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CloudCamp Barcelona – June 15th, 2009
CloudCamp is an unconference where early adapters of Cloud Computing technologies exchange ideas. With the rapid change occurring in the industry, we need a place we can meet to share our experiences, challenges and solutions. At CloudCamp, you are encouraged you to share your thoughts in several open discussions, as we strive for the advancement of Cloud Computing. End users, IT professionals and vendors are all encouraged to participate.
Our 2nd CloudCamp in Barcelona is scheduled for Monday, June 15th
Venue:
BarcelonaActiva
Llacuna 162-164
Barcelona, Catalonia
Spain
Tentative Schedule:
- 16.30-17.00: Registration
- 17.00-17.15: CloudCamp Presentation (English)
- 17.15-18.00: Lightning talks (English)
- 18.00-18.45: Unpanel (English)
- 18.45-19.00: Decide unconferences (Spanish)
- 19.00-20.00: Unconferences (Castellano)
- 20.00-21.00: Networking
You can register here.
See you there!!!
Tags: cloudCamp Barcelona Cloud Computing
Contact us at the Cloud Computing Expo in Prague!
Next May 18th and 19th “The Diegos” (Diego Mariño and me, Diego Parrilla) will attend to the Cloud Computing Expo in Prague. Diego Mariño will speak about Cloud Computing Marketplaces, our visionary view of the Cloud Computing. If you want to contact us to know more about AbiCloud or Abiquo, please let us know:
Diego Parrilla: dparrilla [AT] abiquo.com
Diego Mariño: dmarino [AT] abiquo.com
Tags: cloudcomputingexpo, marketplace
Helena Torras interviewed by Tiburon-Tv.com – Red Herring 100 Europe
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A short overview of the Cloud Computing Workshop in Madrid
Last thursday we had the Cloud Computing Workshop in Madrid in the facilities of the CAN (Caja de Ahorros de Navarra), one of our investors.
Our guest start was Simone Brunozzi, Amazon Web Service Evangelist for Europe, that showed us how works the different services of the Cloud Computing platform from Amazon. He performed live demos of Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) and Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3). Most of the audiences knew about these services, so they jumped right to the technical questions, and honestly I think Simone showed a deep knowledge of the platform answering even the most bizarre questions. The workshop took almost two hours, and it can give us an idea of the interest of the content and issues of the event. There were a lot of different questions, from type of virtual images supported, input/output throughput, bandwith available in S3, SLAs issues, taxes (VAT refund in Europe) and account management.
Following Amazon, Daniel García García (fillito) from minube.com, a social network of travelers, explained how they apply the dinamyc features of Amazon EC2 and S3 to handle the load peaks in their pltaform. Really intesting stuff.
An then it was my turn. With some technical issues I explained the features of AbiCloud our software to create Public and Private Clouds. I tried to communicate Abiquo’s mission and vision about Cloud Computing, and how we want to help enterprises and ISPs to jump in the Cloud’s revolution bandwagon. I tried to perform a little demo and I had a litlle of every single problem that could happen: Google Maps did not work, I had an issue with my 3G connection… Well, you know, a demo.
Finally, Jose Manuel Estrada from Sun Microsystems gave us the vision of Sun Microsystems. There is no doubt, Sun has reinvented itself to face the Cloud Computing challenge and it’s launching very interesting initiatives. One of the most surprising was the new Public Cloud Services to offer in their own Datacenters to compete with Google and Amazon. As a major difference, they will release under an open source license the management APIs. A brave and interesting bet. Sun will launch this summer storage services similar to S3, full datacenter virtualization (a bit like AbiCloud) and later on they will offer ESB and MOM services.
When we wrapped up we had the feeling of lack of time, something common when the topics covered were really interesting. So some of the attendes and the speakers decided to keep on talking about Cloud Computing with some beers and tapas. The best way to terminate the event.
Tags: Abiquo, Amazon, minube, sun
Abiquo to present at Under The Radar
We are very proud to announce that we’ve been selected to present at Under The Radar next Friday 24th.
It will be a great opportunity to show our strategy and products to some of the most-distinguished valley’s cloud leaders.
Cloud Computing Workshop in Madrid featuring Amazon Web Services [ES]
El Cloud Computing Workshop de Madrid es un evento gratuito pensado para todos aquellos desarrolladores, arquitectos, jefes de proyecto y directores de tecnología que quieran saber más sobre las posibilidades de este nuevo paradigma de la mano de uno de los actores principales del mercado como Amazon Web Services, y de una de las empresas que apuestan por el código abierto para crear Nubes Privadas.
Amazon Web Services (AWS) es una colección de servicios remotos de computación ofrecidos por internet por Amazon.com, Este conjunto de servicios tiene la característica de pagarse por su uso (pay-per-use o pay-as-you-go). AWS se ha convertido en el proveedor de servicios de Cloud Computing más importante del mundo, con unos 400.000 clientes estimados a finales de 2008. Simone Brunozzi es Amazon Web Services Evangelist para Europa. Es un magnífico comunicador cuya labor es la de dar a conocer los servicios de Cloud Computing que Amazon Web Services ofrece a sus clientes en todo el mundo.
Abiquo es una startup de Barcelona con presencia en Madrid y Palo Alto (California) que desarrolla una plataforma open source para la creación y gestión de Nubes Privadas e Híbridas (Private and Hybrid Cloud Computing). El producto abiCloud puede descargarse de la web, permitiendo a sus usuarios montar un entorno Cloud en sus proprios sistemas. Diego Parrilla es Director de Desarrollo de Negocio y de Estrategia Tecnológica de Producto de Abiquo. Además es editor de Nubeblog.com, blog en Español sobre Cloud Computing.
Actualización: Día del evento, 2 de Abril.
Agenda:
9.45 – 10.00 Llegada y Registro
10.00 – 10.15 Presentación qué es Cloud Computing. Abiquo (Castellano)
10.15 – 11.30 Amazon Web Services Workshop. AWS (Inglés)
11.30 – 12.00 Ruegos y Preguntas (Inglés y Castellano)
12.00 – 12.15 Descanso
12.15 – 13.00 Presentación Abicloud. Abiquo (Castellano)
13.00 – 13.15 Ruegos y Preguntas (Castellano)
13.15 Fin del Evento.
NOTA: La agenda no se ha cerrado, es posible que cambie con nuevos ponentes.
El evento tendrá lugar en la Cancha CAN en Juan Bravo nº3. Caja Navarra ha tenido la gentileza de cedernos espacio para realizar el evento.
El registro es gratuito, pero no hay muchas plazas (50). Si quieres registrarte, hazlo en la web de información del evento se encuentra en eventbrite.com aquí:
http://amazonabiquomad.eventbrite.com/
o dale a este botón
¡Os espero!
RED HERRING REVEALS COMPANIES SELECTED AS FINALISTS FOR THE RED HERRING 100 EUROPE 2009
Berlin, March 23, 2009 – Red Herring today announced that abiquo was named a Finalist of Red Herring 100 Europe, an award given to the top 100 private technology companies based in the EMEA (Europe, Middle East and Africa) region each year.
“This year’s impressive list of submissions from companies demonstrates Europe’s growing role as a major center of innovation in the global technology sector,” said Red Herring Publisher, Alex Vieux. “The exceptional accomplishments of European technology startups and entrepreneurs are a testament to the rapid advancements being made in building the European innovation ecosystem.”
Red Herring’s lists of top private companies are an important part of the publication’s tradition of identifying new and innovative technology companies and entrepreneurs. Companies like Google, eBay, and Skype were spotted in their early days by Red Herring editors, and touted as leaders that would change the way we live and work.
Red Herring’s editorial staff rigorously evaluated several hundred private companies through a careful analysis of financial data and subjective criteria, including quality of management, execution of strategy, and dedication to research and development.
Red Herring will honor the Red Herring 100 Europe Finalist companies at its Red Herring Europe 2009 Conference. Scheduled for March 31- April 2, at the Berlin Radisson Hotel. This intimate, 2 1/2 day event will explore how European firms are leading the charge in many technology sectors, gaining a competitive advantage, and driving entrepreneurial success in ways that create business opportunities for challengers and incumbents alike.
About Red Herring
Red Herring is a global media company which unites the world’s best high technology innovators, venture investors and business decision makers in a variety of forums: a leading innovation magazine, an online daily technology news service, technology newsletters and major events for technology leaders around the globe. Red Herring provides an insider’s access to the global innovation economy, featuring unparalleled insights on the emerging technologies driving the economy. More information about Red Herring is available on the Internet at www.redherring.com.
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Thoughts about Webhostingday’09 and CloudCamp in Cologne
Last week I spent a couple of days in the WebHostingDay event in Phantasialand in Brühl, near Cologne. Within the WebhostingDay held a ’special’ CloudCamp , as it was not associated with any particular city (The event was not Cologne CloudCamp.
The first thing that impressed me was the size of the event. It was big. And the place,Phantasialand, was big too. It is an amusement park, Port Aventura style, Terra Mitica and these, but with a cold from hell. The park was closed for the event, and each area had different conferences and activities. So for next year three days instead of two, and probably two people instead of one. Although I signed to several speeches, the truth is I could not go to any, since almost all the time on the first day I spent in the area called ‘hosting.Fair’, which was where the business booths were. Upon arrival, Manuel Jaffrin from Sun Microsystems offered to their plasma screen to show AbiCloud to the audience (we are members of the Sun Startups Essentials), so that’s what I did as you can see in this video:
One of the things that got clear of the event is that Cloud Computing is the way of the future for hosting providers. But, how to go that road is still something of visionaries. The most advanced have taken the path Virtual Private Servers (VPS), but this is not Cloud Computing, but it may be a start. As someone commented to me at the event, also depends on how each country evolves. UK, Germany and USA for example the VPS has matured, but Spain, for example, is something that is not yet mature enough.
Of the people I met, which impressed me most was Tom Leyden, Product Manager of Cloud Computing at Sun Microsystems, and former Qlayer. I was talking to him broadly about the future of Cloud Computing, and the truth is that I was delighted that my vision of what is fit quite well with their vision. It means that the vision of Abiquo is aligned with the visionaries of the industry (Obviously Sun bought Q-layer for a reason, right?). By the way, they gave me the chance in the Lighting-Talks to talk about Abiquo: five minutes presentation of companies that do Cloud Computing in the CloudCamp. Unfortunately, I had to go to the hotel to make the presentation, so I missed the party (a big mistake).
Next day was held the CloudCamp WHD, a CloudCamp especially for the WebhostingDay.The event was held at Joe’s Bar, a bar that seemed to come out of a Spaghetti Western movie. What you can see it in the following video:
The event was Flexiscale (Tony Lucas), Amazon Web Services (Martin Burh), iTricity (Robert Rosier), OpenQRM (Matt Rechenburg), GroupSwim (Jari Koister), Sun Microsystems (Kristof De Spiegeleer y Tom Leyden), aiCache (Max Robbins), William Louth (Jinspired), Rightscale (Michael Crandell), Terremark (Kurt Glazemakers) y Abiquo with my speech. There would be room for about 50 people, and at times it was full.
Max Robbins asked how many customers of Cloud Computing were in the room, and few raised their hands. Max findings were that less than 1% of the IT world had jumped into the Cloud Computing wagon. The problem is not security, it is of timings. The adoption process has to mature and evolve. It is a matter of confidence. Something I noticed was how all the speakers spoke of success stories very close to the world of startups, and only talked about startups. Well, I think the audience for the event was not the usual one in a CloudCamp, so I think that the message was not correct. By the way, in the next video you can see my lighting talk at 15.30 minute:
Among the speakers I would recommend the presentations of Kristof Spiegel about the future of Cloud Computing and William Louth on metrics collection and analysis. And among the products I recommend Terremark and aiCache. I also discovered OpenQRM, an opensource platform for Cloud Computing that differs of AbiCloud in several ways.
To conclude, I think the event was very interesting to validate of Abiquo proposal in Cloud Computing and confirms my ideas about what should be the future of Cloud Computing. The others suppliers have proposals as public cloud providers (Terremark, Sun Cloud, Amazon Web Services), and although most say they will sell their products as private clouds in the future (no date given), for now the only we have taken the opposite route and have offered first private clouds clouds before public ones is Abiquo.
Tags: abiCloud, cloudcamp, webhostinday
Abiquo Lighting Talk about AbiCloud at CloudCamp WHD 2009
This is the video of the CloudCamp WHD lightning talk I gave at the CloudCamp WHD. The talk starts at 15.30:
More about what happened in the CloudCamp WHD and in the WebHosting Day events soon.
Tags: abiCloud, cloudcamp, webhostingday
Abiquo at the WebhostingDay in Cologne
Tomorrow March 18th and 19th I will be at the Webhosting Day in Cologne, Germany. As one of the major events in Europe about hosting technologies, they will offer an adequate setting for the first CloudCamp Europe. The list of speakers is really brilliant and I hope to learn and connect with a lot of members of the Cloud hosting community. I would like to meet hosting providers and ISPs all around the globe that cares about Cloud hosting and want to know what can Abiquo can do to help them.
We will show our new version of AbiCloud, our open source cloud computing management platform. Sun Microsystems will allow me to use some room of its booth for live demos. So don’t be shy and come and visit me. Still, if you are shy but want to know about the product, please send me an email to dparrilla [AT] abiquo.com to schedule a demo somewhere, or just wait for a couple of days to download it from our revamped website soon.