Building the right infrastructure that can scale up or down at a moment's
notice - the very essence of Cloud Computing - has become ever more crucial
in today's challenging business landscape.
But it can be a complicated and expensive task, which is why we're pleased to
have the Chief Technology Officer of Amazon.com, Dr. Werner Vogels, give the
Opening Keynote at the 2nd International Cloud Computing Conference & Expo,
being held March 30-April 1, 2009.
Join us in New York City to hear first-hand about Infrastructure as a Service
and the lessons Amazon.com learned from building one of the world's largest
distributed systems.
Dr Vogels will explore the many challenges of building a reliable, flexible
architecture that can manage unpredictable behaviors of today's internet
business. The main focus of his keynote session will be state management -
one of the dominatin... (more)
Loni Stark, group manager for Government Solutions at Adobe Systems
Incorporated, recently interviewed with Focus Washington TechView to discuss
the emergence of social media in government and how agencies are leveraging
newer technologies, such as Twitter and Facebook, with positive returns.
Social media has illustrated government agencies can interact with citizens
in a more engaging manner versus the traditional perception of "cold,"
impersonal processes, Stark explained.
A significant opportunity for agencies, she continued, is learning how to
take lessons from social medi... (more)
SYS-CON Events announced today that Call for Papers for the 2nd International
Cloud Expo Europe is now open, which will take place this summer in Prague,
Czech Republic.
Cloud Expo is the world's leading Cloud-focused event and is held five times
a year, in New York City, Silicon Valley, Prague, Tokyo and Hong Kong.
Over 200 corporate sponsors and 10,000 industry professionals became part of
Cloud Expo since its inception, more than all other Cloud-related events put
together worldwide.
Cloud Expo Europe 2009 in Prague: Themes & Topics
Cloud Experts Head to Prague for Cloud Expo ... (more)
A brand new online magazine, Cloud Interoperability Magazine, has been
launched by the Cloud Computing Interoperability Forum using the all-new
Ulitzer publishing platform. The Forum, a group of industry stakeholders that
are active in cloud computing, now has its online home at
cloudinterop.ulitzer.com - and the magazine, edited by Cloud thought leader
and activist Reuven Cohen, demonstrates very well indeed the power and
ease-of-use of Ulitzer.
The new magazine joins other brand new online magazines recently launched at
Ulitzer.com including MultiTouch Tech Journal, iPhone Dev... (more)
Cloud Computing Expo on Ulitzer
Many in the industry have heard of Hadoop, and in his session at Cloud
Computing Conference & Expo, Christophe Bisciglia, Co-Founder of Cloudera,
gets a little deeper. Hadoop is based on the same methods Google uses to
store and process petabytes of data, but thanks to contributions from many in
the open source community you can leverage these same methods to make sense
of every increasing volumes of enterprise data. Bisciglia will highlight the
technical and business issues that make Hadoop so powerful for large scale
data processing.
The 4th I... (more)