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This technical white paper from Citrix – “NetScaler VPX: Harness the Power of Virtualized Web App Delivery” – shows you how the NetScaler VPX virtual appliance offers maximum physical, functional, and operational flexibility for delivering web apps. Learn how virtual application delive...
Enterprise Cloud Computing is a key strategy for CIOs, stated Jill Tummler Singer, Deputy CIO at the CIA, in her keynote session at the 1st Annual GovIT Expo in Washington, D.C. As the pressure mounts to meet more stringent budgets, CIOs need to find the proper balance between transfor...
“Cloud adoption and requirements are in conflict,” stated Terry Woloszyn, CEO/CTO of PerspecSys, in his general session today at the 1st Government IT Conference & Expo in Washington, D.C. Privacy laws dictate how to keep data private and how to govern accessibility to that date. What'...
XenApp customers have already taken an important first step towards centralized desktop management, delivering an estimated 25 million applications to more than 100 million users every day1. Many of these same customers are now looking to extend the benefits of centralization to all de...
iomart Hosting, the UK data centre and managed hosting provider, has today launched two of the UK's first genuine true cloud computing hosting platforms.
Citrix started opening the kimono on XenDesktop 4 Monday claiming it’s the complete answer to desktop virtualization and will revolutionize desktop computing for hundreds of millions of corporate users. Judging from the pilots going into production and 40,000- to 125,000-seat deploymen...
Cisco and Openet today announced that Turkcell, Turkey's leading communications and technology company, has deployed a combined solution to provide a flexible charging system for its general packet radio service (GPRS) mobile data network. The joint solution from Cisco and Openet, w...
Do Cloud Standards exist? Can we trust them? Are we building our enterprise solutions on mere vapors? Kyle Gabhart of Web Age Solutions will explore these topics and many more in a breakout session to be given at SYS-CON's 1st Annual Government IT Conference & Expo (GovITExpo).
Leading the way in providing software solutions that extend, enhance and improve virtual environments, Vizioncore Inc. has grown into an industry leader which is helping thousands of organizations maximize their ROI from their investments in virtualization. With a comprehensive set of ...
3Tera announced AppLogic(TM) is the first cloud computing platform to demonstrate support for IPv6. 3Tera and hosting partners Cari.net and ScaleUp Technologies successfully demonstrated database replication between applications running in two different cloud provider datacenters using...
How can federal agencies achieve security in a shared cloud computing environment? Eric Greenberg, VP of Security & Risk Solutions at Integralis, will clear up FISMA security compliance misconceptions and obstacles to cloud computing in a breakout session to be given at SYS-CON's 1st A...
As the pressure mounts to meet more stringent budgets, CIOs need to find the proper balance between transforming IT and reducing costs. IT operational costs continue to increase as a percentage of overall IT dollars. In her keynote at SYS-CON's 1st Annual Government IT Conference & Exp...
The goal of Eucalyptus is to allow sites with existing clusters and server infrastructure to host an elastic computing service that is interface-compatible with Amazon's AWS, but can also support multiple interfaces such as Google's AppEngine and the Sun Cloud open API. Rich Wolski, Ch...
Tactical Cloud Computing refers to the use of cloud computing technology and techniques for the support of localized and short-lived information access and processing requirements. This discussion panel at the 1st Annual Government IT Expo on October 6 in Washington, D.C., will explore...
Craig Conway, the guy who got bounced out of PeopleSoft in the middle of its prolonged and eventually hopeless fight to stop Oracle from taking it over, has been named to AMD’s board. Conway has a talent for rebuilding companies but as president and CEO of PeopleSoft, the PeopleSoft bo...
At SYS-CON's 1st Annual Government IT Conference & Expo (GovITExpo), Barry X Lynn, Chairman and CEO of 3Tera, will present a general session entitled “Cloud Computing - the Next Generation of IT: What, Why and How?” He will also present a breakout session where he will discuss “Public,...
An Open Source SOA Roadmap is a SOA governance stone that kills two items – spaghetti enterprise architectures and endless middleware license fees. Robert J. Williams Jr is Chief Enterprise Architect at Maxworks will demonstrate how in a breakout session to be given at SYS-CON's 1st An...
How can public and private sector companies leverage the enumerable and quantifiable benefits of the cloud, while maintaining total control over their private and business sensitive data? Terry Woloszyn, CEO/CTO of PerspecSys Inc., will answer this question and more in a breakout sessi...
HP is close to moving its printer unit into its PC unit according to an unconfirmed, unattributed piece in the Wall Street Journal Tuesday, which would mean redoing what CEO Mark Hurd undid when he got there to shake the Carly dust off the company. The reorg reportedly just needs Hur...
How can organizations adopt Cloud-based applications while maintaining total control of their private and sensitive data? John McGoldrick, Director of Sales and Marketing at PerspecSys, will discuss this and more in a breakout session to be given at SYS-CON's 1st Annual Government IT C...
Tighter budgets and increased oversight are driving significant reporting requirements for IT compliance. From security and operations to software audits and virtualization, agencies are under increasing pressure to improve transparency into their IT environments across all technologie...
How can government organizations offer public data sets cost effectively? In his breakout session to be given at SYS-CON's 1st Annual Government IT Conference & Expo (GovITExpo), Omer Trajman, Director, Cloud & Virtualization at Vertica, will answer this question and more and show how ...
SOA may be a popular buzzword and talk of actively practicing SOA is spoken of in the same vein as teenage frivolity ("everyone is doing it"). JP Morgenthal, Sr. Principal Analyst with QinetiQ North America's Mission Systems Group, discusses how SOA is actually a delicate balancing act...
What are the linkages of SOA to Cloud, and what is best way to accelerate from SOA into Cloud? These questions will be answered by Eric Marks - founder, president, and CEO of AgilePath Corporation - in a breakout session to be given at SYS-CON's 1st Annual Government IT Conference & Ex...
Government agencies must ensure they have a solid security foundation of back-end IT controls, and auditing is critical to an institution's overall security infrastructure. Philip Lieberman, founder and president of Lieberman Software, discusses how government agencies address these cr...
February 29, 2008, marked the start of change in the Department of Defense's management of its Major Defense Acquisition Program (MDAP) portfolio. Mark Krzysko, Assistant Deputy Under Secretary of Defense (ADUSD) for Business Transformation, will speak about what this means for the DoD...
Continuity of Operations Planning has been a priority of governmental and non-governmental organizations for a number of years. What are best practices for managing users' personalized environments when VDI is used for continuing operations? Paul Hahn, Director of Technical Solutions a...
Threat and fraud was once the sole domain of men in trench coats. However, they are now found in areas including employee screening, benefit claims, and identity theft. Marne E. Gordan, a Regulatory Analyst for IBM’s Corporate Security Strategy Group, will explore these topics and brin...
What are the benefits and trade-offs of applying the various virtualization techniques within the cloud? Can cloud computing leverage a myriad of Virtualization technologies? Harry Foxwell of Sun Microsystems Federal will answer these and other questions in a breakout session to be giv...
What challenges should organizations anticipate when shifting to the cloud? What are the current best practices for implementing a secure on-premise and cloud deployment mix? These and other questions will be answered in a breakout session to be given at SYS-CON's 1st Annual Government...
SYS-CON Events announced today that Eric Baldeschwieler, VP Hadoop Software Development at Yahoo!, will be presenting at SYS-CON’s 4th International Cloud Computing Conference & Expo in Santa Clara, CA, this coming November 2 – 4, 2009. His session is entitled “Hadoop @ Yahoo - Interne...
SYS-CON Events announced today that Omer Trajman, Director of Cloud and Virtualization for Vertica, will be presenting at the upcoming Government IT Conference & Expo (www.GovITExpo.com) this coming October 6th in Washington, DC. The session will be entitled “Accessing Public Data via ...
xkoto, the database virtualization company, has announced the availability of GRIDSCALE 5.1, the latest release of its active-active solution for IBM DB2. GRIDSCALE 5.1 features a new cluster management system that improves the performance of online transaction processing (OLTP) applic...
If the trend of the first six months of 2009 holds, the overall number of M&A deals this year will have plunged to a level last witnessed in 2004. That is the painful truth, according to a report published today by The Boston Consulting Group (BCG). Conventional M&A strategies must be ...
"Virtualizing hardware appliances is pretty tough, it's pretty much impossible," says Intel’s Blake Dournaee in this informative and forward-looking webinar currently screening on SYS-CON.TV. Co-presenting with Oracle’s Vikas Jain, the webinar discusses three game-changing innovations....
Aonix, the provider of the PERC product line for embedded and real-time Java developers, announced Java™ virtual machine support for the low-cost BeagleBoard with its flagship product PERC Ultra. More developers and projects will be able to quickly and more cost efficiently launch deve...
Aonix, the provider of the PERC product line for embedded and real-time Java developers, announced a new release of its PERC Ultra product with support for AWT/Swing graphics libraries. This release is the first support of AWT/Swing graphics libraries in PERC Ultra for embedded and rea...
Before the New York version of its International Cloud Computing Conference & Expo, which is about to be held again in Silicon Valley (Santa Clara Convention Center, 2-4 November, 2009), SYS-CON.TV invited four leading industry thought leaders to discuss how Cloud Computing brings the ...
SYS-CON Events announced today that Altor Networks, a leading innovator and provider of virtual and cloud security will exhibit and present at SYS-CON's 4th International Cloud Computing Conference & Expo, which will take place on November 2 - 4, 2009, Santa Clara Convention Center, in...
At each and every one of its long-running "International Virtualization Conference & Expo" events, held three times a year, SYS-CON Events prides itself on inviting knowledgeable and articulate industry executives to participate in its Power Panels - simulcast at every show direct from...


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