Phoenix WebSphere User’s Group
04/29/09 - PHXWUG - WebSphere Portal in the Cloud
Agenda:
- 5:30 - 5:45 - Networking, Food and Beverages
- 5:45 - 6:45 - Keynote Topic: The Forecast is Clearly Cloudy, Presented by Mike Culver, Amazon Web Services Evangelist, Via Webex.
- 6:45 - 7:30 - Real World Topic: WebSphere Portal in the Cloud, Presented by Sonny Coccera, Managing Director, Isos Technology
Keynote Speaker: Mike Culver, Amazon Web Services Evangelist
Mike Culver joined Amazon Web Services in 2006 as a Web Services Evangelist in the Developer Relations Group. He is responsible for working with industry leaders and software developers to help them understand the principals and benefits of what is popularly known as Cloud Computing.
A 20-year technology veteran, Mike was previously at Microsoft where he helped launch the .NET platform, among other roles. In that capacity he managed a team that evangelized large companies to help provide them the tools and knowledge to become successful early technology adopters.
Prior to that he was president and founder of Extencia, Inc.; which was an early innovator in the eCommerce vertical. He also has almost a decade of experience running an IT organization in the wholesale distribution industry, and even experience as a developer using many popular programming languages.
Mike holds a BBA in Finance from the University of Wisconsin—Madison.
Real World Topic:
Cloud Computing is most definitely a buzz word; however there’s a reason why everyone is suddenly using the term. In this talk Mike Culver from Amazon Web Services will take a look at what the characteristics of Cloud Computing are, and the trends that he’s seeing in the Real World as organizations implement one or more Cloud services. He’ll also provide an update on what Amazon Web Services is up to; and why people are so excited about what most experts agree is a major inflection point in computing. Finally, you will hear about the details of some of IBM’s offerings in the Amazon Cloud.
Amazon.com spent well over a decade and billions of dollars creating an online technology presence of unprecedented scale and reliability. Many of the key learnings and best practices were rolled forward into a new business unit called Amazon Web Services, which delivers these benefits to software developers and IT practitioners as a set of foundational Web Services.
Real World Speaker: Sonny Coccera, Managing Director, Isos Technology
With more than 10 years of consulting experience, Sonny possesses with a unique aptitude for understanding and communicating advanced technology. He has held positions such as Chief Architect and Project Lead with previous employers AirToolz Software and Unity Software. Today, Sonny’s technical expertise provides his clients with an advanced quality of services and solutions. He is focused on the pursuit of better solutions through emergence of enabling technology.
Real World Topic:
Since 2006, Amazon has made their scalable, reliable and cost-effective cloud web services available to customers for running their IT infrastructure. Consequently, a number of companies have made their software available to use through the Amazon cloud including IBM. Learn about Amazon Web Services (AWS) and how you can take advantage of using their global computing infrastructure to run your IBM services. Don’t get left behind–find out what all the buzz is about.
During this presentation you will learn about Amazon’s Web Services featuring the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2). You will also find out what IBM software is available for use and see a demonstration of how to setup a WebSphere Portal instance using these services.
Please RSVP for this by Thursday, April 23rd - http://spreadsheets.google.com/a/isostech.com/viewform?hl=en&cfg=true&formkey=cFVTN2RYVGdtanFkejJZWXZvMXBNR1E6MA
