JL Valente, President and CEO of RiverMuse Inc., is to join a panel discussion on Cloud Performance Optimization at Cloud Connect 2010, between 09:00 AM and 12:00 PM on Monday, March 15. The panel of industry experts and technologists will focus on measuring performance and availability in cloud environments, with particular emphasis on pinpointing sources of delay that affect cloud based applications. The objective of the session is to help delegates optimize performance, lower costs and improve user experience in cloud delivered applications. Cloud Connect 2010 is  to be held at the Santa Clara Convention Center, Silicon Valley, CA from March 15-18, 2010. 

Workshop attendees will learn: 

• How to measure user experience in on-demand environments
• Tracking capacity and usage in utility models
• When to focus on performance optimization
• The most common sources of delay in cloud platforms

 JL is an industry expert in operations management of cloud based systems and business models; his company RiverMuse offers breakthrough innovation in the area of dynamic infrastructure management. It offers the first open source platform for real-time IT Operations that can consolidate and process events from across the multiple tiers of cloud environments in a single console. The team behind RiverMuse are the original inventors of well-known management tools including Micromuse (now IBM Tivoli Netcool) and Riversoft.

 “There is a hugely inquisitive cloud crowd out there keen to understand more about how virtualization and cloud environments can be harnessed to help optimize business. I’m looking forward to getting down to some of the in-depth issues around cloud performance and fault management that are at the core of this topic,” says JL Valente.

 Some of the questions to be addressed by the panel include:

• Shared service: What if a cloud neighbor doesn’t play well with others?
• Service levels: How can you be sure that your users are getting the availability you’ve promised?
• Management: Do you have the application performance to keep them happy and productive?

 JL will be joined by high profile industry executives including among others: Imad Mouline, CTO at Gomez; Joe Hsy, Vice President of Technology and Advanced Development at Coradiant; Hal Kalish, Industry Marketing Director – High Tech at Akamai and Bernd Harzog, Analyst – Virtualization Performance Management at The Virtualization Practice.

About RiverMuse 

Established 2008, RiverMuse delivers a next-generation, real time Operations Console for event and fault management that uniquely enables IT organizations to maintain the health of their increasingly complex and adaptive environments. This helps them optimize service levels, drive down costs and respond more nimbly to the changing needs of the business. RiverMuse’s open source model allows the global community of IT professionals to effectively collaborate in order to fulfill evolving market requirements with new software economics. The company was founded by the serial entrepreneurs who launched Micromuse and RiverSoft – and whose innovations assure a majority of all public and private internet infrastructures in use today.

For more information or to set up a briefing please contact -

Georgina Firth George@RiverMuse.com  0044 (0) 203 239 1777

 About Cloud Connect
Cloud Connect, produced by TechWeb, is the defining event of the cloud computing industry. As both a conference and an exhibition, Cloud Connect’s goal is to chart the course of cloud computing’s development by bringing together enterprise IT professionals, developers, infrastructure providers and cloud computing innovators. TechWeb has produced cloud events that define and frame cloud computing discussions since June 2008, including Cloud Summit Executive and Enterprise Cloud Summit at Interop. Cloud Connect is a new one-of-a-kind event that encompasses the entire cloud computing ecosystem featuring Cloud Business Summit, a Launch Pad program, IT & Developer workshops and a full conference program. Cloud Connect will take place March 15-18, 2010 at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Silicon Valley, CA. For more information visit: www.cloudconnectevent.com

For further information on Cloud Connect  please contact -

Natalia Wodecki, PR Manager  email: nwodecki@techweb.com   Tel  415-947-6762