This week we have Jyoti Bansal, Founder & CEO of AppDynamics and Ashish Soni, President & CTO of Ringio.  Amanda Coolong, Dave Linthicum, and Mark Jeffrey host This Week in Cloud Computing Wednesdays at 3:30pm PT.

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EVENTS/AWARDS

Nominations have begun for the Best of VMWorld 2010. To enter in the cloud computing category, click here. Deadline is August 6.

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GUESTS

Jyoti Bansal, Founder & CEO of AppDynamics and Ashish Soni, President & CTO of Ringio

NEWS HEADLINES

Story 1 - Gartner’s Global IT Council for Cloud Services has issued 7 rights and a responsibility for cloud computing consumers.  Gartner Report.
The right to retain ownership/control your data, better SLAs, notification of changes that affect biz processes, understand tech limitations up front, the legal requirements where the provider operates, know security processes followed, the RESPONSIBILITY to adhere to software license requirements.

Q: Doesn’t the biggest responsibility reside with consumers to push providers to honor these rights?

Story 2 - Microsoft is partnering with Dell, HP and Fujitsu to sell Azure as part of their data center products.  eBay will be one of the first customers to use the Windows Azure platform appliance.

Q: Microsoft has always relied on its channel partners for sales. Will this business strategy continue to work with MSFT’s cloud computing efforts?
Story 3 - Dave’s post: For what ails health care, my prescription is the cloud

Q: The cloud provides many opportunities for healthcare, but is the industry ready?

Story 4 - Feds pull the plug on funding for IT projects
The federal gov’t is backpedaling on IT spending – halting some 30 financial system modernization projects. Federal CIO Vivek Kundra has publicly criticized the federal IT procurement process, and says he envies the private sector.

Q: While it’s an effort to cut costs, won’t this move ultimately end up increasing the overall cost of the effort?

Story 5 - Amazon released a cloud supercoming service yesterday called Cluster Compute.
It’s pay-per-use at $1.60 per hour per instance. Runs on Linux. Instances can be used to form 32-core, high-performance computing clusters able to communicate at 10x the speed of standard EC2 instances. It’s being called Amazon’s most powerful cloud server yet.

Q: What does this mean in layman’s terms? Why offer this on demand service? What’s in it for Amazon?

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INTERVIEW

Jyoti Bansal, Founder & CEO of AppDynamics

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APP OF THE WEEK

Ashish Soni, President & CTO of Ringio

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