OGF is participating in the joint conference of CloudWorld, Next
Generation Data Center (NGDC), and OpenSource World going on now,
August 12-13, 2009 in San Francisco, CA, USA.
OGF's VP of Standards, Chris Smith, is presenting a talk Thursday
August 13, from 9:15am - 10:00am in room 3004:
From Grid to Cloud: Leveraging Distributed Computing
Technologies in Moving to the Cloud
There are many challenges in the minds of enterprise CIO's about the
opportunities that cloud presents. On the one hand, the opportunity
to flex resources to meet demand, particularly with pay as you go,
addresses the challenge of sizing and capital expenditure for
occasional events. Another class of challenge is the security and
management of key corporate resources, for audit and compliance
purposes. So why would the typical CIO be interested in throwing
caution to the wind with a third party service provider?
This session will feature discussion of the potential for grid
middleware to provide a vehicle for the development of private
clouds, leveraging existing resources and infrastructure with the
potential for extending services into the cloud using commercial
suppliers. Much work has been done in the grid middleware community
to demonstrate the viability of grid as an application, an extensible
platform and an infrastructure in the cloud, thus providing an
effective "on ramp" to the cloud for the existing user base.
Visit us at booth 431 in the Solutions Showcase!
Why is OGF at the joint CloudWorld/NGDC/OpenSource World conference?
* To promote OGF's specifications and best practices
* To inform conference attendees of OGF's mission and invite
participation
* To promote OGF's Open Cloud Computing Interface (OCCI) working
group
* OGF's Open Forum and Open Standards are a natural fit to many
attendees
* To promote OGF's upcoming events
* To meet and network with organizations interested in cloud and
distributed technologies.
Conference website:
http://www.linuxworldexpo.com/
Thanks,
Joel
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Joel Replogle Executive Director, Open Grid Forum
replogle(a)ogf.org http://www.ogf.org
