SYS-CON Events announced today that MangoApps, the social collaboration company, 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.
MangoApps is a collaboration network that combines Employee Social Networking, Team Collaboration tools and Intranet into one seamless product.
Cloud Expo® 2013 Silicon Valley, November 4-7, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA, will feature technical sessions from a rock star conference faculty and the leading Cloud industry players in the world.
Cloud Expo: Unified Security Across Mobile, Web, Cloud and APIs
As users are increasingly consuming data through mobile and cloud services, enterprise must adapt to enable these new channels while maintaining security and providing a consistent user experience. Users should be able use their web credentials, but still seamlessly access data through these additional channels.
In his session at the 13th International Cloud Expo®, Alistair Farquharson, CTO of SOA Software, will examine the different security and identity considerations across Web, mobile and cloud, and explore API best practices to achieve federation across these channels.
Five Misconceptions About Big Data that May Be Haunting Your Organization
With a slight chill in the air, we know Halloween is just around the corner. But what could be spookier than ghosts, goblins or a haunted house? For many IT managers it’s the fear of Big Data, which can be understandably overwhelming at first. We’ve compiled five of the spookiest misconceptions about Big Data that may be haunting your organization.
Misconception 1: “We’re a small company. We don’t need to worry about Big Data yet.”
Boo! Don’t be spooked by all the news of what big companies are doing in Big Data. Companies of all sizes can and should be capturing data on some level. Whether you’re a Fortune 500 enterprise or a smaller firm, you want to understand your customers and what makes them tick.
Building Your Hybrid Cloud – Windows Server 2012 R2 Storage Foundation
Keith Mayer and myself kick off our new multi-part series today on how you can build your hybrid cloud environment with Windows Server 2012, System Center 2012 and Windows Azure by laying down a quick overview of what we can expect for the series as well as diving into the new features found in Windows Server 2012 R2 Storage Foundation.
Build Your Lab! Download Windows Server 2012, System Center 2012 and Hyper-V Server 2012 and get the best virtualization platform and private cloud management solution on the market.
Seagate Kinetic Open Storage Platform: a Promising Distributed Hardware Infrastructure
Seagate Technology hopes to redefine cloud storage infrastructure with the unveiling of its internally developed Seagate Kinetic Open Storage platform. A potential leap forward in scale-out storage architectures, the innovative storage platform promises to simplify data management and improve performance and scalability while lowering total cost of ownership of typical cloud infrastructures.
“With the Seagate Kinetic Open Storage platform, our internal R&D teams have designed an unique, first-of-its-kind storage architecture to enable cheaper, more scalable object storage solutions that free up IT professionals from having to invest in hardware and software they don’t need—while empowering them with the most innovative storage technology available,” said Rocky Pimentel, Seagate executive vice president and chief sales and marketing officer. “This technology optimizes storage solutions for a new era of cloud storage systems, while drastically reducing overall costs.”
The platform leverages Seagate’s expertise in hardware and software storage systems to integrate a new key/value API – which will be open sourced – and Ethernet connected with Seagate hard drive technology. Designed for rapid implementation and deployment in any cloud storage software stack, this technology can be deployed across a portfolio of storage devices enabling system builders and software developers to design new solutions that will deliver against a full array of cloud data center use cases.
Redefining hardware and software capabilities, the platform enables cloud service providers and independent software vendors to optimize scale-out file and object-based storage—simply and effectively. With the Kinetic Open Storage platform, applications can now manage specific features and capabilities and rapidly implement and deploy in any cloud storage software stack. The technology also increases I/O efficiency by removing bottlenecks and optimizing cluster management, data replication, migration, and active archive performance.
Cloud Expo Silicon Valley: Locking Down the Cloud with Akamai
Cost savings, scalability and offload are the hallmarks of cloud computing benefits. Sub-par performance, sketchy reliability, and porous security concerns rank among top concerns and have undoubtedly led to delays in growth and adoption.
In his session at the 13th International Cloud Expo®, Michael Schmidt, Principal Solutions Engineer at Akamai Technologies, will show how Akamai’s Intelligent Platform can help you address these challenges without sacrificing security or control.
Michael Schmidt is a Principal Solutions Engineer based out of San Mateo California. Mr. Schmidt is responsible for selling Akamai’s security and cloud acceleration and enablement services to many of the Bay Area’s largest high tech customers. He is works extensively with his customers in helping them shape and secure their evolving Cloud strategies. He has been with Akamai for 8 years and has over 15 years of experience in IT and web development.
Transformation Is More Important Than Cloud
On the surface it looks to be a chicken and egg problem. Is cloud driving IT transformation or is IT transformation driving cloud’s growth? The movement to cloud requires a shift in approach for many IT organizations for how to deal with procurement, management, security, etc. In some cases, public cloud offerings are driving IT to change how it delivers services as the business has access to options that don’t require IT’s participation in order to acquire.
The truth is that IT organizations can build and deliver private cloud offerings without changing how they operate internally. Often, these efforts result in less than stellar adoption by the business. Without transformation of the business and operational processes, cloud is just another silo that increases operational overhead and often acts to “prove” the businesses’ point that IT is too slow and difficult for the needs of today’s businesses.
Three main barriers between AWS and businesses
Recently Gathering Clouds’ friend and cloud computing expert David Linthicum dug into a few ways in which AWS continues to create gaps between its offering and businesses.
While Linthicum focused on cost, contract, and utility-based computing issues, we thought we would explore a few other obstacles that still keep AWS from full enterprise adoption.
While we are sure AWS will eventually figure out how to crack the enterprise, (especially as enterprise IT becomes more comfortable with the cloud) there are aspects of the service that still don’t go far enough to fulfill the requirements of the businesses that are still tentative about cloud adoption.
1) Compatibility issues: AWS created*planned* conflicts with integrating with other systems.
Without any compatibility between AWS-specific tools, platforms and environments with in-house systems (no matter which platform a business is running in house – VMware, Windows, Citrix, etc., Amazon won’t be compatible), businesses either …
Cloud Expo Silicon Valley: Ten Myths of Cloud Computing
Cloud computing is transforming the way businesses think about and leverage technology. As a result, the general understanding of cloud computing has come a long way in a short time. However, there are still many misconceptions about what cloud computing is and what it can do for businesses that adopt this game-changing computing model.
In his general session at the 13th International Cloud Expo®, Rex Wang, Vice President of Product Marketing at Oracle, will discuss and dispel some of the common myths about cloud computing that still exist today. Attendees will learn about the flexibility and choice that the cloud can offer so that they can make more-informed decisions when choosing the cloud for their business.
Cloud Expo Silicon Valley: The Evolution of Cloud Flexibility
It was supposed to be about flexibility, wasn’t it? Cloud computing lets you alter your capacity as your demand fluctuates, something on-premise solutions could never do the same way. But, is the cloud as flexible as it could be? With cookie-cutter VM sizes, scalability that removes an entire former dimension, and reserved instance pricing that requires prediction we went to the cloud to avoid in the first place, the first generation of public cloud providers don’t go as far as they could.
In his session at the 13th International Cloud Expo®, Pete Johnson, Chief Evangelist for ProfitBricks, will explain how Cloud 1.0 falls short and how Cloud 2.0 offers the flexibility you’re looking for.