CA Technologies says, “For DevOps to work correctly, it must be treated as a movement, not a market for a specific vendor’s products.” As Arlo Guthrie once sang, with three people it is an organization. But if we can find … Continue reading 
Cloud Expo Silicon Valley: New Cloud. New Rules
Your IT organization needs to support creativity and enable disruption through developing new products more quickly, and cutting free of old rules and rethinking business models. Cloud should be the answer… but in many cases it’s only the answer for certain types of workloads and applications due to performance, dependency, management and security challenges.
The cloud needs be so much more than it currently is for the next great wave of innovation to take off – we need a fundamentally better cloud.
In his General Session at the 13th International Cloud Expo®, Jim Anthony, VP of Sales Engineering at Verizon Terremark, will discuss the current challenges in cloud computing, the features needed in future cloud services, and Verizon’s next-generation platform that will deliver a new level of simplicity and performance with a new approach designed to make the cloud fast, predictable and cost-effective.
Is IDaaS a Trustworthy and Feasible Option?
Despite accusations against the gov’t of data harvesting and privacy invasion, IDaaS is a feasible and trustworthy option to maintain identity protection.
Conspiracy theorists and other concerned citizens will insist the government is watching every keystroke, keeping a record of every website, transaction, text and email. Shades of 1984’s Big Brother, right? These last few weeks, the news has been brimming with revelations of data surveillance and monitoring by the government (not to mention data harvesting corporations like Google, Yahoo, Facebook etc…). Everyone, including the security buffs at CloudAccess, is sensitive as to what is being looked at, stored, and analyzed for hazily defined purposes. Privacy is no longer as private as you think; and hasn’t been for many years.
Cloud Expo | Federated Cloud: Why Service Providers Can’t Live Without It
As public cloud providers face a mounting challenge to their business from AWS, more and more are turning to the federated cloud model to deliver the scale, reach and capability they need to compete.
In his session at the 13th International Cloud Expo®, Ditlev Bredahl, CEO & Co-Founder of OnApp, will explore how a cloud federation works, and the opportunities and challenges for providers who adopt this model. Using case studies, it will show how federated cloud is not just the savior of the traditional hosting industry, but also a way for stakeholders to benefit from better, faster and cheaper services, and a way for them to finally realize the promise of the cloud.
DevOps: Mission Impossible?
Virtualisation needs to move beyond the business value of simply consolidating workloads and saving on power and cooling. Virtualisation now offers the ability for businesses to transform their operational models and more importantly their application lifecycle management processes.
Day 4 Keynote at Cloud Expo | Clouds, Devices & Demos!
The world of cloud services moves fast and is the foundation that enables a diverse set of devices and applications from many vendors. This environment is both an opportunity and a challenge for developers and IT organizations.
In his Day 4 Keynote at the 13th International Cloud Expo®, John Shewchuk, a Technical Fellow and the CTO for the Microsoft Developer Platform, will discuss how Microsoft can help developers and organizations create next-generation applications and experiences in this ever-changing world. He will talk about new device capabilities, provide sneak peeks of Microsoft services and tools, and offer a glimpse of where the industry and Microsoft is going next.
Cloud Expo Silicon Valley: Accelerating Your Journey to Self-Service IT
Calling all heroes! Join us at this highly educational and entertaining session to learn about the efforts of everyday heroes such as you who are driving their IT organizations journeys to a more efficient and agile IT.
In his session at the 13th International Cloud Expo®, Anand Akela, Sr. Principal Product Marketing Director at Oracle, will present personal journeys as well as experiences of customers who have deployed large private cloud environments. You will also learn how Oracle Enterprise Manager 12c can help you accelerate your organization’s journey to Self-Service IT.
Cloud Expo Silicon Valley: Why Lease When You Can Buy Your Cloud
Perhaps one of the perplexing things about cloud computing is the choice around renting time in someone else’s cloud (Amazon, Google, Rackspace or a myriad of others) or building your own. It’s not unlike the age-old car buyer’s dilemma, take the lower payments and lower total miles lease or buy the car and drive it for the long haul. Cloud computing users are often faced with the same conundrum.
In his session at the 13th International Cloud Expo®, Mark Hinkle, Senior Director, Open Source Solutions at Citrix, will focus on how to buy and build a cloud that can fulfill the needs of most users including strategies for making use of the open source private cloud or managing workloads in both the private and public cloud using open source software.
PubNub to Exhibit at WebRTC Summit at Cloud Expo
SYS-CON Events announced today that PubNub, the only global Real-Time Network, 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.
The PubNub Real-Time Network provides the cloud infrastructure and key building blocks for real-time apps that scale globally to any device. PubNub enables real-time experiences like live dashboards and streams, collaboration, 2nd screen synchronization, and machine-to-machine signaling and more. PubNub’s simple API delivers real-time interactivity across mobile, browser, desktop and server and supports over 50 environments, including iOS, Android and JavaScript.
How Informatica is “the Switzerland of data”
Dennis Moore, SVP and GM, master data management at Informatica, speaks to CloudTech about the data sector, the big players in the database space, and how the Internet of Things (IoT) is changing everything.
Plenty of column inches in the past months have been focused on the various solutions vendors have put together for databases.
Oracle and SAP, the big traditional enterprises, have made plenty of hot air with their in-memory solutions – but only time will tell if the ripples on the market match up. Then you’ve got the NoSQL players, such as Couchbase, Mongo and DataStax.
It’s an area which has the potential to be hugely disruptive – and the cloud’s thought leaders are queuing up to have their say.
Couchbase CEO Bob Wiederhold, one of the biggest players in non-relational database structure, not surprisingly told CloudTech that “over time the market is going to move towards …