Cloud Intelligence Conference: Anaheim 2012

Demystifying the Cloud will include all the big players such as Google, Amazon, Sales Force & Microsoft. We compare and contrast the various offerings bucketed by their industry definitions (SaaS, IaaS & PaaS). We will also call out services which run on each and how there are structured and utilized. This is an overview session for decision makers and is not intended to be technical.

With all the media hype around cloud computing today, I'm sure there is also quite a bit of confusion around what cloud computing really is. In this session, I will fully explain the difference between an organization's datacenter and a private cloud as well as how these relate to the public cloud and where exactly a hybrid cloud comes into play. After this session, you will be armed to make the correct decisions for your organization (and your own personal future) on when and how you adopt cloud computing.

You can break free from the constraints of your on-premise network system in a highly structured manner in less time with less hassle than you thought. Niv Dolgin, Director of IT Services for one of the premier Microsoft Cloud IT consulting firms in the Western United States, extols the virtues of the cloud and talks about the top 10 concerns any business needs to take into consideration before making the leap. The appropriate time for companies to move to it. He will address common (and uncommon) best practices, questions and concerns about Office 365 using SADA's extensive cloud client case studies as examples.

You've heard all about how you can leverage the power of Azure to lower your IT costs and open up new business opportunities and are ready to get started but just don't know how.

In this session we'll take you step by step through getting your free subscription setup and Azure tools installed. We'll show you how to test and debug your first project locally and then how to deploy it to Azure. You'll hear about recommended practices and important gotchas.

Following this presentation you'll know the steps required to deploy your first application in Azure and important things about the service you need to know before deploying your own application.

Join Buck Woody, a Senior Technology Specialist with Microsoft and a teacher at the University of Washington, as he explains the new options for business and organizational computing. He’ll explain the emergence of a “data-centric” approach to distributed computing, and the functions within cloud providers that you can use to enhance your current architecture rather than replacing it. Buck will also cover the strategies around “Big Data”, specifically covering Hadoop, NoSQL and using an RDBMS in the cloud

Learn how Windows Intune simplifies and helps businesses manage and secure PCs using Windows cloud services and Windows 7. Windows Intune includes both the cloud service for PC management and security and upgrade rights to Windows 7 Enterprise and future versions of Windows.

With the Windows Intune cloud service, IT staff can remotely perform a number of security and management tasks including software deployment, manage updates, endpoint protection to help safeguard PCs from malware threats, and inventory management so IT and end-users can remain productive from virtually anywhere-all that's required is an Internet connection. With the Windows 7 Enterprise upgrade included in the subscription, customers can get the best Windows experience with Windows 7 Enterprise or standardize on the Windows version of their choice.

You've learned what SharePoint can do for your organization now how do you get the green light for your project? Come to this interactive workshop to develop and present your own project's implementation overview. Understand the roles of the exec's, IT managers, developers, legal/HR and other groups involved in giving you the go-ahead. Walk away with the skills to get your project out of turn-around and into implementation. Prizes for the winning pitch!

EveryPenny was built from the ground up to run in the cloud, specifically Microsoft’s Azure, allowing us to take advantage of the scalability and availability, while paying for what we use when we need it. By using the Azure infrastructure we were able to build a highly scalable multi-tenant application that allows us to rapidly add new schools to EveryPenny for a few dollars per year. As our user base grows, we can easily add new web servers to meet the demand without making a capital investment. Using Neudesic’s extensive experience with new technologies, EveryPenny was designed for SaaS and requires no software to be downloaded to the schools computers providing them with an easy path to adopt EveryPenny. As a multi-tenant application we can support many schools on the same server, while isolating their data so that information is not shared inappropriately.

Office365, is nearing its one year anniversary and is evolving every day as Microsoft continues to refine this offering to support the needs of companies both large and small. Come to this session and learn about the all-in-one package of Exchange, Lync, SharePoint and Office 2010 applications hosted in the cloud. This session will take you through the key features of Office 365. Specifically, we’ll cover the following areas: The Microsoft Vision, What is new with Office 365?, Key benefits of Office 365, Moving from BPOS to Office 365, Office 365 Pricing, Office 365 Roadmap, What you need to do now to prepare for Office 365.

Attendees will leave this session with a clear understanding of what value Office365 offers to their organization.

Building a private cloud can be "simple" or it can be near impossible. Everyone talks about the private cloud, but until you actually build one yourself, it never really hits home. In this session, I will share my experiences (and lessons learned) as I worked with my team to build out our own Private Cloud.

During this interactive demonstration, you will learn how to empower your employees to Communicate and Collaborate using Lync Server, and Microsoft Office. The session will include highlight how these Microsoft technologies seamlessly interoperate to enable a best in class Unified Communications Solution. Lync Online is a next-generation, enterprise-grade communication solution that can improve business efficiencies, increase productivity, and provide cost savings.

Organizations can gain the following major benefits from using Lync Online:

• Know whether other are available to communicate
• Presence and click-to-communicate from Microsoft Outlook
• Connect with people and be more productive through a rich and immersive online meeting experience
• Communicate with other organizations running Lync

Join us as we provide a behind the scenes look at how local customers deployed their solutions on Windows Azure. In this session, we'll provide a detailed look at their solution, discuss why they chose Windows Azure, examine key business and application drivers and their Azure experience as well as their future plans for the platform

What does HTML5 mean for cloud computing, and vice-versa? When two revolutions are happening simultaneously you can expect interesting synergies and interactions. Even as cloud computing and social networks are profoundly transforming the back end, HTML5 and mobile devices are profoundly transforming the front end. When these worlds collide we can achieve something truly remarkable: rich, take-anywhere immersive experiences backed by on-demand, elastic services running at global scale. Both worlds are driving changes in the way we design software, and good solution architecture demands they be considered jointly. In this session you'll see how HTML5 and the cloud combine functionally and architecturally, illustrated by example

The journey to cloud computing starts with a private cloud implementation. A Microsoft private cloud dramatically changes the way your business produces and consumes IT services by creating a layer of abstraction over your pooled IT resources. Microsoft private cloud solutions are built on Windows Server and System Center technology.

The move to cloud computing involves more than just building a private cloud. The undeniable benefits of public cloud computing – on-demand scalability, flexibility, and economics, to name a few—also promise significant competitive advantages. The challenge is to leverage your existing investments, infrastructure, and skill sets to build the right mix of private and public cloud solutions for your business—one that will work for you today and in the future.

This session will focus on how Microsoft technology can help your datacenter offer true infrastructure service capability as well as optimally managed application services.

The release of the hotly anticipated System Center 2012 is just around the corner. Please join DynTek for a discussion on the System Center stack and the cutting edge new features of this vanguard management platform. System Center 2012 provides comprehensive management from the desktop to the datacenter and transforms the way you deliver IT and application services to your organization, optimizing resources across public and private cloud, managed from a single pane of glass.

We will review:

• System Center Stack – Opalis - System Center Orchestrator, Virtual Machine Manager, Configuration Manager, Operations Manager & More
• The System Center Roadmap for 2012
• Microsoft System Center 2012 cloud and datacenter management capabilities that provide a common toolset to manage private and public cloud applications and services
• How Microsoft System Center 2012 Configuration Manager and System Center 2012 Endpoint Protection provide a unified infrastructure to manage and protect physical, virtual, and mobile client environments.

Do you know the full value SharePoint can provide to your business? While SharePoint is known for collaboration and document management, its real value can be found in business intelligence. Getting access to the right information at the right time is one of the biggest challenges for most organizations. In this session, discover how SharePoint can help you gain insight into your databases, reports and business applications allowing your organization to find the information it needs to make good decisions. Find out how you can leverage SharePoint to improve your business processes, empower users, increase IT efficiency and improve overall organization effectiveness. Learn the reasons why you should (or possibly should not) deploy it as a cloud solution.

SQL Azure, the highly available and scalable cloud database has many use cases for BI. Join us to learn how WinWire was able help a clean energy firm implement a hybrid cloud solution for a BI dashboard incorporating a rich UI, business data and operational analytics. Key takeaways include practical challenges, considerations and trade-offs made for building cloud solutions with SQL Azure.

Description: Microsoft Office 365 takes the industry's most recognized set of productivity and collaboration tools and delivers them as a subscription service. With Microsoft’s cloud services, your organization can lower overall costs and deliver the right set of tools for the right users, all with appropriate layers of security and compliance. And, Office 365 includes a financially-backed service level agreement, allowing you to feel confident that you chose the best cloud solution.

Learn how leveraging your existing On-Premise Active Directory makes moving to Office 365 easy on IT staff and end users using Single Sign-On. Understand how to utilize and synchronize the same On-Premise Active Directory user accounts and passwords you use today to the Office 365 cloud. This session will also discuss Exchange 2010 Hybrid Federation scenarios giving you the flexibility to move to the cloud on your schedule while maintaining full fidelity between On-Premise and Office 365 user mailboxes.

Microsoft’s solution for private cloud, built on Windows Server 2008 R2 Hyper-V and System Center, is a key part of Microsoft’s approach to cloud computing, enabling you to build out a dedicated cloud environment to transform the way you deliver IT services to the business. As Hyper-V gains market share due to its enhanced feature set and significantly lower TCO, IT departments are grappling with how to integrate..or replace..other platforms with Hyper-V.

Please join DynTek for a discussion on strategies for:

• Creating and implementing private cloud from four to nearly ten times cheaper than VMware
• Empowering you to manage a hybrid cloud model through common management, identity and developer tools across the private and public cloud
• Working across platforms and across multiple hypervisors, including Hyper-V, VMware and Citrix

We will also dive into the key functions and benefits of the key component of Microsoft’s cloud strategy: Hyper-V:

• The Hyper-V evolution of the past two years
• Scenarios for Hyper-V
  • Server consolidation
  • Branch server consolidation
  • Virtual desktop infrastructure

Coming Soon

As far as mobile applications are concerned, Windows Azure takes the lead. From providing true platform options to developers, simplified management, ease of deployment, seamless hybrid deployments, Azure becomes the perfect choice to meet business needs for mobility. Join this session to learn how you can rapidly create mobile apps quickly for the fastest time-to-market and real ROI.

The battle is on as we compare Microsoft Dynamics CRM and Salesforce.com to find out which solution provides more value and functionality in the cloud. Join us as we share research from our own clients who have switched from Salesforce. Plus, we’ll breakdown the two market-leading cloud CRM solutions for functionality, costs and discuss the cloud terminology you need to know when selecting a CRM solution for your organization.

The session is intended for Operational, IT, Sales, Marketing, and Customer Care Executives involved in selecting and managing CRM solutions, or recommending solutions to organizations.