Cloud Computing Journal

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Red Hat Named ?Platinum Sponsor? of Cloud Expo Silicon Valley

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 Hat, an S&P 500 company, is headquartered in Raleigh, NC, with over 65 offices spanning the globe. The company provides high-quality, affordable technology with its operating system platform, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, together with virtualization, applications, management and Services Oriented Architecture (SOA) solutions, including Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization and JBoss Enterprise Middleware.

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Sanderson Wetherall Consolidates Email Services in the Cloud with Mimecast

Mimecast, a unified email management company, has been selected by Sanderson Weatherall, an independent practice of chartered surveyors and property consultants, to provide cloud-based email security, continuity, policy control and archiving, across its five UK offices with immediate effect. Sanderson Wetherall, who employ over 250 staff across offices in Leeds, London, Newcastle upon Tyne, Manchester and Teesside, were previously using several different providers to manage the areas of email security, email archiving and business continuity. The three year deal with Mimecast consolidates these services and integrates fully with the company's existing Microsoft Exchange and Outlook environments.

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Adaptivity SVP to Present at Cloud Expo Silicon Valley

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 realize a cloud delivery model. Brian Sledge is the SVP Solution Architecture and Field Engineering for Adaptivity. He is responsible for both the creative side of the business and for the development of all product and marketing initiatives, strategic brand direction and consistent presentation of the company's brands across all channels of distribution, including direct customers and partners. This is inclusive of product & portfolio definition; messaging and positioning and overall go-to-market strategy and planning.

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Apptio Launches Solution to Optimize Private Cloud Computing Investments

Apptio, a provider of on-demand Technology Business Management (TBM) solutions, on Wednesday announced new capabilities that track the cost, quality and utilization of private cloud infrastructures. The new Private Cloud Business Management solution integrates with VMware and other IT systems to provide "charge by metered consumption" based on the total cost of the cloud service -- a key requirement for private cloud deployments. The deployment of private clouds is a major step in the adoption of cloud as an integral part of the IT supply chain. Apptio is first to market in providing a holistic solution for managing the cost, quality and value of the cloud for enterprise IT.

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Cloud Expo 2011 East and West Venues Announced!

SYS-CON Events announced today that the 8th International Cloud Expo will take place June 6-9, 2011, at the Jacob Javits Convention Center in New York City, and the 9th International Cloud Expo will take place December 5-8, 2011, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, California. The International Cloud Computing Conference & Expo series is the world's leading Cloud-focused event and is held three times a year, in New York, Silicon Valley and in Europe. Over 200 corporate sponsors and 10,000 industry professionals have participated in Cloud Computing Expo since its inception, more than all other Cloud-related events put together. The four-day events will offer a rich array of sessions led by exceptional speakers about the business and technical value of cloud computing with more than 150 sponsors and exhibitors and over 5,000 estimated delegates from well over 48 different countries.

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Carahsoft Partners with Wyse to Deliver Cloud Computing Solutions

Carahsoft Technology Corp., a government IT solutions provider, and Wyse Technology, the global leader in cloud client computing, on Wednesday announced a partnership through which the companies will make Wyse?s industry-leading thin and zero client computing-based desktop virtualization software, hardware and services available to the public sector. "With the addition of Wyse?s product to our virtualization offerings, we will provide a full end-to-end desktop virtualization solution supporting VMware and its PC-over-IP display protocol," said Craig P. Abod, President of Carahsoft, which also serves as the master government aggregator for VMware. "This combined solution eliminates the need for desktop workstations and PCs, allowing our government customers and our reseller partners to realize the benefits of truly flexible and secure desktop computing for any user and from any location."

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SAP to Present The Journey to On Demand at Cloud Expo Silicon Valley

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 discuss what benefits they are actually seeing versus what they expected and what advice they are giving software companies to help them achieve long-term growth and profitability.

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With Clouds Everywhere, It Is Bound to Rain

I was pondering the weather in Northeast Wisconsin this morning, it?s gloomy and oppressively hot. Between heat and humidity, I?d say it felt more like the US?s Pacific Northwest than the Midwest. And it?s been image that way all summer. We?ve been plowed under with 80+ percent humidity for months, and every once in a while the temperature dips to remind us that we?re in Wisconsin. It is the last day of August, tomorrow is September, when cool and wet is supposed to start converging upon us. It will be a relief after months of hot and humid. But the one thing we?ve had plenty of this summer? Rain. Lots and lots of rain. Like I said, Pacific Northwest.

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