Dave Linthicum is up now.  He says his purpose is to be a curmudgeon.  So, we’ll see how that goes.  He’s talking about the relationships between enterprise architecture, service-oriented architecture and cloud computing.

He warns us that this presentation is relevant for this instance in time.  In six months, this will change because cloud computing is rapidly evolving.

SOA & Cloud Computing

"The trick is to determine which services, information, and processes are good candidates to reside in the clouds, as well as which cloud services should be abstracted within the existing or emerging SOA."

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David Bernstein, VP/GM Software Group, Cisco on fundamentals of cloud interoperability and standards.  Echoes Russ Daniels’ statement that "The cloud is the internet’s next stage of evolution".  Says pay attention to what google and microsoft are saying and doing in cloud space.

What is Cisco doing?

Cisco doesn’t run a cloud.  Does run a SaaS application, WebEx.  Cisco has helped a lot of people build a lot of infrastructure.  Cisco is ‘arms dealer’ in cloud computing.

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The strong cloud computing summit line-up continues after lunch with Jinesh Varia, Technology Evangelist, Amazon Web Services, Amazon.

What do large enterprises like about Cloud Computing?

Bit of a Nick Carr segue, businesses used to produce own electricity but didn’t add value to end product.  Same can be said of computing power.  Don’t need to generate computing power, and can get better economics and scale with external provider

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Now, Russ Daniels, VP & CTO, Cloud Services Strategy, Hewlett Packard.  Some Cloud capabilities have been previously discussed (in industry) as utility computing. 

More interesting, from Russ’s perspective: "The cloud is the internet’s next stage of evolution".

The cloud is great for connecting.  It’s more than an alternative delivery system.  Connecting people to people, people to experiences, data to context & location, businesses to customers and businesses to businesses.

"Experience is a never ending stream of events." 

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Now, Peter Coffee from salesforce.com is up.  He believes that "Enterprise cloud computing implies API leverage".  Start conversation with the function you want to perform, not the underlying technology.

Salesforce cloud began with CRM… Fundamental ideas: enterprise software accessible via web, web-based systems should be designed for global scale, everything not distinct to customer should be shared, everything distinct to customer should be customizable

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First up, Lauren States, VP of Cloud Computing, IBM Software Group, on the Next Era of Cloud Computing — Enabling Growth & Innovation.

Lauren begins with Smarter planet, the world is changing, becoming smarter and more instrumented, interconnected and intelligent. 

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