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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December 9th, 2009

@ Gartner AADI: Mastermind Interview on Event Processing – Roy Schulte & Mani Chandy

Cross posted from elemental links.  Commentary on Event Processing and Cloud Computing about midway through the post.  Personally, I see a big tie (opportunity) at the intersection.  I’ll share more on that another time.  Original post follows.

Session Abstract: Roy Schulte and Dr. Chandy released a new book on Event Processing in October 2009, aimed at business and system analysts, architects, application managers, CIOs, and technically-oriented business managers. This session will highlight the key points of the book and explain why and how mainstream IT departments will ramp their use of event processing up during the next ten years.

Dr. Chandy is the Simon Ramo Professor at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, California. He has received numerous awards including the CMG Michelson Award, the IEEE Kobayashi award, and the Babbage Award.

W. Roy Schulte is Vice President and Distinguished Analyst at Gartner. He was the lead author of the 1996 Gartner report that introduced the term SOA to the industry. Mr. Schulte originated the research in the field of message brokers, coined the term business activity monitoring (BAM), and wrote the first analyst reports on the zero-latency enterprise and the enterprise service bus (ESB).

Yesterday, Roy did a rapid-fire session on Event Processing.  more >>

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December 7th, 2009

@ Gartner AADI: Eric Knipp: Buckle Your Seatbelts: Web and Cloud AD Convergence Ahead

Session Abstract: Customers, prospects, and partners use the Web to connect to enterprise applications at an increasing rate, underscoring the need for high developer productivity that achieves superior time-to-market relative to rivals. Cloud computing provides a powerful combination of value and cost drivers, and a growing number of Web-facing enterprise applications will find a home there, heralding a new era in enterprise Web development and execution.

Key Issues:

  • What’s driving the convergence of Web and cloud AD, and what does the market offer today?
  • How will future enterprise-developed solutions be architected, and how will the software development life cycle evolve?
  • How should this be factored into near-term AD decisions on development environments, tools, methodologies and staff/skill planning?

Eric opens: By 2014, about a 1/3 of new web applications will be developed on platforms in the cloud.  Platform that is horizontally scalable, designed for multi-tenancy.

Drivers of this enterprise shift: developer productivity, time to market, cost of ownership.  more >>

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December 4th, 2009

Gartner AADI Next Week: SOA, Clouds, Events & Event Clouds

Next week, I’m attending Gartner’s Application Architecture, Development & Integration Conference (AADI) in Vegas.  I’ll be splitting my time amongst SOA, Cloud Computing and Event Processing sessions.  I haven’t built my agenda yet, but I’ll definitely be at the SOA Consortium end-user panels on Cloud Computing Use Cases and SOA Success Stories.

When possible, I’ll be blogging and tweeting from the sessions.  The conference twitter hashtag is #gartneraadi.

If you are attending and want to connect on SOA, Cloud Computing, SOA & Cloud Computing and/or Event Processing, please send me an email, or ping me on Twitter.

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