2011 Speaker List

We're hesitant about clouds. Enterprises have rolled out cloudy technology, but because they crave the reassuring hum of in-house machines, they aren't embracing the utility model of computing. Virtual Machines are a comfortable crutch, giving us a familiar unit of measure that's easy to understand. But this hesitation won't last. To truly go from computers to computing, we have to stop looking under the covers. True utility computing, charged by the workload and independent of individual components, is a scary -- but inevitable -- part of the cloud computing journey. In this session, we'll look at what this transition means, and what we'll lose along the way.

This workshop will feature vendors and end users discussing important issues around performance in on-demand environments.

Topics include:

• The Challenge of Cloud Performance
• Architectures for High-Performance Utility Computing
• Testing and Breaking Clouds
• How Ready is the Cloud? A look at real-world results
• The State of Cloud SLAs
• Instrumenting Applications When Access Goes Away
• Putting it all Together: When Big Metrics Mean Big Data
• Tools and Techniques for Performance Optimization
• What Users Want - What Vendors Have

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Need to get up to cloud speed in a hurry? This fast-paced, densely packed workshop will give you the foundation you need to understand where utility computing is headed. Join Bitcurrent analyst and Cloud Connect content chair Alistair Croll for a look at the fundamentals of on-demand infrastructure.

Cloud Computing is a major shift in IT. It's similar to the switch from circuit- to packet-based networking, or from procedural to object-oriented programming, or from mainframes to client-server models. As with those shifts, some IT professionals will thrive -- and others will become obsolete. Clouds rely on a new set of fundamentals: horizontal scaling, sharding, eventually consistent data systems, virtualization, and more. In this two-hour workshop, we'll cover these fundamentals and understand how they combine to give us today's cloud offerings.

Attendees will learn:

• The taxonomy of clouds, and practical ways to distinguish infrastructure, platform, and software-as-a-service models
• How to think about cloud adoption and plan a migration
• The design-for-failure model of cloud architectures
• Post-SQL storage and how it changes what can be deployed where
• Altering your monitoring and management strategy to include utility computing offerings
• Horizontal scaling and elasticity
• What changes when the machines are essentially free

This workshop is aimed at IT professionals who want a solid understanding of cloud issues and design primitives, but it's equally well suited to industry insiders, product managers, and technologists who want to see how to better explain cloud technology to their customers and peers.

  Cloud Connect Keynotes

Location: Theater
Tuesday, March 8, 2011, 9:00 AM-11:00 AM

Hear industry visionaries discuss the growth and future cloud computing.

  Cloud Connect Keynotes

Location: Theater
Wednesday, March 9, 2011, 9:00 AM-11:00 AM

Hear industry visionaries discuss the growth and future cloud computing.

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