by Lydia Leong | November 8, 2011 | 1 Comment
I promised the attendees at my Gartner Symposium workshop, called “Using Amazon Web Services“, that I would post the notes from the session, so here they are — with some context for public consumption. A workshop is a structured, facilitated discussions that are designed to assist participants in working through a problem, coming up with [...]
Category: Infrastructure Tags: Amazon, Cloud, conference, Gartner, GartnerSym
by Lydia Leong | October 16, 2011 | Comments Off
I am at Gartner Symposium in Orlando this week, and would happy to meet and greet anyone who feels like doing so. I am conducting a workshop on Thursday, at 11 am in Salon 7 in Yacht and Beach, called “Using Amazon Web Services“. (The workshop is full, but it’s always possible there may be [...]
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Category: Analyst Life Tags: conference, Gartner
by Lydia Leong | August 7, 2011 | Comments Off
I will be at VMworld in Las Vegas this year. If you’re interested in meeting with me during VMworld, please do the following: Gartner clients and current prospects: Please contact your Gartner account executive to have them set up a meeting (they can use a Gartner internal system called WhereRU to schedule it). I’ve set [...]
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Category: Analyst Life Tags: conference, VMworld
by Lydia Leong | April 2, 2011 | Comments Off
On Wednesday, April 13th, I will be speaking at Joyent’s Cloud as a Business Executive Forum, an all-day event that they’re holding at the Le Meridien Hotel in San Francisco. I’ll be delivering a presentation on the cloud computing opportunity for service providers, as follows: Service providers face unprecedented opportunity to grow their revenues and [...]
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Category: Industry Tags: Cloud, conference
by Lydia Leong | December 8, 2010 | 1 Comment
I’m at Gartner’s Data Center Conference this week, and I’m finding it to be an interesting contrast to our recent Application Architecture, Development, and Integration Summit. AADI’s primary attendees are enterprise architects and other people who hold leadership roles in applications development. The data center conference’s primary attendees are IT operations directors and others with [...]
Category: Industry Tags: Cloud, conference, Gartner, GartnerAADI, GartnerDC
by Lydia Leong | October 9, 2010 | 2 Comments
I will be at three Gartner conferences during the remainder of this year. I will be at Symposium ITxpo Orlando. My main session here will be The Great Debate: Shared-Hardware vs. Shared-Everything Multitenancy, or Amazon’s Apples vs. Force.com’s Oranges. (Or for those of you who heard Larry Ellison’s OpenWorld keynote, Oracle ExaLogic vs. Salesforce.com…) The [...]
Category: Analyst Life Tags: Cloud, conference
by Lydia Leong | October 9, 2010 | 1 Comment
I will be at VMworld Europe this week. I am speaking on Wednesday, October 13th, at 10:30 am, giving a short tutorial on outsourcing cloud infrastructure as a service. This is an NTT Communications-sponsored session. I also expect to be available to answer questions at NTT’s booth during that day. During the rest of the [...]
Category: Analyst Life Tags: Cloud, conference
by Lydia Leong | August 23, 2010 | 1 Comment
I’m going to be at VMworld next week. If you’re a Gartner client, and you’d like to meet up with me while I’m there, please contact your account executive to arrange it. If you’re not a Gartner client, please email me and I’ll see what I can arrange. (My days are mostly spoken for, but [...]
Category: Analyst Life Tags: conference, Gartner
by Lydia Leong | July 20, 2010 | 13 Comments
I’m on my way home from HostingCon. I wish I had decided to stay an extra day. I originally expected I’d give my Monday keynote and be free to roam and have various conversations with random people, have plenty of time to wander the show floor, and so on. Instead, my schedule filled up rapidly [...]
Category: Uncategorized Tags: Cloud, conference, hosting
by Lydia Leong | December 5, 2008 | 1 Comment
My colleague Tom Bittman has written a great summary of the hot topics from the Gartner data center conference this past week. Some personal observations as I wrap up the week… The future of infrastructure is the cloud. I use “cloud” in a broad sense; many larger organizations will be building their own “private clouds” [...]
Category: Industry Tags: Cloud, colocation, conference, Gartner
