CIAB Febraban : The Biggest Show In Latin AmericaIn the Brazilian IT market, banks and financial institutions are big stake holders (say around 70%) . Febraban is an association of all IT department of banks and financial institutions. In short, it's a very powerful association as it collectively represents a big chunk of buyers with a large budget. CIAB Febraban is a trade show that brings the latest technology and Febraban together. It showcases the latest innovations in technology, latest solutions from IT solution vendors like HP, Microsoft, IBM, Steffanini and the who' who of the Brazilian / Latin American market. It's a great place to showcase your solution provided you have 100k USD and upwards for a booth, however most vendors are happy to be there. Guess, it pays off. I had a chance to visit CIAB Febraban a couple of weeks back only because of our partner -
BMC Software Leverages Amazon Web Services to Simplify Deployment and Management of Cloud EnvironmentsBMC Press Release I feel that BMC's PR on Cloud Computing needs a little explanation as it has the word cloud computing is often mistaken for SaaS. BMC's parntership with Amazon EC2 will help users to move their Software Installation to the cloud. It is NOT BMC's software moving to the cloud.There's a big difference, let me explain.First, What is Amazon EC2Amazon EC2 is Virtualized Infrastructure as Service. Let's take an example, how will a small business run apps and offer a service? They have to rent / own data centers, they have to buy their own hardware and server software and then hire specialists to manage datacenters. Over time this non-core function takes a lot of resources which is not the core focus of business. Amazon EC2 helps you with an Infrastructure virtualization solution. With EC2, you can instanly provision any type of server hardware you want and choose the software and within minutues your server is ready. You can even remote control the machine. This helps you rapidly scale up or downsize infrastructure in minutes. All you have to pay is a monthly charge for usage of machine
