Open hybrid cloud: Have you thought of everything?

Building on the well-received analysts’ roundtable “Open hybrid cloud: when open really means open,” GigaOM Research and Red Hat continue the discussion with a deeper investigation into the benefits of an open cloud. Focusing on business cases, the conversation will center on hybrid clouds and why a company would want to maintain the flexibility to run its enterprise using both public and dedicated resources. Panelists will discuss the importance of scalability, portability, choice and other attributes that are must-have checklist items an organization should look for and expect in an open hybrid cloud.

In this webinar, we’ll discuss:

The importance of the right storage architecture in a hybrid environment
How open APIs can help users move across various cloud environments
How companies can leverage their existing IT and avoid creating new silos
Why community-driven innovation has become so important to cloud computing
Why maintaining choice by avoiding vendor-in is key to success, both today and in the future

Our panel of experts includes:

David Linthicum, CTO and founder, Blue Mountain Labs

Mike Kavis, chief technologist, Kavis Technology Consulting

Joe McKendrick, president and principal analyst, McKendrick & Associates

Gordon Haff, senior cloud strategy marketing and evangelism manager, Red Hat

Register here to join GigaOM Research and our sponsor Red Hat for “Open hybrid cloud: Have you thought of everything?” a free analyst roundtable webinar on Wednesday, Feb. 13, 2013, at 10 a.m. PT.