2011 Speaker List

Hear luminaries from all over the NoSql arena discuss the pros and cons of their particular products and areas of expertise.

Hear luminaries from all over the NoSql arena discuss the pros and cons of their particular products and areas of expertise.

B2C commerce is easy. Why can’t B2B commerce be just as easy? Find out how CIOs at large and small companies are collaborating with external trading partners, customers, and internal stakeholders to buy, sell, and manage cash in the cloud, more efficiently and effectively than ever before. Plus gain insights from a preview of CIO Magazine’s new Cloud Application Survey including how companies are leveraging the cloud with applications such as Finance, Procurement, Demand Generation and Order Management.

Cloud provides the appearance of unlimited resources and opens new possibilities for the delivery of services within the enterprise and from service providers to fixed and mobile users. Cisco's approach to the cloud opportunity includes helping to build out the data centers powering the cloud as well as applying capabilities in the network to enable intelligent connectivity within and beyond the data center. Join us to explore how to enable distinctive functionality across a secure, trusted, and ubiquitous platform.

Hear industry visionaries discuss the growth and future cloud computing.

This workshop will feature vendors and end users discussing important issues around performance in on-demand environments.

Topics include:

• The Challenge of Cloud Performance
• Architectures for High-Performance Utility Computing
• Testing and Breaking Clouds
• How Ready is the Cloud? A look at real-world results
• The State of Cloud SLAs
• Instrumenting Applications When Access Goes Away
• Putting it all Together: When Big Metrics Mean Big Data
• Tools and Techniques for Performance Optimization
• What Users Want - What Vendors Have

For more information click here.

An exploration of cyber risk patterns to understand the financial implications of using the cloud or providing one. While Cloud Computing offers shared platforms for low cost and economies of scale, the business models also present the reality of shared risk and responsibility. This presentation leverages financial and threat analytics of cyber events over the last 6 years and provides insights into where Cyber Risk has emerged…and what the implications of shared risk are for the future of cloud computing.

Is a cloud risk transfer market or insurance market is necessary, too late, or too soon? SLA slow downs, shared risk debates and liability questions have become more important negotiations than “just security.” This panel will debate the myths of cloud risk and the realities of cloud liability, and challenge the common Silicon Valley perspective that “clouds don’t break.” The “cost to fail” should clouds become major concentrations of data and availability will also be explored.

Cloud vendors claim great performance from their platforms. But, once we deploy our applications on these platforms, how can we properly police them and make sure performance SLAs are being met? What are the right metrics and the right methodologies to measure them? In this panel, experts from the field of performance measurement will discuss what they've learned from measuring the performance of cloud platforms, what we should be measuring in our cloud applications, and the right methodologies for making those measurements.

This workshop will feature vendors and end users discussing important issues around performance in on-demand environments.

Topics include:

• The Challenge of Cloud Performance
• Architectures for High-Performance Utility Computing
• Testing and Breaking Clouds
• How Ready is the Cloud? A look at real-world results
• The State of Cloud SLAs
• Instrumenting Applications When Access Goes Away
• Putting it all Together: When Big Metrics Mean Big Data
• Tools and Techniques for Performance Optimization
• What Users Want - What Vendors Have

For more information click here.

For more information, click here.

Once we understand what cloud performance actually means, we need to understand how it applies to real world situations and real applications. In this panel, we'll bring cloud providers and cloud users together for a discussion that will include what vendors are doing about maintaining their offering's performance, what developers are learning as they deploy applications to the cloud, and if any gaps exist between the two that we should be aware of. We'll focus on key takeaways and lessons that can help new and existing application deployments in the cloud.

Where would the web be without Linux, Apache, MySQL and the pervasive PHP, Python and Perl? The Berkley Internet Domain Name (BIND) gave us the ability to easily transcribe IP addresses to human-readable names. Sendmail allowed us to send email from system to system instantaneously. These technologies helped define the Internet but their model of transparent free and open source development allowed them to become pervasive. Just as with the web, open source is one of the core foundations of cloud computing—achieving an unprecedented level of scale at a bare-bones cost that had never been seen in the history of computing. The first movers in cloud computing services found the open source software model most appealing, but to businesses today the attraction of open source is about the ability to develop a more flexible infrastructure and avoid vendor lock-in that often results from proprietary systems. This panel of leading cloud computing and open source practitioners will share their experiences on how they are helping their customers accelerate their entry into the cloud computing market as well as offer insight into how and where open source will continue to shape the cloud over the next few years.

Learn from this panel of experts as they review and discuss the optimal ways to make informed decisions and plot the roadmap for business-justified cloud adoption. The panel will cover differences in benefits between private and public solutions, how early adopters are quantifying benefits of the cloud, and how ROI and financials drive private or public cloud choices.

Hear industry visionaries discuss the growth and future cloud computing.

More than one description of “private cloud computing” has dismissed it as little more than “virtualization on demand.” This begs the question “Is there a difference between the virtualization on demand and private cloud computing?” And if there is, does it matter as long as it’s providing benefit to IT and business stakeholders? In this session we will debate the differences and whether or not such differences (if they do indeed exist) have an impact on the benefits of implementing such architectures in the enterprise environment.

There are virtually no large-scale IT projects that come off without a hitch - and private cloud computing is unlikely to be the first. This session will examine challenges encountered during private cloud computing initiatives and their solutions. These challenges will be presented in rapid-fire discussion of what works and what doesn't, including the perspectives of those who've lived it. The panel will further explore these barriers by challenging each other's positions, offering practical insights reflecting how organizations have addressed their implementation issues to successfully (or unsuccessfully) launch a private cloud.

A variety of options are available for building a private cloud that include both commercial and open source options. While many of the arguments for and against both style of solutions remain fairly standard (flexibility versus lock-in, price versus support) cloud computing brings new arguments to the table that may or may not tip the balance toward one approach rather than another for organizations. This session will bring those arguments to the table in a panel debate with proponents of open source squaring off against commercial vendors. Panelists will present the strengths and weaknesses of each approach, pushing each other to defend their positions and offering counter points that challenge the audience to reconsider their own biases and assumptions.

With many CIOs and IT practitioners continuing to express concern regarding control and security in public cloud computing models, is some sort of “hybrid” model the final stop on the cloud computing journey or is it merely a transitory architecture; a pit stop on the road to a fully public cloud computing implementation? Or is it the case that the lack of clarity surrounding the definition of “hybrid” causing the perception that hybrid clouds are being implemented in the first place? This session will examine the definition of “hybrid” cloud and whether or not they are valid as target architectures or merely a transition toward a fully public cloud computing model.

Hear luminaries from all over the NoSql arena discuss the pros and cons of their particular products and areas of expertise.

Cloud computing isn't just a North American phenomenon. Around the world, it's upturning innovation and giving regulators new headaches. It's forcing discussions about data privacy, intellectual property, and even ethics. This panel will bring together IT leaders and regulators from several countries for a look at the similarities and differences in cloud computing worldwide.

More than one description of “private cloud computing” has dismissed it as little more than “virtualization on demand.” This begs the question “Is there a difference between the virtualization on demand and private cloud computing?” And if there is, does it matter as long as it’s providing benefit to IT and business stakeholders? In this session we will debate the differences and whether or not such differences (if they do indeed exist) have an impact on the benefits of implementing such architectures in the enterprise environment.

A variety of options are available for building a private cloud that include both commercial and open source options. While many of the arguments for and against both style of solutions remain fairly standard (flexibility versus lock-in, price versus support) cloud computing brings new arguments to the table that may or may not tip the balance toward one approach rather than another for organizations. This session will bring those arguments to the table in a panel debate with proponents of open source squaring off against commercial vendors. Panelists will present the strengths and weaknesses of each approach, pushing each other to defend their positions and offering counter points that challenge the audience to reconsider their own biases and assumptions.

There are virtually no large-scale IT projects that come off without a hitch - and private cloud computing is unlikely to be the first. This session will examine challenges encountered during private cloud computing initiatives and their solutions. These challenges will be presented in rapid-fire discussion of what works and what doesn't, including the perspectives of those who've lived it. The panel will further explore these barriers by challenging each other's positions, offering practical insights reflecting how organizations have addressed their implementation issues to successfully (or unsuccessfully) launch a private cloud.

In today’s world of changing priorities, technologies and strategies, businesses are continuously facing the need to innovate and drive efficiencies into their business. As the computing paradigm shifts to using just in time resources, how does your organization leverage the ‘Cloud’ to reduce the cost of technical expenditures while taking products to market faster? Before you decide to leverage the ‘Cloud’ you need to answer the following questions: 1) is my company organizationally and technically prepared to move to the cloud? 2) which cloud services in the marketplace should I leverage and 3) how do I get there from here? Join us for this discussion as VMC Consulting’s Stephen Carn and Eric Mead will not only address these questions but will also demonstrate how you can leverage Cloud Brokerage Services when assessing, migrating and managing technologies in the cloud, and how to make the cloud work for your business.

Hear industry visionaries discuss the growth and future cloud computing.

This workshop will feature vendors and end users discussing important issues around performance in on-demand environments.

Topics include:

• The Challenge of Cloud Performance
• Architectures for High-Performance Utility Computing
• Testing and Breaking Clouds
• How Ready is the Cloud? A look at real-world results
• The State of Cloud SLAs
• Instrumenting Applications When Access Goes Away
• Putting it all Together: When Big Metrics Mean Big Data
• Tools and Techniques for Performance Optimization
• What Users Want - What Vendors Have

For more information click here.

Traditional IT services are being transformed as they adapt and scale to meet the evolving needs of information workers and task workers. Today, work can be conducted at home, on smartphones, via traditional office settings or at remote locations. Emerging IT innovations are allowing us to "connect, collaborate, compute and communicate in a virtualized workplace" through the web, via laptop/desktops, and via the Cloud. The traditional office is undergoing a tectonic shift. As the Workplace of the Future takes hold, new ways to deliver and host technologies and manage business processes are taking shape that dramatically impact how business is conducted. And this will change how IT is consumed, deployed, and managed. IT is the single biggest threat to the competitiveness of the business, therefore it must be a C Level priority and concern. This session will introduce the Workplace of the Future, and IBM's point of view for how it can help clients prepare and address this strategic opportunity.

Hear industry visionaries discuss the growth and future cloud computing.

Windows Azure is a platform that can handle a range of languages and applications, including Java. Azure offers a set of services such as NoSQL table storage, blob storage, queues, relational databases, and access controls, letting developers build their core application and leaving the platform to worry about underlying services. In this session, David Chou will lift the covers on Azure, showing how to build a scalable application within a traditional JVM while inheriting the performance, resiliency, and elasticity that clouds promise.

In many ways, Big Data is what clouds were made for. Computing problems that are beyond the grasp of a single computer—no matter how huge—are easy for elastic platforms to handle. In this session, big data processing pioneer Colin Clark will discuss how to discover hidden signals and new knowledge within in huge streams of realtime data, applying event processing design patterns to events in real time.

As potential regulation in the US and Europe moves deeper into issues of data privacy and nation al security, this session from the President of the Internet Security Alliance provides a perspective of “what Washington thinks” about the future of Cloud Computing, and what role government should play in its development and use.

Is a cloud risk transfer market or insurance market is necessary, too late, or too soon? SLA slow downs, shared risk debates and liability questions have become more important negotiations than “just security.” This panel will debate the myths of cloud risk and the realities of cloud liability, and challenge the common Silicon Valley perspective that “clouds don’t break.” The “cost to fail” should clouds become major concentrations of data and availability will also be explored.

This workshop will feature vendors and end users discussing important issues around performance in on-demand environments.

Topics include:

• The Challenge of Cloud Performance
• Architectures for High-Performance Utility Computing
• Testing and Breaking Clouds
• How Ready is the Cloud? A look at real-world results
• The State of Cloud SLAs
• Instrumenting Applications When Access Goes Away
• Putting it all Together: When Big Metrics Mean Big Data
• Tools and Techniques for Performance Optimization
• What Users Want - What Vendors Have

For more information click here.

With many CIOs and IT practitioners continuing to express concern regarding control and security in public cloud computing models, is some sort of “hybrid” model the final stop on the cloud computing journey or is it merely a transitory architecture; a pit stop on the road to a fully public cloud computing implementation? Or is it the case that the lack of clarity surrounding the definition of “hybrid” causing the perception that hybrid clouds are being implemented in the first place? This session will examine the definition of “hybrid” cloud and whether or not they are valid as target architectures or merely a transition toward a fully public cloud computing model.

For more information, click here.

The cloud lets software be elastic and resilient. But you don't get that for free: you have to architect it properly. Different designs are best for large data, high reliability, fast performance, and so on. In this session, Derek Collison will offer a clear view of different design patterns that are suited for specific operating characteristics and application types.

We're hesitant about clouds. Enterprises have rolled out cloudy technology, but because they crave the reassuring hum of in-house machines, they aren't embracing the utility model of computing. Virtual Machines are a comfortable crutch, giving us a familiar unit of measure that's easy to understand. But this hesitation won't last. To truly go from computers to computing, we have to stop looking under the covers. True utility computing, charged by the workload and independent of individual components, is a scary -- but inevitable -- part of the cloud computing journey. In this session, we'll look at what this transition means, and what we'll lose along the way.

This workshop will feature vendors and end users discussing important issues around performance in on-demand environments.

Topics include:

• The Challenge of Cloud Performance
• Architectures for High-Performance Utility Computing
• Testing and Breaking Clouds
• How Ready is the Cloud? A look at real-world results
• The State of Cloud SLAs
• Instrumenting Applications When Access Goes Away
• Putting it all Together: When Big Metrics Mean Big Data
• Tools and Techniques for Performance Optimization
• What Users Want - What Vendors Have

For more information click here.

Need to get up to cloud speed in a hurry? This fast-paced, densely packed workshop will give you the foundation you need to understand where utility computing is headed. Join Bitcurrent analyst and Cloud Connect content chair Alistair Croll for a look at the fundamentals of on-demand infrastructure.

Cloud Computing is a major shift in IT. It's similar to the switch from circuit- to packet-based networking, or from procedural to object-oriented programming, or from mainframes to client-server models. As with those shifts, some IT professionals will thrive -- and others will become obsolete. Clouds rely on a new set of fundamentals: horizontal scaling, sharding, eventually consistent data systems, virtualization, and more. In this two-hour workshop, we'll cover these fundamentals and understand how they combine to give us today's cloud offerings.

Attendees will learn:

• The taxonomy of clouds, and practical ways to distinguish infrastructure, platform, and software-as-a-service models
• How to think about cloud adoption and plan a migration
• The design-for-failure model of cloud architectures
• Post-SQL storage and how it changes what can be deployed where
• Altering your monitoring and management strategy to include utility computing offerings
• Horizontal scaling and elasticity
• What changes when the machines are essentially free

This workshop is aimed at IT professionals who want a solid understanding of cloud issues and design primitives, but it's equally well suited to industry insiders, product managers, and technologists who want to see how to better explain cloud technology to their customers and peers.

  Cloud Connect Keynotes

Location: Theater
Tuesday, March 8, 2011, 9:00 AM-11:00 AM

Hear industry visionaries discuss the growth and future cloud computing.

  Cloud Connect Keynotes

Location: Theater
Wednesday, March 9, 2011, 9:00 AM-11:00 AM

Hear industry visionaries discuss the growth and future cloud computing.

Where would the web be without Linux, Apache, MySQL and the pervasive PHP, Python and Perl? The Berkley Internet Domain Name (BIND) gave us the ability to easily transcribe IP addresses to human-readable names. Sendmail allowed us to send email from system to system instantaneously. These technologies helped define the Internet but their model of transparent free and open source development allowed them to become pervasive. Just as with the web, open source is one of the core foundations of cloud computing—achieving an unprecedented level of scale at a bare-bones cost that had never been seen in the history of computing. The first movers in cloud computing services found the open source software model most appealing, but to businesses today the attraction of open source is about the ability to develop a more flexible infrastructure and avoid vendor lock-in that often results from proprietary systems. This panel of leading cloud computing and open source practitioners will share their experiences on how they are helping their customers accelerate their entry into the cloud computing market as well as offer insight into how and where open source will continue to shape the cloud over the next few years.

Storage matters, and despite the cost of storage coming down all the time operating at scale means that how you store your data and what data you store is becoming increasingly important. With a focus on NoSQL and cloud storage this workshop dives into the history of web architectures, how they've evolved, and where they are going to. Finally the workshop will dive into Amazon S3, Redis, & Basho's Riak datastore.

For more information, click here.

Once we understand what cloud performance actually means, we need to understand how it applies to real world situations and real applications. In this panel, we'll bring cloud providers and cloud users together for a discussion that will include what vendors are doing about maintaining their offering's performance, what developers are learning as they deploy applications to the cloud, and if any gaps exist between the two that we should be aware of. We'll focus on key takeaways and lessons that can help new and existing application deployments in the cloud.

This session will be an introduction to big data in the cloud. Using reddit.com's learnings and failures as real world examples, you will learn all about running a large site and keeping your data in the cloud.

This lively session will feature a panel of DevOps experts discussing past victories, horror stories, and the future of DevOps. Come join in the discussion with any DevOps related questions or comments.

The panel session will tackle the topic of Private vs. Public Clouds. The panelists will provide insights into the differing challenges of securely deploying and managing applications and workloads into these cloud architectures as well as the unique security obstacles associated with migrating to, from and across Private and Public Clouds. We will take questions from the audience and will provide opinions and guidance for addressing the risks and stumbling blocks.

Hear luminaries from all over the NoSql arena discuss the pros and cons of their particular products and areas of expertise.

There are virtually no large-scale IT projects that come off without a hitch - and private cloud computing is unlikely to be the first. This session will examine challenges encountered during private cloud computing initiatives and their solutions. These challenges will be presented in rapid-fire discussion of what works and what doesn't, including the perspectives of those who've lived it. The panel will further explore these barriers by challenging each other's positions, offering practical insights reflecting how organizations have addressed their implementation issues to successfully (or unsuccessfully) launch a private cloud.

Cloud computing isn't just a North American phenomenon. Around the world, it's upturning innovation and giving regulators new headaches. It's forcing discussions about data privacy, intellectual property, and even ethics. This panel will bring together IT leaders and regulators from several countries for a look at the similarities and differences in cloud computing worldwide.

Hear from the McKinsey's lead cloud partner discuss where the economic opportunity for enterprises can really be found and how tech firms can go after it.

This workshop will feature vendors and end users discussing important issues around performance in on-demand environments.

Topics include:

• The Challenge of Cloud Performance
• Architectures for High-Performance Utility Computing
• Testing and Breaking Clouds
• How Ready is the Cloud? A look at real-world results
• The State of Cloud SLAs
• Instrumenting Applications When Access Goes Away
• Putting it all Together: When Big Metrics Mean Big Data
• Tools and Techniques for Performance Optimization
• What Users Want - What Vendors Have

For more information click here.

This workshop will feature vendors and end users discussing important issues around performance in on-demand environments.

Topics include:

• The Challenge of Cloud Performance
• Architectures for High-Performance Utility Computing
• Testing and Breaking Clouds
• How Ready is the Cloud? A look at real-world results
• The State of Cloud SLAs
• Instrumenting Applications When Access Goes Away
• Putting it all Together: When Big Metrics Mean Big Data
• Tools and Techniques for Performance Optimization
• What Users Want - What Vendors Have

For more information click here.

Cloud application security goes beyond simplistic secure VPN tunnel to the cloud. Complex cloud usage models cannot be addressed with existing IdM technologies and expose the client & browser as the weakest links. In order to provide improved control, visibility and compliance requires a new comprehensive solution that addresses multiple layers of security connecting clients, strong auth, SSO, and cloud apps. Preview new technology from Intel that addresses these problems.

This workshop will feature vendors and end users discussing important issues around performance in on-demand environments.

Topics include:

• The Challenge of Cloud Performance
• Architectures for High-Performance Utility Computing
• Testing and Breaking Clouds
• How Ready is the Cloud? A look at real-world results
• The State of Cloud SLAs
• Instrumenting Applications When Access Goes Away
• Putting it all Together: When Big Metrics Mean Big Data
• Tools and Techniques for Performance Optimization
• What Users Want - What Vendors Have

For more information click here.

For more information, click here.

This workshop will feature vendors and end users discussing important issues around performance in on-demand environments.

Topics include:

• The Challenge of Cloud Performance
• Architectures for High-Performance Utility Computing
• Testing and Breaking Clouds
• How Ready is the Cloud? A look at real-world results
• The State of Cloud SLAs
• Instrumenting Applications When Access Goes Away
• Putting it all Together: When Big Metrics Mean Big Data
• Tools and Techniques for Performance Optimization
• What Users Want - What Vendors Have

For more information click here.

This one day tutorial focuses on IT operations and automation in an environment that uses Cloud Computing. Coverage of standard IT operational disciplines, such as, monitoring, configuration management, orchestration and continuos delivery will be discussed. Some of the industry leading specialists in the newly named "Devops" field will be panel members. If you're interested in hearing how some experts manage their cloudy world after they are finished with provisioning please join us for this one day session.

In this session, the co-author of the recent Microsoft whitepaper “The Economics of the Cloud,” reviews his in-depth analysis leading to the conclusion that public clouds offer dramatic cost savings over internal data centers, due to economies of scale, statistical multiplexing effects, and multi-tenancy.

If cloud computing is the most talked about topic in IT, security in the cloud is a close second. As enterprises consider Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) as part of their overall IT strategy, questions around compliance and security in the cloud are of critical importance as are reliability and availability. Join this session to learn about security and compliance within IaaS and what to look for in a cloud provider to ensure that your enterprise requirements are met.

For more information, click here.

A variety of options are available for building a private cloud that include both commercial and open source options. While many of the arguments for and against both style of solutions remain fairly standard (flexibility versus lock-in, price versus support) cloud computing brings new arguments to the table that may or may not tip the balance toward one approach rather than another for organizations. This session will bring those arguments to the table in a panel debate with proponents of open source squaring off against commercial vendors. Panelists will present the strengths and weaknesses of each approach, pushing each other to defend their positions and offering counter points that challenge the audience to reconsider their own biases and assumptions.

Cloud Computing promises many things. Depending upon who you listen to, moving your applications and information to "The Cloud" will provide levels of security, when compared to "legacy enterprise IT," that will either be vastly superior or apocalyptic.There is such a conflation of deployment and delivery models that it's incredibly difficult to ascertain where the lines of responsibility and accountability for the security (and compliance) are drawn between the customer, provider and consumer. We're going to fix that in this workshop.

Storage matters, and despite the cost of storage coming down all the time operating at scale means that how you store your data and what data you store is becoming increasingly important. With a focus on NoSQL and cloud storage this workshop dives into the history of web architectures, how they've evolved, and where they are going to. Finally the workshop will dive into Amazon S3, Redis, & Basho's Riak datastore.

This lively session will feature a panel of DevOps experts discussing past victories, horror stories, and the future of DevOps. Come join in the discussion with any DevOps related questions or comments.

In this session, you learn effective strategies for automating the core DevOps gap -- getting releases from code check-in in Development through to where it is running in Production Operations. While noting tools for your further research, speakers will focus on tool independent processes and best practices you can bring to your own organization.

The cloud is a once-in-a-decade disruption that completely changes the cost dynamics of disaster recovery. Cloud economics means everyone can now afford a disaster recovery center and pay for disaster recovery only when they need it. This presentation will look at high-availability and disaster recovery strategies that exploit the cloud and cloud economics. Topics covered will include:

• The evolution to cloud computing
• Why use cloud computing
• Why use cloud computing for disaster recovery
• Cloud backup, snapshot and disaster recovery strategies
• A framework for a cloud disaster recovery

Cloud vendors claim great performance from their platforms. But, once we deploy our applications on these platforms, how can we properly police them and make sure performance SLAs are being met? What are the right metrics and the right methodologies to measure them? In this panel, experts from the field of performance measurement will discuss what they've learned from measuring the performance of cloud platforms, what we should be measuring in our cloud applications, and the right methodologies for making those measurements.

Cloud application security goes beyond simplistic secure VPN tunnel to the cloud. Complex cloud usage models cannot be addressed with existing IdM technologies and expose the client & browser as the weakest links. In order to provide improved control, visibility and compliance requires a new comprehensive solution that addresses multiple layers of security connecting clients, strong auth, SSO, and cloud apps. Preview new technology from Intel that addresses these problems.

For more information, click here.

With many CIOs and IT practitioners continuing to express concern regarding control and security in public cloud computing models, is some sort of “hybrid” model the final stop on the cloud computing journey or is it merely a transitory architecture; a pit stop on the road to a fully public cloud computing implementation? Or is it the case that the lack of clarity surrounding the definition of “hybrid” causing the perception that hybrid clouds are being implemented in the first place? This session will examine the definition of “hybrid” cloud and whether or not they are valid as target architectures or merely a transition toward a fully public cloud computing model.

This workshop will feature vendors and end users discussing important issues around performance in on-demand environments.

Topics include:

• The Challenge of Cloud Performance
• Architectures for High-Performance Utility Computing
• Testing and Breaking Clouds
• How Ready is the Cloud? A look at real-world results
• The State of Cloud SLAs
• Instrumenting Applications When Access Goes Away
• Putting it all Together: When Big Metrics Mean Big Data
• Tools and Techniques for Performance Optimization
• What Users Want - What Vendors Have

For more information click here.

Hear industry visionaries discuss the growth and future cloud computing.

For more information, click here.

Once we understand what cloud performance actually means, we need to understand how it applies to real world situations and real applications. In this panel, we'll bring cloud providers and cloud users together for a discussion that will include what vendors are doing about maintaining their offering's performance, what developers are learning as they deploy applications to the cloud, and if any gaps exist between the two that we should be aware of. We'll focus on key takeaways and lessons that can help new and existing application deployments in the cloud.

This workshop will feature vendors and end users discussing important issues around performance in on-demand environments.

Topics include:

• The Challenge of Cloud Performance
• Architectures for High-Performance Utility Computing
• Testing and Breaking Clouds
• How Ready is the Cloud? A look at real-world results
• The State of Cloud SLAs
• Instrumenting Applications When Access Goes Away
• Putting it all Together: When Big Metrics Mean Big Data
• Tools and Techniques for Performance Optimization
• What Users Want - What Vendors Have

For more information click here.

Where would the web be without Linux, Apache, MySQL and the pervasive PHP, Python and Perl? The Berkley Internet Domain Name (BIND) gave us the ability to easily transcribe IP addresses to human-readable names. Sendmail allowed us to send email from system to system instantaneously. These technologies helped define the Internet but their model of transparent free and open source development allowed them to become pervasive. Just as with the web, open source is one of the core foundations of cloud computing—achieving an unprecedented level of scale at a bare-bones cost that had never been seen in the history of computing. The first movers in cloud computing services found the open source software model most appealing, but to businesses today the attraction of open source is about the ability to develop a more flexible infrastructure and avoid vendor lock-in that often results from proprietary systems. This panel of leading cloud computing and open source practitioners will share their experiences on how they are helping their customers accelerate their entry into the cloud computing market as well as offer insight into how and where open source will continue to shape the cloud over the next few years.

For more information, click here.

Hear luminaries from all over the NoSql arena discuss the pros and cons of their particular products and areas of expertise.

If cloud computing is the most talked about topic in IT, security in the cloud is a close second. As enterprises consider Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) as part of their overall IT strategy, questions around compliance and security in the cloud are of critical importance as are reliability and availability. Join this session to learn about security and compliance within IaaS and what to look for in a cloud provider to ensure that your enterprise requirements are met.

For more information, click here.

This workshop will feature vendors and end users discussing important issues around performance in on-demand environments.

Topics include:

• The Challenge of Cloud Performance
• Architectures for High-Performance Utility Computing
• Testing and Breaking Clouds
• How Ready is the Cloud? A look at real-world results
• The State of Cloud SLAs
• Instrumenting Applications When Access Goes Away
• Putting it all Together: When Big Metrics Mean Big Data
• Tools and Techniques for Performance Optimization
• What Users Want - What Vendors Have

For more information click here.

Is a cloud risk transfer market or insurance market is necessary, too late, or too soon? SLA slow downs, shared risk debates and liability questions have become more important negotiations than “just security.” This panel will debate the myths of cloud risk and the realities of cloud liability, and challenge the common Silicon Valley perspective that “clouds don’t break.” The “cost to fail” should clouds become major concentrations of data and availability will also be explored.

This workshop will feature vendors and end users discussing important issues around performance in on-demand environments.

Topics include:

• The Challenge of Cloud Performance
• Architectures for High-Performance Utility Computing
• Testing and Breaking Clouds
• How Ready is the Cloud? A look at real-world results
• The State of Cloud SLAs
• Instrumenting Applications When Access Goes Away
• Putting it all Together: When Big Metrics Mean Big Data
• Tools and Techniques for Performance Optimization
• What Users Want - What Vendors Have

For more information click here.

It is one thing to be concerned about cloud computing security due to loss of control and quite another to really assess the impact on risk compared to traditional IT environments. Organizations must consider how threats change in the cloud. This session will assess the architectural differences of the cloud and discuss how the changes impact threats.

The panel session will tackle the topic of Private vs. Public Clouds. The panelists will provide insights into the differing challenges of securely deploying and managing applications and workloads into these cloud architectures as well as the unique security obstacles associated with migrating to, from and across Private and Public Clouds. We will take questions from the audience and will provide opinions and guidance for addressing the risks and stumbling blocks.

This workshop will feature vendors and end users discussing important issues around performance in on-demand environments.

Topics include:

• The Challenge of Cloud Performance
• Architectures for High-Performance Utility Computing
• Testing and Breaking Clouds
• How Ready is the Cloud? A look at real-world results
• The State of Cloud SLAs
• Instrumenting Applications When Access Goes Away
• Putting it all Together: When Big Metrics Mean Big Data
• Tools and Techniques for Performance Optimization
• What Users Want - What Vendors Have

For more information click here.

More than one description of “private cloud computing” has dismissed it as little more than “virtualization on demand.” This begs the question “Is there a difference between the virtualization on demand and private cloud computing?” And if there is, does it matter as long as it’s providing benefit to IT and business stakeholders? In this session we will debate the differences and whether or not such differences (if they do indeed exist) have an impact on the benefits of implementing such architectures in the enterprise environment.

"The Chaos Monkey’s job is to randomly kill instances and services within [Netflix's] architecture". Built to simulate a commodity public cloud in enterprise datacenters, the chaos monkey and other animals shed light on the fundamental differences in architecture, approach and philosophy between commodity and enterprise public clouds. If your job is to take existing applications to the cloud in an evolutionary way, this is the session for you.

Hear industry visionaries discuss the growth and future cloud computing.

This workshop will feature vendors and end users discussing important issues around performance in on-demand environments.

Topics include:

• The Challenge of Cloud Performance
• Architectures for High-Performance Utility Computing
• Testing and Breaking Clouds
• How Ready is the Cloud? A look at real-world results
• The State of Cloud SLAs
• Instrumenting Applications When Access Goes Away
• Putting it all Together: When Big Metrics Mean Big Data
• Tools and Techniques for Performance Optimization
• What Users Want - What Vendors Have

For more information click here.

This workshop will feature vendors and end users discussing important issues around performance in on-demand environments.

Topics include:

• The Challenge of Cloud Performance
• Architectures for High-Performance Utility Computing
• Testing and Breaking Clouds
• How Ready is the Cloud? A look at real-world results
• The State of Cloud SLAs
• Instrumenting Applications When Access Goes Away
• Putting it all Together: When Big Metrics Mean Big Data
• Tools and Techniques for Performance Optimization
• What Users Want - What Vendors Have

For more information click here.

Once we understand what cloud performance actually means, we need to understand how it applies to real world situations and real applications. In this panel, we'll bring cloud providers and cloud users together for a discussion that will include what vendors are doing about maintaining their offering's performance, what developers are learning as they deploy applications to the cloud, and if any gaps exist between the two that we should be aware of. We'll focus on key takeaways and lessons that can help new and existing application deployments in the cloud.

This session will provide a practical guide to evaluating enterprise clouds and cloud providers. Go beyond the marketing hype, the brands and the buzzwords, and learn how differences in architecture, infrastructure, security and design can have significant impact on your ability to take advantage of the cost-effectiveness and agility of infrastructure-as-a-service without compromise to availability, performance and compliance. Also, hear examples of how leading enterprises and government agencies are taking advantage of the power and flexibility offered by enterprise cloud computing architecture.

For more information, click here.

Once we understand what cloud performance actually means, we need to understand how it applies to real world situations and real applications. In this panel, we'll bring cloud providers and cloud users together for a discussion that will include what vendors are doing about maintaining their offering's performance, what developers are learning as they deploy applications to the cloud, and if any gaps exist between the two that we should be aware of. We'll focus on key takeaways and lessons that can help new and existing application deployments in the cloud.

Hear industry visionaries discuss the growth and future cloud computing.

There are virtually no large-scale IT projects that come off without a hitch - and private cloud computing is unlikely to be the first. This session will examine challenges encountered during private cloud computing initiatives and their solutions. These challenges will be presented in rapid-fire discussion of what works and what doesn't, including the perspectives of those who've lived it. The panel will further explore these barriers by challenging each other's positions, offering practical insights reflecting how organizations have addressed their implementation issues to successfully (or unsuccessfully) launch a private cloud.

In today’s world of changing priorities, technologies and strategies, businesses are continuously facing the need to innovate and drive efficiencies into their business. As the computing paradigm shifts to using just in time resources, how does your organization leverage the ‘Cloud’ to reduce the cost of technical expenditures while taking products to market faster? Before you decide to leverage the ‘Cloud’ you need to answer the following questions: 1) is my company organizationally and technically prepared to move to the cloud? 2) which cloud services in the marketplace should I leverage and 3) how do I get there from here? Join us for this discussion as VMC Consulting’s Stephen Carn and Eric Mead will not only address these questions but will also demonstrate how you can leverage Cloud Brokerage Services when assessing, migrating and managing technologies in the cloud, and how to make the cloud work for your business.

A significant issue for enterprises moving to private or public clouds is how to trust their provider and its infrastructure with their sensitive workloads. Customers need the ability to assess security standards, trust security implementations, and prove infrastructure compliance to auditors. For business decision managers, considering private clouds that leverage the cost efficiency of virtualization to increase the quality of service to the business is paramount. This session will describe technologies and capabilities that provide reporting on the configuration of the virtual infrastructure used by the customer VMs and tie this to a verifiable measurement of trust in the hardware and hypervisor. This allows customers to be sure the provider is following security best practices, can pass a regulatory audit, and be assured that the provider’s platforms are booting from a secure root of trust, protected from root-kits and other malware. We will describe the hardware and software methods by which these measurements, configuration of the virtual infrastructure, and events reported by the infrastructure are used to generate dynamic and detailed compliance reports that can be used by service providers, auditors, and customers.

The panel session will tackle the topic of Private vs. Public Clouds. The panelists will provide insights into the differing challenges of securely deploying and managing applications and workloads into these cloud architectures as well as the unique security obstacles associated with migrating to, from and across Private and Public Clouds. We will take questions from the audience and will provide opinions and guidance for addressing the risks and stumbling blocks.

Cloud vendors claim great performance from their platforms. But, once we deploy our applications on these platforms, how can we properly police them and make sure performance SLAs are being met? What are the right metrics and the right methodologies to measure them? In this panel, experts from the field of performance measurement will discuss what they've learned from measuring the performance of cloud platforms, what we should be measuring in our cloud applications, and the right methodologies for making those measurements.

This workshop will feature vendors and end users discussing important issues around performance in on-demand environments.

Topics include:

• The Challenge of Cloud Performance
• Architectures for High-Performance Utility Computing
• Testing and Breaking Clouds
• How Ready is the Cloud? A look at real-world results
• The State of Cloud SLAs
• Instrumenting Applications When Access Goes Away
• Putting it all Together: When Big Metrics Mean Big Data
• Tools and Techniques for Performance Optimization
• What Users Want - What Vendors Have

For more information click here.

A significant issue for enterprises moving to private or public clouds is how to trust their provider and its infrastructure with their sensitive workloads. Customers need the ability to assess security standards, trust security implementations, and prove infrastructure compliance to auditors. For business decision managers, considering private clouds that leverage the cost efficiency of virtualization to increase the quality of service to the business is paramount. This session will describe technologies and capabilities that provide reporting on the configuration of the virtual infrastructure used by the customer VMs and tie this to a verifiable measurement of trust in the hardware and hypervisor. This allows customers to be sure the provider is following security best practices, can pass a regulatory audit, and be assured that the provider’s platforms are booting from a secure root of trust, protected from root-kits and other malware. We will describe the hardware and software methods by which these measurements, configuration of the virtual infrastructure, and events reported by the infrastructure are used to generate dynamic and detailed compliance reports that can be used by service providers, auditors, and customers.

The panel session will tackle the topic of Private vs. Public Clouds. The panelists will provide insights into the differing challenges of securely deploying and managing applications and workloads into these cloud architectures as well as the unique security obstacles associated with migrating to, from and across Private and Public Clouds. We will take questions from the audience and will provide opinions and guidance for addressing the risks and stumbling blocks.

For more information, click here.

There are virtually no large-scale IT projects that come off without a hitch - and private cloud computing is unlikely to be the first. This session will examine challenges encountered during private cloud computing initiatives and their solutions. These challenges will be presented in rapid-fire discussion of what works and what doesn't, including the perspectives of those who've lived it. The panel will further explore these barriers by challenging each other's positions, offering practical insights reflecting how organizations have addressed their implementation issues to successfully (or unsuccessfully) launch a private cloud.

This workshop will feature vendors and end users discussing important issues around performance in on-demand environments.

Topics include:

• The Challenge of Cloud Performance
• Architectures for High-Performance Utility Computing
• Testing and Breaking Clouds
• How Ready is the Cloud? A look at real-world results
• The State of Cloud SLAs
• Instrumenting Applications When Access Goes Away
• Putting it all Together: When Big Metrics Mean Big Data
• Tools and Techniques for Performance Optimization
• What Users Want - What Vendors Have

For more information click here.

Hear industry visionaries discuss the growth and future cloud computing.

This one day tutorial focuses on IT operations and automation in an environment that uses Cloud Computing. Coverage of standard IT operational disciplines, such as, monitoring, configuration management, orchestration and continuos delivery will be discussed. Some of the industry leading specialists in the newly named "Devops" field will be panel members. If you're interested in hearing how some experts manage their cloudy world after they are finished with provisioning please join us for this one day session.

Cloud Computing promises many things. Depending upon who you listen to, moving your applications and information to "The Cloud" will provide levels of security, when compared to "legacy enterprise IT," that will either be vastly superior or apocalyptic.There is such a conflation of deployment and delivery models that it's incredibly difficult to ascertain where the lines of responsibility and accountability for the security (and compliance) are drawn between the customer, provider and consumer. We're going to fix that in this workshop.

A variety of options are available for building a private cloud that include both commercial and open source options. While many of the arguments for and against both style of solutions remain fairly standard (flexibility versus lock-in, price versus support) cloud computing brings new arguments to the table that may or may not tip the balance toward one approach rather than another for organizations. This session will bring those arguments to the table in a panel debate with proponents of open source squaring off against commercial vendors. Panelists will present the strengths and weaknesses of each approach, pushing each other to defend their positions and offering counter points that challenge the audience to reconsider their own biases and assumptions.

For more information, click here.

Cloud vendors claim great performance from their platforms. But, once we deploy our applications on these platforms, how can we properly police them and make sure performance SLAs are being met? What are the right metrics and the right methodologies to measure them? In this panel, experts from the field of performance measurement will discuss what they've learned from measuring the performance of cloud platforms, what we should be measuring in our cloud applications, and the right methodologies for making those measurements.

This workshop will feature vendors and end users discussing important issues around performance in on-demand environments.

Topics include:

• The Challenge of Cloud Performance
• Architectures for High-Performance Utility Computing
• Testing and Breaking Clouds
• How Ready is the Cloud? A look at real-world results
• The State of Cloud SLAs
• Instrumenting Applications When Access Goes Away
• Putting it all Together: When Big Metrics Mean Big Data
• Tools and Techniques for Performance Optimization
• What Users Want - What Vendors Have

For more information click here.

For more information, click here.

This workshop will feature vendors and end users discussing important issues around performance in on-demand environments.

Topics include:

• The Challenge of Cloud Performance
• Architectures for High-Performance Utility Computing
• Testing and Breaking Clouds
• How Ready is the Cloud? A look at real-world results
• The State of Cloud SLAs
• Instrumenting Applications When Access Goes Away
• Putting it all Together: When Big Metrics Mean Big Data
• Tools and Techniques for Performance Optimization
• What Users Want - What Vendors Have

For more information click here.

Is a cloud risk transfer market or insurance market is necessary, too late, or too soon? SLA slow downs, shared risk debates and liability questions have become more important negotiations than “just security.” This panel will debate the myths of cloud risk and the realities of cloud liability, and challenge the common Silicon Valley perspective that “clouds don’t break.” The “cost to fail” should clouds become major concentrations of data and availability will also be explored.

Learn from this panel of experts as they review and discuss the optimal ways to make informed decisions and plot the roadmap for business-justified cloud adoption. The panel will cover differences in benefits between private and public solutions, how early adopters are quantifying benefits of the cloud, and how ROI and financials drive private or public cloud choices.

This lively session will feature a panel of DevOps experts discussing past victories, horror stories, and the future of DevOps. Come join in the discussion with any DevOps related questions or comments.

In this session, you learn effective strategies for automating the core DevOps gap -- getting releases from code check-in in Development through to where it is running in Production Operations. While noting tools for your further research, speakers will focus on tool independent processes and best practices you can bring to your own organization.

Cloud vendors claim great performance from their platforms. But, once we deploy our applications on these platforms, how can we properly police them and make sure performance SLAs are being met? What are the right metrics and the right methodologies to measure them? In this panel, experts from the field of performance measurement will discuss what they've learned from measuring the performance of cloud platforms, what we should be measuring in our cloud applications, and the right methodologies for making those measurements.

This workshop will feature vendors and end users discussing important issues around performance in on-demand environments.

Topics include:

• The Challenge of Cloud Performance
• Architectures for High-Performance Utility Computing
• Testing and Breaking Clouds
• How Ready is the Cloud? A look at real-world results
• The State of Cloud SLAs
• Instrumenting Applications When Access Goes Away
• Putting it all Together: When Big Metrics Mean Big Data
• Tools and Techniques for Performance Optimization
• What Users Want - What Vendors Have

For more information click here.

This workshop will feature vendors and end users discussing important issues around performance in on-demand environments.

Topics include:

• The Challenge of Cloud Performance
• Architectures for High-Performance Utility Computing
• Testing and Breaking Clouds
• How Ready is the Cloud? A look at real-world results
• The State of Cloud SLAs
• Instrumenting Applications When Access Goes Away
• Putting it all Together: When Big Metrics Mean Big Data
• Tools and Techniques for Performance Optimization
• What Users Want - What Vendors Have

For more information click here.

This workshop will feature vendors and end users discussing important issues around performance in on-demand environments.

Topics include:

• The Challenge of Cloud Performance
• Architectures for High-Performance Utility Computing
• Testing and Breaking Clouds
• How Ready is the Cloud? A look at real-world results
• The State of Cloud SLAs
• Instrumenting Applications When Access Goes Away
• Putting it all Together: When Big Metrics Mean Big Data
• Tools and Techniques for Performance Optimization
• What Users Want - What Vendors Have

For more information click here.

This workshop will feature vendors and end users discussing important issues around performance in on-demand environments.

Topics include:

• The Challenge of Cloud Performance
• Architectures for High-Performance Utility Computing
• Testing and Breaking Clouds
• How Ready is the Cloud? A look at real-world results
• The State of Cloud SLAs
• Instrumenting Applications When Access Goes Away
• Putting it all Together: When Big Metrics Mean Big Data
• Tools and Techniques for Performance Optimization
• What Users Want - What Vendors Have

For more information click here.

This workshop will feature vendors and end users discussing important issues around performance in on-demand environments.

Topics include:

• The Challenge of Cloud Performance
• Architectures for High-Performance Utility Computing
• Testing and Breaking Clouds
• How Ready is the Cloud? A look at real-world results
• The State of Cloud SLAs
• Instrumenting Applications When Access Goes Away
• Putting it all Together: When Big Metrics Mean Big Data
• Tools and Techniques for Performance Optimization
• What Users Want - What Vendors Have

For more information click here.

With many CIOs and IT practitioners continuing to express concern regarding control and security in public cloud computing models, is some sort of “hybrid” model the final stop on the cloud computing journey or is it merely a transitory architecture; a pit stop on the road to a fully public cloud computing implementation? Or is it the case that the lack of clarity surrounding the definition of “hybrid” causing the perception that hybrid clouds are being implemented in the first place? This session will examine the definition of “hybrid” cloud and whether or not they are valid as target architectures or merely a transition toward a fully public cloud computing model.

Hear industry visionaries discuss the growth and future cloud computing.

Curious about the most cost-effective and timely way to “cloud-enable your software?” Are you an enterprise or business looking for cloud solutions to enhance your infrastructure? Does your company want access to a unique ecosystem of specialized solutions that contain best-in-class software -- preconfigured, preinstalled and ready to deploy -- within a leading cloud infrastructure platform? Or are you a solution-provider looking to tap into a global user base of captive cloud infrastructure consumers?

The GoGrid Exchange, a central repository of cloud server images and solutions from GoGrid’s partner community, is a key platform component that allows customers to deploy cloud-enabled partner software as part of their IT architecture. Come learn more about this innovative and essential cloud ecosystem.

While Cloud computing and virtualization technologies offer many benefits there are potential information security and assurance pitfalls. In addition to all of the standard information security practices that must still be adhered to, virtualization environments introduce some new factors that must be considered in a complete assurance program. This presentation will discuss an operators view of Cloud security issues and one set of solution approaches.

The panel session will tackle the topic of Private vs. Public Clouds. The panelists will provide insights into the differing challenges of securely deploying and managing applications and workloads into these cloud architectures as well as the unique security obstacles associated with migrating to, from and across Private and Public Clouds. We will take questions from the audience and will provide opinions and guidance for addressing the risks and stumbling blocks.

Cloud vendors claim great performance from their platforms. But, once we deploy our applications on these platforms, how can we properly police them and make sure performance SLAs are being met? What are the right metrics and the right methodologies to measure them? In this panel, experts from the field of performance measurement will discuss what they've learned from measuring the performance of cloud platforms, what we should be measuring in our cloud applications, and the right methodologies for making those measurements.

For more information, click here.

Hear industry visionaries discuss the growth and future cloud computing.

Cloud application security goes beyond simplistic secure VPN tunnel to the cloud. Complex cloud usage models cannot be addressed with existing IdM technologies and expose the client & browser as the weakest links. In order to provide improved control, visibility and compliance requires a new comprehensive solution that addresses multiple layers of security connecting clients, strong auth, SSO, and cloud apps. Preview new technology from Intel that addresses these problems.

This lively session will feature a panel of DevOps experts discussing past victories, horror stories, and the future of DevOps. Come join in the discussion with any DevOps related questions or comments.

Changing tools is easy when compared to changing people and process. How can you cultivate an organization’s culture to identify and solve DevOps problems? From both the bottom up and the top down, what are the effective strategies for implementing DevOps best practices?

This one day tutorial focuses on IT operations and automation in an environment that uses Cloud Computing. Coverage of standard IT operational disciplines, such as, monitoring, configuration management, orchestration and continuos delivery will be discussed. Some of the industry leading specialists in the newly named "Devops" field will be panel members. If you're interested in hearing how some experts manage their cloudy world after they are finished with provisioning please join us for this one day session.

Course Outline

* Cloudy Operations - An Overview

* Devops - Why Should You Care

* Configuration Management in the Cloud

* Monitoring in the Cloud

* Continuous Delivery in the Cloud

* Cloudy Operations Roundtable Q&A

  Platforms & Ecosystems Birds of a Feather (BOF)

Location: Grand Ballroom H
Tuesday, March 8, 2011, 6:00 PM-7:30 PM

For more information, click here.

This workshop will feature vendors and end users discussing important issues around performance in on-demand environments.

Topics include:

• The Challenge of Cloud Performance
• Architectures for High-Performance Utility Computing
• Testing and Breaking Clouds
• How Ready is the Cloud? A look at real-world results
• The State of Cloud SLAs
• Instrumenting Applications When Access Goes Away
• Putting it all Together: When Big Metrics Mean Big Data
• Tools and Techniques for Performance Optimization
• What Users Want - What Vendors Have

For more information click here.

"Performance" is normally a loaded term. It can include anything from the speed of an application or infrastructure to the SLAs associated with them. In the context of cloud computing, the term can imply even more as it now includes elements that are out of our control. In this session, we'll discuss what performance actually means when it comes to clouds, how its definition changes based on the kind of cloud, common pitfalls associated with it, and what we should actually care enough to measure.

Learn from this panel of experts as they review and discuss the optimal ways to make informed decisions and plot the roadmap for business-justified cloud adoption. The panel will cover differences in benefits between private and public solutions, how early adopters are quantifying benefits of the cloud, and how ROI and financials drive private or public cloud choices.

Hear industry visionaries discuss the growth and future cloud computing.

Hear industry visionaries discuss the growth and future cloud computing.

Cloud computing isn't just a North American phenomenon. Around the world, it's upturning innovation and giving regulators new headaches. It's forcing discussions about data privacy, intellectual property, and even ethics. This panel will bring together IT leaders and regulators from several countries for a look at the similarities and differences in cloud computing worldwide.

This workshop will feature vendors and end users discussing important issues around performance in on-demand environments.

Topics include:

• The Challenge of Cloud Performance
• Architectures for High-Performance Utility Computing
• Testing and Breaking Clouds
• How Ready is the Cloud? A look at real-world results
• The State of Cloud SLAs
• Instrumenting Applications When Access Goes Away
• Putting it all Together: When Big Metrics Mean Big Data
• Tools and Techniques for Performance Optimization
• What Users Want - What Vendors Have

For more information click here.

For more information, click here.

This lively session will feature a panel of DevOps experts discussing past victories, horror stories, and the future of DevOps. Come join in the discussion with any DevOps related questions or comments.

Changing tools is easy when compared to changing people and process. How can you cultivate an organization’s culture to identify and solve DevOps problems? From both the bottom up and the top down, what are the effective strategies for implementing DevOps best practices?

Hear industry visionaries discuss the growth and future cloud computing.

Cloud computing isn't just a North American phenomenon. Around the world, it's upturning innovation and giving regulators new headaches. It's forcing discussions about data privacy, intellectual property, and even ethics. This panel will bring together IT leaders and regulators from several countries for a look at the similarities and differences in cloud computing worldwide.

There are virtually no large-scale IT projects that come off without a hitch - and private cloud computing is unlikely to be the first. This session will examine challenges encountered during private cloud computing initiatives and their solutions. These challenges will be presented in rapid-fire discussion of what works and what doesn't, including the perspectives of those who've lived it. The panel will further explore these barriers by challenging each other's positions, offering practical insights reflecting how organizations have addressed their implementation issues to successfully (or unsuccessfully) launch a private cloud.

Is a cloud risk transfer market or insurance market is necessary, too late, or too soon? SLA slow downs, shared risk debates and liability questions have become more important negotiations than “just security.” This panel will debate the myths of cloud risk and the realities of cloud liability, and challenge the common Silicon Valley perspective that “clouds don’t break.” The “cost to fail” should clouds become major concentrations of data and availability will also be explored.

Hear industry visionaries discuss the growth and future cloud computing.

More than one description of “private cloud computing” has dismissed it as little more than “virtualization on demand.” This begs the question “Is there a difference between the virtualization on demand and private cloud computing?” And if there is, does it matter as long as it’s providing benefit to IT and business stakeholders? In this session we will debate the differences and whether or not such differences (if they do indeed exist) have an impact on the benefits of implementing such architectures in the enterprise environment.

This lively session will feature a panel of DevOps experts discussing past victories, horror stories, and the future of DevOps. Come join in the discussion with any DevOps related questions or comments.

In this session, you learn effective strategies for automating the core DevOps gap -- getting releases from code check-in in Development through to where it is running in Production Operations. While noting tools for your further research, speakers will focus on tool independent processes and best practices you can bring to your own organization.

Where would the web be without Linux, Apache, MySQL and the pervasive PHP, Python and Perl? The Berkley Internet Domain Name (BIND) gave us the ability to easily transcribe IP addresses to human-readable names. Sendmail allowed us to send email from system to system instantaneously. These technologies helped define the Internet but their model of transparent free and open source development allowed them to become pervasive. Just as with the web, open source is one of the core foundations of cloud computing—achieving an unprecedented level of scale at a bare-bones cost that had never been seen in the history of computing. The first movers in cloud computing services found the open source software model most appealing, but to businesses today the attraction of open source is about the ability to develop a more flexible infrastructure and avoid vendor lock-in that often results from proprietary systems. This panel of leading cloud computing and open source practitioners will share their experiences on how they are helping their customers accelerate their entry into the cloud computing market as well as offer insight into how and where open source will continue to shape the cloud over the next few years.

Where would the web be without Linux, Apache, MySQL and the pervasive PHP, Python and Perl? The Berkley Internet Domain Name (BIND) gave us the ability to easily transcribe IP addresses to human-readable names. Sendmail allowed us to send email from system to system instantaneously. These technologies helped define the Internet but their model of transparent free and open source development allowed them to become pervasive. Just as with the web, open source is one of the core foundations of cloud computing—achieving an unprecedented level of scale at a bare-bones cost that had never been seen in the history of computing. The first movers in cloud computing services found the open source software model most appealing, but to businesses today the attraction of open source is about the ability to develop a more flexible infrastructure and avoid vendor lock-in that often results from proprietary systems. This panel of leading cloud computing and open source practitioners will share their experiences on how they are helping their customers accelerate their entry into the cloud computing market as well as offer insight into how and where open source will continue to shape the cloud over the next few years.

This lively session will feature a panel of DevOps experts discussing past victories, horror stories, and the future of DevOps. Come join in the discussion with any DevOps related questions or comments.

For more information, click here.

A variety of options are available for building a private cloud that include both commercial and open source options. While many of the arguments for and against both style of solutions remain fairly standard (flexibility versus lock-in, price versus support) cloud computing brings new arguments to the table that may or may not tip the balance toward one approach rather than another for organizations. This session will bring those arguments to the table in a panel debate with proponents of open source squaring off against commercial vendors. Panelists will present the strengths and weaknesses of each approach, pushing each other to defend their positions and offering counter points that challenge the audience to reconsider their own biases and assumptions.

Audience Level: Intermediate to Advanced

Moving your Data Phase

• Understand different storage options in the AWS cloud
• Understand different database options in the AWS
• Move data to Amazon S3, Amazon SimpleDB
• Move MySQL to Amazon RDS

Moving Your Apps Phase

• Learn Forklift migration strategy
• Learn Hybrid migration strategy
• Create AMIs for each component
• Learn Cloud-powered SDLC

Leveraging the Cloud Phase (Re-architecting for elasticity)

• Architecting for the Cloud : Best Practices
• Leverage other AWS services
• Automate elasticity
• Harden security
• Implement High Availability
• Create dashboard to manage AWS resources

Optimization and Management Phase

• Optimize usage based on demand
• Improve efficiency of your apps
• Implement advanced monitoring and telemetry using CloudWatch
• Optimize your application architecture and DB

For more information, click here.

Audience Level: Beginner
Requirements: Bring your own laptop

Introduction to AWS
Understand the AWS platform as a whole and get a high-level overview of each service and cross-service feature. Hear about the latest releases and informative customer stories.

App Assessment Phase

• Financial Assessment (TCO calculation)
• Security and Compliance Assessment
• Technical Assessment (Classify application types)
• Identify the tools that can be reused and the tools that need to be built
• Understand licensing and 3rd Party Software

Proof of Concept Phase

• Get your feet wet with AWS
• Build a web application in the cloud
• Learn Amazon EC2, Amazon S3, Amazon RDS, Amazon CloudFront and IAM
• Learn AWS toolkits, AWS SDKs and CLEs
• Learn how to use the AWS Management Console

For more information click here.

Clouds force us to reconsider basic assumptions about IT. Nothing's scarce, since on-demand resources are effectively limitless. Backups are free. Servers are simply disposable horsepower. Economics change dramatically, replacing capital investment with pay-as-you-go billing. And security changes forever, replacing internal users with disinterested third parties while opening up new potential issues. Yet many of these difference haven't really sunk in. System administrators haven't yet embraced their new role as contract manager, capacity engineer, and architect. In this session, Amazon Web Services' Jinesh Varia will show how to rethink IT architecture in a cloud world and let these changes really sink in.

Cloud computing isn't just a North American phenomenon. Around the world, it's upturning innovation and giving regulators new headaches. It's forcing discussions about data privacy, intellectual property, and even ethics. This panel will bring together IT leaders and regulators from several countries for a look at the similarities and differences in cloud computing worldwide.

Hear industry visionaries discuss the growth and future cloud computing.

With many CIOs and IT practitioners continuing to express concern regarding control and security in public cloud computing models, is some sort of “hybrid” model the final stop on the cloud computing journey or is it merely a transitory architecture; a pit stop on the road to a fully public cloud computing implementation? Or is it the case that the lack of clarity surrounding the definition of “hybrid” causing the perception that hybrid clouds are being implemented in the first place? This session will examine the definition of “hybrid” cloud and whether or not they are valid as target architectures or merely a transition toward a fully public cloud computing model.

Hear industry visionaries discuss the growth and future cloud computing.

This presentation from veteran privacy and security expert, Michelle Dennedy, presents the growing international challenges against sustainable cloud computing. This unique session discusses the common misperceptions of Cloud Models from the international view, highlighting major growth obstacles for US clouds from a cultural, political, and economic perspective. When does cloud vendor lock in also mean country lock in, and how does this impact the psyche of non-US business and government leaders.

More than one description of “private cloud computing” has dismissed it as little more than “virtualization on demand.” This begs the question “Is there a difference between the virtualization on demand and private cloud computing?” And if there is, does it matter as long as it’s providing benefit to IT and business stakeholders? In this session we will debate the differences and whether or not such differences (if they do indeed exist) have an impact on the benefits of implementing such architectures in the enterprise environment.

As the size and performance requirements of storage systems have increased, ?le system designers have looked to new architectures to facilitate system scalability. This session will describe Ceph, a highly scalable, open source, distributed storage system which was recently integrated into the mainline Linux kernel. The features, benefits and limitations of the different storage solutions available in the marketplace today - open source and proprietary – will be explored. The benefits of implementing a solution such as Ceph when creating a powerful “Storage Cloud” will then be discussed, as well as the security benefits of having complete control of your software, hardware and most importantly data, something that may put your corporate counsel and possibly SOX auditors at ease. Using specific use cases, you’ll identify key factors that should be considered when choosing a storage solution, as well as the value Ceph can bring and how you can start testing it for yourself. Finally, the session will end with a discussion on the future of large scale distributed storage.

How should one quantify the ROI, costs, and benefits of cloud alternatives? What are the cost drivers of private, public, and hybrid delivery models, and how will they evolve over time? Is pay-per-use good or bad? What are the main cognitive biases in enterprise decision-making?

Learn from this panel of experts as they review and discuss the optimal ways to make informed decisions and plot the roadmap for business-justified cloud adoption. The panel will cover differences in benefits between private and public solutions, how early adopters are quantifying benefits of the cloud, and how ROI and financials drive private or public cloud choices.

Hear industry visionaries discuss the growth and future cloud computing.

This one day tutorial focuses on IT operations and automation in an environment that uses Cloud Computing. Coverage of standard IT operational disciplines, such as, monitoring, configuration management, orchestration and continuos delivery will be discussed. Some of the industry leading specialists in the newly named "Devops" field will be panel members. If you're interested in hearing how some experts manage their cloudy world after they are finished with provisioning please join us for this one day session.

Cloud computing isn't just a North American phenomenon. Around the world, it's upturning innovation and giving regulators new headaches. It's forcing discussions about data privacy, intellectual property, and even ethics. This panel will bring together IT leaders and regulators from several countries for a look at the similarities and differences in cloud computing worldwide.

Cloud computing holds substantial benefits, but implementing public cloud services alongside existing on-premises assets can be daunting. Understanding the full benefits of Public Cloud and Platform as a Service is a key factor when considering cloud options. Equally important is betting on a cloud platform that offers the most robust set of benefits while easily integrating with your existing IT environment. During this session we’ll explore benefits and key considerations when evaluating public clouds, success stories from companies who’ve already bet on the public cloud, and why the Windows Azure Platform is worthy of your consideration.

Imagine a world where thousands of everyday objects—your car keys, grocery items, medication and even your dog’s collar—are networked as part of a vast wireless web that monitors each item’s location, quantity, status and more. This is the concept known as the Internet of Things. From eliminating one of life’s simplest yet most exasperating challenges—the phenomenon of lost car keys, to revolutionizing key business processes like supply chain management, the Internet of Things has the potential to fundamentally change our human experience.

Hear industry visionaries discuss the growth and future cloud computing.