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

Protect Critical SaaS Application Data before It’s Too Late: What You Need to Know about Cloud Application Data Protection and Availability

admin — Thu, 15 May 2014 22:10:08 +0000

It’s no secret that businesses are turning to the cloud to run their critical business applications but also to store and manage business-critical data. However, it’s still unclear for most organizations how SaaS applications, such as Google Apps and Salesforce, protect their data. In this session, Jeff Erramouspe, CEO & President, Spanning discusses how organizations can avoid SaaS data loss and minimize the risk of lost productivity, non-compliance and more, with cloud-to-cloud backup.

Specifically, he’ll share:

Top 5 causes of SaaS application data loss
Limitations of SaaS vendors in backup and recovery
Real-life stories of companies that avoided data loss from hacking, human error and more
Key requirements for effective cloud application backup and restore

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Speaker First Name:

Jeff

Speaker Last Name:

Erramouspe

Speaker Job Title:

CEO & President

Speaker's Company Name/Affiliation:

Spanning

Speaker Bio:

Jeff leads the Spanning team not just in the ways you’d expect – such as developing strategy, budgeting, and recruiting – but also by enabling great people to do their best work. This means setting goals that inspire excellence while eliminating obstacles to success. Prior to being appointed CEO and president, Jeff was Spanning’s chief revenue officer. Before that, he was president of Manticore Technology, which he led through three successive years of revenue growth in the highly competitive marketing automation market. He was founding CEO of Deepfile Corporation (became StoredIQ and sold to IBM in 2012), was VP of market development at Digby, and served as Vignette Corporation’s first VP of marketing. He started his career with NCR Corporation and also held senior management positions at Compaq Computer Corporation. Away from work, he loves to cook; it’s the perfect blend of planning, creativity, and gadgetry for a technology entrepreneur and CEO. Jeff holds a BA in management science from the University of California at San Diego. He has also served as an adjunct professor of entrepreneurship in the Graduate School of Business at the University of Texas.

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California Room

Wednesday, June 4, 2014 - 10:10

Architectural Strategies for Patterns of Interoperability

Thu, 13 Mar 2014 23:16:08 +0000

Enterprise adoption of Cloud Computing typically involves some form of hybrid Cloud interoperability between internal systems and public Cloud services. Patterns of interoperability generally fall into one of three hybrid models: Functional Distribution, Lifecycle Distribution, and Workload Distribution. In this session patterns for each of the three models are explored in terms of relevant Use Cases, typical Architectures, and strategies for Interoperability.

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Speaker First Name:

Scott

Speaker Last Name:

Mattoon

Speaker Job Title:

Director Program Architecture

Speaker's Company Name/Affiliation:

Salesforce.com

Speaker Bio:

Took a grand tour of Silicon Valley starting in the 80's - Sun, NeXT, Cybersource, Oracle, a couple startups. Remember the ASP model? Been there. Led Sun's global COE for Cloud Computing. The scars have healed. Recently developed Cloud Computing architectures and strategies for Oracle's field. I'll bite my tongue. Just made the pilgrimage to Salesforce.com. Weee!

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smattoon

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936 CHENERY STREET SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94131

Washington Room

Wednesday, June 4, 2014 - 10:10

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

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

Speaker Job Title:

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