Schedule

OPENING REMARKS

The composable enterprise

We are entering an era where — for the first time — busi­ness and tech­nol­ogy oper­at­ing models have the opportunity to seam­lessly align to enable fast, flex­i­ble response to rapidly chang­ing com­pet­i­tive landscapes. Viewing busi­ness func­tions and tech­nol­ogy as re–configurable build­ing blocks will require a rad­i­cal depar­ture from the legacy IT infra­struc­tures and appli­ca­tion port­fo­lios found inside most orga­ni­za­tions today. This session explores the evolution in business model and tech­nol­ogy ‘fab­rics’ required to deliver the Enter­prise as a Ser­vice.

Is this the year for Azure colored clouds?

Last year Satya Nadella proclaimed that Microsoft's cloud proposition would democratize the power of handling big data for smaller companies and challenged leading players to be more interoperable. A year later they are showing clear signs of success and challenging the early leaders in the cloud space with paced customer adoption. We talk to Satya to explore what they see coming and how they see Azure evolving this space to change the options that enterprise and SMB buyers have in an enterprise integrated cloud.

Sponsored session - The new rack at light speed

Recent industry announcements speak about the future of datacenters where servers, networking and storage are disaggregated and connected by high-speed interconnects. With this flexible architecture, datacenters will increasingly be managed as a system to permit dramatic breakthroughs in efficiency. In this session we look at the latest rack scale innovation, new interconnect technology, and next generation SoCs that will redefine datacenter racks and what the impact will be on delivering performance and total cost of ownership.

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(Optional Workshops - Located on Level 2)

10:35 AM - Virtustream Sponsor Workshop

Mission possible: moving business-critical apps to the cloud

Ben Kepes will moderate a Virtustream panel session addressing the key challenges enterprises face when moving mission-critical applications to the cloud. Attendees will hear best practices for achieving enterprise-grade security and compliance, assured application-level SLAs for performance and availability and multi-tenant efficiency from real customer case studies and examples.

10:35 AM - Aspera Sponsor Workshop

The annual cloud buyers survey by GigaOM Research and North Bridge Venture Partners

Each year GigaOM Research partners with North Bridge Venture Partners on an industry survey, tracking the needs and desires of IT buyers and practioners in the industry. To deliberate over the findings being announced today we assembled some of the key voices in the industry for this panel to discuss future implications for buyers.

Constant progress: keeping a billion users happy

Facebook continues to be the leading consumer web application out there leading many to quip that the World Wide Web has evolved into Facebook. With over a billion users, Facebook continues to push the edge of scalable web technology, pioneering and disrupting the infrastructure value chain for the industry. We talk to their chief about his perspective on some of the critical decisions that will act as a pattern for the rest of the industry.

10 Cloud Catalysts

Speaker Announced May 29th.

1:05 PM - SoftLayer Sponsor Workshop

1:05 PM - AMD Sponsor Workshop

10 Cloud Catalysts

Speaker Announced May 29th.

Performance management past the perimeter

What if you could get a single pane of glass that gives you a view beyond your edge firewall? With the adoption of cloud applications, the Internet is becoming the backbone for the modern enterprise and the IT team is left to deal with the hard performance past the infrastructure perimeter. In this session, we will see the launch of a new technology that empowers enterprises to quickly identify hard performance challenges and how one of the biggest cloud pioneers is using the ThousandEyes technology to achieve competitive advantage.

The CEO, the investor and the future

10 Cloud Catalysts

Speaker Announced May 29th.

3:40 PM - Verizon Sponsor Workshop

3:40 PM - Openstack Sponsor Workshop

Hardware hackathon results

You’ve got to see what happens when Facebook initiates a hackathon for - wait for it - computer hardware. In conjunction with Intel and Facebook we present to you the results of the Hardware hackathon and the innovations borne from it. Get it here first!

TBA

Useful or useless? The technology maturity panel decides

Structure has hailed many technologies and products since its inception nearly 6 years ago. In that time some have flourished and become standard choices, some have died and some are the living dead. In this lively and "no holds barred" panel of seasoned yet early adopter IT buyers, we look at what has made its mark and what has failed to deliver on its promises.

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OPENING REMARKS

Cloud benchmarking: towards fair and useful cloud econometrics

Earlier this year a post by Cloud Computing thought leader Sebastien Stadil blew up on our blog and caused a huge debate and outpouring. Following up we have Sebastien leading a panel of cloud practioners and buyers talking about getting towards an industry standard for cloud benchmarking that will be useful and allow customers to really get what they need. Not to be missed.

HANA and the age of analytics everywhere

Your infrastructure is distributed, and so is your data. So why shouldn't your analytics follow suit? SAP is backing the HANA tachnology to the hilt and it's timing may be spot on as the industry rapidly moves forward with distributed infrastructures. We talk to SAP CTO and chief architect behind HANA about his aspirations and vision for what in memory analytics will have on the Enterprise buyers strategy for the future.

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(Optional Workshops - Located on Level 2)

10:20 AM - SOA Sponsor Workshop

10:20 AM - Citrix Sponsor Workshop

GigaOM Research Mapping Session - Room 1

Understanding the multi-cloud opportunity

Hybrid clouds, in which one public cloud and one private cloud are used together, are becoming increasingly common solutions to a range of business challenges. This session will explore the motivations behind adopting a multi-cloud strategy, and consider the implications for customers, providers of cloud solutions, and providers of cloud management tools and other middleware components.Why does multi-cloud matter? Is it a trend that will grow, or one whose days are numbered?

Metamorphosis: Everything must go first

In this prized talk we get key insights from LinkedIn's top technologist on the massive and complete overhaul of their infrastructure over a few months for one reason - their customers and the business world demanded it. The world has gone to real time and so must they. Learn about the challenges and decisons they faced in "starting from scratch" whilst still serving 100 Million customers.

10 Cloud Catalysts

Speaker Announced May 29th.

12:45 PM - Nuage Networks Sponsor Workshop

12:45 PM - Kontron Sponsor Workshop

10 Cloud Catalysts

Speaker Announced May 29th.

The future of storage in a super distributed world

As we progress in the world of cloud computing, what does the notion of software-defined storage really mean? At some point that storage is going to be concrete and meet a hard drive. But will that drive be a spinning platter or will it be an array of SSD’s? What happens when memory gets faster and more persistent so that it approaches RAM speed at platter costs? And what happens when we distribute this? Not just beyond the box but beyond the datacenter perimeter whilst trying to grab on to one choesive view of it all? Two industry legends in the storage space share their thoughts on storage now, in the future and what impact “Big Data” will have on innovation, costs and performance for buyers in the industry.

Application aware networks (when SDN is in its stride)

Networks were for a long time just thought of as pipes. With the decline in cost of compute and it’s subsequent proliferation at the heart of networking ( SDN) for control and transport we have the emergence of a very powerful beast - a network that is aware of the applications that are running on it and that can adapt itself to the performant delivery of those apps. Responsive apps make happy users make the ROI on the deployments worthwhile. What should you be planning for your network infrastructure?

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(Optional Workshops - Located on Level 2)

3:20 PM - HGST Sponsor Workshop

3:20 PM - New Relic Sponsor Workshop

Energy blooms in the Utah dessert (Bloom Energy)

Aggregate, the world’s data centers consume more electricity than Sweden and Iran combined. Data centers are facing an “energy crisis” in the 21st century - as the cloud demands more compute and customers demand more distributed datacenters, energy infrastructure designed for civic use starts to be strained. In this talk we hear for the first time about the innovative energy deployment for the Ebay data center in Utah and what it teaches us about the future of energy supply for the cloud.

Dark architecture and how to forklift upgrade your infrastructure with zero downtime

Everyone’s infrastructure eventually needs an upgrade. However, most companies go about it the wrong way. Flag days – when 100 percent of improvements are switched over on a single day – are still popular, even though they’re ineffective and with the potential for disastrous breakdown. Cory von Wallenstein CTO of Dyn will explain how they eliminate the risk while still having their service operate at the highest level. In this talk Corey describes what Dark architecture means and when upgrading your infrastructure, why you should do a small piece at a time off to the side and then test. This speech can save money, time and headaches. It’s definitely a must see.

Hacking the cloud: rethink hardware, rethink app delivery, turn off your instances and save money

We are seeing some early signals for new product categories. In the cloud where you can pick and choose your infrastructure you can optimize on performance and cost. We assemble some of the Alpha technologists and hackers out there to talk about how they hacking together bespoke solutions to optimise and save money on their infrastructure and how their actions extrapolate a line for future infrastructure products and trends that you should be looking out for.

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