Amazon Web Services (AWS) has become Red Hat's very first Premier Cloud Provider Partner. Fair enough. Red Hat was the first supported operating system and JBoss the first supported middleware on AWS. Anyway, Red Hat has thought up this shiny new program to certify "industry leaders in cloud computing" on Red Hat solutions. Premier Cloud Provider Partners are supposed to collaborate with Red Hat on technical support, security updates, hardware certification, sales and marketing, and business models. Red Hat says customer interest in cloud computing, both in building virtualized... (more)

2nd International Cloud Computing Expo New York Photo Album

SYS-CON's 2nd International Cloud Computing Conference & Expo, held on March 30 -April1, 2009, in New York City, attracted more than 40 sponsors with over 1,300 delegates, a record attendance, up from the last Cloud Computing Expo in San Jose, CA. Cloud Computing, through which massively scalable IT-related capabilities are provided as a service using Internet technologies, has many inter... (more)

SYS-CON's Cloud Computing Expo Adds Two New Tracks

Cloud computing is a game changer. The cloud is disrupting traditional software and hardware business models by disrupting how IT service gets delivered, and entrepreneurial opportunities abound as this classic disruptive technology begins to proliferate. So it is no surprise that SYS-CON's industry-leading International Cloud Computing Conference & Expo series is going from strength to ... (more)

Kevin Jackson Joins SYS-CON's GovITExpo as Tech Chair

SYS-CON Events announces the appointment of Kevin Jackson as Technical Chair of the latest event in its innovative series of real-world technology conferences, the 1st Annual Government IT Conference & Expo (www.GovITExpo.com), a 1-day deep dive into the new wave of Internet-based technologies that are changing the way that Federal agencies leverage, procure and utilize IT. GovITExpo, w... (more)