The mission of the Online Gaming High Scalability special interest group is promoting technical advancements to build and operate bigger, better and faster online gaming systems.

The first meeting of this Online Gaming High Scalability SIG will be on the 9th of July 2009 in central London, starting at 10 AM and finishing around 5PM.

The main topic of this meeting will be potentials for using cloud and grid technologies in online gaming systems. In addition to experience reports from the community, we have invited some of the leading cloud experts in the UK to discuss the benefits such as resource elasticity and challenges such as storage and security that companies from other industries have experienced. We will have a track for IT managers focused on business opportunities and issues and a track for architects and developers more focused on implementation issues.

The event is free but up-front registration is required for capacity planning, so please let us know you are planning to attend in advance! Please register at: http://tinyurl.com/nrt3uc

EVENT DETAILS WHO:Alexis Richardson - Gojko Adzic - Alan Williamson - Chris Purrington - Nicola Cardace - Brian Oliver - Matthew Fowler - Darren Hudson - Mike Stolz - James Liddle - Tony Garnock-Jones - WHAT:Online Gaming High Scalability Special Interest Group 09-07-09 WHERE:Old Sessions House (Skills Matter), London WHEN:09 Jul 2009 Starts at 10:00 COST: FREE for registered participants. Please register here: http://tinyurl.com/nrt3uc

PROGRAMME:

WOULD YOU BET ON THE CLOUD? - ALEXIS RICHARDSON Alexis Richardson presents on which businesses are on the cloud and why? When should you look at cloud services and what's the payoff? more...

CASINO IN THE CLOUDS - GOJKO ADZIC Gojko Adzic presents an experience report from a recent online gaming project involving an extensive use of cloud and grid technologies. more...

CLOUDS FROM THE GROUND UP - ALAN WILLIAMSON Alan Williamson will help to show how the marketing hype coming from various cloud infrastructure providers maps to the reality. more...

SECURITY ISSUES IN THE CLOUD - CHRIS PURRINGTON Chris Purrington discusses security challenges for cloud deployments and presents VPN Cubed. more...

TRANSACTION PROCESSING AND DATA MINING IN THE CLOUD - NICOLA CARDACE Transaction processing and data mining in the cloud

BETTING ON DATA GRIDS - BRIAN OLIVER Brian Oliver will discuss betting on data grids.

AS FAST AS THE GRID, AS SAFE AS A DATABASE - MATTHEW FOWLER Matthew Fowler looks at the persistence issues on computing clouds.

GOING THE EXTRA MILE - DARREN HUDSON Darren Hudson and Mike Stolz present on how the combination of an Enterprise Data Fabric inside the firewall and Push Technology for delivery over the Internet ("the last mile") can effectively address the problem of lower end-to-end latency and turn it in to competitive advantage.

THE SPACE-BASED GAMING ADVANTAGE - JAMES LIDDLE This session Jim Liddle will explore, technically, how GigaSpaces Space Based Architecture brings technical benefits that give a specific advantage to gaming application. more...

ACHIEVING SCALE WITH MESSAGING AND THE CLOUD - TONY GARNOCK-JONES Tony Garnock presents on achieving scale with messaging and the cloud

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