Webinars
Intel Cloud Builders Reference Architecture: Cloud On-Boarding with CloudSwitch
A webinar with Intel and CloudSwitch
If you’re ready to use public clouds but want to leverage your existing data center infrastructure and enterprise systems, you’re probably looking for an enterprise reference architecture from a trusted source.
Join experts from Intel and CloudSwitch who walk you through the Intel® Cloud Builders Reference Architecture: Cloud On-boarding with CloudSwitch and describe how to extend your data center into the cloud simply and securely using CloudSwitch software with Intel® Xeon® processor 5600 series servers.
Cloud on-boarding is a critical first step in your cloud initiatives and should be considered in your overall design of enterprise-wide cloud infrastructure. In this webinar, we discuss the benefits of the hybrid cloud model, spanning internal, external and federated clouds. We showcase a live demo of how CloudSwitch can be installed into an enterprise’s virtual infrastructure to move applications to the public cloud, seamlessly extending the data center and utilizing public clouds for on-demand scalability and agility.
A Cloud Security Bill of Rights
A Webinar by Chris Hoff (@Beaker) and CloudSwitch
Cloud security remains a top concern for enterprise cloud deployments. Corporate IT and security teams hesitate to put applications and data outside their firewalls, and worry that the cloud is still too risky for large-scale adoption.
It’s time for the cloud industry to step up and meet enterprise requirements. Customers have the right to demand a safe environment for their apps and data. Cloud providers and their technology partners need to give customers the same security and control they already expect internally so they can use the cloud without risk or constraints.
In this webinar join, Chris Hoff, cloud evangelist and well-known security expert, as he shares his thoughts on where cloud security stands today – and where it needs to be. Chris explores the emerging industry standards and what enterprises should expect and demand from their providers. John Considine, CTO of CloudSwitch, presents market-leading technology that moves the state of cloud security to the next level. Chris and John highlight best practices and real-world examples of how enterprise customers are extending corporate security into public and private clouds.
Optimizing Your WAN Connectivity for Hybrid Cloud Deployments
A webinar by Riverbed and CloudSwitch
Riverbed's Cloud Steelhead® allows you to optimize your use of cloud and data center bandwidth for file access, data movement and application connectivity. CloudSwitch Enterprise software enables simple, rapid deployment of the Cloud Steelhead appliance in-path with cloud resources, with full encryption of all data and communications, and allows you to extend your enterprise network topologies into the cloud without modification. Together, CloudSwitch and Riverbed let you leverage your existing Riverbed investments for optimized cloud deployments – so users that rely on cloud resources can get results faster, with full enterprise security and control.
Join experts from Riverbed and CloudSwitch to learn from their hands-on experiences with enterprise customers who are optimizing the cloud today. Find out how joint customers can increase WAN performance and reduce cost of ownership for network bandwidth in a hybrid cloud model. And see a demo showing point-and-click deployment, configuration and management of the Cloud Steelhead appliance in internal and external cloud environments, with full enterprise management and control.
Hybrid Gets Real: Blending Private and Public Clouds
A webinar by Terremark and CloudSwitch
With so many flavors of cloud offerings out there, how are you supposed to understand the differences, let alone pick the right ones to meet your specific needs? Most enterprises have dozens to hundreds or even thousands of applications in their portfolios, each with its own set of infrastructure, security and performance requirements to meet the needs of business users. And while many of your applications may be a good fit for "the cloud," how will you evaluate which cloud offering will be the best match?
In this webinar, join experts from Terremark and CloudSwitch to learn from their hands-on experiences with enterprise customers who are using the cloud today:
- Understand the practical differences and trade-offs between private clouds, public clouds and virtual private clouds.
- Hear real-life case studies on how market-leading companies are successfully selecting and deploying the right cloud services for their unique application requirements.
- Learn how to blend the right mix of cloud services in a seamless and secure way with your existing data center infrastructure and tools.
- See a demo showing point-and-click interoperability between internal and external cloud environments, with full enterprise management and control.
CloudSwitch 2.0 Launch Overview & Product Demonstration
This webinar shows how our enterprise customers are running their Windows and Linux apps in the cloud simply and securely using CloudSwitch. You’ll see a product demonstration, including highlights of our expanded feature set. We’ve added some exciting new capabilities to our award-winning CloudSwitch Enterprise software, based on customer requirements and use cases for larger, production workloads. The product overview and demo is followed by a Q&A period with the presenters.
CloudSwitch’s innovative software appliance makes hybrid clouds a reality for enterprise IT. With CloudSwitch, enterprises are running their applications in the right cloud computing environment – simply, securely and without modifications. Applications remain tightly integrated with enterprise data center tools and policies, and can be moved easily between different cloud environments and back into the data center based on the requirements of the business. CloudSwitch protects enterprises from the complexity, risks and potential lock-in of cloud computing, freeing them to leverage the cloud’s advantages in cost and business agility.
Learn how CloudSwitch is enabling enterprises in the pharma, financial services, telecom and other industries to leverage the power of the cloud with full enterprise security and control.
Pharmas Are Leading the Way with Faster, More Scalable Computing in the Cloud
Pharmaceutical companies are leading the way in enterprise cloud adoption. As consumers of massive computing clusters for complex informatics as well as internal IT needs, pharmas are turning to the cloud to provision resources in minutes, not weeks. The cloud offers endless scalability and flexible on-demand extensions of existing compute grids. This can have game-changing impact for scientists, researchers, IT and the entire enterprise.
In this webinar you'll learn how market-leading pharmas are using the cloud:
- Burst/peak scale-out: Research IT and Informatics teams view the cloud as an extension of their internal cluster environments for increasing their agility in discovery research, accelerating accurate target identification and lead generation, and driving rapid transition to lead optimization and the pre-clinical stage of R&D.
- Improving the application lifecycle: Many development and test activities are being moved off expensive on-premise resources to the cloud, reducing data center fixed costs. Once tested in the cloud, the application environment can easily be brought back in-house when it’s ready for production. R&D IT can dramatically reduce the costs of application development and testing by matching resources to actual usage, and more accurately predict total cost of ownership.
- Collaboration: The cloud provides a flexible, cost-effective platform for collaboration across multiple organizations, including other pharma/biotech, universities, suppliers and outsourced developers. These organizations, which are often geographically distributed teams, require access to large pools of resources for short-term or ongoing collaboration.
See a demo of a real-life informatics use case in the cloud, using CloudSwitch’s innovative software. You will learn how CloudSwitch is enabling pharmas to leverage the power of the cloud with full enterprise security and control.
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Making Hybrid Clouds Work in the Real World
Hybrid clouds have emerged as the dominant architecture for enterprise cloud computing. In this new model, data centers and internal clouds support a company’s core and steady-state requirements, while external clouds provide capacity on demand for spiky apps, load/scale testing, short-term marketing campaigns, and much more.
But what if a customer’s internal infrastructure isn’t compatible with a preferred external cloud? As enterprises discover this new environment, they want to use it without barriers, and with trusted internal tools and policies. They demand flexibility to choose from a range of cloud environments (including both internal and external clouds), to meet requirements for performance, QoS, scalability, security and price. For the hybrid model to succeed, enterprises will need provable security, portability and interoperability across many disparate environments – in which multiple cloud providers, APIs, architectures and hypervisors will co-exist.
This presentation features guest speaker Kamesh Pemmaraju, Cloud Research Leader at Sand Hill Group and former VP of Engineering/Director of Quality at Pegasystems, SolidWorks and Apani Networks, who discusses research findings on where cloud reality stands today versus all the hype, including which types of enterprises are adopting cloud and why (or why not). Kamesh also provides an overview of the hybrid cloud architecture and explains why hybrid clouds are poised for the greatest growth.
This is followed by a CloudSwitch presentation on how hybrid clouds are being deployed today by market-leading organizations. CloudSwitch describes real-life customer hybrid use cases and cloud architectures, followed by a product demo showcasing CloudSwitch’s award-winning software as it seamlessly and securely integrates internal and external environments so customers can run their applications in the cloud with full enterprise control.
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Make the Cloud Part of Your Enterprise IT Infrastructure in 4 Easy Steps with CloudSwitch & LTech
Thinking about making the cloud a powerful extension of your enterprise IT infrastructure, but not sure how to get started?
In this webinar you'll learn how to make the cloud work for you. CloudSwitch and LTech are working with market-leading enterprises who want to run their applications simply and securely in the cloud. LTech delivers a suite of services and tools for enterprise cloud deployments. CloudSwitch’s award-winning software bridges the enterprise data center with cloud computing services, extending enterprise security and control into the cloud. With CloudSwitch, existing applications can be moved to the cloud with point-and-click simplicity and no modifications, remaining tightly integrated with enterprise data center tools and policies.
Together, CloudSwitch and LTech showcase a joint solution that enables enterprises to get started in the cloud in 4 easy steps:
- Select multi-tier applications and workloads best suited to the cloud
- Address critical security concerns to meet the requirements of CSOs and risk management
- Point and click your selected applications to the right cloud
- Plan for ongoing management, scaling and orchestration using existing enterprise tools & processes
The presentation includes a live demo of CloudSwitch software and real customer use cases highlighting best practices in cloud architecture and deployment.
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Ready to Kick the Colo Habit?
Using the Cloud Instead of Scaling Your Colo
Cloud computing offers dramatic cost savings and flexibility improvements compared to traditional hosting providers or colocation facilities. The cloud enables rapid provisioning and scaling to meet peak usage, while eliminating the overhead of managing power, network connectivity, and physical hardware. Until now, enterprises considering the cloud have been faced with concerns about the security of their data and communications, and the hurdles of re-building applications and management tools for a specific cloud environment. Not anymore.
In this webinar, you’ll learn how CloudSwitch’s breakthrough software lets enterprises kick the colo habit by running applications in the cloud with the security, confidence, and management tools they rely on. Several customer stories are presented showcasing how real enterprises are using CloudSwitch to deploy and run applications in the cloud for rapid development and peak-period scaling – relieving them from the headaches and costs of maintaining traditional hosting environments. In a demonstration, you’ll see how CloudSwitch automatically creates secure connectivity into the cloud allowing cloud-based applications to remain integrated with backend systems, and learn how to host your applications in the cloud with point-and-click simplicity and no modifications.
Watch this webinar to learn how CloudSwitch enables you to:
- Move hosting infrastructure into the cloud with no modifications
- Dramatically lower operational costs
- Automatically encrypt all network traffic and storage
- Secure and control access to hosted applications
- Maintain compliance with internal security standards
How to Secure the Public Cloud for the Enterprise:
Making the Public Cloud Work Like a Private Cloud
Many companies would like to take advantage of cloud computing, but concerns about possible security breaches and loss of data hold them back. For cloud computing to gain traction in the enterprise, IT and security executives need to be certain that their company’s applications and data are safe and under IT’s control.
This presentation features guest speaker David Mortman, Director of Operations and Security at C3 and former CISO at Siebel Systems, who explores concerns with cloud security including loss of control and monitoring, lack of auditing and enterprise-grade encryption, as well as the perceived lack of enterprise-grade intrusion detection, disaster recovery and compliance. This is followed by an overview of how enterprises are starting to embrace the cloud and ensuring that cloud-based resources can run under full enterprise control using CloudSwitch software. Real enterprise use cases are presented, followed by a Q&A session with the speakers.
