Cloud Computing Keynote at SYS-CON's Cloud Computing Expo November 19-21 in Silicon Valley

Werner Vogels, Amazon CTO, to Keynote in San Jose, CA, on "The Power of Infrastructure as a Service"

Nov. 14, 2008 06:15 AM

In his Cloud Computing Keynote in San Jose, CA, on November 20th - entitled "A Head in the Cloud - The Power of Infrastructure as a Service" - the CTO of Amazon.com, Werner Vogels, will discuss the many challenges when building a reliable, flexible architecture that can manage unpredictable behaviors of today's Internet business.

Building the right infrastructure that can scale up or down at a moment's notice, notes Amazon.com's VP & CTO Dr Werner Vogels, can be a complicated and expensive task. "But it's essential in today's business landscape," adds Vogels, who is the distinguished Keynote Speaker at SYS-CON's upcoming Cloud Computing Expo (November 19-21, 2008), a groundbreaking adjunct to the 4th International Virtualization Conference & Expo in San Jose, CA (19-21 November, 2008). "This applies to an enterprise trying to cut-costs, a young business unexpectedly saturated with customer demand, or a start-up looking to launch," Vogels stresses.

His presentation will review some of the lessons learned from building one of the world's largest distributed systems; Amazon.com. The focus will be on state management which is one of the dominating factors in the scalability, reliability, performance and cost-effectiveness of the overall system.

Vogels heads up a star-studded lineup of speakers covering the hottest IT topic for years, with not just Amazon but also IBM, Microsoft, Google, Yahoo, Intel, HP and a host of others all offering, using or developing high-end computing services typically described as “cloud computing” - through which massively scalable IT-related capabilities are provided as a service using Internet technologies.

Forrester Research analyst James Staten calls cloud computing "classic disruptive innovation - where the mainstream dismisses the product and small companies have time to create a real differentiated value." But there are so many offerings just now that what infrastructure architects are looking for above all is a set of organizing principles they can use to guide them in choosing between them all.

Such principles. and a host of associated topics, will be addressed in San Jose by a Top Speaker Faculty that includes:

Dr Werner Vogels - VP & CTO, Amazon.com (Keynote)
Mike Feinberg - Senior Vice President, Cloud Infrastructure Group, EMC
Rob Weltman - Director of Grid Services, Yahoo!
David Bernstein - VP & GM of Network Applications Infrastructure, Cisco
Peter Nickolov - President CTO, 3tera
Kevin Haar - President & CEO, Appistry
Songnian Zhou - Co-Founder & CEO, Platform Computing
Patrick Harr - CEO, Nirvanix
Gerrit Huizenga - Cloud Solutions Architect, IBM
John Keagy - CEO & Co-Founder, GoGrid/ServePath
Sajai Krishnan - CEO, ParaScale
Reuven Cohen - Founder & Chief Technologist, Enomaly
Mike Eaton - CEO, Cloudworks
Jonathan Bryce - Founder at Mosso (Rackspace)
Nati Shalom - CTO, GigaSpaces
Don MacAskill - CEO & Chief Geek, SmugMug
Billy Marshall - Founder & CEO, rPath
Dr Thorsten von Eicken - CTO & Founder, RightScale
Vik Chaudhary -VP of Corporate Development, Keynote Systems
Jason Stowe - Founder & CEO, Cycle Computing
David Young - Co-Founder & CEO, Joyent
Dave Durkee - Founder, CEO & Technical Director, ENKI
John Janakiraman - CTO, Skytap
Stuart Charlton - Chief Software Architect, Elastra
Lars Leckie, Principal, Hummer Winblad Venture Partners
Dr Rich Wolski - Professor, U.C. Santa Barbara
Javier Soltero - Co-Founder & CEO of Hyperic
Omer Trajman - Director of Field Engineering, Vertica Systems
Rachel Chalmers - Senior Analyst, Enterprise Software, The 451 Group
Ken Gardner - Executive Chairman, SOASTA
Michael Cupps - VO, Online Markets, Cordys

and with a special Cloud Computing Bootcamp led by
Alan Williamson, Founder at Blog-City.com, Creator of BlueDragon

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About Jeremy Geelan
Jeremy Geelan is Sr. Vice-President of SYS-CON Media & Events. He is Conference Chair of the worldwide Cloud Expo series, of the Virtualization Conference series, and of the uppcoming UlitzerLIVE! event. He's founder of Cloud Computing Journal, Web 2.0 Journal, AJAX & RIA Journal and other leading SYS-CON titles. From 2000-6, as first editorial director and then group publisher of SYS-CON Media, he was responsible for the development of all new titles and i-Technology portals for the firm. Today he has complete responsibility for the content of SYS-CON's entire portfolio of Events. He regularly represents SYS-CON Media & Events at conferences and trade shows, speaking to technology audiences both in North America and overseas. He is executive producer and presenter of "Power Panels with Jeremy Geelan" on SYS-CON.TV.