Risks & Rewards of Cloud & Hybrid Data Centers

Still using a file server to share documents? What about that FTP? Emailing large attachments which get stuck in your inbox? The move to cloud computing allows businesses to access information , applications and content from anywhere, anytime on any device. As individuals have demanded the need to have the same ease of use in their enterprise grade applications as in consumer applications, the move to cloud has accelerated product adoption, lowered costs and increased productivity. Learn about various companies who moved to the cloud with Box, best practices and how to easily share without on-premise technology.

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 Crooks 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.

So much focus is given to the enterprise when it comes to Private and Hybrid Cloud but what about SMBs? How they can get the most from the hybrid and private cloud offerings?

Join Rhett Ryder of Zynstra as he provides examples of real world hybrid cloud solutions delivered “hype free” and “as a service.” Rhett will cover a SMB approach to these offerings, what private and on-premise capability should be expected to meet an SMB’s IT requirements, how the cloud is used in this approach, and why it benefits the SMB and their IT suppliers.