Virtual Ark Executive CEO & President Marty Gauvin has welcomed a Gartner report that confirms the innovative vision of Virtual Ark, a global managed services company that partners with Independent Software Vendors (ISV’s) to provide their applications to large enterprises in a SaaS/on-demand model on Public and Private Cloud’s on a flexible pay-as-you-use basis. Gartner's report suggests that new and current software vendors will increasingly deliver Software-as-a-Service through a managed service running on public cloud infrastructure. Marty believes this report provides clear confirmation of his company’s vision of outsourcing trends.  If you have any questions about the Gartner report or Virtual Ark's mission to deliver third generation Software-as-a-Service (3g-SaaS) to Fortune 1000 organizations.

We were recently sponsors of the cloud expo in New York held from 19 April – 21 April. I had three speaking spots during the event and although I could blog about these, instead I've decided to write about a perception held by many who attended the conference which I disagree with. After attending a few presentation sessions and speaking with delegates and vendors, I get the impression that the true value of "cloud" is not clearly understood. Many people are talking about how cloud, in this case IaaS (Infrastructure as a Service) is great because it offers greater infrastructure flexibility and the ability to be more agile. Now don't get me wrong, this is true but I think many people are missing the key point...cloud is about automation *capability*.Yes you can achieve infrastructure savings by scaling up and down based on demand. You no longer have to provision for your peak load and hence achieve savings on infrastructure. But if you take your application and your existing manual processes and put them on the... Read More »

This is a link to a presentation by Marty delivered in April 2010 in New York at the 5th International Cloud Expo. http://downloads.sys-con.com/download/cloudexpo10e_virtualark_general

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Click on this link to be taken to the SYS-CON TV  Times Square Panel Session

Go to http://www.cloudstorm.org/display/cloudstormwww/2010-04-07+CloudStorm+2010+Program+at+Cloud+Expo+New+York for details.

In this Exclusive Q&A with the Founder, President & CEO of Virtual Ark, Marty Gauvin, the visionary serial entrepreneur speaks with Jeremy Geelan, Cloud Expo Conference Chair, about a variety of issues around Cloud computing including the all-important security aspects. "Security in the Cloud isn’t bad, it’s just different," Gauvin at one point notes, adding: "It is essential to take a measured, careful approach to security issues." Here in the interview in full.

[On April 20, 2010 at 5th Cloud Expo in the Jacob Javits Convention Center, New York City, Gauvin will be making a General Session presentation in the keynote room.

Virtual Ark has an amazing presence at the Cloud Expo in New York.