Seemingly from nowhere, cloud computing has become one of the hottest IT topics. For most IT practitioners, cloud computing represents IT delivered by providers outside the enterprise via the internet. In reality, every IT shop will become a cloud computing provider for their own applications. Today’s stove-piped application delivery models are giving way to the cloud-based models of tomorrow, allowing IT organizations to focus on solving business problems and not worry about designing scalability into their applications.

Conference delegates will learn:

Why cloud computing architectures will dominate the next-generation data center

The benefits they will achieve by implementing internal clouds

Technology choices for internal cloud implementations

How their peers are implementing cloud-based architectures today

Speaker Bio:
Kevin Haar is President & Chief Executive Officer of Appistry. A software industry executive with a wealth of experience in company building, prior to joining Appistry, he spent 17 years at Rational Software, where he played a key role in driving the company’s transformation from a fledgling software startup into an industry powerhouse with over $800 million in annual revenues. At the time of Haar's departure from Rational – following the completion its $2.1 billion acquisition by IBM – Haar served as its Senior Vice President of Worldwide Field Operations with responsibility for worldwide sales, consulting, training, support, and business development. In addition, he sat on Rational’s executive management committee, through which the company’s four highest-ranking executives and two founders charted its strategic direction.

Cloud Computing Conference & Expo, November 19-20-21, 2008
SYS-CON Events announced today that Amazon CTO Dr. Werner Vogels will deliver the opening keynote at SYS-CON's Cloud Computing Conference & Expo (www.cloudcomputingexpo.com), which will take place November 19-21, at the Fairmont Hotel at the heart of Silicon Valley, in San Jose, California. The first International Cloud Computing Conference & Expo will be colocated with the 4th International Virtualization Conference & Expo (www.virtualizationconference.com)..

Building the right infrastructure that can scale up or down at a moment's notice can be a complicated and expensive task, but it's essential in today's business landscape. This applies to an enterprise trying to cut-costs, a young business unexpectedly saturated with customer demand, or a start-up looking to launch.

There are many challenges when building a reliable, flexible architecture that can manage unpredictable behaviors of today's internet business. This presentation will review some of the lessons learned from building one of the world's largest distributed systems; Amazon.com. The focus will be on state management which is one of the dominating factors in the scalability, reliability, performance and cost-effectiveness of the overall system.

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About the Speaker:
Dr. Werner Vogels is Vice President & Chief Technology Officer at Amazon.com where he is responsible for driving the company's technology vision. Prior to joining Amazon, he worked as a research scientist at Cornell University where he was a principal investigator in several research projects that target the scalability and robustness of mission-critical enterprise computing systems.

Vogels holds a Ph.D. from the Vrije Universiteit in Amsterdam and has authored close to 80 articles for journals and conferences, most of them on distributed systems technologies for enterprise computing.

Sponsorship and Exhibit Opportunities
Sponsorship and Exhibit Opportunities Offered on a First-Come First-Served Basis. To inquire about sponsorship and exhibit opportunities please contact Carmen Gonzalez at 201-802-3021 or by email at events(at)sys-con.com. Currently, a limited number of sponsorship and exhibition packages with multiple sponsorship discounts are available for the upcoming events.