Enterprise Cloud Summit

Sunday-Monday, May 6-7, 2012

Since Interop's Enterprise Cloud Summit began in 2009, it's become a leading source of enterprise insight into cloud computing. Each year, ECS looks at the most disruptive technologies facing enterprise IT, and connects end users, industry insiders, and analysts for two days of forward-looking discussion, offering insight no IT professional should be without.

In that time, we've seen clouds move from a marginal novelty to a key element of enterprise IT strategy. Private clouds are now a relatively well-understood set of technologies. On-demand computing is going up the stack, from machines to services, in Platform-as-a-Service architectures. There's an increasing comfort with third-party public cloud providers, and as a result a number of hybrid computing models that blend on-premise with on-demand. And scale-out, pay-as-you-go computing is also driving an explosion of analytical tools and massive data processing initiatives, known collectively as Big Data.

Day One:

Day one kicks off with an overview of Cloud Platforms.

Cloud Platforms
Sunday, May 6th, 8:30am - 4:30pm

Both public clouds and Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) environments offer the efficiencies and economies of scale that today's budget-starved IT professionals have been craving. Platforms mean shared components, portable workloads, and hiding underlying complexity from developers so the business can adapt faster and compete better. And public clouds mean on-demand payment and economies of skill and scale.

Public clouds have figured out how to satisfy enterprises, and PaaS offerings from some of the world's largest technology providers are on the verge of becoming mainstream. In the ECS platforms day we'll look at enterprise public cloud adoption, and the move up the stack to services.

Day Two:

Choose from one of two in-depth workshops on day two of the Enterprise Cloud Summit.

Private Clouds
Monday, May 7th, 8:30am - 4:30pm

Private clouds have come a long way from their humble beginnings in virtualization. Today's enterprise IT professionals can create rich on-premise, automated, self-service, shared computing offerings for their stakeholders. We've moved beyond the discussion phase of cloud computing. It’s time for real-world answers: what works and what doesn't? How does one build a private cloud? How much automation is right, and where should we still have a human touch?

Whether you're building a private cloud to improve the efficiency of your data center, deliver services more quickly, or embrace disaster recovery solutions, the ECS private cloud day will arm you with the hands-on, practical information you need to build tomorrow's on-premise cloud environments.

Big Data
Monday, May 7th, 8:30am - 4:30pm

Everyone wants to be agile—to collect, analyze, and react faster than their competitors, finding hidden efficiencies and unfair advantages. Today's thirst for market insight and a flood of new technologies are making businesses of all sizes figure out what to do with their data. This Big Data movement brings radical new tools to bear on crunching huge amounts of information quickly, and with it ethical, legal, and technical challenges.

The ECS Big Data Day will look at tools like Hadoop, Cassandra, Mongo, Basho, and R, as well as how enterprises can integrate them with traditional Business Intelligence and Data Warehousing.