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Open Cloud on Ulitzer Yahoo! has made its second major Cloud Computing announcement in five months, announcing an open-source version of its Traffic Server at the 4th International Cloud Computing Expo in Santa Clara, CA. Company SVP of Cloud Computing Shelton Shugar, who will be keynoting at Cloud Computing Expo, called Traffic Server "an essential building block," saying it is "integral to our edge services, on-line storage, and cloud serving." According to an official release from Yahoo!, Traffic Server enables session management, authentication, configuration management, load balancing, and routing for an entire cloud computing stack. It follows the company's earlier announcement of the open-source Hadoop. Yahoo! has donated the Traffic Server code to The Apache Sof... (more)

Yahoo! SVP Shelton Shugar to Discuss Innovation at Cloud Computing Expo

"Accelerating Innovation with Cloud Computing" will be the topic at hand when Shelton Shugar, SVP of Cloud Computing at Yahoo!, delivers his keynote at the 4th International Cloud Computing Expo in Santa Clara, CA. Shugar will deliver his speech on Tuesday, November 3 at at the Santa Clara Convention Center, before 2,000 preregistered delegates. Shelton Shugar, SVP of Cloud Computing at Y... (more)

Oracle's Rex Wang Outlines Customer Choice with Cloud Computing

Cloud Computing Expo on Ulitzer Rex Wang, VP of Product Marketing at Oracle took the audience through a tour of the company's offerings during his keynote presentation at the 4th International CloudComputing Expo in Santa Clara Wednesday morning, November 4. He also made the key point that Oracle wants "to offer customers a choice." This basic, seemingly simple strategy is exactly how Or... (more)

Public vs. Private Cloud Debate is Real

Zebras and tigers and bears, oh my! Well, there were no bears on an invigorating Power Panel at the 4th International Cloud Computing Expo in Santa Clara Tuesday night, but the subject of the two striped animals mentioned above did come up. Re-visiting a topic that re-appears during times of seismic change in the IT industry, panel moderator Jeremy Geelan, SVP of the event's producer SYS-C... (more)

Shelton Shugar Says Yahoo! Already a Major Cloud Computing User

Yahoo! SVP Shelton Shugar, speaking at the 4th International Cloud Computing Expo, outlined some of the detail involved in serving 600 million users per month while handling hundreds of petabytes of data. "We are building a private cloud to be used within Yahoo!," he said. Hundreds of applications have already been migrated to the cloud, he said, noting that "we are (now) focusing on the ... (more)