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I was invited as a guest blogger to Structure 09 - a day long event by GigaOM focusing on cloud computing. It was a great event with an incredible speaker line-up of thought leaders in the domain of cloud computing. The panel and keynote topics included persistence on the cloud, hosting web apps on the cloud, infrastructure design etc. I won't attempt to summarize everything that I saw and heard, instead here are some impressions: Solving interoperability with Open Source: A founding developer of Wordpress, Matt Mullenweg , strongly advocated open source for the cloud for two reasons. The first reason is to achieve interoperability and the second is to ensure the business continuity when certain vendors cease to exist. As I have argued before there is a strong business case for open source on the cloud . It was great to see the reaffirmation that other thought leaders feel the same way. Operational excellence: Javier Soltero , CTO of Management Products at SpringSource, emphasiz

I see cloud computing play a big role in enabling IT revolution in the developing nations to help companies market products and services to 4 billion consumers at the bottom of the pyramid (BOP). C.K.Prahlad has extensively covered many aspects of the BOP strategy in his book Fortune At The Bottom Of The Pyramid that is a must-read for the strategists and marketers working on the BOP strategy. This is how I think cloud computing is extremely relevant to the companies that are trying to reach to the consumers at the BOP: Logical extension to the mobile revolution: The mobile phone revolution at the BOP has changed the way people communicate in their daily lives and conduct business. Many people never had a landline and in some case no electricity. Some of them charged their mobile phones using a charger that generates electricity from a bike . As the cellular data networks become more and more mature and reliable the same consumers will have access to the Internet on their mobile phon

GigaOM has organized an exciting event on cloud computing, Structure 09 , on 06/25/2009. I will be at the event as a guest blogger and will be part of the energy and excitement. GigaOM has managed to put on an excellent schedule packed with great speakers including Marc Benioff, Michael Stonebraker, Jonathan Helliger, Greg Papadopoulos, Werner Vogels, and many others. I like the breadth of topics - cloud databases, data center design and optimization, commodity hardware, private cloud etc. I will see you there if you are planning on attending the event and if not come back here for blog posts covering the event. Leave a comment if you would like to see any specific topics or sessions covered. Here is a lineup of the speakers: Keynotes Marc Benioff | Chairman and CEO, Salesforce.com Paul Sagan | President and CEO, Akamai Confirmed Speakers Include: Werner Vogels | CTO, Amazon.com Greg Papadopoulos | CTO, Sun Microsystems Jonathan Heiliger | VP Technical Operations, Facebook