SYS-CON Events announced today that the Greater NY Chamber of Commerce has been named “Association 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.
The mission of the Chamber is to improve the business climate and quality of living in the New York Metropolitan Area for residents, workers and visitors. It provides valuable services to over 20,000 business and civic leaders who represent the backbone of the Greater New York business community.
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The Green Green Grasp of Cloud
I’ve been in London this week, meeting with several people and organizations about cloud computing and its potential to drive the global economy by bringing efficiencies to IT – in short, about its potential to be “green.”
The topic of green quickly devolved into an asinine political discussion in the United States, with very little movement. In Europe, Green parties have more power than in the US, but would certainly like to have more. Meanwhile, writers such as Bjorn Lonborg, who try to strike a practical middle ground, seem to be scorned by both sides of the debate.
But I must ask, what is the debate? The root of the problem is the modern-day proclivity to tie green to climate change, immediately and inextricably. But those with long memories will know that when the modern ecological movement first got off the ground in 1970, the consensus was that the earth was cooling. Green in those days meant cleaning things up, not cooling things down.
If we can uncouple greenn with climate change, and focus it in an economics-driven manner, it seems we might make better progress. The fun fact that I like to roll out is this: the Philippines (with 90 million people) uses 3% of the electricity per capita used by the United States.
How will it ever be possible for the country to begin to approach developed-country living standards with a gap of this size? Looking at things in the simplest terms, it will simply not be possible for the country to produce 33X its current level of electricity.
Many people I spoke to this week said the global electrical grid would improve if humankind can solve the problem of capturing and storing electricity. This enormous problem merits the highest priority in research and development, it seems.
Meanwhile, the global movement toward a green grid and more efficient datacenters – epitomized by the Data Center Maturity Model pioneered by London-based Thomson Reuters executive Harkeeret “Harqs” Singh – is moving forward.
I think that all members of the IT community can be thinking about not only the efficiency of their datacenters and the datacenters they use by proxy through public-cloud services, but also the devices they are bringing into their organizations, and the focus of the products and services they’re developing. I’m working to produce a green IT event in Manila in a few months, and will keep everyone in the loop about it!
SYS-CON.tv Interview: Legacy to Cloud Migration
“We announced our version 3 product that has two very important capabilities. One is the legacy to cloud migration and the other is the self-publishing capability,” explained John Yung, CEO at Appcara, in this SYS-CON.tv interview with Cloud Expo Conference Chair Jeremy Geelan at the 11th International Cloud Expo, held November 5-8, 2012, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA.
Cloud Expo 2013 New York, June 10–13, at the Javits Center in New York City, New York, will feature technical sessions from a rock star conference faculty and the leading Cloud industry players in the world.
Centrify Wheels Out Identity-as-a-Service
Centrify, the ISV that makes its living leveraging Microsoft’s Active Directory, has got some new cloud-based widgetry that lets organizations centrally secure and control access to their Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) deployments.
The adoption of SaaS apps combined with the Bring-Your-Own Device (BYOD) trend means that IT organizations don’t own the endpoint devices or back-end application resources. (Pass the aspirin.)
Centralized management of users’ digital identities across on-premise and cloud resources provides the visibility and control organizations need to achieve compliance, reduce costs and mitigate risks while enabling secure access and productivity for their user-centric mobile workforce.
The WSTA Named “Association Sponsor” of Cloud Expo New York
SYS-CON Events announced today that The Wall Street Technology Association has been named “Association 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.
The Wall Street Technology Association (WSTA) provides financial industry technology professionals, vendors, service providers, and consultants with forums to learn from and connect with each other. The WSTA facilitates seminars and networking events where members meet and exchange ideas and best practices that assist them in effectively capitalizing on technology advances and dealing with financial industry business challenges. Founded in 1967, the WSTA is a not-for-profit association with a long history of evolving to meet the needs of its members.
SYS-CON.tv Interview: Enterprise Class Storage
“We are taking all the storage that people usually had in the enterprise and we’re moving it over to look a lot more like what Google, Amazon, and Facebook do, much more like a cloud model,” explained Kevin Brown, CEO of Coraid, in this SYS-CON.tv interview with Cloud Expo Conference Chair Jeremy Geelan at the 11th International Cloud Expo, held November 5-8, 2012, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA.
Cloud Expo 2013 New York, June 10–13, at the Javits Center in New York City, New York, will feature technical sessions from a rock star conference faculty and the leading Cloud industry players in the world.
SUSE Named “Bronze Sponsor” of Cloud Expo New York
SYS-CON Events announced today that SUSE, a pioneer in open source software, 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.
SUSE®, a pioneer in open source software, provides reliable, interoperable Linux and cloud infrastructure solutions that give enterprises greater control and flexibility. More than 20 years of engineering excellence, exceptional service and an unrivaled partner ecosystem power the products and support that help our customers manage complexity, reduce cost, and confidently deliver mission-critical services. The lasting relationships we build allow us to adapt and deliver the smarter innovation they need to succeed – today and tomorrow.
Cloud Computing: Intel Fields Atom for Microservers
Intel is going to try going after the data center with a brand new Atom System-on-a-Chip (SoC) that can be built into relatively cheap, high-density microservers for cloud providers.
It really rather not – it really wants to sell its high-end chips – but it has no choice. It has forecast that microservers could get to be 10% of the server market by 2015 and it will have to fight for a piece of it after losing a head start earlier this year when AMD plopped down $334 million in cash and stock for SeaMicro, a microserver start-up that already had Intel designed in.
But, given the tone in its voice this week, Intel is apparently serious about the sector, which it’s blown off before for defensive purposes.
Intel says the new 22nm dingus, code-named Centerton and seemingly in development since 2007, is the first low-power 64-bit dual-core SoC for these data center systems that’s in production and shipping to customers.
HP and the Future of Cloud
Hewlett Packard: A Tale of Many Clouds
Hewlett Packard used its Discover event in Frankfurt last week to reassert the company’s cloud credentials. Public, private, hybrid; HP is painting pictures that encompass them all, whilst seeking to protect hardware revenues and reassure conservative executives at some of its largest and most profitable customers. But HP has been here before, making bold claims and telling people what they wanted to hear about an HP cloud upon which enterprises could depend. This time, will the company deliver? Earlier this year, satirical news site The Onion took a cruel but funny swipe at HP’s cloud pretensions. HP, the sketch suggested, had the answers, the technology, and a lot of cloud. The company has done — and continues to do — a lot right in this space, but it really did bring this derision upon itself. Mixed messaging, repeated announcements of amazing new cloud services that never quite saw the light of day, an endless stream of apparent strategy U-turns that must surely have left long-time HP executives as dizzy as those trying to understand their intentions? None of this helped HP. But now, Windows Azure is apparently behind us. PalmOS (or whatever it’s called these days) is no longer a glue to […]