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REGISTRATION & BREAKFAST

Why CIOs Are (Finally) Getting Over Cloud Phobia

Capgemini’s CTO for North America, Joe Coyle, hears an awful lot about cloud computing -- from customers that want to evaluate cloud solutions and vendors that want to win that business. Capgemini, a $12B global systems integrator, has relationships with all the major vendors and many enterprise customers. In this fireside chat we'll talk to Joe about the current state of the market.

Cloud Core is Different Than Enterprise Core

Does the cloud require new chip architectures or simply a better fabric? With AMD buying SeaMicro, the question of a cloud architecture still isn't settled. How long until AMD goes "ARMed" into the cloud?

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Sponsored by Aryaka

(Optional Workshops - Located on Level 2)

10:15 AM - DataStax Sponsor Workshop

10:15 AM - Aspera Sponsor Workshop

Where Big Data Meets The Cloud

EMC's reasoning for the acquisition of VMware has always been questioned. Was it because of the impact virtualization was having on storage or was it something else? In this conversation with VMware's technology leader, we will get a better understanding of the real impact of big data when it meets cloud computing. Some deep insights from customer deployments combined with industry announcements make this a must attend.

The Rise of Learning Systems: Implications of IBM Watson for Big Data and the Cloud

Next generation computing solutions, like IBM Watson, stand to change the game of how decisions get made. These solutions, which are taught, not programmed, leverage the vast repositories of unstructured, semi-structured and structured data. They provide real time, evidence based, confidence weighted responses to some of the most complex challenges faced by industry. This transformational technology is already being put to work in data intensive industries like healthcare and financial services, where the stakes are high and accuracy and timeliness of decisions matter. Delivered as a service via the cloud this disruptive intelligence could become the ultimate assistant to every professional in the future. In this session we talk to IBM Watson’s chief about the reality with business AI and these first, exciting steps in a new era of decision support tools.

Rolling Clouds on the Horizon

Bob Toohey is the COO of the $40B business unit that comes from the merging of the Verizon Business and Verizon Wireless units. Their aim? To make sure they roll the cloud out to wherever it needs to be. Bob examines the huge task at hand, what he sees as the biggest challenges, and discloses some facts and exclusive insights from their opportunity analysis of the market.

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Sponsored by Tier 3

(Optional Workshops - Located on Level 2)

12:55 PM - Dell Sponsor Workshop

12:55 PM - Virtustream Sponsor Workshop

Big Data Will Drive the Network to Become the Computer

Will we have to move our computing closer to the data? Our increasingly clogged pipes make moving data between points slower and more cumbersome. Certain types of data such as financial trading records, healthcare and scientific research all seem to be ripe for sending the compute to the data instead. In this panel we discuss the impacts that ever increasing sizes of data will have on network demands and how that will affect data center interconnects and compute architectures going forward.

Dealing with Unpredictable Demand: Feeding the Zynga Infrastructure Machine

Spin up 1000 new servers a week? Manage global latency? Shift a petabyte a day? All in a hybrid cloud archictecture? It's not all fun and games at Zynga. We'll dive into the world of the person who makes it all work and ask her what the enterprise world can learn from her and what she needs next to deliver performance in a constantly unpredictable world.

Scaling The Cloud for A More Mobile Future

15 years ago Akamai's MIT founders figured out you could solve Internet congestion with math, instead of hardware creating one of the first commercial instances of "cloud computing". Todays end-user has become increasingly mobile and global, and Akamai now delivers more Web traffic than anyone in the world. We talk with CEO Paul Sagan about why Akamai's future is to engineer secure, high-performing user experiences to any mobile device, anywhere.

3:45 PM - SoftLayer Sponsor Workshop

3:45 PM - Red Hat Sponsor Workshop

Make It Rain: The VC Panel

Each day the industry matures it is harder to tell where we are in the maturity curve. It took the personal computer 20 years to dominate the business world and yet in 5 years or so of cloud computing we seem to have changed everything that we know. New ideas, new technologies and new thought leaders continue to emerge. In our annual VC panel we investigate the trends in investment and how those making the biggest bets on the future see the future unfolding. A great panel for entreprenuers, investors and buyers alike on the future cloud computing landscape.

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API Wars: Delivering the De-Facto Standard

OpenStack. CloudStack. Amazon now lets Eucalyptus customers link their private clouds to AWS. The cloud industry has grown up and after 6 years, Amazon is still on top. Do the open source efforts have a chance or is this recent fragmentation the last straw?

Research Findings: New Opportunities and What Service Providers Still Need to do For Their Customers

What could your service provider do better for you? Over 250 major buyers were polled in industries covering government, healthchare, manufacturing and consumer. From hybrid cloud to security, storage to disaster recovery and readable websites to educated sales people - customers poured their hearts out about what service providers need to do to get their business. Join us as we share these key findings.

The Force In Government IT

Vivek Kundra held the inaugral and defining role for the federal government's position of CIO. We are thrilled to be able to host a conversation with this much lauded and accomplished leader. In this conversation we talk to him about the role the federal government will play in transitioning American industry to the cloud, its role in governing and protecting the buyer of cloud services and the future impact he hopes to make with the help of SaaS giant, Salesforce.com

10:45 AM - Tilera Sponsor Workshop

10:45 AM - Terremark Sponsor Workshop

Chicken Coops or Shopping Malls? The Future of The Data Center

Data centers used to be divided up based on their reliability, but now a new way of thinking is emerging about server farms. There are those building special-purpose data centers in containers that can be added to on-demand while others are building out a data cneter ecosystem that puts a lot of broadband and service providers under one roof. Even those leasing floor space have options. As supporting our web habit becomes a bigger business, which models will win out?

Guru Panel: Webscale Without Capital Costs

Go big or go home. The sporting adage is never more approrpiate than in the consumer web, but what does it take to build a Netflix, a Dropbox or a Zynga. And do you have to own your own cloud to do it? And how to you control your huge infrastructure cost?

1:15 PM - Joyent Sponsor Workshop

1:15 PM - Dreamhost Sponsor Workshop

After Software Defined Networks, The Software Defined Data Center

Once we have virtualized the networking in the data center, we have a powerful platform for delivering computing to a wider audience without the involvement of systems administrators. So begins the freedom to program data centers to optimally perform whatever applications we want to run on them.

Defining a New Infrastructure For The "App" Economy

To date, PaaS has largely been about supporting simple web application designs that are more scalable versions of their client-server predecessors. But the application design, deployment, and business model assumptions built into these platforms seem set to evolve. This panel investigates how business models may have to consider deployment and revenue from new angles and how propositions will need to encompass mobile clients, support real-time transactions and closed loop analytics on big data.

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(Optional Workshops - Located on Level 2)

3:45 PM - VMware Sponsor Workshop

3:45 PM - Microsoft Sponsor Workshop

Databases Confront the Cloud: Evolution, Revolution and Coexistence

Until recently, the industry has seen remarkably little innovation in databases. Why are we seeing so much variety now? NoSQL grew out the limitations of SQL for *certain* use cases, but SQL will not disappear so where will they ultimately belong? We are seeing that the bruhaha around NoSQL as a category obscures the fact that a variety of databases are needed to address a large range of use cases. This panel will examine how design patterns have evolved, especially those underpinning cloud applications, and how those patterns are driving innovations in database design.

The Gap Between Applications and Infrastructure

Everything we do in the cloud is about supporting the delivery of your application. Between the application and the big iron that powers it, there is a layer of management and software that orchestrates magic. This panel brings together differing viewpoints about application and infrastructure management, the gaps in between and why now more than ever you should be paying attention to the different approaches and their impacts on your organization.

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