“Much like the “100% paperless” or “100% wireless” enterprise, we’re not likely to see a ‘100% public cloud,’” noted Willie Tejada, Senior Vice President, Enterprise Cloud at Akamai Technologies, Inc., in this exclusive Q&A with Cloud Expo Conference Chair Jeremy Geelan. However, Tejad...

“At the end of the day what’s important to technology users are their applications and their data, whether this be personal pictures and music files or corporate databases,” observed Alan Dayley, Sr. Director of Product Management at i365, in this exclusive Q&A with Cloud Expo Conferen...

“As more and more people become comfortable with the idea, businesses will move more workloads to Public Clouds,” stated Joe Seibel, CFA, CFO & VP of Strategic Development at Hexagrid, in this exclusive Q&A with Cloud Expo Conference Chair Jeremy Geelan. “I like to compare it to the hi...

“There is no doubt that the federal government’s support of cloud computing is driving additional demand,” stated Paul Carmody, SVP, Product Management & Business Development at Internap, in this exclusive Q&A with Cloud Expo Conference Chair Jeremy Geelan. However, Carmody noted, “Ent...

“Adoption of new technologies by large enterprises and government agencies legitimize the technology and speed up adoption,” noted Ran Nahmias, Director of Virtualization & Cloud Solutions at Net Optics, in this exclusive Q&A with Cloud Expo Conference Chair Jeremy Geelan. “The governm...

“Cloud computing is all about automation and self-service and [at CloudExpo] we'll be showing attendees how they can extend that to the application layer,” stated James Weir, CTO and co-founder of UShareSoft in this exclusive Q&A with Cloud Expo Conference Chair Jeremy Geelan. “I will ...

“There is a move to build more cloud-like capabilities into virtual environments, such as standard instance sizes and software stacks,” noted Andrew Hillier, CTO and co-founder of CiRBA, Inc., in this exclusive Q&A with Cloud Expo Conference Chair Jeremy Geelan. “This is a step toward ...

“We believe that ‘cloud’ as a specialized concept will rapidly give way to cloud as simply a dominant enterprise IT paradigm,” noted Lawrence Guillory, CEO of Racemi Inc., in this exclusive Q&A with Cloud Expo Conference Chair Jeremy Geelan, “where public and private cloud resources bo...

“The Obama/Kundra effect of pushing more government data to the web and promoting the application of cloud scale efficiencies has been felt across all markets,” noted Bart Copeland, President & CEO of ActiveState Software, in this exclusive Q&A with Cloud Expo Conference Chair Jeremy G...

“The cloud provides access to an endless range of services and applications,” noted Uri Mishol, co-founder and CEO, Xoreax Software, in this exclusive Q&A with Cloud Expo Conference Chair Jeremy Geelan. “Without these up-to-date applications companies run the risk of being left behind,...

“Most cloud environments – public, private, or hybrid – run on virtualized infrastructure that share CPU, memory and storage between applications,” noted Bryan Semple, Chief Marketing Officer at VKernel in this exclusive Q&A with Cloud Expo Conference Chair Jeremy Geelan. “These shared...

“What makes Cloud Computing more likely to be successful today are both technological and attitudinal changes in the market,” noted Tom Trainer, Director of Product Marketing at Gluster, in this exclusive Q&A with Cloud Expo Conference Chair Jeremy Geelan. “First, commodity computing a...

“For many customers, the Cloud is still just an idea, and they do not know how the Cloud is built and operates,” observed Joe Bromley, Systems Consultant at Texas Memory Systems, in this exclusive Q&A with Cloud Expo Conference Chair Jeremy Geelan. “Cloud providers should continue to e...

I had the opportunity to talk to Mark Raskino, Vice President at Gartner. Mark is one of the authors of the book Mastering the Gartner Hype-Cycle. At the conference, Mark gave the keynote, and I presented a talk on Cloud Computing. This interview is about how to Master the Gartner Hype...

“How we communicate, how we do business, and how we get along through the day has required that we look at new and better ways of improving our businesses and our civilization. This demand is requiring organizations to be better and more efficient at bringing services to market,” state...

“By outsourcing a big chunk of operations to the cloud, IT can shift from an operational cost center to a true partner and enabler of business success,” noted Rodrigo Coutinho, Senior Product Marketing Manager, OutSystems, Inc., in this exclusive Q&A with Cloud Expo Conference Chair Je...

“Cloud Computing removes the risk and allows you to try before buying,” stated Carlos Polo, CEO & Founder of Doocuments, in this exclusive Q&A with Cloud Expo Conference Chair Jeremy Geelan. Polo continued, “Cloud Computing helps you save money and stay focused on your business and eli...

“Cloud or the concept of ‘Data Center–centric’ computing is going to be around for a long time,” stated Rick German, Co-founder, CEO and Chief Technology Officer of Stoneware, in this exclusive Q&A with Cloud Expo Conference Chair Jeremy Geelan. “We might tire of the word ‘cloud,’” he ...

“Cloud computing arrived at a time when the industry was being asked to do more with less,” explained Eric Olden, CEO & Founder of Symplified, in this exclusive Q&A with Cloud Expo Conference Chair Jeremy Geelan. “Cloud computing offers a solution to that problem,” Olden continues, “on...

“Cloud puts control back in the hands of the consumers,” noted Andrew Hillier, CTO and co-founder of CiRBA, in this exclusive Q&A with Cloud Expo Conference Chair Jeremy Geelan. “Cloud computing creates a functioning market for capacity, it gives consumers choices," Hillier continued. ...

HP’s strategy is centered on empowering both commercial and enterprise class cloud computing. Research from HP indicates that senior business, government and technology executives believe that by 2015, 18 percent of their IT delivery will be through the public cloud and 28 percent by t...

South Korea is about to play a pivotal role in East-West trade. The US and Korean governments are working feverishly to resolve remaining obstacles with their recently negotiated Free Trade Agreement, in order to secure approval by the South Korean National Assembly and the United Stat...

Founder, Chairman and CEO of Adaptivity, Inc, the company that is putting "IT Blueprinting" on the map of Enterprise IT, is adamant: IT must invest in architecture and engineering, and it must do so right away, here and now in 2010, 2011 and beyond. An innovative IT executive, with an...

First in a series of interviews dedicated to learning more about JetBrains Development Academy Experts. In this interview we have a conversation with Academy Board Member Michael Hüttermann begin_of_the_skype_highlighting     end_of_the_skype_highlighting. Michael is Cologne JUG leader...

“We’ve moved beyond the question of how long cloud computing will exert its pull on the modern day enterprise,” noted Vishal Sharma, Senior Director of Business Development at NaviSite, in this exclusive Q&A with Cloud Expo Chair Jeremy Geelan. Sharma then concluded that “Cloud computi...

“Cloud is an evolution,” stated Tony Bishop, Founder and CEO of Adaptivity, in the exclusive post-show Q&A with Cloud Expo Chair Jeremy Geelan. “It coalesces grid, utility, virtualization and web standards into a delivery paradigm,” he continued. “The difference is each of these comp...

The three main factors driving CIOs to the cloud are lower costs, dynamic capacity, ease-of-use/management, and offsite data protection, according to Jeff Bell, director of corporate marketing for Cloud Expo exhibitor Zetta. In this exclusive post-show Q&A, Zetta’s Jeff Bell speaks w...

Cloud Computing Journal recently caught up with Pete Malcolm, CEO of cloud management innovators Abiquo - a major new player in the fast-emerging Cloud ecosystem and Platinum Plus Sponsor of 6th Cloud Expo being held in Prague, the Czech Republic, 21-22 June 2010. Malcolm is keynoti...

“Business drivers have changed,” noted Mike Donaldson, VP of Marketing, at Ping Identity in this post-show Q&A with Cloud Expo Chair Jeremy Geelan. And Donaldson believes “this has created a real demand for Cloud Computing.” A very general question first, about Cloud Computing itself:...

“The most important factor driving CIOs towards the Cloud is that they have found a technology that helps them get close to achieving true ‘IT and Business Alignment,’” stated Ahmar Abbas, SVP at CSS Corp in this post-show Q&A with Cloud Expo Chair Jeremy Geelan. Abbas concludes: “Clou...

“Cloud computing today is accessible not only to enterprise customers, but individual developers as well,” observed Thomas Krafft, Director of Marketing and Demand Generation at Objectivity, Inc. in this post-show Q&A with Cloud Expo Chair Jeremy Geelan. Krafft also noted that “anyone...

“I think that with conferences like this [Cloud Expo] vendors are coming out with real service offerings with pricing and contracts (vs. pie-in-the-sky concepts that were being thrown around a year ago),” so noted Douglas Barbin , Director at SAS 70 Solutions, in this post-show Q&A wit...

“The fact that Cloud adoption rates are ever-increasing means that it has staying power,” stated Abiquo CEO Pete Malcolm, in this post-show Q&A with Cloud Expo Chair Jeremy Geelan. Not only does Malcolm believe the cloud has staying power but “it is likely that Cloud will be around f...

“Cloud is setting expectations among end users for a fast hands-on experience,” noted Kevin Epstein, VP of Marketing at CloudShare, in this exclusive post-show interview with Cloud Expo Chair Jeremy Geelan. As CloudShare is “a fan of ubiquity and democratization of IT,” he concludes th...

"Ultimately, we believe that advancement in cloud computing technology will be driven by open source initiatives where large communities of engineers can collaborate and develop new code for the new applications and demands posed by the cloud model," says Shelton Shugar, SVP Cloud Comp...

ActiveVOS 7.0 has a new design canvas that uses the Business Process Modeling Notation (BPMN) 2.0 specification to create executable BPEL processes. In a move to meet the growing demand for business process agility, Active Endpoints is readying the next release of its business process ...

Marissa Mayer is one of the technology luminary’s that are driving the future of search, discovery and online experience.  She was one of Google’s first 20 employees and the first female engineer at Google.  She is currently the VP of Search and User Experience at Google, a...

The United States and other wealthy countries are hypocritical in the way they view trade policy, according to leading economist Ha-Joon Chang.

'Data services apply the same philosophy of reuse and flexibility that SOA offers, but to the data tier,' explains John Goodson, executive leader of DataDirect Technologies, in this Exclusive Q&A. 'Data services,' Goodson continues, 'provide a level of abstraction that frees developers...

'When we speak of enterprise mash-ups, composite applications and software as a service (SaaS), it's easy to forget that you actually need infrastructure behind the user experience to make it happen,' says Gordon Van Huizen in this Exclusive Q&A with Jeremy Geelan. SOA middleware is am...