STRADDLING THE CLOUD-COMPUTING FENCE? TWO MSPS SHOW YOU HOW TO PROSPER—AND AVOID SPLINTERS

Maybe you’ve been sitting on the fence about implementing a cloud computing solution, and that’s fine. But just remember: fences can get pretty uncomfortable if you sit there too long. In fact, you might want to hop off that fence right now, because there’s plenty of evidence that the cloud is the smart option that’s here to stay.

You’ve probably heard the old engineering adage: “cost, quality, time—pick two.” Well, cloud computing lets you pick all three. It can lower costs, improve the services you deliver, and free up your staff to do stuff that’s a lot more innovative than patching OSes and updating servers.

Just ask the folks at Vodacom Business Services or Verizon Business Consulting. Seriously, ask them! You’ll get your chance at BrainShare. That’s where presenters from Vodacom, South Africa’s leading telecommunications provider, will talk about how they built out a successful cloud offering using NetIQ Cloud Manager as the underlying technology. Cloud Manager lets you manage workloads seamlessly and securely across a virtual infrastructure, private cloud and external cloud. The folks from Vodacom Business Services will talk about how they integrated NetIQ Cloud Manager into their cloud offering and learned some valuable lessons along the way. Speaking of fences, you might want to ask them how they handle multitenancy and the role NetIQ Identity and Security solutions play in this—for them and their customer BasisOne.

BrainShare is also where technologists from Verizon Business Consulting will explain why they’re so hot on the cloud. They recently built a hosted Access Manager solution to provide secure access services to customers in a software as a service (SaaS) environment. NetIQ Access Manager allows businesses and organizations to manage their users’ access to Web-based content, portals, enterprise applications and systems through secure authentication. Its simplified, centralized approach to access management is ideal for maintaining infrastructure-wide security and compliance. In the BrainShare session, engineers from Verizon Business Consulting and NetIQ will cover some of the more common solution development issues their teams encountered. Specifically, they will discuss the multiple custom login pages, user stores, authentication configurations and AG clusters that were required. They will also discuss delegated administration and keeping different customers’ data separate.

If you’re looking for some great insights into why moving into the cloud makes sense, get off the fence and come to BrainShare. That’s where you’ll learn from industry leaders who have already made the leap.

BRAINSHARE SESSIONS:

Delivering the Cloud: How Vodacom Business Services Uses NetIQ Cloud Manager

October 12, 2011 / 10:30 AM / Room 250 D

How Verizon Is Delivering Cloud Services Using Access Manager

October 14, 2011 / 9:00 AM / Room 151 B

I’ll see you there.

–Richard