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OGF-BEinGRID Keynotes - Werner Vogels
(45 mins)
As a launching point to the BEinGRID Industry Days event, OGF and BEinGRID have provided interesting speakers that give a more commercial view of grids and related distributed computing technologies.
The first speaker is Dr Werner Vogels, who will be speaking on: "A Head in the Cloud - The Power of Infrastructure as a Service"
Building the right infrastructure that can scale up or down at a moment's notice can be a complicated and expensive task, but it's essential in today's business landscape. This applies to an enterprise trying to cut-costs, a young business unexpectedly saturated with customer demand, or a start-up looking to launch. There are many challenges when building a reliable, flexible architecture that can manage unpredictable behaviors of today's internet business. This presentation will review some of the lessons learned from building one of the world's largest distributed systems; Amazon.com. The focus will be on Amazon's architectural evolution and the principles that govern the scalability, reliability, performance and cost-effectiveness of the overall system.
Dr. Vogels is Vice President & Chief Technology Officer at Amazon.com where he is responsible for driving the company's technology vision, which is to continuously enhance the innovation on behalf of Amazon's customers at a global scale. Prior to joining Amazon, he worked as a researcher at Cornell University where he was a principal investigator in several research projects that target the scalability and robustness of mission-critical enterprise computing systems. He has held positions of VP of Technology and CTO in companies that handled the transition of academic technology into industry.
Vogels holds a Ph.D. from the Vrije Universiteit in Amsterdam and has authored many articles for journals and conferences, most of them on distributed systems technologies for enterprise computing.
Location: Barcelona B
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| | Slides (PDF): Werner Vogels Keynote |