Zen 2.0

Been going through quite a few videos from Cloud Slam ’09 today to see if there’s anything interesting. Haven’t gone through them all yet but so far I found the following sessions to be interesting/informative. I’ll add them to the list here as I find more.

Ivan Casanova: Self Service Application Provisioning – A Developers View into the Cloud

Abstract: Self-service application provisioning enables application developers to set up application infrastructure, such as Java application servers, databases, and messaging servers, without any help or assistance from infrastructure teams. Self-service application provisioning hides the complexity of the enterprise cloud from application developers and empowers them to set up and configure complex application infrastructure with the click of a button. This presentation will look at the advancements and best practices in self service application provisioning as a front end to enterprise cloud projects.

Nimish Radia: Business Models and Needed Technologies for Cloud Computing

Abstract: Is Cloud Computing the next technology industry hype or there is a money to be made? With EC2 and S3 Amazon has shown one way to monetize cloud computing. Is this is the only model? Is cost saving the only driving force for cloud computing? Fortunately the answer is no. We expect that there will be various realization of cloud computing as the commercial, education, and government businesses will pose different requirements for the cloud computing. These requirements will range from simple pay as you use and self provisioning of the infrastructure driving the EC2/S3 type cloud to HPC cloud to public and private clouds for enterprises to highly secure clouds for personal and private information and associated computation for healthcare and government industries. Then there are the clouds defined based on the level of abstractions, i.e., infrastructure, platform, and service/applications. These different types of clouds will have different business models driving overlapping technical requirements. This session will categorize the cloud computing space, describer associated business models, and identify ensuing technology requirements for these clouds. It will also identify key open source standards and technologies that will help build and operate such clouds as well as the areas that will need innovations and standardization.