This series of panels and presentations look at the emergence of on-demand infrastructures. From security to performance, from management to deployment, we'll tackle the big issues facing companies who want to adopt cloud computing, arming you with the facts you need to leverage this huge shift in IT.
While on-demand promises pay-as-you-go economics, built-in reliability, and a reduction in operational costs, the reality is that while there's lots to love about clouds, using them means rewriting many legacy applications. And many companies are unlikely to take that step. So how can enterprises embrace cloud platforms for the mission-critical apps they rely on? This panel of cloud software companies look at how to embrace the cloud without rewriting the business.
When your current data center facility has reached its capacity, will you maintain ownership—or turn the reigns over to someone else? How will you make this decision? From collocation to cloud computing, it is no longer necessary for IT shops to own and operate data center facilities to offer critical data center services. This session will evaluate the various forms of data center ownership to help data center managers determine their ownership strategy into the future.
Contrary to popular belief -- and the advice of many analysts -- clouds aren't important because of cost. In fact, for many companies they may be more expensive than in-house operations. But their value is tremendous: Clouds offer the ability to connect into global services, social networks, and value-added software quickly and easily. This session looks at why, ultimately, it will be network effects rather than cost savings that make us adopt on-demand services and ubiquitous computing.
For nearly half a century, IT has been in charge of capacity -- adding machines when apps get slow, and planning IT resources according to demand. But in many clouds, capacity is elastic. That means no more capacity planning, and a radical change in the way IT thinks about operations. This session looks at the capacity equation and what clouds change about the way we run applications.
Compared to the cost of moving data, nearly everything in computing is free. This has important consequences for cloud architectures, and limits the way companies can take advantage of features like "cloudbursting." This session explains the impact of the data rule and how it limits enterprise use of on-demand applications.
