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

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

Three Degrees of Mediation: Challenges and Lessons in building cloud-agnostic systems

Thu, 13 Mar 2014 02:11:10 +0000

The paper is based on the work I have done while working as a Technology Principal and Cloud Innovation Lead at Global Technology Consulting Firm. It describes unique challenges encountered during the development of a Cloud Broker. Designed to provide seamless and uniform user experience as well as additional enterprise-level capabilities over a broad range of public and private cloud platforms, the broker had to work with a wide variety of diverse cloud APIs. And, in order to allow rapid onboarding of new target clouds, we had to design the system to operate in a generic cloud-agnostic way. We have reviewed and tried quite a few of available cloud integration technologies, both commercial and open-source as a foundation for our cloud abstraction and mediation layer. Couple seemed to be a good choice and, in theory, should have served all our needs, but in the course of development we found that the problem was far more complex than we (and the rest of the market) had anticipated. As we were building our system, we discovered that there was not just one, but 3 different levels of mediation required to build a truly cloud-agnostic solution: syntactic, semantic and idiosyncratic and even the best off-the-shelf solution will not be able to give us that last two out of the box. The final part of the presentation describes the architecture that allows to realize our goals and build the universal broker.

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Speaker First Name:

Alex

Speaker Last Name:

Maclinovsky

Speaker Job Title:

Principal Engineer

Speaker's Company Name/Affiliation:

Sears Holding

Speaker Bio:

Alex is a Principal Engineer at Sears Online. His previous role was Global Cloud Innovation Lead at Accenture. Prior to joining Accenture, Alex had a long history of innovation in the cloud and distributes systems space: he built his first global cloud last century, delivered several of Amazon’s cloud services and helped a number of clients to become cloud providers.

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2104 Franklin Dr, Glenview IL 60026

Oregon Room

Wednesday, June 4, 2014 - 15:05

Measure your Cloud IT by Numbers

stefano.spada@grandsla.com — Mon, 25 Mar 2013 02:25:43 +0000

Having a modern IT infrastructure on the cloud doesn’t mean that you don’t need to measure the strategic key performance indicators in order to be in control.
There is today a big uncertainty about what these indicators should be. In this paper we will demonstrate our model that has been developed in the last year based on the experience in our startup.
Our startup, as many in these days, doesn’t own any data center. We use a full cloud infrastructure as a service and we’ve built on it a complete scalable platform to growth together with our customer base. Notwithstanding we’ve planned since the very beginning to measure all indicators to reveal the health of our infrastructure and grouped them in four key systems:
• Operation
• Application
• Financial
• Security
For each key system the key indicators are defined (more than 100 altogether).
This presentation will provide our case study and will offer a complete working framework for the audience to use to measure their cloud IT and projects.

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KPI

IaaS

SLA GOVERNANCE ITIL SAAS SERVICE_LEVEL_MANAGEMENT CLOUD

Speaker First Name:

Stefano

Speaker Last Name:

Spada

Speaker Job Title:

CEO

Speaker's Company Name/Affiliation:

GRANDSLA

Speaker Bio:

Growth oriented entrepreneur. Good at scaling all aspects of the business - great product knowledge and understanding as well as go to market. Built and led great teams of amazing people. Specialties marketing, product direction, innovation (technology and business model), building and leading great teams. New business ideas development, new ventures and startups development.

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Alessandro Franceschi

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GRANDSLA @trustyourcloud

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1618 East Gate Way Pleasanton, 94566, CA

Redwood Room

Tuesday, June 18, 2013 - 15:05

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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Data Center Efficiency & Scalability

Fri, 30 Mar 2012 17:06:29 +0000

Nimbula’s Director of Product Management will discuss Nimbula’s learnings over the last few years on how to build and operate a scalable and efficient IaaS cloud. The talk will explain how to design the datacenter, business operations, and applications around the cloud model of IT so that you can achieve an extreme improvement in IT’s scalability while also significantly lowering operational expenses.

Principles of scale
* Building the cloud hierarchically to avoid bottlenecks
* Simplifying cloud networks by flattening them and having a more flexible network isolation model
* Decoupling unrelated concepts such as broadcast domains from tenant isolation
* Scaling out services horizontally to eliminate bottlenecks and single points of failure

Automation for operational efficiency
* Zero-touch installation of cloud nodes
* Self-healing control plane that ensures a constantly available API without heavy administrator interaction
* Automation of placement of newly provisioned resources based on infrastructure tagging, end user demands, and administrative policy

Organizational efficiency
* Eliminating red tape through self-service of compute, storage, and networks – making sure that tenants can be their own administrators from business logic to network topology, to application management
* Multi-layer delegation – distribute authority and drive decisions on access to the lowest level possible so that decisions made by the people with the actual responsibility for the data, the applications, and the business results
* Cross-tenant collaboration – Enable cloud tenants to work together securely, quickly, and without the need for arbitration by the cloud administrator
* Decoupling roles – Make sure that any role – cloud administrator, tenant administrator, and end user can do their work without the need to wait on work from another role to proceed. Have end users work within predefined constraints but have complete freedom within those boundaries.

Application architecture
* Stateless scale-out applications – Not all applications take advantage of the cloud. By eliminating state from the bulk of the application instances and by scaling out applications, you can decouple the operation of the application from the internals of the infrastructure, freeing the application administrator to manage the applications without assistance from the cloud administrator

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Speaker First Name:

Jay

Speaker Last Name:

Judkowitz

Speaker Job Title:

Director of Product Management

Speaker's Company Name/Affiliation:

Nimbula

Speaker Bio:

Jay Judkowitz runs product management at Nimbula, a leading cloud software startup. Before Nimbula, Jay was at VMware for over eight years where he drove products like Site Recovery Manager and Storage VMotion. Jay started his career as a hands on IT practitioner at Intel, where he personally experienced many of the pains that drive the need for cloud computing and where he implemented some of the early products that tried to solve those pains. From Intel's IT, to VMware, to Nimbula, Jay has been intimately involved in the growth of the technologies that will soon make ubiquitous cloud computing a reality.

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Speaker's Twitter profile:

@Jay_Judkowitz

Speaker's Postal Address:

1200 Villa St. Suite #160 Mountain View, CA 94041

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

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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