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NaviCloud is a next-generation platform that combines the economic efficiencies of cloud computing with true enterprise-class reliability and security. With built-in high-availability, a state of the art operations center, and a highly resilient service delivery infrastructure spanning multiple data centers, NaviCloud ensures business continuity. In his session at the 5th International Cloud Expo, Denis Martin, EVP and Chief Technology Officer, NaviSite Inc., will deep dive into the architecture and the real building blocks of NaviCloud, which also employs a multi-pronged approach to ensuring and enforcing the security, privacy, and integrity of enterprise applications and data.

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SYS-CON Events announced today that VirtuDataCenter, a cloud computing network infrastructure company, will offer a complete turnkey alternative to today’s cloud computing solutions. They 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. VirtuDataCenter offers a complete end-to-end virtual private cloud solution that provides total management control and impenetrable mission critical security. All aspects of the VirtuDataCenter solution work together to provide a total solution for cloud computing and virtualization in today’s network infrastructure

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RightScale says it’s got new enterprise features in its cloud management platform. It’s talking better authorization and permissioning control, cost-tracking, and overall management of running virtual servers in the cloud across large organizations with multiple users, departments and projects They support the creation of IT self-service and corporate governance strategies in the cloud that are supposed to match internal IT policies. RightScale also announced that it’s now launched a million servers into the cloud.

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You are interested in cloud computing, but where do you start? How are vendors defining Cloud Computing? What do you need to know to figure out which applications make sense in the cloud? And is any of this real today? In his session at the 5th International Cloud Expo, Bill Zack, an Architect Evangelist with Microsoft, will explore a set of five patterns that you can use for moving to the cloud, together with working samples on Windows Azure, Google AppEngine, and Amazon EC2. He will provide the tools and knowledge to help you more clearly understand moving your organization to the cloud.

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To capitalize on what it figures is its vanguard position in the great cloud explosion EMC has recruited one-time Veritas exec Jeremy Burton as its chief marketing officer, and made him responsible for the global structure, strategy and execution of all its marketing efforts. The company has never had a CMO before. Burton will report to CEO Joe Tucci. The Englishman honed his marketing skills at Oracle, went to Veritas to head the Data Management Group and serve as CMO when Gary Bloom, another ex-Oracle guy, was running the joint, stayed on as group president of EMC rival Symantec’s $2 billion security and data management business unit after Symantec of all people bought the place, finally leaving in 2007 to replace Mike Capellas of Compaq fame as president and CEO of Serena Software.

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Organizations embracing Cloud Computing are quickly realizing how Data Grid technology can solve many of the challenges associated from running applications on distributed shared infrastructure across the globe. From hosting data as a service, sharing application state across applications, parallel processing of transactions, events and messages, Data Grids provide the perfect combination of extensibility, reliability and performance needed to meet the demands of Cloud Computing. This session will map the evolution of Data Grid technology and how it is being successfully integrated into Cloud Computing.

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There is now – or will be next quarter, at least in North America – something called Smart Business Development & Test on the IBM Cloud. It appears to be what other people might call a public cloud but this is IBM and public clouds are so…so, well, so down market like public swimming pools, or Amazon – and not really what Big Blue means, one assumes – so IBM calls this a “commercial cloud service” instead – sort of like the way Tory English refer to, ahem, trade. It’s targeting the thing at the enterprise and government. Now realize that IBM has been offering a private cloud solution for development and test behind the client’s firewall, built and managed by IBM, since last June, but this is not to be mistaken with that though one might easily do so since that’s called IBM Smart Business Development & Test Cloud.

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Did Terremark and vCloud just stumble on enterprise readiness? One user claims no feedback or support during a recent data center outage.

newScale, the self-service IT storefront people, is sending out its FrontOffice Suite to support Cisco’s industry-alienating Unified Computing System (UCS). It says service providers and enterprises can now leverage the widgetry as a self-service portal to their Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) solutions and private Cisco-powered clouds. newScale’s software provides a web-based menu of standardized service packages and a unified IT storefront for data center services, managing both physical and virtual environments for any hypervisor stack.

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In a move designed to impress the enterprise crowd, OpSource's new service-level agreement promises 100% network and server availability.

You are interested in cloud computing, but where do you start? How are vendors defining Cloud Computing? What do you need to know to figure out which applications make sense in the cloud? And is any of this real today? Based on real-world customer engagements, this session explores a set of five patterns that you can use for moving to the cloud, together with working samples on Windows Azure, Google AppEngine, and Amazon EC2. Avoiding the general product pitches, this session provides the tools and knowledge to help you more clearly understand moving your organization to the cloud.

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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. A new approach to identity is required to ensure the continued growth and success of cloud computing: we call this Identity 2.0.

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As enthusiasm for cloud computing has exploded – so has confusion over the definitions, use cases and practical realities of deploying applications in the cloud today. While the promise of lower IT costs, greater scalability and more flexible computing are hard to ignore, many CTOs and IT managers are finding it increasingly difficult to understand how to take advantage of cloud computing, or even how to get started.

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SYS-CON Events announced today that Stoneware, a provider of private cloud technology, 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. 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.

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The National Institute for Standards and Technology will create a Web portal designed to educate the masses on cloud computing applications.

SMonitis, a provider of 100% Cloud-based network and systems monitoring solutions, today announced a major overhaul and upgrade of it’s user interface designed to make the world’s most innovative suite of monitoring tools even more user-friendly. First-generation and second-generation internal and external monitoring systems have been notoriously complex and difficult to use. When it launched, Monitis’ third generation suite of monitoring tools fundamentally changed this dynamic. With it’s latest UI upgrade, the user experience has been made even simpler.

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You have a virtualized environment, now what do you do? Well, hey, that's a good question! It's probably a question that's being asked of IT managers and CIOs from uncomprehending top execs all over this world. It's also the title of a session at Cloud Expo, to be presented by Daniel Weis, Director of IT Management Advisory Support. I liked the title, so I read what Daniel has to say on the topic so far:

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Red Hat first announced plans to deliver Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization in February 2009 to help address customer concerns about virtualization, such as performance, scalability and security. In November 2009, Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization for Servers was released, providing customers with a new, fully featured, cost-effective choice in the virtualization market. Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization offers some of the industry's latest technology, enabling enterprise adoption of virtualization and the deployment of open cloud computing infrastructures.

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A session by Terry Woloszyn, Founder/CTO of PerspecSys, addresses "data privacy, residency, and security in the cloud." The speaker notes, "Cloud solutions, especially Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), have questions regarding data security and governance arise. Depending on your jurisdiction, you may be subject to the recently released EU Data Protection Directive. In the US, you may have to cope with a patchwork of disparate and overlapping regulations, as well as sector-specific requirements such as HIPPA for healthcare, or FISMA and ITAR for public sector-related organizations."

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No one can properly understand anything related to enterprise-level Cloud Computing without having first gained a deep understanding of the capabilities of different Cloud players. SYS-CON's pioneering Cloud Computing Bootcamp is designed with that in mind. It is a one-day, fully immersive deep-dive into the Cloud, in which the sessions during the day seek to give delegates a deep understanding of the capabilities of different Cloud players and how they address rapidly changing market demands. The ever-popular Bootcamp, which is now held regularly around the world, is being held next in conjunction the 5th Cloud Expo in New York, NY (April 20, 2010). It is led by our 2010 Bootcamp Instructor Larry Carvalho.

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