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)
SYS-CON Media announced today that Peter Nickolov, President and CTO will
join moderator Jeremy Geelan, Sr. Vice-President of SYS-CON Media & Events,
in a Power Panel at the 2nd International Cloud Computing Conference & Expo
2009 East, March 30 - April 1 in New York City. Alongside four of his
industry peers, Nickolov will address the topic "Cloud Computing & Enterprise
IT: Cost & Operational Benefits."
With the advent of Cloud Computing, the cost of computation, application
hosting and content storage and delivery is plunging fast by several orders
of magnitude. This is why ma... (more)
"This funding round will help us achieve our operational goals while
introducing innovative solutions in the Cloud computing space," said Treb
Ryan, CEO of OpSource. "The market has truly embraced the great scalability
and efficiency that SaaS solutions bring, and we are proud to be the company
that both emerging companies and enterprises rely on for billions of
transactions every day," he added.
He was speaking as the company today announced that it has received $10
million in series "E" investment capital from Nippon Telegraph and Telephone
Corporation, with whom OpSource ente... (more)
ScaleMP Session at Cloud Expo
Traditional server virtualization has mainly focused on consolidation, which
occurs when a physical server is partitioned to run multiple virtual or
logical servers. However, using server virtualization for aggregation can
result in as many or even more efficiencies, especially for compute or
memory-intensive applications common in the high performance computing
market. Server virtualization for aggregation is when multiple physical
servers are combined so that they appear and function as a single virtual
system.
In his session at the 5th Internati... (more)
Building the right infrastructure that can scale up or down at a moment's
notice - the very essence of Cloud Computing - has become ever more crucial
in today's challenging business landscape.
But it can be a complicated and expensive task, which is why we're pleased to
have the Chief Technology Officer of Amazon.com, Dr. Werner Vogels, give the
Opening Keynote at the 2nd International Cloud Computing Conference & Expo,
being held March 30-April 1, 2009.
Join us in New York City to hear first-hand about Infrastructure as a Service
and the lessons Amazon.com learned from building ... (more)
Krisandra is Conference Program Manager at Cloud Expo, Inc. where annual high-energy cloud computing conference and expos are created around the world with industry-leading players.
Jeremy Geelan
Fuat Kircaali
Pat Romanski
Liz McMillan
Elizabeth White
Joon Kim
Richard Walter
Corinna Melcon
Amy Eager
Michel Courtoy
Amitabh Sinha
Mark Leake
Rajeev Kozhikkattuthodi
Stefana Muller
Tracy Bannon
Lev Lesokhin
Nishanth Kadiyala
