Date: Wednesday, February 25, 2009
Time: 2:00 PM Eastern, 11:00 AM Pacific

While cloud computing has captured the imagination of enterprise IT, many have voiced concern about the wisdom of a single-cloud strategy. The concern is that a single cloud or virtualization platform has the potential to become an albatross, locking an organization into a single vendor relationship or constraining deployment options. Ideally, what organizations want is a hybrid environment that seamlessly blends any combination of virtualized datacenters, internal and external clouds into an integrated fabric.
Sound futuristic? The reality is that the hybrid cloud is possible today!

Join this timely webinar to learn about the key use cases for hybrid compute environments and how applications can be packaged for seamless and dynamic portability across the connected fabric of a hybrid compute environment.
Attendees will learn:

• The tradeoffs between internal and external datacenter and cloud options
• How to build and deploy applications for portability and to combat lock-in
• Blending the need for speed with the mandate for control
• Innovative uses of hybrid compute environments, including dev/test, “cloud bursting,” and “capacity arbitrage” for commodity compute cycles.

About the Presenters:

• Pat O’Day, CTO, BlueLock
  Mr. Pat O’Day, BlueLock’s chief technology officer, is responsible for engineering, commercializing and making the company’s “infrastructure-as-as-service” model a business reality. With more than 15 years of experience as an information technology professional, he defines BlueLock’s services, architects its unique hosted IT environments, spearheads its strategic vendor alliances and oversees service deployment and delivery.
• Wendy Perilli, Director vCloud Product Marketing, VMware
  With over 16 years in marketing and sales, Wendy Perilli leads the VMware cloud computing product marketing organization. Prior to joining VMware, she was senior director of marketing at Akimbi Systems where she focused on channel and global marketing. Additionally, she has spent time in various marketing and sales functions at Mercury Interactive, IBM, 3Com, Adaptec and other small companies.
• Erik Troan, CTO, rPath
  Mr. Troan is responsible for all aspects of product design and implementation and for the company's IT infrastructure. Prior to founding rPath, Erik served in multiple roles at Red Hat including Vice President of Product Engineering for several years as well as the Senior Director of Marketing and chief developer for Red Hat Software.

Sponsored by rPath:

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Gary E. Smith
Cloud Architect - Doing IT in the Clouds

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