“Business drivers have changed,” noted Mike Donaldson, VP of Marketing, at Ping Identity in this post-show Q&A with Cloud Expo Chair Jeremy Geelan. And Donaldson believes “this has created a real demand for Cloud Computing.” A very general question first, about Cloud Computing itself:...

Cloud computing has the potential to become one of the most transformative developments in how information technology services are created, delivered, and accessed. Cloud security is by far the most concerned aspect for cloud adoption. Information security can be strengthened if each s...

Cloud Computing is driving a fundamental shift in the way organizations build, deploy and use applications, and it’s raising expectations on how quickly and cost-effectively new IT functionality can be made available to the business. And even though the delivery chain for these “border...

Cloud computing will have a transformative impact on the data center landscape. The traditional measures of success for data center ownership will be thrown out the window in favor of Agile Data Center or Agile and On- Demand Compute Capacity. Traditional data centers can take up to tw...

“The most important factor driving CIOs towards the Cloud is that they have found a technology that helps them get close to achieving true ‘IT and Business Alignment,’” stated Ahmar Abbas, SVP at CSS Corp in this post-show Q&A with Cloud Expo Chair Jeremy Geelan. Abbas concludes: “Clou...

A combination of interoperability and portability is the Holy Grail of Cloud computing, but is nearly impossible to achieve without standards. Adopting standards fosters competition and innovation in any market, but the Cloud computing market is held back because standards, especially ...

“Cloud computing today is accessible not only to enterprise customers, but individual developers as well,” observed Thomas Krafft, Director of Marketing and Demand Generation at Objectivity, Inc. in this post-show Q&A with Cloud Expo Chair Jeremy Geelan. Krafft also noted that “anyone...

Welcome to the end of vendor lock-in. Cloud computing is often heralded as being the best way for organizations to increase flexibility and improve efficiency. However, that flexibility is greatly diminished by the proprietary nature of Cloud computing platforms where hypervisor format...

SYS-CON Events announced today that the "show postcard" for the 7th International Cloud Expo is now shipping. The Cloud Expo Silicon Valley “postcard” will be on the desks of 10,000 IT marketing managers by Monday morning, May 24. 7th International Cloud Expo will take place November ...

SYS-CON Events announced today that Catherine Minter, President of Cordys Americas, the leading provider of software for business process innovation, was named to the International Advisory Board of Cloud Expo. By forming an International Advisory Board, Cloud Expo extends its leaders...

“I think that with conferences like this [Cloud Expo] vendors are coming out with real service offerings with pricing and contracts (vs. pie-in-the-sky concepts that were being thrown around a year ago),” so noted Douglas Barbin , Director at SAS 70 Solutions, in this post-show Q&A wit...

“Cloud is being considered because of the computing ease it offers, noted Laks K. Venkateswaran, President & CEO of Solar Enterprise Solutions, in this post-show interview with Cloud Expo Chair Jeremy Geelan. However, he also thinks it “will take its time getting adopted or embraced as...

“The fact that Cloud adoption rates are ever-increasing means that it has staying power,” stated Abiquo CEO Pete Malcolm, in this post-show Q&A with Cloud Expo Chair Jeremy Geelan. Not only does Malcolm believe the cloud has staying power but “it is likely that Cloud will be around f...

SaaS data escrow is the practice of keeping a copy of data in SaaS applications with a neutral third party, protecting SaaS data should a vendor experience problems or there is an unexpected loss of service. SaaS data escrow also protects against accidental or malicious data loss while...

“The goal of webNetwork is to deliver all of an organization’s applications and services into a single virtual web desktop regardless of where they are hosted,” stated Rick German, Co-founder, CEO and CTO of Stoneware, in this exclusive post-show Q&A with Cloud Expo Chair Jeremy Geelan...

SYS-CON Events announced today that Richard Sarwal, Senior VP of Product Development at Oracle, the world's largest enterprise software company, was named to the International Advisory Board of Cloud Expo. By forming an International Advisory Board, Cloud Expo extends its leadership p...

SYS-CON Events announced today that Abe Pachikara, U.S. Cloud Computing Developer Evangelism & Adoption Lead, Microsoft, was named to the International Advisory Board of Cloud Expo. By forming an International Advisory Board, Cloud Expo extends its leadership position as center of gra...

SYS-CON Events announced today that Greg O'Connor, President & CEO of AppZero, was named to the International Advisory Board of Cloud Expo. "It is an honor to be considered among such cloud computing luminaries," said Greg O'Connor, as he became the latest technology pioneer and leade...

SYS-CON Events announced today that Tom Lounibos, CEO of SOASTA, the leader in cloud testing, was named to the International Advisory Board of Cloud Expo. By forming an International Advisory Board, Cloud Expo extends its leadership position as center of gravity for the worldwide move...

SYS-CON Events announced today that Barry X Lynn, Director of Shoreline Venture Management, was named to the International Advisory Board of Cloud Expo. By forming an International Advisory Board, Cloud Expo extends its leadership position as center of gravity for the worldwide move b...

SYS-CON Events announced today that Irfan Khan, CTO of Sybase, an industry leader in enterprise and mobile software, was named to the International Advisory Board of Cloud Expo. By forming an International Advisory Board, Cloud Expo extends its leadership position as center of gravity...

SYS-CON Events announced today that Judith Hurwitz, President, Hurwitz & Associates, was named to the International Advisory Board of Cloud Expo. By forming an International Advisory Board, Cloud Expo extends its leadership position as center of gravity for the worldwide move by Enter...

SYS-CON Events announced today that Siki Giunta, Global VP, Cloud Computing of CSC, a global leader in providing technology-enabled solutions and services through three primary lines of business, was named to the International Advisory Board of Cloud Expo. By forming an International ...

SYS-CON Events announced today that Reuven Cohen, Founder & CTO of Enomaly, developer of Cloud Computing products and solutions focused on enterprise businesses, was named to the International Advisory Board of Cloud Expo. By forming an International Advisory Board, Cloud Expo extends...

SYS-CON Events announced today that Bill Coleman, Co-Founder of BEA Systems, was named to the International Advisory Board of Cloud Expo. By forming an International Advisory Board, Cloud Expo extends its leadership position as center of gravity for the worldwide move by Enterprise IT...

SYS-CON Events announced today that Simon Crosby, CTO, Datacenter & Cloud of Citrix Systems, provider of virtual computing solutions that help companies deliver IT as an on-demand service, was named to the International Advisory Board of Cloud Expo. By forming an International Advisor...

SYS-CON Events announced today that Marty Gauvin, Founder, President & CEO of Virtual Ark, a provider of Fortune 1000 enterprise SaaS-enabled applications and services in the clouds, was named to the International Advisory Board of Cloud Expo. By forming an International Advisory Boar...

SYS-CON Events announced today that Peter Coffee, Director of Platforms at Salesforce, the enterprise cloud computing company, was named to the International Advisory Board of Cloud Expo. By forming an International Advisory Board, Cloud Expo extends its leadership position as center ...

SYS-CON Events announced today that Tony Bishop, Founder and CEO of Adaptivity, the IT transformation company, was named to the International Advisory Board of Cloud Expo. By forming an International Advisory Board, Cloud Expo extends its leadership position as center of gravity for t...

“Cloud is setting expectations among end users for a fast hands-on experience,” noted Kevin Epstein, VP of Marketing at CloudShare, in this exclusive post-show interview with Cloud Expo Chair Jeremy Geelan. As CloudShare is “a fan of ubiquity and democratization of IT,” he concludes th...

Virtualization is one of the key foundations of the Cloud, but many enterprises are finding the rapid growth in the number of virtual machines extremely difficult to manage. Far from reducing provisioning times and improving utilization, many organizations have found that “virtualizati...

SYS-CON Events announced today that Pete Malcolm, CEO of Abiquo, a leading vendor of Cloud infrastructure management solutions, was named to the International Advisory Board of Cloud Expo. By forming an International Advisory Board, Cloud Expo extends its leadership position as cente...

SYS-CON Events announced today that Unisys, an innovator in bringing business solutions to global enterprises, has been named “Platinum Sponsor” of SYS-CON’s 6th International Cloud Expo, which will take place on June 21–22, 2010, at the Hilton Prague Hotel in Prague, Czech Republic. ...

SYS-CON Events announced today that Compuware, the global leader in application performance, has been named “Gold Sponsor” of SYS-CON’s 6th International Cloud Expo, which will take place on June 21–22, 2010, at the Hilton Prague Hotel in Prague, Czech Republic. Cloud Computing offers...

Adaptivity provides integrated solutions that automate IT Delivery optimization across enterprise computing environments. In this exclusive Q&A for Cloud Computing Journal with Cloud Expo Conference Chair, Jeremy Geelan, Tony Bishop – CEO of Adaptivity – discusses Adaptivity’s “IT Tran...

Mobile cloud computing has been described as a greenfield for 2010. Cloud and mobile are complimentary technologies and the benefits are immense in the mobile application space. Intelligence In Motion has been working in this space for almost two years and has found that there are un...

Despite the economy, cloud computing is doing well. Cloud Computing is not just a buzz term; it's already proving itself as the next wave of technology infrastructure. The May 25 deadline for the Call for Papers for the 6th International Cloud Computing Conference & Expo, to be held ...

“The security threats from highly organized offshore governments and cybermafias are so great that small enterprises are turning to large, trusted cloud servers for protection,” notes John Sundman in this exclusive post-show interview with Cloud Expo Chair Jeremy Geelan. John Sundman, ...

SYS-CON Events announced on Monday that "iPad Summit" will take place November 1-4, 2010, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, California. The Summit is co-located with the 7th International Cloud Conference & Expo and the 9th International Virtualization Conference & E...

"Individuals and organizations could increase computing capacity or add capabilities at very minimal to no investment in additional infrastructure, personnel, or licensed software," writes Khan. Quoting the software exec, he pointed out that "adopters (can) access systems regardless of...