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Category: Glue Conference 2010

Gluecon 2010: A Chat With Mark Carlson About the State of Cloud Storage and the CDMI Standard

May 31, 2010 / / 4 Comments

SNIA-cloud-logo I first met Mark at #CloudCampDenver on the evening before the Glue Conference (the event was also called CloudCamp @ Gluecon).  Mark volunteered to head up the breakout group on cloud storage, and he facilitated that quite well. I knew I'd want to interview him before Gluecon was over, with his great background in storage. 
MarkCarlson-Gluecon I didn't understand till later that he was also Chair of the Cloud Storage Work Group within SNIA. Mark's long career in storage includes 12 years with Sun (recently acquired by Oracle).  His title is now Principal Cloud Strategist at Oracle. Follow Mark on Twitter here: @macsun.

Mark is one of the key guys behind SNIA's relatively new Cloud Storage Initiative, the mission of which is stated as "working together toward enabling easier cloud solutions deployment." A big part of this initiative is the new Cloud Data Management Interface (CDMI) Standard, which was the topic of Mark's presentation at the Glue Conference on Thursday afternoon, just prior to my interview with him (link below).

The Cloud Storage Initiative has a full slate of activities planned for 2010, including one that Mark is very much involved in: the 2010 Storage Developers Conference, being held September 20-23 in Santa Clara, CA. 
SNIA-SDC-logo Now in its seventh year, this event is surely being energized by the seemingly never-ending buzz of "cloud" — which Mark's ultimate boss, Larry Ellison, once called "the orange that's the new pink." (Makes me laugh out loud every time I think of that video clip.) Cloud storage is now being touted by virtually all the traditional storage vendors, and certainly a whole bunch of startups. The SDC event brings together developers, engineers, architects, product/program managers, technical marketing managers, and C-level storage execs as well.  I sure hope I have a chance to get there and cover this event. It would be great to live-blog the proceedings, as I did at Glue.

To stay connected with what's going with SNIA's cloud storage initiative, here are some key links:

1) Join the Google Group

2) Follow the Twitter account: @SNIAcloud

3) Subscribe to the SNIA Cloud Storage blog

4) Engage with others on Google Buzz


• Download or listen to Graeme's interview with Mark Carlson about cloud storage, the CDMI standard, and the upcoming Storage Developers Conference (MP3)"


Gluecon 2010: A Chat With OxygenCloud

May 29, 2010 / / 0 Comments


OxygenCloud-logo OxygenCloud wants to solve corporate end-users' file management problems with cloud storage. To date, the latter has been used mostly by developers creating applications, not by corporate IT to address end-user file management. Thus, the company says cloud storage lacks easy end-user access, security, and the IT admin tools needed for corporate deployment.

But OxygenCloud is out to change that, by way of a company file network that brings all storage clouds the company uses — public and private — to the desktop of the corporate end-user. 
OxygenCloud-diagram From an intuitive desktop interface, users can access any file, in any cloud, as if it were in local storage.  These files can be shared with anyone, including external users, within an encrypted and secure environment. 

A spinout of LeapFile, OxygenCloud describes itself as a "cloud storage broker."  Its customers can store and secure their files using any cloud provider.  Its service combines these multiple public and private
OxygenCloud-Peter+Alex clouds into a single synthetic cloud, allowing users to balance their cost and performance requirements. Here's my interview with Peter Chang, CEO, shown at left in the photo, with Alex Teu, director of business development.

• Download or listen to Graeme's interview with OxygenCloud (MP3)"


Gluecon 2010: A Chat With Objectivity About ‘InfiniteGraph’

May 29, 2010 / / 0 Comments

InfiniteGraph-logo On the second day of the Glue conference, somehow I was Johnny-on-the-spot for breakfast, despite the activities of the night before. (No, I did not participate in the hackathon — they didn't want no stinking bloggers.)  Schmoozing over coffee and rolls around the vendor tables, I ran into my buddy Dave Fauth, who was chatting with Warren Davidson, director of biz dev at Objectivity, about their new InfiniteGraph database. The company describes it as "the distributed graph database for the cloud and beyond." I decided to pull out my handy-dandy recorder (Olympus LS-10) and do a quick interview.
InfiniteGraph-diagram

So, let's say you want to build the next big social networking platform, or have a project involving scientific research, intelligence, or a personalized Internet service platform. Then, bucko, you'll want to take a look at this "distributed, scalable, enterprise-ready, high-performance graph database solution" that enables (…deep breath…) "leading-edge innovation and real-time discovery of multi-dimensional relationships and answers from vast volumes of distributed and complex data."  Seriously, this is cool stuff. The company just announced, on day one of Glue, the availability of InfiniteGraph in beta….

• Download or listen to Graeme's interview with Objectivity about InfiniteGraph (MP3)"


My Live-Blogging of CloudCamp and Glue in Denver

May 25, 2010 / / 0 Comments

GlueConf-logo This year’s Glue Conference is the second annual, and I’m glad to be back. The dates are May 26-27, and it’s at a new venue this year: the Omni Interlocken Resort in Broomfield, CO. Nice views of the mountains, and a golf course, too (like I care).  This year, the night before has a new wrinkle: we’re having a barcamp (unconference) starting at 4:00 pm today, May 25:  CloudCamp @Gluecon, also known as #cloudcampdenver.

Here’s my live-blog page, which uses a service called ScribbleLive.  I began posting to it earlier today, doing checks-ins while in route, etc, and I also have my Twitter posts appearing there — plus I had all tweets containing “gluecon” appearing there for a while, too.  GlueCon2010-Live I’ll begin posting again once CloudCamp starts up, and will continue through tomorrow and Thursday, till the Glue conference ends about 5:00 pm that day.  Comments are turned on in the ScribbleLive blog (moderated), so speak your piece if you like.

Note: This live-blog is also appearing concurrently on a new developer community site from Alcatel-Lucent, called Open API Service.  So, you can view all the action on this blog page there as well.

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