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Opening Keynote | Mission-Critical Applications in the Cloud – Myth or Reality?
Exclusive Q&As
 “Social and word of mouth are important to the solar industry,” noted Candice Adams, Marketing Manager for Trinity Solar, in this exclusive Q&A with Cloud Expo Conference Chair Jeremy Geelan, “many of us do the majority of our social networking on our mobile devices and the cloud is th...Jun. 9, 2013 04:00 PM EDT Reads: 3,485 |
 “I think SMAC will continue to grow and mature and the demand for more sophisticated data like streaming videos and online television will be a real game changer,” stated Barbara P. Aichinger, co-founder of FuturePlus Systems and VP of New Business Development, in this exclusive Q&A wi...Jun. 3, 2013 08:30 AM EDT Reads: 2,334 |
 “The open development business model positively impacts the cloud ecosystem by fostering much-needed cloud standards and removing the fear of “lock-in” for cloud customers,” stated Joan Rothman, CMO at CoreMatrix Systems LLC, in this exclusive Q&A with Cloud Expo Conference Chair Jerem...May. 29, 2013 06:00 AM EDT Reads: 4,872 |
 “Big Data analytics will shape the form of nearly every process going forward in time, from the color of the latest fashions, what the candidates say in one town versus another to the chemical composition of the latest super drug,” noted Steve Knodl, Director of Product Management at N...May. 25, 2013 07:00 AM EDT Reads: 8,066 |
 “Trusted infrastructure providers are transparent and comply with industry security standards and practices,” observed Sheji Jacob-Brettle, Head of Marketing at TelecityGroup, in this exclusive Q&A with Cloud Expo Conference Chair Jeremy Geelan. “As an end user you want to know that yo...May. 4, 2013 10:00 AM EDT Reads: 2,913 |
 “The myriad of compliance requirements nowadays present a complex matrix of challenges for cloud adoptees,” said Greg Rusu, General Manager of Public Cloud at PEER 1 Hosting, in this exclusive Q&A with Cloud Expo Conference Chair Jeremy Geelan. “Clients should look for recognized certi...Mar. 27, 2013 02:00 PM EDT Reads: 3,831 |
 Increasingly organizations are looking to tap the collective power of social, mobile and cloud technologies. We asked Ric Telford, IBM VP of Cloud Services, to share his perspective on the trend in light of IBM's new social business software including SmartCloud Docs, a cloud-based off...Dec. 10, 2012 07:00 AM EST Reads: 5,345 |
 The new SOA Software Open™ platform brings API providers and App developers together, offering easy access to powerful API Management capabilities combined with a social community in which developers collaborate to build dynamic, engaging apps with scalable APIs. The free SOA Software ...Nov. 26, 2012 08:00 AM EST Reads: 3,369 |
 With the common theme in today’s security management conversations being “your security will fail” and “expect to be breached,” it’s no question that there has been increased interest in the area of incident response. The industry is realizing that the addition of regulations, people, ...Nov. 15, 2012 12:00 PM EST Reads: 3,027 |
 “We'll continue to see the long tail of legacy technology in use for years,” observed Brian Patrick Donaghy, CEO of Appcore, in this exclusive Q&A with Cloud Expo Conference Chair Jeremy Geelan. Donaghy continued, “New applications are being written today that are much more efficient, ...Nov. 13, 2012 01:00 AM EST Reads: 4,975 |
 “Cloud solutions are great for lots of workloads but the cloud is not perfect for everything,” noted Robert Miggins, senior vice president of business development for PEER 1 Hosting, in this exclusive Q&A with Cloud Expo Conference Chair Jeremy Geelan. And Miggins continued, “We have m...Oct. 22, 2012 02:00 PM EDT Reads: 3,864 |
 "We're actually very bullish about PaaS as the architecture for a lot of next generation apps," noted Brett Adam, Chief Technology Officer at rPath, in this exclusive Q&A. "But," he continued, "we see true PaaS as it's been popularized in the market - you may think of it as "Silicon Va...Oct. 18, 2012 08:45 AM EDT Reads: 3,063 |
 “The cloud is so new, and is dominated by such a small number of players right now, that prices are much higher than they will be,” noted Cory Isaacson, CEO and CTO of CodeFutures Corporation, in this exclusive Q&A with Cloud Expo Conference Chair Jeremy Geelan. “As demand goes up and ...Oct. 12, 2012 08:30 AM EDT Reads: 3,082 |
 “No matter how good we get at Big Data analytics, we’ll never be able to accurately predict the future of technology,” noted John Gilmartin, VP of Product Marketing at Coraid, in this exclusive Q&A with Cloud Expo Conference Chair Jeremy Geelan. “This industry is changing fast, bringin...Sep. 27, 2012 02:00 PM EDT Reads: 2,859 |
 “Cloud computing is still in the early stages of adoption and demand will continue to grow,” noted Alban Richard, CEO of UShareSoft, in this exclusive Q&A with Cloud Expo Conference Chair Jeremy Geelan. “Pricing, however, will vary,” Richard continued. “Many cloud providers are playing...Sep. 27, 2012 04:00 AM EDT Reads: 3,307 |
 "Impetus is a software services company, and we're focused on Big Data practice. What we are doing for enterprise organizations is helping them create Big Data architectures and helping them come up with solutions for their very critical business challenges," explained Anand Raman, VP ...Aug. 16, 2012 09:00 AM EDT Reads: 3,873 |
 "We started in the high-performance computing area and have been focusing on Big Data for a while,” stated Michael King, Director of Cloud Content & Media at DataDirect Networks, in this SYS-CON.tv interview with Cloud Expo Conference Chair Jeremy Geelan at the 10th International Cloud...Aug. 14, 2012 07:30 AM EDT Reads: 4,037 |
 “It’s a wonderful industry and it’s easy to see the future. The move to the cloud is only going to take a couple of years. Enterprises are saying here’s my roadmap and by 2020 all these applications will be running on the cloud,” noted Andy Schroepfer, Vice President of Strategy at Rac...Aug. 11, 2012 12:00 PM EDT Reads: 3,344 |
 “We wanted to create a cloud that is specifically targeted at our IT customers, and IT customers would like to put production applications into the cloud, including mission-critical applications,” noted Henry Fastert, Chief Technologist & Managing Partner at SHI International, in this ...Aug. 10, 2012 11:00 AM EDT Reads: 2,899 |
 "We have a silo-free development, a runtime environment that allows you to build new applications in the cloud," noted Ash Massoudi, CEO of NextAxiom Technology, in this interview with Cloud Expo Conference Chair Jeremy Geelan at our Times Square Studio in New York City.
Cloud Expo 20...Aug. 10, 2012 06:00 AM EDT Reads: 3,330 |
 “We are a cloud hosting provider with 14 years of experience and we are focused on building multi-tenant secure environments,” stated Aaron Hollobaugh, Vice President of Marketing at Hostway Corporation, in this SYS-CON.tv interview with Cloud Expo Conference Chair Jeremy Geelan at the...Aug. 9, 2012 10:15 AM EDT Reads: 3,569 |
 “Increasing mobile demand will drive a lot of the growth in cloud,” stated James Strayer, VP of Product Management and Marketing at Racemi, in this exclusive Q&A with Cloud Expo Conference Chair Jeremy Geelan. “But,” Strayer continued, “there are still people running Windows NT 4 out t...Aug. 6, 2012 10:00 AM EDT Reads: 3,065 |
 "Global Knowledge provides solutions that pulls all types of training into a transformation package and helps you get from point A to point B," explained Hank Marquis, Practice Leader at Global Knowledge, in this SYS-CON.tv interview with Cloud Expo Conference Chair Jeremy Geelan at th...Aug. 3, 2012 02:45 PM EDT Reads: 2,907 |
 "We're a user experience agency. We focus on researching, designing, and developing applications and digital products," stated Ken Guiberson, CTO at EffectiveUI, in this SYS-CON.tv interview with Cloud Expo Conference Chair Jeremy Geelan at the 10th International Cloud Expo, held June ...Aug. 3, 2012 10:00 AM EDT Reads: 2,992 |
 “We provide virtualization solutions that take multiple systems and aggregate them into one,” explained Shai Fultheim, Founder, President and CEO of ScaleMP, in this SYS-CON.tv interview with Cloud Expo Conference Chair Jeremy Geelan at the 10th International Cloud Expo, held June 11–1...Aug. 2, 2012 02:00 PM EDT Reads: 3,246 |
 "When a customer decides I want a public cloud or I want a private cloud, regardless of the platform, that's when you call Racemi," explained Lawrence Guillory, CEO of Racemi,, in this SYS-CON.tv interview with Cloud Expo Conference Chair Jeremy Geelan at the 10th International Cloud E...Aug. 2, 2012 12:00 PM EDT Reads: 2,699 |
 “We see three big trends happening in the cloud landscape right now. The first one is IaaS seems to be winning the battle for new types of IT projects, the second is more and more choices of who companies can partner to do that, noted Michael Crandell, CEO and a Founder of RightScale, ...Aug. 2, 2012 11:30 AM EDT Reads: 3,356 |
 “Panzura is essentially a global file system, which spans across multiple geos, so it’s a geographically dispersed file system,” explained Ranajit Nevatia, VP of Marketing at Panzura, in this SYS-CON.tv interview with Cloud Expo Conference Chair Jeremy Geelan at the 10th International ...Aug. 1, 2012 04:00 PM EDT Reads: 3,253 |
 "We released our new high performance cloud platform at Cloud Expo and we've had terrific uptake of that release," observed Peter Berg, VP Sales & Marketing at ServerCentral in this SYS-CON.tv interview with Cloud Expo Conference Chair Jeremy Geelan at the 10th International Cloud Expo...Aug. 1, 2012 04:00 PM EDT Reads: 2,670 |
 "We launched a product called ShadowProtect. It takes backup snapshots every 15 minutes and giving the customer those recovery points for customers to decide when and where they want to do that restore," explained Matt Urmston, Product Manager at StorageCraft, in this SYS-CON.tv interv...Aug. 1, 2012 12:00 PM EDT Reads: 2,635 |
 “We’ve announced the Data Center Fabric product line that allows you to spin up a brand new data center type within your data center,” stated Bruce Fingles, CIO and VP of Product Quality at Xsigo, in this SYS-CON.tv interview with Cloud Expo Conference Chair Jeremy Geelan at the 10th I...Aug. 1, 2012 11:00 AM EDT Reads: 2,718 |
 “We’ve always been focused on Software as a Service. And Dimension Data, which was recently bought by NTT, has always been focused on on-premise cloud,” explained Treb Ryan, CEO of OpSource, a Dimension Data company, in this SYS-CON.tv interview with Cloud Expo Conference Chair Jeremy ...Jul. 31, 2012 01:00 PM EDT Reads: 2,607 |
 "We are Europe's leading operator of carrier-neutral data centers, and it’s a demand-driven dynamic that we are seeing," stated James Tyler, Director of Marketing & Communications at TelecityGroup, in this SYS-CON.tv interview with Cloud Expo Conference Chair Jeremy Geelan at the 10th ...Jul. 30, 2012 03:43 PM EDT Reads: 2,455 |
 “Big Data genuinely fits well with cloud computing. It’s fundamentally a clustering architecture and it’s fundamentally possible because cloud offers the best price performance for processing any type of computing task,” observed John Keagy, CEO of GoGrid, in this SYS-CON.tv interview ...Jul. 28, 2012 10:00 AM EDT Reads: 2,678 |
 "We provide the storage infrastructure and the I/O performance and capability," explained David Clark, Director, Product Marketing SSG at QLogic, in this SYS-CON.tv interview with Cloud Expo Conference Chair Jeremy Geelan at the 10th International Cloud Expo, held June 11-14, 2012, at ...Jul. 27, 2012 11:45 AM EDT Reads: 2,676 |
 "We think about cloud at multiple levels inside of Citrix as a company. There are cloud platforms and around that we have cloud networking, and the third area is delivering desktops and applications as a cloud service," stated Sameer Dholakia, Group VP & GM, Cloud Platforms Group, at C...Jul. 26, 2012 12:00 PM EDT Reads: 2,561 |
 “Version 7 has an advanced control console – it’s an interactive visualization of a data center, it could be virtual or cloud-based, and it tells you if you have any inefficiencies or risks,” stated Andrew Hillier, CTO of CiRBA, in this SYS-CON.tv interview with Cloud Expo Conference C...Jul. 26, 2012 10:00 AM EDT Reads: 2,222 |
 WeVideo just kicked off the first cloud-based social editing solution provider, sign up for open beta available now. We talked to CEO Jostein Svendsen to find out more about this new SaaS.
Basically, YouTube is for publishing while WeVideo is for editing videos. WeVideo is the perfect...Sep. 14, 2011 03:26 PM EDT Reads: 3,944 |
 The Sony gaming fiasco strikes me as a combination of generic corporate hubris combined with the maddening Japanese bureaucratic tendency toward ostrich behavior and stonewalling when trouble appears.
Perhaps Sony's arrogant, feckless response to a massive invasion of privacy will o...May. 6, 2011 04:01 AM EDT Reads: 3,636 |
 We are talking to Joey Benadretti, President of SYSPRO ERP solutions to discuss how US manufacturer can keep up with the international competition. Thanks for taking the time to answer my questions Joey! Let's dive right in. What do you think is the best way for US manufacturers to re...Mar. 24, 2011 03:40 PM EDT Reads: 2,781 |
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