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Cloud Expo Momentum Continues

Thu, 22 Apr 2010 11:45:00 EDT

"We had a very successful presence at the Cloud Expo in New York. Significant opportunities now being progressed with an extremely positive response from the market to say the least!" This comment from an exhibitor was not uncommon as the event, the world's largest Cloud Computing ever produced, finished its three-day run. The next editions will be held in Prague June 21-22 and Santa Clara November 1-3. David Linthicum, the well-known technologist and writer, wrote about the New York event, "What's most interesting about this conference is the size. Although vendor -focused, it's the largest cloud computing conference I've ever seen. The attendees are mostly people who 'need to know what the cloud is,' and are in search of vendors and consultants to help them move systems to cloud computing platforms, either public or private."

Abiquo Launches Thunderflash at Cloud Expo

Mon, 19 Apr 2010 08:53:00 EDT

New Site Open for Free Search and Download from Thousands of Virtual Machine Images for any Hypervisor, Speeding the Deployment of Virtualization and Cloud Computing. The virtual machine images available through Thunderflash are vitally important to IT professionals, as they contain pre-installed operating systems, applications and other tools, which can then be deployed as a unit in one simple operation. Such images can save IT professionals hours of valuable time building and configuring application servers from the ground-up. Thunderflash's advanced searching tools allow for the selection of exactly the right virtual machine image, which can then be directly download, enabling new application servers to be deployed in a fraction of the usual time.

Surgient Leads Sessions on Successful Private Cloud Deployments at Cloud Expo

Wed, 14 Apr 2010 11:05:00 EDT

At next week’s International Cloud Conference & Expo, Surgient executives Brian Wilson and Dave Malcolm will lead three conference sessions showcasing the benefits and opportunities private clouds can deliver. The presentations, which will cover best practices Surgient has developed and refined from over 150 enterprise cloud installations, provide enterprise IT professionals with actionable tips and advice on ways to quickly and effectively deploy private clouds. The 5th International Cloud Conference & Expo, known as Cloud Expo, aims to provide attendees with abundant resources, ideas and examples they can apply immediately to leveraging the Cloud, helping them to maximize performance, minimize cost and improve the scalability of their Enterprise IT endeavors. By 2012, more than 50,000 delegates per year will participate in Cloud Expo worldwide.

Cloud Expo Sponsor SOASTA Releases First Real Time OLAP Engine

Tue, 13 Apr 2010 09:45:00 EDT

SOASTA, the leader in cloud testing, on Tuesday announced it has extended its industry leading performance testing solution CloudTest with the release of CloudTest Analytics, the first real time Business Intelligence engine purpose-built for Performance Management. This new analytic engine includes a unique data extraction layer that captures any Web Performance metric from both inside and outside of firewalls. All the metrics are then aggregated and correlated onto a single real-time timeline using the CloudTest Analytics engine by pulling them from a scalable data warehouse. Performance engineers can quickly identify issues and optimize the performance of websites and web applications while tests are being run.

Composite Apps Present Performance Challenge with Cloud Computing

Mon, 12 Apr 2010 11:00:00 EDT

While core business functionality and databases will still typically be provided by resources located in the data center, composite applications are increasingly composed of services provided from multiple sources, many of which are outside the direct control of the application's owner. To prevent "finger pointing," tools which gives IT end-to-end application visibility from data-center to end-users' browsers, are essential to deploy composite applications. Beginning with use cases and real world examples, this session will detail how IT operations, and increasingly IT architects and developers, can build and deploy composite applications with manageability as their foremost concern.

BizangaStore Launch Product Line at Cloud Expo

Sat, 10 Apr 2010 16:30:00 EDT

The experienced team behind Bizanga will continue leveraging decades of proven telecom experience to provide unparalleled field service and operational support to their customers at Bizanga Store. The company will be based in Paris and San Francisco and will build on the team's existing relationships with service providers worldwide. Bizanga Store has developed a massively scalable storage platform providing significantly easier application deployment at a fraction of the cost of traditional storage. This solution is uniquely suited to cable operators deploying competitive email services and hosting providers who want to grow cloud storage services. It is sold as software for deployment at the customer locations.

BizangaStore Exhibits Cloud Storage Software at Cloud Expo New York

Sat, 10 Apr 2010 16:00:00 EDT

BizangaStore the developer of massively-scalable object storage software for email and cloud storage applications will be exhibiting and will have their executive team in attendance for meetings with prospective business partners, customers and cloud industry analysts at the 5th International Cloud Computing Conference & Expo from April 19-21, 2010, at the Jacob Javits Convention Center in New York City.

Cloud Expo Sponsor Symplified Named Top 100 Private Company

Fri, 09 Apr 2010 09:45:00 EDT

Symplified, the Cloud security company, today announced that it has been named an OnDemand Top 100 private company for 2010 by AlwaysOn. The inaugural OnDemand Top 100 list recognizes companies that have developed game-changing approaches and technologies that are likely to disrupt existing markets and entrenched players. Symplified will be honored at AlwaysOn’s OnDemand event on April 19th, 2010, at Hewlett-Packard’s Worldwide Headquarters in Palo Alto, CA. “Being named an OnDemand Top 100 company is an honor, and validates Symplified’s business and technology approach for providing the missing link in cloud computing – a trust mechanism that bridges enterprise security policies and administration with cloud services,” said Eric Olden, founder and CEO of Symplified. “Cloud computing is shaking the foundations of how IT departments traditionally manage their resources, but Symplified enables organizations to maintain control and extend their security policies to applications and data they reside outside their datacenters.”

Cloudera Selected by AlwaysOn as an OnDemand Top 100 Winner

Thu, 08 Apr 2010 07:01:00 EDT

Cloudera, the commercial Hadoop company, on Thursday announced that it has been chosen by AlwaysOn as one of the OnDemand Top 100 winners. Inclusion in the OnDemand 100 signifies leadership amongst its peers and use of an innovative approach and technology that are likely to disrupt existing markets and entrenched players. Cloudera was specially selected by the AlwaysOn editorial team and industry experts spanning the globe based on a set of five criteria: innovation, market potential, commercialization, stakeholder value, and media buzz. Cloudera and the OnDemand Top 100 companies will be honored at AlwaysOn's OnDemand event on April 19th, 2010, at Hewlett-Packard's Worldwide Headquarters in Palo Alto, CA.

Cloud Expo Sponsor Abiquo Named OnDemand Top 100 Winner

Tue, 06 Apr 2010 13:00:00 EDT

Abiquo’s innovation in the emerging sector of cloud infrastructure management and selection to the OnDemand 100 is based on its unique vision and solutions, which are changing the way IT organizations operate and service their users. In the Abiquo vision, the provisioning of the physical infrastructure is completely separated from the virtual applications infrastructure by a “Resource Cloud.” The physical infrastructure is managed by the IT organization and provides resources to the Resource Cloud while virtual enterprises (containing virtual datacenters, virtual machines and virtual appliances) consume it. However, the management of virtual entities is delegated to authorized administrators, who operate autonomously, but within enforced resource limits based on predetermined policies. This allows authorized staff to automatically distribute virtual machines and storage across the physical infrastructure, according to security, compliance and load balancing requirements.

CloudShare Hits the Conference Circuit in April 2010

Mon, 05 Apr 2010 18:00:00 EDT

CloudShare on Monday announced that it has been selected to participate in SAP Virtualization Week, Under the Radar "Cloud 2010," Always On "On Demand 2010," CloudSlam '10, and SYS-CON Cloud Expo, all taking place during the month of April, 2010. From the Bay Area to New York City, the demand for CloudShare's presence at such notable industry events indicates the company is solving a widely recognized business problem with its popular SaaS platform.

Ruby on Rails Storms Toward Cloud Computing

Mon, 05 Apr 2010 16:00:00 EDT

Ruby on Rails is a rapid application development platform that in just a few short years has come to be the default choice for open-source developers creating public web and departmental applications. Although Twitter is the highest profile user, there are thousands of developers using Ruby on Rails (and its JVM version, JRuby) to create departmental and enterprise applications on enterprise clouds. In this session we'll talk about the architecture and benefits of a Rails-based Platform-as-a-Service built on Enterprise Cloud infrastructure, and how it can help developers directly access and manage IT resources for their application development and deployment needs.

Cloud Expo to Offer Special Free Pass to Everyone Who Retweets @CloudExpo

Mon, 05 Apr 2010 14:00:00 EDT

Cloud Expo, Inc. announced on Thursday that it will offer a special free "TwitterVIPpass" to everyone who retweets the upcoming event @CloudExpo. The largest Cloud event in the world will take place April 19 -21 at the Javits Center in New York City. Free "Twitter Retweet" event passes will be issued to everyone who retweets the event @CloudExpo. The pass will offer free access to three full-day special events that are co-located with Cloud Expo New York. "TwitterVIPpass"registration offers access to the following full-day session each day.

Security Annexing Eases Cloud Computing Worries

Mon, 05 Apr 2010 07:19:00 EDT

Many people believe you can take traditional identity and security practices, throw them in a cloud environment, and expect everything to work just fine. Not so! Businesses taking advantage of cloud computing should utilize cloud security approaches that support sharing of roles, policies, and workflows, rather than merely providing single sign-on. In a cloud environment, workloads (combinations of applications, middleware, and operating systems) can be easily shifted from one locale to another to optimize performance as needed. With these rapid shifts, it's critical to maintain proper regulatory and security standards. For cloud computing to flourish in the enterprise environment, businesses need assurances that they'll still be able to securely manage their people and workloads, regardless of location.

Security Implications in a Virtualized, Cloud Computing Environment

Fri, 02 Apr 2010 08:00:00 EDT

How will your internal controls over financial reporting be affected by virtualization? Will you be able to prove that the application running in your cloud today is the same application that was running there yesterday? While the benefits of virtualization are clear and measurable, what isn't so clear are the security ramifications of deploying critical application infrastructure in a virtual environment. Security conversations today are focused on mapping the current known security techniques to the virtual environment. This session will explore appropriate security techniques - control flow and data transformations, debugging resilience and software-based key and algorithm protection techniques.

In Digital, We Trust Cloud Computing

Thu, 01 Apr 2010 09:00:00 EDT

For CSC, the answer lies in restoring visibility into and through the cloud, and delivering a technique that can reclaim transparency even as services are being delivered through cloud processing. That technique includes a capability to reclaim transparency into and through the cloud within a broader set of Orchestration Core services. The CloudTrust Protocol (CTP) was created to help make visible the evidence of trustworthy processing that each cloud can provide.Â The CTP provides a method to request and receive information about the elements of transparency across cloud services. The CloudTrust Protocol itself extends the NIST/DOD sponsored Security Content Automation Protocol (SCAP) as a packaging and expression technique for some of the elements of transparency. With a CloudTrust Protocol service (known as Transparency Service), decisions about degrees of trust in cloud processing are placed back in the hands of the users, and they once again can have the evidence and items of assurance they need to move more and more functions into more and more powerful cloud processing delivery models. This is digital trust in the cloud.

Cloud Computing Improves Security, Unisys Architect Says

Thu, 01 Apr 2010 02:53:00 EDT

We are constantly bombarded with articles and presentations about the security risks in cloud computing and why organizations need to be concerned about them as they consider a move. The truth is that organizations DO need to be concerned about security – but they needn’t be paralyzed by fear. In fact, the heightened concern we’re seeing has actually become a spur to action and has begun to drive cloud security to a whole new level. This session will focus on the key areas where a successful migration to cloud computing can actually improve security and reduce risk, and address some of the major issues to account for before and during that migration.

The Physical Infrastructure of Cloud Computing

Wed, 31 Mar 2010 10:00:00 EDT

The cloud promises immediate and limitless scale across all types of applications. This raises practical questions about system utilization, capacity planning and performance issues related to the widespread usage of virtual servers and storage. How will the cloud mitigate requirements for applications needing real-time responsiveness, extreme transaction processing, event processing and continuous availability? This session will discuss the experience gained from research and development from Sun Microsystems' cloud program and the new types of systems that must be created to power the new generation of cloud implementations.

Zetta Executives to Speak at Storage Networking World and Cloud Expo

Tue, 30 Mar 2010 11:00:00 EDT

Cloud storage service provider Zetta today announced that its technology executives will be speaking at two upcoming industry events. Jeff Whitehead, the company’s CTO, will present a session on “Building and Managing a Multi-Petabyte Storage System” at Storage Networking World (SNW) Spring 2010 on Wednesday, April 14, 2010 at 11:45 a.m. in Orlando, Fla. Chris Schin, the company’s VP of products, will present a session on “Cloud Storage Use Cases – What is Working, What is Not” at Cloud Computing Expo, taking place on April 19-21, 2010 in New York City. Zetta will be demonstrating its Enterprise Cloud Storage solution at Cloud Expo, booth #136.

Is "Performance Intelligence" Where It's At with Cloud Computing?

Sun, 28 Mar 2010 09:15:00 EDT

Business Intelligence has focused on providing the actionable information needed to support decision makers in improving business operations. Until now, performance testing tools have delivered plenty of data, but very little decision support. Performance Intelligence enables test engineers to analyze results on a single timeline, make informed decisions and take action, often while a test is still running. In this session, Cloud Expo delegates will learn how companies have used cloud testing and "Performance Intelligence" to gain complete confidence in the performance, scalability and reliability of their websites and applications.

Oracle Goes "All In" at Cloud Expo in New York - I

Wed, 24 Mar 2010 09:15:00 EDT

Oracle is not only the sole Diamond Sponsor at Cloud Expo at the Javits Center in New York April 19-21, it has stepped up to participate in no less than eight sessions during what will be, by far, the largest show about Cloud Computing produced to date. (The exhibit floor alone is larger than all other Cloud events combined.) Here is a review of four of the Cloud Expo sessions that feature presenters from Oracle: Essential IaaS Security Speaker: Glenn Brunette Date: April 19, 2:40 pm-3:25 pm In this session, Cloud Expo delegates will learn essential concerns, best practices and techniques to help better maximize the security posture of Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) deployments. The session will feature specific architectural models, configuration ideas, and deployment techniques that will help reinforce your services from attack.

Oracle "All In" at New York's Cloud Expo - II

Wed, 24 Mar 2010 09:00:00 EDT

Whatever questions people may have had about Oracle and its commitment to Cloud Computing should be answered at Cloud Expo at the Javits Center in New York April 19-21. The company is the sole Diamond Sponsor, and has also committed to eight sessions during the three days of the world's largest event of its kind. Four of the sessions will be presented on the opening day, Monday, April 19. Then Oracle will participate in four more sessions over the final two days of Cloud Expo.

BI and Cloud Computing Are an Optimal Match

Tue, 23 Mar 2010 16:00:00 EDT

Gentile notes that "business Intelligence programs have been getting gradually better about delivering on their promise of instant analytics to support business decisions. Today's BI platforms have more functionality than ever with dashboards, customizable reporting and more data flexibility. " That's the good news. The bad news, according to Gentile is "only 15% of the knowledge workers who could be using BI are using these new tools. With such low penetration numbers, how intelligent are businesses really becoming?" Gentile urges enterprises to work with technology vendors. "While the payoff for delivering BI in the cloud may be obvious, going it alone into the cloud can be challenging," he says. "By cooperating with technology partners, developing a fully-functional BI stack — one that's truly affordable — is possible.

Objectivity Named “Bronze Sponsor” of World's Largest Cloud Event

Thu, 25 Feb 2010 20:45:00 EST

SYS-CON Events announced today that Objectivity, a leading provider of scalable database management solutions for mission-critical, real-time and distributed applications, has been named “Bronze Sponsor” of SYS-CON's 5th International Cloud Expo (www.CloudComputingExpo.com), which will take place on April 19-21, 2010, at the Jacob Javits Convention Center in New York City. The company's patented technology and flagship product, Objectivity/DB, is unique in its support for distributed architectures, cloud-based applications, and complex data management requirements. Objectivity/DB is ideal for applications requiring high-speed data ingest, data fusion and correlation, massively parallel processing, relationship analytics and graph traversal, and, of course, the ability to scale to meet the most demanding data storage requirements - all while using low-cost commodity computing resources such as those provided on Amazon's EC2, GoGrid's Cloud Hosting platform, and other distributed, virtualized cloud environments.

VeriSign to Present at Cloud Expo April 19-21 in New York City

Thu, 18 Feb 2010 23:45:00 EST

Enterprises continue to expand the use of cloud computing, and particularly software-as-a-service applications (SaaS), to achieve operational performance enhancements and efficiencies. Implementation of these technologies introduces several challenges related to identity management, such as administration and delegation of account authentication and authorization.

Intel’s Cloud Expo Presentation Live on SYS-CON.TV

Thu, 18 Feb 2010 23:30:00 EST

There are tangible economic benefits and efficiencies to be gained from cloud computing. To realize those benefits, companies should consider specific criteria and develop a strategy for how to optimize their datacenters to gain efficiencies and significantly improve datacenter TCO. In this session at Cloud Computing Expo 2009 West, Jason Waxman discussed the key ways for companies to improve datacenter efficiencies, drive down costs, and maximize use of their datacenter resources. He also discussed what it takes to build a cloud environment and real-world customer examples of how companies are gaining significant benefits from optimizing their datacenters using innovative computing technologies.

Alert Logic to Present at Cloud Expo April 19-21 in New York City

Thu, 18 Feb 2010 19:45:00 EST

The emergence of the Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) and Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) models are just two of the many inflection points as IT migrates away from the traditional data centers and into the cloud, shifting more control over security from the enterprise to the service provider. How will your security and compliance strategy change when this transformation is complete? Misha Govshteyn is co-founder and responsible for product development and strategy at Alert Logic, a Software-as-a-Service based security solutions provider. In this capacity, Govshteyn regularly consults with service providers and enterprises on securing cloud-based applications. Prior to co-founding Alert Logic, Govshteyn served as a Director of Managed Services for Reliant Energy Communications. In this role, he developed and successfully launched five major product lines including Managed Intrusion Detection services and managed enterprise firewall/VPN products.

Ping Identity to Present at Cloud Expo April 19-21 in New York City

Thu, 18 Feb 2010 19:00:00 EST

Just how should enterprise identity management and outsource SaaS applications integrate securely? What are the four basic areas of identity integration with SaaS? In his session at the 5th International Cloud Expo, Patrick Harding, CTO at Ping Identity, will outline these four basic areas – provisioning, authentication, SSO and authorization – addressing these issues from the SaaS provider and SaaS customer perspective as both play roles in the SaaS Identity reference architecture.

NetStar Systems to Exhibit at World's Largest Cloud Computing Event

Thu, 18 Feb 2010 17:45:00 EST

SYS-CON Events announced today that NetStar Systems, an IT and consulting provider supporting federal and private sectors, will exhibit at SYS-CON's 5th International Cloud Expo (www.CloudComputingExpo.com), which will take place on April 19-21, 2010, at the Jacob Javits Convention Center in New York City. Cloud Expo is the world's leading Cloud-focused event since 2007, and is held five times a year, in New York City, Silicon Valley, Prague, Tokyo and Hong Kong.

ScaleMP to Present at Cloud Expo April 19-21 in New York City

Thu, 18 Feb 2010 11:00:00 EST

Traditional server virtualization has mainly focused on consolidation, which occurs when a physical server is partitioned to run multiple virtual or logical servers. However, using server virtualization for aggregation can result in as many or even more efficiencies, especially for compute or memory-intensive applications common in the high performance computing market. Server virtualization for aggregation is when multiple physical servers are combined so that they appear and function as a single virtual system.

Hyper9 to Present at Cloud Expo

Thu, 18 Feb 2010 10:00:00 EST

Today enterprises are virtualizing more of their IT infrastructure than ever, leading to a whole new set of operational challenges. From rising data volumes and complexity to lack of cross-domain visibility and shifting data center roles and responsibilities, today's virtual environments are too dynamic for traditional (think: "static") management approaches. Even new approaches targeted for virtualization management contain hard-wired static reports and management views. It's time for a more mature approach to virtualization.

Cloud Expo Yahoo! Session Streaming Live on SYS-CON.TV

Mon, 08 Feb 2010 18:30:00 EST

Cloud Computing is receiving a lot of attention, and a number of companies see it as a key to increased agility and efficiency. The technology, however, is still at an early stage and many fundamental challenges need to be addressed before the full promise of the paradigm can be realized. In this general session, Yahoo! Chief Scientist Raghu Ramakrishnan highlighted some of the key challenges, described projects at Yahoo! that seek to address one or more of these challenges, and – in particular – he discussed the issues in managing large data stores in the cloud.

#TwitterJamBand to Perform Benefit Concert Live

Sat, 06 Feb 2010 21:00:00 EST

Over the last six months, a group of social media musicians in San Antonio have been playing music together under the name, #TwitterJamBand. It's really been a way to get friends together, jam and just have some fun. In the process, the band is being noticed by the media, world-wide. As the band and the get-togethers progressed, they decided to combine social media with social good by holding what they believe to be the first live, streaming benefit concert during the Super Bowl on Sunday, February 7 (the band is not associated with the NFL).

rPath Eliminates the “Pain of Change” for Linux Shops

Tue, 02 Feb 2010 19:00:00 EST

Today's enterprise IT organizations are intimately familiar with the pain of change. Under pressure to do more with less while accelerating velocity and responsiveness, IT is finding software systems harder than ever to provision and maintain. Similarly, most IT organizations lack consistent and repeatable processes for the handoff between phases in the release lifecycle. This leads to system configuration “drift” between dev, test, staging and production phases, which often leads to failed deployments and outages.

Macworld 2010 Announces Special iPad Event

Wed, 27 Jan 2010 15:06:00 EST

Macworld 2010 will offer a preview of the new iPad, providing attendees with in-depth analysis and commentary on Apple’s latest revolutionary product, IDG World Expo, owner of Macworld 2010, announced today. Jason Snell, vice president and editorial director at Macworld, the preeminent news and information source for professional and enthusiast users of Apple products, and a panel of industry insiders will explore the features, functionality and provide insight into the iPad. The event will be held on Saturday, February 13, from 1:00 p.m. - 2:00 p.m. at Macworld 2010, and will delve into what iPad means for users, developers, the tech industry and the ancillary industries it affects. The iPad Special Event will be followed by a Q&A session and an opportunity for a Macworld 2010 attendee to win an iPad after the product begins shipping.

Vindicia CTO to Present at Cloud Expo 2010

Thu, 14 Jan 2010 15:00:00 EST

The advent of cloud computing has changed how companies market, sell, provision and deploy new services. However, one of the less understood issues in this environment, especially for those dependent on automatic payments (credit cards), is the idea of compliance and the parallel issue of customer ownership. In his session at the 5th Cloud Expo, Brett Thomas, CTO of Vindicia, will draw on his first-hand experiences relating to cloud-based compliance and highlight some of the technical and business process requirements that underlie these concepts.

Adobe to Discusses Social Media and Government

Thu, 07 Jan 2010 16:00:00 EST

Loni Stark, group manager for Government Solutions at Adobe Systems Incorporated, recently interviewed with Focus Washington TechView to discuss the emergence of social media in government and how agencies are leveraging newer technologies, such as Twitter and Facebook, with positive returns. Social media has illustrated government agencies can interact with citizens in a more engaging manner versus the traditional perception of "cold," impersonal processes, Stark explained.

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

Thu, 31 Dec 2009 03:45:00 EST

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.

NaviSite Appoints Claudine Bianchi as Chief Marketing Officer

Sun, 27 Dec 2009 00:00:00 EST

NaviSite, a leading provider of cloud-enabled enterprise-hosting and application-management services, announced the appointment of Claudine Bianchi as Chief Marketing Officer. In this role Bianchi will lead NaviSite's global market positioning and messaging and provide strategic marketing direction for accelerating the growth of NaviSite's brand within the cloud computing space. "Claudine has a proven track record of marketing success in the technology industry," said Brooks Borcherding, Navisite's Senior Vice President of Sales and Chief Revenue Officer. "Her experience identifying market trends, building industry leadership in emerging markets, and working with sales teams to drive revenue will help NaviSite establish a leadership position in the emerging cloud-based managed services and application management market."

Intermedia Enhances Hosted Microsoft Exchange 2010 With New Customer Controls

Tue, 22 Dec 2009 17:00:00 EST

Intermedia, Microsoft Exchange hosting, enhanced its hosted Exchange 2010 offering with features that provide additional controls to customers. Intermedia is the first and only provider to launch hosted Exchange 2010 and recently enabled its partners to resell it. The company remains the only hosted Exchange 2010 provider.

New Social Media Network AmpMyVoice

Tue, 22 Dec 2009 15:00:00 EST

Users of the site will be able to read breaking news stories, “Amp” them up or down, provide comments, and voice their opinion via email to specific list of contact which is composed of key influencers to the applicable subject area. Registered users will be alerted to articles related to selected subject matter, including world, politics, sports, economy, entertainment and science. Users will be empowered and encouraged to express personal views via postings and to become actively involved with the issues that matter most to them.

ExactTarget Exceeds $100M in Sales

Mon, 21 Dec 2009 13:45:00 EST

On-demand email marketing and one-to-one marketing provider ExactTarget announced today it surpassed $100 million in sales year-to-date, making it one of the few software as a service companies in history to exceed the nine-figure mark. Fueled by a growing enterprise client list, the company’s 2009 year-to-date performance continues the company’s streak of 35 consecutive quarters of growth, placing it among the world’s top software as a service companies such as Salesforce.com, SuccessFactors and Concur.

Millennial Media Adds Mobile Support to Hopenhagen Global Effort

Thu, 12 Nov 2009 07:31:00 EST

The Hopenhagen campaign urges citizens of the world to visit the Hopenhagen.org website, sign a petition demanding their leaders support climate change, and share their messages of hope through social media applications. As a campaign that is using social media to connect the people of the world with their leaders, mobile is an important element of this outreach, Millennial Media has been selected to drive reach and awareness to the Hopenhagen campaign to mobile internet users throughout the U.S. Millennial Media, the largest mobile advertising network in the U.S., will deliver 10,000,000 impressions from November 7th through December 7th in support of the campaign.

Combining Twitter With Site Monitoring

Thu, 05 Nov 2009 11:15:00 EST

When Google's Gmail is down, thousands complain on Twitter. If Amazon has problems with its cloud services, you hear about it on Twitter. If a web hosting company has issues, you hear about it on Twitter. Twitter has given consumers a voice, and companies are listening. In other words, Twitter has become a discovery engine for service issues. But only if people effectively let the world know about those issues in the first place. Pingdom, a service that monitors the reliability of websites and services on the Internet, has now made it possible to automate this process. Pingdom users can choose to automatically send Twitter status messages when their monitored sites have downtime, notifying not just themselves, but the world.

Christophe Bisciglia Will Discuss Technical and Business Issues of Hadoop at Cloud Computing Expo

Thu, 29 Oct 2009 18:00:00 EDT

Many in the industry have heard of Hadoop, and in his session at Cloud Computing Conference & Expo, Christophe Bisciglia, Co-Founder of Cloudera, gets a little deeper. Hadoop is based on the same methods Google uses to store and process petabytes of data, but thanks to contributions from many in the open source community you can leverage these same methods to make sense of every increasing volumes of enterprise data. Bisciglia will highlight the technical and business issues that make Hadoop so powerful for large scale data processing.

CA to Discuss Cloud Security and Management at Cloud Computing Expo

Wed, 28 Oct 2009 20:30:00 EDT

CA today announced that two executives will present standalone sessions at the Cloud Computing Conference & Expo about how both service providers and IT organizations can help mitigate risks, such as performance, availability, change and security, in cloud environments. Tim Brown, CA distinguished engineer and chief security architect of CA's Security Management business unit, will present "Securing the Cloud and Establishing a Level Trust" on Wednesday, November 4 at 5:25 p.m. PT. The session will discuss security risks in cloud computing and the need for multiple organizations to establish a level of trust and security within the cloud, to manage and protect personal and business-confidential data and information.

Vizioncore Named Bronze Sponsor of 4th Virtualization Conference & Expo

Sun, 04 Oct 2009 10:15:00 EDT

Leading the way in providing software solutions that extend, enhance and improve virtual environments, Vizioncore Inc. has grown into an industry leader which is helping thousands of organizations maximize their ROI from their investments in virtualization. With a comprehensive set of solutions that automate complex processes and address IT challenges of P2V/V2V conversions, disaster recovery, storage optimization, process automation and provisioning, and performance monitoring and chargeback, Vizioncore helps organizations leverage virtualization to achieve new levels of productivity and efficiencies in their IT systems.

IBM and Canonical Launch Cloud Computing Software in Africa

Wed, 23 Sep 2009 09:00:00 EDT

IBM and Canonical are introducing a new, flexible personal computing software package for netbooks and other thin client devices to help businesses in Africa bridge the digital divide by leapfrogging traditional PCs and proprietary software. This is the first cloud- and premise-based Linux netbook software package offered by IBM and Canonical. Part of IBM's Smart Work Initiative, the new package targets the rising popularity of low-cost netbooks to make IBM's industrial-strength software affordable to new, mass audiences in Africa. Businesses that could not afford traditional PCs for all employees can now use any type of device and low-cost software to enable all workers to work smarter anywhere using a variety of devices, regardless of the level of communications infrastructure.

Zimbra on Ulitzer Topic Launched

Mon, 21 Sep 2009 19:00:00 EDT

Zimbra is open source server software for email and collaboration - email, group calendar, contacts, instant messaging, file storage and web document management. The Zimbra email and calendar server is available for Linux, Mac OS X and virtualization platforms. Zimbra syncs to smartphones (iPhone, BlackBerry) and desktop clients like Outlook and Thunderbird. Zimbra also features archiving and discovery for compliance. Zimbra can be deployed on-premise or as a hosted email solution.

SAP Business One Journal Launched on Ulitzer

Wed, 26 Aug 2009 16:00:00 EDT

SAP Business One Journal launched today on Ulitzer by Brad Windecker, founder and CEO of Orchestra LLC. Brad is the CEO and co-founder of Orchestra LLC, an IT firm dedicated to small and mid-size companies. THe company helps businesses solve problems through the use of innovative technology, such as leading business management software and open source website development, as well as through process redesign. The SAP Business One topic at Ulitzer is a place for articles, stories, and more related to SAP Business One.