This post comes live from CloudCamp Bangalore & Hadoop Summit. After delivering CloudCamp across India, Dave Neilsen, Prem and the India team of CloudCamp reached Bangalore.
The event started with Yahoo! folks delivering the keynote on Hadoop and Cloud Computing. It was interesting to see the efforts of Yahoo! in this space.
After the keynote, there was an UnPanel. This was the first time that I have been a part of such an UnPanel. Dave called out for volunteer panelists from the audience. Whoever raises their hand gets to be a part of it! I managed to be a part of this panel sharing the dais with folks from Apache, Google, Samsung, VMWare, InMobi and Microsoft. The audience were asked to call out their concerns and questions around Cloud. The questions were typed in Notepad and put up on the screen as they were asked. After compiling 10 questions, the panelists were asked to pick a question and answer it in a minute. Every panelist got to answer at least one question. There were questions around security, standards, interop, data and SDLC. I answered questions on data and the hybrid cloud. Overall, I found this format to be very innovative and it has certainly added value to the attendees!
After the panel, Dave again invited the audience to propose a topic and also be the speaker. This is again in the true style of UnConference. 6 to 8 including me stepped up and wrote the topic name on a chart and handed it over to Dave. He then asked the audiences to vote for their favorite session by raising their hand in the support of session that he calls out. Quickly, there were about 6 sessions that got shortlisted and the agenda was again typed in Notepad that was projected on the screen. Amazing way of crowdsourcing the agenda and the topic!
Cloud Camp
After lunch, I went to one of the breakout rooms to deliver my session on Windows Azure. I had about 30 folks in my session. I got 40 min. to explain and demo Azure to the audience. The session was very interactive and I had a lot of questions on Google App Engine vs Azure. The feedback to Microsoft is that they should open up VM hours free to developers. Few also wanted to find how to send mail from Azure like the way they do it in Google App Engine.
After my session, I walked into the main auditorium to attend the Hadoop track. I am finding the sessions to be interesting but they are very research specific.
For those who attended my session today, you can watch the screencast of the demo that I have shown today. I also have an article on Microsoft Windows Azure that explains the basics of it.
You can download the slide deck from the talks section of my website.
I want to conclude this post by thanking Dave Nielsen, Prem Shankar and the team behind the CloudCamp. They truly inspired me!
As a Cloud Computing Strategist, Janakiram MSV helps businesses understand and adopt the Cloud Computing paradigm. His core strength is designing and architecting solutions for the Cloud. Janakiram focuses on industry's leading Cloud Computing offerings including Microsoft Windows Azure.
