Practice migrating your apps to ANY cloud on demand with 0 downtime!

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Practice migrating your apps to ANY cloud on demand with 0 downtime using C3DNA and CenturyLink Cloud!

Are you interested in practicing how to migrate your apps to any cloud on demand with 0 downtime? Do you want to learn how to do things like scale IaaS and intelligently move your apps around by using portable, self-managed apps and policy-driven automation? Do you want to practice multi-cloud automation? If you answered “yes” to any of those questions, join your fellow cloud enthusiasts at the CenturyLink St. Louis User Group technical meet up on Wednesday, September 21 from 4pm to 7pm at the CenturyLink Cloud Development Center for food, drinks and hands on, technical exercises to practice migrating your apps to any cloud on demand with 0 downtime.

What will I practice at this event?

Bring your laptop to learn and practice:

• How to automatically deploy workloads to multiple public clouds

How to use an application focused cloud operations platform

• Migrate your apps between multiple clouds on demand with zero downtime

• At the end of this event you will have a better understanding of how using portable, self-managing applications can provide flexibility, resiliency, scalability and allows any app to be operated anywhere.

What business problems does this solve?

• Freedom for developers - Allow developers to focus on what they do best without having to worry about certain architectural constraints, multiple layers of orchestration or platform specific programming

• Rapid time to value - Migrate your legacy apps and endow them with cloud like features: app mobility, scaling up/down, availability, performance and security standards across multiple clouds

• Visibility and Control - Use a single pane of glass to manage, monitor and control operations of your apps, including performance data

• Cost reduction - Enable infrastructure-agnostic and cloud independent, distributed workloads on monthly billed platforms. Reduce the need for multiple orchestration solutions.

• Business Continuity - Policy driven orchestration to move your apps on demand to reduce risk and maintain availability

Join us to learn how to demonstrate how your apps can run and scale on demand on any infrastructure, all under your complete control.

CloudWalk Agenda and Lesson Plan:

4:00 - 4:30pm - Arrive, Food, Drinks and Conversation

4:30 - 5:30pm - CenturyLink Cloud Platform (http://www.ctl.io/)overview with hands-on Exercises: Create an environment and deploy applications through automation inside CenturyLink Cloud

5:30 - 6:30pm - C3DNA (http://www.c3dna.com/)overview with hands-on Exercises: Migrate your apps to multiple clouds on demand with zero downtime

6:30 - 7:00pm - Q&A, Networking, Raffle

Instructors:

Bob Stolzberg (http://www.linkedin.com/in/bstolzberg), Principal Engineer @ CenturyLink - Bob is a local Principal Engineer on the Cloud Platform Enablement Team. In this role, Bob works with CenturyLink's Ecosystem Partners to integrate their technology with the CenturyLink Cloud Marketplace and evangelize the technology with the community. Bob has served as a subject matter expert in the areas of Cloud technology and DRBC for the past several years and has more than 17 years of engineering experience in the IT industry.

Surendra Keshan, SVP @ C3DNA is a senior technology executive with 25+ years of global experience in design, implementation and management of complex enterprise IT infrastructures. Previously, he held many high-profile roles including - head of IaaS and cloud enablement at Visa. He has a great passion for technology and is a recognized thought leader and innovator holding 11 patents.

FAQ

• What's the location?

CenturyLink Cloud Development Center
575 Maryville Centre Drive
4th Floor
St. Louis, MO 63141

• What time does it run?

4pm - 7pm (see agenda above)

• Will food and beverages be provided? What about giveaways?

Yes, of course! We'll have cool swag and a special drawing.

• What should I bring to the event?

Bring your Laptop! We'll provide you with free Wifi, a CenturyLink Cloud demo account, and everything you need to practice. We're expecting you to be engaged and follow along with our hands-on live tutorial.

• Can I invite some friends or coworkers?

Sure! But we need them to register, too.