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Cloud Boot Camp Post Notes

Sitting here in Cloud Computing Expo in New York, listening to a keynote session, I find myself reflecting on yesterdays boot camp. We had a whole day of talking about the logistics of cloud platforms. We went through the whole range of services, right from Amazon EC2, through to load balancing and managing and running databases in the cloud.

I'd like to thank everyone that came along and made the event a wonderful experience. We had lots and lots of questions throughout the day, with people probing into the various avenues of cloud computing. For all the fabulous claims of the cloud industry, its not all plain sailing. Yesterday we touched upon that.

Let me thank Patrick, Tony and Ranjith for delivering sessions on Elastic Server, FlexiScale and Microsoft's Azure platform. Informative and entertaining.

I have posted the slides on our aw20 company site. We'll be running another boot camp in Prague, mid May. So be sure to stop along.

Comments

Many thanks Alan, great bootcamp! Well worth the trip to NY.

left by Aake Edlund — Saturday, 18 April 2009 4:47 PM — web site

I have to agree with the other comments - while it was like drinking from a fire hose at times (due to the volume of the data being covered), it never felt over powering. I TOTALLY recommend the boot camp. It was (in a word) AWESOME!!!

left by Scott Baeder — Monday, 6 April 2009 5:20 PM

Thanks for the interesting and entertaining boot camp! I'd highly recommend Alan's class to just about anyone who wants a good overview of cloud computing based on practical experience. Look forward to hearing you speak again in the future - maybe another version with more hands on - and some details on mashups. Well done!

left by Michael Behrens — Saturday, 4 April 2009 4:08 PM — web site

Thank you for a really clear and enlightening tour round the cloud landscape in NY. Good job

left by liz sarginson — Friday, 3 April 2009 5:35 PM

Alan,

Tuesday's bootcamp was by far the highlight of the expo, I’m still amazed at the amount of information you were able to distill in one day (not to mention how painless you made it). I've been kicking around a startup based in the cloud and your presentations made me realize too many of my ideas were based on marketing hype rather than reality.

I wanted to thank you in person but you constantly drew a crowd between sessions and I'm sure you were ready to be done with what had to have been a long day. So thank you and I look forward to hearing you speak again.

Jeff

left by Jeff Devine — Thursday, 2 April 2009 9:04 PM — web site

yes, I was at the bootcamp. it was great. Two big thumbs up!

left by Jessie — Thursday, 2 April 2009 5:43 AM

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