Ok well maybe its not live but here’s a short (3:34) video I shot yesterday with David Berlind, the man behind Cloud Connect. The conference kicked off Tuesday night and continues, as I type, until this evening.
To watch in High Quality: after clicking play, click the “HQ” button that will appear on the bottom.
This video was shot right in the middle of the “speed geeking” section yesterday where attendees visited nine different cloud demos being presented by the sponsors: Amazon Web Services, IBM, Mosso, Google, Right Scale and Salesforce.com.
In the Video David talks about
The idea behind Cloud Connect and whats going on
Where the cloud works best
His predictions for whats going to happen in the cloud space in ’09 (hint, watch out for the big boys).
But wait, there’s more…
If you’re interested in hearing more from Cloud connect Check back here over the next week since I’ll be posting about six more videos as well as an audio podcast with the founder of Google Apps.
Last but not least in the three podcasts I taped at the Rackspace Customer Event is my conversation with John Engates, Rackspace CTO. Like Lanham and Jonathan, John was a very approachable and likable guy. I checked out John’s presentation earlier in the day and then caught up with him in the afternoon to chat.
From the same event where Jeff Keltner of Google talked about Cloud Computing, below is a video of Adam Selipsky, Amazon’s VP of product marketing and developer relations for Amazon Web Services. Adam uses his slot to talk about what Amazon’s been doing in the last couple of years in the area of Web services.
He starts off with an interesting chart that shows how the bandwidth from the web services side of the house has now outstripped the bandwidth required for the website side. He then positions Amazon Web Services (AWS) as a suite of building blocks that the company has been rolling out one after the other in the following order:
EC2 (Elastic Compute Cloud) – I have to point out for a company that delivers great consumer experiences they sure suck when it comes to the naming of offerings on web services side.
The guiding principles that AWS has used when creating services is that they be
Easy to use
Fast
Elastic (quick to ramp up or down)
Highly available
Available on a pay-as-you go basis (so that you can terminate at any time if you’d like)
I was surprised that while Adam talked about the Amazon built services, he didn’t mention any of the services from others that they host like Solaris, MySQL, JBoss, Zmanda data recovery etc. It might have been the audience he was addressing but I would think that this is where AWS’s real business is coming from in the future.
Posted by Barton George 
