Keynote: The Power and Future of the Cloud
Wednesday, 9 December 200903:30 PM – 04:30 PM
Speaker: Werner Vogels, Ph.D
Location: Octavius 11
Session Type: Keynote Session
Cloud computing encompasses a broad set of platform, infrastructure, applications and business services. A scalable and elastic infrastructure is essential in today’s business climate, yet these can be complicated and expensive, and are fraught with many challenges. In this presentation, Werner Vogels, the award-winning CTO of Amazon.com, will review some of the lessons learned from building one of the world’s largest distributed cloud systems. He will address issues of enterprise adoption, including how to deal with the challenges of privacy, security, reliability and integration, and will share his insights on the future of cloud computing.


