Jonathan Bryce, the Executive Director of the newly-formed OpenStack Foundation, and who has spent his entire career building the cloud, is to give the opening keynote at 11th Cloud Expo | Cloud Expo Silicon Valley, being held at the Santa Clara Convention Center, Santa Clara, CA, November 5-8, 2012.
The OpenStack Foundation promotes the development, distribution and adoption of the OpenStack cloud operating system. As the independent home for OpenStack, the Foundation has already attracted more than 5,600 individual members from 87 countries and 850 different organizations, secured more than $10 million in funding and is ready to fulfill the OpenStack mission of becoming the ubiquitous cloud computing platform.
Day 2 Keynote at Cloud Expo Silicon Valley | An Open Cloud Discussion
There is a vast new movement developing at a breathtaking pace that is changing the way the world utilizes cloud computing. Specifically, open source cloud computing. Rackspace is helping lead the global discussion about the benefits of building a business on an open cloud.
In his Day 2 Keynote at the 11th International Cloud Expo, John Engates, CTO of Rackspace, will provide insight on the difference between an open cloud and a closed, proprietary cloud. He will also explain the hidden dangers of vendor lock in and where the open cloud is headed into the future.
Day 3 Keynote at Cloud Expo Silicon Valley | Cloud Apps: Assembly Required
In his Day 3 Keynote at the 11th International Cloud Expo, Dr. John Bates, Executive Vice President and Chief Technology Officer at Progress Software, will illustrate what has to go into a platform and model to deliver the 10 imperatives of next-generation applications. As part of this, he will present how existing applications and services can be wrapped and exposed as cloud APIs.
Cloud Expo Silicon Valley Keynote Speaker Profile: John Engates – Rackspace
With Cloud Expo 2012 Silicon Valley (11th Cloud Expo) due to open in a little over two weeks’ time at the Santa Clara Convention Center, CA – co-located with 2nd International BigDataExpo – let’s introduce you in greater detail to the distinguished individuals in our incredible Speaker Faculty for the technical program at the West Coast conference…
We have technical and strategy sessions for you dealing with every nook and cranny of Cloud Computing & Big Data, but what of those who are presenting? Who are they, where do they work, what else have they written and/or said about the Cloud and/or Big Data solutions that are transforming the world of Enterprise IT?
Case Study: PreEmptive Solutions Harnesses the Cloud
While having successfully grown their business using a popular cloud provider’s shared platform, as this client’s company continued to grow, their system became insufficient to support the demands for higher performance and I/O at a reasonable price. After a discussion with their partners and team of cloud experts, it was determined that a dedicated private cloud solution from ServerCentral was the answer to their business objectives:
Achieve dramatic increases in I/O
Improve customer satisfaction by providing better performance than industry competitors
Assess replacement requirements for outdated and underperforming infrastructure
Implement a long-term solution to meet their growing needs
After just 30 days of live testing, the client found substantial improvement in performance and moved forward with a production deployment.
Cosmetic Giant Aggressively Embraces the Cloud
Revlon’s comprehensive cloud has matured, and the benefits from aggressively embracing the cloud have evolved into positive consequences for their data architecture.
When you think of Revlon, we’re global and we have a huge application portfolio. As we put everything on our cloud and are using our cloud, we realized that all of our data sits in one place now.
So when you think of big-data management, we’ve been able to solve the problem by classifying all the unstructured data in Revlon and we did that efficiently. We still joke that it’s like chewing glass. You’ve got to go through this huge process.
But, we have the ability to look at all of our data, a couple of petabytes, in the same place. Because the cloud let us look at it all, we can bring up all of Revlon in our disaster recovery (DR) test environments and have our developers work with it at no cost. We have disconnected that cost and effort.
Once we realized we had this opportunity to start working on our big data, the other unintended consequences was our master data model. On top of our big data, we were able to able to efficiently and effectively build a global master data model.
The Cloud Computing State of the Union | CTO Power Panel at Cloud Expo
What are the technical benefits of building a business on the cloud? If that cloud is open, are the benefits fewer or are they more plentiful? What security issues remain in the clouds being stood up in 2012, compared to cloud computing’s earlier days? How are multi-national cloud initiatives faring, technically and from a compliance perspective? How *green* is cloud computing? Why does big data analytics need clouds, and where will the two-step between Big Data and the Cloud lead to next?
In this CTO Power Panel at the 11th International Cloud Expo, these and a host of other questions will be asked and answered in this fast-moving industry panel, featuring leading Cloud & Big Data practitioners and thought leaders and moderated by Cloud Expo Conference Chair Jeremy Geelan.
There’s No Business Like Cloud & Big Data | CEO Power Panel at Cloud Expo
This fast-moving «CEO Power Panel» at the 11th International Cloud Expo, moderated by Conference Chair Jeremy Geelan features industry thought leaders and will discuss the business-related issues that are currently front of mind with chief executives of today’s foremost Cloud and Big Data based companies.
Topics include what are the commercial and fiscal benefits of building a business on the cloud? What’s the business potential of real-time Big Data analytics? What Cloud companies will have disappeared by the time we hold 12th Cloud Expo next June…into other, larger players – and why does such consolidation always happen? What industry vertical is least exploited as yet, by Cloud players?
Cloud Expo Silicon Valley: Cloud Data – Right Here, Right Now in Real-Time
Do you want SQL access to your SaaS application?
In their session at the 11th International Cloud Expo, Sumit Sarkar, Sr. Solutions Consultant at Progress Software, and Paul Griffin, Sr. Manager, Sales Enablement, at Progress Software, will discuss how to achieve this with real-time SQL-92 access using ODBC and JDBC directly against your SaaS application database. See how this unique data connectivity is now possible and how other organizations use SQL access to get even more out of the cloud data running their businesses.
Trinity Solar to Exhibit at Cloud Expo Silicon Valley
SYS-CON Events announced today that Trinity Solar, the leading solar company on the East Coast, will exhibit at SYS-CON’s 11th International Cloud Expo, which will take place on November 5–8, 2012, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA.
Trinity Solar is the leading designer and integrator of solar electric systems. Its mission is to provide high-performing, cost-effective, environmentally responsible solutions to address the energy needs of customers.
Cloud Expo 2012 Silicon Valley, November 5–8, 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.