IT purveyors and executives looking for new sources and markets have been bombarded with tales of the potential of the four BRIC countries – Brazil, Russia, India, and China – since London-based, Goldman Sachs economist James O’Neill coined the term in the 90s. More recently, Mr. O’Neill created a grouping called “the Next Eleven,” nations that have the population heft and economic potential to emerge as significant global players in…

“Big data represents a sea change of capabilities in IT” notes Matt McLarty, Vice President, Client Solutions at Layer 7, in this exclusive Q&A with Cloud Expo Conference Chair Jeremy Geelan. McLarty continued. “In conjunction with mobile and cloud, I think Big Data will provide a technological makeover to the typical enterprise infrastructure, drawing a hard API border in front of core business services while blurring the line between logic…

SYS-CON Events announced today that Cervalis, an IT infrastructure solutions provider, will exhibit at SYS-CON’s 10th International Cloud Expo, which will take place on June 11–14, 2012, at the Javits Center in New York City, New York. Cervalis is a premier provider of IT infrastructure solutions including business continuity / rapid recovery, managed hosting, enterprise cloud computing, managed security, managed storage, networking and telecommunications and colocation. The company’s skilled professionals,…

A round-up of coverage of the 2012 American Association for the Advancement of Science meeting read more…

Oracle Press Release Oracle Offers Free Trial of Innovative Ksplice Zero-Downtime Updates to Red Hat Customers Also Makes Ksplice Zero-Downtime Updates Available for Oracle’s Red Hat Compatible Kernel Redwood Shores, Calif. – February 22, 2012 News Facts Oracle today introduced a 30-day free trial of Oracle’s Ksplice zero-downtime kernel update technology for Red Hat Enterprise Linux customers. Oracle is the only enterprise Linux provider that can offer zero-downtime updates that…