In The Boardroom™ With...

Ms. Carmen Gonzalez
Co-Founder, President & CEO
Ulitzer, Inc., and Cloud Expo, Inc.

www.sys-con.com

www.ulitzer.com

SecuritySolutionsWatch.com: Thank you for joining us today, Carmen and congratulations on the branding and success you, and your team, have achieved with Cloud Expo and other related events such as Big Data Expo, Internet of Things Expo and DevOps Summit. Please give us a brief overview of your background and a brief history of SYS-CON Media.

Carmen Gonzalez: I co-founded the company in 1994 with our Chairman Fuat Kircaali. We launched SYS-CON Media as a tech magazine publisher with popular titles, including Java Developer's Journal. In addition to a subscriber base of over 100,000, we also distributed JDJ and a dozen of our other titles on newsstands worldwide. SYS-CON was named by Inc 500 as one of the fastest growing companies three years in a row.

SecuritySolutionsWatch.com: Who are some of the major sponsors, exhibitors and speakers lined up for Cloud Expo in November 2014?

Carmen Gonzalez: As always Cloud Expo attracts all of the major industry players, including Microsoft, Cisco, SAP, Verizon, HP, IBM, SoftwareAG, and others. A full listing of our sponsors and exhibitors can be found at www.CloudComputingExpo.com

SecuritySolutionsWatch.com: Recent cyber attacks at Target, Home Depot, JP Morgan and UPS have raised awareness about “cyber security” to unprecedented levels…what can attendees expect to see, hear and learn at the upcoming Cloud Expo about this mission critical topic?

Carmen Gonzalez: We have a track devoted to security and mobility issues, because it is absolutely mission-critical for enterprise IT today. C.J. Radford of Vormetric, for example, will do a deep dive on safeguarding data in the cloud, and there's nothing more mission-critical than that! This is a must-attend session for security professionals, as far as I'm concerned.

Rishi Bhargava from Intel Security will take an interesting approach, asking attendees whether it's time "to think like a thief" when it comes to security. He's one of the world's leading experts and will let attendees know how to stay ahead of the bad guys.

Also, James Lynn from HP will present his point of view of the future of security from one of the world's top technology vendors. And we have Arthur Hicken from Parasoft talking about security and Evelyn de Souza from Cisco addressing the critical issue of data privacy.  So we're addressing the topic in a lot of detail.

SecuritySolutionsWatch.com: Any other tracks or themes you’d like to mention for your various upcoming events?

Carmen Gonzalez: Oh, I'd love to go into great detail on all of our tracks!

But in brief, delegates should know that we have five full tracks focused on Cloud Computing and Big Data/Analytics, three full tracks focused on the Internet of Things, and two full tracks focused solely on DevOps. The IoT tracks are further broken down into sessions about Enterprise IoT, Consumer IoT, and Developer IoT along with WebRTC.

Delegates can attend any combination of sessions they want, of course, and really give themselves a great education over the three days. You can view the entire program at http://www.CloudComputingExpo.com/event/schedule

SecuritySolutionsWatch.com: What is your perspective, Carmen, regarding the main benefits exhibitors and attendees receive by participating in Cloud Expo?

Carmen Gonzalez: Well, the long lasting success of Cloud Expo lies in the fact that we provide unique value to our delegates, our faculty, as well as our sponsors and exhibitors.

We get our faculty members' content to our our attendees before and after each event, in a way that no other conference producer can match. Our faculty members will attest to that. Our delegates receive a tremendous value from every single session presented at our events. Our sponsors and exhibitors also meet qualified decision makers and buyers of technologies and services they provide.

SecuritySolutionsWatch.com: Can we discuss Ulitzer for a moment? And may we have the Who, What, Where, When and Why of Ulitzer?

Carmen Gonzalez: Ulitzer is a revolutionary publishing tool we developed about a decade ago. Initially, the basic reason for Ulitzer was to consolidate all articles, blogs, and news stories of our SYS-CON authors around their author pages. While doing this, we also opened up the process by putting our authors in the driver seat, as opposed to the old-time publishing interaction between the publisher and the author.

Ulitzer of course, offers unique publishing, content distribution, syndication benefits which you don't find in any other blog platform. From 1994 to today, the number of our Ulitzer authors has grown to exceed 10,000, which is an impressive number. Many of these authors date back to when most publishing was in print, yet have stayed very relevant over the recent decade. We have so many highly recognized industry bloggers with millions of reads.

SecuritySolutionsWatch.com: Thanks again for joining us today, Carmen. Are there any other subjects you would like to discuss?

Carmen Gonzalez: I appreciate your time, I thank you very much! You will start seeing renewed content offerings from SYS-CON Media. We recently updated our DevOps Journal and IoT Journal, for example. We aim to continue to establish these online publications and others as the leading content providers in their respective subject areas for our millions of readers.