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Roundtable: Managing Application Development in the Cloud

Mike Vizard, IT Editor; Paul Preiss, IASA; Patrick Kerpan, CohesiveFT; Matt Waldbusser, IBM
Cloud computing doesn’t just change where applications are run. It changes the processes used to build, deploy and ultimately manage them.

Come hear industry experts describe how your peers are using cloud computing to modernize application development and testing in a way that not only lowers costs, but also makes the overall process more flexible, agile and responsive to the dynamically changing needs of a Smarter Business.

Join these expert panelists in an interactive, roundtable discussion:

Mike Vizard: IT Editor
Paul Preiss: CEO & Chairman, International Association of Software Architects
Patrick Kerpan: CTO CohesiveFT
Matt Waldbusser: Consulting Practice Manager, IBM
Dec 16 2010
74 mins
Roundtable: Managing Application Development in the Cloud
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  • Wi-Fi Optimization: Every day, another 4 million devices are activated. Ready? Jul 17 2013 2:00 pm UTC 45 mins
    The mobile enterprise challenges are mounting: enabling users simple and secure access to the network, ensuring applications run smoothly, and building sufficient capacity to handle unpredictable usage and future growth. A superior level of Wi-Fi design is now required—something shown lacking by a recent Gartner report: “By 2015, 80% of newly installed wireless networks will be obsolete because of a lack of proper planning.” A clear indication of the problem is that a typical wireless user is provisioned with less than 5% of the bandwidth of a typical wired user. Wi-Fi Optimization includes designing for: the user, device, application, spectrum and capacity. This session will examine critical design components to ensure predictable performance, even under heavy loads.
  • Transform Your Business: Virtualize SAP HANA with VMware Recorded: Jun 18 2013 51 mins
    Join SAP and VMware for this live webinar to learn how you can increase IT agility, simplify management and lower total cost of ownership when you virtualize your SAP HANA ® environment with VMware. We will discuss the new deployment options that are now available, enabling you to run your SAP HANA onsite, offsite or both – without compromise. Also, you will learn best practices for configuring and deploying SAP HANA in a virtual shared storage environment and how you can create, manage and automate new SAP HANA-based capacity on demand, enabling seamless workload mobility for your data center.

    During this live webinar, we will discuss:
    - Market trends and how SAP customers are transforming they way they run their workloads and data centers
    - The new deployment choices for your virtualized SAP HANA environment, on vCloud Suite or newly announced vCloud® Hybrid Service™, and the benefits you can achieve from each option
    - Best practices for configuring and deploying SAP HANA on VMware cloud infrastructure
    - Getting started: how VMware and SAP together are helping SAP customers assess, create and adopt virtualization strategies for their SAP HANA environments
    - Answers to your questions during live Q&A

    Register today to learn how you can benefit from virtualizing your SAP HANA environment with VMware and transform your business.

    About the presenters:
    Kevin Knieriem, Vice President, Innovation Solutions, SAP, Inc.
    Dominic Uliano, Virtualization and Cloud Management Practice Lead, North America, SAP, America, Inc.
    Ray Blanchard, Sr. Director, Strategic ISV Alliances, VMware, Inc.
    Bob Goldsand, Global Alliance Partner Architect, VMware, Inc.
  • Mixed Workloads: The Real Killer of Application Performance Recorded: Jun 13 2013 42 mins
    Over 75% of the application performance problems exist today because of poor performing storage in either IOPS, bandwidth or latency. Achieving ideal storage performance becomes a greater challenge the more diverse and complex the workload, which can ultimately bring storage performance to its knees. Many flash array vendors claim to solve application performance challenges, yet few can keep their performance promises with today’s demands on storage.

    In this webcast, we will discuss real world mixed workload requirements for applications focusing on two common use cases – virtualization and SAP. The lessons learned will be valid for all business critical applications. We will focus on how to test mixed workloads and what results to look for from a high performance SSD storage.
  • From zero to integration in under 15 minutes with CloudHub Recorded: Jun 13 2013 45 mins
    The myth is that integration takes weeks to build and deploy, not minutes. Join this live demo and follow along as we show how to integrate SaaS and on-premise applications at cloud speed. Don’t forget to bring your stopwatch to test whether this is myth is confirmed or busted.

    This MuleSoft event will cover:

    Creating a CloudHub account
    Configuring a message queue to Salesforce integration flow
    Deploying integration to CloudHub
    Monitoring performance from CloudHub Insight

    The demo will be followed by a Q&A session.
  • How to Successfully Manage Your Multi-Site IT Estate and Reduce Business Risks Recorded: Jun 12 2013 43 mins
    Learn how a state-of-the-art IT automation software helps you unify the handling of a multi-site IT estate configuration and change management, including hardware and software assets, by automating service desk processes, life cycle management and compliance policies and improving service availability.

    With the support of an IT automation software, you have more time and resources to focus on strategic decision-making for your IT environment.
     
    This webinar will help you understand how to deploy a streamlined, end-to-end configuration, change and release management plan, advise you on how to enforce process controls and how best to integrate technology and process.
     
    Register for this webinar and learn about:
     
    · Best practices for identifying, assessing/approving, implementing, testing/releasing IT assets, processes and software

    · The processes and goals of IT Asset Management and Life Cycle Management

    · Reducing risk in operational and application changes

    · Improving time to market and reducing risk from uncontrolled changes

    · Uncovering savings through process improvement and support for strategic decision-making

    · Designing reports and release audits to ensure highest efficiency

    · Improving stakeholder collaboration for quicker changes and higher success rate
  • 3 Keys to Improving your Change & Configuration Management Recorded: Jun 12 2013 49 mins
    Getting good, solid processes and procedures in place for ITIL’s Change & Configuration Management processes is critical to serve as a quality foundation to develop from. IT organizations increasingly have a need to evolve beyond traditional Change Management and into a hybrid model where discovery and understanding dependencies is a central to the Change Management process. It is this linkage between Change and Configuration Management that has advanced the relationship into more complementary model.

    In this session we will discuss how companies are moving beyond traditional connections between the service desk and CMDB to develop a consumer/provider model for their data and processes. We will look at how IT Service Management is getting smarter by leveraging the dependency and mapping data from the CMDB. Spreadsheets and home grown tools or integrations are increasingly a thing of the past.
  • Experience Collaboration and Sharing With Dell Cloud Service for SharePoint Recorded: Jun 6 2013 42 mins
    You understand the value in Microsoft® SharePoint® as a proven tool for sharing and collaboration. Still, you are not convinced that the resource requirements for implementation, installation, start-up and ongoing management of the SharePoint software and hardware infrastructure make it worth the effort. Cloud sounds like the perfect solution, but how can you ensure your data is safe?

    At Dell, we understand these business challenges. Join us to find out how Dell Cloud Service for SharePoint safely allows customers to experience the full capabilities of the most powerful enterprise collaboration software without having to acquire, standup and maintain the required infrastructure.

    In this webinar you will:
    - Learn how SharePoint 2013 enhances productivity while reducing operational complexity and improving time-to-market
    - Understand the key features of enterprise-class cloud security
    - Discover the benefits of deploying SharePoint in the cloud
  • How IT and Developers Can Join Forces to Innovate in the Cloud Recorded: Jun 6 2013 59 mins
    Developers have gained considerable power within companies and are now making key architectural decisions like the programing language(s), platform (OS), middleware as well as how data is stored. Given that it is the developer’s software that drives business advantage, it comes as no surprise that they have become the respected partners of the business, perhaps at the expense of central IT, in leading the company’s defacto cloud strategy. However, in order to really drive the scale of innovation that provides a sustainable competitive advantage – developers and business leaders cannot go it alone, they must work together with IT. While the goals of developers and IT operations often seem at odds, organizations must seek to reduce these conflicts or risk impeding the pace of innovation. Join this session to discover how understanding the needs of each side and leveraging the processes, tools and procedures that underlie “DevOps,” will enable both teams to work together to better serve the business and ultimately the customer.

    In this session you will learn about:
    - How developers rose to power
    - The key principles, tools and procedures of DevOps
    - How working together helps reduces friction, increases velocity and improves customer outcomes
    - How developers, IT and business can work together to implement and drive innovation through the Cloud
  • Explore the New Features of Mule 3.4 | MuleSoft Recorded: Jun 6 2013 60 mins
    Mule 3.4 introduces a host of new functionality and improvements aimed at allowing your business to run seamlessly both on-premise and in the cloud. We’ve simplified SaaS integration and API publishing capabilities, streamlined our enterprise grade runtime for scalability and performance, and added enhanced data mapping and flow debugging to further improve developer productivity. Join Reza Shafii, Director of Product Management at MuleSoft, for a demonstration of these new features in action.

    Highlights include:
    •    Inspect and debug messages graphically with Visual Flow Debugger
    •    Deliver zero down-time scale out with Mule High Availability
    •    One-click generation of enhanced documentation
    •    Accelerate and simplify SaaS integration with DataMapper
    •    Auto-discover data models and generate mappings with DataSense
  • Connecting the New Enterprise Recorded: May 16 2013 61 mins
    The mega-trends of SaaS, mobile and Big Data are converging, generating a new wave of business opportunity for enterprises. The convergence demands a new kind of platform – one that connects and takes advantage of the explosion of endpoints and data caused by organizations each choosing a uniquely diverse set of best-of-breed applications to power their business. Ross Mason will discuss his vision for this new platform and demonstrate how MuleSoft’s solutions are making it a reality.

    Questions to be discussed include:

    How will SaaS and mobility impact my business?
    Is SOA really dead?
    Does my business need an API strategy? Where should we start?
    Can the Anypoint platform help me secure a competitive advantage?
  • Industry Trends for Business-Critical Apps with Virtualization and the Cloud Recorded: May 15 2013 49 mins
    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.
  • Data Center Utopia: Accelerate Applications While Simplifying Your Data Center Recorded: May 15 2013 37 mins
    A shift is taking place in the data center, one that accelerates applications by eliminating storage performance tuning. Properly designed Flash arrays facilitate fast data creation and consumption. Moving away from performance tuning increases focus on application functionality, shortens QA cycles and reduces deployment time. Learn how to turn your data center into utopia as Maxwell Riggsbee and Matthew Goldensohn discuss how Flash is accelerating applications and business.
  • Aligning IT With the Business Starts & Ends with a Financial View of IT Recorded: May 15 2013 47 mins
    Disruptive new technologies such as mobility and the cloud fundamentally change how IT is measured and managed.

    In this session, we will discuss how IT can fully determine the cost of services for use as a comparison or for chargeback or show-back and how IT can be more transparent with the business value being provided by their services.

    In the past, IT organizations could simply cross-charge their costs and report on service-level agreements (SLAs). Today, business customers can go to Amazon, Azure or other providers’ web pages and see prices for servers, storage, databases and more as well as seeing performance metrics for those services.

    This means that, for the first time, IT needs to have public cloud-comparable costs for service options and transparent performance information. By doing this, IT can generate a cost-effective strategy that improves operating efficiency while embracing the cloud, whether public or private or a hybrid.
  • Accelerating SaaS adoption in the New Enterprise Recorded: May 9 2013 38 mins
    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
  • Wi-Fi Optimization: Don’t Worry About Your Wireless Network Getting in the Way Recorded: Apr 25 2013 47 mins
    What is Wi-Fi optimization? It delivers increased productivity. It enables streamlined workflow. It results in faster ROI. In other words, it enables you to conduct your business without worrying about your wireless network getting in the way. With wireless networks typically designed with less than 5% the capacity of wired, users have come to expect less when they are connected wirelessly. Wireless optimization ends the era of under-performance — come find out what it’s all about:

    - User optimization – simplify and secure the process of onboarding users
    - Application optimization – control and prioritize your critical applications
    - Device optimization – not every device is the same, so don’t treat them all equally
    - Spectrum optimization – ensuring RF is tuned to deliver maximum performance
    - Capacity optimization – wireless design to handle future requirements
  • How to Integrate with the Cloud Recorded: Apr 18 2013 34 mins
    When businesses decide to go to the cloud for an enterprise application and open an account with Salesforce.com or some other SaaS (software as a service) provider, they typically don't consider how that SaaS app will integrate with their existing software. Indeed, without a solid integration strategy, data quality quickly becomes a problem. You don't want a new SaaS system to be hindered by having to enter data twice -- or worse, by not having the correct data available when a core business process requires it.

    So how do enterprises that adopt SaaS applications develop an effective approach to integration? As always, the process begins with business requirements. The good news is that new, innovative integration technologies offer cost efficiencies unavailable just a few years ago -- although in some cases, requirements dictate that you opt for an old-school integration solution. However, finding and implementing that technology is not as easy as many thought.

    In this webinar, we’ll take the mystery out of understanding, building, and implementing integration solutions for cloud-based systems. We’ll walk those attending through a step-by-step process, which will guarantee success.

    Topics covered include:
    - Understanding your own cloud integration requirements.
    - The basics of cloud integration, including approaches and architectures.
    - Selecting the right integration solutions.
    - Understanding security, governance, and data quality
  • Cloud Service Provisioning: Key Capabilities Recorded: Apr 18 2013 37 mins
    Learn how to accelerate the delivery of infrastructure and application services across dynamic, heterogeneous environments to deliver IaaS, PaaS, DaaS or other services. This session highlights the key capabilities of service provisioning including the on-demand, self-service portal for end users, service and application blueprints, policy engines for governance, standardization for IT control and compliance, and extensibility frameworks. We will drill down into the technologies that support Cloud Service Provisioning: vCloud Automation Center, vFabric Application Director, Cloud Applications Marketplace, and vCenter Orchestrator.

    About the Presenter:
    Christian Paulus is the Director Product Marketing for Application Management at VMware. His specialty is to help companies create new products and take them to market globally, which he has done successfully at seven companies, including Mercury Interactive, which then got acquired by HP, NuvoSun, CrossWorlds, Oracle and Informix. Christian holds a MBA from Cologne University, and he also studied at Rheinische Friedrich Wilhelms University in Bonn, City University London, as well as Stanford University.
  • Panel: New Software Monetization Models - An IT Perspective Recorded: Apr 18 2013 59 mins
    Software License Management Systems are deeply intertwined not only with your software, but also with your IT infrastructure for sales and operations. As customer-centric business models such as usage-based billing grow, and as the cloud adds a whole new dimension to software and thus to software license management, the operational complexity of license management can become overwhelming for ISVs. While there is much discussion on forward-facing features such as security and user experience offered by license management solutions, it is also important for ISVs to consider back-end features and flexibility when choosing a solution. This webinar discusses operational around software monetization faced by ISVs, whether they use an in-house solution or a commercial solution. Leading industry vendors will provide perspective on best practices and strategies to optimize and secure a license management deployment from an IT perspective.

    Meet the panel:
    Avni Rambhia, Industry Manager Digital Media, Frost & Sullivan (moderator)
    Bashyam Anant, Software Product Leader, Flexera Software
    David DiMillo, Principal Consultant, SafeNet
    David Wright, Consulting Architect, VeriTag Sofware Corporation
  • Designing for Resilience and Security in Public Cloud Applications Recorded: Apr 17 2013 40 mins
    Public cloud providers offer better uptime and business continuity than most organisations can achieve on their own, despite well-publicised outages. But failing to plan for an outage, means you are planning to fail. At the center of this argument is the concept of designing for resilience: organisations should not hide from failure, but rather expose themselves to it early and often, in a way that allows them to learn quickly and build the right infrastructure to build reliability in an unreliable world.

    Join Paul Wallace, Director of Product at Riverbed Technology, as he discusses strategies that will help you design for resilience and security, and learn how to:

    * Prepare for unplanned cloud outages
    * Build a globally resilient cloud application
    * Avoid some of the most common mistakes when faced with a cloud outage
  • Coping with Workload Volatility in the Era of Cloud, Big Data and Mobility Recorded: Mar 21 2013 44 mins
    Thanks to cloud, big data, and mobility many enterprise IT workloads are becoming more volatile and less predictable than ever before. Traditional workload management strategies based on predefined processing timelines, workflows and processing patterns are no longer able to keep up with constant real time changes to priorities, volumes, and workflows.

    Join us for a fireside chat with Mary Johnston Turner, IDC Research Vice President Enterprise Systems Management Software, and Louis Vandenberg, Automation Strategist Nike Inc, to understand how they expect requirements for workload management to evolve during 2013 and beyond.

    You will learn why a new approach is needed to:
    •Optimize IT resource utilization and workload performance
    •Improve IT staff productivity
    •Thrive in a more responsive and competitive business environment.
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