Krisandra Russo

Loni Stark, group manager for Government Solutions at Adobe Systems Incorporated, recently interviewed with Focus Washington TechView to discuss the emergence of social media in government and how agencies are leveraging newer technologies, such as Twitter and Facebook, with positive returns. Social media has illustrated government agencies can interact with citizens in a more engaging manner versus the traditional perception of "cold," impersonal processes, Stark explained.   A significant opportunity for agencies, she continued, is learning how to take lessons from social media technologies, such as their ease-of-use and intuitive nature, and apply them to core services like benefits enrollment and delivery. The interview also included conversation on related challenges, such as ensuring proper policies and governance are in place, as well as appropriate securit... (more)

Cloud Expo Yahoo! Session Streaming Live on SYS-CON.TV

Yahoo! Session at Cloud Expo Cloud Computing is receiving a lot of attention, and a number of companies see it as a key to increased agility and efficiency. The technology, however, is still at an early stage and many fundamental challenges need to be addressed before the full promise of the paradigm can be realized. In this general session at Cloud Computing Expo 2009 West, Yahoo! Chief Scientist Raghu Ramakrishnan highlighted some of the key challenges, described projects at Yahoo! that seek to address one or more of these challenges, and - in particular - he discussed the iss... (more)

Cloudera Selected by AlwaysOn as an OnDemand Top 100 Winner

Cloudera, the commercial Hadoop company, on Thursday announced that it has been chosen by AlwaysOn as one of the OnDemand Top 100 winners. Inclusion in the OnDemand 100 signifies leadership amongst its peers and use of an innovative approach and technology that are likely to disrupt existing markets and entrenched players. Cloudera was specially selected by the AlwaysOn editorial team and industry experts spanning the globe based on a set of five criteria: innovation, market potential, commercialization, stakeholder value, and media buzz. Cloudera and the OnDemand Top 100 compan... (more)

AppZero Discussed Transition to Cloud at Cloud & Virtualization Conference

Businesses investigating cloud computing learned how to move a mission-critical enterprise application from a datacenter to a cloud computing environment or between clouds, such as Amazon EC2 or GoGrid, at the Virtualization & Cloud Computing Conference & Expo in New York City. AppZero President and CEO Greg O'Connor addressed server application and portability as a means to ease the transition to cloud computing on Tues., March 31 at the Roosevelt Hotel. O'Connor demonstrated moving a three-tier application from a datacenter to a public cloud, and then to another cloud provide... (more)

BI and Cloud Computing Are an Optimal Match

BI Track at Cloud Expo Business intelligence is a fast-growing market and has been deployed by many, if not enough, enterprises worldwide. Add Cloud Computing to the discussion, and the potential of BI only increases. These thoughts underpin the presentation on Cloud Computing and BI by Jaspersoft CEO Brian Gentile at Cloud Expo. "Because the entire hardware and software cycle is outsourced to a third-party provider — such as Amazon's EC2, Google's App Engine, and solutions from GoGrid and AppNexus — IT units can focus on applications and solutions," Gentile says. "They can also ... (more)