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. ...

Saba announced Saba People Management Cloud, an edition of Saba's people management solutions to be delivered on Amazon Web Services (AWS). By enabling Saba’s award winning products for the Amazon cloud, large and mid-sized enterprises will be able to easily unify, engage, mobilize and...

LiveOps provides cloud computing-based contact center platform and services to hundreds of companies in both direct response and enterprise markets that rely on the company's technology for delivering a superior customer service experience. “One of the value propositions of the cloud c...

HP BookPrep – a cloud computing service that enables on-demand printing of books – brings new life to the traditional publishing model, making it possible to bring any book ever published back into print through an economical and sustainable service model. As part of a growing movement...

"We believe that cloud is an important trend that we will support. We have two objectives. The first is to ensure that cloud computing is fully enterprise grade, meaning high performance, scalability, reliability, availability, security and standards-based for portability and interoper...

VMware, the acknowledged leader in virtualization, came in with third-quarter revenues of $490 million, up 4% year-over-year, beating estimates of around $474 million. The recession has really crimped VMware’s style. This time last year its revenues were up 32% year-over-year to $4...

SYS-CON Events announced today that AppZero, pioneer in server-side application virtualization, was named "Silver Sponsor" of the 4th International Cloud Computing Conference & Expo, which will be taking place November 2-4, 2009 at the Santa Clara Convention Center, Santa Clara, CA. ...

SYS-CON Events announced that RightScale, the recognized leader for scalable and resilient cloud computing management, was named "Bronze Sponsor" of SYS-CON's 4th International Cloud Computing Conference & Expo (www.cloudcomputingexpo.com), which will take place on November 2 - 4, 2009...

SYS-CON Events announced that The Planet, the global IT hosting leader, was named "Bronze Sponsor" of SYS-CON's 4th International Cloud Computing Conference & Expo (www.CloudComputingExpo.com), which will take place on November 2 - 4, 2009, Santa Clara Convention Center, in Santa Clara...

SYS-CON Events announced that PerspecSys Inc., provider of Cloud Data Governance solutions that address the critical issues of Data Privacy, Residency, and Security in the Cloud, was named "Bronze Sponsor" of SYS-CON's 4th International Cloud Computing Conference & Expo (CloudComputing...

SYS-CON Events announced that New Relic, the leading software-as-a-service provider of application performance management solutions, was named "Bronze Sponsor" of SYS-CON's 4th International Cloud Computing Conference & Expo, which will take place on November 2 - 4, 2009, Santa Clara C...

SYS-CON Events announced today that ExactTarget, the leading provider of on-demand email and one-to-one marketing solutions, was named "Bronze Sponsor" of SYS-CON's 4th International Cloud Computing Conference & Expo, which will take place on November 2 - 4, 2009, Santa Clara Conventio...

SYS-CON Events announced that Stoneware, a leader in the area of private cloud computing, was named "Silver Sponsor" of SYS-CON's 4th International Cloud Computing Conference & Expo, which will take place on November 2 - 4, 2009, Santa Clara Convention Center, in Santa Clara, Californi...

Gartner defines a strategic technology as one with the potential for significant impact on the enterprise in the next three years. Factors that denote significant impact include a high potential for disruption to IT or the business, the need for a major dollar investment, or the risk o...

SYS-CON Events announced today that Ulitzer was named exclusive "new media" sponsor of the 4th International Cloud Computing Conference & Expo, which will take place November 2 - 3 - 4, 2009, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA. 4th International Cloud Computing Con...

Mimosa Expert and Microsoft MVP to Share the Differences Between a Records Archive and SharePoint 2010 In-Place Records

Voltaire’s thinking Cisco got way too cute elbowing its way into the server market and will be forced to sacrifice “big bear-sized bites” of its networking share as a result – a conclusion many share but Voltaire expects to prove today when it says IBM is running with its newfangled Va...

SYS-CON Events announced today that Intel, a provider of industry-leading products and technologies optimized for cloud computing environments, was named "Gold Sponsor" of SYS-CON's 4th International Cloud Computing Conference & Expo, which will take place on November 2 - 4, 2009, Sant...

Robert Moffat ain’t running IBM’s systems business, its chips or its supply chain and he ain’t serving as an officer of the company following his arrest Friday on criminal charges that he disclosed confidential inside information on AMD, Sun and IBM itself to a hedge fund ring that was...

SYS-CON Events announced that SOASTA, a leading provider of cloud testing, was named "Silver Sponsor" of SYS-CON's 4th International Cloud Computing Conference & Expo, which will take place on November 2 - 4, 2009, Santa Clara Convention Center, in Santa Clara, California. The event is...

SYS-CON Events announced that Akamai, the leader in web application acceleration and performance management, was named "Silver Sponsor" of SYS-CON's 4th International Cloud Computing Conference & Expo (www.CloudComputingExpo.com), which will take place on November 2 - 4, 2009, Santa Cl...

SYS-CON Events announced that 3Tera, the innovator of cloud computing technology and utility computing services, was named "Silver Sponsor" of SYS-CON's 4th International Cloud Computing Conference & Expo (www.CloudComputingExpo.com), which will take place on November 2 - 4, 2009, Sant...

SYS-CON Events announced that EMC, the world leader in information infrastructure solutions, was named "Gold Sponsor" of SYS-CON's 4th International Cloud Computing Conference & Expo (www.CloudComputingExpo.com), which will take place on November 2 - 4, 2009, Santa Clara Convention Cen...

SYS-CON Events announced that Bycast, the leading provider of storage virtualization software for large-scale digital archives and storage clouds, was named "Gold Sponsor" of SYS-CON's 4th International Cloud Computing Conference & Expo (www.CloudComputingExpo.com), which will take pla...

SYS-CON Events announced that Adaptivity, the IT transformation company, was named "Gold Sponsor" of SYS-CON's 4th International Cloud Computing Conference & Expo (www.CloudComputingExpo.com), which will take place on November 2 - 4, 2009, Santa Clara Convention Center, in Santa Clara,...

SYS-CON Events announced that Yahoo!, a leading global Internet brand and one of the most trafficked Internet destinations worldwide, was named "Platinum Sponsor" of SYS-CON's 4th International Cloud Computing Conference & Expo (www.CloudComputingExpo.com), which will take place on Nov...

SYS-CON Events announced that Unisys, the leader in high-value technology and business solutions to global enterprises, was named "Platinum Sponsor" of SYS-CON's 4th International Cloud Computing Conference & Expo (www.CloudComputingExpo.com), which will take place on November 2 - 4, 2...

NComputing, which now claims 15 million virtual desktop users working off of two million physical devices across 140 countries, figures it’s got the industry’s first USB-connected virtual desktop client. The so-called U170 plugs into a computer’s USB 2.0 port and with the company’s vSp...

SYS-CON Events announced that Oracle, the world's leading supplier of software for information management and the world's second largest independent software company, was named "Platinum Sponsor" of SYS-CON's 4th International Cloud Computing Conference & Expo (www.cloudcomputingexpo.c...

Continuing its commitment to work closely with partners to deliver complete, open, and integrated solutions to customers, Oracle today announced the Oracle VM Storage Connect Program and a preview of the planned Oracle® VM Storage Connect framework. The Oracle VM Storage Connect fram...

"Virtualization requires massive volume to be profitable. Cloud computing will enable that massive volume." With succinct sound bites like that, it is not surprising that Barry X Lynn, CEO of 3Tera, is much in demand as a speaker at conferences devoted to Cloud & Virtualization. In thi...

SYS-CON Events announced today that Hubspan, the leading provider of business integration solutions, will be exhibiting at the 4th International Cloud Computing Conference & Expo, taking place November 2-4, 2009 at the Santa Clara Convention Center, Santa Clara, CA. Hubspan’s cloud-bas...

Only one publication in the world has been tracking Cloud Computing 24x7 since December 6, 2006, when we first mentioned the concept in an article: Cloud Computing Journal. Since then worldwide interest in the Cloud paradigm of massively scalable IT resources and capabilities delivered...

SYS-CON Events announced today that Objectivity, Inc., a provider of distributed, real-time data platforms, was named "Silver Sponsor" of SYS-CON's 4th International Cloud Computing Conference & Expo, which will take place on November 2 - 4, 2009 at the , Santa Clara Convention Center,...

AMD was supposed to lose 42 cents in the third quarter on sales of $1.26 billion according to the smart money on Wall Street. Instead it up and came in Thursday with losses of only 18 cents a share on $1.396 billion in revenue. Now as nice as that is for AMD, it’s even more important i...

At this year's event, CA will present a thought-provoking program which includes exclusive keynote addresses, a dynamic Partner Symposium as well as new customer forums, demonstrations, content-rich education classes and a showcase of SaaS-delivered IT services for infrastructure manag...

SYS-CON Events announced today that Rhomobile, a provider of the Rhodes open source mobile application development framework for enterprise mobility, will exhibit at SYS-CON's 4th International Cloud Computing Conference & Expo, which will take place on November 2 - 4, 2009, Santa Clar...

The Cloud storage segment can provide a roadmap for how to create a viable, profitable cloud computing industry. Cloud storage has not so quietly gone from concept to tangible business with real revenue and margin opportunities. According to Steve Lesem, while many bet on Amazon, EMC, ...

SYS-CON's Virtualization Journal announced today that the voting in its second annual Virtualization Readers' Choice Awards is now open. Voting will end October 23, 2009, and winners will be announced the week of November 2-4, 2009, at the 7th International Virtualization Conference & ...