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CIO Cloud Summit Partners

CDM Media partners with analyst organizations, associations and media companies (in print and online) to build beneficial relationships. Partners reach new audiences, share valuable resources and build awareness for the CIO Cloud Summit.

If you are interested in partnering with CDM Media for the CIO Cloud Summit, please contact Rachel Tait, Director, Client Services & Event Management CDM Media, at rachel.tait@cdmmedia.com or +1 312.374.0820

Association Partners

Cloud Security Alliance

The Cloud Security Alliance is a not-for-profit organization with a mission to promote the use of best practices for providing security assurance within Cloud Computing, and to provide education on the uses of Cloud Computing to help secure all other forms of computing. The Cloud Security Alliance is led by a broad coalition of industry practitioners, corporations, associations and other key stakeholders. For further information, visit us at www.cloudsecurityalliance.org , and follow us on Twitter @cloudsa.

Media Partners

Cloud Showplace

The Cloud Computing Showplace is the largest, vendor-independent, online directory and industry best practice resource center in the Cloud market, with over 2000 solutions divided into over 90 application, service, technology and industry categories in the Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) and Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) areas, including Managed Services. The Cloud Showplace was founded and is administered by THINKstrategies, the only strategic consulting firm focused entirely on helping its clients capitalize on the fundamental shift in the technology industry from product-centric to services-driven solutions, such as Cloud Computing, Software-as-a-Service and Managed Services. For more information, go to wwww.cloudshowplace.com , or contact info@thinkstrategies.com.

Cloud Cow

CloudCow is an online publication dedicated to the next generation data center environment. CloudCow is a comprehensive resource for cloud computing news, analysis and information. The online publication provides IT professionals and executives with access to the latest information needed to make cloud computing and IT business decisions within their respective organizations.

Learn who the key players are in the industry, which products stand out above the rest, how the various technologies work, and how cloud computing is being used today in real-world environments. Hear from industry experts and executives, and access the latest news, articles, tips, white papers and Webinars covering all aspects of cloud computing. And get free access to CloudCow Hoofer, a comprehensive cloud computing database of information. Find out if cloud computing and virtualization technology is appropriate for your environment.

TeleSemana.com

TeleSemana.com , the leading multimedia web portal covering Latin America's telecommunications industry, offers a wide range of options to deliver the most strategic information to 15.000 telecom professionals across the region. With over eight years of experience, TeleSemana.com provides up-to-date information and online training through different channels: podcasts, videos, weekly newsletter, online seminars and white papers, among others.

TeleSemana.com 's content is targeted towards telecommunication service providers seeking to expand their knowledge about the launch and commercialization of new technologies and services.

Cloud Times

CloudTimes is a leading technology media property, dedicated to providing in-depth research and breaking news on Cloud Computing and related topics. Apart from its well-known news section, CloudTimes hosts the largest research database on the web, featuring free whitepapers, webinars and articles from leading IT companies. Visit us on www.cloudtimes.org.

Events In America

EventsInAmerica.com is the most comprehensive online directory of tradeshows, conferences, meetings and conventions in the United States and Canada. We save our users hours each month in research time and enable them to find more business opportunities faster and more efficiently. We track over 13,000 events in 14 major industries and 150 categories, enable users to search multiple industries at one time, and give users tools to search, save and share data. EventsInAmerica.com compiles the tradeshow and conference data that users want, with the tools they need, in a quick-read format, faster and at less total cost than any other events directory. Frequent users include entrepreneurs who want to launch new products, sales managers and marketing directors for companies large and small, hotel general managers, PR firms and ad agencies, event owners, government agencies and many others. Users most often self-identify as Presidents, CEOs, Owners, VPs of Sales / Marketing, Event Planners, Meeting Planners and General Managers.

Virtualization Review

1105 Enterprise Computing Group's Virtualization Review is the independent guide to the products, vendors, issues and technologies transforming IT through virtualization. Virtualization Review is the only print publication specifically targeting those IT executives, directors and administrators on the leading edge of this revolution.

Visit our web site for news, analysis, trends, product reviews, roadmaps and best practices on all aspects of IT virtualization including servers, storage, PCs, desktops, applications, management and more. For more information, visit VirtualizationReview.com

Cloud Tweaks

CloudTweaks is one of the largest and fastest growing Cloud Computing Media sites in the world. We provide an abundance of cloud related information to our readers. Such as Tutorials, Interviews, Press Releases and more... We attract visitors from all over including CEO's, CTO's, Politicians, Professors and Students. Many visit Cloudtweaks on a daily basis for the most recent information and developments in the cloud computing industry. In the coming months Cloudtweaks will be providing our readers with a more international presence.

The Web Host Industry Review

Since 2000, The Web Host Industry Review has made a name for itself as the foremost authority of the Web hosting industry providing reliable, insightful and comprehensive news, interviews and resources to the hosting community. TheWHIR Blogs provides a community of expert industry perspectives. The Web Host Industry Review Magazine also offers a business-minded, issue-driven perspective of interest to executives and decision-makers. WHIR TV offers on demand web hosting video interviews and web hosting video features of the key persons and events of the web hosting industry. WHIR Events brings together like-minded hosting industry professionals and decision-makers in local communities. TheWHIR is an iNET Interactive property. For more details about TheWHIR, visit http://www.theWHIR.com For more information on iNET Interactive, visit http://www.iNETinteractive.com .

 

Whitepapers

Moving from the Tactical Cloud to the Disruptive Cloud Today, many CIOs and IT leaders may be wondering the same about Cloud technology: Does Cloud matter? We know it works, but can it add strategic value to organizations? Or is it just an elaborated plot by vendors to rehash the old Buy vs. Build debate to extract more value for convenience? If the latter is the case, the Cloud would primarily be the realm of purchasing leaders. But when hordes of vendors come armed with tools, cases, references and anecdotes that unequivocally prove how miraculous and valuable the technology is, the question resurfaces, requiring a more conclusive answer.

Enabling Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) In the Enterprise With the consumerization of enterprise mobility, a growing percentage of workers are using their personal devices to access corporate resources. When these devices are not secured by Mobile Device Management (MDM), this introduces a wide range of security threats. Rather than trying to mitigate this trend by further locking down corporate resources, corporations are taking advantage of it by empowering and securing the personal device for business use through Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) programs.

How a Federated Identity Service Turns Identity into a Business Enabler, Not an IT Bottleneck Business is all about adaption and change, so being able to easily reorganize people, processes, and resources is essential to productivity and growth. More agile identity management is the key ingredient for the success of your initiatives, from the tactical to the strategic level. Whether you’re adding a business unit, taking advantage of a cloud application, or orchestrating a billion-dollar merger, an agile identity management system is purpose-built to dispatch the right people to the right applications with the adequate privileges, while guaranteeing secure access.

Secure Cloud Applications Without Disrupting Your Enterprise Identity Infrastructure More companies are moving to the Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) model, taking advantage of specialized new services without the cost and hassle of developing or managing them in-house. But securing these applications is another story. While the cloud is expanding enterprise capabilities, it’s also putting a strain on your existing identity infrastructure. When your business adds cloud-based applications into the mix, what was already a tough job—separating identity and access management from the applications themselves—becomes even harder.

Box Security More than 100,000 businesses use Box for sharing and accessing their data, and we work continuously to earn their trust. Box invests heavily in the security and resiliency of our data center, software, and our entire business operation. We recognize that security has to be integrated in every phase of product development and daily operations. This paper describes some of the many measures and practices that we implement on a daily basis to ensure the security of your business data.

 
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