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AppFog, the leading cloud-based platform-as-a-service (PaaS), today announced
two additional third-party service providers to its growing add-on program,
Searchify and Xeround. With this most recent addition, the budding add-on
program will grow to 10 partners offering their services to bolster AppFog
capabilities, including ClearDB, CloudMailin, Blitz.io, Iron.io, New Relic,
MongoLab, MailGun, and MongoHQ.
“As we continue to grow our ecosystem, it’s great to bring on new
partners like Searchify and Xeround, which helps us further our goal of
delivering the best, most comprehensive ecosystem for our developers,” said
Lucas Carlson, founder and CEO of AppFog. “These two companies are integral
for development teams because they keep numerous business’ applications and
sites running smoothly. With Searchify and Xeround, our users now have an
even richer environment to... (more)
SALT LAKE CITY, UT -- (Marketwire) -- 05/16/12 -- Coldwell Banker Commercial
NRT (CBC) Salt Lake Office today announced that commercial real estate broker
Don Zebe has joined the firm's Idaho expansion effort as Vice President of
Retail and Investment Properties. Zebe expands CBC's growing presence in
Idaho by covering the Pocatello area, including Idaho Falls, Twin Falls, and
Rexburg.
Hired as the newest Idaho broker at CBC, Zebe has over 10 years of experience
as a retail, restaurant and shopping center specialist, having acquired,
leased, developed or sold over 2 million squa... (more)
AppFog, the leading Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS), today announced its
expanded support for OpenStack, the open source cloud operating system, at
the Goldman Sachs Cloud Computing Conference. During his presentation, AppFog
CEO Lucas Carlson will discuss how AppFog’s industry first public cloud
PaaS integration with OpenStack will allow for increased infrastructure
choices for developers using the AppFog platform, as well as bring an open
PaaS offering to the OpenStack Community. The company also announced that
access to the OpenStack-backed Cloud Foundry, which AppFog runs as a s... (more)
SCOTTSDALE, AZ -- (Marketwire) -- 05/15/12 -- International Minerals
Corporation (TSX: IMZ) (SWISS: IMZ) (the "Company") reports its financial
results for the third fiscal quarter ended March 31, 2012 (the "Current
Quarter"). All amounts in this news release are reported in U.S. dollars.
Current Quarter highlights include $6.8 million in consolidated pre-tax
income and $6.2 million in consolidated net and comprehensive income after
tax ($0.05 per share), including net equity income of $10.9 million from the
Company's 40% interest (Hochschild Mining 60%) in the Pallancata silver mi... (more)
VANCOUVER, BC -- (Marketwire) -- 05/10/12 -- ActiveState, whose software
enables developers and enterprises to innovate from code to cloud, today
announced an alliance with HP that provides Stackato 1.2 support for HP Cloud
Services. Stackato is the application platform for creating a private
Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS), and its industry-leading cloud application
security, data privacy and control are now available on HP Cloud Services.
HP Cloud Services is based on HP's world-class hardware and software, with
key elements of HP Converged Infrastructure combined with a
develope... (more)
Best Recent Articles on Cloud Computing & Big Data Topics  By Jeremy Geelan The Arlington, Virginia-based National Science Foundation has just released its "Report on Support for Cloud Computing" - in response to the America Competes Reauthorization Act of 2010, Section 524.
It is an absolute must-read for all concerned with current and future research projects in Cloud Computing. Reads: 3,079  By Jeremy Geelan "The volume of data we're generating now from machines pales in comparison to the volume of data we'll soon generate from our own bodies," says data security expert Dave Asprey. Writing in a Trend Micro blog, Asprey - who is one of the leaders in the emerging Quantified Self movement - explains his vision of a world in which personal biometrical data is shared via the cloud. Reads: 4,502  By Wolfram Jost Cloud computing has caught the attention of business leaders around the world in every
industry because of its enormous transformative potential. Visionary companies know that
the value of the cloud is far greater than the current focus solely on technology and operating
costs: when combined with a collaborative approach to designing processes, cloud computing
will change how we do business.
Reads: 7,342  By Elizabeth White Want to make sense of the hottest new concept in Enterprise IT?
Want to understand in just hours what experts have spent many hundreds of days deciphering?
Cloud computing is a technology that has rapidly evolving peppered with a lot of hype along the way. Customers find it hard to navigate through this and make sense of what aspects of this technology will give them real business benefit.
Cloud Computing Bootcamp, led by our 2012 Bootcamp Instructor Larry Carvalho, is a great way to get a practical understanding of this technology. We offer multiple days of actionable insight into what vendor offerings are currently available and help you comprehend their strategy.
The ever-popular Bootcamp, which is now held regularly around the world, is being held in conjunction with the 10th Cloud Expo, June 11-14, 2012, at the Javits Center, New York, NY. Reads: 5,471  By Larry Bettino Did you know that ninety percent of the data in the world has been created in the last two years? Every day, we create 2.5 quintillion (or 2.518) bytes of data, according to IBM.
As corporations across all industries globally are struggling with how to retain, aggregate and analyze this mounting volume of what the industry refers to as Big Data, it also provides a unique opportunity for innovative startups that recognize the business prospects Big Data presents. Big Data is not just unlocking new information but new sources of economic and business value.
Interactivity is driving Big Data, with people and machines both consuming and creating it. Digital companies focused on becoming good at aggregating and analyzing the data created by the end users of their product, who then provide their customers with solid insights taken from that data are at a distinct competitive advantage over others in the marketplace. Reads: 2,972  By Elizabeth White SYS-CON Events announced today that SHI, a $4 billion+ global provider of information technology products and services, has been named Platinum Plus Sponsor of SYS-CON's 10th International Cloud Expo, which will take place on June 11–14, 2012, at the Javits Center in New York City, New York.
Founded in 1989, SHI International Corp. is a global provider of technology products and services. Driven by the industry's most experienced and stable sales force and backed by software volume licensing experts, hardware procurement specialists, and certified IT service professionals, SHI delivers custom IT solutions to Corporate, Enterprise, Public Sector, and Academic customers. With over 1,800 + employees worldwide, SHI is the largest Minority/Woman Owned Business Enterprise (MWBE) in the U.S. and is ranked 19th among Everything Channel's VAR 500 list of North American IT solution providers. Reads: 2,499  By Elizabeth White SYS-CON Events announced today that Rackspace Hosting, the service leader in cloud computing, has been named "Platinum Plus Sponsor" of SYS-CON's 10th International Cloud Expo, which will take place on June 11-14, 2012, at the Javits Center in New York City, New York, and the 11th International Cloud Expo, which will take place on November 5-8, 2012, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA.
SYS-CON Events announced today that Rackspace Hosting, the service leader in cloud computing, has been named "Platinum Plus Sponsor" of SYS-CON's 10th International Cloud Expo, which will take place on June 11-14, 2012, at the Javits Center in New York City, New York, and the 11th International Cloud Expo, which will take place on November 5-8, 2012, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA  By Elizabeth White 9th International Cloud Expo, held on November 7 - 10, 2011, in Santa Clara, CA, attracted more than 120 sponsors and exhibitors with over 7,500 registered delegates and four content-packed days with a rich array of sessions about the business and technical value of cloud computing led by exceptional speakers from every sector of the cloud computing ecosystem.
The Cloud Expo series is the fastest-growing Enterprise IT event in the past 10 years, devoted to every aspect of delivering massively scalable enterprise IT as a service.
We invite you to enjoy here our photo album of the show. Reads: 5,590  By Carmen Gonzalez Ulitzer.com announced "the World's 30 most influential Cloud bloggers," who collectively generated more than 24 million Ulitzer page views. Ulitzer's annual "most influential Cloud bloggers" list was announced at Cloud Expo, which drew more delegates than all other Cloud-related events put together worldwide. "The world's 50 most influential Cloud bloggers 2010" list will be announced at the Cloud Expo 2010 East, which will take place April 19-21, 2010, at the Jacob Javitz Convention Center, in New York City, with more than 5,000 expected to attend. Reads: 32,626  By Kevin Hartig Cloud computing is becoming one of the next industry buzz words. It joins the ranks of terms including: grid computing, utility computing, virtualization, clustering, etc.
Cloud computing overlaps some of the concepts of distributed, grid and utility computing, however it does have its own meaning if contextually used correctly. The conceptual overlap is partly due to technology changes, usages and implementations over the years.
Trends in usage of the terms from Google searches shows Cloud Computing is a relatively new term introduced in the past year. There has also been a decline in general interest of Grid, Utility and Distributed computing.
Likely they will be around in usage for quit a while to come. But Cloud computing has become the new buzz word driven largely by marketing and service offerings from big corporate players like Google, IBM and Amazon. Reads: 182,301  By Elizabeth White SYS-CON Events announced today that Cloud Expo 2012 New York, the 10th International Cloud Computing Conference & Expo, will take place June 11-14, 2012, at the Javits Center in New York City.
The International Cloud Computing Conference & Expo series is the world's leading Cloud-focused event and is held three times a year, in New York, Silicon Valley and in Europe. Over 400 corporate sponsors and 20,000 industry professionals have participated in Cloud Expo since its inception, more than all other Cloud-related events put together.
"10th Cloud Expo is trending to be both the biggest ever and the best-attended event in the international Cloud Expo series to date, so it is only natural that we should be holding it in the biggest and best conference venue anywhere on the East Coast, the Jacob K. Javits Convention Center," stated Carmen Gonzalez, CEO of Cloud Expo. "If you are not at Cloud Expo New York, June 11-14, at the Javits Center, then you risk not getting the relevant parts of your IT infrastructure into the Cloud in time." Reads: 10,387  By Pat Romanski Hadoop, MapReduce, Hive, Hbase, Lucene, Solr? The only thing growing faster than enterprise data these days is the landscape of big data tools. These tools, which are designed to help organizations turn big data into opportunities, are gaining deeper insight into massive volumes of information. A recent Gartner report predicts that enterprise data will increase by 650% over the next five years, which means that the time is now for IT decision makers to determine which big data tools are the best - and most cost-effective - for their organization. Reads: 5,019 By Roger Strukhoff Cloud Expo, Cloud Expo East, Cloud Expo West, Cloud Expo Silicon Valley, Cloud Expo Europe, Cloud Expo Tokyo, Cloud Expo Prague, Cloud Expo Hong Kong, Cloud Expo Sao Paolo are trademarks and /or registered trademarks (USPTO serial number 85009040) of Cloud Expo, Inc. Reads: 11,870 |
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