Everybody talks about moving to the cloud for infrastructure services and for applications. The decision is yours.

At this briefing Gartner's Research VP Mr. Carsten Casper and Research Director Mr. Keith Guttridge, will provide background and facts on SaaS, PaaS, IaaS, compliance, privacy and security concerns as well as business opportunities through four (4) dynamic presentations:

1. Now Is the Time for IT Leaders to Understand and Embrace PaaS: The Cloud Platform Services

The use of PaaS is on the rise. Here we look at how PaaS evolved. How vendors from different backgrounds are beginning to compete in the PaaS market place and what organisations need to do to benefit from this fast changing market.

- How will PaaS Market evolve to best serve users business requirements

- What best practices will emerge for using PaaS to build modern software – solutions

- How will vendors compete for leadership in the cloud platform market 

2. Enabling Hybrid Application Strategies Through Cloud Service Integration

Organizations are finally realizing how critical it is to integrate SaaS and APIs with their on-premises data, applications and processes to unleash the potential value of cloud and the API economy. Integration managers know well the classic integration issue, but they must aggressively tackle the unexpected new challenges posed by cloud services integration (CSI) to avoid suboptimal business outcomes and excessive costs.

- What is cloud service integration and which approaches should be taken to address it?

- How will CSI help organizations improve their operational efficiency and effectiveness?

- What actions will integration managers need to take to successfully tackle the CSI challenge?

3. How to Securely Adopt Public Cloud Computing

This presentation will provide approaches, best practices and technologies for the secure use of public cloud computing services.

- How will organizations secure workloads and information in virtualized data centers?

- How will organizations secure workloads and information in cloud-based infrastructure as a service provider implementations?

- How will organizations secure workloads and information in cloud-based software as a service implementations

4. Global IT in View of Local Laws

Some store data in the country of origin. Others store it in the cloud. Privacy laws change. Finance, tax regulations and private contracts add to the constraints. We will develop a framework that fits most enterprises' needs for compliant data storage and processing. 

- What are typically the expectations of IT, legal and business roles?

- Are there technical (or legal) means to use cloud and SaaS while keeping sensitive data local?

- Is my organization ahead or behind?

For full details please contact by phone: 210 7237320 - 210 7222177 or email: infosys@otenet.gr