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Challenge: Ensuring its database and application handles over 1 billion transactions a day Solution: ObjectRocket for MongoDB by Rackspace Join Ryan Ogle, CTO of Tinder, as he tells the story of how Tinder uses ObjectRocket™ by Rackspace to power over 1.7B matching and moment ratings per day. Learn how ObjectRocket provides Tinder with a highly available, infinitely scalable, database-as-a-service platform that allows the company to focus on innovating and growing its core business while leveraging Rackspace DBA experts to assist with database management and monitoring.

Medecision transformed their SaaS based Health Analytics platform by consolidating multiple footprints across multiple vendors into a single, geo-redundant environment. Medecision and Rackspace partnered together to create a highly complex network topology that includes MPLS links, Cisco Nexus switch fabric and site-to-site VPNs to deliver a highly redundant, mirrored set up that reduces the risk of downtime. Medecision is also one of Rackspace’s largest ObjectRocket (MongoDB) customers, using this NoSQL database as part of the backend to their SaaS solution. They offloaded all management to Rackspace so that their teams can focus on innovating for the future, rather than “keeping the lights on” in their infrastructure.

The cloud service delivery model is no longer an emerging, next-gen phenomenon: it is now an established IT deployment option not only for “cloud-native” start-ups but “traditional” businesses as well. However, with cloud maturity comes cloud complexity. Test/dev and PoC projects, as well as small-scale production environments work well in the “classic cloud” self-service, self-managed framework. But when that pilot project turns into a big money maker for your company, would you rather invest in personnel to run the business or hire/re-train IT staff to run the cloud infrastructure? The managed cloud approach offers a solution to this trade-off. In this presentation, Melanie Posey, Research Vice President for IaaS/Hosting and Managed Network Services will discuss the changing cloud consumption and deployment trends that contribute to heightened interest in the managed cloud approach which brings together next-generation technology innovation and a next-generation take on operations outsourcing/out-tasking. In this new era of business-led IT and digital business transformation “running the business” does not have to mean “running the cloud.”

Founded in 2005 with the goal of revolutionizing the sales process, DialSource has become a partner to a high profile list of customers that rely on their telephony and task automation software. As demand for their tools continued to grow, DialSource needed to find a partner that could not only manage their infrastructure, but also help them negotiate the scalability required to meet the growing demand for their SaaS applications. Joshua Tillman, CEO of DialSource, explains how the Rackspace portfolio of products and hands-on expertise provides DialSource with a highly competitive edge in the cloud telephony space by allowing them to pay attention to their customers, instead of their infrastructure.

In this workshop, Rackspace Digital and DevOps experts will:

• Introduce new Managed Cloud solution for Magento Ecommerce sites
• Discuss the major pitfalls/barriers to DevOps and how to overcome these challenges
• Demonstrate various real-world scenarios, including how to deploy the Magento Ecommerce platform, use the Rackspace DevOps UI, view New Relic data via the Control Panel, make changes using a Chef workflow, and push code to Magento
• Demonstrate app scaling on demand

In order to successfully leverage the benefits of cloud resources while meeting cloud security and compliance requirements, IT and business leaders should ask themselves the following questions:

• How is it possible to meet cloud security and compliance requirements?
• Can your organizations maintain control of sensitive data within the Rackspace offering?
• Will the use of this cloud service increase an organization’s exposure to data security breaches?
• How will this cloud service reduce your risk profile as it relates to customer information and intellectual property?
• Is it possible for Rackspace employees see or access your business data or provide access under subpoena to government agencies?

Join Scott as he discusses:

• Data encryption and key management fit into a broader security framework.
• Common myths of data encryption (the realities may surprise you).
• How we restrict access only to those who have appropriate user credentials and privilege.
• Flexible deployment models with Rackspace as well broader enterprise public, private or hybrid clouds environments.

Join Seburn Wilson as he walks through some of the most common mobility challenges that an organization faces as they are planning for and implementing new tools for Collaboration. With each addition of new tools and features there seems to be an even greater push to make anything available on any device. In this session we will be looking specifically at the latest set of features that is available within Office 365 to help ensure the perfect balance between device security and available anywhere solutions.

As businesses embrace cloud computing, IT must evaluate each cloud model. Private cloud is trusted, controlled, and reliable. Public cloud is simple, low cost, and flexible. Integrating the best of both has proven difficult in the past, but with Rackspace and EMC Hybrid Cloud just got simplified. EMC invites you to join our session to learn how the hybrid cloud option successfully unites the advantages of private and public clouds, giving you the best of both worlds.

Traditionally, you had to design for a focus on scalability or security in the cloud, but not both. Now with services that connect virtual and real computers together, you can achieve cloud scale while satisfying the most stringent security requirements. Join this breakout to learn:

• Top reasons why people choose the cloud
• Top reason why people think the cloud isn’t the best fit for them
• What scaling is and how you do it
• How the hybrid cloud helps scale AND secure your application
• How you build a hybrid cloud environment

Modern IT organizations are transforming themselves to become true partners to the business, and are permanently addressing the issue of “shadow IT.” Through a combination of brokered services from external providers and internal services delivered in a timely manner, they are acting more akin to “service innovators” as opposed to “system operators.” By adopting a service provider model, Central IT can ensure that consistent levels of governance, security and accountability are met, achieve faster time-to-delivery, offer higher levels of service, and enable greater clarity in costs through charge-back/show-back to business units. Join this strategic discussion that is transforming many IT organizations.

NoSQL technologies have seen explosive growth over the last few years and show no signs of slowing down. In this break-out session you will receive information on scaling with NoSQL database technologies with a primary emphasis on MongoDB – the fastest growing NoSQL variant for document stores. We will discuss different ways to scale, look at some of the inherent things that can help or hinder scaling, give specific tips for scaling effectively with MongoDB, talk about sharding, review benchmarking options, and present some of the gotchas to avoid along the way. You will walk away with specific scaling tips from a DevOps and DBA point of view.

Security continues to be a major concern for enterprises moving their applications from their existing datacenters to cloud environments. From the network engineer to the CISO: data security, stability, availability and access management all become topics to address when considering possible risks to those applications. Learn how F5 addresses those security risks from your existing datacenters to the cloud, including guidance on DNS Security, DDoS Mitigation, Identity Access Management and Context-Aware Web Security.

Join this session to hear from two industry leaders with deep expertise in transforming the way customers build, deliver and consume IT resources. Learn how VMware’s cloud solutions combined with Rackspace Fanatical Support deliver tangible value through reduced costs and concierge IT. Together we help customers of all sizes reduce complexity, increase business agility and ensure freedom of choice as they transition to IT as a service.