The VITO Report

Opening Keynote at Cloud Expo Monsieur Zig-Zag will likely be nowhere in sight at Cloud Expo in New York, opening April 19 at the Javits Center. But what promises to be a fascinating session on "rolling your own" Cloud Computing infrastructure "in 30 days" will be a highlight of... (more)

Opening Keynote at Cloud Expo Time to consider the old status quo, says Sam Gross, VP of Global IT Outsourcing Solutions at Unisys. Gross will be presenting a session on Cloud Computing and "The New Normal" at Cloud Expo, in which he will disucss Cloud and how it will create "a ... (more)

Eucalyptus Session at Cloud Expo Mårten Mickos has been named CEO of Eucalyptus Systems, the open-source Cloud Computing start-up, in a story that broke late afternoon on the East Coast about the Santa Barbara, CA area company. Register Today and Save $550 ! Explore Sponsorship O... (more)

"From internal collaboration to supplier and customer interactions, enterprises are discovering new ways of increasing productivity, process accountability, and connecting those challenging 'white spaces' that exist between processes, ERP, and legacy systems. Consider how you can... (more)

Doha, Qatar is known in the business world as having served as the location as the launching point of current WTO negotiations. The "Doha Round of Talks" began in November 2001, and continue. The country remains a serious place about business. Although its oil revenues have trigg... (more)

The big struggle over the past decade or so, as IT has become more dynamic and flexible, is to get the business side not only talking to the IT department, but for IT initiaives--even infrastructure--to reflect business goals. Get the dog to wag the tail, in other words. As we p... (more)

Oh, that pesky thingie about unintended consequences. My guess is that the screenwriters of the popular oenological movie Sideways did not intend to destroy the Merlot varietal with their very disrespectful line about it. They were just trying to be funny. In similar fashion (I ... (more)

There's this really funny actor named Dax Shepard, who was one of the stars of the straight-to-DVD cult classic movie, Idiocracy. Dax is also a big hit at SXSW and other cool places in the world. So when I heard he was being integrated into Cloud Computing, I thought, hey, that's... (more)

Denis Martin is EVP and CTO of NaviSite, based in Andover, Mass. He is delivering a session at Cloud Expo on the topic of a "Transparent Extension to Your IT Organization." His session abstracts describes this as follows: "NaviCloud is a next-generation platform that combines the... (more)

I was corresponding a bit with an acquaintance of mine from India about Cloud Computing. A division of his company produces small cloud events in India. But nothing huge so far. Meanwhile, an Indian colleague of mine who's currently in Singapore has told me how aggressively vendo... (more)

So your company has decided to build a private cloud. Maybe this came after careful consideration of the actual cost savings versus pie-in-the-sky stuff, and you've become convinced, organizationally, that you can virtualize resources, consolidate some servers, and maybe increase... (more)

You have a virtualized environment, now what do you do? Well, hey, that's a good question! It's probably a question that's being asked of IT managers and CIOs from uncomprehending top execs all over this world. It's also the title of a session at Cloud Expo, to be presented by Da... (more)

Cloud Expo will be arriving in New York again between April 19 and 21, with an expected 5,000 attendees and more than 100 sponsors and exhibitors. Oracle (ie, Oracle/Sun/BEA/Siebel/PeopleSoft/JDEdwards/etc.) has signed on as the Diamond Sponsor. Adaptivity and Cloud Revolution ar... (more)

It's Tuesday afternoon, March 16 in Manila as I am finishing this story. I started it last night, when I was struck by the similarity of quotes from Larry Ellison and Richard Stallman about Cloud Computing. Both have expressed doubts about the term: Larry because he thinks (or t... (more)

Cloud Computing was viewed through the lens of reducing complexity and cost within data centers at a recent event in Toronto, during which IBM Canada's Jim Elliott proclaimed Linux as cloud's  "past, present, and future." He noted that Linux was certainly not a requirement for la... (more)

A well-known computer scientist in China is touting the potential of Cloud Computing to start a long march towards developing a legitimate software market. "China has been plagued by piracy for the last 20 years and that unfortunately has caused China not to have a software indu... (more)

CA continued its meteorological adventures by acquiring Nimsoft for $350 million in cash. Add this to its recent purchases of Cassatt, NetQoS, Oblicore, and 3Tera. Nimsoft stratifies the performance and availability monitoring layer for "emerging enterprises and Managed Service P... (more)

GovIT Session at Cloud Expo Another story about how the federal government remains wedded to primitive technology has crossed the wires, this one from Market Connections, Inc., which performed some custom research for the Government Information Technology Council (GITEC). Liken... (more)

Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer pronounced that Redmond is "all in" when it comes to Cloud Computing, and released an email he sent to employees urging the company to move "at cloud speed" into this billowing new world. His enthusiasm was reminiscent, of course, of that of Bill Gates... (more)

Looking for the word "cloud" in press releases these days is  much like looking for the surname "Jones" in Wales; a challenge easily met by even the slowest and dullest amongst us. So I was reading a new release from IceWEB and James River Technical about a potentially massive n... (more)