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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What Elasticity Really Means
Moderator:
Ian Rae, CEO, Syntenic
Speakers:
- Jon Beck, SVP Sales and Client Services, OpSource, Inc.
- Scott Clark, Director of Engineering Infrastructure, Broadcom
- Josh Litwin, President and CEO, Memento Press
- Geir Magnusson, Consulting Architect, Platform, Gilt
- Chad Swartz, Senior Manager, IT Operations, Preferred Hotel Group
Finally, some cloud computing practitioners, small business, enterprise, web retail and technology – Memento Press, Preferred Hotel Group, Gilt and Broadcom.
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This morning’s focus in on the business case for cloud computing, ROI & migration. "What’s the promise? Despite the downsides, there’s little doubt that on-demand computing services are the future of both consumer and enterprise IT.”
First up in a panel discussion: The Case for Cloud Infrastructure: On-Demand Economics
Moderator:
John Willis, Owner, Zabovo
Panelists:
- Paul Mockapetris, Chairman and Chief Scientist, Nominium, Inc.
- James Urquhart, Cisco, Technology Strategist, Data Center Solutions team
- Neil Cohen, Director of Product Marketing, Akamai
- Joe Weinman, Strategic Solution Sales, AT&T Signature Client Group
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This evening, we are at Cloud Camp. For background, check out this interview with Cloud Camp co-founder Dave Nielsen. Dave is also our host today.
The lightening rounds are done. For insights, search on twitter with either of these tags: #cloudcamp #cloudcampinterop
Now, Dave is building an un-panel session. He started with 5 empty chairs and no questions. Filled the chairs with folks who raised hands to “Folks that know a lot about cloud computing”. No one admitted expertise. Now, he’s asking the audience to build a list of 10 questions.
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