Optimizing the Performance of Cloud Computing.

Session Date: March 24, 2010
Session Time: 9.45am EST (6.45am PST)
Keywords: WAN, private clouds.
Authors: Apurva Dave, Vice President Product Marketing and Alliances
Riverbed Technology.
Abstract: As organizations move more to private and public cloud computing models, application performance over the Wide Area Network continues to be a source of pain. In fact, two of the top five top barriers to cloud computing growth include data transfer bottlenecks (latency) and application performance unpredictability. Many enterprises today are realizing that they already have private clouds, or are a short step away from reorganizing their assets into a private cloud format. Private clouds offer the benefits of the public cloud, while enabling enterprises to retain full application performance visibility and control.

The speaker will examine:

• what are private clouds, and why are they a good interim step for migrating to public or hybrid cloud networks?
• why doesn’t just adding bandwidth solve the application performance problem over the WAN?
• what technologies are best suited for solving cloud computing performance issues?
• what are the key considerations for integrating your applications into the cloud?