Aug 9
In addition, Dr. Werner Vogels, CTO of Amazon Web Services gave the keynote, which is shown below. Dr. Vogels is an excellent cloud computing evangelist, as this presentation shows. There are also valuable lessons about how AWS has grown to be one of the standards. It is worth flipping through and seeing how AWS is positioning cloud computing platforms and services to the enterprise market.
Jul 11
On May 12, Marc Andreessen presented on the topic A Panorama of Venture Capital and Beyond (61 min). During that discussion, he made several points about how entrepreneurs who seek out his venture fund, Andreessen Horowitz, rely heavily on Cloud Computing to alleviate infrastructure and hardware start-up costs. He mentions that 96% of firms seeking funding are running on Amazon Web Services and just a few on RackSpace. He also mentions that few are running Google AppsEngine or Microsoft Azure now.
Jul 1
Jinesh Varia of Amazon Web Services (AWS) authored the following presentation, which is an excellent overview of the AWS Services and basic terminology used on this specific cloud platform. This presentation describes the lessons learned by AWS in terms of scalability, cloud architectural trade-offs and also provides guidance of which storage option to choose.
Feb 25
Included is an assessment of the integration requirements by Cloud type. At just over 3 minutes it’s an excellent summary of the differences between Cloud Computing platforms and provides a useful context to understand these two concepts.
Feb 10
Bottom line: The goal of these webinars is often to recruit students for certificate and degree programs, so the content often over-the-top in terms of quality. It’s definitely worth checking out if you are interested in cloud computing.
Feb 9
Bottom line: During previous quarterly earnings calls Oracle has often said they see cloud computing as an aberration and a business that could not scale to profitability. Not wanting to leave any money on the table with enterprise accounts, Oracle gets cloud religion just in time to upsell servers, services and infrastructure. Larry’s favorite cloud color is currency green.
