March 31st, 2009

@ Cloud Computing Expo #9 Mike Hill (IBM)

Mike Hill, VP, IBM Cloud Services on How the CIO becomes a hero again:

‘Cloud Computing will have major impacts to the way in which IT is delivered from the data center to its many clients. For the CIO, this can be perceived as a threat to the way in which they manage data center capabilities. In reality, cloud computing offers a huge opportunity to the CIO who now has the capability to offer more responsive, scalable, and available IT services. This presentation provides a perspective on cloud computing’s future and illustrates how the CIO can appropriately leverage cloud to become the hero again.’

Cloud is culmination of capability, developed over 50 years, with a new intriguing business model.  IBM is embracing Cloud Computing.  Today’s talk on why CIOs should embrace it as well.

Interesting, Mike Hill was IBM’s CIO in the ‘90s, driving internal e-business initiatives.  So, he should get the challenges of IT.   more >>

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March 31st, 2009

@ Cloud Computing Expo #8 Kristof Kloeckner (IBM)

Kristof Kloeckner, IBM CTO, Enterprise Initiatives and Vice President Cloud Computing Platforms on Cloud Computing and the Enterprise:

“This presentation will draw on IBM’s experience working with customers and operating 13 cloud centers world wide to review the conditions under which cloud computing can deliver its promise of flexibility and cost savings in the delivery of IT services to the enterprise.

Kristof Kloeckner will discuss the importance of dynamic infrastructures and service management for both public and private clouds, cloud service life cycles and integration between public clouds and enterprise services. He will also talk about standards required for interoperability between clouds and application scenarios that demonstrate the use of cloud computing in an enterprise context for a smarter planet.”

Cloud Computing Delivery Models: Public, Private and everything in between:

“From consumer perspective, Public  clouds offer standardization, capital preservation, flexibility and time to deploy.  Private clouds offer customization, efficiency, availability, resiliency, security and privacy.  Choice will depend on organization, culture, and governance.”

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March 30th, 2009

@ Cloud Computing Expo #7 David Bressler Cloud Computing & Enterprise Application Architecture (Progress Software)

David Bressler, SOA & Cloud Evangelist for Progress Actional is up now, talking about the Impact of Cloud Computing on Enterprise Application Architecture:

“Cloud Computing will change enterprise consumption of IT, but challenges around data management, no longer “owned” by the individual application, pose a threat. These include: how to keep data accurate and in the right hands; how to add new sources; how to provide contextual information; and how to successfully drive this all into a business-users hands. In this session David Bressler, SOA Evangelist, Progress Software, will outline the “new enterprise app” vision where data relationships and their impact to the business process matter, and define best practices to ensure “safe” Cloud Computing that drives tangible business IT improvements.”

David promises to be entertaining, and since it’s now 7:00pm, I’m counting on it.

Punch line, turning commodities into utilities.

Cloud computing, culture of enterprise integration, will take a shot at defining cloud computing, then talk about some best practices.

“Integration is hard, by hard, I mean expensive”.  more >>

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March 30th, 2009

@ Cloud Computing Expo #6, The Cloud, the Rich Client & the Buckeye State

Introduced as “one of our more unusual sessions”.  Session abstract:

“State government a hotbed of technology innovation – huh? But that’s exactly right. The Ohio Dept of Transportation has harnessed extensive infrastructure (thousands of sensors, historical & police data, etc.) and cloud services to create a rich solution. Through a series of demos, this session will showcase for delegates how the Buckeye State has created a rich user experiences for residents, visitors and internal staff conducting detailed traffic analysis. In doing so, we will see how the IT team looked beyond just using cloud services, to combining with what’s on premise, and then becoming a supplier of these services to others. We will also share follow-up resources that attendees can review for further reference and follow-up, including access to code libraries, code snippets from the discussion. Join the two presenters and see for yourself the combination of on-premise & services in action.”

Session speakers are Brian H. Prince, an Architect Evangelist with Microsoft and Steve Milroy,a solution architect with OnTerra Systems.  The ODOT architect is home in Ohio, economy & travel restrictions.  Sound familiar?

The session is doing a demo of buckeye traffic, a publicly available site.   more >>

Tagged as: archives, CCExpo, live coverage, mapping, microsoft, Ohio, OnTerra, Virtual Earth

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March 30th, 2009

@ Cloud Computing Expo #5 Forbes.com in the Cloud

Jeff Bauer from Forbes.com starts by describing his business challenge: Make real-time quotes available the website, do it fast & cheap and the history of real-time quote availability and how the owners, availability and price of real-time data has changed overtime. 

Decided to use BATS exchange for real-time data, gave them access to streaming data, but the data was in a raw format.  Forbes didn’t have the infrastructure to transform the raw data into response to real-time stock quote requests.  Forbes is a publishing company, not a technology provider.

Forbes.com decided to partner with Xignite.   more >>

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March 30th, 2009

@ Cloud Computing Expo #4 Yousef A. Khalidi (Microsoft)

Microsoft’s Cloud Strategy. The speaker is “Yousef Khalidi is a Distinguished Engineer in the Windows Azure team at Microsoft. He is responsible for several aspects of the platform, centered on the goal of building a low-cost, automated, large-scale computing system, using commodity hardware, with efficiently managed shared resources.”

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