Latest News from SOA in the Cloud

Surgient VP to Present at Cloud Expo East

Wed, 17 Mar 2010 23:00:00 EDT

As the leader in enterprise cloud automation software, Surgient leverages leading virtualization and systems management technologies to automate the deployment and management of complex, user-centric IT services. Through a patented, just-in-time self-service approach, administrators and users access dynamic resource pools (clouds) on-demand and through guaranteed reservations. Using Surgient, world-class companies are reducing capital costs, increasing operational efficiency, improving compliance and driving overall business agility. In his general session at the 5th International Cloud Expo, Brian Wilson, Vice President, Services and Support at Surgient, will share his insights on how to leverage your existing infrastructure to create a private cloud in less than 30 days with Surgient.

Novell’s Tom Cecere to Present at Cloud Expo East

Wed, 17 Mar 2010 22:00:00 EDT

Enterprises are seeing the value in Cloud Services – both the reduction in capital expenditures and the increasing maturity of the services offered. Unfortunately, they can't backtrack on their security and compliance requirements even if it results in money savings and capability improvements. In his session at the 5th International Cloud Expo, Tom Cecere, Product Strategy executive for Novell Cloud Security Services, will review the basic security and compliance information that enterprises should look for from their Cloud Computing providers. Cloud Expo is the world's leading Cloud-focused event since 2007, and is held five times a year, in New York City, Silicon Valley, Prague, Tokyo and Hong Kong.

PerspecSys Founder & CTO to Present at Cloud Expo New York City

Mon, 15 Mar 2010 22:45:00 EDT

When adopting Cloud solutions, especially Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), questions regarding data security and governance arise. Depending on your jurisdiction, you may be subject to the recently released EU Data Protection Directive. In the U.S., you may have to cope with a patchwork of disparate and overlapping regulations, as well as sector-specific requirements such as HIPPA for healthcare, or FISMA and ITAR for public sector-related organizations. In his session at the 5th International Cloud Expo, Terry Woloszyn, Founder & CTO of PerspecSys Inc. and a thought leader in Cloud data governance, will present strategies to address data privacy, residency, and security requirements when adopting Cloud solutions. He will discuss both the technology options available as well as the functional and business value impacts of each strategy. Cloud Expo delegates will come away with a clearer understanding of the decisions surrounding SaaS adoption while remaining compliant with data governance requirements.

A-Server to Unveil DAAS.com V2 at Cloud Expo

Mon, 15 Mar 2010 22:00:00 EDT

A-Server, a specialist in datacenter virtualization, will launch a new version of its Datacenter-as-a-Service platform at SYS-CON's 5th International Cloud Computing Expo, which will take place on April 19-21, 2010, at the Jacob Javits Convention Center in New York City. A-Server, a silver sponsor for the event, will unveil its fully configured and installed cloud rack solution tailored to the needs for Independent Software Vendors (ISVs) and Cloud Service Providers, offering rapid deployment of reliable, flexible and cost-effective cloud computing. A-Server opened its first sales office in North America earlier this year and already has several successful service provider customers in Europe, most known includes SymetriQ in the UK that delivers a product comparable to Amazon web services using DAAS.com.

Cloud Expo Presents Larger Show Floor Than All Cloud Events Combined

Mon, 15 Mar 2010 15:11:00 EDT

SYS-CON's 5th International Cloud Expo, which will take place on April 19-21, 2010, at the Jacob Javits Convention Center in New York City has the largest show floor - 80,000 sq ft - than all other cloud shows combined this year. The packed three-day expo floor will showcase the largest collection of cloud players ever assembled in one place, and they will come from every layer of the cloud ecosystem. Cloud Expo New York will feature 200+ technical sessions from a rock star conference faculty and the leading Cloud industry players in the world. Cloud Expo is the world's leading Cloud-focused event since 2007, and is held five times a year, in New York City, Silicon Valley, Prague, Tokyo and Hong Kong.

Your Roadmap to the Clouds – III

Sun, 14 Mar 2010 17:05:00 EDT

Transforming the Enterprise to Support Dynamic Innovation In part 2, we discussed some of the initiatives to abstract the enterprise and create a virtual enterprise presence in the cloud. In part 3, we will take a look at Business and Technology Integration Transformation Initiatives to support the Next Generation Enterprise Transformation and Dynamic Innovation. Business process management (BPM) is a holistic management approach focused on organizational alignment with client needs promoting business effectiveness and efficiency, with underlying technological integration, and flexibility, to optimize your processes. The BPMS tools you use to do this should support your processes, not the other way around (don’t change the process to fit the tool). In the cloud space, Salesforce.com provides a visual process manager for integrating with the Force.com SOA development platform. There are many vendors providing such tools which I discussed in this blog entry. This will provide real-time operations transparency to increase enterprise responsiveness through application integration, thereby enabling organizations to better serve its customers.

Microsoft & Total Computer to Present at Cloud Expo East

Fri, 12 Mar 2010 10:00:00 EST

Law enforcement is no different in its IT needs and constraints from many other enterprises – they run legacy hardware. Migrating to a new on-premise system and hardware can be cost-prohibitive. This compels decision-makers to look for advice and evidence on how to successfully evolve existing solutions via the cloud. In their session at the 5th International Cloud Expo, Al Perez, Chief Software Architect at Total Computer, and Gunther Lenz, ISV Architect Evangelist at Microsoft, will discuss how Total Computer migrated its existing law enforcement solution to Windows Azure, the effort needed, the obstacles faced. The upshot – lower upfront investment, pay as you go, a new business model, scalability and reliability as well as familiar tools.

Unisys’s Daniel Weiss to Present at Cloud Expo East

Fri, 12 Mar 2010 08:30:00 EST

Do you want a top down, business-driven, automated data center where efficiencies deliver agility and the ability to innovate? Do you want to learn how to deal with challenges such as virtual machine sprawl, additional storage requirements, increased systems management requirements, new IT management processes and specialized technical skills? In his session at the 5th International Cloud Expo, Daniel Weiss, a Director in the IT Management Advisory Support Team at Unisys, will discuss how to mindfully move from virtualization into this agile environment. He will also show how to collect empirical data and apply that to making sound business decisions that will aid in guiding the future direction of your infrastructure and IT services delivery model, and explain how to analyze both your infrastructure and applications to determine the appropriate steps to take advantage of the new IT services delivery model – Cloud Computing.

Lighthouse Security Group to Present at Cloud Expo East

Fri, 12 Mar 2010 08:00:00 EST

Identity and Access Management (IAM) is a complex challenge faced by organizations worldwide, and the introduction of cloud applications threatens to further exacerbate the matter. IAM solutions have recently emerged that use the public cloud to achieve deep cost reductions without diluting performance. What are the fundamentals of Identity and Access Management in your on-premise and cloud-based hybrid application ecosystem? In his session at the 5th International Cloud Expo, Eric Z. Maass, Enterprise Security Solutions Director at Lighthouse Security Group, will discuss the core challenges that face every organization, such as SSO, Access Controls, Identity Provisioning, and Federation, and will take a deeper look into the components of a comprehensive IAM system. He will specifically address the extension of IAM to the Cloud and identity integration with SaaS partners and share critical information required to achieve powerful ROI while avoiding pitfalls and hype that may compromise your organization’s security.

Microsoft to Present at Cloud Expo East

Fri, 12 Mar 2010 05:00:00 EST

How do you tap the social media sites in a way that reaches repeat customers, ensures a consistent user experience yet internally has the peace of mind regarding the customer data, scalability, and ease of development? In their session at the 5th International Cloud Expo, Jeff Barnes, a Microsoft Architect Evangelist, and Jim Zimmerman, an ASP.NET MVP, will discuss how Thuzi has created a repeatable approach. For example, a whopping 540k people signed in just four weeks for an Outback Steakhouse “Blooming Onion” promotion. As many as 35,000 Facebook fans signed up per day. Cloud Expo is the world's leading Cloud-focused event since 2007, and is held five times a year, in New York City, Silicon Valley, Prague, Tokyo and Hong Kong.

Unisys’s Scott Sanchez to Present at Cloud Expo East

Thu, 11 Mar 2010 10:00:00 EST

We are constantly bombarded with articles and presentations about the security risks in cloud computing and why organizations need to be concerned about them as they consider a move. The truth is that organizations do need to be concerned about security – but they needn’t be paralyzed by fear. In fact, the heightened concern we’re seeing has actually become a spur to action and has begun to drive cloud security to a whole new level. In his session at the 5th International Cloud Expo, Scott C. Sanchez, CISSP, Director of the S&T Security Portfolio at Unisys Corporation, will focus on the key areas where a successful migration to cloud computing can actually improve security and reduce risk, and address some of the major issues to account for before and during that migration.

Unisys to Present at Cloud Expo East

Thu, 11 Mar 2010 06:00:00 EST

What are the attributes that attract applications to public clouds? Why implement private clouds? When is it appropriate to use both in a Hybrid Cloud approach? Can legacy applications be moved unchanged to the cloud or do they have to be rewritten as Web 2.0 apps? What are the implications regarding the application data migration? In his session at the 5th International Cloud Expo, Dr. Michael Salsburg, a Distinguished Engineer for Unisys Technology, Consulting and Integration Solutions, and the Lead Architect for Unisys Cloud Engineering, will answer those critical questions that arise when considering hosting applications in the cloud. Cloud Expo is the world's leading Cloud-focused event since 2007, and is held five times a year, in New York City, Silicon Valley, Prague, Tokyo and Hong Kong.

Impetus Technologies to Present at Cloud Expo East

Thu, 11 Mar 2010 05:00:00 EST

Data accumulation rates are growing astronomically and managing data in traditional ways is getting difficult in the same proportion. Hadoop is emerging as a champion in large-scale data management needs; however, it requires a lot of IT infrastructure investment and expertise. In his session at the 5th International Cloud Expo, Vineet Tyagi, Sr. Director of Engineering and R&D at Impetus Technologies, will discuss how cloud-based Hadoop deployments offer multi-fold efficiencies and benefits, and how Hadoop in the cloud provides on-demand computing, operational scalability, efficiency, cost, etc., and local access to large data.

Google to Present at Cloud Expo East

Wed, 10 Mar 2010 21:45:00 EST

From internal collaboration to supplier and customer interactions, enterprises are discovering new ways of increasing productivity, process accountability, and connecting those challenging "white spaces" that exist between processes, ERP, and legacy systems. In his session at the 5th International Cloud Expo, Naveen Viswanatha, Lead Architect at Google Enterprise, will show how you can embark on quick-win opportunities that provide a demonstrable ROI, and address a complex or often broken process. For example, see how you can integrate your mail, desktop applications, and legacy systems/data with Google Apps and the Cordys Process Factory. Cloud Expo is the world's leading Cloud-focused event since 2007, and is held five times a year, in New York City, Silicon Valley, Prague, Tokyo and Hong Kong.

Cast Iron Launches Integration Platform

Wed, 10 Mar 2010 14:45:00 EST

In a move to tackle a persistent cloud computing challenge, Cast Iron Systems just rolled out a new platform that aims to help companies large and small securely integrate public clouds, private clouds and on-premise applications. Dubbed OmniConnect, the cloud integration solution offers a single platform rather than multiple products or on-premise tools to accomplish cloud integrations. Five pillars undergird OmniConnect: complete integrations, a complete cloud experience, reusability of connectivity and processes, and portable, embeddable, and brandable environments, and centralized cloud management.

Novell to Present at Cloud Expo East

Wed, 10 Mar 2010 08:30:00 EST

Moving to the cloud should not mean you have to do things differently. Find out how you can leverage your internal identity and access infrastructure to enforce your internal roles, policies and workflows in the cloud. In her session at the 5th International Cloud Expo, Anita Moorthy, Senior Solutions Manager, Cloud Computing at Novell, will discuss what you should ask your provider about cloud security. Cloud Expo is the world's leading Cloud-focused event since 2007, and is held five times a year, in New York City, Silicon Valley, Prague, Tokyo and Hong Kong. The 5th International Cloud Expo is co-located with the 8th International Virtualization Conference & Expo and will be taking place on April 19-21, 2010, at the Jacob Javits Convention Center in New York City with more than 5,000 delegates and over 100 sponsors and exhibitors participating in the conference.

Enteros CTO to Present at Cloud Expo East

Wed, 10 Mar 2010 06:00:00 EST

Cloud infrastructures can support similar (and in certain cases even higher) rates of throughput for business transactions and information retrieval requests compared to the infrastructure based on physical hardware for a typical web application of average intensity. Cloud infrastructure database components consumed more CPU (but still remained fairly low), though CPU load on application servers was comparable to the load in the lab environment. Memory consumption seems more optimal in a cloud environment although network bandwidth consumption is negligible in both environments In his session at the 5th International Cloud Expo, Ron Warshawsky, CTO at Enteros, will report on the capability of the Public Cloud to support operational performance of a typical Web-based SME application.

Amazon Web Services to Present at Cloud Expo East

Tue, 09 Mar 2010 23:00:00 EST

Cloud computing radically alters our thinking about IT. Public cloud service providers offer several benefits over in-house data centers, including so-called "private" clouds. Scarcity evaporates as on-demand resources appear infinite, servers morph into disposable horsepower, and backups lose their fragility. Eliminating the need to own information processing assets helps improve economics by removing the requirements of meeting certain guaranteed cash flows to recoup sunk costs. Security and control remain possible because they now derive not from ownership and location but from contracts, standards, and confidentiality and integrity protection. In his session at the 5th International Cloud Expo, Steve Riley, technical evangelist from Amazon Web Services, will explore how to think cloud and maximize the outcome of your investment in public cloud services.

Terremark VP to Present at Cloud Expo East

Tue, 09 Mar 2010 22:45:00 EST

There are unique technical challenges and advantages associated with performing digital forensics and incident response in virtualization and cloud environments. What are the advanced threats specific to these environments and why are traditional security/forensic solutions and practices often inadequate? In his session at the 5th International Cloud Expo, Aaron Walters, Vice President of Advanced Security R&D at Terremark, will provide first-hand experience about performing investigations in these environments and show how investigators can look into memory (RAM) to find the future. Cloud Expo is the world's leading Cloud-focused event since 2007, and is held five times a year, in New York City, Silicon Valley, Prague, Tokyo and Hong Kong.

Savvis VP to Present at Cloud Expo East

Tue, 09 Mar 2010 22:15:00 EST

For a cloud to be considered enterprise, it must provide a high-availability solution that accounts for every aspect of an Enterprise IT Infrastructure environment, from development to production including provisioning and maintenance of servers, network, storage, security and software. The value of the enterprise cloud solution is simple: It enables businesses to adapt to the rapidly changing economic and technological environment with speed, excellence and efficiency while reducing the total cost of ownership. In his session at the 5th International Cloud Expo, Ken Owens, Vice President of Security and Virtualization Technologies at Savvis, will introduce the Virtual Private Data Center concept, which provides the high-availability infrastructure, management, support, and multiple levels of QoS required to optimize the delivery of mission-critical applications in the enterprise cloud

Oracle VP Adam Messinger to Present at Cloud Expo East

Tue, 09 Mar 2010 06:00:00 EST

Platform as a Service (PaaS) provides developers with a complete environment that is fully configured and ready to use for deploying applications. But, can enterprise IT really set up a single general purpose platform that satisfies the requirements of all its departments and developers? Instead, IT really needs to be able to quickly set up custom environments that contain just the required components and then provide connectivity to other shared services and infrastructure. In his session at the 5th International Cloud Expo, Adam Messinger, Vice President of Development in the Fusion Middleware group at Oracle, will explore how software appliances can enable IT to address the needs of their internal customers to rapidly configure and provision the exact custom environment they need.

Oracle VP Sushil Kumar to Present at Cloud Expo East

Mon, 08 Mar 2010 23:00:00 EST

The success of any cloud implementation depends on a complicated equation of managing physical and virtual resources, rapid provisioning and re-provisioning of applications and infrastructure, dynamic capacity management and maximizing resource utilization. If this equation does not end up providing significant cost savings and increased IT productivity, then your cloud implementation will fail. In his session at the 5th International Cloud Expo, Sushil Kumar, Vice President of Product Strategy and Business Development at Oracle, will outline the cloud management tasks you need to get right for a successful cloud program. Cloud Expo is the world's leading Cloud-focused event since 2007, and is held five times a year, in New York City, Silicon Valley, Prague, Tokyo and Hong Kong. The 5th International Cloud Expo is co-located with the 8th International Virtualization Conference & Expo and will be taking place on April 19-21, 2010, at the Jacob Javits Convention Center in New York City with more than 5,000 delegates and over 100 sponsors and exhibitors participating in the conference.

OpSource to Exhibit at Cloud Expo East

Mon, 08 Mar 2010 21:15:00 EST

SYS-CON Events announced today that OpSource, the leader in enterprise-class hosting and services, will exhibit at SYS-CON's 5th International Cloud Expo (www.CloudComputingExpo.com), which will take place on April 19-21, 2010, at the Jacob Javits Convention Center in New York City. Cloud Expo is the world's leading Cloud-focused event since 2007, and is held five times a year, in New York City, Silicon Valley, Prague, Tokyo and Hong Kong. OpSource provides complete Cloud operations, infrastructure and services for companies of all sizes, from Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) ISVs to the enterprise, with hundreds of applications, millions of users and billions of transactions supported daily. OpSource Cloud is the first Cloud to bring together the flexibility, availability and community of the public Cloud with enterprise-class security, performance and control . Emphasizing security, OpSource Cloud provides enterprise users with a Virtual Private Cloud within the public Cloud, allowing them to determine their own degree of Internet connectivity.

Zenoss VP to Present at Cloud Expo East

Sat, 06 Mar 2010 09:30:00 EST

What is cloud-based infrastructure and model-driven management? Explore how the discovery and understanding of discrete elements of web infrastructure interact, and how they can be managed to provide the highest quality of service for cloud-based applications. In his session at the 5th International Cloud Expo, Kent Erickson, Vice President product management at Zenoss, will also share war stories of how some of the world’s largest cloud-based and virtualized environments are managing the challenges of the dynamic nature of a virtualized infrastructure. Cloud Expo is the world's leading Cloud-focused event since 2007, and is held five times a year, in New York City, Silicon Valley, Prague, Tokyo and Hong Kong.

Certeon to Present at Cloud Expo East

Sat, 06 Mar 2010 06:30:00 EST

Deploying backup and replication operations over a WAN can have a negative impact on data recovery times and network bandwidth utilization. Storage virtualization technologies, such as virtualized iSCSI SANs and virtual appliances for WAN optimization, can eliminate WAN performance issues and reduce network bandwidth requirements. In their session at the 5th International Cloud Expo, Charlie Kraus, Senior Director of Business Development at Certeon, and Dwayne McCoy, IT Manager at Boots and Coots, will present a case study of Boots and Coots, a leading global provider of integrated pressure control services for onshore and offshore oil and gas exploration companies. It will cover their lessons learned and successes in deploying storage virtualization to improve data backup and replication performance and lower business continuity costs.

Zetta VP to Present at Cloud Expo East

Sat, 06 Mar 2010 03:45:00 EST

Cloud storage promises many benefits, but where does it actually fit? This session will examine a number of real-world storage use cases and their technical and business requirements. In his session at the 5th International Cloud Expo, Chris Schin, Vice President, Products at Zetta, will then draw some conclusions about which use cases can work and benefit from a cloud storage environment and what features are necessary to ensure a good fit. Cloud Expo is the world's leading Cloud-focused event since 2007, and is held five times a year, in New York City, Silicon Valley, Prague, Tokyo and Hong Kong.

Google’s Mike Samuel to Present at Cloud Expo East

Fri, 05 Mar 2010 08:30:00 EST

The same-origin security model that governs how code running in-browser interacts with sensitive data is breaking down. In his session at the 5th International Cloud Expo, Mike Samuel, Software Engineer at Google, will show how various alternative security models virtualize the DOM and network to allow web applications to embed third-party code safely and efficiently, while smoothing over platform idiosyncrasies. Cloud Expo is the world's leading Cloud-focused event since 2007, and is held five times a year, in New York City, Silicon Valley, Prague, Tokyo and Hong Kong.

Sybase to Present at Cloud Expo East

Fri, 05 Mar 2010 05:15:00 EST

It takes more than hardware and a VM to exceed SLAs. Many firms have achieved great results implementing traditional server virtualization. However, in larger business-critical production database systems, this is less common. Yet, aren’t these exactly the systems from which businesses would benefit most if resources could be virtualized and allocated dynamically to support different systems at different times? In his session at the 5th International Cloud Expo, Kutay Kilic, Chief Solutions Architect of Sybase's Financial Services Industry Group, will cover technical details behind virtualization techniques utilized in Enterprise database systems that go beyond server virtualization. Focus areas will include techniques for optimizing database caches through dynamic memory and object binding as well as managing application SLAs through dynamic CPU/core and cluster node affinity. Delegates will learn how enterprises are benefiting from "Virtualized Resource Management" technologies in both single node database servers and multi-node database clusters to deliver virtualization's promises to business-critical production database systems.

EMC Consulting to Present at Cloud Expo East

Thu, 04 Mar 2010 23:45:00 EST

A virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) breaks the physical bonds between information and desktop hardware enabling IT staff to change, update and deploy components independently. In this session Cloud delegates will learn the central principles of design and architecture. In his session at the 5th International Cloud Expo, Dave Stark, Virtualization Competency Lead for EMC Consulting, will provide delegates with the ability to identify the security considerations in the VMware View infrastructure and application traffic; estimate the bandwidth requirements needed for a virtual desktop environment now that desktop traffic will be originating from the data center, instead of a campus or branch office; and design a topology and understand redundancy considerations for the SAN environment.

Vizioncore to Exhibit at Virtualization Expo

Thu, 04 Mar 2010 23:15:00 EST

SYS-CON Events announced today that Vizioncore, the market leader in virtualization data protection and management solutions, will exhibit at SYS-CON's 5th International Cloud Expo (www.CloudComputingExpo.com), which will take place on April 19-21, 2010, at the Jacob Javits Convention Center in New York City. Cloud Expo is the world's leading Cloud-focused event since 2007, and is held five times a year, in New York City, Silicon Valley, Prague, Tokyo and Hong Kong. Founded in 2002 and headquartered in Hoffman Estates, IL, Vizioncore Inc. is a fully owned subsidiary of Quest Software (NASDAQ: QSFT), a leading systems management vendor. Today, Vizioncore is THE market leader in virtualization management, offering an award-winning portfolio of solutions that encompasses data protection, monitoring and administration of virtualized systems throughout each phase of growth and maturity. More than 19,500 customers worldwide, use Vizioncore’s solutions to extract the maximum return on their investments in virtualization. Vizioncore operates independently and supports an extended global partner network of more than 2,200 value-added resellers with superior partner programs, support and training.

Oracle VP to Present at Cloud Expo East

Thu, 04 Mar 2010 23:00:00 EST

Organizations embracing Cloud Computing are quickly realizing how Data Grid technology can solve many of the challenges associated with running applications on distributed shared infrastructure across the globe. From hosting data as a service, sharing application state across applications, parallel processing of transactions, events and messages, Data Grids provide the perfect combination of extensibility, reliability and performance needed to meet the demands of Cloud Computing. This session will map the evolution of Data Grid technology and how it is being successfully integrated into Cloud Computing. In his session at the 5th International Cloud Expo, Cameron Purdy, Vice President of Development at Oracle, will map the evolution of Data Grid technology and how it is being successfully integrated into Cloud Computing. Cloud Expo is the world's leading Cloud-focused event since 2007, and is held five times a year, in New York City, Silicon Valley, Prague, Tokyo and Hong Kong.

Gluster CTO to Present at Cloud Expo East

Thu, 04 Mar 2010 05:15:00 EST

Virtual machines have dramatically transformed the way IT organizations approach computing architecture. Benefits of virtual environments, including increased efficiency and flexibility, have led to widespread adoption and explosive growth. However, storage technologies designed for physical servers have struggled to keep up with the modern demands of virtual servers, resulting in I/O bottlenecks, highly complex management and an increase in required storage capacity. In his session at the 5th International Cloud Expo, Anand Babu Periasamy, Co-Founder and CTO of Gluster, will explore how to ideally store unstructured data in a virtualized environment under a unified global namespace particularly suited to the needs of virtual machines. In addition, he will outline the best practices for organizations to manage unstructured data and achieve a true virtual storage environment to complement their server virtualization.

AppZero Named “Bronze Sponsor” of Cloud Expo East

Thu, 04 Mar 2010 05:00:00 EST

SYS-CON Events announced today that AppZero, a pioneer in server-side application virtualization, has been named “Bronze Sponsor” of SYS-CON's 5th International Cloud Expo (www.CloudComputingExpo.com), which will take place on April 19-21, 2010, at the Jacob Javits Convention Center in New York City. Cloud Expo is the world's leading Cloud-focused event since 2007, and is held five times a year, in New York City, Silicon Valley, Prague, Tokyo and Hong Kong. AppZero software virtualizes Windows and UNIX server applications for nearly instant provisioning as services across a network, on any server (physical or virtual), in the datacenter or in the cloud. First to market with a toolset for virtualizing server-side applications, AppZero has pioneered the Virtual Application Appliance (VAA) in which an application is encapsulated with all of its dependencies – but without any operating system (OS) component. The result is server applications that are 100% portable with zero footprint and performance near native levels.

AppZero CEO Greg O'Connor to Present at Cloud Expo East

Wed, 03 Mar 2010 23:30:00 EST

Learn how to leverage a core asset of business – the application. By making applications mobile they can run in any cloud, move at the speed of the network and be provisioned from a single “gold” image to multiple destinations. In his session at the 5th International Cloud Expo, Greg O'Connor, President and CEO of AppZero, will show how a Virtual Application Appliance (VAA) can give ultimate control back to the business, enabling you to run your applications when and where you want. Cloud Expo is the world's leading Cloud-focused event since 2007, and is held five times a year, in New York City, Silicon Valley, Prague, Tokyo and Hong Kong. The 5th International Cloud Expo is co-located with the 8th International Virtualization Conference & Expo and will be taking place on April 19-21, 2010, at the Jacob Javits Convention Center in New York City with more than 5,000 delegates and over 100 sponsors and exhibitors participating in the conference.

VMops’ CEO to Present at Cloud Expo April 19-21 in New York City

Wed, 03 Mar 2010 22:45:00 EST

The benefits of private clouds are fairly well documented, but at the end of the day, the best way to gauge the value of this computing model within an enterprise is to jump in and start small. However, starting small doesn't mean sacrificing functionality like elasticity, self-service, programmatic access, and automation. In his session at the 5th International Cloud Expo, Sheng Liang, CEO at VMops, will discuss how to set up a small private cloud using commodity infrastructure. He will present the challenges and potential pitfalls associated with rolling your own cloud, and then explain how to evaluate cloud software platforms and select the right servers, storage, hypervisor, and networking infrastructure.

Unisys VP to Present at World's Largest Cloud Computing Event

Wed, 03 Mar 2010 21:15:00 EST

As much as information technology has changed in the last 10 years, the next decade promises even more significant change. And as cloud technology becomes more prevalent, IT enterprises will be driven to reconsider the status quo around just about everything we know, including physical infrastructure, virtualization, automation, service management, and security. Cloud technology and virtualization of virtually everything means rethinking the economic models around physical infrastructure, the emergence of a new class of providers as well as a greater degree of standardization around virtualized OS and middleware configurations. In his general session at the 5th International Cloud Expo, Sam Gross, Vice President of Global IT Outsourcing Solutions at Unisys Corporation, will discuss what you need to consider to ensure your enterprise’s foray into cloud computing successfully and securely meets the needs of your enterprise, today and tomorrow.

Virtual Ark President & CEO to Present at Cloud Expo 2010 East

Wed, 03 Mar 2010 09:30:00 EST

Marty Gauvin, President & CEO of Virtual Ark, will present a general session at the 5th International Cloud Expo. His session will take place on April 20 from 11:00 – 11:45 a.m. Virtual Ark has also been named “Platinum Sponsor” of the conference. The 5th International Cloud Expo is co-located with the 8th International Virtualization Conference & Expo and will be taking place on April 19-21, 2010, at the Jacob Javits Convention Center in New York City with more than 5,000 delegates and over 100 sponsors and exhibitors participating in the conference. Marty Gauvin is President & CEO at Virtual Ark, provider of SaaS enablement of Enterprise Applications on Clouds with a comprehensive managed service to end customers and Independent Software Vendors. He is also Founder and Chairman of Tier 5, a company that designs, builds and operates Data Center Parks and a Director of Playford Capital.

Virtual Ark Named “Platinum Sponsor” of Cloud Expo 2010 East April 19-21

Tue, 02 Mar 2010 17:00:00 EST

SYS-CON Events announced today that Virtual Ark, a provider of Fortune 1000 enterprise SaaS enabled applications and services in the clouds, has been named “Platinum Sponsor” of SYS-CON’s 5th International Cloud Expo (www.CloudComputingExpo.com), which will take place on April 19-21, 2010, at the Jacob Javits Convention Center in New York City. Virtual Ark provides SaaS enablement of Fortune 1000 enterprise applications on Clouds backed by a comprehensive managed service for both Independent Software Vendors (ISVs) and end customers. Virtual Ark manages its customers' enterprise applications deployed on the Virtual Ark SaaS Enablement Platform to high service levels and with comprehensive application management, maintenance, support and integration services. The Virtual Ark platform leverages global cloud infrastructure from companies such as Amazon, Rackspace, Microsoft, Google and others.

Navajo Systems to Present at Cloud Expo East

Mon, 01 Mar 2010 23:30:00 EST

Data security is the leading factor hindering SaaS adoption by enterprises. This session describes a unique method of protecting sensitive enterprise data in SaaS environments, eliminating SaaS-related data security and regulatory concerns. Without SaaS application modification, and without affecting application functionality, this method transparently encrypts all sensitive SaaS applications before they ever leave the enterprise. In his session at the 5th International Cloud Expo, Dan Gross, co-founder of Navajo Systems, will discuss how sensitive data is stored and processed by the SaaS provider’s servers in an encrypted state. End users are unaware of this process, yet their data is completely unreadable (and therefore meaningless) when stored at the SaaS provider: database theft and identity theft become harmless, and regulatory compliance is ensured.

NetSuite Goes After "ALot" of Cloud Computing Business

Mon, 01 Mar 2010 11:45:00 EST

Vertro, which provides millions of home pages and / or toolbars to Internet users, selected NetSuite OneWorld to replace its SAP BusinessOne installation. In the old environment, subsidiary rollup had to be managed by a cumbersome bolt-on interface, data entry for transactions was tedious, and the CRM support was not integrated. Additionally, the accounting package was "client-based" causing the company to incur additional IT staffing, hardware, administrative, and maintenance expense. Now Vertro entrusts its financial operation, including key procure-to-pay and order-to-cash processes, to NetSuite OneWorld.

LTech to Exhibit at Cloud Expo East

Sat, 27 Feb 2010 05:00:00 EST

SYS-CON Events announced today that LTech, a leading provider of products and services focused on connecting business to the cloud, will exhibit at SYS-CON's 5th International Cloud Expo (www.CloudComputingExpo.com), which will take place on April 19-21, 2010, at the Jacob Javits Convention Center in New York City. Cloud Expo is the world's leading Cloud-focused event since 2007, and is held five times a year, in New York City, Silicon Valley, Prague, Tokyo and Hong Kong. LTech’s cloud deployment services and enablement products deliver enterprise cloud computing to organizations of all sizes. The company has successfully completed hundreds of cloud deployments and their cloud enablement products are being used by hundreds of thousands of users worldwide.

SAS 70 Solutions to Present at Cloud Expo East

Fri, 26 Feb 2010 23:45:00 EST

Fear the cloud! That is the conventional thinking of the security industry. Their issue is the uncertainty surrounding virtualization because it is “in the cloud,” and, therefore, beyond control. But is that really true? In his session at the 5th International Cloud Expo, Doug Barbin, Director at SAS 70 Solutions, will break the cloud computing models down into their tangible and auditable components (networks, servers, applications, third parties, etc). From there, he will discuss different types of assurance solutions available (including SAS 70, PCI, ISO 27001/2, etc.), what companies are doing today, and could be doing better tomorrow.

NaviSite to Present at Cloud Expo East

Fri, 26 Feb 2010 23:15:00 EST

Anticipated cost efficiencies associated with technologies, such as virtualization and automation, have driven early interest in cloud computing. Before making the leap to move their critical application workloads to cloud, however, enterprises require a higher threshold of management, support, reliability, and security. In her session at the 5th International Cloud Expo, Claudine Bianchi, Chief Marketing Officer of NaviSite, will examine enterprise requirements for cloud computing, while defining the concept of managed cloud service and how it is going to address those key concerns. She will also introduce NaviSite’s Managed Cloud Services offering and discuss their unique resource-based pricing model that provides enterprises flexibility to pay as you go yet gives them full control on predictability on usage of those resources.

Savvis Named "Bronze Sponsor" of Cloud Expo East

Fri, 26 Feb 2010 15:45:00 EST

SYS-CON Events announced today that Savvis, Inc, a global leader in outsourced Internet infrastructure services for the enterprise, has been named "Bronze Sponsor" of the 5th International Cloud Expo (www.CloudComputingExpo.com), which will take place April 19-21, 2010, at the Jacob Javits Convention Center in New York City. Cloud Expo is the world's leading Cloud-focused event since 2007, and is held five times a year, in New York City, Silicon Valley, Prague, Tokyo and Hong Kong. Savvis has been working together with Cisco to integrate Cisco's Unified Computing System (UCS) as part of its next-generation cloud services platform, termed Savvis Symphony VPDC.

Amazon Web Services Named “Bronze Sponsor” of Cloud Expo April 19-21 NYC

Fri, 26 Feb 2010 14:00:00 EST

SYS-CON Events announced today that Amazon Web Services, a provider of an infrastructure web services platform in the cloud, has been named “Bronze Sponsor” of SYS-CON's 5th International Cloud Expo, which will take place on April 19-21, 2010, at the Jacob Javits Convention Center in New York City. With AWS you can requisition compute power, storage, and other services - gaining access to a suite of elastic IT infrastructure services as your business demands them. With AWS you have the flexibility to choose whichever development platform or programming model makes the most sense for the problems you're trying to solve. You pay only for what you use, with no up-front expenses or long-term commitments, making AWS the most cost-effective way to deliver your application to your customers and clients. And, with AWS, you can take advantage of Amazon.com's global computing infrastructure, that is the backbone of Amazon.com's retail business and transactional enterprise whose scalable, reliable, and secure distributed computing infrastructure has been honed for over 13 years.

Stoneware Named “Bronze Sponsor” of Cloud Expo April 19-21 New York City

Thu, 25 Feb 2010 21:00:00 EST

SYS-CON Events announced today that Stoneware, a provider of private cloud technology, has been named “Bronze Sponsor” of SYS-CON's 5th International Cloud Expo (www.CloudComputingExpo.com), which will take place on April 19-21, 2010, at the Jacob Javits Convention Center in New York City. Cloud Expo is the world's leading Cloud-focused event since 2007, and is held five times a year, in New York City, Silicon Valley, Prague, Tokyo and Hong Kong.

Objectivity Named “Bronze Sponsor” of World's Largest Cloud Event

Thu, 25 Feb 2010 20:45:00 EST

SYS-CON Events announced today that Objectivity, a leading provider of scalable database management solutions for mission-critical, real-time and distributed applications, has been named “Bronze Sponsor” of SYS-CON's 5th International Cloud Expo (www.CloudComputingExpo.com), which will take place on April 19-21, 2010, at the Jacob Javits Convention Center in New York City. The company's patented technology and flagship product, Objectivity/DB, is unique in its support for distributed architectures, cloud-based applications, and complex data management requirements. Objectivity/DB is ideal for applications requiring high-speed data ingest, data fusion and correlation, massively parallel processing, relationship analytics and graph traversal, and, of course, the ability to scale to meet the most demanding data storage requirements - all while using low-cost commodity computing resources such as those provided on Amazon's EC2, GoGrid's Cloud Hosting platform, and other distributed, virtualized cloud environments.

Hubspan to Exhibit at All Cloud Expo 2010 Events

Thu, 25 Feb 2010 19:30:00 EST

SYS-CON Events announced today that Hubspan, a leading provider of cloud-based business integration solutions, will exhibit at SYS-CON's 5th International Cloud Expo (www.CloudComputingExpo.com), which will take place on April 19–21, 2010, at the Jacob Javits Convention Center in New York City and SYS-CON's 7th International Cloud Expo 2010 West, which will take place on November 1–3, 2010, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA. Cloud Expo has been the world's leading Cloud-focused event since 2007, and is held five times a year, in New York City, Silicon Valley, Prague, Tokyo and Hong Kong. Hubspan is the leading provider of cloud-based business integration solutions, helping companies automate business processes across internal and external communities. Hubspan’s flagship solution is the WebSpan SaaS Integration Platform. An enterprise-class solution, WebSpan combines Hubspan’s innovative, cloud-based platform and managed services with IBM WebSphere integration software. Thousands of companies, from small enterprises to the Fortune 500, successfully use the platform every day for secure, reliable and scalable business integration.

SOASTA Named "Bronze Sponsor" of Cloud Expo East

Thu, 25 Feb 2010 16:15:00 EST

SYS-CON Events announced today that SOASTA, the leader in cloud testing, has been named “Bronze Sponsor” of SYS-CON's 5th International Cloud Expo (www.CloudComputingExpo.com), which will take place on April 19-21, 2010, at the Jacob Javits Convention Center in New York City. Cloud Expo is the world's leading Cloud-focused event since 2007, and is held five times a year, in New York City, Silicon Valley, Prague, Tokyo and Hong Kong. SOASTA’s mission is to ensure that today’s Web applications and services perform in a high quality, scalable, and predictable manner. The company’s product, SOASTA CloudTest, is available as an on-demand service in the Cloud or as an appliance (virtual and hardware), and enables developers to test and monitor their Web applications and services at an affordable price. SOASTA CloudTest supports Load, Performance, Functional, and Web UI/Ajax testing. SOASTA is privately held and headquartered in Mountain View, California.

Certeon to Exhibit at Cloud Expo 2010 April 19-21 New York City

Thu, 25 Feb 2010 10:00:00 EST

SYS-CON Events announced today that Certeon, the leading provider of virtual appliance solutions for WAN optimization and application acceleration, will exhibit at SYS-CON's 5th International Cloud Expo (www.CloudComputingExpo.com), which will take place on April 19-21, 2010, at the Jacob Javits Convention Center in New York City. Cloud Expo is the world's leading Cloud-focused event since 2007, and is held five times a year, in New York City, Silicon Valley, Prague, Tokyo and Hong Kong. Certeon's aCelera Virtual Appliance software is the industries' first and only virtual appliance to deliver acceleration, virtualization and manageability when remotely accessing applications throughout a distributed enterprise. aCelera Virtual Appliances reduce application response time over the WAN by more than 95% without proprietary appliances. aCelera is optimized for mission critical applications such as enterprise content management, Web-based collaboration, backup and replication, and wide area file services. aCelera is flexible and easy to deploy delivering faster, more scalable applications, and enabling greater user productivity.