Cloud Expo NY: Predictive Analytics Leads to Successful Recommendations

Businesses today generate billions of events or 100s of TBs of data in a month. These data contain valuable insights into customer behavior, key trends, buying patterns, etc. If these are successfully mined, they can lead to successful decision-making to maximize revenue and traffic for the business. Successfully driving a business is only partly about [...]

Intel & McAfee on Mission to End Cloud Nail-Biting

Security concerns are the biggest thing holding back cloud adoption, but Intel says it’ll take it and its pricey $ 7.68 billion McAfee acquisition at least another five years to bring cloud security up to the best-in-class traditional enterprise security available now. Not very reassuring is it. Intel also says, “A private cloud added to [...]

Cloud Control Does Not Necessarily Imply Cloud Security

Most of the commentary written about companies moving to the Cloud focuses on the loss of control over company data as a consequence of giving up self-hosted infrastructure. There is usually an implication that this is bad. I believe that is not necessarily a given. How may stories do you read daily about data breaches [...]

Cloud Expo East Five Weeks Out

The only place to be June 11-14th is the NY Javits Center at Cloud Expo 2012 East. Join us there as delegates from all over the world come to listen to and engage with speakers and sponsors from the leading Cloud Computing, Big Data and Virtualization companies such as Dell, SHI, Intel, Compuware, Citrix, Rackspace, [...]

Convirture Updates Virtualization and Cloud Management Software

Convirture has updated its ConVirt Enterprise Cloud virtualization and cloud management software to include support for the latest version of OpenStack (Essex). Support for CloudStack will be available in an update to the software that is planned for the third quarter of this year. ConVirt Enterprise Cloud also is also now certified to run on [...]

Cloud Expo New York: Investing in a Sound Cloud Education Strategy

As organizations are investing hundreds of millions of dollars on cloud-related technologies and services, many within the organization have no clue what cloud is and the derived value and benefit of embracing a sound cloud strategy. With new cloud solutions, such as iCloud, Facebook, etc., that impact non-IT folks, more and more people are wondering [...]

Will Cloud Become the De Facto Standard for Computing?

“The recent TOSCA initiative has made interoperability for cloud computing closer than ever,” observed Andrew Hillier, co-founder and CTO of CiRBA, in this exclusive Q&A with Cloud Expo Conference Chair Jeremy Geelan. “However, until players like Amazon and Google join in,” Hillier continued, “it will be difficult for organizations to move from one cloud to [...]

Top Ten Reasons to Sponsor and Exhibit at Cloud Expo New York

In its recent “Sizing the Cloud” report Forrester Research said it expects the global cloud computing market to reach $ 240 billion in 2020, up from $ 40 billion in 2010. Companies worldwide are keen to purchase solutions enabling enterprise class cloud computing control, performance, availability, and scalability. But these companies need to see demos [...]

The Plain Truth About Hybrid Solutions

It’s time to rehabilitate hybrid – and no, that doesn’t mean that you have to check the Prius into a 12-step program. We’re talking about that big buzzword “hybrid” and what you can you do today to make turn that trend into a true business environment that runs as efficiently and with as little drama [...]

Cloud Expo New York: Industry-Leading CxOs to Present June 11-14

What does the CTO of the U.S. Dept. of Justice have in common with the CEOs of Eucalyptus, GoGrid, OpSource and Nortonworks, the Founder & General Manager of Dell Boomi, the VP of Big Data & Streams at IBM and the Chief Strategy Officer at Pacific Controls? Answer: all are shortly to present breakout sessions [...]