WORKSHOP 1 | Virtualisation Management

Tuesday 28 May 2013 | 1:30pm – 4:30pm

 

The Foundation for Private Cloud

Most organisations today have successfully completed their initial server virtualisation and consolidation and have virtualised all their low-hanging fruit servers and applications.

The current challenges now for business are how to go that extra bit, how can they virtualise the remaining 50% to include business critical operations?

To do this, optimisation of your infrastructure to maintain and support the additional requirements is essential for critical applications. Furthermore, to realise the full potential of a Private Cloud organisations need to add the management and automation to optimise IT operations, improve IT agility, and deliver IT as a service. Advanced virtualisation means properly managing, protecting, optimising and automating the virtual infrastructure.

To ensure success, IT must assess and then implement advanced management capabilities such as dynamic policy-based workload management; high availability; automated disaster recovery; performance, capacity management and troubleshooting across and through the virtual and physical infrastructure; lifecycle management; and potentially management of multi-hypervisor environments.

IT managers have a large cloud ecosystem to search through to decide which solutions will work best for their organisaiton. This workshop will help delegates learn about industry trends, available solutions, future directions and how to prioritise and implement the necessary solutions for advanced virtualisation management, optimisation, and automation, laying the foundation for Private Cloud.

Who Should Attend:

IT managers who are looking to provide virtualisation and cloud services for their organisation to transition to a private cloud.

What you will learn

Discuss the challenges that come with the move to private cloud computing, and how to prioritise, evaluate and implement the necessary solutions for virtualisation.

Facilitated by:
Tristan Goode, CEO Aptira and Director OpenStack Foundation
Sina Sadeghi, Director Cloud Operations, Aptira

Afternoon Tea will be served during session.

 

WORKSHOP 2 | Cloud Security

Thursday 30 May 2013 | 9:30am – 12:30pm

 

Overcoming the Threats to Cloud Security

Business critical and sensitive processes and activities are more often than not the last to be migrated to the Cloud, due to governance, risk and security, and compliance concerns.

Information risk management and security professionals often use fear uncertainty and doubt (FUD) to support their negative views. Considering what threats, vulnerabilities, and risks are likely to be realised and their associated material business impacts should be assessed first.

 

Workshop Overview

• Overview Cloud Security Concerns
• Threat and Vulnerability Analysis Overview
• Vulnerability management
• Cloud risk mitigation strategies and countermeasure development
• Effective concepts techniques for governing the security of cloud solutions
• What should you ask a cloud provider about security?

What you will learn

• Cloud security architectures
• Identity and Access Management (IAM)
• Process/VM Isolation, data segregation, multi-tenancy
• Uncertainty over data location
• Data protection and security
• Authentication
• Sharing of confidential data
• Delegation of access authority
• Encryption
• Partial access to encrypted data

Who Should Attend:

IT managers who are responsible for cloud security and mitigation about potential threats.

Facilitator: Steven Herod, Technical Architect, Cloud Sherpas

Morning Tea will be served during session.

 

 

Opening Plenary
8:25am – 8:30am	Opening Address from Conference Chair Brad Howarth, Writer, Speaker and Co-Author, A Faster Future
8:30am – 8:40am	Ministerial Address The Hon. Greg Pearce MLC, Minister for Finance and Services
8:40am – 9:25am	International Keynote: Leveraging Cloud Services for Barack Obama’s Re-election Harper Reed, CTO, Obama for America 2012 Campaign
9:25am – 9:45am	Ministerial Address Senator the Hon. Stephen Conroy, Minister for Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy
9:45am – 10:30am	Panel Discussion: What is the Future of Cloud Computing? Facilitator: Dr Steve Hodgkinson, Research Director IT APAC, Ovum Panellists: David Yuile, CEO, AAPT Limited Patrick Maes, CTO, ANZ Glenn Archer, Australian Government Chief Information Officer (AGCIO) and First Assistant Secretary, Department of Finance and Deregulation Alan Perkins, Director of Product and Technology, Asia Pacific, Rackspace Alam Gill, Senior Vice President of Managed Services, CSG International
Cloud Agenda starts
Chair: Keith Besgrove, First Assistant Secretary, Digital Economy Services, DBCDE
10:30am – 11:00am	Morning Tea and Networking
11:00am – 11:30am	The Organisational Impact of Cloud Services Adoption Dr Steve Hodgkinson, Research Director IT APAC, Ovum
11:30am – 12:00pm	Migrating the Organisation to the Cloud Damian Cronan, CTO, Mi9 / ninemsn
12:00pm – 12:30pm	Diamond Sponsor Presentation: The role of Carriers in Cloud Computing Nick Pachos, Head of Product and Carrier Management, AAPT Limited
12:30pm – 1:30pm	Lunch and Networking
1:30pm – 2:00pm	Cloud & Big Data The UK’s Strengths Simon Sprince, Co-Founder and Director, Focus Innovation
2:00pm – 2:30pm	Panel Discussion: Data Sovereignty and Security in the Cloud – Problem or Perception? Facilitator: Dudley Kneller, Partner, Madgwicks Panellists: Niels Marquardt, US Consul General Sydney Dr Nick Tate, President, ACS Matt Lowth, Principal Security Architect, Group Business Services, NAB Colin Griffith, Director, Australian Centre for Broadband Innovation
2:30pm – 3:00pm	Building Scalability and Resilience in the Cloud David Harrison, Vice President of Engineering, Freelancer.com
3:00pm – 3:30pm	Evolution of Cloud Applications: Testing and Development Satish Iyer, Lead – IT Infrastructure Solutions, Tata Consultancy Services Australia and New Zealand
3:30pm – 4:00pm	Afternoon Tea & Networking
4:00pm – 4:30pm	TBC Deven Billimoria, CEO, Smartsalary
4:30pm – 5:00pm	Big Business Player on a Small Business Budget Simon Beckett, IT Operations Manager, RedBalloon
5:00pm – 5:30pm	Department of Business and Innovation’s adoption of a Public Cloud Chris Gilmore, Chief Information Officer, Information Management and Technology, Department of Business and Innovation (VIC)
5:30pm – 5:35pm	Closing Remarks from the Chair and End of Conference Keith Besgrove, First Assistant Secretary, Digital Economy Services, DBCDE

Take advantage of the opportunity to gain premium exposure to this market through a sponsorship and exhibition package with Cloud @ CeBIT 2013.

If you offer a solution for organisations from the categories below, then Cloud @ CeBIT 2013 will be the place to provide you with the platform to highlight your capabilities and network with key industry decision makers.

• IaaS
• PaaS
• SaaS
• Storage
• Security

Sponsoring Cloud @ CeBIT 2013 offers your organisation the opportunity to connect with leading organisations by promoting your expertise and solutions to a highly targeted audience of decision makers.

Speaking opportunities are subject to strict selection criteria and approval by Cloud 2013 content management team.

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