6th Annual Conference. June 04, 2014. San Francisco

Choosing the right cloud provider

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Session Abstract

Choosing a cloud provider is critical. Making a bad choice can ruin a company and your career. Learn how to make sure you make the right choice.

In this session we will cover
1. What to ask about the company that you will be partnering with
2. What to make sure is in the contract
3. All the technical questions around authentication, authorization and access
4. How to make sure you can administer the system after
5. How to make sure it integrates with what you have today and will have tomorrow
6. What to think about from a staffing perspective
7. What you need to know about API’s and integration

In the end you will be able to confidently choose the right cloud provider for your company, whether it’s a software as a service play, infrastructure or platform as a service.

Enterasys has nearly 80% of our core applications in the cloud. Attend this session and learn from a company that has been using the cloud since 2003. We’ve been there. We’ve done that.

Speaker

Rich Casselberry, Director of IT infrastructure, Enterasys Networks
Rich Casselberry is director of IT Operations for Enterasys Networks in Andover, Mass. He is responsible for the company's IT infrastructure and ensuring that employees around the world have reliable, secure access to the IT resources they need to do their jobs. His organization also manages the company's telecom equipment and services, systems support, help desk services, and internal and external Web sites. Casselberry has held a number of key IT management positions for enterprises, consulting organizations and in the public sector in his career. He joined Enterasys in 2001 when the company emerged from the former Cabletron Systems of New Hampshire. He rose to his current position in 2004. He was with Cabletron from 1990 to 1995 and 1999 to 2001 in a variety of increasingly senior IT positions. From 1995 to 1997 Casselberry was IT manager for Current Technology, a consulting company based in New Hampshire. He served as the IT director for the town of Sanford, Maine, from 1997 to 1999. Casselberry was also a contributing author of the following books, published by Que: "Running a Perfect Website with Apache," "Webmaster's Expert Solutions," and "Special Edition Using Intranet HTML." He was the lead author of "Running a Perfect Intranet." In addition he has been published in various periodicals such as CIO.com and Infoworld.

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