Cloud Technology Partners (cloudTP) and VMware to Discuss Migrating Applications to the Cloud using vFabric

BOSTON, June 22, 2011 /PRNewswire/ --

When:  June 29, 2011, 12:00 p.m. to 1:00 p.m.  Eastern Time (ET)

What:  Today, enterprises consider moving their applications to the cloud for the following reasons:

• Rationalization of the application portfolio, leading to a more cost-efficient shared services architecture
• Cloud applications are easier to use, scale, maintain and integrate
• Cloud applications can reduce infrastructure footprint and costs with the use of commodity hardware, open source platforms and multi-tenant architecture.

The effort to migrate a diverse mission-critical application portfolio is not a trivial exercise – it requires careful planning and ongoing management of complexity and cost.  Usually, migration of applications is not an "all or nothing" process, so a standardized methodology for selecting specific migration targets is a valuable decision tool.  In many cases, migration decisions will be motivated by long term strategic objectives, such as architecture and operating cost reduction plans; but in some cases there is an immediate tactical challenge that can best be met by careful migration.

Join experts from Cloud Technology Partners (cloudTP) and VMware to learn about the best practices, methodologies and technologies to ensure a successful application transformation to the cloud.  The experts will cover the following topics in this session:

• Application portfolio assessment and rationalization
• Criteria for identifying applications to migrate
• Profiling techniques to estimate re-factoring effort and cost
• Project Management Migration Framework
• vFabric Cloud Application Platform
• Why and What of TC Server
• ROI/TCO of vFabric/TC server deployment
• Customer references/case studies

Meet the presenters:

Bruce Coughlin, Head of Private Cloud Initiatives, cloudTP

Mr. Coughlin has responsibility for the growth and management of cloudTP's Private Cloud Business. In this role, he drives for the strategy, delivery and partnerships involved with creating compelling solutions for customers in building enterprise private clouds. Prior to cloudTP, Mr. Coughlin was Vice President, Portfolio & Innovation for Siemens where he was responsible for both internal and external innovation activities. This encompassed customer innovation activities, service delivery strategy, enterprise architecture, technical R&D, engineering and the management of SIS' service roadmaps.  As part of his role, he worked extensively in developing the next generation services for Siemens in the areas of Cloud Computing, Virtualization and End User Workplace Services. Mr. Coughlin brings deep industry experience in deploying technical and business solutions to corporate enterprises.

Erik Sebesta, Chief Architect and Technology Officer, cloudTP

As Chief Architect and Technology Officer, Mr. Sebesta helps enterprise customers begin and complete enterprise-wide transformations to cloud-based solutions. He facilitates sessions to derive a strategic roadmap of prioritized initiatives, well balanced with the organization's capacity to achieve them. From his recent entrepreneurial endeavors, he separates the true benefits from the hype of cloud computing.  Prior to cloudTP, Mr. Sebesta spent over 16 years with Cambridge Technology Partners as the National Principal Architect.  In this role, Mr. Sebesta led successful projects with distributed teams working across several continents and rolled out solutions to hundreds of thousands of users. Mr. Sebesta also founded several web-based start-ups, leveraging cloud computing for significant cost-savings.

Wayne Nicholls, Senior NA GSI Manager, VMware

Wayne Nicholls has responsibility for the recruitment and enablement of a select group of vFabric Systems Integrators who will work closely with VMware and their clients to achieve success with their cloud-based initiatives. In his role as Senior SI Manager, Mr. Nicholls is focused on building partnerships that have not only strong core VMware infrastructure capabilities to enable the move to the cloud, but focus on those partners with the skills to build modern lightweight applications that are portable across multiple cloud environments. Prior to joining VMware, Mr. Nicholls held leadership roles at firms including BEA and TIBCO driving the development of Global Systems Integrator partnerships. In this capacity, he helped develop key customer satisfaction initiatives designed to ensure partners were closely aligned with engineering and professional services functions. This allowed partners to build skills quickly and effectively and deliver best of class solutions for their clients. He brings nearly 20 years of partner enablement and software solutions experience.

Michael Wood, Staff Systems Engineer, VMware

Michael Wood leads the global channels technical enablement efforts at VMware for the vFabric product division.  Over the past year Mr. Wood has circled the globe working with customers and partners on extending and improving their reach into cloud opportunities with leaner architectures designed to cut costs while improving agility, scalability and consolidation in cloud environments.  For the better part of nine years, Mr. Woods has operated as a Solutions Architect working with some of the world's largest companies on distributed system architectures, including AT&T, Dell and FedEx.

To Register:

http://www.cloudtp.com/migrating-applications-to-the-cloud-using-vfabric-webinar-registration

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About Cloud Technology Partners (cloudTP)

Based in Boston, MA, Cloud Technology Partners™ (cloudTP™) is the leader in providing cloud solutions that empower business transformation.  From strategic transformational consulting to application implementation, cloudTP™ provides enterprises with solutions to plan and execute migration of business processes, applications and customer data to private, public or hybrid clouds.  By doing this, companies are able to reduce costs, increase efficiencies, accelerate business growth and increase their competitive advantage.  For further information, please visit: www.cloudtp.com, email: [email protected], or call: (617) 674-0874.

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