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Opening Keynote | The Changing Atmosphere of Cloud Computing
 The physical world holds the key to unlocking unseen business opportunities that expand revenue, optimize operations and delight customers and users. What if you could turn normally hidden bits of information in your business' physical assets into valuable insights that fuel growth and...Jul. 28, 2014 05:00 PM EDT Reads: 882 |
 SYS-CON Events announced today that Cloudian, Inc., the leading provider of hybrid cloud storage solutions, has been named “Bronze Sponsor” of SYS-CON's 15th International Cloud Expo®, which will take place on November 4–6, 2014, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA....Jul. 28, 2014 04:10 PM EDT Reads: 772 |
 Recent high profile security breaches at major online websites tell us static passwords are not the answer. Even recent SMS security additions to consumer websites do little to address the issue.
Fortunately, a more secure authentication system is available for consumer websites that ...Jul. 28, 2014 03:00 PM EDT Reads: 1,485 |
 The Domain Name Service (DNS) is one of the most important components in networking infrastructure, enabling users and services to access applications by translating URLs (names) into IP addresses (numbers). Because every icon and URL and all embedded content on a website requires a DN...Jul. 28, 2014 02:30 PM EDT Reads: 761 |
 Internet of @ThingsExpo Silicon View billboards on Highway 101 are seen by 1.3 million motorists per week. Internet of @ThingsExpo announces that its Call for Papers is now open. Topics include all aspects of providing or using massively scalable IT-related capabilities as a service us...Jul. 28, 2014 01:00 PM EDT Reads: 851 |
 GigaSpaces Technologies on Monday announced it has completely re-architected its Cloudify offering to provide Intelligent Orchestration of applications on the cloud. With this product rewrite, the new Cloudify orchestration platform simplifies the application deployment, management and...Jul. 28, 2014 12:38 PM EDT Reads: 795 |
 The Internet of Things is not a single choice of technology, approach or philosophy. Its very existence is the bringing together of multiple platforms, products and protocols, where the whole is greater than the sum of its parts.
One of the challenges of IoT is to make it as easy as ...Jul. 28, 2014 12:30 PM EDT Reads: 718 |
 This independent report from Info-Tech evaluates and scores 14 companies in the Virtual Machine Backup market. It can help you understand what's new in the virtual backup market, evaluate virtual backup vendors and products for your needs and determine which products are most appropria...Jul. 28, 2014 12:15 PM EDT Reads: 1,635 |
 Many mid-market companies have invested significant time and resources to secure and back up their servers, client computers, data, and overall network infrastructure in what was the traditional client-server setup. Now, what were considered emerging technologies just a few years ago, ...Jul. 28, 2014 12:00 PM EDT Reads: 2,274 |
 Almost everyone sees the potential of Internet of Things but how can businesses truly unlock that potential. The key will be in the ability to discover business insight in the midst of an ocean of Big Data generated from billions of embedded devices via Systems of Discover. Businesses ...Jul. 28, 2014 11:30 AM EDT Reads: 841 |
 After a couple of false starts, cloud-based desktop solutions are picking up steam, driven by trends such as BYOD and pervasive high-speed connectivity.
In his session at 15th Cloud Expo, Seth Bostock, CEO of IndependenceIT, cuts through the hype and the acronyms, and discusses the e...Jul. 28, 2014 09:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,460 |
 SYS-CON Events announced today that Esri has been named “Bronze Sponsor” of SYS-CON's 15th International Cloud Expo®, which will take place on November 4–6, 2014, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA.
Esri inspires and enables people to positively impact the future ...Jul. 28, 2014 08:53 AM EDT Reads: 816 |
 Cloud computing started a technology revolution; now DevOps is driving that revolution forward. By enabling new approaches to service delivery, cloud and DevOps together are delivering even greater speed, agility, and efficiency. No wonder leading innovators are adopting DevOps and clo...Jul. 28, 2014 08:45 AM EDT Reads: 1,542 |
 Cloud Computing is evolving into a Big Three of Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud, and Microsoft Azure.
Cloud 360: Multi-Cloud Bootcamp, being held Nov 4–5, 2014, in conjunction with 15th Cloud Expo in Santa Clara, CA, delivers a real-world demonstration of how to deploy and configur...Jul. 28, 2014 01:30 AM EDT Reads: 2,022 |
 Cloud Expo, Inc. has announced the first annual "Iron Cloud IoT Shootout" to be held on November 6, 2014 at Cloud Expo Silicon Valley at Santa Clara Convention Center in California. The "Iron Cloud IoT Shootout" will be a live competition among all the key Cloud Computing platforms, an...Jul. 28, 2014 12:45 AM EDT Reads: 1,658 |
 “The Internet of Things is the next wave of cloud. As these distributed devices become more prolific they can really start to gain a lot more insight and gather more date from the environment,” explained Chris Gray, Director of Embedded Intelligence Systems at Red Hat, in this SYS-CON....Jul. 28, 2014 12:30 AM EDT Reads: 3,259 |
 “Distrix fits into the overall cloud and IoT model around software-defined networking. There’s a broad category around software-defined networking that’s focused on data center, and we focus on the WAN,” explained Jay Friedman, President of Distrix, in this SYS-CON.tv interview at the ...Jul. 27, 2014 11:45 PM EDT Reads: 2,619 |
 The Internet of Things promises to transform businesses (and lives), but navigating the business and technical path to success can be difficult to understand.
In his session at 15th Internet of @ThingsExpo, Chad Jones, Vice President, Product Strategy of LogMeIn's Xively IoT Platform...Jul. 27, 2014 11:45 PM EDT Reads: 2,585 |
 Internet of @ThingsExpo, taking place Nov 4-6, 2014, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA, is co-located with 15th Cloud Expo and will feature technical sessions from a rock star conference faculty and the leading industry players in the world.
The Internet of Thing...Jul. 27, 2014 11:30 PM EDT Reads: 1,575 |
 The premiere issue of the Internet of @ThingsExpo Newsletter contains highlights of the hottest sessions and speakers from Internet of @ThingsExpo, Call for Papers, and sponsorship opportunities.
Internet of @ThingsExpo has announced today that Chris Matthieu has been named tech chair...Jul. 27, 2014 11:00 PM EDT Reads: 1,755 |
 Scott Jenson leads a project called The Physical Web within the Chrome team at Google. Project members are working to take the scalability and openness of the web and use it to talk to the exponentially exploding range of smart devices.
Nearly every company today working on the IoT co...Jul. 27, 2014 11:00 PM EDT Reads: 2,170 |
 Internet of @ThingsExpo has announced today that Chris Matthieu has been named tech chair of Internet of @ThingsExpo 2014 Silicon Valley.
The 2nd Global Internet of @ThingsExpo will take place on November 4–6, 2014, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA.
Chris Matt...Jul. 27, 2014 10:45 PM EDT Reads: 2,222 |
 up.time, from uptime software, monitors performance, availability and capacity across all servers, virtual machines, applications, IT services, and the network. Proactively find IT system performance issues before they happen, report on total capacity, easily identify troublemakers, tr...Jul. 27, 2014 10:00 PM EDT Reads: 2,783 |
 “The Internet of Things is a wave that has arrived and it’s growing really fast. The concern at Aria Systems is making sure that people understand the ramifications of their attempts to monetize whatever it is they build on the Internet of Things," explained C Brendan O’Brien, Co-found...Jul. 27, 2014 09:00 PM EDT Reads: 2,323 |
 I'm reading a McKinsey report from May 2013 that talks about 12 disruptive technologies, including cloud computing and the Internet of Things (IoT). I'll focus on the IoT here. The report estimates the IoT Internet to be worth between $2.7 and $6.2 trillion by the year 2025.(The world'...Jul. 27, 2014 07:45 PM EDT Reads: 2,804 |
 “At Cloud Expo in NYC last week I sat in on the Internet of Things power panel and then presented about how to monetize the Internet of Things. The room was packed, standing room only and I stuck around for a full 30 minutes afterwards answering questions before I had to tear myself aw...Jul. 27, 2014 06:00 PM EDT Reads: 1,164 |
 It occurred to me, as I'm sure it's occurred to most of you, that driving a car is a classic example of the IoT in action. In this case, my brain is the CPU, and all of my car's gauges are the things.
I was making a routine 30-minute drive to raid a local vegetable stand. As I proc...Jul. 27, 2014 05:45 PM EDT Reads: 911 |
 Today's datacenters face a gauntlet of challenges including protection of physical and virtual environments, fast recovery of data, reducing backup times and storage requirements, server consolidation, and disaster recovery. How are savvy CIOs conquering these types of challenges? Find...Jul. 27, 2014 01:45 PM EDT Reads: 1,549 |
 This white paper digs deep into the reasons testing mobile apps is fundamentally harder than traditional web or desktop applications. A collaboration by Tina Zhuo and Dennis Schultz from IBM along with Yoram Mizrachi from Perfecto Mobile and John Montgomery from uTest, these experts ex...Jul. 27, 2014 12:30 PM EDT Reads: 2,050 |
 CodeFutures, a provider of agile Big Data technologies, on Tuesday announced the release of Cory Isaacson’s newest book, “Understanding Big Data Scalability.” Isaacson is the CEO/CTO for CodeFutures and an industry-leading innovator of data management software. “Understanding Big Data ...Jul. 26, 2014 08:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,734 |
 Cisco and the Barcelona City Council have announced plans to open a Cisco Global IoE Innovation Center in Barcelona. The Innovation Center will provide a platform for research, technological development and new market opportunities related to the Internet of Everything for smart cities...Jul. 25, 2014 10:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,179 |
 PTC has announced it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Axeda Corporation, a pioneer in the development of solutions to securely connect machines and sensors to the cloud, for approximately $170 million in cash.
“The world we live in is changing around us, and the pace of t...Jul. 25, 2014 08:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,325 |
 The ability to embed prediction into multiple business processes amplifies the value that predictive analytics delivers. Yet many still see predictive analytics as a separate activity that is the responsibility of a small team of expert analysts.
This webinar will show how predictive...Jul. 24, 2014 04:19 PM EDT Reads: 1,198 |
 GoodData on Thursday announced the addition of sales leadership veteran Philip Carty as Chief Revenue Officer. Carty joins GoodData with over 30 years of experience building and leading competitive sales organizations at top technology companies. In this role, Carty will oversee strate...Jul. 24, 2014 12:49 PM EDT Reads: 1,328 |
 Avere Systems has announced that it raised an additional $20 million in venture financing, bringing the total amount invested in the company to $72 million. The Series D funding round was led by Western Digital Capital, with participation from previous investors Lightspeed Venture Part...Jul. 24, 2014 12:00 PM EDT Reads: 1,464 |
 TIBCO Software Inc. has announced that TIBCO StreamBase®, the company's streaming data analytics platform, has been recognized as a leader in The Forrester Wave™: Big Data Streaming Analytics Platforms, Q3 2014 from Forrester Research, Inc.
Big Data Streaming Analytics allow a busin...Jul. 24, 2014 10:30 AM EDT Reads: 1,415 |
 We are reaching the end of the beginning with WebRTC and real systems using this technology have begun to appear. One challenge that faces every WebRTC deployment (in some form or another) is identity management. For example, if you have an existing service – possibly built on a variet...Jul. 24, 2014 10:00 AM EDT Reads: 2,148 |
 Ukraine sits on the precipice of civil war. Beneath the ostensible storyline of protests against the government of Viktor Yanukovych and recent laws it's enacted lies what is likely an insuperable rift between the eastern and western regions of the country.
The east, archetyped by ...Jul. 24, 2014 01:00 AM EDT Reads: 2,721 |
 Avaya has escalated its efforts to get customers to fast-track to the cloud with the first of several sweeping initiatives that will optimize solutions and processes for delivery of collaboration as a service (CaaS) via the Avaya Collaborative Cloud. Strong demand for Avaya communicati...Jul. 23, 2014 08:30 AM EDT Reads: 1,387 |
 Octoblu on Tuesday emerged from stealth mode to announce its vision to provide an Internet of Things (IoT) platform for real-time connections and communication management across applications, people and physical devices.
The convergence of global trends, including cloud computing, th...Jul. 22, 2014 09:45 AM EDT Reads: 1,762 |
