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What we have is not good enough: connecting the numbers

A pioneer of Cloud Computing services and scalable architectures, Jason Hoffman employed his skills as a pathologist and computer scientist to find a treatment for his mother’s cancer. In this talk he discusses how the infrastructure and technologies we have today are not good enough for what we’ll need in the future.

The future of datacenter servers and processors: the death of one size fits all in the server world

The “one size fits all” hardware era is over. The data center has reached an inflection point where infrastructure needs will be customized and tailored to meet specific workloads. This presentation will provide insights about how key technologies such as ARM, small core x86, CPU+GPU computing, and supercomputing fabrics will be major agents of this change.

What's keeping your CIO up at night

As the core technologies used to deliver enterprise IT change to the cloud so do the problems that CIOs have to face. These include cloud infrastructure, big data demands, Internet of Things, democratized IT and it's chaotic sibling BYOD (bring your own device). But this is just the tip of the iceberg. In this panel we assemble top CIOs for a frank and illuminating discussion about their worries and what they need next from enterprise IT vendors and technologists.

10 Cloud Catalysts

In our sixth year of Structure, we decided we wanted to feature some of the up and comers that are rethinking infrastructure for the next generation of computing. After months of research, and many conversations within the industry, we came up with a list of 10. Selections to be announced May 28th and seen live at Structure on June 19th and 20th.

10:35 AM - Intel Sponsor Workshop

Analytics as a service powered by Intel hardware-enhanced software

Learn how some of the leading cloud computing stacks can support the Intel® Distribution for Apache Hadoop optimized with Intel® Xeon processors, SSD, and 10GbE to help you analyze big data without compromising on security or performance.

10:35 AM - Dell Sponsor Workshop

10 Cloud Catalysts

Speaker Announced May 29th.

Behind google's evolutionary leaps

Jeff Dean architected the key technology and architectural leaps that have propelled Google to the top of the pile. Not often outward facing and much admired internally, we are privileged to have Jeff Dean talking about the challenges of constantly innovating to what technologies come next for Google to keep their competitive advantage.

How infrastructure can transform business success

In this session we focus in on how the right IT infrastructure can create significant competitive advantage. Understanding that IT’s job is to make systems work for people, rather than people working for systems, Revlon sought to align IT to the business with the successful implementation of a private cloud. Their resulting infrastructure turned 3.6PB of data into a business driver and runs more than 500 applications in a virtualized environment. Their initiative has demonstrated clear ROI.

LUNCH

(Optional Workshops - Located on Level 2)

1:05 PM - ServiceMesh Sponsor Workshop

From virtualization to transformation: what to know before you buy, the tale of two divergent paths

IT transformation is a top priority for many organizations. Often, many begin with IaaS as a stepping stone to transform IT. However, to achieve cloud operating model goals, a seamless, integrated central architecture of extensible policy and governance must be at the core. While the ultimate goal is to accommodate complex applications that provide business value, enterprises typically adopt one of two strategies in their quest. Path One: a project centric approach or Path Two: a view with the end-game in mind. In this session, I will present the path and strategies that lead to successful IT transformation.

1:05 PM - SnapLogic Sponsor Workshop

Networking for the modern datacenter, a disaggregated model

JR Rivers has worked on some of the most prolific computer networking products in history starting at a time when Ethernet ran on Coaxial cables. His perspectives through leadership and innovation positions at 3Com, Cisco and Google have shaped his thoughts and technology that will be launched for the first time in this session.

Is The Future Software Defined Everything?

We could argue that the cloud revolution came about in no small part due to the output of VMWare since 1998. Now twenty years on we ask industry thought leader Pat Gelsinger about what the future holds. What impact will VMware's focus on the Software Defined Data center as the new evoutionary point for infrastructure architectures have for the choices that buyers and ecosystem partners face?

SDN: The networking industry's biggest disruption since the Internet

Your number one concern is knowing your business and building applications suited to your specific business needs. Those applications run on an infrastructure that’s moving to virtualized and private cloud infrastructures and they are causing networking problems and demands that are leaving customers and service provider screaming for answers. Enterprise computing pioneer Bob Muglia will talk about how Juniper sees SDN changing the way we approach creating flexible and agile infrastructures to meet those needs for the future.

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(Optional Workshops - Located on Level 2)

3:40 PM - IBM Sponsor Workshop

3:40 PM - WSO2 Sponsor Workshop

Achieve business agility with Cloud APIs, Cloud-aware Apps, and Cloud DevOps PaaS

To match today’s rapid business pace; teams are adopting flexible Cloud-Native architecture and composing APIs into business-driven, Cloud-aware solutions. This workshop will describe how you can adopt API-first practices, remix Cloud services, and accelerate agility using DevOps PaaS. As teams reshape IT architecture, new business model innovations are possible.

AWS - Amazon's winning strategy

Amazon ignited the market for public cloud services and continues its impressive march forward. Application usages range from simple scripts by young developers to large Pharma's running 80,000 server drug analysis that shorten time to market from years to hours. In his annual fireside chat at Structure we welcome back the "Cloud Father" Werner Vogels to talk about the direction he is leading the industry in and his insights into the future for public cloud and private enterprises.

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 and 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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