Bangalore Cloud Users Group Meet - 2nd Nov 2009

I had been to Bangalore Cloud Users Group Meet held at

HSR layout on Monday, 2nd Nov 2009. The Agenda was

the Introduction to Cloud Computing with AWS by

Jinesh Varia, Evangelist from Amazon.

I was accompanied by my colleagues Karthik, Ankush

and Siva.

The session was kickstarted by the founders of

Bangalore Cloud Users Group, and instated the spirit

of a Users group and their vision. Then the stage

was taken over by Jinesh who presented a crisp

session, partly hijacked by the flurry of questions

from the audience (some highly relevant).

Nevertheless the event turned out to be a success,

with Pizzas and Cola treating the hungry souls.

I really appreciate the effort of Mr. Prem and

Mr. Vinod from the Bangalore Cloud Users Group

to have arrange this thoughtful session, and looking

forward for many more of the same.

Any new technology or a paradigm requires the

effort of their proponents to spread the word

and encourage the adoption. Bangalore Cloud

Users Group surely has long way to go, but has

definitely started in a style.

Takeaways from the Jinesh's talk :-

1. Interesting Case studies of AWS uses

2. Some really interesting questions from the audience

3. Security issue still a great hurdle for Cloud Computing

adoption

4. Software licensing on Cloud - utility model - a topic that

requires more discussion.

I hope to see myself to speak at any of the future sessions

of Bangalore Cloud Users Group and hope to find the

readers there too.

Note:-

Only concern was the travel time to and fro for the

Event. Hope the event is held at City Centre rather

than one corner of Bangalore.

Till then Good Night