September 11, 2012 at 20:29Cloud Connect Chicago 2012 - Day One
Hi Habr! 
Fate brought me to the windy city of Chicago at a rather attractive event - Cloud Connect Chicago 2012 . What could be an attractive conference on the other side of the earth? The fact that you can see, listen and meet people whose experience inspires confidence. Learning from this experience is why I flew here.
So what is the conference about? As the name implies, we are talking about clouds and everything that is connected with them, namely:
With my first post, I want to initialize a chain of reports about the conference and interesting things that I learned.
Well, let's begin.
Today on Cloud Connect there were 2 series of seminars on various cloud topics. Each workshop took 3 and a quarter hours. At the same time 4 seminars took place. The first part of the seminars was on the topics:
Unfortunately, the first series of seminars I wandered between reports - I did not see anything interesting for myself. They told basic things about Amazon, and so that I myself could better tell. In the "bigdate" there was too much terminology for developers, sysadmins did not understand. Cloud security was not cloud at all - they talked about loading the security chips on board the motherboard and Intel TXT and McAfee technology. Maybe someone is not interested, but I don’t really.
However, having got to the fourth seminar with the theme Cloud Crash Course: Foundations for On-Demand Computing, I realized that this was it, and finally it became interesting. And I regret precisely that I did not go to this seminar right away.
Dave Roberts (VP, Evangelism, ServiceMesh, Inc. @sandhillstrat) talked about how to build a cloud extinction policy on the part of the business. The workshop was fascinating and one example was centralization in communism:
The problems of IT departments related to cloud technologies and methods for solving these problems were described.
After the first episode, lunch followed. By the way, yes ... I had never seen such a lunch at conferences before - I ate to the dump!
After lunch, there were 4 more seminars on the following topics:
And this time I hit the target the first time - Cloud Performance: Guide to Tackling Cloud Latency - became a very interesting place for discussions and discussions.
The main topic of the seminar was performance in the clouds. We considered all sorts of optimizations and everything that is possible. It was also suggested that if you hire all the speakers of this seminar, we will get the perfect service that will work superfast!
Here are some photos from the seminar:
Well, actually, that’s all, these ended the first day of Cloud Connect Chicago 2012. It was quite interesting, but I expect even more interesting reports from the following days. I hope in my tomorrow post there will be more delight =)
Fate brought me to the windy city of Chicago at a rather attractive event - Cloud Connect Chicago 2012 . What could be an attractive conference on the other side of the earth? The fact that you can see, listen and meet people whose experience inspires confidence. Learning from this experience is why I flew here.
So what is the conference about? As the name implies, we are talking about clouds and everything that is connected with them, namely:
- Clouds and security (the hottest topic)
- Private, public and hybrid clouds
- Infrastructure
- Application Availability
- Design and application architecture
- Mobile clouds
- … and much more
With my first post, I want to initialize a chain of reports about the conference and interesting things that I learned.
Well, let's begin.
The first day
Today on Cloud Connect there were 2 series of seminars on various cloud topics. Each workshop took 3 and a quarter hours. At the same time 4 seminars took place. The first part of the seminars was on the topics:
- Amazon Web Services: Fundamentals & Best Practices
- Big Data: Fundamentals to Best Practices
- Cloud Crash Course: Foundations for On-Demand Computing
- Cloud Security: Best Practices for Risk Management
Unfortunately, the first series of seminars I wandered between reports - I did not see anything interesting for myself. They told basic things about Amazon, and so that I myself could better tell. In the "bigdate" there was too much terminology for developers, sysadmins did not understand. Cloud security was not cloud at all - they talked about loading the security chips on board the motherboard and Intel TXT and McAfee technology. Maybe someone is not interested, but I don’t really.
However, having got to the fourth seminar with the theme Cloud Crash Course: Foundations for On-Demand Computing, I realized that this was it, and finally it became interesting. And I regret precisely that I did not go to this seminar right away.
Dave Roberts (VP, Evangelism, ServiceMesh, Inc. @sandhillstrat) talked about how to build a cloud extinction policy on the part of the business. The workshop was fascinating and one example was centralization in communism:
The problems of IT departments related to cloud technologies and methods for solving these problems were described.
After the first episode, lunch followed. By the way, yes ... I had never seen such a lunch at conferences before - I ate to the dump!
After lunch, there were 4 more seminars on the following topics:
- Building Private Clouds: From "If" to "How"
- Cloud Advanced Course: Building Reliable & Scalable Public Cloud Applications
- Cloud Performance: Guide to Tackling Cloud Latency
- Navigating PaaS: Your Road Map for Application Development
And this time I hit the target the first time - Cloud Performance: Guide to Tackling Cloud Latency - became a very interesting place for discussions and discussions.
The main topic of the seminar was performance in the clouds. We considered all sorts of optimizations and everything that is possible. It was also suggested that if you hire all the speakers of this seminar, we will get the perfect service that will work superfast!
Here are some photos from the seminar:
Well, actually, that’s all, these ended the first day of Cloud Connect Chicago 2012. It was quite interesting, but I expect even more interesting reports from the following days. I hope in my tomorrow post there will be more delight =)
