By Jeremy Geelan
April 1, 2009 09:30 AM EDT
"Sun's strategy is to become the leading provider of technology for both
public and private clouds," declares Sun's Sr. Vice President of Cloud
Computing, David Douglas, in this Exclusive Q&A with the Conference Chair of
Cloud Computing Expo in New York, Jeremy Geelan. "We bring ... (more)
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By Jeremy Geelan
March 24, 2009 01:45 PM EDT
In this Exclusive Q&A with SYS-CON's Jeremy Geelan, Senthil Krishnapillai -
Sybase iAnywhere's Director of Product Management - talks about the mobile
email market and Sybase iAnywhere's most recent announcements regarding
Mobile Office and the iPhone 3.0.
Jeremy Geelan: Startin... (more)
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By Jeremy Geelan
March 17, 2009 10:45 AM EDT
From Apache Hadoop and Google App Engine to Web-Scale Computing and
real-world Web Services in action, a round-up of the Cloud Computing themes &
topics being discussed March 30-April 1, 2009, in New York City by the
world-class speaker faculty at SYS-CON's 2nd International Clo... (more)
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By Jeremy Geelan
March 16, 2009 08:45 AM EDT
From Automation to Virtual Security, a round-up of the Virtualization themes
& topics being discussed March 30-April 1, 2009, in New York City by the
world-class speaker faculty at the 5th International Virtualization
Conference & Expo being held in The Roosevelt Hotel, in midto... (more)
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By Jeremy Geelan
March 16, 2009 06:00 AM EDT
"The real-time aspects of performance monitoring and testing become more
important as cloud applications evolve into mission-critical applications,"
notes Vik Chaudhary, VP of Product Management and Corporate Development for
Keynote Systems, in this Exclusive Q&A with Jeremy Geel... (more)
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By Jeremy Geelan
March 15, 2009 10:00 AM EDT
Sun's CEO Jonathan Schwartz has been reviewing Sun's three major strategic
imperatives, and the company's progress going in to its next fiscal year. As
industry blogs go, the three entries he's produced so far are miniature
masterpieces. A fourth and last one is on its way.
The f... (more)
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By Jeremy Geelan
March 10, 2009 10:00 PM EDT
Now that Vivek Kundra, the former chief technology officer for Washington,
D.C, has become America's first CIO, it is interesting to look at his
pronouncements on cloud computing. (He's not America's CTO remember, that
appointment's yet to be announced.) Wall Street Journal blogg... (more)
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By Jeremy Geelan
March 2, 2009 10:30 AM EST
Enterprise software marketeer Christian Horak has been having fun with his
Twitter network investigating whether it's possible to encapsulate "Cloud
Computing" for the layman within Twitter's stringent 140-character limit.
Responses so far include one from JP Morgenthal ("Cloud com... (more)
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By Jeremy Geelan
March 1, 2009 04:13 AM EST
Founded through the generous support of Google, Microsoft and Sun, UC
Berkeley's RAD Lab has released "A Berkeley View of Cloud Computing" - a
technical report arguing that the construction and operation of extremely
large-scale, commodity-computer data centers at low-cost locati... (more)
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By Jeremy Geelan
February 27, 2009 09:40 AM EST
"Cloud computing is here to stay as a major IT wave that will take its place
in the data center alongside mainframes, client-server and 3-tier web, says
Sajai Krishnan, CEO of ParaScale, in this Exclusive Q&A with SYS-CON's Cloud
Computing Journal.
"The recession is driving IT to... (more)
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By Jeremy Geelan
February 24, 2009 08:45 AM EST
"The economy might be cooling down, but the RIA market is definitely heating
up," declared Sun's CEO Jonathan Schwartz recently in his widely-read
industry blog. Schwartz was writing as Sun shipped its 100,000,000th JavaFX
runtime - a download rate that makes it the fastest growi... (more)
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By Jeremy Geelan
February 20, 2009 04:30 AM EST
"Properly managing the virtual infrastructure will have a huge impact on
pushing more virtualization projects forward," declares Alex Bakman, Founder
& CEO of VKernel, in this Exclusive Q&A with SYS-CON's Virtualization
Journal.
"Organizations need visibility into how resources a... (more)
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By Jeremy Geelan
February 5, 2009 06:45 PM EST
Read SYS-CON's Exclusive Q&A with Citrix CTO Simon Crosby
Referring to Cloud Computing, Citrix CEO Mark Templeton has said that
"Customers need the time to get comfortable with it and all that's different
from the proprietary model, and the industry needs time to make it
consumab... (more)
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By Jeremy Geelan
January 30, 2009 02:36 PM EST
Cloud computing is grabbing headlines as more and more enterprises are
turning to this emerging technology as a way to enable flexible computing
power over the Internet. In 2008, many companies were wary of the risks and
vulnerabilities of participating in the cloud computing mod... (more)
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By Jeremy Geelan
January 28, 2009 09:00 AM EST
Can GDrive (or Web Drive, or whatever they finally decide to call it) become
a central repository for the entire Web-using public's digital data? That,
among other questions, was being asked Web-wide yesterday as new rumors of
Google's next giant leap into Cloud Computing surface... (more)
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By Jeremy Geelan
January 26, 2009 09:33 AM EST
Q. As the technology commentator who coined the phrase “the AJAX
wildfire” less than a year after Jesse James Garrett’s seminal essay,
what was it precisely that made you so certain that AJAX was going to spread
Web- and world-wide? How did you know it was no mere fad?
Coach We... (more)
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By Jeremy Geelan
January 26, 2009 08:41 AM EST
As new offerings like Amazon's CloudFront, Microsoft's Azure, Hosting.com's
CloudNine and VMware's vCloud are rolled out week in, week out, the worldwide
cloud computing momentum continues to grow. Amid all the change, I asked some
leading infrastructure experts, IT industry exec... (more)
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By Jeremy Geelan
January 24, 2009 06:15 AM EST
It is the infrastructural paradigm shift that is sweeping across the
Enterprise IT world, but how is it best defined? I refer of course to 'Cloud
Computing' - the phenomenon that currently has as many definitions as there
are squares on a chess-board. To try and narrow it down we... (more)
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By Jeremy Geelan
January 23, 2009 06:00 AM EST
"There is a shift in focus and it is from technologies that enable
virtualization to technologies that manage virtualization," says Bala
Murugan, Chief Architect at eG Innovations, in this Exclusive Q&A with
SYS-CON's Virtualization Journal. Overall, Murugan maintains, virtualiz... (more)
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By Jeremy Geelan
January 21, 2009 09:15 AM EST
Two days before the single largest drop in the history of the stock market,
Jason Calacanis - former Weblogs Inc. co-founder (and GM of Netscape) - wrote
a lengthy blog post aimed at inspiring folks at startup companies "to get
focused and to save as many as possible from hitting... (more)
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