Cloud computing as a technology trend is capturing the imagination of many. There are several definitions for this term to be inclusive of “everything” as a service—software to flexible computing infrastructure. 
With the most recent announcement of the CloudFront service from Amazon and existing services from Microsoft and Google, this is as much a practitoner’s pitch as much as it is a researcher’s, so this rather long tutorial or symposium promises to be a good learning experience. Learn about cloud computing from experts in Google, IBM, Intel, HP, Infosys and Rediff. Dr Prasad Ram, Chief Technology Officer of Google India will deliver the keynote in the symposium.
Ease of solution deployment is attractive to IT solution developers. Dramatic cost advantages are truly compelling for the users of flexible computing infrastructure. Cloud computing also represents a paradigm shift from owned IT infrastructure to using software applications, computing and storage as services over a wide-area distribution network such as the internet. This trend is being enabled by quantum performance improvement in the IT infrastructure components combined with enabling technologies such as virtualization, distributed computing, multi-core processors, service-oriented architectures and key innovations in the way cloud computing infrastructure is built.
The symposium on Cloud Computing at Compute and HeadStart 2009 aims to develop an Indian perspective besides presenting some of the practitioners involved in Cloud Computing.
- Is cloud computing representing a paradigm shift in IT or is it an over-hyped fad struggling to find a sustainable business model?
- How is cloud computing affecting the enterprise-computing infrastructure and approaches?
- · How does cloud computing present opportunity for Indian entrepreneurs, practitioners, researchers and Indian business enterprises and/or IT consumers? How does cloud computing fit in the global economic downturn scenario?
- · What are some of the key state-of-the-art technologies of Cloud Computing?
- · What kind of research/technology development is happening in the Indian community?
- · What are the important technical issues in realizing the promise of cloud computing such as virtualization, multi-tenancy, service life cycle management, power management, security, network infrastructure, fault management and so on?
The audience for this conference is practitioners and researchers. The symposium plans to allocate specific time slots for business, technology/research and practice experience topics. There will also be a 15 minutes session exclusively meant for speakers from the audience to share their insights, experience, requirements from the technology, research/technology development they are working on or collaboration requests, each restricted to a maximum of 5 minutes without any slide presentation.
This can also be a good platform to exchange notes via informal networking. Please await updates to this announcement.
Symposium anchor: Sundara Nagarajan (“SN”), Distinguished Technologist, Hewlett-Packard India Software Operations, Bangalore. e-mail: snagarajan@acm.org
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