Monthly Meeting

IASA Chapter NYC



Next chapter meeting will be on Tuesday June 23rd, 2009 at 6 PM.
(The meeting room will be announced when you arrive.)

Meeting Topic:

 A panel discussion on "What Cloud Services means to Architects in the Industry".

Abstract:

It will focus on the business and architecture considerations of “the Cloud”. Panelists will discuss the various cloud based services such as Amazon Web Services, Google AppEngine, The Azure Services Platform, SalesForce, Rackspace Mosso, etc. Each panelist will get five minutes to introduce themselves and make some opening remarks. Then it will be a free-form discussion/Q&A after that.

 

Panelists:

ViAndrew Comas
Andrew Comas, Vice President Architecture, Cordys
Cordys is the workflow engine behind Google Appengine.

Vivek Sharma
Works for EngineYard, a PaaS provider for the Rails community.
 
Shankar Hegde
Senior Client Partner & Chief Architect, Strategic Consulting, Symphony Services, Waltham, MA.
He has compared various services and been advising companies on cloud computing.

Abhijat Vatsyayan
From Bristol-Meyers Squibb
Has been working with AWS (Amazon) and Google app engine

Bill Zack
Architect Evangelist, Microsoft Developer and Platform Evangelism
A Microsoft Cloud Believer.

 

Due to budgetary constraints there will be no refreshments served at the meeting. (Unless of course your company want to sponsor the meeting. ).
(If you are interested in sponsor the next or future meetings please contact wzack@microsoft.com)

We meet every 4th Tuesday of the month; the meeting will be held at Microsoft, 1290 Avenue of the Americas on the 6th floor. (Between 51st and 52nd streets, next to Radio City Music Hall.)

Due to heightened building security procedures you must RSVP to wzack@microsoft.com by close of business on Monday before the meeting in order to be admitted to the meeting. Please make sure to include your first and last name in the RSVP.

IASA is the premier association focused on the IT architecture profession through education, advocacy, events, and the development of best practices.

IASA New York Chapter web site: http://www.iasahome.org/web/newyork/
For further information: wzack@microsoft.com