The cloud offers retailers the ability to provide a better customer experience (analytics to make sense of buying trends, real-time inventory management, edge solutions for real-time mobile experiences). But moving mission-critical workloads to take advantage of these possibilities can be a nightmare. In this talk, we’ll look at how it IS possible to quickly move, complex workloads to the cloud while still getting the fast performance that shoppers demand.

Derek Swanson
Chief Technology Officer - Silk
Improve Customer Experience with Mission-Critical Workloads on the Cloud
About Derek Swanson
Derek Swanson is the CTO of Silk. He has 20 years of experience as a technology evangelist, systems architect, and data systems engineer. At Silk, he manages the worldwide sales engineering organization and is the senior customer-facing technologist and product evangelist in the organization. Prior to Silk, Derek has had a successful career at Sorenson, Coda Communications, and Unisys. He holds a Bachelors in Political Science and Government from Brigham Young University.