Cloud Users Group, Bangalore - December '09 Session

Session: Round Table on architecting apps for Cloud - 1

Date & Time: 23rd Dec 2009 at 6.30 PM

Venue : Cafe Coffee Day, Koramangala, Bangalore

This was the 1st session in this Round table series. We had around 14 folks (out of 20 registered) who attended this event and the energy level was pretty high :). Plan is to have such session every alternate month.

The discussion started with general questions on Cloud adoption by enterprises. Sameer of Deloitte gave a perspective on the expectations from enterprises.

Post, we had an interesting discussion about using Amazon's infrastructure like SimpleDB and other services. The discussion went around the need for NoSQL databases and few usecases were discussed

We also briefly touched upon challenges of migrating applications to Cloud, around how big ISP and Telcos are emerging as Cloud providers and the strengths of them which make them better player.

We also had an industry veteran Ramesh Babu who visited us from US. He gave his view points on how this domain is shaping up.

We had good participation from academic side with folks coming in from IIIT,Bangalore and Dayanand Sagar college.