Live from the Accelerite User Summit 2017.

The Accelerite User Summit 2017 has kicked off this morning in Miami, Florida. The event has started with an introduction by Accelerite CEO, Nara Rajagoplan. Nara is currently discussing how Accelerite is Simplifying & Securing the Enterprise Infrastructure.

A brief overview of the Accelerite product portfolio:

• Sentient is complementing Radia to help secure the enterprise
• Rovius powered by CloudPlatform is simplifying enterprise private cloud deployment.
• ShareInsights provides a self-service tool for analysts running at rest Hadoop, Spark & Kafka
• Concert is bringing connected IoT to life

The User Summit is running through Thursday & Friday and we'll be posting updates throughout the event to this live blog as well as posting questions from the user groups to the community. If you are at the event or could not join us this year, please drop in your comments and responses to the questions in the community posts.

“Cloud in distributed research organisations: a case study” is now being presented by Christian Niephaus from Fraunhofer Gesellschaft.

Fraunhofer Gesellschaft is Europe’s largest organization for applied research with more than 24,000 employees in over 60 location throughout Germany.

Christian is sharing his experience in implementing a private cloud in a highly distributed organization. Primary reasons for implementing private cloud service based on CloudPlatform and CloudPortal Business Manager are,
To maintain data privacy
To provide flexibility to heterogeneous users with various workload requirements in geographically distributed locations.

We thank you Christian for sharing his insights with us today!

Marcelo Oliveira from Cable & Wireless Communications is presenting "Public Cloud Architecture" session.

Cable & Wireless Communications serving clients in Latin American & Caribbean region from variety of industry covering finance, education, healthcare, etc. Their public cloud service is built on Accelerite CloudPlatform, together with Accelerite Cloud Portal Business Manager, providing self-service portal to their customers.

Marcelo shared his insights on challenges on running public cloud service at scale.

Now lively Q&A session is under way.