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This Week in Cloud Computing #7 with Jan Aleman & Ranjith Kumaran

TWiCC #07 with Servoy and YouSendIt

Episode #7 featuring Jan Aleman, CEO of Servoy and Ranjith Kumaran, CTO &  Co-founder of YouSendIt

**INTRODUCTION**
How to participate: ThisWeekIn.com / @TWICloudComp / #TWiCC #cloud
Updates
Sponsors: Virtacore, Storm on Demand, NetDNA
Welcome guests
Jan (pronounced “yawn”) Aleman, CEO, Servoy:  @jaleman / @servoy
Ranjith Kumaran, CTO and C0-ounder, YouSendIt: @ranjithkumaran / @YSI

**NEWS** (for general discussion among the group)

Event Updates:
Tier1 Research, a division of The 451 Group, will be holding its third annual Hosting & Cloud Transformation Summit in London on June 15.  The event, which is a leading source of analysis on the hosting and colocation market, will now include discussion around developments in cloud computing.
Speaking opportunities are still available. If you’d like to submit, contact Phil Shih at phil [at] t1r [dot] com
Cloud Expo is coming up – April 19-21 in New York City
By 2012, more than 50,000 delegates per year will participate in Cloud Expo worldwide. Some have called it the new PC Expo, Comdex, and InternetWorld of our decade. Would you agree?

Facts & Figures:

Analyst firm IDC says IT budgets worldwide for cloud computing are forecast to surge to $42 billion by 2012 from about $16 billion in 2008.
A Version One research report showed, ‘two-thirds of senior business executives and 41% of senior IT professionals admit that they “don’t know” what cloud computing is.’  And a Chadwick Martin Bailey survey from earlier this year indicates ‘24 percent of polled IT decision-makers were not able to define cloud computing.’
With these levels of uncertainly, is the IDC forecast unrealistic or bloated?

STORY: IRS Data Centers Prepare for Tax Season
IT executives at the IRS say it has made huge strides in modernizing its data centers, which processed 139 million returns and issued $298 billion in refunds in 2009.
The agency has considerable data center space available as a result of its consolidation, and they may play a role in the Obama administration’s ambitions to shift some government applications to a could computing model.

Tony McMahon, Director of Enterprise Computing Centers for the IRS said, “There’s a big drive for Treasury agencies to take advantage of existing space. These are large data centers. The government wants to have its own cloud, and (IRS data centers) are being looked at for that.”

STORY: Earth Hour

On Saturday,  in what was the largest public demonstration in history, hundreds of millions of people around the world turned out their lights for one hour in support of World Wildlife Fund’s Earth Hour, calling for action on climate change. Individuals, businesses and government officials in 4,000 cities across 125 countries turned out for Earth Hour, calling for a cleaner, safer and more secure future for the planet.

How is cloud computing contributing to these efficiencies? Do you know of any data centers that powered down idle servers for Earth Hour? How much energy was saved?
STORY: The Canadian Privacy Commissioner has released a discussion document on issues raised by cloud computing.
STORY: Mashable: file transfers coming to Gmail Chat (YouSendIt – from your experience, what challenges will they face?)

**SPONSOR BREAK**

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2. A proprietary Cloud platform that was designed by Liquid Web, one of the largest Web Hosting providers with over 12 years experience.
3. Is easier to use and less expensive than Amazon EC2.
4. Features include: server setup in minutes, easy scaling, back up and restoration capabilities and pay-as-you-go utility style billing.
5. Options include: cPanel, Fantastico, Ubuntu, Debian, CentOS, Fully Managed Servers, Private Networking and much more.
**INTERVIEW**Jan Adelman – Servoy

Jan Aleman is one of the most distinguished thought leaders on Cloud Computing in the world.

As secretary of EuroCloud compendium, he has been a disruptive technology visionary leading the cloud revolution in computing.
He is a published author and heavily quoted in many IT journals such as InfoWorld, Computerworld, Dr. Dobbs and others, as well as guest and keynote speaker at many cloud computing conferences worldwide.

Jan is also on the steering commitee of the ICT Office SaaS/Cloud Group.

Servoy, a Deloitte Fast 50 Technology company, is the developer of a hybrid (SaaS and on-premises) platform to help build and deploy applications faster than traditional development environments. Servoy is used by independent software vendors (ISVs) to develop entire vertical and horizontal applications and by internal developers and consultants for custom application development.
Today over 100,000 companies and more than 20,000 developers are working with the Servoy product suite. Companies like Ferrari, Symantec, Stanford University, Wells Fargo, Verizon and UCLA hospital rely on Servoy for managing data and presenting it to their customers and employees through rich applications on-premise and in the cloud.
Let’s talk about the cycle of rewriting applications. It’s a multi-billion-dollar market in which 85% of all apps are written in some non Java or .Net tool set. Some might never change (such as COBOL apps in banking) but most will have to be rewritten in order to be able to deal with current market demands.

Why a hybrid development platform?

In a recent story you said, “Our software tools make it easier to turn apps into SaaS products than Microsoft’s complex .Net environment.” That’s a bold claim. HOW do you make it easier? (Your tool allows companies to build applications in record time in an industry-standards environment…)

Why target small ISVs? Which verticals?

**SPONSOR BREAK**
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**APP of the WEEK** (YouSendIt overview & demo)

Ranjith Kumaran, CTO and Co-founder, YouSendIt

Ranjith Kumaran is a Co-founder of YouSendIt Inc. and serves as its Chief Technology Officer. Mr. Kumaran is responsible for product management and corporate marketing for YouSendIt and manages the Customer Service, IT, and Ops teams to guarantee optimum customer service, and efficiency in the IT and Ops departments. Before YouSendIt, he held positions in product marketing at Verisity Design. He served as the Director of the Sales Engineering at Celoxica, where he built its sales applications and established its engineering team. Prior to that, he architected open-source software at Red Hat and served as its Software Systems Engineer. He serves as a Director of YouSendIt Inc. He is an active Member of TiE Silicon Valley. He received a Bachelor of Engineering degree in Computer Engineering from McGill University.

About YouSendIt

YouSendIt was founded in 2004 and is the number-one secure digital file delivery company on the Web with nearly 12 million registered users. Experiencing two of the company’s best quarters during 2009, YouSendIt continues to grow at a rapid pace by adding 275,000 users and transferring 15 million files each month. On top of its millions of users, YouSendIt has been deployed within 1,500 SMB and enterprise companies including ABC, BP, Chevron, Disney, eBay, GE, MTV, Shell Oil, Sprint, Starbucks and U.S. Army.

**SPONSOR BREAK**

STORM ON DEMAND
1. An Infrastructure As A Service, Cloud Computing Platform that is powerful enough to replace dedicated servers.
2. A proprietary Cloud platform that was designed by Liquid Web, one of the largest Web Hosting providers with over 12 years experience.
3. Is easier to use and less expensive than Amazon EC2.
4. Features include: server setup in minutes, easy scaling, back up and restoration capabilities and pay-as-you-go utility style billing.
5. Options include: cPanel, Fantastico, Ubuntu, Debian, CentOS, Fully Managed Servers, Private Networking and much more.
**CLOSE**

Guest closing remarks, thanks
Acknowledge sponsors: Virtacore, Storm on Demand
Ask viewers to Tweet thx to sponsors
Ideas for the show?  drop us a line at pitch [at] thisweekin [dot] com

Next week, same time, same place.

About Jan Aleman

Jan Aleman is one of the most distinguished thought leaders on Cloud Computing in the world. As secretary of EuroCloud compendium, he has been a disruptive technology visionary leading the cloud revolution in computing. He is a published author and heavily quoted in many IT journals such as InfoWorld, Computerworld, Dr. Dobbs and others, as well as guest and keynote speaker at many cloud computing conferences worldwide. Jan is also on the steering commitee of the ICT Office SaaS/Cloud Group.

About Servoy

Servoy, a Deloitte Fast 50 Technology company, is an international market leader in powerful hybrid (SaaS and on-premises) software. Servoy is used by independent software vendors (ISVs) to develop entire vertical and horizontal applications and by internal developers for bespoke application development.

Today over 100,000 companies and more than 20,000 developers are working with the Servoy product suite. Companies like Ferrari, Symantec, Stanford University, Wells Fargo, Verizon and UCLA hospital rely on Servoy for managing data and presenting it to their customers and employees through rich applications on-premise and in the cloud.

About Ranjith Kumaran

Ranjith Kumaran is a Co-founder of YouSendIt Inc. and serves as its Chief Technology Officer. Mr. Kumaran is responsible for product management and corporate marketing for YouSendIt and manages the Customer Service, IT, and Ops teams to guarantee optimum customer service, and efficiency in the IT and Ops departments. Before YouSendIt, he held positions in product marketing at Verisity Design. He served as the Director of the Sales Engineering at Celoxica, where he built its sales applications and established its engineering team. Prior to that, he architected open-source software at Red Hat and served as its Software Systems Engineer. He serves as a Director of YouSendIt Inc. He is an active Member of TiE Silicon Valley. He received a Bachelor of Engineering degree in Computer Engineering from McGill University.

About YouSendIt

YouSendIt was founded in 2004 and is the number-one secure digital file delivery company on the Web with nearly 12 million registered users. Experiencing two of the company’s best quarters during 2009, YouSendIt continues to grow at a rapid pace by adding 275,000 users and transferring 15 million files each month. On top of its millions of users, YouSendIt has been deployed within 1,500 SMB and enterprise companies including ABC, BP, Chevron, Disney, eBay, GE, MTV, Shell Oil, Sprint, Starbucks and U.S. Army.

  • simox

    after 7 episodes, i think you should stop ‘defining’ the cloud, lets talk technologies, solutions, performance