Live Webcast, Thursday, Jan 13th, 1PM ET / 10AM PT

Join this webcast and be the first to hear Forrester release its survey findings and learn how they will impact your business and your cloud deployment strategy.

With the rapid rise in adoption of SaaS and the cloud, enterprises need to know how IT infrastructures are impacted, how the cloud affects IT’s role in security and identity and how to integrate internal IT with externally delivered cloud services. Understanding the key issues, challenges, and trends surrounding cloud computing will enable your business to devise a strategy to leverage the break through capabilities that cloud introduces. This webcast will cover 2011 Forrester survey findings concerning key issues, challenges, and surprises with cloud computing for enterprises answering:

• How companies are using the cloud to address IT challenges and to what extent
• The real market size of cloud computing and how the different markets will evolve
• How is the cloud changing IT roles and the governance processes
• How cloud offerings such as compute, storage, or platform-as-a-service fit into your future
• Recommendations to integrate internal IT with externally provided cloud services
• Security and risk barriers to cloud adoption and how to overcome them

Also join this webcast and learn about the latest trends in securing SaaS, public and private clouds with identity management industry expert Eric Olden, Founder and CEO of Symplified. Learn best practices and reference architecture for federation, access controls, compliance, auditing and provisioning.

Who Should Attend?

Developers, IT Architects, CIO’s and other IT professionals including SaaS Administrators, concerned with moving their infrastructure to the cloud

About Eric Olden

Eric has over 15 years of industry experience and was the market pioneer for Web Access Management and User Provisioning with the industry leading ClearTrust product. A staunch believer in standards, Eric co-authored AuthXML and negotiated its combination with Netegrity’s S2ML to create Oasis’ SAML standard. Eric has been published in several technical journals and is a regular speaker at industry events.

About Holger Kisker, Ph.D and Senior Forrester Analyst

Holger serves tech industry Vendor Strategy professionals in predicting and quantifying tech industry disruptions. Holger includes in his research all application software such as ERP, CRM, SCM, BI, and industry-specific applications. With 12-plus years of deep industry expertise, Holger publishes and consults vendors on all aspects for a successful strategy.

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