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

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!

Tags: Abiquo, Amazon, events

Yafray on a Cloud

This is a very good night. Between pizza and coke abiquo team have been playing and mashing up our Distributed yafray and Amazon.

A very good experience with very impresive results :) (See the video)

With this example we want to demonstrate the cloud power combined with grid computing capabilities: Use your IT infrastructure to reduce your time processes and externalize to Amazon instances when your computers can’t maintain your desired QoS. (With a low cost).

It’s time to go to sleep :) If you want to know more details or contact abiquo to integrate your hard tasks with amazon.

In a near future… more special news with abiquo + cloud computing. Stay tuned ;)

Tags: Amazon, cloud computing, Grid computing, yafray