Versatile's broad expertise in architecting and deploying large scale virtual systems in both the data center and at the desktop are on display at this event. Event attendees will be able to have hands on experience with these technologies including key Versatile technology and engage ...

Terry Woloszyn, Founder of PerspecSys, emphasized security and compliance in his session at the 4th International Cloud Computing Conference & Expo, held at the Santa Clara Convention Center, Nov. 2 – 4. In his session – “Addressing Data Privacy, Residency, and Security when Adopting C...

New York State Attorney General Andrew Cuomo filed a federal antitrust lawsuit against Intel Wednesday charging it with engaging in a “worldwide, systematic campaign of illegal conduct – revealed in e-mails – to maintain its monopoly power and prices on its microprocessors.” The colorf...

Commenting on the quarter, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer John Chambers noted, "Building off what we saw as a clear tipping point in Q4, our Q1 results continued to reflect strong sequential growth trends that meet or exceed expectations during normal economic times. We view the ...

"On the supply side, interviews with cloud-enabled providers reveal that there are a lot of activities already underway to support enterprises of all kinds," noted Agatha Poon, speaking at the 4th International Cloud Computing Conference & Expo at the Santa Clara Convention Center in S...

The most anticipated talk of the day, at the Cloud Computing Conference and Expo yesterday, was by the deputy CIO of the CIA, Jill Singer. Her talk was entitled, Enterprise Cloud Computing, the Infrastructure’s Final Revenge. She acknowledged the problem with defining Cloud Computing, ...

Authors of the RSA Security Brief include many of the industry's foremost security and virtualization experts from EMC and VMware, including Bret Hartman, Chief Technology Officer of EMC's RSA security division, Dr. Stephen Herrod, Chief Technology Officer and Senior Vice President of ...

The Vitality Group announced that Savvis, Inc. has selected its incentive-based wellness program to motivate and support Savvis associates as they take ownership of their personal health. Savvis, one of the largest IP network and hosting providers in the world employs more than 2,200 e...

Google held a small event in London late last month, at which senior executives from a wide range of organisations gathered to discuss the impact of the Cloud. Presenters included luminaries such as Marc Benioff, Werner Vogels, Geoffrey Moore and Nick Carr, as well as CIOs at the coalf...

In an effort to modernize its business operations and eliminate the high cost of maintaining and upgrading SAP's complex, on-premise software, COMMCO transitioned to NetSuite and now relies on NetSuite's cloud computing platform for its core operational needs, including Enterprise Reso...

3Leaf Systems, the well-funded start-up, dropped its fig leaf Tuesday and took a running jump into the pools of memory, I/O and cache that it can construct and deconstruct at will based on the application, creating scale-up shared-memory SMP systems the likes of mainframes, proprietary...

"We've been fairly quiet," said Rex Wang, VP of Infrastructure and Management at Oracle, this morning as he gave the Morning Keynote at the third and last day of the 4th Cloud Computing International Conference Expo at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA. Wang was ref...

Platform Computing is expanding cloud computing capabilities for high performance computing (HPC) with two new offerings. The company today announced the release of Platform ISF Adaptive Cluster, a product that dynamically changes the operating systems and personalities of compute node...

Cisco and EMC Tuesday kicked off a cloud-chasing joint venture called Acadia that includes VMware and Intel as minority investors. Presumably they took the name from the ancient Greeks who used the word to mean a refuge or idyllic place and not the uprooted and deported North Americ...

Yahoo! is, of course, has one of the larger IT installations you will find: 600 million unique website visitors each month worldwide, 300 million email addresses, and "hundreds of petabytes of data," Shugar said. So now, "we are building a private cloud to be used within Yahoo!, have d...

"This is a long-term activity. started a few years ago," Shugar said. "And prior to cloud we might have had to literally forklift machines and move them when we want to move capacity. With cloud serving we are building a flat network and can basically point and click and move capacity ...

"On the supply side, interviews with cloud-enabled providers reveal that there are a lot of activities already underway to support enterprises of all kinds," notes Agatha Poon, who this coming week will be speaking at the 4th International Cloud Computing Conference & Expo at the Santa...

Sometime before 4:30 Wednesday afternoon New York time Cisco and EMC, two companies that are already tight and were expected to get tighter, are supposed to announce a joint venture to sell a cloud or cloud products called vBlock. VMware's involved because virtualization is relatively ...

Marcello also stressed that cloud computing installations must be able to run enterprise applications. "What the folks at salesforce.com have done, for example, is very impressive," he noted. "But we also need to move all these Dotnet and Java enterprise applications to the cloud.." Fu...

Information Technology infrastructure is being transformed by virtualization, and today Logicstudio announces the transformation of the service request system. Logicstudio is a leader in providing service and product catalogs to the Federal government through its Logicstudio Enterprise...

“Unisys cloud computing strategy is based on providing industrial-strength security and data protection,” said Rich Marcello, president, Unisys Technology, Consulting and Integration Solutions, as Unisys today unveiled at the 4th International Cloud Computing Conference & Expo in Santa...

Former AMD CEO Hector Ruiz, the guy who spun out AMD’s plants into a joint venture with the government of Abu Dhabi and then became chairman of that company when it was formed in March, has stepped down after being identified as one of the tipsters leaking material inside information t...

Yahoo! aims to be one of the 800-pound gorillas--along with Google, Amazon, and several major technology companies--in the upcoming battles for hosting dominance in the Cloud Computing space. Yahoo aims to be one of the 800-pound gorrillas--along with Google, Amazon, and several major ...

RightScale, Inc., today launched the next generation of the RightScale Cloud Management Platform that delivers increased application portability across cloud infrastructures. With this release, RightScale has enhanced its ServerTemplate technology to provide automatic configuration of ...

The Planet, the global leader in IT hosting, today announced that Rob Walters, director of product management, will participate in a panel discussion at the Cloud Computing Conference & Expo in Santa Clara, Calif. The panel—titled “Enterprise-Level Cloud Computing: Far-Off Dream or Pre...

Young as it is, RightScale, the cloud manager, is on to its next-generation platform. Its ServerTemplate widgetry will now automatically configure servers on specific clouds, system architectures and operating systems, something it didn’t do before. It should let users take adv...

Marcello will be delivering the Expo's initial keynote address, at 2pm on Monday, delivering his views on why "The Time is Right for Enterprise Cloud Computing."Marcello, who spent many years at another enterprise technology giant, HP, before joining Unisys, outlined his vision and vi...

Unisys Corporation today announced the latest in a series of aggressive moves to expand the full spectrum of secure cloud computing options available to enterprise CIOs. The company announced Unisys Secure Private Cloud Solution, an innovative solution for organizations to realize the ...

StarWind Software, a global leader in storage virtualization and a pioneer in iSCSI storage, today announced a release of the fifth-generation of its flagship product StarWind 5.0, an iSCSI SAN software platform which turns any industry-standard x86 or x64 Windows server into a fail-sa...

Composite Software, Inc., began shipping Composite Information Server 5.1 as the company announced its leadership in a number of industry milestones. Composite Information Server 5.1 continues to provide industry-leading data virtualization capabilities such as the ability to access da...

A round-up of the wide range of important issues and timely topics due to be discussed by over 130 industry experts at SYS-CON's 4th International Cloud Computing Conference & Expo, opening today at the Santa Clara Convention Center, November 2-4, 2009. From Building Scalable and Exten...

Vicom Systems, provider of transparent wire-speed data services for systems and storage, today announced the introduction of FlexDM(TM) Data Migration Services. These new services simplify the process of upgrading storage systems by enabling customers to migrate data from old to ne...

Gartner defines a strategic technology as one with the potential for significant impact on the enterprise in the next three years. Factors that denote significant impact include a high potential for disruption to IT or the business, the need for a major dollar investment, or the risk o...

Fusion 3, VMware’s upgraded solution for running Windows and PC applications on a Mac, although Apple has its own Bootcamp widgetry, tried wending its way out the other day and hit a nasty snag at its upgrade portal. VMware says it was because of larger-than-expected demand and couldn’...

3Tera®, the leading provider of cloud computing technology and utility computing services, announces Peter Nickolov, President and CTO, 3Tera will be participating in two speaking sessions at the 2009 Cloud Computing Conference and Expo (http://cloudcomputingexpo.com) on November 2...

Hubspan, a provider of cloud computing-based business integration solutions, today announced that Trisha Gross, president and CEO, was selected by the Cloud Computing Conference & Expo West organizers to present during the industry event held November 2-4. Gross' presentation will focu...

With IBM and Dell watching its back, Juniper strode into town Thursday like a gunslinger twirling its pearl-handled six-guns around ready to take on Cisco, the fastest gun in the West, and all the other network hombres. The mid-sized company opened its barrage at the New York Stock Exc...

ParaScale, Inc, a provider of developing cloud storage solutions, announced today that the company's Chief Technology Officer, Cameron Bahar, will speak to attendees of Sys-Con's Cloud Computing Conference and Expo about best practices in cloud storage, on Tuesday, November 3, 2009 at ...

Cloud-based computing infrastructures deliver broad-based functionality to end users in far-flung locales but too often the destination device remains a PC. Developments in virtual desktop technology are creating a new generation of ultra low-cost endpoints such as network monitors, se...

Cloud-based computing infrastructures deliver broad-based functionality to end users in far-flung locales but too often the destination device remains a PC. Developments in virtual desktop technology are creating a new generation of ultra low-cost endpoints such as network monitors, se...