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This is part I of 6 of the Demystifying the Cloud series. This episode covers the evolution of Cloud Computing, terminology and what Cloud Computing means to IT professionals, developers and consumers.

This is part I of 6 of the Demystifying the Cloud series. This episode covers the evolution of Cloud Computing, terminology and what Cloud Computing means to IT professionals, developers and consumers.

Amazon Web Services and Google App Engine represent the leading edge of a wave of cloud services. These services and similar services that are being developed by other vendors are increasing efficiencies in web application development, hosting and data storage. These services provide the ability to expand computing and hosting capability as a variable cost rather than a fixed cost. The ability to design infrastructure that dynamically adapts to peak loads positively affects the stability and resilience because infrastructure no longer experiences service outages during peak loads. It can flexibly extended via cloud services. In this talk recorded at Saltmarch Media's Nitin Borwankar anweres questions such as What are the business areas that can benefit most from using cloud services? How can enterprise business standards be met with seemingly unreliable services? Take two of the most prominent services as category examples. What does Amazon Web Services offer specifically and what does Google App Engine offer and how are they similar and different? How do we evaluate these and future offerings to come? This talk addresses key issues surrounding the leveraged use of cloud services for business applications in the enterprise and identifies where the usage differs from the usage of these services in Web 2.0 applications. We use Amazon Web Services and Google App Engine as examples only. This is not a vendor presentation also it is not biased to one vendor - rather it is meant to teach the audience how to evaluate these offerings for their own needs and what checklists might one find useful. We use AWS and GAE as examples as these are the most well known - we also survey the other offerings available so that the audience can get an idea of what is out there and what is coming. This talk is meant for technologists as well as business users.

Given the high degree of competitiveness and the reduced time lines available to respond to dynamic business needs, organizations have little option, but to embrace as many productivity enhancement tools as necessary to stay ahead & optimally manage their business. Invariably this results in a farm of tools which either are loosely connected or are completely isolated, introducing a level of management complexity which negates the value these tools offers in isolation. Traditionally organizations adopted data integration and warehousing infrastructure to break the barrier imposed by these point solutions, but with organizations recognizing the benefits of OnDemand solution or software delivered as a service (SaaS), complexity associated with integrating these has increased by several folds. In this talk recorded at Saltmarch Media's , Venki Muthanna looks at how organizations can leverage some of the standard architecture (like SOA) and standards (BPEL/BPMN, REST) to not only address the integration constraints, but also enable integration solution providers to offer these integration as a service. In this session, Venki also discusses the advantages organizations get by developing these integration solutions using a comprehensive business process platform that adheres to the standards.

Peter Robinett is announcing the Mobile Dev Camp, a two day event on November 29 and 30 devoted to developing mobile applications for the iPhone, Android and Symbian platforms. The first day consists workshops, while the second day is devoted to building applications in the Hackathon. Everything you need to know about the Dev Camp can be found at www.mobiledevcamp.nl. And don't forget to post on their job board (www.mobiledevcamp.nl/job_board/) if you're looking to hire a developer. Sounds also like a great opportunity for non-Dutch to get to know to interesting people and maybe co-workers!

Learn how to use web services to access your data in Clearspace 2.0 with Andrew Wright, Jive Software Engineer.