2013 Speaker List

There are strong pros and cons to both Public and Private Clouds. Many enterprises like the idea of either one or both, but the realities have not lived up to the ideal. Building a scalable, private cloud allows customization and control, but is a major undertaking with up-front costs and ongoing commitments for hardware and management software. Public clouds offer a pay as you go, low touch option, but there are many concerns around security and compliance. Integrating the two and operating a true hybrid cloud requires a new way of thinking and a new type of management. How can IT decipher which cloud (public, hybrid or private) makes the most financial sense for their specific business needs? What are the necessary metrics to build an intelligent business case for moving applications and infrastructure components to a public vs. private cloud? This session will explore the pros and cons of private and public clouds, including the best use cases and scenarios for private, public and hybrid cloud initiatives, the financial implications, and whether/how hybrid clouds might give the best of both clouds.

Until recently, traditional networks were trapped in hardware implementations, bounded by the capabilities of physical switches and routers. Enter software-defined networking. SDNs allow you to break free from hardware constraints, using software to define and build networks on-demand, completing the trio of virtualization – compute, storage and networking. Come learn more about how this revolution in networking and cloud computing will shatter yet another barrier to entry for the cloud, and paves the way for enterprise cloud architectures such as multi-tiered applications and multi-site hybrid clouds. Attendees will look at solutions from a holistic perspective without being bound to weather it is hardware or software. They will understand the benefits of a hybrid environment and how they can adapt that to a future capacity planning.