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Wednesday, March 9 @ Cloud Connect 2011

March 9, 2011 By brenda michelson

Less blogging, more talking today at Cloud Connect.  I did capture the morning keynotes here. 

During the keynote, I was so busy listening to Neal Sample of eBay that I stopped typing.  However, the good folks at bitcurrent caught the high points.

In the afternoon, I took meetings with GigaSpaces, ScaleBase and Translattice. 

GigaSpaces has a compelling new enterprise PaaS enablement offering.  For enterprises concerned with lock-in on public PaaS, this could provide an answer.  There is choice in the development model (C++, Java, .Net) and the cloud platform (private, a variety of public flavors: Amazon, Rackspace, etc.)

ScaleBase is in beta with its first product, a database load balancer.  Definitely a real problem to be solved.  ScaleBase participated in the Cloud Connect Launch Pad.

Translattice is also in beta with its first product, which is a grid/mesh solution for resiliency.  This one was harder for me to envision.  But, the underlying technology is interesting.

Later in the day, I attended a Hybrid Cloud Panel.  Everyone agreed that a hybrid adoption model will be the norm, however what comprises that model is up for debate.  It was suggested that the Hybrid model is really “the pragmatic cloud”.  I can live with that. 

A point of contention in the panel was whether organizations, mostly enterprises, should “move” legacy to the cloud as-is.  In other words, should you follow Dave Linthicum’s “no crap in the cloud” rule.  No surprise, the companies that enable cloud switching say crap in the cloud is fine, if it still saves you money.  Most others, me included, say no. 

Oh, almost time to board.  Gotta go.

Filed Under: cloud computing Tagged With: ccevent

Tuesday, March 8 @ Cloud Connect 2011

March 8, 2011 By brenda michelson

I’ve been blogging at Cloud Connect in Santa Clara today.  My posts are at elemental cloud computing:

  • @ Cloud Connect 2011: Colin Clark introduces Cloud Event Processing
  • @ Cloud Connect: Design Patterns in the Cloud: A Love Story
  • @ Cloud Connect: Cloudonomics – Private, Public or Hybrid?
  • @ Cloud Connect: Opening Keynotes

More tomorrow.

Filed Under: cloud computing Tagged With: ccevent

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

March 20, 2010 By brenda michelson

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.

Filed Under: circuit, cloud computing, enterprise architecture, podcasts, services architecture Tagged With: brenda michelson, ccevent

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