6th Annual Conference. June 04, 2014. San Francisco

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.

New global research conducted in January 2013 measured where end users are seeing challenges with IT, the usability of solutions, and security. Results show more than half of 674 respondents are compelled by slow or overly restrictive IT, or solutions or security that lack usability, to use workarounds either every day or sometimes. Such workarounds are out of compliance with policy and bring additional privacy and security risk.

Skyrocketing healthcare costs and the shift of focus to quality of care have given birth to new programs that complement the traditional medical insurance plans. Wellness program adoption is growing at an extremely fast pace, promoting and encouraging better health behavior through education and incentives to prevent higher costs down the road. Opportunities for business rules are everywhere: from identifying the at-risk population to recommending activities, as well as accounting for rewards.

Will your Cloud fail the next audit? Do you have a handle on your risk strategy for the Cloud? Is this level of maturity only suited for Enterprises with large budgets? Can smaller organizations effectively manage risk as they consume Cloud services? They can!

Advanced Analytics has the potential to unlock new sources of revenues, reduce expenses, optimize organizations and monetize the mounds of data each organization collects. However, the pursuit of Advanced Analytics nirvana is proceeding along two esoteric paths. First, the ivory tower approach where mysterious data scientists manually turn data into beautifully crafted analysis reports. Second, the massive computing power approach where black-box software crush data into complex models incomprehensible to mere mortals.

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.

Have Cloud based software services matured sufficiently to allow startup companies to establish operations with absolutely no internal IT systems? Mr. Florin will explore this topic in detail and provide early stage companies with food for thought when it comes to implementing their internal IT strategy.

In this session, Brian Singer will discuss how the cloud has become a means for employees to circumvent IT. Businesses have recognized that they can obtain resources and services faster from external providers and IT departments have been powerless to stop this shift. Singer will cover the detailed findings of a Forrester-BMC cloud survey report which finds that 72% of CIOs admit that employees see cloud as a way to circumvent IT.

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.

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.

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