Conferences that solve current IT challenges

Cloud Computing

Strategies to help protect and recover your organization's most critical data

October 6, 2011

9:00am-5:00pm

7 CPE / 0.7 CEU / CISSP / 7 PDU Credits Awarded


Bios

Donald E. Stephens Convention Center  Rosemont (O'Hare) Illinois

Overview

Cloud computing can offers enterprises many benefits to enterprises in terms of financial savings, scale, management and flexibility. At the same time there are other issues that present themselves in a cloud environment including security, compliance, data location, data availability and a host of others.

What You Will Learn

In this one day conference attendees will learn:

  • The tangible benefits and risk of moving to the cloud

  • The differences between the various types of cloud computing

  • How to determine which type of cloud computing is right for their enterprise

  • How to leverage cloud computing so IT can dedicate resources to enterprise innovation

  • How to plan for security/compliance/data risks

  • What is the backup plan if the cloud company goes out of business

  • What internal applications are a best fit for the cloud

Conference Program

8:00am - 9:00am - Registration and Continental Breakfast

Rios

9:00am-10:00am

How to Choose the Right Cloud Strategy for Your Organization

Rey Rios, Enterprise Performance Specialist, TeamQuest Corporation

Cloud computing represents a huge shift for enterprise IT organizations to addressing the many challenges that they are currently faced with. In order to capitalize on the many promises of cloud computing, organizations needs to develop the right strategy that fits their organization’s specific needs.

In this session attendees will learn:

  • How to get started on a strategy to deliver these critical benefits, at a pace that suits your goals
  • How to evaluate which applications should be kept internal versus which should be available through the cloud
  • Differences between building their own internal private cloud versus outsourcing to an external provider
  • How to understand how the roles and responsibilities of IT will change
  • How to evaluate cloud providers
  • How to set expectations with business users
  • Pitfalls to avoid in your strategy

10:00am -10:30am - Refreshment Break

Cole

10:30am-11:30am

How to Build and Integrate a Pragmatic and Effective Cloud

John Cole, Technology Consultant, AHEAD

After setting your cloud strategy, how do you go about building your cloud?

In this session attendees will learn how to:

  • Plan, design, deliver, and optimize a responsible, reliable, and mission-critical cloud
  • Integrate with your existing architecture
  • Leverage current architectural resources
  • Determine what additional resources are needed
  • Leverage solutions to deliver CapEx, OpEx, margin, and competitive benefits for your business

Thompson

11:30am-12:30pm

How to Leverage the Private Cloud When Applications are Still In-House

Lance Thompson, President & CEO, Baseline Data Services

Private clouds make it easy to secure the data generated by those servers and applications left in-house. In this session, attendees will learn how to leverage the cloud for rapid deployment, utilizing the internet for secure and encrypted storage of data and rapid response disaster recovery for in-house applications.

Content that will be covered:

  • Recognize that options are available for cloud based disaster recovery
  • Organize the priority of servers and applications that are determined to stay as an in-house strategy
  • Discuss the RTO and RPO requirements as required by applications
  • Financial justification of cloud based data storage and DR
  • Security considerations for data stored in the cloud

12:30pm - 1:30pm Luncheon

Clark

1:30pm-2:30pm

Cloud Security: How to Manage the Risk When Utilizing Cloud Computing

Scott C. Clark, President, Chicago Chapter Cloud Security Alliance; Sr. Director Channels, Vyatta

Cloud Computing is yet another disruptive technology that is promising to deliver huge benefits. But with any disruptive technology there are security and risk concerns that need to be addressed.

What questions should you be asking potential cloud providers? How should you modify your own security and risk procedures?

In this session attendees will learn how to adjust their security/risk programs to account for the following areas:

  • Abuse and Misuse of Cloud
  • Insecure APIs/Interfaces
  • Insider Threats
  • Shared Technology Issues
  • Data Loss or Leakage
  • Service & Account Hijacking
  • Unknown Risks
  • Customer information in the cloud
  • Managing Identities and authentication

2:30pm - 3:00pm - Refreshment Break

Kluger

3:00pm-4:00pm

Cloud Recovery: How to Handle Added Complexity in DR/BC Initiatives Resulting from the Cloud

Dave Kluger, Principal Technology Architect, StorCOM 

Moving data and applications into the cloud can create great efficiencies for enterprises. But going down this path can also add complexity in disaster recovery/business continuity initiatives.

Recent industry studies conclude that organizations face the following challenges in a cloud environment:

  • The ability to control failovers and make resources more highly available

  • Backup being hampered by resource and storage constraints

  • Too many tools, too little control

  • Downtime perception gap – outage can actually be twice as long as it is perceived to be

Topics that will be covered include:

  • What are the responsibilities of the cloud provider
  • Who takes ownership in a private versus hybrid approach in the event of a disaster
  • How to identify potential issues earlier
  • How to ensure that data and applications are treated the same across physical, virtual and cloud
  • How to simplify data protection processes
  • How to prioritize planning activities and processes which lessen downtime


Chakkarapani

Veeramachaneni

4:00pm-5:00pm

How Enterprises are Leveraging the Cloud for Business Benefit

Moderator: Grant Vankerk, Senior Solutions Consulting Manager, Hitachi Data Systems
Panelists will include:
David Gochenaur, CISSP, CPA, Director Global Information Security, Aon Corporation
Ravi Veeramachaneni, Lead Architect, NAVTEQ
Don Schoen, Vice President, Information Services, ANIXTER
Karthik Chakkarapani, Director - Technology Solutions & Operations, American Hospital Association
Scott Millhollin, Leader, Utility/Cloud Services, Acxiom
and other professionals from IT departments

In this session attendees will learn how other enterprise IT organizations are leveraging the cloud for business benefits.

Topics that will be covered include:

  • New business applications launched
  • Cloud and effective enterprise collaboration
  • Being able to illustrate to executive management benefits

Conference Price: $249.00 per person


Each attendee will receive a certificate awarding 7 CPE credits for CISSP continuing education, in addition to 0.7 CEUs and 7 PDUs. CISSP is a registered certification mark of (ISC)˛, Inc.

Exhibits

As is always the case at CAMP IT Conferences events, the talks will not include product presentations.  During the continental breakfast, coffee breaks, and the luncheon break you will have the opportunity to informally meet representatives from the following sponsoring companies, who have solutions in the area of the conference.

  

  

   
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