CLOUD & GRID EXCHANGE 2010 23-04-10
The Skills Matter Cloud & Grid eXchange offers an intensive day, packed with tutorials, bringing together the leading experts on scalability technologies on the Cloud, with London's enterprise development community for an informal day of deep technical insight and friendly discussion.
Delegates come along to gain an awareness of the latest ideas, technologies and best practices for the development of large, scalable low latency enterprise systems, using Cloud & Grid technologies.
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Read the tweets
Delegates provided feedback and updates throughout the day on Twitter using tag #cloudx.
@NeilRobbins tweeted "Back home after a great day at #Skillsmatter for #cloudx. Great talks, & met some interesting people."
@aberfoyle wrote "Another great presentation by Simon Wardley at #cloudx"
Thank you!
As with all Skills Matter eXchanges, we are trying to provide the community with an opportunity to learn and share ideas and experience at the lowest possible cost. We would therefore like to thank Oracle, our lead sponsors for their support to make this event happen! A big 'thanks' also to Russ Miles for working with our community and speakers on a great programme and all delegates from our community for joining us! Finally, we would also like to thank Canonical, Microsoft, OpenSplice, RabbitMQ, WiseClouds and CohesiveFT for providing world class speakers.
Podcasts of all the talks
Friday 23rd April 2010
Track 1
09:30-10:00 WELCOME MESSAGE
10:00-11:00 ENABLING CHOICE IN THE CLOUD
 Russ Miles: In an ideal world, every application could be deployed to any cloud. You could compare the SLAs and associated costs at deployment time, make your choice of which cloud services you grab from which vendor, and boom! have your app up and running. However there's nothing ideal in the current cloud market. This talk looks at the challenges from the developer and the cloud provider perspective. Find slides and podcast of this talk here.. View the podcast here...
11.00 - 11.15 TEA, COFFEE & REFRESHMENTS
11.15-12:00 BETTING ON DATA GRIDS
 Dave Felcey: Dave Felcey from Oracle gave an overview of Oracle Coherence and related technologies, like JRockit Real-Time JVM and discussed how they are being used to address some of the challenges their gaming customers face. View the podcast here...
12.00 - 13.00 LUNCH BREAK
13.00 - 13.45 USE CASES FOR CLOUD MESSAGING
 Alexis Richardson: In this talk, Alexis presented use cases for cloud messaging. What is messaging and why it is useful for cloud computing? This talk will answer these questions by way of illustrating use cases from RabbitMQ customers. View the podcast here...
13.45 - 14.00 TEA, COFFEE & REFRESHMENTS
Refreshments
14:00-14.45 LOOKING AT THE CLOUDS THROUGH DIRTY WINDOWS
 Eric Nelson: Many developers assume that the Microsoft Windows Azure Platform for Cloud Computing is only relevant if you develop solutions using Microsoft Visual Studio and the .NET Framework. The reality is somewhat different. In this talk we will take a lap around the services offered by the Azure PaaS and demonstrate just how easy it is to build and deploy applications built in .NET and other technologies. View the podcast here...
14.45 - 15.00 TEA, COFFEE & REFRESHMENTS
15.00 - 15.45 SITUATION NORMAL EVERYTHING MUST CHANGE
 Simon Wardley: In today’s computing world, it can often feel like we are drowning in wave after wave of new trends. This sea of concepts are simply the evolution of our industry from a product to a service based economy. We will examine the evolution of technology and why cloud is happening now, as well as the risks & benefits of cloud, the management challenges this brings and the common misconceptions. View the podcast here...
15.45 - 16.00 TEA, COFFEE & REFRESHMENTS
16.00 - 16.45 QUICK AND DIRTY PARALLEL PROCESSING ON THE CLOUD
 Daniel Sikar: Quick and dirty parallel processing on the cloud.
Daniel Sikar will demonstrate Hadoop MapReduce on Amazon EC2 and S3.
tags: #cloudx, Hadoop MapReduce, Hadoop MapReduce on Amazon, Amazon EC2, S3, EC2 and S3 View the podcast here...
16.45 - 17.00 TEA, COFFEE & REFRESHMENTS
17.00 - 17.45 OPENSPLICE DDS: THE HIGH PERFORMANCE MESSAGING FOR THE CLOUD
 Angelo Corsaro: When firms are considering deploying high performance distributed applications, such as trading, scientific computing on the cloud, they will need to provide for the required level of scalability, latency and throughput, whilst ensuring the technologies to achieve this can be easily accessed from outside the cloud. This talk demonstrates how to achieve this with OpenSplice DDS data distribution and data caching technology. View the podcast here...
17.45 - 18.00 TEA, COFFEE & REFRESHMENTS
18.00-18.45 READING THE MAGS: UNDERSTANDING THE MICROSOFT, AMAZON, GOOGLE, AND SALESFORCE PLATFORMS
 Robert Schneider: Selecting a platform for infrastructure and/or application development can be daunting: there are many choices, and each vendor has taken a different approach to solving challenges such as elasticity, computation, storage, reliability, and security. To make matters even more confusing, these offerings are continually changing.
Robert Schneider will give a technical overview of the four major Cloud Computing infrastructure vendors View the podcast here...
18.45-18.55 DRINKS & PIZZA SERVED
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