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Roy Schulte to Keynote Event Processing Symposium 2010

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Big News!  Roy Schulte, Gartner Distinguished Analyst and Event Processing Thinker Extraordinaire is giving the opening keynote at the Event Processing Symposium 2010: Profiting from Continuous Intelligence.

Roy’s topic is Smart Systems and Sense-and-Respond Behavior: The Time for Event Processing is Now

“The need for situation awareness and sense-and-respond behavior is no longer limited to niche applications. Virtually every large new system in business, defense, and government is becoming event-driven in some aspects of its operation. This overview session will introduce the fundamentals of event processing, and explain where it is used and why it is a fundamental part of smart devices and smart applications of all kinds.

  1. How does continuous monitoring enable situation awareness and provide earlier detection of threats and opportunities?
  2. What design patterns form the basis of smart devices and event-driven processes?
  3. Which technologies and product categories are applied to different event processing usage scenarios?”

The symposium, hosted by the OMG, is May 24-25, 2010 in Washington DC.  For more information, including registration, please visit the symposium website. 

If you are interested in participating in the Symposium, let me know.  Practitioner stories encouraged! 

 

[Disclosure: The OMG is a client of my firm, Elemental Links.  I am the Event Processing Symposium 2010 Program Chair.]

David Linthicum’s Cloud Computing Podcast: Dave and Brenda talk Cloud Connect

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On Friday, David Linthicum invited me on his cloud computing podcast to chat about what we heard, and didn’t hear, at the Cloud Connect conference.  Naturally, our discussion wound its way to the connections of cloud computing, enterprise architecture, service-oriented architecture and data architecture.

Our podcast is Picking Apart Cloud Connect.  Check it out.

100-day Cloud Watch: Cloud Connect – Keynotes, Cloudonomics, & Adoption Models

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As I mentioned on Monday, I spent a couple of days this week at Cloud Connect in Santa Clara for some upfront cloud watching.  The conference was spilling over with the clouderati — those visionaries, strategists, technologists and analysts at the forefront of cloud computing. 

It was literally, the cloud computing twitter stream come to life.  As such, much of the conference conversation is captured in twitter, under the  #ccevent tag.

I did blog from a few sessions, links to those posts follow:

Mostly though, I took the opportunity to absorb the ideas presented and engage in conversation with fellow attendees. 

I’ll do a summary of my observations soon, but wanted to pass along these links now.  Cloud Connect is “the” cloud computing conference.  I look forward to future editions.

I also had a chance to attend a special session of the San Francisco Cloud Club, which focused on PaaS platforms.  The decision considerations presented by Engine Yard and Heroku really make you appreciate the difficulty of the work that PaaS providers do on behalf of adopters. 

These are definitely interesting times, and not in the curse sort of way.

100-day Cloud Watch on the Road: Cloud Connect in Santa Clara

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This week, I’ve taken my cloud watching on the road to Silicon Valley for the Cloud Connect conference.  According to conference organizers, advisors and exhibitors, Cloud Connect “is the defining event of the cloud computing industry”.  I’m not one to be swayed by a catch phrase, but the program, advisory board, and attendees made a compelling case to participate.

Wifi, power and coffee willing, I’ll be live-blogging on Monday and Tuesday over on Elemental Cloud Computing.  Follow my coverage directly at ELCC, or via my cloudogram twitter account. 

You can follow the entire event on twitter, using the #ccevent tag.

100-day Cloud Watch: Location, Math, Money and Value

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After a short break for some client work, I returned to the 100-day cloud watch.  I’m on the adoption subtopic, working my way through the cloud computing survey list.  At the time of my last update, I had reviewed the two enterprise architecture related surveys.  Those findings:

Since then, I reviewed 6 more surveys, 4 of which had notable findings.  My commentary:

Related to the major finding of the BT Global Services Intelligence report – Location does matter – I posted two cloud watch items: 

And while not adoption specific, I couldn’t help but comment on, and pass along these posts:

Finally, I began my coverage of Cloud Connect with the post below.  If you are attending Cloud Connect and want to meet up, let me know.  I’m taking meetings on Wednesday.

Follow 100-Day Cloud Watch on Twitter.

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