You are interested in cloud computing, but where do you start? How are vendors defining Cloud Computing? What do you need to know to figure out which applications make sense in the cloud? And is any of this real today? In his session at the 5th International Cloud Expo, Bill Zack, an...

newScale, the self-service IT storefront people, is sending out its FrontOffice Suite to support Cisco’s industry-alienating Unified Computing System (UCS). It says service providers and enterprises can now leverage the widgetry as a self-service portal to their Infrastructure-as-a-Ser...

SYS-CON Events announced today that VirtuDataCenter, a cloud computing network infrastructure company, will offer a complete turnkey alternative to today’s cloud computing solutions. They will exhibit at SYS-CON's 5th International Cloud Expo (www.CloudComputingExpo.com), which will ta...

Intel hopes to tempt the market’s weak appetite for servers, which only started to perk up last quarter after a long fast, with its new Xeon 5600 processor, a k a Woodmere, its first 32nm chip, officially sent to market Tuesday. God willing it might even set off the great long-awaited...

Faced with competing against Microsoft’s theoretically free virtualization, VMware Thursday cut the $995 list price of its entry-level vSphere Essentials package in half to $495 until June 15 in an appeal to small businesses. vSphere Essentials targets sites with less than 20 physica...

NaviCloud is a next-generation platform that combines the economic efficiencies of cloud computing with true enterprise-class reliability and security. With built-in high-availability, a state of the art operations center, and a highly resilient service delivery infrastructure spanning...

There is now – or will be next quarter, at least in North America – something called Smart Business Development & Test on the IBM Cloud. It appears to be what other people might call a public cloud but this is IBM and public clouds are so…so, well, so down market like public swimming...

RightScale says it’s got new enterprise features in its cloud management platform. It’s talking better authorization and permissioning control, cost-tracking, and overall management of running virtual servers in the cloud across large organizations with multiple users, departments and ...

A reconstituted SGI has resurrected its old entry-level enterprise-oriented Origin brand and slapped it on a Westmere-EP Xeon 5600-based SME-targeted workgroup blade system called the Origin 400 that comes with integrated SAN and networking. The thing, which is made for standard busi...

To capitalize on what it figures is its vanguard position in the great cloud explosion EMC has recruited one-time Veritas exec Jeremy Burton as its chief marketing officer, and made him responsible for the global structure, strategy and execution of all its marketing efforts. The com...

No one can properly understand anything related to enterprise-level Cloud Computing without having first gained a deep understanding of the capabilities of different Cloud players. SYS-CON's pioneering Cloud Computing Bootcamp is designed with that in mind. It is a one-day, fully immer...

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 C...

Microsoft on Tuesday announced new investments around desktop virtualization technologies and solutions, including virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI), to help organizations of all sizes increase flexibility, employee productivity and IT cost savings. "Employees crave options in wher...

Wanova, Inc. today announced the general availability of Wanova Mirage software, a Distributed Desktop Virtualization solution that lets IT centrally manage the desktop, simplify support and protect remote and mobile PCs, while optimizing the end user experience. Laptop sales now outp...

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 si...

Cloud Expo sponsor Rackspace Hosting (NYSE:RAX), the world’s leader in the hosting and cloud computing industry, today announced from SXSW 2010 the launch of Rackspace Media Services. This Enterprise-level solution will provide an open source, direct-to-consumer (D2C) web infrastructur...

Cloud Computing in 2010 will be a paradigm shifting technology trend and Cloud Expo is where the Cloud change will form as the single most significant industry event we enter a new decade. Since we announced Cloud Expo three years ago in 2007 and launched it in March of 2008 in New ...

Xiotech Corporation, a provider of intelligent application-oriented storage solutions, on Thursday announced a new Virtualization Performance Pack that expands on the company's industry-leading performance, scalability and simplicity in virtual environments. Xiotech's new capabilities...

Navajo Systems announced on Tuesday that it has partnered with IBM to support the commercial launch of Smart Business Development and Test on the IBM Cloud. Navajo Systems' unique technology addresses the data security and regulatory concerns of using the cloud. Many enterprises have ...

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...

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 an...

There and you thought that Appistry was just serving applications up into the cloud for U.S. intelligence agencies, FedEx and State Street Bank. Well, it is but now it’s gone and diversified into cloud storage – huge, massively scalable, petabyte-heavy, Hadoop-sized cloud storage for...

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 impr...

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 offers outsourced product development services, partnering with ISVs and high technology businesses to create award-wi...

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 o...

In a news release today, Gartner's Neil MacDonald, vice president and Gartner fellow, says that while "virtualization is not inherently insecure ... virtualized workloads are being deployed insecurely ... a result of the immaturity of tools and processes and the limited training of st...

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 lar...

Appistry on Monday announced the latest edition to the Appistry CloudIQ Platform family, Appistry CloudIQ Storage. CloudIQ Storage provides a dynamically scalable, fault-tolerant and low cost storage system for files and binary objects. CloudIQ Storage may be used as a stand-alon...

CA, Inc. on Monday announced that its virtualization management solutions now support Sun's Solaris Zones virtualization platform. The expanded support of CA's Service Assurance and Business-Driven Automation solutions for heterogeneous virtualization platforms helps enterprise and ser...

CA is buying privately held Nimsoft Inc for $350 million in cash, another bet in the cloud. The deal should close by the end of the month and Nimsoft would remain a standalone business unit under current management reporting to Chris O’Malley, head of CA’s cloud products and solutions ...

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 ...

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, ne...

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 dil...

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...

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 ...

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...

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...