OpenStack has made inroads among companies building elastic cloud environments for on-premise and hosted cloud apps. However, OpenStack and other Cloud OS still have challenges and maturing to do to create robust always-on clouds.
In his session at 14th Cloud Expo, Dave LeClair, Sr. Director of Strategy at Stratus Technologies, will explain why legacy reliability doesn’t work for OpenStack; why the answer lies in a software model that separates availability from application and hardware; how IT can move traditional applications to cloud without rewriting and fill the gap in availability guarantees from public cloud providers; how those providers can use Software-Defined Availability to deliver SLAs that prevent outages that cost millions and damage reputations.
From Supply-Led to Demand-Led: Lead Your IT to Better Serve Your Users
What are the strategies and technologies that can help you accelerate your IT organization’s journey to private cloud?
In his session at 14th Cloud Expo, Scott McNeil, Product Marketing Analyst – Enterprise Manager at Oracle, will discuss how to plan, build and deploy different approaches for implementing self-service IT, and discover best practices for how organizations can successfully move to the cloud using a demand-led strategy. He will also provide examples of early adopters who have achieved success using these techniques.
Setting the Bar for Agile Architecture
The Agile Architecture bar is set. Vendors should know what their products must do. Architects have some insight into the patterns they must follow. And business stakeholders can finally rest assured that at least it’s possible to achieve technology-enabled business agility. True, it’s difficult. Many of the pieces are only just now falling into place. Levels of maturity are low across the board. But we’re on our way.
The 4 big industry applications of ERP software
Of the countless industries using ERP software today, four stand out as benefiting the most from its versatility and functionality. Retail, manufacturing, farming, and real estate management all require a customizable, streamlined management software that can collect and manage data from all business activity.
Whether tracking shipping and payment or marketing and sales, ERP software integrates everything in a real-time view of core processes while sharing this information across the various departments.
Retail
The face of retail is sales and payment. Behind the scenes, inventory management and tracking, shipping, and marketing create the backbone. Clothes, cars, and food all follow the same basic principles and require very similar functionality.
By utilizing an order management system, orders can be coordinated across multiple stores while advanced pricing allows for management of sales and numbers that can be sorted through various hierarchies. Orders can also be tracked based on stock and non-stock items …
How to Integrate e-Signatures into Your Cloud Applications
Electronic signatures are an important component of any web application. They make it possible to keep business processes online even when a signature is required on a contract, form or application.
If you are interested in learning how to quickly integrate e-signatures into your cloud applications, this session is for you.
In his session at 14th Cloud Expo, Mauro Franco, Senior Sales Engineer at Silanis Technology, will demonstrate how to use e-SignLive’s REST API and SDKs to enable end-to-end electronic business processes.
Tech News Recap for the Week of 5/26/2014
Were you busy last week? Here’s a quick recap of news and stories you may have missed!
- 10 game changers in cloud computing
- Dept. of Homeland Security tools aimed at Heartbleed-like security evils
- Report: Virtual Desktop’s Influence Growing in Enterprise
- NASCAR & Unified Communications: Get the Most Out of Your Investment
- Hybrid Cloud Computing: Why the Middle Ground Means Business
- Amazon Awarded Bitcoin-Related Cloud Computing Patent
- SMBs plan to deepen virtual infrastructure investments
- Ballmer wins LA Clippers basketball team for $2 billion
- How Much Data is Created Every Minute; an infographic
- Heartbleed Underscores Risks of Shadow IT
- Demand for extra-large iPhone may be overstated
- Google Offers Webform To Comply With Europe’s ‘Right To Be Forgotten’ Ruling
- C-level execs: Disaster recovery is more than just an IT problem
- Microsoft Smartwatch: Nadella’s Next Strategy Step?
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A Globally Distributed Storage Cloud with Disaster Recovery
Like electricity, compute resources can readily scale up and burst, and workloads can easily operate geographically. Storage however is more like water, where moving large amounts of data can be very challenging, especially over distance.
In his session at 14th Cloud Expo, Joe Arnold, CEO of SwiftStack, will cover architectures and approaches for storage clouds deployed across geographies. He will break down failure scenarios and disaster recovery behaviors (staying available during catastrophic failures), and the benefits that multi-site access can have to reduce application latency. Fast access that never goes down = happy users.
Moving Mission-Critical Applications to the Cloud
Taking mission-critical applications out of their current data center environments and moving them to the cloud is usually not a simple matter of lift and shift. Companies leading the way in deploying customer-facing applications to either a public or a private cloud have learned the hard way that they must rethink how their applications are developed, deployed, instrumented and managed to maintain the level of service their customers expect.
In this panel at 14th Cloud Expo, Nathan Anderson, an IT Leader – Innovation at GE Capital, Kacy Clarke, VP and Principal Cloud Architect at Cloud Technology Partners, and Shane Shelton, Sr. Director of Application Performance and Development Operations at McGraw-Hill Education, will discuss why typical data center oriented systems monitoring and operations are not sufficient for the distributed architecture of the cloud.
How should governments go cloud first?
Dr Steve Hodgkinson, Chief Analyst, Global Public Sector
Three Australian state governments have recently released updated ICT strategies that include cloud-first policy positions. However, each state has taken a different approach to driving cloud services adoption. This raises interesting questions about the impact of cloud services on the logic of whole-of-government ICT strategy.
Our view is that central agencies should focus on leadership and enablement. They should be mindful of the risk that too much top-down strategy too early on will kill the golden goose of decentralized cloudy innovation that is created when agencies are simply empowered to buy services that already work.
NSW government agencies are already evaluating cloud-based services when undertaking ICT procurements
The New South Wales (NSW) state government’s ICT Strategy was published in 2012 with an implementation update released recently. The 2012 policy statement on cloud services remains unchanged:
NSW Government agencies will evaluate cloud-based …
Cloud as a Growth Engine for Business
The cloud opens up new possibilities for businesses to continuously deliver software-driven innovation and enables new ways of collaboration. At 14th Cloud Expo, IBM, SoftLayer, an IBM Company, and Cloudant, an IBM Company, offer numerous sessions that cover many aspects of cloud and Big Data from how to leverage a cloud architecture, make Big Data cost effective, to how to take advantage of a multitude of compute options and platform features to make cloud the cornerstone of your online presence