Gartner Application Architecture,
Development & Integration Summit

Track B: Cloud Computing: The Why, When and How of Adoption

Cloud computing continues to rate as the number one area of interest for Gartner clients. While most enterprises are beyond the awareness stage, most are still struggling to understand how they should address the opportunities and challenges presented by cloud computing. Concerns abound regarding privacy, security and reliability. The questions of integration between on-premises and cloud-based resources are largely unanswered. But the significant benefits of agility and cost savings delivered by cloud computing are too compelling to ignore. Forward-thinking enterprise are answering the questions of cloud computing not with an ‘if’, but with a ‘when’. The challenge is to understand, based on a risk/reward evaluation, what cloud services are appropriate for adoption, when they are appropriate, and the best practices, technologies and vendors which should be employed.

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25 Suggested Sessions on Cloud

Sessions

Controlling the Cloud: How to Leverage Cloud Computing Without Losing Control of Your IT Processes

To maximize your success in adopting cloud computing, you need to change your IT processes, not just your sourcing mechanism. We'll take a look at best practices in cloud computing-related policies, cloud management, governance, and administration.

Pragmatic Cloud Adoption Strategies

Many enterprises want to leverage cloud computing, but what is the first step, and how big is that first step? This NET-IT-OUT session will discuss pragmatic strategies for adopting cloud computing in a safe and sane manner.

Rapid Fire: When SaaS is not really SaaS: Do you Understand the architectural and financial differences of vendor SaaS models?

As SaaS has gone from leading edge technologies toward mainstream, enterprise applications have forcefully entered the market. While the labels they use are often the same, SaaS vendors often have very different architectures. Understanding these differences and how to exploit SaaS applications can help your company deliver increased business value.

Cloud Security: It Doesn't Have to be an Oxymoron

Concerns about the security of cloud computing have been a major inhibitor to adoption. Enterprises must assure that cloud providers meet security, privacy and compliance requirements. This presentation details the issues and demonstrates recommended cloud security deployment scenarios and best practices for a range of enterprise use cases. What threats do the use of cloud computing pose to critical enterprise systems, applications and data? What are the key security approaches for meeting business needs to embrace public and private cloud technologies while maintaining acceptable risk levels? What new security technologies and vendors will emerge to address cloud security needs?

Evolving your Enterprise Application Portfolio to take advantage of Cloud Computing

Most organization’s business models leverage a complex network of global trading partners, and many organizations are implementing cloud-based applications to facilitate interaction. Beyond improved collaboration with customers, partners and suppliers, these cloud-based applications are delivering quicker implementations, lower initial investments, and higher end user adoption. But adoption of cloud based applications requires more than just signing up for a monthly subscription. Where have customers successfully implemented Cloud-based enterprise applications? How will the increasing adoption of cloud based applications impact your application architecture, integration, and data management strategies? What is the impact of application vendors’ cloud strategy on your architecture roadmap?

Rapid Fire: The Future Web: Are you Prepared?

The Web continues to evolve. Web 2.0 is just a stop along the road, with semantic Web, HTML5, and cloud computing driving a new era of Web innovation. Is your enterprise prepared for this future?

Case Study: Adopting Cloud Computing

This session will explore the good, the bad and the ugly aspects of the deployment of cloud-based services for a large public sector organization. Included will be business justification, vendor selection, integration, deployment and operational insights.

Cloud Computing: Changing the Vendor Landscape

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. What are the effects of cloud computing on the vendor landscape? What are the strategies of the major cloud computing vendors? How can organizations best leverage evolving offerings from vendors in the cloud computing space?

Case Study: Cloud Case Studies: How to do it Right

Cloud computing continues to gain attention, with vendors promoting an ever-wider variety of service options. When, where and how does cloud computing deliver benefits? In this presentation we will examine specific examples where companies used a variety of cloud computing services. What business drivers are leading companies to consider cloud computing, and what are the barriers and risks of doing so? How are enterprises dealing with the challenges and risks, and how are they implementing cloud solutions? What are the benefits of the existing cloud computing initiatives, and how have these benefits impacted future plans for cloud computing?

The Future According to Cloud Computing

We explore the consequences of cloud computing, including the impact on business, IT departments and industry dynamics, in the world of 2015. As more IT services are sourced through cloud computing software vendors, IT departments and other key players will need to deal with potential dramatic changes to exploit opportunities and to avoid becoming irrelevant. How will cloud computing affect IT architectures and technologies through 2015? What will the IT industry look like in 2015 as a result of cloud computing market dynamics? What will be the effects of cloud computing on enterprises and businesses?

Google vs. Microsoft: The Battle for Future Dominance (and Apple’s Sneak Attack)

Google and Microsoft are investing billions of dollars every year, building out data centers to support their cloud offerings, and hoping to be No. 1 in a world where the cloud is central to computing. We'll focus on the differences between their strategies, and who is likely to succeed most at what. Where do Microsoft and Google stand today? What will be the effect on markets as a result of Microsoft/Google competition? How will enterprise IT decisions be affected by the battles between Microsoft and Google?

Infrastructure-as-a-Service: Providing Data Center Services in the Cloud

Enterprises have begun to adopt both public and private cloud infrastructure as a service. We've seen a broad range of use cases as well as successes and failures. This session will look at what it's realistic to do in the cloud today, along with best practices in adoption and sourcing

Cloud computing continues to rate as the number one area of interest for Gartner clients. While most enterprises are beyond the awareness stage, most are still struggling to understand how they should address the opportunities and challenges presented by cloud computing. Concerns abound regarding privacy, security and reliability. The questions of integration between on-premises and cloud-based resources are largely unanswered. But the significant benefits of agility and cost savings delivered by cloud computing are too compelling to ignore. Forward-thinking enterprises are answering the questions of cloud computing not with an 'if', but with a 'when'. The challenge is to understand, based on a risk/reward evaluation, what cloud services are appropriate for adoption, when they are appropriate, and the best practices, technologies and vendors which should be employed.