CloudCamp India Tour 2010 - Complete Coverage

Prelude:

With the grand success of the first CloudCamp Bangalore in 2009, plans for having an all India event started in early Jan between me and Dave Nielsen, Co-Founder of CloudCamp. Discussion started and thanks to Manish Dhingra,Founder and COO, Tekriti Software, who agreed to help us Delhi and Pune camp that gave us more confidence and headstart to conduct the India tour. We began our planning and decided to conduct the event during Feb. Meanwhile, I had a discussion with Yahoo folks for possible sponsorship and eventually ended in a partnership to host First India Hadoop Summit along with CloudCamp in Bangalore. In the end, we decided to organize CloudCamp's in Delhi, Chennai, Hyderabad, Pune and Bangalore.

For any feedback on CloudCamp India tour '10 write to me.


India Tour Summary:

CloudCamp Delhi - Feb 20th

CloudCamp India Tour'10 started on Feb 20th in New Delhi. The venue was carefully selected to be accessible from all corners of the National Capital Region. Sure enough, with the help of Prof. Sorav Bansal and Gaurav Bhatnagar (CEO, Mediology Software), the Bharti Building at IIT-Delhi was selected as the venue. The lead organizer Manish Dhingra (Founder and COO of Tekriti Software) did a fantastic job in lining up speakers from Amazon Web Services, Microsoft, Salesforce and Slideshare as part of the conference. Prof. Sorav Bansal drew on his experience and research done on Virtualization during his PhD at Stanford University, to kick start the proceedings with a great talk on the topic.

With the strong grounding set on Virtualization, the audience, an interesting mix of students and professionals started participating in the UnPanel. Led by Dave Nielsen, the UnPanel got so interesting that Simone Brunozzi, Technology Evangelist with AWS decided to skip his session and take on the UnPanel questions as below:

1. How to move our existing apps onto the cloud?
2. How can a cloud provision 10K new servers?
3. How does software licensing work?
4. How to achieve dynamic and scalable data storage?
5. How secure is a cloud network?
6. How fast can we recover a server that Crashed in cloud?
7. What is the breakeven point for moving an app to the cloud?
8. How can P2P cloud work?
9. How is versioning handled in the cloud?
10. Has cloud overtaken Grid?
11. Where does cloud configuration take place and how?

Post Lunch saw sessions from Microsoft on Windows Azure, Salesforce.com and an interesting case study by Slideshare on their experience with Amazon Web Services.

Delhi event was fully supported by Tekriti Software and Windows Azure. Check the pictures here:

http://www.flickr.com/search/?w=all&q=cloudcamp+delhi
http://picasaweb.google.com/rajeshjhajjar/CloudCampDelhi20Feb2010?feat=email#


CloudCamp Chennai - Feb 23rd

Cloud Camp India Tour moved on to Chennai which was hosted at Anna University on Feb 23rd.

Thanks to

• ChandraKumar, President, SPIN Chennai and Prof. Hansa, Dept. of Management Studies, Anna University who were instrumental for getting the venue.
• Ezhil of CSS Labs
• Suresh and his OrangeScape team who provided full support by sponsoring virtually everything
• Yara Pavan
• Delhi Babu and his volunteers from SSN Engg college

and the sponsors (OrangeScape, ZOHO and Microsoft Azure)

the event went on well. People who attended expressed that there had been lots of learning and appreciated the unconferencing format.

We had pretty interesting session from CSS Labs, Congizant, Microsoft and OrangeScape team. There were sessions on Key-value pair, Private cloud, business aspect of Cloud

Snaps from Chennai - http://www.flickr.com/search/?w=all&q=cloudcamp+chennai

The Chennai event was attended by a mix of industry, researchers and students.

CloudCamp Hyderabad - Feb 25th

Sudhakar of Microsoft and his team of volunteers had got things put up nicely. The event happened in IIIT, Hyderabad. It was supported by HexaGrid.

A glimpse of Hyderabad event - http://www.flickr.com/search/?w=all&q=cloudcamp+hyderabad

Unpanel Questions of Hyderabad:

1. How will CC Change how IT supports?
2. How is Private Cloud different Data Center?
3. How is CC different than Virtualization?
4. How secure is CC and can banks use it?
5. How difficult is it to move applications to cloud?
6. Are there standards for PAAS?
7. Why is more players not providing IAAS ?
8. In Layman's term what is CC?
9. Where can PHP developers put your code?
10. Will CC co-exist with traditional systems?
11. How can we reproduce a Ghost image in CC?

Cloud Camp Pune - Feb 27th

Persistent systems hosted the Pune event in the Dewang Mehta Auditorium. There was good response to the event with about 70 people showing up for the event from Pune region. There was a strong showing of students as well as professionals from IT industry.

VMware sponsored the event as well. We had some interesting sessions from VMware, Prashant Advani presented the overall VmWare cloud enablement vision.

Mukund Deshpande from Persistent presented on the area of Analytics in the Cloud.

Dr Deepak Singh from Aamzon dialed in during the event and spoke about Amazon offerings and how Amazon provides some of its services.

Shreekanth of Persistent systems was pretty much the man behind Pune camp along with Manish of Tekriti Software.

Security was one of the top topics at this event and lot of people had several comments and experiences to share. There was a healthy debate around PaaS as well as various offerings in this space

Unpanel questions:

1. What security precautions are made to prevent accessing my data ?
2. What standards are evolving w.r.t security?
3. When not use Cloud?
4. Will AI merge with cloude to create skynet?
5. What can the developer do to protect data?
6. What is the difference between SaaS, hosted apps and cloud?
7. What type of apps make sense in India?
8. What standards are needed for data?
9. What hardware and what inefficiencies?
10. What is ane example of hybrid cloud?
11. How to measure cloud performance?

Photos from the session - http://www.flickr.com/search/?w=all&q=cloudcamp+pune


CloudCamp Bangalore & India Hadoop Summit- Feb 28th

This being the second year for Bangalore CloudCamp, there were lots of expectation. India Hadoop summit induced further interest.

Morning session started with a Intro to CloudCamp India tour and Welcome note by me. It was followed by Keynote session. This was presented by Hemanth of Yahoo. It sort of kickstarted the Hadoop Summit part of the event.

There was a short and provoking talk by Dr. TRG Nair. He spoke on the research avenues and future of Cloud.

The event was supported by Nair's RIIC team of Dayanand Sagar College. In addition, event was supported by India Cloud Users Group

Then we had bunch of Lightning talk by sponsors.

Unpanel brought in lots of interest and audience geared up themselves and actively participated.

Following are the questions from Unpanel:

1. How secure is the Cloud?
2. How to handle unstructure data?
3. What is the cost of building cloud?
4. Impact of Mapreduce patent
5. Standards and avoiding vendor lockin
6. Are there any challenges w.r.t cloud in the context of mobile computing
7. Types of database in cloud
8. Impact of cloud on dev tools and SDLC
9. Why RDMBS are not suitable for Cloud
10. Difference between Grid and Cloud
11. Data in Enterprise and Compute from outside (bridging them)

The Unpanel consisted of folks from VMware, Google, Yahoo, Bell Labs, Microsoft. And it was a pretty informative discussion. This also gave a good base for the Open Space discussions.

The second half marked the Open Spaces and Hadoop track sessions.

Hadoop track had many interesting sessions and it ended with a Panel comprising of industry experts.

Panel discussed about many interesting topics that included future of Cloud in India.

Presentations from Hadoop summit can be accessed at - http://developer.yahoo.net/blog/archives/2010/03/india_hadoop_summit.html

To sum it up, it was a proud moment for organizers to be part of this India tour. Thanks to Dave who flew to India and made it happen.

Bangalore camp photos -

http://picasaweb.google.com/103004133641542975573/CloudCampIndiaTour2010Bangalore02#

http://www.flickr.com/search/?w=all&q=cloudcamp+bangalore


Few blogs that covered the Cloud Camp India Tour :


http://www.readwriteweb.com/cloud/2010/02/a-sign-of-arrival-cloudcamp-to.php

www.elasticvapor.com/2010/02/incredible-india-cloud.html

Chennai CloudCamp:

http://cssinnovations.blogspot.com/2010/02/cloudcamp-chennai-23rd-feb-2010.html

Hyderabad CloudCamp:

http://himabinduvejella.blogspot.com/2010/02/cloud-camp-hyderabad.html

Bangalore CloudCamp:

http://www.yourstory.in/news/3359-cloud-camp-and-yahoo-hadoop-summit--ys-exclusive

http://www.janakiramm.net/blog/cloudcamp-bangalore-hadoop-summit