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

New Service Offerings Emerging for Industrial OEMs: Cloud-based Remote Monitoring and Mobility

Fri, 11 Apr 2014 19:58:43 +0000

The cloud is creating new revenue opportunities for equipment OEMs in the industrial market, as they are being pressed to deliver new and higher levels of services to their customers without increasing their costs. An opportunity to create these new service offerings has materialized through the realization of the promise of the Industrial Internet – or Internet of Things – which helps manufacturers connect their intelligent machines to gather data and insights that can empower operators and business managers to make smarter, more informed decisions that can save time and money. Taking advantage of secure cloud services, which reduce initial investment costs for OEMs, has provided a jump start for many of them to realize this opportunity.

In the case of TempuTech, for example, an OEM of grain processing equipment for manufacturing, incorporating a cloud-based remote monitoring and mobility solution from GE Intelligent Platforms in its grain processors has given them a new revenue stream as they are now able to provide customers with asset monitoring capabilities through a subscription-based cloud service. The cloud-based solution quickly and cost-effectively transforms raw data into actionable information, maximizing operational efficiency, productivity and profitability. Being able to view alarms and Key Performance Indicator (KPI) data on a single screen on a mobile device and having a customized risk index for advanced analytics and predictive detection allows OEMs to contact customers before their process goes down. And further, being able to use fewer experts to monitor and troubleshoot an entire fleet of assets contributes to cost reduction.

This on-premise or private cloud is combined with a rugged Machine Data Gateway to collect equipment data from nearly any brand of intelligent control device, which is then buffered to protect against network outages, encrypted and transmitted to and verified by the remote monitoring and mobility server.

The speed of deployment using the cloud service allows for quick ROI for the OEM, as new revenue-generating services offset monthly fees. In this case, grain manufacturer customers can benefit quickly as TempuTech’s new service is able to access and provide actionable information about the health of the customers’ grain processing system and deliver it to them in real-time so they can avoid downtime and quality issues. This ability to leverage the cloud to provide virtualized centralization of unlike applications, devices and sensors via a web-based remote monitoring and diagnostic system is improving customer service for the OEM, enhancing their value to the customers while reducing the overall cost of customer service.

Steve Pavlosky from GE Intelligent Platforms can describe how the cloud and the advances of the Industrial Internet are sparking these new revenue opportunities for OEMs in industrial and manufacturing operations.

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Steve

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Pavlosky

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Solutions Ecosystem Leader

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GE Intelligent Platforms

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Steve Pavlosky has more than 25 years in the Automation industry, having worked in Consulting, Channel Management, Commercial Operations, Sales, and Marketing. He joined GE in 1986 and is currently a Solutions Ecosystem Leader for GE Intelligent Platforms. He is responsible for setting product direction and commercialization of GE’s portfolio of automation and industrial computing solutions and its cloud based infrastructure for automation equipment deployment and management. Steve began his career in GE’s industrial software business with roles in consulting, sales, and marketing. Since that time, he has provided commercial leadership across various aspects of GE’s automation business, including customer service operations, channel management, commercial operations, and pricing. He is located in GE Intelligent Platforms’ headquarters in Charlottesville, Virginia and holds a B.S. in Mechanical and Industrial Engineering from Clarkson University.

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Nevada 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

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electronic medical records

Speaker First Name:

George

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Marootian

Speaker Job Title:

VP, Principal Cloud Architect

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Cloud Technology Partners, Inc.

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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

Cloud technologies - reaching families in need

caroline_hsieh — Fri, 05 Apr 2013 07:44:33 +0000

This presentation will demonstrate how CRC Health Group, the leader in behavioral healthcare, leverages cloud technologies to reach families in need and bring the patients to our programs where they reclaim and enrich their lives through quality and compassionate cares. Cloud platforms (SaaS, PaaS, IaaS) have allowed CRC Sales, Marketing, Intake, Admission organizations to be able to respond to the patient's inquiry quickly and streamline the admission process. The presentation will help the audience learn about how cloud technologies, coupled with mobile computing, can deliver business benefits such as agility and cost saving to healthcare providers. The presentation will also provide guidelines on protecting data in the cloud, with focus on data privacy and regulatory compliance (HIPPA, PHI).

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Clinical Systems

eletronic medical records

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HIPPA

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Caroline

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Hsieh

Speaker Job Title:

Director IT

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CRC Health Group

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Caroline Hsieh is a strategic technology leader with many years of experiences in cloud strategy, design, and implementation. She is currently with CRC Health Group, the largest provider of behavioral health services in the nation. As the IT Director, Caroline helps the company to drive revenue and to reach families in need by leveraging cloud technologies. Caroline’s experience of cloud computing started in 2005 where she deployed Salesforce.com to the 4000+ users in the combined Sales organization within 5 months of Symantec and VERITAS merger. As the IT Director of Cloud Enablement at Symantec Corporation, she established a cloud advisory council to enable business to adopt cloud services rapidly and security, while protecting the Symantec brand . Caroline is well versed in cloud computing architecture and the security requirements of handling data in the cloud. 

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Washington Room

Tuesday, June 18, 2013 - 10:45

Video Collaboration in the Cloud – How it will Move from Rarity to Reality in 2012

Fri, 30 Mar 2012 15:09:24 +0000

Several business trends are converging and new technologies are emerging that are evolving the human collaboration experience – radically improving the way we work together. New technologies and platforms such as social business, mobility and cloud-delivered services, are the driving forces behind a whole new paradigm for communications that is centered around the power of video collaboration.

Today, video collaboration has become mission critical in many organizations, as it increases productivity and efficiency. And with the “video cloud” and mobile video emerging, along with an industry drive toward interoperability, video collaboration ubiquity is not too far away.

Gary Testa, will provide a perspective of the trends and drivers that will make cloud-delivered, Video-as-a-Service (VaaS) offerings a reality (versus a rarity) in 2012 and beyond. He will discuss various models to deliver VaaS offerings, and the role service providers, video equipment and software companies, and UC organizations will play in this major industry shift.

The session will include several examples/case studies of VaaS deployments today, including China Unicom and Vietnam Post & Telecommunication (VNPT). China Unicom has created one of the largest video clouds in the world, enabling the delivery of VaaS to over 10,000 business and government organizations throughout China (interconnecting approximately 100,000 endpoints from 10 different vendors). VNPT, the largest telecommunications carrier in Vietnam, recently announced the launch of MegaConference, a VaaS solution for SMBs and enterprises.

Gary will also speak to the inter-connection between cloud and mobility, as well as major advancements in interoperability, as the Open Visual Communications Consortium (OVCC) is set to launch interoperable VaaS offerings later this year. The OVCC was co-founded by Polycom in mid-2011, with some of the world’s largest service providers, including AT&T, BT, Verizon, Orange and Telstra. The OVCC is working on open, standards-based architecture and common carrier agreements, which is expected to accelerate the video cloud market, and make videoconferencing as easy as making a phone call.

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Gary

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Testa

Speaker Job Title:

VP Global Cloud and Service Provider Solutions Group

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Polycom

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Gary Testa joined Polycom in May 2011 as vice president of Global Cloud and Service Provider Solution Sales, responsible for leading global sales, strategy, and execution, and accelerating the company's growth with mobile, fixed, and managed service providers. Gary brings to Polycom a proven track record in sales, marketing, product management, and services leadership bringing complex network hardware and software solutions to market within the mobility, carrier and cloud segments. Most recently, Gary was vice president of Global Sales, IBM Tivoli Network Portfolio where he joined IBM as part of the acquisition of Intelliden, Inc. At IBM, Gary was responsible for the sale of the Tivoli network software portfolio into the large Enterprise, Service Provider, Cable, Mobility and the Power/Energy/Utility markets. Gary holds a BA degree in Russian Language and Literature from the University of California, Irvine; and has worked abroad for more than 12 years, living in Russia, Germany, Finland, Indonesia, and other countries around the globe.

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We welcome the opportunity for Sudhakar Ramakrishna to do a stand-alone session or keynote; participate in a fireside chat; or possibly join a senior panel to talk about the video cloud

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