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

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

Speaker Job Title:

Vice President, Global Cloud Practice

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Cisco Consulting Services

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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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California Room

Wednesday, June 4, 2014 - 10:45

Securely Leveraging Hybrid Clouds for Healthcare Data Processing

Cloud Technology Partners — Fri, 05 Apr 2013 16:56:33 +0000

Most public cloud infrastructure providers such as Amazon provide customers little insight into their underlying security models beyond touting their certifications. Healthcare cloud customers have been reluctant to use these public clouds due to the need to add additional layers of infrastructure and security to satisfy internal audit processes and heavy regulatory requirements. Typically, the traditional compute model for processing of complex data sets is built on costly secured internal infrastructure that requires far too much fixed capital, has high overhead expenses, and does not deliver the desired results in real time. This represents a real opportunity to find a way to leverage the benefits of the public cloud without compromising control or security.

The i-Path conceptual model is a foundation for creating secure, elastic-computing environments that take advantage of the best of both public and private clouds infrastructures for application service delivery. By taking advantage of the elasticity of the public cloud for real-time processing of healthcare data, there is an opportunity for reducing capital costs and delivery latency by using appropriate IT resources, wherever they are located, more efficiently. This new hybrid cloud approach extends the enterprise processing power to the cloud, yet maintains the stringent security models required by regulators.

i-Path is a series of containers that includes a foundational library, an Enterprise Service Bus (ESB), and a Service Catalog; all layered on a secured message queue that packages private data for processing in the public cloud.

• Enterprise Service Broker – provides a secured pathway from private to public cloud environments
• Reliable Message Service – provides a processing service to manage messages between the private and public cloud environments
• Service Catalog – provides a suite of applications to support pre-defined workflows, cloud orchestration and security containers

This model can be safely applied to clinical trials data analysis, claims processing and research analytics.

During this interactive session you will learn the basic principles behind how i-Path works and how it can be applied to a variety of use cases in the healthcare vertical. Topics that will be addressed include:

• The advantages and disadvantages of a hybrid cloud approach in the healthcare setting and the ways that i-Path can increase value while mitigating the risks
• A discussion of the i-Path multi-layer architecture and how it works to securely bridge public/private cloud environments
• Use cases for this architecture includes: real-time claims processing, clinical trial data analysis and other burst and compute intensive workloads

Keywords:

electronic medical records

Speaker First Name:

George

Speaker Last Name:

Marootian

Speaker Job Title:

VP, Principal Cloud Architect

Speaker's Company Name/Affiliation:

Cloud Technology Partners, Inc.

Speaker Bio:

George Marootian (VP, Principal Cloud Architect) has over 20 years of experience delivering technology strategy and business solutions to global Fortune 1000 companies in the finance, retail, and health care industries. A practicing Enterprise Architect, he is highly skilled in the development, planning and execution of transformational strategies to integrate enterprise data and software in support of business goals and objectives. Prior to joining Cloud Technology Partners, Mr. Marootian has worked with a number of multi-national firms, a successful startup delivering web products, and companies that delivered products to create and manage secure electronic health records.

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Washington Room

Tuesday, June 18, 2013 - 14:30

The Hybrid Cloud: Collaborate and Share Content with External Entities While Protecting Confidential Information

MatthewMeigs — Wed, 03 Apr 2013 18:21:04 +0000

Life sciences companies operate in an increasingly virtual environment in which suppliers, sub-contractors and other external entities must have access to core documentation and participate in mission-critical processes. Pharmaceutical and biotech companies can no longer be isolated silos, and the reality of this environment has created the need for a more effective solution for sharing, yet protecting, GxP-critical and HIPAA-critical content, as well as other sensitive documentation such as IP rights or patents.

This has led to an increasing demand to elevate information management and related processes off the ground and into the cloud. Cloud-based applications and platforms deliver numerous advantages over on-premise solutions, and represent a significant shift in how life sciences organizations store, manage, access, protect and share digital content. But should you abandon your existing systems and jump into the cloud, or are there advantages to maintaining on-premise servers and software deployments? The good news is that you don’t have to make this choice.

In the heavily regulated life sciences industry it's often preferred to keep specific applications and information on-premise behind the company firewall. A hybrid cloud model can prove to be the ideal manner for bridging the gap between the need to store certain data on-premise and the potential to improve business operations with cloud-based services.

With a hybrid cloud model, life sciences companies can replicate selected content to the cloud for collaborating with external parties, such as subcontractors, supplier, outsourced manufacturers, CROs, sponsors, customers, and clinical sites - while still securing sensitive information behind the firewall within an on-premise repository. In addition, this approach enables organizations to move content from an active cloud-based repository to an on-premise archive repository for long-term retention, which addresses demanding records management requirements as well as those associated with regulatory or quality compliance.

Session attendees will learn how a hybrid cloud-based approach to information management can significantly improve quality systems and compliance-related activities, while ensuring confidential information is secure and protected.

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hybrid cloud

information management

Speaker First Name:

Mika

Speaker Last Name:

Salonoja

Speaker Job Title:

Senior Product Manager, Pharmaceutical & Life Sciences

Speaker's Company Name/Affiliation:

M-Files Inc.

Speaker Bio:

Mr. Mika Salonoja has 16 years of life-science-IT experience. His past duties include Head of IT at the Finnish Genome Center, a high-throughput genomics core facility; Chief Technology Officer at GeneOS ltd., the first Finnish commercial biobank and provider of biomarker validation services; and Chief Information Officer at Encorium Group, a global Contract Research Organization. His current position is Senior Product Manager, Pharmaceutical and Life Sciences at M-Files Inc., a provider of regulatory compliant content management, document management and quality management solutions.

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Oregon Room

Tuesday, June 18, 2013 - 14:30

Putting the cloud to work in the enterprise

Fri, 30 Mar 2012 15:35:09 +0000

The only dominant force in the enterprise cloud computing market today is confusion. While many organizations can provide real-world, enterprise-class use cases, many more are still in the early stages of adopting public, private, or hybrid cloud approaches. For cloud computing to be successful in the enterprise, the business impact of how the cloud helps enterprises grow their business innovation and make an IT transformation must be understood. This session will discuss the business scenarios driving enterprises to adopt cloud computing, and it will provide enterprise use cases to illustrate the business value and technological approach.

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Speaker First Name:

Xin Sheng

Speaker Last Name:

Mao

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CTO of IBM China Development Lab

Speaker's Company Name/Affiliation:

IBM

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Xin Sheng Mao is the Chief Technology Officer (CTO) of IBM China Development Lab. Before this role, he founded China SOA Design Center and was the Chief Architect North Asia of IBM Software Group responsible for SOA engagement and innovation. Mr. Mao graduated from Beijing University with major in computer science. After that, he had worked as a researcher, engineer or architect in Beijing University, IBM China Research and IBM China Development Lab. Now he is focusing on emerging technologies and its application in industries, including Web 2.0, SaaS and Cloud Computing. In 2009, he was awarded IBM Distinguished Engineer for his outstanding technical achievements.

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Beijing, China