| Tuesday, February 14 |
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| 11:15 AM–12:15 PM |
Elasticity and scalability change the design of applications, but cloud computing forces additional changes in developer skills. This session will focus on how cloud computing and the rise of new platforms, like mobile and tablets, change how security, testing, application integration, and performance must be addressed.
This session will teach attendees how to incorporate the latest techniques in security, testing, performance and integration into their cloud-based apps. This knowledge will help them build more robust, scalable, and secure applications.
Speaker - Bernard Golden, CEO, HyperStratus 
Bernard Golden has been called a “cloud guru.” He is the CEO of HyperStratus, a Silicon Valley cloud computing consultancy which works with clients in the US and throughout the world. The firm's clients include Korea Telecom, Chunghwa Telecom, Pepsi, and BMC Software. HyperStratus provides cloud computing services in the areas of application security, system architecture and design, TCO analysis, and project implementation.
Bernard is the Cloud Computing Advisor for CIO Magazine. His blog has been called “brilliant and incisive” and is read by tens of thousands of people each month. His blog was named “Top 50 Cloud Computing Blog” by Sys-Con Media, a “20 Most Important Cloud Blog” by AlwaysOn Media, and in a recent poll by AppDynamics his was cited as the third most influential cloud computing blog. In a recent study, he was described as a Top 100 “Most Powerful Voice” in security. Bernard's writings on cloud computing have also been published by the New York Times and the Harvard Business Review.
Bernard is the author of Virtualization for Dummies, the most popular book on the subject ever published. He is also the co-author of Creating the Infrastructure for Cloud Computing (Intel Press, 2011). Bernard is a popular and engaging presenter, and has keynoted conferences from Moscow to Peru.
Speaker - James Urquhart, VP of Product Strategy, enStratus Networks, Inc.
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| 1:15 PM–2:15 PM |
So, what are the proper ways to design, build, and leverage cloud computing systems? What are the steps to success? What are the emerging best practices? How does SOA fit in? In this session we’ll answer these questions, and more, covering the right and wrong ways to leverage, design, and build cloud-based systems and infrastructure. Going beyond the hype, this includes advice from those currently in the trenches who make cloud computing work for the Global 2000 and government. The audience is anyone who will soon fight to make cloud computing work for their clients, employers, and/or investors, and need to knock it out of the park the first time.
Speaker - David Linthicum, CTO and Founder, Blue Mountain Labs 
As CTO of BML, David Linthicum focuses on emerging technology spaces and the industry's move toward cloud computing. Linthicum is a widely recognized technology thought leader who has appeared in InfoWorld, Intelligent Enterprise, and eBizq.net, covering SOA and enterprise computing topics. He is a regular columnist in Government Computer News, Cloud Computing Journal, SOA Journal and Align Journal, and is the editor of Virtualization Journal. In addition to daily communications, Linthicum is the author of 13 books on computing.
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| 2:30 PM–3:30 PM |
The science of complex systems, especially complex adaptive systems, has interesting implications to the increasingly granular, interconnected nature of applications in the cloud. Find out how the basic tenets of complex systems applies to cloud computing, including the importance of feedback loops, intelligent event handling and various forms of "learning" from failure. These concepts can be designed into your code, operations tools and processes, giving your applications and services the best chance of surviving in the "wild" of the future cloud-based service oriented world. Specific examples of these elements at work will be provided where possible.
Speaker - James Urquhart, VP of Product Strategy, enStratus Networks, Inc.
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| 3:45 PM–4:30 PM |
Building open and scalable IaaS clouds designed like AWS EC2 is an engineering challenge that goes way beyond the selection of a cloud OS. What are the general approaches, pitfalls, and methodologies? In this session, you will learn from someone who's built large, open and scalable clouds. We'll discuss network architectures, storage systems, next-generation SOA, design-for-failure, and more. Learn why high availability pairs are more trouble than they are worth. How is the move from enterprise computing to cloud computing shifting where the complexities lie? Understand how scale engineering is about solving complex problems with simple answers. Finally, we'll discuss how operational excellence is more about solving problems with creativity rather than processes.
Speaker - Randy Bias, Co-Founder and CTO, Cloudscaling 
Randy is the expert cloud providers like VMware, EngineYard, Internap, and GoGrid consult when they need help. His cloud strategy consulting firm, Cloudscaling, advises Fortune 500 companies like Kaiser Permanente with their internal cloud initiatives. He has driven innovations in infrastructure, IT, Operations, and 24×7 service delivery since 1990. He was the technical visionary on the executive team of GoGrid & ServePath, a major cloud computing provider. Prior to GoGrid, he built the world's first multi-cloud, multi-platform cloud management framework at CloudScale Networks, Inc. Randy is recognized as one of the top cloud bloggers and twitterers. The Cloudscaling blog has tens of thousands of page views every month. In addition to his contributions as a top cloud blogger, Randy's open licensing of the GoGrid API inspired many others to open license their cloud APIs including Sun Microsystems, Rackspace Cloud, and VMware's vCloud.
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