Location: Grand Ballroom G
Tuesday, April 2, 2013, 9:00 AM-12:15 PM
Adopting public and private cloud resources is becoming imperative for enterprises across nearly every industry in order to keep pace with escalating customer and end-user demands and intensifying competition. However, adding these Cloud resources to existing systems and software compounds the challenge of managing these complex operations and optimizing their performance while controlling their costs. This session will examine these challenges and discuss exciting new technologies and management best practices that can help IT professionals overcome these challenges.
Who Should Attend:
- Network/System Administrators
- Data Center Managers
- IT Operations Personnel
- Infrastructure Managers
Attendee Takeaways:
You will leave the workshop with a solid understanding of the new tools and techniques that are available to manage a hybrid Cloud environment, and how these technologies and ideas can be applied to enable you to gain control over your operations. The workshop will address these key topics:
- How Cloud management differs from traditional data center management
- What are the real costs of unplanned Cloud service adoption
- Where to find new tools and techniques to address your hybrid Cloud requirements
- How to measure your success in a hybrid Cloud environment
Agenda:
9:00 - 9:20am: Welcome & Introduction
- Speaker: Jeff Kaplan, THINKstrategies
9:20 - 9:45am: Forrester’s Perspective
- Speaker: Dave Bartoletti, Forrester Research
9:45 - 10:10am: Moving to a Service-Oriented Organization (IT-as-a-Service)
- Speaker: Jared Wray, Tier 3
10:10 - 10:35am: Hybrid Mgmt Requirements & Considerations
- Speaker: Jim Blaney, FrontRange
10:35 - 10:50am: Break
10:50 - 11:15am: Cloud Application Lifecycle
- Speaker: Seema Jethani, Enstratius
11:15 - 11:35am: Application Performance Monitoring/Management in the Cloud
- Speaker: Scott Jackson, AppFirst
11:35 - 12:10pm: Roundtable
- Moderator: Jeff Kaplan, THINKstrategies
- Panelist: Scott Jackson, AppFirst
- Panelist: Seema Jethani, Enstratius
- Panelist: Jim Blaney, FrontRange
- Panelist: Dave Bartoletti, Forrester Research
12:10 - 12:15pm: Wrap-Up
- Speaker: Jeff Kaplan, THINKstrategies
