Conference News

SAP Presented at SYS-CON's 4th International Virtualization Conference & Expo

Mon, 01 Dec 2008 19:15:00 EST

In his virtualization session on Nov. 21 at the 4th International Virtualization Conference & Expo in San Jose, CA, Roland Wartenberg, SAP's director of virtualization strategy, discussed the supported virtualization solutions provided by partners of SAP's virtualization ecosystem. Simply running an SAP solution in a virtualized environment is not enough.

Red Hat's Brian Stevens Explores the Evolution of the Cloud at 1st International Cloud Computing Conference & Expo

Fri, 28 Nov 2008 07:00:00 EST

"The days of Cloud 1.0 are here," stated Red Hat CTO Brian Stevens in his session this morning at SYS-CON’s Virtualization Conference & Expo, in San Jose. He discussed the evolution of the cloud, and how to build a cloud. Over the last five years, the open source community has turned its attention to virtualization, and Stevens discussed what has been achieved so far, and what is under development.

Symantec and Intel Present General Session at SYS-CON's 4th International Virtualization Conference & Expo

Mon, 24 Nov 2008 13:00:00 EST

With an ever increasing variety of physical and virtual endpoints, companies are rapidly facing the next big challenge – manageability. So stated Symantec's Brian Duckering and Intel's Chuck Brown in their general session on Friday at SYS-CON’s 4th International Virtualization Conference & Expo held in San Jose, CA. In order to manage hybrid types of models, companies need to balance the datacenter with the needs of the users.

XAware to Speak at SOA World Conference & Expo

Thu, 20 Nov 2008 10:45:00 EST

XAware has announced that Kirstan Vandersluis, founder and chief scientist, will be a featured speaker at the 14th International SOA World Conference & Expo 2008 West to be held November 19-21, 2008 at the Fairmont Hotel in San Jose, Calif. Mixing and mashing multiple data sources, all of different formats, into something that makes sense is a headache for software architects.

Meet Cloud Investors at SYS-CON's Cloud Computing Conference & Expo, November 19-21, San Jose, CA

Wed, 19 Nov 2008 09:45:00 EST

Atlanta-based TechOperators, a new early stage VC targeting cloud computing and SaaS as well as Internet services, security, infrastructure and mobile, is launching its first venture fund and claims it didn’t have too many problems raising the $20 million-$30 million. The four managing partners, all ex-CEOs who sold their companies mostly to big boys, include Tom Noonan who sold Internet Security Systems to IBM, David Gould who sold Witness Systems to Verint Systems, Said Mohammadioun, who sold Samna to Lotus and Glenn McGonnigle, who sold VistaScape Security Systems to Siemens. They’re reportedly looking for firms already doing $1 million in revenue that need $2 million-$3 million to leverage their recurring-revenue business.

Moderro Announces Turnkey Cloud Computer at 1st International Cloud Computing Conference & Expo

Tue, 18 Nov 2008 20:00:00 EST

Moderro Technologies will debut its Xpack Internet Computer – an integrated (hardware, operating system and web management) solution for the Web 2.0 desktop – at SYS-CON's Cloud Computing Conference & Expo, November 19-21, in San Jose, CA. The Xpack features a clean and friendly user interface and operating system that was written by Moderro specifically for interacting with Web 2.0 applications.

Moderro to Announce "Turnkey Cloud Computer" This Week at 1st International Cloud Computing Conference & Expo

Mon, 17 Nov 2008 12:47:00 EST

Moderro Technologies www.moderro.com will debut its Xpack Internet Computer – an integrated (hardware, operating system and web management) solution for the Web 2.0 desktop SYS-CON's Cloud Computing Conference & Expo, November 19-21, in San Jose, CA. The Xpack features a clean and friendly user interface and operating system that was written by Moderro specifically for interacting with Web 2.0 applications. This functionality, combined with simplicity, security, a small footprint, energy efficiency, and backward compatibility make the Moderro Xpack a perfect choice for Web 2.0 office.

ENKI Founder & CEO Speaking Next Week at SYS-CON's Cloud Computing Expo November 19-21 in Silicon Valley

Sat, 15 Nov 2008 08:35:00 EST

"These are still the early days of Cloud Computing, where delivery has so far focused primarily on price, as set by the market leader, Amazon," notes Dave Durkee, Founder, CEO & Technical Director of ENKI Consulting. "However, while successful in the Web 2.0 market," he adds, "price-based cloud computing is falling short of the expectations held by the Enterprise."

Rackspace Mosso to Exhibit at 1st International Cloud Computing Conference & Expo

Thu, 13 Nov 2008 23:45:00 EST

SYS-CON Events announced today that the leading global Cloud Computing technology provider Mosso to exhibit at SYS-CON's Cloud Computing Conference & Expo which will take place November 19-21, 2008, at the Fairmont Hotel in the heart of Silicon Valley, in San Jose, California. More than 40 Cloud technology providers, as well as Virtualization and SOA companies will exhibit at the upcoming 1st International Cloud Computing Conference & Expo (www.CloudComputingExpo.com), November 19-21, in San Jose, California. The conference will be colocated with SYS-CON's 4th International Virtualization Conference & Expo (www.VirtualizationConference.com).

Cassatt to Transform Data Centers Into 'Internal Clouds'

Thu, 13 Nov 2008 23:00:00 EST

"Cloud computing offers great promise by having third parties deliver the computing resources needed to run applications as an on-demand service, with a lot of the IT infrastructure invisible to the user," said Bill Coleman, chairman and CEO of Cassatt Corp. "However, at this point most IT professionals are not comfortable outsourcing the mission-critical parts of their sensitive internal applications to an external cloud provider. They are concerned about availability, vendor lock-in, not having the control they need, and having to rebuild these applications from scratch with proprietary tools running on provider-specific platforms."

iTKO to Present LISA Eclipse Edition at SYS-CON's SOA World Conference & Expo

Thu, 13 Nov 2008 10:00:00 EST

The new LISA Eclipse Edition offers deep integration with many aspects of the platform, including the IDE, Source Control, Lifecycle Management, SWT interface elements, and other tools that operate inside of Eclipse. LISA test case documents can be stored and executed within the workflow of any Eclipse-based development project.

LynuxWorks Named "Bronze Sponsor" of SYS-CON's Virtualization and Cloud Computing Conference & Expo

Wed, 12 Nov 2008 23:00:00 EST

SYS-CON Events announced today that the leading global virtualization technology provider LynuxWorks named "Bronze Sponsor" of SYS-CON's the 4th International Virtualization Conference & Expo, (www.virtualizationconference.com), which will take place November 19-21, 2008, at the Fairmont Hotel in the heart of Silicon Valley, in San Jose, California.

Intel to Debut New Version of XML Software Suite at SYS-CON's SOA World Conference & Expo, November 19-21, San Jose, CA

Wed, 12 Nov 2008 23:00:00 EST

Intel has just released Intel XML Software Suite 1.2. This latest release helps maximize XML performance, while minimizing the effort for any Enterprise, SOA, SaaS, and Web 2.0 based applications. Intel XML Software Suite 1.2 optimizes XML application performance, takes full advantage of Intel Architecture, lowers total cost of ownership and allows developers to quickly and easily incorporate technologies for a faster time to market. This updated Intel XML Software Suite includes support for Intel Core i7 processors, StAX API for Java, and increased compatibility with IBM WebSphere and Oracle WebLogic. This new version is also engineered to automatically take advantage of the new Intel Core i7 SSE4.2 processor instructions to further boost XML processing performance.

Tap In Systems to Exhibit at SYS-CON's Cloud Computing Conference & Expo

Wed, 12 Nov 2008 22:00:00 EST

The Tap In Systems consists of a team of engineers and software developers with many years of experience in network management, systems management, software and web application development. Its members have worked in large corporate environments as well as start up ventures. Tap In Systems was formed to provide IT management solutions that were previously only available from high cost enterprise software vendors. This is accomplished by leveraging the latest open-source technologies to build applications which use the latest web-enabled techniques. Our philosophy is to emphasize integration of existing and common tools rather than re-deploying new tools which have a disruptive effect on an IT orgnization.

Virtualization Expo Compliance Session on November 19-21, in San Jose, California

Tue, 11 Nov 2008 23:00:00 EST

Virtualization is a good idea. Losing best-practices in security and compliance in the move from P to V is not. While virtualization presents enormous opportunities for enhanced operational efficiencies and improved ROI , migration from physical to virtual will also more than likely create gaps in compliance. Long-established controls and processes in place for the physical IT infrastructure are inadequate to address the special architecture of the virtual platform. Auditors are becoming increasingly educated about these issues, and stepping up their vigilance. Customers of virtualization platforms need to ensure that they are not inadvertently out of compliance.

CIOs Don't Really Care About the Cloud

Tue, 11 Nov 2008 13:03:00 EST

CIOs don't really care about the cloud. They care about budgets, security and compliance. All the buzzwords in the world won't help innovative technology unless it maps directly onto CIO pain points. This session investigates what those pain points are, and where emerging products and vendors are successfully solving real-world problems for end users. A picture of the cloud emerges, not as an abstraction viewed from the outside, but as a set of closely related changes taking place within the world's IT infrastructure.

How to Transition to SOA Successfully

Tue, 11 Nov 2008 11:26:00 EST

For the last month Brad Brown, CTO of TUSC, has been interviewing countless companies on their status of venturing into the world of SOA. Some companies have been doing "SOA" for more than 5 years, but a great many companies haven't even started down the SOA path. Brad has been talking about Web services (what he would call a lightweight SOA implementation) for more than 5 years now which is now known in the industry as Agile SOA. SOA Adoption is a journey with many paths. One of the journeys is the understanding where these services are coming from and Heterogeneity is Permanent. There are three areas that Automated Web service Generation by a tool makes good business sense for SOA. The exposure of Legacy systems as Web services. Legacy systems are not going away anytime soon, and companies need the ability to offer this critical data as a service.

DataDirect Technologies to Deliver Keynote at Leading Data Services Event

Tue, 11 Nov 2008 09:25:00 EST

Data Services World brings together experts in databases, data warehousing, business intelligence, enterprise computing and Internet computing to discuss new architecture considerations and technologies for accessing, integrating and processing data from heterogeneous data sources. As more organizations implement Service-Oriented Architectures (SOA), Web-Oriented Architectures (WOA) or cloud computing initiatives they find themselves with a multitude of business services which need to access enterprise data. With all modern computing architectures, the need for robust technologies for data access and data integration has become more critical than ever before. The concept of data services is emerging as an approach for addressing data access challenges in SOA and a critical component of successful strategic initiatives.

Preparing Your Enterprise for Virtualization

Tue, 11 Nov 2008 09:04:00 EST

Virtualization carries the promises of flexibility, lower costs, ease of deployment and simplified server management. However, when condensing the physical resources of your enterprise, are you considering how to make applications easily accessible to the growing number of remote users within your enterprise? IT managers rushing toward virtualization within the data center are finding that virtualization and consolidation do not address remote access performance issues experienced by remote branch users in today's distributed enterprises.

Cloud Computing as a Competitive Advantage: Change at the Speed of Business

Tue, 11 Nov 2008 09:03:00 EST

The pace of change in modern business is breathtaking. Successful companies are embracing change by innovating aggressively, mastering operational efficiency, and leveraging new regional and global business opportunities. This session addresses key ways that Cloud Computing, in the form of the Business Operations Platform (unifying BPM Architecture, Lifecycle and Teams) is a competitive edge for businesses. Companies can now respond faster to rapidly changing business conditions, drive the most value out of their existing systems and put existing and new processes in the direct control of the business - allowing them to achieve true alignment of business and IT.

Bridging Technology and Community for SOA

Tue, 11 Nov 2008 08:46:00 EST

SOA is about people as much as technology. This session will demonstrate how adding a layer of social (or "Web 2.0") features - things like tags, comments, and syndication feeds - to your SOA infrastructure can provide fertile ground to help grow a vibrant and connected community of developers, businesspeople, and technologists. We'll show you how a social registry/repository can enable both grass-roots development and CIO-pleasing governance, all with standard REST interfaces. And because we can directly connect SOA components and metadata with the human community creating them, the relationships of both the software and the people can be enriched.

Virtualization and Beyond: The Complete Optimized Computing Environment

Mon, 10 Nov 2008 14:05:00 EST

Virtualization is a word often mentioned these days, though largely users are only just starting to understand the range of applications for the technology. In this session Serguei Beloussov will discuss how virtualization can be used in the datacenter to optimize the IT infrastructure, touching on solutions for Virtual Desktop Infrastructure, consolidation and high performance computing. He will look at where the technology and the market are heading and how users can combine virtualization with automation to get the most optimization from the computing environment, significantly reducing total cost of IT ownership. The session will also cover the five cloud computing models, including both internally and externally hosted IT services.

Virtualization and Cloud Computing Expo Examines Data Center Virtualization, Nov. 19-20, San Jose, CA

Mon, 10 Nov 2008 12:07:00 EST

Data centers have been embracing a range of virtualization technologies in the pursuit of increase utilization, efficiency and manageability. Storage virtualization has been with us for some time. Server virtualization is now seeing increasing deployment across the full range of data centers. I/O virtualization is a key emerging technology which completes the evolution of the data center into the dynamic, highly efficient application platform required by today's businesses. This session will describe the concepts behind I/O consolidation and virtualization - particularly in the context of standard I/O interconnect - PCI Express - and consider its synergies with the other virtualization and I/O technologies.

Zeus Technology Named "Silver Sponsor" of SYS-CON's Cloud Computing Conference & Expo

Mon, 10 Nov 2008 12:00:00 EST

SYS-CON Events announced today that the leading global virtualization and cloud computing technology provider Zeus Technology named "Silver Sponsor" of SYS-CON's upcoming 1st International Cloud Computing Conference & Expo (www.CloudComputingExpo.com), November 19-21, in San Jose, California. The conference will be colocated with SYS-CON’s 4th International Virtualization Conference & Expo (www.VirtualizationConference.com). Zeus Technology develops application traffic management software and appliances, dramatically improving network and web-enabled applications making them faster, more reliable, more secure and easy to manage.

SYS-CON's 14th International SOA World Conference & Expo: Round-up of Themes & Topics

Sat, 08 Nov 2008 08:00:00 EST

From CEP and Composable Services to Real-Time SOA Systems and SOA For Parallel Computing, this is a round-up of the many themes and topic of interest to architects, developers and managers featuring at the 14th International SOA World Conference & Expo being held November 19-21, 2008 at The Fairmont Hotel in San Jose, California.

DataServices World 2008 West: SOA, WOA and Cloud Computing - The New Frontier for Data Services

Fri, 07 Nov 2008 09:35:00 EST

Data services, contends Rob Steward, Vice President of Research and Development at DataDirect Technologies, are critical to the predominant and emerging architectures we're embracing for building new systems. "Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) is becoming a standard enterprise architecture and Web-Oriented Architecture (WOA) is enabling organizations to pull together data from multiple sources and services," notes Steward, who will be presenting in the Keynote Hall at The Fairmont Hotel on November 20, 2008. "Cloud computing is an architecture that provides high-performance computing, massive data storage and scalability at commodity pricing," he adds.

DataServices World 2008 West: IBM's Malaika to Present on SOA, WOA, Cloud and XML Data

Fri, 07 Nov 2008 09:20:00 EST

XML end-to-end architectures are a natural follow-on to SOA: XML for the user interface, XML for data interchange, and XML for storage. Universal Services are a set of database operations, including insert, update, delete, and query, that expose stored XML as Web service operations.

DataServices World 2008 West: m2mi CEO Geoff Brown to Reveal the Key to Scalable Data Services

Fri, 07 Nov 2008 09:10:00 EST

How can security standards such as Open Authorization and Semantics be used to bind Cloud-based services to form a robust trust model? The answer to this question will be given by Geoff Brown, Founder & CEO of m2mi Corporation, in a breakout session at DataServices World 2008 West in San Jose, CA. Brown will focus on the use case of GlobalLockBox.com, one of the most comprehensive cloud-based applications available today - spanning the Apple iPhone through to the desktop and finally large scale servers.

DataServices World 2008 West: Where Are Data Services Headed?

Fri, 07 Nov 2008 09:00:00 EST

DataServices World 2008 West, being held November 20 in San Jose, California, at the 14th International SOA World Conference & Expo, has a lineup of speakers headlined by Dr Mike Carey, one of the 50 Most Influential Computer Scientists in the world. The lineup also includes experts from Adobe, Salesforce, Yahoo!, IBM, m2mi, and DataDirect Technologies. "DataServices World is about the confluence of databases, data warehousing, business intelligence, enterprise computing and Internet computing," says Ken North, DataServices World 2008 West Conference Chair.

DataServices World 2008 West: Salesforce's Peter Coffee to Run Data Quality, Data Access and Data Services Workshop

Fri, 07 Nov 2008 08:50:00 EST

In this session, a panel of instructors will conduct a Data Quality, Data Access and Data Services Workshop. The panel of experts will present a hands-on session focusing on data quality, data services and data access issues, problems and solutions. The workshop is an opportunity for audience members to view and discuss problems with a panel of experts. The goal of the session is to engage the audience using walk throughs, examples, and a question and answer (Q&A) session. The operative principles are interactivity and dialogue.

Platform Computing CEO to Present at SYS-CON's Cloud Computing Conference & Expo, November 19-21, San Jose, CA

Fri, 07 Nov 2008 08:00:00 EST

There is much debate raging over whether cloud computing and grid computing are one and the same. In fact, there are many similarities and one key difference separating these burgeoning fields. Both cloud and grid propose an architecture that masks the complexity of managing thousands of commodity servers from their users. Consequently, those managing a grid or cloud require specialized management tools designed for large scale implementation - making it possible to manage a large number of servers without requiring an army of administrators. In both cases, users often serve themselves and pay for their usage as a utility. The key difference, however, is in the types of workloads each system processes, as well as how demand for the utility is generated. This session will explore these similarities and differences and discuss the future of cloud and grid computing.

DataServices World 2008 West: Yahoo! Director of Software Architecture on Data Processing in the Cloud

Fri, 07 Nov 2008 07:25:00 EST

Hadoop, an open source implementation of map/reduce, has garnered tremendous momentum in large scale data processing, marting, and on occasion warehousing. In an upcoming breakout session at DataServices World 2008 West, being held in November conjunction with the 14th International SOA World Conference & Expo in San Jose, California, Parand Darugar - Director of Software Architecture, Yahoo! - will be describing the programming model, capabilities, common patterns, and best-practices for Hadoop deployment and usage.

Cordys Named "Gold Sponsor" of 1st International Cloud Computing Conference & Expo, November 19-21, San Jose, CA

Thu, 06 Nov 2008 15:18:00 EST

Cordys is a global provider of software for business process innovation. The industry-leading Cordys Business Operations Platform (BOP) consists of a complete Suite for next generation Business Process Management (BPMS), Business Activity Monitoring (BAM) and an open, integrated set of Tools & Technologies including Composite Application framework (CAF), Master Data Management (MDM) and a SOA grid that enables Cloud Computing. The Cordys platform empowers customers to dramatically improve the speed of change, fundamentally altering the way they innovate their Business Operations to achieve a true customer-centric philosophy. Global 2000 companies worldwide have selected Cordys to achieve business performance improvements such as increased productivity, reduced time to market, higher security and faster response to ever-changing market demands. Headquartered in the Netherlands, Cordys is a global company with offices in the USA, the UK, Germany, China, India and Israel.

The 451 Group to Present "SOA, Virtualization and Cloud Computing" Session in San Jose, California

Tue, 04 Nov 2008 22:00:00 EST

Amazon's CTO to Keynote at SYS-CON's Cloud Computing Conference & Expo

Tue, 04 Nov 2008 04:00:00 EST

SYS-CON Events announced today that Amazon CTO Dr. Werner Vogels will deliver the opening keynote at SYS-CON's Cloud Computing Conference & Expo (www.cloudcomputingexpo.com), which will take place November 19-21, at the Fairmont Hotel at the heart of Silicon Valley, in San Jose, California. The first International Cloud Computing Conference & Expo will be colocated with the 4th International Virtualization Conference & Expo (www.virtualizationconference.com)..

Why Cloud Computing Will Save IT From the "Recession of 2008"

Fri, 31 Oct 2008 21:30:00 EDT

Well, ignoring what Larry Ellison and Richard Stallman think about it, Cloud Computing will be "the" technology that gets Wall Street and other IT organizations out of the “Recession of 2008” and it will be "the" ultimate cost-cutting solution for every IT organization around the world, small or large. We recently moved our mid size blog site from five Dell blades which were housed in the data center of a hosting company to the Amazon Cloud, simply and smoothly. Never mind the actual cost we initially paid for the hardware and we won't have in the future, guess what happened to our $1,700 per month hosting fees? Went down to pennies overnight!

Symantec to Present at SYS-CON's Virtualization Conference & Expo, November 19-21, San Jose, CA

Fri, 31 Oct 2008 11:37:00 EDT

Application virtualization technology is changing the way software is managed, delivered, and consumed at the endpoint. Indeed, bringing virtualization to the endpoint offers IT a natural migration path toward a more fluid computing environment—one that effectively balances the often conflicting trade-offs between security and flexibility.

Hummer Winblad Venture Partners to Present at Cloud Computing Conference &Expo

Fri, 31 Oct 2008 09:39:00 EDT

Cloud computing is changing the ground rules for startup companies – both in their infrastructure choices and in the bar for technology development prior to funding. Lars Leckie, a Principal with Hummer Winblad Venture Partners, will walk through the venture capital perspective of the cloud computing market covering both consumer and enterprise usage. This discussion will cover the tools for cloud computing as well as the leverage that portfolio companies are achieving with cloud computing. In the spirit of the event, he will present the session entirely from slides served from Amazon Web Services!

Tap In Systems to Exhibit at SYS-CON's Cloud Computing Conference & Expo

Thu, 30 Oct 2008 23:45:00 EDT

Krugle to Exhibit at SYS-CON's Virtualization and Cloud Computing Conference & Expo

Wed, 29 Oct 2008 23:00:00 EDT

SYS-CON Events announced today that the leading global AJAX and virtualization technology provider Krugle to exhibit at SYS-CON's upcoming SOA World Conference & Expo 2008 West, colocated with the 4th International Virtualization Conference & Expo, (www.virtualizationconference.com), which will take place November 19-21, 2008, at the Fairmont Hotel in the heart of Silicon Valley, in San Jose, California.