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SYS-CON Events announced today that Harald Kornmayer, Senior Researcher of NEC Laboratories Europe, will be presenting at the upcoming Cloud Computing Expo Europe (www.cloudexpo-europe.com) May 18-19, 2009, in Prague, Czech Republic, the first industry-leading international Cloud Compu...Apr. 28, 2009 07:00 PM EDT Reads: 1,528
SYS-CON Events announced today that Lluis Font, CEO of NTRglobal, will be presenting at the upcoming Cloud Computing Expo Europe, May 18-19, 2009, in Prague, Czech Republic, the first industry-leading international Cloud Computing event outside the USA. His session is entitled “Green S...
SYS-CON Events announced today that Jon Flower, VP ofTechnology at Adaptec, will be presenting at the upcoming Cloud Computing Expo Europe, May 18-19, 2009, in Prague, Czech Republic, the first industry-leading international Cloud Computing event outside the USA. His session is entitle...
SYS-CON Events announced today that Jerome Bernard, Director of EMEA Operations at Elastic Grid, will be presenting at the upcoming Cloud Computing Expo Europe, May 18-19, 2009, in Prague, Czech Republic, the first industry-leading international Cloud Computing event outside the USA. H...
Thinking about cutting costs by switching to email archiving and management in the cloud, but not sure how it all adds up? This white paper from Mimecast helps you understand the different ways Mimecast saves you time and money and puts figures on what your own cost savings will be.
This white paper from IDC discusses how increasingly complex messaging requirements characterized by worldwide regulatory, compliance, and archiving issues, in addition to longstanding security concerns, are driving the adoption of holistic email management "from the cloud." Holistic e...
Engine Yard, the Rails hosting leader, announced that it has been included in the "Cool Vendors in Cloud Computing System and Application Infrastructure, 2009"* report by Gartner, Inc. The report examines a select group of vendors Gartner considers innovative, impactful and insightful ...
Today’s litigious and regulatory environments mean organizations are obligated to electronically store information to support discovery and disclosure requests. Organizations that archive email in a “fractured” environment risk losing control and may struggle to produce evidential-qual...
“Cloud computing technology is evolving rapidly, giving users many more choices for where and how to develop, test and deploy applications on the cloud, depending on the level of security, regulatory compliance, scalability and cost savings desired,” said Thorsten von Eicken, RightScal...
Clouds already make sense for many small and medium-size businesses, but technical, operational and financial hurdles will need to be overcome before clouds will be used extensively by large public and private enterprises. This is one of the principal conclusions of a report just publi...
Cloud Computing Expo 2009 Europe, the first event outside the USA in the industry-leading International Cloud Computing Conference & Expo series produced by SYS-CON Events, is to be held May 18-19, 2009, in Prague in the Czech Republic. The conference theme is "Deploying Cloud Computin...
SYS-CON Events announced today that the domain name Cloud.com will be auctioned during th eupcoming Cloud Computing Expo Europe. Cloud Computing Conference & Expo 2009 East features a compelling lineup of executive speakers from the leading industry players, representing all of the mai...
Building the right infrastructure that can scale up or down at a moment's notice - the very essence of Cloud Computing - has become ever more crucial in today's challenging business landscape. Werner Vogels explored the many challenges of building a reliable, flexible architecture that...
We've discussed some best practices that can be used as the foundation to a cloud computing strategy. To ensure the success of cloud computing initiatives, it's important to discriminate between the hype and the reality but also realize the barrier to entry is low. Don't worry about mi...
"This week we exhibited at SYS-CON's Cloud Computing Expo in NYC, wrote Mike Maxey in the ParaScale Blog, April 4, 2009. "I was impressed with the turnout and as usual the SYS-CON team put on a great show." Maxey's comments came alongside many others, equally positive.
Microsoft's senior director of developer platform management has said he's "disappointed by the lack of openness in the development of the Cloud Manifesto" while an Amazon.com spokesperson says Amazon will "continue to pursue an approach of providing customers with maximum flexibility ...
SYS-CON Events announced today that he world's leading provider of information storage systems, software, networks, and services EMC will exhibit at SYS-CON's 2nd International Cloud Computing Conference & Expo (http://cloudcomputingexpo.com/), which will take place on March 30-April 1...
Yousef A. Khalidi, a Distinguished Engineer in the Clouds Infrastructure Services group at Microsoft - leader of a team responsible for several components of Windows Azure - is the latest software luminary to join the all-star Speaker Faculty at SYS-CON's upcoming 3-day 2nd Internation...
SAS has announced that it is building a 38,000-square-foot cloud computing facility to provide the additional data-handling capacity needed to expand SAS’ OnDemand offerings and hosted solutions. As the need for hosted solutions grows, new research and development jobs will be generate...
SYS-CON Events announced today that Microsoft was named "Platinum Sponsor" of SYS-CON's 2nd International Cloud Computing Conference & Expo, which will take place on March 30-April 1, 2009, in New York City. The event is expected to attract over 1,200 developers, engineers, architects,...
Alan Williamson believes with a passion that 2009 will be the year that companies will look at the cloud as a serious alternative as it moves out of the early adopter phase. Williamson, the instructor and presenter at SYS-CON's upcoming all-day Cloud Computing Bootcamp on March 31st in...
Zmanda announced that it has teamed with Sun Microsystems to provide backup and recovery services for the Sun Cloud, Sun's open and flexible, public cloud service. Sun announced that the Sun Cloud Storage Service and Sun Cloud Compute Service will be at the core of the Sun Cloud, which...
IBM announced that American Occupational Network (AON) and HyGen Pharmaceuticals are improving patient care by digitizing health records and streamlining their business operations using cloud-based software from IBM Business Partners MedTrak Systems and The System House. By accessing t...
Sun Microsystems showcased the Sun Open Cloud Platform, the company's open cloud computing infrastructure, powered by industry-leading software technologies from Sun, including Java, MySQL, OpenSolaris and Open Storage. Signaling a massive opportunity to open the world's nascent cloud ...
GE Fanuc Intelligent Platforms, a unit of GE Enterprise Solutions, announced the introduction of the WANic 56511 and WANic 56512 packet processors. Designed to allow customers to respond to the network traffic loads that are a result of growth in the use of search engines, cloud comput...
A record 102 breakout and general sessions are on offer March 30-April 1, 2009 at SYS-CON's 2nd International Cloud Computing Conference & Expo, col-located with the 5th International Virtualization Conference & Expo. Which sessions are you going to attend? Decide by reviewing the deta...
IBM's chances of being a major player in the era of cloud computing would be enhanced by a merger with Sun, says BusinessWeek. BW Senior writer Steve Hamm notes that IBM can also afford the $6.5BN acquisition that is apparently being discussed since it has $13BN cash hoard.
When Sun announced its Open Cloud Platform today, developers around the world with an interest in cloud computing gained from the arrival on the scene of a powerful new force in favor of cloud architecture that is interoperable and open. According to Sun's Sr. VP of Cloud Computing, Da...
With Sun's Open Cloud Platform announced today, the industry took one step closer toward virtual private data centers being a reality. But one key aspect that enterprises must quickly get up to speed on is not only how to protect clusters of servers to the cloud with a security perimet...
The CTO of Cloud Computing at Sun Microsystems, Lew Tucker, and Sun's Sr. VP, Cloud Computing and Developer Platforms and Chief Sustainability Officer, Dave Douglas, were both speaking this morning in New York about "Communities and Clouds." Douglas, who is also keynoting at SYS-CON's ...
SYS-CON Events announced today that the leading global cloud computing provider IBM was named "Platinum Sponsor" of SYS-CON's 2nd International Cloud Computing Conference & Expo (http://cloudcomputingexpo.com/), which will take place on March 30-April 1, 2009, in New York City. The eve...
RightScale has announced full support for the popular Ubuntu distribution as part of the RightScale Cloud Management Platform. The Ubuntu software development community can now use RightScale to deploy and manage cloud applications on cloud infrastructures such as Amazon EC2 with compl...
SYS-CON Events announced that Cycle Computing, the leader in helping Fortune100 companies, government research laboratories, universities, and small organizations alike use Condor for Grid and Cloud computing, will exhibit at SYS-CON's 2nd International Cloud Computing Conference & Exp...
Sybase Chairman and CEO John Chen who appeared on CNBC Closing Bell on Wednesday said Sybase is providing mobile solutions to SAP. "Sybase and SAP are both leaders in their respective spaces. We will bring what consumers are enjoying for years to the enterprise users. Immediate busines...
Internap Network Services together with Digital Technology International (DTI) have announced the DTI Cloud platform. The companies stated that the new platform is aimed at revitalizing the news media industry with a complete cloud computing solution for newspapers. According to the co...
Compiere announced immediate availability of Compiere Cloud Edition ERP software on the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2). Compiere Cloud Edition is a business application that automates processes from Accounting, to Purchasing, Order Fulfillment, Manufacturing, Warehousing and...
What, aside from a professional passion for the Enterprise IT possibilities of cloud computing, do IBM's Cloud CTO Dr Kristof Kloeckner, Amazon's VP & CTO Dr Werner Vogels and Sun's Cloud SVP David Douglas have in common? The answer is that all three are giving a major keynote address ...
Atlassian announced the release of Bamboo 2.2, its continuous integration server. This release is dubbed "Elastic Bamboo" because it allows users to run their builds in the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2). Bamboo 2.2 provides instantly scalable capacity to meet the rapidly fluctuati...
The recent Strategy Analytics Wireless Enterprise Strategies report, “What Does Cloud Computing Really Mean for the Enterprise and Mobility?” examines the current state of cloud computing overall, the platforms and business models, where the greatest opportunities exist and what this m...
Sun is joining Amazon and IBM in the top industry keynote lineup for SYS-CON's 2nd International Cloud Computing Conference & Expo in New York, March 30-April 1, co-located with the 5th International Virtualization Conference & Expo. Sun's Cloud SVP Dave Douglas will be joining Amazon'...
