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A Billion Served

Session Date & Time: Day 3, March 25, 18:30pm EST (13:30 pm PST) (1 hour)
Keywords: Cloud Testing.
Authors: Jurrie van den Breekel, Spirent .
cloud computing conference 2010Abstract: The cloud is the new “killer” service to bring service providers and enterprises into the age of network services capable of infinite scale. As an example, a mere 5,000 servers with many cloud services could feasibly serve one billion users or end devices. The idea of services at this scale is now possible with multi-core processing, virtualization and high speed Ethernet, but even today the mix of implementing these technologies requires careful considerations in network infrastructure design. This presentation covers the challenges of the network infrastructure enabling cloud services at infinite scale.

Bio:
Jurrie van den Breekel is a product marketing manager at Spirent Communications and serves as market segment lead for the company’s Enterprise and Data Center switching test solutions. Previously he served as a technical marketing manager where he was responsible for the market development of Spirent’s Performance Analysis Broadband division in the EMEA region. Jurrie has also held a variety of other positions at Spirent. Prior to joining Spirent in 2000, he spent several years at the Dutch-based system integrator, TrueCom, as product manager for telecom test systems

Panel Topic: Cloud-scale ERP on-demand supporting 500,000 users with SAP, T-Systems, and NetApp

Session Date and Time: Day 3, March 25, 17:30pm EST (14:30PM West Coast) (1 hour)
Keywords: ERP, Cloud.
Panelists: Sanjog Gad, SVP oCTO at SAP, Greg Smith, VP North America at T-Systems, Val Bercovici, VP oCTO at NetApp, George Gilbert, TechAlpha (Moderator).
Description SAP, T-Systems, and NetApp are collaborating on a proposal for a panel at CloudSlam focused on the following themes:

  • How to extend the SAP installed base with the new technology and economics of on-demand applications at the "edge"
  • How SAP is rebuilding under the covers in order to minimize customer disruption for on-demand deployment but while still delivering the scale and scope that core mission-critical systems demand
  • How a service provider like T-Systems can preserve existing applications but leverage the TCO and economic advantages of on-demand delivery - this part of the panel will go into some of the trade-offs behind how T-Systems leveraged its scale to build management technologies to support secure multi-tenancy that many on-demand vendors are also working on but that in this case works on existing SAP systems.
  • How a service provider platform can build higher level functionality and leverage better economics by building on specialized infrastructure - in this case NetApp. This part of the panel will explain the trade-offs between the integrated systems that Cisco/EMC and HP are building and the specialized systems that are differentiated by their management functionality and enable customers to deliver secure multi-tenancy.

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Windows-based IaaS: Lessons in the Cloud - The Recovery.Gov Story

Session Date and Time: Day 1, March 23, 18.45pm EST (15.45pm West Coast) (45min)
Keywords: windows, iaas.
Authors: Erren Lester, Director of Product Management, Synteractive, Inc.
Abstract: In this session, we will tell the story of how a small, highly motivated team of people leveraged the cloud to develop the highly available, highly performing, data driven site called http://www.recovery.gov. Recovery.Gov is the site used to track the $800B+ stimulus spending aimed at creating or saving jobs during the economic crisis. The redesign, which focused on making detailed recipient data transparent all the way down to the state and local government, was under the supervision of Vice Pres. Joe Biden and had a successful release to the public in only 10 weeks. That's right, 10 weeks from inception to development to deployment of a Microsoft .NET based solution running on the Amazon cloud. And to make it even more interesting, we should add that the entire site is running on SharePoint 2007.

The overall theme of this session will be focused on how to effectively use public IaaS clouds such as Amazon to deliver a best of class Windows-based solution. Many of these lessons learned led to the creation of CloudAdvantage.

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Building Real Life Clouds

Keywords: hardware infrastructure, Intel® Cloud Builder Program.
Authors: Rekha Raghu, Intel Corporation.
Abstract: With the evolution of the cloud, many companies are looking to implement effective cloud computing solutions. Building a cloud can be a daunting process - from designing a hardware infrastructure that will meet the customer demands, to identifying and configuring the cloud management software to run the infrastructure. This session will cover key learnings from the Intel® Cloud Builder Program.

Are We Ready for Cloud Testing?


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 Keywords: Load Testing, Cloud Testing tools, Business Service Management, Application Service Monitoring.
Authors: Frank Cohen, CEO of PushToTest.
Abstract: The IT world is headed towards Cloud Computing. Are you ready to move your data, applications, and services into a brand new technology platform?
Moving to the Cloud can be unnecessarily dangerous and risky. Moving to the
Cloud may be an inevitable way to power your organization's IT initiatives
in Rich Internet Applications (RIA,) Service Oriented Architecture (SOA,)
and Business Process Management (BPM.)

Is WAN Optimization Still Relevant in a Cloudy World?


Session Date: March 24, 2010
Session Time: 11.15am EST (8.15am PST)
Keywords: WAN, private clouds, Networking, Latency.
Authors: Apurva Dave, Vice President Product Marketing and Alliances, Riverbed Technology.
Abstract: Poor application performance due to WAN latency has negatively impacted distributed enterprises and organizations for years. Now this same issue threatens companies who are moving to create private, public or hybrid cloud computing networks. As companies determine which applications are appropriate to run in the cloud, WAN optimization can help -- not only in breaking performance bottlenecks, but also in reducing the number of applications that would otherwise need to be rewritten. WAN optimization capabilities are being extended to address a broad range of private and public cloud computing challenges. The speaker will examine virtual WAN optimization and advancements in branch office optimization that will enable, and further drive, dependence on cloud computing.

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.

Efficient Deployment of Predictive Analytics through Open Standards and Cloud Computing

Session Date & Time: Day 3 March 25 19:30pm EST (4.30PM pst) (45min)
Keywords: Amazon, Cloud Analytics, PMML, Predictive Analytics, SaaS.
Authors: Michael Zeller, Alex Guazzelli and Kostantinos Stathatos, Zementis, Inc.
Abstract: Open standards and cloud computing not only have the power to enable the development of new data mining applications across science and industry, but more importantly they also lower the total cost of ownership by avoiding proprietary issues and incompatibilities among systems. The Predictive Model Markup Language (PMML) standard, which allows for data mining models to be easily exchanged between analytic applications, has obtained broad industry support among commercial and open source vendors.

The evolution of the cloud.

Keywords: infrastructure, management, automation, dynamic, work-load driven.
Authors: Katherine Garlinghouse and Michael Jackson, Adaptive Computing.
Abstract: As application ecosystems in the cloud become more complex so will the need for a more diverse and flexible infrastructure to support workloads that are not well suited to virtualized systems or the typical dual socket x86 platforms and blades which make up almost 75% of "industry standard" server shipments today. The evolution of the cloud from a simple, semi-automated project space to a next generation workload driven system where complete, fully-functional compute environments will need to be dynamically created, managed, expanded and contracted as demand changes over time and finally returned to the resource pool automatically will cause a fundamental change for cloud service providers whether private or public.

Lessons on Scale from Massive Enterprise Deployment.

Keywords: SaaS, scalability, mulit-tenancy, deployment, applications.
Authors: Tom Fisher, Vice President of Cloud Computing for SuccessFactors.
Abstract: Cloud computing enables unprecedented application scalability in global reach, volume and ubiquitous access. To achieve rapid, effective and secure application deployment at cloud scale, enterprises must now address new challenges unique to the cloud environment – building apps and infrastructure that are designed for scale from the start. In this talk, we’ll look at case studies of variable-size multi-tenant deployments ranging from a small office to arguably the largest enterprise cloud deployment in history – the 420,000-seat deployment of SuccessFactors software at Siemens AG. We’ll address how to evaluate your application and deployment environment and how to choose appropriate scalability strategies that fit user needs and technical constraints. Ultimately, participants will gain a strong technical foundation for building a flexible and user-driven cloud solution and a thorough understanding of the tools and approaches available.

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