Michael Crandell - CEO, RightScale Brian Adler - Solutions Architect, RightScale. Cloud misconceptions and corporate inertia often surface as the greatest inhibitors of enterprise cloud adoption. In this session, we'll share successful enterprise use cases and give you practical tips on addressing legitimate concerns to accelerate cloud adoption within your organization. We'll discuss specific issues that enterprises often encounter when using cloud-based resource pools, such as managing security, visibility, and control through infrastructure audits.

Uri Budnik, Director ISV Partner Program - RightScale. Cloud is the most nebulous and abused term in information technology today. It describes multiple, disparate service models and has been retroactively applied to countless legacy technologies in attempts to keep them current. In this session, we'll discuss the cloud technology landscape and where RightScale fits in to drive agility, cost, and time savings above cloud infrastructure. RightScale has been investing heavily for the past four years to make cloud infrastructure easy to leverage. This session will clarify elements that are straightforward, what continues to be difficult, and the impact on your schedule and budget.

Darryl Eaton - Director Product Development, RightScale. ServerTemplates are the innovative "secret sauce" of the RightScale Cloud Management Platform. They enable you to easily architect, launch, manage, and monitor multi-server deployments. More than half of the 40,000-plus RightScale ServerTemplates™ were created from scratch by our customers. By using ServerTemplates, you can slice up your existing configurations into your own custom blueprints for cloud servers. In this session, we'll share best practices for developing, testing, and maintaining your own custom ServerTemplates.

Rafael Saavedra - VP Engineering, RightScale. Performance tuning applications in the public cloud is both easier and harder than on your own server hardware. It's much easier to scale up and scale out in the cloud but you generally don't have much (if any) control over the hardware. With public cloud, you take the building blocks offered by the cloud infrastructure and design the application architecture to scale based on the capacity planning requirements and scalability testing results. In this session, we'll talk through our experiences scaling and performance tuning the RightScale platform in the cloud and share tips for sizing, auto-scaling, monitoring, and troubleshooting large-scale cloud deployments.

Database performance is the number-one cause of poor performance for scalable web applications, and the problem is magnified in cloud environments where I/O and bandwidth are generally slower and less predictable than in dedicated data centers. Database sharding is a highly effective method of removing the database scalability barrier by operating on top of proven RDBMS products such as MySQL and Postgres as well as the new NoSQL database platforms. In this session, you'll learn what it really takes to implement sharding, the role it plays in the effective end-to-end lifecycle management of your entire database environment, why it is crucial for ensuring reliability, and how to choose the best technology for a specific application. We'll also share a case study on a high-volume social networking application that demonstrates the effectiveness of database sharding for scaling cloud-based applications.

Frank Gillett, Forrester Research

The RightScale product team has been hard at work laying a strong foundation for our customers to take advantage of the different cloud providers out there - Amazon Web Services, Rackspace, Cloud.com and Eucalyptus, to name a few. 2011 will be the year of Multi Cloud, and were excited to announce Linux ServerTemplate support for Rackspace. Expect more exciting news in the weeks and months to come.

The April 21st Amazon service disruption in the US East Region caused many to revisit application architectures to better withstand failures. With cloud infrastructure as a level playing field, we all have effectively the same building blocks and it’s up to each of us to balance cost and complexity against the risk of outages. Fortunately, there are many simple approaches in the cloud that dramatically improve application scalability and availability with little incremental cost.

This webinar will introduce CloudTestGo, a performance engineering service developed by our partner CSS Corp. This service is an innovative, on-demand offering that allows you to minimize the typical costs associated with performance testing such as redundant hardware and software licensing.

What if you could combine the flexibility of PaaS with the customizability of IaaS? And what if you could effortlessly switch between different cloud providers?