March 29, 2011 at 20:02Unofficial Report from CloudConf 2011
On Tuesday and Wednesday, March 29 and 30, in Moscow, at the Digital October technology park, the Russian national conference on “cloud” technologies (the official name, by the way) CloudConf 2011 is being held. This year our company is participating in the conference, and taking this opportunity , we decided to publish a small photo report from the event and first impressions of the new site.
Inside a lot of photos, the volume is less than 3 MB
In recent years, on the part of Bolotnoy Island occupied by the buildings of the Red October factory, a kind of “bohemian quarter” has been formed. The fact is that against the backdrop of the announced plans for the demolition of buildings and the construction of expensive housing, rental prices have fallen dramatically and the premises are flooded with recording studios, trendy bars, clubs, restaurants, Internet agencies, design bureaus and similar businesses.
The best place for a gathering place for startups, a place for the strength of Internet companies and all kinds of near-telecom events in Moscow is simply not to be found right now. Apparently, that's why Digital October was made here. It is noteworthy that the site instantly picked up the banner from the weakened hands of Infospace, located very close across the river. Only at the beginning of the year, meetings with representatives of TechCrunch and leading Internet companies, start-up gatherings Startup Feedback from the Greenfield Project and a large conference of online advertising eTarget have already been held here. For CloudConf, apparently, they did not look for another venue.
The site as a whole turned out to be controversial. On the one hand - spacious and well-equipped classrooms, high-speed wireless Internet. On the other - the legacy of the past around, crushing and garbage containers on the street, Soviet marble on the stairs. We believe that these are only transitional costs. The site was clearly rushed to open, but it was apparently done not in vain. Minor inconveniences will be forgotten, and events will be remembered. And, of course, the organizers, participants and hospitable hosts will also benefit from the money.
There were a lot of reports at the conference, and even more are planned the next day, so you can write a short story based on them. Surely, in the official results of the conference, the organizers will publish presentations or a summary. We would like to mention here only a report by Vladimir Dolgov, director of Google Russia. The report was devoted to Google’s cloud strategy and described three main areas of the company's work in the field of downloading, storing and structuring data in its own cloud.
According to Vladimir, in the next 10 years, the amount of information on the Internet will grow 60 times. Basically, of course, due to the "heavy content": video, music and images.
The Google Storage service is intended for their storage. Access to the storage is carried out through the Google API and with the help of other services and applications of the company, as well as applications of other vendors. Storage is best for storing static data and backups. Full multi-user access is supported, including from mobile devices.
Pros: performance and scale of the solution, access protection and data backup, developer-friendly tools. Unlimited objects of 100 GB are supported, it is provided at the level of users, objects, baskets, the rights to read-edit are differentiated. Access to data can be obtained through the console or web interface. At the moment, the service is used only internally, but in the near future it will become available to customers around the world.
Prices for services will depend on the availability of data transmission infrastructure in the country. So far, it's
17 cents per GB of storage per month, downloading 1 GB of data is 10 cents. In the United States, it is planned to provide software developers with 100 GB of storage for free.
Prediction API is a machine learning technology that allows you to make forecasts when processing data arrays, for example, when sorting texts by language. It is used to determine customer preferences, investment risk, mail filtering, recommendation systems, content filtering and so on. Any input data format, the output of hundreds of categories and headings. The technology is already used by large global corporations that process correspondence from customers with automatic response in the sender's language.
BigQuery Query language for accessing large arrays and data analysis. It is used in interactive tools, anti-spam, in determining trends. Scale: billions of records, query language - SQL.
These three components are part of Google’s cloud strategy.
Well, in order for those who have not attended the conference (or have not yet attended), we offer a small photo report so that you can feel the spirit of CloudConf 2011.
Panorama of the hall
Solar corridors Digital October
Hall during presentations and in breaks
Interviews with participants
Stands and rollups:
CloudConf
Internet4You
Cloud One
Hall with stands, not quite well located. On the sides are the doors to the audience.
Thin Clients Tonk
SoftLine
Kaspersky Lab
Demo zone of cloud services.
The faces of the conference.
Prefabricated hodgepodge of displays, corridors, plates and objects. Lebedev-style.
Elevator shaft covered with durable plastic. Sensations are curious.
Food & Drinks Area
Views from huge windows. They perfectly dilute the overall atmosphere of high-tech baroque.
Photo by Andrey Novak. www.novak.ru
Inside a lot of photos, the volume is less than 3 MB
In recent years, on the part of Bolotnoy Island occupied by the buildings of the Red October factory, a kind of “bohemian quarter” has been formed. The fact is that against the backdrop of the announced plans for the demolition of buildings and the construction of expensive housing, rental prices have fallen dramatically and the premises are flooded with recording studios, trendy bars, clubs, restaurants, Internet agencies, design bureaus and similar businesses.
The best place for a gathering place for startups, a place for the strength of Internet companies and all kinds of near-telecom events in Moscow is simply not to be found right now. Apparently, that's why Digital October was made here. It is noteworthy that the site instantly picked up the banner from the weakened hands of Infospace, located very close across the river. Only at the beginning of the year, meetings with representatives of TechCrunch and leading Internet companies, start-up gatherings Startup Feedback from the Greenfield Project and a large conference of online advertising eTarget have already been held here. For CloudConf, apparently, they did not look for another venue.
The site as a whole turned out to be controversial. On the one hand - spacious and well-equipped classrooms, high-speed wireless Internet. On the other - the legacy of the past around, crushing and garbage containers on the street, Soviet marble on the stairs. We believe that these are only transitional costs. The site was clearly rushed to open, but it was apparently done not in vain. Minor inconveniences will be forgotten, and events will be remembered. And, of course, the organizers, participants and hospitable hosts will also benefit from the money.
There were a lot of reports at the conference, and even more are planned the next day, so you can write a short story based on them. Surely, in the official results of the conference, the organizers will publish presentations or a summary. We would like to mention here only a report by Vladimir Dolgov, director of Google Russia. The report was devoted to Google’s cloud strategy and described three main areas of the company's work in the field of downloading, storing and structuring data in its own cloud.
According to Vladimir, in the next 10 years, the amount of information on the Internet will grow 60 times. Basically, of course, due to the "heavy content": video, music and images.
The Google Storage service is intended for their storage. Access to the storage is carried out through the Google API and with the help of other services and applications of the company, as well as applications of other vendors. Storage is best for storing static data and backups. Full multi-user access is supported, including from mobile devices.
Pros: performance and scale of the solution, access protection and data backup, developer-friendly tools. Unlimited objects of 100 GB are supported, it is provided at the level of users, objects, baskets, the rights to read-edit are differentiated. Access to data can be obtained through the console or web interface. At the moment, the service is used only internally, but in the near future it will become available to customers around the world.
Prices for services will depend on the availability of data transmission infrastructure in the country. So far, it's
17 cents per GB of storage per month, downloading 1 GB of data is 10 cents. In the United States, it is planned to provide software developers with 100 GB of storage for free.
Prediction API is a machine learning technology that allows you to make forecasts when processing data arrays, for example, when sorting texts by language. It is used to determine customer preferences, investment risk, mail filtering, recommendation systems, content filtering and so on. Any input data format, the output of hundreds of categories and headings. The technology is already used by large global corporations that process correspondence from customers with automatic response in the sender's language.
BigQuery Query language for accessing large arrays and data analysis. It is used in interactive tools, anti-spam, in determining trends. Scale: billions of records, query language - SQL.
These three components are part of Google’s cloud strategy.
Well, in order for those who have not attended the conference (or have not yet attended), we offer a small photo report so that you can feel the spirit of CloudConf 2011.
Panorama of the hall
Solar corridors Digital October
Hall during presentations and in breaks
Interviews with participants
Stands and rollups:
CloudConf
Internet4You
Cloud One
Hall with stands, not quite well located. On the sides are the doors to the audience.
Thin Clients Tonk
SoftLine
Kaspersky Lab
Demo zone of cloud services.
The faces of the conference.
Prefabricated hodgepodge of displays, corridors, plates and objects. Lebedev-style.
Elevator shaft covered with durable plastic. Sensations are curious.
Food & Drinks Area
Views from huge windows. They perfectly dilute the overall atmosphere of high-tech baroque.
Photo by Andrey Novak. www.novak.ru