Virtualization + Management & Automation = Private Cloud?
[ Source: Interop ]
May 2012-
Now that you've implemented server virtualization, the next step to realizing its full potential is to add the management and automation layers to deliver cloud-like services. By optimizing and automating the virtual infrastructure, and adding self-service capabilities, IT can transform itself to run as a private cloud. This session is a primer on how to implement advanced management and automation capabilities such as automated policy-based management, performance and capacity management, automated disaster recovery, automated and ...
The Final Cloud Frontier: Driving Cloud Adoption for Mission Critical Apps
[ Source: Interop ]
May 2012-
In spite of the strides the cloud industry has made in addressing security and integration concerns, large enterprises are still reluctant to adopt the cloud for mission-critical applications. Resistance to cloud adoption is just as much an issue of misaligned incentives and fear of the unknown as it is about legitimate technology concerns. Breaking the impasse on mission-critical apps often can't be done directly and requires proof to be accumulated over a sustained period of ...
Architecting Data Center Networks in the Era of Big Data & Cloud
[ Source: Interop ]
May 2012-
Big Data clusters and SDN enabled clouds invite a new approach to data center networking. This session for data center architects will explore the transition from traditional scale-up chassis based Layer 2 centric networking, to the next generation of scale-out Layer 3 CLOS based fabrics of fixed switches.
Creating Functional Teams
[ Source: Interop ]
May 2011-
As data centers converge, the lines of responsibility for storage, server, application and network teams are blurring. The politics can get messy, but bring these specialists together right and you?ll gain significant benefits by breaking down silos and integrating key roles in ways that allow you to be incredibly flexible and responsive to the business. Our Analytics experts will discuss practical ways to quell turf wars and build truly converged teams.
The Cloud Ready Data Center
[ Source: Interop ]
May 2011-
Successful consolidation in the data center means introducing a high performance two-layer L2 switching mesh that is resilient, low latency, low power and follows an application fluent approach with automated controls for high quality application delivery. Support for future convergence of data and storage networks with loss-less Ethernets and FCoE is also a must. Hear about how this can be achieved while including a true services-based architecture enabling seamless private and public cloud application delivery ...
Virtualization Basics: Terms Trends and Technologies
[ Source: Interop ]
May 2011-
Feeling bewildered by the slew of new acronyms, technologies and concepts describing virtualization? Need a high-level overview of what different types of virtualization mean to you and your business? Do you want to get your arms around server virtualization, available hypervisors and tools, virtual desktops and where all the various virtualization vendors fit?
Website Usability and the Customer Experience
[ Source: Gartner Customer 360 Summit ]
January 2011-
During this presentation Gartner analyst Ray Valdes will discuss the user experience and what business
value it can provide, how organizations should choose user interface technologies to deliver a better user experience as well as the best practices and methodologies that organizations should adopt to gain an effective user experience.
Customer-Centric Web: Critical Success Factors for Your Customer Strategies
[ Source: Gartner Portals, Content & Collaboration Summit 2011 ]
January 2011-
In this presentation with synchronized audio and PowerPoint, Gartner analysts David Mitchell Smith and Gene Phifer discuss how the customer-centric website will evolve -- pulling together social software, high interactivity and real-time customer portfolio analysis, and connecting to community and enterprise resources to build loyal customers.
Application Performance Management
[ Source: Interop ]
May 2009-
Application performance management means different things to different people, and IT organizations are judged both on end users’ productivity as well as service delivery. NetQoS’s Matt Sherod discusses the business realities of application performance management, including how to actually implement it. The importance of getting the right information to the right person at the right time is stressed, through the use of native instrumentation and automated analytics.
The Future Of App Delivery
[ Source: Interop ]
May 2009-
A couple of years ago, it was common to equate application delivery to network and application optimization. However, ensuring successful application delivery requires that IT organizations do more than just implement optimization techniques. It also involves planning, management, and control that extends to a wide range of IT disciplines, not just networks. As Akamai’s Neil Cohen illustrates, using the flexibility and accessibility of cloud computing puts mission-critical applications only one hop away from 90 percent ...