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

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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@sonian

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“Taming the Cloud” through Remote Infrastructure Management

Fri, 30 Mar 2012 16:26:21 +0000

Cloud computing is about business agility. For IT enterprises everywhere, cloud adoption means that subject matter experts (SME’s), whose core competencies have not traditionally included technology, are now able to develop and manage their own IT applications and processes. As such, the future of the cloud is all about business enablement and the freedom that organizations now have to integrate applications into the cloud, and use the cloud to gain economies of scale that will enable them to rapidly respond to market conditions. Simply put, with the cloud, organizations can now do more, get more, and be more.

However, while most organizations understand what the cloud is, many still struggle at “taming the cloud.” One of the key components in maximizing the business potential of the cloud, and bringing order to the chaos created by rapid cloud adoption, is the ability to harness the power of remote infrastructure management (RIM) to increase business agility and promote the efficiency of their entire IT infrastructure.

The bottom line is that many of today’s IT organizations don’t realize is that they can centrally monitor and manage their cloud infrastructure and applications alongside traditional “closet” or data center technologies and on-premise infrastructure, using cloud-enabled RIM solutions. When used tandem with their in-house IT staff managing the core and edge infrastructures, cloud-enabled RIM can give organizations a strategic advantage.

During this presentation, the audience will learn:

• The definition of cloud-enabled RIM, and what it means for IT organizations
• Why cloud-enabled RIM is essential for bringing order to the chaos that results from rapid cloud adoption
• How VARs and solution providers are uniquely positioned to assist IT organizations in the adoption of cloud-enabled RIM
• How cloud-enabled RIM can help their organization do more, get more and be more, and,
• What organizations must consider when evaluating a cloud-enabled RIM solution

The content for this presentation will be original to the Cloud Slam event, and has not been presented at other conferences or events. The presentation will be interactive and provide opportunities for the audience to engage in asking questions and contributing their own experiences on this topic. The presenter will use case studies to highlight key points made during the presentation.

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VARs

Solution Providers

MSPs

infrastructure management

remote infrastructure management

consumerization of IT

Speaker First Name:

Raju

Speaker Last Name:

Chekuri

Speaker Job Title:

President and CEO

Speaker's Company Name/Affiliation:

NetEnrich, Inc.

Speaker Bio:

Chekuri is Chairman, CEO and President of NetEnrich, Inc. and developer of an innovative closet to cloud remote IT infrastructure management platform for IT solution providers. He also founded Velio Communications, Inc. (a.k.a. Chip2Chip, Inc.) and managed the company as president and CEO, until it was purchased by LSI Logic and Rambus in 2003. Prior to Velio, Chekuri was Director of Strategic Ventures at Cadence Design Systems.

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@NetEnrich

Speaker's Postal Address:

226 Corporate Parkway, Suite 550, San Jose, CA 95110

Shine a light on “Shadow IT”: Taking control of usage and spending in the cloud

Thu, 29 Mar 2012 18:02:05 +0000

The ease to set up a cloud deployment--done with little more than a credit card and an internet connection-- has resulted in a decentralization of IT management for many enterprises. This booming “Shadow IT” environment creates a host of management and cost issues for enterprises and usually leaves IT departments holding the bag. Very quickly, IT departments find themselves without control or even insight into the services being consumed, or even under-utilized, within their own organization. As independent units deploy in the cloud, the management and maintenance of these systems can lapse and quickly costs spiral out of control.

A smart IT manager quickly realizes that he/she needs to be able to gain visibility to the entire corporate cloud environment, centralize the management of the systems and create methods to do more with streamlined resources in the cloud – or face a potentially very nasty bill for cloud services at the end of each month.

For today’s IT departments to offer the best resources for the enterprise, the move to the cloud is becoming a necessity. To do this without loss of control, business and technology decision makers need to be able to see, measure and be notified on cost and consumption violations from day one. With this in place, IT’s management of cloud spending can be on budget and dynamically managed for optimal cost or performance improvements.

This session will walk CIO/IT managers through the key areas to consider in developing a cloud computing insight & management system and reporting mechanisms. It will also address why it is critical for IT to play a role in cloud development and management and some methods to help avoid circumvention of IT management within a “shadow” cloud.

Keywords:

cloud computing

cloud costs

IT management

Speaker First Name:

Sharon

Speaker Last Name:

Wagner

Speaker Job Title:

CEO and Founder

Speaker's Company Name/Affiliation:

Cloudyn

Speaker Bio:

Sharon is responsible for the strategic company direction and the overall day-to-day execution. Prior to joining Cloudyn, Sharon was Sr. Principal Consultant for CA Technologies (NASDAQ: CA) Cloud Connected Enterprise business unit where he enabled sales activities for CA SLM solutions in NA, APAC and LATAM. Prior to CA, Sharon was Director of Product Management and Business Development with Oblicore (Acquired by CA Technologies) where he was responsible for the company strategic roadmap and played major role in Oblicore’s acquisition by CA. Sharon holds B.Sc in Mathematics and computer science.

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@cloudyn_buzz

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10 HaYetzira St. Raanana 43663 Israel

Branching Processes Theory Application for Cloud Computing Demand Modeling Based on Traffic Prediction

Thu, 22 Mar 2012 19:29:38 +0000

The potential benefits of cloud computing are overwhelming. However, attaining these benefits requires that each aspect of cloud environment support the key design principles of the cloud model. One of the core design principles is dynamic scalability, or the ability to provision and decommission servers on demand. The efficient data processing is a fundamental and vital issue for almost every business organization. Unfortunately, the majority of today’s database servers are incapable of satisfying this requirement. From the viewpoint of a service provider, demands on the network are not entirely predictable. Firstly, traffic modeling helps to represent our understanding of dynamic demand for cloud services by stochastic processes. Secondly, accurate traffic models are necessary for service providers to properly maintain quality of service. Branching stochastic processes are used to describe random systems such as nuclear chain reactions, decommission population development, epidemic of disease and gene propagation. In this paper we show that the cloud computing demand can be developed as a branching stochastic process. A statistical model is described step by step, as a function of the physical parameters of the process. Using the model, we propose a method for determining the unknown probability distribution of queries.

Keywords:

cloud computing

branching process

network traffic modeling

Speaker First Name:

Aleksandra

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Varfolomeeva, Victor Romanov and Andrey Koryakovskiy

Speaker Job Title:

Consultant

Speaker's Company Name/Affiliation:

Russian Plekhanov

Speaker Bio:

Ph.D. degree candidate Department of Information Systems in Economics and Management Russian Plekhanov University of Economics, Moscow, Russian Federation Victor Romanov Ph.D., Professor of Computer Science, Russian Plekhanov University of Economics, Moscow, Russian Federation, Andrey Koryakovskiy Ph.D., Associate Professor of Information Systems in Economics and Management, Russian Plekhanov University of Economics, Moscow, Russian Federation

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<h4>Victor Romanov</h4> Ph.D., Professor of Computer Science, Russian Plekhanov University of Economics, Moscow, Russian Federation, e-mail: victorromanov1@gmail.com Andrey Koryakovskiy Ph.D., Associate Professor of Information Systems in Economics and Management, Russian Plekhanov University of Economics, Moscow, Russian Federation e-mail: avkor@list.ru

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109548, Russia, Moscow, Guryanov street, 19-1-42

Cloud Based Mobile Workforce Strategies

Thu, 22 Mar 2012 15:34:14 +0000

Mobility is pushing the limits of IT agility, capacity, and security. This session case study will detail EMC's journey leveraging cloud based models to deliver secure mobile management and tools to the global EMC workforce. A best practices based discussion will include cloud application stores, process automation, and security frameworks. Key Takeaways will include: Solving real world mobile security challenges leveraging cloud based SaaS offerings.
Understanding the implications of mobile application deployment using cloud storage and vitalization technologies.
Applying a the cloud and mobile security best practice framework to their companies explicit needs.

Keywords:

cloud computing

mobile

Strategy

Speaker First Name:

Scott

Speaker Last Name:

Burgess

Speaker Job Title:

Director

Speaker's Company Name/Affiliation:

EMC

Speaker Bio:

Scott joined EMC in 2005 via the acquisition of Internosis, a globally-recognized leader in the strategy, execution, and management of Microsoft-related technology solutions. During his tenure with Internosis, Scott acted as its Chief Technology Officer, where he was responsible for strategic technical and architectural guidance to customers, partners and employees. Scott brings over twenty (20) years of experience in the design and delivery of information technology systems for public and private-sector customers, with a focus on distributed and mission-critical computing. Scott maintains his involvement in the technology community as an industry leader. He actively participates in industry conferences as the keynote presenter, leads and participates in industry forums. Scott is currently a Director with EMC consulting focusing on emerging services for cloud and mobility solutions.

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