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Amazon Web Services: the next decade. In 2006 AWS pretty much created then dominated the public cloud category.

With $1 billion users, an open hardware project that in 3 years has shifted the fortunes of the server industry and a new, audacious project to connect the unconnected, Facebook’s infrastructure is built on pushing the envelope of what’s possible.

How do IT leaders decide what workloads or data to put in what cloud and when?

In his decades in Silicon Valley Khosla has designed hardware and backed startups taking on the incumbent players in their respective industries with investments in AMD and Juniper.

Google is on track to spend $10 billion on building data centers for it’s cloud infrastructure.

Computing is now everywhere, from wristwatches to the massive data centers that crunch the information from sensors around the globe. As the world’s largest chipmaker, Intel is at the forefront of this growth in data center compute. Hear what it

Will this be Azure’s year? Scott Guthrie is the Microsoft executive VP in charge of its cloud and cloud efforts that center around Azure, the company’s public cloud.

In a few years time, Twitter has grown from an obscure micro-blogging platform into one of the world’s largest communication platforms a measuring stick for public opinion.

The worlds of IT and operational technology (OT) are converging and the industry’s IT leaders must manage converging, aligning and integrating these environments.

In this chat, Airbnb’s VP of engineering, Mike Curtis, will share his thoughts on the next layer of abstraction in the cloud and how the growing online travel site thinks about building out its infrastructure while staying flexible and cost-efficient.

The definition of hybrid cloud is nebulous at best, which is why you hear varying explanations depending on who you talk to.

IBM, the great granddaddy of tech companies at 105 years of age, is reinventing itself for the umpteenth time.

The prevailing wisdom is that the cloud is the default, cheaper deployment option for new workloads. But is that always the case?

Hewlett-Packard has been through a few turbulent years, but new management along with solid HP technologists make HP a power player to be reckoned with in cloud infrastructure for the enterprise.

What are the big concerns from big IT buyers that the cloud must address? We discuss this with Bill Fathers, the SVP and GM leading VMware’s public cloud effort, who joined VMware from Savvis last year.

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Security: Heartbleed, Target. These names strike fear in the hearst of CIOs and consumers alike. In a world where you can’t control your infrastructure, you may not control the network, and your endpoints number in the billions, how do you rethink security?

When businesses’ applications explode in popularity, they find that their costs explode as well, and they can’t hire fast enough.

Pivotal is backing a multi-cloud play that pairs a PaaS and data fabric for a whole new generation of applications.

Advances in science and computing have enabled scientists to decode the humane genome for less than $1,000.

Two storage-industry veterans will duke it out over their conflicting views of the field going forward.

Red Hat has become synonymous with enterprise Linux. Can the same company replicate that success by becoming the leading brand of OpenStack for the enterprise?

As we move from a few billion people and devices connected to the internet to hundreds of billions of sensors and devices, what has to happen on the back end to enable this conglomeration do worthwhile work?

Like every other industry that is being disrupted by the internet, media companies are finding it increasingly important to work with and understand the data behind their business, and the New York Times is no exception.

When it comes to the cloud, many wonder: How is usage and adoption changing globally and across industries? Which vendors are ascendant and who is struggling to break through? How fast are the leaders in IaaS, PaaS and SaaS growing?

With the enterprise focus on agility and the incredibly complicated and federated software services that enterprises are building, it’s not enough to think about the UI solely as a cosmetic feature. Developers and enterprises must incorporate design throughout the creation

It’s not enough to understand what happens in your data center anymore. You need to understand what’s happening on the networks your packets traverse to get to the end user.

The Latin American cloud services market is estimated to reach US$3 billion next year, and the market in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) is predicted to match that size by 2017.

So which technologies and trends are really hot and which are just full of hot air?

In an increasingly digital world, the cloud — and big data, mobile, social and the internet of things — are enabling companies to attain competitive advantage.

Does the world really need a handful of different open source clouds? In this session Chris Kemp, (representing OpenStack); Sameer Dholakia (CloudStack) and Marten Mickos (Eucalytpus) will face off on this question.

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