Schedule

REGISTRATION & BREAKFAST

Do federated clouds deliver?

When enterprises require data to be stored in a specific country just to get closer to the user, one size does not fit all and the federated model becomes compelling in the way in which it creates continuity. Can a geographically federated approach really ensure a consistent level of service quality?

The new cloudonomics

The most important question to ask about the cloud is, Why? Does it reduce cost, improve collaboration, or speed real-time enterprise agility? What are the implications for architectures, ecosystem trends, and private, public and hybrid alternatives? In this panel, moderated by the man who coined the term "cloudonomics," we engage leading thinkers about the value structure of the cloud for business.

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(Optional Workshops)

10:55 AM - SoftLayer Sponsor Workshop - Otter Room

Private cloud – don’t wait for tomorrow, deploy today

Private cloud is a game-changer of tomorrow. A whole cloud of your own that you can deploy and scale at the push of a button. And the best news is – you don’t have to wait. We will show you how you can build your private cloud architecture in just a couple of hours. Instead of starting at square one, you start with a whole cloud ready for whatever you want to do with it, with total access and control over every aspect.

Forget cloud, you need a business-class "fabric"

Pre-cloud was so easy, when it came to buying, that is. You bought a data center, you bought connectivity, and you made it work. Nowadays, with clouds and hybrid clouds and more complex infrastructure needs, we are pushing our boundaries of what we can do within the infrastructure world as we know it. That is, until now. Perhaps we should let our machines decide what they need and when they need it and let them do the provisioning.

Leading the charge and still innovating

What started out as a way to make internal developers at Amazon more productive has grown in a short amount of time to be the industry's leading public cloud solution. We are proud to welcome Werner Vogels, the father of the Amazon cloud and Amazon CTO, to share his thoughts about the present and the future of the public cloud.

1:15 PM - Red Hat Sponsor Workshop - Esperance Room

The key to the hybrid cloud is being open

Hybrid cloud computing allows you to leverage both private and public infrastructure as part of your cloud strategy. Openness is the key to making hybrid clouds a reality. An open approach to the cloud puts you in control of decisions and choices and allows you to scale securely by easily leveraging public clouds and bringing the benefits of the cloud across all of your IT resources, not just a subset. It also gives you the ability to avoid cloud silos, prevent one vendor from controlling your economic model and your access to innovation, and manage applications and data across your choice of a diverse infrastructure, all giving you an easy on-ramp without migration.

1:15 PM - GigaOM Pro Analyst Roundtable - Griffioen Room

The public cloud revolution: Is Europe ready?

Trust and availability govern the future uptake of public cloud computing in Europe. If cloud computing will be widespread, infrastructure needs to be available and accessible. If infrastructure is going to be used, data needs to be secure and compliant. On a practical scale, what should vendors do to help enable their partners to succeed? What is the current situation, what is the most likely future scenario, and what can the industry do to accelerate public cloud usage in Europe?

The transformative potential of cloud computing in Europe

Interoperability and portability have become key concerns for enterprises that have adopted the cloud, and they are especially critical issues in a fragmented market like the EU. If the key is to be open source, then why are some clouds more open source than others? OpenNebula is seen as more open source than OpenStack, Eucalyptus or CloudStack, but it can also be a tool for innovation as well as promoting uptake of cloud computing in Europe.

Software-defined networks: notes from users in the field

Bubble or a tremendous leap in technology? When startups only a few years old and with barely any revenue are bought for billions of dollars, we start to question. At GigaOM we believe that software-defined networking is a leap and that the impacts of the work being done now will change the infrastructure landscape for years to come. In this session we talk with the leading SDN companies on what the road map for networks will look like and what the realistic initial use cases will be for IT buyers and integrators.

3:55 PM - Aspera Sponsor Workshop - Esperance Room

Enabling the big data cloud with high-speed transport

Companies leveraging the cloud for applications and infrastructure are facing challenges in moving big data in and out. The bottleneck in transfer speeds severely limits their ability to leverage the available computing and storage resources. In this session, learn the best practices for high-speed data access in private, public and hybrid cloud environments.

Green clouds: making the cloud sustainable

The cloud's impact on energy consumption is immense. Big energy spends with a negative impact. What long-term decisions can the industry take to make the cloud more sustainable? In this session panelists discuss how the industry should be prepared for a potentially volatile energy market in Europe.