Unlocked: The hybrid cloud

Cloud is having a huge effect on how business operates. It’s helping organisations move from capex to opex buying models and enabling IT infrastructure to flex in line with business need. Cloud’s effect on cost efficiency is old news, it’s effect on applications is just taking off.

Public cloud has revolutionised resource provisioning and provided developers with on-demand computing resources – a game changer for application innovation. But not every application is created for multi-tenant, shared resource public clouds. That’s where hybrid cloud comes in – enabling businesses to combine public cloud with dedicated servers for high performance and security, or private cloud for on-demand elasticity in a controlled single tenant environment.

Join the Rackspace cloud experts as we explore the impact of hybrid cloud, and how developers and IT organisations can gain maximum benefit from it.

The morning session will cover:

• Considerations when adopting cloud into your technical & business strategy
• What is DevOps? Why should you care?
• Cloud-based application design – horizontal, modular, agile, parallel
• How companies have successfully applied cloud to their businesses

The afternoon session offers two “hands-on” workshops for you to put into practise what you learned in the morning. You’ll be working with the Rackspace cloud experts as they guide you step-by-step through an exercise designed to enhance your cloud knowledge. You can choose which workshop to attend, based on your learning objectives and current level of technical knowledge:

• Hands-on technical track: learn how to start building automation into your applications with tools like Chef, Puppet, Salt and Git. For those that want to get deep into the tech, using our APIs.
• Hands-on “cloud principles” track: design and deploy a simple three-tier cloud solution, suitable for hosting a blog, web application or CMS. For those that want to understand how the principles of cloud work in practise, using our control panel.

We would be delighted for you to join us. Please fill in the form to register your attendance, and feel free to register any colleagues that would also benefit from this event. Make sure to specify which hands-on session you’d like to attend in the afternoon.

If you have any further questions, please do not hesitate to contact us.

Agenda

Learn how to drive application innovation and IT efficiency with the hybrid cloud. Click here to register.