Voltaire has come out with a new top-of-rack switch, a low-latency, high-density 10 GbE switch for virtualization and scaling cloud networks that will be a challenge for Cisco since Cisco doesn’t have anything like it and Voltaire’s pricing the thing aggressively to capitalize on its a...

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...

Cisco on Thursday announced its intent to acquire privately held Arch Rock Corporation, a pioneer in Internet Protocol-based wireless network technology for smart-grid applications. Based in San Francisco, Arch Rock will accelerate Cisco's ability to facilitate the utility industry's t...

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...

Peter Silva re-visits F5′s Alan Murphy, to go deeper into F5′s integration with VMware’s VMView and vCloud Director. ps Technorati Tags: F5, infrastructure 2.0, integration, Pete Silva, security, business, education, technology, application delivery, cloud, virtualiza...

Within hours of 3PAR maybe finding out who its daddy's gonna be, it got sued by a little Austin, Texas outfit with a litigation trail behind it by the name of Crossroads Systems. The publicly traded Texas company accused 3PAR along with six other storage houses of infringing on its ...

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...

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...

On Tuesday VMware has announced that it has entered into definitive agreements to acquire Integrien, a provider of real time application and infrastructure performance analytics software, and TriCipher, a provider of secure access management and enterprise identity federation for cloud...

Abiquo, the leading Enterprise Cloud Management software vendor, on Tuesday announced that, after extensive research among its more than 20,000 customers, open source users and prospects, the top five issues facing enterprises today are: 1) Security and Compliance, 2) IT Organization O...

VMware has expanded its vision for modern IT infrastructures and announced six new products and services that help enterprises and service providers achieve the benefits of cloud computing while maintaining the control and freedom of choice they require. IT as a Service is the transf...

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 ...

Hurd won’t be replaced immediately. It was his only other board seat besides HP, one he accepted in February 2008. Speculation over what exactly happened in HP’s executive suite has turned recently to Hurd’s unpopularity with the HP workforce and his alleged starvation of the com...

Verizon Business and VMware unveiled a new enterprise-class hybrid cloud solution that will enable enterprises to move their applications to the cloud more quickly without compromising security or performance. The new solution, underpinned by Verizon's world-class global IP network and...

IBM, a non-contender in the 3PAR event despite the billions it's otherwise spent on storage, said Tuesday that it has thrown California's newfangled Emergency Management Agency (Cal EMA), a lifeline. Cal EMA is the deficit-ridden, emergency-prone state's year-old combination of its ...

In the run-up to the next Cloud Expo, 7th Cloud Expo (November 1-4, 2010) at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Silicon Valley, it's time to give my earlier list a complete overhaul. Here, accordingly, is an expanded list of the most active players in the Cloud Ecosystem.

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...

newScale, which just climbed into bed with Eucalyptus last week, is supposed to say at VMworld Tuesday that its FrontOffice Suite supports VMware’s new infrastructure-as-a-service vCloud Director software for building private and public clouds. newScale - whose President and Chief E...

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...

CloudStorageStrategy.com on Monday introduced a Cloud Storage Business Model for Enterprises to help IT decision makers who are considering cloud storage. Underwritten by Mezeo Software (www.mezeo.com), a provider of a deployable cloud storage platform for enterprises and service provi...

Zenoss Inc., a provider of dynamic service assurance products for public, private and hybrid clouds, on Monday announced that in its first quarter of availability, it has achieved several significant customer wins for its management offering for the Cisco Unified Computing System (UCS)...

Citrix Systems on Monday announced several key additions to its Citrix OpenCloud infrastructure platform for cloud providers. The new enhancements raise the bar in cloud interoperability, scalability and self-service - further extending the company's leadership position as the most wid...

NComputing, a global leader in desktop virtualization, on Monday announced expanded operations including international senior hires, country expansion, an aggressive channel expansion program, an enhanced OEM program, and integrated solutions with Microsoft, Citrix, and VMware. These a...

"To understand the need for the Open vSwitch, you have to realize that while CPU virtualization, including hardware support, has evolved rapidly over the last decade, network virtualization has lagged behind pretty badly." This statement, and many more besides, occurs in a blog publish...

The switch features 48 ports of 10GbE line rate connectivity in a space-saving 1U device. It provides non-blocking switching throughput of 960 Gbps, low latency and the industry's lowest power consumption of 6.3 watts/port to deliver superior application performance as well as data cen...

Built on an HP Converged Infrastructure, HP CloudStart simplifies and speeds private cloud deployments. Consisting of hardware, software and services, HP CloudStart empowers businesses to deliver pay-per-use services reliably and securely from a common portal, and it offers the ability...

Precise has announced Precise for Cloud, a transaction performance management solution designed to ensure quality of service (QoS) for applications running on private cloud platforms at the Global 5000 and their global ISPs. Precise has designed Precise for Cloud to solve the most pre...

Featuring an easy to use dashboard based on the RSA® ArcherTM eGRC platform, the solution is designed to give organizations a complete assessment of security and compliance posture across their VMware virtual infrastructure. This allows customers to centrally manage security across bot...