The red carpet wasn’t just for the attendee party.
There was no shortage of great speakers or sessions at Cloud Connect Santa Clara.
But only 5 out of the 180 plus speakers could make the top list and call themselves “Cloud Connect rockstars”. Who reigns supreme? Without further ado…
Here are the top 5 speakers that wowed the masses: Continue Reading »
A post from Performance and Ability Track Chair, Wendy White.
Natural disasters, race cars and high-stakes trading come together under the umbrella of the Cloud Connect Cloud Performance and Availability Track, Three C-level execs, three real-world cloud performance and availability success stories.
Whether you sit in the camp that believes high availability belongs in the application and not the infrastructure — or vice versa — or the one that believes that performance and availability come at the cost of scale, this track covering public, private and virtual private clouds may provide some fresh insight to shape your thinking and some actionable next steps to jump start your 2012 cloud plans.
Take advantage of receiving 25% discount on your conference* registration by clicking on this link: http://tiny.cc/jw2vo
For more information about attending Cloud Connect, please visit the event site.
Looking forward to seeing you in Santa Clara during the week of February13, 2012.
Jason
*The 25% off discount applies to Platinum and Conference Passes. The discount is calculated based on the on-site price and not combinable with other offers.
Prices after discount applied: Platinum: $1,796.25 | Conference: $1,571.2
A majority of the cloud related articles that I have read from the end of last year to now, all have a common theme. 2012 is going to be the year of the cloud! I thought 2011 was the year of the cloud. It surely was the most talked about subject within the IT market. As I look back at 2011, the cloud talk was surely just that – talk and I mean that in a good way. Continue Reading »
A post from Lauren Nelson, ROI, TCO, and Cloud Economics Track Chair at Cloud Connect.
Turnin’ it off is when you save — that’s Cloud Economics 101. The truth behind the promised savings comes from its pay-by-usage-without-contract billing model and is exactly what makes cloud a powerful technology. But often this core concept is lost in the evaluation of application fit. If you’re always powering up VMs but rarely powering down, cloud isn’t going to save you money. And this isn’t the only confusion around the cloud economics.
The ROI, TCO, and Cloud Economics track at Cloud Connect seeks to clear the fog by answering your biggest questions around these topics today. Not only will this track touch on Cloud Economics 101, but it will also provide a realistic ROI/TCO model for specific applications, share best practices and mistakes from cloud adopters, unveil lesser known cloud costs, and discuss the organizational challenges involved with creating a chargeback system for internal private cloud environments.
A post from Organizational Readiness Track Chair, Scott Bils.
“The technology is the easy part. It’s the cultural issues that are hard.”
This quote from a recent conversation with a Fortune 500 CIO perfectly summarizes why we’re holding the first-of-its-kind Organizational Readiness track at Cloud Connect. As enterprise adoption of public and private clouds continues to accelerate, the majority of focus continues to be on technical issues. Organizational and cultural issues though are starting to pose significant barriers and challenges as CIOs work to implement their cloud strategies. Just a few of these emerging issues facing enterprise IT include:
Just as the shift from mainframe to client / server architectures drove a wave of transformation for IT organization and governance, so is the migration to cloud services. The focus of our track will be on exploring the ‘soft issues’ around enterprise cloud adoption, and discussing emerging models for success for building next generation IT organizations.
The track will include sessions that will surface the around real organizational, cultural, skills that are emerging with enterprises migrating their environments to the cloud. These sessions include ‘Will Culture Eat Your Strategy? How to Turn the Tables’, where Simon Wardly will lead a discussion around how IT leaders can overcome the cultural barriers to change. We’ll have a series of panels and discussions on how enterprises are navigating the organizational changes being driven by cloud, which will include IT leaders from Best Buy, eBay, Novartis, InterContinental Hotel Group and others. David Linthicum’s session on ‘In Search of Mad Cloud Skills’ will help us understand the new cloud skills that will be required in the enterprise, and where to find them.
Failing to address the organizational issues associated with transformational change can doom even the best cloud strategies and technologies. Join our Organizational Readiness track to learn how to effectively prepare your organization to embrace the change that’s coming with your migration to cloud.
Not registered for Cloud Connect yet? Visit the conference registration page and use code CPNCDCC07 to save 25% on conference passes or get a free expo pass and learn how to join what I’m sure will be an exciting and insightful event.
A post from Cloud Connect’s Private Cloud Track Chair, Dave Roberts.
When cloud computing was young, most people theorized that the industry and foundational technology would develop very similarly to the early days of electric utilities. All this capital investment in enterprise IT, people said, would be replaced by the purchase of computing as a service from open market producers. Instead of buying and depreciating large hardware and software systems, we’d leave those purchases to the service providers and buy our computing “by the drink,” paying only for what we used. When we were done, we’d flick the computing equivalent of a light switch and the meter would stop. If you’re old enough to remember, before we called it “cloud computing,” we originally called it “utility computing.”
Cloud Connect Santa Clara 2012 will be here quicker than you can say…Cloud Connect. It’s right around the corner. Here are 7 things you need to know prior to the event. Continue Reading »
With all of the activity around compute and storage in cloud it might be easy to take for granted the interconnection needs of all that capacity. The network just runs, right? The reality is that interconnection capabilities determine application architectures, performance, and resiliency. At this year’s Cloud Connect, we’ll be looking at current choices and future options for managing information flow and networking services. Networking’s automation challenges have caused many providers to make compromises to achieve scale. Those automation barriers are starting to fall and better interconnect options are coming on line that will impact how cloud networking gets done. Continue Reading »
Cloud computing has indeed changed the landscape of IT, but there are consequences that CIO’s absolutely must take into consideration. Cloud Connect Santa Clara 2012’s conference chair, Alistair Croll, founder of Bitcurrent, shares his take on cloud computing and the unintended consequences that CIO’s face in his Information Week post.
These are the 3 unintended consequences that CIO’s should consider according to Alistair: Continue Reading »
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