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

Welcome to the Future of Enterprise Computing

Diane Perry — Wed, 05 Jun 2013 18:29:55 +0000

Before the introduction of the Apple II in 1977, computing was a proposition only for those with the time and budget to build something incredible from a pool of poorly-standardized parts: hobbyists and large enterprises. Apple didn't invent computing - but it made it easy and accessible to anybody who wanted, opening the door to the PC revolution.

Consider the parallels to the cloud computing market circa 2013: That same PC revolution is showing signs of stalling out, as the cloud makes new advances in mobility and browser-based computing possible. But the public cloud can be costly, and doesn't always offer the performance, data locality, or certifications that the healthcare and biotechnology industries need. And the private cloud can address these problems, but implementation involves navigating a maze of vendors, APIs, and standards.

What the industry needs is an infrastructure that does for the cloud what the Apple II did for personal computing, where standard parts can be used all together and turned on with the flick of a switch. This concept - the Cloud Computer - won't revolutionize the market - but it will bring it to the next stage of evolution.

In this talk, Nebula CEO Chris C. Kemp will describe the situations where the public cloud isn't meeting the needs of the healthcare industry, why the shift towards big data and mobility mean that it's time for enterprises to retake control of their IT infrastructure, and how the current approach to deploying private cloud has failed.

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Private cloud

Infrastructure-as-a-Service

OpenStack

NASA

Nebula

Speaker First Name:

Chris

Speaker Last Name:

Kemp

Speaker Job Title:

CEO

Speaker's Company Name/Affiliation:

Nebula

Speaker Bio:

At this special event, former NASA CTO, OpenStack co-founder and Nebula CEO Chris Kemp will speak to attedees about what the future holds for cloud computing.

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http://www.linkedin.com/in/chrisckemp

Speaker's Twitter profile:

@kemp

Speaker's Postal Address:

215 Castro Street 3rd Floor Mountain View, CA 94041

Monterey Room

Tuesday, June 18, 2013 - 16:15

Lessons Learned From Deploying Clouds in Healthcare

Jay Litkey — Fri, 05 Apr 2013 20:28:00 +0000

Most IT organizations within the healthcare industry now use server virtualization. Recent polls indicate the majority of these will eventually transition into a private/hybrid cloud and the delivery of IT-as-a-Service. Although the journey from virtualization to the cloud can seem complicated and overwhelming, it is a path well-traveled by many organizations, including our healthcare customers. This session will leverage case studies and real world lessons gathered over the past seven years to illustrate the journey, pitfalls and success criteria for healthcare data centers making the transition from virtualization to the cloud. In addition, the presentation will share information on virtualization management and cloud automation.

Keywords:

Private cloud

Automation

virtualization management

healthcare

Speaker First Name:

Jay

Speaker Last Name:

Litkey

Speaker Job Title:

CEO

Speaker's Company Name/Affiliation:

Embotics Corporation

Speaker Bio:

With extensive experience launching and growing software companies, Jay is a pioneer in emerging high growth markets that include virtualization and enterprise systems management automation. For the past 8 years he has been a virtualization evangelist and advocate, focusing on the strategic impacts of virtualization and automation within enterprise datacenters.

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http://www.linkedin.com/pub/jay-litkey/0/280/296

Speaker's Twitter profile:

@JayLitkey

Speaker's Postal Address:

Suite 200, 4043 Carling Ave, Ottawa, On K2K 2A4

Washington Room

Tuesday, June 18, 2013 - 15:05

Insource Your Cloud with Private PaaS

admin — Fri, 25 May 2012 16:26:37 +0000

For the real-world enterprise, the cloud promises flexibility, efficiency, and convenience. Your CIO wants ROI. Your DevOps lead wants to scale. And your developer wants to launch apps fast. But those attractions mask realistic potential risks to data integrity, privacy, and even peace of mind. It’s time to regain your control, retake your freedom, and rethink your IT: It’s time to insource your cloud with a private PaaS.

Keywords:

activestate

Private cloud

Speaker First Name:

Bart

Speaker Last Name:

Copeland

Speaker Job Title:

CEO

Speaker's Company Name/Affiliation:

ActiveState

Speaker Bio:

As President & CEO of ActiveState Software, Bart Copeland brings more than twenty years of management, finance, and technology business experience to his role. With a passion for technologies that help people lead more productive and enjoyable lives, Bart is currently focused on ActiveState’s private platform-as-a-service (PaaS) offering, Stackato. With his vision for PaaS as an enabler to accelerate cloud adoption and value in enterprises, Bart is actively involved in the strategy, roadmap, business development and evangelism of Stackato. Bart is also an active angel investor and serves as a director on a number of other tech companies. He holds an MBA in Technology Management from the University of Phoenix and a Mechanical Engineering degree from the University of British Columbia.

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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.

Keywords:

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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Speaker's LinkedIn Profile:

http://www.linkedin.com/profile/view?id=3773164&locale=en_US&trk=tyah

Speaker's Twitter profile:

@NetEnrich

Speaker's Postal Address:

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

Gain Total Cloud Control

Thu, 22 Mar 2012 18:59:39 +0000

The frenzy around cloud computing is analogous to the California gold rush of the 1849. As many gold prospectors discovered, without the right planning, provisions, and ability to execute, gold remained out of reach. For many organizations the same is true regarding cloud computing — they "rush to the cloud" and then try figure out how to manage it.

Join us in this session to find out what you need to ensure a successful enterprise cloud roll out and learn how enterprises can gain Total Cloud Control with a complete cloud lifecycle solution including integrated cloud stack management and business driven application management.

Keywords:

Private cloud

cloud

Management

Oracle cloud computing

Speaker First Name:

Anand

Speaker Last Name:

Akela

Speaker Job Title:

Senior Principal Product Director

Speaker's Company Name/Affiliation:

Oracle

Speaker Bio:

Anand currently focuses on cloud management, virtualization management and infrastructure management offerings in the Oracle Enterprise Manager portfolio. Prior to his current role at Oracle, Anand has worked at Hewlett Packard in various product marketing, product management and engineering roles in the systems management, servers, data center energy efficiency, enterprise software areas. He serves as the chairman of Data Collection and Analysis workgroup at the Green Grid, an industry consortium developing and promoting energy efficiency for data centers and enterprise systems.

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http://www.linkedin.com/in/anandakela

Speaker's Twitter profile:

http://twitter.com/aakela

Speaker's Postal Address:

10 Twin Dolphin Drive, Redwood City, CA, 94065

How to Take Advantage of Private Cloud’s “Big Data”

Wed, 21 Mar 2012 17:56:05 +0000

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:

- What “big data” means vis-à-vis the cloud:
As the industry uses virtualization technologies to get closer to achieving “cloud,” we gain access to performance and operational data sets that were difficult or impossible to reliably gather in the past. Ease of access to data, when combined with the ease of provisioning and reconfiguration all via software, presents a massive collection of disassociated Big Data that ranges from application, hypervisor and storage performance metrics, to guest operating system configuration and network flows, to security events and configuration changes.

- The role that storage and analysis play in cloud-oriented Big Data:
Existing storage methods are thought to be insufficient, but does that mean that special-purpose Big Data tools are needed and, if so, why? On the analysis side, Wronski will discuss the resource-intensive and time-consuming nature of typical query and reporting approaches. Attendees will hear about new approaches such as Complex Event Processing (CEP) technology, which can form detailed correlation and analysis on multiple historical and real-time data feeds.

- How domain-specific languages can address the interaction with and analysis of Big Data in private clouds:
Get a better understanding of the trend toward technology building blocks targeted at the management of large virtualization environments. For instance, a “virtual query language” can be used to comprehend the relationships between the tiers of virtualization: hypervisor, storage, networking, and applications and the data generated by those tiers.

Keywords:

Private cloud

Big Data

Speaker First Name:

Mike

Speaker Last Name:

Wronski

Speaker Job Title:

VP Product Management

Speaker's Company Name/Affiliation:

Reflex Systems

Speaker Bio:

Mike Wronski brings more than 15 years of industry experience to his role as VP of Product Management for Reflex Systems. Prior to joining Reflex he held a senior datacenter architect role at GE Healthcare. His primary role at GE was designing IT security into medical devices and data centers hosting medical records and images. In addition, he led a global team in designing and deploying patient privacy protections as part of a $500M IT project for the modernization of the UK National Healthcare System. Mike's broad IT experience, ranging from large carrier data networking to virtualization, stems from previously held senior roles at Starent Networks (now part of Cisco), Cambia Networks, 3Com and USRobotics. Wronski holds a CISSP and Certified Ethical Hacker certifications, as well as an MBA, and a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Engineering from Florida International University.

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@Reflex_mike

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Reflex Systems 53 Perimeter Center East, Suite 175 Atlanta, GA 30346