External Clouds vs. Internal Virtualization Webcast

Andrew Hillier, CiRBA CTO & Co-Founder presents:

External Clouds vs. Internal Virtualization:
Determining Where to Draw the Line

Identifying candidates for cloud computing is not as simple as it may first seem. By comparing cloud options to existing physical hosting scenarios it is easy to see reduced costs, but the real benchmark for comparison lies with the virtualization of existing infrastructure. This session will outline how to analyze environments in order to first qualify candidates for the cloud or virtualization based on a number of business, configuration and utilization considerations.  For example, sensitive data, regulatory requirements, or utilization patterns and personalities all impact whether or not applications are suitable for the cloud. Once suitable candidates are identified, a rigorous analysis that examines factors including SLA requirements, costs and break-even points, operational windows, and utilization personalities and patterns, will enable organizations to fully understand the potential of cloud alternatives. Also, advanced capacity management concepts, such as dynamically “right-sizing” workloads onto the most economical cloud instances based on operational patterns and windows, will be discussed.

53 minutes - 53MB WMV format.