Logicalis

• Corporate topics
• Technology trends

• Corporate topics
• Technology Marketing
• Social Media Marketing

• Cisco Solutions
• Communication and Collaboration

• HP Solutions

• IBM Solutions

• The business case for cloud computing and how the cloud computing distribution model is changing the way the IT industry delivers IT.
• Traditional data center blocking and tackling, i.e., moves, migrations and collocations and all the technology that goes on inside the data center.
• The changing role of sales in IT: from taking orders to asking questions, from pitching products to providing strategic services.
• The role of the economy in driving fundamental change in the way organizations implement and pay for IT.

• ITSM
• Managed Services
• Managed Service and Cloud Contracts
• Strategic Outsourcing/Rightsourcing

• Aligning IT investments with specific business outcomes
• IT operational processes

• Virtualization and the establishment of a converged infrastructure in the x86 space.
• Mission critical computing, spanning Unix systems like IBM Power and HP-UX as well as workloads that are moving into Windows on the x86 platform
• Microsoft communication and collaboration tools and the management of email migrations to Exchange and Office 365

• Cloud Computing
• Comparing/contrasting the Logicalis Enterprise Cloud with its public cloud competitors
• Defining the hybrid cloud and the business scenarios in which a hybrid strategy makes sense
• Explaining the cloud infrastructure – from the high-level concepts of IaaS, PaaS and SaaS to the more specific ways cloud can be used, such as backup and disaster recovery as services

• Managed Services
• Cloud Computing
• How to use the cloud for disaster recovery.
• Developing a comprehensive strategy that spans the entire infrastructure, including private and public clouds.
• Implementing ITIL best practices across your IT environment.

• Managed Services
• Cloud Computing
• Leveraging the cloud to: improve service delivery, respond to performance requirements, and provide disaster recovery solutions.
• How managed services can enable an IT organization to focus on supporting business objectives.
• How to decide which systems and/or applications to outsource.

• Cloud Computing
• Using lean/agile software development techniques and tools to rapidly produce applications that leverage self-provisioning and other cloud computing capabilities.
• Migrating existing applications to private and public cloud environments.
• Leveraging PaaS capabilities for application development.

Vic Dermott

Solution Architect

• Cloud Computing
• How to deliver IT as a service using existing technology.
• Replacing a tradition of over-buying to cover projected requirements with a “pay-by-the-drink” approach that leverages private and public cloud capabilities.
• Disaster recovery, backup, storage and VDI solutions in the cloud.

• Weighing the options: Public Cloud vs. Private Cloud vs. Hybrid Cloud
• Disaster Recovery (DR) in the cloud
• Email in a cloud-based world

• Cloud
  • Public, private and hybrid models and theories
  • Technology architecture and methodology
  • Engineering and design
  • Relating the technology to a business need
• Business Continuity/Disaster Recovery
• Virtualization and data lifecycle management (including storage)
• Microsoft technologies (Windows, Exchange, SQL, engineering and SPLA licensing)

• Managed Services
• Cloud Computing
• How ISVs can use the cloud to offer applications to their customers as SaaS.
• Messaging and collaboration, including email management and migration, web portals and web applications.
• Focusing on the end user in solution development.

• Weighing the options: Public Cloud vs. Private Cloud vs. Hybrid Cloud
• Disaster Recovery (DR) in the cloud
• Transforming Traditional IT to a Converged Cloud Experience
• End User Computing

• Managed Services
• Cloud Computing
• The best uses for public and private cloud solutions
• Managed services and how they meet business needs
• Discussing case studies involving complex customer engagements

• Private, public and hybrid cloud computing models
• Virtualization and getting ready for the cloud
• Virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) and virtual experience infrastructure (VXI)
• How IT works for the business and how the datacenter serves the business

• Strategic data center assessments to provide relative total cost of ownership for either a data center upgrade or a migration to a hosted public or hybrid cloud solution.
• Data center migrations, including migrations to and from colocation facilities or customer owned on-premise solutions
• Cloud readiness assessments to determine how prepared an organization is for a cloud solution.

• Server virtualization
• Virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) and virtual experience infrastructure (VXI)
• Bring Your Own Device (BYOD)

• Cloud Computing
• Defining the cloud
• Technologies used in cloud computing
• Regulatory/governance issues surrounding the cloud

• Cloud and managed services, with an emphasis on compliance and regulatory issues (SAS 70, SSAE16, PCI, HIPAA)
• Public, private or hybrid cloud disaster recovery solutions
• Public, private or hybrid cloud migrations

• Business development and program management
• Cloud computing (IaaS, PaaS and SaaS)
• ITIL best practices and the development of effective ITSM

• Why there is no such thing as Information Security and what you can do about it.
• Understanding security as a series of events, not a destination.
• Practical applications of security compliance in day-to-day operations.
• Securing the cloud for daily use.