Cloud Migration Strategies
Strategies for managing the journey.
September 18, 2019
8:30am-5:00pm
7 CPE / 0.7 CEU / CISSP / 7 PDU Credits Awarded
Conference location: Donald E. Stephens Convention Center Rosemont (O’Hare) Illinois
Overview
Cloud Computing has shown tremendous benefits to organizations of all sizes, but is not without it’s pitfalls.
What You Will Learn
In this one day conference attendees will learn:
Conference Price: $289.00 per person
Each attendee will receive a certificate awarding 7 CPE credits for CISSP continuing education, in addition to 0.7 CEUs and 7 PDUs. CISSP is a registered certification mark of (ISC)², Inc.
8:00am – 8:30am: Registration and Continental Breakfast
8:30am-9:20am: Digital Transformation: How Business & IT Should Think About Cloud Migration
Robert Christiansen, VP, Client Advocate – Office of the CTO, HPE
Digital transformation is changing how organizations in every industry approach their business strategy, serving as the foundation of their technology initiatives. Key among this includes cloud adoption, which is not just about IT savings, but where organizations are leveraging new ways of doing business for competitive advantage.
In this session, attendees will learn how IT:
Christiansen
9:20am -10:10am: Determining the Level of Integration- Shallow Integration Versus Deep
David Musci, Director of Cloud Engineering, Hitachi Vantara
When you move an application from on-premise to the cloud, there are two ways you can migrate your application—a shallow cloud integration, also known as, ‘Lift and Shift’ or a deep cloud integration.
In this session attendees, will learn which approach best suits their environment.
Musci
10:10am -10:40am: Refreshment Break
10:40am-11:30am: Single Cloud Provider Versus Multiple Cloud Providers
Michael Rymkiewicz, Vice President, Dito
When migrating your applications to the cloud, leveraging a single cloud provider is relatively simple, however, the challenge is vendor lock in. Leveraging multiple cloud providers may help you avoid vendor lock-in, however, it can get more complicated as there are several different models for leveraging a multitude of providers.
Pros and cons of different approaches will be discussed as well as the different models.
Rymkiewicz
11:30am-12:20pm: Multi-Cloud Migration Strategies: Planning for Success
Tom McKowen, Cloud Computing Architecture, US Signal
Jim Schuyler, Inside Solution Architect, US Signal
McKowen Schuyler
12:20pm – 1:10pm Luncheon
1:10pm-2:00pm: Cloud Watch Points- Security Stumbling Blocks to Watch Out For
Derek Milroy, Sr. Security Engineer, U.S. Cellular
In this session, Derek Milroy, at CAMP IT regular speaker will share his thoughts on the security stumbling blocks to be aware of when going through a Migration.
Milroy
2:00pm – 2:50pm: Cloud Migration Could Be Your Dress Rehearsal for IT Disaster Recovery
Marc Kreppel, Area Manager, Zerto
Day-to-day threats can destroy data and ruin a business. That’s why it is critical for all businesses to have a current, active disaster recovery (DR) plan. If you’ve completed a cloud migration project, perhaps it was your dress rehearsal and your chance to see how well prepared you really are.
In this session, attendees will learn to adapt their BC/DR plans to support Cloud Migration.
Areas that will be covered include:
Kreppel
2:50pm – 3:20pm: Refreshment Break
3:20pm-4:10pm: Best Practices for Designing the Securing of Your Cloud Infrastructure
Ryan F. O’Halloran, Chief Technology Officer, Access One, Inc.
As enterprises move their applications and data to the cloud, executives increasingly face the task of balancing the benefits of productivity gains against significant concerns about compliance and security.
Security in the cloud is not the same as security in the corporate data center. Different rules and thinking apply when securing an infrastructure over which one has no real physical control.
Areas that will be covered include:
O’Halloran
4:10pm-5:00pm: How to Calculate the Cost of a Cloud Migration
Moderator:
Brian Bushong, Senior Account Executive, American Digital Corporation
Panelists:
Kumail Razvi, Sr. Manager – Cloud Data Engineering, Discover Financial
Ryan Nikolich, Director of Network Administration, Pepper Construction Group
Nisar Syed, Director, Service Delivery, Blue Cross Blue Shield Association
Irene Oh, Head of IT, Museum of Science and Industry
Doug Zelinka, Executive Global Director, Infrastructure & Service Delivery, Akorn Pharmaceuticals
and other Enterprise IT Cloud Executives
A cloud migration effort is rarely simple and many enterprises underestimate the costs associated with cloud usage and migration. In this session, attendees will learn how to deal with the different Cloud costs, namely, Current application and infrastructure costs, Cloud infrastructure costs and Cloud migration costs.
Razvi Nikolich Syed Oh Zelinka Bushong
Exhibits
As is always the case at CAMP IT Conferences events, the talks will not include product presentations. During the continental breakfast, coffee breaks, and the luncheon break you will have the opportunity to informally meet representatives from the following sponsoring companies, who have solutions in the area of the conference.