2013 Speaker List

Location: Grand Ballroom G
Tuesday, April 2, 2013, 1:30 PM-4:45 PM

As cloud computing continues to pervade all aspects of information technology, from the data center through application offerings, the function and capabilities of various cloud offerings begin to blur. Eventually, all clouds will house applications or data, which means that IaaS is merely a stepping stone to the ultimate goal of simplifying the operations and management of the application platform or Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS). Like the transition from virtualization to IaaS, the transition from IaaS to PaaS can be equally challenging. One of the more difficult aspects of choosing PaaS is the approach and architecture.

In this workshop attendees will learn:

• Design criteria for developing applications for the cloud and PaaS
• PaaS architectures
• PaaS benefits and shortcomings
• How to deal with multi-tenancy issues not managed by the infrastructure
• How to manage security in a PaaS environment
• Using PaaS as a component of your DevOps environment
• Delivering services using a PaaS service model
• Application scaling techniques
• The importance of a well-designed service interface
• Implications of using various programming language-centric PaaS environments
• Deploying an OS-based PaaS

Audience:
The workshop is aimed at IT managers, architects (application, cloud, virtualization, infrastructure), operations professionals that are responsible for managing PaaS environments, and application development professionals.