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GMO Cloud at Cloud Expo 2011 in Santa Clara, CA

It’s been an amazing week in Silicon Valley at Cloud Expo 2011! This 9th annual event hosted four days of highly informative cloud computing keynotes and sessions at the conference. While many focused on overall Enterprise IT needs, including private and hybrid cloud, attendees seemed just as enthusiastic about deeper topics in the areas of migration, virtualization, security, storage and mobile cloud strategy. Businesses and attendees have come in from all over the world.

The cloud expo show floor had over 100 booths from cloud hosting, cloud computing and every form of cloud platform (PaaS) and infrastructure (IaaS) software and solutions that you can imagine. Technical representatives pitched their products and services with slick presentations and demos.

We experienced a great deal of energy moving through the conference sessions and the exhibition floor. People were highly engaged talking all things cloud. Everyone that we met expressed extreme value in the event — gaining the latest expert information and advice from industry leaders while making business contacts from a broad spectrum of IT professionals from network engineers and enterprise architects up to CIOs, CTOs and CEOs.

Our own GMO Cloud teams, from both US and Japan, thoroughly enjoyed meeting up with partners and other vendors. GMO Cloud K.K. President and CEO Aoyama Mitsuri and GMO Cloud America President and CEO Ryo Tamura especially appreciated the opportunity to meet with OnApp CEO Ditlev Bredahl. OnApp is GMO Cloud America’s latest technical partner. “We’ve been quite impressed with the growth of OnApp and their cloud deployment products. We’re really looking forward to the partnership.” shared GMO Cloud America CTO Taro Akiyama.

We hope you had an opportunity to attend the conference or tune in to some of the live streamed sessions. We’re already looking forward to next year!

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Why the Cloud is the Next Move in Real Estate

Real estate is a cut-throat business that turns on a dime and needs every penny it can keep. That is why so many real estate brokerage firms are now looking at cloud hosting as the latest tool to help the bottom line and improve reach out to potential clients. With the precarious state of the industry today, many firms are turning to cloud hosting solutions to improve their flexibility and cut costs, but how to start? It helps to know the best approach for this industry in specific.

The kinds of elements that this article looks at when moving a real estate brokerage firm to the clouds include:

• Reducing office space for agents
• Cutting operating costs for documents and communication
• Increasing leads and improving marketing

There are many more advantages besides these, which this article lays out in detail, along with stepped phases to implement the move, listing of resources and links for anyone considering presenting the argument of moving to cloud hosting to the decision makers in their firm. Get all the facts you need here.

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What is Big Data and Why Do You Need To Understand It?

One of the biggest changes in the last year to come to cloud computing is Big Data. Any company that is considering moving to cloud computing has probably seen it around; every other vendor is claiming it. But what is it? And why should you be paying attention to it?

Forrester, one of the leading researchers in the cloud computing industry explains big data as techniques and technologies that make it affordable for business to handle data at extreme scale. Things like customer call records and medical equipment monitoring data need to be constantly captured at an enormous rate and the better you do it the more valuable your data.

Forrester’s Brian Hopkins thinks that Big Data is where the biggest breakthroughs in cloud computing will come from and where individual markets will find their next big winners. So understanding what it is and how it pertains to your individual market could be crucial in any business that is looking to grow with cloud computing as a major tool in their arsenal. This article introduces the idea and also leads to a link to his recent report “Expand Your Digital Horizon with Big Data”. To read Brian Hopkins comments and report, be sure to read Big Data Will Help Shape Your Market’s Next Big Winners.

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Cloud Bloggers Speak Out on Cloud in the Future

Cloud Computing Journal is the bible for anyone who needs to know the latest in cloud technology. Every year before the Cloud Expo they ask a handful of experts what they see as the major trends for cloud computing in the next year. This year they talked to several leading members of the cloud community for their take on everything from AWS to Street Commerce.

The discussions were wide ranging and covered the following territory and more:

• Peter Coffee at Salesforce: The growing volume of externally originating data will drive many companies to using cloud-based analytics
• Krishnan Subramanian, Industry Analyst: Federated Clouds will take off in a big way
• Randy Bias of Cloudscaling: The rise of open to solve enterprise IT problems
• William Toll at Yotta: Early majority of ISVs transition their apps to PaaS
• Mark Hinkle of Citrix: The rise of cloud management tools
• Larry Carvalho runs Cloud Computing Bootcamp: Social Networking and Mobile get weaved together as cloud solutions

These are just a few of the things that these and other experts talk about regarding changes to come in cloud computing. Some of the predictions include some pretty dire futures for anyone not paying attention in this time of change. For a look at what they and others are saying when it comes to the new directions in cloud computing in the business community, read The Future of Cloud Computing: Industry Predictions for 2012 at Cloud Computing Journal.

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Salesforce Founder Marc Benioff Talks Cloud

If you are the guy who is considered the godfather of cloud computing, you believe in it. Marc Benioff shares with Technology Review his views on not only why cloud computing is so important in business today, but where it is going. A few years ago he declared that software was dead, and it now appears that his prediction is coming true. With over $150 billion spent on cloud computing in the past year, more businesses are embracing his vision of an office where hardware and software are immaterial and Software-as-a-Service is delivering timely up to date applications.

In the interview he discusses a number of important topics such as:

• Who will dominate the new cloud reality
• Why some cloud is “false cloud”
• Areas where cloud will go in the future

As usual, Marc Benioff pulls no punches and says it the way he sees it. For a look at what one of the pioneers of cloud has to say about why every business needs to be looking at making cloud computing an integral part of their business plan, read more at Technology Review.

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