Recently, one of VISI’s Solutions Architects, Johnny Hatch, was a panelist for a webinar hosted by FierceTelecom. Cloud Services was the focus of the webinar, as its panel of experts explored questions like:

•What are the compelling service provider cloud services strategies?
•What are the benefits of cloud services to businesses and consumers?
•Cloud service provider consolidation: What is the best strategy to grow your cloud business? Is it best to conduct targeted acquisition of other cloud providers or through organic growth? Or is it a combination of both approaches?
•What is the best strategy to create a profitable cloud-based Disaster Recovery/Continuity of Operations (DR/COOP) product?
•Public vs. Private clouds: What is the best strategy? Does it depend on particular customer’s needs?
•What is the best practice for storing and securing your valuable customer identity data?

To receive a copy of the webinar, please complete the form provided here.

Thank you to all who attended our webinar on partnering with ReliaCloud! We appreciate your interest in our cloud partner program.

You can find the slidedeck from today’s webinar below. Be sure to check out our other upcoming events as well!

Thank you to all who attended Wednesday’s webinar “Security and Reliability in the Cloud”. Jason Baker, CTO for ReliaCloud, and George Reese, CTO for enStratus, spoke about security concerns within the cloud computing environment.

As a special thank-you to those who have interest in the webinar, we are giving out a promotional code worth $100 on a new ReliaCloud account. Simply type SECURITY23 into the promotional code box upon registration to receive credit on your account. The credit must be entered by May 7, 2010 to be valid.

You can view PDFs of the slides by clicking the icons below.

If you’re looking to put enterprise applications into the cloud — you’ll want to check out enStratus’s cloud management solution. enStratus provides a cross-cloud management solution delivering governance for the cloud. What does that mean? It means you can utilize a third-party vendor (enStratus) to manage the cloud instances you deploy with national cloud providers (such as ReliaCloud, Rackspace and others). With enStratus, customers gain an additional layer of security, reliability and cloud independence.

Their latest release includes enhancements in the following areas:

• Role-based security
• Financial Controls
• Firewall and Alerting
• SAML 2.0 Integration (Beta)
• Staging Environment

You can read the full press release online at http://www.enstratus.com/NewReleaseWebinar.  You can also attend a webinar presented by enStratus on April 6th to learn more.

ReliaCloud and enStratus have teamed up to discuss how businesses moving into the cloud can understand the security issues in public cloud computing and how to best configure your cloud environment.  Hear from Jason Baker with ReliaCloud and George Reese from enStratus on how you can take advantage of the security features ReliaCloud and enStratus provide.

ReliaCloud Servers are deployed within a robust and resilient virtualization environment and architected to maximize uptime and performance.  enStratus operates outside of the ReliaCloud cloud, watching over its operations, and keeping your authentication and encryption credentials safe outside the cloud while encrypting the data inside the cloud both in transit and at rest.

Highlights include:

• Review of cloud computing and ReliaCloud
• Security, reliability and business continuity considerations
• Enforcing your IT policies and compliance in the cloud
• User management issues
• enStratus and ReliaCloud solution
• Evaluating potential applications for the cloud

The webinar will be held on April 7th, 2010 at 12:00pm CST.  Registration for the webinar is now open.

Please join ReliaCloud on February 23rd for a webinar in conjunction with the Open Health IT Exchange and 7 Medical Systems entitled “Collaborative Health IT ‘CHIT CHAT’”.

Topics covered include:

• Cloud computing delivery models (SaaS, IaaS, and PaaS)
• How on-demand solutions offer faster ROI compared to traditional, capital-intensive approaches
• How on-demand service providers are driving adoption of EMR, HIS, RIS, PACS, and teleradiology
• Safety, security, and reliability in the cloud
• Ways to evaluate a “cloud” vendor or service provider

Registration and more information can be found at http://www.ohitx.org/news/index.html.