Enterprise Cloud Summit
Monday, April 26, 8:30 am-4:30 pm
In just a few years, cloud computing has gone from a fringe idea for startups to a mainstream tool in every IT toolbox. The Enterprise Cloud Summit will show you how to move from theory to implementation. We'll cover practical cloud computing designs, as well as the standards, infrastructure decisions, and economics you need to understand as you transform your organization's IT. We'll also debunk some common myths about private clouds, security risks, costs, and lock-in.
On-demand computing resources are the most disruptive change in IT of the last decade. Whether you're deciding how to embrace them or want to learn from what others are doing, Enterprise Cloud Summit is the place to do it.
Morning Sessions
State of the Cloud
Where's the cloud today? While on-demand computing is an outgrowth of data centers, timesharing, and virtualization, cloud computing is now an IT essential. The last year has yielded a more mature cloud marketplace, offering SLAs, a rich range of services and some amount of standardization. Traditional enterprise vendors like Sun, IBM and Microsoft have launched their cloud strategies, forcing companies of all shapes and sizes to take notice. This opening session looks at where we are today and how corporate IT and cloud computing are quickly closing the adoption gap.
Speaker: Alistair Croll, Principal Analyst, Bitcurrent
Practical Cloud Strategies
Enterprise can't ignore clouds. But they can choose how they embrace them, with one of four clear strategies: Hybrid clouds, Infrastructure-as-a-Service, Platform-as-a-Service, and Software-as-a-Service are all viable options for moving to on-demand computing.
What to Move to IaaS
The most appealing cloud offering today is on-demand computing, in the form of Infrastructure as a Service. But not everything can survive in an on-demand world. Sometimes applications are too costly. In other cases, they're constrained by compliance and security concerns. But where are the quick wins? This session looks at candidates for enterprise cloud adoption within today's elastic compute offerings.
Connecting On-Premise and On-Demand with Hybrid Clouds
Enterprises are finally ready to move mission-critical applications to the Cloud but there is one catch: how are they going to merge tomorrow’s cloud technology with today’s legacy systems? This session will give IT professionals real-world data on how to create and manage a successful hybrid Cloud computing environment.
Accelerating Development and Hiding Operations with PaaS
While today's cloud looks like an on-demand data center, most analysts believe that platforms -- not infrastructure -- are the future of elastic computing. Give the cloud operator your code and data, without worrying about the underlying components, and you can build applications more quickly while worrying less about management and scaling. At least, that's what the promise is. What's the reality? Can companies embrace Platform-as-a-Service offerings today? When should they start? What are the major differences?
Afternoon Sessions
Cloud Design Patterns
While all clouds are built on certain principles -- virtualization, elasticity, and quick provisioning -- their design varies greatly depending on what they're trying to accomplish. This session explores emerging patterns for different applications, from low-latency computing, to massively parallel batch jobs, to highly reliable compute fabrics. Using a variety of real-world examples, we'll look at how cloud innovators are matching design to function.
What End Users Know: Stories from Cloud Users
There's no substitute for experience. This panel of executives have built cloud-based applications, and we'll learn what they built, how it worked, and what special steps helped them take advantage of the cloud's unique properties.
What's Next: Cloud Operators Talk Futures
This panel of cloud computing industry leaders will discuss the trends we're seeing in cloud computing, what the next year holds, and how the entrance of new players is changing the cloud ecosystem. We'll look at standards, regulation, and portability, and reveal what cloud issues will be at the top of enterprise IT's list in 2010.
Public and Private: IT Policy in an On-Demand World
IT has always been about defining and enforcing the right policies. But now that enterprises have to choose between public and private resources, IT policy is at the forefront. How do companies balance the risk of unknown platforms with the opportunity to reinvent themselves? What's the right balance between cost, performance, and organizational agility? This panel of noted cloud computing analysts will consider the changing role of IT policy in cloud computing.
Practical Steps for Cloud Adoption
In this closing session, Bitcurrent's Alistair Croll looks at what the coming year holds for cloud computing as clouds take their place in the IT toolbox, and what this will mean for traditional IT practices.
Speaker: Alistair Croll, Principal Analyst, Bitcurrent
