Managing Hybrid Clouds from a Supplier and User Perspective

Noticing that the choice of a single cloud comes with business continuity risks, hybrid clouds are the answer to ensure that data and applications are always available. There is still a lot of confusion around this subject. Many see the use of hybrid clouds as a safety net for cloud computing as a whole, taking advantage of the best of multiple cloud worlds. But how should an organisation implement this, control it and what are the challenges ahead? In this presentation the answers to these questions will be given. Whether you are a supplier or a buyer, after this session you are ready to go on hybrid computing with all the knowledge you need. Mr. van der Woude is Vice Chairman of EuroCloud Netherlands and General Director of EuroCloud Europe. His principal occupation is strategic advisor at Personal Consult, a management consulting company where he has been working in the consultancy area for almost 20 years managing major changes in national and international organizations. Many assignments have a strong component where ICT (and departments) have to be related to the business, other assignments are to make organizations more efficient or help them with the development of short and long term strategy. Nowadays the focus is on Cloud computing (from supplier and user perspective) and turning businesses with their processes to this new business model.