Whose Cloud Is It Anyway?

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Join us for the TechCrunch Cloud Computing Roundtable & MeetUp
Whose Cloud is it Anyway?

Get tickets here via Eventbrite: $75 each based on availability (SOLD OUT)

Date: Friday, February 27, 2:30 – 6:30 pm

Location: Microsoft Mountain View Conference Center
1065 La Avenida St
Building 1
Galileo Auditorium
Mountain View, CA 94043

2:30 – 3:15 Product Pitches
Product pitches from several early-stage, cloud-focused start-ups.

Expect lively feedback from our panel of experts:
Dan’l Lewin, Corporate Vice President, Microsoft
George Zachary, partner, Charles River Ventures
Geoff Ralston, CEO LaLa
David Bernstein, VP/General Manager, Cisco
David Kralik, Silicon Valley office Director of Newt Gingrich

3:30 – 5:00 Roundtable Discussion
The cloud is many things to many people. It is a a data center in the sky, a platform for a new bread of enterprise apps, a way to bring Web-scale computing to businesses small and large.

But are we on the verge of a new set of platform wars that will make the Windows Vs. Mac war look like Tiddlywinks? Or will all the different cloud platforms which are emerging create an interwoven fabric of Web applications that draw from each cloud as is convenient? Mission critical apps are moving to the cloud. In fact, entire industries are being built on cloud computing infrastructure.

Yet as both consumer and enterprise apps move to the cloud, they start to look more and more alike. They also begin to take on social features. What does a social enterprise app look like?

To help us explore these questions we’ll have on hand:
Marc Benioff, CEO, Salesforce.com
Vic Gundotra, VP Engineering, Google
Amitabh Srivastava, Corporate VP, Windows Azure
Lew Tucker, CTO, Cloud Computing, Sun Microsystems
Scott Dietzen, SVP Communications Products, Yahoo
Paul Buchheit, Co-founder, FriendFeed; creator of Gmail
Werner Vogels, CTO Amazon
Mike Schroepfer, VP of Engineering, Facebook
Gina Bianchini, CEO, Ning
John Engates, CTO, Rackspace

Roundtable Moderators:
Erick Schonfeld, co-editor TechCrunch
Steve Gillmor, editor TechCrunchIT

5:00 – 6:30 MeetUp Reception and Demo Tables

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  • Sarah - February 5th, 2009 at 9:55 am PST

    Is there any way to watch the round table or participate remotely? Either a recording after the fact, or being able to participate from a distance would be a great opportunity for those who live elsewhere in the country.

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  • nobs - February 5th, 2009 at 9:38 pm PST

    dude… AMAZON is still missing…and VIC who claims fame to Vista… I don’t know. Windows can’t even keep their own stuff running… so where are the real players?

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  • Ajay - February 9th, 2009 at 12:51 am PST

    where is Microsoft and Amazon dude

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  • Scott - February 19th, 2009 at 5:03 pm PST

    so, I think there’s a typo, unless Facebook recently hired away Werner from Amazon.

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  • DJ Pearce - February 20th, 2009 at 1:51 pm PST

    I would love to have this available to view (either by download or streaming) after the roundtable has concluded.

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  • Renato - February 23rd, 2009 at 3:12 am PST

    LOL, Facebook would wish for Werner Vogels as their CTO.

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  • Edwin Fu - February 26th, 2009 at 10:34 pm PST

    Wow this is an incredible lineup! I wonder how much of their content will be candid vs. marketing. We’ll see!

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  • Ted - February 26th, 2009 at 10:49 pm PST

    I wish I could have purchased a ticket for this one-it sounds like a lot of top industry leaders would be there to really provide some insight on the future of cloud computing. Web 2.0 especially is an important trend right now, so I hope to check out the articles from after the event. It would be interested to see EC2, Azure, and Google Apps have an open forum on cloud computing services and the future of it. I thought this site had a helpful comparison of the cloud computing competitor services as well: http://www.itst...-Computing.aspx

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  • Nick - February 27th, 2009 at 9:05 am PST

    Where is the link for the streaming??

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  • ChrisHopf - February 27th, 2009 at 3:03 pm PST

    Really appreciate the willingness to share this event. Thanks.

    We’ll see if there is much mention of revenue / montetization models (i.e. – path to profit).

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  • Girish - February 27th, 2009 at 3:08 pm PST

    How is the streaming quality?
    My feed pauses every 5 secs…cant view or listen…

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  • kidkel69 - March 1st, 2009 at 9:32 am PST

    Love the info, Microsoft Rocks!
    -Kidkel69-
    ROLLING STONE WEB REVIEW

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  • cloud - March 18th, 2009 at 8:13 am PDT

    03:12 ustreamer-58349 : its SFDC’s cloud from sales perspective
    03:13 ustreamer-58349 : it’s amazons from a infrastruce perspective
    03:13 ustreamer-58349 : gmail?
    03:17 ustreamer-58349 : azure?
    03:18 ustreamer-58349 : ning?
    03:19 ustreamer-58349 : its xing
    03:23 ustreamer-58349 : as much respect for SFDC. PaaS and SaaS is not cloud
    03:24 ustreamer-58349 : cloud is infrastructue-as-a-service
    03:26 ustreamer-58349 : sun dude makes me ZZZZZZZZZZzzzzzzzzzz
    03:35 ustreamer-58349 : agree with vic mostly
    03:35 ustreamer-58349 : except
    03:35 ustreamer-58349 : in the browser
    03:38 ustreamer-58349 : scott is right there is a growing dependency on cloud services to keep up with markets.
    03:42 ustreamer-58349 : gmail dude lacks experience with corporate expectations for release management
    03:43 ustreamer-58349 : architectual details? i would call it a bug dude
    04:01 ustreamer-58349 : sun ZZZZZZZZZZzzzzzzzzzzzzz
    04:04 ustreamer-58349 : vogels can afford to be honest about cloud

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  • FireBrand - March 22nd, 2009 at 4:27 pm PDT

    Cloud equal overpriced. And what is new about it? It’s a huge shared hosting site… Basically. Innovation? Where?

    Want to innovate bring something to the table that counts like, a site that allows normal folks to quickly and easily setup a website of their own, that is equal to anything out there now, but took them all of 30 minutes to setup, and a couple of hours uploading their data to.

    Do that and you will have the worlds attention. This, it’s just a repackage of what we have, an attempt by Google and Amazon to offset the costs of building their infrastructure. I don’t blame them, but let’s get real folks about it being Innovative….

    Wake up and Smell the Coffee…

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