Kapow Technologies, the leader in web data services for business applications, today announced that the Kapow Web Data Server has been tested and validated to work on hardware supported by IBM DB2 data server software and Kapow has been awarded IBM Information On Demand Specialty. This accreditation means lower deployment and data migration costs for customers using Kapow to create best-in-class web data services built on IBM Information Management software. To demonstrate this, Kapow will debut a mashup application built on IBM Lotus Mashups for attendees at the IBM Information On Demand Conference being held from Oct. 25th - 29th at the Mandalay Bay Resort and Convention Center in Las Vegas.

Organizations need to harness the accelerated information flow generated by both internal and external data sources to build mission-critical business applications in an accurate, efficient and timely manner. The IBM Information On Demand Specialty allows global enterprises to leverage Kapow to automatically access information from any website or web application and deliver real-time web data to their existing IBM product deployments, including IBM DB2, IBM Cognos, IBM Filenet, and IBM WebSphere Portal. Additionally with Kapow, web data can be combined with enterprise data into powerful mashups to capture new markets and customers - while accelerating productivity and reducing operating costs.

"Kapow breaks down data access barriers to enable rapid application development. With the IBM Information On Demand Accreditation, our joint customers are benefiting from the best web data integration capabilities possible," said Ron Yu, vice president of marketing for Kapow Technologies. "The ability to seamlessly integrate external information from the web with internal enterprise data residing within IBM products to build critical business applications increases the analytic power of enterprises and provides our customers with the competitive advantage they need."

Kapow Technologies is exhibiting at the IBM Information On Demand Conference this week and demonstrating the joint Kapow-IBM solution starting on Sunday evening, October 25th through Wednesday afternoon, October 27th. For more information, stop by the Kapow booth on the conference show floor, booth number 320, or visit http://info.kapowtech.com/IBM.

4^th International Cloud Computing Conference & Expo is the leading global Cloud event in its third year. Over 200 corporate sponsors and 10,000 industry professionals participated in Cloud Computing Expo during the past two years, more than all other Cloud-related events put together.

This year's West Coast conference theme is "Bringing the Economics of the Web to Enterprise IT Through Cloud Computing."

The organizing principle of the 4th International Cloud Expo is that through an intensive 3-day schedule of keynotes, general and breakout sessions, attending delegates will be assured of leaving the Conference with abundant resources, ideas and examples they can apply immediately to leveraging the Cloud, helping them to maximize performance, minimize cost and improve the scale of their endeavors.

4^th International Cloud Computing Conference & Expo Keynotes:
Cloud Computing Expo keynotes will be delivered by Richard Marcello, Unisys President of Systems & Technology; Shelton Shugar, Yahoo! SVP Cloud Computing; and Richard Sarwal, Oracle VP of Development for Enterprise Manager.

Delegate Registration Options:
Cloud Computing Expo ( www.CloudComputingExpo.com) delegates can pre-register for the conference online with $800 savings at https://www3.sys-con.com/cloud1109/registernew.cfm.

Expo Plus registration which costs $300 also allows conference delegates to attend two free technical sessions per day for three days, access to the expo floor, keynotes, vendor technology presentations, as well as live taping of SYS-CON.TV power panels.

Sponsors and Exhibitors:
Sponsors and exhibitors of the upcoming 4th International Cloud Computing Conference & Expo (November 2–4, 2009, Santa Clara Convention Center, Santa Clara, CA) represent the leading technology providers of Cloud Computing revolution, including:

Oracle (www.oracle.com / platinum sponsor)
Unisys (www.unisys.com / platinum sponsor)
Yahoo! (www.yahoo.com / platinum sponsor)
Adaptivity (www.adaptivity.com / gold sponsor)
Bycast (www.bycast.com / gold sponsor)
EMC (www.emc.com / gold sponsor)
Intel (www.intel.com / gold sponsor)
3Tera (www.3tera.com / silver sponsor)
Akamai (www.akamai.com / silver sponsor)
AppZero (www.appzero.com / silver sponsor)
Rackspace Cloud (www.rackspacecloud.com / silver sponsor)
CloudTest SOASTA (www.soasta.com / silver sponsor)
Objectivity (www.objectivity.com / silver sponsor)
Rhomobile (www.rhomobile.com / silver sponsor)
Stoneware (www.stone-ware.com / silver sponsor)
Sybase (www.sybase.com / silver sponsor)
CSS (www.csscorp.com / bronze sponsor)
ExactTarget (www.exacttarget.com / bronze sponsor)
New Relic (www.newrelic.com / bronze sponsor)
ParaScale (www.parascale.com / bronze sponsor)
PerspecSys (www.perspecsys.com /bronze sponsor)
The Planet (www.theplanet.com /bronze sponsor)
RightScale (www.rightscale.com / bronze sponsor)
Switch and Data (www.switchanddata.com. / bronze sponsor)
Vizioncore (www.vizioncore.com / bronze sponsor)
CloudSwitch (www.cloudswitch.com / bronze sponsor)
Tranxition (www.tranxition.com / bronze sponsor)
Altor Networks (www.altornetworks.com / exhibitor)
Dasher Technologies (www.dashertechnologies.com / exhibitor)
GoGrid (www.gogrid.com / exhibitor)
HP (www.hp.com / exhibitor)
Hubspan (www.hubspan.com / exhibitor)
LSI (www.lsi.com / exhibitor)
IBM (www.ibm.com / exhibitor)
M/Gateway (www.mgateway.com/ewd.htm / exhibitor)
Neustar (www.neustar.biz / exhibitor)
OpSource (www.opsource.net / exhibitor)
Ulitzer (www.ulitzer.com / new media sponsor)
Cloud Computing Journal (www.CloudComputingJournal.com / media sponsor)
SYS-CON.TV (www.tv.sys-con.com / media sponsor)
Zetta (www.zetta.net / exhibitor)

Sponsorship Opportunities:
Sponsorship and exhibit opportunities can be obtained from Carmen Gonzalez by email at events (at) sys-con.com, by phone 201 802 3021.

SYS-CON's International Cloud Computing Conference & Expo, held each year in California, New York and Prague is the leading event covering the fast-emerging Cloud Computing market for Enterprise IT professionals. Co-located with the International Virtualization Conference & Expo, the combined event delivers the #1 i-technology educational and networking opportunity of the year for those seeking to establish a market lead anywhere in the multiple layers of the Cloud Computing ecosystem.