SYS-CON Events announced today that Oracle has been named “Platinum Sponsor” of SYS-CON’s 13th International Cloud Expo, which will take place on November 4–7, 2013, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA.
Oracle is shifting the complexity from IT, moving it out of the enterprise by engineering hardware and software to work together – in the cloud and in the data center. By eliminating complexity and simplifying IT, Oracle enables its customers – 400,000 of them in more than 145 countries around the world – to accelerate innovation and create added value for their customers.

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Cloud Expo® announced today the «WebRTC Fundamentals Summit» 2014 Calendar, with events in New York, London, and Silicon Valley.
The inaugural «WebRTC Fundamentals Summit» is being held November 6-7 at the upcoming 13th International Cloud Expo® [Nov 4-7] at the Santa Clara Convention Center, Santa Clara, CA.
«WebRTC (Web Real-Time Communication) is an open source project supported by Google, Mozilla and Opera, and is one of the most dynamic areas within enteprise IT and cloud computing,» said Cloud Expo CEO Carmen Gonzalez. «A survey by industry leader TokBox found that the WebRTC adoption rate among small organizations is growing quickly, with more than 25% of developers already saying it is important for their work. Our series of WebRTC Fundamentals Summits in 2014 continues our industry leadership in delivering rockstar speakers and the best exhibitors to our global audience.»

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SYS-CON Events announced today that vLine, a provider of the leading WebRTC video chat platform, will exhibit at SYS-CON’s 1st WebRTC Summit, which will take place on November 6–7, 2013, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA.
vLine is led by experienced developers focused on how technology changes the way people engage with each other. Mobile web browsers, web-based mobile OS, and real-time file sharing are just some of the innovative front lines they’ve led. We have big company experience at the likes of Apple, Palm, IBM, and Motorola as well as deep start-up experience.

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Read why customers choose EMC and VMware to dramatically increase performance and improve Oracle licensing ROI. Read how DBAs are getting up to 3X more performance and 80% faster tuning, deploying new Oracle servers and storage in minutes, and more.

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Yesterday I thoroughly enjoyed an opportunity to participate in the DorobekINSIDER LIVE edition on cloud computing. The conversation was both lively and informative. Joining me on the show were:
Jim Sweeney, author of the book Get Your Head in the Cloud: Unlocking the Mystery for Public Sector and President and CTO of V3 Systems.
Patrick Fiorenza, Senior Research Analyst, GovLoop. He is writing the GovLoop Guide on cloud computing.

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Consumers have higher expectations of their telephony experience than they do of a web browsing experience. They expect the phone to connect instantly with minimal disruptions. The phone is already secure and phone numbers are used to make connections. Subscribers expect their phone service to work seamless across any network, anywhere, at any time. Subscribers will expect WebRTC into the enterprise to behave in the same manner.
In his session at WebRTC Summit, Douglas Tait, Global Director of Marketing for Telecommunications at Oracle, will look at the user experience and expectations of a WebRTC service and cover how a WebRTC service handles security, reliability, and interoperability within browsers and networks.

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SYS-CON Events announced today that Inocybe Technologies Inc., the company that aims to keep IT simple, will exhibit at SYS-CON’s 13th International Cloud Expo®, which will take place on November 4–7, 2013, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA.
Inocybe Technologies Inc. makes networking infrastructure simple to launch and monetize by alleviating the complexities of today’s Information Communication Technology (ICT) management of shared infrastructures. The company delivers a one-stop-shop for businesses that want to quickly find all the providers and products they need to deploy, operate, and manage a virtualized network infrastructure. Inocybe Technologies combines network element virtualization, cloud computing, Software-Defined Networking (SDN), and DevOps technologies into their single, flexible Inocybe Virtualization Platform (IVP) turnkey solution that any organization can use to create virtual infrastructures in just seconds. Inocybe Technologies is privately held and has been a pioneer in user empowered networking research since 2005.

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In the storage industry, we hear the term «migration» all the time – almost every day. One of the first visuals that comes to my mind whenever I hear that word is a neatly formed «V»-formation of geese or ducks flying south for the winter. The «V» formation is a very efficient way to fly long distances. One bird’s wing-flapping causing a vortex, giving the bird directly behind effortless lift. The group works together in this way to migrate vast distances in a short amount of time while expending as little effort as possible.
Just as bird migration is inevitable, so to is data migration – no matter what form it’s in. In the storage world, this might mean you need to migrate older tape formats to a more current one to support the new tape drive you’ve just bought, or migrate data from an older storage array to a new one.
Too often, storage strategies are developed without migration in mind. The reality is that regardless of the storage solution you’ve deployed, migration is a normal part of the lifecycle, and you need to design and incorporate a migration strategy into your storage environment.

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Cloud computing is enabling services transforming many industries and every CIO needs to be ready to respond to new competitive threats.
Benefits from cloud computing are often focused on infrastructure optimization, but one disruptive change occurring across a variety of industries are a new breed of commercial services delivered through the public Internet. The common themes these services share include ease of use, accessibility through a wide range of devices and always targeting inefficient business processes. I will focus on two examples of such services that I believe show promise of future success and growth.

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The killer in any IT operation is unplanned work. Unplanned work may go by many names: firefighting, war rooms, Sev 1 incidents. The bottom line is that Operations must stop whatever planned work it was doing to manage this drill. This means little or no normal work is being accomplished. It is a scenario most of you will be familiar with: your application servers are humming along happily until suddenly, without an obvious reason, memory usage starts to increase, soon followed by longer garbage collection suspensions that finally force you to restart the application. The operations team is typically unaware of the actual impact on end users (other than a service being down), and it additionally lacks data and time to further investigate the issue. As communication between the traditional silos of operations, testing and development teams is often less than ideal, a scheduled restart in a “low impact” timeframe is often the easiest solution and turns into something resembling a “Production Best Practice” over time. This adds to the workload of an operations team because unplanned work becomes unnecessary preventative work. It also becomes a suspect every time there is a problem with the application. Wouldn’t it be better to actually fix the issues instead of just working around them? Shouldn’t there be a general understanding across all teams responsible for an application to fix the problem as fast as possible and make sure that it’s prevented in the future?

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