The SI Organization, Inc.’s (the SI) Chief Information Officer Steve DeLuca will speak at the 10th International Cloud Expo June 13 at the Javits Center in New York City.
His session, «Transitioning a Full Enterprise to Cloud in Just 10 Months: Lessons Learned,» will focus on the successful deployment of the SI’s cloud-based infrastructure.
The lessons learned from the SI’s internal deployment will serve other organizations as they embark on similar transformations of their IT environments. The SI team achieved a highly-accessible, virtualized and elastic environment utilizing server virtualization, desktop virtualization, user profile virtualization, application virtualization, and intelligent storage network. These elements, leveraging COTS integration, allowed the team to rapidly deploy robust enterprise services from scratch in just 10 months, while maturing the environment efficiently over time and ensuring the continuity of operations for the SI’s workforce as well as customers’ critical national security missions.
The SI is a leading provider of full life cycle, mission-focused systems engineering and integration capabilities to the U.S. Intelligence Community, Department of Defense and other agencies. Its scalable systems engineering platform for modeling, simulation and analysis helps customers baseline requirements, optimize resources and manage risk. The company has 40 years of experience successfully delivering complex, system-of-systems technology solutions. The SI employs more than 2,100 people, with major locations in Chantilly, Va.; Denver; Laurel, Md.; Los Angeles; and Valley Forge, Pa. For more information, visit www.thesiorg.com .

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The SI Organization, Inc.’s (the SI) Chief Information Officer Steve DeLuca will speak at the 10th International Cloud Expo June 13 at the Javits Center in New York City.
His session, «Transitioning a Full Enterprise to Cloud in Just 10 Months: Lessons Learned,» will focus on the successful deployment of the SI’s cloud-based infrastructure.
The lessons learned from the SI’s internal deployment will serve other organizations as they embark on similar transformations of their IT environments. The SI team achieved a highly-accessible, virtualized and elastic environment utilizing server virtualization, desktop virtualization, user profile virtualization, application virtualization, and intelligent storage network. These elements, leveraging COTS integration, allowed the team to rapidly deploy robust enterprise services from scratch in just 10 months, while maturing the environment efficiently over time and ensuring the continuity of operations for the SI’s workforce as well as customers’ critical national security missions.
The SI is a leading provider of full life cycle, mission-focused systems engineering and integration capabilities to the U.S. Intelligence Community, Department of Defense and other agencies. Its scalable systems engineering platform for modeling, simulation and analysis helps customers baseline requirements, optimize resources and manage risk. The company has 40 years of experience successfully delivering complex, system-of-systems technology solutions. The SI employs more than 2,100 people, with major locations in Chantilly, Va.; Denver; Laurel, Md.; Los Angeles; and Valley Forge, Pa. For more information, visit www.thesiorg.com .

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In his session at the 10th International Cloud Expo, Corey Scobie, Chief Technology Officer of SOA Software, will discuss how businesses are harnessing the power of APIs to reach new customers and markets. He will walk the audience through the growth and evolution of the API, why effective API management is important, how the game changes when companies expose business applications to the outside world.
A brief history of the API
How to use APIs to make money, save money, build brand
«Appification» and the innovation model of the open API
API management nuts and bolts, and best practices
Why Enterprise APIs are important
Some great examples of companies doing it right

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In his session at the 10th International Cloud Expo, Corey Scobie, Chief Technology Officer of SOA Software, will discuss how businesses are harnessing the power of APIs to reach new customers and markets. He will walk the audience through the growth and evolution of the API, why effective API management is important, how the game changes when companies expose business applications to the outside world.
A brief history of the API
How to use APIs to make money, save money, build brand
«Appification» and the innovation model of the open API
API management nuts and bolts, and best practices
Why Enterprise APIs are important
Some great examples of companies doing it right

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Cloud Expo 2012 is almost here. This promises to be an incredible event, with thousands of attendees and over 100 speakers. As previously mentioned, I’m privileged to be presenting on Making Hybrid Cloud Safe & Reliable. I’m particularly excited that I’ll be introducing attendees to the new concept of API-Aware Traffic Management. It will also be great to be back in New York City!
I recently read Daniel Kahneman’s book Thinking Fast & Slow, a fascinating study of how the human mind works. With the new capabilities offered by big data and Cloud computing — the dual themes for next week’s event — and the increasing personalization of technology through Mobile devices, I think we have an opportunity to make our digital systems more human in their processing. What does that mean? Well, more intuitive in user experience, more lateral through caching of unstructured data and more adaptive to changing conditions. API-Aware Traffic Management certainly reflects this potential.

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Cloud Security has been one of the top challenges reported by organizations that want to migrate to the Cloud. This is a challenge since the organization’s data may now be stored externally that can pose greater challenges to data integrity and compliance. Even though the data may be in the Cloud provider’s space, any compromises put the organization at risk. The Cloud can introduce new security risks that need to be addressed, however there are specific ways to manage the risks and leverage the benefits that Cloud has to offer and to ensure secure solutions across the Enterprise.

As part of the Cloud vendor selection, it is important to ensure a solid business presence and financial stability. If the vendor goes out of business, it’s important to make sure the organization’s data is secure and will not be lost. The vendor should provide secure service management capabilities for provisioning, updates and auditing. Prior to moving to the Cloud, an assessment of data sensitivity and compliance requirements should be one of the initial steps. Subsequently, specific vulnerabilities for the Cloud solution should be identified, documented and addressed. From an Enterprise Security perspective, policies, tools and controls should be developed for protection. There are many ways in which the security risks can be mitigated. One of the ways is to make sure that the providers have audits and certifications to ensure the security of the data. The location of the data is a common concern, if the data is needed in a specific area it is important to incorporate this aspect in the service level agreements with the vendor. Security controls at every level should be documented and addressed as part of the certification activities. For the Government, FEDRAMP is a program that supports secure cloud computing and provides a standardized approach to security assessment, authorization, and continuous monitoring for cloud products and services.

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Cloud Security has been one of the top challenges reported by organizations that want to migrate to the Cloud. This is a challenge since the organization’s data may now be stored externally that can pose greater challenges to data integrity and compliance. Even though the data may be in the Cloud provider’s space, any compromises put the organization at risk. The Cloud can introduce new security risks that need to be addressed, however there are specific ways to manage the risks and leverage the benefits that Cloud has to offer and to ensure secure solutions across the Enterprise.

As part of the Cloud vendor selection, it is important to ensure a solid business presence and financial stability. If the vendor goes out of business, it’s important to make sure the organization’s data is secure and will not be lost. The vendor should provide secure service management capabilities for provisioning, updates and auditing. Prior to moving to the Cloud, an assessment of data sensitivity and compliance requirements should be one of the initial steps. Subsequently, specific vulnerabilities for the Cloud solution should be identified, documented and addressed. From an Enterprise Security perspective, policies, tools and controls should be developed for protection. There are many ways in which the security risks can be mitigated. One of the ways is to make sure that the providers have audits and certifications to ensure the security of the data. The location of the data is a common concern, if the data is needed in a specific area it is important to incorporate this aspect in the service level agreements with the vendor. Security controls at every level should be documented and addressed as part of the certification activities. For the Government, FEDRAMP is a program that supports secure cloud computing and provides a standardized approach to security assessment, authorization, and continuous monitoring for cloud products and services.

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The company will demonstrate for the first time how to quickly onboard existing Windows applications to cloud computing providers.
At the upcoming Cloud Expo New York, Racemi will demonstrate its online migration service Cloud Path that now makes migrating existing Windows servers to public clouds point-and-click easy.
The company will demonstrate for the first time how to quickly onboard existing Windows applications to cloud computing providers, like Amazon EC2, GoGrid, Rackspace and Terremark, without costly professional services or rebuilding servers from scratch. The support for Windows servers is being added to the current beta of Cloud Path which already provides support for Linux servers.
Racemi is a Silver Sponsor of Cloud Expo, which takes place at the Javits Center in New York City from June 11-14. Attendees can visit Racemi’s booth #337 and sign up for limited time, free online migrations as part of its beta program.

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The company will demonstrate for the first time how to quickly onboard existing Windows applications to cloud computing providers.
At the upcoming Cloud Expo New York, Racemi will demonstrate its online migration service Cloud Path that now makes migrating existing Windows servers to public clouds point-and-click easy.
The company will demonstrate for the first time how to quickly onboard existing Windows applications to cloud computing providers, like Amazon EC2, GoGrid, Rackspace and Terremark, without costly professional services or rebuilding servers from scratch. The support for Windows servers is being added to the current beta of Cloud Path which already provides support for Linux servers.
Racemi is a Silver Sponsor of Cloud Expo, which takes place at the Javits Center in New York City from June 11-14. Attendees can visit Racemi’s booth #337 and sign up for limited time, free online migrations as part of its beta program.

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Compuware Corporation on Wednesday announced that – in recognition of World IPv6 launch – the Compuware APM platform now supports IPv6 across its product brands – Gomez and dynaTrace.
This support will help organizations ensure the quality and performance of their web, mobile and cloud applications as they transition to IPv6, providing unparalleled insight into application performance regardless of the network used–IPv4 or IPv6.
The Internet is going through a major architectural change as its core network layer protocol, Internet Protocol version 4 (IPv4), is being replaced by IPv6 due to the rapid growth of the Internet and exhaustion of IPv4 addresses. This change adds complexity at the edge of the Internet to the way browsers and devices connect and how services operate and are accessed.

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