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Deploying into the Clouds: Concepts, Benefits, and Experiences
Cloud Computing offers significant benefits over traditional solutions for deploying production systems as well as for conducting development and testing activities. This session will distill the unique characteristics of clouds and describe how to best think about deployments in the clouds. Case studies and real experiences from Thorsten von Eicken's two years of cloud computing experience will illustrate the pros and cons of today's cloud offerings. His technical discussion will cover: Layers of cloud computing, Cost breakdown versus traditional solutions, IT management and development, testing benefits/examples, Extreme, fast scalability at low cost - case study.read more
Five Yahoo! Search Panels at SMX East
At the Javits Convention Center in New York next week, the Yahoo! Search team will speak on five SMX East panels to address a number of industry topics, including spam, URLs and domains, design techniques, and enhanced listings. Also, the team will offer answers to your questions and give you a behind-the-scenes look at search engines in the "Ask the Search Engines" SEO Track on Wednesday.Check out our line-up and stop by if you're in the neighborhood. You can find the team at the Meet & Eat tables during lunch on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday too.Tuesday, October 7thTime: 10:45 a.m. - noonSession: What is Spam?Description: Search representatives share their views on what search spam is.Yahoo!: Sean Suchter, VP of EngineeringTime: 1:30 - 2:45 p.m.Session: Unraveling URLs & Demystifying DomainsDescription: This session looks at a variety of URL and domain name issues you should consider to increase your success with SEO.Yahoo!: Sean Suchter, VP of EngineeringTime: 3:15 - 4:30 p.m.Session: CSS, AJAX, Web 2.0 and SEODescription: CSS, AJAX and Web 2.0 dynamic design techniques can cause search engine indexing and ranking issues. This session examines solutions to consider.Yahoo!: Sharad Verma, Senior Product Manager, Web SearchTime: 3:15 - 4:30 p.m.Session: Enhanced ListingsDescription: Search engines are moving towards enhanced listings. How can search marketers tap into them?Yahoo!: Larry Cornett, VP of Consumer ProductsWednesday, October 8thTime: 2:30 - 3:30 p.m.Session: Ask the Search Engines (SEO Track)Description: This Q&A panel gives a behind-the-scenes look at how things work in the world of indexing and ranking pages.Yahoo!: Sean Suchter, VP of EngineeringThe Yahoo! Search Marketing team is speaking on a number of other panels as well, so be sure to check out the conference site for more details on their whereabouts. Hope to see you there.Yahoo! Search Blog team
Dr Michael Carey Headlines SYS-CON’s DataServices World 2008 West Speaker Lineup
The second DataServices World, being held November 20 in San Jose, California, at the 14th International SOA World Conference & Expo, has a lineup of speakers headlined by Dr Mike Carey, one of the 50 Most Influential Computer Scientists in the world. The lineup also includes experts from Adobe, Yahoo!, IBM, Oracle, m2mi, and DataDirect Technologies. "DataServices World is about the confluence of databases, data warehousing, business intelligence, enterprise computing and Internet computing," says Ken North, DataServicesWorld 2008 West Conference Chair.read more
SYS-CON’s Cloud Computing Expo Will Be Larger Than Any Recent Gartner Event
The future model for providing IT infrastructure and services in large organizations is what many today are calling "Cloud Computing" - a concept popularized by Amazon through its web services efforts. Merrill Lynch analysts for example reckon that by 2011 the volume of Cloud Computing market opportunity will amount to $160BN, including $95N in business and productivity apps (e-mail, office, CRM, etc.) and $65BN in online advertising.Cloud Computing has many interpreters just now - and many interpretations. One thing is certain: it is the most dynamic new metaphor to hit enterprise computing since the creation of the "Web" by Tim Berners-Lee. read more
The Future of Cloud Computing - An Army of Monkeys?
There's been a good deal of confusion of late between the general concept of cloud computing, which I define as "Internet ('Cloud') based development and use of computer technology ('Computing')", and its various components (autonomic, grid & utility computing, SaaS etc.). Some of this confusion is understandable given issues get complex quickly when you start peeling off the layers, however much of it comes from the very same opportunistic hardware & software vendors who somehow convinced us years ago that clusters had become grids. These same people are now trying to convince us that grids have become clouds in order to sell us their version of a 'private cloud' (which is apparently any large, intelligent and/or reliable cluster).read more
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