Cloud Intelligence Conference: San Diego 2012

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. Attendees will leave this session with a clear understanding of what steps they need to focus on to realize the benefits of Private Cloud computing in their organization.

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.

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.

Client Case Reference: Tribridge will discuss how one Vice President of Operations convinced his executive team that implementing Microsoft Dynamic ERP in the cloud could be the safest, most productive and profitable thing they could do. Follow the specific steps along this whirlwind trek.

SQL Azure Reporting, a recent addition to Azure platform allows you to easily build reporting capabilities into your Windows Azure applications. In this session, you will get an in-depth introduction to SQL Azure reporting along with demos on how to manage, create and deploy rich SQL Azure reports. Apart from getting a detailed overview of its capabilities, you will also learn about various scenarios where SQL Azure reporting can help you implement your cloud hosted solutions.

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.

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

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.

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.

Attend this session to learn about the exciting new changes in System Center 2012. A comparison of 2007 to 2012 will be shared. System Center 2012 is the only unified management platform where you can manage multiple hypervisors, physical resources, and applications in a single offering, versus multiple fragmented point solutions delivered by competitors.

The scalability and geo-distributed model of cloud platform can be leveraged to provide a reliable mechanism for delivering your enterprise applications and data to your mobile workforce. With support for various mobile platforms and a secure mechanism available to connect with your enterprise network, Microsoft Azure becomes the perfect choice to meet business needs for mobility. Join this session to hear about case studies for enterprise mobility solutions and to learn how you can plan, design and rapidly create mobile apps for your enterprise leveraging cloud as the reliable platform.

Microsoft is about to enter its third decade of building management solutions. It all started in the early 90’s with the first release of what is now System Center Configuration Manager. Cloud computing is the combination of great virtualization and great management capabilities.

This session will focus on how Microsoft System Center technology can help you capture and aggregate knowledge about systems, policies, processes, and best practices so that you can optimize your infrastructure to reduce costs, improve application availability, and enhance service delivery.

With so many different cloud deployment options — including the SPI service models (SPI refers to Software as a Service, Platform as a Service, or Infrastructure as a Service) public vs. private deployments, internal vs. external hosting, and various hybrid permutations — no list of security controls can cover all circumstances. As with any security area, organizations should adopt a risk-based approach to moving to the cloud and selecting security options. Buck Woody from Microsoft will present cloud security measures that he put together from his time with NASA and working for large corporations all over the world. Also, he will have a sample list of questions that you should ask all vendors when you start looking into deploying Cloud technologies.

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.

Businesses are looking to the cloud to support their application and storage needs, but relying on the Internet for access creates security and predictability issues. The network often gets overlooked amid the talk about servers, storage, and software-as-a-service, but it is critical to manage and control your user’s experiences. In this session tw telecom will discuss the importance of building the right network foundation of visibility, flexibility and control which are key to a successful enterprise cloud strategy.

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.

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 choose the best cloud solution. There is also an opportunity for Q & A so bring your questions!

Attend this session to see a comparison of Virtualization platforms. We will highlight the things to consider during your virtualization planning, implementation and current state. An overview of Virtualization products will be presented as well as a discussion on how the age old topic of VMware vs. Hyper-V should be considered. Additionally, Christian Booth with Denali AI will provide a review of tools and available possibilities for your organization.

Are you new to SharePoint? Do you want to know what it’s all about? Then this beginner level session is for you. Join Karuana Gatimu, ECMp for her SharePoint 101 session which will cover the basic of what SharePoint Online can and can’t do for your organization. This session will include discussion on the platform’s key feature sets, hardware requirements, maintenance needs and education paths for administrators, developers and business people. We will also review the differences between SharePoint Online and on premise.

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.

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.