Overview

Rod Smith is an IBM Fellow who leads IBM’s Internet Emerging Technology team. In this presentation, Rod discusses Hadoop from the enterprise perspective. His team works with customers, and looks at emerging technologies to see if there’s a fit with the problems his customers are trying to solve.

He believes Hadoop can provide the framework for a new class of applications that are on the horizon, apps that unlock insights from vast quantities of data.

Overview

Bill Coleman (Cassatt Corporation) has more than 30 years of corporate and entrepreneurial leadership experience. Prior to Cassatt, he founded and was the first chairman and CEO of BEA Systems, the world’s leading infrastructure software company. Under his leadership, BEA became the fastest software firm ever to exceed $1 billion in annual revenue. Before BEA, he served as vice president of system software at Sun Microsystems, where his team transformed SunOS into the commercially successful Solaris operating system. While at Sun he also founded Sun’s Professional Services Division and co-founded Sun’s Federal Division. He holds a B.S. in Computer Science from the U.S. Air Force Academy and M.S. degrees in Computer Science and Computer Engineering from Stanford University. He also has an honorary doctorate from the University of Colorado.

Overview

Vik Chaudhary and Abelardo Gonzalez (Keynote Systems)–Get an early look at KITE – the Keynote Internet Testing Environment. KITE tests and analyzes the performance of web applications from your desktop and locations around the world. KITE allows advanced scripting, detailed network performance and DOM analysis, and the ability to gather data from hundreds of geographic locations worldwide. In this preview the Keynote team demo KITE on some of the world’s most popular web sites and announce its Early Adopter Program for this new free product.

Overview

Scott Ruthfield (WhitePages.com)–Most tools for measuring web performance come in two flavors: Developer-installed tools (Firebug, Fiddler, etc.) that allow individuals to closely trace single sessions or third-party performance monitoring systems (Gomez, Keynote, etc.) that will hit your site occasionally and report back component-level metrics (for a fee). Neither of these tools give you real-world information on what’s actually happening with your clients—how long are pages really taking to load, what’s the real cost of client-side execution, and what’s the impact of your loading or dependency chain. This talk will provide more information on the problem and the current solutions, and why we rolled our own, provide a technical overview of Jiffy, and show some real-world lessons we’ve had using it in our own production environment.

Overview

Artur Bergman, hacker and technologist-at-large, is the VP of Engineering and Operations at Wikia. In this presentation, he discusses the importance of operations and performance.

Overview

John Fowler, Sun Microsystem

Overview

Javier Soltero (Hyperic, Inc.)–Just as people are beginning to understand the difference between web ops and IT, we are entering a period where clouds promise “Ops-Free” computing. Soltero talks about the emergence of web operations as a discipline, and how cloud computing simply changes, instead of eliminating, the importance of web operations.

Overview

Luiz Barroso (Google)–Managing the energy-related costs of computing operations has become a first order concern for many organizations. In this talk, Barroso will outline some of the important energy cost and usage trends in datacenter operations, and describe a few of the key areas where there is significant potential for efficiency improvements.

Overview

Rich Wolski (University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB)–In this talk, Wolski presents Eucalyptus, an open source implementation of cloud computing that is interface compatible with Amazon.com’s EC2. The talk focuses on the design, the implementation tradeoffs that have been identified in implementing Eucalyptus as an exploratory tool, and the ways in which the tradeoffs have been addressed in the first version of the software.

Overview

Ignite War Stories Winner Kirrily Robert discusses open data.