In April of 2013 Microsoft released the Windows Azure IaaS service for general availability. We were proud to be a launch day partner with Microsoft and here at RightScale we are excited to see the cloud computing market mature and grow. Please join us for an in-depth discussion and demonstration on how to increase agility and automation in your software development lifecycle using Windows Azure.

IT organizations are turning processes and practices often referred to as DevOps in order to speed up application delivery, shorten release cycles, improve quality, and better meet the needs of their business. We will present a real-life story of an organization implementing DevOps and leave you with best practices for use in your own organization.

RightScale is bringing a new level of automation to cloud environments with CloudFlow Deployment Orchestration. As a hosted, highly available service with built-in concurrency, conditionality, and error handling, CloudFlow is a solution for a range of use cases. Get an introduction to how to use CloudFlow to automate disaster recovery.

Fast-to-market, repeatable, lightweight websites and microsites are the lifeblood of media and advertising in the cloud. Find out how marketing departments and firms such as advertising, consumer products, and media use RightScale to deliver campaigns.

HP’s Converged Cloud strategy promises a revolution in how customers deliver and deploy applications in the cloud leveraging open standards like OpenStack and a rich ecosystem of partners like RightScale. In this session you will become versed in how HP’s public cloud and its ecosystem address a variety of customer needs/use cases.

Everyone thinks the cloud is the silver bullet, however, this isn’t reality. From the latest online political movements to the next viral game to the much anticipated retail promotion, all share elements in common: cloud, competition, performance, experience, and cost. Apica VP Craig Irwin will present key strategic elements employed by today’s progressive and innovative companies and share actionable insights on how companies are leveraging technology to proactively identify bottlenecks, improve performance, and optimize their environments. Craig will touch on the common mistakes, present-day situations that hit the headlines, and best practices to maintain optimal web performance and avoid system crashes.

Design for failure. Easier said than done? RightScale experts will review best practices for application architectures that survive cloud outages, reduce mean time to recovery, and meet your SLAs.

On January 25, 2013, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) released the final implementing regulations for many provisions of the HITECH Act (Health Insurance Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act), often referred to as the Omnibus Rule. Many organizations have based their architectures and implementations on previous proposed and interim regulations, some of which are no longer valid. Anyone falling under HIPAA requirements is required to meet these new definitive compliance requirements by September 23, 2013. This talk will discuss the parts of the Omnibus rule that affect the cloud landscape, and how you can successfully deploy a HIPAA-compliant application in the public cloud.

Join cloud visionary Peder Ulander as he describes the future of the IT world. IT leaders are stretching far beyond the boundary of “keeping the lights on” and becoming agents of change within their organizations by adopting IT-as-a-Service. Learn how this powerful concept of delivering a complete suite of on-demand IT services can transform traditional IT shops from cost centers to centers for strategic investment. Understand what it takes to deliver desktops, applications, and infrastructure services to all employees in a self-service fashion. Explore how to plan for this evolution and how tools such as CloudPlatform and RightScale can ensure success.

Developing today’s cloud-connected mobile applications is complicated. You have to develop mobile clients for each platform and form factor. You have to develop back-end services that run in the cloud to provide all the “heavy lifting.” You need to integrate to social networks and existing legacy systems. And the entire system has to scale seamlessly when you have the break-out success you know you’re app will bring. See why the combination of Zend, RightScale, PHP, and Apache Cordoba give you the solution you are looking for in the modern mobile world.