Thank you for attending Fall Forecast 2008: Computing Among the Clouds.

The 2008 Fall Forecast conference highlighted the emerging areas of cloud computing, software as a service and multi-core technologies. Providers are seizing the opportunity to build services and applications that can scale up or down with company demand. Increasingly, developers need to understand how to apply these concepts.

Panel Discussion: Real World Cloud Computing Experiences - Available for download

The event featured a panel discussion about real-world use of Amazon's Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) and Simple Storage Service (S3). Both pros and cons of this technology were covered. The panel discussed the impact of EC2 and S3, and how, in many cases, they replace the need for an internal data center or web host provider. The panel covered topics such as backup/recovery scenarios, how our panel members have handled outages, and strategies for debugging when your app is running in a 'black boxed' environment. The panel also addressed concerns about vendor lock-in.

Panelists:
Chris Cera - CTO, Vuzit
Toby DiPasquale - Chief Architect, CubeTree
Andrew Kortina - Lead Engineer, tinydb.org
Ken Rimple - Software Architect, Chariot Solutions

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