ORACLE Invited Talk: Hosting Enterprise Solutions on the Cloud

Duration: 45 Minutes

21-Dec-2015 | 1415-1500 | Seminar Hall SEECS, NUST

IT world now fairly understands the buzz world of “cloud” in the IT enterprise ecosystem but professionals need to understand this further in its entirety to align IT strategy roadmap accordingly. Within an enterprise; one need a data center with over provisioned compute, storage, networking, different software (OS, Middleware, Integration, and Security), different industry solutions (CRM, ERP, Banking, Billing, Regulatory suites etc), enterprise monitoring tools, complete ecosystem for Power and cooling. And human resources to manage and operate it in the form of multi vendor services to ensure smooth operations to meet business demands.

Cloud model offers a new approach of computing provisioned on-demand over the internet where one only need to pay for what they use and for the time they are using it with elastic scalability and high availability. This cut downs capital investments and allow companies to invest time on new innovations rather spending all energies and resources on managing on-premise solutions. This new innovative models provides implicit scalability over compute, storage and all resources when there is stress asking for more resources.

We will see industry offerings and trends on cloud solutions namely big names like Oracle, Amazon, Soft Layer over Infrastructure as a service (IaaS), Platform as a Service (PaaS) and Software as a Service (SaaS) in public clouds portfolio as well as trends on private cloud to hybrid cloud offerings.

Speaker Biography
Mr. Atif Humayun is a lead architect working as Principle Consultant at Oracle Corporation with responsibilities to architect technological solutions for Telecommunication, Banking and Public sector in Pakistan and SAGE(W) countries. He works with companies to innovatively design strategic IT maturity roadmaps from infrastructure modernization, disaster preparedness, high availability, information security, governance, data management, industry solutions till cloud and big data solution adoption. He has been leading different solution areas including data management, data warehousing, enterprise integration, big data solutions and cloud solutions. His current focus of expertise is to enable industry on transforming their legacy IT ecosystem into state of the art IT ecosystem on cloud provisioned infrastructure over private, public and hybrid cloud models.
In early days of his career being software engineer; he architected and delivered a comprehensive Market Surveillance Suite (MSS). MSS was designed to offer real time monitoring and surveillance of all stock markets namely Karachi Stock Exchange, Lahore Stock Exchange, Islamabad Stock Exchange including other pillars of triangular financial market namely National Clearing Company of Pakistan and Central Depository Bank. This suite comprises of a stack of tools including data acquisition, data quality, alert management engine, benchmarking, market replay, legal case management, OLAP, Advanced Analytics providing BI at all tiers enabling effective regulatory framework in the country. The country apex regulator, Securities and Exchange Commission of Pakistan (SECP) is actively using this platform for country regulatory functions.
He has done his Pre-MBA from Harvard Business School in 2015. He received his Master degree in computer science from Quaid-i-Azam University, Pakistan in 2004. He obtained Bachelors degree in Computer Science and Mathematics from University of Peshawer in 2001.
He has been actively engaged in academics beside his professional life. He has been associated with Oracle University USA from 2007 to 2011 for on-demand corporate education consultancy in Pakistan, Malayisa, SriLanka, Dubai and Maldives in addition to his presence in several local universities as lecturer for computer programming and data management courses.