Chris Smith's Blog

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 and the breadth of content, although I think that the notion of "cloud" is already becoming over hyped, with everybody and their dog wanting to be part of the cloud ecosystem. I guess that's just part of the industry we're part of.

You can see summaries of the Structure08 sessions at the GigaOM Structure08 live coverage post.