Cloud Intelligence Conference: Mountain View 2012

When should you migrate? How do you migrate? How do you prepare your systems and organizations for the change? These are questions that we all ask ourselves when we are considering the move to the cloud. Let SADA, a leading award-winning Microsoft Partner, educate you on how to get ready for the Cloud.

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.

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.

In order to design great cloud solutions developers and architects need to understand the capabilities and building blocks to construct the applications. We will be looking at reviewing features of compute, storage, relational data, communication, security, and networking in Windows Azure. Key design patterns will be illustrated with application examples. Key takeaways will include an understanding of the Windows Azure platform capabilities, building blocks and core design patterns as well as common application patterns for cloud computing.

If we look at the Enterprise today, mobile and cloud technologies are powerful forces at work. Mobile computing is redefining the definition of “the platform”. With 4.5 billion mobile devices blanketing the planet, a smartphone, tablet or touch screen device and for some this is their primary form of interaction with technology. The lines are blurring between consumer and employee, since the expectation is that technology works the same way at home as it does at work. This is what is driving the so-called “Consumerization of IT.”

Stay ahead of today’s competition and leverage the IT solution of the future: Microsoft Office 365. Microsoft Office 365 takes industry-recognized productivity and collaboration tools and delivers them as a web-based subscription service. Lift your business off the ground, and into the cloud: Niv Dolgin, Director of IT Services for SADA Systems, will discuss how Office 365 can be used to drive collaboration, innovation and productivity in your workplace. Learn more about a suite of highly available, secure office solutions that simplify IT management while reducing overhead costs from a Microsoft cloud expert with over 15 years of experience delivering IT solutions

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.

Learn options for architecting solutions to the complex problems of Multi-tenancy using features of the Windows Azure cloud platform, including:

• Data partitioning, privacy, and encryption
• Geo-distribution of applications and data
• Cost-effective and efficient application scaling
• Maximizing system availability and performance worldwide
• Integration with on-premises systems

Come hear why Rise chose to build their cloud platform based upon Microsoft Hyper-V and learn from their experiences as the platform has grown and why we were awarded the Hyper-V Cloud and global Hosting Solutions Partner of the Year in 2011.

You will leave this presentation with a better understanding of the real world challenges and tribulations experienced while building one the largest partner hosted cloud platforms in current deployment. Additionally, we will share with you the reasons and decisions why more and more companies are choosing to build platforms based upon Microsoft’s virtualization technology.

Private Cloud automation with Microsoft System Center 2012 is a reality, and Rand Morimoto, co-author of the book “System Center 2012 Unleashed” will present and demonstrate the various components in System Center that provide IT automation. This includes going beyond self-service automation of guest sessions, to also include application deployment automation, proactive disaster recovery and system uptime automation, and managing a truly distributed environment with servers and applications that reside both on premise as well as in the cloud. Rand will highlight tips, tricks, best practices, and lessons learned in the deployment of the Private Cloud based on Microsoft technologies.

Microsoft Lync Online is a next-generation cloud communications service that connects people in new ways, anytime, from anywhere. Lync Online provides intuitive communications capabilities across presence, instant messaging, audio/video calling and rich online meeting experience including PC-audio, video and web conferencing. Transform your interactions with colleagues, customers and partners from today’s hit-and-miss communication to a more collaborative, engaging, and effective experience.

Microsoft Lync Online is a next-generation cloud communications service that connects people in new ways, anytime, from anywhere. Lync Online provides intuitive communications capabilities across presence, instant messaging, audio/video calling and rich online meeting experience including PC-audio, video and web conferencing. Transform your interactions with colleagues, customers and partners from today’s hit-and-miss communication to a more collaborative, engaging, and effective experience.

Learn how to architect new SaaS applications or migrate the architecture of existing SaaS applications to capitalize on the features of the Windows Azure Cloud Platform, including:

• Elastically scalable computing
• Asynchronous processing
• Heterogeneous data storage
• Integration with on-premises and external systems
• Highly resilient security model

Mergers, acquisitions, divestitures, and consolidations: the aftermath of a restructuring event is that people, processes, and technology assets must be aligned to the reshaped organization, including Active Directory, Exchange, SharePoint, applications, servers, and clients. In this session, Eli will weigh the benefits and risks of different migration approaches and provide best practices across a variety of scenarios, including Office 365.

Attendees should walk away with a better understanding of expectations for migration scenarios and an enhanced ability to manage risks of typical migration pitfalls.

Former cyber-security advisor to the President of the United States, Rand Morimoto, will share practical tips and best practices what organizations can do to secure and protect their information. Especially as organizations are considering moving some technologies to “the Cloud,” how does an organization truly get their arms around security without having to spend a fortune on their security initiatives? Dr. Morimoto will provide a checklist and a priority list of things organizations can do to secure their environments, and truly address simple things that go a long way in addressing security that then allows organizations to spend more time focusing on the core operations of their business!

This session will focus on how SADA Systems helps companies like yours leverage Microsoft cloud solutions. SADA will highlight a customer that has recently transitioned to Office 365 and discuss the evaluation, migration and implementation process that should resonate with all companies in attendance.

We will also focus on our SADA Cloud Infrastructure offering powered by Rise, the award-winning cloud hosting service provider. As part of this presentation, we’ll discuss how you can guarantee your organization better uptime by migrating your line of business applications to the cloud. We will introduce Rise’s DataCenter on Demand platform and discuss why we were chosen as the 2011 Microsoft Hosting Partner of the year.

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.

As far as mobile applications are concerned, Windows Azure wins hands down. 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.

In order to design great cloud solutions architects need to understand the design patterns intrinsic to their cloud platform. In this session Rinat Shagisultanov will review the design patterns inherent in the Windows Azure platform services, followed by a discussion of application patterns for combining those services. Design patterns will be reviewed for compute, storage, relational data, communication, security, and networking. Key patterns will be illustrated with application examples.

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