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 Impact of Cloud Computing on the Network
[ Source: Interop ]
May 2012-
The media is overflowing with discussions of the benefits of adopting cloud computing and enabling technologies such as virtualization. What has been missing from that discussion is an analysis of what has to happen to the network and the management of the network to enable them to support cloud computing. For example, the deployment of vSwitches will potentially result in IT organizations having to manage hundreds of new switches from multiple vendors. In addition, today?...
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.
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 ...
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.