SYS-CON Events announced today that Webroot, a leading provider in Web and Email Security, will exhibit at SYS-CON's 7th International Cloud Expo, which will take place on November 1–4, 2010, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA. Webroot provides industry-leading se...

When building a utility or cloud business plan, Wall Street IT can provide important lessons. In his session at the 7th International Cloud Expo, Mike Tardif, President of Adaptivity, will lay out a blueprint for the CIO on how to define, fund and implement a successful transition fro...

Dell pulled out of the race to acquire 3PAR Thursday morning after HP upped its $30-a-share bid of last Friday to $33 a share, pushing 3PAR's valuation past $2 billion to roughly $2.1 billion. 3PAR sent out a statement Thursday morning saying that Dell went to $32 before the three-day...

HP has upped its $30-a-share bid for 3PAR last Friday to $33 a share, pushing 3PAR’s valuation past $2 billion to about $2.1 billion. 3PAR sent out a statement Thursday morning saying that Dell went to $32 before the three-day clock ran out on it Wednesday at midnight, and HP counter...

SYS-CON Events announced today that Red Hat, the world's leading provider of open source solutions, has been named “Platinum Sponsor” of SYS-CON’s 7th International Cloud Expo, which will take place on November 1–4, 2010, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA. Red Ha...

Hiperos, LLC, a provider of on-demand solutions for extended enterprise management, announced on Thursday that Microsoft Corp. will use Hiperos to manage all critical aspects of the supplier lifecycle – from initial supplier registration and assessment of risk to active measurement of ...

What is the Enterprise Cloud Living Blueprint? In his session at the 7th International Cloud Expo, Brian Sledge, SVP Solution Architecture and Field Engineering for Adaptivity, will walk delegates through the creation and linkage of a living blueprint concept and how it helps firms re...

What are small, high-growth companies experiencing as they make their move to on demand applications and how they are dealing with concerns around security, integration, business disruption? In his session at the 7th International Cloud Expo, Shawn Reynolds, Director at SAP, will dis...

Public cloud adoption by an enterprise may have numerous barriers and challenges surrounding data privacy, residency, and security. Transitioning from on-premise solutions to the cloud means ceding data governance to the cloud vendor. This may impact your enterprise regulatory complian...

Gartner was late in pooping on the PC party. Intel had already confirmed Wall Street reports that consumer PC sales were crapping out by the time the research house took down its forecast for the second half a half-hearted couple of points, reducing its growth projection to 15.3% a...

Moving to the cloud raises lots of questions, mostly about security. Providers worthy of your business should answer them clearly and honestly. Amazon Web Services has built an infrastructure and established processes to mitigate common vulnerabilities and offer a safe compute and stor...

A successful enterprise cloud requires a well-executed CMDB that will enable an enterprise cloud to be operationalized. In his session at the 7th International Cloud Expo, Jim Houghton, Co-Founder & Chief Technology Officer of Adaptivity, will discuss the execution blueprint component...

Cloud computing radically alters our thinking about IT. 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 ...

SYS-CON Events announced today that Mezeo Software, the leading provider of a deployable cloud storage platform for service providers and enterprises, will exhibit at SYS-CON's 7th International Cloud Expo, which will take place on November 1–4, 2010, at the Santa Clara Convention Cent...

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...

Cisco is trying to buy Skype before it goes public, according to what TechCrunch said Sunday. The blog hasn’t been able to confirm the tale it was told by “one of its more reliable sources,” however, Barron’s Tech Trader Daily says the rumor is nonsense and that its own personal “sou...

SYS-CON Events announced today that GoGrid, a leading Cloud Infrastructure and Hybrid Hosting Provider, has been named “Silver Sponsor” of SYS-CON's 7th International Cloud Expo, which will take place on November 1–4, 2010, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA. GoGr...

Vordel, a provider of fast, safe connectivity for SOA and Cloud Services on Tuesday announced that its Vordel Cloud Service Broker will provide management for the VMware vCloud Director. VMware vCloud Director enables enterprises to manage a hybrid environment of their own datacenters ...

How can organizations use enterprise/private cloud capabilities to improve information-sharing? In his session at the 7th International Cloud Expo, Ira A. (Gus) Hunt, CTO to the CIO of the Central Intelligence Agency, will discuss how the Intelligence Community has been using enterpri...

How can organizations leverage the cloud to save costs and increase security today? What do they need to be thinking about and doing to plan for the future? In his session at the 7th International Cloud Expo, Scott Chasin, CTO McAfee Content & Cloud, will discuss how the cloud is chan...

HyTrust, Inc., a provider of access control and policy enforcement for virtualization infrastructure, on Monday announced HyTrust Cloud Control and out-of-the-box integration between HyTrust Appliance and VMware vCloud Director. The solution brings strong authentication, role-based acc...

Netuitive, Inc., a provider of self-learning performance management software, on Monday announced it has completed an integration with Amazon EC2 (Elastic Cloud Computing) Services. Amazon EC2 is a central part of Amazon.com's public cloud computing platform. It is a web service that ...

CA Technologies on Monday announced it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire privately-held Arcot Systems, Inc., a leader in providing advanced authentication and fraud prevention solutions through on premises software or cloud services, in an all-cash transaction valued at $200...

Remember that rosy picture that Intel CEO Paul Otellini painted in mid-July about how everything was simply lovely and how “the PC and server segments are healthy and demand for leading-edge technology will continue to increase for the foreseeable future? Well, it’s turning into “The...

Fujitsu president Masami Yamamoto said the company is “very actively” seeking software acquisitions, particularly the cloud and middleware kind, to ratchet up its global growth, according to BusinessWeek. It could take another six months or more for Fujitsu to light on anything. It’s a...

In a relatively rare headhunting raid, AMD has hired Donald Newell, one of Intel’s own, to run its server chip roadmap and platform design programs as CTO of its server unit. Newell was previously senior principle engineer heading the System-on-Chip (SoC) and datacenter networking ar...

Worldwide server revenues surged 11% to $10.9 billion in Q2, according to IDC, which calls it the second consecutive quarter of year-over-year revenue growth, the fastest quarterly revenue growth since 2003 and the fourth consecutive quarter of improving server market demand. Trouble...

The Texas district court that will hear Neon Enterprise Software’s antitrust suit against IBM for monopolizing the mainframe market – an issue that has both the European Commission and the Justice Department investigating Big Blue – was looking over its calendar the other day and – lo ...

A US court has told Chen Lai-juh, the CEO of Taiwan LCD screen maker AU Optronics Corporation, not to leave the country until his trial on Justice Department-brought charges of price-fixing is over. A federal grand jury indicted Chen and a half-dozen other AU officials of years of pric...

After getting bounced out of HP for God knows what former CEO Mark Hurd filed to sell $30 million worth of what he doubtless considers its ungrateful stock, ratcheted up by his cunning. Bloomberg picked up on his notice to the SEC that he intended to sell as many as 775,000 common shar...

The bidding for 3PAR now stands at $30 a share. That's like two billion bucks, pushing passed what appeared to be hysterical speculation about how far into the clouds the offers could go just days ago. Dell this morning rolled out of bed and matched HP's price late yesterday of $27 ...

SYS-CON Events announced today that iTKO, the leading provider of virtualization and validation solutions for enterprise cloud applications, has been named “Bronze Sponsor” of SYS-CON's 7th International Cloud Expo, which will take place on November 1–4, 2010, at the Santa Clara Conven...

The industry conversation is all about cloud, but the real goal is the elusive transformation of IT into a business-ready service that is available on demand and as needed. IT-as-a-Service (ITaaS) leverages an open cloud computing approach that spans both internal, private clouds and p...

SoftLayer Technologies, an on-demand data center services provider, on Thursday announced its inclusion in the 2010 Inc. 500|5000 list. The company was ranked 155th overall, and 12th in the IT Services industry, based on revenue growth from 2006 to 2009. Issued annually, the Inc. 500|...

SYS-CON Events announced today that RightScale, the leader in cloud computing management, has been named “Bronze Sponsor” of SYS-CON's 7th International Cloud Expo, which will take place on November 1–4, 2010, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA. Join RightScale on...

Amazon cloner Eucalyptus Systems, newScale and rPath are seeking strength in numbers to ward off the raft of upstart newcomers like Nimbula promising to give companies their own private Amazon-style clouds. The company also gives Eucalyptus some salve to rub on the nasty nicks it got...

SYS-CON Events announced today that Ulitzer, a "new media" social journalism platform, has been named "New Media Sponsor" of SYS-CON's 7th International Cloud Expo, which will take place on November 1-4, 2010, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA. Ulitzer is a revol...

3PAR, a global provider of utility storage, announced on Wednesday that it has joined forces with Nissho Electronics in Japan to address the needs of virtual datacenters and the cloud computing service business in Japan. As part of this enhanced partnership, Nissho has become the first...

Red Hat, Inc., a provider of open source solutions, on Wednesday announced that it has submitted the API specification for Apache Deltacloud to the Distributed Management Task Force (DMTF) as part of its participation in the DMTF Cloud Management Work Group. Red Hat’s submission to DMT...

It seems every company in the industry is announcing some form of cloud offering and bombarding enterprise buyers with new pitches and acronyms. This can leave even IT experts confused about which cloud offerings are the best solutions for their enterprise computing challenges. In hi...