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Opening Keynote | Mission-Critical Applications in the Cloud – Myth or Reality?
 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 dat...May. 18, 2013 12:00 PM EDT Reads: 1,992 |
 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 intr...May. 18, 2013 10:45 AM EDT Reads: 1,753 |
 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? A...May. 17, 2013 02:00 PM EDT Reads: 2,202 |
 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 resp...May. 17, 2013 11:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,763 |
 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 Saturn...May. 17, 2013 11:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,893 |
 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 Seri...May. 17, 2013 10:15 AM EDT Reads: 1,756 |
 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 po...May. 17, 2013 06:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,150 |
 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 part...May. 16, 2013 12:45 PM EDT Reads: 1,523 |
 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 widgetr...May. 16, 2013 10:15 AM EDT Reads: 1,001 |
 @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 applic...May. 16, 2013 09:15 AM EDT Reads: 1,234 |
 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 ...May. 16, 2013 08:00 AM EDT Reads: 963 |
 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 inno...May. 15, 2013 12:00 PM EDT Reads: 3,048 |
 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 ...May. 15, 2013 08:30 AM EDT Reads: 1,141 |
 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 Be...May. 14, 2013 04:30 PM EDT Reads: 1,008 |
 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 technolo...May. 14, 2013 08:45 AM EDT Reads: 1,323 |
 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...May. 14, 2013 07:15 AM EDT Reads: 2,980 |
 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,...May. 14, 2013 06:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,009 |
 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 mi...May. 13, 2013 08:30 AM EDT Reads: 1,546 |
 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 manag...May. 13, 2013 08:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,590 |
 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 curv...May. 13, 2013 07:30 AM EDT Reads: 2,170 |
 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...May. 13, 2013 07:00 AM EDT Reads: 3,249 |
 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 a...May. 13, 2013 06:00 AM EDT Reads: 2,623 |
 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 onl...May. 12, 2013 04:00 PM EDT Reads: 2,346 |
 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 exp...May. 11, 2013 01:45 PM EDT Reads: 1,506 |
 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, combin...May. 10, 2013 03:45 PM EDT Reads: 2,721 |
 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...May. 10, 2013 01:34 PM EDT Reads: 1,244 |
 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 ...May. 10, 2013 01:24 PM EDT Reads: 1,291 |
 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 comput...May. 10, 2013 11:00 AM EDT Reads: 2,811 |
 A recent study by analyst firm IDC reports that in 2012, 1.7 million cloud computing-related roles across the globe could not be filled due to the lack of training, certification and experience in the applicant pool. As the global demand for cloud and big data expertise increases, empl...May. 10, 2013 11:00 AM EDT Reads: 2,138 |
 MadeiraCloud, a San Francisco cloud management and visualization start-up, has raised a $1.5 million Series A round from Sequoia Capital’s China Fund that will help get its WYSIWYG SaaS widgetry to launch, a milestone it hopes to hit by the end of the year.
Madeira, which is focused ...May. 10, 2013 09:15 AM EDT Reads: 1,760 |
 Clustrix, the start-up with the NewSQL database that’s supposed to have no size limits, has raised a $16.5 million C round to build out distribution for the scale-out cloud database and push it into real-time analytics, e-commerce and web-scale applications.
Counting the new money th...May. 9, 2013 10:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,338 |
 Fusion-io’s two co-founders, CEO David Flynn and chief marketing officer Rick White, up and quit Wednesday sending the company’s stock into a nosedive, down better than 26% to $13.29 at noon, a record low.
They are off to turn early-stage investors.
Fusion board member, Shane Robin...May. 9, 2013 10:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,601 |
 NetSuite, the cloud-based ERM house majority-owned by Oracle CEO Larry Ellison, has agreed to buy OrderMotion, a cloud-based Direct-to-Consumer (D2C) order management company.
Financial terms were not disclosed. OrderMotion, which has been around for a long time, has gotten over $10 m...May. 9, 2013 10:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,395 |
 Intel security unit McAfee, the semiconductor’s largest acquisition ever, is buying Stonesoft Oyi, a Finnish company founded in 1990 that’s got next-generation network firewalls. It’s paying $389 million cash.
That’s a 128% premium to the outfit’s closing price on May 3 or $5.90 (€4....May. 8, 2013 09:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,240 |
 BMC Software is getting sold to a group of private equity investors led by Bain Capital and Golden Gate Capital for roughly $6.9 billion or $46.24 a share, a higher price than the $6.5 billion expected.
The buyers also include Singapore’s sovereign wealth fund GIC Special Investments...May. 8, 2013 08:30 AM EDT Reads: 1,449 |
 Developers are the new kingmakers and it's a busy job. We want to use your solution but we're short on time and patience. Reduce the friction of onboarding developers by clearly and succinctly documenting your API, regardless of whether you're delivering SaaS, PaaS, or IaaS.
In his s...May. 7, 2013 04:00 PM EDT Reads: 2,716 |
 After conceding the first round or two to ARM and its disciples, Intel is going to take another crack at the all-important mobile market hoping to regain its unquestioned hegemony. This is supposed to be it – big guns blazing and all.
This new attempt at performance-per-watt mastery i...May. 7, 2013 03:14 PM EDT Reads: 1,219 |
 Cloud computing is the #1 topic for most CIOs this year.
In her Lunch Keynote at the 12th International Cloud Expo, Krishna Subramanian, VP Marketing & Business Development at Citrix Systems, will walk you through how customers have transformed the way they do business using Citrix C...May. 7, 2013 12:30 PM EDT Reads: 2,436 |
 Cloud computing will not take over the world as some people will have you believe. The problem with it is that cloud computing needs a hybrid solution to thrive. Massive economic speed bumps and a divide in business culture impedes the adoption of the cloud for every application, and e...May. 7, 2013 10:00 AM EDT Reads: 2,401 |
 A year after opening a formal investigation into how Motorola Mobility enforces its patents, the antitrust arm of the European Commission has sent the company an SO or statement of objections saying it’s misusing the standard-essential patents (SEPs) it’s got on mobile phones.
The mis...May. 7, 2013 09:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,158 |
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