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Cloud Computing Strategies - The Next Generation

Strategies to help protect and recover your organization's most critical data

April 11, 2013

9:00am-5:00pm

7 CPE / 0.7 CEU / CISSP / 7 PDU Credits Awarded

Bios

Conference location: Donald E. Stephens Convention Center Rosemont (O'Hare) Illinois

Overview

Cloud computing can offer enterprises many benefits in terms of financial savings, scale, management and flexibility. At the same time there are other issues that present themselves in a cloud environment including security, compliance, data location, data availability and a host of others.

What You Will Learn

In this one day conference attendees will learn:

  • Big Data & Mobility: How to Leverage the Cloud to Handle Added Disruption

  • How to Assess Readiness of Cloud Adoption

  • Choosing Public vs. Private vs. Hybrid Cloud Computing

  • Application Interoperability: How to Transform Your Applications to work with the Cloud and SaaS

  • Compliance and Security Best Practices for Cloud Computing Environments

  • How to Leverage Cloud Computing for Business Benefit

Conference Program

8:00am - 9:00am - Registration and Continental Breakfast

Hertenstein

9:00am-10:00am

Big Data & Mobility: How to Leverage the Cloud to Handle Added Disruption

Andrew Hertenstein, Lead Architect - Datacenter and Cloud Management, En Pointe Technologies

Change and disruption have become the norm in the industry. While productivity and efficiency can greatly increase, so do the challenges.

In this thought provoking session, attendees will learn:

  • How to make sense out all this massive change while not getting overwhelmed
  • The intricacies between cloud, big data and mobility
  • How to seize the opportunities that exist
  • How to develop a framework to help guide the business to capitalize on the opportunities

10:00am -10:30am - Refreshment Break

Luna

10:30am-11:30am

How to Assess Readiness of Cloud Adoption

Jesse Luna, Product Management, Acxiom

Determining when to move to the cloud and what steps to take is an involved process and can be met with pitfalls along the way if not carefully managed.

In this session, attendees will learn:

  • How to identify the budgetary, staffing and technology and miscellaneous other requirements
  • How to develop a TCO analysis
  • How to communicate to other stakeholders what will be involved
  • How to set expectations with the business units

Goodwin

11:30am-12:30pm

Choosing Public vs. Private vs. Hybrid Cloud Computing

Brett Goodwin, Vice President of Marketing and Development, Skytap

After setting your cloud strategy, how do you go about building your cloud?

In this session attendees will learn how to: 

  • Current Enterprise Trends
  • Differences; Pro's and Con's of Alternatives
  • Enterprise Cloud Solution Requirements
  • Where to Get Started?
  • Integrating with Existing Infrastructure

 

12:30pm - 1:30pm Luncheon

Tam

1:30pm-2:30pm

Application Interoperability: How to Transform Your Applications to work with the Cloud and SaaS

Albert Tam, Product Architect, SnapLogic

Transformation to the cloud and SaaS is more than spinning up resources on demand. It requires transformation at several different levels including the way you think about your enterprise architectures and integration.

This session will provide attendees with architectural considerations to effectively enable your organization’s applications to work with cloud/SaaS solutions.

 

2:30pm - 3:00pm - Refreshment Break

Sherry

3:00pm-4:00pm

Compliance and Security Best Practices for Cloud Computing Environments

JD Sherry, Director-Public Sector IT Security Solutions, Trend Micro

In order to maximize the tremendous opportunity cloud computing represents, customers must address the unique security challenges posed by cloud computing, especially when organizations have the need to comply with regulations such as PCI, SOX, or HIPAA. In this session, you will learn about the security challenges of moving your data and running your applications in the cloud and the best practices and technologies available to mitigate those risks.

 

Luna

Rettig

Roseman

Stratton

4:00pm-5:00pm

How to Leverage Cloud Computing for Business Benefit

Moderator:
Jesse Luna, Product Management, Acxiom
Panelists:
David Rettig, IS Manager, Hardware & Support, IMMI
Jeff Roseman, Director, Information Technology, Accretive Solutions
Matt Stratton, Director, Technology Operations, Apartments.com


and other professionals from IT departments

In this session attendees will learn how other enterprise IT organizations are leveraging the cloud for business benefits.

Topics that will be covered include:

  • New business applications launched
  • Cloud and effective enterprise collaboration
  • Being able to illustrate to executive management benefits

Conference Price: $269.00 per person


Each attendee will receive a certificate awarding 7 CPE credits for CISSP continuing education, in addition to 0.7 CEUs and 7 PDUs. CISSP is a registered certification mark of (ISC)², Inc.

Exhibits

As is always the case at CAMP IT Conferences events, the talks will not include product presentations.  During the continental breakfast, coffee breaks, and the luncheon break you will have the opportunity to informally meet representatives from the following sponsoring companies, who have solutions in the area of the conference.

  

 


 
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