Strategies for Building Cloud Confidence

Join us for a discussion between Claus Moldt, former Global CIO at SalesForce.com, and David Roth, CEO of AppFirst. Learn best practices from two of the world’s leading organizations on how they’ve achieved web-scale IT.

During this webinar, we’ll explore:
- How the right breadth and granularity of metrics is required to successfully achieve and manage web-scale, and transform IT to a Service
- Best practices established at companies like SalesForce.com and eBay
- Strategies for sizing environments when migrating to virtual or cloud services
- The benefits of an IT as a Service model

Key performance indicators (KPI) enable organizations to manage their factories, distribution centers, supply chain and other aspects of your business operations in a cost effective manner. This means having metrics that matter covering not only utilization of assets, material consumption and production output. In addition, this means having insight into defects, re-work, lost time due to delays or lost opportunity. IT Data Centers are Information Factories that also need to be monitored for different purposes as well as from various facets and context to have timely insight for effective decision-making. Monitoring ranges from physical facilities or the habitats for technology to the technology and tools that live there (servers, storage, networking, hardware, software) to deliver information services. This webinar looks at how to avoid flying blind gaining situational awareness and timely data center insight monitoring a key enabler for data center infrastructure management (DCIM). Topics that we will discuss include metrics that matter, service level objectives (SLOs), DCIM, PMDB, performance, availability (reliability, accessibility, and durability), capacity, energy and economics (PACEE), cloud, virtualization, sustainability among others.

Key themes:
•Everything is not the same in the data center or information factory
•Metrics that matter from physical to virtual, cloud and where to get them
•Facilities, energy and power, server, storage, networking and software
•Do you know what your costs to deliver a given level of service are?
•Sustainability for productivity and economics without the Green-washing

With both CIOs and CFOs challenged to deliver efficiencies and reduce costs, the quickest routes to results always seems the easiest and trending toward Cloud Services, but few understand how this affects software Governance, Risk and Compliance.

Moving to Hybrid IT environments and the complexities of evolving licensing terms, organisations need to review the basics across the distributed IT landscape: establish Governance, measure Risk and maintain Compliance, in order to keep control of costs and drive vendor performance

Join Martin Prendergast, Chair of the CIF GRC Special Interest Group and CEO of Concorde Solutions for a discussion of the governance, risk and compliance practicalities of moving to a hybrid IT environment in your organisation.

Are you ready for what's ahead? Resilience in action requires constant evolution; scanning the horizon for lessons learned to enhance your existing approach to business resilience. How do you take your program to the next level and implement a more business centric approach to mitigate business continuity risk? Join us as we identify key areas for increased business continuity focus based on IBM's own experiences building and deploying their program worldwide. What risk strategies do you need to improve? Do you have new types of risks resulting from strategic initiatives? Are you moving into new markets? Globalising? Consolidating operations? Changing workforce demographics? How do you drive C-suite engagement? This webinar will provide insights and share specific examples of actions we all can take to evolve our business continuity programs to the next level.

In this session, join Troux’s Craig Dalton and Rackspace’s Christian Foster and Niki Acosta as they discuss how Troux Technologies is using the Rackspace Hybrid Cloud powered by OpenStack to run their on-demand SaaS offering and generate positive customer outcomes. They will discuss Troux’s:
- Journey to the hybrid cloud
- Experience with OpenStack
- Security and performance benefits of their private cloud
- How they are automating their environment
- Tips for those moving from a traditional IT environment to the cloud

As organizations move to virtualize their environments they must rethink how the secure their data. Encryption will play a key role in protection of data as perimeter defences become less relevant and traditional security mechanisms struggle to keep threats at bay.

Join your fellow professionals for a best practice session, to first learn the detail on how encryption is expanding as organizations or all shapes and sizes, and from a wide range of industries, migrate to virtual environments. Then discuss several key management best practices to complete "the keychain" for organizations considering a move to the cloud. Finally we look at specific use cases to demonstrate the use of these best practices for encryption and key management in the enterprise.

Join Mike Gare to hear more about how to simplify security configuration management and automation for servers.

IBM intention to share the details of a our exciting solution comprising our best-in-class automation and security configuration management capabilities - all leveraging the BigFix platform. That means a single agent, console and server to provide a comprehensive offering for Data Center Ops and IT Security Professionals - all at the lowest TCO.

Michael Gare is a Product Manager with more than 20 years of experience with global organizations including Computerland, Nortel Networks and IBM. Mike has a broad range of experience in Telecommunications, Mobile technologies, Data Center Automation and Cloud Computing. He has performed a variety of leadership roles, all of which, involved working directly with customers.

He is currently a software product manager in IBM responsible for a number of solutions focused on automating the lifecycle management of servers.

IT Departments are pressured into using cloud services, but they face challenges in delivering these services, should they move into new build cloud, legacy cloud or internal cloud via a retrofit of their existing facilities?

Join John Booth and guests Bob Crooke of BCS Green IT Special Interest Group, Richard Barrington of ICEOTOPE, Vic Smith of Colt and Gary Thornton of AET4IT for a discussion of the benefits and pitfalls of all 3 and takes a quick peek into the data centre of the 2025.

Learn why benchmarking your current network and server virtualization infrastructure is vital to your organizations long-term Cloud Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) success. Benchmarking will yield your IT organization the knowledge needed for solid planning, effective execution and post-migration performance validation.

Join us for our Intro to Box series, a monthly discussion of the latest in
the world of enterprise IT, content collaboration, cloud technology, and Box.
We'll cover an overview of Box, how businesses like yours are changing the
way they work with Box and other cloud technologies, and walk through a
demo of the latest and greatest in the product. The sessions will be led by
Box product experts, and you might even get a guest appearance from one of
our fearless leaders.

Hybrid cloud technologies are transforming the way we deliver applications to customers and employees, but organisations continue to have challenges connecting customers to applications and content. Global customers suffer from network latencies and bottlenecks which impact the user experience. Furthermore, in the race to build out high-performance applications, enterprises often buy more compute capacity than they need, because it is difficult to predict the rate of customer adoption, leading to high costs and inflexible infrastructure.

Join Paul Wallace of Riverbed Technology, and learn how to:
* Right-size your cloud resources and keep control of your costs
* Turn distance and location into a competitive advantage
* Mobilise your cloud with the industry's first ADC-as-a-Service solution

Hybrid Cloud seems to many to be the obvious choice. No as insecure or inefficient as public cloud, nor as expensive or restrictive as private cloud. Yet is it really all its hyped up to be? And what of the alternatives?

Join this expert panel as they discuss:
- Is your cloud truly private? Is it truly Hybrid?
- Is virtualisation masquerading as the cloud?
- As companies abandon their private clouds, is public the future?
- Is 2014 the year of Hybrid?
- Is Hybrid getting smarter? Is hardware catching up?

Attend this interactive session, ask your questions, voice your opinion and discover whether Hybrid cloud will truly be the future for your organisation, or just a load of hot air.

The Infrastructure as a Service space is rapidly expanding, but is it evolving to meet your needs? Google Compute Engine was designed to help users build, scale, and analyze quickly on the same infrastructure that powers the most advanced and innovative technology in the world. Learn what happens when the cloud gets a little more Googley.

There are a myriad options to choose from in creating a private, hybrid-enabled cloud. You need a solution that gets your organization to a running cloud, delivering value in the shortest time possible and with the openness to build on value in the future. This session will show you how to fast track building and managing a hybrid-enabled cloud that leverages OpenStack technology and cloud best practices with the next generation of HP CloudSystem.

Join us to learn:

- The benefits of building your cloud with OpenStack technology
- How to leverage the benefits of OpenStack technology without all the complexity
- Ways to build your cloud in just hours, even with diverse platforms
- Best practices for cloud services portals that speed productivity and hybrid application delivery
- How to simplify cloud resource and infrastructure management into one seamless view

The word cloud is much over used, and the debate continues as to whether it should be cloud, or cloud computing. In either case, the main focus is on how the cloud computing market is evolving and where should enterprise customers invest their money? Ovum has conducted many surveys and the results indicate the move toward hybrid cloud computing is fast becoming the top choice for many enterprise customers.

Join Roy Illsley for this webinar and discover why cloud computing is evolving and how it fits in with a wider IT transformation agenda. Roy will share the results of Ovum's latest global adoption survey and discuss the importance of the findings. The key adjacent technologies and the impact on cloud computing will also be explored. Attend and learn how you can put IT transformation and cloud computing in to context.

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!