Talk Cloudy to Me!

Organiser
Silicon Valley Cloud Computing Group
Date
Sat, 30 Apr 2011, 20:00 - 22:00 (Add to calendar) GMT
Venue
(Exact location not available) , Mountain View, US
Cost
Free

This event is a collection of Cloud meetups on a Saturday afternoon

 

What will PaaS look like in 3 years?
Platforms-as-a-Service have come a long way since EngineYard started out. While they are maturing fast, they remain limited in giving users control. What will they look like 3 years from now?

  • Ezra Zygmuntowicz, VMware
  • Sid Anand, Netflix

 

Is your data being stored the wrong place?
The NoSQL wave has brought us many new options for storing our data, with each database specializing in one or more use cases. Come listen to Derek Collison, former Googler now at VMware, talk about different types of data and which database is best suited for it.

  • Derek Collison, VMware

 

Introducing Cloud in your organization
Come listen to Netflix rockstar Adrian Cockcroft talk about why and how to drive cloud computing in your organization, covering  re-org politics as well as practical transition techniques for developers.

  • Adrian Cockcroft, Netflix

 

Private Clouds aren't clouds

Should your organization use a public cloud like EC2 or Rackspace Cloud, or a private cloud like OpenStack or Nimbula? Don't miss this debate between heavy public cloud user Adrian Cockcroft and Chris Pinkham, founder of EC2 and of private cloud software company Nimbula.

  • Adrian Cockcroft, Netflix
  • Chris Pinkham, Nimbula

 

How can Cloud help Mobile?

Building a mobile app? Come listen to rockstar iOS developers Mike Mayo and Tim Burks talk about how the Cloud can help you build an app worthy of legend.

  • Mike Mayo, Rackspace iOS dev
  • Tim Burks, iOS meetup founder

 

What are public clouds still missing?

Public clouds, or IaaS, hasn't been around that long, and there are still plenty of things it needs to be a complete replacement of dedicated hardware. Come listen to heavy public cloud users Vladimir Giverts and John Schulty talk about what still is a pain in the IaaS!

 

  • Vladimir Giverts, MarsFog
  • Ken Robertson, Involver
  • John Schult, Vitrue

 

Hands on - How we built a real-time analytics solution on Azure 

Delivering live streaming video to hundreds of thousands of concurrent users is a challenge; providing real-time insight into quality, performance, availability is an occasionally painful learning experience.  Come listen to Mark Simms tear apart an Azure based analytics solution built by his team and share some of the ups and downs along the way.

 

  • Mark Simms

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