Cloud News From Sys-Con

• Cloud Expo New York: Stairway to the Cloud
  The world is connected in an unprecedentedly accelerating way. Where government and Enterprise IT buyers once led, now consumers and end users lead. Accordingly, the economics of cloud computing are dramatically changing the way businesses expect to procure IT services. In his session at the 12th International Cloud Expo, Jeff Katzen, Senior Manager of Cloud […]
• Cloud Expo New York: The Next-Generation IT Department – Must Have Cloud
  Compelling consumer applications are created every day. Are you ready for the IT implications both internally and externally? As your datacenter needs more capacity, the cloud will be critical to success. What are the key considerations to help plan for the needed capacity over time? And how can the cloud best work with your existing applications? In his Gen […]
• Did the ‘Neophiliacs’ Build the Cloud Service Model?
  There’s an inherent sense of almost forced innovation that appears to pervade the information technology industry. As we constantly push forward into perpetual cycles of reinvention, continual enhancement and augmentation after augmentation, one almost has to stop and ask what’s wrong with the software and systems that we have at our disposal today? If a ‘ne […]
• Is Cloud Safer Than Your Traditional Datacenter?
  These days, it seems that every cloud provider claims that cloud is safer than your traditional datacenter. Is it though? In his General Session at 12th Cloud Expo | Cloud Expo New York, McAfee expert Rishi Bhargava will help you explore and address the security challenges and considerations for public cloud (IaaS, PaaS and SaaS). read more […]
• Intrinsic-ID to Exhibit at Cloud Expo New York
  SYS-CON Events announced today that Intrinsic-ID, a provider of top-level security solutions, will exhibit at SYS-CON's 12th International Cloud Expo, which will take place on June 10–13, 2013, at the Javits Center in New York City, New York. Intrinsic-ID’s software application Saturnus® offers users total data security in the cloud. With the applicatio […]
• Cloud Expo New York: Building Capacity Control into Internal Clouds
  How your organization approaches capacity management will make or break your private cloud initiative. No longer a periodic sizing exercise, capacity management is now an essential element of daily infrastructure operations that impacts costs, performance risks, and the ability to respond to new workload requests. In his session at the 12th International Clo […]
• The Who, What and How of Selling Cloud to SMBs
  Cloud enables SMBs to access new, scalable resources – previously only available to enterprises – in flexible and cost-effective ways. McKinsey’s SMB Cloud Report projects the public cloud market to reach $40-$50 billion by 2015, with SMBs comprising 65% of public cloud spending in 2015. But selling cloud to SMBs raises the questions of who, what and how. In […]
• Cloud Computing Bootcamp at Cloud Expo New York: Full Agenda
  New, "Super-Sized" 4-Day Cloud Computing Bootcamp is a brief introduction to cloud computing carefully created and devised to help you keep up with evolving trends like Big Data, PaaS, APIs, Mobile, Social and Data Analytics. Solutions built around these topics require a sound cloud computing infrastructure to be successful while assisting customer […]
• Author Thomas Erl to Attend Launch of New Cloud Book at Cloud Expo NY
  One of the top-selling IT authors of the past decade will be making a special appearance on June 11 at the 12th International Cloud Expo at the Javits Center in New York City. Thomas Erl, author and co-author of eight books and series editor of the Prentice Hall Service Technology Series from Thomas Erl, will be participating with fellow author Ricardo Putti […]
• Calculating the True Value of Industry Specific Clouds
  Industry-specific clouds are those PaaS, IaaS, and SaaS services that are tailored for a specific vertical, such as transportation, retail, finance, and healthcare. IDC sees a $65 billion market in these industry solutions for 2013, rising to $100 billion in 2016. The value of industry-specific clouds is that businesses within a vertical can connect to appli […]