RightScale powers the world’s leading cloud deployments – both public and private – and has broad visibility into how real companies continue to leverage cloud in their IT strategies every day. Michael will give an overview of where RightScale sees the cloud market heading as of late-2011 into 2012 and will cover statistics regarding: cloud usage and adoption, market drivers and blockers and industry trends, what’s new on the multi-cloud/hybrid cloud front, and what to expect in 2012. Building on the theme of real cloud experience, this introduction will provide a framework for the day’s discussions among customers, partners, and analysts.

The RightScale Cloud Management Platform is constantly evolving to help deliver agility, choice, and control to our users. This talk will focus on what’s new in the product in areas of multi-cloud management, configuration, and operations. We’ll do a live demo showing how you can easily leverage multiple cloud resource pools from a “single pane of glass” – giving you the flexibility to deploy applications designed for high-availability consistently across geographies. We’ll provide an update on new enterprise visibility tools, show sophisticated ServerTemplatesTM and take you on a tour through a live multi-cloud deployment.

When getting started with a new technology, it’s helpful to hear the war stories and successes of those who have gone before us. We’re excited that several RightScale customers will share their experiences of how they have achieved agility in the cloud.

When getting started with a new technology, it’s helpful to hear the war stories and successes of those who have gone before us. We’re excited that several RightScale customers will share their experiences of how they have achieved agility in the cloud.

When getting started with a new technology, it’s helpful to hear the war stories and successes of those who have gone before us. We’re excited that several RightScale customers will share their experiences of how they have achieved agility in the cloud.

When getting started with a new technology, it’s helpful to hear the war stories and successes of those who have gone before us. We’re excited that several RightScale customers will share their experiences of how they have achieved agility in the cloud.

In the past decade, the way in which technology is procured and managed has seen tectonic shifts, with the cloud leading the way. From the acceleration of open source to the rise of bottom up adoption, DevOps is set to define the future of the enterprise platform. To understand how to manage this coming transition in your organization, we’ll explore how platform evolution is offering you the best of both worlds: the ability to avoid lock-in while maintaining flexibility and leveraging the benefits of cloud computing.

Enterprises are moving to the cloud. Josh Fraser will outline how to deliver IT services faster and support line-of-business requirements better. Find out how hybrid and private cloud computing can advance your business goals. Leverage multiple resource pools and help you identify which use cases are best suited for public, private, and hybrid clouds.

Cloud security is a critical topic for everyone who uses Amazon Web Services (AWS). Join Miles Ward, Ecosystem Solution Architect of Amazon Web Services, as he shares best practices in building a secure solution on top of Amazon Web Services. Topics discussed will include the physical, procedural and logical controls implemented by AWS to assure security in the cloud, as well as the security certifications attained by AWS.

In the cloud, “manual” means “not doing it.” This session will provide guidance on how to automate portions of your security program using the RightScale Cloud Management Platform. Since we use RightScale to manage RightScale, most of the discussion will focus on what we are doing to accomplish the task of “automating security.” At the end of the session, you will have some very specific action items that you can take back to your environment to implement.