Cloud News From Sys-Con

• Why Public Clouds Are More Secure than Private Clouds
  Conventional wisdom would have you believe that Public Clouds are inherently insecure, and that the only way to meet your organization’s stringent security requirements in the Cloud is to implement your own Private Cloud. Conventional wisdom, you say? Unfortunately, there is precious little wisdom available of any kind when it comes to Cloud Computing, let […]
• Cloud Application Performance Management via Nouns and Verbs
  The cloud computing model of services-based computing has changed the way we not only ‘architect,’ ‘structure’ and ‘plan’ software applications, it has also changed the way we, subsequently, need to ‘deploy,’ ‘test,’ ‘monitor’ and ‘manage’ cloud-based applications. Now that’s a lot of nouns (actually they’re mostly verbs too) […]
• Cloud Expo New York Speaker Profile: Mark Hinkle – Citrix Systems
  With Cloud Expo 2012 New York (10th Cloud Expo) now under four months away, what better time to start introducing 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 w […]
• Big Data: "An Even Bigger Deal than Cloud," Says Expert
  "The volume of data we're generating now from machines pales in comparison to the volume of data we'll soon generate from our own bodies," says data security expert Dave Asprey. Writing in a Trend Micro blog, Asprey - who is one of the leaders in the emerging Quantified Self movement - explains his vision of a world in which personal biom […]
• Cloud Expo New York Speaker Profile: Bernard Golden – HyperStratus
  With Cloud Expo 2012 New York (10th Cloud Expo) just four months away, what better time to start introducing 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 e […]
• Cloud Expo New York Speaker Profile: MÃ¥rten Mickos – Eucalyptus Systems
  With Cloud Expo 2012 New York (10th Cloud Expo) now under four months away, what better time to start introducing 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 w […]
• Big Data Expo New York Speaker Profile: Eric Baldeschwieler – Hortonworks
  With Big Data Expo 2012 New York (www.BigDataExpo.net), co-located with 10th Cloud Expo, under four months away, what better time to start introducing you in greater detail to the distinguished individuals in our incredible Speaker Faculty for the technical and strategy sessions at the conference... read more […]
• Cloud Computing Procurement: As Easy as Remembering RFP
  When it comes to procurement, any technology or service should be evaluated with a good set of criteria. Executive decisions should not be weighted solely on a single selection criterion such as price. This applies to any cloud computing service as well. The twelve criteria listed below (see Chart 1) forces executives to take a broader review of the many ele […]
• Big Data Expo New York Speaker Profile: David Lucas – GCE
  With Big Data Expo 2012 New York (www.BigDataExpo.net), co-located with 10th Cloud Expo, under four months away, what better time to start introducing 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 f […]
• Cloud Expo New York: Mobilizing Enterprise Applications for the Cloud
  2011 was a year of rapid adoption for public and private cloud services. Instant and on-demand server provisioning was the driving force behind the massive growth. On top, cloud server templates and script automation simplified application installation for simple and pre-defined application stacks, but have not targeted more complex enterprise application en […]