Cloud

July eSummit — Why All Cloud Projects Fail

by Gavin McShera

“All cloud projects fail. Yup. They do. Cloud projects fail because we get caught up in the fact that they are “cloud projects”. Interesting new models. Great new technology. Amazingly put together PowerPoints…

July eSummit — SD-WAN and the Cloud

by Alex Ratcliffe

Businesses are starting to treat the Cloud like any other location on their WAN, which means access to SaaS applications and applications running in Amazon Web Services (AWS) or Microsoft Hyper-V need to be over a secure…

July eSummit — Cloud-aware Network Management

by Alex Henthorn-Iwane

As IT departments deploy more IaaS, PaaS and SaaS as part of the shift to hybrid cloud, its important to also shift network management to be more cloud-aware. Specifically, all those cloud-based…

July eSummit — Achieving Cost and Usage Visibility in the Hybrid Cloud

by Adam Starling

Keeping on top of the rapid growth of cloud use is doubly complicated when that cloud is hybrid. Learn about the challenges of obtaining visibility into the costs and…

July eSummit — PLANNING FOR AND IMPLEMENTING A HYBRID CLOUD (FOR THE US GOVERNMENT)

by Scott Andersen

Scott Andersen is the managing partner and Chief Technology Officer of Creative Technology & Innovation. During his 25+ years in the technology…

July eSummit — Hybrid Cloud Infrastructure

by Rima Bhattacharya

“Actual hybrid cloud computing deployments still “rare,” Gartner says, tempering optimism about future adoption rates”
Hybrid Cloud is a coordinated mix of both Public and Private Cloud resources!
This session…

The Architect in Cloud DR Strategies — Application

To explore the responsibilities of the architect deploying to the cloud for DR and availability in better detail, let’s introduce a notional “customer” with one of the simplest application scenarios. There are many more complicated scenarios…

Responsibility of the Architect in Cloud DR Strategies

Any architect in the industry has seen their business — or one of their customers — sold on introducing a “cloud” service as the cure-call for what ails business IT. It’s almost a magic hand-wave to watch with the sales and marketing…