SYS-CON announced today that "Cloud Expo, Inc." has spun out of SYS-CON
Events, Inc. as a startup events management company effective March 1, 2010.
Carmen Gonzalez was named president & CEO of Cloud Expo, Inc. Carmen served
as the co-founder, president, and chief operating officer of SYS-CON Media
since 1994. In this capacity, Carmen was in charge of SYS-CON's sales and
marketing functions. Under her leadership, the company was named by Inc 500
among the fastest-growing 500 privately held companies in North America three
years in a row.
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Cloud Expo, Inc. will continue producing and presenting "Cloud Expo," which
was launched on February 24, 2007, by SYS-CON Events, Inc., the same day the
term "cloud computing" was coined. That same year, the first Cloud Expo took
place in New York City with 450 delegates.
In April 2010, Cloud Expo is returning... (more)
Cloud Expo New York
In response to massive demand, the world's largest Cloud event - the
International Cloud Expo series - is expanding its number of tracks and
sessions for its upcoming New York event: 5th International Cloud Expo.
The deadline for the very popular Call for Papers, which resulted in a
greater deluge of submissions than ever seen before, is being extended to the
other side of the holiday period - to January 15, 2010.
Additionally, SYS-CON Events announces the addition of additional tracks,
additional session slots, and a general all-round expansion of the program ... (more)
A recent blog on EBPML.ORG entitled “REST 2010 - Where are We?” very
aggressively stated: “REST is just a "NO WS-*" movement.” The arguments
presented are definitely interesting but the most compelling point made is in
the way that REST APIs are constructed, namely that unlike the “ideal”
REST API described where HTTP methods are used to define action (verb) and
the path the resource (noun), practical implementations of REST are using a
strange combination of both actions (verbs) and resources (nouns) in URIs.
What this does is simulate very closely SOA services, in which the endp... (more)
The NoSQL movement is getting a lot of buzz lately. Recently I read an
interesting article, an interview with Gigaspace CTO Nati Shalom. Several key
points are made here. The one-size-fits-all approach has never worked in our
industry - one operating system, one DBMS, one middleware, etc. So the
exuberant folks behind the NoSQL movement must be careful when they declare
that the traditional SQL RDMS business is going to die soon.
For example, we do understand the emerging needs of extreme scale from
Twitter - the number of users grows continuously; each user maintains a list
of ... (more)
SYS-CON Events announced today that Adaptivity, the IT transformation
company, has been named "Platinum Plus Sponsor" of SYS-CON's 5th
International Cloud Expo (www.CloudComputingExpo.com), which will take place
on April 19-21, 2010, at the Jacob Javits Convention Center in New York City.
Adaptivity's CEO Tony Bishop (http://tonybishop.ulitzer.com) will be offering
major thought leadership on Day Two of the 3-day event in a Morning Keynote.
Read Exclusive Cloud Computing Journal Q&A with Tony Bishop here.
Cloud Expo was announced on February 24, 2007, the day the term "cloud
comp... (more)