Cloud Expo New York Speaker Profile: Arun Gupta – Oracle

With Cloud Expo 2012 New York (10th Cloud Expo) now just under eight weeks away, what better time to introduce you in greater detail to the distinguished individuals in our incredible Speaker Faculty for the technical and strategy sessions at the conference…

We have technical and strategy sessions for you every day from June 11 through June 14 dealing with every nook and cranny of Cloud Computing and 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 that is transforming the world of Enterprise IT, side by side with the exploding use of enterprise Big Data – processed in the Cloud – to drive value for businesses…?

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Faster Access to Evolving Data Stores to Fit Evolving Data Needs

Today’s data isn’t just in one warehouse nor is it in one format. Data is no longer silo’ed in perfectly structured relational databases, but rather unstructured across the broader internet. Thus, traditional ETL (Extract, Transform, Load) architectures do not apply. Less than 1% of all web data is available via API, and extraction tools must […]

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Workday Reportedly Hires Bankers for IPO

Workday, the SaaS house co-founded by PeopleSoft veterans David Duffield and Aneel Bhusri, has reportedly hired Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley to lead its anticipated IPO according to Reuters and heard from “several sources familiar with the situation.” It’s supposed to be one of tech’s biggest IPOs this year although everything will look small after the Facebook extravaganza. Workday sells HR and financial management software to business and has raised $250 million from its VCs, including Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos’ investment arm.

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AWS Revamps Partner Program

Amazon is overhauling its partner program.
It’s starting a public beta of a new global AWS Partner Network (APN) that’ll provide members of its ecosystem with technical information as well as sales and marketing support to accelerate their Amazon cloud business.
Membership is divided into technology-based partners (ISVs, SaaS, tools providers and platform providers) and consulting-based partners (SIs, agencies, consultancies and MSPs). And there are tiers in each (Advanced, Standard and Registered) based on a set of requirements.
Partners that qualify for the Standard and Advanced tiers will get a logo, a listing in a new directory, $1,000 in AWS Services credits and $1,000 in AWS Premium Support credits. The credits are good for a year.

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AWS Revamps Partner Program

Amazon is overhauling its partner program.
It’s starting a public beta of a new global AWS Partner Network (APN) that’ll provide members of its ecosystem with technical information as well as sales and marketing support to accelerate their Amazon cloud business.
Membership is divided into technology-based partners (ISVs, SaaS, tools providers and platform providers) and consulting-based partners (SIs, agencies, consultancies and MSPs). And there are tiers in each (Advanced, Standard and Registered) based on a set of requirements.
Partners that qualify for the Standard and Advanced tiers will get a logo, a listing in a new directory, $1,000 in AWS Services credits and $1,000 in AWS Premium Support credits. The credits are good for a year.

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Telx Named “Bronze Sponsor” of Cloud Expo 2012 New York

SYS-CON Events announced today that Telx, a leading provider of global interconnectivity and data center solutions, has been named “Bronze Sponsor” of SYS-CON’s 10th International Cloud Expo, which will take place on June 11–14, 2012, at the Javits Center in New York City, New York.
Telx is a leading provider of interconnection and data center services in strategic, high demand North American markets. With 17 premier C3 Cloud Connection Centers, Telx increases speed-to-market and reduces connectivity costs by providing direct connections to a community of the industry’s highest performance networks and access to 1,000+ customers, including leading telecommunications carriers, ISPs, cloud providers, content providers and enterprises.

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Eucalyptus Gets $30 Million C Round

Eucalyptus Systems, the open source private and hybrid cloud merchant that just tied up with Amazon, has gotten a $30 million C round on top of the $25.5 million it’s already gotten. It says the C round was oversubscribed.
The funding was led by Institutional Venture Partners (IVP). Existing investors, including Benchmark Capital, BV Capital and New Enterprise Associates (NEA) pitched in too.
Eucalyptus claims to be the most widely deployed on-premise IaaS cloud platform, but, according to Marten Mickos, who runs the joint, at $55.5 million, Eucalyptus is the “least funded” of the current crop of players like VMware, OpenStack and now CloudStack, which have got hundreds of millions of dollars at their disposal.

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Eucalyptus Gets $30 Million C Round

Eucalyptus Systems, the open source private and hybrid cloud merchant that just tied up with Amazon, has gotten a $30 million C round on top of the $25.5 million it’s already gotten. It says the C round was oversubscribed.
The funding was led by Institutional Venture Partners (IVP). Existing investors, including Benchmark Capital, BV Capital and New Enterprise Associates (NEA) pitched in too.
Eucalyptus claims to be the most widely deployed on-premise IaaS cloud platform, but, according to Marten Mickos, who runs the joint, at $55.5 million, Eucalyptus is the “least funded” of the current crop of players like VMware, OpenStack and now CloudStack, which have got hundreds of millions of dollars at their disposal.

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