AppZero, the fastest and most flexible way to move server applications from the datacenter to the cloud, will be at the Cloud Expo Conference from Monday, November 4 – Thursday, November 7 at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, California. The conference features technical and strategic breakout sessions, General Sessions, Industry Keynotes, “Power Panels” and a vast Expo floor.
AppZero will showcase its “Up-level” OS migration, new technology that provides one step migration of applications running on Windows Server 2003 to Windows Server 2012. With Windows Server 2003 end of life approaching, companies will be faced with moving large numbers of enterprise applications. AppZero provides the only way to upgrade existing server applications from WS2003 to WS2008 or WS2012 in a cost effective and time saving way.
What Is Application-Centric Infrastructure?
With the launch of Cisco’s software-defined networking startup Insieme expected tomorrow, our industry is about to hear a lot about “application-centric” everything. So what does “application-centric infrastructure” mean?
First, some basics: Networking is about connecting computing devices and systems so they can share data. Networking infrastructures are built with a combination of hardware such as gateways, routers, and switches that manage the movement of the data as well as software applications that enable you to do things like access the Internet and send email.
As you could probably guess, application-centric infrastructure is a type of networking that is based on the application. In an application-centric network, the network administrator manages a system for a specific application rather than managing individual servers and routers like they did in the past.
Cloud Expo Silicon Valley: Moving Securely to the Cloud
Many organizations are realizing the benefits that come with moving data to the cloud, including faster implementation, elasticity and reduced costs. But the path to the cloud isn’t always smooth. Finding the right cloud service provider takes research, and data security is always a primary concern, especially for organizations that are regulated by privacy laws.
In his session at the 13th International Cloud Expo®, Steve Pate, CTO & Co-Founder of HighCloud Security, will speak to the safest ways to transition to a public cloud and address key capabilities that might help in the search for the right public cloud for your company.
Cloud Expo Silicon Valley: Big Data and the Consumer Experience
New developments in cloud technologies have revolutionized the way organizations interact with their customers. Today it is all about consumer experience, consumer insights, consumer behavior, consumer journey. With rich media, the very focus of digital marketing and commerce has shifted from product-centric to consumer centric.
Cloud computing has enabled the global access for consumers across the world – for the right person, at the right time, and the right content. The side effect of this is consumers are more empowered and therefore have much higher expectations. And the omni-channel nature of basic consumer interaction leads to very high demands on the ability to consume, analyze, and repurpose data to deliver a much more personalized consumer experience. Without the advancement in Big Data technologies, this would quickly become an infeasible and unmanageable situation.
Cloud and Agile Development: Match made in Heaven?
For some time, cloud computing has been moving from beyond a purely IT-owned paradigm to a more readily accepted part of how different business units achieve their end goals. Application development is no exception.
Product managers and application architects have been at the forefront of this mass adoption, utilizing cloud infrastructure resources to dramatically improve the way applications are developed, tested, and launched.
But for agile development methodologies, cloud presents an opportunity for businesses to maximize software testing.
Firewall considerations
Cloud’s direct benefit to programmers depends greatly on the type of methodology they are employing. One of the key components to agile development is getting instant feedback from customers. If a customer is outside your firewall, you have to enable them to access the application in your environment through an outside server or allowing them a connection into your private network. In traditional IT organizations, this set up process …
SHI CEO Thai Lee Explores the Changing Atmosphere of Cloud Computing
“When a company can combine scale with innovation…and can execute…then I think it can build a sustainable business,” said Thai Lee, Founder, President & CEO of SHI International, as she opened 13th Cloud Expo in Silicon Valley today at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, California.
SHI CEO Thai Lee Explores the Changing Atmosphere of Cloud Computing
“When a company can combine scale with innovation…and can execute…then I think it can build a sustainable business,” said Thai Lee, Founder, President & CEO of SHI International, as she opened 13th Cloud Expo in Silicon Valley today at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, California.
Cloud Computing 2.0 Flexibility Discussed at Cloud Expo
ProfitBricks, the infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) company that completely reengineered the delivery of Cloud Computing, is speaking, sponsoring and exhibiting at Cloud Expo Silicon Valley, the 13th International Cloud Expo conference. Pete Johnson, senior director of cloud platform evangelism at ProfitBricks, will discuss the evolution of cloud and the needed flexibility that Cloud Computing 2.0 offers.
ProfitBricks – the IaaS price/performance leader who introduced Cloud Computing 2.0 – offers more speed, flexibility and value than any other cloud provider. Founded in 2010 by the co-founders of the 1&1 Internet Web Hosting business, ProfitBricks enables customers to build true virtual data centers with custom defined instances, live vertical scaling and class-leading double redundant cloud storage — all with simple and transparent minute-based billing. ProfitBricks also developed the first graphical Data Center Designer that makes the ProfitBricks cloud computing service the easiest to set up and maintain. Talkin’ Cloud recently named ProfitBricks top on its list of 25 Fastest Growing Cloud Service Providers, and ProfitBricks was named to CIO Review’s 20 Most Promising Cloud Computing Companies. Headquartered in Berlin, Germany and Boston, Massachusetts, ProfitBricks can be found online at www.profitbricks.com.
How Do You Eat a Network Security Elephant?
A cloud security take on an old riddle: analyze risks, identify needs, develop priorities, deploy scalable model, and leave room for dessert.
Security is big. It encompasses a great many definitions, confronts a great many issues and is addressed through a great many solutions using a great many formats. For many organizations, it can be an overwhelming proposition. Beyond the issues of data defense, regulatory compliance, traffic management, identity regulation, archiving, reporting, access control, intrusion detection, encryption, app administration, help desk assistance, there is the job the IT pro was hired to do…ensure the smooth technical operation of their organization. Securing the disappearing network perimeter and beyond has become more than a full-time job in itself.
Cloud Expo Silicon Valley: Application Defined Networking
Best effort networks aren’t good enough for today’s mission-critical cloud-based applications. To ensure optimal performance, developers and IT managers must have a holistic view and understanding of all the factors impacting performance.
In her session at the 13th International Cloud Expo®, Pascale Vicat-Blanc, founder and CEO of Lyatiss, will explain how Application Defined Networking (ADN) provides this visibility and insight, delivering combined application and network awareness, and performance predictability from end-to-end. It also will show how ADN enables intelligent orchestration of networked resources and their automated (re)configuration to ensure that the application and network adapt when workloads and conditions change.