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| BI's Cloudy Future |
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Speaker:
Brian Gentile
President & CEO
Jaspersoft
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Hot Topics
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Business Intelligence programs have been getting gradually better about delivering on their promise of instant analytics to support business decisions. Today’s BI platforms have more functionality than ever with dashboards, customizable reporting and more data flexibility. Yet only 15% of the knowledge workers who could be using BI are using these new tools. With such low penetration numbers, how intelligent are businesses really becoming? Before any BI initiative can begin improving sales results, optimizing operational expenses or otherwise saving the enterprise, it must be conceived, funded, assembled, configured and deployed. Even if budgets are allocated, businesses may wait months while all the other steps are taken, especially if infrastructure — servers, operating systems, database platforms, BI technology and all the resources needed to support them — isn't configuring and maintaining infrastructure has eased significantly. Because the entire hardware and software cycle is outsourced to a third-party provider — such as Amazon's EC2, Google's App Engine, and solutions from GoGrid and AppNexus — IT units can focus on applications and solutions. They can also ramp up and down quickly, without the delays and costs typically associated with hardware and software acquisition.
But while the payoff for delivering BI in the cloud may be obvious, going it alone into the cloud can be challenging. By cooperating with technology partners, developing a fully-functional BI stack — one that's truly affordable — is possible. Jaspersoft's work with other vendors to provide a cloud-based BI platform, available and consumed on demand, demonstrates how collaboration can transform cloud-based services from a pie-in-the-sky idea, to a practical application that's the perfect fit for the current economic environment. This willingness to work together, a deeply engrained aspect of the open source software industry, is the key to a successful cloud.
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| How to Roll Your Own Cloud in 30 Days or Less |
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Speaker:
Shannon Williams
VP of Business Development
VMops
Track:
The Cloud From All Angles
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The benefits of private clouds are fairly well documented, but at the end of the day, the best way to gauge the value of this computing model within an enterprise is to jump in and start small. However, starting small doesn't mean sacrificing functionality like elasticity, self service, programmatic access, and automation. In this session, technology visionary and creator of the Java Virtual Machine at Sun Microsystems, Sheng Liang, will discuss how to set-up a small private cloud using commodity infrastructure. He will present the challenges and potential pitfalls associated with rolling your own cloud, and then explain how to evaluate cloud software platforms and select the right servers, storage, hypervisor, and networking infrastructure.
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| A More Secure, Trustworthy Cloud |
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Speaker:
Charlton Barreto
Principal Architect
Intel
Track:
Server, Desktop & Storage Virtualization
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Cloud computing allows companies to perform feats of computation that would otherwise have been impossible, or at least prohibitively expensive. However, cloud computing has generally lacked the security features typically required by small and medium-sized enterprises. Likewise, in using public clouds, IT cedes control over key security parameters to the service provider.
Previously, computer network concepts could not easily be realized within the cloud, because the network itself was not virtualized - just the processing and storage - yet recent developments goe some way toward allowing the virtualization of this infrastructure. These technology advances, such as Trusted Boot Chains to enable or disable access to secure networks, Secure Enclaves to isolate process and data access, and IPsec to establish secure connections with data centers, all enable cloud-based resources to enjoy a greater level of security, to the point where integrating them with a local network of servers become feasible.
This session will cover how these models, architectures and technologies enable the integration of remote, virtual resources with both physical and virtual machines in the data center, giving customers the option use public and private clouds securely and scalably. This is part of a larger trend in cloud computing: creating secure connections between real and virtual machines.
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| Addressing Data Privacy, Residency, and Security in the Cloud |
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Speaker:
Terry Woloszyn
Founder
Leeward Security
Track:
Security, Management & Compliance
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When adopting Cloud solutions, especially Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), questions regarding data security and governance arise. Depending on your jurisdiction, you may be subject to the recently released EU Data Protection Directive. In the US, you may have to cope with a patchwork of disparate and overlapping regulations, as well as sector-specific requirements such as HIPPA for healthcare, or FISMA and ITAR for public sector-related organizations.
In this session Terry Woloszyn, the Founder/CTO of PerspecSys and a thought leader in Cloud data governance, will present strategies to address data privacy, residency, and security requirements when adopting Cloud solutions. The session will discuss both the technology options available as well as the functional and business value impacts of each strategy. Cloud Expo delegates will come away with a clearer understanding of the decisions surrounding SaaS adoption while remaining compliant with data governance requirements.
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| Cloud Computing as a Service |
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How does your data center provider impact your customers’ performance? In the session, we will discuss expectations, requirements and needs of a cloud computing infrastructure as it relates to selecting and deploying your customers' applications into a third-party data center or co-location facility. Areas covered will include:
- Scalability: How power/cooling density and available capacity impact growth
- Choice: How bandwidth provider access and ecosystem partner connectivity impacts your customers’ application latency
- Security: Why security and availability matter for customer due diligence
- Location: Why site location matters to your customers and partners: geography, proximity and redundancy
- Service: How onsite service and support impacts your customers’ experience
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| Cloud Computing? There’s an Audit for That! |
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Speaker:
Douglas Barbin
Director
SAS 70 Solutions, Inc
Track:
Hot Topics
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Fear the cloud! That is the conventional thinking of the security industry. Their issue is the uncertainly surrounding virtualization because it is “in the cloud”, and therefore, beyond control. But is that really true? Rather than rehash the cloud computing models as defined by CSA and NIST, this session will break the models down into their tangible and auditable components (networks, servers, applications, third parties, etc). From there, we will discuss different types of assurance solutions available (including SAS 70, PCI, ISO 27001/2, etc.), what companies are doing today, and could be doing better tomorrow.
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| Cloud Standards: Enabling Interoperability and Package Delivery |
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Speaker:
Diego Parrilla
VP of Product Management
Abiquo
Track:
Performance, Standards, Storage & Hosting
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A combination of interoperability and portability is the Holy Grail of cloud computing, but is nearly impossible to achieve without standards. Hypervisor vendors give lip service to standardization, but have yet to deliver. Standards enable open source applications, foster competition and innovation.
In this session, we will discuss cloud computing standards, emphasizing interoperability and package delivery using the Open Virtualization Format (OVF). OVF is an open, secure, portable, efficient and extensible format for the packaging and distribution of software to be run in virtual machines. Abiquo applies OVF to effectively manage multiple datacenters in one platform, making it possible to define and replicate deployments in different infrastructures. Vendor to vendor transfers are quick and easy thanks to OVF.
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| Compliance and Customer Ownership in the Cloud |
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Speaker:
Brett Thomas
CTO
Vindicia
Track:
Management, Performance, Security, & Compliance
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The advent of cloud computing has changed how companies market, sell, provision and deploy new services. However, one of the less understood issues in this environment, especially for those dependent on automatic payments (credit cards), is the idea of compliance and the parallel issue of customer ownership. How do you manage your services, and by extension your customers, if you don't own the infrastructure on which they reside? And if credit cards are a part of your payment landscape, then PCI compliance is a necessity, not an option.
In this session, Vindicia CTO Brett Thomas will draw on his first-hand experiences relating to cloud-based compliance and highlight some of the technical and business process requirements that underlie these concepts.
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| CTO Power Panel - Has Enterprise IT Changed Forever and for Always? |
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Moderated by Jeremy Geelan
This fast-moving industry discussion panel will answer such questions as:
- What are the technical advantages – and disadvantages – of moving to the Cloud?
- Is there an optimal mix of traditional IT and cloud computing?
- What tools are necessary to deliver on the promise of cloud computing in the enterprise?
- How close are we to achieving Secure Cloud Computing
- What are the plusses and minuses of public clouds, private clouds and hybrid cloud solutions?
- Should developers care about Cloud Computing?
- Is there a simple way to compare the performance, security and quality of various cloud computing providers?
- How important is Open Source to the future of the Cloud?
- How about standards, how far along are we there? Are clouds interoperable yet? If not, should they be?
- What's really involved when moving an application from your enterprise data center to the cloud?
- How does latency change when applications are moved to the cloud?
- What services or capabilities can real-world enterprises expect to see in the Software-as-a-Service, Platform-as-a-Service and Infrastructure-as-a-Service layers?
- What other new cloud technologies are coming over the horizon?
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| Day Three Keynote: An Open Cloud Ecosystem: the Gathering Storm |
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 The last decade saw the growth of Virtualization from its humble beginnings as a developer tool to its increasing adoption in data centers worldwide. It dramatically improved resilience, scalability, portability and utilization, and became one of the key foundations of the Cloud.
But the story is only just beginning...
Join Pete Malcolm, CEO Abiquo, for this vendor-neutral keynote, where you will learn about the next chapter in the Virtualization story. What it is, what it means, why open standards are key, and most importantly, how it will revolutionize the way your organization manages IT.
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| Five Steps to Sanity: Methodologies for Finding Your Best Cloud Source |
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Speaker:
Carl Meadows
The Planet
Track:
Management, Performance, Security, & Compliance
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There are few technologies that have cast as many promises and bombarded as many news outlets as the ever-present “cloud.” Companies are attaching the moniker to far too many new products, creating fear, uncertainty and doubt in the minds of those evaluating their options. Bottom line: All clouds aren’t the same, and adoption hasn’t begun to lay claim to 1.0 adoption criteria.
In this session, Carl Meadows offers a comprehensive five-step and easy-to-follow methodology for choosing the right cloud platform for your business. From profiling your applications, to clearly articulating a capacity plan, defining security requirements and even hybrid options, he will provide the resources, considerations and questions companies should ask to be fully informed.
The interactive discussion delivers advice and take-aways about the direction in making “the” cloud decision.
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| Future of the Data Center |
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Speaker:
David Yen
EVP & GM, Fabric & Switching Technologies Group
Juniper Networks
Track:
Performance, Standards, Storage & Hosting
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Today's data centers stand at the epicenter of powerful technological and economic trends. Cloud computing, together with processing, storage, security and software technologies that make it possible, are already straining the capabilities of legacy data center networks. It can be daunting to interconnect a growing number of virtual and physical devices while trying to simplify the network to manage these resources at scale. Management complexity increases exponentially as more devices are added. The era of legacy data center architectures is ending. Just as other areas of the data center have evolved to meet the demands of an Internet-enabled world, the time has come for networks to take a significant leap forward into cloud computing.
By rethinking traditional legacy approaches and preparing for the advent of cloud computing, it is possible for IT organizations to build data center networks that offer greater economies of scale, improved application service levels, simpler management and lower costs. IT organizations can take decisive steps today that drive businesses closer to the promise of tomorrow. The session will outline what steps organizations must take now to meet the current and future data center challenges at hand.
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| General Session: Deploy an Enterprise Private Cloud in Less Than 30 Days with Surgient |
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Speaker:
Brian Wilson
Director of Cloud Services
Quest
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All Tracks
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Join Brian Wilson, Surgient VP of Services & Support, in this 30-minute session, as he shares his insights on how to leverage your existing infrastructure to create a private cloud in less than 30 days with Surgient. As the leader in enterprise cloud automation software, Surgient leverages leading virtualization and systems management technologies to automate the deployment and management of complex, user-centric IT services. Through a patented, just-in-time self-service approach, administrators and users access dynamic resource pools (clouds) on-demand and through guaranteed reservations. Using Surgient, world-class companies are reducing capital costs, increasing operational efficiency, improving compliance and driving overall business agility.
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| General Session: Storm Clouds - Disruptive Technologies Creating the "New Normal" |
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Speaker:
Sam Gross
VP of Global IT Outsourcing Solutions
Unisys
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All Tracks
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As much as information technology has changed in the last 10 years, the next decade promises even more significant change. And as cloud technology becomes more prevalent, IT enterprises will be driven to reconsider the status quo around just about everything we know, including Physical Infrastructure, Virtualization, Automation, Service Management, and Security.
Cloud technology and virtualization of virtually everything means rethinking the economic models around physical infrastructure, the emergence of a new class of providers as well as a greater degree of standardization around virtualized OS & Middleware configurations. There are increasing expectations from consumers of data center services - instant provisioning & de-provisioning, just for openers. And with a new generation of workers that expect anytime, anywhere access to corporate data, securing your data outside of your data center walls has become a greater business imperative albeit far more difficult. In this session, Cloud Expo delegates will learn what you need to consider to ensure your enterprise’s foray into cloud computing successfully and securely meets the needs of your enterprise, today and tomorrow.
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| Impact of Social Media on Performance in the Cloud |
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Speaker:
Dan Bartow
Vice President and Cloud Evangelist
SOASTA, Inc.
Track:
Management, Performance, Security, & Compliance
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Companies are becoming increasingly proficient at cross-platform marketing. In particular, using social media sites, such as Twitter, Facebook and MySpace, in conjunction with traditional media, to drive traffic to websites. If done well, when the users from all of these sources converge on a site there's an inevitable spike in traffic, often supercharged by leveraging social media. For example, Denny's promotion during the Super Bowl increased traffic to their site 1700%. Slashdotting, massive and often unforeseen increases in traffic as the result of getting linked from a popular site such as Drudge Report or Digg, is another example of the impact of social media. These are great opportunities for the recipient of the traffic, if they can handle it.
The elasticity of the Cloud is one of the most effective ways to handle these dramatic swings. But simply throwing more servers at a problem is rarely the solution, and the same is true of scaling in the Cloud. In this session, attendees will learn how to make architectural decisions for their online applications that set the stage for performance and scalability when deploying in the Cloud to handle unforeseen spikes. We'll cover everything from the underlying technology choices (such as the use of Flash vs. HTML5), the infrastructure and typical breaking points to the ongoing operations of measuring performance.
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| Introducing the Virtual Private Data Center - Enterprise Cloud Delivered |
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Speaker:
Ken Owens
VP of Security & Virtualization Technologies
Savvis
Track:
The Cloud From All Angles
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For a cloud to be considered enterprise, it must provide a high-availability solution that accounts for every aspect of an Enterprise IT Infrastructure environment, from development to production including provisioning and maintenance of servers, network, storage, security and software. The value of the enterprise cloud solution is simple: It enables businesses to adapt to the rapidly changing economic and technological environment with speed, excellence and efficiency while reducing the total cost of ownership. This session will introduce the Virtual Private Data Center concept, which provides the high-availability infrastructure, management, support, and multiple levels of QoS required to optimize the delivery of mission-critical applications in the enterprise cloud.
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| Investing in Cloud Computing |
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Speaker:
Joel Fishbein
Lazard Capital Markets
Track:
Moving to the Cloud
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Cloud Computing is disrupting traditional software business models by changing how IT service gets delivered, as it enables a new paradigm in ubiquitous computing and the delivery of "enterprise class" software
and services through the Internet.
As companies search for ways to eliminate costs, reduce the complexity of their IT environments, and improve efficiency in their data centers, Cloud Computing will likely continue to gain prominence. Unlike other major technology industry shifts, such as the shift from Mainframe Computing to Client Server computing, which required massive investment, the Cloud Computing paradigm requires little incremental infrastructure spend, as enterprise computing can be provisioned over the Internet.
In light of this shift, this session will examine the current competitive and market landscape, and assess emerging trends affecting the Cloud Computing market. We also present a synopsis of current trends in Cloud
Computing and its relation to the current capital markets environment.
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| Lunchtime Power Panel - Who's Doing What (and Where) with Cloud Computing? |
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All the main buzzwords that have been making the rounds over past few years - ASP, SaaS, SOA, Virtualization, Grid Computing, Enterprise 2.0, etc. - have somehow been transmogrified into the single term "Cloud Computing."
We all know how Amazon took the lead in introducing AWS (Amazon Web Services) way back in 2003, then brought in Storage as a Service concept via S3 (Simple Shared Storage). It also introduced EC2 (Elastic Computing Cloud), where Infrastructure as a Service became viable. But what about the other 249 players in the fast-emerging Cloud ecosystem? What are their specialties? What are the newcomers offering? And what about older vendors like IBM? How do the “pure cloud” vendors like Google, Amazon, and SalesForce.com differ from everyone else? What are the lingering unresolved issues - and who is working on solving them?
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| Next-Generation Business Analytics in the Cloud |
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Speaker:
Ajay Anand
CEO
Datameer Inc.
Track:
The Cloud From All Angles
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As storage becomes more affordable, and large-scale data acquisition becomes increasingly common, there is interest from organizations to exploit these massive data sets for business analytics and enterprise-wide reporting. However, a number of issues need to be addressed:
- Information is stored in distributed silos with multiple formats, including databases, text files, spread sheets, etc.
- Traditional data warehouses are limited in scalability, lack flexibility, and tend to be proprietary and expensive
- It can take weeks to add a new data source to a custom datawarehouse, create a new dashboard, or change a hierarchy
This session will examine cloud computing approaches for organizations to run business analytics on hundreds of terabytes of data from multiple sources (operational data, finance data, sales data, as well as external data on markets and customers), and enable business analysts to do rapid custom analytics and real time queries without relying on IT programmers to build reports and dashboards.
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| Optimize While You Virtualize to Get to the Cloud |
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Speaker:
Rich Corley
Founder, CTO & VP Engineering
Akorri
Track:
Server, Desktop & Storage Virtualization
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By consolidating low priority applications onto shared resources, virtualization has enabled IT organizations to cut costs and improve efficiency, leverage new IT investment, and improve service. As companies advance through the stages of server virtualization adoption, they need an infrastructure-wide analytical systems management solution to provide visibility and control to troubleshoot and assure performance, optimize performance and capacity, plan server and storage requirements, and manage service levels. Organizations that do not advance operationally through the virtualization stages will not be able to leverage private cloud computing. In this session, Rich Corley, Founder and CTO of Akorri will analyze the steps IT managers need to take while they optimize their virtualization environment including: troubleshooting, optimization, capacity planning and service level management.
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| Performance Management for Composite Applications |
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Speaker:
Doug Willoughby
Director of Cloud Computing
Compuware
Track:
Performance, Standards, Storage & Hosting
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Composite applications enable IT to provide higher quality, agile solutions with greater ROI by enabling enterprises to build only what is core to their business, but they also present IT organizations with additional performance management challenges.
While core business functionality and databases will still typically be provided by resources located in the data center, composite applications are increasingly composed of services provided from multiple sources, many of which are outside the direct control of the application's owner. To prevent "finger pointing," tools which gives IT end-to-end application visibility from data-center to end-users' browsers, are essential to deploy composite applications. Beginning with use cases and real world examples, this session will detail how IT operations, and increasingly IT architects and developers, can build and deploy composite applications with manageability as their foremost concern.
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| Transforming Financial Service Firms with the Cloud |
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Upheavals in the financial service and insurance industry this past year point to the critical need for institutions to evolve their processes to match consumer and market conditions. Without this modernization, firms that continue to operate in the past will continue to be at risk for consumer dissatisfaction, compliance failures, expensive processes compared with those of their peers, longer cycle times, and inability to offer new products or remain competitive in the market. This session presents compelling case studies on how Cloud Computing can help firms attract new customers, increase retention rates, contain costs and optimize operational efficiencies, manage business process outsourcing, meet evolving compliance needs, launch new products and boost profitability – affordably, securely and reliably.
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| What Organizations Need to Know About Cloud Security |
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Speaker:
Dipto Chakravarty
Vice President of Worldwide Engineering
NetIQ
Track:
Security, Management & Compliance
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Many people believe you can take traditional identity and security practices, throw them in a cloud environment, and expect everything to work just fine. Not so! Businesses taking advantage of cloud computing should utilize cloud security approaches that support sharing of roles, policies, and workflows, rather than merely providing single sign-on.
In a cloud environment, workloads (combinations of applications, middleware, and operating systems) can be easily shifted from one locale to another to optimize performance as needed. With these rapid shifts, it's critical to maintain proper regulatory and security standards. For cloud computing to flourish in the enterprise environment, businesses need assurances that they'll still be able to securely manage their people and workloads, regardless of location.
In this session, delegates will learn about the necessary security measures that should be taken to ensure that data is secure in the cloud. In addition, you will discover how one particular method, annexing, can be employed to help support your regulatory compliance efforts.
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| You Have a Virtualized Environment, Now What Do you Do? |
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Speaker:
Daniel Weiss
Director, IT Management Advisory Support
Unisys
Track:
Server, Desktop & Storage Virtualization
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Do you want a top down, business-driven, automated data center where efficiencies deliver agility and the ability to innovate? If yes, come to this session to listen to Dan Weiss - Director of IT Management Advisory Services for Unisys Corporation discuss how to mindfully move from virtualization into this agile environment.
Learn how to deal with challenges such as virtual machine sprawl, additional storage requirements, increased systems management requirements, new IT management processes, and specialized technical skills. Learn how to collect empirical data and apply that to making sound business decisions which will aid in guiding the future direction of your infrastructure and IT Services delivery model. And, learn how to analyze both your infrastructure and applications to determine the appropriate steps to take advantage of the new IT Services delivery model – Cloud Computing.
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| You Have a Virtualized Environment, Now What Do you Do? |
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Speaker:
Daniel Weiss
Director, IT Management Advisory Support
Unisys
Track:
Management, Performance, Security, & Compliance
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Do you want a top down, business-driven, automated data center where efficiencies deliver agility and the ability to innovate? If yes, come to this session to listen to Dan Weiss - Director of IT Management Advisory Services for Unisys Corporation - discuss how to mindfully move from virtualization into this agile environment.
Learn how to deal with challenges such as virtual machine sprawl, additional storage requirements, increased systems management requirements, new IT management processes and specialized technical skills. Learn how to collect empirical data and apply that to making sound business decisions which will aid in guiding the future direction of your infrastructure and IT Services delivery model. And, learn how to analyze both your infrastructure and applications to determine the appropriate steps to take advantage of the new IT Services delivery model – Cloud Computing.
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Articles & Feature Stories By Pat Romanski  92% of enterprises are using the public cloud today. As a result, simply being in the cloud is no longer enough to remain competitive. The benefit of reduced costs has normalized while the market forces are demanding more innovation at faster release cycles. Enter Cloud Native! Cloud Native enables a microservices driven architecture. The shift from monolithic to microservices yields a lot of benefits - but if not done right - can quickly outweigh the benefits. The effort required in monitoring, tracing, circuit breakers, routing, load balancing, etc. for thousands of microservices can become overwhelming. This talk will address strategies to run & manage microservices from 0 to 60 using Istio and other tools in a cloud native world. Sep. 17, 2018 04:00 PM EDT | By Zakia Bouachraoui  It's clear: serverless is here to stay. The adoption does come with some needed changes, within both application development and operations. That means serverless is also changing the way we leverage public clouds. Truth-be-told, many enterprise IT shops were so happy to get out of the management of physical servers within a data center that many limitations of the existing public IaaS clouds were forgiven. However, now that we've lived a few years with public IaaS clouds, developers and CloudOps pros are giving a huge thumbs down to the constant monitoring of servers, provisioned or not, that's required to support the workloads. Sep. 11, 2018 04:00 PM EDT | By Liz McMillan  In very short order, the term "Blockchain" has lost an incredible amount of meaning. With too many jumping on the bandwagon, the market is inundated with projects and use cases that miss the real potential of the technology. We have to begin removing Blockchain from the conversation and ground ourselves in the motivating principles of the technology itself; whether it is consumer privacy, data ownership, trust or even participation in the global economy, the world is faced with serious problems that this technology could ultimately help us in at least partially solving. But if we do not unpack what is real and what is not, we can lose sight of the potential. Sep. 11, 2018 03:00 PM EDT | By Pat Romanski  Serveless Architectures brings the ability to independently scale, deploy and heal based on workloads and move away from monolithic designs. From the front-end, middle-ware and back-end layers, serverless workloads potentially have a larger security risk surface due to the many moving pieces. This talk will focus on key areas to consider for securing end to end, from dev to prod. We will discuss patterns for end to end TLS, session management, scaling to absorb attacks and mitigation techniques. Sep. 9, 2018 08:45 AM EDT Reads: 1,525 | By Pat Romanski  The standardization of container runtimes and images has sparked the creation of an almost overwhelming number of new open source projects that build on and otherwise work with these specifications. Of course, there's Kubernetes, which orchestrates and manages collections of containers. It was one of the first and best-known examples of projects that make containers truly useful for production use. However, more recently, the container ecosystem has truly exploded. A service mesh like Istio addresses many of the challenges faced by developers and operators as monolithic applications transition towards a distributed microservice architecture. A tracing tool like Jaeger analyzes what's happening as a transaction moves through a distributed system. Monitoring software like Prometheus captures time-series events for real-time alerting and other uses. Grafeas and Kritis provide security polic... Sep. 8, 2018 09:45 PM EDT Reads: 3,205 | By Liz McMillan  Cloud-enabled transformation has evolved from cost saving measure to business innovation strategy -- one that combines the cloud with cognitive capabilities to drive market disruption. Learn how you can achieve the insight and agility you need to gain a competitive advantage. Industry-acclaimed CTO and cloud expert, Shankar Kalyana presents. Only the most exceptional IBMers are appointed with the rare distinction of IBM Fellow, the highest technical honor in the company. Shankar has also received the prestigious Outstanding Technical Achievement Award three times - an accomplishment befitting only the most innovative thinkers. Shankar Kalyana is among the most respected strategists in the global technology industry. As CTO, with over 32 years of IT experience, Mr. Kalyana has architected, designed, developed, and implemented custom and packaged software solutions across a vast spectrum o... Sep. 7, 2018 07:45 PM EDT Reads: 2,979 | By Zakia Bouachraoui  If a machine can invent, does this mean the end of the patent system as we know it? The patent system, both in the US and Europe, allows companies to protect their inventions and helps foster innovation. However, Artificial Intelligence (AI) could be set to disrupt the patent system as we know it. This talk will examine how AI may change the patent landscape in the years to come. Furthermore, ways in which companies can best protect their AI related inventions will be examined from both a US and European perspective. Sep. 6, 2018 07:30 PM EDT | By Pat Romanski  Atmosera delivers modern cloud services that maximize the advantages of cloud-based infrastructures. Offering private, hybrid, and public cloud solutions, Atmosera works closely with customers to engineer, deploy, and operate cloud architectures with advanced services that deliver strategic business outcomes. Atmosera's expertise simplifies the process of cloud transformation and our 20+ years of experience managing complex IT environments provides our customers with the confidence and trust that they are being taken care of. Sep. 6, 2018 01:00 PM EDT | By Zakia Bouachraoui  The deluge of IoT sensor data collected from connected devices and the powerful AI required to make that data actionable are giving rise to a hybrid ecosystem in which cloud, on-prem and edge processes become interweaved. Attendees will learn how emerging composable infrastructure solutions deliver the adaptive architecture needed to manage this new data reality. Machine learning algorithms can better anticipate data storms and automate resources to support surges, including fully scalable GPU-centric compute for the most data-intensive applications. Hyperconverged systems already in place can be revitalized with vendor-agnostic, PCIe-deployed, disaggregated approach to composable, maximizing the value of previous investments. Sep. 5, 2018 10:00 PM EDT | By Pat Romanski  Chris Matthieu is the President & CEO of Computes, inc. He brings 30 years of experience in development and launches of disruptive technologies to create new market opportunities as well as enhance enterprise product portfolios with emerging technologies. His most recent venture was Octoblu, a cross-protocol Internet of Things (IoT) mesh network platform, acquired by Citrix. Prior to co-founding Octoblu, Chris was founder of Nodester, an open-source Node.JS PaaS which was acquired by AppFog and the founder of Teleku, a communications-as-a-service cloud platform which was acquired by Voxeo. Chris was also the founder of Digital Voice Technologies, the creator of the first VoiceXML-powered voice browser, which was acquired by Ideas & Associates. 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| Cloud Expo - Cloud Looms Large on SYS-CON.TV |
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Cloud Expo 2013 East Opening Keynote by IBM
In this Cloud Expo Keynote, Danny Sabbah, CTO & General Manager, Next Generation Platform, will detail the critical architectural considerations and success factors organizations must internalize to successfully implement, optimize and innovate using next generation architectures. |
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Lisa Larson, Vice President of Enterprise Cloud Solutions of Rackspace Hosting Live From New York City
In the old world of IT, if you didn't have hardware capacity or the budget to buy more, your project was dead in the water. Budget constraints can leave some of the best, most creative and most ingenious innovations on the cutting room floor. It's a true dilemma for developers and innovators – why spend the time creating, when a project could be abandoned in a blink? That was the old world. In the new world of IT, developers rule. They have access to resources they can spin up instantly. A hybrid cloud ignites innovation and empowers developers to focus on what they need. A hybrid cloud blends the best of all worlds, public cloud, private cloud and dedicated servers to fit the needs of developers and offer the ideal environment for each app and workload without the constraints of a one-size-fits-all cloud.
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Keynote: Driving Cloud Innovation: SSDs Change Cloud Storage Paradigm
Cloud is a transformational shift in computing that can have a powerful effect on enterprise IT when designed correctly and used to its full potential. Join Citrix in a discussion that centers on building, connecting and empowering users with cloud services and hear examples of how enterprises are solving real-world business challenges with an architecture and solution purpose-built for the cloud.
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Go Beyond IaaS to Deliver "Anything As a Service"
Many organizations want to expand upon the IaaS foundation to deliver cloud services in all forms—software, mobility, infrastructure and IT. Understanding the strategy, planning process and tools for this transformation will help catalyze changes in the way the business operates and deliver real value. Join us to learn about the new ITaaS model and how to begin the transformation.
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CloudEXPO Stories By Pat Romanski 92% of enterprises are using the public cloud today. As a result, simply being in the cloud is no longer enough to remain competitive. The benefit of reduced costs has normalized while the market forces are demanding more innovation at faster release cycles. Enter Cloud Native! Cloud Native enables a microservices driven architecture. The shift from monolithic to microservices yields a lot of benefits - but if not done right - can quickly outweigh the benefits. The effort required in monitoring, tracing, circuit breakers, routing, load balancing, etc. for thousands of microservices can become overwhelming. This talk will address strategies to run & manage microservices from 0 to 60 using Istio and other tools in a cloud native world. Sep. 17, 2018 04:00 PM EDT | By Zakia Bouachraoui It's clear: serverless is here to stay. The adoption does come with some needed changes, within both application development and operations. That means serverless is also changing the way we leverage public clouds. Truth-be-told, many enterprise IT shops were so happy to get out of the management of physical servers within a data center that many limitations of the existing public IaaS clouds were forgiven. However, now that we've lived a few years with public IaaS clouds, developers and CloudOps pros are giving a huge thumbs down to the constant monitoring of servers, provisioned or not, that's required to support the workloads. Sep. 11, 2018 04:00 PM EDT | By Liz McMillan In very short order, the term "Blockchain" has lost an incredible amount of meaning. With too many jumping on the bandwagon, the market is inundated with projects and use cases that miss the real potential of the technology. We have to begin removing Blockchain from the conversation and ground ourselves in the motivating principles of the technology itself; whether it is consumer privacy, data ownership, trust or even participation in the global economy, the world is faced with serious problems that this technology could ultimately help us in at least partially solving. But if we do not unpack what is real and what is not, we can lose sight of the potential. Sep. 11, 2018 03:00 PM EDT | By Pat Romanski Serveless Architectures brings the ability to independently scale, deploy and heal based on workloads and move away from monolithic designs. From the front-end, middle-ware and back-end layers, serverless workloads potentially have a larger security risk surface due to the many moving pieces. This talk will focus on key areas to consider for securing end to end, from dev to prod. We will discuss patterns for end to end TLS, session management, scaling to absorb attacks and mitigation techniques. Sep. 9, 2018 08:45 AM EDT Reads: 1,525 | By Pat Romanski The standardization of container runtimes and images has sparked the creation of an almost overwhelming number of new open source projects that build on and otherwise work with these specifications. Of course, there's Kubernetes, which orchestrates and manages collections of containers. It was one of the first and best-known examples of projects that make containers truly useful for production use. However, more recently, the container ecosystem has truly exploded. A service mesh like Istio addresses many of the challenges faced by developers and operators as monolithic applications transition towards a distributed microservice architecture. A tracing tool like Jaeger analyzes what's happening as a transaction moves through a distributed system. Monitoring software like Prometheus captures time-series events for real-time alerting and other uses. Grafeas and Kritis provide security polic... Sep. 8, 2018 09:45 PM EDT Reads: 3,205 |
Top Stories for Cloud Computing Expo 2010 East
Darl McBride (pictured), the CEO of SCO and the industry’s favorite pariah,
expects to get fired any minute now.
He expects to get fired because he’s adamantly opposed to winding SCO down,
laying off its people and settling the company’s litigation against Novell
and IBM for chump change, which is the way he sees things going if the
Chapter 11 trustee put in charge of SCO keeps going down the path he appears
to be going down – despite the fact that the trustee told McBride when he
got there that he thinks there is “significant value in the litigation.”
What’s got McBride’s hackles up is that after the favorable 10th Circuit
ruling overturning the summary judgment that Novell owns Unix McBride brought
a major Wall Street investor new to the scene to the table, complete with
term sheet, to invest up to $25 million in SCO, keep it functioning and let
it get to the jury... (more)
Best Recent Articles on Cloud Computing & Big Data Topics  By Esmeralda Swartz As we enter a new year, it is time to look back over the past year and resolve to improve upon it. In 2014, we will see more service providers resolve to add more personalization in enterprise technology. Below are seven predictions about what will drive this trend toward personalization. Reads: 11,635  By Andi Mann IT organizations face a growing demand for faster innovation and new applications to support emerging opportunities in social, mobile, growth markets, Big Data analytics, mergers and acquisitions, strategic partnerships, and more. This is great news because it shows that IT continues to be a key stakeholder in delivering business service innovation. However, it also means that IT must deliver new innovation despite flat budgets, while maintaining existing services that grow more complex every day. Reads: 17,238  By Elizabeth White Cloud computing is transforming the way businesses think about and leverage technology. As a result, the general understanding of cloud computing has come a long way in a short time. However, there are still many misconceptions about what cloud computing is and what it can do for businesses that adopt this game-changing computing model. In this exclusive Q&A with Cloud Expo Conference Chair Jeremy Geelan, Rex Wang, Vice President of Product Marketing at Oracle, discusses and dispels some of the common myths about cloud computing that still exist today.
Reads: 23,839  By Elizabeth White Despite the economy, cloud computing is doing well. Gartner estimates the cloud market will double by 2016 to $206 billion. The time for dabbling in the cloud is over!
The 14th International Cloud Expo, co-located with 5th International Big Data Expo and 3rd International SDN Expo, to be held June 10-12, 2014, at the Javits Center in New York City, N.Y. announces that its Call for Papers is now open. Topics include all aspects of providing or using massively scalable IT-related capabilities as a service using Internet technologies (see suggested topics below).
Cloud computing helps IT cut infrastructure costs while adding new features and services to grow core businesses. Clouds can help grow margins as costs are cut back but service offerings are expanded.
Help plant your flag in the fast-expanding business opportunity that is The Cloud, Big Data and Software-Defined Networking: submit your speaking proposal today! Reads: 12,469  By Jim Kaskade What do you get when you combine Big Data technologies….like Pig and Hive? A flying pig?
No, you get a “Logical Data Warehouse.”
In 2012, Infochimps (now CSC) leveraged its early use of stream processing, NoSQLs, and Hadoop to create a design pattern which combined real-time, ad-hoc, and batch analytics. This concept of combining the best-in-breed Big Data technologies will continue to advance across the industry until the entire legacy (and proprietary) data infrastructure stack will be replaced with a new (and open) one. Reads: 24,525  By Gene Dragotta and Sachin Agarwal While unprecedented technological advances have been made in healthcare in areas such as genomics, digital imaging and Health Information Systems, access to this information has been not been easy for both the healthcare provider and the patient themselves. Regulatory compliance and controls, information lock-in in proprietary Electronic Health Record systems and security concerns have made it difficult to share data across health care providers. Reads: 18,391  By Liz McMillan Cloud Expo, Inc. has announced today that Vanessa Alvarez has been named conference chair of Cloud Expo® 2014.
14th International Cloud Expo will take place on June 10-12, 2014, at the Javits Center in New York City, New York, and 15th International Cloud Expo® will take place on November 4-6, 2014, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA.  By Elizabeth White 12th International Cloud Expo, held on June 10–13, 2013 at the Javits Center in New York City, featured four content-packed days with a rich array of sessions about the business and technical value of cloud computing led by exceptional speakers from every sector of the cloud computing ecosystem.
The Cloud Expo series is the fastest-growing Enterprise IT event in the past 10 years, devoted to every aspect of delivering massively scalable enterprise IT as a service. Reads: 19,941  By Liz McMillan Ulitzer.com announced "the World's 30 most influential Cloud bloggers," who collectively generated more than 24 million Ulitzer page views. Ulitzer's annual "most influential Cloud bloggers" list was announced at Cloud Expo, which drew more delegates than all other Cloud-related events put together worldwide. "The world's 50 most influential Cloud bloggers 2010" list will be announced at the Cloud Expo 2010 East, which will take place April 19-21, 2010, at the Jacob Javitz Convention Center, in New York City, with more than 5,000 expected to attend. Reads: 20,290  By Howard Brown It's a simple fact that the better sales reps understand their prospects' intentions, preferences and pain points during calls, the more business they'll close. Each day, as your prospects interact with websites and social media platforms, their behavioral data profile is expanding. It's now possible to gain unprecedented insight into prospects' content preferences, product needs and budget. We hear a lot about how valuable Big Data is to sales and marketing teams. But data itself is only valuable when it's part of a bigger story, made visible in the right context. Reads: 11,617  By Elizabeth White Cloud Expo, Inc. has announced today that Larry Carvalho has been named Tech Chair of Cloud Expo® 2014.
14th International Cloud Expo will take place on June 10-12, 2014, at the Javits Center in New York City, New York, and 15th International Cloud Expo® will take place on November 4-6, 2014, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA. Reads: 20,347  By Sal Visca Everyone talks about a cloud-first or mobile-first strategy. It's the trend du jour, and for good reason as these innovative technologies have revolutionized an industry and made savvy companies a lot of money. But consider for a minute what's emerging with the Age of Context and the Internet of Things. Devices, interfaces, everyday objects are becoming endowed with computing smarts. This is creating an unprecedented focus on the Application Programming Interface (API) as developers seek to connect these devices and interfaces to create new supporting services and hybrids. I call this trend the move toward an API-first business model and strategy. Reads: 10,494  By Karl Van den Bergh We live in a world that requires us to compete on our differential use of time and information, yet only a fraction of information workers today have access to the analytical capabilities they need to make better decisions. Now, with the advent of a new generation of embedded business intelligence (BI) platforms, cloud developers are disrupting the world of analytics. They are using these new BI platforms to inject more intelligence into the applications business people use every day. As a result, data-driven decision-making is finally on track to become the rule, not the exception. Reads: 8,600 |
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