Performance Management of Virtualized and Cloud Based Applications

About the Presenter:
Simon Bramfitt is the founder and principal analyst at Entelechy Associates where he covers application delivery, desktop management and virtualization technologies. He has over 25 years of experience in designing high-availability application delivery and virtualization environments in Europe, the Middle East, and the USA. Prior to founding Entelechy Associates, Mr. Bramfitt covered desktop virtualization at Burton Group and Gartner and was a senior architect at Kaiser Permanente. His experience also includes IT administration, consulting, service delivery and IT management. Mr. Bramfitt blogs at simonbramfitt.com.

In this insightful webinar the expert panelists will discuss the following topics:
How is the cloud (i.e. weather) impacting your data center?
How is cloud infrastructure impacting your data center?
Where is your data stored now?
Tips on how to protect and manage your data moving forward

Peter Judge, Editor at TechWeek Europe will be moderating this panel session along with:
- Mark Thiele, EVP, Switch
- Gary Thornton, Technical Director, CNet Training
- Edward Haletky, The Virtualization Practice

The demand for business functionality implemented in software is infinite. This creates an infinitely long applications development backlog. These factors combine to drive innovation in application development processes (Agile) and tools (PHP, Ruby, Python, Node-JS, Scala). As a result of these process and tool innovations more rapidly changing applications are being put into production at a faster rate then ever before. And these rapidly changing applications are being deployed on new dynamic, virtualized, scaled out and distributed infrastructures. The combination of rapid application development and dynamic execution environments create a brand new application performance management challenge. Attendees to this webinar will learn how to approach managing these new types of applications, how to approach tool selection, and how to organize successfully to manage these new applications in production.

Dynamic and virtualized data centers, private clouds, and public clouds are radically different environments than their static and physical predecessors. These new environments have radically different operating characteristics which create new management challenges. These new management challenges require new process, tools, and organizations. Attendees to this webinar will learn how to approach managing these new environments, how to approach tool selection for these environments, and how to organize to successfully manage these environments.

A virtual desktop is a common goal. The functional requirement of that goal – an experience as good as or better than a physical desktop for both the user and the administrator. How do you achieve that?

In a growing environment of “consumerization of IT” how do you ensure that the delivery of your virtual desktop service is easy to use, effective, and reliable? How does, how will, your virtual desktop environment score as you take 12 steps to a better virtualized desktop service?

Moving to the cloud is not an overnight endeavor. To move securely, compliant, and safely is an ongoing planned exercise. This webinar will explain a method to move to the cloud, stand up workloads in a secure environment, and eventually cut over to the cloud. We will also detail the bare minimum security and compliance requirements of your chosen cloud provider.

With all of the hype surrounding "big data," some forget that these large sets of structure and unstructured data sets come with big obstacles. Challenges such as storage, search, sharing and analysis are only a few of the issues that need to be addressed before an organization can truly tap into big data's potential. What is the best approach to store these data sets? Which characteristics should be considered when analyzing? These questions and more will be answered by this panel of experts as they discuss how big data may provide real value or if it all is just a bunch of hype.

The entire data center includes virtual, physical, and hybrid cloud instances, that all need to be secured. When we talk about hybrid clouds, security becomes all about the data and not necessarily the virtualization in which the data resides. Building upon existing thoughts on hybrid cloud security, this presentation provides a reference architecture into which virtualization and physical security products can fit. How to fit each of these products into a hybrid cloud for proper security and management is almost as important as what they do.

Edward Haletky provides Virtualization, Virtualization Security, Network Security, Secure Coding Consulting and Courseware as well as Linux Security and Application Development.

* Author of "VMware Virtual Infrastructure Security: Securing the Virtual Environment" and "VMWare ESX Server in the Enterprise: Planning and Securing Virtualization Servers", published December 2007, Copyright 2008 Pearson Education.

* Guru and moderator for and participant in the VMware Community Forums.

* Moderator for the Virtualization Security Podcast held every other week on thursday.

* Analyst and Managing Director for The Virtualization Practice, LLC.

* Participant in the VMware VMTN Communities Roundtable Podcast held every wednesday.

* Blogs about Virtualization on his own Blog, Blue Gears, as well as for the Virtualization Practice and TechTarget.

* Writer for various online and physical magazines.

Specialties
* Virtualization Security
* VMware Virtual Infrastructure
* Network Security
* Secure Coding
* Linux Security
* Linux Application Development

Everyone says to virtualize your desktops and you will be more secure, but is that really the case, we will look into the concept around 'more secure' with why this could be and most likely is not the case. Can it be more secure, perhaps, is it? The reality is a bit less than people realize and could open the door to more risk.

Edward Haletky provides Virtualization, Virtualization Security, Network Security, Secure Coding Consulting and Courseware as well as Linux Security and Application Development.

* Author of "VMware Virtual Infrastructure Security: Securing the Virtual Environment" and "VMWare ESX Server in the Enterprise: Planning and Securing Virtualization Servers", published December 2007, Copyright 2008 Pearson Education.

* Guru and moderator for and participant in the VMware Community Forums.

* Moderator for the Virtualization Security Podcast held every other week on thursday.

* Analyst and Managing Director for The Virtualization Practice, LLC.

* Participant in the VMware VMTN Communities Roundtable Podcast held every wednesday.

* Blogs about Virtualization on his own Blog, Blue Gears, as well as for the Virtualization Practice and TechTarget.

* Writer for various online and physical magazines.

Specialties
* Virtualization Security
* VMware Virtual Infrastructure
* Network Security
* Secure Coding
* Linux Security
* Linux Application Development

The PC has been a device that has been adopted by both the consumer and corporate markets - but is it now dead? As CTOs look to plan for the next generation how do, and must they deliver services to accommodate generation Y's demand for tablet and smartphone connectivity? Must traditional PC deployments be replaced with virtualised desktops and applications hosted in the cloud?

How does each desktop virtualisation technology fit into an enterprise desktop strategy - and is there a single vendor that offers a complete and wholly encompassing solution? In order to help you make a decision - what factors do you need to consider for your users and application estate.

Security folks need a seat at the Cloud and Virtualization table for architecture and design, how do you get that seat? Security is not about ROI so to speak nor is it about compliance, but it is about protecting the data. Can you achieve security by meeting the minimum requirements of compliance. How can you get the most out of your security environment with very little cost. Reuse, Recycle, Rethink

A source of complexity for VDI is that, in order to deliver virtual desktops there needs to be an Infrastructure: unlike server virtualization, VDI can’t do away with end devices. Client hypervisors can allow for centralisation of management and resources, while utilising end devices’ compute power. In determining how to provide the next generation desktop – where can client hypervisors fit, what are the main options available and which steps need to be taken to introduce client hypervisors into your environment?