 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 at the conference * 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 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Joel Replogle Executive Director, Open Grid Forum replogle@ogf.org http://www.ogf.org
