Alistair Croll is interviewing Amitabh Srivastava, Senior Vice President, Windows Azure, Microsoft. Amitabh is responsible for Azure, his background is core O/S. Once again, I’ve captured some, but not all of the conversation.
AC: Are you faced now with open cloud/closed cloud dilemma?
AS: Big advantage in cloud is centralized control. Cloud provider picks the hardware, don’t have to worry about accommodating old equipment and software. This control and homogeneity drives down the cost. However, still want to build a very general purpose platform. Microsoft views cloud as extension of enterprise. Developer can choose how to write the apps for the 3 screens – pc, phone, tv – in the environment that makes most sense. We are still 5 minutes into the first quarter of cloud.
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Alistair Croll is “interviewing” Lew Moorman, CSO, of Rackspace. I’ve captured some, but not all, of the conversation.
AC: From your recent filing, you have 62,078 servers. 69% are cloud. Rest are managed. What’s the difference?
LM: Cloud is set of technology about pooling and automated software. Cloud makes shared environments robust and reliable. Previously, in a shared environment, if someone else burst, everyone else loses.
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Paying for It: Cloud Costs and Billing Models
Moderator:
Allan Leinwand, Venture Partner, Panorama Capital
Speakers:
- Thorsten von Eicken, CTO and Founder, Rightscale
- Grace Kim, Sr. Manager, Marketing, WebEx (Cisco)
- Jesse Robbins, Co-Founder and CEO, Opscode
- Richard Dym, Chief Marketing Officer, OpSource
Allan Leinwand opens with telecommunications innovation story, how “friends and family” plan broke AT&T’s monopoly and points out that “friends and family” is back now in cell phones. As such, he sub-heads the panel as “Why Pricing Matters”.
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Alistair Croll is “interviewing” Werner Vogels in Fireside chat. Some of the conversation points:
AC: Where all are the enterprise use cases?
WV: Talks about enterprise IT challenges – thousands of enterprise application, cost, time to value. Then, potential cloud benefits: cost, agility. Says enterprises are doing small, or quiet, pilots right now. Will we hear more in the future? Yes, but it is early.
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Session Abstract: “It used to be that you could see the business, touch the bricks, sample the product and the biggest problem with holding a meeting was finding a free boardroom. The first decade of the 21st century has been about enterprises dissipating, virtualizing and breaking into widely spread parts. As the enterprise fragmented geographically (even into the home) the first parts of traditional operations that vanished were the face-to-face meetings and the printed, hand delivered memos. The tools that supported this first step mainly dealt with the small, seemingly unimportant parts of an enterprise’s operations that nobody really noticed going away. As we move to the next decade, the big things are disappearing. A data-center is not a rounding error in a budget — it can now be removed from the balance sheet entirely. Cloud IT infrastructure now can take on many forms – internal clouds, public clouds and hybrid clouds. Companies like Joyent are enabling this second was wave of enterprise virtualization and making all three cloud scenarios a reality! Over the next ?? minutes we will explain what is making this flexibility possible and how you can leverage this evolution to gain agility, flexibility and capability in an open, loving cloud.”
Rod Boothby is VP of Business Development for Joyent. Joyent has a public cloud offering, joyent.com as well as software (cloud control) for organizations to manage private clouds.
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Abstract: “We all saw the recent headline: “Obama Inauguration Brings BBC and CNN to a standstill”. In these hard economic times companies are increasingly relying on the Web as their main sales channel. Its use has moved from a convenient option to something endemic. Expectations for reliability (availability & speed) have become much higher. We want the latest updates and headlines, the best sources, and the most answers in the shortest time possible, and with the least amount effort and constraint. Amazon recently estimated that 100ms of latency cost them 1% of their book sales. As such, Web performance has become the new customer service.
Understanding what the user experience will be before you "go live" is more and more critical. Performance or stress testing is no longer an option, it’s an imperative. In this session we will discuss the value of Cloud Testing and real world case studies of customers using it to ensure Web reliability and performance.”
Tom Lounibos is the President and CEO of SOASTA, the company behind CloudTest.
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