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Cloud Computing Expo 2008 Summary

Posted by: Dmitry Sotnikov on: November 26, 2008

I have posted my notes from all the sessions I attended at the last week’s Cloud Computing Expo 2008 on:

Day 1
Day 2
Day 3

(By the way, I have just updated all three posts and added links to the session slides!)
Now it is time to share a few general comments on the conference.
First and foremost, cloud computing [...]

Cloud Computing Expo - Day 3

Posted by: Dmitry Sotnikov on: November 24, 2008

Here are my notes from the third day of SYS-CON’s Cloud Computing Expo (see also my notes from day 1 and day 2):
Peter Nickolov - President & CTO of 3tera - gave a pitch on how their technology (AppLogic) lets customers use cloud computing for high-availability solutions.
In a nutshell, Peter had an instance of SugarCRM [...]

Cloud Computing Expo - Day 2

Posted by: Dmitry Sotnikov on: November 21, 2008

Here are my notes from the second day of SYS-CON’s Cloud Computing Expo (Day 1 notes here):
Day 2 started with a keynote by Amazon’s CTO - Dr. Werner Vogels. Werner is an amazing speaker, and his enthusiasm really gave a kick-start to the whole day. I would summarize his presentation as: “Yep, we invented cloud [...]

Cloud Computing Expo - Day 1

Posted by: Dmitry Sotnikov on: November 20, 2008

This week I am at the moderately sunny and warm (can’t believe I was driving through a snow storm in Detroit just 3 days ago) San Jose at SYS-CON’s Cloud Computing Expo.
I intent to blog from here all three days - so if you could not make it to the event you can at least [...]

Microsoft is producing so much effort in the SaaS space recently that they can get one easily confused. Quickly: can you tell the difference between Microsoft Exchange Online, Exchange Labs, Windows Live Hotmail, Microsoft Live@edu, and Exchange Hosted Services?
Fear not. This post will make the distinction crystal clear!
First of all: All of them except Exchange [...]

Google ramps up APIs

Posted by: Dmitry Sotnikov on: November 3, 2008

Folks at Google have released another set of APIs for Google Apps and like the previous drop in September this one is for administrative tasks.
This is actually a big deal deal because unlike earlier user-oriented APIs these give you programmatic administrative access to all users’ data and settings.
Here’s the key difference in what we had [...]


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