Seattle - 2011 CIO Forum - Threats and Opportunities in the Cloud
March 3 - 7:30am
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Whether you are a dabbler or a doubter, the CLOUD is here to stay. Understanding
the impact of the Cloud is crucial to the CIO’s role in bringing value and viability
to his or her business organization long term. Learn how to separate the reality
from the hype to define a practical strategy for Cloud adoption and how to ensure
that several years down the road you don't end up with a support nightmare or being
held hostage to a Cloud provider.
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Forum Dates
Speakers
Brian Orrell
Chief Technology Officer
Pariveda Solutions
Brian Orrell has more than 20 years of technology consulting experience in a variety
of industries and technologies. His emphasis is on the delivery of enterprise solutions
using Agile methods. His areas of expertise include designing, developing and maintaining
distributed systems.
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Vaughan Merlyn
Principal
Vaughan Merlyn Consulting
Vaughan Merlyn brings over 35 years of IT strategy and management experience as
an IT industry executive, researcher, author, educator and management consultant.
He has focused on transforming the performance of IT organizations, aligning information
technology and business strategies, and the implementation of technology-enabled
business change. His career experience and perspective brings together the important
disciplines of IT management and organizational change management into a unique
and powerful combination. More...
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Agenda
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7:30 - 8:30 am
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Breakfast
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8:30 - 10:00
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Introduction - Threats and Opportunities in the Cloud
Business demand and IT supply maturity:
Challenges and Opportunities at Level 1: Infrastructure and Core Solutions
Challenges and Opportunities at Level 2: Business Process Enablement
Challenges and Opportunities at Level 3: Product, Process and Business Model
Innovation
Understanding the Cloud Provider Landscape
Real-World Cloud Cases
Level 1 Case: Scaling through Infrastructure On Demand Outsourcing
Level 2 Case: Extending reach and enhancing customer experience
Level 3 Case: Innovating products and business models
Building your Cloud Agenda
Panel Discussion
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Pariveda Solutions Cloud Strategy Offerings
Cloud Strategy Formation: A methodology for developing a cloud strategy for
CIO’s looking to identify and plan for cloud use that maximizes the possible value
to be gained from this technology. Based on Pariveda’s IT Strategy and Business
Systems Planning methodologies, Pariveda will assess the current and planned systems
for an organization, evaluate the fit and benefits of cloud technology by system,
and develop a detailed roadmap, outlining the best uses of cloud technology and
the costs and savings from its implementation.
Optimizing Application Development in the Cloud: A proven toolset for cloud
development tailored to an organization for organizations that use the cloud for
development capacity. Whether initiated by a CIO seeking to provide variable capacity
to the organization or by a business unit working outside the constructs of IT,
the toolset provides a structured development environment that can ensure solutions
are developed to be appropriately integrated into the organization’s application
suite. The Cloud Shadow leverages Pariveda’s cloud experience to ensure appropriate
approaches for integration, data, productions controls and integrity are all integrated
into the development environment to create production-ready applications that meet
the standards of the IT function.
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