Lunarline, one of the U.S. government’s leading cyber security and privacy providers, announced on Thursday that Spence Witten, Lunarline director of federal sales, will speak about successfully navigating FedRAMP during the Cloud Expo 2013 Silicon Valley (@CloudExpo) in Santa Clara, CA.
With more than 10 years of private and government sales experience, Witten can sell ice to polar bears. But more importantly, he knows a thing or two about FedRAMP – the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program – and what it takes to sell to Uncle Sam.
SPAN Systems to Exhibit at WebRTC Summit at Cloud Expo
SYS-CON Events announced today that SPAN Systems, an EVRY Group company, 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.
SPAN, an EVRY Group company, is an established software services company with a keen accent on Insurance, Financial Services, Retail, Travel, Transport, Logistics and Independent Software Vendors. Our focus is to ease our client into a long-term relationship with a business and execution model that aligns with their culture. SPAN’s management team is deeply involved in sustaining relationships through the fulfillment of both measurable and intangible expectations. We believe in being a strong partner and ‘Steering Progress. Together’.
Cloud Expo Silicon Valley: The State of the Cloud Union
With the ever-increasing pace of change in business, line-of-business groups are demanding new application creation in days rather than weeks or months. Since the traditional IT application development cycle is ill-suited for this type of quick application development, we’re seeing CMOs and LOBs turning to “boutique shops and shadow developers” to get their applications developed more quickly: applications that are often developed by stitching together services that reside in the cloud.
In this presentation, Rachel Reinitz, Distinguished Engineer and CTO of IBM Software Services, will discuss the State of the Cloud focusing on IBM’s view of what is needed in the Next Generation Cloud Platform and how new and emerging cloud technologies will affect both business groups and IT. During the presentation, Cloud Expo delegates will see a demonstration of BlueMix, an IBM strategic initiative based on Cloud Foundry that provides developers a way to quickly compose services to create applications running in a cloud environment without dealing with the underlying infrastructure, resulting in a quicker time-to-value for our customers.
Swisscom sets up “Swiss Cloud”…but it’s not in response to NSA
The Switzerland-based telco Swisscom is in the process of building a national “Swiss Cloud” – but denies claims that the primary motivation is around acquiring customers spooked by the NSA scandal.
The story first broke on Reuters, with the news agency reporting that the move is “driven more by a desire to cut costs and make its systems more dynamic”, according to Swisscom head of IT services Andreas Koenig.
Yet there’s a link to perceived security threats – given Switzerland’s stricter privacy laws, Koenig argues it would make sense for companies to store data there.
Swisscom would need a formal request from a prosecutor before giving access to stored data, and as Nick Farrell, writing for Fudzilla, notes, the system as it stands would be “useless to the spooks”.
A small clue to this news came in the form of a whitepaper Swisscom published last month, which revealed that, in …
Cloud Expo: The Fastest Path to Public and Private Cloud Storage
The need for storage to work with existing enterprise applications in public and private clouds, along with hybrid cloud environments, has been a gating factor for adoption.
In his session at the 13th International Cloud Expo®, Anand Babu Periasamy, Co-Founder and CTO at Gluster, will discuss best practices for developing scale-out storage that works in all cloud environments, touching on subjects such as how to determine the right cloud deployment mode, as well as how to pick a service provider that meets each organization’s specific needs. He will also discuss how leveraging an open source approach can allow enterprises to deploy exactly what they need to roll out new services and increase company margins.
Cloud Expo Silicon Valley: Getting Started with OpenStack
This getting-started session is for any developer (beginner or intermediate) who wants to build and run a web app on OpenStack.
In his session at the 13th International Cloud Expo®, Dave Nielsen, Co-Founder of CloudCamp & Founder & Principal Consultant at Platform D LLC, will demonstrate how to use Compute, Block Storage and Object Storage (also known as Nova, Swift & Cinder). He will briefly review the basic OpenStack architecture and walk through the steps to deploy a LAMP Stack-based web application on HP’s OpenStack-based Public Cloud.
Cloud Expo Silicon Valley: How to Manage Your Heterogeneous Cloud
Hybrid cloud sprawl is making life challenging for IT admins. Different environments, different functionalities and capabilities, different interfaces.
In his session at the 13th International Cloud Expo®, Kit Colbert, Chief Architect and Principal Engineer with the Office of the CTO at VMware, will discuss how the next generation of management tools will abstract over differences in heterogeneous environments to allow for a consistent approach to private, public, and hybrid cloud management.
IBM Launches Federal Cloud Innovation Center in D.C.
Cloud computing’s profile just took a leap in the polls.
IBM announced the opening of a new Federal Cloud Innovation Center dedicated to helping federal agencies and other public-sector organizations advance the adoption of cloud computing across the government.
The new IBM Federal Cloud Innovation Center in Washington, D.C., will bring IBM’s cloud computing research efforts closer to federal agencies to develop specialized technologies and methods for building mission-ready clouds, Big Blue officials said. Moreover, the IBM center will draw on the cloud computing expertise of more than 500 IBM professionals aligned to the center along with IBM’s global network of more than 37,000 cloud industry experts, according to an article on eWEEK.com.
Cloud Expo Silicon Valley: Paving the Way to Hybrid Cloud Services
Customers are getting more receptive to offloading the secondary IT process to the cloud – hybrid and public.
In his session at the 13th International Cloud Expo®, Murali Nambiar, Sr. Product Manager for Backup and DR Products at InMage, will cover the services that are most sought after and ways of delivering these to customers and partners.
Murali Nambiar is Sr. Product Manager for Backup and DR Products at InMage. Prior to joining InMage he was an Architect at Soapstone Networks, and a Distinguished Technologist at Quark Media and Defense Research Labs, DLRL. Murali is pursuing a masters at WGU and has Bachelor’s in Electronics and Telecommunications from IETE, New Delhi.
Inocybe Technologies to Unveil Virtualization Platform at Cloud Expo 2013
At the Cloud Expo 2013 SiliconValley, Inocybe Technologies Inc., the company that aims to keep IT simple, is introducing the Inocybe Virtualization Platform (IVP), the software-defined networking (SDN) industry’s first unified infrastructure virtualization platform. From smart to simple, IVP is a turnkey solution that allows any organization to create a private, community, or global scale public cloud computing infrastructure in just seconds. The product unites a wide variety of network, computing and storage application options with a simple plug-and-play architecture that businesses can use to rapidly create virtual data centers in the cloud.