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 implica...

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 hi...

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 ...

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...

Cast Iron Systems, good as its name, wants to do the heavy lifting and synch applications running on-premise with those in the cloud, any kind of cloud. It says it can connect any combination of cloud and on-premise applications. And nobody has to leave its multi-tenant cloud environ...

SoftLayer Technologies, a provider of on-demand data center hosting and cloud services, has announced the addition of Internet Protocol Security (IPsec) to its best-in-class portal allowing customers to securely connect to their infrastructure environment through a Virtual Private Netw...

RELDATA, a provider of unified block and file storage solutions over iSCSI, highlighted today the challenge faced by mid-sized organizations in upgrading legacy iSCSI storage systems and the difficulties associated with migrating data to newer iSCSI storage systems. A recently publishe...

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 Moorth...

Voltaire says its 40 Gbs InfiniBand switches can speed up High Performance Computing (HPC) applications, stuff whose business value is in their speed such as reservoir modeling, fluid dynamics and crash analysis, by as much as 10x. All it takes is a painless software upgrade to the ...

Now seven months under VMware's wing, SpringSource trundled out tc Server Spring Edition Wednesday. It's advertised as the best place to build and run Spring applications because of the end-to-end visibility that SpringSource has added to the thing not only for the Java developer, b...

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 infrastruc...

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 back...

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 practic...

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 announcement Tuesday that Cisco swore would “forever change the Internet” was a great carrier router that’s supposed to be able to download all the printed contents in the Library of Congress in a second, deliver every movie ever made in four minutes and handle video calls made by ...

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 developer...

CORAID, a developer of scale-out storage solutions with more than 1,100 customers worldwide, on Tuesday announced that the CORAID EtherDrive product family has been added to TVAR Solutions' GSA Schedule. CORAID storage solutions have already been deployed throughout a range of civilian...

CCORAID Inc., a developer of scale-out storage with more than 1,100 customers worldwide, on Tuesday unveiled the CORAID Partner Network, a channel program designed to support business partners delivering CORAID EtherDrive solutions worldwide. The CORAID Partner Network offers IT soluti...

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 en...

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. C...

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 5...

Intel has released its first storage-optimized Atom-based platform for networked home and SOHO storage devices. The D410 single-core and D510 dual-core chips run Windows Home Server and Linux. LaCie, LG Electronics, QNAP, Synology and Thecus are using the platform, which includes s...

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 iss...

Pivot3, the start-up that claims to be the first company to deliver virtual servers and scalable storage in a single platform, has raised a $25 million D round led by Focus Ventures, which has backed other storage companies like Isilon, which IPO’d for $1.4 billion, and EqualLogic, whi...

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, ...

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 a...

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...

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 sessi...

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 ...

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 applicati...

Qualys, the 10-year-old SaaS security pioneer, has started offering to scan web sites for free looking for malware, a process that will let it build up its knowledge base on the scurvy code and kinda serve mankind at the same time. But lest we get too altruistic, it’s also got anothe...

The way you acquire, manage and pay for software has changed. Now, companies have more choices – like SaaS, Cloud, and Virtual Appliances – to get the tools they need, instantly, and for much less than purchasing and owning software. With all these new terms and options it can be chall...

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 ph...

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...

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...

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...

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...

rPath, an innovator in automating system provisioning and maintenance, today announced it is adding support for configuration management to its system automation solution. Effective immediately, rPath will support interoperation with key open source configuration management tools, incl...

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 c...

If you listen to the IBM advertisements on television “The Cloud” is described as a “workload optimized service management platform” but what does that mean? Basically, in the most simplistic form, the Cloud is a virtual data center. That is it! People often ask me to explain what it i...