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Structure 09: Put Cloud Computing To Work

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
  • Dr. David Yen | EVP Emerging Technologies, Juniper Networks
  • Russ Daniels | VP and CTO, Cloud Services Strategy, Hewlett-Packard
  • Vijay Gill | VP, Engineering, Google
  • Richard Buckingham | VP Technical Operations, MySpace.com
  • Jack Waters | CTO, Level 3 Communications
  • Yousef Khalidi | Distinguished Engineer, Microsoft
  • Dr. Michael Stonebraker, Ph.D. | RDBMS pioneer and CTO, Vertica
  • Raj Patel | VP of Global Networks, Yahoo!
  • Michelle Munson | President and Co-founder, Aspera
  • Lloyd Taylor | VP Tech Operations, LinkedIn
  • Michael Crandell | CEO, Rightscale
  • Jeff Hammerbacher | Chief Scientist, Cloudera
  • Allan Leinwand | Venture Partner, Panorama Capital
  • Jason Hoffman | Co-founder and CTO, Joyent
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