Krisandra Russo

Building the right infrastructure that can scale up or down at a moment's notice - the very essence of Cloud Computing - has become ever more crucial in today's challenging business landscape. But it can be a complicated and expensive task, which is why we're pleased to have the Chief Technology Officer of Amazon.com, Dr. Werner Vogels, give the Opening Keynote at the 2nd International Cloud Computing Conference & Expo, being held March 30-April 1, 2009. Join us in New York City to hear first-hand about Infrastructure as a Service and the lessons Amazon.com learned from building one of the world's largest distributed systems. Dr Vogels will explore the many challenges of building a reliable, flexible architecture that can manage unpredictable behaviors of today's internet business. The main focus of his keynote session will be state management - one of the dominatin... (more)

Christophe So Launches ERP Journal on Ulitzer

Christophe So of Open ERP launched the ERP Journal on Ulitzer. ERP Journal offers more than 10,000 articles, blogs, news stories, and press releases, and is updated with live stories around the clock. The current economic situation has created a difficult time for business, but some industries continue to do well and pose significant opportunities. In IT also some technologies which help industries to drive efficiencies and profitability like Unified Communications, Virtualizetion and Business Intelligence will provide competitiveness to organizations in the current economic env... (more)

2nd International "Cloud Expo Europe" Call For Papers Now Open

SYS-CON Events announced today that Call for Papers for the 2nd International Cloud Expo Europe is now open, which will take place this summer in Prague, Czech Republic. Cloud Expo is the world's leading Cloud-focused event and is held five times a year, in New York City, Silicon Valley, Prague, Tokyo and Hong Kong. Over 200 corporate sponsors and 10,000 industry professionals became part of Cloud Expo since its inception, more than all other Cloud-related events put together worldwide. Cloud Expo Europe 2009 in Prague: Themes & Topics Cloud Experts Head to Prague for Cloud Expo ... (more)

Cloud Interoperability Magazine Launched at Ulitzer.com

A brand new online magazine, Cloud Interoperability Magazine, has been launched by the Cloud Computing Interoperability Forum using the all-new Ulitzer publishing platform. The Forum, a group of industry stakeholders that are active in cloud computing, now has its online home at cloudinterop.ulitzer.com - and the magazine, edited by Cloud thought leader and activist Reuven Cohen, demonstrates very well indeed the power and ease-of-use of Ulitzer. The new magazine joins other brand new online magazines recently launched at Ulitzer.com including MultiTouch Tech Journal, iPhone Dev... (more)

Ruby on Rails Storms Toward Cloud Computing

Terremark Session at Cloud Expo Ruby on Rails will be the main topic in a Cloud Expo session presented by Jason Lochhead, Terremark's CTO of Web Hosting Services, and Tom Mornini, co-founder of Engine Yard. The session is entitled, "Platform as a Service (PaaS) for the Enterprise," and will be held on Tuesday, April 20 at the Javits Center event in New York. Register Today and Save $550 ! Explore Sponsorship Opportunities ! "Ruby on Rails has come to be the default choice for open-source developers creating public web and departmental applications in just a few short years," th... (more)