Voltaire has come out with a new top-of-rack switch, a low-latency, high-density 10 GbE switch for virtualization and scaling cloud networks that will be a challenge for Cisco since Cisco doesn’t have anything like it and Voltaire’s pricing the thing aggressively to capitalize on its a...

SYS-CON Events announced today that Webroot, a leading provider in Web and Email Security, will exhibit at 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. Webroot provides industry-leading se...

When building a utility or cloud business plan, Wall Street IT can provide important lessons. In his session at the 7th International Cloud Expo, Mike Tardif, President of Adaptivity, will lay out a blueprint for the CIO on how to define, fund and implement a successful transition fro...

Dell pulled out of the race to acquire 3PAR Thursday morning after HP upped its $30-a-share bid of last Friday to $33 a share, pushing 3PAR's valuation past $2 billion to roughly $2.1 billion. 3PAR sent out a statement Thursday morning saying that Dell went to $32 before the three-day...

HP has upped its $30-a-share bid for 3PAR last Friday to $33 a share, pushing 3PAR’s valuation past $2 billion to about $2.1 billion. 3PAR sent out a statement Thursday morning saying that Dell went to $32 before the three-day clock ran out on it Wednesday at midnight, and HP counter...

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 Ha...

Hiperos, LLC, a provider of on-demand solutions for extended enterprise management, announced on Thursday that Microsoft Corp. will use Hiperos to manage all critical aspects of the supplier lifecycle – from initial supplier registration and assessment of risk to active measurement of ...

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 re...

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 dis...

Public cloud adoption by an enterprise may have numerous barriers and challenges surrounding data privacy, residency, and security. Transitioning from on-premise solutions to the cloud means ceding data governance to the cloud vendor. This may impact your enterprise regulatory complian...

Amazon Web Services has added a new feature to Amazon CloudFront, the AWS content delivery network. The new invalidation feature allows users to remove content from Amazon CloudFront edge locations via an API call. This API call removes copies of a file from all Amazon CloudFront edge ...

Within hours of 3PAR maybe finding out who its daddy's gonna be, it got sued by a little Austin, Texas outfit with a litigation trail behind it by the name of Crossroads Systems. The publicly traded Texas company accused 3PAR along with six other storage houses of infringing on its ...

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 ...

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 virtualizati...

Moving to the cloud raises lots of questions, mostly about security. Providers worthy of your business should answer them clearly and honestly. Amazon Web Services has built an infrastructure and established processes to mitigate common vulnerabilities and offer a safe compute and stor...

A successful enterprise cloud requires a well-executed CMDB that will enable an enterprise cloud to be operationalized. In his session at the 7th International Cloud Expo, Jim Houghton, Co-Founder & Chief Technology Officer of Adaptivity, will discuss the execution blueprint component...

SYS-CON Events announced today that Mezeo Software, the leading provider of a deployable cloud storage platform for service providers and enterprises, will exhibit at SYS-CON's 7th International Cloud Expo, which will take place on November 1–4, 2010, at the Santa Clara Convention Cent...

Cloud computing radically alters our thinking about IT. Scarcity evaporates as on-demand resources appear infinite, servers morph into disposable horsepower, and backups lose their fragility. Eliminating the need to own information processing assets helps improve economics by removing ...

For a cloud to be considered enterprise, it must provide a high-availability solution that accounts for every aspect of an Enterprise IT Infrastructure environment, from development to production including provisioning and maintenance of servers, network, storage, security and software...

SYS-CON Events announced today that GoGrid, a leading Cloud Infrastructure and Hybrid Hosting Provider, has been named “Silver 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. GoGr...

On Tuesday VMware has announced that it has entered into definitive agreements to acquire Integrien, a provider of real time application and infrastructure performance analytics software, and TriCipher, a provider of secure access management and enterprise identity federation for cloud...

On Tuesday Trend Micro announced the public beta availability of Trend Micro SecureCloud, furthering the company's mission to extend multi-layered protection to data residing in the private or public cloud. By applying new patent-pending key-management technology combined with industry...

Abiquo, the leading Enterprise Cloud Management software vendor, on Tuesday announced that, after extensive research among its more than 20,000 customers, open source users and prospects, the top five issues facing enterprises today are: 1) Security and Compliance, 2) IT Organization O...

Further powering its customers' journey to the private cloud, EMC Corporation on Tuesday announced the beta program for EMC Ionix Unified Infrastructure Manager 2.0. This new offering transforms infrastructure management by unifying, and making service-driven, the management of network...

VMware has expanded its vision for modern IT infrastructures and announced six new products and services that help enterprises and service providers achieve the benefits of cloud computing while maintaining the control and freedom of choice they require. IT as a Service is the transf...

Vordel, a provider of fast, safe connectivity for SOA and Cloud Services on Tuesday announced that its Vordel Cloud Service Broker will provide management for the VMware vCloud Director. VMware vCloud Director enables enterprises to manage a hybrid environment of their own datacenters ...

The new Security Gateway VE is designed to ensure organizations can secure inter-VM traffic and external networks with granular firewall policies and integrated intrusion prevention capabilities to protect against malicious and unwanted network activity. In addition, organizations can ...

Verizon Business and VMware unveiled a new enterprise-class hybrid cloud solution that will enable enterprises to move their applications to the cloud more quickly without compromising security or performance. The new solution, underpinned by Verizon's world-class global IP network and...

To help customers better control and manage the physical and virtual aspects of cloud infrastructure, VMware and HP are creating an integrated, comprehensive cloud infrastructure solution combining the new VMware vCloud Director with the HP BladeSystem Matrix and HP Cloud Maps. The ...

IBM, a non-contender in the 3PAR event despite the billions it's otherwise spent on storage, said Tuesday that it has thrown California's newfangled Emergency Management Agency (Cal EMA), a lifeline. Cal EMA is the deficit-ridden, emergency-prone state's year-old combination of its ...

In the run-up to the next Cloud Expo, 7th Cloud Expo (November 1-4, 2010) at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Silicon Valley, it's time to give my earlier list a complete overhaul. Here, accordingly, is an expanded list of the most active players in the Cloud Ecosystem.

How can organizations use enterprise/private cloud capabilities to improve information-sharing? In his session at the 7th International Cloud Expo, Ira A. (Gus) Hunt, CTO to the CIO of the Central Intelligence Agency, will discuss how the Intelligence Community has been using enterpri...

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 ...

newScale, which just climbed into bed with Eucalyptus last week, is supposed to say at VMworld Tuesday that its FrontOffice Suite supports VMware’s new infrastructure-as-a-service vCloud Director software for building private and public clouds. newScale - whose President and Chief E...

How can organizations leverage the cloud to save costs and increase security today? What do they need to be thinking about and doing to plan for the future? In his session at the 7th International Cloud Expo, Scott Chasin, CTO McAfee Content & Cloud, will discuss how the cloud is chan...

Netuitive, Inc., a provider of self-learning performance management software, on Monday announced it has completed an integration with Amazon EC2 (Elastic Cloud Computing) Services. Amazon EC2 is a central part of Amazon.com's public cloud computing platform. It is a web service that ...

HyTrust, Inc., a provider of access control and policy enforcement for virtualization infrastructure, on Monday announced HyTrust Cloud Control and out-of-the-box integration between HyTrust Appliance and VMware vCloud Director. The solution brings strong authentication, role-based acc...

CloudStorageStrategy.com on Monday introduced a Cloud Storage Business Model for Enterprises to help IT decision makers who are considering cloud storage. Underwritten by Mezeo Software (www.mezeo.com), a provider of a deployable cloud storage platform for enterprises and service provi...

GlassHouse Technologies, a data center consulting and managed services firm, has announced the launch of its Cloud Insight tool. The new maturity assessment tool is used as part of GlassHouse’s Cloud Snapshot and Cloud Impact Analysis services, and provides businesses with a detailed r...

CA Technologies on Monday announced it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire privately-held Arcot Systems, Inc., a leader in providing advanced authentication and fraud prevention solutions through on premises software or cloud services, in an all-cash transaction valued at $200...