Best Practices for Managing Hybrid Cloud Environments

Session Date and Time: Day 1, March 23, 20:15pm EST (17:15pm West Coast) (30min)
Keywords: Hybrid Cloud.
Authors: Bojan Simic, Founder and Principal Analyst at TRAC Research.
Abstract: As cloud computing services are getting more traction with end-user organizations, the majority of organizations are still moving only some of their IT services into the cloud while managing other services internally. These types of hybrid environments create new management challenges as organizations need new visibility and management capabilities for ensuring the optimal use of computing resources while maintaining high levels of performance of IT services. Having full visibility into the utilization of cloud resources and being able to make educated decisions about adding and subtracting resources that are moved to the cloud allow organizations to achieve the full benefits of cloud computing from both operational and business perspectives.
This presentation will highlight the technology capabilities and management processes that organizations need to have in place in order to be effective in managing hybrid cloud environments.

Bio: Bojan Simic is the founder and Principal Analyst at TRAC Research, a market research and analyst firm that specializes in IT performance management. As an industry analyst, Bojan interviewed more than 2,000 IT and business professionals from end-user organizations and published more than 50 research reports. Bojan’s coverage area at TRAC Research includes application and network monitoring, WAN management and acceleration, cloud and virtualization management, BSM and managed services.
His domain knowledge includes insights into end user experiences, best-practices in deploying solutions for IT performance management, and strategies of related solution providers.
Bojan is frequently quoted in leading industry publications and he has presented his research findings at more than 30 market facing events.
Simic holds a B.A. in Economics from Belgrade University in Belgrade, Serbia and an M.B.A. from McCallum Graduate School of Business at Bentley University.