Workshop Summary:
An Introduction to Cloud Computing (CloudCamp)
CloudCamp is intended to introduce people to the concept of Cloud computing. Cloud computing is a computing model based on the concept of taking underutilized or unevenly distributed computing power, and allowing it to be treated uniformly. It is typically billed and consumed as a utility. Wasted computing resources are more efficiently allocated and investments in hardware give better returns.
Users of the cloud only need to be concerned with the computing service being asked for, as the underlying details of how it is achieved are hidden. Cloud services may encompass infrastructure level such as Amazon Web Services or Platform such as salesforce.com
Due to their singular focus on maximizing the efficiency of their Internet services hosting practices, a select few Web services and hosting companies have realized they can deliver the benefits of their unique infrastructure practices to their customers as a new type of hosting service. Among the first of these services was the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) and Salesforce.com (force.com platform) and more recently Google App Engine.
The workshop will examine some of the technologies, challenge and, opportunities available for deploying your next application in the Cloud.
Reuven Cohen - Bio:
Reuven is the founder & chief technologist for Toronto based Enomaly Inc. Enomaly focuses the development of products and services in the emerging cloud computing and server virtualization space. Enomaly's products include the open source Enomalism Elastic Computing Platform and the ElasticDrive remote storage system.
