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A Technical Introduction to Using enStratus to Manage Deployments on the Joyent Cloud

enStratus principal architect Jeff Hoffman and Joyent Cloud director of product marketing Alex Salkever presented this webinar on an introduction on using enStratus on the Joyent Cloud.  (62:02 minutes)



In this webinar, you will learn how you can take control of your cloud resources, minimize risk, increase efficiencies, and reduce cost by using enStratus to manage deployments on the Joyent Cloud. enStratus enables you to extend your enterprise governance policies into the cloud, providing consistent security, monitoring and automation controls.

You'll learn how to set up, deploy, and manage:

• Self-service provisioning
• Role-based security
• Budget and financial controls
• Automation of scaling, recovery and backups
  

Speakers
Jeff Hoffman, Principal Architect, enStratus
Alex Salkever, Director of Product Marketing, Joyent Cloud

Webinar: No Cloud Should Be An Island

enStratus delivered this webinar featuring Forrester Research, Inc. to discuss how to solve unique enterprise cloud management challenges.  (59:51 minutes)



During this webinar, you will learn how to ensure your public and private clouds are managed with consistent governance policies and automation controls across your hybrid clouds. You will also discover how to minimize risk, increase efficiencies, and reduce cost by integrating your internal policies and procedures—including existing monitoring and security systems—into your cloud.

Managing clouds individually creates operational islands that are difficult to scale and control. Once you add additional public or private clouds to your enterprise, and integrate them with your legacy IT operations environment, the problem becomes even more complex.

As enterprises continue to expand their public and private clouds, new management challenges are surfacing:

• How can your enterprise extend existing IT policies and procedures to your clouds?
• How can you manage your clouds with a unified management solution?
• What governance and security issues need to be addressed?
• How can your enterprise optimize its cloud operations?
• What existing legacy management systems need to be integrated into your clouds?
  
  

Speakers
James Staten, Vice President and Principal Analyst, Forrester
James Urquhart, Vice President of Product Strategy, enStratus

Webinar: Turbocharge Your Virtualized Infrastructure with Self-service Provisioning

Eucalyptus and enStratus partner in this webinar to discuss self-service automation and infrastructure as a service, the next step in automation and innovation using on-premise private cloud platforms.  (61:25 minutes)

We review how architecture and infrastructure groups can work together to best plan, pilot, and adopt cloud computing.

You’ll see a demonstration of self-service provisioning with automated security, budgeting and chargeback. You'll also hear enStratus and Eucalyptus demonstrate how to:

• Architect and automate self-service provisioning for enterprise deployments
• Implement governance to extend policies and procedures into the private cloud
• Create a blueprint for private cloud adoption

Speakers
Govind Rangasamy, Director, Product Management, Eucalyptus Systems
Greg Moselle, Cloud Product Manager, enStratus

Webinar: Enabling the Cloud for Telcos and Service Providers

We review how enStratus enables Telcos and Service Providers to move quickly to provide secure, reliable, scalable cloud infrastructure solutions to clients.  (35:59 minutes)

Learn how you can deploy a "white-label" cloud management solution that delivers provisioning, management, governance, security and automation for your private and public clouds with best-practices for your clients. We will discuss:

• Feature control and flexibility
• Key integration points - billing, incident mgmt, account synchronization, and your existing customer portal
• SSO options
• Deployment architecture
• Compute platform and storage platform integration
• Multi-location management

Speaker:
Jeff Hoffman, Senior Cloud Architect, enStratus

Webinar: Sneak Peek of the New enStratus Release

Major enhancements include automation catalog, new security features, and network management.  (35:34 minutes)

Learn more about the exciting upcoming release of enStratus which includes major enhancements in automation, security, and network management. This new release will be supported on all 17 private and public clouds that enStratus can manage and raises the bar for enterprise cloud management.

During this webinar, Jeff Hoffman, enStratus Senior Cloud Architect, will walk through the following new capabilities of the upcoming enStratus release.

• Automation catalog for deployments
• New QoS and SLA based automation processes
• Support for creating networks and subnets in clouds that support it
• Support for Amazon VPC
• Support for overlay networks with tools like VPNCubed
• Customizable UI for on-premise deployments
• SAML integration and single sign-on options
• Expanded language support including Spanish, Russian, and Simplified Chinese

Speaker:
Jeff Hoffman, Senior Cloud Architect, enStratus

Webinar: Private Cloud IT Service Management Case Study

Decrease Deployment Time, Increase Controls, and Reduce IT Service Management Backlogs   (49:51 minutes)

During this webinar, you will learn how you can:

• Leverage a private cloud with on-demand services and self-service UI
• Improve service levels on deploying new infrastructure
• Seamlessly manage environments with multiple hypervisors
• Incorporate role-based security
• Control VM sprawl and incorporate financial controls
• Automate scaling, recovery, backups and cloud bursting
• Deliver a unified management solution for private and public clouds

Speakers:

• Welcome - George Hadjiyanis, VP of Marketing, enStratus
  
• Customer Case Study - Tim Gerla, Senior Cloud Engineer, Eucalyptus Systems
  
• Demonstration - Jeff Hoffman, Senior Cloud Architect, enStratus
  
  

Webinar: How to Deliver Cloud Infrastructure Redundancy

(31:01 minutes)

During this webinar, enStratus Cloud Architect Greg Moselle and AWS Evangelist Jeff Barr will show how you can deliver the following in the Amazon Cloud:

• Instance redundancy
• Availability zone redundancy
• Region redundancy
• Automated recovery, scaling and backup processes

In addition, you will learn how to encrypt backups and store in a separate cloud account or on-premise to prepare for any disaster recovery requirements.

Speakers:

Greg Moselle is a Senior Cloud Architect at enStratus. Greg is a former Naval Officer who prior to coming to enStratus worked for 3 years as a Project Manager for information technology projects and nuclear submarine maintenance in the Department of Defense. He holds a security clearance and an M.S. in Electrical Engineering from the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, CA.

Jeff Barr is a Senior Web Services Evangelist for Amazon Web Services. He is focused on furthering awareness among software developers of the opportunity to innovate and build businesses using Amazon Web Services. In this role, Jeff travels, speaks, blogs, and conducts virtual events. Jeff has held development and management positions at Microsoft, KnowNow, eByz, and Akopia and was a co-founder of Visix Software.

Webinar: Security, Control and Automation for Private and Public Clouds

(37:46 minutes)

During this webinar you will learn best-practices in security, controls and automation across all leading public and private clouds including Rackspace and Cloud.com.

Learn the latest about managing and governing your clouds:

• Apply security policies into your public cloud
• Key management and encryption
• Role-based security and LDAP/Active Directory integration
• Set budgets and financial controls
• Incorporate auto-scaling, automated recovery and automated backups
• Manage hybrid clouds from a unified solution

Speaker:

Jeff Hoffman, enStratus Cloud Architect

Webinar: Security and Automation for Your Public Cloud

A CloudSigma and enStratus Webinar

Public Clouds provide an efficient, scalable way to meet the ever-changing IT infrastructure for your company. But how can you ensure your security policies are met? What automation is available to match your infrastructure to the demand of the business to limit costs? How can you deploy applications in the cloud with the highest service levels?

CloudSigma and enStratus partnered to answer these questions.

During the webinar, you will learn how to:

• Apply security policies into your public cloud
• Key management and encryption
• Role-based security and LDAP/Active Directory integration
• Set budgets and financial controls
• Incorporate auto-scaling, automated recovery and automated backups
• Meet compliance requirements
• Manage hybrid clouds from a unified solution

Speaker:

Jeff Hoffman, enStratus Cloud Architect.

Webinar: Governance and Controls for Private and Hybrid Clouds

(44:38 minutes)

As private and hybrid clouds gain traction in the market, the ability to govern and manage those clouds become front and center. Eucalyptus and enStratus are partnering to deliver this free webinar to help you learn how to apply best-practices to your cloud infrastructure.

During the webinar, you will learn how to:

• Apply security policies into your private cloud
• Control VM sprawl within your private cloud
• Set budgets and financial controls
• Meet compliance requirements
• Manage hybrid clouds from a unified solution

Speakers:

Matt Reid, VP of Sales and Marketing of Eucalyptus, will introduce the concepts and challenges.
George Reese, Chief Technology Officer of enStratus, will review options and best-practices for applying governance and controls

Webinar: Cloud Security Best Practices

During this webinar, you will learn how to address the following concerns:

• How can I best manage my keys for the cloud?
  
• Can I encrypt my data?
  
• If lawyers subpoena my cloud provider, can they get access to my data?
  
• Can I have users with varying levels of access to my infrastructure?
  
• Is LDAP or SAML 2.0 supported?
  
• What auditing is available?

GoGrid and enStratus will answer these questions and more during this webinar. Also included will be a demonstration to show how to incorporate these practices into your GoGrid cloud infrastructure.

Webinar: Financial Controls in the Cloud

(18:52 minutes)

Are you concerned about tracking and controlling costs for your cloud infrastructure? Do you need to bill customers separately for the servers they are using? During this webinar, you will learn the latest capabilities for financial controls in public and private clouds.

• What are the latest trends in financial controls in the cloud?
  
• How can I set billing codes for tracking cloud infrastructure costs?
  
• Are there such things as hard and soft quote?
  
• Can I cap the spending by project or person?
  
• Can I only allow specific users to deploy infrastructure in the cloud?

Speaker:
Greg Moselle is a Senior Cloud Architect at enStratus. Greg is a former Naval Officer who prior to coming to enStratus worked for 3 years as a Project Manager for information technology projects and nuclear submarine maintenance in the Department of Defense. He holds a security clearance and an M.S. in Electrical Engineering from the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, CA.

Webinar: Demonstration of the Latest Release of enStratus

(27:32 minutes)

Cloud computing has great benefits including reduced costs, scalability and increased flexibility. With the latest release of enStratus, governance and controls for cloud infrastructures has been taken to the next level. enStratus has released a range of exciting new features for our customers in the area of user management and controls. During this webinar, you will see a demonstration of the new capabilities of the latest release of enStratus including the following:

• Role-based Security - Ability to assign users to one or more groups for discreet permissions for your cloud accounts.
• Financial Controls - Track by billing code for your internal or external customers.
• Firewall and Alerting Enhancements - To meet unique needs of customers, enStratus now provides configurable alert thresholds as well as alerting on any changes to firewall rules.
• SAML 2.0 Integration (Beta) - Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML) is an XML-based authentication and authorization standard. enStratus now supports SAML 2.0 integration which will allow companies to extend their security policies into cloud-deployed solutions.
• Staging Environment - enStratus has deployed a new staging environment for customers to test applications or review new enStratus features in a non-production environment.
  

Speaker:
Greg Moselle, enStratus Cloud Architect, will walk through a live demo and describe how you can best leverage these new features in your organization.

Webinar: Securing Public Cloud Infrastructures - Sponsored by Amazon Web Services

Public cloud computing has evolved into a mainstream approach for building out components of an IT infrastructure. Amazon Web Services and enStratus have teamed up for this webinar detailing how businesses moving into the cloud can understand the security issues in public cloud computing and how to secure a public cloud infrastructure.

Steve Riley from AWS and George Reese from enStratus will discuss common cloud security concerns and show you how to take advantage of the security features AWS and enStratus provide you to build a secure public cloud infrastructure.

Speakers
George Reese, O’Reilly cloud computing author and CTO for enStratus, a leading cloud management platform

Steve Riley, Sr. Technical Program Manager for Amazon Web Services