Working the Clouds: NextGen Infrastructure for New EntrepreneursGeva Perry, GigaSpaces

Jason Hoffman, Joyent

Tony Lucas, XCalibre

Lew Moorman, Rackspace

Christophe Bisciglia, Google

Joe Weinman, AT&T

Why is this different from grid computing or timesharing?

Are we selling our souls?Or should we not worry about lock-in?

Can we have our old toys?

Can I drag my database into the cloud, or do I have to start using Big Data?

What has to change for enterprises to use it?

What’s the bigger lock-in?

Formal Informal

Proprietary APIs and languages

I can’t build it myself even if I

want to

Standards of portability

Is the future a few big clouds or many small ones?

Is this the end of network equipment as we know it?

Cisco

Nortel

F5

Juniper

Stomp

IPChains

Vyatta

Packeteer

Hardware Software

What are the licensing and billing challenges?

Is synchronization the key?

How do you use a cloud offline? Is synchronization essential for cloud adoption?

Does this give Google (gears), Adobe (AIR) and others an advantage?

Legislative barriers

What ethical responsibilities do cloud operators have?

Wiretapping?

Patriot Act?

Privacy and geographic boundaries?

Cloud specialization

Ning wants to be a social network.

Webex wants to collaborate.

Salesforce wants to be a CRM.

How big a factor is the network effect?

feed.API (facebook) > feed.api (friendster)

Security

What are the big issues?

Can one bad user ruin everyone’s day in an elastic environment?

Can one good hack take everyone offline?