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.

Cloud is no longer the biggest buzz around the IT water cooler, at least not directly. The term that is all the rage now is Big Data. In this session, Mike Wronski will explore what Big Data is, why it is increasingly relevant—and critical—to virtualization and private clouds, and what the coming year will bring in terms of solutions that address the cloud’s Big Data challenge and enable IT organizations to take advantage of the wealth of information, so they can extend the value of cloud. Technical and manager-level attendees will learn: