NY Panel on cloud computing
Ronald Bradford of 42SQL was one of the panel speakers at A Panel on Cloud Computing chaired by Murat Aktihanoglu of Unype held July 29th in New York. Other panelists included Mike Nolet - AppNexus, Jamal Mazhar - Kaavo, Hans Zaunere - New York PHP, Hank Williams - KloudShare (stealth - see Hank’s excellent blog) and Geir Magnusson - 10gen.
With four providers of varying services in the cloud space, and two independent industry experts and observers, the questions and discussions provided for a great amount of useful information.
Keywords that met with active communication included Infrastructure as a Services, Tools as a Service, Platform as a Service, Data Security, Data Consistency, Standards - creation and adoption, Open Source - is it important, Latency, Economics of Scale. Even Microsoft, Assembly Language and Cobol didn’t escape the evening.
One memorable quote was “When your tools change, what solutions can you now provide?”