Today I delivered my talk on Cloud Computing and Open Source at the Business Technology Summit 09. I reached the venue just before my session. JN Tata Auditorium at Indian Institute of Science is my favorite venue to present. I delivered many of my talks here in the last 10 years. Particularly, Hall-1 is very special to me as I happened to deliver some of my best sessions including the talk on ‘Linux & MS Windows – Side By Side’ at Foss.in in 2003.
My talk is based on the article that I wrote a week back. In fact, that post emerged during my preparation for this talk. I had the hall full with very interactive audiences. My biggest challenge was to cover all the aspects in 50 min. Surprisingly I finished on time and could also take a couple of questions. You can download the presentation from the Talks section of my website.
Business Technology Summit 09
Later in the day, I joined Jinesh Varia, Technology Evangelist from Amazon for a deep dive on Amazon Web Services. I volunteered to proctor the lab session. This was a paid workshop with the concept of ‘Bring Your Own Laptop’. Due to connectivity issues, most of the attendees couldn’t download the tools required for the workshop. Jinesh covered the concepts of S3, EC2, SimpleDB and EBS. I found the discussion around migration and architecture very interesting and useful. I am inspired to write a white paper on migrating a classic LAMP application to AWS.
I thoroughly enjoyed being a part of BTS 09. Congratulations to Dilip Thomas, CEO, Salt March India.
