9th Annual Cloud Computing Expo – The Only Enterprise IT Event in 2011 Covering the Entire Scope of the Cloud Computing Spectrum
Cloud Expo was announced on February 24, 2007, the day the term "cloud computing" was coined. That same year, the first Cloud Expo took place in New York City with 450 delegates. This coming November 7-10, 2011, Cloud Expo is returning to Santa Clara with more than 5,000 delegates and over 100 sponsors and exhibitors.
"Cloud" has become synonymous with "computing" and "software" in two short years. Cloud Expo is the new PC Expo, Comdex, and InternetWorld of our decade. By 2012, more than 50,000 delegates per year will participate in Cloud Expo worldwide…
Logicalis Unveils Two Cloud Centers of Excellence
Logicalis, an international provider of integrated information and communications technology (ICT) solutions and services, announced today that it has opened two Cloud Centers of Excellence based on the HP CloudSystem Matrix – one in Farmington Hills, Michigan, and the other in Irvine, California…
Time to think about cloud governance
Very few enterprises that are adopting cloud applications and infrastructure are giving enough thought to governance. The result is a mish-mash of SaaS silos and cloud islands, with very little attention paid to data consistency and integration, and even less to policy management and oversight. This is bad enough in organisations that run all their operations in the cloud, but most enterprises are not in that happy space. The vast majority have to manage a hybrid infrastructure that encompasses large swathes of existing on-premise IT assets along with a swelling population of SaaS applications and a handful of cloud infrastructure initiatives…
I’ve been advising enterprises to put a strategy in place that looks something like the schematic above, which comes from a webinar I presented on Focus.com back in April (unfortunately the webinar is now offline). Developing a strategy along these lines at least forces you to start thinking about the issues — such as how to extend access policies from the existing enterprise infrastructure out to cloud applications; how to automate other aspects of policy management; and how to manage connections between applications, data and other resources…
External and internal cloud computing strategies from the trenches
If you believe some vendors, a cloud computing strategy is as simple as turning on a service remotely — a cloud in 30 days. It’s more likely, however, to be three to five years before all the underlying governance, infrastructure and new service delivery models are put into place for a cloud computing strategy, said enterprise IT executives at the recent Gartner Catalyst Conference in San Diego…
CumuLogic Offers Private PaaS Cloud Software
CumuLogic is releasing a beta version of software that lets enterprises build a private platform-as-a-service cloud for running Java applications.
The software, which CumuLogic says will help companies reduce costs associated with managing the underlying infrastructure of their private clouds, works on clouds running Cloud.com, Eucalyptus and VMware. CumuLogic is working on compatibility with OpenStack…
BlueBridge and Bluemile Join to Optimize Cloud Computing Platform
Cleveland-based BlueBridge Networks a provider of data center services announced a multimillion-dollar joint investment with Columbus-based Bluemile, Inc. to offer the most robust, scalable and secure cloud computing platform.
Michael Marlowe, Bluemile President and co-founder, said in a release, “We are delivering a service based on our client’s demand. You pay for what you use, which makes our customization scalable. When our clients’ needs change, we change with them.”…
How To Integrate Cloud Computing Into Service Offerings
I just saw a TV ad where a mother solved her family photo issues by “going to the cloud.” While a bit far fetched, it’s an indicator that cloud has definitely entered the mainstream and is here to stay. But the ad itself is both a testimony to the cloud value proposition and the fact that it’s an unbounded solution. Ed. note: For more information on this topic, check out 8 Questions You Need To Answer When Selling a Cloud Solution…
Upcoming Online Experiences – Cloud advances will connect people like never before.
The future of the Internet is beginning to take shape as Web 3.0 capabilities become available for everyday lives in both personal and professional capacities. But as technology continues to blaze forward at blinding rates, the opportunities for innovators to affect that future abound. Leaders of major companies agree on some of the trends consumers can expect to experience, but they also have their own ideas about how their organizations will shape, and fit into, the new digital landscape…
Advantages and drawbacks to public cloud services
Public cloud computing services offers organizations the opportunity to realize many of the advantages offered by private clouds, but without many of the costs. There are, however, drawbacks to public cloud options that could outweigh the potential cost savings for companies. This tip explains the benefits and potential disadvantages of public clouds…
Overcoming Challenges to CRM Cloud Computing Migration
The buzz throughout the technology space is the trend toward cloud computing. While cloud computing vendors are helping to create and drive that buzz, a number of companies are reporting challenges to adoption. Without a clear strategy to overcome these challenges, the adoption of CRM cloud computing is likely to suffer.
According to this Wireless Week (News – Alert) report, the Yankee Group’s survey on the adoption of cloud computing found that 55 percent of IT decision makers are reporting cost and migration difficulties as key barriers to the adoption of CRM cloud computing. Another obstacle that is making an impact is the lack of confidence in security processes to protect data…