Smarter Decision-Making: Using Big Data to Gain New Insights
[ Source: Cloud Connect ]
February 2012-
Every day, we create 2.5 quintillion bytes of data. In fact, ninety percent of the data in the world today has been created in the last two years alone. Enterprises are awash with data, easily amassing terabytes and even petabytes of information. The challenge is twofold ? how to deal with all of this information to find new insights, and how to integrate those insights into your existing systems and technology. This presentation will delve into why ...
The Seven Myths of Creating and Connecting Cloud Services
[ Source: Cloud Connect ]
February 2012-
You've just launched an new initiative to leverage Cloud as part of your software development environment, for creating cloud-based and traditional applications. Or you're just chosen a public Cloud application like salesforce.com and now face the urgent challenge of connecting it to the rest of your enterprise to provide real-time access to back-office data. Come find out the seven common myths associated with creating Cloud applications, consuming public Cloud applications, and connecting any of ...
End-to-End Cloud Performance and Availability Best Practices
[ Source: Cloud Connect ]
February 2012-
Cloud computing's promise of on-demand service provisioning, economies of scale, and a service-level driven customer experience has intersected with a strategic inflection point in the capital markets. Capital markets' customers require solutions that encompass both virtual and non-virtualized resources, built from the enterprise-class technologies and architectures they've learned they can depend on with their critical data and business operations. Participants across the industry are driving for more aggressive cost reduction, while seeking to enhance the ...
Breaking Down Barriers: Creating a Global Policy Environment to Promote Cloud Adoption
[ Source: Cloud Connect ]
February 2012-
Technology always moves faster than the law, and so it is with the cloud. The new architecture for computing allows companies? headquarters to be located in one country while their "back office" systems are served up from another and their customers are spread all over the world. Efficient allocation of resources is the name of the game. But which country's privacy and security policies apply to which data in which circumstances' And what happens when ...
Building a Pricing Model for Private Clouds
[ Source: Cloud Connect ]
February 2012-
Today there's substantial interest among enterprises in building internal private clouds but few plan on supporting this environment with a chargeback system - despite its criticality for a successful, highly efficient environment. Why aren't companies incorporating chargeback - Not only is it difficult to create a logical price model that can compete with public cloud prices but the concept of charging for IT services is a foreign concept to the enterprise. This presentation will walk ...
The Evil Hack in the Sky - Cloud Security
[ Source: Interop ]
May 2011-
Security is an important concern of cloud implementations- and with good reason. Hackers and other online criminals invented cloud computing years ago by harvesting our machines, creating huge networks to steal private information. The speaker will explain how to stay a step ahead of the bad guys by learning best practices in cloud security. Solutions to the security problem include deploying a line of defense at the virtual machine itself, using bi-directional firewalls on individual ...
How to Think Like a Cloud
[ Source: Interop ]
May 2011-
Cloud computing turns many fundamental IT assumptions on their heads. Machines are free. Data doesn't always need to be right. We assume everything fails. Infrastructure is code. To thrive in the world of utility computing, you need to think cloudy. In this presentation, you'll learn where common wisdom fails, and how to change your mindset when it comes to on-demand architectures.
What SOA And Web 2.0 Mean To The Network
[ Source: Interop ]
May 2009-
In the past couple of years, service-oriented architecture (SOA) and Web services have been overhyped. Currently, Web 2.0 is beginning to suffer the same fate. Because of the hype, it is easy to dismiss these application development architectures as irrelevant. Both of these architectures are only in the early stages of influencing how applications are developed and applications built using either architecture are likely to run poorly and be difficult to manage. The panelists at this ...
State of Business Process Outsourcing
[ Source: Transformation Enablers ]
July 2008-
Saving Costs and Adding Value: Companies increasingly are considering how business process outsourcing can help them not only decrease costs, but also increase profits and help them transform their business.