Cloud Summit

A new feature of the 2009 event is the Cloud Summit featuring a mix of leading analysts, suppliers and users of this technology combined with news of the new SNIA initiative around standards for cloud storage.  The Cloud Summit runs form 13:30 – 17:30 on Tuesday 27th October in the Keynote Theatre #2.

Agenda:

Cloud Summit Keynote:  ‘The Data Center of the Future - M&E plant to Cloud’
Presented by Steve O'Donnell, ESG
The data center ecosystem has changed. Power availability and cost is central to the cost model, yet Cloud and other Virtualization technologies push higher and higher densities and more and more layers of abstraction. What will the data center of the future look like, the plant, operational processes, hardware, and software. How will we support our customers when the service and server are virtualized and opaque?

‘The Bits are in the Cloud’  
Presented by  Simone Brunozzi, Amazon Web Services Technology Evangelist – Europe
Cloud, a new word to the dictionary of technology, a new approach to IT infrastructure, and a new economic model. Simone Brunozzi will demystify this new concept and the next stages of its deployment.

SNIA Cloud Storage Initiative presentation on the benefits of cloud storage and the adoption of CDMI
Presented by Vincent Franceschini, SNIA
SNIA has created the Cloud Storage Technical Work Group (TWG) for the purpose of developing SNIA Architecture related to system implementations of Cloud Storage technology. The Cloud Storage TWG acts as the primary technical entity for the SNIA to identify, develop, and coordinate systems standards for Cloud Storage  This session will provide an update and overview of the current status of the association’s activities.

Customer Case Study: ‘Storage Forecast: Thriving on clouds.’
Presented by K Petruch, Deutsche Telekom Products & Innovation, M Reß, T-Systems
Deutsche Telekom provides services for connected life and work. Everyday (and night) millions of users are concurrently accessing the T-Online Mediacenter producing a rapidly increasing amount of continually changing data. Deutsche Telekom Products & Innovation and T-Systems realized a Storage Cloud providing “Storage as a Service” to an Application Cloud.

The Cloud Summit will conclude with a panel session chaired by Steve O'Donnell featuring summit speakers who will be joined by Ken Male of TheInfoPro and , Carla Arend of IDC Europe.