Skytap has announced the 'Top Ten Reasons Enterprises will Accelerate Cloud Adoption with Virtual Labs in 2009.' In 2008, the momentum behind cloud computing increased with many vendors announcing solutions, including Amazon EC2, Microsoft Azure, Google AppEngine, and Rackspace Mosso. ... Skytap has announced the 'Top Ten Reasons Enterprises will Accelerate Cloud Adoption with Virtual Labs in 2009.' In 2008, the momentum behind cloud computing increased with many vendors announcing solutions, including Amazon EC2, Microsoft Azure, Google AppEngine, and Rackspace Mosso. ...Nov. 26, 2008 09:46 AM EST Reads: 1,056 |
Exist has announced the availability of Maestro S+, an extension to its open source build management platform, Maestro, fortified to run integrated testing using Selenium. Leveraging Exist's expertise in build automation and continuous integration tools such as Apache Maven and Apache ... Nov. 26, 2008 09:00 AM EST Reads: 1,400 |
IBM has announced new cloud computing services to help businesses of all sizes take advantage of this increasingly attractive computing model. IBM is applying its industry-specific consulting expertise and established technology record to offer secure, practical services to companies i... Nov. 25, 2008 10:00 PM EST Reads: 1,614 |
In his Cloud Computing Keynote in San Jose, CA, on November 20th – entitled "A Head in the Cloud - The Power of Infrastructure as a Service" – the CTO of Amazon.com, Werner Vogels, discussed the many challenges when building a reliable, flexible architecture that can manage unpredictab... Nov. 25, 2008 06:15 PM EST Reads: 4,760 |
Capgemini has announced an agreement signed between Capgemini UK plc and Amazon Web Services, extending its Outsourcing portfolio with cloud computing services. Capgemini’s new Center of Excellence, focused on cloud computing, will help its enterprise clients take full advantage of int...Nov. 25, 2008 04:15 PM EST Reads: 2,533 |
In a move that could spur the rise of the nascent computing model known as "cloud," IBM said it would introduce a program to validate the resiliency of any company delivering applications or services to clients in the cloud environment. As a result, customers can identify trustworthy p... Nov. 25, 2008 10:00 AM EST Reads: 1,370 |
Level 3 Communications has announced that it has been selected to provide caching and downloading services to Pando Networks. Pando will use Level 3's content delivery network (CDN) to support the delivery of rich media content for commercial customers. Level 3's caching and downloadin... Nov. 24, 2008 10:15 AM EST Reads: 1,738 |
Firstservis and 3Tera have announced that 3Tera has chosen Firstservis as the first reseller and distributor of 3Tera's AppLogic cloud computing platform for Australia and New Zealand. Beginning immediately, Firstservis will resell, support and offer cloud computing solutions and servi...Nov. 24, 2008 10:15 AM EST Reads: 1,902 |
Business.com has announced the availability of CloudBase, a high-performance data warehouse system that scales horizontally on commodity hardware or a cloud computing network. Built on top of a map-reduce architecture, this technology enables business analysts using ANSI SQL to direct...Nov. 24, 2008 10:00 AM EST Reads: 2,759 |
Hadoop, an open source implementation of map/reduce, has garnered tremendous momentum in large scale data processing, marting, and on occasion warehousing. This session will examine: The current state and industry adoption of Hadoop and cloud-based data processing; The programming mode... Nov. 21, 2008 09:15 AM EST Reads: 2,023 |
Symantec has announced Veritas Operations Services, a new cloud computing-based online services platform to help organizations identify hidden risks in their data centers - improving service availability and increasing productivity of the operations staff. Veritas Installation Assessme...Nov. 20, 2008 01:00 AM EST Reads: 1,979 |
Appistry announced findings from the first in a series of surveys the two organizations are conducting among CloudCamp participants. The inaugural Appistry/CloudCamp "Inside the Cloud" survey showed Amazon besting Google by a nearly two-to-one margin as the company expected to play the... Nov. 20, 2008 12:45 AM EST Reads: 2,092 |
Moderro Technologies will debut its Xpack Internet Computer – an integrated (hardware, operating system and web management) solution for the Web 2.0 desktop – at SYS-CON's Cloud Computing Conference & Expo, November 19-21, in San Jose, CA. The Xpack features a clean and friendly user i...Nov. 18, 2008 08:00 PM EST Reads: 1,561 |
GigaSpaces Technologies has announced that Nati Shalom, founder and CTO, will be presenting at The Cloud Computing Expo. Shalom is a world-renowned evangelist of grid technology and cloud computing. In his role at GigaSpaces, he has worked with dozens of large organizations in the fina...Nov. 18, 2008 03:00 PM EST Reads: 2,051 |
SYS-CON Media announced today that its 1st International Cloud Computing Conference & Expo sold out both on the Expo Floor and delegate registrations. The most anticipated technology event of the year in Silicon Valley will take place November 19-21, at the Fairmont Hotel, in San Jose,...Nov. 18, 2008 09:00 AM EST Reads: 1,641 |
rPath has hit the road to promote the graduated adoption of cloud computing technologies. This follows a podcast interview published on Friday during which Billy Marshall, rPath co-founder and chief strategy officer, speaks with a leading industry pundit about the importance of a manag...Nov. 18, 2008 09:00 AM EST Reads: 1,845 |
The explosion of cloud computing providers dramatically lowered the barriers to entry for web entrepreneurs and innovative projects. However, the lack of interoperability and consistency across services keeps many businesses from adoption. Nov. 17, 2008 09:00 PM EST Reads: 4,364 |
Working across all of Sun, Senior Vice President, Dave Douglas, has been appointed today to lead the Company's cloud computing efforts. Simultaneously, in a package of "decisive actions to align Sun's business with global economic realities," Sun CEO Jonathan Schwartz announced a restr...Nov. 17, 2008 08:00 PM EST Reads: 2,508 |
The Planet has announced limited availability of its new highly scalable and on-demand storage cloud service. The Planet has merged on-premise storage performance with cloud storage capabilities, which opens a whole new world for companies to extend their hosted environments directly i...Nov. 17, 2008 03:30 PM EST Reads: 1,440 |
Moderro Technologies www.moderro.com will debut its Xpack Internet Computer – an integrated (hardware, operating system and web management) solution for the Web 2.0 desktop SYS-CON's Cloud Computing Conference & Expo, November 19-21, in San Jose, CA. The Xpack features a clean and frie...Nov. 17, 2008 12:47 PM EST Reads: 1,685 |
"More than a half dozen conferences and events targeting Virtualization and Cloud Computing canceled in the past two months," said Fuat Kircaali, CEO of SYS-CON Media. "We predicted that this would be the outcome for many competing shows due to the current economic conditions," he adds...Nov. 17, 2008 11:00 AM EST Reads: 6,084 |
SYS-CON Events announced today that more than 40 Cloud technology providers, as well as Virtualization and SOA companies will exhibit at the upcoming 1st International Cloud Computing Conference & Expo (www.CloudComputingExpo.com), November 19-21, in San Jose, California. The conferenc... Nov. 16, 2008 07:15 PM EST Reads: 3,893 |
Increasingly, a businesses competitive advantage is gained by processing large flows of raw data into insights. With a growth in both the volume of data and number of users, traditional tools for data analytics struggle to keep pace. Large Internet services such as Yahoo!, who face a t...Nov. 16, 2008 06:30 PM EST Reads: 4,449 |
"These are still the early days of Cloud Computing, where delivery has so far focused primarily on price, as set by the market leader, Amazon," notes Dave Durkee, Founder, CEO & Technical Director of ENKI Consulting. "However, while successful in the Web 2.0 market," he adds, "price-ba...Nov. 15, 2008 08:35 AM EST Reads: 5,406 Replies: 1 |
Cloudworks CEO Speaking Next Week at SYS-CON's Cloud Computing Expo November 19-21 in Silicon Valley Cloud Computing is the newbuzzword in the technology industry. But even industry insiders don’t agree on exactly what the term means. We shouldn’t be surprised that mainstream business is approaching it with caution. Businesses have many concerns about moving their data to the cloud, s...Nov. 15, 2008 07:50 AM EST Reads: 5,127 |
Dan Chu, VMware's VP of Emerging Business, intends to take an industry leader's perspective next week when he presents a breakout session at SYS-CON's 1st International Cloud Computing Conference & Expo (November 19-21, 2008) being held at The Fairmont Hotel in San Jose, CA. Chu will a...Nov. 15, 2008 07:45 AM EST Reads: 3,755 |
Are cloud computing and grid computing one and the same? There are many similarities and one key difference separating these burgeoning fields. Both cloud and grid propose an architecture that masks the complexity of managing thousands of commodity servers from their users. Consequentl... Nov. 14, 2008 08:20 AM EST Reads: 3,705 |
"Cloud Computing by its very nature depends on the Network for both the construction of the Cloud as well as the delivery to users," declares David Bernstein, whose team runs Cisco's internal Cloud Computing platform. As VP and General Manager of Network Applications Infrastructure for...Nov. 14, 2008 07:35 AM EST Reads: 5,128 |
SYS-CON Events announced today that the leading global Cloud Computing technology provider Mosso to exhibit at SYS-CON's Cloud Computing Conference & Expo which will take place November 19-21, 2008, at the Fairmont Hotel in the heart of Silicon Valley, in San Jose, California. More tha...Nov. 13, 2008 11:45 PM EST Reads: 3,436 |
Cloud Computing offers significant benefits over traditional solutions for deploying production systems as well as for conducting development and testing activities. This session will distill the unique characteristics of clouds and describe how to best think about deployments in the c... Nov. 13, 2008 09:45 AM EST Reads: 2,114 |
SYS-CON Events announced today that the leading global Cloud Computing technology provider Cycle Computing to exhibit at SYS-CON's Cloud Computing Conference & Expo (www.cloudcomputingexpo.com) 4th International Virtualization Conference & Expo, (www.virtualizationconference.com), whic...Nov. 12, 2008 11:00 PM EST Reads: 3,808 |
The Tap In Systems consists of a team of engineers and software developers with many years of experience in network management, systems management, software and web application development. Its members have worked in large corporate environments as well as start up ventures. Tap In Sys...Nov. 12, 2008 10:00 PM EST Reads: 1,693 |
Achieving an effective disaster recovery solution has always been difficult and expensive. Often companies backup and/or mirror their data and software only to find that when forced to run them on hardware and network configurations altered by disaster, they don't always work. Nov. 12, 2008 09:00 PM EST Reads: 2,164 |
Just as people begin to understand the difference between web ops and IT, we are entering a period where clouds promise "Ops-Free" computing. Because it’s easy, scalable, available and disposable, the cloud is well on its way to becoming “technology’s next big thing.” However, with rec... Nov. 12, 2008 09:00 PM EST Reads: 1,857 |
How do cloud platforms assure that your application will perform well and meet the high expectations for your end users? In this session, we will take these clouds on a test flight - by running an application on a cloud platform, and examining performance bottlenecks and their impact o... Nov. 12, 2008 09:00 PM EST Reads: 2,237 |
Cloud Computing is now an all-encompassing IT paradigm with tremendous focus on the so-called "Public Clouds" as IT Service Providers. But while the promise of public clouds is very alluring, many existing corporate data centers today exceed the total capacity of many of today's cloud ... Nov. 12, 2008 12:00 PM EST Reads: 2,676 |
Zenoss has rolled a new version of its a product suite. In addition to other enhancements, the new release adds native VMware monitoring across the full virtualization infrastructure life cycle. This latest version, Zenoss 2.3, now enables enterprise IT staff and cloud services provide... Nov. 12, 2008 09:50 AM EST Reads: 1,095 |
SYS-CON's Cloud Computing Journal, founded in July 2008 as the world's first publication devoted exclusively to the issues involved in the delivery of massively scalable IT resources as a service using Internet technologies, has announced the appointment of Cloud Computing expert Alan ...Nov. 12, 2008 08:00 AM EST Reads: 4,562 |
The explosion of cloud computing providers dramatically lowered the barriers to entry for web entrepreneurs and innovative projects. However, the lack of interoperability and consistency across services keeps many businesses from adoption. There have been several calls for standards to... Nov. 11, 2008 03:15 PM EST Reads: 1,279 |
CIOs don't really care about the cloud. They care about budgets, security and compliance. All the buzzwords in the world won't help innovative technology unless it maps directly onto CIO pain points. This session investigates what those pain points are, and where emerging products and ... Nov. 11, 2008 01:03 PM EST Reads: 2,219 |







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 
Capgemini has announced an agreement signed between Capgemini UK plc and Amazon Web Services, extending its Outsourcing portfolio with cloud computing services. Capgemini’s new Center of Excellence, focused on cloud computing, will help its enterprise clients take full advantage of int...
Firstservis and 3Tera have announced that 3Tera has chosen Firstservis as the first reseller and distributor of 3Tera's AppLogic cloud computing platform for Australia and New Zealand. Beginning immediately, Firstservis will resell, support and offer cloud computing solutions and servi...
Business.com has announced the availability of CloudBase, a high-performance data warehouse system that scales horizontally on commodity hardware or a cloud computing network. Built on top of a map-reduce architecture, this technology enables business analysts using ANSI SQL to direct...
Symantec has announced Veritas Operations Services, a new cloud computing-based online services platform to help organizations identify hidden risks in their data centers - improving service availability and increasing productivity of the operations staff. Veritas Installation Assessme...
Moderro Technologies will debut its Xpack Internet Computer – an integrated (hardware, operating system and web management) solution for the Web 2.0 desktop – at SYS-CON's Cloud Computing Conference & Expo, November 19-21, in San Jose, CA. The Xpack features a clean and friendly user i...
GigaSpaces Technologies has announced that Nati Shalom, founder and CTO, will be presenting at The Cloud Computing Expo. Shalom is a world-renowned evangelist of grid technology and cloud computing. In his role at GigaSpaces, he has worked with dozens of large organizations in the fina...
SYS-CON Media announced today that its 1st International Cloud Computing Conference & Expo sold out both on the Expo Floor and delegate registrations. The most anticipated technology event of the year in Silicon Valley will take place November 19-21, at the Fairmont Hotel, in San Jose,...
rPath has hit the road to promote the graduated adoption of cloud computing technologies. This follows a podcast interview published on Friday during which Billy Marshall, rPath co-founder and chief strategy officer, speaks with a leading industry pundit about the importance of a manag...
The explosion of cloud computing providers dramatically lowered the barriers to entry for web entrepreneurs and innovative projects. However, the lack of interoperability and consistency across services keeps many businesses from adoption.
Working across all of Sun, Senior Vice President, Dave Douglas, has been appointed today to lead the Company's cloud computing efforts. Simultaneously, in a package of "decisive actions to align Sun's business with global economic realities," Sun CEO Jonathan Schwartz announced a restr...
The Planet has announced limited availability of its new highly scalable and on-demand storage cloud service. The Planet has merged on-premise storage performance with cloud storage capabilities, which opens a whole new world for companies to extend their hosted environments directly i...
Moderro Technologies www.moderro.com will debut its Xpack Internet Computer – an integrated (hardware, operating system and web management) solution for the Web 2.0 desktop SYS-CON's Cloud Computing Conference & Expo, November 19-21, in San Jose, CA. The Xpack features a clean and frie...
"More than a half dozen conferences and events targeting Virtualization and Cloud Computing canceled in the past two months," said Fuat Kircaali, CEO of SYS-CON Media. "We predicted that this would be the outcome for many competing shows due to the current economic conditions," he adds...
Increasingly, a businesses competitive advantage is gained by processing large flows of raw data into insights. With a growth in both the volume of data and number of users, traditional tools for data analytics struggle to keep pace. Large Internet services such as Yahoo!, who face a t...
"These are still the early days of Cloud Computing, where delivery has so far focused primarily on price, as set by the market leader, Amazon," notes Dave Durkee, Founder, CEO & Technical Director of ENKI Consulting. "However, while successful in the Web 2.0 market," he adds, "price-ba...
Cloud Computing is the newbuzzword in the technology industry. But even industry insiders don’t agree on exactly what the term means. We shouldn’t be surprised that mainstream business is approaching it with caution. Businesses have many concerns about moving their data to the cloud, s...
Dan Chu, VMware's VP of Emerging Business, intends to take an industry leader's perspective next week when he presents a breakout session at SYS-CON's 1st International Cloud Computing Conference & Expo (November 19-21, 2008) being held at The Fairmont Hotel in San Jose, CA. Chu will a...
"Cloud Computing by its very nature depends on the Network for both the construction of the Cloud as well as the delivery to users," declares David Bernstein, whose team runs Cisco's internal Cloud Computing platform. As VP and General Manager of Network Applications Infrastructure for...
SYS-CON Events announced today that the leading global Cloud Computing technology provider Mosso to exhibit at SYS-CON's Cloud Computing Conference & Expo which will take place November 19-21, 2008, at the Fairmont Hotel in the heart of Silicon Valley, in San Jose, California. More tha...
SYS-CON Events announced today that the leading global Cloud Computing technology provider Cycle Computing to exhibit at SYS-CON's Cloud Computing Conference & Expo (www.cloudcomputingexpo.com) 4th International Virtualization Conference & Expo, (www.virtualizationconference.com), whic...
The Tap In Systems consists of a team of engineers and software developers with many years of experience in network management, systems management, software and web application development. Its members have worked in large corporate environments as well as start up ventures. Tap In Sys...
SYS-CON's Cloud Computing Journal, founded in July 2008 as the world's first publication devoted exclusively to the issues involved in the delivery of massively scalable IT resources as a service using Internet technologies, has announced the appointment of Cloud Computing expert Alan ...














