Lightning Talks
5-minute talks on a range of Cloud-related topics:
1. Joe Baguley, Quest CTO Europe, “Virtualisation isn’t always green” Slides
2. Paul Watson, Arjuna, “Federated clouds” Slides
3. Duncan Johnston-Watt, Enigmatec CTO, “Cloud Cover”
4. Phil Dean, Cisco,”What CIOs are saying to Cisco about cloud” Slides
5. Alexis Richardson, CohesiveFT, and Adil Mohammed, Entrip, “Cloud ftw”
6. Matthias Kohl, VP Bus.Dev. Zimory, “Pervasive Cloud Computing - What is still missing?”
7. Simon Wardley, Software Services Manager, Canonical UK, “Why standardisation matters”
8. Rhys Jones, RBS, “Clouds are cool, so why aren’t we using them yet?” Slides
9. Wayne Horkan, SUN CTO UK and Ireland “Sun and Clouds: How Sun Microsystems is helping with the global Cloud infrastructure build out.”
Reviews:
Duncan Johnston-Watt,
Enigmatec CTO, “Cloud Cover”
Duncan shows a recorded demo of Cloud Cover, which is based on the idea of using the cloud as an insurance policy. The recovery application can either work on the client side or on the cloud. The demo shows the mechanics of the recovery process from the client-side perspective.
Phil Dean, Cisco,
”What CIOs are saying to Cisco about cloud”
Phil’s talk focuses on providing an insight on how CIOs approach the cloud. He states that the three core aims of CIOs are Performance, Profit and Cost. The aspects they like about cloud computing are that it provides global consistency, service simplicity and service orientation. However, the downsides are: possibility of loss of control, risk management issues, migration and hybrid operation issues and the fact that cloud is currently technology centred, rather than being business centred. Phil suggests that focusing on the business aspect of cloud will allow CIOs to be able to discuss it better with the architects & developers.
Philip Huber, Zimory
“Pervasive Cloud Computing - What is still missing?”
Philip compares the cloud market with the energy market. The energy market has multiple suppliers that have been in the business for a long time, there is a high amount of demand, and there are well established standards for many aspects of the market. Providers of cloud computing are very new in the area and they need to deal with new concepts. The demand, however, is growing rapidly and the technology is very likely to change our industry fundamentally. According Philip, standardisation is the weakest point. It is not yet possible to change service providers without a significant amount of engineering. He argues that security, compliance, standardisation of billing models and service quality are among the subjects that we still need to work on for enabling companies and customers to have more confidence in moving to cloud and to create business benefits. Slides
Rhys Jones, RBS, “Clouds are cool, so why aren’t we using them yet?”
Rhys explains in his lightning talk why banks are not necessarily jumping on the cloud computing bandwagon. He explains that they use their own data centers, they need them globally distributed, standardized, and centralized, whilst avoiding complexity and diversity. Data centers are very expensive and Rhys indicates that banks try to limit their costs of services. One of the biggest problems with cloud computing is that there is a big cultural barrier between the way banks are comfortable doing things and the way cloud culture does. Rhys sums up by saying that the cloud community needs to get together and help banks implement distributed services.
Wayne Horkan, SUN CTO UK and Ireland “Sun and Clouds: How Sun Microsystems is helping with the global Cloud infrastructure build out.”
Wayne talks about the benefits and challenges of the cloud build-out and a concern with virtualization. There is has been a recent mass adoption of cloud computing and this will likely continue to grow as time progresses. In one slide, he illustrates the way people are adopting clouds and how much effort is being put in for the end customer, looking at the different economic models against the various layers. Wayne explains that the focus needs to be around what effort the customers will have to make in order to achieve a viable solution which will really dictate whether they will adopt cloud services.
Wayne tells us that Sun's approach is to offer services to cloud build-outs that are predominantly data centers, software that enables cloud build-outs to partner with cloud providers, and Sun building its own cloud instances. Slides
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This session took part at the CloudCamp London. You can view the other 3 podcasts here.
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