6th annual Cloud Slam 2014 Cloud Computing Conference, San Francisco CA, June 4, 2014. Cloud Computing Events 2014 - Big Data

Emerging Cloud Models: Community Cloud

Fri, 11 Apr 2014 18:18:24 +0000

There is no disputing that both Enterprises and Service Providers are embracing cloud. But now, there are some ‘blurred lines’ as enterprises and public and private institutions that share common requirements are banding together through a “Community Cloud” model. Aimed at delivering on-demand, non-competitive services, infrastructure and application software, this new and emerging IP operating model is based on a community cloud platform. The results are better operational efficiencies, significantly reduced costs, and a greater ability to innovate and generate new revenues for all community members involved.

In this session, Manjula Talreja, VP of Cisco Consulting Services Global Cloud Practice, will further define and discuss the emergence of these new Community Cloud models, pointing to examples of several global university groups who are successfully adopting community cloud initiatives. Talreja will also highlight some of the key operational, delivery, governance, revenue-sharing, ROI — among other — challenges inherent in this new cloud model.

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Cisco Consulting Services

Software-as-a-Service

Saas

Speaker First Name:

Manjula

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Talreja

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Vice President, Global Cloud Practice

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Cisco Consulting Services

Speaker Bio:

Manjula Talreja is a 25-year information technology (IT) industry veteran who has spent the majority of her career at Cisco, where her extensive experience in general management, business strategy consulting, and operations has helped guide teams through many crucial inflection points. Talreja is currently vice president of the Global Cloud Practice for Cisco Consulting Services, the company’s business and IT technology consulting arm. In this expanded role, Talreja is helping to shape and drive Cisco’s enterprise and service provider (SP) cloud strategy. Taking advantage of Cisco’s Internet of Everything (IoE) “network of networks” platform, the Global Cloud Practice is helping CIOs transform enterprise IT delivery models to IT-as-a-Service (ITaaS) and supporting SPs in developing cloud market-entry and execution strategies. Most recently, Talreja was vice president of global cloud business development for Cisco, where she and her team created new, innovative cloud business models and partnerships with technology vendors, SPs, and systems integrators (SIs). In 2009, Talreja ran and launched the Virtual Computing Environment (VCE) coalition, a partnership between Cisco, EMC, and VMware created to accelerate customers’ abilities to increase business agility with data center virtualization and private cloud. From 2004–2007, she served as senior director of Customer Business Transformation with Cisco’s Voice Technology Group (VTG). Prior to Cisco, she spent five years with Hewlett Packard (HP) in its IT manufacturing organization, where she worked on global manufacturing systems in the United States, Southeast Asia, and Europe. Talreja is a highly sought-after industry thought leader and was recently named a CloudNOW “2013 Top Ten Women in Cloud.” She also made CableFAX Magazine’s list of the “Most Powerful Women in Cable 2012.” holds a bachelor’s degree in economics from the University of Delhi, and a bachelor’s degree in business with a major in information systems from Santa Clara University.

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3650 Cisco Way SAN JOSE, CALIFORNIA 95134

California Room

Wednesday, June 4, 2014 - 10:45

Power to the People! Advanced Analytics for All

Wed, 16 May 2012 07:20:59 +0000

Advanced Analytics has the potential to unlock new sources of revenues, reduce expenses, optimize organizations and monetize the mounds of data each organization collects. However, the pursuit of Advanced Analytics nirvana is proceeding along two esoteric paths. First, the ivory tower approach where mysterious data scientists manually turn data into beautifully crafted analysis reports. Second, the massive computing power approach where black-box software crush data into complex models incomprehensible to mere mortals. In reality, the transformative potential of analytics is lost unless it impacts the day to day activities of every level of employees. Neither ivory towers, nor black boxes are inherently suited to empowering every level of the workforce with context appropriate actionable analytics. The future of analytics is simplicity, ubiquity, and actionability. A third path – Advanced Analytics for the masses – is now being enabled by the twin forces of Cloud Computing and Crowdsourcing.

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Arijit

Speaker Last Name:

Sengupta

Speaker Job Title:

CEO

Speaker's Company Name/Affiliation:

BeyondCore

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Arijit Sengupta is the CEO of BeyondCore, the Chair of the Cloud Computing Chapter of the International Association of Outsourcing Professionals (IAOP), and a member of the Indian Cyber Security Advisory Group set up by NASSCOM and the Government of India. BeyondCore received awards such as Gartner Cool Vendor in Business Process Services 2012, GigaOm Structure Launchpad 2011 and the UP2010 Overall Most Innovative Cloud Provider. Arijit has guest lectured at Stanford and other universities on globalization and outsourcing; spoken at conferences in a dozen countries; and was written about in The World Is Flat release 3.0, the New York Times, San Jose Mercury News, and other leading publications. Arijit held leadership positions at several eBusiness initiatives and previously worked at Oracle, Microsoft, and Yankee Group. He has been granted eight patents in the domains of advanced analytics, Business Process as a Service, business process improvement, operational risk, privacy and information security. Arijit holds an MBA with Distinction from the Harvard Business School and Bachelor degrees with Distinction in Computer Science and Economics from Stanford University.

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1400 Fashion Island Blvd. Suite 600 San Mateo, CA 94404, USA

Big Data Altering the Relationship of Technology to Information Consumption

Thu, 29 Mar 2012 17:38:59 +0000

Gartner predicts that the relationship between technology and information consumption will be altered as data is coming from multiple federated sources and in structured and unstructured forms must now be analyzed using new methodologies foreign to many IT departments. "As the relationship between ‘technology means’ and ‘technology outcomes’ becomes ever clearer, stakeholders of all kinds are gaining a sharper understanding of how technology decisions will impact the business, and are raising the bar in terms of expectations for success.” Attendees in the session will learn how big data is affecting their current technology and infrastructures in place for IT departments and steps to take to prepare for the growing data volume that will change their businesses.

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Big Data

information consumption

infrastructure

data volume

Speaker First Name:

Mike

Speaker Last Name:

Hoskins

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CTO and General Manager Big Data Products and Solutions Group, Pervasive Software

Speaker's Company Name/Affiliation:

Pervasive Software

Speaker Bio:

Mike Hoskins brings more than 25 years of experience in developing and managing software companies to his roles at Pervasive. Mike joined Pervasive through its December 2003 acquisition of Data Junction Corporation, where he served as President for the prior 15 years. As Chief Technology Officer, Mike champions Pervasive's technology direction and champions the company’s aggressive investments in leading-edge technologies including Pervasive DataCloud®, the massively parallel big data framework Pervasive DataRush, and embedded integration. Mike received the AITP Austin chapter's 2007 Information Technologist of the Year Award for his leadership in the development of Pervasive’s big data flagship offering, Pervasive DataRush™. Graduating Summa Cum Laude in 1977 from Bowling Green State University in Ohio, Mike recently received its Distinguished Alumni Award. He was also inducted into the BGSU’s Dallas-Hamilton Entrepreneurial Hall of Fame. Mike is a widely respected thinker in the big data and integration arenas, has been featured in a variety of publications, and speaks worldwide on innovations in data management and integration. Topics which he has explored from an industry perspective include trends in big data, the multicore revolution, parallel frameworks for delivering big data throughput, Software as a Service, ROI in data integration, the last mile of integration, and Data as a Service.

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12365-B Riata Trace Parkway Austin, TX 78727 United States

Data Storage, a Building Block for Innovation

Wed, 21 Mar 2012 21:42:00 +0000

Over the last 20 years we have experienced a rate of technological change unparalleled in human history. This incredible pace of life altering innovation is built on the open and unfettered access to core technologies: computing power, open source software, power, bandwidth and data storage. Without access to the innovations in these areas, advances such as the cloud and web services are impossible or at the very least not scalable.

We’ll take a look at data storage as one of the key components of innovation. In a world of “Big Data”, what would be the impact if storage costs were 10 times as expensive? 100 times? What data would you sacrifice? What insights into your business would you lose?

Storage densities have risen exponentially, yet some vendors limit access through proprietary or closed systems. This drives up the cost of storage prohibiting organizations from taking advantage of “Big Data”. We’ll show you how to take commercial, off-the-shelf components and build your own storage servers. We’ll back that up with a case study where 25 Petabytes of data is stored and managed at a one-tenth the cost of proprietary systems. We’ll close with an examination of where storage innovation and open access can take us in the next few years.

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storage infrastructure

data storage

Big Data

Innovation

Speaker First Name:

Gleb

Speaker Last Name:

Budman

Speaker Job Title:

Co-Founder and CEO

Speaker's Company Name/Affiliation:

Backblaze Inc.

Speaker Bio:

As Senior Director of Product Management at SonicWALL, Gleb Budman led the integration of the MailFrontier acquisition, establishing the Email Security division and driving world-wide rollout of its products, doubling its size in just over one year. As Vice President of Products at MailFrontier, he led the organization’s product strategy, management, and marketing, along with business development and the initial build-out of the company’s support team, from pre-launch through acquisition four years later by SonicWALL. Previously, he led product teams for Excite@Home’s 30 million portal visitors and four million broadband ISP subscribers and directed product management and marketing for collaboration and search startup Kendara through its acquisition by Excite@Home. Starting his career at General Electric, Budman holds a B.S. in engineering and an M.B.A. from the University of California at Berkeley.

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Backblaze 500 Ben Franklin Ct San Mateo, CA 94401

How to Take Advantage of Private Cloud’s “Big Data”

Wed, 21 Mar 2012 17:56:05 +0000

Cloud is no longer the biggest buzz around the IT water cooler, at least not directly. The term that is all the rage now is Big Data. In this session, Mike Wronski will explore what Big Data is, why it is increasingly relevant—and critical—to virtualization and private clouds, and what the coming year will bring in terms of solutions that address the cloud’s Big Data challenge and enable IT organizations to take advantage of the wealth of information, so they can extend the value of cloud. Technical and manager-level attendees will learn:

- What “big data” means vis-à-vis the cloud:
As the industry uses virtualization technologies to get closer to achieving “cloud,” we gain access to performance and operational data sets that were difficult or impossible to reliably gather in the past. Ease of access to data, when combined with the ease of provisioning and reconfiguration all via software, presents a massive collection of disassociated Big Data that ranges from application, hypervisor and storage performance metrics, to guest operating system configuration and network flows, to security events and configuration changes.

- The role that storage and analysis play in cloud-oriented Big Data:
Existing storage methods are thought to be insufficient, but does that mean that special-purpose Big Data tools are needed and, if so, why? On the analysis side, Wronski will discuss the resource-intensive and time-consuming nature of typical query and reporting approaches. Attendees will hear about new approaches such as Complex Event Processing (CEP) technology, which can form detailed correlation and analysis on multiple historical and real-time data feeds.

- How domain-specific languages can address the interaction with and analysis of Big Data in private clouds:
Get a better understanding of the trend toward technology building blocks targeted at the management of large virtualization environments. For instance, a “virtual query language” can be used to comprehend the relationships between the tiers of virtualization: hypervisor, storage, networking, and applications and the data generated by those tiers.

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Private cloud

Big Data

Speaker First Name:

Mike

Speaker Last Name:

Wronski

Speaker Job Title:

VP Product Management

Speaker's Company Name/Affiliation:

Reflex Systems

Speaker Bio:

Mike Wronski brings more than 15 years of industry experience to his role as VP of Product Management for Reflex Systems. Prior to joining Reflex he held a senior datacenter architect role at GE Healthcare. His primary role at GE was designing IT security into medical devices and data centers hosting medical records and images. In addition, he led a global team in designing and deploying patient privacy protections as part of a $500M IT project for the modernization of the UK National Healthcare System. Mike's broad IT experience, ranging from large carrier data networking to virtualization, stems from previously held senior roles at Starent Networks (now part of Cisco), Cambia Networks, 3Com and USRobotics. Wronski holds a CISSP and Certified Ethical Hacker certifications, as well as an MBA, and a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Engineering from Florida International University.

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Reflex Systems 53 Perimeter Center East, Suite 175 Atlanta, GA 30346