General

Last week, I attended the "Cloud Computing and Beyond: The Web Grows Up (finally)" conference hosted by SDForum in Santa Clara. The purpose of the conference seemed to be to provide a snapshot of where the software market currently sits with respect to cloud computing right now, as well as provide some vision as to where things are going. There was a lot of great content, mostly in the format of panels, which I enjoy quite a bit compared to just presentations.

There were ...

This week I attended the Structure08 conference held here in San Francisco. The theme of the conference was "Cloud" and the topics ranged from issues scaling out web applications to getting your cloud startup funded.

I particularly enjoyed Werner Vogels keynote on Amazon Web Services, and the way that Amazon got into the business of "Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS)". There were also some very good panel sessions. Overall, I liked the format of the conference ...

OGF23 was held last week in Barcelona in conjunction with the BEinGRID industry days events. OGF events, in addition to having great program content, are an excellent way to keep in touch with Grid computing practitioners all over the world, and OGF23 was no exception.

Some of the highlights for me.....

Standards Convergence

For a number of years now I have worked on specifications for interfaces to job management systems in the form of JSDL, OGSA-BES, ...