Events

February 16, 2012
TechAmerica Foundation State & Local Government Cloud Commission
Tech America
To highlight the release of its major report and recommendations on Cloud Computing adoption by State & Local Government entities, the TechAmerica Foundation will convene a conference for state and local government and industry leaders in Silicon Valley, California, sponsored by Virtustream.

The half-day event will feature a review of the report's major findings and recommendations, panel discussions with Government Advisors and Commissioners who are now working on the State & Local Government Cloud Commission (SLG - CC) report, and the unveiling of an online SLG-Cloud Assessment Tool and Collaborative Community.

More information on SLG-CC can be found at the Commission website.

February 29, 2012
Webcast: GigaOM Roundtable Discussion

Panelist Speaker: Simon Aspinall, CMO Virtustream

Key to winning the enterprise: Differentiated cloud computing SLAs

Cloud computing is no longer a sandbox for test and development. Enterprises want to move mission critical workloads to the cloud like Microsoft and SAP and in doing so, they are looking for metrics around application performance and response times to become part of the service level agreement (SLA) process. That’s a sharp contrast to what is provided in most cloud computing SLAs today, which lack the necessary assurances for moving critical data and applications to the cloud.

Currently, a cloud service provider SLA typically covers a fairly narrow set of parameters: uptime, performance and response time and basic infrastructure security, with a service credit applied for the number of hours an outage goes over the agreed SLA. But the conversation among IT pros moving to the cloud is shifting to the availability requirements for a specific workload and how to match that to the appropriate cloud infrastructure. There is more to it than using different priority levels for restarting virtual machines. In 2012, expect aggressive cloud service providers to offer SLAs that cover the entire application stack.

March 23, 2012 | 14:00
Panel Discussion: Evaluating key emerging markets for improved strategy Challenges & Opportunities Moderated by Max Cooter, Editor, CLOUD PRO
Featuring Julian H. Lloyd, Vice President, Cloud Advisory Services, EMEA, Virtustream.

The opportunities and challenges of placing your business in the cloud Challenges and commercial risks faced when improving business agility and productivity Identifying the alternative levels of resource sharing for various cloud offerings including:

Infrastructure Cloud: Hardware and IT infrastructure management
Software Cloud: SaaS and traditional CRM as a service
Application Cloud: Applications, UML Modeling tools and social networks as a service
Business Cloud: Business process as a service The future of Cloud Computing: How advanced can it get and how far this era can and will go?

April 16-17, 2012 | Downtown Hilton, Miami, USA
Cloud Computing in the PUBLIC SECTOR Conference

The Cloud Computing Association (CCA) is proud to present the Cloud Computing in the PUBLIC SECTOR Conference scheduled for April 16-17, 2012 at the Downtown Hilton in Miami, FL. The conference will target top administrators and information technology executives responsible for the strategy, planning, and management of cloud-based technology solutions. The conference will cover when and how educational institutions and local, state and federal agencies will adopt cloud-enabled products and solutions or how they will advance their already substantial investments in cloud-based technologies.

Sean Jennings joins the panel session on Cloud Strategy Architecture & Design:

There is a lot of discussion about implementing the cloud and what category of service you will use be it SaaS, PaaS or IaaS. The panel will discuss and explain the benefits of the cloud computing, and how to overcome the hurdles municipalities face with a move to the cloud. It will also address how to transform desktops and applications into universal groups in the cloud. And finally, the session will also explain why this should also a major consideration when developing the enterprise architecture.

For more information: http://www.cloudcomputingassn.org/events/T1202/faculty.html

May 14-16, 2012
SAPPHIRE NOW + ASUG ANNUAL CONFERENCE Orange County Convention Center | Orlando, Florida

Join Virtustream, the seventh SAP-Certified Global Provider of Cloud Services, for the world’s essential business technology conference and the largest SAP customer-run conference. We are pleased to be the only Red Hat Premier Certified Cloud Provider with a Demo Pod Sponsorship within the Red Hat booth at SAPPHIRE. Visit us to see how our enterprise class cloud xStream provides highly secure, multi-tenant, multi-hypervisor cloud management and managed cloud services - powered by Micro-VM technology - delivering significant efficiency savings beyond traditional virtualized environments, with true consumption based pricing.

For more info go to http://www.sapandasug.com

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