CloudCamp London #2 - Nov 13th, 2008

About CloudCamp London

Nearly 200 Cloud enthusiasts got together in The Crypt, Clerkenwell Green, London for talks and discussion aimed to further Cloud Computing in the UK. The format was nine Lightning Talks - each speaker had just five minutes to deliver their slides before Alexis Richardson of CohesiveFT, organiser and MC for the evening, blocked the projector and and encouraged the audience to clap the present off stage. This fate only befell one presenter - watch the videos to find out who. These were followed by three 30 minute open spaces style discussion tracks, where the direction of Cloud computing was vigorously discussed (in some groups more than others), before the pizzas came out and the networking (aka drinking and eating) took over.

*The Lightning Talks were;*

1. Simon Wardley, Software Services Manager, Canonical UK, “Why standardisation matters”
2. Joe Baguley, Quest CTO Europe, “Virtualisation isn’t always green”
3. Paul Watson, Arjuna, “Federated clouds”
4. Duncan Johnston-Watt, Enigmatec CTO, “Cloud Cover”
5. Phil Dean, Cisco,”What CIOs are saying to Cisco about cloud”
6. Philipp Huber, Zimory, “Pervasive Cloud Computing - What is still missing?”
7. Rhys Jones, RBS, “Clouds are cool, so why aren’t we using them yet?”
8. Wayne Horkan, SUN CTO UK and Ireland “Sun and Clouds: How Sun Microsystems is helping with the global Cloud infrastructure build out.”
9. Neil Hutson, Senior Director, Microsoft Platform Strategy, Microsoft Corp “Head in the clouds, feet on the ground.”

Once the videos are on-line links will be posted here

*The Open Spaces discussion were;*

*Open Space 1: The Microsoft Azure Services Platform
* Session Hosts: Nigel Watling, Technical Evangelist, Microsoft Platform Strategy, Microsoft Corp and Phil Wainewright, ZDNet Bloggger

*Open Space 2: Standards and interoperability in the cloud*
Session Hosts: Matthias Kohl, Zimory and Benjamin Ellis, Director, Redcatco

*Open Space 3: Both sides now: Cloud Architectures and Persistence*
Session Host: Matthew Fowler, Director, NT/e
how will architectures change, by 2011
- will there be dominant architectural styles;
- where will they be deployed;
- how will they be programmed;
- how will they access and persist information;
- who will own what and how will they be paid for it?

These sessions were not recorded.
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