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Vol 3 Issue 2
Cloud Computing Story
Delivering Highly Available Shadow Sites in the Cloud
by Whitney Mountain
When it comes to cloud computing, security issues can scare many companies so much that they become afraid of their own shadows. But a company called Foresight is taking the shadows of their clients’ websites and making friends ....
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An Introduction to GenieDB
GenieDB
GenieDB Founder Jack Kreindler provides an introduction to his company.

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What is Cloud Computing
Does Cloud Computing Mean The End Of Traditional Storage Networks?
By: Pere Hospital
Does Cloud Computing mean the End of Traditional Storage Networks? Technically Yes! With cloud’s scalability options attracting SMBs and large businesses towards it and cloud becoming secure with each passing day; we are near to say goodbye to the traditional ways we used to store our data over the network. Though networking is quite difficult to understand especially when one has expertise in building business, let’s check out how things were traditionally and how the cloud is slowing replacing it.
Manufacturers Find Lower Costs, Greater Capabilities in Cloud Computing
By: Al Bredenberg
Cloud-based computing (or software-as-a-service, SaaS) solutions have continued to grow in functionality, robustness, and reliability. As a result, these innovative systems have become more attractive to manufacturers and industrial firms, even for critical applications like enterprise resource planning (ERP).
Why the cloud has a ‘Gold’ lining for India
By: Srikanth RP
For a country like India, the importance of a technology like cloud computing is more as a majority of small and medium enterprises who cannot afford technology in the current form can now afford to adopt the latest technologies and compete effectively in the marketplace.
Advances Of Cloud Computing In Business Development
By: cloudtweaks
The presence of cloud computing as a tool in business is getting a reaction almost as though it’s something new. There’s a lot of attention being paid to advances mostly as a result of affordable, scalable SaaS solutions. These solutions allow for a mobility and ease of access for which older systems didn’t allow. Given that they’re a symptom of the newer cloud computing push, they’re of course serving to earn accolades for the cloud that it did not have previously.
Article: Interview: Corent Technology: The “Intel Inside” ® for the Cloud! PDF
By: Feyzi Fatehi - CEO at Corent Technology, Inc
November 26, 2012 - CEO/CFO Magazine's Interview with Feyzi Fatehi – Corent CEO The interview titled - Corent Technology: The "Intel Inside" ® for the Cloud! – is a candid discussion of why Corent is a game changing force accelerating the diffusion of SaaS in the explosive Cloud space.
Article: 5 Key Essentials of Cloud Workloads Migration
By: Ofir Nachmani - Chief Evangelist at Newvem Insights Ltd.
The benefits of migrating workloads between different cloud providers or between private and public clouds can only truly be redeemed with an understanding of the cloud business model and cloud workload management. It seems that cloud adoption has reached the phase where advanced cloud users are creating their own hybrid solutions or migrating between clouds while striving to achieve interoperability values within their systems. This article aims to answer some of the questions that arise when managing cloud workloads.
Article: FusionIO (FIO) SSD vendor CEO out in a flash, whats up with that?
By: Greg Schulz - Sr. Advisor, Author and Consultant at The Server and StorageIO Group (StorageIO)
The CEO of FusionIO surprised wall street who does not like to be surprised, thus the SSD nand flash PCIe adapter vendor stock took a 20 plus percent drop today.
Article: EMC ViPR software defined object storage part II
By: Greg Schulz - Sr. Advisor, Author and Consultant at The Server and StorageIO Group (StorageIO)
EMC ViPR combines object storage access, block, file and HDFS for hadoop, this post takes a closer look at where, when to use as well as how it works.
Toby Redshaw
Toby Redshaw

Former CIO
American Express
Gerry Grealish
Gerry Grealish

Vice President, Marketing & Products
PerspecSys
David Beaumont
David Beaumont

Staff Software Engineer
IBM
Brent Adamson
Brent Adamson

Chief Storyteller
CEB
May 22 - 23, 2013
Mission Bay Conference Center at UCSF
San Francisco, CA
June 26 - 27, 2013
National Hall Olympia, London
London, United Kingdom