March 8th, 2011

@ Cloud Connect 2011

Today and tomorrow I’ll be blogging from Cloud Connect 2011 in Santa Clara.  There are tracks on Cloud Economics, Security, Culture, Risk and Governance, Data & Storage, Design Patterns, DevOps, Performance and Monitoring, and (surprise) Private Cloud.  Last year, “private cloud” was more of a slur, than a strategy.  Nice to see the embrace of a common enterprise adoption strategy (or step path).

I’ll be attending a variety of sessions, taking some briefings and connecting with my cloud friends.  Follow my coverage here on elemental cloud computing and twitter.  The conference tag is #ccevent

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March 20th, 2010

David Linthicum’s Cloud Computing Podcast: Dave and Brenda talk Cloud Connect

On Friday, David Linthicum invited me on his cloud computing podcast to chat about what we heard, and didn’t hear, at the Cloud Connect conference.  Naturally, our discussion wound its way to the connections of cloud computing, enterprise architecture, service-oriented architecture and data architecture.

Our podcast is Picking Apart Cloud Connect.  Check it out.

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March 17th, 2010

Cloud Connect Related Announcements

As a few of discussed on Twitter last week, there are a dizzying number of cloud computing announcements coinciding with Cloud Connect this week.  Here’s the starter list:

Appistry Addresses Hadoop "Elephant in the Room"

Appistry Announces CloudIQ Storage: A Smarter Approach to Storage for Data-Centric Applications

RightScale Boosts Enterprise Capabilities in its Leading Cloud Management Platform

RightScale Launches One Million Servers in the Cloud

newScale Announces Support for the Cisco Unified Computing System

IBM Extends Development and Test to the IBM Cloud

SOASTA and Enomaly Team to Deliver Cloud Scalability

Eucalyptus Private Cloud Software Integrates with SAN Networks

AppDynamics Now Offers Software-as-a-Service Delivery Option for Application Performance Management

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March 17th, 2010

@ Cloud Connect: Public, Private, or Hybrid: Where’s the Value Today and Where’s It Going?

Public, Private, or Hybrid: Where’s the Value Today and Where’s It Going?

There’s no doubt that virtualization, automation, and service-centric architectures lead to cost efficiency and more agile information technology. But there are many ways to deploy clouds: Privately, atop on-premise hardware behind enterprise firewalls; publicly, through third-party service providers; or in a hybrid, blended model that leverages the best of both worlds. Which of these is right today? Why, and will this change? Join this panel for a look at the sweet spot of clouds and how utility computing will evolve in coming years.

Moderator – Vanessa Alvarez, Industry Analyst, Enterprise Infrastructure, Frost & Sullivan

Panelists:

  • Joseph Ziskin, Vice President, Strategy, IBM
  • James Watters, Sr. Manager Cloud Solutions, VMWare
  • Sailesh Yellumahanti, Director, Service Provider Practice, Cisco Internet Business Solutions Group
  • Valerie Knafo, Senior Manager, Business Development, Dell, DCS
  • Scott McClellan, Vice President & Chief Technologist, Cloud Services, Hewlett-Packard Company
  • Jinesh Varia, Amazon AWS Tech Evangelist

Opening statements

Joseph Ziskin, IBM: Setting context from IBM point of view, Joseph reminds us, no enterprise will move the entirety of their service delivery to “the cloud”.   more >>

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March 17th, 2010

@ Cloud Connect: The Surprising Economics of the Cloud

Session title: Cloudonomics: The Surprising Economics of the Cloud

Session abstract: What’s the math behind cloud computing? In this opening session, Joe Weinman — who coined the term "Cloudonomics" and writes and researches the economics of on-demand IT — will discuss the inevitability of cloud computing, review his analysis of elastic computing and offer some counterintuitive insights into valuing the cloud.  Bernard Golden — CEO of Hyperstratus — will provide nuanced insights into cloudonomics using some real world examples.

Speaker – Joe Weinman, Strategy and Business Development VP, Author, AT&T

Speaker – Bernard Golden, CEO, HyperStratus

Joe Weinman opened the session with the most important question, Why do Cloud?  In the why, he was referring to the hard economic value of doing cloud.  Not cloud computing for technology innovation or patents, but for economic benefits. 

Before delving into the cloudonomics, Joe walked through some definitions of cloud computing, including NIST, but then settled on something simple.  Cloud is Common, Location Independent, Online, Utility, on-Demand.  He contrasted this with another definition, Vapor = Virtualized, Automated, Provisioning, of Resources.  In Joe’s opinion, a complete private cloud implementation is ‘vapor’. 

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March 16th, 2010

@ Cloud Connect: Tuesday Morning 10 Minute Keynotes

This week, I’ve taken my cloud watching on the road to Silicon Valley for the Cloud Connect conference.  The program starts on Tuesday morning with 3 hours of keynotes and general sessions.  The following “industry visionaries” are scheduled to “discuss the growth and future of cloud computing.” 

  • Adam Gross, Senior Vice President, Marketing and Sales, Dropbox
  • Guy Rosen, CEO, Vircado and Blogger, JackOfAllClouds.com
  • Dan Elron, Managing Partner, Technology Strategy, Accenture
  • Alistair Croll, Co-Founder, Bitcurrent
  • Chris McGarry, Co-Founder and CEO, Omnetic
  • Jas Dhillon, General Manager Evidence.Com and TASER Virtual Systems; Chief Strategy Officer, TASER International, TASER International
  • Bob Flores, Founder and President, Applicology, Inc.and Former CTO of the CIA
  • Matt Thompson, West Region General Manager, Developer & Platform Evangelism, Microsoft
  • Mark Prichard, Senior Principal Product Manager, Java Platforrm Group, Oracle
  • Vijay Bhagavath, U.S. Equity Research, Deutsche Bank Securities Inc.
  • Rodney Joffe, Senior Vice President, and Senior Technologist, Neustar
  • Scott Chasin, CTO, McAfee Software-as-a-Service
  • Darren Feher, CEO, Conviva and Former CTO for NBC

First up, with a quick introduction is Alistair Croll, the Cloud Connect content program chair.  Alistair says “cloud computing is the fuel for the next level of human consciousness.  Cloud Computing is the gray matter for human 2.0.”

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