Recorded Webinars 

Although private, public and hybrid clouds are gaining mainstream acceptance, getting your cloud up and running is only half the battle. Once it's deployed, you've got to also ensure that your cloud services perform as advertised and do not suffer from poor response times or even resource outages. The impact to service level agreements can be costly due to lost time, lower user satisfaction, and even lost business.

With the growing interest in cloud service performance, this timely webinar will show you how to leverage your existing IT infrastructure to develop an Infrastructure-as-a-Service private cloud and gain real-time visibility into your cloud-based services and infrastructure resources now running your business and IT operations, including users, systems, databases, applications, and web services.

You’ll learn how to:
• Develop a private cloud blueprint for pooling your compute, storage, and network resources
• Stay on top of the performance for your internal and external cloud-based services and resources through dashboarding and visualization
• Anticipate cloud performance and quality of service issues through trending
• Be alerted to any cloud resource issues that may come up

Time will be made available at the end for Q&A.

If you or someone you know is responsible for private cloud infrastructure, then join us for the webinar.

Many IT organizations have adopted virtualization to consolidate and standardize infrastructure. Architects across IT (enterprise, infrastructure, applications) and their partners in operations are looking to take the next step in automation and innovation using on-premise private cloud platforms.

The next step is self-service automation and infrastructure as a service, which provides automation beyond virtualization that supports elasticity and on-demand/per usage service models.

But:
- How do you architect and govern self-service provisioning and elasticity across enterprises?
- How do you control access?
- How do you manage assets and ownership?
- How do you implement chargeback and billing?

Join us on Thursday, December 1 at 2pm EST / 11am PST to learn how architecture and infrastructure groups can work together to best plan, pilot, and adopt cloud computing.

You'll hear enStratus and Eucalyptus demonstrate how to:
- Architect and automate self-service provisioning for enterprise deployments
- Implement governance to extend policies and procedures into the private cloud
- Create a blueprint for private cloud adoption

You’ll see a demonstration of self-service provisioning with automated security, budgeting, and chargeback, and at the conclusion of the webinar you’ll be eligible for a free trial and proof of concept of an integrated enStratus and Eucalyptus self-service provisioning cloud.

Time will be made available at the end for Q&A.

As you adopt Agile development methodologies, your application release team is struggling to manage the dramatically increased frequency of your application build-test-deploy processes. Your IT team is also stressed -- they now need to provide lots of compute infrastructure (and deliver it quickly) to support the dev/test processes.

What you need is automation -- an Agile Development Cloud -- to successfully address the development and IT issues. The Agile Development Cloud provides:

• Process automation to accelerate and manage the build-test-deploy process
• Integrated cloud automation to rapidly provision and de-provision virtual compute environments to support the dev/test process

Join us to hear Eucalyptus and Electric Cloud demonstrate the Agile Development Cloud. During the session, you will learn:

• How to evaluate whether your organization would benefit from an Agile Development Cloud
• The 7-step strategic roadmap for marrying speed, agility and automation in both the Development and Infrastructure groups
• About the solutions in action through a demo

If your organization has been looking into deploying a private cloud, you'll need to know the five steps to take to initiate its development. In particular, there are key operational and IT processes that organizations need to agree upon in order to build a cloud successfully.

Join us for a webinar on Thursday, August 25th to hear Eucalyptus CTO and founder Rich Wolski explain how to bring about greater efficiencies within the data center through an enterprise-grade elastic cloud, and hear Wetpaint.com Operations Manager Tony Flint describe real-world experiences and lessons learned from implementing a private cloud. Rich will also provide an update on the latest release of Eucalyptus v3.0 and how new features such as High Availability and Resource Access Controls will ensure that your private cloud is enterprise grade.

Key areas that will be addressed include:

• Definitions of a private cloud and a hybrid cloud, and why private‐public cloud interoperability is critical to a hybrid model.
• What potential changes to operational processes, governance policies and cost structures may be necessary to implement private or hybrid cloud computing?
• The five steps to building an enterprise-grade, elastic cloud

A rock-solid private cloud makes elastic and configurable infrastructure-as-a-service (Iaas) immediately available to enterprises and their end users.

Compute, Storage and Networking resources that previously took weeks to provision are now available in minutes and in abundant supply.

With such great power, comes great responsibility....and a great need for infrastructure automation. When IaaS works in tandem with easy-to-use configuration management, the result is a fully automated cloud that can scale quickly and consistently without the need for manual effort.

Join experts from Opscode and Eucalyptus Systems to see:

• How to build full infrastructure, from bare metal to application deployment from a single command
• How an integrated approach spreads the benefits of cloud computing across the entire enterprise
• How to save engineers and developers time and money with on-premise IaaS and configuration management

Register for this Webinar to get:

• Best practice tips for constructing and managing fully automated private clouds Knowledge to extend the benefits of IaaS across your enterprise in a consistent, secure, and reliable fashion
• A live demo of Chef's integration with Eucalyptus via the command line utility Knife
• Information on how you can build your automated private cloud or test a proof of concept today

Decrease Deployment Time, Increase Controls, and Reduce IT Service Management Backlogs

Your IT Service Request catalog has hundreds of request tickets for IT infrastructure from development, testing, and QA. As the IT Service and Infrastructure managers, you are challenged with delivering quicker response times with scarce resources. Although you already have a virtualized environment, it may still take you days or weeks to setup new IT infrastructures. The end result is a massive backlog of request tickets in your IT service management system and unsatisfied users.

So how did one of the world's leading independent software companies deploy an on-demand model to decrease IT service processing from a 2 week response time to minutes by using a private cloud? How can a cloud include security, controls and automation to meet your policies and compliance requirements?

In this Webinar, we'll demonstrate how the Eucalyptus-on-premise, IaaS cloud uniquely enables management to equip teams with the proper tools to do their development and test jobs more securely and cost-effectively than using popular ad-hoc procedures.

In this webinar, you will learn how cloud computing and open source software intersect to provide economical, flexible, and secure benefits in IT deployment.

Speakers

• Ken Rojas, Senior Project Manager, USDA-NRCS Information Technology Center
• Melvin Greer, Senior Fellow, Chief Strategist Cloud Computing, Lockheed Martin
• Cynthia Poole, Research Director, Market Connections, Inc.
• Gunnar Hellekson, Chief Technology Strategist, US Public Sector Group, Red Hat

Moderator

• Tim Hartman, General Manager, Government Executive Media Group

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Join experts from Puppet Labs and Eucalyptus Systems to learn how IT Cloud and Data Center Administrators are automating systems configuration management and on-premise cloud provisioning to gain complete control of large server environments while capitalizing on increased hardware utilization and service elasticity.

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2011 is shaking out to be the year when cloud moves from talk to deployment. But how are companies using the cloud today, both for internal and outward facing applications? And should I plan for a public, private or hybrid cloud architecture?

Join Marten Mickos and Michael Crandell, CEO's of Eucalyptus and RightScale for a roundtable discussion exploring these hot topics. The discussion will be led by Bill Claybrook, industry expert and will include a live Q & A from the audience.

The discussion will cover:

• The advantages of hybrid cloud environments
• The importance of cloud management
• Best practices both companies have seen from real customer deployments

Additionally, Mickos and Crandell will discuss and outline the 3 most important issues you need to consider when contemplating going with a private or hybrid cloud.

The idea of Cloud Computing - where scalability is limitless and automatic, and users/groups are billed for their use as it happens - is marvelous. But, there is nothing quite like seeing and holding your server equipment and application data behind your firewall. New open source solutions for building private Clouds emerges from Eucalyptus Software. Brady Murray of Eucalyptus and Frank Cohen of PushToTest will discuss the emerging types of private Clouds, how hybrid Clouds adapt to Business Service Management (BSM,) load testing, and production monitoring.

In this webinar, we will demonstrate the flexibility and ease of use of a Eucalyptus private cloud, as well as the built in scalability and elasticity of a Membase Server. Attendees will get a background on each company and its technology and see a demo of the solutions working seamlessly together.