Cloud Scar Tissue: Real World Implementation Lessons from the Early Adopters
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Cloud Scar Tissue: Real World Implementation Lessons from the Early Adopters
For many enterprises, adopting cloud computing and agile IT operating models is fraught with challenge and risk. Once you convince the organization of the agility and economic benefits, you still have to overcome a broad range of security, operational, and governance hurdles for a successful implementation. Take heart! You aren't the first to embark on this journey; others have gone before your and helped to map the territory. In this session, you'll hear the real-world implementation experiences of some enterprise cloud pioneers. You'll learn what they worried about before implementation, and what they learned to worry about post-implementation. You’ll learn which aspects of the IT transformation were relatively easy, and others which were brutally hard. While the journey is still ongoing, you'll also hear about the business results they were able to achieve.
About Anthony Skipper (Vice-President, Infrastructure and Security, ServiceMesh, Inc.): Mr. Skipper has more than a decade of experience in both software development and infrastructure management. Mr. Skipper’s early career was focused on consulting with Fortune 500 companies to help them develop their early web architectures. He played an instrumental part in developing one of the first digital rights management (DRM) implementations with Microsoft, and Barnes & Noble. Mr. Skipper moved to the financial services industry in 2000 when he joined Merrill Lynch, initially as an architect and later as the head of Merrill's Application Infrastructure Services organization. In 2007, Anthony joined Goldman Sachs and lead its Secure Computing group.
About ServiceMesh:
ServiceMesh provides the industry’s only enterprise cloud platform that enable Agile IT operating models for Global 2000 clients. ServiceMesh solutions consist of advisory services, market-ready IT optimization strategies, and the ServiceMesh Agility Platform™ to automate and manage the lifecycle of cloud-based, “everything-as-a-service” environments.
Enterprise customers select ServiceMesh to design and implement IT strategies that offer game changing competitive advantages through a federation of internal and external IaaS, PaaS, SaaS, and cloud service providers. Customers use the Agility Platform to automate their plan, build, share, and run lifecycle with the security, governance, transparency, identity management, and policy control required by large enterprises. Some of the world’s largest and most sophisticated companies in financial services, health care, and other IT-intensive industries rely on ServiceMesh to realize quantum improvements in business agility, lower operating costs, and to enable new business and economic models that support their strategic business initiatives. To learn more, visit www.servicemesh.com (http://www.servicemesh.com/news-and-events/press-releases/servicemesh-to-deliver-policy-driven-cloud-security/www.servicemesh.com).
Logistics
We will gather at Gemini System's at 6:00 pm for a meet and greet. We will get started at 6:15 pm sharp.
Our Sponsor - Gemini Systems
A special thanks to Gemini Systems, the proud premier sponsor the NYC Cloud Computing Group. Gemini Systems supplies the food, beverages and venue for our Meet Ups. Gemini Systems is an early adopter of Cloud Computing technologies and solutions. They are a premier Global IT firm with resources in several continents able to tackle the most challenging system design, integration, and application development projects. Visit Gemini Systems (http://www.gemini-systems.com/)
Hope to see you at the meet up.
Regards,
John D'Esposito