Organizing for the Cloud: New Skills, Ops and Finances of the Cloud

As private and public clouds continue to advance, one of the most strategic questions for IT executives is determining which cloud model is best suited for the applications in your portfolio. Forward-thinking IT organizations are examining the business context for their applications to assure that these cloud sourcing decisions are made consistently and quickly.

Join Elliot Young, Director of Transformation for EMC as he shows you how a tool-based approach to cloud workload evaluation can increase your business agility at any budget. Discover how many companies have met their requirements and best practices for how you can too, in this online presentation.

By extending your data center with cloud resources, it can become more flexible, more scalable and more elastic. But how can it be done?

In this webinar, we give an overview of network and connectivity options, from Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) to VPN and Direct Connect. We will also talk about use cases like backup and archiving or disaster recovery

Join Alex McDonald, SNIA Cloud Storage Initiative Chair and a member of the office of the CTO of NetApp and discover how you can effectively deliver Cloud Architectures within your, or any, infrastructure.

More and more IT organisations are facing the challenge of undertaking data center consolidation, transformation and migration due to the pressures from the business to reduce costs and improve agility, along with enabling technologies and solutions such as virtualisation and cloud. But how do we achieve this effectively?

Join Malcolm Orr for a discussion of the ideal strategies and tips, utilising the Rackspace transformation framework, to let you you easily identify the applications that can help start your business transformation and begin your journey to the Hybrid Cloud today!

Join us for a 30-minute live session every Friday, where we’ll tour the RingCentral interface, discuss the latest innovations and features available on the RingCentral platform, and share best practices on leveraging cloud communications for your business. This session features a live demo of RingCentral Office and an open Q&A session led by a Sales Engineer. This week tune in and learn how your employees can hold multi-point HD video meetings around the world, anytime and anywhere with RingCentral Meetings.

Service orchestration is a paradigm that supports cloud providers in arranging, coordinating, and managing computing resources as a system of components and automated workflows that can be delivered as cloud services to cloud consumers. The scope of this involves three types of system components—the service layer, the resource abstraction and control layer, and the physical resource layer—which are the underlying foundations of the cloud provider’s offerings provided in a service catalog.

This webinar discusses content from the document, “ODCA Master Usage Model: Service Orchestration.” The session illustrates the usage model for service discovery and orchestration for cloud services. This usage model includes the components, repositories, data structures, conversation maps, and workflows that assist a cloud consumer in defining required services, and the associated cloud provider to orchestrate services to meet objectives determined by the cloud subscriber and for the appropriate context of use. It defines automation required for orchestration that includes programmatic interfaces, interaction patterns, control interfaces, and lifecycle management.

ICT Enterprise architecture is the backbone of corporate IT systems, the question is are they or can they be sustainable?

Join the MD of Carbon 3IT and Vice chair of the BCS Green IT SG John Booth and his guests Alex Bardell of Deloitte, Richard Lanyon Hogg of IBM, Bob Crookes from DEFRA and Chair of the BCS Green IT SG and IT4s Consultant Gary Thornton as they answer the core questions for sustainable enterprise architecture:
- What is sustainable enterprise architecture?
- Will it require additional skills or money to achieve?
- Will enterprise architecture be superseded by cloud technologies?

The best infrastructure for an app or a service increasingly requires both public and private cloud environments. As enterprise IT teams build private clouds behind their firewall to deploy hybrid IT and leverage the capabilities of elastic public clouds, they will have to contend with profound changes to the network. Innovations promise to make the modern network more automated and dynamic to provide connectivity on-demand in a highly secure fashion.

Today organizations require a flexible IT infrastructure that can spin up resources on demand and securely segment traffic. Virtual private clouds (VPC) allow you to provision a logically isolated section of the public cloud where you can launch resources in a virtual network that you define. The VPC feature set also allows you to easily customize the configuration.

Join Cloudscaling and Juniper to learn from their first hand experience with enterprise customers deploying network virtualization to speed time to market for new apps and services by automating the creation of virtual networks that interconnect private, hybrid and public clouds. They will demonstrate the integrated Cloudscaling OCS and OpenContrail solution that offers a simple to deploy and agile platform based on open source technologies. These experts will also provide insight into:

- Why OpenStack is becoming the de facto cloud open source software for building private and public clouds.
- The importance of orchestration and APIs in the software defined data center
- How virtual networks can seamlessly integrate with physical networks
- How to ease the transition to the private cloud by using service chaining to virtually insert services into the flow of network traffic

Register today and start moving your network into the modern, cloud era.

We hear it all the time, “new AWS services are popping up everywhere”. With Amazon Web Services, and any public cloud solution, being so easy to purchase internal IT users, application developers in particular, are going around IT and leveraging outside, public cloud services. The urgency is growing for most customers. IT needs to figure out how to get control of the spend and sprawl associated with public cloud usage. Gravitant has a a practical approach to help you ‘get a grip on AWS’ and it introduces visibility and budgetary controls but also provides customers with an easy to use portal to encourage them to leverage the IT processes. Join us to learn how a Gravitant cloudMatrix brokerage platform helps IT can get control of AWS while empowering their users.

More and more companies are moving away from a centralized physical structure and allowing employees to work from home or remotely when traveling on business. In 2013, there were an estimated 28 million small businesses in the United States. These businesses have generated over 65% of net new jobs since 1995.

So how do small businesses or for that matter, businesses of any size, keep up with competition in the USA and internationally? One of the answers is to incorporate the concepts of a “virtual business” and employ the rapidly evolving technologies generally called cloud communications.

Some of the topics to be discussed:
- Telecommuting: The ability to have employees work from their homes or while traveling on business yet appear as if they are working from the office.
- Be Local, Act Global: The ability to expand into new markets or even countries, without having to expand your office.
- Contingency Planning: How a virtual business can become more resilient in light of natural or manmade disruptions to business.

Too much data, complexity, and money, not enough time. Storage is a dynamic industry with unique, escalating challenges. There are many products and technologies available to meet your storage objectives. Why choose Google’s Cloud Platform? Learn five reasons Google Cloud Storage is becoming the new ‘gold standard’ in cloud storage.

According to Infonetics Research, the VoIP industry will grow to $76.1 billion by 2015. It is safe to say that VoIP is here to stay, making it crucial to stay up to date with the latest industry shifts to ensure easy, cost-effective and efficient communications within your business.

Join industry experts in this panel session as they discuss the impact cloud computing and mobility are having on the VoIP industry and what this means for your enterprise. Attend this webinar and participate in the discussion in real time.

The panelists will discuss:
- the drivers for moving to cloud, the different types of cloud and its benefits for small and medium businesses and enterprises
- the security concerns of moving to the cloud
- mobility strategies and BYOD

The Google Cloud Platform provides a comprehensive strategy for cloud computing -- whether you need infrastructure resources, develop applications or store your data. But don't take it from us -- hear how other IT professionals like yourself chose Google Cloud Platform for their needs and why.

The rise of cloud computing has lead to many questions about the economic model associated with them. James Staten, VP and principal analyst, and Senior TEI Consultant, Sean Owens from Forrester discuss cloud economics as one of the key concepts within cloud computing. During this webinar, these experts explain the economic considerations companies should take into account when migrating to the cloud. Topics from cloud scaling to cloud optimization are covered and how cloud economics can be used to your organization’s advantage.

Windows Azure mobile service experts Kirill Gavrylyuk, principal program manager lead, and Miranda Luna, product manager demonstrate how to build a secure mobile app in the enterprise. The topics that this webinar will cover focus on employee facing mobile apps, mobile backends in Azure, mobile services, notification hubs as well as some best practices and resources. Both presenters will walk attendees through how Windows Azure can help build a mobile app that is both efficient and secure.