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Cloud Expo New York $500 Savings here! As more enterprises are adopting clouds, the nature of cloud computing is changing. Previously, clouds were used to test applications or for non-mission critical applications. Today, enterprises are using clouds for cost-saving advantages and launching more mission critical applications that have defined performance needs. In his session at the 10th International Cloud Expo, Eric Shepcaro, CEO and Chairman of the Board of Telx, will discuss how distributed computing has many advantages. It would allow organizations to have a cloud at various data centers instead of one cloud at one datacenter. Costs are reduced significantly since one big Internet pipe is not needed. Explore Cloud Expo Sponsorship & Exhibit Opportunities ! Speaker Bio: Eric Shepcaro is Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the Board of Telx. He is responsibl... (more)

CodeFutures Corporation to Exhibit at Cloud Expo 2012 New York

Cloud Expo New York $500 Savings here! SYS-CON Events announced today that CodeFutures Corporation, the company behind dbShards, will exhibit at 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. Explore Cloud Expo Sponsorship & Exhibit Opportunities ! CodeFutures Corporation, the company behind dbShards, is a leading supplier of database performance and reliability tools that reduce the time and effort required to dramatically increase database scalability and performance. With dbShards, producti... (more)

OpSource Named “Bronze Sponsor” of Cloud Expo 2012 New York

Cloud Expo New York $500 Savings here! SYS-CON Events announced today that OpSource, Inc., Dimension Data's wholly owned enterprise cloud and managed hosting business, has been named "Bronze 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. Explore Cloud Expo Sponsorship & Exhibit Opportunities ! OpSource provides cloud and managed hosting solutions that enable businesses to accelerate growth and scale operations while controlling costs and reducing IT infrastructure support risks. Head... (more)

Silver Peak Named a Leader in Magic Quadrant for WAN Optimization Controllers

SANTA CLARA, CA -- (Marketwire) -- 01/27/12 -- Silver Peak Systems, the leader in data center class wide area network (WAN) optimization, today announced it has been positioned by Gartner, Inc. in the Leaders Quadrant of the Gartner Magic Quadrant for WAN Optimization Controllers(1). Read the full report "Gartner positions Silver Peak as a leader when the demand and requirements for delivering and deploying WAN optimization are at an all-time high," said Rick Tinsley, president and CEO of Silver Peak. "Silver Peak is executing on a global scale with powerful and innovative produc... (more)

Cloud Expo New York: The Dark Side of Virtualization

Cloud Expo New York $500 Savings here! Virtualization and private cloud are good for server consolidation, creating flexible environments, and saving IT budget dollars. A recent survey of 1200 companies with 500+ employees showed that 59% had server virtualization in production or pilot. But that doesn't tell the whole story. In his session at the 10th International Cloud Expo, Dave Asprey, VP of Cloud Security at Trend Micro, will explain the types of situations when you should consider not virtualizing some of your applications. Reasons range from technical to legal to IT ops t... (more)