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Cloud Computing Providers Gather In Silicon Valley For One-Day Mind Meld
InformationWeek - All Stories And Blogs — ... and blogging from the one-day Cloud Summit Executive (produced by InformationWeek's parent TechWeb) and the event was kicked-off with a brief introduction by ...

Cloud Computing: Like The iPod For Infrastructure
InformationWeek - All Stories And Blogs — Cloud Computing: Like The iPod For Infrastructure It's perhaps a foregone conclusion that the speakers at the Cloud Summit Executive conference , being held on Tuesday at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, Calif., would insist that cloud computing is not just marketing hype. But the belief that cloud computing represents the future of the IT industry was shared by attendees. Having hauled a chair over to a power outlet to run my laptop during the morning's sessions, I found myself sitting next to Craig Heimark, CEO of ...

Cloud Summit: Cloud Computing Is Real
InformationWeek - All Stories — As befits its name, cloud computing is somewhat amorphous. But it's no less real for its lack of clear boundaries. At the Cloud Summit Executive conference on Tuesday, at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, Calif., MR Rangaswami, co-founder of Sand Hill Group and host of the conference, said he had found 25 definitions for cloud computing. He didn't say whether Oracle's CEO Larry Ellison's definition -- ...

Cloud Summit: Cloud Computing Is Real
TechWeb — As befits its name, cloud computing is somewhat amorphous. But it's no less real for its lack of clear boundaries. At the Cloud Summit Executive conference on Tuesday, at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, Calif., MR Rangaswami, co-founder of Sand Hill Group and host of the conference, said he had found 25 definitions for cloud computing. He didn't say whether Oracle's CEO Larry Ellison's definition -- ...

Cloud Summit: Trend Micro Warns About Security Hazards
TechWeb — Cloud computing may be a tough sell among enterprise IT managers, but at least one group has bought into the hype without reservation: cybercriminals. What's a botnet after all but pay-as-you-go, on-demand computing infrastructure? At the Cloud Summit Executive conference on Tuesday, at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, Calif., John Maddison, VP of core technology solutions at ...

Cloud Summit: Trend Micro Warns About Security Hazards
InformationWeek - All Stories — Cloud computing may be a tough sell among enterprise IT managers, but at least one group has bought into the hype without reservation: cybercriminals. What's a botnet after all but pay-as-you-go, on-demand computing infrastructure? At the Cloud Summit Executive conference on Tuesday, at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, Calif., John Maddison, VP of core technology solutions at ...

Cloud Summit: SAP Sees Bright Future In Cloud Computing
TechWeb — The IT forecast calls for widely scattered clouds, in the sense that cloud computing looms on the horizon. That was the consensus among the panelists at Tuesday's Cloud Summit Executive conference at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, Calif. Cloud computing is coming, everyone seemed to agree, slowly to large organizations, more quickly to smaller ones, largely because it is financially compelling. MR Rangaswami, co-founder of Sand Hill Group, presided over the event with the aim of reaching some consensus about the definition of cloud computing, providing ...

Cloud Summit: SAP Sees Bright Future In Cloud Computing
InformationWeek - All Stories And Blogs — The IT forecast calls for widely scattered clouds, in the sense that cloud computing looms on the horizon. That was the consensus among the panelists at Tuesday's Cloud Summit Executive conference at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, Calif. Cloud computing is coming, everyone seemed to agree, slowly to large organizations, more quickly to smaller ones, largely because it is financially compelling. MR Rangaswami, co-founder of Sand Hill Group, presided over the event with the aim of reaching some consensus about the definition of cloud computing, providing ...

Q&A: M.R. Rangaswami on making money from the cloud
VentureBeat — ... I’ve heard more and more talk about cloud computing recently, but there’s still a lot of fuzziness about what exactly the cloud is, and what business opportunities it provides. The inaugural Cloud Summit Executive conference in Mountain View attempted to answer those questions earlier this week. Afterwards, I spoke to conference host M.R. Rangaswami of ...

Apache Tomcat Gets An Enterprise Version, SpringSource tc
InformationWeek - All Stories And Blogs — ... virtual appliance -- to be deployed in an internal or external cloud. Connolly said the recession is accelerating adoption of lean software operation, and Tomcat, with its straightforward functionality, fits into that picture. SpringSource acquired Tomcat expertise in its January 2008 acquisition of Covalent, a commercial supporter of Tomcat, the Apace Web Server and other Apache software. Learn about cloud computing at TechWeb's Enterprise Cloud Summit in Las Vegas, May 18-19. Join us (registration required).

Apache Tomcat Gets An Enterprise Version, SpringSource tc
TechWeb — ... virtual appliance -- to be deployed in an internal or external cloud. Connolly said the recession is accelerating adoption of lean software operation, and Tomcat, with its straightforward functionality, fits into that picture. SpringSource acquired Tomcat expertise in its January 2008 acquisition of Covalent, a commercial supporter of Tomcat, the Apace Web Server and other Apache software. Learn about cloud computing at TechWeb's Enterprise Cloud Summit in Las Vegas, May 18-19. Join us (registration required).

Eucalyptus Open Source Private Cloud Project Goes Commercial
InformationWeek - All Stories And Blogs — ... for companies worried about Amazon outages. Learn more about cloud computing at TechWeb's Enterprise Cloud Summit in Las Vegas, May 18-19. Join us (registration required).

IBM Launches Appliance For Private Cloud Computing
TechWeb — ... proponents. Rosamilia said enterprises that have applications that are already configured as a service or sets of services will find those applications fitting easily into a cloud infrastructure. An appliance approach makes it simple "to disperse those applications to the cloud" with a lower set of skills than IT currently needs to configure and deploy an application in the data center. Learn more about cloud computing at TechWeb's Enterprise Cloud Summit in Las Vegas, May 18-19. Join us (registration required).

IBM Launches Appliance For Private Cloud Computing
InformationWeek - All Stories And Blogs — ... proponents. Rosamilia said enterprises that have applications that are already configured as a service or sets of services will find those applications fitting easily into a cloud infrastructure. An appliance approach makes it simple "to disperse those applications to the cloud" with a lower set of skills than IT currently needs to configure and deploy an application in the data center. Learn more about cloud computing at TechWeb's Enterprise Cloud Summit in Las Vegas, May 18-19. Join us (registration required).

Microsoft Contest Looks To Entice Azure Developers
TechWeb — ... Om Malik and RedMonk analyst Michael Cote -- will be announced June 25 at the Structure cloud computing conference, and winners of the public vote will be announced June 30. Learn more about cloud computing at TechWeb's Enterprise Cloud Summit in Las Vegas, May 18-19. Join us (registration required).

Mozilla Weaves Its Firefox Cloud
TechWeb — ... worldwide, Firefox already has the users. As Weave matures, perhaps Mozilla can find a way to connect them. Learn more about cloud computing at TechWeb's Enterprise Cloud Summit in Las Vegas, May 18-19. Join us (registration required).

Interop Preview: Cloud Computing Takes Center Stage
TechWeb — ... management software. As cloud computing has sparked IT pros to rethink their own data centers, Interop will also include some discussion of private clouds. VMware will lead one such session, while a whole conference track will focus on the present and future of the data center. Learn more about cloud computing at TechWeb's Enterprise Cloud Summit in Las Vegas, May 18-19. Join us (registration required).