How can organizations use enterprise/private cloud capabilities to improve information-sharing? In his session at the 7th International Cloud Expo, Ira A. (Gus) Hunt, CTO to the CIO of the Central Intelligence Agency, will discuss how the Intelligence Community has been using enterpri...

Citrix, which claims to be the most widely deployed cloudware around, in part a factor of running both Amazon and Rackspace, is buying six-year-old VMLogix and its LabManager and StageManager products, old hypervisor-agnostic friends that automate virtualization management in private a...

As much as information technology has changed in the last 10 years, the next decade promises even more significant change. And as cloud technology becomes more prevalent, IT enterprises will be driven to reconsider the status quo around just about everything we know, including Physical...

The last decade saw the growth of Virtualization from its humble beginnings as a developer tool to its increasing adoption in data centers worldwide. It dramatically improved resilience, scalability, portability and utilization, and became one of the key foundations of the Cloud. But t...

Verizon, which is really into this cloud business – against the day when phones as we know them evaporate into the ether – and so means to have clouds for everybody eventually, has added to its very high-end, mission-critical, totally handheld public cloud of last year. It’s taken VM...

You may be reluctant to move your enterprise application workloads to the cloud, fearing a lack of security, compliance issues such as data location regulations, and having to rewrite your applications. In his keynote at Cloud Expo Prague, Sam Gross, Vice President of Global IT Outso...

Virtualization is one of the key foundations of the Cloud, but many enterprises are finding the rapid growth in the number of virtual machines extremely difficult to manage. Far from reducing provisioning times and improving utilization, many organizations have found that “virtualizati...

Intel has reportedly acquired the market leader in client virtualization, Neocleus. Known for its NeoSphere product. Neocleus is well known for its implementation of industry-leading virtualization technologies, coupled with centralized control and management that integrate with existi...

F5 Networks, Inc., a provider of Application Delivery Networking (ADN), on Friday announced that SpringCM, an award-winning cloud enterprise content management platform, uses F5 BIG-IP solutions to meet rapidly growing customer demand. The enhanced application performance and virtual s...

F5 Networks, Inc., a provider of Application Delivery Networking (ADN), on Friday announced it has been named the winner of Puget Sound Business Journal’s Best Workplace award in the extra-large company category (500+ employees). F5 was chosen from 80 finalists based on its excellent e...

F5 Networks, Inc., the global leader in Application Delivery Networking (ADN), has been named one of the world’s fastest-growing companies, according to FORTUNE. F5 is ranked No. 64 among what FORTUNE calls “the world’s supercharged performers” on its 2010 list of 100 Fastest-Growing C...

Unitrends, the leading provider of integrated and scalable backup solutions, today announced that its successful partnership with nexusSTOR has created a strong competitive advantage for the reseller. Kyle King, owner of nexusSTOR, extensively examined the other competitors Exagrid, O...

When building a utility or cloud business plan, Wall Street IT can provide important lessons. In his session at the 7th International Cloud Expo, Mike Tardif, President of Adaptivity, will lay out a blueprint for the CIO on how to define, fund and implement a successful transition fro...

SYS-CON Events announced today that Webroot, a leading provider in Web and Email Security, will exhibit at SYS-CON's 7th International Cloud Expo, which will take place on November 1–4, 2010, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA. Webroot provides industry-leading se...

Voltaire has come out with a new top-of-rack switch, a low-latency, high-density 10 GbE switch for virtualization and scaling cloud networks that will be a challenge for Cisco since Cisco doesn’t have anything like it and Voltaire’s pricing the thing aggressively to capitalize on its a...

Dell pulled out of the race to acquire 3PAR Thursday morning after HP upped its $30-a-share bid of last Friday to $33 a share, pushing 3PAR's valuation past $2 billion to roughly $2.1 billion. 3PAR sent out a statement Thursday morning saying that Dell went to $32 before the three-day...

HP has upped its $30-a-share bid for 3PAR last Friday to $33 a share, pushing 3PAR’s valuation past $2 billion to about $2.1 billion. 3PAR sent out a statement Thursday morning saying that Dell went to $32 before the three-day clock ran out on it Wednesday at midnight, and HP counter...

Cisco on Thursday announced its intent to acquire privately held Arch Rock Corporation, a pioneer in Internet Protocol-based wireless network technology for smart-grid applications. Based in San Francisco, Arch Rock will accelerate Cisco's ability to facilitate the utility industry's t...

SYS-CON Events announced today that Red Hat, the world's leading provider of open source solutions, has been named “Platinum Sponsor” of SYS-CON’s 7th International Cloud Expo, which will take place on November 1–4, 2010, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA. Red Ha...

Hiperos, LLC, a provider of on-demand solutions for extended enterprise management, announced on Thursday that Microsoft Corp. will use Hiperos to manage all critical aspects of the supplier lifecycle – from initial supplier registration and assessment of risk to active measurement of ...

What is the Enterprise Cloud Living Blueprint? In his session at the 7th International Cloud Expo, Brian Sledge, SVP Solution Architecture and Field Engineering for Adaptivity, will walk delegates through the creation and linkage of a living blueprint concept and how it helps firms re...

What are small, high-growth companies experiencing as they make their move to on demand applications and how they are dealing with concerns around security, integration, business disruption? In his session at the 7th International Cloud Expo, Shawn Reynolds, Director at SAP, will dis...

Public cloud adoption by an enterprise may have numerous barriers and challenges surrounding data privacy, residency, and security. Transitioning from on-premise solutions to the cloud means ceding data governance to the cloud vendor. This may impact your enterprise regulatory complian...

Peter Silva re-visits F5′s Alan Murphy, to go deeper into F5′s integration with VMware’s VMView and vCloud Director. ps Technorati Tags: F5, infrastructure 2.0, integration, Pete Silva, security, business, education, technology, application delivery, cloud, virtualiza...

Within hours of 3PAR maybe finding out who its daddy's gonna be, it got sued by a little Austin, Texas outfit with a litigation trail behind it by the name of Crossroads Systems. The publicly traded Texas company accused 3PAR along with six other storage houses of infringing on its ...

Moving to the cloud raises lots of questions, mostly about security. Providers worthy of your business should answer them clearly and honestly. Amazon Web Services has built an infrastructure and established processes to mitigate common vulnerabilities and offer a safe compute and stor...

A successful enterprise cloud requires a well-executed CMDB that will enable an enterprise cloud to be operationalized. In his session at the 7th International Cloud Expo, Jim Houghton, Co-Founder & Chief Technology Officer of Adaptivity, will discuss the execution blueprint component...

Cloud computing radically alters our thinking about IT. Scarcity evaporates as on-demand resources appear infinite, servers morph into disposable horsepower, and backups lose their fragility. Eliminating the need to own information processing assets helps improve economics by removing ...

SYS-CON Events announced today that Mezeo Software, the leading provider of a deployable cloud storage platform for service providers and enterprises, will exhibit at SYS-CON's 7th International Cloud Expo, which will take place on November 1–4, 2010, at the Santa Clara Convention Cent...

For a cloud to be considered enterprise, it must provide a high-availability solution that accounts for every aspect of an Enterprise IT Infrastructure environment, from development to production including provisioning and maintenance of servers, network, storage, security and software...

SYS-CON Events announced today that GoGrid, a leading Cloud Infrastructure and Hybrid Hosting Provider, has been named “Silver Sponsor” of SYS-CON's 7th International Cloud Expo, which will take place on November 1–4, 2010, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA. GoGr...

On Tuesday VMware has announced that it has entered into definitive agreements to acquire Integrien, a provider of real time application and infrastructure performance analytics software, and TriCipher, a provider of secure access management and enterprise identity federation for cloud...

Abiquo, the leading Enterprise Cloud Management software vendor, on Tuesday announced that, after extensive research among its more than 20,000 customers, open source users and prospects, the top five issues facing enterprises today are: 1) Security and Compliance, 2) IT Organization O...

VMware has expanded its vision for modern IT infrastructures and announced six new products and services that help enterprises and service providers achieve the benefits of cloud computing while maintaining the control and freedom of choice they require. IT as a Service is the transf...

Vordel, a provider of fast, safe connectivity for SOA and Cloud Services on Tuesday announced that its Vordel Cloud Service Broker will provide management for the VMware vCloud Director. VMware vCloud Director enables enterprises to manage a hybrid environment of their own datacenters ...

Hurd won’t be replaced immediately. It was his only other board seat besides HP, one he accepted in February 2008. Speculation over what exactly happened in HP’s executive suite has turned recently to Hurd’s unpopularity with the HP workforce and his alleged starvation of the com...

Verizon Business and VMware unveiled a new enterprise-class hybrid cloud solution that will enable enterprises to move their applications to the cloud more quickly without compromising security or performance. The new solution, underpinned by Verizon's world-class global IP network and...

IBM, a non-contender in the 3PAR event despite the billions it's otherwise spent on storage, said Tuesday that it has thrown California's newfangled Emergency Management Agency (Cal EMA), a lifeline. Cal EMA is the deficit-ridden, emergency-prone state's year-old combination of its ...

In the run-up to the next Cloud Expo, 7th Cloud Expo (November 1-4, 2010) at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Silicon Valley, it's time to give my earlier list a complete overhaul. Here, accordingly, is an expanded list of the most active players in the Cloud Ecosystem.

newScale, which just climbed into bed with Eucalyptus last week, is supposed to say at VMworld Tuesday that its FrontOffice Suite supports VMware’s new infrastructure-as-a-service vCloud Director software for building private and public clouds. newScale - whose President and Chief E...