Accelerating Wharton's Public Cloud Adoption with Automation

Friday, November 03, 2017 | 8:00AM–8:50AM ET | Meeting Room 105A/B, 100 Level
Session Type: Breakout Session
Delivery Format: Industry and Campus-Led Session
Transitioning to the cloud can be a complex and challenging journey. If your staff is accustomed to managing and maintaining local data centers, they need to learn new skills, tools, and processes. This fireside chat will examine how the enterprise team in Wharton Computing is adopting new practices and philosophies in configuration management and automation to empower a successful cloud migration and reinvent itself for the future.

Outcomes:Identify the considerations for selecting the appropriate configuration management tool * Understand the challenges that system administrators face when adopting development skills * Learn how configuration management can aid in migrating local data center services and servers to the cloud

Presenters

  • Frank DiMuzio

    Emerging Technology Specialist, Red Hat, Inc.
  • Ka-Wing Tam

    Senior Systems Administrator , University of Pennsylvania