamp is designed with that in mind, It is a one-day, fully immersive deep-dive into th...
Anyone familiar with the history of Unisys will not be at all surprised to learn that the company is the latest giant to enter the arena of enterprise cloud computing. Indeed, with its deep experience and rich technological innovation and capabilities in the enterprise server marketpla...
“What’s unique about the Windows Azure platform is that Microsoft manages the complexity, which allows partners to focus on what matters most for their business - building innovative services solutions and driving new revenue." With those words, Bob Muglia, president of the Server and ...
Cloud computing is a game changer. The cloud is disrupting traditional software and hardware business models by disrupting how IT service gets delivered, and entrepreneurial opportunities abound as this classic disruptive technology begins to proliferate. So it is no surprise that SYS-...
With the advent of Cloud Computing, the cost of computation, application hosting and content storage and delivery is plunging fast by several orders of magnitude. Behind all the buzzwords, a basic shift is occurring - the wholesale outsourcing of core business applications. This is why...
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How can you effectively send mass permission-based email at scale? That’s the question Bryan Wade, Director, Channel Partnerships for ExactTarget, tackled head-on in this session at Cloud Computing Conference & Expo 2009 East. Sending and tracking the impact of messages sent at massive...
Discover the benefits of cloud computing. In this session at Cloud Computing Conference & Expo 2009 East, Freedom OSS’s Max Yankelevich provided an overview of barriers that prevent mid-sized and large enterprises from fully realizing the benefits of Cloud Computing and how to overcome...
