Summit Tracks
The Business of the Cloud
Cloud is the No. 1 area of interest for Gartner clients, but many don’t understand its real opportunities (agility, cost) and challenges (privacy, security, reliability, integration). The cloud impacts all aspects of IT, and provides much of the basis for the future of Application Architecture, Development and Integration. While much of Cloud is new, there are aspects such as SaaS and virtualization that are quite mature. Confusion reigns while organizations must navigate their way through hype. This track examines cloud computing overall and market trends, vendor alternatives, and best practices for moving to the cloud. Key Issues: -How will cloud computing evolve? -What vendors, markets and industries will be transformed by cloud computing? -How should enterprises exploit cloud computing? -How will architectures and techniques evolve to support the many flavors of cloud computing?
Sessions
Cloud Computing Scenario
29 November, 2011 (10:15 AM - 11:00 AM)
Cloud Computing has become the latest in a series of hot industry terms and as such, is used in many contradictory ways. Underneath the fog, there are very real trends such as global class architecture, web platforms, scalable and elastic processing, and the Internet itself that are converging to fuel this phenomenon. The impact will be felt broadly in applications as well as platforms and services.
Maximizing Business Benefits From Business Applications and ERP in the Cloud
29 November, 2011 (11:15 AM - 12:15 PM)
It is easy to find wildly optimistic views of the migration of business applications to the cloud that leave you wondering where the benefits are going to come from. IT cost savings alone cannot be used to drive application functions around finance, HR, order management, procurement, and CRM . Instead, this session will sort through the confusion with a detailed, function-by-function analysis of where business applications are going with respect to cloud and give concrete advice and timelines on when you should take action to maximize benefit based on your enterprise’s level of risk tolerance.
Cloud Computing Changes the Vendor Landscape
29 November, 2011 (02:15 PM - 03:15 PM)
Cloud computing is impacting not only enterprises but also is poised to reshape the vendor landscape. The competition is heating up between early cloud leaders as established enterprise players enter the market. A disruptive force of gigantic proportion, cloud computing stands to change the balance of vendor power in many ways.
Private Cloud Computing - Beyond Virtualization
30 November, 2011 (08:30 AM - 09:30 AM)
The vast majority of Gartner clients are now virtualizing their infrastructures, and a full 2/3rds are on a journey to build private cloud computing services based on their virtualization architecture. This session discusses the big picture, trends, drivers, challenges, private cloud technologies and vendors, and best practices to building successful private cloud services.
SaaS — Business Applications and Beyond in the Cloud
30 November, 2011 (02:00 PM - 03:00 PM)
Organizations continue to look at Software as a Service as an alternative to traditional application deployment, driven by the promise of quicker time to value and smaller up-front costs. This session will look at the evolution of SaaS, where companies are seeing value and what barriers still must be considered when making investments for cloud based applications.
Cloud Services Brokerages - Harnessing the Power of the Cloud Services Value Chain
01 December, 2011 (10:30 AM - 11:30 AM)
With increasing cloud computing adoption more companies face commercial and technical complexities of dealing with multiple cloud providers. Cloud Services Brokerage is a new IT services intermediation role between cloud providers and consumers that normalizes and simplifies things like billing, provisioning, integration and governance.
Business and Information Services in the Cloud
01 December, 2011 (12:30 PM - 01:30 PM)
Most segmentations of cloud computing either ignore or group business and information services with SaaS. Information services offer search services or other mechanisms to provide access to external data or content while business services refer to any business process (for example, payroll, printing or e-commerce) that is delivered as an elastic service via the Internet. These services are distinct from cloud application services and must be analyzed independently to see the big cloud picture.
Case Study: Secure Use of Public Cloud - Best Buy
01 December, 2011 (01:45 PM - 02:45 PM)
While concerns over security and compliance are consistently listed as the major obstacles to enterprise adoption of cloud computing, many organizations have moved forward to address security concerns and use public cloud services for business advantage. This presentation will be an overview of Gartner’s view of the critical security issues involved with cloud computing, followed by Thomas Kelly, Enterprise Architect for Cloud Services at Best Buy, detailing the approach they used in assessing the issues and implementing secure use of the cloud.
