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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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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