Sourceforge/Slashdot doing free “Heading for the Clouds” event 6/15/2011

by Donovan Creative in TECHNOLOGY, TUTORIALS

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Jun
2011

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Open Source Software leader Sourceforge and Geeknet site Slashdot are sponsoring a free virtual trade convention tomorrow, Wednesday, June 15, 2011, on Cloud Computing and what it means for businesses (large or small), enterprise, and government organizations: Heading For the Clouds: 2011 Cloud Computing Update

It starts at 10 AM EST (that’s 8:00 AM in Edmonton) and goes until 2:30 PM EST (that’s 12:30 PM in Edmonton).

Charities, non-profits, and governmental agencies who are either using open source software now, or who intend to migrate to open source in the future to reduce their IT costs, need to check this out. Register here before the convention starts. This is a live event and you will be able to ask questions that pertain to your organization. (They’re also giving away an iPad and HP Tablet to two of the registrants.)

Sourceforge’s event notification:

The past year has seen cloud computing penetrate into virtually every area of IT from traditional outsourcing and SaaS vendors to cloud-based infrastructure, security and backup offerings. With scalability and cost containment remaining major IT challenges, are you looking to the clouds to solve these and other IT issues?

During this event, you will hear from both industry experts and IT staffers like yourselves, and see what’s the latest in public, private and hybrid clouds and what you should be doing now to prepare your organization for the inexorable move toward cloud computing.

We have a packed event planned with a wide variety of sessions, including:

Developing for the cloud: Issues and opportunities in developing Cloud-based enterprise applications
- Peter Coffee, VP and Head of Platform Research, Salesforce.com
- Elizabeth Naramore, Manager of Community Development, SourceForge
- Mihir Panchal, Mobile Cloud Lead, Model Metrics

Clouds on Wheels: Mobility and Agility for Cloud Deployments
- Rainer Enders, CTO, NCP Engineering
- Jeffrey S. Hammond, Principal Analyst, Forrester
- Tony Woods, Sybase

Securing Cloud-based Resources: Security and Business Continuity issues in a cloud-heavy environment
- Tony Shan – Chief Cloudologist, CTS Inc.
- Rob May, CEO, Backupify
- James Brown, CTO, StillSecure
- Gil Zimmermann, CEO and Co-Founder, CloudLock
- Ed Laczynski, Vice President, Cloud Strategy & Architecture, Datapipe

Clouds and the Network: How Cloud Computing transforms IT Infrastructure
- Jeff Barr, Senior Web Services Evangelist, Amazon Web Services
- John Jainschigg, CEO, World2Worlds, Inc.
- Dan Raju, CIO, TradeKing
- Chris Stark, President and CEO, Cetrom