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The composable enterprise

For the first time, we are entering an era where busi­ness and tech­nol­ogy oper­at­ing models have the opportunity to seam­lessly align to enable fast, flex­i­ble responses to rapidly chang­ing com­pet­i­tive landscapes. Viewing busi­ness func­tions and tech­nol­ogy as reconfigurable 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 Enter­prise as a Ser­vice.

Is this the year for Azure colored clouds?

Last year Satya Nadella, the president of Servers and Tools Business for Microsoft, 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 Microsoft is showing clear signs of success and challenging the early leaders in the cloud space with paced customer adoption. We'll explore how Microsoft sees Azure evolving in 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 data centers where servers, networking and storage are disaggregated and connected by high-speed interconnects. With this flexible architecture, data centers 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 data center racks and what the impact will be on delivering performance and total cost of ownership.

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10:35 AM - Virtustream Sponsor Workshop - Conference Room 2

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 - Conference Room 4

Infrastructure-agnostic transport technologies for universal big data storage and workflows

With the right tools, file storage today can be in the cloud or on-premise, with seamless and secure access and publishing regardless of location. This session will explore how infrastructure-agnostic transport technologies are transforming the way all kinds of organizations access and use big data for ever-greater efficiencies and innovation.

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, we have assembled some of the key voices in the industry for this panel to discuss future implications for buyers.

Constant progress: keeping one 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 one 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 its chief about his perspective on some of the critical decisions that will act as a pattern for the rest of the industry.

Cloud trailblazers: 10 for 2013

Jean Yang, a Ph.D. candidate at MIT, talks about writing a framework to allow programmers to build new services and features with privacy in mind.

1:05 PM - SoftLayer Technologies Sponsor Workshop - Conference Room 1

Comparing cloud computing models for performance and suitability

This session will examine the key differences among these cloud computing models and look at the performance and stability characteristics of each. We will look specifically at how NoSQL database performance varies in each of the models and when one model might be more advantageous than another.

1:05 PM - AMD SeaMicro Sponsor Workshop - Conference Room 3

Deploying OpenStack on fabric computing architectures

OpenStack data centers find their needs change over time, and the result is a heterogeneous mix of servers, networking, and storage systems that become increasingly difficult to manage. A fabric computing architecture overcomes and provides a platform that is flexible and easily expandable, enabling the entire cloud stack to scale smoothly. This presentation we will cover how OpenStack is deployed on a fabric computing architecture and how it enables SDN integration, bare metal provisioning and cloud storage.

Cloud trailblazers: 10 for 2013

Matt DeBergalis, the founder of Meteor Development Group, talks about making real-time development and deployment possible.

Performance management past the perimeter

What if you could get a single pane of glass that would give 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 hear how one of the largest social networks in the world uses this technology to challenge the traditional boundaries of performance management.

Enterprise problems worth solving

CEO, visionary and investor? Could one person be all three? There are a handful of people in the technology community who can claim those titles, but being humble, they would not. In this conversation we talk to Aneel Bhusri, the CEO of Workday and a force behind many enterprise hits, about what he sees as being the next needs in the enterprise space and where he thinks that we should be applying the tech communities' talents next to solve problems that are worth solving.

Cloud trailblazers: 10 for 2013

David Mytton, the CEO of Server Density, talks about building out tools to monitor massive groups of servers.

3:40 PM - Verizon Terremark Sponsor Workshop - Conference Room 1

The cloud of tomorrow

Join Kevin Clarke of Verizon Terremark, to explore the challenges presented by today’s cloud offerings as well as the core characteristics that enterprises should expect from the cloud of tomorrow: more security, performance guarantees, configurable networks and environmental flexibility.

3:40 PM - OpenStack Sponsor Workshop - Conference Room 3

OpenStack development: the infrastructure behind the infrastructure

Have you ever wondered how hundreds of developers from different companies around the world can produce quality software, with new features, on time? OpenStack is not only the fastest-growing open-source cloud project but is also a large-scale, complex system with a rapidly expanding code base and more than 1,000 contributors to date. Handling the quantity and pace of contributions is a huge challenge on its own, and in this session, we'll look behind the scenes at the unique tools and processes the OpenStack Core Infrastructure team has developed to handle up to 200 contribution activities an hour.

Hardware hackathon results

You have 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!

The total cost of real-time performance in a massively connected world

As data-management architectures evolve, each new technology looks to increase real-time visibility and reduce the latency to actions and decision making. Yet each technology has an associated cost and a practical limit beyond which real-time, distributed data management becomes infeasible. This session explores the costs of real-time performance for different big data technologies, illustrated with examples from telecommunications, telematics and the industrial internet.

Useful or useless? The technology maturity panel decides

Structure has hailed many technologies and products since its inception nearly six 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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Cloud benchmarking: toward 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 Stadil leading a panel of cloud practioners and buyers talking about getting toward an industry standard for cloud benchmarking that will be useful and that will allow customers to really get what they need. Not to be missed.

Making "as a Service" real at scale

As the world moves to a more mobile and more real-time environment, hard decisions will have to be made about your infrastructure strategy. At the frontline of this transition will be the high-value services that are being pulled to the new world by their customers. Ryan Granard, the VP of Platform Engineering at PayPal, will talk about how PayPal has made infrastructure delivery as a Service a reality and how this has been key in product evolution. He will also discuss where PayPal is driving its platform in the future and what others can learn from the trails blazed by PayPal.

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10:20 AM - SOA Software Sponsor Workshop - Conference Room 2

API frenzy: the implications and planning for a successful API strategy

API adoption has exploded, but not every API deployment is successful. Businesses are unearthing issues like inefficient scaling, compromised security, long development cycles and an uncontrolled sprawl of multiple versions. This presentation discusses best practices for managing API development from securing to monitoring APIs and managing the entire life cycle of API development.

10:20 AM - Citrix Systems Sponsor Workshop - Conference Room 4

IT as a Service is the IT of the future

Evolving from “keeping the lights on” to delivering IT as a Service (ITaaS) can provide rewards such as greater agility, flexibility and user productivity. Understanding the strategy, planning process and tools for this transformation will help catalyze changes in the way the business operates and deliver real value. Join us to learn about the new ITaaS model and how to begin the transformation. We will provide examples of real enterprises that are delivering ITaaS today.

GigaOM Research Mapping Session: Conference Room 1

Understanding the multicloud 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 multicloud strategy, and it will consider the implications for customers, providers of cloud solutions and providers of cloud management tools and other middleware components.Why does multicloud 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 its infrastructure over a few months for one reason: Its customers and the business world demanded it. The world has gone to real time, and so must it. Learn about the challenges and decisons it faced in starting from scratch while still serving 100 million customers.

Cloud trailblazers: 10 for 2013

Mitchell Hashimoto, the founder of HashiCorp, talks about building an open-source suite of tools to configure and manage virtual machines.

12:45 PM - Nuage Networks Sponsor Workshop - Conference Room 1

The true potential of network virtualization

While much has been said about network virtualization, current solutions remain limited to simplistic use cases, restricting services within boundaries of single data centers or virtualized islands. We describe a novel approach that fulfills the promise of massively scalable network virtualization and enables the seamless interconnection of cloud services with existing enterprise environments.

12:45 PM - Kontron Sponsor Workshop - Conference Room 3

How efficient is your cloud?

Kontron and partners Vantrix and Sensinode take an inside look at two powerful use cases for achieving a new order of magnitude of efficiency with cloud infrastructure. Catch the latest technologies that are driving new cost per performance densities for video and media streaming and M2M and IoT applications in the cloud.

Cloud trailblazers: 10 for 2013

James Tamplin, the CEO of Firebase, talks about creating a new architecture for building scalable web apps quickly.

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 SSDs? 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 data center perimeter while trying to grab on to one cohesive view of it all? Two industry legends in the storage space share their thoughts on storage now and 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 its 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, which make the ROI on the deployments worthwhile. What should you be planning for your network infrastructure?

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3:20 PM - HGST Sponsor Workshop - Conference Room 2

The overlooked disk drive and the (R)evolution of storage

Whether you think about it or not, storage is at the center of your applications, services and data centers — and it’s at the heart of the world’s digital infrastructure. Learn about the future of HDDs and flash and discover new innovations and value propositions that can help improve your bottom line.

3:20 PM - New Relic Sponsor Workshop - Conference Room 4

App developers and your corporate strategy

Apps are popping up by the thousands, and app developers are turning to the cloud. With infrastructure being managed by cloud providers, the focus is on apps with app developers in charge. Join this interactive session with two leaders who will share provocative views on the new role of app developers.

Energy blooms at eBay’s innovative data center in Utah: eBay and Bloom Energy

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 computing power and customers demand more distributed data centers, 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, the CTO of Dyn, will explain how the company eliminates the risk while still having its service operate at the highest level. In this talk von Wallenstein describes what "dark architecture" means and why you should should upgrade your infrastructure 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.

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