IT Transformation Journey: Becoming a Service Provider to the Business

En esta presentación usted aprenderá sobre cómo puede aprovechar las tecnologías de Microsoft Azure, Office 365, y Sharepoint, Exchange, y Skype for Business dedicado con el Soporte Fanático de Rackspace.

Container technology is evolving at a very rapid pace. The purpose of this session is to describe the current state of container technologies within the OpenStack Ecosystem. Specific topics we will cover include:
- How OpenStack vendors and operators are using containers to create efficiencies in deployment of the control plane services
- Approaches OpenStack consumers are taking to deploy container-based applications on OpenStack clouds (including a mid-cycle update on Magnum)
Register today and join us for this informative session!

Automation is the key to unlocking your private cloud. Ansible is a simple, agentless and powerful automation tool. During this session, we will provide insights and best practices for operating your OpenStack cloud using Ansible. Don't miss out!

Register today and join us for this interactive session.

DevOps shifts the IT organization and how engineers interact. It brings a set of best practices that defines how engineers and IT work together that is markedly different than how work has been traditionally accomplished. It’s a culture of automating, measuring, and sharing in the software development life cycle. Where is your company on the DevOps journey? Join Hart Hoover, a Rackspace DevOps Automation Engineer, as he walks through points on that journey you will need to reach to be successful.

In this webinar, we will cover:
•Config Management
•Automating Waste / Defining Correct Process
•Testing Automation
•Code Deployment
•Leadership Buy In
•Team Buy In
•Security Involvement

Speaker Bio:
Hart Hoover started his career as a Racker in 2007 as a Linux Systems Administrator, providing technical support for bare metal servers. He moved to the cloud in 2009 to help design the Managed Cloud Servers support model. He now serves customers as an Engineer with the DevOps Automation team at Rackspace. You can follow him on twitter at @hhoover.

Tired of losing customers who won’t wait for your website to load? Worried that your website might get overloaded due to global traffic?
Rackspace CDN combines the power of Fanatical Support® with Akamai Technologies, the global leader in Content Delivery Network (CDN) services, all within an easy to provision service, single contract, with pay as you go, utility based pricing. Product Managers from Akamai Technologies & Rackspace will be share 3 Best Practices for deploying Rackspace CDN. Provision enterprise class CDN performance in MINUTES, not weeks.


Moderator: Scott Whitright, Product Marketing Manager

Presenters:

Megan Meza, Product Manager, Rackspace
Megan Meza is the Product Manager for CDN at Rackspace. With almost 7 years of experience with Rackspace products, Megan has spent most of her time in the storage and content area, with a focus on cloud infrastructures. As Product Manger, Megan's primary focus is turning customer needs into simple and powerful technology solutions.

Dan Reilly, Partner Solutions Engineer, Manager, Akamai Technologies
Dan Reilly is the Partner Solutions Engineering Manager for Akamai Channels Americas. He and his team strive to add value to partner go-to-market plans, solutions, and operational workflows. Dan has been at Akamai for 10 years, and working with content delivery for 15 years, in sales, sales engineering and business development roles. He is based in Cambridge, part of the global Partner Enablement team, and manages a team of eleven SEs in North and South America.

As we meet with enterprises and talk with customers about their requirements, we consistently hear 3 reasons why customers are looking for a private cloud solution. In this session we will review these top reasons and talk in depth about some of the key drivers for these requirements.

Please join us to understand these private cloud drivers and if a private cloud solution may be right for you.

Quick Run Through

Digital agencies are faced daily with the challenges of ever-changing technology and the complexities of managing their client’s digital application and infrastructure environments.
With Rackspace Digital solutions, agencies can remove the burdens of managing the operations and infrastructure of digital applications and focus on their core business – building value-added solutions for their clients.
Through Rackspace Digital’s deep expertise and relationships with our technology partners such Adobe, Rackspace provides a unique full-stack solution covering the application, infrastructure, and operations – helping agencies reduce the time and total cost of ownership to deliver solutions.
In this webinar, you’ll learn about:
•The value of partnering with Rackspace Digital for infrastructure and digital applications
•Rackspace's unique position in providing end to end support for Adobe Experience Manager
•How to best engage with your Rackspace Agency Team through Rackspace partner solutions

Le invitamos a participar en nuestro próximo webinar, en el que compartiremos ¿Cómo formar su camino hacia la nube administrada? Por Capa 4 y Rackspace.

El próximo 28 de mayo a las 16:30 hrs, podrá conocer más sobre:

En este webcast podrás conocer más sobre:
- ¿Qué es la nube administrada?
- Open Stack
- ¿Por qué Capa 4 y Rackspace?
- Rackspace y su Fanatical Support
- Portafolio de soluciones y a dónde nos movemos

* Contaremos con un espacio de preguntas y respuestas al final de la presentación.

All to often, we find that customers are weighed down and locked in by an insurmountable amount of technical debt. The objective of this session is to help those that are considering Openstack, to discover new ways they can leverage various open technologies to enable their business to be more agile. We will focus on how Rackspace performs a technical discovery and provide attendees with guidance on how to identify and build a tangible architectural roadmap for Openstack in their enterprise.

Register now and plan to join us for this informative session.

How do you know which technology is right in todays database world, we will explore the range of technologies from MySQL/Percona/Maria to Xtra Cluster to Mongo to Redis and how you can fit all of these together to form a path way for your data. Not one technology fits everything but together you can use the right tool for the right job, and make the data flow seamlessly between them to range from short session data to longer term reporting data and everything between. We are at the new frontier in database lets work on a new toolset to prepare you for it.

David is currently the Lead DBA for Object Rocket by Rackspace, where he works on sharding, mongo, tool building, very large-scale issues, and high performance mongo architecture. Before that he was the MySQL/NoSQL Architect for Electronic Arts, after working in segments from data centers to high performance advertising with skills ranging from programing to hardware/network design he brings a top down view into troubleshooting and tuning. He enjoys large-scale operational tool building, high performance OS and Database tuning, and extending mongo to improve operations team both large and small.

The way Business Users consume services is changing, “Central IT” has an opportunity to increase the value provided to their Business Users. New trends in brokering services are surfacing along with a great diversification in Service Providers across IaaS, PaaS and SaaS solutions, managed and un-managed, that can be leveraged. Come join us in reviewing the steps involved in becoming a Service Provider to your Business through IT-as-a-Service enablement from a Managed Cloud Service Provider perspective.

As the look and feel of the cloud evolves, matures and hedges toward main stream adoption, the Solution Architects, Developers and Infrastructure Engineers are facing the challenge of determining what technologies they will recommend their companies consume. Often trying to answer questions like "Should I go with something that requires vendor licensing?" or "Should I look to Open Source technologies, such as OpenStack?" Then, if they do decide that OpenStack solves for their needs, how best do they layout its pros and cons to their senior leadership team.

This session will focus on a providing a broad picture that attendees can draw when talking about OpenStack. Enabling them to be able to address the types of questions that someone on their leadership team may pose.

Please join us for this interactive session.

Na Rackspace, definimos Transformação de TI como uma forma de ajudar a possibilitar mudança no TI central. Isso inclui coisas como: dinamizar operações, afastar-se da manutenção e passar para inovação, e manter o controle e a padronização em unidades de negócios.

As companies explore how they can leverage OpenStack to advance their business, they often ask if OpenStack is really “production-ready.” Through co-founding OpenStack, running one of the world’s largest OpenStack clouds, and managing OpenStack private clouds for enterprises, we know what is takes to make OpenStack production-ready. In this session, Justin Shepard, a Rackspace distinguished architect, will discuss what it means to be "production-ready" and how we designed Rackspace Private Cloud Powered By OpenStack to run production workloads. Register today to join this insightful and informative discussion.

Modern performance tools and techniques can dramatically improve the user experience, reduce developer and ops frustration, lead to better utilization of infrastructure and allow you to smartly ship products to market faster.

Working with many companies across all industries, we recognize the pitfalls and barriers to adopting DevOps. The Rackspace DevOps Automation team works with various tools every day to counteract these pitfalls. Join Product Manager @EricBrinkman as he shows you the technologies our DevOps Automation team uses, provide insight as to why they were chosen, and walk through a customer experience demo.

This webinar will include:
•Deploying Magento through UI and pushing code
•A look into the control panel
•Demo of New Relic and Chef
•Simulation of Rackspace customer experience

Read between the lines of benchmarking Redis. Techniques to measure and analyze performance of Redis in your application.

Security and Scalability in the Hybrid Cloud: How to get one without losing the other

Traditionally, you had to design for a focus on scalability or security in the cloud, but not both. Now with services that connect virtual and real computers together, you can achieve cloud scale while satisfying the most stringent security requirements. Join Rackspace’s Matt Shover and Joseph Palumbo Thursday, March 19th to learn:

•Top reasons why people choose the cloud
•Top reason why people think the cloud isn’t the best fit for them
•What is scaling?
•How do you scale?
•How does the hybrid cloud help scale your application?
•How does the hybrid cloud help secure your application?
•So how do you build a hybrid environment?


About the Speakers

Matt Shover:
Matt Shover is the manager of RackConnect Operations at Rackspace, where he leads a passionate team of Rackers that work to seamlessly connect Rackspace's Dedicated and Cloud offerings -- turning customer challenges into awesome outcomes. He holds an MBA in finance from California State University, Hayward and has been a Racker for over eight years.

Joseph Palumbo:
As a founding member and architect of both the Rackspace Cloud’s Managed Operations service level and Launch Team, Joseph has spends half his time teaching customers about the cloud and the other half learning from his customers what the cloud can do. When he’s not writing blog posts, recording podcasts or making videos, he can be found discussing innovation with other Rackers and wishing paper documents had a built-in search function.

Many companies are looking to take advantage of the benefits of cloud computing, but have requirements that make public cloud options unusable. In this session we will discuss the top reasons we have seen for customers to select a private cloud solution. Join us for this interactive and insightful session.