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Techweb — the folks behind Interop — are launching what promises to be the definitive cloud computing conference. It’s called Cloud Connect, and while it’s still half a year away, we’re hard at work on content and scheduling.
There have been lots of cloud-specific events. But as clouds become an IT reality, the industry needs to focus on specific aspects of utility computing: performance, availability, scalability, and security, for example.
Cloud Connect will have tracks for cloud providers, CIOs and architects, developers, and operators. We’ve assembled around 40 experts to help guide the content (affectionately dubbed the Cloud Crowd) and we’ll be announcing more details soon.
The Israeli Association of Grid Technologies (IGT) puts on a conference in Israel focused on grids, virtualization, and cloud computing. It’s a vendor-neutral organization supported by the Magnet program of the Israeli Chief Scientist.
We’re headed to IGT2009, and will be putting on content with the other organizers and participants. 2008′s conference had all the big names in cloud computing, and IGT09 is expecting over 600 attendees this year.
O’Reilly is the go-to reference for technology (we’re a bit biased, of course) and the Web2 conferences are no exception. Web2Summit is the blue-sky event that talks about what’s possible on the Internet, leaving the attendees and sessions of Web2Expo to figure out how.
We’ll be running a day-long session on web monitoring, with a particular focus on how to tie social media tracking systems back to outcomes in analytics.
We did an overview of Complete Web Monitoring at the spring Web2Expo, and this one will borrow from that, but also add a lot from the discussions we’ve had with various startups and vendors since that time.
This five-day conference bills itself as the IT industry’s largest event, and that’s no exaggeration — it brings together networking, computer, storage, security, and a variety of other disciplines under one roof. We’ve worked with Interop over the years on a wide range of topics, from performance to data centers to clouds. This time, Bitcurrent is coordinating the cloud content, including a one-day reprise of May’s Enterprise Cloud Summit and two days of cloud computing content in the general conference track.
One of the changes we’ll be seeing is a shift from the theoretical to the practical. Last year, clouds were still largely a “what if?” discussion; now, they’re real. There are lots of case studies and lessons learned — both real and painful.
Interesting fact: Interop’s the only event with its own Class A netblock (45.0.0.0 – 45.255.255.255). Hard to argue with that.
We’re going overseas! As part of a seminar with Dutch web optimization outfit Measureworks, we’ll be visiting some startups and enterprises in Holland. We’ll be presenting our findings on performance, analytics, and online effectiveness gained with Strangeloop, and we’ll be joined by folks from Oracle, ING, and other web experts in the Netherlands.
The session runs on November 12 from 8AM to 1PM.
Strangeloop shared some fascinating data on web performance and Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) like visit duration and conversion rates. There’s a detailed overview on Watching Websites, and we’ll be sitting down with their VP of Products for a more in-depth look at the study and the results on October 8.
