. Skills Matter is pleased to announce the Cloud & Grid eXchange. We hope to bring together the leading experts on Cloud and Grid technologies, high scalability and performance, with London's enterprise development community for an informal day of deep technical insight and friendly discussion.
The aim of the Cloud & Grid eXchange is to promote awareness and adoption of the latest ideas, technologies and best practices for the development of large, scalable and highly performant enterprise systems, using Cloud & Grid technologies.
Russ Miles has kindly agreed to be the Programme Lead, and is currently working with several other leading experts on an interesting and exciting set of talks! This exciting day is structured to encourage discussion and, with a maximum of 125 delegates, we aim to provide an informal and intimate environment where you can share experience, learn about new ideas, talk to some of the world's leading experts and have some fun in the process.
Stay tuned on twitter
We will announce further topics and speakers in the coming weeks. If you would like to stay tuned or share any ideas or thoughts with us and the conference speakers, then follow the event on twitter @skillsmatter #cloudx
Register today
To event aims to provide a real opportunity to share ideas, learn and discuss, so we have limited the number of delegates to 125 only.
Sponsorship
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. Any help is therefore greatly appreciated! There are a variety of sponsorship packages available, if your organisation would like to help us support this event for the enterprise developer community. For further details about sponsorship packages, please contact Skills Matter's Community Manager Natalie Gray
PROGRAMME
Friday 23rd April 2010
Track 1
09:30-10:00 REGISTRATION, COFFEE, TEA & WELCOME
 Russ Miles: Registration, Coffee & Tea & Welcome more...
10:00-11:00 ENABLING CHOICE IN THE CLOUD
 Russ Miles & Toby Hobson: 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. more...
11:05-11:50 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 will give a technical overview of the four major Cloud Computing infrastructure vendors more...
11:55-12:40 BETTING ON DATA GRIDS
 Dave Felcey: Dave Felcey from Oracle will give an overview of Oracle Coherence and related technologies, like JRockit Real-Time JVM, and discuss how they are being used to address some of the challenges their gaming customers face. more...
12:40-13:40 LUNCH & REFRESHMENTS
Lunch & Refreshments
13:45-14:30 USE CASES FOR CLOUD MESSAGING
 Alexis Richardson: In this talk, Alexis will present 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. more...
14:30-15:15 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. more...
15:20-16:05 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. more...
16:10-16:55 HADOOP MAPREDUCE ON AMAZON EC2 AND S3
 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 more...
17:00-17:45 UNDERSTANDING MICROSOFT, AMAZON, AND GOOGLE CLOUD STORAGE
 Matson Wade: Matson Wade from WiseClouds will give a technical overview of the various cloud storage offerings from the three major Cloud Computing infrastructure vendors, Amazon, Microsoft and Google, and discuss their core philosophies, strengths, and weaknesses. Follow the event on twitter @skillsmatter #cloudx more...
17:45-18:45 PARKBENCH PANEL DISCUSSION WITH PIZZA & DRINKS
Russ Miles & Alexis Richardson: After a swift serving of Pizza & Drinks, we'll hold the second ParkBench Panel discussion, to discuss ideas, stuff we learned during the afternoon and stuff we would like to hear more about. Delegates will not only be able to ask their questions to the speakers of the expert talks, but are also actively encouraged to join the panel to express their opinion or share their experience! more...
17:45-18:00 CLOUD & GRID EXCHANGE PRIZE RAFFLE & THANK YOU
: We'll finish with a prize raffle, featuring several prizes from our key sponsors and a brief final speech to thank all speakers & participants of the day more...
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