VMworld 2013: Separating Cloud Hype from Reality in Healthcare – a Real-Life Example at HMA

Disaster Recovery (DR) Provides the technical ability to maintain critical services in the event of any unplanned incident that threatens these services or the technical infrastructure required to maintain them.

RapidScale, a cloud services innovator, delivers world-class, secure, and reliable cloud computing solutions to companies of all sizes across the globe. Its state-of-the-art CloudOffice platform and market leading cloud solutions are the reason why RapidScale is the provider of choice for leading telecommunications providers, VARs, MSPs, and agents throughout the United States. RapidScale is not only delivering a service, but is also innovating advanced solutions and applications for the cloud computing space. Today, many of the top carriers, VARs, MSPs, and Master Agents across the globe are selling RapidScale’s cloud solutions to their customers. RapidScale’s market leading solutions include: CloudServer, CloudDesktop, CloudOffice, CloudMail, CloudRecovery, CloudApps, and more. For more information on RapidScale visit www.rapidscale.net.

Dallas-based Clearview International is leading the desktop virtualization wave by adding Desktops-as-a-Service to their portfolio of service offerings. Join TJ Karklins, CEO of Clearview International, LLC, Brady Ranum, VP Product and Strategy of Dizzion, Inc, and Sean Teague, President of ManageWatch, Inc for a 30-minute introductory webcast of how virtual desktops can work to improve your business. These are the slides from that webcast.

This document summarizes key aspects of cloud computing. It begins with a brief history of cloud computing and an overview of the three main types of cloud: public cloud, private cloud, and hybrid cloud. It discusses factors to consider when determining what type of cloud is appropriate for different needs. The document provides examples of business migrations to the cloud and discusses important planning considerations like security, connectivity, and managing the migration process. It aims to help organizations understand the cloud and determine if and how it could benefit them.

The cloud is driving significant change in how companies deploy and manage resources for their existing business applications. This session explains in non-technical terms how to evaluate if a move to the cloud is in your midst without being a technical expert. We'll explain the many different deployment options as well as business opportunities, pros and cons that companies should consider when addressing the cloud. This session will also provide an executive viewpoint on Azure and it's future potential for businesses.

VMware's Virtual SAN 6.0 software enables software-defined storage using the hypervisor. It provides a simplified storage solution that pools server-side storage and manages it through storage policies at the virtual machine level. Virtual SAN delivers high performance, scale, and availability while reducing costs through server-side economics and linear scalability. It is well-integrated with the VMware software stack and supports a variety of use cases including virtual desktop infrastructure, test/development environments, and disaster recovery.

A high level overview of Dell Cloud Manager and key challenges it solves. Learn more: http://dell.com/dellcloudmanager

The document discusses Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) cloud computing. IaaS provides virtual machines, storage, and other hardware resources to clients over the internet. Choosing IaaS allows organizations to avoid large upfront costs, scale infrastructure easily, and focus IT resources on strategic initiatives rather than maintenance. However, moving to IaaS requires planning for existing infrastructure, ensuring application compatibility, understanding required modifications, evaluating backup plans and costs, and analyzing security risks from insider threats or virtual machine escapes.

This document discusses building a business case for private cloud adoption. It begins with an overview of cloud adoption trends and the needs of different stakeholders. Common challenges to cloud adoption are also presented. The document then examines myths and realities about cloud computing. A case study is provided on the total economic impact of private cloud based on interviews and surveys. Key benefits included improved efficiency, cost savings, and business agility. The document concludes with next steps around driving private cloud transformation, including people and cultural changes.

This document summarizes Harvard Medical School's use of CrashPlan for end user backups. It notes that CrashPlan provides easy, set it and forget it backups across devices and platforms that protect users' personal data. Statistics are presented on the number of users and devices backed up, amount of data stored, and restore activities, with the majority of restores being for single files and under 10 MB in size. Success stories are shared of users' data being successfully restored after various types of data loss and hardware failures. Contact information is provided for support.

80% of companies that do not recover from a data loss within one month are likely to go out of business in the immediate future (Bernstein Crisis Management). With Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity, a business is able to survive and thrive after a disaster has struck.

Katpro Technology, a IT solutions company, announced it has been selected by Microsoft Co-corporations as a windows Azure Circle Partner.The Partnership will provide katpro with the ability to service customers needs in the area of cloud, training and support material provided by Microsoft.

When it comes to deploying new applications and optimizing workloads, Dell brings in the collective best practices of a wide variety of customer sets and technology partners to help simplify the decisions IT leaders make every day. In this session, you will learn about Dell Blueprints, a streamlined approach that helps customers navigate the technology and deployment choices for key workloads—including cloud/virtualization, data analytics, data processing, high-performance computing and other business applications—to optimize performance and accelerate business outcomes.

The document discusses key questions to ask when evaluating converged infrastructure solutions: (1) How is the converged system designed? (2) How hard is it to manage? (3) How does it scale? (4) How does it protect data? It recommends choosing a solution that is fully integrated, easy to manage through a single interface, allows granular scaling of resources, and has built-in high availability and disaster recovery. The webinar aims to help organizations understand whether and how convergence could benefit their environment.

The way you implement Identity and Access Management (IAM) can make or break your security and compliance strategies. Based on Dell’s experience helping customers deploy IAM properly, we have identified common themes that run through these successful projects. In this session, one of Dell’s IAM experts will present a maturity model that will help you gauge the correct place to start your deployment, highlight the course corrections that may be necessary, and help you determine the path to IAM that’s right for you.

In today’s ever-changing, software-defined world, matching workloads to the right cloud solutions is incredibly challenging. Failure to do so can add complexity and lead to excessive spend on suboptimal cloud services. At this panel of Dell Cloud providers and customers, you will discover how our worldwide partnerships and in-depth expertise help organizations become future ready, optimizing cloud costs and workloads. You'll learn how our prescriptive cloud services have helped reduce risk and get the most of out of cloud investments. Regardless of geographic location or workload type, Dell can help you plan for your unique cloud future.

This document introduces the concept of a cloud-based clinical trial management system (CTMS) and discusses its potential advantages over traditional legacy CTMS systems. It defines cloud computing and explains how a cloud-based CTMS would work and be architected. Key benefits highlighted include scalability, elasticity, lower costs through a utility pricing model, and faster innovation cycles through a multi-tenant architecture. The document argues that a cloud-based CTMS could transform how clinical trials are conducted by enabling sponsors to instantly expand global trials. It concludes by noting that developing a successful cloud-based CTMS requires an accurate data model as the foundation.

An explanation of how silicon-wafer-totting droids translate to a read+write operation of an SSD device. Presented at Sydney VMUG 2012Q2. Best downloaded and played with Keynote for animations.

VMworld 2013 Shuki Binyamin, VMware Raja Krishnasamy, VMware Learn more about VMworld and register at http://www.vmworld.com/index.jspa?src=socmed-vmworld-slideshare

VMworld 2013 Chris Colotti, VMware David Hill, VMware Learn more about VMworld and register at http://www.vmworld.com/index.jspa?src=socmed-vmworld-slideshare

VMworld 2013 Chris Colotti, VMware Michael Roy, VMware Learn more about VMworld and register at http://www.vmworld.com/index.jspa?src=socmed-vmworld-slideshare