Cloud computing has demonstrated dramatic benefits in accelerating and flexing the delivery of IT services thanks to automation from initial request to provisioning, self service, auto-scaling, and some level of API standardization through web services. It has offered as well an attractive financial proposition to specific organizations, projects, or for certain classes of applications. Even though large public clouds offer some unique appeal many companies... read more

While cloud services bring opportunities for telecom operators to garner new revenue streams, increased agility and better responsiveness to customer needs, they are fraught with complexity. Harnessing these opportunities, from deep within ever more complex, dynamic and elastic networks, presents a whole new set of IT management issues. The fact is that many of the legacy management tools are unable to keep pace with the... read more

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... read more