SYS-CON Events announced today that Adaptivity, the IT transformation
company, has been named "Platinum Plus Sponsor" of SYS-CON's 5th
International Cloud Expo (www.CloudComputingExpo.com), which will take place
on April 19-21, 2010, at the Jacob Javits Convention Center in New York City.
Adaptivity's CEO Tony Bishop (http://tonybishop.ulitzer.com) will be offering
major thought leadership on Day Two of the 3-day event in a Morning Keynote.
Read Exclusive Cloud Computing Journal Q&A with Tony Bishop here.
Cloud Expo was announced on February 24, 2007, the day the term "cloud
computing" was coined. That same year, the first Cloud Expo took place in New
York City with 450 delegates. Next April, Cloud Expo is returning to New York
City with more than 5,000 delegates and over 100 sponsors and exhibitors.
The three-day event will attract more than 5,000 delegates from 48 co... (more)
Blueprint4IT on Ulitzer
In this exclusive Q&A for SYS-CON's Cloud Computing Journal with Cloud Expo
Conference Chair, Jeremy Geelan, Tony Bishop - Founder & CEO of Adaptivity -
discusses Adaptivity's "IT Transformation Factory" and their Cloud Computing
strategy.
Bishop gave a General Session at the 5th Cloud Expo in New York in April
entitled "Understanding the Relationship Between Workloads and the Cloud."
About Tony Bishop: As Chairman and CEO, he leads the team and provides
hands-on coaching, thought leadership and executive strategy support for
Adaptivity's key clients and p... (more)
In our last post we discussed the positive shift in the Cloud Computing
discourse towards actionable steps rather than philosophical diatribes on
definitions. And to support that discussion we offered the following list of
things not to do:
Not understanding the business value Assuming server virtualization is enough
Not understanding service dependencies Leveraging traditional monitoring Not
understanding internal/external costs
In this installment we are going to focus on the first mistake - failing to
understand the business impact of leveraging a Cloud delivery model for a
g... (more)
Today I attended a very impressive talk by the Federal CIO, Mr. Vivek Kundra
at a Northern Virginia Technology Council Public Policy event. His open and
"matter of fact" approach to explaining the coming government IT
transformation was focused and direct.
After engaging the audience with a personal anecdote about the 9/11 interview
in Arlington that catapulted his professional career, he outlined why
Virginia was his model for transforming the Federal information technology
platform and bureaucracy. In tackling this huge task, his baseline
assumptions appear to be as follows:
... (more)
Adaptivity Session at Cloud Expo
The "root cause" of IT delivery limitations is directly linked to how systems
are designed, built and implemented. Transforming IT Design from an Art to a
Science is a critical success factor to enabling the Enterprise Cloud.
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In his session at the 5th International Cloud Expo, Mike Tardif, Chief
Strategist for Adaptivity, will describe how to take the aspects of IT
Economics, IT Physics and IT Supply Chain Management and create a systematic
design discipline that will enable you to... (more)