Big Data Apps for the Real World + Best practices for cloud orchestration

Presentations:

1. Big Data Apps for the Real World by Aaron Swanson is the Director of Cloud Solutions at MicroStrategy

2. Best Practices for Cloud Orchestration & Management by Jay Chapel serves as the CEO of Ostrato, Inc.

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Big Data Apps for the real World:

As the variety of data services within AWS continues to grow, customers have the ability to derive valuable insight from larger and larger volumes of data. To deliver meaningful value, complex analytic applications must be highly responsive to enable fast slicing, dicing, and drill-down, and must be able to extract data from very large, complex sources. MicroStrategy enables all users the ability to do this on your desktop, web, or on-the-go with your smartphone or tablet. MicroStrategy has partnered with Amazon Web Services and is now available on the AWS Marketplace. Learn how to leverage the benefits of Redshift, EMR and RDS with MicroStrategy and how we seamlessly connect to all data sources. We will discuss real world Big Data applications that current AWS customers are using MicroStrategy for, such as analyzing real time data. We will also discuss why our customers choose AWS as their infrastructure and how this increases their capacity to build and scale enterprise analytics solutions like never before. Join us to learn more about how to leverage the AWS data ecosystem with MicroStrategy's analytics platform.

Speaker Bio:
Aaron Swanson is the Director of Cloud Solutions at MicroStrategy overseeing worldwide responsibility for cloud technology. He has more than 15 years of expertise with analytics, data hosting technologies, data integration (ETL) tools, and mission-critical mobile applications. His current role involves delivery of enterprise grade PaaS and SaaS cloud solutions leveraging both private cloud technologies and public cloud technologies like Amazon Web Services (AWS) including EC2, Redshift, EMR and others. As an avid outdoor enthusiast Aaron enjoys riding bikes and skiing of all kinds in his spare time. He currently lives in Minneapolis, MN with his wife Jenny, Son, Daughter, and a dog.

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Best Practices for Cloud Orchestration & Management:

In order to effectively leverage the many choices in cloud services, organizations need a solution that streamlines cloud adoption and reduces the inherent financial and security risks associated with cloud environments. With one powerful platform, IT, financial managers and users can ensure that their private, public and hybrid cloud services are utilized to the best advantage across multiple groups and instances in terms of cost, performance, features, functionality and geographic location. Discussion will focus on best practices for cloud orchestration, management, improved governance and cost visibility. We will highlight integrations with AWS plus other CSP's like VMware & OpenStack, as well as how this enhances an enterprises need for self-service provisioning, improved workflow, automation, and interoperability.

Bio:

Jay Chapel serves as the CEO of Ostrato, Inc. Ostrato empowers IT with a single, integrated cloud management platform for governing hybrid cloud environments, while orchestrating with IT services and reducing costs. Prior to joining Ostrato, Jay spent 10+ years with Micromuse and IBM Tivoli, a provider of business-critical software. After an acquisition by IBM, he led the successful sales integration and subsequent growth of the IBM Tivoli/Netcool business in Europe. He also held several regional and worldwide sales roles in Switzerland, the UK and the US.