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Cloud Computing Adoption Model

Keywords: Cloud Computing, Virtualization
Authors: Jake Sorofman, VP of Marketing at rPath
Abstract:
Cloud computing is dramatically changing application delivery. The cloud computing adoption model is a logical set of steps designed to ease the transition from today’s traditional application delivery model to tomorrow’s use of cloud computing. Jake Sorofman, VP of marketing at rPath, will lead an interactive discussion on the role of cloud computing and its potential for organizations large and small. He will present a pragmatic framework for achieving measurable benefits based on incremental and graduated investments. For each level, Jake will outline the strategic goals, investment requirements, expected returns, risk factors, and readiness criteria for advancement.

The Self Service & Zero Latency Enterprise

Keywords: Cloud Computing, Virtualization
Authors: Erik Troan, CTO at rPath
Abstract:
Today’s enterprises are beleaguered by protracted application deployment cycles, lengthy server provisioning and reliance on overburdened IT staff. Internal customers want the simplicity and zero-latency consumption of SaaS, while IT wants the control of traditional software paradigms. Erik Troan, chief technology officer at rPath, will discuss how implementing an internal cloud computing environment can enable a self-service data center where virtual servers and virtualized applications are provisioned, deployed and decommissioned on-demand. This innovative solution combines the power of virtualization with the ubiquity of cloud computing to yield an enterprise-wide solution that truly enables the zero-latency enterprise.

On the Path to Cloud Nirvana

Keywords: Cloud Computing, Virtualization
Authors: Brett Adam, VP of Engineering at rPath
Abstract:
Today, offerings such as Amazon Web Services' Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) are providing a new model for on demand compute resources based on virtual machines. Virtual appliances are a natural deployment vehicle for this type of infrastructure, allowing a clean separation between the memory, compute, and storage resources managed by the appliance provider and the complete software stack managed by the end user. Virtual appliances also allow a simple transaction from internal virtualization clusters to outsourced providers, enabling capacity spikes to be handled. This session showcases the tremendous flexibility, scalability, and financial savings that result from leveraging virtual appliances and cloud computing. Brett Adam, VP of Engineering at rPath will present a real life case study on KnowledgeTree, a document management provider, to examine the implementation of this strategy.

Enterprise Cloud Computing

Keywords: cloud+computing, enterprise+architecture, virtual+appliances, GRC, enterprise+cloud+computing
Authors: Mark Masterson, CSC (Germany)
Abstract:
Enterprise cloud computing is a type of cloud computing that is suited to the specific requirements of existing companies, and allows them to leverage resources in the Cloud to provide economical ways of adding capacity to their existing environments. First, their existing data centre (or some portion of it) is virtualised. Once this is accomplished, capacity from external cloud providers can be added (and dropped) dynamically, using technologies like CohesiveFT's VPN-Cubed, allowing enterprises to use the cloud to elastically (and transparently) scale out to the cloud. And because all network traffic is securely encrypted, enterprises can effectively make use of public, cloud infrastructure as if it was part of their internal datacentre -- entirely behind the (virtual) firewall. Moreover, the same technology can be leveraged to allow the use of multiple, disparate cloud providers, effectively solving the 'eggs in one basket' problem. Different cloud providers can be leveraged to allow for failover redundancy, load balancing, even the leveraging of different providers on a dynamic basis, using metrics such as SLA compliance, or changes in cost. And an enterprise might want to do this not because it will reduce costs, or allow a switch from capital to operating expenditures (although both of those things might be true or not, depending on the context), but because it will increase their overall agility.

This talk will build on the blog post found here: http://www.jroller.com/MasterMark/entry/the_enterprise_cloud

It will further clarify a) the role of virtual appliances in solving key problems b) the role of software configuration management, in combination with virtual appliances, to meet challenges of GRC, and c) why simple, static VPN / IPSEC solutions will not scale to meet the challenges of enterprise cloud computing.

Building a Cloud Computing Analysis System for Intrusion Detection System

Keywords: cloud computing, ids
Authors: Wei-Yu Chen, Jazz Wang, NCHC (Taiwan)
Abstract:
In order to resolve huge amount of anomaly information generated by Intrusion Detection System (IDS), this paper presents and evaluates a log analysis system for IDS based on Cloud Computing technique, named IDS Cloud Analysis System (ICAS). To achieve this, there are two basic components have to be designed. First is the regular parser, which normalizes the raw log files. The other is the Analysis Procedure, which contains Data Mapper and Data Reducer. The Data Mapper is designed to anatomize alert messages and the Data Reducer is used to aggregates and merges. As a result, this paper will show that the performance of ICAS is suitable for analyzing and reducing large alerts.

GridGain - Open Cloud Platform

Keywords: cloud computing, grid computing, native cloud application, open cloud platform
Authors: Nikita Ivanov, GridGain Systems
Abstract:
The topic of this presentation is about fastest growing Open Cloud Platform called GridGain that enabled developers to build Java-based native cloud applications.

The presentation starts with a brief introduction to grid computing and cloud computing, followed by a discussion about a synergy between two and the actual use cases.

Further, GridGain and its key features will be reviewed with an emphasis on how these features simplify developing and running native cloud applications. Real-life examples including running one of the largest publicly known grids on Amazon EC2 using GridGain will be discussed.

Live coding example of creating grid-enabled application with GridGain will demonstrate the “powerful simplicity” of the GridGain features.

Secrets from the Vault – Cloud Building

Keywords: Cloud Computing, Cloud Interoperability
Authors: David Bernstein is VP/GM of Cloud Computing in Cisco’s Office of the CTO. His team runs Cisco’s Cloud Lab, is responsible for Cisco’s Cloud Gateway products, and heads development for Cisco’s Cloud Interoperability and Standards initiatives. David’s experience includes executive positions in AT&T, Siebel Systems, Pluris, and Santa Cruz Operation. David holds nearly a dozen patents in software and communications, publishes research regularly in IEEE, ACM, and IARIA conferences, and is a member of the IEEE Advanced Technology Executive Forum. He was a key author/contributor to many industry standards such as OpenSOA.org, OASIS SCA, WS-I, JCP/J2EE, and IEEE POSIX. David holds degrees in Physics and Mathematics from University of California where he was awarded the UC Regents Scholar designation for his work for the Office of Naval Research.
Abstract: Although there are a lot of “Cloud Consumers” out there, there aren’t too many “Cloud Builders”. One the one hand it requires a serious capital investment. On the other hand it is largely a black art. This applies to the Cloud “OS” as well as the physical platform. Approaching a Cloud as a large Cluster of regular servers with off the shelf interconnect will get you a wiring mess, partitioning which is hopelessly insecure, and crippling performance bottlenecks. This is because a cloud isn't just a server cluster - it's a cluster of virtual servers. So you need virtualization aware components to build a cloud and you need to know how to connect and configure them. In this session we won’t provide wiring diagrams or switch configuration instructions but we will explain the challenges that Cloud Builder face from security, performance, and scalability perspectives. We will explain why Cloud Building is not like any other large datacenter or hosting project. The technologies of virtualization aware components including the virtualization aware data networking, storage networking, and also virtualization aware blade servers are brand new and a must to know about if you want to understand how the leaders are building Clouds now. This session will be of interest to actual Cloud Builders as well as those curious about “the man behind the curtain”.

Cloud Computing: A Transition Methodology

Keywords: Cloud Computing, Virtualization
Authors: Rod Fontecilla and Vicky Chang (Booz Allen Hamilton).
Abstract: Cloud computing has emerged as a new computing paradigm that gathers massive numbers of computers in centralized data centers to deliver web-based applications, application platforms, and services via a utility model. The primary difference between the service models of cloud computing and previous software (e.g., outsourcing or data center consolidation) is scale. The premise is that as the scale of the cloud infrastructure increases, the incremental time and cost of application delivery trends toward zero. Cloud computing technologies consistently include Grid Computing, Utility Computing, and Virtualization Technologies. Furthermore, cloud computing service offerings can be divided into the following areas: Cloud Strategy and Planning, Cloud Application Development, Cloud Infrastructure Services, and Cloud Security.

Cloud Interoperability at Internet Scale

Keywords: Cloud Computing, Cloud Interoperability
Authors: David Bernstein is VP/GM of Cloud Computing in Cisco’s Office of the CTO. His team runs Cisco’s Cloud Lab, is responsible for Cisco’s Cloud Gateway products, and heads development for Cisco’s Cloud Interoperability and Standards initiatives. David’s experience includes executive positions in AT&T, Siebel Systems, Pluris, and Santa Cruz Operation. David holds nearly a dozen patents in software and communications, publishes research regularly in IEEE, ACM, and IARIA conferences, and is a member of the IEEE Advanced Technology Executive Forum. He was a key author/contributor to many industry standards such as OpenSOA.org, OASIS SCA, WS-I, JCP/J2EE, and IEEE POSIX. David holds degrees in Physics and Mathematics from University of California where he was awarded the UC Regents Scholar designation for his work for the Office of Naval Research.
Abstract: Today, Cloud Computing is seen largely as isolated providers or enterprise instances of a special kind of hosting or application container. Virtual Machines, or managed code executing against Cloud API’s, are limited to that provider or that enterprise in terms of direct context or reach. This reminds us very much of the state of networking before the Internet where LANs of various domains and protocols did not interconnect. It will either be history repeating, or our collective manifest destiny, to evolve Cloud Computing to a worldwide, interoperable, transparent platform. In other words, Cloud will become to Computing just what the Internet is for Data. Unfortunately, there are many aspects of the platform on which Cloud Computing depends (eg, Networking) which are preventing this. For example, for the Internet to work, someone had to invent IP addressing, Domain Name Service, Peering and Routing protocols such as AS numbering, OSPF and BGP, and Certificates to enable SSL. In Cloud, for the broader vision of Cloud Interoperability to work, ranging from VM mobility to storage federation to multicast and media streaming interoperability to identity and presence and everything in between, analogous core-network extensions (or replacement) technologies need to be invented. This talk overviews the “grand challenges” in making such changes on the scale of the Internet, and then speaks to specific work completed to-date and in-progress in standards bodies such as the IETF, the InterCloud Exchange, and the Open Cloud Consortium. The attendee will leave the talk with a new understanding of how following the blueprints of the Internet itself (exchange and peering, geographical dispersion, etc) are enabling Cloud Interoperability at a fundamental level and how the global interconnection of large enterprises and service providers who are implementing these technologies, will enable deep interoperability of Cloud Computing in a way which most people are not thinking of yet.

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