Too often organizations have deployed virtual infrastructure tactically to reduce server sprawl or speed application deployments. Without a higher level view of organizational priorities, bad habits persist; unused snapshots and zombie VMs become more the rule than the exception causin...

Fiorano Software has announced that readers of SOA World Magazine, a leading SYS-CON Media publication, awarded Fiorano "Best SOA Tool" – defeating IBM, Oracle, and Sun – in the SOA World Magazine’s 2008 Annual Readers'Choice Awards. SOA World readers also recognized Fiorano as a final...

When application performance is not what the cloud customer expected, who’s at fault? The cloud provider’s infrastructure? The application owner’s code? The platform vendor’s deployment tools? The external services the application uses? The database tier? Only by seeing inside the prod...

Without application development, organizations can easily plug their web, Windows, and hosted applications into the private cloud. Users connecting to the private cloud will be presented with a virtual web desktop that delivers all of their applications, services, documents, and data f...

Yahoo! is developing and utilizing Internet-scale cloud computing services to improve Yahoo! consumer experience, speed innovation, simplify operating environments, and reduce costs. Yahoo! Cloud Services are in production today supporting web-serving properties and data processing env...

This session will be reviewing some of the most pressing public cloud adoption challenges facing organizations today regarding security, regulatory and standards compliance. At the Cloud Computing Conference and Expo, Terry Woloszyn, will then outline the approaches to addressing Data ...

Storage systems and technologies have come a long way, benefiting from continual advancements. However, these improvements have not kept pace with the rate of storage capacity growth at enterprises. In his session at Cloud Computing Conference & Expo, Jeff Whitehead, CTO of Zetta, wil...

Cloud computing will no doubt transform the very way traditional infrastructure and application services are being delivered. We hear a lot about the benefits of cloud computing such as improved application development and deployment efficiencies, lower cost of entry, and faster time t...

To date, cloud computing has by and large been in the realm of public clouds such as Amazon EC2, but there has been a lot of talk about other kinds of clouds, including "private" and "hybrid" clouds. However, with these new choices comes added complexity. In his session at Cloud Compu...

The SaaS pioneers have given us a taste of the potential of On-Demand, however, we've only scratched the surface in terms of what's to come and the future model for how the next generation of enterprise software will be delivered. In this session Sal Visca, Chief Technology Officer for...

One of the more interesting aspects of the Cloud Computing revolution has been the emergence of schemaless and hierarchical databases which, it is asserted, are more readily able to meet the demands and requirements of the Cloud than the once dominant relational model. Although many of...

The Yahoo! Query Language is an expressive SQL-like language that lets you query, filter and join data across Web services in real-time. With YQL, applications run faster with fewer lines of code and smaller network footprint. In this session Jonathan Trevor, who works in the Y! Platf...

Cloud storage has firmly established itself as an option for certain types of enterprise applications, most notably archive and backup. But what about an enterprise's primary data? What are the considerations for entrusting your primary data to the cloud? In this session, Jeff Treuhaf...

As cloud computing evolves, we are seeing explosive growth in vendor solutions, both in terms of the markets they address and the problems they solve. During this session, Krishna Subramanian will provide a framework to classify the various cloud offerings, and explores how solutions ...

SYS-CON Events announced today that CSS Corp, a leading provider of global technology operations management services, was named "Bronze Sponsor" of SYS-CON's 4th International Cloud Computing Conference & Expo, which will take place on November 2 - 4, 2009, Santa Clara Convention Cente...

IBM today announced a more effective way for organizations to quickly build, deliver and manage high quality services. Through new software integrations, organizations can manage and automate processes across their development, test and operations teams. These new integrations give cli...

Hector Ruiz, then CEO of AMD, was the unidentified source of material information that the busted Galleon ring traded on, according to the Wall Street Journal and Bloomberg. He’s even higher up the totem pole than Robert Moffat, the head of IBM servers and storage who was arrested a...

As the pressure mounts to meet more stringent budgets, CIOs need to find the proper balance between transforming IT and reducing costs. IT operational costs continue to increase as a percentage of overall IT dollars. At the same time, IT is being pressured to provide an innovative, com...

Bycast Inc., the leading provider of storage virtualization software for enterprise storage clouds and digital archives, announced today that the company’s Chief Executive Officer, Moe Kermani, and a Bycast cloud storage customer, Iowa Health System, will both deliver presentations at ...

This session addresses some of the biggest challenges in creating and launching successful web applications with little to no down time. As developers attempt to build the next best consumer-facing app to Twitter, Facebook and Hulu, the demand for scalable and reliable infrastructure w...

In this session David Snead will address the legal, business and marketing issues of involved in moving into these new services, and what anyone entering into a new contract, or marketing to end users needs to know. Some areas of discussion include how to create a marketing campaign t...

Enterprises large and small are drawn by the advantages of cloud computing - pay-for-use, self-service, elastic scalability and the elimination of hardware management – resulting in very low barriers to entry and exit and high agility. However, according to keynote speaker, Richard Sar...

We are being bombarded with countless articles and presentations talking about the security risks in cloud computing and how organizations need to be concerned about security as they consider a move to the cloud. The truth is that organizations DO need to be concerned about security, a...

This session will discuss a critical question that arises when considering hosting applications in the cloud. It will address concerns such as moving legacy applications to the cloud. Do they have to be re-written as Web 2.0 apps? Can applications be moved, unchanged, to the cloud? How...

Cloud computing has emerged as a compelling alternative to running all applications within a traditional corporate data center and has the potential to transform enterprise computing. However, there are significant hurdles to widespread enterprise adoption, including data security, app...

Yahoo! Cloud Serving Platform provides technology to build, test, deploy, run, and manage web services in the Yahoo! Cloud. The architecture of cloud services can differ significantly from traditional application models and, as such, implementing cloud applications can require a fundam...

Cloud Computing is receiving a lot of attention, and a number of companies see it as a key to increased agility and efficiency. At the Cloud Computing Conference and Expo, Raghu Ramakrishnan will talk about the technology which is still at an early stage and many fundamental challenges...

This session will provide an overview of enabling Rich Internet Applications to run in the Cloud. It will review available technologies providing runtime infrastructure for connecting rich client interfaces with the cloud-enabled server-side applications. Mark Piller will additionally ...

The way software is being developed and deployed is changing beyond recognition now: businesses can now mix and match existing premised-based processes run on legacy applications designed entirely on the Cloud without the need to translate business wishes into complex requirement speci...

Achieve unprecedented levels of security and efficiency by implementing capabilities available in next generation of security for virtualized environments. Purpose-built security solutions that address the unique demands and opportunities present in the virtual environment can be lever...

Cloud Computing, the long-held dream of computing as a utility, has the potential to transform a large part of the IT industry, making software even more attractive as a service and shaping the way IT hardware is designed and purchased. But if it is already a commercial reality, why do...

Google App Engine is an integrated web-stack, so it may not be apparent that its computing resources can be dismembered and consumed in isolation. In this session Kevin Noonan will teach you how to use BigTable, the sweetmeat of Google technology, as a scalable database for desktop or ...

This session will cover how to enable rich and complete User Experience customizations. According to Ranjith Ramakrishnan and Bhushan Nene, building on the new features of Silverlight 3 and Windows Azure, delegates will see these concepts in action in a demo of a Customer Loyalty Manag...

While virtualization has certainly become part of a common first step to reduce Capex and increase agility, it isn’t the final destination of a complete data center transformation. As we are aware, virtualization can also create many challenges such as virtual machine sprawl, additiona...

Building internet products has never been easier ¬- or more challenging. When Yahoo! launches a new product, it needs to scale very quickly to serve our several hundred million users worldwide. This poses new infrastructure challenges because our applications must handle tens of thousa...

Cloud Computing & SaaS are two very strong "disruptive" innovations which will change the IT landscape forever. Many CIOs and IT professionals think this is a threat to their careers and their power. Louis Naugès will further explain in his session why 90% of existing IT vendors have ...

An overview of Microsoft's strategy, programs for web hosting companies, OEMs, SIs and Cloud/SaaS ISVs. At the Cloud Computing Conference and Expo, Hameed Mohammed will discuss how Dynamic Data Center Toolkit from Microsoft is enabling virtualized IT infrastructure and hosted cloud com...

Virtualization delivers on the promise of an agile datacenter. However, it also makes it easier than ever for individuals to introduce risk into the enterprise. Hezi Moore will talk about how most organizations that are in the process of migrating critical applications from testing env...

Lawyers often get a bad rap -¬ just consider all of those ubiquitous lawyer jokes. Why? One reason for the "lawyer stigma" is because of the traditionally high cost of legal services, and that people often only talk to lawyers when things go wrong. Charley Moore will expand upon this b...

The time has finally come for collaboration in the cloud. Multiple offerings and tools are now readily available for your organization to migrate your on-premise collaborative applications (e.g., e-mail, instant messaging, and portals) to the Cloud. Implementation and use of these tool...