Forecast 2012: Rapid Fire Panel #5: Cloud Enterprise Best Practices. Moderator: Ben Kepes, Analyst, Diversity How Do We Chart a Path to “Best Practice” Cloud Implementation? Dealing with the cultural issues Open vs Closed Working out a coherent strategy to move to the cloud Management and monitoring for a cloudy world Cloud integration – delivering consistency to end users How do we know when we get there?

1. Enterprise Cloud Best Practices
Building Industry Knowledge
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2. Rapid Fire Panel #5: Cloud Enterprise Best
Practices
Moderator Ben Kepes
Analyst
Panelists Andy Gupte Mario Müller
Sr. Director of Enterprise Vice President IT Infrastructure
Architecture
Matt Estes
Brad Twynham Director, Data Architecture
VP Emerging Market Strategy
Das Kamhout
IT Cloud Lead
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3. Today’s Topic Areas
• How Do We Chart a Path to “Best Practice” Cloud
Implementation?
• Dealing with the cultural issues
• Open vs Closed
• Working out a coherent strategy to move to the cloud
• Management and monitoring for a cloudy world
• Cloud integration – delivering consistency to end users
• How do we know when we get there?
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4. Polling Question:
Text the keyword to 22333 or tweet it to @OpenDataCenter
How does your firm view cloud readiness for use as a broad
scale solution?
Cloud is an aspiration story, something to aspire to
ASPIRE
but not really for adoption at this time
Cloud is interesting and a tool that will be used in
INTERESTING
some very finite ways
Cloud is an integral part of the business and we're
INTEGRAL
actively looking at ways to utilize it further
Cloud is part of our DNA and we're actively moving
MOVING
all workloads to the cloud
We're 100% cloud already INTHECLOUD
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5. Resources
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