Cloud Computing

For the IT employer utilizing contingent or contract worker(s) services there are best practices and considerations that need to be made in order to protect yourself and your employees.

- Do you know how to discuss pay rates, increases or bonuses?
- Do you know how to deal with full-time employment queries, how to properly deal with timecards or forms?
- How do you deal with punctuality, attendance, dress code etc?
- What do you do when you want to terminate or suspend a contingent worker?

These are the common questions we receive and we will provide tangible tools and information that can help protect you as an employer.

Doug Turner, CEO of Mantis Technology Group, talks about how his team built Pulse Analytics, a sentiment analysis solution using text analytics tool running on SAP HANA One. Hear how his team strengthened the capabilities of this solution while simplifying their data architecture by replacing 20 servers with only 1 SAP HANA One instance.

On Premise? Outsourced? Dedicated? Cloud? Harness the Power of "Hybrid" for a True "All-of-the-Above" Approach to IT Infrastructure.

With so much focus on – and hype around – the cloud, we seem to have forgotten that for most businesses IT infrastructure remains a mix of on-premise, outsourced, physical and virtual components that must be optimized into a seamless hybrid environment. Featuring IaaS experts from Latisys and HP, we'll look at how CIOs and CTOs are allocating workloads, applications and data across a diverse infrastructure today – using every tool in their arsenal in an effort to maximize legacy assets, optimize limited IT budgets and leverage technology advancements to make their business more effective and responsive.

With easy access to public cloud resources like Amazon EC2, end users are completely sidestepping corporate IT and spinning up their own mini-datacenters with only a credit card in hand. This grass roots migration is gaining speed, and industry experts predict 35% of enterprise IT expenditures will go to shadow IT services like AWS in under 3 years.

If you are in Corporate IT, join this webinar to learn more about:
- Strategies other IT teams are pursuing regarding public cloud services, both pro and con
- Management options for IT shops who want to embrace AWS, whether a little or a lot
- Easy ways for corporate IT to add value to the business units and engineering teams already using Amazon EC2
- Practical techniques for assuming a public cloud leadership role, even when resources are non-existent

About the Presenters:
Lynn LeBlanc, CEO and founder of HotLink Corporation, has over 25 years of enterprise software and technology experience at both Fortune 500 companies and Silicon Valley start-ups. Prior to founding HotLink, Ms. LeBlanc was founder and CEO of FastScale Technology, an enterprise software company acquired by VMware, Inc.

Oded Haner, CTO at HotLink Corporation, is an accomplished, strategic, collaborative technology leader with extensive experience in developing and implementing innovative IT technologies. Most recently, Mr. Haner was CIO at Monster Cable where he developed and deployed a multi-year roadmap to overhaul corporate architecture towards virtualization, private cloud and SaaS based technologies. As a direct result of his vision, Monster Cable became an early adopter and internal service provider using both on-premise and cloud-based infrastructure.

In this session learn about a transformational shift in data center architecture, the software-defined data center. You learn about what an SDDC is, how it can benefits businesses by providing unparalleled levels of efficiency, agility, control and choice, and finally how you can make it real in your businesses with VMware vCloud suite.

Many organizations have been taking advantage of virtualization and cloud technologies to reduce server counts, and gain operational advantages. When it comes to business critical workloads such as those running Oracle, migration to virtualization and the cloud has encountered more resistance, and roadblocks.

This presentation will examine industry trends in virtualization and cloud computing for enterprise workloads, such as Oracle, SAP, PeopleSoft, MS SQL Server, etc. Case studies will be presented that explore the advantages of a cloud strategy for mission-critical applications. Strategies for minimizing risk, and maximizing benefits will be provided.

Audience: SaaS Company Executives responsible for Sales, Service, Support, and company growth

Synopsis: Did you know you can increase your company valuation with integration? Securing Enterprise customers is extremely challenging, and as the competitive landscape continues to grow with best of breed SaaS applications, it will be important to consistently meet customer requirements and differentiate your service from the competition.

What you will learn:
-Top barriers to SaaS adoption in the Enterprise
-Overview of the New Enterprise, and what it means for SaaS providers
-3 ways integration can increase your valuation as a SaaS provider

Our HANA One technical guru, Swapan Saha, guides us through the breakthrough analytics capabilities of Vizi (data visualization) and more new offerings with HANA One including a $120 AWS infrastructure credit to help you get started today.

Everyone has heard talk of cloud but do you know how to deploy one? This session will be a technical dive into implementations of popular public, private, and hybrid storage cloud use cases and best practices examples of how they can fit into your existing IT operations. SNIA's Cloud Storage Initiative (CSI) has created the Cloud Data Management Interface (CDMI) as a de jure standard which can assist you in your cloud deployments utilizing both traditional file systems and new cloud file system formats. This presentation will dive into the details of designing and deploying public, private, and hybrid storage clouds including how CDMI can assist with cloud federation, peering, differentiation, and how CDMI can interact with external systems for event management, configuration management, workflows, auditing, billing, and authorization.

•Understanding how cloud computing and specifically CDMI interact with traditional file systems (CIFS, NFS, FC) and new cloud formats such as Amazon S3.
•Gain an understanding of how cloud can integrate into existing IT Service Management (ITSM) or ITIL best practices for event, configuration, incident, and problem management.
•Presenting in detail reference architectures for cloud and an overview of the reference deployments done to date and how it fits into standard tiered storage enterprise architectures

Our HANA One technical guru, Swapan Saha, guides us through the breakthrough analytics capabilities of Vizi (data visualization) and more new offerings with HANA One. Also, see how you can get a $120 AWS credit to help you get started today.