May 18th, 2009

@ Interop’s Enterprise Cloud Summit: Drew Bartkiewicz, The Hartford, Cloud Insurance

Session: Security, Risk, Legislation, and Compliance: Pandora’s New Box. 

Speakers:

Drew Bartkiewicz, Vice President of Cyber Risk and New Media Markets, The Hartford

Robert Parisi, SVP & National Technology, Network Risk & Telecommunications Practice Leader, FINPRO, Marsh USA

I happened to sit next to Drew this morning, and we chatted a little on what he’s doing at The Hartford.  Drew isn’t in IT.  He runs the business line that covers (insures) the cloud operators, and it sounds like, in the near future smart cloud consumers.  He mentioned a phenomenal month-to-month business growth, which makes me believe that not only is the cloud real, but operators are serious about protecting against business risk, for themselves and their customers.

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May 18th, 2009

@ Interop’s Enterprise Cloud Summit: Panel on Where can things go wrong?

Where Can Things Go Wrong?

Moderator: Greg Ness, Marketing Executive, Infoblox

Panelists:

  • Peter Coffee, Director, Platform Research, salesforce.com
  • Randy Rowland, General Manager, Managed Hosting & Cloud Computing Services, Terremark Worldwide, Inc.
  • Geva Perry, Founder, Thinking Out Cloud
  • Bill McGee, Vice President, Products and Technology, Third Brigade

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Tagged as: archives, Bill McGee, Geva Perry, Greg Ness, Infoblox, Interop, live coverage, Peter Coffee, Randy Rowland, SalesForce.com, Terremark, Third Brigade

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May 18th, 2009

@ Interop’s Enterprise Cloud Summit: Fireside Chat w/Amazon’s Werner Vogels

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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May 18th, 2009

@ Interop’s Enterprise Cloud Summit: Peter Laird, Tendril Networks, Cloud Offering Taxonomy

Session: Different strokes for different folks: a taxonomy of cloud offerings

Peter just left Oracle, was there via BEA, for Tendril Networks (startup).  Peter has done a lot of research, thinking, on cloud computing and related players.  We were handed a copy of his Cloud Vendor Taxonomy (May 2009 update).

Peter tells folks that as enterprise cloud computing advocates, need to have a definition (elevator speech).  Peter is going through a bunch of definitions he pulled from blogs, articles, quotes of fellow speakers. 

Calling out key controversial words  found in many definitions:

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May 18th, 2009

@ Interop’s Enterprise Cloud Summit: Paul Mockapetris, Nominium

How Did We Get Here? A Brief History of Cloud Computing, Paul Mockapetris, Chairman and Chief Scientist, Nominium, Inc.

History Lesson:

1. Packet Switching, 1960-62, build a communications network, and how does that survive a nuclear war (DoD funded).  How to organize networks for survivability, quick rebuild/reconfigure ==> decentralized network.  Packet-switching was invented 3 times, 3 places and for 3 different reasons.

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May 18th, 2009

@ Interop’s Enterprise Cloud Summit: Opening Remarks, Alistair Croll

“While clouds are awesome, they aren’t for everyone.  Better said, look different for enterprises versus startups.” After a bunch of housekeeping, Alistair is now talking cloud.  Starts with, Nick Carr’s Big Switch and electricity analogy.  (required reading for cloud speakers, apparently).

In discussing economics, talks about Moore’s Law and decreasing costs of bandwidth and storage.

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