Here’s the live stream of our Cloud Computing Roundtable, which kicks off at 2:30 PST with product demos from a handful of early-stage cloud-focused start-ups, with commentary from a panel of experts. Shortly thereafter our roundtable discussion will bring together a dozen panelists from some of Silicon Valley’s most acclaimed companies who will discuss the future of cloud-based services. Thank you to Sun Microsystems for sponsoring the roundtable stream (powered by ustream and camera work by FutureWorks.)
Twitter Hash Tag: #tccloud
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Are we 20 minutes late starting, or is there something wrong with my setup? I’ve got some indian music streaming over a screen of sponsors?
Starting in a few minutes. Sorry for the delay.
ok cool, here we go
And we’re off.
we’re twittering live @cloudize
Veodia now supports screen capture uploads. Showing how they can record video in the cloud from a laptop camera. No upload. that is awesome.
Veodia can also stream in HD. nice.
will we be able to download this to watch later? the stream is kinda choppy
yup
alrite cool
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Veodia using MPEG4, H.264, no proprietary codec.
Best Q&A:
Q:” How long would it take to play back a 30 minute video?
A: “30 minutes”
Diomede Storage: Steve Iverson’s new company, launching here. Let’s you choose between price, power, heat generation, and other variables.
Nice command line interface for diomede
“Here’s the live stream of our Could Computing Roundtable, which kicks off at 2:30 PST with product demos from a handfu…..”
COULD you fix that CLOUD?
shows how much power each fie consumes. can create redundant files offline to generate less heat and consume less power.
Diomede is claiming 60X less power consumption and 12X less cost. Use password “tcrunch” to try it out.
charge for storage and bandwidth, power consumption is just for informational purposes. Good for company’s with green initiatives
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admits that current offering is only marginally better than Amazon S3. It is the offline stuff that is much cheaper. Hmmm
BrowserMob: Web-based load testing using real browsers instead of a simulation. Hammer away at your Website with as many browsers as necessary, via Amazon EC2.
Biz model: pay me now, or pay me later
1,540 people watching on the livestream. Nice
Appirio showing its app that publishes Salesforce events/campaigns to Facebook.
It’s 4:28 AM here in Karachi, Pakistan.
I don’t think i’ll be able to watch the whole thing. Will we be able to watch it later online?
Appirio’s app can tie together different clouds: Facebook, Salesforce, Google, Amazon
FathomDB, another CloudTable launch!
relational database in the cloud, MySQL on Amazon EC2
Diomede Storage: Steve Iverson’s new company, launching here. Let’s you choose between price, power, heat generation, and other variables.
what do you mean by that?
it shows you the power consumption of your data on a per file basis and lets you adjust accordingly
FathomDb shows you your most expensive queries. Charge customers on a pay as you go model. Fire your DBA.
He didn’t say that (Fire Your DBA), I did. You probably still need a DBA, but you will only need one
Dan’l Lewn liked Diomede
Geoff Ralston: “Clouds are like rabbits. You get a few together, and they start breeding other clouds.”
George Zachary: “Cloud for me is the new dotcom, for both good and bad.”
everyone is going to be hit with all of these point services. How to bolt them together is a big opportunity.
Roundtable is up next in about 10 minutes. I am going to stop taking notes in comments now
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Hi Wayne,
Really interesting point – I haven’t looked at it that way. I actually run a Cloud Computing Centre in Dublin, Ireland, we have a DC as well, and I think fundamentally, hosting on the Cloud or Colo’ing in a DC gives you the same vendor lock in. Sure in colo you can move your kit, but it’s hard, expensive, and unless you have oodles of cash and a second site, you’re going to experience significant down time.
So, on the Cloud … I think the real benefit is that image portability seems to be something a lot of vendors are talking about – so it is likely that you will be able to move between Cloud providers, or even own your own mini-cloud. When that happens, your lock-in worries should be as concerning. Until then – risk or duplicate I suppose!
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90% of this panel works for companies that DON’T OFFER CLOUD COMPUTING.
I am laughing my ass off here.
Ning is a cloud computing company ????
What the fscking hell is this?
OMFG, you should have gotten OTOY, Sun, Hadoop or somebody making significant changes.
Here’s an alias to the TechCrunch conference schedule: Invite all friends of M. Arrington, and label the conference members a “panel of experts” on X topic, even if they don’t have anything to do with X topic.
Broadcast it live on UStream.
Cloud computing is such a complex topic, that none of these people barring the Google dev evangelist could ever talk about it in depth if you had a real conversation about it.
Woops, I just fast forwarded to the end. There was somebody from Sun there. My bad.
Still a horrible panel. I refuse to watch this.
Web API || SaaS != Cloud Computing services
Otherwise you could call anybody with a SOAP/WSDL pair a cloud computing company and that is not the case.
Chris, you are such a negatoid. More than half of the panelists work at companies that either offer cloud computing platforms or plan to (Amazon, Google, Salesforce, Microsoft, Sun, Rackspace, even Facebook).
The others offer cloud applications and were certainly qualified to talk about how the cloud changes what applications can be provided, their social nature, and how it impacts actually building a startup. What makes panels interesting is a diversity of views. We didn’t want it to be all CTOs.
OMG, who the fk was the MC? GMail the first cloud service!!!??? ROFL
Chris , I agree. I have never thought of Ning as a cloud provider. I like their product, but — a cloud??
And, what about the never-ending hubris of Yahoo! that open source software doesn’t meet their performance needs, so they have to develop their own? As an ex-Yahoo, I can vouch that this mindset is EXACTLY the reason why they lose, over and over again to companies that DO beat them with the same open-source software they reject. Example, what have they accomplished with Hadoop since they bought it two years ago?
Finally, I flew from LA to attend this event. It was /sort/ of interesting, but… they printed no one’s company name on our name tags and there was near-zero facilitation of meeting people. It would have been just as effective if I’d stayed at the office and watched the video stream. At $75 (plus airfare) to attend, they should have at least managed to provide more than drinks for the first break. Times really are hard!
I STAYED in LA today. I went to work dammit.
Thank god.
Going to work at my programming job instead of flying to conferences on complex technology given by executives that have no idea how it actually works is why I am not on unemployment.
BTW, Cloud computing is 2003, mobile applications is 2009.
BTW, if you are a hard working designer in LA, we are looking for you. Please get a hold of me and we can chat this weekend.
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cloud computing will put alot more people out of work in the tech industry. is cloud computing the achilles heel of the tech industry? will the next googl be made in the cloud?
is googl a cloud of mumbo jumbo garbled links?
“cloud computing will put alot more people out of work in the tech industry.”
That’s wrong. Unlike individual people, companies are smarter and more reluctant to give away huge pieces of infrastructure away to X other company.
Pretend Google is Bob, pretend you are Ted.
Bob now owns all Lisa, Ted, Bill, Jerry, and Matilda’s email, search information, documents, private and public, and financial information in spreadsheets.
What are the chances Lisa, Ted, Bill and Jerry are very nervous about Bob?
What if Google was a person named Bob, would you feel as good about letting them manage all of your private docs?
To other companies in the US, Google is a person named Bob. To foreigners Google can seem like some untouchable entity out of league with their own company that they should just trust defacto OOB.
App developers can use the cloud to launch businesses, and users will flock to these sites…but users will end up with disparate set of (own) data that they will not be able to manage and control. Does this matter?
I thoroughly enjoyed it.. Whoever put it together.. kudos!
Cloud computing is still something the average consumer does not adequately understand. It’s got a tremendous amount of potential once data security/privacy is sorted out. justaskgemalto is where I read up on digital security issues.
Clound computing is often misunderstood. I see it as being able to access my files from anywhere, like I can on http://www.myotherdrive.com, not spread out companies like disparate Amazon servers or something like that.
Cloud computing is still somethinh that i do not understand why so many say it the future. Sure it is not.
Not able to watch it.
Not able to watch it.
I can’t watch it ,!!!