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Red Hat Hosts The Open Source Cloud Computing Forum

Interest in cloud computing has been growing rapidly over the past year, with many enterprises looking to deploy cloud solutions that will enable them to reduce costs and increase their operational flexibility.

The technologies used by today's cloud environments, public and private, have been heavily based on open source software. It offers the rapid development, standards support and vendor neutrality that customers demand.

To advance the development of open source cloud computing Red Hat is pleased to host the Open Source Cloud Computing Forum.

The Forum goals

  • The goal of the Open Source Cloud Computing Forum is to foster discussion across a broad range of technical topics related to cloud computing, including: virtualization, security, management, open standards, hybrid public-private clouds, and data formats.
  • The Forum will give attendees the opportunity to describe challenges, issues, and proposed solutions for ensuring that open source software provides customers with the most complete and advanced cloud technologies.
  • The Forum will be technically focused, with no marketing or product selling permitted.

To access the Forum presentations

The Open Source Cloud Computing Forum took place on Wednesday, July 22, 2009, but if you are interested in accessing the recorded presentations, please visit here.

Forum agenda

Session Number Session Name Speaker Start Time (ET)
1 Introduction Brian Stevens, Red Hat CTO 9:30 AM
2 Industry Overview Matthew Aslett, Industry Analyst, The 451 Group 09:45 AM
3 Cloud Core Services Jeff Garzik, Red Hat Principal Software Engineer 10:30 AM
4 Cobbler Michael DeHaan, Red Hat Senior Software Engineer 11:00 AM
5 Condor Matthew Farrellee, Red Hat Senior Software Engineer 11:30 AM
6 Eucalyptus Rich Wolski, CTO, Eucalyptus 12:00 PM
7 Hadoop Mike Olson, CEO, Cloudera 12:30 PM
8 KVM Chris Wright, Red Hat Principal Software Engineer 1:00 PM
9 Libvirt Hugh Brock, Red Hat Engineering Manager 1:30 PM
10 Compiere Sunny Gosain, EVP & CTO, Compiere 2:00 PM
11 Thincrust Bryan Kearney, Red Hat Senior Consulting Engineer 2:30 PM
12 Zmanda Chander Kant, CEO, Zmanda 3:00 PM
13 Conclusion Brian Stevens, Red Hat CTO 3:30 PM

All sessions will be recorded for later playback.