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Cloud Computing Developer Workshops

Mar 9th

Monday, March 15

Cloud Computing IT Workshops | Developer Workshops | Developing for Microsoft Windows Azure Platform

Attend developer workshops with experts from the leading cloud computing platforms. It’s the only place where you can, in theory, build three cloud apps on three different clouds, guided by the folks behind that cloud, in a single day. BEST VALUE–Register for a Flex Pass to attend the conference (including developer track) plus pre-conference developer workshops.

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9:00 AM–12:00 PM
Building on Google App Engine Google’s App Engine cloud platform differs from many infrastructure-centric cloud technologies in that it is an Application Platform as a Service (APaaS) and thus, requires only code to build and deploy apps onto the cloud. Google App Engine provides a free usage entry path which can accommodate most modest web site/service deployments. Sites requiring more industrial strength scalability and bandwidth can enable billing and pay as needed to handle increased growth. Google App Engine distinguishes itself by offering development in either Python or Java. This workshop will be run in two tracks in both Python and Java with the same programming goals. You Will Learn: Getting Started – logging into App Engine, accessing your administration console and creating your first app. Begin Writing Code for Your App Discussion of the development options for Python and Java Using the App Engine Launcher for Python Using the App Engine Eclipse plugin Building and Deploying Your First App A simple helloworld Customizing Your App to Include More Services Account mgmt, Datastore, email, xmpp, blobstore, task queues, memcache, URLFetch… Redeploying your new version to the cloud Troubleshooting Your App Reviewing debugging and logging techniques Review of Unit testing Discussion and Demo of other App Engine Cloud Usages Backend Web service for social or mobile apps Backend Web service for Geo coordinates in a Maps/Earth mashups Instructor – Wesley Chun, Developer Advocate, Google WESLEY J. CHUN, MSCS, is the author of Prentice Hall’s bestseller, “Core Python Programming” (http://corepython.com), its video training course, “Python Fundamentals” (LiveLessons DVD), and co-author of “Python Web Development with Django” (http://withdjango.com). In addition to being a software architect and Developer Advocate at Google, he runs CyberWeb (http://cyberwebconsulting.com), a consulting business specializing in Python software engineering and technical training. He has over 25 years of programming, teaching, and writing experience, including more than a decade of Python. While at Yahoo!, he helped create Yahoo! Mail and Yahoo! People Search using Python. He holds degrees in Computer Science, Mathematics, and Music from the University of California. Speaker – Ikai Lan, Developer Advocate, Google Ikai Lan is a software engineer working on the Google Developer Relations team. Prior to Google, he worked as a software developer building social applications at LinkedIn and a systems integration consultant delivering VoIP applications at Citrix Systems. Ikai is an avid technologist, consuming volumes of material about new programming languages, framework or service. In his free time, he enjoys the California outdoors, winning Chinese language karaoke contests and playing flag football. He resides in San Francisco, CA, where he watches in anguish as his favorite professional sports teams implode season after season.
Cloud Performance Optimization Cloud environments are shared environments, which means that despite your best efforts, someone else can impact your performance and uptime. What if a cloud neighbor doesn’t play well with others? How can you be sure that your users are getting the availability you’ve promised, and the application performance to keep them happy and productive? Monitoring and measurement of cloud applications is critical. For one thing, you pay for what you use. Inefficient applications cost more on your monthly bill, so understanding the capacity/performance equation has never been more important. For another, you’re subject to systems and networks you don’t control. At the same time, monitoring on-demand environments brings its own challenges: many traditional monitoring options aren’t available in a cloud computing model where you don’t control the machines. This half-day workshop looks at measuring performance and availability in cloud environments, with a particular focus on how to pinpoint sources of delay so you can lower costs and improve user experience. You Will Learn: How to measure user experience in on-demand environments Tracking capacity and usage in utility models When to focus on performance optimization The most common sources of delay in cloud platforms Instructor – Hooman Beheshti, Vice President of Products, Strangeloop Hooman is a veteran of the load balancing and web acceleration market with over 12 years of experience in these and related technologies. As an expert in these markets, he has held positions as CTO of Radware Inc, and VP of Products and Technology for Crescendo Networks. He’s currently the VP of Products for Strangeloop Networks. In these capacities he has helped define and develop various load balancing and web acceleration products. He has also helped lead marketing and evangelism efforts for both the products and the technology itself. If you slit open one of his veins, load balancers will actually start flowing out, which is both impressive and sad. He holds a B.S. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of California at Irvine. Instructor – Hon Wong, EVP of Business Development and Marketing, Coradiant Hon Wong is Coradiant Inc’s EVP of Business Development and Marketing. Prior to joining Coradiant, Hon served as CEO of Symphoniq since its inception. Hon co-founded NetIQ Corporation (Nasdaq: NTIQ), where he served on the board of directors until 2003. Hon also co-founded and served on the boards of several other companies, including Centrify, Ecosystems (acquired by Compuware), Digital Market (acquired by Oracle), Relevant Industries (part of Flextronics) and a number of other technology companies. Hon is also a General Partner of Wongfratris Investment Company, a venture investment firm. Hon holds dual BS in electrical engineering and industrial engineering from Northwestern University and a MBA from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania. Instructor – Imad Mouline, CTO, Gomez Imad Mouline is a veteran of software architecture, research and development and is recognized as an expert in web and mobile web application development, testing and performance management. His breadth of expertise spans web 2.0, cloud computing, web browsers, web application architecture and infrastructure, software-as-a-service (SaaS) and streaming video, with a focus on how to find and fix business-impacting web experience problems anywhere in the web application delivery chain. As Gomez’s CTO, Mouline works with customers, analysts, industry groups and internal resources to evolve the breadth and depth of the Gomez platform of web application preformance management solutions. Prior to Gomez, Mouline held the position of chief technology officer at S1 Corp. There he played a variety of roles across departments, including engineering, product management, sales and marketing. Previously, Mouline served as director of engineering in the office of the CTO at BroadVision, after its acquisition of Interleaf. At Interleaf, Mouline held various professional services and engineering roles, where he ultimately served as the director of engineering for product architecture, while contributing code to one of the products. Mouline is a regular speaker at industry conferences and technology events including: Ajax Experience , Cloud Computing Expo, Internet Retailer Conference, Interop, Internet Strategy Forum, MIT CIO Symposium, Social Networking Conference and the Web Experience Forum. He is frequently quoted in the media including in USA Today, Forbes Small Business, BBC, Internet Retailer, CIO Insight, Software Test & Performance, Network World, Computerworld, Internetweek, Informationweek and more. Mouline holds a bachelor’s degree in management science/information technology from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Speaker – Robert Rounsavall, Director, Product Development, Terremark Worldwide, Inc. Robert Rounsavall joined Terremark Worldwide, Inc. in January 2007 as part of the Secure Information Services group. Currently serving as the Director of Product Development Mr. Rounsavall is responsible for reviewing, testing and implementing emerging security products and technologies. He currently is focused on cloud computing and virtualization security specifically on Terremark’s UCS based cloud platform. In his previous role he was responsible for designing the security architecture and building out Terremark’s Security Operations Center. He also built and deployed the first Portable Security Operations Center which allows for full visibility into extremely large enterprise networks also known as SOC in a Box (SIAB). He is a contributing author to the Computer and Information Security Handbook published in June 2009. Prior to Terremark, Mr. Rounsavall was a product manager for a Security Information Event Management firm in South Florida and served as a Navy Chief Cryptologic Technician. Speaker – Don Green, Senior Vice President of Product Management, OpSource, Inc. Speaker – Joe Hsy, Vice President of Technology and Advanced Development, Coradiant Joe brings over 20 years of industry experience in the software and systems management industry. Prior to joining Coradiant, Joe was the VP of Technology at Symphoniq, focusing on architecture. Before Symphoniq, Joe helped lead Oracle’s Enterprise Manager Group efforts into providing end-user monitoring. Joe was a cofounder of Envive, which provided performance management solutions for SAP’s R/3 and later Web applications. Envive was later acquired by Keynote Systems. At Keynote, Joe had responsibility for three product lines for load testing and monitoring of web applications. Joe also held research and development roles at IBM and Xerox. Joe graduated from MIT with a bachelor’s degree in Computer Science and earned his master’s degree from Stanford University in Computer Science with a focus in artificial intelligence. Speaker – Bernd Harzog, Analyst – Virtualization Performance Management, The Virtualization Practice Bernd Harzog is the Analyst at The Virtualization Practice for Cloud Performance and Capacity Management and Virtualization Management. Bernd Harzog is also the CEO and founder of APM Experts a company that provides strategic marketing services to vendors in the virtualization performance management, and end user experience management markets. Prior to these two companies, Bernd was the CEO of RTO Software, the VP Products at Netuitive, a General Manager at Xcellenet, and Research Director for Systems Software at Gartner Group. Bernd has an MBA in Marketing from the University of Chicago. Speaker – Seth Redmore, VP of Products, Lexalytics Speaker – Steve Shah, Principal, RisingEdge Consulting Steve Shah is the principal of RisingEdge Consulting, a boutique consultancy specializing in helping technology focused companies become customer and market driven. In prior lives Steve was a key member of a $100M business unit focused on application networking, VP of Product Strategy/CTO at a telephony and machine learning company, and a driving force behind bringing the voice of the customer to the company. Speaker – John Allspaw, VP of Technical Operations, Etsy John has worked in systems operations for over fourteen years in biotech, government and online media. He started out tuning parallel clusters running vehicle crash simulations for the U.S. government, and then moved on to the Internet in 1997. He built the backing infrastructures at “Salon”:http://salon.com/, “InfoWorld”:http://infoworld.com/, “Friendster”:http://friendster.com/, and “Flickr”:http://flickr.com/. He is now VP of Tech Operations at “Etsy”:http://etsy.com/, and is the author of “The Art of Capacity Planning”:http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596518585/ published by O’Reilly. Speaker – Hal Kalish, Industry Marketing Director – High Tech, Akamai Hal Kalish is the Industry Marketing Director, High Tech, at Akamai Technologies. In this role, Hal is responsible for the marketing strategy of Akamai’s products and services to the high tech marketplace. Akamai enables leading high tech companies around the world to create profitable online business strategies and optimize the online experience they deliver and manage for their customers, partners and employees. Hal has broad Internet technology and business experience. Prior to Akamai, he was responsible for the strategies and management of Internet development and marketing teams, global online commerce stores and digital supply chain solutions at high tech companies including Internap, Logitech, Intel, and SyQuest Technologies. He also served on Akamai Technologies’ Customer Advisory Board for several years and has been a speaker/panelist at conferences including the CMO Council’s Silicon Valley Marketing Performance Measurement (MPM) Forum and the Business Marketing Association(BMA) National Conference. Speaker – Ron Warshawsky, Founder and CTO, Enteros As an original founder and Chief Technology Officer, Ron Warshawsky is responsible for company’s technical vision, management and development of Enteros solution platform. Ron led initial development of products, established company infrastructure, hired management team and led initial company’s aquisitions of customer accounts. Prior to Enteros, Ron Warshawsky served as a principal technology specialist at EBAY as well as for Fortune 500 companies including Principal Financial group, Allied Group Insurance and Nationwide Insurance, where he was instrumental in contributing to the business’ global success. Ron holds an M.S. in Computer Science, Georgia Tech. University (cum laude) and a B.S. in Computer Science, Georgia Tech. University. Speaker – JL Valente, CEO and President, Rivermuse

9:00 AM–12:00 PM

Building on Google App Engine

Google’s App Engine cloud platform differs from many infrastructure-centric cloud technologies in that it is an Application Platform as a Service (APaaS) and thus, requires only code to build and deploy apps onto the cloud. Google App Engine provides a free usage entry path which can accommodate most modest web site/service deployments. Sites requiring more industrial strength scalability and bandwidth can enable billing and pay as needed to handle increased growth. Google App Engine distinguishes itself by offering development in either Python or Java. This workshop will be run in two tracks in both Python and Java with the same programming goals.

You Will Learn:

Getting Started – logging into App Engine, accessing your administration console and creating your first app.
Begin Writing Code for Your App
- Discussion of the development options for Python and Java
  - Using the App Engine Launcher for Python
  - Using the App Engine Eclipse plugin
Building and Deploying Your First App
- A simple helloworld
Customizing Your App to Include More Services
- Account mgmt, Datastore, email, xmpp, blobstore, task queues, memcache, URLFetch…
- Redeploying your new version to the cloud
Troubleshooting Your App
- Reviewing debugging and logging techniques
- Review of Unit testing
Discussion and Demo of other App Engine Cloud Usages
- Backend Web service for social or mobile apps
- Backend Web service for Geo coordinates in a Maps/Earth mashups

Instructor – Wesley Chun, Developer Advocate, Google

Speaker – Ikai Lan, Developer Advocate, Google

Cloud Performance Optimization

Cloud environments are shared environments, which means that despite your best efforts, someone else can impact your performance and uptime. What if a cloud neighbor doesn’t play well with others? How can you be sure that your users are getting the availability you’ve promised, and the application performance to keep them happy and productive?
Monitoring and measurement of cloud applications is critical. For one thing, you pay for what you use. Inefficient applications cost more on your monthly bill, so understanding the capacity/performance equation has never been more important. For another, you’re subject to systems and networks you don’t control.
At the same time, monitoring on-demand environments brings its own challenges: many traditional monitoring options aren’t available in a cloud computing model where you don’t control the machines.
This half-day workshop looks at measuring performance and availability in cloud environments, with a particular focus on how to pinpoint sources of delay so you can lower costs and improve user experience.

You Will Learn:

How to measure user experience in on-demand environments
Tracking capacity and usage in utility models
When to focus on performance optimization
The most common sources of delay in cloud platforms

Instructor – Hooman Beheshti, Vice President of Products, Strangeloop

Instructor – Hon Wong, EVP of Business Development and Marketing, Coradiant

Instructor – Imad Mouline, CTO, Gomez

Speaker – Robert Rounsavall, Director, Product Development, Terremark Worldwide, Inc.

Speaker – Don Green, Senior Vice President of Product Management, OpSource, Inc.

Speaker – Joe Hsy, Vice President of Technology and Advanced Development, Coradiant

Speaker – Bernd Harzog, Analyst – Virtualization Performance Management, The Virtualization Practice

Speaker – Seth Redmore, VP of Products, Lexalytics

Speaker – Steve Shah, Principal, RisingEdge Consulting

Speaker – John Allspaw, VP of Technical Operations, Etsy

Speaker – Hal Kalish, Industry Marketing Director – High Tech, Akamai

Speaker – Ron Warshawsky, Founder and CTO, Enteros

Speaker – JL Valente, CEO and President, Rivermuse

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IBM Cloud Computing CTO to Keynote CloudSlam’10(TM) Conference

Mar 8th

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IBM Cloud Computing CTO to Keynote CloudSlam’10(TM) Conference

Company is Named Exclusive Diamond Collaborator for Conference March 23 – March 25 2010

TORONTO, March 8 /PRNewswire/ — CloudSlam’10™, a virtual conference developed to promote collaborative analysis of the latest trends and challenges in the world of Cloud Computing, will commence on March 23. CloudSlam’10™ is organized by leading experts and authorities in the Cloud Computing industry and backed up by the world’s largest Cloud Computing community. Key topics will include Cloud Standards, Security, Transition Strategies, Compliance & Impact of Cloud Computing on the Global Economy. Attendees will hear breaking news, views & opinions which are exclusive to CloudSlam’10™.

CloudSlam’10™ gives industry leaders’ and professionals’ keen insights into published research, unique and evolving ideas and best practices, as well as an opportunity to network with leading experts within the Cloud Computing industry. The conference is designed to be a thought leadership platform for Business, Government and Academia. It’s also an ideal opportunity for corporate leaders to glean information on the latest innovations in Cloud Computing, generate new contacts and develop ideas on how to capitalize on what’s estimated to eventually become a $100 billion dollar market.

The CloudSlam’10™ speaker line-up will highlight new players in the Cloud Computing arena, as well as established players like IBM, who has been selected to be the Exclusive Diamond Collaborator for CloudSlam’10™. Dr. Kristof Kloeckner, CTO Enterprise Initiatives and Vice President Cloud Platforms, IBM Corporation, will present the Day One Headline Keynote address at the CloudSlam’10™ virtual event.

Drawing on experience of working with IBM customers and IBM’s internal cloud deployments, Dr. Kloeckner will review the conditions under which Cloud Computing can deliver its promise of cost reductions, delivery efficiency, flexibility and agility, as well as share insights around customer adoption based on careful selection of workloads and appropriate deployment models.

In addition, IBM senior software engineer Doug Tidwell will discuss the need for and status around cloud computing standards.

IBM Primary Keynote Sessions:

* “Headline Keynote Presentation” – Presented on March 23rd @ 13.30(pm) EDT.

* “Headline panel Discussion” – Presented on March 23rd @ 16.00(pm) EDT.

* “Headline Expert Session” – Presented on March 24th @ 13.30(pm) EDT.

* “Headline Case Study Session” – Presented on March 25th @ 14.45(pm) EDT.

Commenting on the announcement today, CloudSlam’10™ Chairman – Khazret Sapenov said, “We are truly delighted to have IBM join this year’s proceedings as our Headline collaborator for the event. IBM brings a wealth of expertise and know-how which we are certain will educate our event delegates, Cloud Computing group community members, as well as the Global audiences tuning in worldwide.”

CloudSlam’10™ – Produced by Cloudcor, Inc.™, is the premier Cloud Computing event. As an affordable way for industry leaders to exchange ideas and experiences, CloudSlam’10™ opens new horizons of cloud computing and serves as a springboard to success. CloudSlam’10™ will take place March 23-25 2010 -Online. For more information, contact Khazret Sapenov at k.sapenov@cloudslam.org or visit http://cloudslam10.com

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Microsoft on Cloud Computing: Live Webcast 1PM EST

Mar 4th

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The Cloud: Exciting New Possibilities

Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer discusses Microsoft’s cloud computing strategy. Watch the live Webcast March 4 at 1:00 p.m. EST/10 a.m. PST.

LIVE WEBCAST

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IBM Announces – Cloud computing for developers April 6-8th

Mar 4th

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Solutions for application development, 6-8 April

Join this cloud computing for developers virtual event to learn about technologies that can help solve your business and technical challenges in the cloud. These sessions are ideal for anyone looking to build a cloud infrastructure or develop and deploy cloud-based applications. Topics include: Getting started in the cloud, security, metering and billing, rapid provisioning and mashups.

See real-world examples of specific challenges and solutions, as well as live demonstrations of techniques and products. Finally, get connected to the developerWorks community and find the resources you need.

Audience: Developers, architects, students, partners, ISVs

Prerequisites: General understanding of cloud computing

Register

What are virtual briefings?

Virtual briefings are presented online using Saba Centra. These sessions replicate a typical classroom with a complete set of features for highly interactive, effective group learning – bringing together voice, video, data and graphics in a structured online learning environment. Sessions are instructor-led and end with an opportunity for you to ask questions using either VOIP or Text Chat.

Agenda

April 6: Build a cloud computing infrastructure

Session	Topic	Time (EST)
Introduction	Introduction to cloud computing for developers	11:30am-12:00pm
Session 1	Identity management in the cloud: Get the basic principles of trust and identity management, including how to define users, their roles and responsibilities.	12:00pm-1:00pm
Session 2	Connecting to the cloud – the hybrid model: Learn about the benefits of the hybrid model and how to design a hybrid application.	1:15pm-2:15pm
Session 3	Metering usage of shared computational resources in cloud-delivered solutions: See a scenario for metering usage of computational resources in a sample multi-tenant banking application.	2:30pm-3:30pm
Register for April 6 sessions.

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Steve Ballmer on Microsoft’s Cloud Strategy – Thursday, March 4, at 1 p.m. EST/10 a.m. PST

Mar 3rd

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Microsoft on Cloud Computing

Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer discusses what’s ahead for computing, with a focus on how cloud computing will change the way people and businesses use technology. Watch the speech live Thursday, March 4, at 1 p.m. EST/10 a.m. PST, or return here to view the on-demand webcast and video highlights.

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Amazon Web Services CTO out to Prove Enterprise Chops

Mar 2nd

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There is still a misconception that Amazon Web Services exists to sell the company’s excess server capacity, but that is not the case, CTO Werner Vogels said during a keynote at Cebit.

“There is a myth out there that when Christmas comes, suddenly, all of the foundations under your building will be gone … that is obviously not the case,” said Vogels, referring to Amazon’s high-volume sales during the holidays.

During his speech, he showcased the customers that are using Amazon Web Services, with the aim of persuading skeptics that his company offers a viable option.

For example, also at Cebit Software AG announced ARISalign, which offers business process management as a service using Amazon Web services’ cloud computing. Time-to-market and tight control over costs were among the reasons Software AG picked Amazon, Vogels said.

Also, the growth of Amazon’s cloud can be seen in the number of objects stored on S3 (Simple Storage Service). The number grew from 54 billion at this time last year to more than 100 billion, according to Vogels.

Bigger scale lets Amazon Web Services offer lower prices than competitors, according to Vogels. The latest price cut was Feb. 1 for outbound data transfer.

Lower cost for both infrastructure and operations is the first attraction when companies start looking at moving systems into the cloud, but the ability to add or decrease computing capacity as needed soon takes over as the biggest advantage, Vogels said.

Some enterprises are more enthusiastic about cloud services than others — Web site and application hosting companies, as well as media distribution companies are jumping right in, he said. Other applications that make sense to move to the cloud are testing and development, backup, disaster recovery and large-scale data analysis, according to Vogels.

However, there are companies that take a more long-term approach to cloud services and start by making all new IT systems ready for the cloud, he said.

Vogels also took the opportunity to push Amazon’s VPC (virtual private cloud), which integrates a company’s existing IT infrastructure and the cloud, which makes it particularly attractive to enterprise customers, according to Vogels. Companies can build a walled garden in the cloud using VPC and connect it to the data center using an encrypted VPN (virtual private network), he said.

VPC was announced almost six months ago and is still only available in beta, according to Amazon Web Services’ site. Vogels didn’t provide any details on when VPC would exit the testing stage.

He assured the audience that Amazon Web Services is focused on security, which is another big issue when it comes to cloud computing.

“We would not be in business if we did not consider security our top priority,” said Vogels.

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