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

Realizing Multi-Cloud Management and Cloud Marketplace

Wed, 21 May 2014 20:15:00 +0000

Many enterprises from small business to the largest companies are incrementally moving to a model in which: 1) The business exploits multiple public and private clouds. 2) Use a mix of cloud services that include IaaS, SaaS, web callable APIs and PaaS. 3) View acquiring cloud services to be similar to a commerce experience for physical HW and SW.
The keynote presentation:
1. Enumerates and explains technical challenges for realizing the multi-cloud and cloud marketplace.
2. The role of technologies for solving the challenges, including: a) Application Performance Management. b) Federated Identity and Access Management. c) Workload Blueprints. d) Multi-Cloud Management functions and console. e) Application Integration.
3. Provides a reference architecture for an integrated solution.
4. Explains the role of Dell products in the RA.

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Speaker First Name:

Dr Don

Speaker Last Name:

Ferguson

Speaker Job Title:

Senior Fellow and CTO at Dell Software.

Speaker's Company Name/Affiliation:

Dell Software

Speaker Bio:

Dr. Donald F. Ferguson is vice president and chief technology officer for Dell’s Software Group. Dell named Don a Senior Fellow in January 2013, and Don is currently one of only two Dell Senior Fellows. Don also chairs the Pan-Dell CTO Forum. Don is the only person to have been an IBM Fellow, Microsoft Technical Fellow and Dell Senior Fellow. Don leads the architecture, implementation design, technical strategy and innovation for Dell Software Group products and solutions. Don also works with colleagues across Dell to help ensure integration and innovation for software solutions spanning all of Dell’s businesses. Some of Don’s recent solution focus at Dell has been on hybrid cloud management, BYOD/mobility management and security, end-to-end next generation connected security. Prior to joining Dell, Don was executive vice president and chief technology officer for CA Technologies. Don defined the technical strategy and product architecture. This included strategic technology acquisitions (e.g. 3Tera, iTKO, Hyperformix), technical guidance for innovative organic development (e.g. CA Service Operations Insight, Server Automation for Cloud) and product integration and solutions (e.g. Catalyst/Unified Service Model, Integrated Demand Management, CA Open Space). Prior to joining CA in 2008, Don was a Microsoft Technical Fellow working in the Office of the CTO and in Server and Tools Business. He worked on various projects exploring the future of enterprise software, with a special emphasis on Web services and Internet application platforms. Don began his career at IBM, where he worked for twenty years. In 2001 Don became an IBM Fellow, IBM's highest technical honor. IBM has approximately 80 IBM Fellows in the 150,000 person engineering team. Don served as chief architect for the IBM Software Group, where he focused on design issues and initiatives spanning the DB2, WebSphere, Tivoli, Lotus and Rational product families. During this time, Ferguson also worked on a number of SOA, web service and web application initiatives, specifications and standards. Don also held the title of chief architect for the WebSphere product family from its inception until becoming IBM Software Group chief architect. Don is often credited as “The Father of WebSphere.” Don earned a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Columbia University. He has contributed to approximately 30 technical journal and conference publications, and has more than a dozen patents. The Columbia Engineering Alumni Association of Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science at Columbia University named Don a 2013 recipient of The Egleston Medal. The award is an annual recognition of one or two alumni for “distinguished achievement in engineering or applied science.”

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Toronto

Emerald Ballroom

Wednesday, June 4, 2014 - 11:20

iPaaS case study: Gaining cloud benefits in application integration while maintaining full data security

admin — Fri, 10 May 2013 20:15:43 +0000

A previous presentation at Cloud Slam (“Video Killed the Radio Star and Cloud Computing Will Kill the Programming Star,” Cloud Slam ’11) discussed how the explosion of cloud-callable APIs and simple, intuitive programming tools will empower non-programmers to revolutionize IT through an explosion of situation applications. This represents a new best-of-breed approach for both back-office and front-office applications, enabled by SaaS and knitted together with new middleware and interoperability tools. This presentation will provide a concrete example of a product, Dell Boomi, enabling the trend, and demonstrate with a proof of concept from pharmaceutical giant Novartis how the ideas have become real. Unfettered adoption of the cloud model and realization of cloud benefits means addressing application and data integration, and today’s integration tools must evolve and deploy at the speed of cloud, even while meeting fundamental security and compliance requirements – just like all of the application landscape today.

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enterprise infrastructure

Speaker First Name:

Chris

Speaker Last Name:

McNabb

Speaker Job Title:

General Manager, Dell Boomi

Speaker's Company Name/Affiliation:

Dell

Speaker Bio:

Chris joined the Dell Boomi team in 2011 following a 12 year career with SunGard Higher Education. In his prior roles, Chris was SVP of worldwide software development and had responsibility for all software execution, delivery and quality to over 1600 customers. Chris spent two years as a management consultant at a subsidiary of Pennsylvania Blue Shield advising on project management and quality assurance initiatives to improve development execution. Chris started his career in software development in the financial services sector holding various engineering and management roles. Chris attended Indiana University of Pennsylvania (MIS) and Villanova (Business).

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Monterey Room

Tuesday, June 18, 2013 - 13:20

Sonian and Big Data

admin — Fri, 27 Apr 2012 21:04:50 +0000

How would you define "big data"? To Sonian, "big data" is a cloud-powered data repository designed to manage. But it took a long time to get to this point - "big data" has taken a significant journey over the past few years. We've seen it morph into various themes; a big career opportunity for data scientists; the system of record; how the cloud can be used to effectively solve the data problem; and many others. Regardless of the form "big data" takes, it seems as though there are endless possibilities to success.

Speaker First Name:

Greg

Speaker Last Name:

Arnette

Speaker Job Title:

CTO & Founder

Speaker's Company Name/Affiliation:

Sonian

Speaker Bio:

Greg Arnette has more than 15 years of experience in messaging, collaboration, Internet and networking, having created messaging products and services starting with AlertWare and most recently IntelliReach, which was acquired by Infocrossing in 2006. Since 2006, Greg has been developing Web-based information management solutions leveraging open source technology with virtualization infrastructure. As Sonian’s CTO, Greg is responsible for the company’s product vision, technical innovation and engineering leadership. Greg has most recently spoken at MassTechnology Leadership Council’s “Find the Right Way to the Cloud,” discussing the keys to building a cloud-powered platform that is successful. He has also presented at the Cloud Control Conference and Exhibit, Canaccord Growth Conference, and Lotusphere.

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@sonian

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Building a Better Cloud: The Future of IaaS + PaaS

Fri, 30 Mar 2012 15:50:12 +0000

Many organizations have turned to cloud-based Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) and Platform as a Service (PaaS) to optimize developer productivity and increase business agility. However for all the benefits that each of these solutions can bring an organization, each faces real—but avoidable—limitations when used in isolation. On one hand IaaS requires too much configuration to offer the greatest benefit for increasingly agile development teams. At the same time PaaS doesn’t offer the customization and granular management IT needs to manage highly complex or legacy systems.

In order to maximize business agility, the next generation of cloud solutions must be optimized to support the complete app lifecycle for both new and legacy systems—from lightweight web interfaces to mission-critical, production applications. In practice this means a development, testing, and production environment that enables both PaaS’ ease of development while still including IaaS’ strong management capabilities and support for legacy applications.

The potential implementations of such an environment range from a cross-vendor IaaS-to-PaaS connection and management layer to a single provider running both IaaS and PaaS in a single unified platform. These next-generation implementations would allow developers to test and deploy to PaaS while IT retains the ability to port any apps to IaaS that require higher levels of control and configuration. All applications regardless of underlying systems and infrastructure could be managed through a single interface with uniform SLA criteria and administrative functions such as billing.

In this presentation, the speaker will discuss the current state of IaaS and PaaS integration—including insights regarding IaaS and PaaS adoption in the enterprise, sample use cases, and an exploration of the future of “as a service” cloud solutions. Additionally, the speaker will cover real-world customer implementation scenarios and demonstrate how this new cloud model is transforming their IT and business operations.

Attendees will come away from the presentation with a solid understanding about the benefits and limitations of both IaaS and PaaS, and will be equipped to begin planning an integrated cloud solution that meets their business needs.

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Speaker First Name:

Bryan

Speaker Last Name:

Thompson

Speaker Job Title:

Vice President of Services

Speaker's Company Name/Affiliation:

Tier 3

Speaker Bio:

As vice president of services, Bryan Thompson oversees the teams responsible for pre and post-sales technical support and professional services. Thompson brings over 15 years of experience architecting and operating enterprise technology solutions. Prior to joining the Tier 3 team, Thompson held a number of senior leadership roles requiring deep expertise in technical and operational functions including Amazon.com, Standard & Poor's and Limelight Networks.

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Tier 3 c/o Bryan Thompson 110 110th Ave. NE Bellevue, WA 98004

Gain Total Cloud Control

Thu, 22 Mar 2012 18:59:39 +0000

The frenzy around cloud computing is analogous to the California gold rush of the 1849. As many gold prospectors discovered, without the right planning, provisions, and ability to execute, gold remained out of reach. For many organizations the same is true regarding cloud computing — they "rush to the cloud" and then try figure out how to manage it.

Join us in this session to find out what you need to ensure a successful enterprise cloud roll out and learn how enterprises can gain Total Cloud Control with a complete cloud lifecycle solution including integrated cloud stack management and business driven application management.

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Private cloud

cloud

Management

Oracle cloud computing

Speaker First Name:

Anand

Speaker Last Name:

Akela

Speaker Job Title:

Senior Principal Product Director

Speaker's Company Name/Affiliation:

Oracle

Speaker Bio:

Anand currently focuses on cloud management, virtualization management and infrastructure management offerings in the Oracle Enterprise Manager portfolio. Prior to his current role at Oracle, Anand has worked at Hewlett Packard in various product marketing, product management and engineering roles in the systems management, servers, data center energy efficiency, enterprise software areas. He serves as the chairman of Data Collection and Analysis workgroup at the Green Grid, an industry consortium developing and promoting energy efficiency for data centers and enterprise systems.

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http://www.linkedin.com/in/anandakela

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http://twitter.com/aakela

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10 Twin Dolphin Drive, Redwood City, CA, 94065