Cloud Computing Conference

What is Cloud Computing? It depends on who you speak to. I don't have an answer. I like the idea and would like to learn more about it. If you are like me, my employer Chariot Solutions is sponsoring a conference on Cloud Computing on Friday, October 17th at the Penn State Great Valley campus.

We have some big names attending:

• Jeff Barr of Amazon.com speaking about Amazon's EC2 and S3 Cloud Computing platform
• Joe Gregorio and Johnathan Rochelle of Google, talking about Google App Engine and Google Spreadsheets
• Justin McCarthy and Britt Crawford of Cafe Press, the developers of HiveDB, a cloud-capable database platform
• Prasaad Chakka of Facebook, speaking about data warehousing in the cloud with Hive
• Chris Richardson, author of "POJOs in Action" and developer of CloudTools, a mechanism for deploying Java and Groovy applications in the cloud
• Ezra Zygmuntowicz of Engine Yard, a Rubyist, developer of MERB (a high performance alternative to Ruby on Rails) and author of Vertebra, a cloud computing platform

There are several more sessions, including an hour-long panel talk on using Amazon and other cloud platforms with local experts Toby DiPasquale, Chis Cera, and Andrew Kortina.

If you're interested, the web site is http://www.cloudconeast.com

Maybe I'll see you there.