News Desk

MetraTech Named “Bronze Sponsor” of Cloud Expo New York

Sat, 18 May 2013 16:00:00 EDT

SYS-CON Events announced today that MetraTech Corp., the leading provider of agreements-based billing™, commerce and compensation solutions, has been named “Bronze Sponsor” of SYS-CON's 12th International Cloud Expo, which will take place on June 10–13, 2013, at the Javits Center in New York City, New York. MetraTech Corp. is the leading provider of commerce, billing and compensation solutions enabling customers to monetize relationships with customers, partners, and suppliers. Its unique Agreements-Based Billing ™ and Compensation platform models and supports fluid, personalized, multi-party agreements. MetraTech is the only monetization provider with an extensible metadata-driven architecture that makes it simple for customers to model and configure products and services, pricing plans, new business models and to change them in rapid response to market demands or customer behavior. Customers can select the customizable full control MetraNet® platform, available on-premise or as a managed service or a turnkey SaaS solution with the Metanga® offering.

Cloud Expo NY: Essential Open Source Software for Building the Open Cloud

Sat, 18 May 2013 15:15:00 EDT

Cloud computing is more than a buzz-phrase it’s a transformative IT paradigm shift. The emphasis in the cloud is on elasticity, scalability, agility and open. Not just open standards but open APIs and open source. The delivery of software is also going through a paradigm shift. Open source software was often a commoditization of a market leader; Unix to Linux or Oracle to MySQL what’s changing is that the iterative nature, user context and the motto of releasing early and often are driving real innovation in open source. In his session at the 12th International Cloud Expo, Mark Hinkle, Senior Director, Open Source Solutions at Citrix, will cover those essential open source technologies for delivering cloud computing in the enterprise.

Cloud Expo New York: Many Clouds and APIs but One OpenStack and jclouds

Sat, 18 May 2013 14:00:00 EDT

In an ideal developer/systems administrator’s world, most applications would deploy seamlessly to multiple platforms and scale elastically with minimal effort bringing the unprecedented agility of the cloud within immediate reach of developer teams and IT organizations. OpenStack, a RackSpace and NASA initiative, is now managed by an independent foundation and is supported by multiple vendors. It defines APIs for compute, storage, networking, services, monitoring, and additional infrastructure services. jclouds is an open source library that helps you get started in the cloud and utilizes your Java or Clojure development skills. The jclouds API gives you the freedom to use portable abstractions for cloud-specific features. It's a cross-cloud toolkit that works with both public and private clouds, enabling hybrid cloud workloads.

Cloud Expo New York | Storage & Archive: Are Existing Offerings Relevant?

Sat, 18 May 2013 13:00:00 EDT

Storage and Archive offerings are now exploding on the market. From end-user mobile devices to company tactical level, the cloud has become a black hole for every kind of data. But what are the risks, and what are the real needs? In his session at the 12th International Cloud Expo, Alexandre Morel, Cloud Product Manager & Evangelist at OVH.com, will answer questions such as: How to develop a strategy to use those offers as a base to develop mid and long-term value? Should companies trust the cloud (Dedicated or Public) or rely on some other solutions? How to select the right solution for the right internal need? Which best of breed approaches can be used?

Cloud Expo New York: Getting to the Promise of Big Data

Sat, 18 May 2013 12:00:00 EDT

Companies around the world are collecting massive amounts of data everyday that’s sitting around and not being utilized. Take for example the fact that companies collect demographic and location-based data via mobile devices all the time, but have to figure out how to monetize that data. In his session at the 12th International Cloud Expo, Jason Hoffman, CTO & Founder of Joyent, will examine the state of Big Data, taking a look at what we're doing now to discussing what's on the horizon, as companies prepare and realign their business strategies for new streams of revenue.

Zyrion Named “Entrance Carpet Sponsor” of Cloud Expo New York

Sat, 18 May 2013 11:00:00 EDT

SYS-CON Events announced today that Zyrion Inc., the leading provider of Cloud and IT Monitoring software solutions, has been named “Entrance Carpet Sponsor” of SYS-CON's 12th International Cloud Expo, which will take place on June 10–13, 2013, at the Javits Center in New York City, New York. Zyrion is the leading provider of integrated Cloud and Network monitoring software for distributed and complex datacenter environments, and offers the most scalable monitoring platform in the industry. Zyrion's flagship Traverse software provides correlated, end-to-end, application service-oriented views of the IT infrastructure. Zyrion's monitoring software is used by large enterprises and Managed Service Providers (MSPs) worldwide. Zyrion has its corporate offices in Sunnyvale, California.

Cloud Expo New York: Introducing the Open Cloud Exchange

Sat, 18 May 2013 11:00:00 EDT

The cloud-enabled data center sits at the center of IT transformation. It facilitates the interconnection and communities that come together, propelling growth for both buyers and sellers. In his session at the 12th International Cloud Expo, Gerry Fassig, CoreSite’s Vice President of Sales, will discuss how CoreSite is bringing together best-of-breed partners through the Open Cloud Exchange resulting in public, private, and hybrid cloud interconnection and management as well as connectivity to AWS direct connect. Gerry Fassig is CoreSite’s Vice President of Sales for the cloud/hosting service provider industry. He possesses more than 20 years of enterprise and start-up sales leadership experience and leads a national team responsible for acquiring, retaining and managing service providers of all sizes. Prior to joining CoreSite, he held senior sales and management positions with Savvis, helping drive strategic growth throughout the organization during the Exodus/Cable and Wireless acquisitions. Before Savvis, he held various leadership roles at Wheelhouse, a CRM strategy consultancy and at Gartner.

Cloud Expo New York: Enabling the Cloud for Big Data

Sat, 18 May 2013 10:45:00 EDT

With the right tools, file storage today can be in the cloud or on-premise, with seamless and secure access and publishing regardless of location. Novel, high-speed transport technologies that alleviate the bottlenecks and limitations of traditional data movement protocols are now intrinsically enabled for cloud object storage, such as Amazon Web Services S3 and Microsoft Windows Azure. Companies of all types and sizes can use the latest technology to ingest and distribute large media files to and from Windows Azure BLOB storage, for example, and integrate the platform into media services running on the Azure cloud. In his session at the 12th International Cloud Expo, Jason Warman, Director of Sales Engineering at Aspera, Inc., will explore how infrastructure-agnostic transport technologies are transforming the ways all kinds of organizations access and use Big Data for ever-greater efficiencies and innovation.

Cloud Expo NY: Adopting Cloud Solutions from the Couch to the Corporation

Sat, 18 May 2013 10:00:00 EDT

Enterprise cloud adoption revolves around pushing the BYOD movement and focusing on data security. In his session at the 12th International Cloud Expo, Ross Brouse, COO and President of Solar VPS, will cover how cloud adoption is driven by consumerism, humanity’s need to socialize, our addiction to new gadgets and the ability of data to stay secure in a growing collaborative world. The cloud is a drug and we’re just getting hooked. Ross Brouse is the COO and President of Solar VPS. He is a true creative thinker. He believes the solution to most challenges involves discipline, positive reinforcement and innovative problem solving. As an industry leader, he draws from decades of experience in film and television production, graphic design and development, and managed IT. A graduate of New York University, Ross founded FortressITX's subsidiary company, Solar VPS, in 2005.

Cloud Expo NY: Virtualization, Compliance, and Healthcare in the Cloud

Sat, 18 May 2013 06:00:00 EDT

Learn about the complex regulations surrounding HIPAA compliance and other considerations for running sensitive data in the Cloud. In their session at the 12th International Cloud Expo, Ken Ziegler, CEO of Logicworks, and Frank Nydam, Director of Healthcare Solutions at VMware, will discuss the best practices for leveraging virtualization and cloud technologies without sacrificing security or compliance. Care providers, State and Federal entities, integrators and SaaS providers large and small will benefit from understanding the basics of protecting sensitive healthcare data, including PHI and EMR, in today’s fast-paced environment. The HIPAA Omnibus Rule and Business Associates Agreements (BAA) will also be covered in this important session for compliance-sensitive organizations.

Cloud Expo New York: The Next-Generation IT Department – Must Have Cloud

Fri, 17 May 2013 14:00:00 EDT

Compelling consumer applications are created every day. Are you ready for the IT implications both internally and externally? As your datacenter needs more capacity, the cloud will be critical to success. What are the key considerations to help plan for the needed capacity over time? And how can the cloud best work with your existing applications? In his General Session at the 12th International Cloud Expo, Brian Jawalka, Enterprise Solutions Architect at Rackspace Hosting, will open conversation to talk about the SaaS consumer apps that are forcing IT to evolve. Learn how a hybrid approach can add agility, flexibility and speed-to-market for your organization.

Cloud Expo New York: Building Capacity Control into Internal Clouds

Fri, 17 May 2013 11:00:00 EDT

How your organization approaches capacity management will make or break your private cloud initiative. No longer a periodic sizing exercise, capacity management is now an essential element of daily infrastructure operations that impacts costs, performance risks, and the ability to respond to new workload requests. In his session at the 12th International Cloud Expo, Andrew Hillier, Co-Founder & CTO of CiRBA, will show how to integrate next-generation capacity control with cloud stacks, including OpenStack, in order to proactively reduce risk and maximize cloud efficiency.

Intrinsic-ID to Exhibit at Cloud Expo New York

Fri, 17 May 2013 11:00:00 EDT

SYS-CON Events announced today that Intrinsic-ID, a provider of top-level security solutions, will exhibit at SYS-CON's 12th International Cloud Expo, which will take place on June 10–13, 2013, at the Javits Center in New York City, New York. Intrinsic-ID’s software application Saturnus® offers users total data security in the cloud. With the application users can securely access, share and store their data in the cloud. They can use it anytime, anywhere and on any device. With Saturnus® users regain control again of their digital life and their data in the cloud.

Author Thomas Erl to Attend Launch of New Cloud Book at Cloud Expo NY

Fri, 17 May 2013 10:15:00 EDT

One of the top-selling IT authors of the past decade will be making a special appearance on June 11 at the 12th International Cloud Expo at the Javits Center in New York City. Thomas Erl, author and co-author of eight books and series editor of the Prentice Hall Service Technology Series from Thomas Erl, will be participating with fellow author Ricardo Puttini in the official launch ceremony for their new title Cloud Computing: Concepts, Technology & Architecture. This hardcover textbook, that was also co-authored by Zaigham Mahmood and received significant contributions from Amin Naserpour, will be these first to document cloud computing from a purely academic perspective, focusing on well-defined concepts, models, technology mechanisms, and technology architectures, all from an industry-centric and vendor-neutral point of view. The book includes over 260 figures and covers 29 cloud architectures, 20 cloud technology mechanisms, and has already been endorsed by members of Cisco, Oracle, IBM, Microsoft, HP, Layer 7, Cognizant, Red Hat, Capgemini, Accenture, Wipro and several other organizations.

SAP, HANA and the Cloud

Fri, 17 May 2013 06:00:00 EDT

SAP, the third-largest software company in the world after Microsoft and Oracle, says it’s moving all data into main memory and all systems to the cloud. The company’s newly announced HANA Cloud Platform is going to be the foundation of its whole cloud portfolio, creating a single point for its cloud-based technology, including application development and integration services, database and analytics services.

Getting a Grasp on Services Management

Thu, 16 May 2013 12:45:00 EDT

HP Software today announced four products that aim to tackle the thorny reality that traditional apps deployment is broken, and that the new requirements make automation and comprehensive management an inescapable necessity. HP is also banking on the role it can play as a neutral party to better orchestrate the apps lifecycle because -- unlike most other large enterprise software vendors -- it doesn't have a legacy applications, operating system, hypervisor, database and/or middleware heritage (and cash cows) to favor and protect. That means supporting heterogeneity in total is the imperative, not the exception, for HP.

Twitter Buys Ubalo

Thu, 16 May 2013 10:15:00 EDT

Twitter has bought a little four-man Palo Alto start-up called Ubalo that was started in early 2011 “to make large-scale computing easier and more accessible to a technical audience” according to its web site. The object was to scale coding on multiple machines using the same widgetry used for a single machine with no more overhead. Its early technology could apparently “fetch 5,000 tweets and cluster them based on the topic of discussion in 21.2 seconds. On a single computer this task takes more than 10 minutes.” It said, “Scaling Twitter search and natural language processing tasks is easy with Ubalo.” It then moved on to R clusters and analyzed “sentiments corresponding to the latest Twitter trends, processing 25,000 tweets in parallel in 19.6 seconds.”

Apptio Closes $45 Million E Round

Thu, 16 May 2013 09:45:00 EDT

Apptio, which knows how to gauge the total cost of IT services, has gotten a mighty $45 million E round that it means to invest in its platform and its international expansion, immediately in Western Europe. Counting the new money the company has now seen $136 million in funding since late 2007. The latest round was led by new investments from funds managed by Janus Capital, the Hillman Company, and a secret unnamed global institutional investor. Existing investors Andreessen Horowitz, Greylock Partners, Madrona Venture Group, Shasta Ventures and T. Rowe Price also kicked in. Apptio figures “IT costs are moving from fixed to variable, computing assets are shifting from owned to shared, and business executives increasingly expect the CIO to play a more strategic role, spending less resources ‘keeping the lights on’ and more on innovation that drives the business forward.” It positions its TBM widgetry as a “must have” set of business management applications and analytics for the Global 2000.

Wal-Mart Buys OneOps

Thu, 16 May 2013 09:15:00 EDT

@Walmart Labs, the Silicon Valley-based technology arm of Wal-Mart global e-commerce, has bought OneOps, which automates and accelerates processes related to environment management, application deployment and data center operations monitoring. It’s supposed to have re-imagined application management in the era of cloud computing and comes with a Platform-as-a-Service capability that should accelerate Wal-Mart’s PaaS and private cloud Infrastructure-as-a-Service (Iaas) strategies. Wal-Mart will doubtless get cloud applications out of it. It said, “We are innovating on a very large scale, and OneOps brings us tools that will allow us to move even faster toward a global platform.”

Google Tops $900

Thu, 16 May 2013 08:00:00 EDT

Google’s stock topped $900 a share Wednesday ahead of the opening of its annual I/O developers’ conference in San Francisco, raising its market value to over $304 billion, something no high-tech firm has ever done before. There’s the inevitable talk of it hitting $1,000. Apparently it rose on rumors that it’s going to field a paid Spotify-like subscription music service. The Wall Street Journal says it signed distribution deals with three big music labels: Universal Music Group, Sony and Warner Music Group. There’s also talk of a service called Google Play Games that will let gamers play each other over the Internet. A few minutes into the three-hour-long keynote Google claimed there were 900 million active Android devices out there. It may update the $199 Nexus 7 tablet with a high-resolution screen. There are also revisions to Google Maps in the offing.

Day 2 Keynote at Cloud Expo New York | Ignite Innovation

Wed, 15 May 2013 12:00:00 EDT

In the old world of IT, if you didn't have hardware capacity or the budget to buy more, your project was dead in the water. Budget constraints can leave some of the best, most creative and most ingenious innovations on the cutting room floor. It’s a true dilemma for developers and innovators – why spend the time creating, when a project could be abandoned in a blink? That was the old world. In the new world of IT, developers rule. They have access to resources they can spin up instantly. A hybrid cloud ignites innovation and empowers developers to focus on what they need. A hybrid cloud blends the best of all worlds, public cloud, private cloud and dedicated servers to fit the needs of developers and offer the ideal environment for each app and workload without the constraints of a one-size-fits-all cloud.

Dell Essentially Pre-Announces

Wed, 15 May 2013 08:30:00 EDT

Dell Tuesday moved up its fiscal Q1 earnings call up five days to this Thursday May 16 at 4:45 p.m. ET. It didn’t say why it changed the schedule. CNBC’s David Faber, who was first out with the news, said he heard Dell is going to come with earnings below consensus and that the miss is big enough for Dell to want to get the word out to the market as quickly as possible. Dell was expected to make 35 cents a share on $13.5 billion in revenues. Now the Wall Street Journal says it looks like 20 cents on $14 billion. The higher-than-expected top line will pass muster, but its income has reportedly been negatively impacted by the PC slowdown and may only amount to $600 million.

MetraTech Releases MetraNet 7.0

Tue, 14 May 2013 16:30:00 EDT

MetraTech, a provider of agreements-based billing, commerce and compensation solutions, on Tuesday announced the availability of MetraNet 7.0. With this latest release, MetraTech builds upon its agreements-based billing and real-time Commerce Decision Engine with the introduction of Behavioral Billing and multi-party settlement capabilities. Service providers now have an unlimited ability to create pricing models that drive customer behavior and compensation models that drive channel behavior based on any product or service attributes spanning arbitrary collections of accounts. MetraTech service providers’ customers have an intuitive now-cast dashboard that enables them to modify their behavior to manage costs or meet commitments. Release 7.0 is being deployed by seven MetraTech customers.

Box Acquires Crocodoc

Tue, 14 May 2013 08:45:00 EDT

Box, the cloud storage start-up getting close to going public, has acquired Crocodoc and its HTML5 document rendering and viewing solution. The widgetry works on PDF, Word and other files without Flash or plug-ins. The transformed files can’t be edited. Box said Crocodoc’s technology will be “deeply integrated” into its cloud content collaboration service, replacing its existing widgetry, and still be a standalone platform for HTML5 document viewing on third-party applications across the web and mobile devices via its API. Box is also going to invest in the technology and ecosystem. The whole Crocodoc team will join Box and co-founder and CEO Ryan Damico will be Box’ platform director.

Day 3 Keynote at Cloud Expo New York | Driving Cloud Innovation

Tue, 14 May 2013 07:15:00 EDT

IT has more opportunities than ever before with the growth in users, devices, data and secure cloud services. This creates not only a more enriching experience for users, but more opportunities for businesses. The key to capitalizing on these opportunities is to have the right tools in place to help scale operations. In his Day 4 Keynote at the 12th International Cloud Expo, Robert (Rob) Crooke, corporate vice president and general manager of the Non-Volatile Memory (NVM) Solutions Group at Intel Corp, will describe the range of products that Intel provides to support different usage models faced by IT with a specific emphasis on the advancement in SSDs.

Dell Special Committee Wants Specifics from Icahn

Tue, 14 May 2013 06:00:00 EDT

If Carl Icahn wants to buy out Dell he’s going to have to cough up some specific plans for the board’s special committee handling the company’s attempt to go private, a strategy Icahn deems akin to “grand theft.” Rather than take Michael Dell and Silver Lake Partners’ $13.65 a share, on Friday Icahn and Southeastern Management, which together control about 13% of the firm, proposed letting shareholders keep at least some of their shares and get another $12 a share in cash or stock funded by a load of debt plus Dell’s bank account. One of the things the special committee wants to know is who exactly Icahn sees running the company since Friday afternoon he told both Bloomberg TV and CNBC it wasn’t going to be Michael Dell. Icahn also means to start a proxy fight for control of the board. It also wants to know if Icahn and Southeastern are for real.

Cloud Expo New York | Breaking Out: An Introduction to OpenStack Cells

Mon, 13 May 2013 12:45:00 EDT

OpenStack Cells is one of the most anticipated features in Grizzly, the seventh release of the open source software that offers more block storage options and scalability. It has been running in production at Rackspace for more than a year. In his session at the 12th International Cloud Expo, Wayne Walls, OpenStack Developer Advocate at Rackspace Hosting, will discuss nova cells and how it is changing the way you design your cloud applications and infrastructure. He will explain how OpenStack Cells gives added flexibility in application and infrastructure design. He will also enlighten attendees on how it is similar to “zones” at AWS, and how OpenStack Cells helps enable the hybrid cloud and allow specialized workload distribution.

Cloud Expo New York: Ten Myths of Cloud Computing

Mon, 13 May 2013 12:00:00 EDT

Cloud computing is transforming the way businesses think about and leverage technology. As a result, the general understanding of cloud computing has come a long way in a short time. However, there are still many misconceptions about what cloud computing is and what it can do for businesses that adopt this game-changing computing model. In his General Session at the 12th International Cloud Expo, Gene Eun, Senior Director, Oracle Cloud at Oracle, will discuss and dispel some of the common myths about cloud computing that still exist today. Attendees will learn about the flexibility and choice that cloud can offer so that they can make more informed decisions when choosing cloud for their businesses.

Cloud Expo New York: The Who, What and How of Selling Cloud to SMBs

Mon, 13 May 2013 10:30:00 EDT

Cloud enables SMBs to access new, scalable resources – previously only available to enterprises – in flexible and cost-effective ways. McKinsey’s SMB Cloud Report projects the public cloud market to reach $40-$50 billion by 2015, with SMBs comprising 65% of public cloud spending in 2015. But selling cloud to SMBs raises the questions of who, what and how. In her session at the 12th International Cloud Expo, Manjula Talreja, VP of Cisco’s Global Cloud Business Development Team, will discuss the importance of knowing who SMBs are through market segmentation; understanding what cloud services they will consume; and understanding how best to sell to SMBs and from which channels.

Microsoft Wants Nook: TechCrunch

Mon, 13 May 2013 08:30:00 EDT

Microsoft wants to buy Nook Media LLC, the Barnes & Noble’s digital and college books joint venture, for a billion dollars according to TechCrunch, which says it’s got internal documents to prove it. With Windows 8 in mind Microsoft bought 16.8% of the operation last year for $300 million plus another $180 million due sometime for Windows 8 content. Apparently it now just wants the e-book piece as well as Nook’s e-readers and tablets. That digital territory includes movies, TV, comics and apps. TechCrunch says Nook Media means to discontinue its Microsoft-opposing Android-based tablet business by the end of its fiscal 2014 year and move Nook content through apps on “third-party partner” devices although it just signed a deal to get Google Play and the entire Google mobile stack – Gmail, Chrome, YouTube and Google Maps – onto the platform.

Forget Managing Each VM; Single Image’s the Ticket

Mon, 13 May 2013 08:00:00 EDT

CloudVolumes started out a couple of years ago as SnapVolumes and shed its stealth cocoon in November when it announced $2.3 million in seed financing and began beta testing its enterprise-class Instant Workload Management (IWM) solution to what IDC has dubbed the “virtualization management gap.” CloudVolumes began because, like IDC, it reckoned there was no way to manage the virtual sprawl that’s being created with the processes and tools that are in place. The traditional tools that managed applications in the world of physical servers and desktops aren’t suited to virtual environments. IDC has even imagined the virtualization and cloud markets stalling and people dialing back while they wait for or seek management solutions.

Microsoft Blue over Windows 8, Retooling Underway

Mon, 13 May 2013 07:30:00 EDT

Roughly six months after Windows 8 came out at the end of October, Microsoft Tuesday confirmed reports that it’s been tinkering with the operating system to make it more popular. The radical redesign is supposed to have confused the buying public and created enough of a learning curve that IDC blamed the widgetry for the historic 14% drop in PC sales last quarter. As a result, Microsoft has been making changes in an upgrade called Windows Blue. Trying to deflect more negative perceptions, Tami Reller, co-captain of Microsoft’s Windows unit, told the press, “Frankly we…didn’t get everything we dreamed of done in the first release.” She also claimed that Microsoft knew it might have to make immediate adjustments since Windows 8 was so different from the traditional Windows.

Cloud Expo New York: Big Data on OpenStack

Mon, 13 May 2013 07:00:00 EDT

The massive computing and storage resources that are needed to support Big Data applications make cloud environments an ideal fit. In his session at the 12th International Cloud Expo, Nati Shalom, CTO and Founder of GigaSpaces, will show how to build your Big Data "database on-demand" using MongoDB, Cassandra, Solr, MySQL, or any other Big Data solution, as well as manage your Big Data application using a new open source framework called “Cloudify.” All this, on top of the OpenStack cloud.

Cloud Expo | IBM & OpenStack Together: Accelerating Cloud Adoption & ROI

Mon, 13 May 2013 06:00:00 EDT

Speed-to-market and improving ROI for new cloud services are an important element for adopting cloud computing. Open source technology translates into savings for clients in terms of flexibility and interoperability. OpenStack is leading the way in open source for IaaS, capturing the attention of the cloud customers, business partners and vendors alike, and producing the ubiquitous open source cloud computing platform for public and private clouds. In his session at the 12th International Cloud Expo, Andrew Trossman, Distinguished Engineer, IBM Common Cloud Stack at IBM, will discuss IBM's role in OpenStack including key contributions to strengthen OpenStack, ending with a wrap up of an overview of IBM's plans for the adoption of OpenStack as part of the IBM SmartCloud portfolio.

Cloud Expo New York: Cloudy with a Chance of… Success

Sun, 12 May 2013 16:00:00 EDT

It’s a standard refrain heard in enterprise IT departments around the world – “I want to move to the cloud, but what about data security, uptime and user response time across a nearly infinite number of devices to support?” Because of this, fear gets in the way and enterprises reap only a small percentage of the potential benefits that can be gained through cloud adoption. In his General Session at the 12th International Cloud Expo, Gary Ballabio, Product Line Director at Akamai Technologies, will examine a variety of strategies you can employ to make your cloud architecture better performing, more secure and available. Learn best practices for achieving the optimal reliability for applications running in the cloud as well as maintaining or increasing the velocity of real-time data transfers happening in support of Big Data initiatives.

Streamlining Online Payments

Sat, 11 May 2013 13:45:00 EDT

New cloud-based service leverages applications and insights within Ariba Network to streamline and enhance settlement and reconciliation of business commerce. Ariba, an SAP Company, and Discover Financial Services has unveiled Ariba Pay. The new service, to be offered by Ariba, is expected to transform B2B payments by eliminating paper transactions, providing better visibility into cash flow, and producing rich remittance information that improves reconciliation processes for buyers and sellers. AribaPay will provide a way for buyers to create purchase orders, receive invoices, and send payments, while sellers receive more-detailed remittance information in a fast, secure, electronic environment.

Lunch Keynote at Cloud Expo | Strategies for App Delivery in the Cloud Era

Fri, 10 May 2013 15:45:00 EDT

Cloud computing continues to gain momentum as enterprises of all sizes and across all industries seek to harness the business agility promised by this computing model. Despite its long-accepted benefits, the cloud has also fallen victim to performance and reliability challenges, combined with a perceived lack of security. As a result this has led to slower predicted growth and adoption of this still promising infrastructure methodology. In his Lunch Keynote at the 12th International Cloud Expo, Neil Cohen, Akamai’s Vice President of Global Product Marketing, will discuss how to overcome these challenges, and the role application delivery solutions play in optimizing public and hybrid cloud architectures without sacrificing performance, security or control.

Icahn’s Back with a New Deal for Dell

Fri, 10 May 2013 13:34:00 EDT

Activist shareholder Carl Icahn and another of Dell’s large shareholders, Southeastern Asset Management, have come up with a new alternative proposal to Michael Dell’s $24.4 billion buy-out offer to take the company private. The pair sent the special committee of Dell’s board another letter proposing to let shareholders keep their stock in the company or get an additional $12 a share in cash and stock. The pay-out or leveraged recapitalization would come out of Dell’s existing cash and $5.2 billion in new debt. Southeastern will lose a packet of money if Michael Dell’s $13.65-a-share deal with Silver Lake Partners prevails. Icahn, Southeastern and some other large holders have claimed that the $13.65-a-share offer the board accepted in February is too cheap.

BigData-Startups Named “Association Sponsor” of Cloud Expo & Big Data Expo

Fri, 10 May 2013 13:24:00 EDT

SYS-CON Events announced today that the BigData-Startups, the online Big Data knowledge platform, has been named “Association Sponsor” of SYS-CON's 12th International Cloud Expo and 3rd International Big Data Expo, which will take place on June 10–13, 2013, at the Javits Center in New York City, New York, and the 13th International Cloud Expo and 4th International Big Data Expo, which will take place on November 4–7, 2013, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA. BigData-Startups is the ultimate Big Data platform, giving advice to organizations who want to develop a Big Data strategy.

Logicworks to Exhibit at Cloud Expo New York

Fri, 10 May 2013 11:00:00 EDT

SYS-CON Events announced today that Logicworks, a global leader in cloud computing and managed hosting, will exhibit at SYS-CON's 12th International Cloud Expo, which will take place on June 10–13, 2013, at the Javits Center in New York City, New York. Logicworks provides cloud computing and managed hosting to some of the world's most respected brands including Dow Jones, NBC, Lincoln Center, Orion Health, and 1-800-Flowers.com. Logicworks specializes in Private, Public and Hybrid Cloud Solutions for SaaS, Media, eCommerce, Mobile, Healthcare, and Financial Services companies. Logicworks also offers a full suite of Compliance Solutions and Managed Database Services.